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)
My friends are attending Carnival in Rijeka so I drew a costume they decided to wear for them.
Black fineliner and marker.
Posted on 09.12.2007 23:38 CET in: fashion, traditional | Comments (1)
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 neglected real practice lately, I've been only sketching random junk from my head, so today I decided to draw something real.
I bought the heavy-textured yellow paper and a white pencil some time ago, now I finally put them to use. But the paper is not really suitable for detailed drawings.
Posted on 19.11.2007 23:43 CET in: drawings, still life, traditional | Comments (9)
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
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)
I removed these images from my gallery, so I thought I'd post them here since I'm rather proud of them. Both are from nearly 2 years ago, January 2006.
Reference
I started drawing in summer 2005, and I had no previous drawing experience. I drew Kidush out of boredom, and next thing I knew people were praising my pencil work. That made me all enthusiastic about drawing so I did some photo-referenced portraits, but then a wise man said that drawing from photo reference is not so good, and that I should draw from life. And that's what I did.
Then I started drawing people, and they pointed out how my anatomy is all messed up. That's when I left still life and started sketching people, faces, skulls and bones, muscles and body parts... And while I think I made progress, I'm sad to see how I've become so impatient, I never thought about sitting in front of a inanimate object and draw it for hours again. It seemed so much easier before.
Posted on 17.10.2007 22:52 CET in: drawings, still life, traditional | Comments (1)
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)
Mine. Almost.
Let's see if I can draw at least one sketch from life a day, for a week.
Posted on 25.06.2007 01:33 CET in: anatomy, drawings, traditional | Comments
