Crimsoneye's black book of sketches(nudity warning)

**crimsoneye** · March 29th, 2006, 01:50 AM

An another update:

**Dose206** · April 3rd, 2006, 07:36 PM

updates brother! we wanna see your progress

**Noë** · April 7th, 2006, 03:43 PM

Hello there,
The studies look okay, but with the whole bodies, they don't seem to be balanced. And the hands should be roughly a bit smaller than the face, but not much smaller. Many people make the hands too small.
Also try to check if the head fits 7 times in the rest of the body. That way you see if you made the head the good size.

Keep posting, and congrats on page 2.

love
Marleen

**crimsoneye** · April 7th, 2006, 11:10 PM

Ya, sorry about that guys. Just been busy with school, work, and those art project have to do for my Drawing II class. I post what I'm working on soon.
Dose: Ya I know haven't been posting in a while. I be will be posting more stuff soon.
Noe: Thanks for the crits. ya I can't believe I made it to page. I hoping for page 3 though before June. In which I plan on creating a new sketchbook tread. I also plan on buy server space to upload my images on to.
Here is some more stuff:

Ya,this something did for my intro to computer art class.

**crimsoneye** · April 8th, 2006, 08:09 PM

An another update:

**Noë** · April 12th, 2006, 12:33 PM

Hello there,
I'm sorry I didn't post earlier, I'll try to give some good crits on this reply.

The leg studies are looking better! I think you did quite a few now.. Maybe try to do some from the mind also to see how well you're getting everything..
You say you want to understand what's underneath the skin to know how you should draw these things eventually, but you'll see that some muscles are much more obvious than other muscles. Try to find a nice picture of a muscled leg (my dance teacher has GREAT muscles on his legs, maybe I'll ask if I can make some pictures) and put that next to one of your leg anatomy studies.. So you can really see how everything fits and which muscles show very much and which muscles barely show.

Also work more with shadows!! And, it's not a bad thing to spend some more time on the sketches, they don't have to be damn quick.. It's better to get everything right than to do it wrong 10 times in the same time.

I think that's it.. Oh, like the thing you did for computer art class. The Droste effect is a nice touch too. It's something totally different, but that's cool..

Hope I could help ya a bit.
And I also hope to see a bit more "finished" sketches in the next update

They're much more fun to look at.

Love
Marleen

**crimsoneye** · April 18th, 2006, 05:17 PM

Here is something that I working on in Drawing 2:

**Noë** · April 22nd, 2006, 05:55 AM

Hey there Crimson (what's yoúr real name by the way? I already know Dose = Chris and Koroshiya = Wil, but the rest I don't know),

I'm going to crit the drawing you posted here, though I know it's just work in progress so you'll have seen most of the things I say here.

- The boy's hand looks messed up. I know hands are sooo hard, but try to get it right, maybe sketch with a hard pencil until it looks okay, if thats still possible. You can use pictures of your own hand, or use a mirror and your hand.. (That's what I did for example in my thunderdome WIP, with the hands that come from behind the trees, on the left)
- The colours look well chosen, but I think they're too saturated. I guess it's hard not to have them look so saturated, but maybe you can blend a little with grey or white? That would make a whole lot of difference in highlights and shadowing.
- The face of the woman looks good, maybe the chin should stick out a bit, but that's not something to worry about, what I did notice is that the ear is too high, it should reach from the eyebrow (approximately) to the nose tip.

Good luck with it. Looking forward to see it finished.
Love
Marleen

**Dose206** · April 25th, 2006, 10:22 AM

hey! glad to see some updates! i'm excited that you're still doing studies, and I think that marleen's advice on taking some pictures of muscled legs and comparing them with what's underneath is a great idea, wish i'd have thought of it first, haha.
I like the computer art, if I can ask, what is the concept or story behind this one?
The art for Drawing 2, well, I like where it's going, marleen covered the weak points pretty well so i figure i'll tell you that i think it's got a lot of personality and it looks like it'd be fun to be there (in the picture). I can't wait to see how it turns out.

chris

**crimsoneye** · May 4th, 2006, 05:29 PM

Here an update on my project for school:

I started a new sketch book: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=67861

**Dose206** · May 23rd, 2006, 12:32 AM

this last one looks pretty good, although the girl looks like she is smoking a cigar. just out of curiosity, why did you start a new sketchbook?

chris