Faust's Relaxation Exercises

[~Faust~]

Go to the last page to see newer stuff..........................................

Well, I've been lurking here for quite some time now and now I registered so that I can comment on the works of all my heros in this forum. But since there are so many, I'll just stick with just another sketchbook .

Basically, I just started drawing everyday now, so 3-4 months earlier and it's just too much to express it in words, especially not in another language. It's jsut been great and it gets better every day. I wanted to write a whole rant here but actually I'm kind of tired from all the scanning and need a rest

Something from my first sketchbook that lasted 1 1/2 months 8) :

[~Faust~]

Since they only allow only some images in a post...

Some more recent stuff (means with my new sketchbook ):





And some pencils. Those are actually SEVERAL months old... but it feels like years that I did them. I hate pencils.






I'm kind of intimidated right now, I usually never show my smearings to other people but I think for the sake of the course it's good to know that someone sees it. Even if it isn't worth a comment. Whatever........... I'm just moody I guess....

[Sunny]

dont worry, you need to figure out drawing for yourself but everyone here can help and give some insite on how to improve. Your art teacher should have some good things to say and should be able to help you get better. As for what I have to say. Your sketches are lookin decent, you can definitely draw better than the average joe. I think you need to keep practicing, draw from real life and draw from references. Practice makes perfect!

[~Faust~]

@Sunny: Hey thanks for the kind words! But unfortunately I haven't got an art teacher to help me getting better and I didn't find any art courses going on here in my town. They are either too expensive or too non-existant

I heard the name Bridgman in some threads here and thought I should get some books and study anatomy a bit . Sorry for the flood of images, It's what I drew the last week out of my little Bridgman book "Constructive Anatomy". Can't say yet if it helps me, but it's sure fun and relaxing to do while your sitting outside in the warm weather just chilling .
These are for the most part done in my A5-sketchbook where I just draw shit like that. I have it for 5 weeks or so and it's almost full already! (130 pages)










Hehe, I even wrote some of the muscle-names on some of the pages hoping It would help me remember it.... it doesn't

[Gloominati]

Hey, man thanks for checking out my stuff!

Nice things going on here! As an advice: try to keep your lines clean! Don´t make many pencilstrokes define one line, just try to let your hand flow over the paper, have faith. If you understand the shapes and values you won´t have that much problem to keep your sketches loose. I do have exactly the same problem, just keep at it!
Your last update is very good, especially the headstudies!

Give us some more!!

[~Faust~]

@ Gloominati: Thanks glad you like it! Since I'm drawing with a pen, I can't erase what's looking wrong at the first sight. I have to draw over it and since I'm kind of new there's always a lot I draw over. I will take your advice tho and try to look a bit more after my lines but letting my hand make the drawings in epileptic seizures is so much fun that I'll stick with it until I feel that it's damaging my drawings. But I hope that it will go away anyways as I get better and more confident with my drawing abilities. Thanks again for posting!

Didn't draw very much today, I'm still working my way thru my Bridgman book and got to the eyes! enjoy:



Then I drew a thing that stands on my desk. suppose it's an elephant


Then some studies from paintings:


That's all for now, good night!

[~Faust~]

Wow so many replies after so few posts, thank you very much guys!

@AndrewLey: Thanks man I will! I'm honored that a pro like you is watching my stuff!

@Darkarts: Yeah, but the habit is still there and it takes some more time to get rid of it. I didn't understand that you said my lines got better but then I looked at my old telly-Sketch upwards and understand now what you mean! Still a long way to go tho...

@B-man: Thanks I will practice, I promise

@Lim: Yes Bridgman is very nice to do. Although I don't understand shit of what he writes, so much unknown words So I just draw what he draws and read my own rules out of the drawings

@Icey: Thanks man! I will!

@Cobi: Thank you very much! I don't know if blue pens are better for drawing than others but I also like the colours they bring. Basically i like all pen-colors except red... can't bring on very much contrast with red... BTW: No JLO here, almost all nudes are domai-studies I'm afraid. Thanks again and see ya laterz

@Spooky: Thanks man! I try to learn something new every day!


So, I'm afraid I can't give you real regular updates on this sketchbook since I just don't have daily access to a scanner. So all I can bring you is something old that's floating around somewhere here on my HD :



Tomorrow I'll post some more recent stuff!

