A Year of Drawing - 0 months to go

[Timaz]

I like your style!

[equilerex]

@Naidy thats some damn good advice, will definitely try that!
@Timaz thnx glad to hear i have something distinct developing here.

well, not much for last 2 days... .spent the friday out and slept most of saturday so i just got the IDW done...

[Naidy]

Aha! Really interesting concept, and it seems like you're starting to get back into routine by the looks of it.
Keep it up! YEAH!

[qlotzan]

Nice SB many creative ideas here

keep it up and have fun

Qlotzan

[equilerex]

well, once again i got caught up in life but squeezed out as much as i could from today...

quickie from a ref.


and something out of mind for a change.. shall render it in the morning


and got 2 other drawings started that still need a bit of work.

@Naidy & qlotzan

[equilerex]

today's turnout:

[aks9]

great work on your studies
that's funny, I'm also caught alone in the country side, trying to practice and make the most of it
keep it up! draw more!

something that helps me is to get 1 theme and decide to focus mainly on that for 1 month. so say, november has just started, november could be the month of heads.. or general figure.. or shading, or or or

[Naidy]

I'm surprised that last post was from imagination, you're definently getting good with bodies. Anyways, hope to see moar soon.

[equilerex]

@aks9 yeah, for the first 2 or 3 months all went well but getting lazy now the theme idea is neat and would ease up thinking on "what to do now" but im slightly impatient by nature so i need to take a "brake" by drawing different things. over the course of the night.
@naidy thanks! still feeling much more comfortable with a reference for figures... the dragon was damn fun to come up with though!


did some more construction for a day and traveling for other but now i hit the gold! It seems like theres life drawing sessions in the uni twice per week- i went yesterday

so here goes my first ever life-drawing session!




at first it was pretty confusing but i really felt like i was making progress... cant wait to go more.


and broke in the moleskin i was given - scribbled some more stuff from mind while waiting around.

[heix33]

Tere
Nice stuff you have here. I think you could use more hardcore anatomy studies, G. Bridgman or whatever you can get.
Keep it up.

[equilerex]

Tänan!
Will definitely look into some more anatomy when i get a chance!

for now some Stuff-U from a couple of days:

From mind:

(i think i discovered the moleskine secret! the paper is so sweet that you want to use up every inch and end up filling it with lots of fun stuff)

streets and some book by Hamm:


a few better ones from drunk'n blind-drawing session in the pub:


and finally got around to play with some clay ^^


life drawing tomorrow! cant wait!

[Naidy]

Och, no way!
I always get that random urge to make stuff like that, but I never get round to buying any clay. xD

Really interesting wee thing you made, especially when you do that dramatic lighting.
Why not use that as drawing refference? It'd be interesting.

[equilerex]

hehe, ive bought the clay many times but never got around making it ^^

the plan "was" to make a planar head model i could use as a shading reference but things went a bit south to say the least ^^ will try again later when i get some good "blueprints" and a good sphere to start sculpting it on.

[Mike Frank]

7 months so far?? lookin pretty good... i really dug these ones.. cool illustrations

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...9&d=1283524852
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...7&d=1284476403

i'd say to work on studying light/shadows to really push it forward.. your figures show some pretty strong separation of shadows but often the value range isn't pushed far enough. maybe trying conte or charcoal might help to get to the darker end of values

its very grey? if you know what i mean.. like these two -
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...0&d=1288643885
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1288643921
you will only find a range of value like these if there is no strong light source.. ie. ambient lighting situations, like an overcast day or a person in the shadows

in your last post the photo of your head sculpture has both situations. the ones at the top is kind of ambient light. no strong light source. the difference between whats in the light and in the shadow is not much. the light is kind of a light grey and the shadow is kind of barely different.

the bottom photos, with that light from below.. they have that strong separation.. they'd make a great study.. you clearly see the form as its turning away from the light, and if you can emulate the value range in the image .. it'd be $$$

[Nemome]

hey
Nice to see that you are keeping your studies up!
Last clay picture looks like: "Dramatic light on? ... Yes, check!"

Good job.

