dns2k's sketching 8/4 (2 new images-nudity)

**dns2k** · July 1st, 2004, 06:01 PM

hey all i am going to massively post but since i have been doing nightly pages in my book i will be posting em. many of the pages will either be studies of other artists or anatomy, oc sessions or whatever comes to mind.

here is the first which was last nights page. from photo ref i decided to attempt a pros page. i missed the likeness on a couple and some of them were missed purely by tonal control with my pen.

my tools are a f402 ballpoint or a kaimei brush pen

**AndreasM** · July 1st, 2004, 06:56 PM

Good stuff

I immediately recogniced Marco, HPX and coro. Is it straight linework, or did you measure out with a pencil first?

Keep going strong!

**dns2k** · July 1st, 2004, 07:25 PM

all with a pen... no mistakes allowed then

-dns

**maldrin** · July 1st, 2004, 11:54 PM

those are really really nice, dude...you captured the likenesses of them all really well (esp coro, marko, and very good on hpx!!)

you and I talked about hatching, and here you go again doing a damn good job of it!

thanks for sharing!

maldrin

**Red_Rook** · July 2nd, 2004, 12:09 AM

wes is my favourite, marko as a close second, i dunno I just like there head positions and expression, maybe its also wes hair... even if it dont look like him that much.

**generic_living** · July 2nd, 2004, 02:54 AM

nice work for doing it in pen! looks great so far. wes is probably my fav though.

**dns2k** · July 2nd, 2004, 06:14 AM

wes is my fav on the page.. after seein' a pic on his site i thought it was bad ass i just had to sketch it. then i decided to do the rest of the group looking at phil's and my pics of the workshop. thanks for the compliments
-dns

**dns2k** · July 2nd, 2004, 07:22 AM

hope you like the new stuff... the newer ones were done with a hitech C pen #3... damn i love that pen. the rest were either in austin or tonights pics, they were all mixed up.

-dns

**Jane Radstrom** · July 2nd, 2004, 10:25 AM

Nice update Ot! I like that round gal on the first page.

**dns2k** · July 6th, 2004, 01:57 AM

lost my damn pen... looking for it now... velo and rook said i should do a self portrait so here it is. male monster creepy types to come later since that is also what velo said i should draw.

**jetpack42** · July 6th, 2004, 05:20 AM

I agree with velo, the top left lady on the first page is tha cooolest! I'm sure you already know, but I'll remind you that drawing the same line over and over is detrimental to the drawing. You are doing pretty well though, keep up the quantity.

**fukifino** · July 7th, 2004, 01:57 AM

Mmm..damn I dig pen sketches. You're getting a little scratchy here and there, which is starting to make it messy, but overall, I'm digging them. I think they have a lot of life in them dispite the scratchyness. There's something to be said sometimes for a line that's not entirely clean. Adds a little energy.

**dns2k** · July 21st, 2004, 12:01 PM

ok... i have been drawing each night just not scanning... well here is a HUGE UPDATE with about 15

pictures hmmm well maybe 20... had to find my thread on page 4. sad i fell so far behind. killed 2

F402's and oc'd a couple times to save my pens. i always skip my study pages and my in class work.

if i missed a day i penalized myself. enjoy! cant wait for seattle's sketch night and also the con tomorrow.

about my method... i have been trying to loosen up and just get ideas on paper. lately i have been focusing on refining and making cleaner loose sketches.

-dns

**MrFrost** · July 21st, 2004, 01:00 PM

love the last rendition of the I-robot bots.

**jetpack42** · July 21st, 2004, 01:48 PM

cool sketches. You do some awesome compositional things. i think when you have a big composition like that, you should re-hatch over a couple areas. sometimes i get lost in the drawing when its big and complicated, and all hatched once. just my 2c, can't wait for sketch night either, its gonna be cool to have you come up...

**PhilHolland** · July 21st, 2004, 05:01 PM

Oi! Art attack. Some good ideas here. Especially on 5248.
That's just me though.

P.

**xia** · July 21st, 2004, 05:10 PM

Originally Posted by PhilHolland

Oi! Art attack. Some good ideas here.

Nice! I can see some heavily comicbook influence in here. I particularly like the third one. YES!!! Nice head study on the first batch.
Keep them coming.

Me loves comicbook.

**Jane Radstrom** · July 21st, 2004, 09:00 PM

Weee update! Cool, Otto. But this time update more regularly!

**dns2k** · July 22nd, 2004, 12:44 AM

thanks guys for the nice comments. i cant wait for seattles sketch group with JP42 and Xia. i will try to update more regularly velo.

-dns

**generic_living** · July 22nd, 2004, 05:57 PM

phenominal. i LOVE your style. i've got a four day pass for the con and am going to try and find you there. just one thing - what the hell is your name so i'm not shouting "DNS" through the artist's alley? =P

**dns2k** · August 4th, 2004, 07:25 AM

done a lot of pen sketching nightly but they are not worth a post. but since i am tired of landing on page 4 i figured i needed to post before i ended up on page 5. my pens have been betraying me and bleeding all over the place (these are the first 2 f402's i blew out).

so i made the mistake of asking this girl what i should draw last night and tonight. she said she wanted girl/girl bondage. well who was i to refuse with velo drawing naked chix all the time and telling me to do the same. the first was too static so i threw some color to cover it up. the second is more refined and shows that i have been studying AH! instead of rockwell and elvgrin. well here they are.

-dns