En skissbok - Mumph

[Noukah]

Riktigt grymma studier och illustrationer.
That corset guy with the umbrella is hillarious hahaha
Keep it up

[LAL]

This is very creative work, I like it!

[Knarf]

Welcome back my friend. Your stuff has definitely stepped up in style points! I'm glad that you have the motivation to post again, we missed you!

-Frank

[LAL]

oh……how many eyes! You have a great imagination!it is very cool!

[Mumph]

Jesus Food: Haha, don´t be sad, he´s not
Noukah: Tack så mycket! I will.
LAL: Thanks for the kind words.
Knarf: Thank you man. Yes, I will do my best

A pretty quick study from reference (Alica Keys). I´m currently reading Imaginative Realism by James Gurney and it´s awesome. I highly recommend it! I´m also doing perspective studies from Perspective made easy by Ernest R. Norling. I´m also working on a landscape painting for a competition over at sketchoholic. Check it out!

[Mumph]

For the Dylan Cole contest at sketoholic.

[Knarf]

I couldnt tell that it was A.Keys, try to really capture her likeness some more. Lovely enviro btw. Keep it up!

-Frank

[eminkey2003]

Ooh, I was hankering for some pale colors today. Nice... just make sure your painting doesn't get too smudgy or blurry! Try to "harden" your painting a bit.

[Mumph]

Knarf: Yes, I didn´t really capture her likeness. Thanks man.
eminkey2003: I will think about that. Thank you.

I did another Alicia Keys portrait. This time I cheated by printing her face in lines on the paper very thin first, the eyes, nose and mouth anyway I wanted to focus on rendering. And an Assasins creed "fan art" done some time ago.

[eminkey2003]

Green portrait is dynamite! Much better likeness. I like the way one of your styles works in the second picture too. Fabulous composition in that one too.

[Gorgoleon]

These latest two rock! i especially like assasin art, beatiful composition and light in that picture.

[BRINKMAN!]

Really great form on these new faces! The green one is especially nice. The Altair and black and white girl have a bit of wonkiness in the positioning and size of the facial elements, but are major improvements from your past work.

Keep up the good work!

[Mumph]

eminkey2003: Thanks man! The likesness in that one is probably because I cheated, as I said in the last post It was more of a rendering exercise.
Gorgoleon: Tackar, tackar
BRINKMAN!: Thanks, yeah that one wasn´t very successful when it comes to likeness.

A self portrait below, that I didn´t finish. Lately i´ve been mostly doing perspective studies and I also bought the discovery foundation and painting weeks, so I have been looking at that too. Great stuff!

[eminkey2003]

Looks nice. You have a very well controlled way of placing the lines on paper. Nice volume again!

[Mumph]

eminkey2003: Thanks, just need to finish the stuff too

These are some of the assignments I did for a school application:

1: Draw your kitchen with a pot on the stove and a person standing by it.
2: Still life (with the specific objects you see in the picture)
3: How to cook mashed potatoes (only images)
4: Two people carrying a table (all legs visible)

[Knarf]

still life = epic win! sexy water colors broski!!

-Frank

[Gorgoleon]

great work on the applications!

[Mister Dark]

The alicia keys sketch and the breakfast paintings are very good!
The light under her nose might be a little too bright.

Peace

[Ivan Turcin]

Hey Mumph!
I returned to page 1 to see how much you have improved over the years. A lot!
Hard work is paying off. Way to go.

[eminkey2003]

The line drawings are fantastic. I love how dynamic the "table" drawing is. I think the best part of the still life is the silverware.

[BRINKMAN!]

The watercolor and step-by-step pieces are bad ass! Keep rockin' it, my man!

[Mumph]

Knarf: Thank you Sir
Gorgoleon: Tack tack!
Mister Dark: Thanks and I agree about the light, but then again, you are Mister Dark
Ivan Turcin: That´s nice to hear, thanks. I will try to work harder
eminkey2003: Cool! because we were supposed to show how we handled different material in that assignment, so it´s nice that it looks ok I was afraid of doing the metal.
BRINKMAN!: Thank you man! I think the step-by-step was the one that was most fun to do.

I´ve been working on my perspective skills and so I don´t have anything particulary fun to show but I did some goofy silhouettes that I will post.

[Ivan Turcin]

love them! would love to see the top middle one animated. It would be awesome!

Keep working,
cheers!

[eminkey2003]

Cool. Like I said to BRINKMAN, I think I would work on just making everything more dynamic. I think the most interesting pose in the silhouettes is the ballerina-type at the bottom.

This is my theory about making something dynamic:

[Mumph]

Ivan Turcin: Thanks man! Haha, yeah it would be cool if I knew how to do it. There´s so much to learn
eminkey2003: Yes, I will keep that in mind, normally I think I focus too much on the character and don´t really think about the pose/gesture.
That´s an interesting theory. But I think that even a "boring" object with not a lot of variation can be made interesting depending on what viewpoint you have (see attached picture 3).

I just thought i´d show some of the stuff i´ve been struggling with the past weeks. I finished Perspective made easy and I also have watched and followed Carl Dobskys video downloads. After I watched each video I tried to do it on my own and add something (perhaps draw it from another angle or change measurements and viewpoint).

[eminkey2003]

Whew, those perspective studies are a doozy. Looks like the still life make good applications of it. Maybe you should try with a figure next.

Yeah, about the theory-- it seems you've proved it! Heh, that table is pretty solid at first, but when you add a perspective that makes the shape look more varied in its 2D silhouette, it looks more interesting. Anyway, that's neat.

Heres a dude I know who does a lot of strange perspectives: Robert Valley (NSFW).

[Mumph]

eminkey2003: Haha, yeah I guess. But if it´s the exact same silhuette but rotated? I guess it comes down to the structure behind the painting. Stapleton Kearns actually posted about this in his blog. It´s an interesting read.
Awesome link,I really enjoyed his work! Bookmarked.

Some stuff I did today.

[Gorgoleon]

thats an awesome selfportrait! and those perspective studies looks advanced, makes my head hurt

[eminkey2003]

That electric blue is a cool idea! I like the first silhouette there. Very dynamic! Thanks for the link too.

[Mumph]

Gorgoleon: Thanks man! Haha, it´s actually pretty basic stuff. Carl Dobsky is great at making you understand.
eminkey2003: Thank you! I had that in mind when making the silhouettes.

These are some of the assignments for another school application I have been stuggeling with the last couple of weeks or so.

1: Design a poster for "Alfred Nobel: Networks of innovaion". It´s done in soft pastels.
2: Show in a series of picture a time when you showed courage (the text is swedish and it rhymes )
3: Make a graphic image of a memory from when you were a child. It´s a collage.