Elderscrollers Sketchy Stuff

[Elderscroller]

Sketching today was the complete opposite of the vampire lady I did earlier. Everything just came flowing naturally as if the pencil had a mind of its own. God, I love that sketch flow, it´s almost like meditating. Too bad it isn´t constantly there :)

[Elderscroller]

Some anatomy/lighting studies and a character sketch

[Elderscroller]

Study and character sketch from imagination. The study turned out quite good, the sketch not so. It was too rushed and has too many anatomy errors. The pose is.....awful

[jeremygordon89]

You've got some awesome looking stuff in here! In the latest imaginative sketch what probably needs changed most of all is the way the head is drawn on the neck; right now it looks a lot more flat than the rest of the body. The chest looks a bit off too. Putting in some darker local values would add nice visual interest to this character too. Everything else is pretty nice! Keep going!
: )

[Elderscroller]

@jeremygordon89: Thanks very much for your crit, I appreciate it! That sketch really isn´t my best work :)

Sketch practice:

[Elderscroller]

Doodling around and suddenly....wizard

[Elderscroller]

A cliche dwarf and a starwarsish alien and a few quick heads

[Elderscroller]

more doodling and suddenly....orc! Guess I´ll do this more often now. Start off with nothing special in mind, just a general direction (in this case: portrait) and let the painting develop by itself and come to life from nothing more than a few doodle lines. It is very relaxing and meditative

[Elderscroller]

Study and sketches. Also trying to warm up to the Goblin&Gnomes contest at deviantart

[Elderscroller]

More of the same....sketches sketches study

[Elderscroller]

Landscape practice

[Elderscroller]

Some Qunari sketches from imagination because...Dragon Age :)

[rainbowsorknives]

Very nice pencil work :D some nice armour designs in there to. looking forward to seeing more!

[Elderscroller]

@rainbowsorknives: Thanks! :)

[StardustLarva]

Great rendering on that robot!

[maggie]

So I just found one more awesome sketchbook. I love your digital paintings.

[Elderscroller]

@StardustLarva: Thanks! I don´t really like the rendering here :)

@maggie: Thanks very much. Drop by any time.

Here is an example study sheet of how I do studies these days. Both are portrait studies and I do living and dead master studies (I don´t post them all here as these usually are boring and not very pretty and I also don´t want to post too many studies from living masters purely for copyright reasons). The first is Bouguereau and the second study is from a character by Marko Djurdjevic, here is his dA page: http://marko-djurdjevic.deviantart.com/

What I do here is not making a 1:1 copy, I analyze the painting and try to focus on what is important for me and what I want to learn. Here I focussed on values, lighting and what colors where used and how were they used.
I first guess all the b&w values from the colored image, then I guess the colors and finally compare the real ones to my guessed, noting where I was off.. Then I do a quick study painting where I don´t go for accuracy but for use of colors, values, trying to memorize everything. I also make notes for future reference.

After that I could go back and do an accurate painting of the studied image, if I desire or think it will help to increase my knowledge on the subjects.

The second image is an application from mind some time after the studies.

[Elderscroller]

Playing around with lighting. Not too happy with it

[Elderscroller]

Some fairly quick faces (still noodled around too much with them for an hour each...) These were fun to do and I especially like the females eye part. Here I did no drawing, no values before, just went in and painted in color without any construction, trying to be a little loose. Turned out ok

[Elderscroller]