Now OPEN!!! Open Figure Drawing Workshop with Hong Ly and Rebecca Kimmel 002

[Rebeccak]

Samanthie,
WOW!!! :bounce::applause::D:buttrock:Truly brilliant work, I love how this came out!!! Can you post the image again so that it appears here in the message area? You just paste the url into the little yellow icon with the mountains and the sun ~ that way, people can better appreciate your work right away!

This looks fantastic, I love the way you have done the hair, and you did a great job with refining the face so that the image reads as a whole now. Excellent job, and kudos to you for being so gracious in taking comments and crits and using them to your best advantage!!!

Awesome job, and thanks for posting this! I really hope you will join us for OFDW 003!!! :applause: This is definitely going into the “SPOTLIGHT” threads!!!

Also, if you have saved versions of this WIP, it would be fabulous if you wanted to make a tutorial for this piece on the main Anatomy forum, and called it: TUTORIAL - Digital Figure Painting - by Samanthie ~ of course, you don’t have to, but it would be fabulous to see!!

Thanks for all the hard work and effort you put into this!!!

Cheers!!

~Rebeccak

[Llynna]

@allenatl: keep it coming :9 great update so far.

@samanthie: wow, she looks somehow transcendent like a goddess or so^^.

@zhuzhu: do you have an event file for you painting? i would really love to view one of yours sometime

i worked on the succubus this evening and made some progress on the texture and overall light. i added texture to the curtain and the space in the bg. i am currently working on the burled wood and marble of the pedestral.

[pushav]

Alright here are my remixed picture wip. All photoshop even the blending. (A top secret brush I made in photoshop7)

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/pushav/color/oneremixedcopy.jpg[/img]

Color glazing. 

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v222/pushav/color/tworemixedcopy.jpg[/img]

Update… Painter 7 adding highlights. I think that I am discovering a new technique. hmm…

I should be able to work more on my grayscaling tomorrow after school. Wooohoo Friday is coming!

Oh yeah I avoided a car accident today. I am lucky and still alive. YAY.
Beware of High School drivers. All that drama just for some Taco Bell.:scream:

[allenatl]

Rebeccak: Thanks. I’ll try enlarging the leg and you’re right about the floating hand.
I’ll work on that too.

samanthie: Great painting! Has a strong sense of weight. Like the hair. Really, really like
the smooth skin tone. Similar to SevenMars’ earlier, you’ve taken the photo reference and created your own character.

Arctis: Enjoyed seeing your progressions from drawings to tones to finished paintings.
Impressed with the detail on the hand on the reclining figure.

[Samanthie]

Thank you Rebecca!:bounce: I am just so flattered. I will see if I can put together a tutorial. I am looking forward to 003! Thank you so much and to Lemog, Arctis and all of you that have offered your expertise to help me along.

Thanks very much for your comments Alanati.

Thank you Llynna and your image is coming along nicely. Like the details you are putting in. The calf muscle on the bent leg looks just a little thick to me on the outside along the shin.

Looking great so far Pushav.

[pushav]

Samanthie-Thanks a lot. I try. Maybe I should try harder. Each time I redo this images greyscaling, I discover new things along the way. I am still a terrible painter. lol
Your picture looks great!

[Rebeccak]

Samanthie,

You are most welcome! Can’t wait to see your work for the next workshop!

Llynna,

Good progress so far! Do not lose sight of the original values you had initially in the figure…right now, all of the lights and darks are looking a bit uniform all over the body, and you will additionally need to consider what your light source is, if the bkgrd is a dark spacey sky. I think the face you had before was really nice, and I would caution against leaving it to the last. But you know where you are going with this, so I am really curious to see more progress.

pushav,

Good work so far, and it is interesting to see your progression. I really think that you need to push the grayscale just incrementally further and further along. Don’t rush to the finish line with color ~ I’ve seen far too many pieces from artists who get lost in color, and have no real image there that can be discerned through value ~ so I would caution you not to get caught up in color too much at this stage. You have a pretty strong drawing going, and I would even recommend rotating both your image and the reference photo 90 degrees CW and tweak your drawing that way.

Keep going, and post those grayscale results!

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[pushav]

Rebecca-The funny thing is that I did not look at the reference when grayscaling. Yeah I should push it a bit more but it was starting to look good and Iwanted to try something new with color glazing in photoshop. Don’t worry, I saved my latest progress. I had to redo the gray painting because I forgot my brush setting when I was painting(I rested the flow and opacity and other dynamics on the brush) .Unfortunatly homework is getting in my way also I just got done with math and now my art professor is thowing a research paper at his students. It is getting tuff to working on this. Hopefully I can get more done on satuday. What am I talking about I will have a 3 day weekend due to Labor day. Yes. That means more time for art.

