Miycko's taking his studies SERIOUSLY!!! NSFW (nudity)

[aefx]

Just a little crit, with your finished piece of the girl cutting her hair, be mindful of your edges. Most of the edges in your picture are quite sharp which can take away the focus of the viewer and make their eye bounce everywhere. Perhaps it may be helpful to think of sharp edges as costing money. You don't want to blow your whole budget on areas which aren't too important, just spend it on the key areas where you want the viewer to focus, for instance on the core of the face and possibly the knife... not her arm, neck, etc... make those areas blurrier/looser than the others.

Another thing you can do is to push the saturation a bit in certain areas where the skin is tight over the skin like the nose, check bones, etc... this will create a contrast between desaturated areas and saturated areas... which in turn provides the viewer with more information/eye candy. Hope this helps!

[Incinerated]

good studies again, keep this tempo up and I think the peeps on top will get nervous.

[Incinerated]

good studies again, keep this tempo up and I think the peeps on top will get nervous.

[arestocrat]

awesome stuff dude, love the studies and the speed-paint video, awesome
Oh and thanks for the links, didn't see them in your last post *shame on me*

Keep it up =D

[p sage]

Now THAT's what I'm talkin bout! You're showing improvement because of your studies. The first one looks really good because of the improvement in your understanding of the anatomy of the upper body (pectoralis muscles).

Heads look great, too. Isn't Bridgman just the shite? He must've been one beautiful man.

Great work.

[wakoes]

thanks for stopping by on my SB, nice updates
that speed painting like I said before you're good on that, and what I mean before why don't you apply it on your drawing?
and lol I used Genius too g-pen 450 one
anyway it look like that you try to apply your study on your last drawing that good, try to do that more often it might help you on the future and if your new drawing it look better from your previous one mean you gain more skill but if it look the same, it mean you still stuck mate and need more study like you usually said

and ... that painting woman with knife: the shadow and highlight look nice (which is I'm still need practice on that ) , but the hand look odd for me( since from what I saw from your previous post you studies this part a lot ) well maybe literary it have a different meaning (since I believe the true meaning for every artwork only lay on the artist head itself)

[miycko]

aefx great advice dude i was actually thinking of doing a bit of refining on this image so i'll definately look into the stuff you've mentioned

Incinerated thanks dude well it would be nice if someone noticed i just hope the hardwork comes with improvement attatched to it

arestocrat Thanks a lot dude & you're welcome

p sage thanks a tone man YES the studies are definately helping, will need to go through this stuff a couple more times before, i'm used though & Brigman really is the shite

wakoes thanks a lot dude had a bit of trouble with that hand, spent too much time on it untill i decided i'd had enough, need to do MOAR hand studies and this time not just lineart

update so here's some stuff i failed to upload yesterday (damn slow internet) and todays brigman studies, finished the eye's which was a rather short topic think i'll render some stuff tomorrow, been a couple days since i rendered. also been checking out some of the artists whom were suggested as master studies and i was wondering if a great artist of today counts as a master study?

[seagulls]

The speed paint video was interesting to watch, I guess it must really help you see the overall process. There was some early things in there that affected the later parts like the proportion of the face. if you can get the inner part of the face right, spacing of the eyes and all that shape there correct it will get a good likeness.. or so I'm told.
The bridgeman studies are looking good and so does the master study(?) of the woman I can see more realistic proportion.

[arestocrat]

damn, so many studies from you already... time that I get started with bridgeman too ;P
Your faces and eyes look much better then before, so keep it up! Awesome progress

[andres333]

Wow! I find amazing the fact that you can do those studies in a tablet, I just can´t do that..........keep it up!

[p sage]

Great! Good to see the studies, as always.

Try and commit them to memory. Then, turn them, move them, and manipulate them in your mind and draw them again. (This was the advice given me by Mr. Barnstone).

You're doing very well

[wakoes]

awesome keep the good work

[majortom]

Those latest Bridgman studies are ace! The second to last page is full of some really good ones especially. Keep it up!

[JailHouseRock2]

Nice quick updates man, very good stuff!

