potangko's sketchbook

[potangko]

Hi everyone. My real name is lei. I just started getting serious with art last year, but I have drawn ever since I was younger. I was always told it wasn't sensible thing to do. Now, I think I may be old enough to suck it up and follow the art path. I keep falling back to it no matter where I go anyway. :)

I'm mostly on the traditional phase right now, trying to test the digital waters here and there. My main focus right now is values, perspective and form. Nice to meet everyone. The forum has so many intense and driven artists. I think it's the right environment to be in if one wants to get better. :)

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First time doing ink drawings. I was shocked by the permanent-ness of this medium.

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Perspective and value studies/sketches. Not sure if I should call these "perspective" studies because they are very loose and I was focusing on how to compose a picture with various kinds of backgrounds. I have a hard time visualizing backgrounds so I thought this exercise would help me improve

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Here are some more polished stuff that I've done this month.

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Colored Pencil sketch of a face. I'm really scared of color haha


I was practicing drawing a street scene hahaha


Torso/Anatomy Study - A friend of mine wanted to put a puppy in there.. So I obliged..

Digital Painting Traipses

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Trying out a different painting technique here. The weird sketchy thing on her neck were supposed to be chains but I got lazy hehe. As always, critiques and constructive comments would be awesome.



Trying to digital paint through a sketch here. I didn't render everything cos my hand started to ache (also lazy O_O). Still not used to photoshop!



Tried painting backgrounds and it came out as weird as expected haha. For anyone experienced in backgrounds, can you tell me why it looks kinda cramped? I dunno it feels squished and cramped to me somehow.