[LongJh]

More studies! Focused on arm anatomy these few days. Still gotta study a little on the muscle and bone to know how to render the form of the arm properly. Also need to study how the arm works when it's bent and twisted, and how it connects to the shoulders and the torso. Oh yeah, and arms in perspective too lol. Ahh so much to learn!



Also tried to do a few full figure poses from imagination. I had to do a really messy way of figuring out the pose though and most of it was guesswork instead of really understanding though. Soo that means I gotta do more full figure studies then.



Next are some heads from imagination and hands from life. Uhh, I think I was on autopilot when I drew these. Wasn't really concentrating much, especially the hands lol. And my heads are still really terrible bleh. Think I'll be doing head anatomy studies next.



And lastly some 30s gestures with a calligraphy pen!

[LongJh]

Some digital painting photo studies. Mostly trying to study colour and lighting, so I used a brush with no opacity setting so I had to see and apply each individual colour instead of relying too much on blending to get the colours.

It's a pretty cool way to practice colours I think, although it doesn't provide blending and shading practice, which is another thing I'm really weak in. I'll most probably do some blending exercises soon! And try to paint some figures as well. To be honest I hardly ever paint figures - it's mostly environments, sooo it's gonna be a bit of a challenge.

Studies from terragalleria





Then a couple of quick ones from imagination - I think they turned out okay, though the colours I've chosen could've been more... harmonious?




And last two studies from some holiday travel website.

[LongJh]

Another update! Did some random thumbnail-ish sketches of environments to see if I can come up with interesting ideas and compositions. For some reason when I started doing these my mind suddenly froze up and I couldn't seem to come up with any interesting ideas aaand so I just sort of vomited out some generic rocks and cliffs and other boring stuff. My imagination seems to be at an all time low recently... has anyone ever experienced this before? And if so, any ideas on how to jump start the good 'ol creative brain?

Also bought a new sketchbook! To be honest I'm really nervous to start drawing on it lol. All my recent studies and sketches were all done on plain old copy paper because there is no pressure. But I guess I gotta get over that fear sooner or later.



And here's some studies from The Fundementals of Figure Drawing by Barrington Barber that I borrowed from the library.



And lastly, back some good ol' perspective studies from Loomis!

[LongJh]

Gaaaah! I didn't draw anything at all yesterday! Gotta make up for lost time!

More Barrington Barber studies! I changed the male and female figures at the bottom a little though, instead of copying straight from the book - 'cause I felt their poses were a little stiff and awkward. Nooot sure if I made an improvement though.



Aaand skeletons! Gotta figure out stuff like how the bones twist and turn and landmarks and all that good stuff. Might do some quick skeletal poses in the future maybe?



I should do some sketches and drawings of my own. But lately my mind is totally blank so all I can do are studies. Bleh...

[LongJh]

Hi all! Here's this week's stuff.

Started drawing on my new sketchbook! Just some really random stuff. Really messy and badly drawn lol, it reminds me to practice more!



More perspective studies from Loomis. About halfway through the perspective section, learning new stuff every page, though I admittedly I think I'm going a bit slow. (I keep stopping after doing one page)



Aaand some heads practice. First one's from imagination - which was a disaster, second one's from photo refs - which are also disasters. I feel kinda bad for the models in the photos I drew from. Will be doing more heads this weekend.

[Kuatay]

Hey great stuff!, seems like you practice a lot.. taking you as an example.

[LongJh]

Kuatay - Thank you it means a lot to me. Keep going, man!

It's been a pretty busy week. But uhhh here's some stuff!

Some envi studies. First one is from imagination, second is from photo ref. Coming up with realistic and harmonious colours is tough!




Also tried painting some heads. Black and white cuz I'm afraid of colours atm.



Sketches! Went drawing with a friend at mac's. Sketched a character from a manga I was reading and practiced drawing heads.



Portraits from photo refs! Added more shading and stuff instead of just line, think it helps a little, might add more darker values next time. The last two portraits at the bottom didn't turn up so well... sorry about that.



Aaand finally, more perspective from Loomis! First one is a little sketch projected into perspective as sort of a "test" to see what I have learnt, instead of just copying from the book. Pretty excited cuz the next few pages looks like it's going into more practical perspective stuff!

[kevin-]

you post a good amount of work! you look like your on the right track, keep doing studies and working on the basics and you will see improvement in no time! keep it up man!

[LongJh]

kevin- - Thank you!

Went sketching with some friends yesterday, practiced nature and stuff. The second pic started off as a tree sketch but soon my impatience took over and I just ruined everything. So I just filled the page with studies of leaves and grass. It's pretty interesting too see how they bend and twist in reality. Need to practice how to draw clumps of foliage and trees though.




Also, a DRAGON! Haven't done dragons much now that I think about it. My first few attempts were a disaster though, because of my lack of knowledge of animal anatomy.



And finally some figures from imagination. Still bad... yeah. Curse my messy lines!

[Kuatay]

Love the dragon man! and poor warrior . Those perspective exercises are from Loomis - "figure drawing"? looks complicated, scares me a little bit

[LongJh]

Kuatay - Haha, thanks! The perspective exercises are actually from Loomis' Successful Drawing book, not his figure drawing one. And yeah, it does look a little complicated lol, but when you actually start doing and studying them, it isn't really that bad.

Oh, and I found out how to thank people in CGhub! Hooray!

It's been a pretty busy week, soo I didn't really get to squeeze as much drawing as I would've liked. But here's what I got so far!

Painted some eye studies from photos in photoshop. Mainly focusing on practicing colours and rendering.





Then trying to apply what I learned by painting one from my mind.



Next are more perspective studies (from Loomis as usual). While doing the drawing with the church I ran into a few problems and made a some mistakes, so I did a few other orthographic-to-perspective drawings using simple shapes to practice a little more before moving on.

[idrawgirls]

Tons of study, great job. Keep it up.

[kevin-]

those eyes came out great! nice updates!

[LongJh]

idrawgirls - Thank you! It means a lot!

kevin- - Haha, thanks man, you know you're really awesome for stopping by my sketchbook!

Aahhh, late update! A bunch of of pics coming! (Some of it's last week's stuff)

I finally got around to do those skull studies that I kept saying I'll do. At first I was on autopilot a little - drawing without thinking much - cuz I had no idea what I was supposed to be concentrating on. The skull shape? The position of the features? But after awhile I started focusing on the planes of the skull - where the forms turn, etc, hope it'll come in handy when I start drawing/painting heads.




Next are some studies I did as practice for my entry for the Anatomicae challenge - Fog, Lights and Rock & Roll. Mostly studying musician poses and the underlying form and anatomy, also trying to capture their movement and energy and stuff - man, am I bad at this. Bleh.





Also, some heads. Some reffed, some not. You can probably tell which is which.



Aaaand as usual - perspective practice! I'm still working on the same page of Loomis' Successful Drawing where it touches on the basics of 2-pt construction drawing. Drawing a bunch of random buildings get a better understanding of some problems I'm having.





And finally some black and white composition sketches I did for the Anatomicae challenge. Trying to come up with some interesting lighting effects and a nice composition. Reffed from a few music videos of the awesome japanese all-girl rock band - Scandal!

[hieveryone]

Wow, that's a really astounding amount of work, congratz.

You've improved a lot since you began, with this amount of practice and dedication I can't wait to see your works a year from now.