Sketchbook Thread of Frejasphere

[anandpg]

Hey Annette!! Happy New Year!!!
We’ve been missing you here!.. great to have you back!

[Trunks]

Hey Anette, also a happy new year from me!

You did a great job with your fathers potrait and the family potrait… very well done!

I generally like the idea of the last two pieces but I do not like how you painted them … I think you could do it a lot better … for me it looks to much like sketches and I think this were not planned to be sketches ?

Keep it up!
Thomas

[Frejasphere]

Hi all

Thanks for stopping by and commenting - it’s nice to finally find time to be here again
and I think it will have to be my NY resolution to keep it that way

Mu - Thanks very kind comments, I am enjoying the portraits - and the imaginary work. Somehow striving for a balance, as there are so many images in my head that need to be drawn/painted… I agree with you, as I wasn’t using any ref - the anatomical side of snake is most likely way out - haven’t studied snakes (esp not that size) in close detail (although I did have one wrapped around my neck years ago, a diamond python - perfectly harmless) - suppose I’m aiming for the “feeling” but don’t want to take too many shortcuts…

[color=Lime]Fifty3dragons - Thank you for popping in here and for your kind words I do hope to bump in to you in the OFDW. I’ve started sketching on one, but haven’t taken any pics yet. It’s great to have one up and running again, a nice way to start a year…

Johan - [color=#fffffe]Ahh thank you!! Hope all is good and well your end and look forward to catching up with your updates

[color=Orange][color=Cyan]Iuvo - Thank you for popping in here and for your comments - I agree with you about the eyes, it’s something I tend to do, even though I don’t start with the eyes, maybe I’m “eye-focussed”

Anand - Thanks - and to you! Hoping this year will provide time for all to create:thumbsup:

[/color][/color]Trunks - Hello again, nice to have you pop in and thanks for your comments Happy new year to you too! The last two are drawings - not paintings - so I guess they are sketches in a way… I see your point though that every idea can be taken further. I do have an idea to do a painting once I’ve worked through the main ideas on paper, not sure yet if it will be based one drawing - or a conglomeration of several.

Have done some sketching for the OFDW - but nothing to post just yet. Still it’s great to have a new workshop.

Cheers all an take care
a.
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[Frejasphere]

Hi all

a small update on the OFDW:

Reference: Antropus - (Kris Costa) - Tribal Woman

I’m working on large paper (68x86cm) using charcoal and graphite with some dry pastel (colour) here and there. Early stages yet (although my time-optimism is hoping to do more than one from the great render refs supplied)

first WIP:

WIP 2:

A fair bit in her face will change - things I see are off when I step back from an
hour of neckrings - it’s quite an intriguing image, which even led me to do a
quick research on the Longneck Karen tribe in Burma…

cheers all and take care
a.

[SylvanMist]

Hi,
Your drawing above is coming along nice, I think it looks quite like the original!
I also wanted to say that I really like the facial expression of the guy on your " Facing Fears" pic, it looks really good how you’ve done the skin folds around the nose & eyes

[Frejasphere]

Thanks Roja I actually got a bit of a shock this morning; seeing the drawing I left at 3:30am Her face angles were quite out (still some more tweaking but hopefully getting closer…) I taped the print-out reference on the shelf post to my left, which made me turn my head a lot while drawing - no excuses but I think I may have done myself a disfavour by not having the ref at the same angle as the drawing It’s all good and great though, working with an image I wouldn’t have found without this great workshop. Hope to see you there too! Glad you liked “Facing Fears”.

Next update on OFDW:
WIP-3 | after Antropus (Kris Costa) - Tribal Woman
still a way to go…

cheers all and take care
a.

[Frejasphere]

One more update before sleep

OFDW WIP4

Washed over the background and put more detail in face…

cheers all and take care
a.

[Frejasphere]

I am calling this one done

OFDW-22 Tribal Woman | after Kris Costa (aka Antropus)

Charcoal, graphite and pastel on paper - 68x86cm

and a detail of her face:

cheers all and take care
a.

[Frejasphere]

Something completely different :D…

I’ve NEVER tried painting digitally and thought that with a workshop on
it could be fun to try. I’m not calling this next one part of the workshop
even though I’ll post it for a laugh; even though it’s a bit of an embarrasment
next to all the brilliant digital work here… :rolleyes:

It was heaps fun, and I’m positive I’m doing most completely up the
wall - basically I had the reference and the window I was painting in side by side
on the screen and picked colours from the original…

A freehand - or “free mouse” attempt

and the result:

Because I was having fun I did a quick attempt at a self portrait as well:

Little bit different to my normal working environment:

cheers all and take care
a.

[boeserWolf]

… the tribal woman looks amazing, damn nice work ( though the neck, specially the upper part, is maybe alittle bit missplaces ind should be moved alittle bit more to the VL side of the picture … though im probably wrong … just my feeling mate )

Great start with the digital media, just keep it up, your works look already better as my digital aproaches … keep it up mate

[Frejasphere]

Thanks for for visiting and your comments Wolf your feeling is right, although
I decided to not tweak her any further (atleast for now - I might revisit in a while).

