Update! It's been a pretty busy week, soo I didn't really get to squeeze as much drawing as I would've liked. But here's what I got so far!

Painted some eye studies from photos in photoshop. Mainly focusing on practicing colours and rendering.





Then trying to apply what I learned by painting one from my mind.



Next are more perspective studies (from Loomis as usual). While doing the drawing with the church I ran into a few problems and made a some mistakes, so I did a few other orthographic-to-perspective drawings using simple shapes to practice a little more before moving on.

Aahhh, late update! A bunch of of pics coming! (Some of it's last week's stuff)

I finally got around to do those skull studies that I kept saying I'll do. At first I was on autopilot a little - drawing without thinking much - cuz I had no idea what I was supposed to be concentrating on. The skull shape? The position of the features? But after awhile I started focusing on the planes of the skull - where the forms turn, etc, hope it'll come in handy when I start drawing/painting heads.




Next are some studies I did as practice for my entry CGHub's Anatomicae challenge - Fog, Lights and Rock & Roll. Mostly studying musician poses and the underlying form and anatomy, also trying to capture their movement and energy and stuff - man, am I bad at this. Bleh.




Also, some heads. Some reffed, some not. You can probably tell which is which.



Aaaand as usual - perspective practice! I'm still working on the same page of Loomis' Successful Drawing where it touches on the basics of 2-pt construction drawing. Drawing a bunch of random buildings get a better understanding of some problems I'm having.




And finally some black and white composition sketches I did for CGHub's Anatomicae challenge. Trying to come up with some interesting lighting effects and a nice composition. Reffed from a few music videos of the awesome japanese all-girl rock band - SCANDAL!





Edit - Does anyone know how to prevent the auto Youtube video embedding? I just want a link, not a video in the middle of the post.

Whew, sorry, another late update. Busy, busy week. But here's some stuff!

Some fog studies done for CGhub's Fog, Lights and Rock&Roll Anatomicae challenge. Hopefully the practice will help me in doing misty mountains and foggy scenes in the future!




Aaaaand the final! Learnt quite a bit doing this one (I originally added a bunch of random photoshop blur effects, but in the end I don't think it did much to improve the picture, so yeah, also got a reminder that less is more!) Oh, and you can check out the WIP and stuff here!



Lip studies! Found out that I rarely draw mouths that are slightly open - it seems all I ever do are closed mouths. Also, teeth.





Aaand one from memory after the practice.



I still got a bit more stuff to post soon!

Updaaate!

More perspective practice! Ran into a few curved edges problems in the first one, plus made a bunch of wierd mistakes. So did a few more simple exercises. Think I'll be doing a couple more before moving on.




Next are some nose studies in photoshop! I realised I'm pretty bad at noses - like how the nose forms differ from each other and stuff. Also I think I was being pretty sloppy with the rendering and colour observation. The last one is from memory/imagination. It looks... pretty bad lol. In my mind I had no idea what a natural nose was supposed to look like.





Next are some heads studies/practice. When I draw heads without reference I'm still samefacing a lot. Ugh. Trying to understand and capture different features.



Aaand lastly, a sketch and a study! Done on copy paper cuz I'm still too scared to draw on my sketchbooook.

Lots of great studies!

Keep it up

kevlar jens - Thank you!

Aaand, another update here.

First up, a naked sword dude from imagination! It had 10000 mistakes so I did a few studies of the really bad ones for practice. As usual - need to improve on line quality, anatomy, dynamic pose/gesture, etc.



Next are some pencil rendering practice. Used tissue papers to get that smooth blend. I borrowed a book on drawing/rendering portraits that advised me to do a few of these a initial practice.



And some more perspective stuff. The last two are studies from Loomis' Successful Drawing book. I tackled the church drawing again and finally moved up one page. Yay.





Aaand lastly, some portrait studies! A few of them are studies of drawings by the amazing Alex Pascenko!

Aaaaah busy busy. Also, a tiny update! It's last weekends' stuff. Managed to squeeze some time to post it up!

Wtf is this thing? It's so bad I just had to post it to remind myself how much I suck.



Borrowed How to Draw Lifelike Portraits by Lee Hammond and started on some nose studies. Not really digging the blending/rendering method (cuz I feel it takes waaaay too much time for me) but I did it anyway. It's got a pretty nice look but I think I still prefer hatching or just simple shading.





Aaaand some portraits from imagination. I think I improved a bit (bu just a little bit). I seem to have this bad habit of drawing eyes too close together.

Some more updates for this week! My focus was a little off this weekend. I basically wasted a lot of time rolling on the floor and getting drowsy for no apparant reason.

The usual perspective from Loomis. Should apply all this into something useful soon.





Some heads from imagination. I flipped this drawing in photoshop, and my mind exploded from how bad the mirrored image looked, everything was like distorted, I'll have to take note of this, must be the angle I'm drawing with on paper. Also my faces all still look too similar.



