sketchbooks of Andre Santos from portugal

[Arbu]

Hello all!
Wellcome to my sketchbook thread, I guess its time to share some of my attempts to draw! =D

so here's my first ones:

Mirror Selfportraits



This old lady was caught up on my every-day-bus-travels



This is like a portuguese idol that lives in my hometown.. if you understand portuguese go to youtube and search for " Ermelinda Portugal " you may listen what she has to say.. BEWARE CRIMINALS! =)



well, guess that's it for now... i'll try to update this at least three times in a week =)

Fell free to leave any kind of comments or crits! I'll be very happy to read them!

[Arbu]

drew a friend of mine in some subway trip then got home and colored it in photoshop a few months ago..

[Blaz]

Hey!
Nice start!

Liking the old lady in a bus drawing!

Im bad a t crits so this is all from me!
Keep updating!

[Arbu]

thanks Blaz =)

sure i'll keep updating!

[Arbu]

Porto's Downtown "Avenida dos Aliados" ink pen + watercolors



Porto's old public veichle interior "elétrico"

[Arbu]

sketch for teen challenge

[Lege1]

I've see you around in the forums and think your work is definitely tight. I noticed the name and that you didn't have an avatar. If you need some advice on that I'd be happy to lend you a hand. Keep up the good work man! =)

[Lotet]

keep it up dude, i wanna see more process of your post apocalyptic warrior! =P

[Carbono]

Hey man. Your sketches look nice.
Keep it up, looking promising!

[Arbu]

Lege1 : thanks =) avatar? The image on the left side of our nick? i have one, its me painting marylin monroe on the pavement x) u dont see it?

Lotet : when its done i'll post it =)

Carbono : thnks for the kind words ^^

UPDATE:







Selection of some drawings in two of mine sketchbooks dated march 2007..
It means all drawings ware made between days 3rd and 24th March 2007. All made from sight, except the one with the giraffe.

mostly done with ink pen, some have pencil shade and drawing inks

Have to find some time to do a selection and scan some drawings of all other sketchbooks i have and post here =)

[Trashy]

Hi Arbu,

Your pen sketches are really Great. Awesome line work and very nice and loose. keep posting man!

[Arbu]

Trashy : thankyoue I will =)


Here's a WIP. rembrandt's master copy. portrait of nicolaes ruts. (learning a lot on this one)

[Arbu]

Made a logo for my band! =D

[artmakessense]

really cool band logo senyorr.

[Cepro]

nice sketches and studies.

[dadushin]

hey man looks like you are getting better with every post
really great to see you going out and working from life...got to get off my ass and do that haha
keep it up, lookin goood!

[Ignominious]

those gesture sketches and self portraits are really nice!

[Arbu]

thankyou all =)

dadushin do that =)

a few scans from my sketchbooks

[petitemistress]

your master copy is amazing; great learning technique, i think ill try smthg similar

I love your quick ink sketches; they're so alive and spontaneous! they need a little bit more control and they'll look amazing, keep it up!

[Renegade89]

Sup Arbu!

Crap i though i had commented here before, i certainly entered months ago when we duel .

Anyways, nice work on the studies,i like the very simple effective strokes on the subjects, and the Rembrandt looks pretty sweet! Keep it up bro .

[Arbu]

it has been a while..

flyer i made for a concert


sketches..

[Arbu]

a portrait

[Arbu]

sketchbook..

[Arbu]

aquapark i went today with my parents.located in Amarante, Portugal.

and an earlier pencil sketch made few months ago..

[Arbu]

HERE ARE SOME RANDOM THINGS I DID!

painting i did for EOW
"woodland mouse house"



new version of my band's logo i made a few months ago:



contour drawing made in 2006:



sketch i did during a concert of a portuguese anarco-punk band, Artigo 19.
(i was a bit drunk!! haha)




Headhunter's piece for art crusades ( i wonder how's that going.. must check it out!!!):



This is a chalk drawing i made in Braga, portugal, 2007:



and this is chalk i did last month! =)



this is a finished linework for a painting i did.. about a DSG topic i guess:



and here's is the final:



this was a fast one i made one year ago



This is a 2 months daily-self-portrait thing i did. (i should'v kept going further with these..) ( I bow before android jones) ehehe



EOW:



CHOW "the host":



COW "ugly and beauty":



CHOW #100:



And this is me. (its my current deviant ID)

[SEVANS]

Alot of cool and interesting work here. The one obvious thing I can see with your colour digital work is the overuse of black. I love pen and ink, but when your trying a more realistic image you need more true life colours. Pure blacks and whites are basically non existant in real life. Snow is never pure white, it reflects, night skys are never pure black, usually dark dark blue etc.
Using more 'colours' in your digital pieces will really add alot more life to them.

[James.C]

Hey man I like your work. Your life drawings are really good, you do a great job in capturing personality. I like the looseness, and fluidity of your pen drawings too. That band logo is awesome it reminds me of something you'd on a Circle Jerks flier in the 80's or a Discharge album cover, very cool! Keep up the good work, you don't see cool logos like that anymore.

[thrilafrommanila]

i know for sure that the host is my favorite. i love your style

i used to do all those drawings of people on the train, until on day this lady came up to me with a think accent and said "you can't do that here! this is private life!" and i looked at her and said "but we're in public."

anyway, dropped in to say that your sketchbook is awesome and that i'm subbing because i want to see more!

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

neat stuff you have here amigo. I wanted to point out your tendency thowards flat white lighting, and you should probably look into that. Lighting with a bit of color might spice things up. Anatomicly you need practise, but that stuff comes along with practise. Your SB mission was real nice, so you improved pretty nicely on that one, but you should have read some stuff on self portraits as you were doing it.

Anyhoot, now I sounded very negative, and I did not mean to. Your stuff is quite nice, and your bus drawings are very nice Keep rocking and do more stuff

-E

[A tua mãe]

aí a representar o regresso ao CA. andas a pintar outra vez nos passeios ou foi so uma vez este verao??