Raffix - trying to steadily improve

[Raffix]

wasabi89 - cheers man




silly photo edit thing haha:

[Raffix]

[krysjez]

dude your lines are SICK!

[Black Spot]

I like the life drawing. Are you doing loads. I had a model every day when I was doing foundation but I'm not sure if they still do that. It would be interesting to see what they're making you do. In other words - post more.

[Raffix]

krysjez: haha cheers buddy

Black Spot: well some big news actually, i just quit my course because it wasnt the thing for me at all. life drawing was once every 2 weeks and even that was only for about an hour. ive been there for 5 weeks and havnt learnt a thing so i decieded to drop out and am looking at joining LARA in the next 2/3 weeks or just working from home.

reffed digital scrap

[Raffix]

if all goes 2 plan ill be starting at LARA on monday!! so excited

went 2 the v&a today, bit of an iffy drawing of a badass leighton sculpture. (fucked up the proportions bad haha look how big his arms are lol) was loads of fun tho

[Egg0]

Anatomy is a thing that I have to practice and practice a lot, and you're making it, and it's great! Really, amazing job mate!

[Raffix]

Egg0 - cheers man

started at lara today so will have some stuff from there to post over the next dew weeks. for now i went back to the v&a and had another go at that LEighton


edit - may as well add this late night doodle. mma photography.com:

[Marian Rowling]

Hey Raffix great updates and I totally share your excitement at getting to study at LARA. Very cool and will be really good for your progress I hope. Really looking forward to seeing what you make of it all.

[skMOP]

Hope to see you improve loads from all the figure drawing now. I looked lara up, so are you still in high school right now (doing both simultaneously) or did you just finish?

[Raffix]

marian-cheers !
skMOP- erm not sure what high school means exactly, im 18 and i just left secondary school. thanks

some kind of guard/watchman concept sketch. maybe like a palace guard or a royal guard or something



cheers 4 looking!

[Raffix]

quick look at the stuff in my sekcthbook from this month - nothing too interesting, i dont rly have any lara stuff 2 show yet.
mix of bridgman, life drawing 1 min up to 20 min stuff, concept doodles, old guy sleeping in waterstones, then a sp at the end






if u get judged on quantity not quality then im doing alright lol

[Marian Rowling]

You've been doing alright by my books Raffix since you started. I've always enjoyed your self portraits and it's good to see inside your sketchbook. What do you think of LARA, thus far? Does it seem the right place for you?

[GeniusFetus]

I would personally like to see more work going towards the underlying structure of the figure, the life drawings seem to be pretty stiff and a bit mushy, just try drawing something akin to the bridgeman studies you've done before applying the detail, it can help you create more solid and dynamic figures.

[Raffix]

thank you guys
Marian - yeah Lara is sick, everyone is better than me haha but that is what makes it good, i am always feeling like i am learning.

Lara drawing:


some sketchbook stuff:

[Marian Rowling]

Marian - yeah Lara is sick, everyone is better than me haha but that is what makes it good, i am always feeling like i am learning.

That's great Raffix as it will really help you progress more quickly. I'm going to really enjoy seeing what you do.

[Raffix]

cheers marian

wednesday night drop in life drawing at lara if ur in london its 630 - 830 come by.
some 5 min - 20 min







tube/cafes

[Raffix]

2 concept sketces, 2nd one is basically the first one redone after getting crits


<- fucking stupid shoes!

tube drawings from the other day . . need 2 work on these . .


quick poses (1 min) from LARA .... sloppy

[Raffix]

21st century armour 4 a 21 st century world

[TheFallenAngel]

Great stuff man, reminds me that I need to get myself to life drawing pretty soon lol XD

[Raffix]

yeah like i said man if your in london then drop by LARA wednesdays 630-830 in bermondsey

finished the pencil sketch 4 the new long pose at the atelier today

[BenjaminJL92]

Great work Raffix, I love your life drawings, and I know exactly what you mean about the previous course you were studying, I'm studying a foundation at Liverpool Community college art's centre, and quite frankly it's pretty pathetic, I haven't had a single life drawing session yet. I'd love to live closer down London to study at LARA myself. But yeah as for your work, really good stuff, It's gave me a better Idea how I should be building up shadow tones in pencil sketches, so cheers for that. Hope to see more soon

[Eightball_]

hey man good to see all the hard work you've been doing. the life drawings and pencil renderings are looking good. at this point, your concepts from imagination are lagging behind your studies, but that just means you need to practice and exercise your mind more. it's only a matter of having your imagination catch up to your observational skills. keep up the good work!

[tehmeh]

Was very cool meeting you at lara today man, hopefully see you on friday at the mall life drawing! just turn up at the mall galleries around quarter to 6, first time is free and we will all be there!

[Marian Rowling]

Hey Raffix long pose is looking good. I'm looking forward to seeing this one progress. Also love the humor in the last armor drawing with the saucepan helmet and carry bag.

[Drew Walker]

Yo was nice meeting you yesterday, small world eh?
Already good improvement with drawing and edges, keep it up !
Some of your concepts are looking pretty tight too
Get yourself to a sketchmeet !! (Link below)

[John Silva]

really nice traditionals!

keep pushin'!

[Raffix]

cheers 4 replies everyone (:

some concept sketches - i have a terrible fucking scanner!! camera didnt have any batteries . . .


^welder gimp gang


girls reffed from glossy mags . . . rinsed by the scanner!! D:


some of the less terrible life drawing from this week . . .some of that shit will never see the light of day !!

[Raffix]

sketchbook pages from the last few days




^tube ppl at the top of this 1

im feeling alot more confident about concepts etc and imagination work generally after thinking a lot/being taught about shapes and stuff. i t was all wrong before.
this is imagiation progress from 2 months ago (left) and the other day (right.) better shapes on the right
probs spent 3 or 4 times longer on the old one.....just shows how bad my approach was . . .

[Naidy]

Hey, mate. Nice seeing some more concepty stuff from you. It's good to see you put all the knowledge from your studies to work. Oh, and I was in England this week we don't have tubes where I'm from (Island's too small, there'd be no point) but I had a go at drawing people on them too. My lines were no where near as nice as yours though, More like masses of scribbles. So how the bloody hell you'd manage doing that? Were you drawing between stops or something?

Either way, liking what I see as always. It's good having a creep through your stuff especially when you seem to be taking a few steps forward recently. Keep up the good work!