Greenhouse’s sketchbook

[Greenhouse]

Hi art friends! Iï'm quite new here on CA and I'm happy to have found a place where to get inspiration and knowledge from. To show my sketches is a little bit intimidating but in the same time a way to get input and feedback getting better and improve myself.
Today I went to the store and bought a sketchbook "live", and 500 copy papers to draw on. Isn't that a great start!


I need lots of advice! You're welcome to critique!
Thanks for visiting!












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[vardoburrito]

Hallo hallo
Your soft brush overlayed by hard lines remind me of my old sketches.

500 sheets of cheap paper, YES!
Do your studies for the purpose of studies, so a lot of them will be throw aways.
Make your mistakes and learning on these. Newsprint paper works also.
(I do find I have the most fun while drawing on cheap paper )
And of course, Photoshop or your digital choice. Quick studies and quick comps, blaah,
just don't be afraid to make mistakes.


Refs:
gurneyjourney.blogspot.com He's amazing!
and of course conceptart.org have a lot of artists to grow and learn from.
This forum offers quite a few learning sections, too.


Keep it creative and inspired. Would love to see the stories in your head.

[Adrianor]

Hope those 500 sheets are put to good use...You might wanna check out this site: http://www.posespace.com/default.aspx

[Greenhouse]

Hej hej! (Swedish)
Aww thanks vardoburrito! Glad you took your time writing to me, it means a lot. Good words to hear from someone who has walked the path before me. I looked at your sb and it is very impressive. So much cool stuff going on there! But it was quite a time since you posted…I suppose you have other things going on as well. I hope you’re not suffering from some dangerous animal/insect bite from the most dangerous species in the world, down there!?....I have seen it on National Geographic Wild.

Thanks for the refs. I’m glad you showed me the artist, James Gurney. You’re right he’s amazing! What incredible books! And the BlogSpot seams very interesting.

Yeah, copy paper is great…..and also for the wallet!
Thanks for very comforting words, “just don't be afraid to make mistakes.”
Cheers!

[Greenhouse]

Adrianor – Thanks, I hope so too!
Great link, just what I was searching for. I need lots of practice to improve my sketching, really.
Nice sb you have going on there. Keep posting!
Thanks!

[-D_art-]

welcome to ca! here is my little contribution http://www.posemaniacs.com/

I'm eager to see you started on those 500 pages

[Greenhouse]

D art - Thanks!
That link is very helpful. And the images is turnable too, great!
Ten down, 490 to go!

[Valyavande]

I would like to see you taking a look at: http://www.ctrlpaint.com/
It's a great resource about digital painting and even some analog basics. Many useful things are around there.
I would recommend to you - if you go on with digital painting - to banish the airbrush for a while. Get used to hard brushes to define your forms and values. But for beginning it may be better to do tons of pencil drawings. So, 500 sheets of paper are a good thing to start with =)
And show us some of your sketches!

[Greenhouse]

Valyavande – Hey thanks! I’ll definitely check that out!
Good advice, I think you are right about not using the airbrush so much as I’m doing. I need to learn the basics, the right way.
Thanks for taking your time!

So here is yesterdays and today’s work…

[Greenhouse]

Today’s work. You probably see which image is from reference or which is from my imagination

[Bedlam2010]

Very impressive. I really like the panda.

[Greenhouse]

Bedlam - Thanks a lot!


And another for today.

[alizak]

Hi there - thanks so much for stopping by my sketchbook! I like the variety that you have going on here - but I especially like the horse studies and your last digital piece - super cute! I'll be subscribing for sure and we can go on this wonderful art journey together

[Greenhouse]

Aww thanks, Alizak!
It will be a great journey for sure!

[Greenhouse]

Today I have had a relaxed day with the pen in the right hand, and a cup of coffee in the other!

[Greenhouse]

Mangix, Thanks for the good advice! I’ll definitely take that in consideration in my following studies.

Brandon Pilcher, Thanks for the kind words!



And here's one sketch i did some time ago. The digital is from a couple of weeks ago.

