one_two's sketchbook

[IrishWhiskey]

I always find myself back at your sketchbook. 

Love the variety these days, especially the loose sketches on paper.

[Pensword]

Hello,
it is cool how many figures you drew. It is always fun to look through things like that.

It is just my impression and I might be wrong, but many of your characters give me the feeling that their arms are too short. Maybe you have trained yourself with a wrong landmark for the ellbow?
That was just the impression I got. Maybe checking this could improve your figures even more.

[Lunatique]

Hello,
it is cool how many figures you drew. It is always fun to look through things like that.

It is just my impression and I might be wrong, but many of your characters give me the feeling that their arms are too short. Maybe you have trained yourself with a wrong landmark for the ellbow?
That was just the impression I got. Maybe checking this could improve your figures even more.

Seems fine to me. In some the arms are actually too short with the elbow too high. The average standard has the elbow roughly at the same height as the narrowest part of the waist when standing straight. Some people have longer or shorter arms than that since that' the average standard.

[one_two]

IrishWhiskey, glad you enjoy the things I do, thanks
Pensword, Lunatique, thanks for commenting guys. As for the arms I don't know, there might be something wrong with the length on some figures I've done as well as other things, I'll make use of the observation.                                    

[Lunatique]

In the latest, the two figures on the right now have arms too short (unless the references you used actually had people with shorter arms). Usually, when a person is standing straight with arms straight down. the wrist will be about the same as where the legs meet the groin (bottom end of the torso), and the elbow will be at the narrowest part of the waist.

[one_two]

Lunatique, yes, indeed
I think I'm done with this oil painting, took me approximately 3.5 months to paint it. 

[one_two]

Here's a drawing in graphite for a change. Haven't drawn with pencils in years.

[one_two]

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[darktiste]

Those are some solid portrait.

[cgmythology]

Nice update, that portrait looks ace! Nicely constructed and drawn /shaded, good stuff!

[one_two]

darktiste, CG, thanks guys

[darktiste]

Definitely not something easy it not just a generic head, you are wrestling with likeness in a variety of difficult angle with relative success keep going. Kinda genius how you also simplify your task by putting a cap to some of those head i suppose it leave you more time to focus on something else then the simplification of hair or maybe it just the subject matter that make this happy accident.

Have you studied how to simplify hair mass or different hair color and hair type?

[one_two]

darktiste, thanks. i simplify all the time when I'm doing these drawings. I try to do them quick, 4-5 minutes on each head, so I use block in principles, try to avoid drawing a lot of curves.
So here's a preparatory study for an oil portrait a relative of mine asked me to paint a few years back. He wanted a portrait of himself with a lion. While that might seem as a silly idea I think of it as another challenge for myself. I already stretched the linen and done the priming part. The size of this painting will be 105,8 x 121,7 cm or 41.65 x 47,9 inches.

[one_two]

psh.psh

[Daft Sketch]

Hey one_two!

First I just wanna say wow, what incredible output. Lots of time and effort put into these paintings and it shows. It's hard work doing multifigure paintings while telling a story and everything. Really nice work, I'm impressed.

This could be taste and subjectivity, but I'm thinking you could try, if you want, playing around with shadow shapes more. Right now there are lot's of things going on in the mid range values and not many deeper shadows. You could try linking those deep crevice shadows and cast shadows together for intresting shapes. This would also lessen the amount of details in the over all picture, making it a tiny bit less fatiguing for the eyes, while also adding more drama.
Frank Frazetta, did this very well. Here's an example: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0894/8...1686945006

You can do this shape-linking with anything really, works best if in the same value range though I think.

Anyway, great stuff , keep rocking!

[one_two]

Daft Sketch, thanks for kind words man. I get your point about the shapes and their unification which can be very effective, like in the example by Frazetta you posted.

So here's yet another study for an oil painting I'm planning to make and an underpainting of a self-portrait.

[darktiste]

A solid piece with a solid composition a nice value range.

Perhaps some of the stone feel a bit under rendered maybe it on purpose maybe it not. I think the important is being deliberate by creating area of rest and area of interest for example the statue feel like they would have been better candidate for texture but you did it like the other way around and made the stone a bit more textured.

You can create interest with many thing texture being one. I also like how the stair in the background act as some kind of architectural symmetry to the stair in the foreground. It just rare to see architecture around here so it refreshing.

I really love the elevate position she as over the scene with the fountain and the lake i enjoy reflection specially if there a sense of volume to the water with distortion.

[one_two]

darktiste, thanks for the feedback, always appreciate it.
Made two more sketchbooks for oil painting. The one I made two years ago isn't enough (oils take time to dry).

[cgmythology]

Nice updates! I really dig the look of the portrait, the lighting and skin tones are very nicely done! Great job!

[one_two]

thanks, CG