2 posts, 2 days… what’s happening?
January 24, 2010 at 11:29 pm | In Rough Work | Leave a CommentTags: boy, digital, drawing, paint, running
I did it! 2 posts, 2 days. Is this the start of a comeback? We’ll see.
I decided to sit down and sketch tonight, not with the plan of doing a “finished” piece, but just to doodle. When I started this boy just sort of popped onto the page, so I thought I would finish it. I’m pretty pleased with the results. Like usual, I’m not really happy with the hands, but they came out better at least.
Now, tomorrow and Tuesday will be spent planning my DnD game, so I’m not sure how much time I’ll have to draw, but if I do any sketches in my downtime at work, I may scan those post-its.
Cheers.
… what new post?
January 23, 2010 at 2:15 pm | In Rough Work | 2 CommentsTags: digital, knight, sketch
So, I’ve not posted in a while. This wasn’t because I haven’t been drawing, but I’ve certainly been drawing a lot less. I’ve pretty much downsized to doodling. However I’ve been getting the itch again lately so I had a go on my Wacom again. This is what I came up with.
Funny story, I was working really zoomed in on the page, and I was really suprised at how delicate I was having to be with the pen to get my line width the way I wanted it. After I was about 3/4 of the way done, I zoomed all the way out and realized that this entire sketch filled roughly 1/15 of the page. I was way more zoomed in than I had thought.
In terms of the sketch, I like it. It’s satisfactory for coming out of retirement, so to speak. The one visible hand is not what I had wanted at all. I am terrible at drawing hands, and should probably only draw hands for a couple of weeks, but I probably won’t
I may colour this one day, but at the scale it is at, there’s probably not much point. We’ll see though.
More Life Drawing…
February 5, 2009 at 6:14 pm | In Rough Work, drawing class | Leave a CommentTags: drawing class, life drawing, pencil, sketch
I’ve still been keeping up with the life drawing, despite the fact that I have posted very little over the past month. However, here are my most recent attempts at life drawing.
He wore a hat for this one... oh and used a cane.
I am going to sit down soon and start drawing on the computer again, I’m not going to lie, the thing which has been keeping me away is the Harry Potter books. I’m on the last one now, once I’m done I’ll get some more posts up.
Also, I think I am going to begin putting my stuff up on www.deviantart.com as well.
Life Drawing Class # 2
January 7, 2009 at 10:27 pm | In Rough Work | Leave a CommentTags: life drawing, pencil, sketch
Life Drawing - 15 minute
Tonight I went to my second life drawing class, and unlike the last time I had a good time. Instead of one static pose for 3 hours we did a whole bunch of warm up sketches (2 min poses) that I did on rough paper with conte. In the last hour we did one 25 minute pose and 2 15 minute ones. The above picture was my very last of the evening and my favorite by far.
I focused on proportion (except her left right arm), and line quality. I didn’t want to worry too much about lighting or trying to create a beautiful piece of art. I wanted to pose to have weight and a bit of life. I’m really pleased with how I did for my second ever class, and I am looking forward to next week.
Edit: So I screwed up my left and right…big deal.
What can I say…
January 5, 2009 at 11:51 am | In Rough Work | Leave a CommentWow, I have taken lots of time off.
I didn’t work on either of my two last pieces since I posted them. I’ve been trying to really wind myself down. I’m back to work from my wonderful vacation and I intend to start drawing some more again. I’ll be going to my second life drawing class this Wednesday and I think I’ll make sure to post at least 1 drawing from the session.
15 minute Rorschach
December 28, 2008 at 11:03 pm | In Rough Work | Leave a CommentTags: digital, rorschach, sketch, watchmen, wip
A quick 10-15 minute rorschach sketch
After I finished my last post I opened up Illustrator and was hacking away, I was actually really pleased where this was going, but since I have to work in the morning I cut my work short. I may pick it up again after I finish the chubby Batman, but I thought I should post it.
Fat Batman WIP
December 28, 2008 at 10:42 pm | In Rough Work | Leave a CommentTags: batman, comics, dc, digital, wip
Worked on this for a couple of hours today, I drew up an initial line drawing, but decided I wanted to paint it instead, just for the added challenge. It’s a work in progress, but I think it’s coming along.
I’m hoping to finish it tomorrow if I get a chance.
Sorry for the lack of posts, Christmas/family visiting has kept me busy.
Spawn
December 22, 2008 at 10:30 pm | In Rough Work | Leave a CommentTags: digital, finished, spawn
Spawn
I was able to get something out of my digital pen that I was somewhat proud of. It can be pretty tough when things just aren’t feeling right, but after some struggling today I finally put this down.
Pretty happy with the inital sketch, the colouring job was a quick rush job, but I just wanted some basic colours to enhance the piece.
Mainly I just needed to finish something to keep my sanity.
Last week a retrospective
December 22, 2008 at 2:21 pm | In Rough Work | Leave a CommentDespite the fact that I haven’t posted anything in the last week, it doesn’t mean I’ve not been drawing.
Life Drawing
I went to my first life drawing class last Wednesday, it was a little awkward at first, but I got over it and worked on some drawings. However, I think my ideas of what I was going to take from the session got muddled and I focused on too many things at once. While I was working out proportions/angles/form I started worry about laying down my value and ways of indicating my dark and light areas.
I got pretty frustrated with myself but I’ll definitely be going back. I need to spend some time focusing on what I want to get out of a session and how to achieve that best.
I was debating whether or not to post them because of their content, but I didn’t draw anything crude so I think I’ll post them only to track my progress. I may have to bind 2 scans though because it was on big paper.
The Green Goblin
I also spent some time on a Green Goblin pic, at first I went for a complete digital painting trying to avoid the black outlines. That didnt’ work as well as I wanted so I started a more cartoony version, and while it was getting close I didn’t feel good about it, so I’ve yet to finish it.
I may leave it all together and move onto something else.
This post was more for my sake than yours, I wanted to spend some time reflecting on the last week and why I haven’t had any decent output.
Learning Resource: Colouring Ideas
December 17, 2008 at 11:01 am | In Learning Resource | Leave a CommentTags: colouring, Learning Resource
Kevin Keele's Elf...
Note: The above image was not created or altered by me but was created entirely by Kevin Keele and borrowed from his blog.
http://beawesome.blogspot.com/2007/12/woodsy-elf-making-of.html
In my reply to a friendly comment about my previous post I mentioned that I used an effects layer with a low opacity and colour gradients to get some of the shading/lighting on my Louis drawing.
The above link is where the idea came from, an artist named Kevin Keele. He does a lot of exaggerated portraits which are pretty cool. The linked post is helpful because it gives a way of thinking about colouring in layers as opposed to a straight painting. While certainly people are able to create those effects using only a single layer (or canvas) this allows you to get a nice effect in a short amount of time.
I found it helpful, I hope you do as well.
Enjoy.
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