[jskotte]

Here is today portrait. Took maybe 5 hours and after having seen Dave do it yesterday, I tried to follow his process.

[MarkWester]

Really good man lastest stuff is great

[jskotte]

Thanks MarkWester

Haven't had much time the last couple of days, but here are more contours of random things and some kickboxing people and posemaniacs.

[jskotte]

Another portrait, could continue working on it, but I guess that's the case with pretty much everything, but I might still continue a bit tomorrow. But I'm really having a lot of fun with these faces, I was kind of surprised as I have found it hard to draw heads, but I'll get back to that again soon.

[Vilas]

hello itīs nice to see a good pacing on your studies keep like that and you will improve greatly the only tips that i can give you itīs only from my personal experience and since iīm no pro take it with the grain of salt.

- focus on the form, when drawing/painting think in 3d

- perspective, itīs a very boring subject but itīs a important one, with perspective you can scale and pose any object/person accurately any way you want it

- when painting keep it simple avoid massive blending and focus on the color try to decode them if you have trouble to decode any color use the color picker, although donīt rely on it

- pure black and pure white dull the colors so use it wisely

thatīs it for now, keep it up

[jskotte]

Vilas, thanks for the advice, I'll try keep in mind.

Here are some Brigman studies.

[jskotte]

Photo study. Having problems with my arm, so taking it easy for a while now.

[NoriTominaga]

the edge work on the aurora is vey nice. hope your arm gets better

[jskotte]

Thanks NoriTominaga, I hope so too.

Well, my arm is still bad, so now I've tried painting using my left hand, uhh, that is hard, no precision at all, but anyway, though I at least could do some color/landscape studies like that. So details suck in this and had to use the grass brush, couldn't even get close to making grass otherwise.
Also tried a pencil sketch holding the pencil lile I do when I shade, that was durable, so I was basically just doodling and got this.

[nscarlet]

Thanks for stopping by my sb! I really enjoy your studies especially the one with container and notebook. Keep it up!

[jskotte]

nscarlet - thanks

One more left hand color study and trying to other things my left hand can do as well. With perspective theory is easy, but not as easy in practice when combining many things, at least not for me. So some perspective grids, now I just need to get better at using them

[jskotte]

Here are more perspective studies and some more characters doodles.

[jskotte]

More perspective exercises, now scaling using both 1 point and 2 point perspective, and then adding both 3 point and 0 point perspective. I know this is kind of boring, but it's durable with my left hand, so...

[jskotte]

Another left handed landscape color study.

[jskotte]

More of the same. My left hand is definitely getting better, but still no real precision.