The Insane Scribblings of Shawn D.

#14

Hi,

you have such a strong sense of accurate perception about your drawings that I think you will be improving by leaps and bounds once you can tune in to the multitude of activities around here (like the sketchathon for example, hinthint …:smiley: )

I noticed you only have MS Paint which is as good as nothing.

free alternatives:

  • Paint.net, the follow-up to MS Paint. Haven’t tried it, but folks say it can actually do things now…:scream:

  • GIMP www.gimp.org (!). open-source freeware which is a bit hard to adapt, because of its non-standard window layout, but it has most of the features of professional image manipulation apps and there is also a version out there with a standardized user interface to help adaption (http://plasticbugs.com/index.php?p=241)

#15

I’ve checked out the 15 min sketchathon and found it very entertaining, thanks again mu for telling me about that.

Good news; I got a tablet to play with…

But first it’s time to feed this sb… The first few are those 15 mins followed by some more anatomy study, further on a more complete study of the Madonna on the Rocks II. Afterward is a good few experiments on the wacom and photoshop. The final image is my WIP of CA’s COW; undead arctic creature

#16

#17

nice sketches and drawing, try one with more detail to see it.

great

#18

Hasse32 - thanks

And for my update, the finished penguin hoard and some 5 minute sketches, still trying to understand the wacom a bit better…

I’ll be scouring the forum for info for use of my new weapon…

#19

I’m sorry 'bout the long time between posts (nearly 2 months!!!) Although I didn’t post, don’t worry I’ve been busy.

It is time for an UPDATE!

-> From a month or so ago


-> And not so long ago



#20




(got another on the way)

#21






That’s it for sketches, now for studies; first one is my study of Leo’s Virgin on the Rocks II; the angel on the right

And so far what I’ve done on an Aachen study; Alegory

I’ll have to keep this thing updated more often…

#22

Hi crazy dude, lots of studies here. I like this last study of the virgin a lot, I think it looks better than the previous ones.
About your coloured pieces, in my opinion I think you use too saturated colours, especially in the background.
keep it up.
cheers

#23

I apreciate the honest crit on the colors… In those I was having a transitional problem, I was still trying to treat the drawing like it was actual paint, but the color would always be max blast constantly instead of moving like what actual paint would. I’ve been checking out other brushes in Painter and fell in love with the Wet Brush in the Artist’s Oils as well as the palette knife. I’m going to pretty much scrap that one and probably restart it after understanding the brushes some more. I don’t want to consider it a failure but a steping stone in a progression into the digital mediums…

So here I have a few gallons of digital paint for everyone to endulge on (or vomit from… whatever works for you) I’ve been trying to use the 15 min Sketchathon as a method of quickly learning the program…

(this one isn’t 15 mins obviously more like 8 times that)

#24

Some analog sketches… I’m going to try to go into the next set of 15 min sketches with a monochromatic setup. This would be a simmilar method that I was taught in high school painting and found it to be useful for the transition into color, I was starting to get pretty good at it when I was starting but well… Life likes to deal some bad cards in it’s deck…

#25

Many, many imressive sketches! :applause:

Your hard work will pay off! Nice :slight_smile:

#26

–> BapKe <—
Thanks, I appreciate that. I do believe anyone who finds enjoyment out of work will find it’s not work at all…

A few more 15 minute sketches here for your discression.






#27

Still experimenting in Monochromatic format, I need to start working with warm and cool colors to start getting multiple colors with each other…

Another 15 min…

And a portrait from pictoral reference… (Her eyes aren’t red though, still that ol’ monochrome method…)

I’ll need to start scanning up some of my analog drawings…

#28

excellent studies, some of the pictures remind me of my sketchbook, full of random drawings and weird creatures :smiley:
Great stuff, keep it up :wink:

#29

I know from experience that trying to withhold the imagination is impossible… something must give and allow the mind to wander a bit so that it can realign and refresh itself… This way it will be able to return back to the studies with less resistance…

A couple more pics to add to this collection…




#30

Some say quantity doesn’t matter but I think it does…
Only by drawing a lot (like you are) one can master it.

I see a lot of solid studies in your thread, which is very nice.
It shows us that a lot can be achieved just by working hard.

Thanks for sharing,
Keep it up!

#31

NR43 - Thanks, I read somewhere that you have to go through a couple thousand crappy drawings before you actually get anything good… I think I need to do a couple thousand more… for some strange reason I keep hearing Mic saying that I’m a bum… (just kidding)

Well all joking aside, time to update this puppy…

I’ve mostly been trying to tackle the muscles of the arm, mostly the forearm. I also got a chance to read through Vilppu’s drawing manual and done a couple of sketches that involve some of his ideas about just creating the illusion of form on a page, and I done a couple of landscape drawings… (Probably going to have to break this shiitake up)

#32

(I don’t know if anyone has a problem with non-anatomical stuff being in this forum but if you really think about it, we are a part of the anatomy of the earth. Sometimes I wonder if we’re more like a cancer but that’s for another day and probably another forum

#33

Lots of really great stuff here Shawn,
Looking over all your work I would say the thing you could work on is the gesture of the figure. I feel perhaps you are compartmentalizing the figure to early. Start by trying to establish the pose with one line “the line of action” frome there add to this trying to obtain a clear, “complete” gesture of the pose with seven lines or so. Don’t worry about this being “rubbery” with you nack for structure and form you will quickly bring the drawing back in line as you develope the forms.