It’s exciting trying something new - spent about an hour on this one of my daughter
(in photoshop)

Amanda

cheers all and take care
a.

[Frejasphere]

I decided to try and complete a digital version for the OFDW-22 workshop
I’m not sure how far I can take it, as far as detail and texture goes,
but I am having a ball
using photoshop and getting rsi from the mouse

(plan on doing a traditional drawing from this ref as well)

after Gio

cheers all and take care
a.

[daWinky]

Hey Annette,

great to see you back and I don’t have to ask if you had a good start in the new year, I see it!
Happy New Year for you neverteless!
The tribal woman looks amazing, I agree about a little distortion of the neck, but you’ve captured the reference really well! And I’m exited to see your digital attempts, they are pretty impressive for just starting with PS and using a mouse:bowdown: ! So I hope to see a lot more of it…

Have a great week!:wavey:

-sabrina

[Trunks]

Hey Anette,
this last potrait is great! Nice colors, flow and feeling! Very well done!

I have noticed that sometimes you forget to keep a center line in your potraits. Sometimes it seems like one eye isr more to the side than the other. Or sometimes your noses are not even. I know in reality there are people who have such noses but I think this was not planned?!

That is just what I have noticed, maybe this was all planned by you, but I think it was not so you should think more of the center line and the distance everything should have from there so your faces don’t become to loon at one side. Oh and as I said it is not in all of your potraits, but in some of them

[Frejasphere]

Sabrina - Thank you! Very kind words from a true masteress of the art! I think I will be exploring this a little further: it’s lots of fun, and even though I am just using the mouse - I don’t really find that it is restricting me (at this stage - ) It took me a while to work out that I could use the “alt” key to pick colours, instead of clicking on colour sampler every time - so I do have a long way to go - and at this stage I’m pretty much only using 1 or 2 brushes which I change the opacity and size of… I find that it’s somehow quite intuitive, not sure if that makes any sense? the ability to zoom in on what I’m painting makes for a quite different approach to traditional painting…

Trunks - Thank you for your comments and for popping in Glad you like the latest portrait, still a wip - but I’m having lots of fun exploring new things and finally making, finding more time to be here again The asymmetry of faces has always facinated me - the fact that no face is ever completely symmetrical and how many faces have interesting aspects because of the obvious difference left/right. I don’t consciously strive to exaggerate this - more likely are mistakes or hichoughs along the way

cheers and take care
a.

[SpiritDreamer]

Hi …Annette…

Just popping in to see what you’ve been up to, now that you are starting to explore digital painting. …GREAT SO FAR…I like the one of your daughter…nice and bold use of color…your style…
You deffinitly need to get a pen and tablet…then you will truly see how much fun digital painting really is… does’t have to be an expensive one ether…I am still using the inexpensive small wacom tablet and pen one that I bought for around fifty or sixty bucks around eight years ago.
I have never tried photoshop…I have only used the coreal painter programs…starting with #5, and now up to #9…SO I really can’t judge and compare between the two programs, but I have head, and think that the painter program is alot more geared to painting…alot more brushes ect.
A true master of photoshop, is Linda Bergkvist/ENAYLA…Check out some of her tutorials for doing skin,hair, eyes,…ect. They are GREAT, and all done in photoshop…Just type in her name, and you should be able to find those tutorials, and her works…GREAT STUFF,
ANYWAY, …REALLY ENJOYING MY VISIT IN YOUR THREAD,…AS ALWAYS…KEEP UP THE …GREAT WORK, …And i’m really looking forward to seeing what you can achieve in the realm of digital painting…SHOULD BE …GREAT…
TAKE CARE
Glenn

[anandpg]

Hi Annette! Great to see you busy again!.. … and good to see you go digital!.. don’t paint with the mouse for long though… buy a wacom asap!!

[Frejasphere]

Hi all

Glenn - Thanks for your comments and for visiting - I’ll keep my eye out for a cheaper
tablet and thanks for your advice; I’ll check out Linda’s thread for sure at the moment
I’m just playing, it’s lots of fun - and somehow less intimidating than I expected it to be
(not sure what I was expecting ), the playfulness and ability to experiment intrigues me.

Anand - I can feel the pressure! Thanks for popping in :buttrock:

Another update on Gio’s head:

a little more detail…

cheers all and take care
a.

[TheMiyamotoMusashi]

Great works !!!

Qs :

Which anatomy and art books or video tutorials or whatever,have helped you most ?

How long have you been drawing and painting?How many hours do you work per day?

Cheers

[NR43]

Pressure? Pressure? There’s no pressure… but I too cannot wait to see what you will accomplish once you get that Wacom

Great work Annette! (this concludes my constructive additions lol)