Farvus' Imaginarium

**glikster** · February 27th, 2006, 05:13 PM

wow... lots of updates!

Great job on the pen sketches... especially the polish casting heads and the hands...

The doodles and speedies are cool...

Thank you for the tut in the Value255 group... I grabbed that last week when I saw it...

**Onir** · February 28th, 2006, 11:41 AM

great update man! those portraits are looking really good, face placement is really good. great looking hands as well, though I do agree with hp that the hands are a bit wide. The one with the thumbs up looks great imo.

**Farvus** · March 1st, 2006, 02:32 PM

hpslashluvr - Thanks. I'll work more on hands.
glikster - Thanks, man.
Onir - Thanks.

I folded two paper cranes and sketched them. Really hard.

Bunch of new hands. I tried to sketched more loosely and with sense of volume.

Different method of head construction than in Loomis. Done in ink looks messy. :/

**jtheanswer** · March 1st, 2006, 02:39 PM

Nice updates, hand studies coming up great! I will recommend you to improve your foreshortning (dont know if is correctly spelled), to give more depth to your figures.

**Denysiuk** · March 1st, 2006, 06:07 PM

Funny idea with drawing the paper Orygami.... funny but good for practising, I have to try something like that

**Farvus** · March 1st, 2006, 06:24 PM

jtheanswer - Good advice. I'll try som foreshortening from Loomis.
Denysiuk - Yeah. I'm going to do more of this.

Some lineart. No-ref. Sketched in openCanvas. / On the right some pencil sketch. I still have to work on shading.

**Onir** · March 2nd, 2006, 01:20 AM

great updates man, I'm lovin those origami drawings, looks like a great way to practice drawing flatter plane surfaces. the head and hand studies look great as well, you're lines are definitely getting really strong. very cool line art in opencanvas.. his left foot looks a little wierd but otherwise it looks really cool, very clean. that pencil one looks really cool as well, pose feels a little uncomfortable to me though. again, though, really nice updates

**Hiipi** · March 2nd, 2006, 03:51 AM

Oh the linearty guy is really nice! Has a good stance and he is standing nicely. It is sometimes hard for me to make the characters stand properly but you did it good, man! Now some sketching practise then.

**Farvus** · March 2nd, 2006, 03:15 PM

Onir - Thanks! You're right about the left foot.
Hiipi - Thanks, man. Maybe he's got good stance beacause I sketched bunch of gestures this day

. I tried to see how balance works today - leaned in different directions and so on. It seems that the centre of weight is few centimetres behind the navel (in the middle). To draw balanced stance it should be between feet or above one of them. Like HERE.

Yesterday I made open thread for gestures - The Gesture Thread.

Male and female from photos. Trying to loosen up.

**glikster** · March 2nd, 2006, 03:53 PM

WoW! These are great! I love the origami and hands and heads... and that line drawing if the guy has great flow and line width!

The hairy guy's right leg is a little wonky, I think, but very cool...

**Onir** · March 2nd, 2006, 10:52 PM

great as always man! you line work is still really consistant despite loosening up, which is great if you ask me; keep it up they look great

**Orozc0** · March 2nd, 2006, 11:32 PM

Nice stuff. Maybe a lil too loose for my taste. Keep studying the structure and how to emphasize form.

**machzero** · March 3rd, 2006, 07:49 AM

Yo Farvus,

saw your thread in the sketch forum. Tried adding some meat and bones to those little gesture drawings and see what you come up with?

you got a lot of cool little head constructions too. Tried some lighting and shadow? You already got all the planes of the head down already.

**Farvus** · March 6th, 2006, 05:15 PM

glikster - Thanks, man.
Onir - Thanks.
Orozc0 - Well... I'm desperately trying to find some compromise between looseness and control. Maybe I should be just more careful with pen.
machzer0 - It's not what gesture drawing is about. I will study muscles seperately.

Maybe I should go back to pencils for a while? Here's some character concept. A bit comic like with all those contours but it's really hard to draw fully rendered figure even when it's on A4.

Edit: Arghhh..Like always, I noticed mistakes after update. New version.

