fallofmart,
I’m so sorry to hear your news, and really hope you have a lot of strength through your treatment. What a scary time! It sounds like you have a great attitude, and that can only be an asset through this period of your life. Please let us know how things are going!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
asiatic,
Welcome to you. 
You are doing a really nice job with this piece, and I hope to see more of your work! What is your background and training by the way?
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Hi Rebecca,
I’m an animator in video games and learned my animation on the computer first. I took some life drawing in school but was never that good and didn’t keep up with it. But I’m trying to get back to the roots and relearn it. I always felt that I was missing something by not getting a good handle on the 2D before I jumped on the computer. It definitely helps my animation to be able to thumbnail out poses and gestures but I also want to go deeper and learn the anatomy. I appreciate all the help that I can get and I’ll try to post for more critiques later. Thanks!
Jason
hi again, thanks to all for the commentaries, always are welcome…
the master reference
i’ll try close to 10 min. but feel time pressure, is not good…
next time, i’ll take my time…
Rebeccak: i’m seeking material in this site, but it’s too big and little wired .
fallofmart: “¡¡muchos animos hombre!!” hold on!!!
:)thanks!!
Hehe thanks, I found staying very positive is the only way to get through it! Besides, treatment has gone so well so far that I’m not really worried anymore. Atleast I have time at home for drawing atm!
Also, disability benefits have allowed me enough money to get nice things including a wacom which is really really cool! Although I want to get through this book first before I try too much digital stuff.
Air - Thank you, again I like that master study, your sketches and lines seem very confident and clean.
Originally posted by fallofmart: Hehe thanks, I found staying very positive is the only way to get through it! Besides, treatment has gone so well so far that I’m not really worried anymore. Atleast I have time at home for drawing atm!
Also, disability benefits have allowed me enough money to get nice things including a wacom which is really really cool! Although I want to get through this book first before I try too much digital stuff.
Hey, that’s great to hear things are going so well! 
Hehe, getting a wacom is a nice perk as well! 
Looking forward to seeing your work!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Hey everyone, is it ok to say that I have a WIP thread I just started and I invite everyone here to help and see my progress?
If it’s not ok, please delete the thread Rebecca, as I don’t want to be annoying I just thought it’d be fun for all us beginners to kinda learn in tandem from the folks who might help in the WIP forum.
You can find my thread here.
I won’t be stopping any of the other activities in the 15 mins sketch and/or DSG
What is OFDW also? I’ve been thinking “Open Figure Drawing Workshop”? but I don’t know if I guessed right - and if I did… what is that?
This place is so huge sometimes it’s a little overwhelming. I’ve never had to bookmark threads before 
Anyway, basically Rebecca I took your advice from the 15min sketch forum - I’ve been wanting to do this painting since I thought about it, so why not start work on something more concrete?
Though to be honest, all these short sketch practices are really helping… they can’t be bad!
LM,
Sure, it’s totally okay to link your thread! You’re right, OFDW = Open Figure Drawing Workshop, and they can all be found linked in post #3 of the following useful thread:
Tutorials, Workshops, Anatomy Reviews & More … [links within]
Here is the direct link to the post containing links to all OFDWs:
Open Figure Drawing Workshops with Hong Ly and Rebecca Kimmel
Basically, the OFDWs are about WIP and working from photo reference / and or, more recently, Master Paintings, in a group environment. The benefit of working on your own pieces within a group setting is that you get to see others’ work and get advice and feedback both from participants and from the community at large. If you get the chance, check out a random sampling of the OFDWs ~ OFDW 015 is the latest, where we are doing a copy of a Caravaggio Master Painting. Bear in mind that the best work is toward the back of the threads, since people post WIP over the course of 2 weeks (the duration of the OFDWs where we draw / paint from photos) or 4 weeks (the duration of the OFDWs where we draw / paint from Master Paintings).
Anyone may participate in any OFDW, though I encourage everyone to participate in the most recent ones. There isn’t any obligation to finish, though you may find yourself addicted if you participate.
Will definitely stop by your thread!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
^^^ Oooh thanks a ton. I think I probably saw that thread, or you linked it before and I checked it out a week or so ago and just forgot in all the hubub of this place I will bookmark it now so I won’t lose it and forget again. No wonder I was able to guess it from context!
Hehe, no problem. Indeed there are tons of threads, but it’s nice now that we have sub~forums…previously everything was together in one forum, the restructure is relatively new.
Really, the most active threads are the most recent OFDW thread, the 15 Minute Sketchathon Thread, the Beginners’ Lounge thread ~ all of which are contained within the Tutorials and Workshops forum ~ and then all of the different threads in the Personal Anatomy & Sketchbook Threads Forum.
Hopefully that makes it easier to think about. I know the size of the forum can be intimidating (CGTalk was definitely intimidating for me at first) but you become accustomed to it after a while.
