[kevin-]

haha i dont mind stopping by and checking out your stuff man! and you got a pretty realistic effect with the foggy concert thingies, post more soon!

[LongJh]

hieveryone - Aaah, thanks for dropping in! And thank you for your kind words, yeah, I'll keep practicing!
kevin- - Thanks man! I'll do my best to keep updating!
(Exclamation marks give me energy lol, lately I've been pretty tired for some reason.)

Whew, sorry, another late update. Busy, busy week. But here's some stuff!

Some fog studies done for the Anatomicae challenge. Done last week actually. Hopefully the practice will help me in doing misty mountains and foggy scenes in the future!




Aaaaand the final! Learnt quite a bit doing this one (I originally added a bunch of random photoshop blur effects, but in the end I don't think it did much to improve the picture, so yeah, also got a reminder that less is more!) Oh, and you can check out the WIP and stuff here!



Lip studies! Found out that I rarely draw mouths that are slightly open - it seems all I ever do are closed mouths. Also, teeth.





Aaand one from memory after the practice.



I still got a bit more stuff to post soon!

[stace]

Really great sketchbook, you're definitely on the right track!

[LongJh]

stace - Thank you!

Updaaate!

More perspective practice! Ran into a few curved edges problems in the first one, plus made a bunch of wierd mistakes. So did a few more simple exercises. Think I'll be doing a couple more before moving on.




Next are some nose studies in photoshop! I realised I'm pretty bad at noses - like how the nose forms differ from each other and stuff. Also I think I was being pretty sloppy with the rendering and colour observation. The last one is from memory/imagination. It looks... pretty bad lol. In my mind I had no idea what a natural nose was supposed to look like.






Next are some heads studies/practice. When I draw heads without reference I'm still samefacing a lot. Ugh. Trying to understand and capture different features.



Aaand lastly, a sketch and a study! Done on copy paper cuz I'm still too scared to draw on my sketchbooook.

[Cj_Marsh]

wow really love your stuff here man makes me feel really bad about not doing any studies of my own :P keep up the great work and push!

[LongJh]

Cj_Marsh - Haha, thank you! I'll keep practicing, and I'm sure you are too!

Soo, another update here.

First up, a naked sword dude from imagination! It had 10000 mistakes so I did a few studies of the really bad ones for practice. As usual - need to improve on line quality, anatomy, dynamic pose/gesture, etc.



Next are some pencil rendering practice. Used tissue papers to get that smooth blend. I borrowed a book on drawing/rendering portraits that advised me to do a few of these a initial practice.



And some more perspective stuff. The last two are studies from Loomis' Successful Drawing book. I tackled the church drawing again and finally moved up one page. Yay.





Aaand lastly, some portrait studies! A few of them are studies of drawings by the amazing Alex Pascenko!

[Vladimir_Gasai]

Awesome! keep working!

[LongJh]

Vladimir_Gasai - Thank you!

Aaaaah busy busy. Also, a tiny update! It's last weekends' stuff. Managed to squeeze some time to post it up!

Wtf is this thing? It's so bad I just had to post it to remind myself how much I suck.



Borrowed How to Draw Lifelike Portraits by Lee Hammond and started on some nose studies. Not really digging the blending/rendering method (cuz I feel it takes waaaay too much time for me) but I did it anyway. It's got a pretty nice look but I think I still prefer hatching or just simple shading.




Aaaand some portraits from imagination. I think I improved a bit (but just a little bit). I seem to have this bad habit of drawing eyes too close together.

[LongJh]

Some more updates for this week! My focus was a little off this weekend. I basically wasted a lot of time rolling on the floor and getting drowsy for no apparant reason.

The usual perspective from Loomis. Should apply all this into something useful soon.




Some heads from imagination. I flipped this drawing in photoshop, and my mind exploded from how bad the mirrored image looked, everything was like distorted, I'll have to take note of this, must be the angle I'm drawing with on paper. Also my faces all still look too similar.