**Bloodsbane** · March 6th, 2006, 09:12 PM

Hey man, I mostly just wanted to say thanks for the perspective tutorial.. but dude! That lineart guy from march 2nd is hot stuff!

**glikster** · March 7th, 2006, 08:03 AM

The best advice I got about drawing with the pen is from staceydiana in my SB.
To keep it loose and smooth you have to slow down. Take the time to figure out where the line goes before you put it down. From what I've gathered following the professionals conversations on this forum, the same goes for painting.

I guess we artists have to tread a fine line balancing the creative impulse that makes us want to fly forward, and having to hold ourselves back so we can faithfully recreate what we have in our head.

At least, that's what my fortune cookie said.

**Farvus** · March 7th, 2006, 12:12 PM

Bloodsbane - Thanks. I'm glad to hear that tutorial was useful.
glikster - That's great advice. Thanks.

I've been planning to draw some comic book for a long time. Here are main character concepts. Sketched on paper and modified a bit in photoshop.

**machzero** · March 8th, 2006, 12:56 AM

yo farvus,

yupyup, that's what I tried to convey in the first place. You got a page of cool gesture drawings. Why pick the best ones, add the muscles and bones and bring it to the next stage?

eager to see WIP for your comic too. That's what I want to do also.

**jtheanswer** · March 8th, 2006, 05:33 AM

Yeah man, the comic book..., go for it, damn!! Hell yeah! Sounds promising, are you good at creating stories?

**glikster** · March 8th, 2006, 11:37 AM

I can post again!!!

Whew.... great faces! I'd love to see you take on a comic!!

**Onir** · March 9th, 2006, 02:53 AM

Very cool faces man, especially liking the bottom right one. and I'm with glikster, would love to see your comic work, so post it up if ya got anything

**Farvus** · March 9th, 2006, 10:04 PM

machzero - I will try drawing muscles on gestures. Thanks.
jtheanswer - I don't know if I'm good. I used to create some so I'm not total noob

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glikster - Thanks.
Onir - Thanks, man.

First page - A3 format. I've never done much comics before. It's lots of work.

EDIT: I didn't like the grey tones in the finished page so I updated this post with new one. There are also minor changes in faces but it's still the same comic.

**~Faust~** · March 10th, 2006, 05:43 AM

Hi! Thanks for your post in my scetchbook, made me come back to see what you are up to these days. The comic is looking very fine, I like the perspective in that street-scene. I'd like to see more

**D.Labruyere** · March 10th, 2006, 05:44 AM

like the comics farvus

**T-Raktor** · March 10th, 2006, 05:49 AM

Yup Loomis is good stuff. Do more of those head studies from there, because i see that u have more to work on them (yes, me too

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**Farvus** · March 10th, 2006, 08:56 PM

~Faust~, Haldor, T-Raktor - thanks for comment.

Today I felt need to paint some abstract enviroment and experiment with PS. This piece is a bit Sparth inspired.

**Alcian** · March 11th, 2006, 07:11 AM

The comic is looking good. One thing I have noticed is that on your faces the nose is a little long, or the eyes are a little high up the face. Faces are so hard to draw :X.

**machzero** · March 11th, 2006, 07:51 AM

hey farvus! what will the final pages of your comic look like? B&W? Inked and underlying colours? Fully painted?

The pencils are good, but it looks like detail is lost during the inking. There's a lot of neat looking "expression" lines around the eyes and brows that seem to be simplified in the inks.

**Onir** · March 11th, 2006, 11:22 AM

hey man, that comic is nice! very nicely done environments and characters in it, really nicely drawn as well. that painted environment looks really good as well, lots of feeling in it; I like that you didn't sharpen any specific places and kinda left it abstract like you said. keep it up man, it's all looking great

**Farvus** · March 12th, 2006, 03:16 PM

Alcian - thanks for comment. I tend to draw long noses. Don't know why...
machzero - Final pages are going to be B&W like this one I finished. Too much work with colouring.
Onir - thanks.

I'll draw next comic pages later. Right now single character design inspired by Marko Djurdjevic work