Tef's Sketchbook

[I-Bomb]

Also try experimenting with different art styles and mediums you'll never you what you'll come up with

[snuiz]

You're drawings are very good, you seem to have really improved on your anatomy over time. I really like your character designs!

[Steeliebob]

latest sketches are great man! very fun characters, and great clean lines! Keep it at. =)

[Cabbage Caterpillar]

Wow many nice studies! Keep them coming

[kevin_]

great that you decided to post here again! keep practicing and keep posting!

[Tef]

Psychobuddy >> You're welcome ! Thx too
udonhead >> Yeah Now I try on sketchbook pro but I love paper and pen
kevin >> Thx man !
Cabbage Caterpillar >> Hey ! U're welcome here I'm very happy to see here Thx !
Steeliebob & snuiz >> Thx !!!

I try Sketchbook Pro and I'm a good feeling with this software On the right top, I try a painting. The rest is with a 4B Pen.

[Tef]

A creature

[Psychobuddy]

Great new sketches, the one in the last post is really awesome. I love the design man, and the overall execution of it. Good work!

[Tef]

Thx Psychobuddy !!!

Hop let's go

[Cabbage Caterpillar]

The man with the tree truck on his head looks awesome! Really like the idea of it - it reminds me of those trees with roots that grows out of the sidewalk. http://img.izismile.com/img/img5/201...far_640_04.jpg

[android411]

thanks for visiting my sb, I can really see improvement in your sketches, especially your sense of forms and linework are getting better and better, keep it up, will check back for sure

[Fetsch]

good start man! I suggest you start doing some value studies and more basic anatomy fomr something like the loomis books. Keep pushin.

[Shad-]

Found ya ! :p
Like I said to you on Lasco I admire the progress you are making. It's fast and stable at the same time. Keep rockin' those faces !

[Tef]

Shad >> Hey shad ! What's up ? Thx !
Fetsch >> Thx Fetsch ! I've already a book Human Anatomy for Artist (L'anatomie humaine à l'usage des artistes in French). It really helps
android411 >> Thx ! You're Welcome too and I'm happy to go on my SB
Cabbage Caterpillar >> Yeah you're right ! Your picture is good I will keep it for reference Thx CC !!

[ThomasM]

great work so far.. the sb is coming along well. My main criticism is one that a lot of people struggle with, including myself, which is to try and make sure your colours aren't too saturated. Try to make them less saturated (less pure, and more "gray") in general, and specifically for you, I would say remember that colours in the distance are always less saturated and more grey, often tending towards blue because of atmospheric perspective.

Anyway, try this out, I'll do a little overpaint for you here:

[aks9]

great to see you come back here, i see you started this ages ago. keep up the good work

[Lakai]

Hi Thx for the comment.

I'm bad at giving critique but I'll give my best to help u somehow.

First you definitly improved over the pages you now have better linework and more detail in your drawings.

Try to concentrate more on lineweight instead of drawing every line the same thickness/ brightness.
Make darker/thicker lines where the shadows are and lighter/thinner lines where light hits the surface.

Hope it helps in some way.

good work keep it up!

[Cabbage Caterpillar]

Are these sketches all from imagination Tef? Theyre very cool, I think it'd look awesome if you could add a bit of BG they'd be in (if you want to), just they look like they'd be from pretty strange enviornments that might be interesting to add!

[Tef]

Thx all
ThomasM >> Thank you for your explanations !!
Aks9 >> Thanks
Lakai >> Thx dude ! I will follow your advice also
Cabbage >> Yeah just from my imagination

I start ! It's my first painting. I've never done that this is the first time.
For now, it's just a wip and I still have some flaws so
Special dedication to cabbage lol

[Tef]

Final :
My first painting !! I'm proud

[Cabbage Caterpillar]

Your first painting?!? THIS IS AMAZING! You really nailed the lips and nose... Lips are such pain in the ass. I'm impressed... please keep them coming! Now I have some serious competition to catch up to

[miezis]

Thanks for visiting my thread!
Nice work here as well! There is a clear progress in your sketch related media! Keep up sketching and you'll get good really fast!

[heix33]

Hey, thanks man.
Nice to see so many pencil stuff, but i do have some suggestions, like, break objects into simple shapes, and shadow is an edge, so you know where to do dark or big shadows, to these large sides of shapes. you can create great illusion of realism with only one tone of dark shadow, and then later add lighter shadows to enforce the realism. or this how i do it anyway, from dark to light.
Keep it up.

[snatti]

Hey man, great to see your first painting, it went really well!

[l'Aria]

That's amazing for a first painting! I think you'll really benefit from doing more studies like that to hone your observational skills. Maybe when you feel up to the challenge you can try studying a colored photo so that you can start tuning your sense of color as well.

Solid work so far, keep it up!

[toastcrumbs]

Solid first go at painting! You could stand to add some highlights to that cheek and nose to really help turn the form in space.

[LongJh]

Hey Tef, great to see you working so hard. Your works are progressing really nicely!

I think it's really awesome that you're posting your stuff again, I understand how sometimes other stuff can come up and take you away from drawing and painting, but keep at it! Good luck!

[Tef]

Hi all !

Thx very much. all your messages I have really enjoyed. Really !
I'll follow your advice for my next painting ;-)

tonight, a very small update, sorry. An speedpainting to 50 min :



I know, draw oranges that have no interest but I also want to train speed
Thx

[Cabbage Caterpillar]

Very nice orange! It'd be interesting if you're willing to post your painting progress next time...would love to see how you start and finish, because your paintings seem to have a pastel feel to them-it's pretty cool! KEEP THEM COMING XD

[Tef]

Hi Cabbage and thx ! No problem. Next time I'll make step by step

Small update with Alchemy for charadesign search. I love this software