New Guy sketch dump ( NSFW )

Shoryutofu

I've been to this Penny Arcade website for years and have only just recently started lurking in this forum a couple of months ago.
I stopped drawing about a year and a half ago due to work and WoW addiction, but I visit this place everyday at work and man, it makes me want to draw again!

The following are animal studies I did for a class years ago.






And this is me drawing myself.


I actually don't like drawing animals at all, but it was a class thing, so meh. All my other sketches/drawings are of people, but it just so happens I only have these with me at work in my flash drive. It's not much, but I hope you like them.

Buckwolfe

Very nice rendering on the animals, but I'm noticing that they all look very compacted. Like you're squishing the bodies together too much. They don't look like they have any room for organs. Basically they all look like newborn animals. I have the same exact problem with human figures most of the time, so it kind of jumped out at me. The head sizes might also be a little off. They look slightly enlarged, which when coupled with the short (lengthwise) bodies, makes for some distorted animals.

As for the figure at the bottom, I can see two main problems right off the bat. The face looks flat in comparison to the rest of the figure, and the hands are too small. It doesn't look like there's any palm to the hands.

Other than that, very nice.

Shoryutofu

Buckwolfe wrote:

The face looks flat in comparison to the rest of the figure, and the hands are too small. It doesn't look like there's any palm to the hands. quote]

I totally see what you are saying. I think the face seems flat because of the nose being so flat. I remember struggling to make the nose look more demensional. Also maybe because its in the shadow and has low highlights. The hands are small because I think my hands are actually that small :? .

srsizzy

That picture of you has some good shading/rendering, but the anatomy could use some work. The nose is really flat, and the arm reaching out isn't right. Everything else looks pretty good.

I agree with what buck said about the animals. They're pretty awesome nonetheless.

You can also tell that you erased everything around the picture of you. It makes the lines look soft and gross. Just keep the dirty pencil background, or find a different way to hide it. Or no, maybe it's the resolution. I can't tell, but the quality of the picture's weird.

Shoryutofu

srsizzy wrote:

You can also tell that you erased everything around the picture of you. It makes the lines look soft and gross. Just keep the dirty pencil background, or find a different way to hide it. Or no, maybe it's the resolution. I can't tell, but the quality of the picture's weird.

You're right on both accounts. The reason being is that the original drawing was done on a 28"xsomething art pad and was too large for a proper scan. So I took a picture of it... a crappy one; so I ended up cropping out the fuzzy background leaving behind a fuzzy image. I can't seem to shoot proper pictures of my large drawings.

Here's another large drawing I took with my camera.

This was a photo enlargement project I did about a decade ago. It's from a Guess advertisment I found in a magazine.

World as Myth

There is sometimes a weakness in your faces -- there's a horse up there who looks like it has a camel face, and those two girls have something strange about their faces too. Other than that, wow.

hunterb

post something new, not stuff from years ago.

Inzigna

hunterb wrote:

post something new, not stuff from years ago.

Hunterb's got a point.

But I guess art from the past and art from the present's still art, and you have art worth looking at.

Would like to see what you can do now though, everything I've seen so far looks damn good, so hope you can churn up more yeah?

Kudos to you.

Shoryutofu

I hanv't been drawing for a while, but I would love to start again. I guess I could sketch something new up and post it. In the meantime, if you do want to see some of the last things I did, let me know.
If anyone is wondering why I stopped drawing and such, its because I kinda lost the passion to draw and I'm so lazy at it.

Shoryutofu

Ok, here is a picture I came up with very recently for work. I wanted to draw something that included these elements: a koi fish, water, a dragon, and a japanese-esque style/feel to it. The picture is meant to be black and white due to the nature of the project. Also, it's meant to look somewhat flat. Im pretty much done with it, but if there's something that could really make it better, please feel free to point it out.

MYKDRAGON

Hey Shoryutofu, nice pic, guy.
I'm born and raised from Hawaii, so my first instinct when I saw your pic was to look for a 2D/3D trick of the eye thing.. I'll explain.
I was expecting the dragon to be the bottom of a pond, and the koi just happens to be swimming over it. Some of the art that I grew up with was real sneaky with this '3D in the guise of 2D' by just adding a few water ripples, or a water plant in the corner of the pic coming straight out at the viewer, belying the 2D aspect, conveying depth.
Excellent pic, regardless.

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Non-sequiter. Has anyone ever submitted fan art of the comic book, Scud? It was a deeply appreciated underground comic, with a visual sensibility that initially attracted me to Gabe's art. It seems a shame that I never seem to see fan art of Scud.

Shoryutofu

Thanks for the comment, MYKDRAGON. This was my first attempt at something like it.

Yesterday, my 6 month suscription to WoW ended. Instead of renewing it, I took it as a sign and grabbed my dusty sketch book and headed out. I went to a cafe and Barnes and Noble to do some sketches to warm up the ole risk.

Heres some of it








A friend of mind asked me to do a fast sketch of her nekid even though she wasn't



and heres something I was messing around with last night but didn't finish. I'm not sure how to position the unfinish leg. It was giving me a hard time.

ImDrawingABlank

That last sketch is disturbingly awesome, damn you can draw good

Orikaeshigitae

Looks like you've got a problem, hoss.

A compact problem.

In all your human figures, the upper leg and lower leg are the same lengths. They aren't supposed to be.

Yo' anatomy is wacky.

earthwormadam

The last pic is great. The detail in that one destroys all the work you have posted so far. Mutant Baxter Stockman FTW.

Post some more pencil work like that.