Sketches...

just dumping my current sketches for yall to see... currently.. ive been sitting at the computer and drawing... so i've been looking at various artists work and trying to draw the same thing... yet a lot of them dont turn out to look like the actual pic... yet it still looks semi decent...

after hearing that kimchi was leaving... i searched his name and took up several of his drawings... some turned out to be total crap.. but at least they still look like some sort of object...

the two big faces i used ref from someones sketch book at conceptart.org.. the others i made up..


drawn out of my sick demented mind...



got bored... so i drew.... no ref.



i saw kimchis bodies.. so i drew the figure on the top right from memory.. not actually looking at the computer... the bottom left is of my friend.. and the other two.. i just drew...



orc from warcraft book....



all non refed...



i spent an hr-ish looking at kimchis stuff....this was produced....

Soooo niiiiceeeee! I love the woman lying by the window. You really did a good job. Keep on posting all your stuff for us!

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Ah! Very nice, I can see you are working hard to improve. I like to see that. You've improved much from what I see. I also (in addition to the previous poster) like the woman you drew by the window. Looks great, serene, pieceful, very nice. I like how you show the values of your drawings, all of the pages are full and very complete looking. Your shading style and mine are so much alike it's uncanny, incredulous. (It's a great shading style by the way)

I personally think this is the best improvement batch shown on the site.

Nice Pics dude ^_^

@mara. thx.. even though i find it odd that u like the only pic that is unfinished.. lol.

@currupted. glad u like the pics ^_^

@Moon. i love it when u reply... both u and beam give good crits... ogre gives good crits too.. but i dont think he comes around here as much... anyways... id like to think i improved too. i've been trying to get realism down before i do any conceptual stuff... id say a couple more months of doing realism in my sketch book, then im off to doing more abstract stuff.

love it...the orc from wc3 book is sweet and girl by window was beast....

what are you talking about? i don't give good crits. you suck.

nah i'm just kidding. anyway, nice sketches. you're getting better at getting the form and proportions down. you should work on your rendering now. try to get cleaner smoother shading. color in the lines in other words. also take your time. from the looks of these, you probably didnt take longer than... i dunno, maybe 30 minutes? try to work longer on a single image rather than a bunch of pictures. up the quality of your work, rather than the quantity. oh and your hatching lines could be somewhat more uniform. try shading with a really sharp pencil (or mechanical. whatever tickles your pickle). works great for hatching. also if youre gonna do hatching, try to make the lines go in one general direction, rather than all over the place. looks cleaner.

but yeah. nice overall. good job on the shading of the space around the sketches. always nice to add some form of background to contrast.

o jeez.. i havent been on in a while. im getting too addicted to WoW.... i havent been drawing that much lately either. i need to take a break from it and sit down to draw. The only problem is that nothing inspires me. but that one pic u drew of the forest was pretty sweet. it made me want to do some sort of scenery.. i just had no ref, and didnt really know what to do... so i just didnt do it.

o wells... ill try to get more drawing done. i draw in class, but its always ppl in clothes... i want to draw some naked people, or at least ppl in tight clothes, and doing poses. lately, my art teacher just has me go around school yanking ppl out of their classes(i get my friends out of their AP classes ^_^ ), and setting them up on a stool, turning off the lights, and putting on a spot light of some sort. Its fun i guess.. but im not really improving. he's emphazing composition.. which i already have a firm grasp on.. what i need to do is form, and figure drawing.

A few times, we went down to the dance class and he wanted us to draw ppl in movement... and let me tell you... hard as hell!!!!!. i want just sit down, take it slow, and get a good drawing done in pencil... not this pastel, and chalk/charcoal crap he makes us do.... gosh... i didnt realize i had so much to say.. lol.. one i started typing.. it just sorta flowed out. All in all... ill draw more. haha

from what i can see its looking good.

nice sketches there's no crit i can say about it.

great work.

Pretty good stuff here. Your pencilwork has a good quality and character to it.

I would, however, caution against getting too comfortable with emulating other people's artwork. There's nothing wrong with it to get a start, but its usually a better idea to draw from life. Granted, that is not always possible when the desired subject matter is not available with any degree of convenience. But when you work from other artwork, or even photographs, certain relationships vanish and you as an artist have less decisions to make in the process of transferring a three-dimensional space into a two-dimensional image, as much of that work has already been done for you. I know, it isn't a perfect world, and it is difficult to draw from life at every turn. Ideally, you should supplement your drawings with real-life studies at your best convenience.

Having said that, I still like what I see. How big are most of these sketches? Judging from the pencil lines, I shouldn't say too big, but then appearances can be decieving.

Hah, drawing forms in dance class is a good exercise, no matter how much it may grate on your nerves. Learning to loosen up and lay down those strokes which are integral to the essence of the form is important, and it forces you to dissociate from the smaller details and concentrate on the form as a whole.

But truth to tell, in our drawing class when we had to do gesturals and the model only held her pose for five seconds at a time, I was frustrated at first. But after a little while, I found my rhythm and things became more enjoyable and more beneficial, I should say. I've never been too partial to charcoal; I've found black conte crayons to be better suited to that quick work.

Keep up the good work!