Lips studies after Lee Hammond's How to Draw Realistic Portraits book. I apologize for the freaky looking heads on the second picture, especially the supposedly-female-looking one. I was more concentrated on where lips should be placed and totally neglected everything else.





And lastly, some digi studies from Terragalleria. Uh, I'm bad at drawing tree branches. I always get too impatient/lazy. Sorry.

Ahhh not a productive week, I didn't get to draw as much as I wanted. I guess I'll just leave these here.

Loomis perspective stuff. Just this one this week lol. I ran into some problems understanding this one but I think I get it now.



And some head studies. Starting to get into hair. So many things to practice at one go!



More lip studies. Focusing also on line quality. I got lazy at the end though.



And some random sketchies. Ahh, I'm terrible at figures. GOTTA PRACTICEEEE

Hi all! Here's more stuff for this week! I've been losing steam recently, must be because my terrible sleeping habits during the weekend.

The usual perspective from Loomis' Successful Drawing. Think I went a little overboard with the note-taking.





Back to gestures drawings! 30s poses with a calligraphy pen. Haven't done those in awhile. Mainly to get myself familiar with drawing the full figure again. I wonder how those artists out there are able to do such awesome 30s gestures with so much movement and accuracy. Mine are just messy and bad.



Next are 60s gestures done with a charcoal pencil. I dunno. I tried to get that "classical" traditional charcoal drawing look but it didn't turn out so well.





Aaaand a 10min figure drawing. Yeah... bad, I know. I noodled around and ran out of time before I could finish the important parts.



Lastly, some sketchbook stuff! Couldn't resist practicing more eyes lol. I'm just always annoyed that I might keep drawing almost the same eyes all the time. Plus random rocks, trees and grass! (Was practicing how grass would bend and stuff)

Gaaaaaaah late update!

More perspective stuff from Loomis! Getting into some more interesting stuff now - the last image was a lot of fun to do, might probably do more of these kind of interior stuff for practice. Also I realise I suck at drawing furniture. And people.








30 second posemaniacs! I'm still struggling with laying down proper proportions quickly. With these quick gestures I'm always torn between doing accurate measurement and energetic strokes - I've seen people who can do both, but it just seems to slip right out of my fingers. Ugh, maybe I'm thinking too much.



Lastly, some figure stuff! First ones are studies, mainly focusing on proportion and doing proper measurement. I got lazy halfway though. Second ones from imagination - can't seem to come up with more interesting and dynamic poses. I think I may to study some anatomical landmarks and some figure construction techniques.

Got a bit of stuff done this week. First off, some perspective practice to apply what I learned from Loomis! Ran into some perspective distortion issues. Might be because my paper is too small and I'm trying to squeeze everything too much. Or maybe I didn't construct the perspective grid properly. Hm.





Aaand some digi stuff again! First one is an attempt at painting a head from imagination. I think the drawing came out... okay (I still think I'm samefacing), but the rendering is like, I dunno I wanted to make it look like skin but it turned out like plastic or something. Too many wierd colours and highlights? I'm still not used to the forms of the head too.



So yeah next are digi portrait studies. Mainly focusing on colour and somewhat on facial proportions. I didn't really do much blending though. I apologise if the heads end up looking creepy. It's really tough!





I wanted to do a third head study but I was getting a little burnt out and tired. So I did this quick little painting of a flower to relax a little. And also to try out a different digital painting method. So far I've mostly restricted myself to using the hard round brush with no opacity to paint (then using one with opacity set to pressure to blend). Gotta find out more methods for rendering!

Hey guys! Had an off day today! So I drew things.

First up is a head done along with Linda Bergvist's skintones tutorial. It was a little awkward for me at the beginning cuz it wasn't my usual method of painting, but it became pretty fun in the end. Learnt a bunch about colour and colour mixing from this, though I'm still struggling with the head forms and where to put the shadow/highlight etc. Will probably revisit this in the future again.



More Loomis perspective! Reached 50 pages of perspective studies up to this point. Yay.







30 second gestures. I think I'll make it a point to do gestures as a warmup before doing more figure studies. Also, I'm hoping that doing these gestures will help me improve the speed, movement and proportion of my figure stuff. The first two pages are a little messy cuz I just kept redrawing over the old poses a few times.



Aand finally some Bridgeman studies. Starting on his book - The Complete Guide to Drawing from Life. Used a fineliner pen for these. Normally I'd be really careful when doing studies. But recently it's been pretty tedious and tiring for me. So for now I'll probably be using the pen to do loose studies - it feels more comfortable. Impatience keeps getting the better of me.

Hi all! Just leaving this tiny update here.

Some more 30s gestures.



