Greatdictators Sketchbook

[Adam Lina]

I just use cheap pens that I bought a pack of. It doesnt really matter a whole lot so dont think you need a fancy expensive pen. Its always a little rough when trying out a new drawing tool. This guy has tons of pen drawing tutorials. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtPS4Ei-MwE

[futurespaceghost]

Looking awesome man! Your definately on the right track with the mannequin anatomy drawings, but it doesnt seem like they are draw from reference. Google some image of soccer players or any type if athletic act with dynamic poses and try to simply those atheletes pose to the the basic shapes on this page (cylinders and spheres)

Keep it up! :)

[smrr]

Some hard work up in here - keep at it, Greatdictator! I'm really liking the character poses in the last image! And I am seeing some improvement, which is always great ^ ^.

Something that I'd suggest (which is what I suggest to everyone, including myself) is paying attention to how things look in everyday life. Test yourself with simple objects, for example - try and draw a pair of headphones without any reference, only from your head, using your knowledge of basic form that you've been studying. And then, actually look at this pair of headphones... and I mean reeeeally look at 'em, then draw it while making glances at it when you feel stuck, however, only when you feel stuck (the 5-10mins of observation should be enough time to have picked up on the main shapes and some of the smaller details) - this way, you're seeing what you do and don't know, so that by the time you redraw the headphones completely from your head - without reference - you'd have learned even more than you thought possible.

But yase, much study, very wow
Be sure to balance all this study with work from imagination - something I neglected doing in the past and now I'm paying for it

Anyways, keep grinding, and then grind some more!

[Greatdictator]

Wow 4 months since last post..im sorry if i dont update these as much as i should but i believe in makeing a decent chunk of work before posting and not in 2-3 small sketches (if you gonna post sketches might as well make it a big one )
If you guys see any improvements or have any further advice id welcome it , sometimes i feel like i dont progress enough to validate posting and asking for further advice / criticism . But anyways here it is yet again .
So for the first set of images i decided to do something fun here cause i was running out of ideas for poses and situations etc as to what to draw so i am decideing to embarrass myself a bit and hopefully entertain you guys a bit as well .But even though in some of these will most likely look like i havent made progress in years (these are like from high school or before ) but ya know what , it was hillarious how BAD some of these doodles were from the poses to the anatomy and proportions but it did make me realize ive made some headway since then, even if it aint too impressive

tl;dr :Been a while since i posted so heres some embaressing doodles from high school that i ''upgraded''

P.S: Sorry that all of these are phone camera quality but my scanner aint working lately so there.


Ive also highlighted some of the better ones in here :P











Ya know ive definetly noticed something about these old pics , i was definetly a lot more confident with my lines haha














''Space honey badger''



















I still have some more as well as digital stuff but i think this is enough for today . Hope to see what you guys think and if ya like id gladly make more new stuff based on these old pics i did in school .

[HarbingerofIllRepute]

Very interesting interesting.

You don't see a whole lot of people revising their highschool notebook drawings, that is quite admirable.

However, I do not see one "S" symbol among your vast collection of illustrations.

I am very unsatisfied, sir.

[Greatdictator]

Very interesting interesting.

You don't see a whole lot of people revising their highschool notebook drawings, that is quite admirable.

However, I do not see one "S" symbol among your vast collection of illustrations.

I am very unsatisfied, sir.

S symbol ? you mean S curve or shape ? or am i missing something here :P

[HarbingerofIllRepute]

Very interesting interesting.

You don't see a whole lot of people revising their highschool notebook drawings, that is quite admirable.

However, I do not see one "S" symbol among your vast collection of illustrations.

I am very unsatisfied, sir.

S symbol ? you mean S curve or shape ? or am i missing something here :P

http://i.imgur.com/U9IsW.jpg

It was in everybody's binders.

No one quite knows where it came from or what it is, but bored kids from all over the world have been drawing it in their binders for decades.

[Greatdictator]

Very interesting interesting.

You don't see a whole lot of people revising their highschool notebook drawings, that is quite admirable.

However, I do not see one "S" symbol among your vast collection of illustrations.

I am very unsatisfied, sir.

S symbol ? you mean S curve or shape ? or am i missing something here :P

http://i.imgur.com/U9IsW.jpg

Stll not sure what thats a reffrence to but im sure its something cool :P that i just never got cuz im uncool

[HarbingerofIllRepute]

Very interesting interesting.

You don't see a whole lot of people revising their highschool notebook drawings, that is quite admirable.

However, I do not see one "S" symbol among your vast collection of illustrations.

I am very unsatisfied, sir.

S symbol ? you mean S curve or shape ? or am i missing something here :P

http://i.imgur.com/U9IsW.jpg

Stll not sure what thats a reffrence to but im sure its something cool :P that i just never got cuz im uncool

Haha! Yeah... I could never draw it... I got laughed at a lot.

>.>

Well, keep up the good work chief!