[MarkHarchar]

Hey Faust,
Thanks for dropping by my pad (get it, my pad...). I have definitely seen big stridesin your sketchbook. Someone posted not to use so many lines and after that, your stuff looked alot tighter, alot cleaner. I don't have an art teacher either. I ended up enrolling in at my community college for Graphic Design. There are many art classes in that major and I'm going to do it at night while I work my day job. Maybe you have something like that where you live, even if you only take the classes you want. Community college is generally cheap and I realize that it probably isn't the caliber of some of the schools that people have attended here, but sometimes you take what you can get. Keep drawing. You have some good stuff here.

[darkchild]

You have some very nice sketches here. I like the progression of your work. Keep posting.

[Sam256]

Some of your light and shadow studies are looking really promising. But as people already said, practise your lines and get loose over the paper. Just try to freak out with long and fast strokes and find the forms in the loose mess. I do draw like that sometimes and it develops kind of a certitude with your linework.

Continue!

[Fellah.]

Nice work with the studies dude! Putting hard work into it - nice to see!
A lot of good advices already given, so ill just say;keep drawing dude!

[Gloominati]

Hey, nice update dude! I like the expressions on the 4th page nice ans sketchy, hehe.

Don't worry dude, as long as you WANT to draw you WILL draw, just keep at it

[Farvus]

I like those landscapes.
My main suggestions is to draw those studies much bigger. This way you can break face/body into more shapes and construct a bit. It might also help you get loose lines

...and keep posting.

[~Faust~]

@Farvus: Hmmm, good advice. I draw too small in genereal I think. Thanks for looking at my stuff again!

Here's another update, I promised someone to lay my pens down for a while so this is my last pen-drawing for a while:


So i began with my first non-ref pencil drawing after a looooong time:

No need to say it sucks . I decided that I should work more on my rendering and my overal values. So I did another ref:


Well that's all for now.

[Farvus]

The last one from ref looks great. Maybe if you could use different ditections of hatching, the form of the head would be better defined.
Keep practicing in that direction .

[Sam256]

Dude, your portraits are getting solid, but as Farvus said, try to practise hatching in different directions. Especially in the direction the surface is flowing and don't be shy using pitch black shadows. This will give your pieces a certaing plasticity and you are able to use the full contrast range from pitch black to white.

Anyway, giving advices is one thing, beeing good enough to be in the position of giving advices another. And as I'm not good enough. *sig*

Keep on!

[adraude]

hehe, i have to agree with sam and farvus, let your hatching describe the form, it will help you to give the drawing more depth and form.

nice sb, keep'em coming.

[Sedig]

I seem to recall posting here, a long time ago. I think you were the one I made a deal with. I do more pen and you do more pencil? I kept up my end of the deal. It;s good to see that you started with these pencil drawings. I still strongly advise more pencil stuff. With a pencil, you will get a softness that pen can never achieve. That isn't to say that pen is bad. The more I use it, the more I enjoy it. Keep up the great work. And some advice. Don't be aafraid to put down nice dark lines with pencil. Try doing some contour drawings with one. I think you will eventually grow to like a pencil.. Maybe.

[~Faust~]

Dong... 3 Months without CA. Whatever, this place is still inspiring as hell and I shall continue to post my shit. The scanner is broken it seems. Or I'm just too stupid to use it properly haha! So sry for the weird quality. They're no masterpieces, anyway.

@Farvus: Yeah, I'm expirenting with different hatching-technques again keeping your suggestion in mind. Thanks for posting again!

@Sam256: Thanks, since portraits are the only thing that I do regularly these days, it's nice to hear that someone likes them!

@adraude: Thanks for posting and the nice words!

@Sedig: Of course I remember! At the moment, pencil is my scetching-medium #1, at first it was hard, but after a couple of weeks the results were surprising even for me. Thanks for the heads up! And keep pushing your pen-work buddy!

Some images, sorted by date and preference. First still pen, using pencil a couple of weeks now.

[glikster]

Thanks for stopping by my SB and for the kind words...

I really like the hatching you have going on in this last post.. and some great paintings earlier...

