Back to the basics

[darktiste]

I think the zombie piece show that you could use some practice when it come to foreshorten and estimating proportion when the body bend.

Gotta say i love the ink stuff but how is a zombie suppose to keep is ears? You know ears are most cartilage right?

[calebartist]

I think the zombie piece show that you could use some practice when it come to foreshorten and estimating proportion when the body bend.

Gotta say i love the ink stuff but how is a zombie suppose to keep is ears? You know ears are most cartilage right?

Most definitely! I'll keep that in mind with foreshortening and estimating proportions.

Since I'm also drawing directly in ink, I only decided to make it a more skeletal face "after" that part was drawn (basically drew the ear first), and since there is no erasing in ink, drawing over it would just ruin it haha, I thought about drawing over it with ink, but the pointy part of the ear was already sticking out. Thanks for the tips! We'll just sum him up as a weird zombie creature, with patches of skin still left and other parts rotting.

[darktiste]

You can make some short study of about 30min to 1hour of people sitting or sleeping but i wouldn't focus on the negative space or paint because it won't teach you about applying proportion in perspective i would approch this purely with lineart only. I would say you should focus on basic form such as cylinder and other basic construction to create basic mannequin. If you don't know any construction method you can apply the one use by loomis.

Some great exercise to ease yourself practicing foreshorten in perspective is to copy first what are on those page then apply those principle rather than to copy what you see here. So observation (figuring the rule)by breaking it down then applying the rule but making something new rather then only copying.

[calebartist]

You can make some short study of about 30min to 1hour of people sitting or sleeping but i wouldn't focus on the negative space because it won't teach you about applying proportion in perspective. I would say you should focus on basic form such as cylinder and other basic construction to create basic mannequin. If you don't know any construction method you can apply the one use by loomis.

Some great exercise to ease yourself practice foreshorten in perspective is to copy the Loomis

Will definitely start doing that, recently re-downloaded all his books (as well as Michael hampton's) so hopefully in conjunction they'll work. I studied them in the past, but I didn't study them critically enough or was too young at the time to put what I learned into actual practice, + just need to practice that more in general. Thanks!

[Jephyr]

A lot of impressive work you've shared here. Keep it up

[calebartist]

Thanks Jephyr! and will do, for the first time in years actually feels like I'm getting somewhere- or at least closer to where I'd like to be as an artist. But, there's still a long road ahead.

[calebartist]

Sorry for no Update!

Decided to take art a bit more seriously again, started taking courses from here. Much better than wandering like I have been. www.svslearn.com, this place has been fundamental in keeping me more in line with my goals, thankful for crimson daggers. Expect much more drawings in time to come.

[darktiste]

Sorry for no Update!

Decided to take art a bit more seriously again, started taking courses from here. Much better than wandering like I have been. www.svslearn.com, this place has been fundamental in keeping me more in line with my goals, thankful for crimson daggers. Expect much more drawings in time to come.

It amazing that the last thing you said was you had a long road ahead... and i think that what ultimately was where you fall off... you loose sight of what to do next and all that momentum correct me if i am wrong was lost that goal that seem so close became so far all of a sudden.

What class are you ''aiming for'' or taking?

Oh and before i leave if i can also make an other ''observation'' or share from my experience maybe the pattern of ''falling off'' as something to do with taking class and than being left on your own again... maybe i have some advise on that... if you think that speak to you...

Looking forward to seeing more from you.

[calebartist]

Honestly art has always made my life worth living, I just always lacked the confidence and especially talent necessary to truly make it. It's my 31st birthday today though but hopefully I can remain committed. I am also eager to hear what you have to say about not falling off. 

I'm just doing a subscription plan and started on the basic foundation course. Expect my traditional stuff to not be as clean because it's harder for me to draw sometimes, anyways here's something quick for a drawing upside down exercise and a digital portrait I meant to share last week. 

Heck maybe this sketchbook will last ten years as well like the one I made on conceptart.org. For now you'll just have to watch me shake off the rust a little, and regain my old discipline.

[darktiste]

Well not falling off is not a secret there as to be reward and celebration to the journey and finding support and continual interest in what we do isn't always organic sometime you got to put some wood in the fire one way or an other.

Consistency via accountability and a backbone to receiving positive feedback goes a long way not to be overcome by stagnation and have goal that drive one toward a continual stream of small victory that keep the momentum going.

Some of people do art simply because they enjoy it but how do they continue growing when the world is a giant distraction? You kind of have to reduce the noise of the world make yourself a quiet place and make the best out of your time and resource. Not many put enough effort or have the will to sacrifice there resource to assemble the condition to channel there creativity.


The problem often happen when we forget this

What do we buy excuse or do we value something? It not excuse if you don't want to sacrifice something it the measure of how much you value something.

