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[dontfeeddirk]

Hi , i'm Christophe a 22 year old dude from belgium .

I'm gonna ditch some studies and sketches here :)

[Jens]

Hey, a bit of advice on your sargent study.. some of the drawing is off, pay closer attention to all the shapes. Value wise I would go back and fix a few things, the white of the eye in too light, should be a lot darker, the left eye's (our right) eyebrow is too dark etc. I would go back and really analyze those light dark patterns, as understanding them is very important.

Look for the big shadow shapes first, look for important sharp edges and in which direction they smooth out

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Here's a paintover, i'm not sure if i was clear, i marked some edges and drew arrows in the direction they transition. There's always a soft side on an edge and a harder side.

[dontfeeddirk]

Thx for the crit !
I keep having problems with eyes and having contrast in my image .
Im gonna keep it in mind .

i downloaded alchemy and make a few doodles , its a quite cool program actually and you can get cool ideas by making happy accidents :p .

greetz !

[dontfeeddirk]

quick study for bloodsports .

its sloppy and proportions are off and i didnt spend time rendering the feathers but i learned the basic form of it :) .

[brenthollowell]

nice, it would be cool to see some color studies

[Knut]

Looking good!
But as Brent said it would be cool to see some color studies!

[dontfeeddirk]

took me about an hour , drapery is hard since i havent read anything about it :/

greetz

[dontfeeddirk]

male torso study

[dontfeeddirk]

another color study , didnt came out as well :/

[dontfeeddirk]

gorilla study i did last night .

[dontfeeddirk]

Hey guys , been slacking .
did some imaginary stuff wich i almost never do and i picked up oil painting .
Tried to paint my wallet on an A5 format paper but it looks crap .
Anyway next painting will be better hopefully .

[dontfeeddirk]

Hey guys !
Here are some 1-2 min sketches from artsyposes.com i did .
And the start of my second oil painting .
I'm using a limited palette with low chroma : venetian red,yellow oker,ivory black and titanium white .
The drawing of the brush is a bit off and i have set up some middle tones , need to get more contrast , especially the drapery has to be allot brighter .

greetz

[midknight523]

Good studies.

[dontfeeddirk]

finished oil painting + 2 wips of oil paintings i'm doing now :) .

[Pedro Cardoso]

nice man!! that's the way! keep up those tradittional studies!

i have a teacher that says (when talking about digital art): does a golden pencil make you write better?

so you gotta know what to do when using the softwares, and you'll learn it just the way you're doing!! keep it up!

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Hey, a bit of advice on your sargent study.. some of the drawing is off, pay closer attention to all the shapes. Value wise I would go back and fix a few things, the white of the eye in too light, should be a lot darker, the left eye's (our right) eyebrow is too dark etc. I would go back and really analyze those light dark patterns, as understanding them is very important.

Look for the big shadow shapes first, look for important sharp edges and in which direction they smooth out

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Here's a paintover, i'm not sure if i was clear, i marked some edges and drew arrows in the direction they transition. There's always a soft side on an edge and a harder side.

that's not sargent... it's Bouguereau...

[dontfeeddirk]

hey guys , been doing some oil paintings .

[dontfeeddirk]

Been inactive for a very long time so it's time to get going again!

oil painting , entrance exam(didn't get in tho)


Animal studies in watercolor, the lizards are from life


Acrylics


Acrylics


oil painting

[dontfeeddirk]

wip for a school thing, its in watercolours which i cannot control !! :p.

[Ananda]

The still lifes are looking good! Watch out for the perspective in the heads, sometimes the features aren't well aligned.

[dontfeeddirk]

Hey guys, page 1 and 2 of my assignment. Don't know what to do with the background of page 2.