Figures from imagination! Don't mind the weird hatching - it's to distract you from my crappy linework.



Aaand some Bridgman studies. Not sure if I should imitate his style/technique or just copy down exactly what I see.

i'd advise you to use more helper lines when drawing heads. you clearly are able to draw good looking noses, eyes and ears but when you put them all together on a face their proportions and distances between them often look really off.

Blaisoid - Yeah, I totally agree. Thanks for pointing that out. I've been struggling with that problem for a long time now. Hopefully, with some practice, I'll be able to improve on that.

It's really late - but have an update!

The usual Loomis perspective practice. Studying inclined planes now. Nearing the end soon. I'll probably have to do some practical application of what I've learnt so far. Just doing studies is pretty pointless if I don't make use of it.





A little digi sketch from imagination. Ran into some problems on how to go about rendering it properly sooo I pretty much gave up on it. Need to practice more environments!



Here's something a little different. I've always had trouble trying to draw symmetrical things or unfamilier angles from my drawing hand (right), so I did this pen sketch thing to practice drawing symmetry. It's pretty random, yeah.



Aand some more eye studies. As usual I've got to improve my linework and shading with a pencil.



And lastly some Bridgman figure studies. I was being really sloppy with these, bleh.

A quick little update! All digital stuffs. First up are some studies from terragalleria. I'm having trouble painting details - though I think it might be because I painted with a really small canvas.







Then trying to apply what I learned by painting a little something from imagination. Still struggling with more realistic colours. I think I tend to oversaturate things too much and that makes my paintings a bit more stylized than I intended.



And lastly, a quick study from life.

Hi!, here's an update!

Just the usual Loomis perspective practice. The last downslope city drawing is pretty bad. I was really impatient and just rushed it out - and it shows. Also I didn't really concentrate on drawing the cars properly (and in the right scale!). But me struggling to draw cars is also a reminder that I've still got a lot to learn about simple forms and shapes in perspective.







Bridgman studies.



Aand some figures from imagination. The anatomy and proportion is pretty off, and I was being pretty messy and reckless with my lines. But these are done pretty quick - and the reason is so that I can find out what are my bad habits and what I need to improve on when it comes to drawing figures.




I concluded that I'm really bad when it comes to drawing the lower body (among other things) and so I did some leg studies from photos.



Followed by a few from imagination to practice what I learned.

Hi all! Got an update here.

Some silly figure doodles. Not really thinking, just making random marks and see if I could come up with some convincing figures and poses. Have to start thinking of anatomy and rendering forms next time.





Gah, some really, really bad non-reffed head sketches. So many studies and practice and I still can't seem to draw a proper head, so frustrating. Either I need to concentrate more or rethink my learning approach. Still really struggling with the features, too. Especially the eyes. I can't seem to draw the eyes and make the irises look where I want without redrawing like a hundred times. Bleh.



The usual perspective studies after Loomis!





Some digi heads. About an hour each. Um, not really done very well. As usual, features and proportions seem... awkward.







Aaaand a new sketchbook! A really small one to bring along with me wherever I go! Gonna start sketching more from life. It's really tough! All my lines are really messy.

More stuff! I'm hoping next time I'll start working harder to draw more stuff and manage my time more efficiently.

First are some head drawings. Practicing head various head construction techniques (lifted from several online tutorials), mainly because I my proportions are pretty much alway off for my facial features and also to try out how to construct different head "shapes". Kind of came out a little wonky though (the second image).







And then a little digi head from imagination. Not so good. Skin tones, values and underlying head structure definitely needs more work.



More perspective studies after Loomis. Probably after 1 more page I'll be pausing on this for awhile - and start applying the perspective stuff I learnt so far. And also to brush up on my figure drawing skills because the next few pages will be dealing a lot with the human figure in perspective.





Lastly, sketchbook pages! Time really flies when you're drawing in public transport.

Slow week. Trying to come up with some ideas for drawing some environments that will test how much I've learnt from my perspective studies. Nothing much to show for that now, but till then, here are a few drawings!

More head studies. Second one is from imagination with a focus on constructing the head using circles and lines/curves. I think I'll have to study the skull structure more instead of solely relying on abstract construction to draw convincing heads.





Next are some studies from Bridgman. Same thing - using too much abstract construction, but no real understanding of the underlying anatomy. Need to study some bones and muscles.





And lastly some sketchbook stuff. Some from life, some from ref, some from head.

Hi all, got an update here!

Lately I've been thinking about my works so far, looking at my old stuff and reviewing them. It's been a couple of months since I started this practice regime thing, and I think I managed to improve a little - though not as fast as I would have liked. I know that improving takes time and all, I guess I'm a little impatient. Looking at other people's sketchbook, particular those artists who weren't so good in the beginning and had practiced their butt off and eventually became outstanding artists now, I'm convinced I could be drawing a little more and thinking a little more than I actually am right now. Because, truth be told I'm actually not managing my time well and lazing off more often than I should - and along with other commitments, it's not a good idea to waste so much time.

