drawing like A pencil geek

[pencilgeek]

hi my name is charles im 15 years old i got a new sketch book my old one suckt lol.

[Sir_E_Pent]

Is this a joke? If not, can you blow it up a bit. I see the womans body but would like to get a closer look.

[pencilgeek]

[pencilgeek]

[pencilgeek]

nud study from raf.

[pencilgeek]

my hands for raf...no raf with all pics sketches from my mind.

[ghostdj]

hey great sketch book...loving the way you shade and your pencil line work...how do you shade like you do? i used a shadeing stik but i suck lol.

I cross hatch when I add value to my drawings. I make sure my pencil is nice and sharp the entire time I’m cross hatching. I also make sure my hatch mark a close and not to spread out. Thanks for dropping by the book.

[nate01776]

hey man, just browsing through the forums... one thing i can say just from lookin at your stuff here, you might want to try breaking your figures into a single 'line of action', ask where is the weight being put, and where is it affecting, and then drawing the rest off that. youve kinda got it going on in the top left drawing on the 9th page of post 3, youll know if youve got the action line right, you will be able to recognize the pose just from it!

hope it helps in some way...

[dmitri]

Try using some straight lines in the figures for a start... Right now the curves you do seem a little out of control - this gives the impression of noodley arms and legs, when in reality they are strong, thick pieces of meat and bits. While no straight lines really exist in the body, using them as a starting point for now could give these drawings more solidity.

[P E N Ricklund]

Hey man, thanks for the reply in my sketchbook.
This looks like my stuff did when I was 15, so you're in a good position.

You asked me about values. You could say that it's the next step after lerning how to draw (if you broke a learning process up), learn how to put down the visual impression, learn your eye to to take good mesurments. The better your eyes are, the easier they will recognise problems in your imaginative drawings aswell. One easy way to get a simple and movable drawing that you can move stuff around in and get more precise is to break up the lines, make long straight lines that you can move around in relation to one and another. A spagetti line isn't that easy to get precise and very hard to move. And be patient, takes a while to get comftarble drawing in a simplified way, biggest challenge after drawing from imagination in my opinion.



I read that some other people where talking about straight lines aswell, and that someone said that now straight lines exsists in the body, i'd like to say the opposit. If you look for planes and when your eye is starting to get really sharp, you'll start to see planes that are very small. If you break up a box into a ball and you can only use flat surfaces/planes you'll eventually need more than a million planes to make it really soft so that the form turns. It's like looking at a mountain at a far distans and when you come closer you'll see that it isn't as round as you thought, same things go for the human figure, there is more variation in the form than you actually thought from the beginning.
So what does this have to do with drawing the outline as staright lines. Well, the outline is something we as artists make up to simplify the information that we see. An outline is actually created from the light and how darkness meet the light, borders. So an outline is the form/planes turning away from the viewer and by that catching diffrent amount of light than the form that catches the highlight. So the outline is actually the side planes of a figure or what else your drawing.

Work on this and the values will come to you in time. I think you need this more than to studie the light right now.

Good luck and just hit me on a pm if you have any more questions.

[onedozenmonkeys]

Nice progress, man. Looks like you're pretty confident in your strokes and your eye is getting better at seeing things. I just have a few suggestions. First, see how you like speed drawings. See if you can finish a pose as quickly as possible in ten minutes, five minutes, even one minute.

Also, drawing from your imagination's a good mind exercise, but draw from life as much as possible. Pictures are great when you don't have the time or the luxury to draw live people, but there's so much more information you'll get out of seeing the thing/person in front of you that you won't get in a picture.

One thing I used to do when I had free time was sit in a mall or cafe or somewhere a lot of people stood/sat around, and just drew as much as possible. Sure, some would stare at me or feel self-conscious about me drawing them, but I'd keep looking right at them, sketching away, until they ran off I guess that makes me some kind of creep. The downside of this is you can't control peoples' poses or how long they'll stay there. Actually when I think about it, most people move way too much. Also, it sucks drawing parts of them with clothes in the way.

Oh yeah this site is also cool:
http://www.posemaniacs.com/

[Imaginary]

Hey you'r on the right track man! Anatomy books? Well the ones im using are Stephen Peck's Atlas of human anatomy and Hogarths books, also do some bridgman studies now and then.

[Black Spot]

Your studies are coming along, but you still look as if you’re having fun as well – best way to keep interested. Some more updates please.