Rihla's Sketchbook

[Rihla]

Hi everyone, my name is Yaaseen and I am a 22 year old artist, from England.

I have been painting digitally for some 6ish years now, with varying levels of dedication. My goal is to eventually become a concept artist or illustrator, or just be able to contribute to creative projects with my skills. I draw a lot of inspiration from artists like Anthony Jones, and Vlad Gheneli, the latter being the one who inspired me to begin this thread after I found their own sketchbook on here. The complete list of my inspirations would be endless, so I'll cut it there.

I'm starting this sketchbook so that I have a place to post my work for people to see, without having the pressures of only feeling able to post finished or 'good' work. I am lacking direction in my art at the moment, and while my passion is at an all time high, I find it difficult to channel that energy, and often end up 'studying' with no real, solid goals in mind other than to get better and make what I want. That's what I'm hoping to change by organising my thoughts along with my work here in this thread.

I'm not very familiar with online forums, especially posting on them, so please let me know if I commit any faux pas in the process of sharing my work and interacting with everyone! Please do also let me know what you think of my work if you feel like providing critique or feedback.

Here are some examples of my better work, ranging from older to more recent, just to give a feel of the kind of things I like to paint and draw. I'm not sure how to upload more images at once, there seems to be a size limit, even though these are well under 2.1mb haha.










I'm looking forward to posting more and talking with everyone!

[Rihla]

Here is a study from tonight - it's hard to balance work with painting, so I think it's important to have a clear short term and mid term goal to strive for with each painting session to make the best use of my time. I am currently attempting to improve my painting skills - specifically rhythm and flow of shapes, as well as values when painting.




I think I didn't push the values quite enough - this seems to be the case when painting on my display tablet, I'll have to switch photoshop between monitors to gauge the contrast better. More studies it is!

[one_two]

Welcome to Daggers mate! Nice drawing/rendering skills so far! Not having a goal and doing studies is fine. Take your time, there's nowhere to rush, no takeaway at the end. Enjoy the process because that's the most important part I think.

[Rihla]

Welcome to Daggers mate! Nice drawing/rendering skills so far! Not having a goal and doing studies is fine. Take your time, there's nowhere to rush, no takeaway at the end. Enjoy the process because that's the most important part I think.

Cheers for the welcome (: - yeah it's a hard balance to strike between relaxing and enjoying the process and studying with a focus on improvement!

[Rihla]

A couple of studies trying to incorporate flow as best I can - The flow and energy are present in the silhouettes, but the smaller shapes need further simplifying to work with the larger ones. Also trying to improve my ability to confidently move from sketch to painting.







The conception of form is also lacking, especially in the statue. I'll Try and incorporate this into the next studies