[stace]

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook! You're off to a great start here. Just keep measuring and drawing those heads, make sure you're also sketching down the measurements too in your imagination drawings so it really starts to stick with you. It can be a pain in the butt, but that's how habits are formed! Keep going my friend!

[Co2oconnell]

Hey man,

I like the drawings. Andrew Loomis is great to study but when you have a chance check out Michael Hampton, his structural drawings are very helpful. Studying life is a great way to get better at drawing as well. I see a big improvement. Look also at matthew archambault's blog he uses quality of line well; quality of line and line variation really important in drawing.

Keep up the good work

Cheers,
Chris

[d13598]

Thanks Chris. I really appreciate it..
@Stace: Thanks

I know it's not much but I've been a little busy with work. So here's just a small update.
Completed the painting of my brother..he loves it


For these, I looked through a few sports photos for a few minutes then put them away & drew what I can remember.

[d13598]

Been a little busy with work & I hate that it's getting in the way.
Anyways here's a little update on my female pirate character (from the character forge challenge). Just trying to draw without a ref pic..



Decided to change the weapon..but now I'm not too sure

[d13598]

I'm still struggling with perspective and I know this is not much of an update but I believe I'm getting some where

Playing around with grid in Photoshop..and my attempt to draw a simple life scene using perspective. It's what I see travelling to work by ferry almost daily. The grid is not perfect (I adjust as I go along) as I'm just testing it but I find that it helps a bit. I'd like to finish up this sketch

I find it difficult to make clean lines using brush. I tried the pen tool but it's a path..? Using a pen in photoshop is not like in Illustrator. What do you guys usually use if you want to draw out clean lines to show the perspective clearly?

[Zentrope]

Hmmm...For lines you can use Pen tool and then use "Stroke" for uniform lines in Photoshop!
You also might wanna check the link
This tutorial from DT really helped me in understanding perspective and you can also look in Google Sketchup but just have the basic fundamental strong before learning Sketchup

[jonhopkins]

Great start, you're headed in the right direction and have plenty of help from the others around here, listen to what they've said and keep posting and studying and you'll keep improving quickly.

[d13598]

@Zentrope: Thanks! The tutorial from DT is indeed useful, very simple to understand. I haven't tried the stroke for uniform lines in photoshop yet but will do soon.
@jonhopkins: Thank you..yeah, I appreciate all the help here

A head study assignment with garasin







Trying out some expressions..






Something without a ref pic..

[Garasin]

Really like the first batch. Especially the first page of heads, really neat and clean!

[d13598]

@Garasin: Thanks!

Head study for today. From now on I'm going to do my best to update daily .. at least 1 post a day .
Sorry if this seems a bit tedious ..

[d13598]

Down with flu today so got to spend time at home. Update for today..
a crappy morning doodle while my friend talked about video games & Jade Dynasty.


Around 20 min each, ref used. Not too good..


More head sketches. Tried some facial expressions. No ref..

[d13598]

The male torso. Second Assignment with garasin. Took few hours..longer than expected. Probably also need more different pencils.

[d13598]

Female torso. Took bout an hour plus.. struggled with the back view arrgghhh

[d13598]

Digital practice. Here's the WIP. It's a self portrait study..sketch, value & color block in about 25 mins. Does resemble me so pretty satisfied

[kineticjee]

hi there,

really great work. im trying out what i know with perspective as well, really great book is jay hambling on dynamic symmetry.

with straight lines in ps the shift button works for vertical and horizontal, but when you do diagnal you have to point to point. if you know what i mean.