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.
Thanks for reply! 
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. 
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. 
(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.
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…
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. 
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!
Every day!
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 …
Made this after browsing zhuzhu’s sketchbook.
The man is some source of inspiration to all of us isn’t he?
There is good progress visible in your head sketches!
Yeah, I love his stuff.
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.
Hey btw,
I would love to see you do this skull shading tutorial
It’s somewhere in the tutorial section of the anatomy forums
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!
No-ref images. I can see own improvement! :bounce:
Followed Bergkvists tutorial! I realized I suck at painting, so I should start at the basics.
Yeah, I’m gonna get that skull study done soon…
SKULL! SKULL! I added a textured version too, as I need to practice texturing ^^
Random heads for " knowledge meditation":
Some comic-style sketch thing. Kind of old now, but whatever.
From mind!
It’s DiCaprio! This is probably the best thing I’ve done ever! : O
I’m gonna do more portraits now, I’m fed up with both anatomy studies and mind drawing. xD
Hi
I think that eye study from Linda Bergkvist’s tutorial is really nice.
Would love to see you tackle some more facial feature studies… eyes, noses, lips, ears,…
The skull study is also nice but I don’t think the textured version works well. Try painting texture on it (I think you used filters, which make things look flat - ironically)
Oh, and how can you get fed up with anatomy?
Maybe you just need to paint or draw some still life or some environments
Whatever you do, keep drawing!
Yeah, I’m definitely gonna go through some face detail close-ups. Thanks for the idea!
Okay, gonna sum up the latest month’s highlights… Taken a hiatus from art, but got a few things down. =P
Here’s the plates I ended up with after going through structure-of-man face stuff, second time. Learnt a lot!
This person drove me nuts, whining about me drawing just humans. So here… Horse.
Stuff from mind.
Sketchaton time!
Trying to take the 15-minute sketchaton serious this week, doing 2-3 or more like this every day. 15 minutes goes way too fast.