I know that I will have trouble with the face.:eek:

[Bsmith]

ok I started my digital version today and worked on it for like 3 hours and still have many to go until I finish. I don’t know how some of you guys do this in 1 hours or less…thats crazy…anyways…I’ll post tomorrow…I’m going to bed now…

…also I’m having a shitty time getting the eye to look right as well as some of the shadows…well I guess you will see tomorrow.

[zhuzhu]

Llynna: tell me your email, i 'll send you.

Update:

[kaylon]

Note to self: Must try harder… and do more sketching…

My morning study…hopefully will find time to paint this one up a little…had much fun drawing this and learned a few little things.

K.

[Rebeccak]

zhuzhu,
Wow, nice!! The hand is really beautiful! Is she slanted down to the right too much?

kaylon,
This is actually a really nice sketch! I love your line quality! You might try doing a separate drawing of the head…it’s really hard to get everything to work together perfectly…I love the confident and loose gestural quality of your lines for the body, but something is lost in the drawing of the head. Be sure that her chest does not start too close to her neck ~ right now, she needs more shoulder height, so that her breasts begin a bit lower from her neck.

As a start for a painting, this is really excellent! I can’t wait to see your results!

Cheers,

~Rebeccak

[Lemog]

i really like the skin tones on your update. but there is one thing that is bothering me. i think the figure is rather flat. try to create more depth to her through some brush storkes. yours are only pointing in one direction, downwards. try to paint some strokes in that create volume and direction of the axis. you fixed the hand and it is looking much better by know. when you put some more shadows her forearm it will improve greatly. i hope you understand what i am trying to say^^.

Thank you Llynna for this comment, I think of understanding a little, but I must acknowledge that I don’t know how to make it. I’ve the feeling to be wedged a little.
I will think of that, and will try to find a solution, thank you.
About your update Britta -> still much of work, but I must greet the originality of creation, a true mood, very strong. The final result should be imposing and passionating. A small remark, the insects on the wall appear too similar, even if their size is different.

allenatl -> very good starting of painting, really. The proportions seem good. The only detail that disturbs to me is the fold of skin on the level of the left thigh, but I think that’s not yet finished, good courage for the continuation.

zhuzhu -> the image is perhaps a little too small to really benefit from the smoothness and the precision of the details, but it’s nevertheless a real pleasure to admiring it. I don’t know you and your art for a long time, but I can said that I’m already in admiration in front of your talent. That appears simple for you. :bowdown:

really beautiful stuff…so smoothe…

smooth ? mmmh, maybe too much, no ?
About your drawing Melody, effectively, you made the same error that me for the first pose, a too small size, but I think that finally, you left well, certainly with much patience. I understand easily that at this resolution, the modifications on the face will not very easy. If you don’t want to have too much work to remake all, it would be perhaps interessant to work only the head has a higher size, with this new more practical orientation for fixing the various parts of the figure well, and only then to stick it on the remainder of the body already realized.

I have only one minor critique, which is that the texture of the paper she is lying on looks a bit too similar in texture to that of her skin ~ if you want, I would just suggest taking the brightness of the highlight down a bit in the paper, so that the main focus remains on the figure.
Other than that, beautiful, beautiful work, and Happy Happy Birthday!!! 5 Meatcakes!!! (Special Lemog rating system)

Oups sorry Rebecca… I don’t understand exactly (sorry… my poor english with struck again)
… you speak to obscure the background so that the subject is more visible, it’s that ?And for the Meatcake… chhhhhhhhhhhhh please… hahahaha
About your Drawing Rebecca -> which drawing ? where is the continuation ? hahahaha

lol…I hope you are still in love after all of my changes. If need be I can go back as I save each image as I go along just in case I do need to go back.

of course, I always like her as much, really splendid. I would always like to see a little more volume for the hair, at the top of the head, but the way seems very good.

Your image is so beautiful. Very smooth, love the colors. It looks like oils to me.

Thanks Debbie… Oil ?.. this comment really pleases me, because it’s what I tried to obtain as result. :wavey:

Pushav -> Happy that you would be still among us. Your image now seems to have a good progression, it still misses a little contrast which will be certainly necessary to emphasize the forms, but I’m sure that will be arranged in the next steps. Go guy :bounce:

kaylon -> A simple drawing, with good proportion, nothing to crit. It’s a very good base to go further I think. Congratulations.

[PSR]

Samanthie, your piece is breathtaking. I’m with rebeccak on the wip/tutorial request. congrats on the work

kaylon, that looks like a very nice mornings work. Look forward to updates

Lemog. Thanks for the explanation

[b2dermawan]

my latest update and i think the last for this figure.

http://i19.photobucket.com/albums/b168/bdermawan/class2tryfin.jpg

if u’re interested, though i can’t see why, here’s the higher res version.

[b2dermawan]

now for some crazy rants:

AndyDay: hey now i can see your attachment. good start indeed. you want to improve? well what’s better place than this class?

nuch: nice start, and those basic wood-blocks (great job, btw) is definetely one good way to help you understand the basic shapes of the figure (and in apllying their values later) but you certainly don’t “have to” start the sketch from there.

pushav: thanks. great developments there, and seems like you’re having fun experimenting, good for you!. hope you decide to finish it afterall.

mybutterflyiris: very nice and good grasp of values, but i think you’re on the right track! keep udating.

Lemog: thanks man for your kind c&c, really appreciate it. And great update, very smooth and colors are definetely work for me as they too are my fav hahaha. got to agree w/ others that some tones play will certainly help create more volumatric looks.

PSR: thank you. and can’t wait your second one.

dbclemons: hey thanks a lot man, really need that! you’re right about the head (god knows how much i’ve struggled on it) and thanks for the tip, will try to apply it. about the bg lol, actually they’re my palette for the overall pic so i can easily pick up the values range and to see how they “blend” with each other, lazy me i know. but i will use them for the bg too, though of course not in those shapes (i hope). thanks again man.

zhuzhu: all your pics are simply amazing! more please!

allenatl: already love the current state. nothing to add than what’s been said by rebeccak. keep updating!

Samanthie: wonderful! usually such smooth rendering style will bring flatness feel to overall pic, but you manage to make it alive (and healthy if i may add) while still maintaining the overall smoothness. so, congrats!

rebeccak: thanks and NOO! (this what i got for being too sure of my-self :sad: !) at this state, i doubt that i’ll re-paint her legs again to add those needed lengths. next time, however, i’ll show you all those shapes first, and no detailings untill your approval! thank you again.

Llyna: nice development! must emphasize about determining your light sources (and how strong they will be) earlier too though, since they will give you directions on what to do next and by so helping save a lot of time on needles work. keep updating, please.

kaylon: great sketch, and you definetely want to paint it. my 2-cents, if i may, watch out on determining her feets bent angles, right now they look a-lil-off from the body structure. keep updating!

b2dermawan: zip-it up and go to sleep already!!

[Samanthie]

b2dermawan…Your image is beautiful. I looked at the hi-res too. Very well done and really like the detail given to the cloth as well. Great job! Thank you also for you comments to my image.

Thank you PSR!

Kaylon you have a very nice sketch there. Looking forward to the painting.

Zhuzhu…I like the details to her face you’ve added.

[Ego]

Arctis: Good heavens but I love those color tones on your piece. Painting envy!!
Brittany: Fine piece of art work
Llyana; beautiful beautiful. It seems you and I have the same imaginative spirit. Only difference is you have the actual
talent to carry them out in your pieces.
Lemog: Great work as usual.
Rebecca: Each update of your piece shows great improvement. you know I love gray tones.
Will you color this later in the process or leave it in gray?
So many great entries. I have not had the time to go through every page.
I’ll post my piece once I come back from taking m husband to the hospital.
I will also view the rest of the thread when I come back. I stopped at page 15.
You didnt think I forgot about this number 02, did you?

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi All

Well this is what I have so far

Still a few details left on figure.

Had the hardest time with the eyes. Still not sure on them.

Like them looking away, not directly at me. Too intense that way.

Been consumed by this piece the last few days. So haven’t had a chance to make comments on your works. But looks like everyone’s stuff is improving by the day.

Great to see such a variety of painting styles.

I’m learning a little and a lot from each of you and I hope I have contributed a little something to your pool of knowledge also.

Going to learn how to type…Oh NO!! :banghead: (from Mrs. Spirit Dreamer: :bounce: )

Would like to be able to communicate more, help more, and be helped more in this joint venture of learning.

Take care

and Thanks everyone for sharing

Glenn
PS Any advise for fine tuning this piece would be greatly appreciated.
and to Rebecca: as you can see I am really taking your advice to heart. You’ve been a great great help. Thanks

[Samanthie]

Spirit Dreamer…this is beautiful! It has an magical and eerie quality. Great idea to put her in the forest.