Greatdictators Sketchbook

[Greatdictator]

Another day another addition

Finally started practicing poses again , kind of have trouble doing everything below the knees cause of how the skeleton bends but i think these first couple of ones are pretty good


Started looking into noses and eyes recently , i am haveign some trouble makeing em look more 3D


Also did some digital paint on a basic 3D image a friend sent me....its rather bleh but figured it was worth showing



Its ment to be a sci fi scene but i am honestyl stumped as to how to go about detailing n such can you guys help me out ?

[crackedskull]

Keep it up!
On designing sci-fi maybe this will help http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0Vi97IVCzw
Just look on google, DA and Conceptart for sci fi stuff and get inspired.
Good luck and work hard.

[meat]

blue, Tron-style light elements often are associate with Sci-Fi, pink tends to get associated with retro, if it's the only or dominant light element. Also, some backstory could help you figure out what details to put in (eg. if the species visiting tend to be tall, big-skulled, the door shape reflects that)

[Amit Dutta]

Hey man, nice start on the studying. As others have said continue to focus predominantly on the fundamentals first before trying to get bogged down with how to detail environments and such things. Figure practice is very important and does teach you the basics of drawing and constructing so keep doing those. At the moment your proportions are probably the most in need of work, both in face and body. loomis has great breakdowns of these, so really work on getting them right with each study. You are still drawing things according to how you think they are rather than how they actually are, particularly eyes and lips. A good exercise is to take any photo of a persons face, turn it upside down and draw just the shapes you see...then flip it over. You might be surprised how much better it turns out than if you were trying to draw it the other way around. This is because your brain isn't used to seeing upside down faces so you won't be trying to draw an eye but whatever shape is actually there.

Im addition to this I would would start drawing primitive objects (cubes, spheres, cones, cylinders, etc) in perspective and shading them according to different light sources. If you can use 3d software you can render out a whole stack of these as reference and then try and draw them yourself. This will help you to understand volume, perspective lighting and rendering form using value.

Really just keep practicing and learning to draw whatever you see, not what you think you see!
Keep it up!

[Greatdictator]

Thanks guys

Well had a rather productive day today did some quick digital ones , went outside and drew a roman (with reffrence from a book , didnt say it was great heh). Did some perspective work that ended up being rather interesting and base shapes .
But yeah today was rather productive.




Really like the perspective here


The roman although this made me realize what my problem with proportions was , i still kind of like . Was a rather relaxing bit on the beach to do




Hands Hands HANDS

Also Jazz Hands

[Adam Lina]

Nice progress so far. Keep practicing breaking things down into their most basic forms. I recommend these videos if you havnt seen them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qwt_wggU...687B0FF64A
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nRHfcqjb...687B0FF64A

[darktiste]

I would suggest you to avoid getting into the habit of marking bad drawing with a X mark.Why you might ask well for the simple reason that you don't need to mark them if you know they arent good enought instead of marking them for each one you would have mark with a x draw redraw it until you are happy with the result and then put a smile mark instead of a x mark.There you go you are now a little more positive then before.

[Greatdictator]

Thanks for the advice guys , sorry i havent been uploading for like a week , my computer suddenly went poof and kaput nothing serious but enough to cripple my uploads but i have been doing practice

I wont upload it all at once though

[Greatdictator]

Well i did some gesture practice recently , think it came out pretty good for the most part

These are mostly 30 second gestures so you guys tell me how i fared

[Greatdictator]

More stuff before i stop posting for a while again (like 2 months or so :/(heading to zagreb thats why ))



I am REALLY haveing trouble with foreheads most of mine end up too short






Okey these thumbnails i kind of like cause they are based off of some drawings i did as a kid and it made me feel kinda nice
when i saw the diffrence between em in terms of my ability actually being able to draw have come ...even if they still arent all that great

[Amit Dutta]

Maybe this one will help you figure out how to map out figure landmarks in a more methodical way?

[smrr]

Aww, well - so long as you're still working hard!

Also, happy birthday man! :D hope you're having a good one, wherever you are .____. haha

[Greatdictator]

Thanks a monkeybeard the video is rather usefull

Well ive been in Zagreb for around a month now ...im sad to say i have been slacking a bit but im on a team of game designers now and one of the guys is a really good artist so hes helping me out a bit, since i dont have my tablet with me and either a scanner or Photoshop i cant do much to show you guys some of the new stuff ive made ...however i HAVE been practicing cel shadeing / coloring recently since i cant do much else .So heres some of the stuff ive managed to do over the past mmmm 3 or so days .

Heres the biggest one ive worked on with flat color and with shadeing
NOTE:My friend did the lineart on the girl the robot i got off of google


And heres my first practice , if you put them in the right order in a image viewing software it looks like the light is spinning around






Aw didnt excpect to see a happy birthday post here especially since i thought my sketchbook thread got buried under lots of other ones , thanks smrfette :D

[Greatdictator]

Hey guys .

Well finally managed to find a way to scan in some of the stuff ive been drawing / practicing up here .

Its been a while so i would appreciate any feedback you can give , to see weather ive made any improvements or not .
Just so i dont overdo it i wont post all of em at once so i can get feedback on more specific stuff

So these first ones are essentially a concept based on the army men games , i tried to design a 2D shooter game with that theme









And heres A bunch of practice stuff i did




And just for fun
A old picture that was in the notebook

A attempt at a newer version
(obviously failed though :P)
And something i did cause i felt it sounded cool at the time to end the notebook on

[Adam Lina]

It looks like you're having a lot of fun with drawing. Thats the way to do it! It reminds me of when I was younger and use to do drawings like your side view army men game design. I use to draw stick figure obstacle courses lol. I need to get back to drawing things from my imagination and just having more fun with drawing. Try to draw everyday if you can and try to carefully observe things in real life. Also you should try out different drawing tools. Pen seems scary at first but its actually a really nice feeling when you get use to not being able to erase. Great job and keep it up!

[Greatdictator]

It looks like you're having a lot of fun with drawing. Thats the way to do it! It reminds me of when I was younger and use to do drawings like your side view army men game design. I use to draw stick figure obstacle courses lol. I need to get back to drawing things from my imagination and just having more fun with drawing. Try to draw everyday if you can and try to carefully observe things in real life. Also you should try out different drawing tools. Pen seems scary at first but its actually a really nice feeling when you get use to not being able to erase. Great job and keep it up!

Well i wanted to gives pens a try , hell i tried pens when i was younger ...or at the very least what is ment to be a pen in my language, but they never got the results i wanted i guess it was cause they were those blue ment for writing pens ...any pens youd recommend cause i have no idea what kind i should be looking for

And yeah i try to have fun as much as i can with this otherwise id be put off of drawing completely lol . Ive been doing some concept work for a actual game that im helping out on so youll get to see those later :).

I really should get out into a cafe or something with a sketchbook . Havent done that in a while heh.

[Greatdictator]

Second day second post this one is primarily practice but this first image is a concept for how the area of a game im working on is suppose to look , gonna post designs for some of the enemys tommorow

[Greatdictator]

Here are some designs ive been working on for the game , this time its the enemys .

[Greatdictator]

So heres some proper practices i did , i think they turned out pretty good .







And if anyone knows who Woolie from Two Best Friends is then you might recognize this .
As for the colored and inked version i thought id try to do line weight variation , do tell me whatcha think of it ?


Sketch version

Finished

[Greatdictator]

Some stuff ive done today , finally gotten around to doing more with the tablet