[Nuclear_Bunny]

I have to say I admire your dedication to your sketchbook, especially the improvements in your anatomy studies. The only thing that caught my eye was in your female drawing (from imagination) is the exposed lower arm is a bit small for the rest of the proportions, if the arms is going behind her back, it should at least start a bit thicker, but that's all

I love your work, keep it up!!

[equilerex]

@Mike Frank thats mighty helpful insight, thanks a lot
will definitely try to push the values much more... i guess the clay photos are pretty ironic if you take it like that... gave myself an example without realizing it ^^

@Silwynar yep, playing with light is fun! cant go wrong with the dramatic lighting ^^

@Nuclear_Bunny thanks!, thats a good point, hadnt noticed it myself :/

well, some more updates- went to life drawing session on wednesday and thursday.. still takes a lot to get used to but im doing progress.

on wednesday, pretty-much all sketches went to hell, maybe its hard to draw pregnant ppl or maybe it wasnt my day but all of them ended up too long and disproportioned, anyways heres a little sample, everything else was even worse:


Thursday started much better, not really that accurate and nice but i was happy with the outcome, definitely getting more comfortable drawing from life:



(ran out of time)

and a small doodle from a cafe:

[equilerex]

yesterday got used up on construction but finally got this thing finished... for a local digital "drawing" compo:

3ds max and paintover in photoshop.



theme was Biodiversity so went down the usual paranoid "AAAAAAAA Were all going to die!!1!!!" Road

[Naidy]

Really liked the last batch of figure studies, particularly the reclining male with glasses, since he had the smoothest lines + neat shading.

Like the last post too, though my only crit would be the block of green over the skeleton is throwing me off a wee bit, perhaps you could shape that colour so it only touched the ground around the skeleton, or something like that?

Anyways- keep up the good work, you're really showing improvement.

[Mr.Thorne]

stunning 3d

[equilerex]

@naidy: good point, will look into that
@thorne: thanks

life drawing of the day:
15min + extra progress without the model.
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and a lil thingie for a game mod im working with. drew the picture and chopped it into a propaganda leaflet in PS

(very small print) Rules of application available at local Civil Defense offices. Limited number of places. Right of admission sold as a low interest loan. Instalments will be subtracted from monthly social security benefits received by the applicant.

[Naidy]

Aye, are you doing life drawing too?

Really good drawing of the woman too, especially like how you smoothed the lines once you worked into it and the way you did the hair.

You're showing improvements, so keep it up mate!

[equilerex]

@Naidy yeah, finally found some figure drawing sessions... twice per week... for free ^^ gf's been also very helpful for a few times.
thanks for the feedback

More life drawings from today:






and some random stuff from mind... (D got sucked down the meltdown! ^^)

[equilerex]

Wednesday to Sunday is always a big mess :/
heres some from 2 lifedrawing sessions

[equilerex]

some stuff from today.

sneaked to a class in the university.. not much teaching, mostly an assignment but its definitely nice to do your stuff among others who are really into it.


and some random stuff from the sketchbook:

[equilerex]

another life drawing session today- around 10 to 15 min poses as usual.

[equilerex]

lifedrawing session from yesterday:

had insane headache and tiredness so i went with the blurr...

[LtPlissken]

I am just a mega freak as FAllout is concerned,
so I admire all your post apocalyptic work here.
Good human figure drawings and studies, but
you should do more of them on a daily basis.
Keep posting, will come around again.

[equilerex]

@ LtPlissken thanks, fallout is always quite a fun theme to do some work on... the art style of the first 2 games just blew me away. recent ones are more "realism" oriented but still neat though.
Trying to do daily studies but im having issues with time(even though i took my time off just for this)... helping my folks on the weekends, web design work here and there, random projects, going out for the figure drawing sessions for 4hours kill 2 or 3 days due to travel and exhaustion and so on- life is stressing but im fighting! ^^

anyways, yesterday it was mostly webdesign but got a few life drawings done:

10-15min sketches.



(head/face on this one sucks, started to fix a few minor problems after the model was gone and messed it up, redid the head like 6 times but couldnt get it right anymore)

[mary-cherry-me]

Love the first drawing, but I can find something to crit on the second

Her limbs are too thin for how her body is proportioned IMHO; the arms especially look really thin and long.