Lips studies after Lee Hammond's How to Draw Realistic Portraits book. I apologize for the freaky looking heads on the second picture, especially the supposedly-female-looking one. I was more concentrated on where lips should be placed and totally neglected everything else.




And lastly, some digi studies from Terragalleria. Uh, I'm bad at drawing tree branches. I always get too impatient/lazy. Sorry.

[LongJh]

Ahhh not a productive week, I didn't get to draw as much as I wanted. I guess I'll just leave these here.

Loomis perspective stuff. Just this one this week lol. I ran into some problems understanding this one but I think I get it now.



And some head studies. Starting to get into hair. So many things to practice at one go!



More lip studies. Focusing also on line quality. I got lazy at the end though.



And some random sketchies. Ahh, I'm terrible at figures. GOTTA PRACTICEEEE

[LongJh]

Hey all! Here's more stuff for this week! I've been losing steam recently, must be because my terrible sleeping habits during the weekend.

The usual perspective from Loomis' Successful Drawing. Think I went a little overboard with the note-taking.




Back to gestures drawings! 30s poses with a calligraphy pen. Haven't done those in awhile. Mainly to get myself familiar with drawing the full figure again. I wonder how those artists out there are able to do such awesome 30s gestures with so much movement and accuracy. Mine are just messy and bad.



Next are 60s gestures done with a charcoal pencil. I dunno. I tried to get that "classical" traditional charcoal drawing look but it didn't turn out so well.




Aaaand a 10min figure drawing. Yeah... bad, I know. I noodled around and ran out of time before I could finish the important parts.



Lastly, some sketchbook stuff! Couldn't resist practicing more eyes lol. I'm just always annoyed that I might keep drawing almost the same eyes all the time. Plus random rocks, trees and grass! (Was practicing how grass would bend and stuff)

[LongJh]

Gaaaaaaah late update!

More perspective stuff from Loomis! Getting into some more interesting stuff now - the last image was a lot of fun to do, might probably do more of these kind of interior stuff for practice. Also I realise I suck at drawing furniture. And people.





30 second posemaniacs! I'm still struggling with laying down proper proportions quickly. With these quick gestures I'm always torn between doing accurate measurement and energetic strokes - I've seen people who can do both, but it just seems to slip right out of my fingers. Ugh, maybe I'm thinking too much.



Lastly, some figure stuff! First ones are studies, mainly focusing on proportion and doing proper measurement. I got lazy halfway though. Second ones from imagination - can't seem to come up with more interesting and dynamic poses. I think I may to study some anatomical landmarks and some figure construction techniques.

[LongJh]

Hi all! Got a bit of stuff done this week. First off, some perspective practice to apply what I learned from Loomis! Ran into some perspective distortion issues. Might be because my paper is too small and I'm trying to squeeze everything too much. Or maybe I didn't construct the perspective grid properly. Hm.




Aaand some digi stuff again! First one is an attempt at painting a head from imagination. I think the drawing came out... okay (I still think I'm samefacing), but the rendering is like, I dunno I wanted to make it look like skin but it turned out like plastic or something. Too many wierd colours and highlights? I'm still not used to the forms of the head too.



So yeah next are digi portrait studies. Mainly focusing on colour and somewhat on facial proportions. I didn't really do much blending though. I apologise if the heads end up looking creepy. It's really tough!




I wanted to do a third head study but I was getting a little burnt out and tired. So I did this quick little painting of a flower to relax a little. And also to try out a different digital painting method. So far I've mostly restricted myself to using the hard round brush with no opacity to paint (then using one with opacity set to pressure to blend). Gotta find out more methods for rendering!

[kevin-]

great amount of work posted! keep em coming!

[spawkes]

Wow! What a fantastic amount of practice and studies! Great job!
As others have said, do keep them coming!
That last flower is beautiful! Pleasant colors, and nice, crisp edges!