If you ever have problems finding something, just let me know, or try the Search feature which can be really handy as well.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
Ugh, I never think of the Search feature - it’s just my first instinct to ask someone. I really should use it more - I’m sorry
Oh, heh, no, I didn’t mean for you to take offense to my search suggestion at all! No reason to apologize…I hate suggesting search because people might think I’m putting them off…when really I’m just pointing out a feature.
I don’t bark…trust me.
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
now, i try speed paint with open canvas program
the reference Juaquín Sorolla “naked woman” (1902)
but colors are diferents from my book “La luz en la pintura”
2 min.
5 min.
10 min
i’m in love with the colors on my book…
i hope your critiques
Good to see all of you working!! I’ve been away on an easter weekend and really missed this forum and you all:). Got all itchy to draw…
Todays is a ten minute sketch. I’m still experimenting with sketching styles. This one’s far from perfect, but has a feel to it that I like. This is an interesting new direction for my sketching, maybe? Reference is the beautiful Liv Tyler. If there’s any justice in the world she’s on a perpetual diet:).
A-I-R,
Hi there, it would be great to see you work more on this or a new image!
I really recommend finding larger reference image. A great resource is artrenewal:
http://www.artrenewal.org/index.html
There is a huge database of high resolution images to choose from. The site is a bit slow to load, though.
Maladie,
Glad to see you back! Nice sketch! I agree, if Liv Tyler is not on a permanent diet, there really is no justice!
Well guys I will be offline for Wednesday and Thursday, so I’m not ignoring you, just keep on posting!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
I love the colors, A-I-R and Maladie - LIv Tyler is beautiful, but I’m afraid the Diet comment flew right over my head – at any rate, lovely sketch!
So, I went back through some old old threads for today’s exercise.
I think I need to learn how to ‘measure’ from a photo reference, since using an extended arm with a pencil/brush just AIN’T cutting it LOL!
It looks ok, but it really is NOT the skull I referenced, which is your ‘anterior skull’ image from that skull shading thread.
I started in digital pencil, and found that after I got the basics down, I felt TONS more comfortable painting in the shading… which I took as a good thing.
I love drawing things for the first time My first skull! (I LOVED it, I imagine I’ll do lots more)
Photoshop, about 2 hours
Hi LM,
Very cool to see this here! Great exercise to do, and it’s probably a good suggestion for others as well.
What’s happening is that you’ve committed the classic artist’s mistake of making the eyesockets too far up in the skull. Everyone does this at the beginning ~ the rule to remember is that eyes actually, believe it or not, fall in the MIDDLE and not the upper third of the face.
Look in the mirror or at a family member or photo, and measure the distance from the eyes to the top of the head and from the eyes to the chin. Psychologically we think that eyes are higher up because they are what we always look at when talking to a person. But really they are smack dab in the center of the head.
If you marquee select a region around the eyes and feather your selection, then copy and paste the eyes and move them farther down, you will begin to see the skull looking more like the reference. You can then repaint and reblend pretty easily.
Looking forward to an update!
Cheers,
~Rebeccak
My sketch for today. Rebecca, I have a specific question about this. I feel I get the hang of some sort of ‘style’ a little bit now, where I hardly take my pen off the paper and treat the shadowed areas as masses of lines. This seems to produce a cool-looking sketch.
However: this takes longer than 10 min, I’d say more like 20. So it’s not really gesture, I guess, but copying. Does that matter? I’ve also seen styles of drawing where whole areas of shadows are made by little stripes (gearceerd in Dutch). Should I try that? What’s more important: a solid sketch or timed excercise?
I know you’re only back friday, so if anybody here who’s had any training (I haven’t) has an idea, that would be great!! Mu or LM maybe (feel free to ignore me:))?
this is another skull i did … i cant render anything cozz my monitor has a yellow tint to it suddenly and the colours are all mixed up on the pallete in PS…
http://img81.imageshack.us/my.php?image=scan458ys.jpg
i haven come up with my gesture sketches and its still bothering me … ive got to loosen up …i somehow end up drawing the outlines and it looks flat… anyway i am going to work on it …will post the sketches tomo hope u guys can help me with this problem of mine
i’m again
Maladie: i like the lines of first, in your cuestion, I think you try in real word with chacroal pencil like “sanguina” and carbon in “Roughs” paper :arteest:
Rebeccak: i miss you… ok this is my second version add 50 min. plus. And my reference are my book, don’t worry i have many good reference.
LabyrinthineMind: looks great texture and colors, but i think, may better if you have flip image and find diferences, or add some lines for symmetry, anyway good work.
Shirey: may you take the pencil and draw, only move the hand, without think. only for fun , never know what can be done…
PD: my excuses by the grammar problems <— this say traductor :argh:
