[Vielmond]

Welcome to Camila Vielmond's Sketchbook~~

So... uhm, hi! I'm Camila Vielmond, an OST-fueled brazilian illustrator/concept artist. I manage to do some money with my work but I know it isn't the best quality and I've got a lot to improve. I've stopped drawing for 2 years and suffered a heavly drop on my work's quality, I'm recovered only now, hah.

I have a little list of "things to study" and you may find my study schedule crazy since I'm always changing subjects. It's my way of not getting exausted, I eventually finish WIPs on-hold and continue re-take the study of some subjects.

I'm aware that my anatomy drawing sucks, males sucks, drapery sucks, depth sense sucks, foreshortening sucks, legs sucks, bla bla sucks, well, you got the message. What I'm seeking is advice on how overcome these problems.

People say my strongest point is my colors, I don't think so, I'm still improving and get easily lost. I guess I'm the kind of "deceiver" artist, who uses a colorful shiny bait to distract poor souls so they don't even pay attention to the flaws and then I kill them, teheee.

[Vielmond]

I have the bad feeling that the images are going to look huge here.... Take a seat now, I'm going to crush you with too many illustrations!

Let me start with something pretty first!


Now, these are after-break works, studies and sketches, they range from the time I was warming up again (Nov 2011) and to now.





(it was one of the fastest speedies I've made. Surely looks better as a thumb, uh?)








(photostudies)







(I'm lazily sculpting her)







I never had a real sketchbook, but I'm determined to tame my hands and learn some anatomy, etc, so, here it go. From now most are from observation, of real life and illustrations too. I was getting used again to a pencil on the first pages, I kinda stopped using paper even before having this 2 years break.








Now, current WIPS.









(thumb for tests)



I'm having trouble there, I suck at both foreshortening (and anatomy in general) and drapery. Check out the steps.

How more or less she would look like in a finished piece...


I've decided to do a full illustration, and now I'm fucked, hahaha!

[kevin-]

i hope you keep posting cuz im liking this sketchbook already! love your style. i dont think i can pick specific things to crit you on but i know with time you will improve so just keep at it! ok i tried to fix this but now u look a little wierd replying to this before my post? uhh ima just let this go haha i wont mess up the next time i promise

[Lisa-Ayla]

Wonderful sketchbook, you have lovely style. I'm just like you as I stopped drawing for a few years and have a lot to catch up on. With plenty of studies and practice I'm sure you wont take long because you're already so good, please keep updating!

[Vielmond]

Thanks, guys! Your support means a lot for me!

This week's update is small, no time to draw personal things and of course I can't show my freelanced work - only after the release, that may take place years from now... =.='

So, more sketchbook pages. I'm starting to feel more confident about drawing hands and even feet (a little, hahah). I'm not "better" or "accurate" yet, but, still, I'm happy. I'm starting going up these damn limbs to get used to their shapes.
The funny thing is that drawing hands is a huge stress reliever for me!



And some random doodles, earlier concepts for a creature I might use on the project I'm brewing. I always switch subjects when studying, to keep my mind sane.


Oh, quite-unrelated-to-art fun time:

It's a "rune" alphabet. It's still an early version and it's loosely based on the Yiddish one, which is so beautiful!

Now...
I still have no idea of how proceed in this one, the feedback I've received wasn't that useful. Things like "this is wrong, that is wrong" aren't really helpful, I already know this and would draw them right from the start if I knew how. *sigh* F*cking drapery...
Obs: It's a thumb, I'm only going to work on a HQ version after figuring how to deal with the foreshortening problems.


Here goes some different angles with minor variations that I've sketched to explain the pose to some people:

[Mrscribbles]

Really animated SB. Awesome!

[LongJh]

Yup, yup, a really wonderful sketchbook! I really like the your style, it's all painterly and loose and fun! And I would agree you're strong in colours, all of your painting strokes and colour choices look pretty confident to me (who truly sucks at colour).

For adviiice... well, you listed a bunch of stuff you would like to improve on. So I think drawing/painting a bunch of those stuff would help you improve in no time! Although, I sometimes find it's a little daunting to tackle things you suck at, sometimes you just end up going back to the stuff you're more confident with. But keep at it please!

Oh, and your seagull painting made me smile lol. Terrific.

[Vielmond]

@Mrscribbles
Thank you~~~
I'm trying my best!

@LongJh
Thanks! It's for the people who like my work that I try to improve, so I feel it's worthy their feelings.

I'm seriously thinking of reducing the amount of freelances I've been doing to be able to focus on my studies. It's for my own good anyway, it's going to allow me to be faster, produce work with better quality and therefore get better jobs.


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Insignificant Update:

I've filled the other page... Fungly.


A really quick & half-assed single-layer study from life. 10-15min.


Few months ago I've tried to do a poster and things went really bad. It was shameful, and I endend giving up, saving the idea for later.

I'm going to try again, finally. I need some time, a bit more of RAM *cough* I mean patience since I'm trying to do it with a print quality (any tips about resolution, bleeding etc?) and to take a photo for ref. Stupid half-assed planning/coloring test:


It can be said that I'm toying with many crazy ideas for the next year.
Here goes a a crude technical test, I've never made any comics and I have no idea of how port my style into this kind of work.
(obs: yes, I turned around her mouth by accident, hahahaha, I suck!)

[Vielmond]

A wild way-too-busy week appears! Sorry, only two pages from my sketchbook by now. I have to keep up with my average new page each 2.3 days, and I wanted to increase to 1page/day. If I only had time... ò.o'

Let's see if I can work a bit more on one of my WIPs this weekend.

A bigger break from anatomy studies to try to render some elements... + profiles, I'm really bad at profiles. Sorry, these pages are so messy, and the thing I liked most, the door (lol!) got blurry on the scan. I don't own a moleskine. xD

[NDHill]

Beautiful work. Love the confident brushstrokes.

[Vielmond]

It's so mysterious when people say my brushstrokes/pencils are confident. I usually feel so lost, haha. ^^'
But thanks!!


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I think I should stop wasting time with useless things, haha. I'm right-handed, and while I've been feeling some amount of pain on this hand half of my left hand has been always a bit numb. Ugh... I may take easy on my work/study while I wait for the consult I've scheduled to check these problems. There goes my lastest pages, I'm really ashamed of them. ^^'

I was training movement and elements when... Korra happened. Sorry! Then i decided to figure out some faces...


Feeling guilty I've trained a bit of "foreshortening" on faces, I'm really bad at them. The second page is an attempt to draw the same character in different ages and situation, but I'm not liking her look.



Applied the changes from the color thumb and tried to figure out the sea. I know the sea color doesn't make sense... But I still want a white sky. *sigh*
Oh, I may move the girl a bit to recover some of the visual flow.


Doodle to don't let an idea I had to outfit be forgotten. I know it's plain bad, looks funny (bad foreshortening + collar hiding her once rised shoulders) and messy, and I guess only I am able to understand it by now. The idea is to mix "holy" cloth elements with witch-like ones. Her main color is, supposedly purple-blue, but I always end slipping to brown when working with feathers. :<