Sketchbook Thread of Cemetery

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi..Temour ..:)

I like that statue rendering that you posted...Nice drawing technique..:thumbsup:
I don't know what anatomy books you have, but my favorites are by Burne Hogarth.DYNAMIC FIGURE DRAWING especally..but all of his books are great, and are very useful for understanding the human fugure and how it is depicted visually in a masterful and masterly way...If you don't have his books, I would highly reccomend getting them..defenitly worth the investment..:)
I like the fact that it took you five hours to do that statue rendering..shows that you are able to really take the time to really see what you are looking at...and are not a speed freak looking for quick results, and missing the whole picture of what it's all about in the process.
Anyway,..Keep posting, and keep doing studies from and of real life figure statues...It's a great and proven way to learn, and it's a practice that was and is practiced by all of the GREAT MASTERS.
Really looking forward to seeing more of your studies in here..:thumbsup: :)
TAKE CARE
Glenn

[Rebeccak]

Hi there, welcome - :)

Your image is currently being blocked, most image hosting sites don't allow nudity unfortunately, whether tasteful or not.

See this thread for some tips:

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=177&t=267088

Basically you'll have to block the nude bits in order to use any hosting site such as imageshack or photobucket. A bit of a pain, it's true!

[cemetery]

Hello again,

Spirit Dreamer, thank you for the kind words, really appreciated, this is what motivates me.

about books, i am always reading everyday

books i have :

* Bridgman's complete guide to drawing from life
* all andrew loomis books
* The New drawing on the right side of the brain
* Anatomy for Fantasy artists by Glenn fabry
* Anatomy a complete guide for artists by joseph sheppard
* Anatomy for the artist by Sarah Simblet
* Burne hogarth's dynamic anatomy ( Russian version :))
* Human anatomy for artists by Eliot Goldfinger

I have got all those books not long ago, now i am on last pages of new drawing to right side of brain and i will start reading other step by step after this one.


here is my latest sketches, one from the book drawing on right side of brain :

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/temourdrawingfrombook11.jpg

i added some things to make her look cooler :D

and another sketch i did with reference from some one

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/girlsidetemour.jpg

[cemetery]

Rebeccak, yes sorry i slacked a bit and did not re-upload it, i will try imageshack this time,

here goes :

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/121/humanbacktemour.th.jpg (http://img27.imageshack.us/my.php?image=humanbacktemour.jpg)

[zunpin]

Hi cemetery, thank you for your kind words back there in my thread. Your statue rendering is nice, I like it. Maybe u should add more shading to ur head drawing? They look uncompleted.

Hope to see some of ur anatomy studies. Keep it up!

[Intervain]

a good start of a sketchbook for sure - I like the first two :thumbsup:

[NR43]

yep, nice sb start... let's see some more plz :)

[cemetery]

Hello again,

Zunpin, you are welcome ! i am not that good with shading, and i am learning it now :D

Intervain, thank you, i am happy you liked the first two !

NR43, thank you !


Edit : deleted the shading try out of gustave's portrait, it's so bad ;p

[vikramvr]

Yes a good start to the sketchbook..It would be cool to see some shading on the women's face.

[cemetery]

Hello Again CG !

a few months ago when i was playing world of warcraft, i tried to sketch my character in it, it's an orc Death knight, i added more contrast on photoshop and added a whole photo colour just to make it look a bit older and less pale.

this is before i started reading the books i got, and please ignore the shrunken head, i know it's going against gravity :P

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/threeedooooog.jpg

and here is my first try on drawing with eraser for a portrait of Gustave

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/shading2.jpg

i fixed it a bit from the previous one i wanted to post.


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And i tried to give some shading to the girl in my previous sketch, but the lighting in the image is kind of frontal from the eye of the viewer, and there is barely any shadows in there :/

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/shadedlighted-1.jpg



And if this info helps, i kinda only use a mechanical Rotring Pen for all my sketches, with 0.5mm HEC graphites. :)

Critique is VERY needed !

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi...Temour..:)

I like the last few post of yours..Good line quality and energy in it..:thumbsup:
Have you tried working on a dark background. If not you should give it a try...It will automatically give you a mid tone which you can then push to the lighter or darker value throughout the piece that your working on.
Pure white usually registers as a flat and blank space.
Burne Hogarth has a GREAT book out there called DYNAMIC LIGHT AND SHADE..Very helpful book for understanding how light, shade, and shadow work....and it has some great demontrations done by him of all the variations in light, shade, and shadow that there are..Definitly a GREAT book to have in your personal library..:)
Looking forward to seeing more of your work and the progress that comes with it..:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

[cemetery]

Hello Again CG,

Spriti Dreamer thank you a lot for the recommendation, from now and on i will avoid a lot of white :)

Sorry for not posting much, but here is some concept i was trying out, this was done without reference, just straight out of my mind, after reading burne's books i now know a bit more about faces, helped a lot.

