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My god...has it been this long? I need to be more diligent with my practice and I have to say that the Concept.org community has been the most helpful ever since I started art 2 years ago! Still, no excuses... I need to post stuff!

Silly as it is, I'm still struggling with anatomy, especially the face. I just can't get those planes right in my head. Anyone have any tips or secrets that can unlock the 'Aha' moment for me?

I've also been doing some 'concept art' recently as well. Its good to be back.

[raminafshari]

WELL DONE .

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Alright...wait I'm confused here. Why can't I see the most recent posts on this thing?

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Okay there we go. For some reason I couldn't see the second page here.

Anyways, here comes another splurge of anatomy sketches/studies/explorations.
I really need to work on my confidence and comfort with my line work but I think I'm getting there. I suppose it comes with pages upon pages upon pages of practice right?

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Just some quick studies today. Trying to really nail down the pelvis and its relationship to supporting the body. It seems like it is the key to any relaxed standing pose and infinitely important for sketching women correctly.

I've been hunting for some good Figure Study workshops/groups in the Pittsburgh area. I think studying anatomy and pictures can only take you so far when it comes to improving.

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Just some more studies of the torso and the pelvis and some quick life sketches.






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[Cyberman]

wow it's good to see your studies! your really doing the hard work, the landscape study
on page one was nice I would like to see more of those in with your anatomy studies.
Chears

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Chugging along with just some quick poses and studies today.

I still can't imagine this stuff becoming 'second nature' to me but I guess when you start out it always feels that way. When there's a will, there's a way.






Been toying with some thumbs of a new armored character too. I'm thinking something like a cross between a knight and a riot cop.

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Been busy working on other things and FINALLY located some actual life drawing workshops in the Pittsburgh area...wasn't easy to find one that was reasonably priced.

Just some little digital work here. Trying out speed painting but I'm wondering what the trick is with it. People seem to be able to get a lot of visual complexity in their work that I can't seem to achieve without more time commitment...

Onward and hopefully not sideways!

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Tough to get any responses or feedback from the community! Come on, I need helpful feedback and paint-overs to show me what I'm not (or am) getting. Anything is much much much appreciated.

Got into a life drawing studio this week but it turned into a bust since it was so crowded. Ended up focusing on facial studies with a little posing, etc. I'm feeling a bit more free and I've started to dig out a really terrible ingrained habit of flattening the face. I just have to work harder on making facial features more volumetric.

The only part that confuses me is the eye and the brow ridge. I can never seem to land these elements right!

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Gah! Still nothing! I blame it on the ridiculous amount of constantly updating Sketchbooks...that and the critically awesome skills of said updates.

Anywho...recent characters and I'm getting started on the CHOW

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[Andre Loftis]

Thanks for the first reply on my thread. I think were in the same place artistically. . . no actually, I think you are ahead of me. I'm going to have to solve that problem XD. I look forward to drawing/learning with you. Cool character designs btw, I know how tough it is to get what's in your head onto the page.

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Just another quick upload of some more sketches and studies

[AWSullivan]

Hey EBrown, Thanks for checking out my SB. You've got some great anatomy sketches here. Your character drawings are very nice as well. Keep it up!

~Anthony

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Thanks AWSullivan.

I guess I should stop farting around with the studies and whatnot. Time to get off the crapper and start rendering things out fully.

But I'll save that for tomorrow...

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[vices]

the shading on that girl in your last one is very nice

[Moriah]

Wow you are improving fast! I dunno man, it looks like your starting to get the hang of the figure in my opinion.

I really like your thumbnails for the armored character. There are some really nice poses in that bunch. I can really see the weight and movement of the character.

Hm. I'd suggest working more with angled faces.

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Well December was a rough month. On to 2011 though! Time to start practicing again...

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Some recent updates to the sketchbook. Kinda ran the gambit here.

Can't claim all of this to be totally original. Alot of the portraits and face sketches were based heavily off of an amazing artist by the name of Paul Richards. I loved his style so much I jut had to sit down and doodle from his work to get an idea of how he depicts features, lays out proportions and whatnot. For all those not in the know, he also has a great blog called Babe Lab that delves into the nitty gritty details of how to make that super sexified femme fatale. Great for doing some little anatomy studies (and learning to apply physics to chesticles )

I'm starting to notice an increase to my figure drawing speed. I feel so much more comfortable laying down a line and sometimes I forget to check a proportion only to discover that I did it right the first time. Hurray for progress!

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And some more quick sketches from reference. Trying to keep it gestural