Letty's Sketchbook

[Letty]

Hi everyone!

I've been lurking around for almost 6 years now, drooling myself checking all the amazing sketchbooks in this forum. I love concept art and I wish one day to be able to do it.

I started drawing when I was around 10 years old but it was something that I never persisted in, only when I was in the mood for it (which was a rare moment) or in the days that I couldn't go out to be with my friends. And then I started studying arts in highschool, which I finished this year. I'm 22 now and i want to go to arts university when I get the money for it.

I'm awful at drawing human figures and anatomy, I struggle alot with proportions and drawing from imagination seems an impossible task for me, so I finally had the courage and started this sketchbook in hope that you guys help me to overcome my difficulties. So feel free to critique me hard!

Enough chatting! Here's a couple studies i've done and my very first attempt in drawing at photoshop (damn I'm terrible at it )

[Letty]

Here goes a couple more sketch pages and a quick study, still learning how to work with my wacom, opacity and brushes.

Oh well. I guess it will come with pratice.

[kevin_]

great that you decided to start an sb! as for your problems with anatomy and proportions, just tackle it head on! theres no other way than to just practice it! keep posting!

[Fallenangel]

Very cool start to a SB, just keep working hard and keep practicing, and you'd be fine!

Keep drawing and posting!
Cheers,
Fallen.

[Letty]

@ Kevin_: Thanks, I feel and think the same, the more I pratice I see better results.
@ Fallenangel: Thanks, you can bet that I will

I hope you all had a nice Christmas! Here's a few more sketch pages, I've been stalking my cat and drawing some positions to get familiar to cats physic shape and stuff. Fun times xD And also the very first decent looking portrait I've done a couple years ago.







HAPPY NEW YEAR!

[twelvex]

you have some nice stuff in here, keep it up !

[Letty]

@ twelvex: Thank you.

Happy new year to one and all! I hope you had a nice time in the last couple days.

[Lucarky]

Hi and welcome aboard Letty. It seems that you have a real good hand for hatching. Your different studies just goes well for start. If you want to improve try to focus on something that you want to improve, like dimensions, shapes, lights and shadows, perspective, and so on. Don't give up, you are doing really good.

[Letty]

@ Lucarky: Thanks! Lately i've been focusing on shapes, to better understand how things are.

For now, some perspective i've done while in school and another drawing.






Time to go !

[Letty]

And the 2nd portrait i've ever done. Quite happy with the lines and the construct of the face, seems pretty much the person I wanted to draw. But have to work about hairs and shadows...

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Digital studies

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Another digital, I got bored of this one. Maybe some day later I'll finish it.

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[Candra H]

Hey, this is a great start!

I love the building studies in #9 and the sketches of your cat. Lovely clean lines and attention to detail and light in the first, and lots of personality in the second.

Like others have said, keep practising. You're doing great.

Also, drawing things around your house is a good way of learning how to see and translate shapes and how they appear in three dimensional space. So don't be afraid to draw anything and everything.

[Letty]

@ Candra H: Thank you!
A doodle on a napkin during the dinner in new year evening with black ink ball point pen

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My little girl in colored pencil. Looks much better on live, my scanner isn't so good =\

[swigganicks]

Just browsed through your sketchbook, and I'm very impressed. I really like your digital studies and your animal drawings (that dog looks awesome!) I would really like to see some more of your digital work as it looks really promising to me.

Keep up the good work!

[Velocity Kendall]

i particularly like the japanese style ones in post number 13. theyre very pretty.
check out an artist called inka essenhigh, shes one of my favourites and might be up your street!

[Letty]

@ swigganicks: Thanks alot! I haven't got time pratice digitals but hopefully in the near future that will change.
@ Velocity Kendall: Thank you I also like japanese styled stuff, I'll have a look at the artist you mentioned

Now I'm not being able to attach any image here today, don't know if it's just me or a general problem. Oh well.

[Letty]

Ok, managed to upload a file! Woho
These are photo referenced and took me about 1:30h each (too long in my opinion, but i guess it's nothing that pratice doesn't fix?) Still working in some more of these, will post when I finish them all.