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7mo
maciek szczech
#240212 Practice / study drawings. RSB sketchbook. HB mechanical pencil. Various refs. among them Loomis, Woodward and Michael Hampton.
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Maria Gaitan
I can’t express how much I love sketching with blue pencil.
Maria Gaitan
Practice
Maria Gaitan
Practicing my CSI lines
Shivender Singh sketching
Give some tips
Dip tama
1mo
ignore the hand
Maria Gaitan
I’m taking the Drawing Basics course, and I’m trying to get into the habit of drawing as often as possible. I’ll try to do my best to organize my time better so I can at least do 1 sketch per day. When in doubt of what to draw to practice, I choose cats.
Melanie Scearce
I've been neglecting my sketchbook recently but did some heads today.
Amu Noor
1mo
Love the shapes!
Art Stark
1mo
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Yes, there are Loomis Heads. These, however, are Nolan Heads. I've attached the cover of Bill Nolan's book along with my attempts at inking with a brush pen.
Art Stark
1mo
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MiniSketchbook p03: 3.5"x5.0". Trying to figure out watercolor pencils.
Aubrey Norseworthy
Wow! These colors are great!! And the eye looks so cool! Water colored pencils have been a tough one for me but a technique I like to have fun with is dipping the pencil tip in the water before putting it to the paper, it gives it a thick and very pigmented line
Art Stark
2mo
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OddEnds p18 Mech Assembly
Art Stark
2mo
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OddEnds p17. Still trying to figure out ink.
Aubrey Norseworthy
If your still looking for some ink inspiration kerby Roseanne's is a really fun artists to look into as far as ink lines, he doesn't do much value work with the ink but his line work and detail with it is very inspirational
Melanie Scearce
Cool experimentation, I really like that bird!
Art Stark
2mo
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MiniSketchbook p02: 3.5"x5.0". Trying to figure out ink with Winsor McCay.
Art Stark
2mo
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MiniSketchbook p01: 3.5"x5.0". Trying to figure out ink.
Rachel Dawn Owens
Cool!,
Art Stark
2mo
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Sketch Journal pages 6 & 7. I'm sure glad this thread exists because I like to post now and then, but getting through some of the tutorial videos takes me a while (I'm presently working my way through Drawing Basics' Draw Any Pose From Any Angle). Anyway, still working out the whole Ink Thing. Page 6 is messing with a few extremes. Page 7 is a drawing from life highly idealized.
Siv Nilsen
2mo
Those are some nice head shapes on page six! If I should try and find something to critique I think maybe you can look out for some snowman effect on the page 7 figure! Great job!
Art Stark
3mo
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Sketch Journal page 5: The Lounge. This critique video on Dynamic Shapes is really long. So how's about another sketch page? The sketchbook I've chosen for my Sketch Journal is littered with old drawings. Page 5 is such an example. A while back I was sitting in a lounge and began sketching what I saw. I later made a watercolor illustration from the sketch. Attached are the original sketch and the resultant painting. I spruced up the sketch with some ink and watercolor pencil for this post. My favorite part is the guy in the back nursing a glass of rye. The rest needs help, but I've no idea what form that help would be. So, any suggestions, including layout, would be appreciated.
Siv Nilsen
3mo
Nice one sketching out in public! If the one on the left is the original one I think I like that one best because the lines are more free there. And in the other one it might help maybe stylising the shapes more? Or more shade/contrast to make more defined shapes? And differentiate the people in the foreground to the ones further back I think works well, like you did in your other journal page 4... I don't know really... just my two cents. I just think it's great you're sketching from life!
Art Stark
3mo
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Sketch Journal page 4: Three Guys In Ink. While working on getting through another critique video, I thought I'd submit another page from the Sketch Journal. The thing about sketching in ink is, there are no erasers — so there's no wrong lines. Just lines you haven't figured out how to incorporate yet. Also, you'll note I tried my hand at the Uni Posca White ink pen. *ooh boy* Tricky business. So, if there's any brave souls out there who know a thing or three about ink without under drawing first, I'd be grateful any suggestions.
Siv Nilsen
3mo
This is really cool!
Patrick Bosworth
I like your philosophy "No erasers means there are no wrong lines, you just need to figure out how to use it!" This is what I hear from folks who go straight in with ink. It looks like a magic trick, they just don't sweat a "mistake" in the moment, they just keep working to pull the drawing out of the fire! I love the separation you got between the three main characters and the background, nicely handled. With the main figures try to fully design your shadow shapes before filling in the black areas to help reinforce your forms, and organize lighting. I think the shadow here obscures and flattens your main figures. Planning out your shadow shapes will help your figures feel connected and solid even if you almost fully black out their forms. David Finch starts with a Micron 01 as his "Pencil" when he goes straight to ink. The thin Micron 01 lines are more easily "erased" with the Posca white out (the brush pen line is harder to fully "erase" without looking grey) Using a smaller line he can make bigger corrections to his drawing using less whiteout while planning the rest of the inking process. Once the outline is completed with micron he adds line weight onto the cartoon frame using a flexible nib pen like a tombow, so he can map out lighting direction, and organize the visual hierarchy in the composition. Then the next layer he uses the added line weight to dictate where to add heavy areas of shadow with a brush pen. Planning again is key here. He fully defines his shadow shapes, and forms before filling in the shadows. So even though it might get fully shadowed out, it’s there. Here’s a good demo on lighting from David. This kind of covers how he designs his shadow shapes. https://www.proko.com/course-lesson/basics-of-comic-shading/comments And his inking process https://youtu.be/ppLh6zBROjU?si=okMQ5GemMgrXgX62 Some inking advice from Daniel Warren Johnson, “Hunt for form or texture before going full black.” He’ll practice a texture or brush technique to creatively reveal the form of something he’s inking before fully blacking it out as a worst case scenario. If it does work out, you found a cool new way to describe that surface, or lighting condition, if it doesn’t work out, black it out! You got some brush mileage and experimentation in, but most importantly you’re more aware of the form you’re inking and can take that knowledge into the rest of the drawing. Check out Daniel’s youtube channel, he has a ton of his brush pen process on there. Hope this helps!
Art Stark
3mo
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Sketch Journal page 2-3. Drawing what I 'want' to draw, though not necessarily what I 'can' draw.
Steve Lenze
Hey Art, good job keeping up on a sketchbook. I wanted to show you how you can use anatomy better in your figures. The monster guy in the doorway is all round bumps and very stiff. By adding straights and corners to your anatomy and adding gesture to the pose, it will be more interesting and creepy. This will also help when doing your lighting so that he looks more dimensional. I did a quick sketch to show you what I mean :)
maciek szczech
❤️ these drawings.
maciek szczech
A couple of sketches from Plain Paper Sketchbook A4 Size, HB mechanical pencil. Refs. on the drawings.
Art Stark
3mo
So much information with so few lines! I especially like the use of cylinders to go past contour and inform the perspective of the limbs and overall pose. Thanks for posting.
Art Stark
4mo
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Sketch Journal page 1 Everyday I wake up, open my journal, and start writing: no plan, no inspiration, no anxiety. I don’t only write what I think I can write well. I just write. I would like to do that with art.
maciek szczech
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Rachel Dawn Owens
This is great! Can’t wait to see what you create.
Art Stark
4mo
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Brush Pen Play. Odd Ends Sketchbook p. 16
maciek szczech
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