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[NSFW] Sublimus' Sketch Dumps
Sublimus
Artist.nowhereRegistered User regular
Artist.nowhereRegistered User regular
Been doing a lot more digital work recently. Figured I'll dump them here.
First here is the stuff I dumped in the Doodle thread.
First here is the stuff I dumped in the Doodle thread.
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"Final" swords (3 tiers of the same sword was the idea), and another study!
I suggest getting some master studies into the mix, as you'll be able to study both the technique and work on basic anatomy/shapes in the process. I think these are looking really good though, just need to keep pushing forward.
@Iruka Thanks! That's a nice example! An yeah, I think I should mix in some master studies too.
I'll be back with some sooooooon!
Not much to show, I was out of town for a bit. Time to get back to work, and stop slacking!
Here is a sketch jam from work. the prompt was "jet pack, laser gun, chainmail, tattoos"
And then here are two things I'm noodling on.
Finally finished this guy! in 2016 I want to finish more work, and post more online. So here is a bit of both!
I also scanned in a little over 50 images from my sketchbooks, and will post those soon!
Cheers!!
There's a good page here (NSFW there are boobs) that illustrate how the bicep relates to the muscles in the forearm.
i.imgur.com/qlQMo8D.png
Also, I forgot to post these things. Got super lazy when I got down to the legs, because I decided they were terrible. The shape language for them is not consistent, or unique across the three. I'll have to do better ones!
Sorry for the spam, but here's the last of the scans! Like I said, I wrapped up three sketchbooks in a frenzy at the end of last year, and here is the last bit.
All the gestures are 1 min.
Oh god, I have to hide these behind a spoiler tag. Just too much crap haha.
and here is a generic alien bust.
and here is some small progress on the orc
and here is a little process gif of the minotaur. It jumps at the end because I wanted to have the character separate from the BG, so I had to work on one layer.
and a little still life I did.
Like on that last one, there's not a whole lot of reasons that the front tube should have such messy edges considering there aren't any tonal transitions going on there. I think small object studies like that are great for learning to be confident with your strokes, just not as much going on as in figures. I Like these studies:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/153755774755891893/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/153755774755891891/
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/153755774755891888/
You can then extend that into people and refine the details as you go:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/153755774755560147/
I've been learning to do this myself more and more. For me, I have to convince myself that my hand is capable of putting it down the first time, and just go for it. Weeding out trepidation is hard sometimes.
Thanks! Yeah, those edges really suck haha. I'll try and use bigger brushes!
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As for the dude, it's supposed to be a hollow lip disk, and then the teeth shapes on his upper lip were supposed to be face paint. Definitely confusing! I should probably just have had a different face paint pattern. The lip disk is probably confusing enough on it's own! haha.
Dragons Lair does a cosplay life drawing night every Sunday from like 7pm - 10pm. its kinda ghetto though as its just cosplayers posing with no real lighting or anything.
If you dont mind going downtown http://www.avaaonline.org/avaas-life-drawing-program is way more professional with legit lighting and everything.
@WIckedkarma Oh cool! Iruka lives in Austin too!
Sorry for being lazy! Here is some stuff since the last post.
And a master study
So today I was watching some tutorials about controlling the camera in Blender and it was going over focal length. The basic lesson is that the longer the lens of your camera is, the more it flattens out the perspective of your image, like so:
Of course you may already know this stuff, but I know nothing about photography, so this was kind of a revelation to me. And after toying with it for a bit it hit me that it helps explain what I was talking about in that last post.
The way you drew the figure here seems to depict him with a very long lens, which flattens the perspective out over most of the figure (1) and gives you that "flyswatted" look. That has advantages and disadvantages depending on your subject matter, but for a dynamic character illustration you might want to aim for the more naturalistic short lens look, which gives you a more dynamic perspective (2). You can see it especially around the chest, shoulders and head area.
Cheers!
Here is the haul of junk from the last week. Doesn't feel like enough....
The eye studies, they still seem to lack lids. Be patient while you look for the plane changes, and try include the details like, the crease above the eye, and such. The eyelashes in your ref may have been distorted by makeup, but the bottom lid usually has a bit of a line between the lases and the actual eye. Make sure your reference isn't too blown out lighting wise so you can really look into the anatomy. I think proko has a good break down on it:
http://www.stanprokopenko.com/blog/2009/05/draw-eyes/
Also, I love that purple demon skull, but you could have probably guessed that.
Behold! A man who has no clue what he is doing! (So much to learn.)
And a little lunch sketch from today
And! I hesitate to post these, and spam with more photos, but I'm very happy to be done with them! Big Bend Texas! From March this year.