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[Dan_Grr]

Voraz, I like the unfinished watercolor sketch more than the finished one. Water color is great isn't it?

[comixnut]

Dude you are showing some serious improvement. But since i seem to on a bit of an eye mission (because that's what i commentted on my friends sb) i will do the same for you.

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Ok what i see is that in all those pictures the girl at the bottom of the page (although on the third one it's the one at the right bottom, not bottom bottom... don't you love my directions?) have some really good eyes on their face, as seen from the side. Now what you don't do, is translate that knowledge that you gained, into all of your drawings.

The same can be said about the rest of your anatomy. On a LOT of your drawings your anatomy skills seem to grow and grow in knowledge but then you seem to do similar drawings where that is not so obvious. Now i am not saying you have to be perfect all of the time Filipe, BUT... the idea is that once you get it, you try to practice it. (i say this only because of my experience with swimming, it's not enough to learn it, you also gotta practice what you learnt so that you don't lose it and it becomes almost instinct).

Now i tell you all of this because it is a problem that i have had myself (and still do), so maybe what i am doing now might work for you as well. Grab a seperate book and make it your art diary. so whenever you see something that you like (be it something that you did or that somebody else did) you put it in that book, so that you can look at it and practice it again somewhere else. And make notes on those drawings next to them.

Your skills, are seriously growing man, and i think if you want to continue to do some comic book work, you should look for scripts on the web and draw something that somebody else has written. I reckon you got the skills to start doing that!

And that is so cool about D. Afonso Henriques. I myself have a whole story built around Nuno Alvares Pereira, with the templars and D. Dinis (if i am not mistaken, have not looked at it in a while), so i am loving your knight drawings.

And speaking of knights i actually saw the sword you are talking about in Guimaraes (i think) last time i was over. Some similar story about this huge sword that was there anyway.

Ok, keep up the great work man!

[voraz]

Dan- I kind of like my sketches better then the stuff I usually spend more time on, thats because I don't like to spend much time on a drawing. I'm trying to change that. Watercolour is great, but unfortunatelly I find it very difficult, though I think I'm getting better at it...

PJ- Hi PJ, thanks for taking all the time to crit my stuff, you definitelly have a good point in everything you are saying. At the moment I am trying to make an effort to work more from reference, but for most of the stuff in my sketchbook it is not possible because it is made on small breaks I have in 10-20 minutes.
One of the things I am trying to work on is making less stiff figures, working on more dinamic poses, though I still feel they're still very alike, so I've been thinking on making a ref image selection with different poses and doing that, but I never get to do it. I was thinking of doing the same with facial expressions, because I also draw very similar dull faces.
D. Afonso Henriques, I was hoping to spend a little more time in D. Afonso Henriques illustration, but I couldn' use my tablet for two days so I lost a lot of the time. I know it still has a lot of problems, but maybe one of these days I will do a new illustration.
I haven't been posting a lot of stuff because I have been working on comics and have only posted part of that here, rigth now I am working in a 4 page comic for a contest, and I must finish before the 10th this month, so I will have a busy weekend.

Anyway here is a unfinished (but very close to final, though) version of a comic I did for a contest last year, unfortunatelly it seems it wasn't even selected in the first 20 but anyway it was a great learning experience and I think it is one of the best I have done.

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a wip, some feed back on this would be really appreciated...

[wheezy]

Awesome stuff as alway voraz. The strips I like a lot, the whale one especially, sort of messed up, haha, but cool. Keep up the good work, I look forward to more updates.

[voraz]

Hi Wheezy, thanks a lot! really appreciate it.

If anyone has any idea on how to improve that last page I would be really happy!

here's another sketch.

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[Manuel Baum]

wow, those squids are cool! I think those are the best sketches i've ever seen from you
But know, you'll never beat me! you know that, right? hehe

[voraz]

HA! You better bring your best stuff, the only question is: will that be enough?

man... they may look good but they're octupus not squids!

[voraz]

trying to finish this one in a hurry, not much time left:

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and an octopus update:

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and another one:



WOW- Post 1000! He he! Gotta put something special here!

There, not very well done but the model is fantastic.

[hurricane]

nice sketches, i liked the comic with the flying whale the most!
the camera work could of been done better though, it's pretty much from one point in the scene.

cheers!

[voraz]

Thanks Hurri. I guess you are rigth. I was thinking about it, and I think a close up of the whale, with the cam behind it, showing the beach would be great...
next time...

more octopus sketches. Trying to give it the rigth expression.

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Octopus WIP:

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little update:

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[Dan_Grr]

The octopus is great! And that guys has a cool pose, what is he, a sailor, a pirate? He's very colorful but his nose doesn't quite right, it's like the nose is facing us, but according to the face's perspective it should also be 3/4 displayed.

[voraz]

Hi Dan, thanks. The guy's just a quick practise sketch.
I noticed the nose only after I posted it here, I was considering correcting it and maybe work a little more one it...

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a inking/scratching exercise, traced from photos.