Sketchbook Thread of AlmostKungfu

#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

#34


More stuff from mind… Oof, I really should get back to studies again soon. =P

#35


Followed Bergkvists tutorial! I realized I suck at painting, so I should start at the basics. :slight_smile:

Yeah, I’m gonna get that skull study done soon… :smiley: