I am Dave! Yognaut and I have the balls!

**Architaylor** · October 16th, 2009, 01:49 PM

Welcome to my sketchbook, check the last page for newer stuff

thanks for stopping by

**Architaylor** · October 16th, 2009, 01:55 PM

First few pages from the sketchbook

one of the characters was reffed from the concept design academy blog

**Ghosd** · October 16th, 2009, 03:08 PM

your shading looks really sketchy but it really works, how do you get your lines so crisps?
ghosd

**Architaylor** · October 17th, 2009, 12:54 PM

Thanks Ghosd

um well for these I used a 0.7 mechanical pencil, maybe an F? I this its just using the sharp side for any details and the flat side for shading

**Kungfoowiz** · October 17th, 2009, 08:09 PM

Decent sketches, your shading is coming, perhaps try shading with more of a circular motion, and maybe try a full body sketch.

**Architaylor** · October 18th, 2009, 01:29 PM

cheers man ill take that on board

Playing around with newsprint charcoal and nupastels

nupastels didnt scan too well

**Kungfoowiz** · October 18th, 2009, 05:28 PM

I like the shading going on, on the neck and the sides of the nose. Maybe try erasing the outline around the cheek shading, and then blend it a touch to see if you like it.

**Konstruktion** · October 18th, 2009, 06:41 PM

Sweet, is it a self portrait?

**Architaylor** · October 21st, 2009, 04:56 PM

Thanks Kungfoowiz ill maybe do some of that next week iv been pretty busy so havent had much time for drawing

Thanks Konstruktion, nah I drew it from reference

Life stuff and some referenced

**blu_dragon** · October 21st, 2009, 05:08 PM

Great lines dude, i especially like your sketchy shading techniques where you block out the shadows

**Architaylor** · October 21st, 2009, 06:33 PM

cheers man

Just a quick colour study of the awesome Kevin Wueste (http://kevinwuesteart.blogspot.com) just trying out painter really as well as looking at faces and colour as I suck at both!

**Lakka** · October 21st, 2009, 07:22 PM

those pencil skills, I needs them,

give me thems!!!

Nice stuff, really dig the crispness.

**Architaylor** · October 22nd, 2009, 05:05 PM

Lakka I'll trade for you rendering skills yeeeh?

2 rubbish sketch pages

**Troubadour** · October 22nd, 2009, 10:36 PM

thanks for checking out my SB, your lines are looking nice and confident and i'm loving your charcoal/conte work

**Sirkenneth** · October 23rd, 2009, 02:39 AM

Sweet, like the line quality. Wish I had that confidence! Keep posting.

**sansan** · October 23rd, 2009, 05:47 AM

great start!

**Kungfoowiz** · October 24th, 2009, 11:38 AM

Mmm, I'm not so sure about your fingers. Perhaps spend some time on the anatomy of the hands. Maybe focus on the outline of the thumb and then the fingers should follow in an arc from index to pinky.

**andres333** · October 24th, 2009, 11:48 AM

You're truly drawing like an artist with the right side of the brain, that's it

**Architaylor** · October 28th, 2009, 11:16 AM

Thanks Troubadour!

Cheers Sirkenneth that means a lot!

Thanks sansan

Cheers for the crit Kungfoowiz I keep meaning to do some Hogarth studies, his hands are really good albeit exaggerated should help to fix what you described

Thanks andres333

Just compiled a load of stuff from my life drawing pad, most of these are quick 10min sketches we work on gesture stuff a lot because we're looking at movement for animation. Sorry about the quality, way to big to go in a scanner and didnt have a better camera than my phone

Also a robot design im thinking of doing for my character design project. I dont really like it I'll probably start over. Character design is way harder than I first thought

**Softskin** · October 28th, 2009, 11:29 AM

Sweet stuff, man. I agree with kungfoowiz about the cheek outline thing, other than that you're doing very solid stuff. Try out some softer pencils, I'd say, for more of a statement in your lines. Personally I never go below 2B and I often lay my pencil down flat for thicker softer lines when posing out stuff.

Nice to see a fellow animator also!!

I Got my Bachelor of Arts in Animation almost 2 years ago now

Good luck with Anim-school.

**Dr poPcoRN** · October 28th, 2009, 12:44 PM

love your gentle aesthetic appearence to your rendering!

**LuckyDevil** · October 28th, 2009, 01:19 PM

Loving your hand studies yo. You got a good eye, can't wait to see some of your animations.

**Architaylor** · October 29th, 2009, 07:45 PM

Thanks Softskin, cheers man

yeah I need to fix that at some point. Yeah I will start using softer pencils. I really need to get a moleskine the my current pad is almost too toothy for soft ones

ah thats cool man where did you study? I checked out your blog your stuff is so good

Cheers Dr poPcoRN!

Thanks LuckyDevil, I'll try and upload them at some point, theres nothing special atm im just getting started bouncing balls ect

Hogarth Hands

**Bushido** · October 29th, 2009, 09:15 PM

Really great stuff!

I wanna see more!

**Kungfoowiz** · October 30th, 2009, 04:40 PM

Cool, your lines are more confident in that one. Keep on keeping bro.

Edward

**dessinateurimpulsif** · October 30th, 2009, 04:50 PM

;-) good work

**Meaisín** · October 30th, 2009, 09:17 PM

Had to comment when I saw the thread title. I've just started my animation course too. Exciting times! I'm sure you can relate.

Anyway, I really like those hand studies, they have a nice sense of movement and believable 'weight'. I love your pencil marks too; it seems you're really making the tone work with the sharp marks. And I just know you're being told as much as I am to observe life and draw draw draw! Moleskines are win as well

. Have you found Hogarth studies to benefit your understanding of forms and your life work?

Keep up the cool studies dude. I'm looking forward to seeing my course result in some awesome projects and a real improvement in my work, and I hope the same for you!

**Vatsel** · October 31st, 2009, 05:35 PM

wow loving the studies!

keep it up, this is great stuff!

**Jamie Romoser** · October 31st, 2009, 07:32 PM

You have alot of talent i esspecially like the way you draw your hands
Looking forward to seeing more -Jamie

**Architaylor** · November 2nd, 2009, 04:19 PM

Cheers Bushido I will try to do more

Cheers Edward

Thanks dessinateurimpulsif

Thanks Francisck

thats cool where you studying? Thanks man, yeah same for me I couldnt tell you how many times I've been told the importance of life drawing

I'm doing it once a week atm but I wanna do more! yeah I've actually found that they work quite well. I would just be careful about the extreme exaggeration he uses in his studies

Cheers Mark I will try

Thanks OmertA

Girlfriend came down this weekend (yay

) didnt get much drawing done but we found a cheap moleskine knockoff, I really like it

heres a quick sketch of my legs I did this morning waiting for a tutorial

I'm doing character maquettes this week so might upload some photos

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