This is very inspiring! Not much to say, other than keep up the good work!

Very nice. I like how you can see definite progress throughout your sketchbook.

Holy crap there's a ton of cool images in here. Love the construction stuff, especially on the figurative drawings.

pixelb - Thank you! I really appreciate it.

W1r3d - Thanks! Hopefully I'll keep improving more. Praaaaactice!

Korgoth - Whooo thanks! The construction stuff helps me a lot because I'm pretty bad when it comes to just freestyle drawing. I'm glad you liked it!

Updaaaate.

Nose studies.





More ID bug sketching. Starting to get the hang of this. Done in ballpoint pen.



Digi studies. Trying to refine my painting technique. I think I'll have to start doing longer studies to improve my rendering skills.

More stuff!

Digi studies from photos. First two paintings done with the photoshop chalk brush with opacity set to pen pressure.

Because I'm painting using opacity pressure, I used a more "layered" method of rendering (starting dark and then adding more light/colour). While I think that this is a good, structured way to render and gives even values all around the image, I find the colours came out less vibrant than when I used an opaque brush to do a colour block-out first and then did blending later (which was the method I used for the third and fourth paintings). Hm, need to experiment around more lol.

The last painting is done partially from imagination.











Aand more sketchbook pages. Yeah I'm getting messier and messier.

Hello! Just got a quick one here. Just some digi head studies, did a line drawing before painting this time. Trying to come up with a proper painting workflow. Yeah... still got 10000 things to improve on. The original pictures look waaay better than these.

Hey all! Got some drawings here.

Digi environment painting. Partially reffed from photos. Trying out the chalk brush more and trying to paint with more muted "realistic" colours.



More facial feature anatomy studies after Stan Prokopenko. After this I'll probably be concentrating on more rendered studies.









And some head sketches form my sketchbook. Trying to sketch from memory and then from reference and then identifying my common mistakes/bad habits in order to (hopefully) fix them in my future imagination drawings. One glaring issue for me is I often place the facial features at incorrect places and proportions in relation to the whole head. Ugh, will have to tackle that.

Also I probably have to focus on doing more rendered portrait studies as well, instead of doing just lines.

You rock man really inspirational stuff! Makes me want to study stuff like this even harder haha. Nice progress.

Callesw - Hey man, thanks so much! Your sketchbook is super hardcore, it's also a reminder for me to work hard lol.

Anyways! I'll going abroad for 3 weeks, so I probably won't have any updates for awhile. Buuut in the meantime, here's some paintings and sketches.

Some digi environments. All paintings partially reffed except the first one. Last painting inspired by Dylan Cole. Oh and starting get into the soft brushes now.









Aaand sketches! More heads from imagination and ref, random things, and a couple of Mayan architecture studies for my next perspective practice drawing. Yeah definitely have to get to the figures again soon.

Hey all! Sorry for being away for awhile. Time to get back to drawing!

A quick one here - first up is another perspective practice drawing of mayan (or at least, attempted mayan) city. Followed by some sketches and a bunch of collaged doodles that I had done during my free time overseas.







That's all for now. I'll be definitely be pumping out more stuff asap!

Another quick update here! I've been trying to plan out my practice schedule abit better, but for now, here's some portrait studies! Done a bit more rushed than I should have, they've got tons of proportion errors. Linework needs improvement too lol.









Aand some more figure studies. Proportion, proportion, proportion.





And line quality.

Hello again! Got some drawings here.

Some figure drawings from photos. Still using a skeletal construction method (you can see hints of it underneath the darker linework). Still have some problems eyeballing the right proportions, though.







And some ID style studies of insects. Borrowed an insect book from the library, gonna study the heck out of it!

Got an update here. More ID style studies of bugs!











Plus some sketches! The last two pages are part of a little portfolio project I'm doing right now.







Aaand that's all for now. More stuff on its way!

Your early perspective work really shines through to the anatomical studies you're doing now. Those bugs are fantastic and I think it's particularly because you have the perspective absolutely spot on. I was going to suggest Stan Prokopenko but then I saw your proko studies. You can see how much easier it becomes to plot the features on the head when you use that approach. Are you applying it to your life studies?