Also, since my end game is to be an awesome concept artists whose job is to create amazing, mind-blowing new designs - it's probably a good idea to flex my imagination and design muscles once in a while and not just keep doing copies and studies. Um, might have to think of some methods to approach this issue.

But anyway, I'm rambling. Just wanted to get that load off my head and get it out there. In short - more practice! More thinking! Less procrastinating!

Some digi studies in preparation for the New Worlds Challenge over at CGhub.







And this is my entry to the challenge. It didn't come out exactly as I would have liked, nor as fast as I would've liked (I dunno it took like 8 hours or something just to paint this lame thing), but I'm really glad I attempted this - it showed me where my level was still at. Painted using only the round brush, had a lot of trouble blending and painting grass, as well as a whole bunch of other problems (lighting, colour, etc, etc). Oh well, you can see the progress here!



Bridgman studies. Trying to fully absorb the ideas that he is trying to convey through his figures drawings. Though I'm not 100% sure I'm getting it.





Two silly little digi paintings from life I did on my Iphone using Sketchbook Pro. Not really used to it's interface and painting with my fingers, so they came out a little wonky. And I supposed they count as practice of some sort.



Sketchbook stuff.



Aaand, also started on an assignment I created for myself to apply all that I have learnt from Andrew Loomis so far.

This is the assignment!

Perspective Self-Assignment and Review

1-Pt. Perspective
> Central Horizon (Normal View) > Exterior and Interior
> High Horizon (Bird's Eye View) > Exterior and Interior
> Low Horizon (Worm's Eye View) > Exterior and Interior

2-Pt. Perspective
> Central Horizon (Normal View) >Exterior and Interior
> High Horizon (Bird's Eye View) > Exterior and Interior
> Low Horizon (Worm's Eye View) - Exterior and Interior

Inclining Perspective
> Exterior and Interior

Declining Perspective
> Exterior and Interior

(Total 16 drawings)

Guidelines

- Draw an environment/landscape scene with each perspective guideline as shown above (eg. 2-pt. perspective -> high horizon -> exterior)
- Come up with an interesting composition and use different locations and subject matter for each scene (eg. use different landscapes/architecture for each drawing, don't draw the same stuff each time)
- Focus on understanding perspective, drafting techniques and proper scaling. Avoid copying he perspective directly from reference. Referencing design details is allowed.
- Add repeating elements, repeated accurately through space. (Eg. Pillars, windows, patterns, staircases (for inclining/declining perspective), etc.)
- Introduce curved surfaces when possible.
- Human figures not required.
.

And this is the first little drawing! An exterior scene in 1-pt perspective with a centralised horizon. Worked on this 2 hours every night for about 3 nights not including preliminary doodles. A lot I could probably improve on, like more interesting details (it's all just bricks here, wtf) and paying more attention to accurate scaling (there are some scaling mistakes, particularly on the railings of the top part of the bridge compared to the railings near the bench). Still, I think I learnt a fair bit from this.



And that's it! So, so sorry for such a long post, I hope it wasn't too boring - and thank you for taking a look!

Update! Have some drawings!

Figure studies after Bridgman. Did some shading to try to understand and differentiate the planes of the figure. I think it helps since Bridgman draws his figures in a really simplified, planar way. Still trying to figure out how to get the most out of studying his life drawing book.







Leg studies. To... study the leg.







Aand the sketchbook. Some of it are sketches of my next perspective drawing - which I'm currently pushing myself to complete as soon as I can!

Hi all. Had an off day today so I drew a few things.

Finally finished my 2nd perspective drawing. It's a walled city kind of thing! It was pretty painful drawing every house and building and trying to match the perspective accurately (with a ruler and everything). But in the end I think I did ok. Though, I must admit I got lazy at the end and didn't do any details nearer to the foreground. Also, the design of the buildings are pretty bland I guess, and so is the arrangment of the city itself, and not enough variety. Will have to take not of all these in the future.



Some 30s gestures. Pretty lame lol, but I did these stick-figure style to practice proportions. So yeah, I was wondering if it helps or not. Also some 1min gestures. Ugh, I still draw really messily and inaccurately.







And some embarrassing figure drawings using posemaniacs as reference. Tried do some shading, but it came out terrible. I had no clue on how to shade the forms of the figure properly - especially on the face and torso.



Lastly, some Bridgman studies.

Another update! Lots of Bridgman!

Sometimes I do a study and I don't feel like I've understood or learnt anything at all, or I felt that my process and approach was too clumsy. When that happens I try redraw it again and try to address the mistakes and weak points of the previous study. I think it helps a little.















Aaand random sketchbook stuff.