Gabriela's skecthbook

[Gabriela Birchal]

Hey, I'm finally starting a sketchbook here. I'll to keep up posting new stuff on here.

I'll start with some heads I drew while studying Andrew Loomis last night.

[Gabriela Birchal]

Some new sketches today. Sorry it's not much but I'm trying to pick up the pace =)




Also my first attempt at making a super reflexive sphere:

[Gabriela Birchal]

A few more sketches today:

[Gabriela Birchal]

A study I did based on an illustration by Akihiko Yoshida for Tactics Ogre

[Gabriela Birchal]

More study, now based on Saejima Illustration

Also here's some steps from a comission I took, I'm still strugling with drawing the poses correctly. Criticism and hints are greatly appreciated =)






Making some more progress:

[Gabriela Birchal]

More progress:

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Done =)

[Gabriela Birchal]

Portrait study from photo reference:

[Gabriela Birchal]

Thumb study from movie Hero

[Raman Djafari]

I feel like your characters look kinda flat in some places. maybe try to work more from dark to light, that is something that really helped me develope a sense of volume in my figures.
rendering that way feels like sculpting to me, because you litarally shape your figure adding the lighter values.

[Gabriela Birchal]

I feel like your characters look kinda flat in some places. maybe try to work more from dark to light, that is something that really helped me develope a sense of volume in my figures.
rendering that way feels like sculpting to me, because you litarally shape your figure adding the lighter values.

Thanks a lot for the feedback.

Yeah I guess I have to worry more about the volumes before jumping into colors. Thanks again!

[Gabriela Birchal]

More comission development. This time it's a portrait of a Vampire. I'm using John Singer Sargent work as a ref to give a painterly look.

[Gabriela Birchal]

[Gabriela Birchal]

Started coloring the piece:



Edit: Final version has some minor changes