[Mangix]

Great start. For the digitals, I would suggest trying to convey form with more edge variety and not smooth everything out so much. Don't be afraid to draw through contours or extend lines of sketches, it really helps with measuring. Excited to see you fill out your SB.

[Brandon Pilcher]

Love the animal sketches!

[alizak]

Love your studies with pen - especially the horses. Are they all from posemaniacs?

[Greenhouse]

alizak, thanks so much!
The nudes are from those websites:

http://www.posespace.com/default.aspx
http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php

The horses are from a simple Google search and the other studies are from my own photo gallery.
I’m very curious about posemaniacs, must check that out properly.
But it’s a little bit intimidating. There are so many muscles and difficult angles to draw, and at the same time it’s very inspiring and good for my progress.
Glad you’re stopping by, my friend!

[Revidescent]

You're off to a great start! I know you're using pixelovely, don't know if you also know about this site; very similar, but some different poses and options. Nice work on all the figure studies so far.

You need to work on your line quality a bit - you've got some hairy lines going on. The worst offenders are definitely those digital pieces in your first post, but it's still showing in some of your pencil figures as well. Try doing some quick gestures - 30 seconds max - with as few lines as possible. Some are bound to turn out awful, when lines go off in weird directions you don't intend, but it's a great exercise to build confidence. And since it's a lot of quick ones, you lose very little time if you botch it.

[Greenhouse]

Thank’s Revidescent! Glad to hear your words!
Haha, yeah you’re right! I definitely have to work on the lines. It’s a big problem at the moment. Thanks for the link! I checked it out today and man that was hard, whoa…30 sec...It’s crazy!
But I didn’t give up, I did it. And though it was extremely hard and annoying, it was also fun.
Thanks for the support!


Here’s the 30 sec study, some serious ugliness!

[Greenhouse]

Here’s a sketch I’ve been working on lately. I have big issues with the textures on the stone walls...

[alizak]

Aaah thanks for the links!

[Marlo]

The only suggestion from me to you currently is focus big time your thirty seconds gesture AND contour, it'll help give you better lines in painting and drawing the figure :-3.

[jondawo]

30 sec poses are always ugly dont worry

I would reccomend that you start your 30 (or 60) sec drawings with 1 or 2 basic "flow lines" that capture the energy of the pose. It'll help you construct the body rather than just drawing the body as a whole. This video explains it in more detail. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmiwG...el_video_title

Keep up the hard work!

[GeniusFetus]

There does not appear to be any under drawings in most of these.It would be great if you could draw the basic 3d shapes of the anatomy first, then use that to guide the outline.Basically, structure structure and more structure is needed.

[alizak]

I think I have to bite the bullet and do some 30 second poses - gulp!! You have motivated me

[Greenhouse]

Marlo, thanks for the good advice! I will try to work on that.

Jondawo, thanks that’s comforting! I think that video will be very helpful. Thanks for supporting me!

GeniusFetus, thanks! You’re right, I hadn’t thought about that. I just feel that I couldn’t get any structure, but I didn’t know what the problem was. Do you know any good studies for practicing 3d body structure?

Alizak, haha, that’s great! I’m glad that those 30 sec (nasty) actually could be to some help! No pressure!


And here's the latest..

[jcpahl]

Really nice life drawings. One thing I'd suggest: it looks like for some of your figure drawings, especially the quick poses, you're starting by drawing the outside contour lines, conceptualizing the figure from the outside-in. You might find it helpful to try the opposite approach, starting from the inside out and thinking of the figure as a collection of simple 3d-masses (cubes, cylinders, spheres, etc.), and 'constructing' your drawing out of these, only approaching the outside contours when the internal gesture and masses have been positioned.

That's probably poorly stated and confusing, but two books I'd recommend on the subject are Drawing Lessons From The Great Masters, by Robert Beverly Hale, and The Vilppu Drawing Manual, by Glen Vilppu.

Just a thought. Most of your life drawings are actually very good, but your gesture sketches reveal what might be an aspect of your approach that could benefit from Vilppu's methods, especially.