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/sketchmodelcopy.jpg

[cemetery]

Taking a break from drawing humans, random sketches out of my mind, i don't even know what it is, just drawing without pre-planning :

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/bored.jpg

Got tired in the middle of this one, without back ground :


http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/boring2.jpg

[cemetery]

Unloading more weird stuff out of my brain

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/bored3.jpg

ok so, those hair like things out of his main hands, he uses them like fingers in people, he touches stuff thru them, while wrapping them around stuff.

Those tattoo's on his shell like head, all his race got those, each one has different ones, like facial features in a human.

and it's obvious that he flies.

lower arms are to walk on land, and to attack others with them while holding weapons.

[greenpizza]

Hey, thanks for the comments in my thread,

I like your thread #11 boths portraits are interesting studies, I never used an eraser as part of a draw (teachers said us that they can't permit the eraser, to avoid corrections on the art line), I like the use of dark tones like in your first and last doodle. Are you working on watercolor paper? (that is expensive :surprised )

[cemetery]

hey Strid, thanks i am happy you liked them man, don't listen to who says you should not use eraser :P they say don't use them while teaching so people can improve their lines better, but that does not mean not using it " at all ".

And about the watercolour papers, those are the left overs i got since the days i had more money in my pockets :P



here i did some eye studies of myself and my friend :

mine : http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/myeye.jpg



and my friends eye :

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/khalidseye.jpg

when finished with my friends eye, i started to notice that arabic eyes are beautiful, wish i had one ;p

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi..Temour..:)

I like what your doing with the eye studies..close observation traines your eye to see better what it is looking at.
You might put a highlight in the inside corner of the eye, where the tear duct is..this will give it a wet moist look..also a small highlight on the bottom rim of the eyelid.the part that comes in contact with the eyeball itself...towards the outter edge where the eye lashes are the longest..gives it that moist look..
Also when doing the shape of the eyelids, think of the lines/shapes as volumes that curl tightly around the sphere of the eyeball underneath and behind them..There will never be a straight line, form or volume that goes across a sphere...:)
A good exercise, is to draw a bunch of circles/spheres, and then see if you can make a line/form/volume that gives the illussion that it is going all the way around the circles/spheres.
Looking forward to seeing more of these kinds of studies..They ALWAYS lead to progress..:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

[cemetery]

Spiritdreamer, thank you for the tips ! that helped me a lot.

I got a drawing tablet a few days ago, and it's pretty awesome, i never did digital drawing before, so here i will post my first digital painting ever :P

wanted some kind of ant warrior, who happens to be in the " blue " team.

first started something like this :

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/Untitled-2-2.jpg

changed the whole shape into this :

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/bugcopy.jpg

and lastly this :

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/Bugtemourdigital.jpg


looking forward for critique :D

[greenpizza]

I got a drawing tablet a few days ago, and it's pretty awesome, i never did digital drawing before, so here i will post my first digital painting ever :P


Hey, Congrats for that and enjoy it! I know what thats mean...Now I can't leave my table far of my hands :D
Trying to work with the pressure of you pen and doing test of it in grey scale helps you to learn how the pressure can affect better the values and intensity of colors, also scan or use reference images to check proportions and overpaint on it helps you too.

As I said, I have to do right now the same with my works, :D

[cemetery]

strid thanks for the great advice i will overpaint a lot this week.


here i fixed me painting a bit, i think it looks a lot more better now.

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/bug.jpg

[NR43]

Changing from blue to black was a great choice ;)
Looks much better this way.

[cemetery]

another one : http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/warrior.jpg

forgot to do ear

[lessthanhumanz]

nice painting. keep going :beer:

[cemetery]

Less, Thank you, i am happy you liked it ;p



fixed the last one a bit, with face shape and all

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/warr.jpg



and here is an eye study which i am happy with xD

http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/eyee.jpg

[cemetery]

hello again,

my first self portrait, sorry for being untidy on the paper.


http://i115.photobucket.com/albums/n306/sovetcke/selfportraittemour.jpg

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