Sacari's Sketchbook

[Sacari]

Exon-Ion: Thanks I downloaded a copy of Bridgeman for now, I can't find most good anatomy books at Chapters... oh well, it'll have to do for now.

furiana: Thanks for the helpful links, but unfortunately I didn't make it into Emily Carr I did however get into Illustration at Sheridan, which is pretty exciting! I know Sheridan hosts a bunch of life drawing for sure.

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Here's a couple studies I did. One in pastels, and a Bridgeman.
Still need to get started on the Concept101 thread... I've been working non-stop lately. I should be able to start either tomorrow or tuesday.

[furiana]

Also a good school! The only reason I know more about Emily Carr/Vancouver is because I lived there for a while.

[Nezumi Works]

Wow, you've got some really striking stuff here. I have to say, I really admire seriously you're going after improvement. Keep at it!

[Sacari]

Started the conceptart101 thing!
I drew one of my speakers, and then drew it again made out of wood, because that was about as different as it gets from plastic

The third one is just a study, I need to work on faces... Noses especially.

Well that's it for now

[My57]

Glade to hear you got into sheridan. Will see you there in a anonymous sorta never really gonna know kinda way.

*ehem* Anyways, just keep at it. Try some anatomy books and such. Always good to do more studies.

[Sacari]

My57 - That's not creepy sounding at all What program are you in?

[Sacari]

Just a quick update...
My boyfriend, his brother and I were each given a little 2" x 2" canvas to paint for their cousin (he's going to paint one back for us) in PEI since we can't go on the trip this year. We decided to make them PEI-themed. One of them is the cottage, another one a boat. I decided on a lighthouse... So here it is
It's not anything fantastic, just a little 20-30 minute painting, but I need some advice on how to get the lighthouse to be less... bland looking.
Thanks!
(excuse the webcam quality...)

[My57]

Well to improve it I would say to get a reference. A bit late for that I suppose... Soooo try to make a stronger light source? To give the lighthouse more presence?

Ah I'll be in Illustration as well - And that did sound creepy now that I read it over. Fortunately you will never know what I look like! MUA HA HA HA HA HA HAAAAA....Ha.

to bad about the trip to PEI, maybe next year for you. I would love to live there. Awesome looking place.

[Sacari]

My57 - thanks for the advice. I ended up making giving the lighthouse a bit more contrast so that it would stand out more instead of being so washed out (although the bad photo made it look even more washed out). I think it turned out well. Should've taken a picture before I gave it away...

So here's my stuff from yesterday, actually had a pretty productive day. Haven't been posting any gestures, and probably won't for a while, just because there's so many. I'll wait until there's some actual progress.

1. Random doodle when I was in a bad mood to release frustration. Always a good thing
2. Figure study. I'm actually really happy with this. Probably spent about 2-3 hours on it. The only thing that REALLY irks me is the hand... didn't spend as much time on it as I should've.
3. Bridgeman studies.

[Sacari]

I have along overdue birthday present I'm working on for my mother. She wanted a painting of a photo she took of the ocean/beach, but split onto two canvasses.
Here's what I have so far for the first one, I don't even have enough done on the 2nd one to post.
C&C would be GREATLY appreciated on this That wave is giving me the most trouble....

Edit: That wonky blue strip between the sky and ocean is tape, just to let you know.

[Sacari]

I'm finally all moved in to start at Sheridan in September! Really REALLY excited for that. I've been making an effort to get in some drawing time every day to get ready for school, but haven't been able to post because our internet company keeps cancelling....
So hears a few of my sketches from the past week.

[House Hatke]

Hey Sacari, I think you're doing fine. A lot of these pictures seem to be sketched from life which is the best practice that there is -so you're on the right track! Anatomy takes study and work and time, but also if you just draw from life often (not just people but everything you see) it will start sorting itself out. You will just get more comfortable with forms.

Keep it up!

[Sacari]

Here's an update on that painting for my mom, this time showing the 2nd panel. Getting close to being done, just the waves left, and some evening out for the ocean.
C&C please??

[Sacari]

Finally done that painting.

[Sacari]

Here's some faces I drew from photo references (deviantart stock photos, woo!)

Edit: Finally got a scanner, so here's better quality pics

[Swinsea]

Something I struggled with, myself, in getting past the manga/anime influences was by concentrating on drawing what I actually saw, and not what I thought I saw. Something I notice in a lot of your life drawing is that your observational work is somewhat stylized, and I think if you took a little extra time to really look at the ways eyes are shaped, the gentle curves of faces, where the muscle and bone structures are, etc, that with practice your style could see some great evolution.

(Not that it's not good to have your own style, but I had to completely abandon mine in life drawing to really get a handle on how anatomy and faces really work.)

The perspective in the one of the kid playing video games is spot-on, and I can see in your latest sketches that you're loosening up a bit. Your quick figure sketches in charcoal(?) show a lot of potential, they have great movement that would be nice to see in the other works, as well.

I'm liking the paintings, btw.

[Sacari]

Swinsea - Yea, it's really hard to get into that mindset but I'm trying. I'm really hoping to get to that point where in life drawing, I can totally get rid of the anime influence, but in my own stuff combine everything to get my own style...
Thanks a bunch for the critique

So I decided to enter the teen Challenge and it's actually pretty fun. Here's my progress so far...
1. Thumbnails for "Light", chose the purple one.
2. Sketch
3. Trying to do it in photoshop, but I haven't used that since I was 12 and it's reaaallly frustrating me.

Any C&C is really appreciated

[Sacari]

So I've been posting my progress in the Teen Challenge 100 thread, but I figured I'd post an update in here.
Any C&C is welcome.

[Jovian M]

I really like your traditional painting. Keep pushing your life studies, and digitals.

[GearldsGrotto]

it's good to see your progression

[oma]

nice to see.. ppl progress.!

more self portraits... me loves SP's

Rob.

[Joce]

keep pushing

[Sacari]

Had my first life drawing class at Sheridan yesterday! It was so nice to draw from a live model again
Here's a couple gestures and a 5min pose I liked from that.

We also have to keep a sketchbook/journal for the Conceptual Process class that we can pretty much do whatever with. The goal is to do something in it everyday. I went out and got one of those handbook journal co pocket sketchbooks because I really like them, and I think it'll be easy to carry around... I started it today with a self-portrait.

[Sacari]

Couple more pages from my journal project.

[Nemome]

;D
Nice work!
I like this one http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1281015205!
Awesome pose!

How old are you? ^^

Greetings, Sil

[Sacari]

Silwynar - Thanks! I'm 18.

[Sacari]

I'm starting to really like this journal assignment.

This one because I've had "Dirty Little Secret" stuck in my head all day.

[Sacari]

Bunch of lifedrawing stuff from school.
2 contour drawings, the rest are 5min poses.

I started a sketchblog on tumblr, if anyone's interested in taking a look: http://crystalrainbows.tumblr.com

[Sacari]

A few more pages from my journal project, which I'm really enjoying

[LtPlissken]

Honestly,
you have to work REAL hard
to improve.
Quantity over quality for now.