Matthias Kinnigkeit Sketchbook
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Hey! My name is Matthias I´m from germany and 20 years old. Since I left high school 10 months ago I started to take this whole art stuff serious. Like most of you I dream of making a living as an artist. To reach that goal is my main focus now. So here is gonna be one place where I dump my stuff and I very appreciate any comment, advice, suggestion and crit.

For several months now I basically just study and don´t reall do any "finished" pices. The focus of my studys lies on figure drawing for now. Here is some of my stuff.






















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I had the nice opportunity to make a "finished" pice again because a very good friend of mine asked me to do an illustration for the new EP of his band. I was just focusing on studying anatomy for the last few month so I didn´t really do stuff like that. So much fun!



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#3
Some Dude from today for fun. Actually he is based on one of the face sketches from a few day ago.



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#4
wow, I'm definitely going to keep an eye on this thread, this might get pretty interesting ^^
sorry for stopping by withouts tips, I just don't have any right now. Seems like you're on the right path, keep on walking (:
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#5
Hey Budgie! Thanks a lot! I´m very happy if you think so. I appreciate you taking the time to stop by.

Some Hampton studys from these days


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#6
Hey Matthias. Welcome to the forum!

This is a fantastic thread! I love the amount of work you're doing on the figure. Makes me want to work harder on it myself! Very powerful stuff! I don't think I can give you anything either since all the stuff you're studying from those books is pretty well explained. So I thought I could just let you know that this is very inspiring to me! So keep pushing!!

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#7
Hey la1uc! Thx a lot man! Very nice of you to take the time to write this to me! Appreciate it!

Some recent study stuff





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#8
And some more figure studys again...







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#9
Gesture practice and a bit more construction stuff. I really have to work on those gestures... Soon I´ll be able to go to livedrawing sessions! :)







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#10
Hey :D And welcome to Crimson Daggers (I'm a bit late)
Nice start, love your studies. And I specially like your style of portraits and doing gestures-they look like they are dancing,and really dynamic, great job :D
Keep up with that work and have lots of fun^^

CD dA FM  MaL
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#11
Hey Toxicpanda! Thanks a lot! I´m glad you like them!

Jo! I worked on some character design/turnaround today. I spend pretty much time on it. I guess about 8 hs or sth. I got sick of it so called it done.



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#12
Jooo! I watched a movie yesterday night from the time of the prohibition. Afterwards I was really in the mood to try to sketch some character while shooting for that gangster look. Man those guys had style back then! I ended up with that guy here. I also tried some experimantal value pass. Maybe I´m gonna include values earlier in my studying than I planed..



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#13
I love your studies Matthias. You make the figures look very fluid and elegant.

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#14
Great works, the figure studies really pay off, your last two from mind are really cool. Looks like you can see things in space really well, hoping to see more

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#15
hey man, nice sketchbook full of studies ! keep up that stuff ! concerning your anatomy studies, just try to stick with 1 or 2 anatomy books, if you go with loomis, hampton, bammes, hogarth, etc at the same time, you might be a bit lost ! just tackle the books one by one, it's gonna be easier to learn !! Keep it up !! and do more from imagination !!

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#16
Wow!) I like your head and figure studies! I practice the same now. I can see you learning from Loomis and Hampton, right?

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#17
Thanks for the comments guys!

MonoOrder: Thanks man! I study gesture drawing with hamptons book so you may want to check out his method.
Tom Seas: Thanks a lot! I'm glad if you think so. I focused a lot on this whole spacial awareness thing in my studys of the last months.
kikindaface: Thanks for the advice and the commment! I do just study with hamptons book though ;) I started with the Loomis one some months ago but switched to Hampton when I ordered it.
Nikt: Thanks! Yes I do. Two very good figure drawing books! I think that one would do well to start of with Loomis because Hampton doesn't deal with basic proportions. I switched to Hampton pretty early though because I prefer his approach on everything beyond basic proportions.

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#18
Jo! I'm at my gf's house for two weeks now so I am just able to do traditional stuff. It is a nice change. I really miss my undo and transformation tools though :D
Some head stuff (particulary low angle because I really suck at those!), gestures and two sketches.
In a about two weeks I'll probably be able to attend live drawing sessions! Sooo looking foreward!

Sry for the awful quality of the scans!!















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#19
Some face sketches. I really enjoy doing these.



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#20
Another tribal warrior design thing and some face stuff from these days. I really got to get more into the theory behind values!






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