From doodles to studies

[Steffler]

hmm same problem with this one, the highlights are not this intense in photoshop. I would love to hear some crits I learn a lot from you guys

[Steffler]

whoops

[Steffler]

i guess i was just in the wrong color mode before.
another one of the Earnhardt studies

[Steffler]

todays

[Steffler]

hi there

[Steffler]

Hogarth

[Steffler]

posemaniacs 5-10 mins each

[Steffler]

more posemaniacs

[Zenobia]

Nice studies. You're really improving.
I think you need to work on shading a bit more, though you're coming along nicely.
Keep up the practicing!

[Steffler]

I agree zenobia, im trying to get things down quickly, often i dismiss something and move on.

I spent a bit more time with this one trying some new things. I think the value range is pretty weak.

[Steffler]

upper body today. lets see what i can do. this took about 30 mins

EDIT: i really see the short bicep and triceps now

[Steffler]

another one.

Im having a lot of trouble smoothing things out quickly.

any tips?

[Freddy Scribbles]

Keep up the work! It's definitely paying off.
Haven't been paying attention to dates, but there's definitely a HUGE improvement between your first posts and current work.

You said you were taking a class. Where and which if you don't mind my asking?
I've been trying to find some good classes.
It's been difficult in England. Oddly.
Los Angeles is looking more and more appealing in terms of classes for people who're all growed up and trying to improve.

[Steffler]

Thanks! your sketchbook is real solid. I like the energy in your characters

Im just taking classes at the local university for fine arts.
I just finished foundation drawing and 2d design.

I was into drafting and architecture in high school but this sketchbook is pretty much everything ive ever done.



Today i tried to just see the negative space and a little sketch that took a really long time im sorry to say.

[Steffler]

a quick warm up. looking for better mileage with my brush strokes today

[Steffler]

bleh. from imagination about 45 mins

[Steffler]

thought he would bring a friend along, and the fish seemed to big before

[Steffler]

busy weekend, now i can get focused again.

just messing around atm

[Steffler]

a self portrait, 45 min
the more time i spend on it the worse it looks

[Steffler]

just thinking about the winged humanoids and how the skeletal structure might change. from imagination 15 mins

ill try to do an ortho view tomorrow
good night.

[Steffler]

I don't think you could get flight out of the wings without a more rigid rib cage to attach the extra pec muscles too. Birds need a lot of muscle mass to take off, together with very light fragile bones.

So I wanted a more human chest without scary pecs. Wings that would be for gliding or more agile land movement.

I know this entry isn't very readable but it all happened completely by accident.

This wasn't a pose. I just wanted to draw the torso in profile and this is what I got.

To top it all off when I cropped her to save, I also cropped the layers of sketches underneath

[Steffler]

another repaint of a sp...

playing around with Multiply and Screen effects. about a hour and a half before i hit that rendering wall.

Do i just keep increasing the canvass to get more detail like subdividing polygons in ZBrush?

maybe i just need to use more brushes

[Steffler]

adjustments

[Steffler]

looking at folds and reflective surfaces. I need more patience.

[Steffler]

my first landscape, this was about 30 mins. trying brushes and hoping to create some depth

[Steffler]

a sketch from a photo of my youngest son

[F87]

Lookin' pretty good, just make sure you are drawing what you see, not what you think you see. I'm sure you have heard that a lot though.

Pay closer attention to the negative shapes around the figure, maybe that will help.

[Saurus]

thanks for the stop by my SB...I see you draw a lot! I notice that like me your drawings are pretty 'inconsistent' in quality.. sometime you draw some really good stuff, sometimes it doesn't come off as well... something that helped me a lot is to 'analyze' and tear-appart what I did on drawings that came out well....I notice that your black and white sketches/drawings come out much better in value than your color ones too....to remedy that remember that color is not as important to get an image across as value...so even though your color might not be on-point, if you get the value correctly, the image will not look as bad...flip your images, "desaturate" them to see if your values are coming together correctly...this helped me a lot....and keep posting!...it's kinda frustrating not getting many comments on CA...but keep going at it and they'll come and you're definitely improving so the more you improve the more people will like to help...

[Steffler]

Thanks for the confidence. Ive been busy on a paper for school, but I did manage to get some time in today. This was mostly an exercise with the multiply effect. I wish i had tried this a few months ago.

more practice.

[Steffler]

Multiply and color dodge did not work out so well with this sketch, moving on after 30 mins. Maybe if I screen the yellow on the mid tones i can get a better result.