getting started with digital drawing!

[ajvenema]

thanks for the advice Mortem!
i needed someone to say that again, ur right i lose myself into sketchiness all the time, while lacking some basics

Ive got to give myself some time to photograph some of my last things, but right now im enjoying myself with a painting... this is it so far, i think i post a finished one tonight

[ajvenema]

people!
i was very lazy with udating the past time, but i certainly havent been lazy with art i made a lot of stuff, and made it into 2 art schools for next year

But! now is time for some more conceptart.org
heres some life drawings, its all ink on a3 paper.

[Exquisite Beast]

Great stuff mate. The difference between now and September last year is astonishing.

[ajvenema]

thanks a lot Exquisite Beast!

here are some more model drawings!

[Tom van der Linden]

great stuff you got here, keep it up. Proportions and linework needs some work

[ajvenema]

thanks Tom!

hmm, after all it wasnt THAT hard to put 20 mins in scanning some stuff

here is some stuff from my last sketchbook! i really like to get some advices, cuz i feel like im stuck a little

[ajvenema]

I decided to buy watercolors, and tried it in life drawing yesterday.
the results werent stunning, but what the heck, its first time
it feels like i can have a lot of fun with it later!
its good to try new stuff

[fragmentedchimp]

Ahoy there

water mixable oils are the shit man, iv gotten them from the local art store, but they're a little costly, but you can achieve the same wash quality you get with regular oils, they just dry faster if your not using any speeder gels.

seriously recommended

[Slechtvalk]

Awesome watercolors!

You have good form, just need some time to refine it further.
The Loomis studies (and Bridgman) will help out a lot.

Keep it going

[kidult]

Great to see the hard work and dedication! Keep it up!

[ajvenema]

fragmentedchimp: thanks for the advice, ill look at it
slechtvalk: thanks! ive done better ones now though
kiddult: thank you a lot, i will keep it up!

here are som things i made last week: ink and pencil stuff!

[ajvenema]

hello there!
here are some more things: i started gesture drawing as well, isnt as easy as it looks C&C more then welcome!

[ajvenema]

hmm, found one more thingie i didnt post yet!

[Nikoh]

dude really nice lifedrawings, love those ink ones

[meds]

It seems that you are doing a lot of practicing, which is good. It is something that I need to start doing more often. Anyway, I am giving this advice partly because it is something that I am working on at the moment. When you are drawing people, even if only a head and face, try to start out with the basic shapes first. It may help you get the proportions correct, and in my own drawings I am noticing that it is helping to show more depth too.

*EDIT* Oops, I just realized that I posted my comment after only looking at your first page of drawings. I will check out the other pages too. I can already see a lot of improvement with those life drawings.

[ajvenema]

thanks nikoh!
meds: thanks for the advice, im still far from perfect with proportions, so its still a good advice

Im going on a snowboard trip now, so no updates for a while, but when im back ill have a lot of new stuff to post

[Nibras]

Nice huggge improvment you started the right way keep it up

[snubbed]

some of your ink figure studies are really kick ass. I guess, try taking it to the next step is the only crit I can offer. Try doing a full figure, but keeping all of the shading on one side or something more dramatic. Just a thought.

Looking really good! I like your stuff.

[ajvenema]

lilnebo: thanks!
snubbed: thanks a lot as well, ill keep that in mind at modeldrawing tomorrow

im back from my snowboarding trip now, was great, but now its time to get posting again
here are some watercolor thingies, critics are really welcome since im kinda new at this it kicks ass to do though!

[ajvenema]

there's more

[fragmentedchimp]

Your line is getting so much better man, good stuff, the progress is jaw dropping. your water colours are beautiful too, more of those

[ajvenema]

eat THiS

more watercolor stuff. The tree was actually a wasted page i wanted to hide a bit

[fragmentedchimp]

Cool Cool i know i JUST posted, but i had a brain fart. maybe giving water colors a shot without pen line? the looseness of your coloring is wonderful, enjoying it in all its singled out glory would be awesome man! just a thought
good updates anyway!

[hedwordup]

hi thanks for looking at my sb, its amazing to see thevast improvement in your work, i would suggest using a more continuous line in your work especially the pencil and pen work. At the moment they look a little disjointed and a few well placed lines could bring it all together. the watercolours are nice keep it up

www.medgraphics.cam.ac.uk/shield/

[ajvenema]

fragmentedchimp: thanks a lot man! its good to hear a skilled person like you likes my stuff! last night i did some watercolors at lifedrawing, without pencil line, ill post the results later, but heck, how much harder that is ill try to leave the line away in the future a little bit more, since right now those drawings depend too much on it indeed!

hedwordup: thanks for the compliment, and good u point out some things i can work on, ill keep it in mind.

i just bought a brushpen, i think im gonna have a great time with it but first theres some other stuff i wanna share

[ajvenema]

i scanned a whol lot of things again! the first batch is a couple of lifedrawings in watercolor... im not really happy with them, maybe i should buy watercolor paper, might already help

[ajvenema]

here some more watercolors... also without lines, and pretty strange... any advice on this would be great

[ajvenema]

i also started to do the posemaniac stuff...im suprised how well and fast it pays off in learning proportions, and pulling out the right lines quick!

[ajvenema]

I just keep updating

[ajvenema]

yoyo! i just bought myself a camera, and i photographed my wall!