[vatteh]

Hey everyone.

I'm just a student trying to get better at art. I've been picking up my practice and I still have a CA sketchbook that you can take a look at here . Hopefully in a few years I will be good enough to enter into the industry and do art full time. But for now, here are some studies and works from memory. Feel free to crit.

kinda Motoko Fan art


My entry for the Crimson Daggers Bloodsports Challenge


A Jean-Hippolyte Flandrin study

[vatteh]

Just some studies and personal sketches.

self portrait


still life of my lamp


personal sketches to test from memory

[vatteh]

Here's my entry for the Crimson Daggers Bloodsport Challenge 11

My concept for the statue


The final image


Photo studies I did to prepare

[vatteh]

Sup guys. Just some studies and personal stuff

Still lifes of some shoes



Crimson Daggers Bloodsport 12 - Sell some Beer! We were to design a beer label to put in front of a beer bottle.


Drawing Jam 76 - Alternate Avengers Poster

[vatteh]

More stuff I did for CGhub Challenges.


DJ 78 - The Werewolf


DJ 79 - King of Beasts


DJ 80 - The Tree of Life


just a sketch

[Veneq]

Hey Vatteh - hopped over here after seeing your entry for the Breath Of Life character forge. Nice entry - you've improved quite a bit on that piece from your most recent sketchbook update.

Your studies look really really good and I can see a bit of that thing going on that happens to everyone where your studies are a lot stronger than your imaginative/personal stuff. I have a few suggestions to attack the problem that have helped me with varying success.

The first is to try to vary the method by which you study. For me I'll do studies that start with tight line work and then mask everything and go to work. Other times take a very painterly approach just blocking in large shapes and blobs and working your way down. And then sometimes I'll do combinations of the two where I sketch it out sort of loosely and just use lines more for proportion and positioning.

The last thing is to try to replicate studies from memory right after you complete them. Try to remember everything about the creation of the study. Anyway, keep up the hard work dude!

[vatteh]

Pierce - Thanks man. Yeah lately I've been taking the CA and CGHub challenges very seriously. I figure its a great way to see my progress. Ive always noticed how my stuff from memory is way weaker than my studies. And I've actually been doing the memory studies you recommended. They really are a good exercise. As for switching between lines and large shapes; that's something I should try. I usually just use start with big shapes for my studies and then use lines for my personal work. Gotta think about using more consistently with my work. Thanks again.

Ok, I'm going to try again to take this sketchbook more seriously and post work again. Here are some master studies I did a while ago.

[vatteh]

And heres some still life. Trying to go do these more often so I can actually interpret light instead of just copying shapes.

[amemoryinblue]

Amazing start to your sketchbook! And it's evident that you're very determined and practice a lot and it's really showing. You have nice lines and seem to have a good grasp on digital brushes as well What I believe you should focus on some is color variation - for example, I'm looking at a fish, clothes or armor that are built almost only of shades of the same hue - and color doesn't work that way from light to dark - it changes hues and saturation a LOT - something that you've definitely achieved when doing the studies from the masters paintings and from life. But to be able to do that from imagination I think you need to read some theory - and here's some info, I hope it is useful: color theory
There's a lot of discussion about hue, saturation and tones there and from what I remember the LAB color picker can be a big help
LINK 2
Good luck on your future drwings

[vatteh]

amemoryinblue - Thanks for the reply. I've got to focus on my colors more, I've been getting that critique alot now. Your second link on how LAB works was very interesting; I will send time learning how it works.

Here are some memory studies I've been trying.

Heres a Sargent study I did. The second panel is from memory afterwards and the third is corrections I did after I opened the original. This exercise really helps; You see all the things you just don't pay attention to when copying ans going on autopilot.

photo study of the same thing


for these I just didn't bother showing the second step.

[joostjordens]

The girl with the curly hair is great! Her hands seem a little swollen though, but it's kind of charming somehow.
Keep up the good work. I'm interested in seeing some raw scribbles too.

[vatteh]

joostjordens - thats interesting. I never thought of showing any quick sketches. Yeah, I should consider it.

Now here's some stuff from memory I did. These were for the CGhub and CA challenges in the past few weeks. This is the stuff I plan to post more often.

[Veneq]

Lots to comment on here - nice couple of updates!

Those master studies came out great! Nice job!
The first skull still life is nicely rendered but seems pretty skewed and the perspective on the table seems quite off.
First bust looks really really good!
Second skull is a big improvement over the first although it does seem to be falling over, but I didn't see the set up either.

The next set of studies is very nice. You did a fantastic job reproducing from memory!

The demon guy is cool - there's almost a sense of a very cool style developing in there. His feet seem a little weird - can't quite say how without doodling the same pose. He is balanced kind of weird and I think the little fire sprouts on his skin could be handled a bit better - but this is a really nice piece overall.
Nice work on the Dragonball Z characters too!

Keep it up man!

[vatteh]

Pierce - Thanks for the compliments man. For the skull studies, it was supported underneath that made the skull look like it was kinda floating. I removed the setup underneath. You did notice my perspective problem; I'm still tackling that problem.

Here's more still-life studies of my busts

[cstlmode]

your studies looks cool , but i see some issues in your concepts it just need more care from you , i see some perspective and coloring issues popping up , my advise is to use more references in your next concepts , and try to figure out how things work for the lighting and perspective by using your eye and observing your surrounding , and don't ever close your eyes on something that you have doubts about
good luck friend