N-Man's SB: Updated April 23rd, 2010 (two guys, one post)

[Giorge]

hi, took a peek trough your book , and i must say, copying photos won't take you anywhere , trait still life , draw/paint from life what ever you can get you hands on ... its a good exercise

[N-man]

no i find the colors myself so that ill actually learn color. i have figure drawing classes but i work from photos when i dont have class.

i just found out that once again my monitor had whacked out color and brightness.i always wondered why my friends had such negative reactions to some of the colors i used. i find out today my brightness was so high that areas that were black to my friends had brighter colors to me. I used that thx optimizer so hopefully everything is better now. im going to post below what i was seeing and what you guys saw.

this is what i was seeing

this is what you guys were

[N-man]

just started to read andrew loomis's chapter on color...don't know why i haven't before anyways i feel like i've learned alot even in the small ammount ive read so far. Ive been also looking through idiot apathy's and bumskee's sketchbook and been enjoying what i've seen. i was inspired so i did this with what ive learned so far.
quick enviroment

[N-man]

this took a couple of hours hope you guys like.

[N-man]

study from photo.

[pencil1]

Nice colors and Values on the last one. I think the back of his head turned out quite small though

[N-man]

been a long time. alot of classwork to be done. worked on this guy a couple hours over a week, and im tired of him. hopefully i can muster up some energy later on or down the road to put some more work into it. hope you guys like

[N-man]

i ment to do this the other day and i forgot.

[N-man]

worked on this for awhile hopefully it turned out nice
hopefully the size is ok i had to scale it down.

[N-man]

been gone for awhile so i thought id update. i havent cropped these so ill just put links for now until i do.

http://nmanblog.files.wordpress.com/...lyingcrop2.jpg
http://nmanblog.files.wordpress.com/...letol-guy7.jpg
http://nmanblog.files.wordpress.com/...antlerguy2.jpg
http://nmanblog.files.wordpress.com/.../kingside2.jpg

[N-man]

i got all my stuff cropped and thought i would update.

[N-man]

heres some studies i've done. been trying to get my line work skill to be better.


edit: heres another one

[N-man]

[N-man]

another study

[N-man]

this is the first thing ive done in a long time that ive actually enjoyed creating.

[N-man]

been painting my recent sketch. trying to get a painterly feel(if thats a word)
still a w.i.p

[JaneM]

I like how you have so much different in here! You try many things, and that's good. You are good at drawing what you see! One of my favourites is the king in post #71.

Keep it up! I hope more people will come here and see your art.

[SPACEMOD]

I have to say, you are progressing fast and your lines and colors are lookin good.

Keep it up

[N-man]

sorry i didn't reply to your comments earlier i haven't looked at my sketchbook for a bit now. thank you very much though.

heres stuff done recently and not recently and some of my traditional stuff. hopefully everything got cropped and sized right.

[N-man]

still a w.i.p but its getting there.


edit: small update to it i'm liking the colors better. i also changed the size cause i think it might show up bigger then its suppose to for people with lower resolutions.

[N-man]

update. i have some other stuff too that ill need to crop and get up here.

[N-man]

another update. i think i'm going to call it finished and work on something new.

[N-man]

just about finished i think. might work on it some more if i find time.

[N-man]

William Bouguereau study. about 3 hours i think.

[N-man]

another enviroment. still working on it but its almost done i think.

[Brun]

hey man,

your last studies are paying of really well

focus a bit more on the light affects your scene, and how it affect colour also

keep on kicking ass

x

[N-man]

thanks for your comments i really appreciate it wish i had more to update with, but i recently got a job so finding free time has been hard. i have a book cover in the works for an old teacher of mine and also working on a video game that will hopefully make its way to consoles some day. anywho heres a dump.

[N-man]

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[N-man]

been awhile, and i thought i would put some new stuff up.

we had to design a barf bag for one of my classes.


Christmas card i made real quick for my family.


quick doodle.


2 quick still life's.



character design i did for fun.


quick doodle.

[N-man]

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