I finally found out what prevented my images from being attached so I thought I would make this.

A little background on me, I'm from Southern California, I'm 19, I started drawing seriously roughly two years ago. I mainly work traditionally although I sometimes try things digitally.

Here's some things I made recently, any critique/direction/advice would be appreciated.

Loomis sketches

Negative and Positive space sketches

Still lives

Hands

Muscles

Sketches from Masters

Figure Sketches

Really great stuff. You're already at a pretty good level! I'd love to see what some of your more finished work looks like!

Only useful suggestion that comes to mind is to do larger still lives for those studies. Doing one object is all well and good, but you get more out of a still life with 2 or 3 objects in it than you would just doing one. Still lives are a great way to train your eye to see relative proportions, and to teach you to knit all the proportions, shading, foreshortening, perspective, etc... into a cohesive whole.

Hard to give too much more advice from just what's here, but keep at it! And make sure your pictures make the drawings visible, really hard to see the figure studies.

Aside from what Felime mentioned, i would say (looking at your Loomis sketches as well as still lifes) that you could use some development in the areas of form drawing/solidity and perspective. I can tell looking at the still lives that they don't feel as a cup or sharpener or whatever but rather as a drawing of them, which is not what you want for a study.

Check out Ernest R. Norling's "Perspective made Easy", solidity of form is closely linked to perspective and that book is the best possible start/introduction to that fundamental in my opinion.

I don't really have much in the way of finished drawings because I lost the conviction to spend hours on a single drawing a while back but I did do a couple for a figure drawing class.


I really meant to do a bit more work besides this but this is what little I have to show for the last few days.


Besides this I did pick up Perspective made Easy.

It's been a weird month, got sick for a week, had multiple holiday parties, bunch of university work to do, and finals. Hopefully, I can update more regularly now that it's all out of the way now.\\

I freehanded a bunch of boxes on an old handout for one of my classes and did more with a ruler on a different page

I tried automatic drawing after reading about it in a book.

Just started to do people studies from Quickposes

Here's more of them

Was working from an art book I rented from my universities library and I think I am in over my head with it.

I decided to try something I saw in a video in the Art questions sub board

I finished that old page wit hall the leg studies and such

I recently got cardstock paper and decided to try it out with a study

The line work on this took a lot longer then I expected it ended up taking over a week worth of days rather then just 3 or 4 as I originally thought it would.

Something I meant to post a while ago, I was just playing around with a color scheme and made this.

After realizing I know approximately jack shit about fashion I did a bunch of studies from the Sartorialist


And actually to add on to the answer of old work I did, this is the only thing I digitally painted and I've done nothing near it since. If I remember right I did this after seeing a picture from James Gurney's Light and color.

I like how you doodled on you chem notes lol. But it'll be interesting to see how you develop, keep up the hard work.

Do studies have to be 100% accurate to the reference?

I mean, it's been bothering me a lot because my sketch of the reference usually are way off when I compare them. It's gotten so bad that for this sword study I gave up with my sketch and just drew parallel lines from the features of the reference and then copied the study over the reference to patch up painting errors.


This one I actually went through with the sketch and came out with this line drawing. It took somewhere over an hour.

Cherno wrote:Do studies have to be 100% accurate to the reference?

It depends on what do you want the final result to be. If you want photorealism, then probably the answer is yes. But generally speaking, I don't think that you should bother too much (unless you're drawing a face which is supposed to look like the original), the reference should be just a help. And it's important to know which elements of the painting are important ;) For example, if you're drawing a metal sword, you should pay attention to the values, the way it reflects light etc. - and it doesn't matter if the blade is a little bit longer or shorter than in the photo.

Thanks for explanation Idan, it really cleared some thing up for me.

Here's some value studies done of animals.

Some studies done from people

Working on hands and the structure of the torso.

I tried doing something new with my dog but it didn't pan out.

I was working on anatomy and was stumped on kneecaps so I got a copy of Dynamic Anatomy and started to work of it.

And Finally some practice on perspective

Wow! That's a lot of really solid studies. Seeing other people's progress is always motivating, keep up the good work!

God I was gone for a while,

I didn't do that much for two weeks so I decided to take a bit longer to update this so I could have more then just a page or two of studies then I got depressed because school was coming around then school came and I found out my schedule was hellish and so forth.

There is a lot of pictures here though.

Worked on some perspective, trying out two vanishing points

Leg studies, mostly the knee through, I'm still trying to figure out how it looks

A lot of people studies

Some head studies

30 minute to an hour gestures studies

Fashion studies

And finally I did a line art study of a bird

Lots of great studies! I love that last bird study, the line weight is great! Keep it up

God, this was every bit as painful as I thought it would be, I wasn't dead nor did I quit I've been drawing for the last 10 weeks and ended up with a couple dozen images to show on my behalf.
Outdoor drawings

Leg studies

Fashion

Drawing figures

Heads

Life drawing objects

Various other things

Dynamic Anatomy studies

Playing with a brushpen while I was waiting for lunch

3 Old master studies in decreasing order of completion

Value studies

And some more line studies

I finally found the time to work on these in school.
Heads

Bodies

I tried get more detailed with one of these

Cherno wrote:I finally found the time to work on these in school.]

Looks like you "found" a lot of time, there is quite a big assortment of sketches here .

I put off updating this far longer than I meant to.
Legs

Torsos

Studies of people

Faces

From an Art gallery

I did a landscape.

Wow, this looks amazing! Took my time to look through all the spoilers.

Roger wrote:Wow, this looks amazing! Took my time to look through all the spoilers.

Thanks

Torso studies


Studies I did for an Anatomy arena thing I did here


Fashion studies


Studies of Kim Jung Gi


Pen studies


Studies of heads


Eye studies


Other Anatomical studies


Whatever else

You have nice studies, I think you're doing them a bit too fast. I recognize the shape is/proportion is off on some of them, and doing this you're going to burn the wrong shapes into your memory which is the opposite of what you want. Take your time, do them right, and you'll improve faster even if less studies have been done.

TroublingTim wrote:You have nice studies, I think you're doing them a bit too fast. I recognize the shape is/proportion is off on some of them, and doing this you're going to burn the wrong shapes into your memory which is the opposite of what you want. Take your time, do them right, and you'll improve faster even if less studies have been done.

Okay, I started to slow down a bit and started pencil measuring again.

Chest studies


Other kind of Chest studies


People studies


Pelvis-upper leg area studies


A WIP

I really like your recent study. Nice.

Roger wrote:I really like your recent study. Nice.

Thanks

More Chests


More other chests


Chests and legs

nice chests, locks and legs

awesome treasure in general

wow O____O <3