Crimson Daggers — Art forum

heyyyyy nice grind over here, you sir are in dire need of doing peter hans dyanmic sketching course, your tonal control is very goodtho so thats why id loe to see better drawing! since tonal stuff is so good the drawing mistakes stand out way more! also you lose track of scale often! other than that keep at it :D

Really nice start on your new sketchbook. You got some good studies going on and I really like the birds and tanks.

I think your paintings would jump up to a whole new level if you minded your edges a bit more, Think where to use your soft brush for subtle variations and where to use your hard edged brush for more harsh variations. This will define your forms a lot better and I think this will help you to do even better portraits. Keep it up, I can't wait to see more :)

Nice stuff, was the last piece in your last post a study or your own work? Either way very impressive. Definitely feel like your digital painting is improving purely from the mileage of studies you're doing. It's good you're doing studies from life also. Would like to see some more imagination stuff and application of knowledge but other than that awesome start!

hey cicakkia
Great digital studies!
These last ones of February show a lot of improvement regarding the colors. 
The ocean one is very nice in terms of colors and saturation.
I second darktiste's comment. working more on the structure of the face could help!

Keep up the good work!

The time spent on value really shows! I love your traditional sketches, too.

Also, I feel like something really clicked when you did the still life painting. Definitely do more of those.

Also also, you really seem to love drawing animals. Your creature drawings and paintings are just lovely! I'm glad to see you take advantage of that by, say, adding a parrot to your pirate's shoulder.

@dawckward
yea, I need practice more on those things. Will learn a bit more of Peter han's sketching.  

@-echo-
Thanks, echo. Yea, this is what I wanted to overcome. My edge is pretty lacking on some certain part. Will keep an eye on it

@MannionJJ2020
yea, that one I did for community challenge. It really helps me to think more than I usually do. I try to do more like this in the future

@VoodooMama[b]
Thanks, VoodooMama. I wish human faces are not complicated

@Tygerson[/color]
I like drawing animals very much at the beginning. But because due to work demand, I just now doing various things, study here and there. Glad you like the traditional, I will try to post more

Thank you for all the comment. It really motivates me to keep going

Here some study and sketches on late february and early march

Some light study on simplify face structure
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making fanart of Overlord,
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Some sketches dino skeleton
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T rex sketches
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Thumbail value studies
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Couple sketches studies from movie. Some scene I'm improvise a little
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Some traditional sketches
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That overlord skull looks really solid! The forms around it look a little unsure--maybe if you build a simple lighting setup with a spot light and some balls/toilet paper rolls/boxes it will help. I've got the same problem though, and haven't yet solved it. Maybe someone else will have a suggestion.

Those face structure studies look really helpful. Those movie studies turned out nice, too.

(03-09-2018, 02:35 AM)Tygerson Wrote: [ -> ]That overlord skull looks really solid!  The forms around it look a little unsure--maybe if you build a simple lighting setup with a spot light and some balls/toilet paper rolls/boxes it will help.  I've got the same problem though, and haven't yet solved it.  Maybe someone else will have a suggestion.

Those face structure studies look really helpful.  Those movie studies turned out nice, too.

ah ok, I haven't thought about building lighting setup for study. I'll try to keep that in mind 


Mid march study

Thumbnail study start with 2 value.
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Adding 4 value
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Adding basic color
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Adding mood and atmosphere
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Sketch eagle from some random national geographic video
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Another thumbnail study in progress
start 2 value
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Add 4 value
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Great work on your studies! Keep em coming and keep em varied! Reminds me that I should also go and do more value studies :)

(03-22-2018, 11:09 PM)Elderscroller Wrote: [ -> ]Great work on your studies! Keep em coming and keep em varied! Reminds me that I should also go and do more value studies :)

Thank you, Elderscroller


Mid march and april
some comunity challenge to try redesign wizard of OZ characters to steampunk characters

Dorothy sketches and line
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Tinman line
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Scarecrow line
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Cowardly lion line
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Size comparison
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Dissatisfy on tinman cause looks a lot like c3po from star wars. Lol


dragon value sketching
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Wolf portrait sketches
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Sketch from photo reference and practice Black&white to color
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random movie scene study value
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Sketch value from imagination
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Update

Add some fictional character
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Value study from photo
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Photo study
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Some sketches inspired from Frostpunk

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here something I use photo bash and  try resketching it
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This one I can't tell if the scaling is somewhat right or value need some adjustment or both. The back is a valley and suppose to be an industrial city. Need help for giving some advice is really appreciate
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update

Giving some mood color
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other alternative mood
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Fanart Gearless Joe from Megalabox
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Fantasy Dino portrait sketch
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Update

Change color to more less saturate
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Thumbnailing Loose sketches
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value photo study1
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Value photo study2
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Simplify Value study from movie. Each took 10 or 15 minutes
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Color study sketches
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Cocker Spaniel color sketch
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Color sketch. The little critter inspired from jerboa
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Old granny sketch from photo ref
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Knight sketch from photo
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With helmet
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Your studies are great! Keep going!

(06-29-2018, 08:48 AM)Jackeloop Wrote: [ -> ]Your studies are great! Keep going!

Thanks :)


Updated
Been awhile I forgot to post. Here some I did study back months ago

value sketch on some portrait of heroes Marvel :)
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Simplify Value sketch
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Line sketches
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Less portrait more gesture study.

(11-12-2018, 03:59 PM)darktiste Wrote: [ -> ]Let portrait more gesture study.

Yea, I still sucks on that

it's Been a while 

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Study value, color and light

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