Detlef starts a sketchbook: Let's get awesome

**Detlef** · January 17th, 2011, 11:47 AM

good day everyone, my name is Malin, I just turned 18 years old and is currently taking media classes in Norway.

I have been drawing pretty much my whole life , but it's time to get serious about it. Learning proper anatomy, shading and coloring and I hope that getting proper feedback from my fellow artists will help me.

I usually draw comic stuff since I have a webcomic http://www.zombiewaffe.com/ but that leaves little room for proper improvement.

So let's start off with some screenshots/photostudies/original stuff. None of these are more than a week old I think.

**Danny_K** · January 17th, 2011, 12:29 PM

hey there and welcome, you show potential.
start by showing studies from life it is a very important step to improve your perception of reality, movie stills too.

**Detlef** · January 19th, 2011, 06:52 PM

Did some hands and anatomy study, some male torsos are fom life (statue)

And a photostudy

**Detlef** · January 21st, 2011, 06:35 PM

Didn't get much done today, But I did try out some new stuff that I've never done before and that is concept sketching. tried to make like a stealth armor or something like that.
And a photostudy...

**Kapil** · January 21st, 2011, 06:49 PM

nice start my man. Loving the hand studies and the Altair piece is pretty good.

**Riox** · January 21st, 2011, 06:52 PM

Hey great sketchbook, you have some really nice anatomy studies there. Did you use references? Also your skin tones are great, keep updating.

**Detlef** · January 22nd, 2011, 02:19 PM

Kapil: Thank you, drawing hands is actually pretty fun, but hard.

Riox: Thanks, and I use references most of the time, like my own hands and statues. also photographys and screenshots

Stuff I did today, wanted to do more but I need to work on my webcomic.

facestudy, self portrait using mirror, hands, photostudy, screenshot study

**Detlef** · January 25th, 2011, 08:05 PM

Stuff

some pose and color references used

**n1frit** · January 26th, 2011, 02:36 AM

Nice works and body painting! Try to work over head proportions. Goodluck

**Mila** · January 26th, 2011, 02:41 AM

Welcome to CA ! Excellent start you made here.
How long have you been painting in Photoshop/Painter? I really like the Altair piece and the industrial landscape

**Detlef** · January 29th, 2011, 06:57 PM

Some mixed stuff today

I was gonna do more headstudies but got caught up in drawing a tank... oh well

**dsacc** · January 29th, 2011, 07:04 PM

Dude, nice work! Looking forward to seeing more.

**Fiskepudding** · January 29th, 2011, 07:07 PM

Those are some cool backgrounds there ;D
Keep it up yo.

**Mila** · January 29th, 2011, 07:21 PM

Wow, loving the new enviroment pieces! I'm trying to make some of my own, but find it very hard to paint what I want it to look like. Do you have any tips for a beginner like me?

**Detlef** · January 29th, 2011, 07:29 PM

Originally Posted by Mila

Wow, loving the new enviroment pieces! I'm trying to make some of my own, but find it very hard to paint what I want it to look like. Do you have any tips for a beginner like me?

Thank you! And to say that i drew these from my mind would be to lie, I have a very simple way to take reference pictures and make something of your own out of it.

For these backgrounds I find some free stock images with some nice perspective lines and use those as reference to get the perspective and overall look of the background, then I find some others pictures with some colors and values I like and just use those to paint with. Really simple, the technique is very much used for people that do conceptart that have to be produced fast.

Hope that makes sense.

**Mila** · January 30th, 2011, 04:56 PM

Thanks - It wás helpfull! I never tried using reference stockphoto's or anything. I'll give it a try

**Detlef** · February 9th, 2011, 03:07 PM

Alright some stuff from this week.

I try to vary what I do but I gotta admit I don't like traditional art even though I should be practicing it....

Ok got some photostudies, conceptart and, yeah random stuff

**Sushy** · February 9th, 2011, 03:10 PM

Very nice sketchbook

It really inspires me to draw some studies as well ^^

**Mila** · February 9th, 2011, 04:14 PM

Sean Connery! Job well done on that one

**Xanath** · February 9th, 2011, 06:28 PM

Love the lighting in the Sean Connery piece, the man knows what he's talking about! "Fifty noes and one yesh..means yesh!" ^^

**Detlef** · February 19th, 2011, 06:17 PM

weeeeeeell some stuff

I should be doing studies on paper, but I can't upload them untill I get a new scanner

anyhoo, I tried drawing some females because I seriously never do that. It's boring but I need to learn how to do it....

Robot chick is from imagination

**kevlar jens** · February 19th, 2011, 07:10 PM

Nice work, Detlef.

I like the robot chick, despite the the various proportional errors which I'm sure you are aware of, she's kind of a mix between GLaDOS and SHODAN.

And good luck finding more joy in drawing women.

**Fiskepudding** · February 20th, 2011, 11:11 AM

That's a good update

Hope you'll work hard during winter break.

**Detlef** · March 5th, 2011, 11:34 AM

I haven't been drawing nearly enough this week! been caught up with web design and my webcomic.... But here is something at least

**Domaz** · March 5th, 2011, 11:37 AM

good progress!! Keep it up

**Mila** · March 5th, 2011, 12:29 PM

Wonderfull new work!

**in2eternity** · March 5th, 2011, 12:49 PM

Beautiful works here, I like #17 the most )

**ZombieGrub** · March 5th, 2011, 01:05 PM

Great job. Keep going with those illustrations!

**Detlef** · March 24th, 2011, 06:07 PM

been pretty busy with my webcomic, but here is some stuff!!

Thanks for all the feedback! I really appriciate it

**Rain Walker** · March 24th, 2011, 06:13 PM

dude u have great paintings here.. from start to finish.. im suprised its just one page.. u must have some oldies hanging around.. post them... ur not a beginner obviously... good work... waiting to see more

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