Think of drawing as would you rather be... Drawing or Else if you can find way to ''shift'' what you do toward drawing than that mean you can ''find way to draw more''. But it also something that is ''dynamic'' what we do affect everything we do. When we do something we expend energy... sometime that energy exchange is positive sometime it negative... it not always gonna be a consistent clear picture to what bring positivity to were life so you have to be also conformable with not necessary perceiving positive result right away(or persistence in other way) a bit like someone who goes to the gym and want big muscle the next day... delaying gratification and enjoying ''the pain of growth''

[Crowbit]

It makes me want to cry when people talk about Conceptart.org :(
I think a lot of us miss those days dearly. Your sketchbook reminds me of that site.
Glad to hear you're getting back into it, you should go full ham mode for 6 months and then you'd be a beast for sure ^^

Looking forward to more art

[calebartist]

It makes me want to cry when people talk about Conceptart.org :(
I think a lot of us miss those days dearly. Your sketchbook reminds me of that site.
Glad to hear you're getting back into it, you should go full ham mode for 6 months and then you'd be a beast for sure ^^
Looking forward to more art

Thanks, man! I’m really glad I could bring you back to that era though it’s sad the site shut down. I actually lost a ton of drawings and paintings because they were only saved in my sketchbook.

Your idea’s a good one. It’d be nice to feel that sense of progression in my life again. I’ll try to stick with it as much as I can—Honestly, if money weren’t a factor, I’d just spend all day practicing and making art. I’m sure a lot of people feel the same. it goes back to those age-old questions - like what would we do if our survival and daily needs were met. Instead, I've lived a life for a while that while may look like poverty to some, let me continue pursuing goals. I do regret it at times, but I've gained a lot of life lessons (and did a lot of odd jobs) since then. Health issues also got in the way, but I' focused on improving my overall health, fitness and diet alongside everything else so that it doesn't happen again.

I miss having that goal of reaching the pinnacle, I think the rise of AI kind of made my dreams fizzle out for a while, but there’s no changing that. At the very least, I just want to make art for the joy it brings me. If it ever becomes something real again, that would be more than I could ever hope for. Hard to imagine right now though, because from where I stand I still feel like I'm looking from the bottom of the well, up at the bright and beautiful stuff other people are capable of creating.

In the meantime, I was actually leveling up my writing—working on around six different stories and studying the styles of other authors, and did a whole heap of reading. Maybe that knowledge of story and storytelling could impact my future art, who knows really.

[calebartist]

Well not falling off is not a secret there as to be reward and celebration to the journey and finding support and continual interest in what we do isn't always organic sometime you got to put some wood in the fire one way or an other.

Consistency via accountability and a backbone to receiving positive feedback goes a long way not to be overcome by stagnation and have goal that drive one toward a continual stream of small victory that keep the momentum going.

Some of people do art simply because they enjoy it but how do they continue growing when the world is a giant distraction? You kind of have to reduce the noise of the world make yourself a quiet place and make the best out of your time and resource. Not many put enough effort or have the will to sacrifice there resource to assemble the condition to channel there creativity.


The problem often happen when we forget this

What do we buy excuse or do we value something? It not excuse if you don't want to sacrifice something it the measure of how much you value something.

Think of drawing as would you rather be... Drawing or Else if you can find way to ''shift'' what you do toward drawing than that mean you can ''find way to draw more''. But it also something that is  ''dynamic'' what we do affect everything we do. When we do something we expend energy... sometime that energy exchange is positive sometime it negative... it not always gonna be a consistent clear picture to what bring positivity to were life so you have to be also conformable with not necessary perceiving positive result right away(or persistence in other way) a bit like someone who goes to the gym and want big muscle the next day... delaying gratification and enjoying ''the pain of growth''

Sorry for not going in depth to my response but I've internalized a lot of these words, and will try to take them to heart. For drawing I'd like for it to be as breathing again. The joy of growth, leveling up and improving my art was a daily source of joy for me in the past and I think somewhere along the line I forgot that. It's not just about the destination, but the journey itself. I'm no longer the 12 year old with a dream anymore, and can see myself and my art for what it is at this moment. I'm grown now, and have made both mistakes and progress in my life. But, I can see the path again before me and what it will take, even the small thing of sharing and talking about it here helps give me strength.


In the attic I found it,
An old sketchbook,
its spine a whispered secret
of ink-stained memories and hopeful dreams.

Each page a doorway where time lingers
With dust motes dancing in a silent sunbeam,
tracing the delicate contours of forgotten sketches
that once breathed life into my reverie.

I ran my fingers along creased edges,
feeling the pulse of past memories etched in graphite,
each line a soft murmur of journeys embarked upon.
Adventure captured in a moment of raw creation.

Here in these faded lines,
lies a testament
a chronicle of dreams, fragile yet enduring,
reminding me that beauty is found
in the quiet persistence of aging ink and hope.