Sketchbook Thread of wasker

#21

Wasker, you woild never see me picking colors from the piece I’m studying :scream: And by overpainting photos you mean taking a photo and making it look like a painting, just like it is possible in Painter? Won’t do that too. Where’s the fun?
Thanks for the tips.
Keep up with these studies and I’m looking forward to see some done after Bridgman. Yay! :bounce:

#22

Thanks Zephyri, good crit on the girls head, I did a check and you were right, thanks man :slight_smile:
The sketchbook I got have 150g acid free cartridge paper, which is nice because you can use high pen pressure (as I tend to do when I go sketchy) without going thru the paper. It’s pretty low on texture but not as low as ordinary 90g copypaper and not as much as 180g sketchbook paper. I’ll try some different papers, so thanks again for the tip :slight_smile:

Razz: Np man. By overpainting I mean that you use a photography as a base and then place your colors (which are the same as the picture below) directly on top of it. It’s like a overdone version of mattepainting, except that the person that overpaint usually claims he’s the author of the picture. Overpainting can be really useful sometimes and some great artists such as Philip Straub and Craig Mullins use it sometimes as they don’t got time to paint the millions and zillions of buildings that make a city for example.
However, I don’t encourage new artists such as myself to use it extensively as it lowers the possibilities of the picture and the artist’s development.

Colorpicking can be useful as I have learned, but try to determine the colors yourself and how they work with other colors. If you ever are unsure, colorpick (it might turn out that a color you thought was redbrown actually is greenbrown and these details matter).

Anways here are a couple of more studies from photos found at the cgtalk reference thread.

#23

Edit1: wops, double post :frowning: damn lazy cg erver :wip:

#24

Bump,

got some gnomon workshop and vilppu dvds the day before yesterday :scream: I’ll try using some of vilppus techniques in the upcoming drawings. I have to make a sketch forthe thunderdome competition “gods at war” I’m in. Planning to do it in oils.

#25

Brdigman’s, ( there’s a nipple in the lower left :smiley: )

#26

heya wasker!

great studies so far my man. i do have to comment on your last girl drawing though. it seems like it has been stretched. keep in mind that on a “classical” drawing, the distance from your chin to your nipple should be about one head in length… and even on saggy(sorry, lacking a better word) breasts it shouldn’t be that far off.

Also, the method you have for rendering hair could be better if you consider hair as clumps of mass instead of singular strands. this will save you the horrible task of drawing thousands of lines to suggest hair… it will add volume to it and in my opinion, it looks better :smiley:

like i said, great start and i hope you keep at it !

#27

Ah, great tip gibby :slight_smile: I’ll keep that in mind!

Here’s a study I did today with my wacom ! :smiley: Yeah, that’s right, I got it back now.

#28

Nice job with the wrinkles on his face in that last study, wasker, get a very nice sense of the folds and creases in his skin, which can be tough to get! Coming from one who has a penchant for painting older male subjects!

#29

Thanks a bunch Zephyri :slight_smile:
Gratz on getting in the latest imaginefx issue btw:thumbsup:

another study

#30

Strong pencil studies - definitely a nice feel to them. The Bridgeman studies are very strong, I hope you continue with those. :slight_smile:

#31

Thanks Becca :smiley: Wish granted! More Bridgman stuff

#32

More Bridgman stuff and a Da Vinci aswell, figured he if anyone should know anatomy.
Am I crossing any copyrights by posting so much Bridgman studies?

#33

45 min playing around with brushes and colors, hopefully I got a corn of anatomy in there aswell :wink:

#34

Hi Wasker! Great progress on your thread! keep it up!!:thumbsup:

#35

Hi…wasker…:thumbsup:

Just stopping by to say that I enjoyed seeing all the studies in your thread…nice draftsmanship…:thumbsup: …I like the last one you posted, has a contempory feel to it, but unlike a lot of the contempory stuff that’s out there, it has the correct knowlage/ classical feel of the human figure in it, nice to see…the colors you chose give it nice depth and atmosphere.
NICE EXPERIMENT…JUST MY OPINION…:slight_smile:
Looking forward to seeing more of those studies, and also the experiments that put the knowlage gained in them to use in your own way…:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#36

Anandpg: Thanks man :slight_smile:
SpiritDreamer: Thanks for the kind words spiritdreamer, :love: I’ll post more studies as soon as I draw them.

Here’s another brush test image,

#37

Hi wasker,

I checked out some of your work over in the WIP2d section, too and I really like your speedies and environments! Very imaginative.

I think that once you can combine both worlds (put the anatomy into the environments and concept sketches) your work has everything it takes to be really outstanding.

Also, you are doing some really disciplined work on these Bridgeman and Loomis studies. Great job!

:thumbsup:

#38

Love the last speedie, Wasker! Knowing how to paint environments must help you a lot, painting-vise. I get really stuck if I try to paint from imagination. I like the design of the armor as well, especially the arm/shoulder area looks attractive :smiley:
More, please!

#39

Hey Mu , thanks :slight_smile: Yeah i’m getting there slowely .

Razz, hehe thanks mate, I read abit of the help section in photoshop and discovered a bunch of features that were useable in speedpainting. I’ll make the most of it!

here’s some Leonardo studies

#40

your thread is highly enjoyable.
Good to see the consistent work.

The last ones are georgous!