Sketchbook Thread of Gregoo23 2D/3D

#138

A little update.
Life drawing and digital painting from photo ref.

#139

As it’s been raining all day , here are more updates.

Some master studies and 1 from imagination.

Cheers

#140

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?

#141

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.

#142

I tried for the first time vine charcoal for some of them .





#143

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?

#144

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

#145

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.

#146

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.

#147

Thanks a lot Victor :wink: It’s been long time I didn’t do any proper caricature work. I should get back to it.

#148

Various studies from photo refs and a life drawing:

Marcus J Ranum : http://mjranum.deviantart.com/
Zhaoming Wu
William Maughan

#149

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.

#150

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! :thumbsup:

#151

I’ve been sick today so I finnished this digital painting from Photo reference.
Background texture from : http://lostandtaken.com/gallery/tag/subtle-grunge

#152

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!

#153

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.

#154

Using the amazing Gesture drawing tools online:
http://lovecastle.org/draw/
http://www.pixelovely.com/gesture/figuredrawing.php

Last 4 ones are life drawings.









#155

Great stuff going on here, Gregoo! :thumbsup: Very nice drawings on the last post, and thanks for posting the figure drawing tool links! :slight_smile:

#156

Thanks a lot Anand!
Yeah those tools are really cool :wink:

#157

Lots of studies. Digital and traditional, painting and drawings.

Mostly from photoreference and master studies from Frazetta, hopefully you can spot which :slight_smile:

And some life drawing I think I haven’t posted.

Here we go :