There's no easy way out

[Freshfool]

Yoo whats up my names Ellis im a 19 years old (male) and i just started drawing about a year ago. So yea, im here because i want to improve my skills at art and it would be nice to get your guys' opinions and critiques on my work so i can get better at a faster rate, right now i feel as though i am not where i should be with my drawing and painting abilities so i really reallly want to get better so i will update every day and show you guys my sketches and paintings or what ever art i do and hopefully i get better over time. O yea and here is what i did today...

[Freshfool]

today was not a good drawing day for me at all daam i want to get better! i will be good one day

[Freshfool]

just some crappy studies and a bad painting from imagination, i really need to work on painting without ref...

[Freshfool]

some stuff from today

[Freshfool]

some studies and a some speed paint with a weird brush i found.

[Lux_Aeterna]

Hey Ellis, good start so far. I see you are practicing a lot anatomy. After loomis?
You have to make these studies every day to get a good understanding of anatomy. so keep going

[Freshfool]

Hey,thanks for checking out my sketchbook Lux_Aeterna, and yea those were some loomis studies, i agree with what your saying about doing anatomy studies everyday, so i will! Anything to get better right , anyways heres stuff from today

[Freshfool]

today's stuff

[Freshfool]

Friends want to kick it but all i want to do is stay home and draw :/, my legs are shit btw gunna work on those tomorrow

[Freshfool]

Legs,legs,legs and more legs plz

[Mewball]

The amount of work you're doing per day is great. Keep it up and it will be amazing to see where you stand a year from now compared to where you were when you started.

[Eightball_]

hey man cool to see someone the same age on here. so many studies! my only advice: keep going, don't stop.

[Freshfool]

@Mewball- yea i hope that in a year from now im alot better, im just gunna keep practicing everyday and hope for improvement
@ Eightball_- Thanks for the advice i will keep it up!

Here's my stuff from today sadly tho i got my iphone stolen while i was in life drawing class >.< so now i have to take pictures with my macbook pro and its a pain in the ass lol

[p sage]

Great proportions and gestures! The figures don't look stiff, which is a nice accomplishment.

Keep going!

[Freshfool]

@p_sage thanks

here's stuff from today

[Jmob]

hey man, I like what I'm seeing. Maybe you can add more rhythms with some confident lines. here's what I'm talking about http://www.orbikart.com/gallery/disp...?album=6&pos=1 I need to be doing this more as well! Finding rhythms when added with the knowledge of how to construct something (using perspective and simplified shapes (cylinders, boxes, spheres...) is what makes a figure drawing have both good gesture and good anatomy. I hope this helps! keep on going man! gogoogogogogogo

[Freshfool]

@Jmob- yea i feel u on that ill have to work on that thanks for the advice!

Did a cool eye tutorial today i learned a lot from, and then did some studies

[Lakai]

I like the portraits at the beginning of the page.
Also good output.

[Freshfool]

@Lakai Thanks

Today i decided that i really need to start getting good at painting with out ref so from now on im going to be painting a lott more

[Freshfool]

still goin never gunna stop

[Freshfool]

Scribble Scrable

[Freshfool]

what a bad day.. must keep going

[tabletoppler]

awesome studies! i noticed though that there's a huge difference between your memory and ref draws, i'm sure once your memory skills catch up, you'll improve really quickly! so keep working hard on it! don't loose your motivation!

[Freshfool]

@Tabletoppler- Thanks for the feedback man i really appreciate it, and yea i can tell the difference as well so ill just keep drawn everyday and hopefully it catches up
not much today

[tabletoppler]

good job on the paintings! on the other hand, i dare you to draw 15 poses and it can only be from memory! quick/developed ones, your choice, but at least try getting the frame down : D

iunno if this would help, but any kind of drawing is better than none && i used to draw only from memory so it's easy for me to draw poses without ref, but difficult for me to do still life. xd good luck. feel free to turn down this dare and do something else, your choice

[Freshfool]

@Tabletoppler Hey thanks for the challenge i enjoyed doing it, even tho it was hard haha but yea i think it helped me get better a lil bit
today i did this, skin study then poses from imagination

[Freshfool]

speed paints, lips, and figures

[Freshfool]

Stuff out of the mind then a armor study

[Freshfool]

today's shaz

[Freshfool]

a sloppy study and quick environment that sucks