4 NOOBS and THE CHALLENGE

[Ranivius]

Hello everyone! This time I want to surprise you with something a little more original. This is not just another ordinary thread like a regular SB. THIS IS......

THE RAZOR CHALLENGE OF HELL FROM THE ULTIMATE HELLFIRE... yah

To be more precise it's a team sketchbook for 4 NOOBS (Me-Ranivius, ANtY93, Satis1994 and Eternal Apprentice) We want to improve the most we can in the shortest time possible. In other words, we are here to check if we can achievie super improvement in just few months. It's kind of an experiment

Rules are quite simple.Anybody from the Concept art community, including us Noobs, can give us challenges to complete. It can be in any media, even an animation For every completed challenge we gain experience points. We will gain more or less experience points based on the difficulty of the challenge and the quality of our piece. This will be done by putting our pieces up to a public vote. We will be also posting work that will not playing a role in the challenge.







http://challengefornoobs.blogspot.com/ - judge our works here!



LIST OF CHALLENGES:

1. Draw knight with armor and his weapon going through his opponent. 5 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
2. Make a creature that combines a dog and a Caterpillar. 6 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
3. Complete a landscape study fom a photograph 8 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
4. Complete a figure study without using any line work 7 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
5. Make 3 seperate character designs meant for a first person shooter in a sci fi theme, for just the linework 16 exp. ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
5b. if you fully paint the 3 characters then you get another 10 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
6. Draw every one of this shapes trying to make as similar to reference as possible. 10 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
6b. Learn to draw three of them from memory. - 10 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
7. Learn to draw loomis ideal proportion male and female from memory 25 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
8. Head in 5 different perspective from reference in linework - 8 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
9. Posemaniacs studies 90 sec. 30 of them, digital linework - 10 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
10. Posemaniacs studies 90 sec. 30 of them, painting - 10 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
11. Posemaniacs studies 90 sec. 30 of them, drawing in pencil - 10 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-27 )
12. Draw 5 characters from artsyposes.com just linework - 10 exp ( DEADLINE 2012-03-29 )

[Satis1994]

Back into drawing! im a total noob but its k, gotta learn someday...

[Ranivius]

I decided to share my latest works. It is mostly insane fast sketching (i like this as helll ) from about 10 to 20 minutes. There are few longer and it can be clearly seen

[TernadoG]

I challenge all three you to each draw a picture of a knight in armor fighting with his weapon going through his opponent. Any style or way you want to draw it but you all have to have one that is your own with a background on each.

you said anybody can make a challenge right lets see this then.

I'm also a rookie so don't worry to much I just want to see it.

[Ranivius]

This is my piece of art for the "knight in armor" challenge

[Eternal Apprentice]

I will only give you challenges if you make a deal to give me challenges as well!!

[ANtY93]

@Eternal Apprentice: you betcha!

@TarnadoG: cool topic, what a shame I can't draw poses and proportional people

And a challenge from Ranivius from yesterday's night (sci-fi environment, yup I can't imagine anything sci-fyish, only medieval :/ )

[Ranivius]

I was so sleppy i forgot to thank you for this challenge TernadoG. It's nice we have our first visitors who participate in creating challenges.

And from yesterda.... mmm? no that was 3-4 AM

quick sketch of a barbarian woman who is bald, has strange pose and intresting 3 point perspective - as a result the hardest topic



Sci fi environment + perspective



and the power of elements, in this case water

[Ranivius]

It is not concerning challenges, but just lazy drawing without an idea. Its kind of postapocalyptic knight...



I just finished my website i had to do, and now I AM FREE! It is only a matter of time when i am about to set the new rules of this sketchbook, so wait up....

From this time there won't be more boredom

[TernadoG]

@Ranivius thats a pretty good one accept for a few things I have doubts you're a noob. but then again i'm not that good myself.

@ANtY93 sorry if I messed up your sci fi train of thought & The knight picture kind of remind of them real old cartoons.

though only seen 2 right now it gives the idea that maybe I should try it too now to see how I do.

[Satis1994]

My knight is still in progress, it should be up today (hopefully). Sorry for taking such a long time but i got really into it

[Eternal Apprentice]

My first challenge. Make a creature that combines a dog and a Caterpillar.

What is my challenge?

[Ranivius]

It's a few drawings for resting purposes special effects is that what i like the most.

Flame boom



Planet crash



Implosion




And finnally here comes a challenge for: Eternal Apprentice (quite hard i suppose)

You must create a female character in steampunk realm, and draw it in best posiible way from 3 perspectives (front, half- profile and profile) Your character should wear some unique clothing, items and/or weapons. Also, you have to draw her face expressions in two emotions: anger and surprise (you are free to choose an angle) Good luck

[Satis1994]

Some of my school work, all of it is going to be my AP Art portfolio. It's still in progress, I need 12 in total. Its very vector based, hopefully you can see an idea that connects all of them. It's suppose to be my concentration. Let me know what you think.

[Ranivius]

Finally i wrote up the rules of this sketchbook. It's still some questions concerning the voting method. I'm trying to solve it now.

[Satis1994]

Im pumped for this

[Ranivius]

Finally the challenge started. You can now vote on this blog.

http://challengefornoobs.blogspot.com/ - vote here!

