My sketchbook for improvement

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Advice and critiques most welcome.

[Wilko]

This is a great place to receive critique and I'm no expert but I think the key thing you need to look in to is basic perspective. Just read up on the rules of basic one point perspective and you'll find you can quickly improve your work

I've attatched an image where I've drawn some key lines to demonstrate where your perspective has gone wrong. With one point perspective (which is the most simple kind of perspective and perfect for this kind of "down the street" view) - all your key lines (the black I've drawn) should meet at one single point. As you can see, your lines don't meet at one point, and this is the main reason why the perspective seems a little off.
Another thing is that this point should be somewhere on the horizon line of your picture - I drew in where I would guess your horizon would be (the red line) and your points fall higher than this. What this means is that the street appears to be on an uphill incline when really it should appear flat.

Does this make any sense? Hope it helped.

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Gouache painting.

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I thought I'd update this for once. Critique and advice welcome if any one feels like it.

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An Apache.

[ErikHolfelder]

You've got an interesting high/mid key value style here. The clean lines give say the first image an overall slick look that might be interesting to push.

I second Wilko though, you should definitely study perspective. It would make your drawings much more effective. Try Perspective 101.

Good luck.

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Another picture.

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I found this earlier.

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A painting I repainted.

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The last painting I did.

[Justyna]

Hey,
I would definitely advice you to learn anatomy. Looks to me like you redraw some pictures without the real knowledge about it. Believe me, you will improve a lot if you start with some basics. Books about anatomy by A.Loomis and Bridgman taught me a lot.

[zx52hg]

Hey,
I would definitely advice you to learn anatomy. Looks to me like you redraw some pictures without the real knowledge about it. Believe me, you will improve a lot if you start with some basics. Books about anatomy by A.Loomis and Bridgman taught me a lot.

Affirmative.

[PixelGirl]

Loving the colour scheme in that last picture.
I agree with Justyna, anatomy's a great thing to learn. I'm trying to learn it at the moment too. The book I'm using is "Anatomy for the Artist" by Daniel Carter and Michael Courtney, and you can pick it up on eBay real cheap (I got mine for £3!)

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An update.

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Another update.

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Drawing for my next painting. Hummer proportions and figure sizes are rather off, but it is very fiddly trying to draw little people at that scale. :/

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I did a proper drawing of the last sketch, then decided I didn't want to paint it, and did this instead.

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[Kambei Shimada]

Interesting start, your colour combos give the paintings a slightly surreal feel. Would like to see more observation drawings.

Keep posting.

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Here is the painting for the above drawing. I will try and make an effort to do some observational drawings, which I've just realised, is something I've avoided for rather a long time.

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I forgot to put shadows in...

[HAJiME]

Your style is very unusual, and I think with practise its going to be icnredible. I wish I could draw man-made things like this.

Do some life studies!

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[SEVANS]

Perspective and anatomy are the 2 main areas that need work (as do mine).

But another area that would add alot of depth and form to your work is the colours. Your images have a uniform amount of contrast and the colour hue doesn't really change from foreground to background.
Imagine an image of rolling hills, the further ones have less contrast and less colour.

Nice to see alot of work. And keep posting, since I can see some improvements already.

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I've decided I will make an infographic of the raid on Bin Laden's compound. These two helicopter profiles will be part of it, once I have painted them. Technical pictures seem to be a better fit for me than the usual concept art stuff.