07-10-2014, 07:27 PM
aCrab - Thank you! I've really forced to slow down to think with a lot of these recent sketches and it is helping a lot. I'm familiar with perspective theory, but I certainly don't practise or use it enough. Most of that post was on paper, aside from the painting of the demon guy (I am not much of a fan of drawing on a tablet). When I am out and about I draw in A5/A4 sketch books, but most of my sketches are done on printer paper. As for pens, I use cheap biros for 90% of this stuff, but am dabbling in gel pen, sharpie for fills, markers and the pentel brush pen.
Cyprinus - Thanks, and you're welcome! Yeah, the amount of visual material I am getting from the cars is crazy. I guess not really drawing them much has left my brain rather absorbent to them, so to speak.
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Posting before things pile up again. I have been working on the brushpen and caricatures, and I am learning so, so much about mark making/stroke efficiency as a side effect. Not what I was intending to get out of those, but it is an awesome find.
So kicking off with some life sketches done in brush pen when I went out into the forest (to get eaten by mosquitos euch). Still figuring it out here, I definitely need to draw smaller because that damn stump took ages.
Caricature practises, had a try at doing this with a sharpie marker, which was surprisingly effective.
Some little life painting studies of flowers. We have lots out in bloom in the garden, so I thought I would push out into colour with them. They are pretty insanely saturated, I don't think I got it across.
2hr photostudy of a Buick Riviera. Really didn't push the lightness far enough on the bonnet there.
Sketch studies to just warm up in the morning. Experimenting with adding pencil accents and using the brushpen again.
I think I have finished this. Maybe add a little extra tightness, I am not sure. This isn't really an adventurous piece in concept or construction, but it was a good way to use my knowledge from earlier composition studies, and that value anatomy study. Did some real overhauls with the anatomy - I basically ended up setting up a mirror and posing whilst painting.
Going to try colouring under the lineart of this sketch. Experimenting with colour and presentation, but I don't think it will be a long thing.
Cyprinus - Thanks, and you're welcome! Yeah, the amount of visual material I am getting from the cars is crazy. I guess not really drawing them much has left my brain rather absorbent to them, so to speak.
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Posting before things pile up again. I have been working on the brushpen and caricatures, and I am learning so, so much about mark making/stroke efficiency as a side effect. Not what I was intending to get out of those, but it is an awesome find.
So kicking off with some life sketches done in brush pen when I went out into the forest (to get eaten by mosquitos euch). Still figuring it out here, I definitely need to draw smaller because that damn stump took ages.
Caricature practises, had a try at doing this with a sharpie marker, which was surprisingly effective.
Some little life painting studies of flowers. We have lots out in bloom in the garden, so I thought I would push out into colour with them. They are pretty insanely saturated, I don't think I got it across.
2hr photostudy of a Buick Riviera. Really didn't push the lightness far enough on the bonnet there.
Sketch studies to just warm up in the morning. Experimenting with adding pencil accents and using the brushpen again.
I think I have finished this. Maybe add a little extra tightness, I am not sure. This isn't really an adventurous piece in concept or construction, but it was a good way to use my knowledge from earlier composition studies, and that value anatomy study. Did some real overhauls with the anatomy - I basically ended up setting up a mirror and posing whilst painting.
Going to try colouring under the lineart of this sketch. Experimenting with colour and presentation, but I don't think it will be a long thing.