Open Figure Drawing Workshop 008 with Hong Ly and Rebeccak

#181

another update and an important one. I remember how I announced not to touch the shape of this again… HAHAHA. The wish was father to the thought…

I lowered both her legs. Her left leg was way too high (the line that separated the calf from the upper thigh is below the breast contour in the ref - and onyl with this version I adhere to that fact).

Did some values, too, though I need to rebuild the values on the legs.

shakes fist

“I will finish this!”

jumps off to finally watch Harry Potter thanks to the babysitter…

til soon everyone!

#182

Icey, If you are looking for somewhere to practice and improve you’ve found it! I too like your work and look forward to seeing more :slight_smile:

Mr Mu. Your piece is looking good! I don’t know what resolution you are working at, but i’ve found the the bigger the resolution and file size, the more control you’ve got of your picture, esp. with regards to blending tones and the finer details. I mention this because you look to be using a large brush size…there’s nothing wrong with that…but just a thought.

Great hand Queenie!

#183

Here are some details I just finished on the hand.

 [img]http://www.queensoul.com/images/cgtalk/kimmelclass/OFDW008handdetail.jpg[/img]

 WOW, [b]Queenie! [/b]That's looking Awesome!! :bounce:Beautiful work...can't wait to see the full update! :thumbsup:

Originally posted by Icey: Rebeccak, what can i say about me? I’m 21, I’m in an architecture college and i’ve been drowing for 3, 3 and a half years. And now i have to catch up for all the years i’ve lost not knowing what i want to do with my life.
I never had somebody to guide me, to tell me drowing tricks, so i had to visit forums to get the answears to my questions, to learn new things so i can ask myself more questions, and than search for the answear again! We don’t have workshops so your website helped me a lot!! provideing the best reference i’ve seen!! (you should get man too for refference!) If i have to count all the lifedrowings hours i had in my life… i think i;ll get about 7 or 8… :frowning: that’s why i have to find reference where ever i can found. It’s hard to do it by yourself, but… i love it! and i’ll do it and try to do it so that i wown’t keep it as a hobby!

 Icey, for someone who has learned entirely online ~ and really, for anyone ~ your work is very impressive! :thumbsup: Thanks for telling us about yourself, it's really interesting and helps me to know where you're coming from. Yep, Hong's Reference is great, and I agree that we need to have more men in the mix ~ perhaps I'll post some more of Ben's (justmeina's) photos tonight for OFDW 009. :)

I’m really glad to see you do Drawings here, as funnily enough, this has become more of an OFPW (Open Figure Painting Workshop) which is completely fine with me (great, in fact) :slight_smile: but I like when people do drawings as well. :thumbsup:

 Good to have you aboard, and hope you will continue to participate for a long time! :)
 
 [b]Mr. Mu, [/b]I think this is looking a lot better now that you've readjusted / repainted the legs ~ she looks much more natural now, not as scrunched up. You're making great progress! The thing I would caution you about Value~wise is not to go too light in any area before you are really ready ~ in the area of the buttocks, for example, you have run out of Value range, and need to gray it down a bit so that you can make that area volumetric through shading. Otherwise, I would just say to keep going, I think you are making a lot of progress here! :)
 
 Great stuff, guys! :thumbsup:
 
 Cheers, 
 
 ~Rebeccak
#184

hi there,

queensoul - i forgot to add that your textures and little wrinkles on the hand are amazing. When you are finished post a high-res!

Thanks a lot for the feedback! At the moment I am working at 1224*1300 and figure that is much too rough a resolution. Alas, artweaver, the app I am using, as of yet has no memory management and is eating up vast amounts of RAM. My workstation has 2.4Ghz cpu and 512MB of Ram - I remember I could use the PainterIX demo comfortably at high-res, but artweaver just does not respond at all very quickly.

:cry:

I need PainterIX! At the time being I have some auctions I keep an eye on, but it might just take some time. In the meantime I can only admire things like queensoul’s textures and keep that goal in mind for later on…

Btw, Queensoul, at what res do you work?

Rebecca - thanks for your hints on value! I will take this as far as my equipment allows and will join the OFDW009, then. The start of a new OFDW has become a fixed date in my schedule.

#185

Hi Mr Mu, on this piece am working with 2500 by 3500 @100 DPI. Normally I’d go higher to 300, I really dont know why I didn’t.

#186

Here’s an update. Kind of hurrying now, since I want to join in the very beginning of 009, which by the way has just started.

#187

Queensoul,

I’m more and more impressed with your improvement…your proportions are looking really good, and you’ve got all of the basic values established, which is great! :thumbsup:

Her lower right arm looks a bit too curved / a little bit boneless, and her left arm a bit too pointy, possibly too short, but overall, I think you’ve done a great job with this. I hope you can finish it too! :slight_smile: I think what remains is just to fine tune the values ~ you’ve done a great job with the ribcage area, which now looks a lot more natural. I think adding a bit more shadow to the lower part of her face would give more of a sense of depth to that area.

Great work, Queenie!!! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#188

aah :blush: we can’t have her boneless when she is about to reign fire and brimstone on a city. :smiley:
I’ll polish it up some more Becca.

#189

Keep polishing away, I think you’ve got a gem! :thumbsup:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~Rk

#190

QueenSoul
You might want to soften the top line of her neck and increase angle of line horizontally
will give her head that downward motion,and will make it a more graceful neck, just a hair
too thick at the moment, just that one top top line of neck.
I agree with Rebecca,… A gem that just gets better, the more you polish it…:thumbsup:
Glenn

#191

I just love this place! You know I was considering doing that a few hours ago Glenn, then dismissed it; So my first instinct was right then. cheers and thanks.

#192

Everyone,

Please be advised that the new OFDW 009 has now opened! While all OFDWs remain open on a continuous basis, most people will be moving on to the new OFDW 009.

Each OFDW runs for 2 weeks, but remains open indefinitely.
Hope to see you on OFDW 009! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

#193

3 times the same link… you really think to me dear :scream: hop hop… I go… :thumbsup:

#194

I would have linked it 4 times! :scream:

#195

Hi Rebecca and Everyone
Got off to a late start on this one. Had to finish an Elk Painting requested - posted it on
my ‘personal’ thread, page 3.
Will start on Ben’s painting tomorrow also.
Work on two at once, LOL.
Used a different brush, thick wet oils Painter 8, for this.
Want to try for an impasto look.
Something new for me.
Rebecca, when you get a chance, could use your advice and recommendations as always.
And that goes for everybody else, too.
Some great poses by Ben, by the way.
Take Care
Glenn

#196

Hey… fantastic Glenn… I really appreciate this way of work… the effects works very good for me… :thumbsup:

#197

that’s a cool one! :slight_smile:

#198

Glenn,

this is really exciting. Completely different look, different from the other works in the workshop, but also from your own stuff (at least as far as I know or have seen)…

Are you planning on keeping the sensual surface or will you smoothen it later on? (I say: keep it rough - looks so sensual you want to stroke the surface…)

Looking forward to what’s going to happen.

#199

Glenn thats very interesting. Cant wait to see how it looks.
I have reached the stage of ‘leave it temporarily’, on my piece. I want to put her in an environment which will definitely change a couple of things, especially the lighting. So I’ll keep working on it as a WIP.
This has been fun.

#200

Good refining cession for your black panther… beautiful work Queenie…

the hand appear very nice and detailed :thumbsup: