Sketchbook (Art) Thread of kosmaty

#1

First of all hello :wink: this is my first post here!

I registered here in order to learn some anatomy :wink: so here are some of my sketches (each done between 15-40 minutes).
Some critics would by realy nice :wink:

…and i’ve got a question. I want to be able to draw from mind, is it a good exercise to copy a master’s work and some minutes later try drawing it quickly form mind to remember the general proportions? Or will just copying be enough?


why not here is a painting copy (I painted the face without looking at the orginal:/):

#2

good question kosmaty… i recommend copying master’s work but at the same time try to understand why they did it that way. i find it a good way to learn from them… and yep, you get the hang of proportion which is a key factor to drawing the human figure. :smiley:

good sketches btw!

#3

I have to agree with what’s been said already - the more you copy and study first the more you’ll be able to put out later… not that I have experience enough to paint my own stuff but I’ve noticed as I study others that I’m more and more able to draw, at least some poses, without refs…

btw. milo rodaka tu widziec :wink:

I like your sketches a lot! keep going :thumbsup:

#4

thank you :wink:

one more… i’m not fully happy but my goal was to do it fast…

#5


not happy with the hand studies… had some wired problems containing the thumb…
I’m going to have some fun with my hand tomorow :smiley: (dont get silly thoughts:D)

#6

LOL I suggest getting hold of Hogarth’s hand studies book :slight_smile: Excellent source - also Loomis books offer some great hand studies [and those are here somewhere for download]

keep it going!:bounce:

#7

I think my problem is to catch the right form…
some idea how to learn catching it in the right way?

Okey here are some more drawings…
as always unhappy…
am I getting any better?
The right eye is a little bit to high

Don’t ask me about the hair :smiley:

#8

Hi there!

Looks like you’re after the same thing I am, learning to draw from your imagination. I recommend a lot of practice by drawing from photos & life, referencing yourself in the mirror when necessary. Also read those Loomis books! There is a post about them here: http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=259576

I just read the Loomis drawing heads & hands, and it helped me a lot with the construction.

Your drawings are looking very good btw!

#9

Kosmaty,

Welcome! :slight_smile: Looks like I somehow missed seeing your thread. Some very nice work here - glad to see that you are doing master studies! I hope that you continue to do these, and continue to post. I look forward to seeing your progress! :slight_smile:

Cheers,

-Rebeccak

#10

naturally I will :slight_smile:
i love drawing and i want to go to study art after the matura.

So I use most of my free time (except I’m meeting my girl friend) to draw.

ok one more :slight_smile:

happy new year btw

/edit
one more :slight_smile:

#11

wip
master copy I’m doing now… i have heavy problems with the head… drawing heads is much easier than painting them digitally :slight_smile: practice will do it.
anyway here is a Rembrandt copy… I think copying it 1 to 1 would be better but it takes a lot of time switching windows the whole time, so the pose and stuff does not realy look like the orginal.

#12

This looks nice so far, especially the details in the fan and her dress!

#13

hi kosmaty

drawing from the mind is a wonderful goal. But it’s hard while often not necessary.
With that I mean that you can and should get a reference for everything you can. The masters you copy did not take the trouble to draw everything from memory or imagination when they could have someone take a pose which they thoroughly copied.

I say that as someone who neglected reference for a long time.

You can’t create something you don’t know and when you start to study life models or other reference in depth you soon discover that the human body is a field of more and more intricate studies which, in fact, never end.

So, my suggestion…:

strictly separate the two fields of studies.

When you are trying to learn form, be as nitpicky as you can. Doubt everything you see. Double check tilts. Spend hours on the drawing.

When you are practising creation of imaginary poses, leave out every possible detail. Concentrate on the gesture. On the curves (btw, you got some wonderful understanding for opposing curves in your studies…! :slight_smile: ) , on the essence of the pose. Maybe even leave out the shading. If you want to incorporate light into your imaginary poses, you might consider switching from drawing to painting (digitally? Do you use any software? Or do you only work traditionally?) and then just blocking in roughly the masses you want to depict, again without any detail.

When you try to render out your imaginary poses you most of the time try to describe things you don’t know, thoroughly, and that’s the point the masters used reference (life models)

Finally, doing mastercopies is always a good idea. Do them as short as 2 mins for a complete drawing or spend days on them. Do 2/5/10 mins drawings of the same master drawing.

Explore everything. Post all you can…

Have fun

Mu
:slight_smile:

#14

Hi…Kosmaty…:slight_smile:

Just stopping by to say…BEAUTIFUL DRAWINGS, and GREAT thread so far…really enjoyed
seeing your studies…and hope to see many more…:thumbsup:

I think it is a good thing to try to do from imagination, what you have just done from copying.
Will find out what you don’t know VERY QUICKLY…LOL…:scream:

Burne Hogarth was a master at creating figures from the imagination,…get all of his books, if and when you are able…AMAZON .COM…will really be of great help to you in that area…:slight_smile:

REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOUR WORK AND PROGRESSS…:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#15

@SpiritDreamer thank you so much :slight_smile: glad you like it.
I already ordered Drawing on the Right Side of the Brain and I own two dartiste books.
So after I worked myself through these I want to work a little bit with Loomis (Fun with a pencil (not the whole thing) and Figure drawing for all it’s worth)…

then I will think about buying the Hogarth stuff.

@Mu wow :slight_smile: thank you for this great… let’s call it lesson :stuck_out_tongue:
I work with Photoshop all the time, but I’m not that good at fast painting, so I prefere working traditionally.
examples what I got while sketching digitally (myron copy)

You said, doing 2/5/10 minute sketches is a good way to learn… my problem is that I’m sometimes not able to catch forms in the right way that fast. Do you think it’s better to do a lot of 2 minute sketches and wait for progress, or is it maybe better to draw something and erase it if it is wrong?

#16

i started working with ‘drawing on the right side of the brain’!
Damn it is so amazing :slight_smile:
here we go with an exercise which I did some minutes ago.
I started thinking when i came to the head which was my mistake because it turned out bad!

#17

Excellent studies as I see you are breaking down the values into their seperate slots. PS is great for quick value comps such as these. LOOMIS is KING for all the basic set-up and proportions of the human figure. It was my figure bible when I first started to draw. Keep going. And nice job on the master copy.

#18

Hi
nice work!

keep going :slight_smile:

#19

the head is to small and ah… I’m unhappy.
I gona start a new master copy and leave this one as it is.
On the other hand… I’m quite happy with the progress I made :slight_smile: i learned alot about custom brushes and colors :slight_smile:

#20

I feel like having no talent :frowning:
well some more…


the thing below is done from mind :confused: yeah i know

after watching a neville page tutorial :slight_smile: the only thing that turned out well… nevertheless the anatomy sucks!