Thanks Johan !
Indeed those models are really cool. Always coming with new inspiring poses every session .
Here’s a digital value study I did at home after scanning one of my sketches. Lighting was done more or less from memories and marks I had on my sketch.
As it’s been raining all day , here are more updates.
Some master studies and 1 from imagination.
Cheers
Raining all day? wow you must be from a different part of the world than I am… This time of year is is snow snow and more snow.
I love your easy fluid style to sketching. I hope to someday gain that confidence in my stroke. I also loved the simian painting you posted on Christmas. Do you plan to take that one any further?
From a scanned drawing from imagination.
I used tips and tutorial from the great Linda Bergvist. http://www.furiae.com/index.php?view=gallery
I will try to make a color version for this one.
Let me know what you think.
Wow the first one in this last batch is really REALLY beautiful!
(Man I miss life drawing class!)
so what’s your opinion on the vine charcoal sticks?
pretty challenging medium, no?
Thanks Johan!
I really like the smooth texture of Charcoal. Marks are so dark that you have to think before putting the vine down. I quite enjoy it, but it’s a challenging medium indeed. I planned on making some studies from photo refs to see how it goes if I get a little more time.
In the meantime here’s a study done on tablet pc. Photo ref from Mjranum-stock on Deviant art.
http://mjranum-stock.deviantart.com/gallery/1854574#/d1vrthq
I recently subscribed to DrawingForce website, by Mike Mattesi.
After watching the great videos I tried to apply the concepts of force and forceful shapes to some studies from photo reference.
I used images from the great photo website 1x.com, artist is asit and some other that I forgot to write down.
great variety in the SB. thanks for posting! I love your caricature work. Tried to get into it last summer, but that didn’t go anywhere. nice to your progress.
Thanks a lot Victor 
It’s been long time I didn’t do any proper caricature work. I should get back to it.
Various studies from photo refs and a life drawing:
Marcus J Ranum : http://mjranum.deviantart.com/
Zhaoming Wu
William Maughan
Wondeful sketchbook… I have nothing to crit. I also want to study animation, though I understand it’s a huge time investment. It’s still relevant to drawing. Even those posing, silhouette exercises, mimic, it’s so much important. I like animationmentor, but in no way can afford it. I hope I will start learning animation in 1-2 years.
Of course, if you can, you should work from real life references rather than digesting someone else works, though those also can be useful.
Thanks Mister 3d,
If you are passionate enough you can learn animation on your own. I started with the Animator Survival kit and applied the principles to simple 3d animation as exercises. It’s the best way to learn.
Good luck with that! 
I’ve been sick today so I finnished this digital painting from Photo reference.
Background texture from : http://lostandtaken.com/gallery/tag/subtle-grunge
Somehow I was reminded of Zhanglu’s portraits after seeing this last one. Have you seen his tutorials? Cool stuff.
A lot of white in that portrait, some more halftones would help out. Or perhaps the ref was high key. Or I need a new monitor.
Lookind forward to more!
Hey Razz,
Thanks for your feedback!
Yes I watched both tutorials they’re really amazing, and I was obviously rewatching them for that painting.
The ref was a bit high key indeed, but I’m not so sure either that my monitor is properly calibrated…
But I agree that it feels that more midtone would help. I got a bit stuck to follow the reference instead of just using it a bit more wisely.
Thanks again and your work is always inspiring.
Using the amazing Gesture drawing tools online:
http://lovecastle.org/draw/
http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php
Last 4 ones are life drawings.
Great stuff going on here, Gregoo! Very nice drawings on the last post, and thanks for posting the figure drawing tool links! 
