Sketchbook: SCB, Harford, barnesy
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We have created this sketchbook to keep track of our progression over the year. We've made a joint sketchbook because we are learning to draw and paint together, and this should be a good way to keep track of our progress.
Alot of these pieces are just quick sketches we've made in our spare time, and some have taken longer, so the quality will vary.
I'll get started by posting some stuff I've made over the last two days.
Alot of these pieces are just quick sketches we've made in our spare time, and some have taken longer, so the quality will vary.
I'll get started by posting some stuff I've made over the last two days.
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The idea is that we will sketch at least one five minute sketch per day when we have time, although we are doing 30 - 60 minute sketches and studies as-well.
Let's start out with yesterdays studies - topic was to pick a certain image and redraw it using 1 point perspective.
Todays topic - pick another environment and redraw with 2 point perspective
roll on tomorrow !
Here is what I ended up with, I had a lot of fun with this and can't wait to do some more
and here's a quick one I did this morning:
I started one yesterday but did not get the chance to upload it so here it is.
There are a few scaling issues but I am slowly getting there and resisting using the colour picker haha
Here's today's drawing, it's of my favourite Canadian
Today's challenge was a bit weird, and I was distracted by an evil bird, but here are my weird caterpillar... things?
Nice one paul, I think the last one is the best. It's george from seinfeld when he leaps over a puddle.
Here are my sketches for the day, I spent up to 8 minutes on each of the concepts. They kind of started out as seagull men and ended up parrot men haha
Sketching on my galaxy note 10.1
Actually look at other pictures in this thread. Im not sure if you did mind it this way, the building ground plan is trapezoid. Check other images and keep studiing
Did a rough 2-point perspective to make up for that today. Going to watch some good vids on perspective drawing soon, so I'll hopefully will improve in time!
I probably spent around 50 on this as opposed to the usual hour, also no references were used as this was an exercise in painting with just our imagination so the colours are a bit special haha.
nice one micheal , love it!
@ Harford - your last image kinda looks like it has two horizon lines. I attached a thumbnail to show you what I mean.
@ everybody - It always helps to setup not just the horizon line, but the VP (vanishing point) when doing landscapes. And you've probably heard it before, but be sure to flip your image a lot (image - image rotation - flip canvas horizontal ), it'll expose a lot of ones perspective- and compositional errors.
Looking at your other stuff I know you understand all this, just be sure to be super strict with it. Slacking on fundamentals in learning to draw/paint is like going to the gym three times a week, but eating like crap - you're not gonna get the results you're hoping for. At least not without three times the effort.
Hope that was helpful in some way. You're guys are doing great, keep at it!
You make good points!. And you're completely right about my last painting, it was way off. Not enough thought into the perspective.
We are trying to learn the fundamentals of perspective and color/value theory, whilst doing that we are sort of ' letting go ' and doing sketches like the one I just did using the knowledge we have gained during our studies, Hopefully then in time getting more correct elements into the paintings. Of course trying to hard to get it right.
I took your advice and flipped a lot, concentrated a lot and reworked my painting. I appreciate your coming in here and giving us the whip, it's what we need to improve! Fundementals are key.
Here is the updated painting/sketch - The path is meant to be leading down and off to the left, all the way don to the water. However I'm not sure I still got it right. Anyway, here's two versions, one with a bit different perspective for the background, testing things out. Perhaps a little more planning but still getting used to gettin gthe perspective right for 'imagined' environments.
I'll be watching.
Here is my 1hr paint from today. I was a bit too ambitious today and bitten off more than I could chew, although I had a lot of fun playing around with a hard square brush.
I think next tine I will just focus on a single building like the tall office block and just make it really detailed so that I can put some new techniques to the test.
I have been reading through a nice little painting book called Digital Painting Techniques so I am keen to put some of the techniques to the test.
Tried a different technique in this painting, no pen pressure to effect opacity, just brush size.