[Ranivius]

Doggerpillar challenge completed Make a creature that combines a dog and a Caterpillar.

[Velocity Kendall]

love this one

[NickyBeats]

ha! great idea!

good starts already but lets see some more studies!!

ok heres a couple of challenges...

complete a landscape study fom a photograph ----> 25 pts.

complete a figure study without using any line work ----> 20 pts.

make 3 seperate character designs meant for a first person shooter in a sci fi theme, for just the linework ----> 30 pts. if you fully paint the 3 characters then you get another 30 pts.

hows that sound? good luck!!!!

[Ranivius]

NickyBeats - thank you very much for posting here Thanks for giving us challenges too, but i have some objections about the points we can get from this challenge. It's pretty serious amout of experience for such easy tasks as drawing from photography. Single character design is sometimes quite hard but it is just a single char. so 60 exp for 3 fully paint characters is too much in this case. I take into account that we can not get even half of it, but its still to much. If we finished it now and get even half of that exp, we will be few level up and moving on killing fun from challenges. Sorry to say that all, i just want to enjoy this thread a little longer

My proposition is:

complete a landscape study fom a photograph ----> 8 pts.

complete a figure study without using any line work ----> 7 pts.

make 3 seperate character designs meant for a first person shooter in a sci fi theme, for just the linework ----> 16 pts. if you fully paint the 3 characters then you get another 10 pts.

if you have objections feel free to tell us

THANKS AGAIN

I will try to make some examples with experience points from certain challenges, an how i see it.

[Ranivius]

complete a landscape study fom a photograph - completed

[JakehC]

Try this...

Sketchule

Everyday. If you can’t complete in the time given you MUST move on. Music or silence only. No documentaries, movies or news feeds playing so you can concentrate. Through out day start figuring out what you are going to use for reference or a topic for the night. If you can’t do a full four hours that day keep it related and lean towards iterations. Always keep your sketchbook with you from now on. Make notes to self if you find topics to use for later. Be flexible, don’t trip out if you can’t make a day. Enjoy it. Remember, capturing that “essential spirit” needs to be the major point behind every thing you do.


Work Cycles
4 Hour Breakdown
3 -5 minute gesture master/photo copies
3 -15 minute gesture master/photo copies
2 -half hour continue master/photo copies from best gestures - OR - 1 hour continue copy from best gesture
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3 - 15 minute thumbnails, reference-guided imaginative
Pick Favorite - 1 hour and 15 minutes to “finish”
*** comic paneling - do your best to gesture a “page” in two hours. No thumbs.

3 Hour Breakdown
3 - 5 minute gesture master/photo copies
2 - 15 minute gesture master/photo copies
1 - 45 minute copy from best gesture master/photo copies
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2 - 15 minute thumbnails reference-guided imaginative
Pick Favorite - 1 hour to “finish”
*** comic paneling - do your best to gesture a “page” in two hours. No thumbs.

2 Hour Breakdown
2 -5 minute gesture master/photo copies
2 -10 minute gesture master/photo copies
1 -half hour copies from best gesture master/photo copies
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1 hour referenced imaginative sketch
*** comic paneling - do your best to gesture a “page” in 1 hour.


DAY 1
Composition
(cycle every week)
Lean towards relating composition to a passage from daily reading/article/internet hilarity.
1 comic paneling
2 Illustration golden age style
3 cartooning/caricature
4 game cover/advert/movie poster
5 abstract/free composition

DAY 2
Environment
(cycle every week)
1 Natural
2 Artificial (indoor/outdoor)

DAY 3
Technology
(cycle every week)
1 Ancient Weapons
2 Guns
3 Modern machinery
4 Aircraft
5 Space/Future craft

DAY 4
Character
(cycle every week)
1 Male
2 Female
3 Anthropomorphic

DAY 5
Gesture
15 -1 minute
15 -3 minute
6 -5 minute
3 -10 minute

DAY 6
Anatomy
(cycle every week)
Brush up on terminology for a few minutes before each sesh.
1 -Human
2 -Animal
3 -Human
4 -Insect

DAY 7
Render Illustration work for 4 hours

[ANtY93]

After few hours I forgot it was supposed to be a landscape study, dunno if river in a deep forest counts but w/e

(maybe it doesn't look like but it took me a while)

edit: applied some fun to it

[Ranivius]

complete a figure study challenge - completed

I picked up the hardest one, and it was really hard...



@Aryeh, thank you for this. Looks a bit like bodybuilding training program

[ANtY93]

Tried figure study too but after 2 tries I'm giving up on this one, so awful results >.>

Will try character designs tomorrow!

[Ranivius]

make 3 seperate character designs meant for a first person shooter in a sci fi theme, for just the linework - completed

[Eternal Apprentice]

School got in the way. i am gonna design that character tomorrow. WICKED dog/Caterpillar thing. You guys rock.

You must create a female character in steampunk realm, and draw it in best posiible way from 3 perspectives (front, half- profile and profile) Your character should wear some unique clothing, items and/or weapons. Also, you have to draw her face expressions in two emotions: anger and surprise (you are free to choose an angle) Good luck

...and yeah that is hard as eff. Imma try!

[Satis1994]

Landscape study from a photo.

[Ranivius]

Sci fi characters in color challenge - completed



also, some older work for resting purpose