Sketchbook Thread of Kevin

[yarabe]

welcome to the sketchbook thread!

[Kev3D]

To kick off my sketchbook I'll post one of the first paintings I did with my new Intuos. It was done using a reference photo.
http://www.postimage.org/gxaG840-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg

I read some of Stahlberg's posts and he insists that to get good at painting, people should start by trying to paint the simplest objects (cubes, spheres and cones). I grabbed the nearest cube-like thing and used it as reference.
http://www.postimage.org/aVmOZJJ-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg


Another painting using reference:
http://www.postimage.org/aVmPRBS-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg


And, just to prove how bad I am without reference:
http://www.postimage.org/aVmPHDi-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg

[Kev3D]

So I then went and downloaded one of Loomins' books, it was great. I have a book about drawing people at home and the difference is clear. My old book showed plenty of examples but didn't delve much into construction and instead talked a lot about the different combinations of pen/pencil and paper.

Anyway, here are some quick sketches I did after doing some Loomin excercises:

http://www.postimage.org/PqkhZir-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg
Muscle study using reference


http://www.postimage.org/aVmQzvr-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg
First drawing using live reference, the second with no reference.


http://www.postimage.org/Pqki5MS-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg
First drawing using live reference, the second with no reference.

http://www.postimage.org/gxaGi2A-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg
No reference.

[Kev3D]

DSo my faces aren't very good. I wanted to do some specific parts (eyes, ears, noses, mouths). I should have done some quick sketches of a lot of the various parts from different to get a better idea of shape, volume, etc. but I got carried away on my first sketch. This eye was painted using reference (http://www.ergoindemand.com/desk-exercises-ergonomic-breaks.htm).

http://www.postimage.org/aVmQ0Ar-88a4153dda01f38220ad6daba162389e.jpg

I do love the way it's so easy to choose colours and to erase things with digital. It almost feels like cheating.

By the way, thanks for the welcome message yarabe.

[alenah]

Kevin, for some reason I can see only 2 of your images (there should be more images here that you posted, I assume ??) - what kind of hosting server do you use ??

anyway - welcome!
a.

[Kev3D]

Hi, Alenah, thanks for the welcome.

All pictures are hosted on Picasa. That should work, shouldn't it? It's strange that you can only see two of them.

[NR43]

Hi Kevin
I can only see the 2 images in post 3 as well ;)

Enjoy the new intuos!

[Kev3D]

There appears to be an issue with using Picasa, it's late, I'll have to try and fix it tomorrow.

[Kev3D]

Okay, the images should all be working now.

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