Training montage- Updated January 20th 2013

[My57]

cool batman painting. You've been improving quite nicely. Just watch your line work in some things. Thats about it.

[papervampire]

Nice dude! keep studying, batman's lookin sweet

[SamC]

Krato: Yeah I get you, that little bit below the chin that attaches the neck is pretty much missing. Also the width of the neck had been bothering me, cheers man
My57: Thanks man
papervampire: Thanks

So I've got exams now, by the end of this week I should be able to do a lot of art though, and then another week of exams and I'm a free man. I'm going on to do an art course for years 12 and 13, so I'll have no excuses to be lazy! I don't expect much from the course but it should allow me a lot of freedom to study and stuff

some Loomis studies, he's so supreme

Some pretty bad self-portaits of me in shadow, gotta get on planes and proportions more. Also those eyes look pretty dodgy

A sketch of a friend

[SamC]

Quick Sargent studies

Sketches from mind

and some WIP

[Krato]

neat, the last face is looking really good, even though it looks liiike _____ style, however good news is that your work is slowly starting to be truly yours well i suppose it was always yours.. but you know what i mean.. i hope.

[OldJake666]

For some reason your work reminds me a lot of Miles' work. Not technically, but the faces and poses and such.

[vatteh]

Sketches are looking nice. Keep working hard.

[SirGreenSock]

Nice work, especially last update. Pencils and digital paints are starting to look real good.
Make sure you get more of the underlying structure right before moving into the painting, that girl for example has a lot of skewed form/perspective to her. We are looking at her face (nose, eyes, chin) tilted to the left, but her eyes are almost as if her head is straight. Thats a real common thing to fall into cause your mind wants to look at the eyes on level.

[SamC]

Krato: I'm glad its official now, I'd never know without you here to tell me these things lol cheers brahh
Jacob Kobryn: The reason could be that I hang round and draw with him alot...
vatteh: Thanks man
SirGreenSock: Cheers man, I think I fixed it, but yeah really good crit. Thanks

Yer its done..it looks like an advert for drugs haha

closeup

various studies and some self-abuse

[SamC]

Real quick study from a film

photostudy



more Kevin Chen stuff

[jordyskateboardy]

Yea Kevin Chen is the man. I've actually been studying him as well recently and it's the first time it's actually all starting to make sense in a way that I can construct poses in various angles instead of memorizing how to draw some generic ones. Gotta love that guy.

Above girl portrait looks cool. Love how it looks all psychadylic and stuff. Her mouth is kinda tilted up forward a bit to much compared to the rest of the face. Outta persp and stuff. And yea love the photostudy.

[Eddieee]

Awesome stuff man The studies are paying off.

[Flashback]

You have a awesome sketchbook here.

[~KJK~]

yesh, these are very nice keep it up!

[Yor]

love your pencil works!

[SamC]

jordyskateboardy: yeah mouths completely outta place and too small, I'll get that better next time Cheers buddy
Eddieee: thanks, and i need to study more
Flashback: Thanks man
Parsakoira: thankyou
Yor: thanks, i should really do more digital too

Soooo I've been really lazy on this week off before exams, after this week there'll be no excuses also I have most of my days free anyway during this week so I'll draw a lot then, really no reason not to anymore. And I promise to start getting out of my comfort zone now, starting with this still life

Sargent studies, this page wasn't nearly filled enough last time I posted them

Life stuff

photostudies

Some scribbles from mind



and still life of my fisheye lens

[Nibras]

Yesh Mesh Sam. Always bring tears of joy to my eyes.
Looking good, so so good. Like the best food.

Keep rocking

Nebo

[DTP]

nice rendering there bro. you've come along way. i like the girls face alot too, ive been meaning to try the mix of soft and hard brushes for a while now...any tips?

[Krato]

ahhh such great values in your sketches

[~KJK~]

ooh i just cant understand when did you get so damn good! nice improvement!

[Cameli]

Wha really nice pencils and ur portraits are looking really good!keep it up!

[tehmeh]

I love the pencils and the figures show some good improvement through the sketchbook, keep it up!

[zou]

nice job on those studies.

[Forrest_I]

Hey Sam it's been a long time since I've seen your sketchbook. Looks like You've come a long way, keep it up man

[jordyskateboardy]

Yoyo Sam,
Lovely improvements man. Digi looks neat with lots of atmosphere etc.
Huge improvement in the pencils as well. Getting better at rendering and values you are.
Just want to grab your attention a little bit according your lines. You tend to be very blocky which is good to learn how to develop a system to construct figures but be sure to not rush anything and use less blocks so to say than needed. Some of your lowerlegs look like basically 2 sharp lines next to eachother. There are ofcourse many more curves. And I'd suggest you start to work with less lines instead of lifting the pencil every time you're planning on turning it just keep it going. WIll improve the line quality. If you want an example just look at Jana she totally powns it ;p.

[Benjie]

your getting better dude, brush work and anatomy is looking a lot stronger now. I was going to go to bed after viewing your sb I think Ill be staying up a couple more hours to do some more studies, your scarying me man haha ;P

[SamC]

Thankyou for all the comments, I'll do replies next time because I'm reallyyyyyyyyy tired right now and want to go to bed

Heres some studies

[Yor]

sweet studies man

[Krato]

can you refine your sketches a little more, the rendering is a little choppy but none the less i can tell without a doubt that the last post is the bald guy from character-designs.com really good studies man. oh and what paper or sketchbook are you using? would you recommend it over a moleskin -- if you have ever had a moleskin.

[Hive_minD]

Wow, great improvement since last time I popped in, which has been too damn long ago. Keep it up. It´s looking great. Seems like you are doing it just as you should be.

Chris