Are some of these from ref and others no ref? Because there is a large difference in quality between some of these...

Keep posting!!

[~Faust~]

Here I am again. Bump.

@Glikster: Thanks for watching my stuff and browsing through this mess mate! Well, most of them are not ref. From the last post, only the one with the woman back-study actually. The reason that the quality difers greatly is that I don't focus on any style or subject. When I feel like I mastered an aspect of a technique, being shading, values or certain topics, I proceed to the next one, trying to get a hang of that one. Resulting in shitty drawings sometimes but I feel like it brings me further.

Well, for a small update:
life-drawing:


ink-sillyness:


and the occassional fucked up scan:

[purb36]

yo man, what up? nice to see you still relaxin over here. hows work and stuff going? your rendering and anatomy has gotten a lot better over these past 3 months; no crits right now, just keep up what youre doing, cause its working at the moment. cheers bro.

[Tetsuo]

Hey fausty. Stopping by to pay homage. You ever check out Vermeer's work? For some reason I was looking at your studies and thinking Degas-ish. But then There is a quietness about them that reminds me of Vermeer. Perhaps you can find some images of his and make some studies to work with his type of soft lighting. I think that suits you best in your work. And I would love to see you take a long time on a portrait or drawing. I bet it would come out beautiful

werd out

-TeT-

[Denysiuk]

So: Your sketches are getting better and better with a time...
I preaty like your eyes studies and some of latest girls
So after beginning lets say what we should... my advices:
1. Can you crop your works?... they are looking much better without hudge white spaces.
2. Don't make too much details, play with form and proportions
3. When you are putting shadows:
a) don't make final shot with one movement, try to draw couple of layers (multiply existing shadows to get final effect)
b) You are getting better with that, but try harder to go with your pencil WITH a form not across... (example: don't put straight lines to make a shadows on a ball) you should look for smoothness
c) make longer moves with pencil not only the short ones
AND finaly i write second time: don' make to much detail

Your turn. Biss dann

[~Faust~]

Boojah! Daily Baby!

@Purb: haha if I see what YOU're drawing a day I'm the lazy asshole here Cheers to you too!

@Tetsuo: Wow, being compared with such a master as Vermeer truly honors me! Can't keep up with that standard, I'm afraid but I'll get there, you'll see Of course I checked him out, somewhere on page 1 I even posted studies of him. Don't know though what you mean with quietness... Thanks for the encouragement!

@Denysiuk: Well the cropping is sure a good idea, will keep that in mind Don't know about the details, though. I feel like my drawings are totally lacking them . The longer moves with the pencil are very hard for me to do cause I'm so irritable and hyperactive sometimes that my hand is shaking like a alcoholic on withdrawal! Kudos, my scetchbrother!

And, a still-life inspired by the PS-how-to-paint thread:

[Denysiuk]

make somoething with a backgroud, and it's gonna be ok
- nice one

[~Faust~]

A study a day...

@ Denysiuk: Haha, I was just doing a quick setch on this one, trying to master Photoshop and digital painting in general. A background would have meant that I draw the texture of my carpet and that would be too much time for my patience to handle

Anyways, the crap of today:
fucked up people:


Tech stuff:


Step-by-step too a shitty block-head hehe:


quick abstracts in PS gonna do them till they don't look like some bird shit on my laptop:



fade out ........ . . . . . . .

[Chichigo]

your drawings are pretty diverse, i like that you're going the traditional route before taking on digital paintings, its really showing through. Bout the faces you draw, they're all looking pretty generic. Here's an exercise you can try, look up some different ethnic faces or if you have ethnic friends, practice drawing them to look unique because genetically, their facial strucutre and skeleton differ slightly. Focus on their jaw structure (the jut), the depth and set of their eyes, and the overall positioning of the features.

loving this support group, we need a name.

[Bloodsbane]

I see lots and lots of heartwarming progression through this thread.. good stuff man! Just keep plugging the anatomy studies, and keep the porn-comics dream alive my friend

Nice little composition things.. have you read the composition chapter in Creative Illustration by Loomis? he's got some very simple practices that yields surprisingly good results. They showed some of this stuff at the Prague workshop too, totally blew my mind to see it in action!

[Bloodsbane]

edit: stupid double-post go poop