Sketchbook Thread of Heozart

#81

Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto:


Toronto Zoo:





#82

Nice batch of drawings, great job with the dino bones!

Also love the animal sketches, esp. the piggies :slight_smile:

#83

HEY Wes…WOW…You soaked up alot on that journy…:thumbsup:

You could use any number of those sketches to create with, and create in any direction that you chose to create with, using them.

Good illustrators need to be fast,and learn speed,… just as good painters need to learn slow and methodical, while at the same time creating the illussion that what is created was done fast and with speed…:slight_smile:

Thanks for sharing those GREAT sketches…I really enjoyed seeing them.Looking forward to seeing lots more…of your works.:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#84

Looks like a very nice trip. :slight_smile:
Hey… you visit the zoo too. :slight_smile:

Btw, the dino bones looks awesome.

#85

That’s some awesome sketching Wes! Great work capturing the live animals - they never stand still long enough for me. And nice dino bones! Hey, I saw that sculpture of the lady with the giant fish last month. Vancouver airport is the best airport I’ve seen, with lotsa cool artwork. Actually, I was quite impressed by Vancouver in general, it’s a lovely city and the first overseas city I’ve visited. Anyway, I look forward to seeing more drawings :slight_smile:

#86

nice study.
some of the sketches looks flat…volume will make them more beautiful.

#87

hey wes - looovely new sketches! :slight_smile:
btw - I can sense pretty clearly your own style in your drawings already - its in your strokes, I would say - you have a specific type of strokes, pretty interesting style - and when comparing your first posts and your recent drawings - its simply there :slight_smile:
you do not have to worry about not having your own style - keep and develop the one you already have, its fine :slight_smile:
a.

#88

hi heozart,

            i like your strok, your line is powerfoll, your study i like it.

           keep it up.
#89

hi heozart!

a lot of new works in here:) IMO the best of all are the dino’s with bone studies…

when it comes to people drawing- u should watch out more for the proportions, even with really fast sketches…

good practice for me is fast sketching with markers and charcoal- u mustn’t draw the face or outfit detail…only a pose or directions (wich have proportions :slight_smile: )

i hope that u can understand what i’m saying :smiley:

keep it working

cheers!

#90

Hi all,

I was totally demotivated for the last few months. Kinda ironic that it happened right after a great trip. Guess I was expecting too much from myself. I didn’t want to keep missing out awesome art from you guys, so I am back.

I feel very rusty, but did this DS doodle today so I could post. About an hour from reference:

I have bought two books, Facial Expressions by Mark Simon, and Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers by Koos Eissen and Roselien Steur. Sketching looks awesome, and I hope to learn a lot from it.

I am visiting South Korea where I am from originally. I installed a trial version of Painter X on my mom’s old laptop, so I should be able to get by. I hope to post again with updates soon,

Wes

#91

hey wes,
already have told you in my thread -
nice to see you back - and drawing/painting -
keep posting :slight_smile:
a.

#92

Thanks Alena, it is nice to be back. :slight_smile:

I decided to get myself used to the brush categories in Painter, and today I played around with digital watercolor brushes. I don’t do traditional watercolor paintings, so I am probably doing many things wrong, but it was still fun.

From imagination:

Used this picture from Edmunds.com as reference for this one.

#93

Really great to see you active again Wes!

I like the Audi piece.
The rear end wheel seems out of perspective though.

Keep experimenting with brushes in Painter, it’s fun and very educative :slight_smile:
Welcome back!!

#94

Hi Johan, thanks for pointing that out. I got sloppy when painting the wheels because I couldn’t figure out how get the wheel patterns to look right.

So I decided to participate in the Imaginative Figure Workshop. :cool: My concept is a bored anglerfish/frogfish.

Studies after references from Google and YouTube:

This is the basic idea:

Frogfish “walk” on the ocean floor with their fins, so I am going to use them as arms to add gesture. Now to add more expression and likeness to myself…

#95

I learned how to make custom papers in Painter today, thanks to Alena and this demo by Jin Brown. I kept running into a problem of not being able to capture my selection, though. At first I thought it was because of a size limit (when I posted on Alena’s thread,) but later I had the same problem with a very simple texture, so I have no clue now. :shrug:

I tried out one of my custom papers with this painting from reference:

I only used a square hard pastel brush. I think it looks less artificial than a lot of the preset papers, so I am quite happy.

#96

I found some old books on the shelves about Korean traditional watercolor artists. I tried to copy some, and it was a lot harder than it looked.

The lighting in the second one (I only copied a section of it) was amazing, the way the artist let the paper color light the scene. My version doesn’t do it justice, but hopefully I will get better at digital watercolor.

#97

yeah
this reminds me of a portrait in dry pastel on blue paper recently. The artist used the blue paper as shadows in the face… it was really beautiful

The 2nd study in your last post is also really beautiful Wes!
Really enjoying your latest updates
Keep going!

#98

I really like that portrait with pink lanterns! Nice use of colours

#99

HEY Wes…I think your on to something really nice with those last two owl paintings.:slight_smile: You might try experimenting with different watercolor brushes…to get a nice varity of effects and brushwork into the pieces.
Maybe have some areas where the colors and strokes bleed/blend//run and expand into the painting surface…makes a great soft atmospheric effect, and then contrast that effect with crisper edged brushstrokes in other parts of the piece, to make those parts stand out and come forward in the painting…Just a passing thought…:slight_smile:
Anyway looking forward to seeing where your watercolor explorations and experiments lead you to…There are some great master works of ink on silk paintings done thousands of years ago in China…of monkeys in the mountains in the trees and on rocks in the snow.
If you can find reference of these ancient paintings, you will also find great inspiration and admiration of the watercolor technique and it’s possibilities…Those old masters from china created some really beautiful magic in their works, when it came to studies from nature…:slight_smile:
TAKE CARE Wes…:slight_smile:
Glenn

#100

Thanks Johan, making use of the paper color is something I want to work on. And thank you again for motivating me over PMs. I have actually lost some sleep last few days because I was too excited to work on stuff. :smiley:

Magdalena, thank you. :slight_smile:

Glenn, thanks for the suggestions. I bought a watercolor book yesterday, and I think I understand what you mean (although what I am about to post doesn’t show). I was blown away by the paintings in the book where the main area of interest was clearly defined and some parts blended into the background.

I spent a couple of hours last night trying to mimic the strokes, trying out different brushes with different settings. I got nowhere and only got frustrated till I found some custom brushes from this thread at PainterFactory.com. I only got to play around with them for a bit last night, but put them to work today in this study.

I will write down what I’ve learned so far from my digital watercolor explorations so I don’t forget, and in case if it is of any use to others.
[ul]
[li]Dry your layer often, basically whenever you like the strokes you see on the screen and don’t want them to get diffused. (Didn’t know about it when I did the owls.)[/li][li]Don’t change your brush before you dry the layer. This is actually more of a complaint, because when I changed the brush on a wet layer, it changed all the previous wet strokes to that of the newly selected brush.[/li][li]But once it is dry, it becomes hard to blend, and you can’t use wet erasers. (But you can use the brushes in Blender category and regular eraser.[/li][li]You have to be very deliberate about the effects you want to achieve, since there is no physical water. (I like Simple Water brush with varying opacity and fringe. Grainy blenders, when used in moderation, is nice for fringed edges with slight diffusion.)[/li][/ul]