Awesome, awesome, awesome.
This thread is so much fun to look through- like a real sketchbook (by someone with talent ;)). All of your master studies have a very simple feel that still manages to convey a lot of information about form- that’s not always easy to accomplish… well done 
. I also love the very classical style you used in your underground giant drawing. I will definitely be checking back here to see what’s new!
hey Mychael :bounce: , thank you for your kind words 
Here is torso number 10 for the challenge.
The crouching boy, by Michelangelo
Ha, when the leg challenge comes out I’m going to have a lot to work on XD
And here’s my hermes copy (yes I’m still doing it…) I mainly tried to get the colors right :> and did his shoulder
Hey Mariana
good to see your first torso study
nicely simpyfied form
looking forward to see more
:wavey:
NR43, :bounce: thanks
more drawings
Torso number 54, (the abduction of ganymede by Rubens)
Torso number 42 (Victory, sculpture by Michelangelo)
and an eros drawing:
Talaria,
It’s great to see your progress. 
I hope you post your images for the Torso Workshop to the Workshop thread as well!
Cheers,
-Rebeccak
Well I hadn’t draw anything in a while 
so well I decided to do a quick drawing so i made this entirely in photoshop, this is mainly a skin tones practice please I would appreciate any kind of help to get better in digital painting.
Well more drawings 
The male model colored:
Another male model:
A merman sketch:
I’m going to color him so here’s what I’ve got so far
the face: (yup, gotta fix the nose)
the torso
I’m using the soft edges brush…i think its looking good so far…
Hi…Talaria…
Congrats on getting your giant drawing into the best of… section…:applause:
I think that if you are wanting to learn to paint,…you will learn much more, and much better, by starting out without color. Only use shades of gray,…from almost black to almost white
You might try a grayscale painting of a classical figure, using the same brushes that you are experimenting with now.
Search out all of the lights and darks // VALUES // first,…with a broad brush, then go to smaller brushes next, and save the details for last.
Try to stay away from line in your painting process, and filling in between them…Think more in terms of VALUES running into each other,…CREATING EDGES and PLANE’S.
Once you learn to do a great VALUE study in gray scale, developeing your brushwork in that
initial phase of learning,…it is just a matter of replacing the grays with color.
But first you must learn to see VALUES, and it is just a lot easier to observe them in grayscale.
Hope this helps some…think you will do great painting, after seeing how well you are at drawing…
Looking forward to seeing your first VALUE STUDY… greyscale painting, of the human figure:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn
My giant made it to best of section? :O…Had no idea…great!. thaaanks! :bounce: Thanks so much for the feedback :>
Well I started the value excersice you told me. It’s hard to paint with no lines but the tutorial I saw about block drawing by Heltzer really helped :).
Up until now is all done with the soft edged brush.
real size:
Hi…Talaria… …WOW…nice to see this piece…really glad you are trying your hand at painting in this manner,…it is just one technique among many,…and is my favorite…
Hope you don’t mind that I did a little paintover of your work.
You have a very nice sense of atmosphere, and are not afraid of the darks.
WHEN YOU GET TO THE STAGE YOU ARE AT IN YOUR PAINTING, IT is time to add the lights,
to bring it to life…move your values up toward the lighter end of the gray scale, getting as many lighter values as you can, and use them sparingly…a little goes a long ways kind of thing…Put the lights on the highest part of the facial planes…cheeks, brow, lips ect.
This is also the time, when you really punch out the dark areas with a deep dark value,.nostals, dark side of face, upper eyelid, shadow area around eye socket, ect.
You want the puples to be touching the upper eyelids, unless you are going for a crasy kind of stare in most cases…
The main thing to remember and visualize, is the direction of your light source, and where it falls on the surface planes of the face…
GREAT PROGRESS FROM YOU SINCE YOU CAME ON THIS FORUM…REAL PLEASURE SEEING IT:thumbsup:
REALLY LOOKING FORWARD TO SEEING MORE OF YOUR WORK…
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Hey Talaria ,
Your drawings show great promise, Nice to see you painting!And you are learning from a good teacher :)…
cheers
Siju
Good to see your thread, Talaria. You have some nice studies and have a definite style in your own personal work.
I hope to see more.
Cris
Cris-palomino, Thomasphoenix, Thank you for your kind comments I really appreciate them.
Spiritdreamer, Don’t worry I appreciate the paint over. I suppose I should use the hard brush on this stage right?
haha gotta fix those crazy eyes
I’ll post the next step later, I haven’t worked on my face dude because I had a math test, It was this friday , I think I did good so I’m happy
Well here’s a illust…a kind of quick way to get math out of my head
Hi…Talaria…:applause:
Nice job,…now you are getting the hang of it…
Take a close look at the way the old masters did the high lights in the eyes,lips, nose ect.
Most of the time, the high light that is in the eye that is in shadow, will be a tad darker.
Also the lips have distinct planes, which all capture the light and shadows, the same as the nose planes…the line in the center of the lips, becomes an edge, that varies, and vanishes into the shadow of the shadow planes of the lips, and also emerges into the light. The top lip will appear a little harder,in the way it reacts to the light,… while the bottom lip will appear soft, in the way it reacts to the light.
I think that as long as you keep in mind while you are painting, that the forms of the face, and body, are made up of many many planes, that are devided up into many even smaller planes, and that each plane is capturing the light, and also creating a shadow at the same time, then you will be on the right path to great painting.
When you use color, the same princaple will apply, except you will be varying the shade of the color from dark to light on each planed surface.
Also study the size and shapes of the high lights of the eyes in the portraits done by the old masters.
In most cases, you want to really snap or pop them in there really quick, with a tiny pointed brush…gives them energy and life…takes a lot of practice, and is an art in itself.
These little subtle things are what counts when doing portraits, and the whole figure for that matter…Each master handled them in there own way, but the princaples remain the same…
Hope these words help a little,…think you are doing a fantastic job by the way…really great progress…and a real pleasure seeing it…
TAKE CARE
Glenn
Hey Talaria, love the value study
They are a great learning experience aren’t they?
Looking forward to see more of it
take care
Thank you all for the comments and tips specially
I’m finally on vacation, since december 1st, yeah! So I kept doing the value study, I made the eye light a little bit darker like you told me SpiritDreamer. I started using a herd edged brush now . I fixed the hair too
Anyway my scanners are dead, BOTH! O: it’s terrible I can’t scan my drawings 
one won’t show up the program and when i use the other it says that I don’t have any scanner instaled, I instaled it again and it keeps saying that >_<
Donnow if you did this or not but try it like this:
1.disconnect the scanner from your pc
2.uninstall the scanner software
3.shut down your pc (not restart, shutdown)
4.start pc and (re-)install scanner software.
5.depending on your scanner software (check the manual) you might have to connect the scanner before or during the software installation.
Hope this helps, would love to see your drawings
take care,
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