[meat]

Good to see you're doing studies along side creative drawings. Do more of those, particularly alongside your creative stuff. Doing ripped guys showing their guns? Make that an opportunity to look up how arm muscles anatomy are like. Got a character showing off envy-worthy abs? Do a quick look up of those pack-making muscles. Whenever possible, do studies from life using yourself with a mirror. Guy holding gun? Roll your chair over to that mirror real quick while holding a bottle of water in your own hands to see how it's posed. Keep up the good work! And keep doing what's fun for you!

I think I spot a krogan in there somewhere?

[Greatdictator]

Well day 2 of the giant sketch dump , SketchDay 2 :The bettering , this set contains some actual more proper studies :P

Lets start it off with everyones favorite BAD SKULL PRACTICE



Been trying to learn how to make female disneyesque charchters




BUTCH the biker hero






This is where the first images from my Hands Heads Bodies sketchbooks start comeing in

[Adam Lina]

I see some nice improvement. Doing tons of figure drawings is good to build up mileage but I think you could spend some time studying anatomy. If you know all the boney land marks and where what muscle connects to where, your figures will improve at a faster rate. Michael Hampton's book Figure Drawing: Design and Invention has a basic explanation of anatomy for figure drawing. I'd suggest doing some drawings of specific areas of the body and writing notes on the muscles and bones of that area. Take note of the shapes that muscles form, where they connect to the bones and how it moves. On of the great thing about learning human anatomy is that it can be applied to pretty much most animals also.

[Greatdictator]

Last post for quite a while this time DIGITAL EDITION

Yet again starting off with skulls






And Remember all that skull practice from the past post ? This is what it was for , if any of you guys got any suggestions for this id gladly like to hear it since im apperantly the guy thats responsible for makein the logo .


Yay more actual study work , i think this one turned out pretty decently




Value Studies





Concept stuff , trying to get a disney esque female charchter down.




Game Menu Concepts


Just something random i did to pass the time and get something done for the day


Army Men Stuff






(making of gif)


I do appreciate any feedback you guys :) as per usual. This is probably gonna be the last big post for a while just like usual , ill probably be back in a couple of months to annoy ya for feedback again :P thanks guys.

[Greatdictator]

Okey so gonna try and do my first weekly update so i can get some more feedback .

This weeks theme
Deus Ex 1 :)

Im probably gonna try and do a bigger final pic for next week , i kind of make it a thing of mine to every game i play through to do a bit of fanart , i think this is one of the more fun ways to get myself to do a project as well as reward myself a bit .


Okey i kinda fucked up in pictureing this XD


yea i have a couple of these unfortonetly XD i tried to change it in imgur but it didnt work



Head practice


''The staff is conspireing against me''

Okey now for some more practice stuffs
















Oh and i started watching the 1960s spdierman , Jameson has some real fun facial expressions


Well thats it for this week fellas , if ya see anything interesting or have somethign to say feel free to do so

[Greatdictator]

Okey so heres this weeks update you guys ....for some reason i went really lazy this week so not much content i did however get more studies done ...shields in particular




This ones mine the one next to it is a friends version when he tried to explain to me the way steel works....i think its obvious that i need more work :P

Monkey suggested that i do some quick thumbs for that Deus Ex image i was planning not fully sure if this is how i was suppose to do em though

Something i did for a game im helping


A pattern based off a image , i think it turned out okey


And finally so i have something proper to show off for this week , i started watching TheNextGeneration again, so i went with picard
This is the first time i used the grid system approach....not too bad i think for my first time i also used color picker as minimally as possible , i think only 2 times or so while working on the head, i think it turned out pretty alright .

In any case thats it for this week guys

[darktiste]

I see that a lot of image has been scaled down think about doing it yourself first so that when someone look into this sketchbook it take less time too load the page so they don't die of boredom before they can see anything.Note to my self stop giving tips if i am not even doing it my self.

[Greatdictator]

I see that a lot of image has been scaled down think about doing it yourself first so that when someone look into this sketchbook it take less time too load the page so they don't die of boredom before they can see anything.Note to my self stop giving tips if i am not even doing it my self.

Yeah thanks man , ive already been informed of that :P ive started sclaeing it all down now so future updates will be smaller .

I just figured the bigger it is the less i might be worried about people not seeing it fully

[Wardy]

keep going man :) you're improving a lot, you just need to keep hacking at it .

[Greatdictator]

Thanks Wardy :)

This was probably the highlight piece for this week for me , i just woke up after seeing Skin of Evil and i was like...i gotta draw this early in the morning ...could be better could be worse but for the most part its how i envisioned it :)


i managed to get this while i was working on a diffrent piece


A example of one of last weeks thumbnail sketches


Practice and skullsies





i think i mightve shrunk em a bit too much :P

finally was in the mood for Rome today and made these


I would like feedback on the warrior , i think ive gotten better with values but thats my perception which is usually wrong :P

Well anyways ill see you guys next week with another update

[Greatdictator]

Hopefully this will resolve my dumbass decision to not change the size of the pictures ive been posting and as a result lose interest of people wanting to get to the bottom of the new post :P

This week was kinda unproductive art wise , i did some other stuff but i managed to squeeze out something today cause i have obligations to this forum :P