Not Dead Yet -- Updated 5/10

**Yosul_Gongju** · May 20th, 2007, 06:08 PM

My first stab at designing a creature, some portraits of friends and random faces, and old figure drawings. Please crit!

**Yosul_Gongju** · May 20th, 2007, 06:19 PM

I guess I should enter a little introductory blurb, eh? >_> I'm currently a junior at the Los Angeles County High School for the Arts, aka LACHSA. I'm planning on attending Art Center to major in Illustration. This thread was created at the behest of a few friends who're also floating around on CA. Mmm... Here's some other images I found floating around on my computer. I hope you enjoy, and thanks for looking at my work.

**Yosul_Gongju** · May 24th, 2007, 10:20 PM

some animal studies.

**lesqueletterouge** · June 3rd, 2007, 06:13 PM

I like your animal studies, especially the fish that look like lizards keep up the good work.

**loveandasandwich** · June 3rd, 2007, 06:23 PM

Wow, some really nice stuff you got here! Fantastic colors in the portraits, I especially like this one. But the one underneath it is just amazing with all the detail you put into it. Really great.

**Yosul_Gongju** · June 3rd, 2007, 08:16 PM

Hehe thanks a lot for the kind comments. : ) I think that one's my favorite out of the portraits too. I was trying to give a narrative feel to each one.

**Seaport** · June 4th, 2007, 05:24 AM

Cool stuff, especially like the woman in the yellow top and the bull in the last post (has some great energy to it), the only crit i would make is with your creature design (first image) it's a little hard to read.

**Yosul_Gongju** · June 4th, 2007, 08:15 PM

Mm is it the antlers and the mouth area that are hard to read? After working on the same piece for a while it's a bit hard to point out the weak spots to myself heh. The images I've posted are downsized a bit so that it's easier to see each piece as a whole, so that may be why it seems a bit off, but I could be wrong. : s

Hehe, and the girl in the yellow sweatshirt is a very close friend of mine who I've known since kindergarten. I'm glad you like it

I remember a day in middle school when she had gotten into an argument with another student and in this piece I tried to convey her irked mood.

**Art of Ruin** · June 5th, 2007, 03:23 AM

yo hey its alex...i haven't seen some of this stuff yet

nice WAHOO
too bad that elephant didn't win scholastic
such bs

**Zombie_dla** · June 5th, 2007, 05:40 AM

Love the amount of detail you have in your drawings. Keep it up!

**Yosul_Gongju** · June 5th, 2007, 07:46 PM

Thanks for the comments guys!
I'll be uploading some other pieces I've been working on as soon as I find my camera... >_>

**Zoroko** · June 5th, 2007, 07:53 PM

I really love the amount of color you put into your works, it's really interesting~!! Great work there.

Your black and white pieces as well just have so much life. keep up the great work~!

**n0ireclipse** · June 9th, 2007, 12:23 AM

Ahhh...Inspiring! Thankyou, now I'll be off to draw. This is just what I needed

**Yosul_Gongju** · June 19th, 2007, 05:13 PM

Shaky hands + shitty camera = blurry pictures. Sorry!

This model kept moving... ._. so I drew her multiple poses in different colors...

WIP's

Wow these are really blurry... Sorry... I have really shaky hands. Q_Q

**Quicksilver** · June 25th, 2007, 02:43 PM

*Wow* ...awesome. I really like your life drawings too - they're all wonderful. This one's really strong. Very solid, confident lines and a rather jazzy style to boot, hehe.

Man, you're younger than me too.....

Nice work, and do keep sharing~ ^_^

**Newbs** · June 28th, 2007, 02:41 AM

really nice stuff!

**lefran** · June 28th, 2007, 07:40 AM

hey ! really like your work, really like everything in your first post, especially the creature design at the top and This is great also, look forward to seeing more
Fran

**devbot** · June 29th, 2007, 12:10 PM

for your age your amazing dude. keep it up!

**AlexC** · July 1st, 2007, 02:16 AM

hello,
firstly this is wonderful-http://pics.livejournal.com/thelovepumpkin/pic/0003k540/s640x480
the subtle shading looks great.
Plus, I think its great your able to do life drawing also, the charcoal draw's look the best imo.

One of the problems I see with your graphite stuff are the values.
One technique that may help you is laying down a graphite "wash", essentially covering the whole thing lightly with graphite and smudge it with a piece of paper or tissue, then increasing the value range in dark spots etc, then using a kneaded eraser pulling back the highlights.
Have a look at Ted's sketchbook to see what I mean, it creates some whimsical soft drawing's and may adress your value problem( you need a fuller range of values)

-Ted's sketchbook link http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...t=20007&page=6

real impressive stuff

**Yosul_Gongju** · July 2nd, 2007, 01:16 AM

Haha oops, it's been a while since I've checked back. Thank you for all of your comments.

Alex - I haven't tried that method before, but I'll try to keep it in mind the next time I do a pencil drawing. I usually don't use an eraser, but I'm beginning to see that I should explore it a bit.

At the moment I'm tied up making my first plushie. It's my first time using a needle or making anything 3d for that matter, so it's taking me a bit to learn from my (plentiful) mistakes. I'll try to post an update when I've finished. Again, thanks for the comments! : )

**AmontilladoAg** · July 4th, 2007, 12:01 PM

Aw, cool! A plushie

Wanna see it when it's done!

You got some sweet art goin' on here... your animal studies, your creatures - excellent! And I like the way you do skin tones...

Keep up the good work, chica!

**Yosul_Gongju** · July 4th, 2007, 04:58 PM

Hehe thanks! And... Here's a small update!

Batman Plushie! (sans cape, will be added later)

**Felicia** · July 8th, 2007, 06:33 PM

Really nice work. I especially like the girl in the green dress and cropped portrait of the guy.
I think some of the figure drawings seem a little over worked (the ones where the model kept moving) but over all very strong.
Are your color portraits color pencil? You have a very good sense of color in skin tone.

**kuroart** · July 8th, 2007, 06:47 PM

nice sketchbook so far. the life studies are very good.
Keep it up.

**Yosul_Gongju** · July 10th, 2007, 06:29 PM

Yup, the portraits are done with prismacolor pencils. I've been a bit busy lately but hopefully I'll get an update up soon.

**Blaz** · July 10th, 2007, 06:54 PM

Woah,very nice SB. Really like the portraits ,and the woman sewing...there is something realistic about those...she might be stylized a bit but so real...
Are those colored pencils?

Woo go go batman plushie!

-Blaz

**AlexC** · July 10th, 2007, 11:58 PM

hah that plushie is kickass!

**AmontilladoAg** · July 11th, 2007, 01:28 AM

gah, batman plushie!

Uber-cool!!!

**Maxine Schacker** · July 15th, 2007, 10:57 AM

This is excellent work for high school! Tell us more about your high school program, please, or is it you who are doing the research and teaching yourself traditional skills?