On a side note, I watched the Proko videos a few weeks ago and started drawing heads, I was going to wait for a while till I posted them in a sketchbook but seeing your progression convinced me to post them up as I go. You really have improved so much in such a short time. Don't worry about being 'boring', these studies are some of the most interesting things I have seen in sketchbooks. It's great to see someone really commit to the groundwork. You're going to be world class in no time.

Same as above, I loved your study drawings, especially those perspective ones...they just look cool and appeal to an inventor's heart. It's inspiring to some one who's just 4 months in his own drawing routine to see how far some one starting the same way can go.
Keep drawing, I know I will

Black_Stormy - Hey, thanks a bunch man! Yeah those proko tutorials really helped improve my understanding of facial anatomy a lot. But now that you mention it, I haven't really applied it heavily into my portrait studies much. I'm still bumming around trying to draw it kinda "my own way" (which isn't really very sophisticated in terms of technique and understanding). Definitely gonna bear that in mind the next time I draw and try to absorb his methods a bit more, like his way of shading light and shadow in layers and his ability to draw the big shapes into details. Basically working more with light and form as opposed to more linework like I'm stuck with now. Thanks again man, and all the best on your own progress as well, I'm sure it's gonna be terrific too!

Mischievous - Thank you! If you like, I'd recommend you to take a look at some of FZD's student works. They have a ton of study images of those perspective drawings that are 10000 times more powerful than mine. I'm actually taking them one of the examples of how to study. All the best to you man, hope you become awesome soon as well!

Okay! Got a small little update here. First is a really quick study of a town in bird's eye view. Really quick and sloppy with this because I had like only 20mins to paint before I had to rush off. But I think I managed to capture the colours proportion pretty ok, it looks way better zoomed out! Might do a couple more of these.



Aand more bug studies. Again, using an insect book for reference. It's called Insects of the World by Anthony Wootton. Pretty cool. I'll be attempted to translate these isometric drawings into 3D perspective the next time.





And last are a couple of sketchbook pages. More visdev sketching and studies for my portfolio project - a redesign of Guardian's Crusade, an old PS1 game. (I'll be posting my progress on this thead!) The last page I was trying to draw some baby animals in order to learn how to capture "cuteness" lol. Trying to figure out how to redesign that little creature on the top left hand corner of the page.

Wow, great stuff man! I love your anatomy studies and environment paintings. Your bug stuff is wonderful too.

bounchfx - Thank you very much!

Got another small update here. Sorry for being so slow, been pretty busy on my side lately and working on some other stuff. I'll definitely keep as consistent with my practice as much as I can!

Just some quick studies of modern architecture. Sloppy, and weak colours. Architecture like these needs a different approach to painting and brushwork that I still haven't seem to grasp properly yet. Gonna have to practice them more.

I normally don't post a lot in here.
But I gotta give you a big thumbs up man. this is really good. and the amount of improvement is Truly inspiring.

keeping you on a bookmark, i like persistent dudes like you Lol.

ponjarphy - Yay, thank you so much! I'll keep doing my best.

OXGears - Thank you lol. I'll definitely be persistent as long as possible!
Getting slower with the updates, but I got some more drawings and paintingsnow.

First is more digi studies of modern architecture. All of these are done pretty quick. I think I'll need to spend much more time and do some proper, patient studies instead of these quick speedies. It's a little too sloppy for my liking to be honest - still struggling with brushwork and colour for these.











And more ID bug studies. Had to return the reference book I loaned from the library, soo in the meantime I'll be brushing up on my perspective construction and line confidence (which were severely lacking in these studies).

Hi hi!

Got some stuff here. A couple of studies done along with Scott Robertson's tutorials.

Plus some more sketching! It's a character for my portfolio project.

Hi hi!

Got some stuff here. A couple of studies done along with Scott Robertson's tutorials. First is just some value studies and second is me learning how to plot simple cast shadows.





Plus some more sketching! It's a character for my portfolio project.





Also I've been working on these two characters for awhile now.





Aaand that's all for now. See you guys soon!

wow, that is an epic sketchbook, you really have a great work ethic....better than me!

80musashi80 - Thank you very much! I'm sure you're working hard as well lol.

Update!

More value practicing. Hm, going a bit too slow with these. Still struggling a little with brush control and blending.

slow and steady wins the race they say.