Sketchbook Thread of AlmostKungfu

#14

Hi almostkungfu.

Great to see your thread up and running.

few remarks:

  • are you using the coloring techniques introduce in nebezials tutorial thread for the colored male anatomy studies? They look a lot like you did. If not, do check out his thread in the tutorial section - it rocks and I think it would suit your approach. Those studies are looking good, anyway.

  • If you are “short on content” then check out the sketchathon reference thread (there are two threads for the sketchathon, one for the sketches and the other one for refs…) incredible ressource… and while you’re at it you could post your results in the thread.

Have Fun!

:thumbsup:

#15

Hahah, you noticed! Yeah, hehe, I’m a big fan of nebezial, and trying to go somewhat in that direction with my stuff. Practice makes champion. :smiley:

Aha, okay! I’ll check out the sketchaton! :thumbsup:

Thanks a lot Mu!

#16

I refined my blender today, reading through some tutorial threads again. I’ve read it all before, but now with more experience, I suddenly understand a lot more.

Back to work! :wip:

#17


Testing out this blending and coloring stuff.

#18

Great to see your efforts - keep going!

Gord

#19

Thanks! Great to see people are watching! :slight_smile:


Portrait 100% from mind…


I thought I shoul do some people from really weird angles, to make sure I really get the anatomy and don’t just draw like, um, symbolism…objects things. :stuck_out_tongue:
I find it really hard though, I suck at foreshortening. :smiley:


Just lines, this one…

#20

hey almostkungfu,

sadly one of your images got banned by photobucket. Check out the info threads on the problem around the anatomy forum… It’s a sticky somewhere.

Question: does your “refined blender” make use of dodge and burn techniques? Because while the gradations are indeed smoother, the values and the level of saturation was a bit more appealing in the previous image.

#21

Thanks for reply! :thumbsup:

Eek. All my images are disappearing before my eyes. :eek:
And THAT ONE. I have a feeling I’ll be seeing a lot more banned images in the future. :hmm:

About the saturation, heh, it’s just a little coloring mistake. :smiley:
The color quality really differs from image to image now, as I try out many techniques to find something that suits me. I didn’t really see the oversaturation of those shadows. Thanks for noticing for me. :wink:

(The “refined blender” is really just that I put some other specs on my smudge tool ^^ )

Anyway, latest work:


Some lighter, comicy, less anatomic sketches. I’ve been having influenza, so more serious stuff didn’t work out. :smiley:


Tried to block out some planes… There’s something wrong with this, down with the mouth… I couldn’t figure what.


Head study portrait thing, again trying to concentrate on those planes…

#22

Keep pushing your values! I can’t emphasize how much more value is important to form than color. Don’t worry about color yet - try to get form. That’s really the key. :slight_smile:

#23

Yeah, I’ve decided to work with black-and-whites for a time now; coloring is too much unneccessary stress, it just takes away the time I should use to learn form. =P

My digital work the last weeks, not much:

I’ve been really busy with studying on paper now, but today I decided to draw a few sketches from mind; to sort of meditate what I’ve learned, as well as check out how far I’ve come.




Nothing’s better than seeing improvement! Nothing! :smiley:

#24

Keep going! Those leaps in improvement add up, keep pushing your work.

#25

Every day! :thumbsup:

Another study! I’m a bit proud of this one, I think it’s my best so far! I didn’t shade it, may get around to do that later …

#26

Ship ohoy, more stuff!

#27


No-ref quicky!

#28


Made this after browsing zhuzhu’s sketchbook. :smiley:

#29

Made this after browsing zhuzhu’s sketchbook. :smiley:

The man is some source of inspiration to all of us isn’t he?

There is good progress visible in your head sketches!

#30

Yeah, I love his stuff. :slight_smile:
Glad to hear I’m making improvement!

Trying a different angle at heads. Don’t mind the silly speech-bubbles, it’s just a lame internal joke. :thumbsup:

#31

Hey btw,

I would love to see you do this skull shading tutorial
It’s somewhere in the tutorial section of the anatomy forums :wink:

#32

Ah, that one, I think I read it once, but never bothered doing it… But sure, I’ll look into it, I definitely need to exercise shading and shape and stuff… thanks for the tip, NR43! :smiley:


No-ref images. I can see own improvement! :bounce:

#33