Umbravita's Little Thread of Progress

[Umbravita]

Care: Thanks! I'm going to do some Hampton studies tonight.

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Some thumbs I've been doing over the last few days. Varied from 20 mins to an hour or more depending on how active I was on Skype. I need to stop multitasking.

[Joe777k7]

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook! Glad you liked the Tutorial i did! Going to try and make some more soon!! Keep the updates coming!!

[Niam]

Hello! : D
very nice environment thumbnails!
it also helps by studying each element individually (like a rock etc) <-- sounds so emo ._. studying a rock.
keep up all that good work!!!

[Umbravita]

Couple of WIPs.

[Umbravita]

May tweak this a bit again, but mostly finished.

[Umbravita]

Tonight's studies. Man made objects. 40ish to go.

[kamikazel33t]

Your contour studies appear to be coming along quite fine , they are becoming more confident. I know you are following nicolaides book intently but perhaps you could try and vary the line thickness a bit more. Watch out for the perspective on some of the things.

[Umbravita]

Kami: Thanks man. Actually I slacked off with TNWTD so after reading your comment I got back into it. Thanks for the crit!

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TNWTD. I stopped in the middle of a few gestures from schedule 3 day A. Oops. So today I finished that day. TNWTD had done tonnes to improve my art, I don't want to give up on it now.

This isn't everything I did today, just most of it.

[Umbravita]

First watercolour I've done in, like, 10 years. Could be better, but could be worse, too. Don't like that mouth.

[Black Spot]

Gestures are coming on. Water colour - do loads more; it's a tough medium to master. Don't be afraid to knock it back. And keep rocking.

[Umbravita]

Thanks Spot. I've got a portfolio piece idea and I'm not sure whether to do it in watercolour or coloured pencils. Will probably do both and put the best one in my folio.


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Butterfly, practice with colour pencils. Looks better in person. I'm really enjoying colour pencils. From photo ref.

[Umbravita]

Whoops, haven't been updating. Sketch dump!

[Umbravita]

Really don't like how this came out, will be redoing it.

Watercolour.

[thewandererjourney]

great improvement, keep up the good works

[Umbravita]

TWJ -- Thanks man.

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Moar stuff. Some stuff from this year's annual sketch crawl, plus imagination stuff.

[Umbravita]

So on Saturday, when I was out on the sketch crawl, I had a water leak in my bag (didn't properly screw the lid on my water bottle). Thankfully my sketchbook was largely undamaged, but the water buckled the paper so now whenever I scan something you get those ugly grey patches because no matter how hard I try, I can't properly flatten the page in the scanner. Aaargh. So yeah, sorry for crappy scanner quality.

This isn't everything I've done recently -- the attachment manager's throwing a tantrum again, so this is all that's managed to upload without errors.

[Umbravita]

Trying to upload the rest again. Only managed two this time. Bleh.

[Umbravita]

This is really frustrating. The face is painted all wrong and the eyes just look cartoony, but I have no idea how to actually fix it. *Flips table*

[Umbravita]

Yay markers.

[Umbravita]

More sketchbook pages.

[Umbravita]

More.

[Black Spot]

Nice studies. Love the dog sketches - cute

[Avon]

Nice work
I like those studies

[Niam]

Hey!
I struggle with water colour too!
but the studies are paying off!
keep up the good work!

[KateTheTerrorist]

I love your scene sketches!
Try to put together those perspective blocks and make a house or something. Have fun with them

[kamikazel33t]

Yay head studies! *claps hands* just keep hammering away at them, what I also find that helps is that in my idle times drawing boxes and a variety of ellipses really help with construction try to take it further as well, draw cylinders combine em with spheres then attach it to a cube etc. it will really help you think in 3D. Right now with the head studies you are JUST beginning the fun of it, right now you are just tackling 2 forms, the sphere(cranium) and the form which is extruded out of it(mandible), later on you would deal with attaching extra forms like denture spheres, the brow wedge(as I like to call it), the keystone then the nose box piece which attaches to it and the two eye spheres then after that the forms have to be developed and basically carved in to get your final features. so learn to draw the basic forms well and connect them properly and then you'll have these studies in the bag. I know I keep repeating myself but so far this is what helped me the most along with gestures and perspective which are technically tools to draw such forms well.

[Umbravita]

Thanks to everyone who commented. Especially you, Danny, for the advice.

Absolutely buggered from a trip to the art gallery today. I walked miles. God. *Faints*

[Umbravita]

Watercolour study.

[Umbravita]

Went to a weekend workshop at the art school I want to get into. Teacher looked at my work, asked if I was a student, and said, "We'll have to snap you up so you can come here full time!"

That has just about made my entire week.

[kamikazel33t]

SUWEET! so I guess you are as good as in? As soon as seeing your avatar change I knew you were going to post! Well just keep it coming with them gestures, I am guessing those tiny figure thumbs were suppose to teach you shape recognition for figures so that's a plus . Have you tried this exercise where you try to draw gestures with straight lines only?