Charmer's Thread! PRACTICE!

[Charmer]

Hey guys. Here is some stuff from today.

[love tank]

Hey, I'm really digging the varried work I'm seeing here, and great landscapes! I gotta start working on doing some of those.

Cheers!

[Charmer]

Thank you very much!
I need to get everything up very much more. MY problem is, that I lose the mind of things so fast, can't ONLY draw, I have so many things in my head all the time. I need to clean my workspace and of course my pc. Haha.

[love tank]

Thank you very much!
I need to get everything up very much more. MY problem is, that I lose the mind of things so fast, can't ONLY drawn, i have so many things in my head all the time. I need to clean my workspace and of course my pc. Haha.

Completely understand about that. I'm going to school right now for nursing, and I'm working full time so I have just about everything going on BUT art. It's a tough balance. (and my workspace is a mess too haha).

[E4sY]

You sure are improving in ur drawings. The paintings are progressing as well. Definitely keep it going. The studies from life and pics will very much help u to use less lines and get your idea's out more clearly. Your hard work and persistence will pay off.

[Charmer]

Here are two more updates. More tomorrow!
I need a good raw brush for studies. For light and shadows etc. I think I'm going to try some new texture brushes out in the next few days.
First one are two layers multiplied. The white lines you can see have been my basic construct.

[Charmer]

Here's a Knight drawing I did in about 40 minutes. I'm not happy with it. I need to get better in doing sketches from my mind.

[Charmer]

Here comes the KRAKEN!
I forced myself to draw way better today. About 1,5 hours.
Comments and tips please!
If anyone has a cool brush for rough sketches (which has a bit variation of flow and opacity and maybe a texture), I'd like to have it please!

[Charmer]

Here are my two cents of today.
Thanks for visiting!

[.empyrean.]

Hätte einen interessanten brush für dich. Wenn du mir deine email Adresse per PM gibts, kann ich ihn dir schicken, weiß nämlich nicht mehr woher ich ihn habe...^^

[Charmer]

One update from my weekend for now. Did some others, too.
Will post more soon.

[Nemome]

Hey dude!

Small update. Really hope to see more soon.
One little critique for this piece is that you should try to erease your outlines.
In reallife there aren't outlines too
Try to make deeper darks too.

Waiting for more! ;D
Sil

[hücumkedi]

mmm nice but you have tons to learn for keeping it heavily...first study more from the masters...do some more figures...not yet colors man.. you should assimilate the line drawing firstly and then colors...keep up working... ill be back

[Charmer]

Heres my new update. Took about 60 minutes.

Silw: Thanks dude. I erased the outlines of my today's sketch!

hücumkedi: Thank you very much. I really appreciate your critique. You're right. I need to learn better basics, and of course more drawing black and white.
I will do more of those stuff. Thanks.

Edit: I updated the colours.

[Danny_K]

yooooo its been awhile...!
you are progressing bro for sure, I liked this one http://attachments.conceptart.org/fo...1&d=1294961051

and the krekkon is sweet! practice practice practice!

[Charmer]

New update.
I bought a video tutorial on idrawgirls.com about female figures. Some studies about that follow soon. From today I have here a new perspective drawing. The focus is more on different brushes and a bit chaos, too.

[Charmer]

Hey guys!
This time I am very busy since I am reducing my weight from 80 kg to 73 kg with some fitness stuff and I'm very often outside to photograph with my digital SLR Camera Nikon D40. Here's a small update. I swear I did draw every day! Some perspective drawings inside!
Keep it up!

[Charmer]

Hey guys.
Here are some new updates. I'm drawing daily this time.

[Charmer]

Here's my actual work from today.
I'll continue this one tomorrow. No ref, completely from mind.

[snatti]

Hey tasser, i agree some with hücumkedi, but i really like that still life i think you can try for next one to pop in a few more object and get some of the bg in to see how colours relate to each other,i also read you bought a tutorial vid from i drawgirls, i looked up some photos for you i think can be useful if you want to try some pespective drawing, some of these have really intressing angels others are just lame, http://www.abandoned-places.com/leuna.htm, there is more on the main site but it's was a bit tricky to navigate :p , http://www.abandoned-places.com/thumbnails.htm anyway it's a great place to start of an envi painting from, or atleast have a peak before you start ^^ look forward to the finish on the image on #349 and l'll be watching for more updates tasser

keep pushing!

[Charmer]

@snatti thank you very much. I'll be very much better in the next time since I draw daily for some hours this time. I am so motivated! First I tried to get better with my poseidon thing. In the next few hours I'll be drawing a lot.

[Charmer]

Some pencil sketches I did today. My sketch of Poseidon was done at work completely from mind (in my lunch break :> )

[Charmer]

My daily update. 1 hour.

[Charmer]

the old tree. 15 min speed sketch.

[Samszym]

Great work recently! You've been improving a lot. It looks to me like your anatomy study figures all have the same body. it might help to study the different shapes muscle groups can take on people.

[Charmer]

@Vertical: Thanks dude! I'll first keep my eyes on getting some life into my figures and get better figures overall. After that phase I'll do more anatomy again.

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Here's my update from today. I practiced a lot of figure stuff.
Feels like I'm a lot better in figures now. I'll keep that up.

[Eani]

Hey, nice improvment =D
I like the onions the blending is really smooth, are you using a special brush for blending?
oh and you should consider going to life drawing classes if you aren't already in one, they help a lot.

[Charmer]

Hey, nice improvment =D
I like the onions the blending is really smooth, are you using a special brush for blending?
oh and you should consider going to life drawing classes if you aren't already in one, they help a lot.

@Eani: thank you very much!
I dont use a special brush, just a round soft brush with low flow (3-25 percent, just try it). I pick the color with Alt so the blending is really soft mostly.

I don't know where to find a life drawing class here. I do not know anybody who's interested in art in my town. That's pretty hard

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Here are some of my today's updates.
I really need to INHALE Bridgman!

[8bit]

Hey Flo!

I have to say i REALLY like your onion! it looks awesome with the subtle lighting you have going on there!

And i think some of your custom brushes are looking sweet, also your figure painting and environments. im looking for a good book on perspective, have you seen any good books?

all the best,
8bit

[Charmer]

Hi eighteeee =)
Thanks for your comment man, I wasn't happy with the onion, don't know why!
I didn't see a good book for perspective right now. The only thing I do is just working with one or two vanishing points. For now it works well but I need to get better at this, of course.