I finally started driving school. I do pay attention to the class, but my hands have to be kept busy at all times. (yep, I'm a very mercurial type)
You can see some preliminary sketches for my last digital painting at the bottom.
This one was started at college (hand, eye), continued during the driving school lecture (glass, ear) and finished at home before bedtime yesterday (candlestick, shuriken).
As usual, black and red ballpoint pen.
Posted on 07.03.2008 15:13 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches, still life, traditional | Comments (4)
Today's lecture was almost interesting, the professor is a funny man and can keep his audience awake with his witticisms. But I still decided to pass.
I feel a bit rusty, but here it is. No horror vacui on the first one!
Posted on 28.02.2008 01:23 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches, traditional | Comments
The first week back at college hasn't been very fruitful... actually I didn't go there much at all. But now I'm back with my sketchbook ballpoints.
Posted on 23.01.2008 00:23 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches, traditional | Comments (1)
Black and red ballpoint pen.
Posted on 12.12.2007 00:41 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches, traditional | Comments (4)
Perhaps I should be drawing bigger boobs. And more curvy women in general.
Black ballpoint pen, cleaned up in Photoshop.
Posted on 06.12.2007 18:32 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches, traditional | Comments (2)
The first drawing is something I sketched a few weeks ago, and goes well with the rest of today's sketchbook pages.
The next two are sketched today, during lectures.
During one class some guy I never saw before sat next to me. I was paying attention to the class for a while, and then I noticed drawing movements of his hand. I couldn't see what it was, but he seemed like he knew what he was doing. (Mental note: I have to take a video of myself when I'm drawing, because other's people's movements always seem so different than mine!) I was thinking of asking him about it, but changed my mind. I guess I am a shy person after all.
But I should be looking for such people around me. I feel like a misfit sometimes.
Anyway, here's the stuff.
Black and red ballpoint pen.
Posted on 28.11.2007 02:08 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches, traditional | Comments (2)
First I sketched a few figures using reference, and they didn't turn out too well. Then I tried a few figures from my head, using principles I learned from Mr. Jack Hamm and they turned out much better than copied ones.
The right one is a quick study for my next drawing. I still haven't decided on the clothing, and whether I will draw it digitally or traditionally.
Posted on 27.11.2007 01:41 CET in: anatomy, sketches, traditional | Comments (3)
I'm trying to sketch something every single day, so I did this now although my eyes are dry and demand sleep... An ordinary human skeleton (reference: Images of the Human Body) and Caravaggio's John the Baptist. Skeletonwise, it's cool to compare how much one improved in the past year.
White and graphite pencil on colored paper.
Posted on 25.11.2007 05:22 CET in: anatomy, sketches, traditional | Comments (5)
I was on a 4-day trip (SF convention in Osijek, Croatia), and during our long train ride I played some boardgames and sketched some random stuff in my sketchbook. Here are two pages I like the most.
Black ballpoint pen.
Posted on 05.11.2007 04:06 CET in: fashion, sketches, still life, traditional | Comments
Character concept for an image I'm currently working on. I know the wings are more like a butterfly than a moth, but that's not the point, if there is one at all.
He looks like a Gray :/
P.S. it's finished. Turned out less alien-like, more elfish.
Posted on 23.10.2007 20:16 CET in: digital, sketches | Comments (2)
Fineliner and marker.
Posted on 21.10.2007 00:01 CET in: portraits, sketches, traditional | Comments (1)
I should make a category for these. Again sketched during the lecture. Obviously I haven't used reference, so some mistakes are evident, especially on the female — wrong direction of spine at the bottom (it should be aligned with the butt) and lower ribs are too narrow, but the figure silhouette is fine I think. Except that knees should be lower, but I ran out of paper space.
Black ballpoint pen.
Posted on 18.10.2007 14:29 CET in: anatomy, lectures are boring, sketches, traditional | Comments (1)
I went to my first lecture this year. Things haven't changed much, still sketching obsessively instead of taking notes.. :)
Red ballpoint pen and white gel pen.
Posted on 18.10.2007 01:48 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches, traditional | Comments (4)
My plan to draw every day this summer failed miserably. I did a few sketches of my co-workers which I gave away and that's it.
This is a sketch I did few months ago in the bus, and decided to shade it while I was on the toilet. Not kidding.
I still can't quite nail the figure without reference.
And here are two face sketches I did on the toilet earlier today. Really inspiring environment, I tell you.
Posted on 06.09.2007 01:22 CET in: sketches, traditional | Comments (4)
I'm not lazy, I was just very busy during the past week. Here's something from my sketchbook. (a couple of lips referenced from Jack Hamm, see books list for details.)
Posted on 23.07.2007 02:03 CET in: anatomy, sketches, traditional | Comments (10)
some random quick female faces..
and one less random. looks like my mom when she was a teenager, so I guess it looks a bit like me as well :p
Posted on 01.07.2007 17:27 CET in: portraits, sketches, traditional | Comments (7)
Shading with ballpoint pen. The works referenced are Caravaggio's Amor Victorious and Sick Bacchus. I screwed up the mouth and right eye on the latter.
Posted on 30.06.2007 22:15 CET in: anatomy, drawings, sketches, traditional | Comments
I wasn't home yesterday (reason: the fabulous Tori Amos concert in Ljubljana), that ruins my "at-least-one-drawing-a-day" plan, but let's continue like nothing happened.
Another try at self-portrait, it didn't go so well, but at least I know what I'll look like if I put more weight on.
A simple composition of brushes.
Posted on 28.06.2007 03:01 CET in: portraits, sketches, still life, traditional | Comments (2)
My attempt at using color pencils failed miserably. I'm missing some essential tones (like pink and peach) I can't get by mixing, and it just looks... blah.
Studies from life, day 3.
Posted on 26.06.2007 00:09 CET in: anatomy, sketches, traditional | Comments (2)
Going through Burne Hogarth's book Dynamic figure drawing. Charcoal sketches each A5 sized, except the last one which is A3 (so it looks much smoother).
I bought 3 more books from Amazon this week, can't wait until they arrive :)
Posted on 03.06.2007 20:43 CET in: anatomy, sketches | Comments
Random sketches during regulation technique lectures.
Drawing breasts seen from profile doesn't seem to work for me.
Posted on 11.05.2007 21:39 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches | Comments
Tough week, no time to draw. Here's something I did before sleep.
Good night.
Posted on 10.05.2007 03:38 CET in: anatomy, sketches | Comments (3)
I love antiquarian bookstores. Not only because the books are cheap, but because some of the books available there have been out of print for decades.
I found a little monograph of Michelangelo's sculptures from 1969. - a great reference source.
Here's a first batch of my charcoal sketches.
Posted on 28.04.2007 17:17 CET in: anatomy, sketches | Comments (2)
Another batch of older sketches, made during lectures.
Posted on 22.03.2007 22:42 CET in: lectures are boring, sketches | Comments (9)
I was convincing myself I don't really need a sketchblog, since I usually upload my unrefined work in the deviantART scraps, and I can also blog about my drawing stuff there, but somehow I wasn't comfortable with it. Plus, this leaves room for so much possibilities... okay, I know. I'm just making up excuses for opening another site.
Like it, or don't.
Here are some of my anatomy highlights from a couple of months ago.
Posted on 22.03.2007 05:20 CET in: anatomy, sketches | Comments (5)