Keep it up,
matt

[dierat]

I think copying the work of any artist that you deem to be more proficient than yourself counts as a "master study", but most people seem to stay away from posting art that's been copied from current professionals, just because it's kind of weird. The most common art that people copy for educational purposes are from artists whose work has passed into the realm of public use because the copyright has already expired. If the artist in question in here on CA, you could pm them and ask if they mind if you copy their work for study and post in your sketchbook. Or you could just do the study and keep it to yourself and not post it online if you think it might be a problem.

Your studies are looking good; just make sure you're actually learning the material. The fact that you seem to be trying to do them as quickly as possible suggests to me that you're improving your ability to copy quickly more than you're improving your understanding of anatomical construction. So do some unreferenced figure drawings and show us what you've learned

[Incinerated]

I do notice a bit of improvement in there.
Dont be afraid to take a break some times though, cause sometimes too hard work creates artblocks.

I dont think you're doing that though, you could easily squeeze a page more in a day right? Infact...

[mariusz]

Cool eyes sketches, keep it up!

all the best,
Mariusz

[jatherip]

soooo mucchhhh brigdeman... keep it up, you will be there in no time

[ROCKNROLLA]

Great SB, truly inspirational.

-VZ

[miycko]

seagulls thanks for pointing that out man there's a couple of things i should look out for in the begining cuz they make things harder later on the woman is just something i did from imagination. my question was if studying brigman counts as a master study

arestocrat thanks a lot man brigman's really good & i'm having fun with it, so get started ASAP

andres333 thank you very much man it was hell gettin used to the tablet but it's easier the more you do it

p sage great advise man they're not really in memory yet so i'll try and practice that way & see what happens thanks a lot for that

majortom thank you very much i like those as well, hopefully i can get the to all looke like that in time

JailHouseRock2 thanks a lot dude will do


Dierat thanks a lot for the explanation, there's a couple current artist's whose work i love here on CA. i was actually thinking of askin one of them if i could study their work mmmmm, there nothin wrong with makin real fast copies but seriously, you're right on the money about the studies, i've gone through plenty but haven't really learnt them, i'll use this weekend to got through the stuff i'e already bin through & do lots of imaginary stuff as well

Incinerated thanks dude man i hate artblocks, went through that two weeks ago, didn't like it one bit. i spend a lot of time looking at other artists rather then drawing so i wanna put in as much as i can while i'm still pumped

mariusz thanks man

jatherip thank you dude

kvanzant thank you very much for the comment dude. just checked out your SB, awesome stuff man


so yesterday i did some more brigman (the nose) & today some stuff from imagination, it's not exactly anatomy but it reminded me just how hard it is to draw from the mind, guess i should try harder to balance these out with referenced stuff i know there's plenty wrong & plenty missing so please rip it apart, i need the crits & i don't mind paintovers

[arestocrat]

nice stuff, don't know what to say already.. Damn, you're a machine !
Only suggestion would be, that you do some imagination works too and compare them to your studies to see your weak points. Besides that, a-w-e-s-o-m-e

[ilmenhin]

Oooh your studies- your lines are looking much livelier~ Digging those Bridgeman studies~

[p sage]

The Bridgman is ace.

In this one, there's a problem with her head... it looks like it's detached from the neck by the angle of the eyes. At that angle, her far eye should be nearly obscured. It should actually be seen in fairly extreme perspective...

But great work right now. You're on the right path.

[JailHouseRock2]

Damn, these updates are coming thick and fast!!

So good to see, keep it up man!

Thanks for the sb visits too, appreciated!
matt

[towy]

still really interesting, thanks for the movie speed paint too :] keep it up

[Peetaer]

Good progress with the Bridgman studies. I like how loose and free feeling they are. This is a good approach to take when studying Bridgman. However, pay very close attention to accuracy. Some of those are a bit off. The trick is to stay loose, free and do them fast while also being as accurate as possible. It's quite the paradox; but hey, that's life!

Rock on and keep them coming!

[jatherip]

more brigdman!!! i think you should study some "real" noses. bridgman teaches structure very well, but reall noses look else, but if you look at them now you actually can use you knowledge about structure! thats awesome^^
keep it up

[Lav]

great progress on those studies

[Incinerated]

Dont see too many nose studies in the forums, nice to see.
watch out limbs/parts dont get to thin or thick.

[majortom]

It's nice to see you going through the figure to figure out the underlying structure. Make sure you keep the proportions of the rib cage and the pelvis accurate, it seems like on the last one the shoulders get a bit narrow. Keep it going!