Molested's Sketchbook

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Just wanted to start one, a collective for me

All critiques and advice is welcome!

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Here's more of some Sketches -

Here's a freestyle of posture experimenting:



Here's one I started drawing on the MSN drawing pad - but decided to go PS:



One of the very first I did with the Intuos3 - tried to focus on correct muscular shading:



Here's a self portrait based on a photo - this is the one I use as reference for the self portrait in the first post, the challenge!



This one is where I started out a head shape and wanted to try and create believable wireframe around it for shading - I wound up having it to complicated (the wireframe):

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I recall writing this somewhere but it doesn't seem to have been posted.

I'm going back to the basics - the randomness of the top two posts will now be shifted to a theme of "basic" shapes, features, postures, lighting and whatnot.

This is something I feel like I have to do - I can "draw" certain things - but I tend to be focused on drawing and improving that which I can, instead of what I can't. That has lead me to neglect a lot - shading is imperfect, shapes are still shaky, proportions are imperfect, hands and feet are non-existent and hair is clamped.

Now that I got back to drawing I feel like I want to do something with it, I figured that if I want to do something special, something from me, I'll have to find my style. The previous drawings have not been in any style, nothing is being brought in to the drawing except - drawing it. So by now I'm going to the basics for me to develop myself as an artist.

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I'm back to foundation-work, acquired books by Andrew Loomis - fantastic I might add - videos by Riven Phoenix - reference photos by 3d.sk - 3d anatomy references and I'm ready to start and train extensively.

Here's the first page - I drifted into drawing one of Andrew Loomis' characters in his book "Fun with a Pencil", hence the upload.

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A perspective in the making, A Subway Scene - the bad thing is - we don't have any subways here (except for the sandwiches) and I haven't even seen one before.

Thank god for the internet.

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More foundation work - how good I felt when I went pen and paper, it's just incomparable to the still-really-good-drawing pad. Soon I'll be able to do some actual artwork, but as stated earlier - I need to do this.

Later I'm focusing on the "line-confidence" - I know you understand:












Immediate improvement in realizing the form, proportion and build, actual anatomy will come into play today or tomorrow.

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A quick sketch of a robot I'm about to define further -



EDIT 26.09-23:19
A bit of clean up done on the Robotron, still having trouble making the hip/leg intersection - not that experienced with robot design.


And here's a drawing of few of many dogs owned by the family which I used in a banner design, heavily influenced by the ref photos:

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Just wanted to add these to have this sketchbook as a collective of all I've been doing the past two weeks, so technically this is just "finished work" -

The interesting part is that this is the first time I use colors to draw on a computer - and maybe the third or fourth time I use colors to do any drawings in my lifetime.