Ralph's Sketches and Stuff

[ruffledo]

Hi all,

My goal for this is to track my progress as I go along and head towards my goal.

First off, I'm a graphic designer by profession. And just recently tried to steer my way into illustrations. So here's some of my old free time doodles from the past year.

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And here are my studies and sketches from the past 2-3 months

Started off with some figure drawing lessons

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This will be quite a slow progress for me since I'm working 10-12 hrs on weekdays and I only get to have 5hrs max on my studies and personal stuff. Guess I came too late for this kind of thing but its quite fulfilling in my part.

[TNiznet]

Hey Ruff, nice studies, those typographic sketches are awesome, I bet you turn them into awesome Graphic posters. 5 hours is better than nothing man, I would say you should draw from life to begin with, learn to accurately see, do self portraits looking at the mirror and then progress to anatomy.

[ruffledo]

Thanks man.

I actually went through the free figure drawing from imagination off of drawing-tutorials-online.com subscription. It sorta gave me a reason to draw in some ways.

Well, to continue show my progress(?) from past months...

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And some master studies. My first complete paintings

Paul Lassaine El-Dorado (quick sketch)


Thomas Moran (took me 3 days / roughly 13-15hrs as I badly needed to finish something)

[ruffledo]

couple of WIPs of my Starveil entry

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[ruffledo]

Some texture studies for a piece I am working.

[ruffledo]

Today's quick sketch:
Everyday, before I start on projects or studies, I spend around 30mins to an hour just doodle anything trying to find forms from texture brushes.

[ruffledo]

Quick still life - 30min.-ish

[crackedskull]

Keep up the studies and concepts. Youre doing great so far.

[ruffledo]

@crackedskull - Thanks man.

Today's daily warm-up:

[ruffledo]

swamp study

[JBZ]

Doing studies before and during your actual illustration is fundamental, from my point of view. Good work, keep it up dude ;)

[ruffledo]

@JBZ: True that man. Especially in my case where my visual library's still limited. Thanks for the encouragement. :)

So, today's quite a slow day. Power interruption killed my vibe, so I had this sketch to hopefully kickstart for some works tomorrow.

[ruffledo]

I saw Mark Molnar's warm-up sessions on youtube. And I thought to myself to try it for my warmup sessions also.
So here's my first attempt. (Approx. 10-15mins per sketch)



I certainly enjoyed it, and it pumped me a bit to proceed on what I've been working on. I highly recommend for anyone to try this out. It's a great exercise.
Cheers! :)

[ruffledo]

Here's a generic environment sketch.
Today's warm-up

[ruffledo]

Just want to share my first creature/alien sketch.

[ruffledo]

Slow day for painting today, so I might shift to some figure drawings a little later.

[ruffledo]

So after the slump I had earlier, and was really not going anywhere with the projects I've been working on, I diverted into making a cheesy dedication portrait. After I saw what Dan Luvisi did, I thought we almost had the same story and I planned on making something for my fiance also. It's still a WIP for now. I want to hear your thoughts on it also, Any tips on how to improve, stuff like that.

*So sorry though if I can't post her picture in here, she's a really private person so yeah, again I apologize. Comments on general color, light and form stuff would be gladly appreciated.

[ruffledo]

Head value studies

*Photo refs from www.thesartorialist.com

[ruffledo]

So here's my little weekend project.

[ruffledo]

Warmup/studies

*Photo refs from http://www.thesartorialist.com