Sketchbook Thread of Johan Derycke

#401

Woa took me quite a while to read the entire thread! You have put alot of blood in your work and i can see the evolution, i really like the skull and the charcoal-pencil works. Keep it up! =]

#402

love those 3-tone studies - especially the 2 torsos - amazing! I’m not sure I could do anything with just 3 tones :surprised You made me curious :smiley: Excellent!

#403

Great exercise with those three tones. Makes you look only for bug shapes. Not seeing the detail. This will help you for sure.
Hey, and I’m looking forward to seeing your charcoal drawings! I got a little eager to try out charcoal pencils myself, but I think I’ll put that aside for some time now.
By the way, I’m already imagining your master study in color, waiting to see it!

#404

Johan,

That’s an excellent assignment and posted studies. This is how you process a painting as well. One of the things I love to do now is thumbnails. When I realized the treasure that little value studies reveal, I was hooked. They can be beautiful in themselves as simple images of tone without detail. Spread out the value work to your background on occasion. It’s a fantastic and therapeutic workout for your artistic brain.

Nice job! :thumbsup:

#405

Samanthie, Trunks, aggie93, Intervain

Glad you like the 3-tone exercises. I strongly encourage you to try it :slight_smile:
Compliments on the assignments should go to Mr Peter van Eyck, my teacher at school. He’s the one who came up with them :scream:

ManoVelho

thank you for taking the time to go through my sketchbook. I hope you learned something… it’s 1/2 the reason why I have it :wink:

Zephyri

Thanks for your kind encouragements. I’m sorry to hear that you need to drive an hour to the nearest town. It only takes 30min for me from home to school, but I think you should concider it nonetheless… I’m learning heaps and heaps and most of all it’s so much more fun to draw together with other people and then discuss eachothers interpretations…

AztcFireFlower

Thanks for visiting!
backgrounds… whoooo they scare meh… but I will get into those… eventually :smiley:
I think I still feel very novice most of the time so I tend to focus on my subject only. It’s true that an enveronment can make a drawing / painting much more interesting so definetely worth paying attention to. Thanks for the tip!

razz

Thanks! I tried the color layer last week but didn’t save it actually. But I’d really like to finish the value study first so at least I have one part finished :wink:

I’ve been doing a lot of schematic head constructions this week (loomis, 122 to be exact, those I did at work and threw away not included)
I’m not posting any because there are lots of those already in this thread and they aren’t much better nor worse than the previously posted ones.

I just know I will have to do hundreds more at least… but it’s fun to do so it’s ok. I’m gonna try to do like this week and do 10-20 each day during the next couple of months (maybe until summertime?) By then I want to be able to try some heads from imagination every now and then…

Cleaning the house took much longer than expected today so only one charcoal study yet.
You can see the sticks on the tray of my mini-easel. It looks very simular to the one I did last week but it’s actually after a different ref from the Rubens bible :slight_smile:

A2 charcoal on paper:

edit: what I wanted to ask…
Does anyone know any good examples of white pencil or chalk on dark/colored paper?

#406

Hi…Johan…:thumbsup:

Nice job on those three tone figures…REALLY LIKE that last Rubens study…going to be trying that technique myself shortly as warmups before my figure drawing class, as Rebecca just suggested to me…you really got a nice effect going on that one…:thumbsup: :applause:
Dynamic Light and Shade by Burne Hogarth, has a lot of what you are looking for, in the ways of handleing white on black, and the different forms and effects of lighting you can achieve using it…GRAET BOOK,I think you would learn alot from it,…I know I did, and still do…never knew that there were so many different ways that the figure could be lighted, until I got that book…:slight_smile:
Anyway…just stopping by mainly to say…HI, and to see what you’ve been up to…Good things I see…:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn
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#407

This drawing is a great improvement on the last, and the forms and spatial relationships are reading really well. :slight_smile: One thing you might try with the charcoal is sharpening the tips to points on a sanding pad, so that you get a more varied line weight in your next drawing - but I think that the way you are approaching things now is very solid, and I am eager to see your next piece. :slight_smile:

#408

hi

nice work on that charcoal drawing :slight_smile:
i have a book “realistic figure drawing” by joseph sheppard, alot of his stuff in this book is on gray background and uses black charcoal and white chalk. guess i could send you one or two to see if this is what your looking for

Mark

#409

Hi Johan,
the last piece looks great! I like the way you did the lines. Maybe you should do one of them with just lineart and no shadow? :smiley: Would be nice :smiley:

Keep it up :slight_smile:

#410

Ooh, I really like this last one as well. What do you think of charcoal as opposed to pencil?

Abby

#411

Hi Johan :slight_smile:

Good to see your charcoal drawing :thumbsup: I want to see many more now!
Going well! :slight_smile: You have a nice feel for both shading and placement on paper. Possibly aim to interact parts of the shaded areas with the outline or edge of the figure… this makes the figure less framed by “line”, & also helps to create more depth. Probably this is pretty much the same advice as Rebeccak just gave you, so sorry for repeating :smiley:
It’s just that I’m excited to see you work in charcoal :wink: and can’t wait for more updates!

take care and will be back soon!
a. :slight_smile:

#412

Marie looks wonderful, the level of detail is awesome, the fabrics are so uber realistic… as I already said, you’re an ispiration :slight_smile:
The charcoal study looks very good. I was thinking of drawing in charcoal as well.

#413

A simple “ciao” waiting for new pics !

#414

Yes, updates updates! The last charcoal piece is really great. Improved after the first one. More!

#415

AHHHHHHHHHH! :smiley: :slight_smile: :bounce: :wink:

Just joining in the choir chanting UPDATES Johan!!!

Hope all is well and sorry about my silly mood :shrug:

take care and cheers!
a. :slight_smile:

#416

Hee hee… joins in chorus but the last rubens copy was lovely. Would love to see one of those! And I’m seriously considering going to life drawing if the classes are still running, despite the 2 hour round trip… I think, as you say, it’ll be worth it. It’s been SO long since I sat in a non-virtual room with other artists.

#417

hey, where’s the images? :scream:
that charcoal looks really cool, makes me want to try to draw something after a long period of idleness. more updates,pls.:bounce:

#418

Hey Johan, that last Ruben’s is so nice. I love the three tone excercises as well. I would love to see more Ruben’s from you.:thumbsup: Also, the OFDW is dope man. I can’t wait to see it finally done.:applause:

#419

Well I’m having to deal with some rather unpleasant facts in my life at the moment that keep me from being prominently active in the forums here - one of them having to do overtime at work a lot. Friday should be the last day and I’m hoping to get the day off on monday so I’ll have 3 days to have fun. Sorry for keeping you all waiting… I hope you haven’t been expecting to see a masterpiece now lol.

At school, which I am ofcourse faithfully attending, we’ve moved on to shading to present light and shadow (3 shades exercises), rather than using the relief shading, over to using a combination of both. Also we were practicing on getting more info on our paper at a quicker pace, rather than drawing anatomically correct with the right proportions. Seeing shades as fast as we can is the goal.



#420

We then started to work even faster, 5 - 10 min max per drawing. Again the goal was to put as much info as possible on paper in the quickest possible time. We were pushed to use all our perceptional powers because the teach would turn or replace the sculpture or change the light setup at unanounced moments: