Crimson Daggers — Art forum

Hi everyone, i`ll be slowly updating this sketchbook, cause of day job and extra projects i have to do. Still fundamentals is the goal, so here`s some master, color studies of works that hooked my eye.

Colour studies are looking good so far :). Looking forward to seeing more of your work. Keep it up!

Hello Paul! You have great colour studies here, can't wait to see more of your work!

Did some face studies, trying to get proportions right.

struggle is real 

some stuff from my sketchbook

applying portrait studies and bw sketch + some sketch i'll be doing these more often

Hi.
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It seems the lighting is everywhere. It's hard to tell where the sources are or how many are there in that particular piece. 

Suggestions:

1. If you think the light setup is too overwhelming, scale the amount back to just one primary light source. If you haven't come across this, there's a head lighting reference in Art of Wei's youtube (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kA7mFUWlZjU) I refer to that when I do paintings so the light will be more or less consistent.

2. Here's a guide to planes of the head

Try googling, 'Asaro head'!

3. If that's complicated, scale back again and try to render a sphere! Check this one out: http://www.dorian-iten.com/shading-mistakes/ 

(Better yet, check everything Dorian Iten has to offer!)

Hey man, good luck! Sweet monster designs!

Thanks John, great constructive crits, gotta work on structure more, nice references! Here's some more sketches.

portraits studies photo and girl from imagination

started in yo face challange and color study

Nice stuff, man. Keep at it. Also, I think you should definitely work more on simplifying stuff, going straight for those primal geometric forms, and then adding anything and everything atop of it. Otherwise, it looks wonky. I'm struggling with it myself, so yeah, I'm there right with you on this trip. Cheers, man. ;)

And happy painting! :D

Thanks devares, yeah these gemetric forms is quite hard to do as you are starting out, asaro head does help a bit but still doodling to much..

more in yo face challenge works

more in yo face challenge works

recent stuff

recent works