[LongJh]

Hi all. Took a little break the past week, just did some sketches here and there and did a perspective drawing. Also reading up on product design sketching - did a few freehand straight line practices and cubes and things like that too. Buut that's about it. Will be going full force practicing again right away!

Perspective practice. A room! It's not mine, though I do have a table like that. Trying to inject some "personality" in my perspective drawings by adding random details and props, although I must admit I do get bored pretty quickly when I'm working on a drawing for long time.



And sketches. The thumbnails are mini studies for the drawing above.

[tschayssen]

great studies, especially the perspective ones. every single one is worth it you're improving a lot. keep it up

[LongJh]

tschayssen - Thank you very much! I'll definitely keep studying and practicing more.

Got a pretty big update today! Finished up my entry to the New World's challenge. I learnt quite a bit on this painting, mainly that I need to work on my ability to clean up and refine my paintings to a more "finished' level.

So here's the final! The theme is Crystal Forest.



Also, some digi portrait studies.






Crystal studies, to practice for my New Worlds painting





Aaand sketches.

[LongJh]

Hi all! Just the usual bunch of boring drawings here. I swear one day I'll be able create amazing, meaningful art and designs!

A few pages of studies and notes I did along with Stan Prokopenko's video tutorials on youtube. His tutorials are really professional and highly informative - I really recommend watching it. I mainly try to write down key points and useful notes for my own reference and general practice for these.






And more sketchbook pages. As usual - from life, reference and some terrible doodles from imagination.

[LongJh]

Quick update!

More boring head study notes.






Aaand then some simple heads different angles from imagination.



Thats all for now!

[Failstar]

Great breakdowns, nice clear and concise. I like how you explore those learnings and lay it all out practically. Nice job Jh!

[LongJh]

Failstar - Thank you! To be honest I'm wondering if I should've just drawn more along with the tutorials instead of spending so much time just writing notes. Drawing convincing heads and faces still eludes me despite all these studies. Oh well, no choice but to keep practicing!

Another quick update here. I bought some highlighters from the bookstore in an attempt to find a cheaper substitute to do marker drawings with. So I did some sketching to test out what they could do. Um, also trying to see if I could get more into some industrial design type stuff. It was pretty addictive doodling with them at the beginning lol.

Sorry for the quality. I had to take photos instead of scanning them because a lot of the colours gets lost if I scan them.








Aand getting back to the serious studies again. A few hands for today. Will definitely have to do more full body studies soon, too.

[amemoryinblue]

Wow, those last studies of the hands are fantastic From what i see your lines are getting more and more confident with each new study - keep it up

[amemoryinblue]

Hello! Thank you for stopping by my sketchbook

You've got a great grasp on anatomy and and overall impressive traditional work
From what I can see it's painting the faces digitally that needs some practice here, and I hope these videos/articles help you some, I know I learned A LOT from them

Video (8parts) + written in description
A bit more illustrative, but incredible technique (video)
Great articles and brushes

All the best

[Eclip-se]

Very nice progress, the perspective stuff is really great and very nice anatomy studies. Thanks for visit!

[LongJh]

amemoryinblue - Heeey thanks so much! It's funny how I know thatthere are so many awesome free tutorials out there, but every now and then I need someone to remind to that I gotta get my butt off and actually start learning from them lol. It's always the first few parts of the painting that baffles me - these guys are on such a high level that they know exactly where to put their marks, for me it's always a struggle. Thank you, I'll get right on it!

Eclip-se - Thanks man! All the best to you too!

Hi all! Holidays are coming soon, so I'm hoping to make full use of the time to practice moar! Here's an update of what I've been doing. Mostly is a bunch of freehand lines and ellipses. I've been trying to get into industrial design style sketching. Here are a few pages of them, really lame lol, but I did like a ton of these (all on A3 copy paper).




And then some portrait digis! Done along with the tutorials amemoryinblue shared with me. Uhhh, about 1 and a half hours each - that's when my stamina usually flatlines when painting portraits. Aaahh still a long way to go!




And lastly are some more sketches. Just filled up this particular sketchbook. Time to start a new one!

[LongJh]

Hello. Another update here.

So my master plan of drawing a lot during the holidays was pretty much a disaster due to some intense food poisoning on my part. Buut I did do some stuff in the end!

Finished up my last 1-pt perspective practice. Just in time for the new year! I admit I was a little sloppy on this drawing - didn't really put a lot of effort into the details, and the chandeliers, ugh. But what's done is done! Time to move on to 2-point perspective.



Next we have more digi studies. Round brush, no opacity pressure. About 30mins each.





A random sketch. Oh God I suck at drapery.



And last is a quick pic of some of my ID sketching practice. For uh, documentational purposes before I threw them away. They were starting to make a mess on my desk.

[LongJh]

More stuff!

Eye studies after Stan Prokopenko. Will probably do a series of notes and studies after his tutorials. I did notice I tend to forget to apply some of the things I learnt when doing my own drawings, though. Will have to take note of that.




And more ID sketching. The first few drawings are my attempts to draw a low-poly beetle (kind of like those student works in FZD) and failing miserably. Drawing this way is really quite different and requires a ton of concentration to get nice, clean and accurate lines. My end goal here is to be able to sketch anything in any angle using perspective construction techniqes with good line quality/confidence.







Aaand lastly are some sketchbook sketches. Reference used for the pose in the first drawing - because I can't draw convincing poses for nuts - and the building in the background was a quick photo study.

[fersteger]

Great stuff. Haven't looked through your whole book yet but I say if you keep on doing what you're doing here you'll be producing some cool stuff in no time. Just keep cranking away and all these studies are going to drastically improve your skills!

[LongJh]

fersteger - Thank you! I'll definitely keep pushing myself - I still got ways to go, but it'll be non-stop! Thanks for the encouragement dude, really nice of you to drop by. Btw, your works are inspiring!

I've got a little update here. More ID sketching lol. I'm so sorry if it's boring! I'll do other stuff soon I swear.




Level up! lol. Finally managed to draw a pretty decent looking insect thing after so many tries (last image).