Sketchbook Thread of Vicmonty

#21

not sure if I’m making much out of these 15 min jobs here. I’m waiting for my anatomy book to get here. I have Hogarth’s. I started doing drawings from there. Not sure why I stopped.

#22

3 seconds observing + 1 line
3 seconds observing + 1 line
…

try it!
it’s advised to do a couple of “pre-strokes”, without touching the paper,… 2 or 3 and then bam… the stroke on paper where you want it.
do 100 sketches like that (2-5 min per sketch max) each week (if you can each day :smiley: )

Try not to set your expectations too high. (read, don’t think too much of the end result, it’s normal that they are not as good as you’d like them to be)
The more you expect, the bigger the chance of disappointment.
It’s hard, really hard, but you can do it!

#23

Should these 100 sketches be of the same picture? 3 sec and line. ok, you did mention that before. I’ll apply that tonight. tonight’s sketch shall demonstrate the 3:1. Thanks for having a look and the encouragement.

#24

So I have myself on a training plan. I start with the 15 min sketchathon. Then I move on to the speedpaint thread. Then I would either work on the DSG, a WIP, or…nothing else, I just started this plan.

Now I’m doing the beginners lounge stuff from the beginning. I’ll do this after the 15min and speedpaint sessions. that’s at least one hour of drawing/painting. I probably double that preparing my workspace and then uploading. I’ll get the hang of it.
I think the 2,5, and 10 min sketchathon’s were more effective for me when I did my first ones posted here. I did those on my sketcbook with pencil. I’m still getting used to my tablet.

This is assignment # 2 for the master copy sketchathon at the beginners lounge. It seems like i established more with my 2 and 5 min sketches than I did with my 10 min sketch. It’s after midnight. Not sure if working at this hour helpfull, but it’s what I got.




#25

here’s the 15min sketchathon pic

#26

Great to hear you are searching for a more structured way to learn.

It would be a really great exercise to practice what you learn from the 15min sketchatlon and other threads, on real life subjects (eg when you are in town, waiting for the bus or at the park or in a pub, etc)

Keep going! Doing great!

#27

Here’s my study from the apple tutorial. Now I’ll move on to the skull tutorial. I think this is a big improvement from my older work on photoshop. This tutorial along with many others on here and you tube are very helpful. Thank you to everyone who contributes to this site!

#28

I used a hard brush throughout the whole thing. Once I laid down as much value as I thought I needed, I went with a tiny soft brush lightly smoothing in between the values to rid of the lines in the values that I got by blending. I blended by laying to different values and using the eye dropper and laying down values from both sides in between them. Please let me know if something else works for you (reader, everyone else). Thanks for all the help.

#29

Hi Victor, good result with the apple! Your blending method worked out fine. You can also use the smudge tool. Here is a link on the settings and some other info
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=635850&page=3&pp=30
Good luck!

#30

Wow. Thank you. I’ll try this out. I really appreciate your help.

#31

Please be honest…

  1. How is my anatomy?
  2. Is my lighting right?
  3. Does the composition work?
  4. How’s the rendering coming?

#32

Doing the OFDW sets. Here’s 23, 5 of 25 hands. I spent 30min-1hr. I’m trying to work on everything while doing these. I’m paying attention to proportion, perspective. I add value so i can work on lighting. Though they are roughly sketched for the most part, I felt I got what I needed out of each of them and moved on. My favorite one is OFDW 1 Hand of David. I’m also learning photoshop. A major learning process for me. I figure I’ll start going through these workshops. C&C please. This place is my “school”.





#33

hi there,
I’m going to give you some strong critics so brace your self :argh:
i went through your complete sketchbook and one thing i noticed very strongly is that you lack line confidence.it is foundation of solid strong drawing and hence very important.if you go through my sketchbook(which has been here for a while now) you will notice i had similar problem.the BEST way i can recommend you to improve in that department quickly is that you start doing gesture sketches as priority putting more then few hrs in 1 sitting.not only will that improve your line work it will also give you better understanding in every aspect.

As far as working on composition is concerned I would recommend you go through this great article by philip straub
http://features.cgsociety.org/story_custom.php?story_id=3275

keep up the good efforts :thumbsup:
tc

#34

Thanks for your time. I found an interesting excercise on posemaniacs for doing gestures. I’ll give it a shot. I have been trying to place more confident lines when drawing lately. It’s always been a problem for me. I never took it into consideration until recently. I’ll browse your SB. So the gestures really helped you out? Thanks for stopping by.

#35

How long should I spend daily doing gestures?

#36

Pose maniacs will give you lot of time to place your gestures hence i cannot, in my opinion, say that it can be very helpful since i think that the best gestures come in absence of time and your best sketches come in matter of seconds.i would recommend a more live setting like cafe, bus stop,stations etc where no one is your model yet everyone is and you have to draw very quickly because the person will move anytime. I have spent spent from 2-3 hrs to 6-8hrs in gesture sketching so it varies.One thing i can guarantee is that the more you do the more fun it gets.
let me know if i can help anywhere else :smiley:

tc

#37

I pulled out an old sketch and decided to develop it. How is the anatomy?

Any advice is greatly appreciated. Thanks.

#38

How is the anatomy?

The receiding arm is too small (photoreffed?), especially that hand. (perspective effect isn’t this big in real life).

I think you should show the muscles a bit more, it all looks kinda flat.
Check out Rebecca’s thread on opposing curves, you’ll find it in the tutorials forum.

Great start though!

#39

I see it now. Thanks. Operator error. I looked at the photo again and I did some more measuring. Thanks. I’m going to paint it. Should I draw in the muscles?

#40

nice going dude…feel like giving focus on the rhythms can give more appeal…anatomy will be an added advantage…