i’ll definately get in the other projects that are coming up! just wanted to say thanks, and that your work is more than amazing…and is an inspiration.
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1uka
#442
Rebeccak,
Thank you for all, I’ll do my best on my future exercises, drawings… Oh, and thanks for encourage me! 
now if you excuse me, I must go do some exercises
tizianoadmirer
#443
OK, the right arm is obviously too stiff… but I had great fun drawing these feet
IambicPuA
#444
I made a post over in the 2d WIP section, but somewhere I heard about this thread and figured It would be a better place for me.
My thread’s over here, http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?p=3250865#post3250865
And my recent work is:
http://i1.tinypic.com/nwheyv.jpg
And
http://i1.tinypic.com/nx3vqs.jpg
Rebeccak
#445
[b]metacom,
[/b]Thank you for the compliment! Glad to have you aboard!
[b]1uka
[/b]Looking forward to seeing your posts! :wip:
tizianoadmirer,
Nice to see your new work, and lol, glad to hear you enjoyed the feet! 
IambicPuA,
Welcome aboard! :) It's nice to see your work, and I am quite liking the 15 Minute Sketches you have posted! What I recommend to folks who are new to this thread is to try some of the Exercises which are posted to the beginning of this thread. Give yourself one week for each of the Exercises, and post your results here! :)
Looking forward to seeing your first exercise!
Note: If all of you guys could post your work as images instead of as links, it would be helpful. Just copy and paste the url into the sun/mountain icon in the EDIT POST text editor. Thanks!
Cheers, :)
~Rebeccak
IambicPuA
#447
I’ve had that happen to me. :shrug:
I started the GESTURE DRAWING FROM REFERENCE assignment, and finished my 2 minute drawing of this image
I don’t really like anything about it. I feel I failed to draw in the proper style, and did a terrible job of placing her head and right arm.
5min:
I don’t like this one either. I think I did okay with her skirt, and her left leg. But that’s about it.
13 minutes on this one. I didn’t want to mess it up any more.
It’s actually my favorite of the three. I really had trouble with everything above her waist in all of them.
Rebeccak
#449
SupRore,
Did you still want to participate here? What was your post?
IambicPuA,
I agree, the last one is looking quite nice! Don’t be too hard on yourself with these, it takes a bit of time to get used to. 
It took me more than a few of these to get comfortable working so quickly with the wacom. One thing I might recommend is reducing the size and opacity of your brush. Then you can make several lighter strokes until you feel comfortable committing to a single stroke or set of strokes. The key with these is to do a LOT of them. Worry less about individual pieces, and just keep going ~ there is a saying that you will likely do a lot of bad drawings (hundreds really) before breaking through and really drawing well. This has certainly been true in my case!
tizianoadmirer,
Nice to see your stuff, and I greatly look forward to seeing what you can do with a Wacome tablet!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
LiQuiD12
#451
Hey nice thread you got going here, only just noticed it, my bad.
Life drawing from a monitor, if u can call it life drawing. Reference’s used, free samples from www.female-anatomy-for-artist.com/ . Decided to practice painting skin tones over top of my drawings, do you think i am going in the right direction for the skin tones? Im new to painting and drawing still so im kinda bad at the moment. Im not going to bother painting #4 as i screwed up the drawing, the arms and torso look far to big.
Thanks for any reply in advance.
paperclip
#452
Hey, how long does it take to get used to proper values? I suppose it depends on the amount of time you put in, but in general?
Bah, I’m just impatient. Please ignore me.
Sagii
#453
Hello,
About a year ago and ahalf ago I decided to become an artist. I have focused most of my time trying to learn the software: photoshop, maya, and all the goodies. I know realize that I cant just skip the basics. I will never advance as an artist if I dont learn the basics first. I have to learn the fundamentals, drawing, anatomy, perspective etc. The best way to learn this is to start sketching, doing tutorials and participating in forums like this. So im in!
Rebeccak I never really paid too much attention to all the great stuff you have in this forum. It is an incredible resource and I a huge effort on your part. First I wanted to apologize for not showing more support and participation. I have decided to become active in the anatomy review forum as a beginner. I have been too much of a coward to show my work and have it open for critique. I have been doing doodles only for myself but I cannot learn without feedback… what was I thinking?
Therefore I have joined the: Drawing from the right side of the brain thread. I posted there already.
Here is some of my best work… most of it comes from the daily sketch group. I will be doing the assigments later
This one was made for the DSG, the topic was World of Warcraft. I used a reference of course and spent over 3 hours on it. Dont you just want to hug him?!
Windsurf
For the daily sketch, called queen of hearts. I know the shirt is messed up
This one was also for the DSG, called choas or something, its kind of dark and hard to see.
All these I used references for, no paintovers. When I first started a year ago, I did do some paintovers for practice, but I was told that it was not a good way to learn. What are peoples views on that? To use paintovers not for finished pieces but as a way to practice and get the hand used to making those shapes… then toss the file and draw it again using references but not painting over?
paperclip
#454
I did that a few times, it seems to be a pretty good way to practice matching colors and suchlike. Although I would do other things as well so as to not get stuck into that rut. Above all, look at other peoples’ stuff. I copied a few pics here in CGTalk for practice (esp. duddlebug’s stuff, I love it!)
Rebeccak
#455
LiQuiD12,
Welcome aboard! It’s nice to see your work here ~ I think you have a good start! 
The main thing that I would recommend would be to eliminate the white bkgrd as soon as possible when starting a painting. Background and foreground colors and values will affect one another tremendously. By painting the bkgrd a darker color/value than the figure, you will allow yourself a fuller range of values to be expressed within the figure ~ not to mention that you will have to work less to make the figure stand out as against the background.
The main bit to pay attention to when painting anything is not just Color, but VALUE structure.
See this post regarding Color and Value from the Color and the Figure thread here on the Anatomy Forum:
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showpost.php?p=2926349&postcount=3
Take a look, and let me know what you think.
Ines!!
Great to have you aboard here! I am going to preach my sermon of Values to you as well. I think the main thing here is not to critique existing work, but to get started on some new exercises. Give yourself one week, and try at least 2~3 of the Gesture exercises posted to the beginning of this thread. Drawing is all about mileage, and the sooner one starts, the better! Looking forward to seeing your work.
P’Clip,
Why not join in here and do a few Gestures? (Though I realize you’re not a beginner ;))
Cheers,
~Rk
paperclip
#459
deleted overly suggestive picture
real-quick pic that I did for roberto’s birthday, thought it might suit this thread??