inertia, (old sketchbook)

**Asatira** · December 17th, 2007, 12:04 PM

nilaffle: Wow, thanks for dropping by. Yeah, I've been ignoring this thread for a while, I haven't had much I felt worth posting. But I'll see what I can do. Adding volume to my drawings is something I'd love to do.

**•Lindsay•** · December 17th, 2007, 04:39 PM

I can see a lot of improvement here. The drawing on the right side of the brain exercises helped me a lot also. I think you would have more freedom if you used other mediums besides pencils.

**Asatira** · December 19th, 2007, 12:54 PM

Linzoy: I do plan to try other media in the near future, but graphite is good for getting the basics of dry media. Thanks for dropping by.

As I said, I didn't have all that much to post lately. But here are some sketches from the threads around here.

Abstraction thread in Classroom for All:

Perspective

Some 1-min. gestures from a while back.

**AsaB** · December 19th, 2007, 02:38 PM

Hey there, loads of interesting stuff going on here! I see improvements already from your first posts, just keep that pencil going! I like your quick gesture drawings a lot, they've got movement in them. You're on the right track, just keep it coming

**Davio** · December 19th, 2007, 02:43 PM

Good work, I can see that you are making alot of progress from your first posts, keep it up.

**Asatira** · December 30th, 2007, 01:01 PM

AsaB, Davio: Thanks for the praise, and for stopping by.

Here are some things I don't post very often here, digital coloring. First are the original sketches, then the inked and digitally colored versions. I need help getting smooth coloring when it comes to shades. Textures from http://mayang.com/textures

**Asatira** · February 8th, 2008, 12:23 AM

Working on the basics. Trying out one of Jens's color studies. First time trying a digital painting like this.
time: about 30min.

**Asatira** · February 16th, 2008, 04:44 PM

Some drawing from an artist's reference book.

This is slightly overhead angle.

**Asatira** · February 16th, 2008, 10:48 PM

Character design assignment from funshack. The prompt is to draw a picture of a human musician, male or female, who loves nature, doesn't wear shoes, and has an instrument large enough to double as a weapon. My idea: a hippie with a rainstick.

**l0stinth0ughts** · February 16th, 2008, 11:53 PM

nice sketchbook you got here, some of your pictures werent showing up for me, it could be might computer but i thought id let you know. its good your picking up on those anatomy figures, one thing i can give advice on is work on getting good clear contour lines then work in with the shading. hope that helps you out a bit. keep posting and ill keep checking in to see how your progressing.

**Asatira** · February 17th, 2008, 02:10 AM

l0stinth0ughts: Thanks. Shading is something I know I need to work on. Still intimidates me. As for the broken images, I recently transferred to a new server, but didn't have backups for a number of my images. I'm tempted to either edit/delete those posts, or start a new thread.

**Asatira** · February 19th, 2008, 11:01 PM

Hand studies, an exercise arkos78 and I are doing this week in the character design thread.

**Asatira** · February 23rd, 2008, 10:00 PM

Two more nights' worth of hand studies.

**Asatira** · March 9th, 2008, 12:34 PM

A rare speedpaint, hope to do more in the future to build skills. Right now, needs work.

~30min. Ref photo from Character Designs

**Asatira** · March 12th, 2008, 07:09 PM

A Barque study I did a couple nights ago. I took a little under two hours to do. Smoothness of shading needs work.

Early sketches of a character design.

**Asatira** · March 19th, 2008, 09:38 PM

**Asatira** · April 13th, 2008, 11:59 PM

Just some photos from the Bargue class I'm taking part in.
Day 1
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...9&d=1207881352

Day2
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...3&d=1207965480

Day 3 (finish outlines for now)
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1208145341

**Asatira** · April 17th, 2008, 12:34 AM

Some 30 second poses from Pose Maniac.

**Asatira** · April 20th, 2008, 12:35 PM

CGtalk's latest OFDW is hands. This is a study of Waterhouse's Destiny, found here.
Will come back to this another time.

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**Asatira** · June 14th, 2008, 02:07 PM

Don't have much to say. Going to try to focus on more finished pieces over sketches. Also, I'm taking figure drawing classes again, so there will be those. And taking part in a drawing challenge, so working on developing a character, some sketches of are below.

Important goal: do more research. All of these are drawn without regards to reference of clothing or animal anatomy; it shows.

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**Asatira** · July 6th, 2008, 03:45 PM

A piece for a recent open challenge, theme "Divine Prophecy." Textures from cgtextures.com

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**Lake** · July 6th, 2008, 07:31 PM

the watermarks are detracting from your images

**Asatira** · July 6th, 2008, 08:48 PM

Ok. I'll drop 'em or make 'em smaller.

**Asatira** · August 25th, 2008, 10:58 PM

Some more drawings of my character, Moriko, as part of the on going Art Grind.

Marker drawing
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I intend to work on this idea. Any advice to improve it (it needs a lot of work) is welcome. I am willing to, in fact I expect to, redraw this.
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**Onir** · August 25th, 2008, 11:22 PM

Hey Asatira, nice work in here

I like that you've been going back and forth with studies and personal work; it's nice to bounce between those so you don't get drained doing one too long. I really like your 30 second gestures, you're capturing them quite nicely; if I could suggest anything I would say try doing some value studies. Right now it looks like alot of what you've done remains in only 2 or 3 values; not a terrible thing, but pushing your values further helps with form and depth in your drawings.

In this last drawing I would suggest looking at the limbs and the body masses as simpler shapes in space (cubes, cylinders, etc.) and just think of how they would act in perspective. I find it can help with the structure of the character at times. Keep working away at it either way... don't be afraid to do lots of thumbnails before hand and take it slowly

Good luck!

**Envisor** · September 19th, 2008, 07:38 PM

Great sketchbook. You've got confident and clean lines and cool concepts, but you are lacking in anatomy and the structure of the human body. Draw from life and photos, and do lots of anatomy studies. The hand studies you did for the character design thread is a good exercise to continue. Really study proportion. Great stuff so far. Now lets see some more! Keep at it.

**Demo** · September 19th, 2008, 10:04 PM

THe gesture figures are amazingly good but those stiken watermarkes are really distracting me idk if you can do anything about them but theyr difenatly an eye catcher. for now since your studies are working good just keep it up because they are definatly helping you

**FearSelf** · September 19th, 2008, 10:21 PM

Hi! Glad you joined our little SSG. Keep up the studies and sketching.

**Trefle** · September 20th, 2008, 03:01 PM

Hi!

welcome to our SSG ^^

Nice sketchbook! As envisor said, further studies on anatomy are needed. But don't be down! Your sketches were great! Keep drawing, I can't wait to see more.

**katinki** · September 21st, 2008, 12:16 PM

hey fellow sketchgroupian! i'm sorry that i didn't say hello earlier!

nice to see you mixing studies and personal illustrations! my advise is first of all to post more and more often! your last post is more than three weeks old! but that's what a ssg is for, i guess...

don't be a slacker! work and show us what you do! go and draw! now!