Sketchbook Thread of Mehsan2112

#1

This is my first post on CGTalk and a return to CG since 4 years ago. I have not touched my graphics or traditional artwork in 4 years. Recently, I signed up for a class and after feeling humiliated and ridiculed (being told you can’t draw an eye the way your instructor wants you to makes you feel pretty low!).

I haven’t been able to draw anything in all this time, and after that low point I quit the class and forfeited my deposit. But then I decided it’s time to stop pitying myself and do it.

I work with trial version of Painter Sketchpad for now. I hope the images aren’t too blurry…I guess Sketchpad saves the images with a lower quality than Photoshop.

If anyone help me on these or provide good insight I am very very grateful.

This is my first sketch since that class…My Husband was shocked…so am I. It’s not good like most of you but it’s a start.

I hope you can see it

#2

I just finished this one today. Quick Sketch, referenced Luis Royo drawing.
I had so much trouble with the breasts and the rib cage…But fun figure exercise…next time I should remember not to cut off the rest of the body.

#3

I want to loosen up and also at the same time be great in realism of portraits, figures, animals.

I love to be really detailed nowadays but at the same time I’ve fallen in love with the looseness of watercolor and pen. So I’m trying to work on bringing knowledge together in anatomy studies, improving my skills with skin textures and hair, and also freeing myself a bit to be more relaxed with sketches.

Right now currently busy with hair.
:slight_smile:

#4

Hi, and Welcome!

Though you didn´t show too mny drawings, i can see you have talent despite that comment you received. Don´t ever listen those kind of comments. Dustin Hoffman was told that he should focus in something else…but not acting!! to give an example.

For what i see, you REALLY need to loosen up, your drawings look correct overall, but they don´t look confident, i can almost feel that tense of drawing the lines with fear of doing it wrong.
Maybe drawing like that way you can end up with a correct draw in terms of proportions and anatomy, etc, but lacks that appealing and fluidity, confident strokes have.

For some reason, you´re trying to do clean, finished drawings, but you didn´t draw for 4 years if i understand it right.

IMO, that is a 100% waste of time and energy.

I would forget about doing finished good looking drawings…they will come with time. Don´t push yourself to do nice drawings at this stage. Focus your energy in fully understand your subject. Observe and study a lot…practice with references as you are doing. Learn to construct the drawing before starting the drawing itself. Do a lot of warming excercises to unleash your hand

Do a lot of sketches, but don´t polish them to look presentable…what is the point? don´t try to prove yourself or others you can draw!

Sorry this is too long to read, Is just that i can see you have the talent, but it looks to me that you´re beginning by the end insted of the beginning.

I´m talking about my impresions so far, taking in count these few drawings and what you´re saying…so…i could be wrong:shrug: .

BOTTON LINE! you have talent…feed it right.:wise:

Cheers!

#5

JM-Art:

Thank you, thank you, thank you! gosh, you’re right. I’m so stiff I can feel it in my fingers. can you believe that I actually get so nervous when I started drawing two days ago that my hands get sticky??? im so scared of messing up, part of my acquired attitude to life…but you’re right. i’m tired of it. i used to draw with such freedom but since that long hiatus i took i’ve gotten scared of “messing up”.

i totally agreee with you, my lines are so harsh and they end so abruptly…too much control.

you wrote very good things for me, i use it like food and air. well, cheers to loosening up! :slight_smile:

Here is new addition:

Painter Sketchpad- 3 stages of the hair…I’m sorry for the quality, sketchpad is just for sketching- can’t install photoshop cause dvd drive doesn’t work haha.

I practiced the hair for the first time. If I find my old drawings you’ll see my hair looks like a plate of spaghetti on someone’s head. Yesterday, I found “Dueys Drawings” and loved it. Learned so much.

Please take a look at Dueys Drawings tutorials, they r amazing.

#6

Hi there, thanks for the nice post in my thread :wink:

Juan does have a point, although I think it’s good to do a longer, more detailed drawing every now and then (say once a month) at this stage, but your main focus should be on getting routine and losing that fear of failure due to this routine.

Draw as much as you can from life, even if it is just an apple or a book, any subject is worth studying.
It’s very different compared to drawing from a photo, because you learn how to see a lot better from life and you have to make the transition from 3D to 2D yourself, while when drawing from a photo, the photographer already made that transition. It’s something people tend to forget but you need to be able to convert forms to shapes if you want to draw correctly.

Construction is a nice tool but I think it’s really most important to learn to make that transition.
Another one of those tools is perspective. This should be the first “tool” to learn, and you can combine it with drawing from life easily. (draw a square on the floor in your room and then draw it on a paper from different angles, do the same with a circle, a box, a lot of boxes put together randomly, chairs, tables, cars, houses, environments…)

But focusing on learning how to SEE should be your number 1 priority the first year. When you’ve learned how to see, you will be able to focus on learning the tools much more efficiently.

Good luck and have fun :slight_smile:

#7

NR43: Thanks for the insight. I’ll start on the perspective soon. I’ve seen why it’s crucial, and have seen so many people use the perspective lines to help them sort of like the grid helps with details and proportions?

I guess I should just put a lot of exercises on perspective on here while working on the drawings themselves.

Thank you again.

Here is a leg I sketched on Painter Sketchpad…I tried to see the shapes and curves and shadows and light. More practice is always good.

#8

This is so much more fun than I expected…I’m actually getting a sense of how to view an object albeit a very simple one. I looked at some perspective studies from some master painters and I can see how each scene or drawing can have either one, two, or three point perspective…three point seems to show more excitement?

anyhow. :slight_smile: here are a summary of the perspective exercises i’m trying…my hand and lines are still stiff…

#9

Hi there mehsan2112
About the drawing of the leg…and excepting those too overdone contour lines, there is a great improvement in the spontaneous feeling the strokes have now.
If the software you use have layers, you could have one layer to do the more sketchy draw and once you have the thing working, in a layer above you pick the lines you need to make the final drawing. While doing that is iportant to use the less possible lines, so if you do a line that is not ok, instead of drawing above, do ctrl Z and try again.
That would be similar to do a sketch with a pencil and then tracing with ink the good lines.

Hope that help a little .

Keep the nice job.

#10

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