Brave Fan Art Drawing!

Hey again, so as you might as well heard by now Brave is coming out this coming Friday in the U.S. and I can't wait.  This weekend I spent most of my free time creating a drawing from the movie and I really didn't have time to complete section E of Nicolaides :/  I might complete some tonight but back to talking about Brave.  I drew Merida of course and here is how the process went.

 

The hair was definitely the longest process.  I kept going back adding more and more detail each time.  I then drew the rope for the bow separately and used Photoshop to add it to my drawing.

Here is my final Drawing.  I'll be using this as a base to see if I improve in the next couple of months.

Let me know what you all think in the comments.

Thanks for reading :)  until next time

bye

Back to the drawing board... eh sketchbook!

I'm back :)  sorry for the long wait.  The last posting was a couple of months ago and it really just feels like it hasn't been that long.  Since then I haven't really been drawing as much :/  I dedicated my entire time to lose weight.  My goal since February was to lose 30 pounds and I'm happy to say that I did just that this past week.  Woohooo :)  Thanks Shayloss :)

Ok so now back to drawing.  I bought several books that I'll be going over for the next few weeks hopefully :/  

The main one that's going to take most of my time away is The Natural Way to Draw: A Working Plan for Art Study by Kimon Nicolaides.  It is basically structured like a college course, requiring 3hrs of drawing per day O.o  According to the reviews it'll take approximately 6months-1yr to complete ouch!

There are is a total of 5 exercises A-E per section,  3 hrs each.  I'm in the first section on Exercise D,  I started last Friday but due to my work schedule and my new exercise routine I'm able to put in only about 1-2hrs per day of drawing.  The book does suggest that you can reduce the hrs per day it'll just take you longer to complete.  Oh well.  But quite honestly it is exactly what I need to move forward.  I absolutely need some sort of working plan otherwise I'm just staring at my sketchbook not knowing what to draw :p 

The other 2 books I ordered are Drawn to Life,  Volume1 and Volume2  I thought these would be small but boy was I wrong they are huge and have tons of information.  They are the notes of Walt Stanchfield from his lecture at Disney :)  I've only read the first few pages of volume1 so far I'll let you guys know how it goes.  Thank you Jesper Ejsing for your post at Muddy Colors :)

Here are some of the 1 min gesture drawings I've been doing for Nicolaides.

And another drawing I found in my sketchbook that I like,  I might incorporate it in a banner.

Alright I've made this post long enough and I have another thing I want to show you all.  I'll do that on a new post since it might be kinda long.

I'll try to post more frequently now.

Alright see you in a sec on my next posting.

Arm Anatomy

Its been a while since my last post.  I haven't been drawing as much I would of liked to but here are some things I've managed to work on.

Arm Anatomy

I've been working from my bed on my drawings but I'm happy to say that I finally have a workspace as of today! :)  I got the table that I ordered yesterday, which I assembled as soon I got it last night after work.  Now I need a higher chair LOL  I'm using one from out dining table LOL.

After going over some anatomy for the arm I made the following sketch.

I guess my biggest struggle as of now is finding the time to practice drawing and coming up with what to draw.  There's so much stuff that I want to cover that I don't know where to start >.<

Well its getting kinda late >.<  and I work tomorrow.  So until next time, hopefully I can bring more stuff to show.

Good Night ;)

Dynamic Poses

I've continued with the drawing poses by using the drawing tool at PixelLovely.com thanks to Sycra for this.  These are some of the results I was getting while using that tool.

The poses varied from 30 sec - 2-5min long and I was able to get good practice with those.  Its also a great place for reference images since your not tied in to an specific image and can jump around for what your looking for.  

I also tried David Finch's approach to figure drawing using a Gnomon dvd he created.  I've had it since last summer but hadn't really gone over it. >.<

These are some of the results I got from following that.  I only was able to go thru around 15-20min of video so far but I really like his approach and looking forward to finish seeing the whole dvd.

 So thanks for stopping by and I'll post some more stuff as I go along.  :)

Cya soon and enjoy the rest of your week.

Proportion with a slight anatomy...

I started drawing again today following tutorials from PencilKings.com.  This time I focused on poses and proportions with some knowledge of anatomy.  The tutorials from Laurie B are really good and I love her drawing style.  She explains everything in very easy to understand terms.  I haven't looked too much at the other artists on there yet, but hopefully I will soon.  Knowing how other artists work and think is a big plus! :)

So anyways these are some of the sketches I was doing as I followed along

Body Proportions

Starting with Poses on these

After following the lessons on drawing the body I noticed I was having difficulty with hands and feet.  So I covered those lessons right afterwards and here are the sketches for those.

Hand Composition

 Feet Composition

Already I'm seeing some improvements after those.

Thats what I've been doing so far.  I'm kinda of stuck as to where I need go after the lessons.  Maybe magazines or videos, don't know yet.  >.< 

As far as how much I've been drawing.  Well not as much as I thought I would.  I actually skipped 1-2 days from it :(   Still figuring out how to juggle that with work.  I don't carry a sketchbook with me all time and I know I should.

So anyways thats it for today.  I'll be back later with more drawings still and see how that goes.  Have a great weekend!

The Human Skull & Face Proportions

I've been doing some skull and face proportions by following Laurie B. at Pencil Kings.  Its a really neat site with a could of instructional lessons on whatever area your struggling with.  I haven't been drawing as much for a while so I'm going back and reviewing everything.  I encourage everyone to take a look at the PencilKings website. :)

These are a couple of drawings I did as I followed along with the videos.

Studies of the Skull

Facial feature placement and movement

Study of Baby/Child Features

I plan on working on full body anatomy soon.  Which will be a lot of fun.  The last time I drew poses and full body images was about 5 years ago >.<  So wish me luck.  I'm hoping that it'll all return to me once I get started LOL  Until then, hope your having a great week and I'll see you all soon. :) bye

An illustrator/Concept Artist wanna be...

Finally I decided to set up a blog!

 I decided to do a blog because I've wanted to jump in the illustrative path career and I think having this blog to push me to post about my progress would be awesome.  So I propose to post my progress with my drawing ability and later on digital painting.  This following drawing I was sketching from videos on Youtube.  I actually did this one back in June. LOL Which is the time I should of had this blog up but I guess it was just procrastination.  HAHAHA.  I'm working on this I promise ;) 

And this is another one around the same time.  I was following a Gnomon dvd from David Finch.

I leave you with these to track my progress and I'll be back with fresh new ones soon.  Trying to figure out how often I'll be posting :p

Until next time have a great rest of your sunday and hope to see you tag along :)

Cya