Merh's Sketchbook

[Superhmerh]

This is DAY 2 of the mini Deathline Challenge I am doing a study of Miles Davis. See here for details
http://superhmerh.tumblr.com/post/187438...-challenge.
Reference: http://rubbercityreview.com/wp-content/u...-Davis.jpg
There are a lot of things that can be improved, to be honest the only thing I am happy with is that there are harder edges in this unlike pretty much all my work.

[Superhmerh]

Calabash Tree study for enviroment of the week ( at the top) and and the concept for the enviroment of the week ( at the bottom).]
Crits are very much welcomed :D

[Superhmerh]

Jellyfish Speedpainting

[Superhmerh]

The 1st image was a portrait I did today, I was trying to try out some new pencil rendering techniques, here is the reference: http://www.99facesofoccupywallst.org/Alexi
The likeness is meh ( the chin is way too long and the right cheek is further down the left cheek ), but it was more about rendering that likeness, but with more practise I will be able to get likeness more spot on.
The 2nd image is a film still from The Hobbit. The shading is...flat and that was what I was trying to avoid in the first picture. I did this about 3 days ago. Reference: http://www.thehobbitblog.com/wp-content/...rimage.jpg.
As always crits are welcomed!

Also for both posts I have noticed one major thing, I can't draw hair so I think I will be doing some studies soon on hair....

[Superhmerh]

my eh... bloodsports

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My anatomy is quite off in the last one and in the second one

[isra-ac]

Good work Merh! One little advice, for standing characters, look at some references and you will see how they don't usually paint the legs that paralel, gives more naturality to the pose ;)