Daily Warmup

30.08.2011:

warmup; 2 mins per pose (0.5 mechanical pencil)

New stuff

Here are my daily warmup, a face construction, some bull studies and another color study.

29.08.2011:

warmup; 2 mins per pose; with references (0.5 mechanical pencil)

face construction; with reference (0.5 mechanical pencil)

bull studies; with reference (0.5 mechanical pencil)

color study; with reference (30 mins; photoshop)

exercise; only straight lines; with reference (0.5 mechanical pencil; 2 mins per pose)

anatomy study; male face (0.5 mechanical pencil; some with reference)

Daily warmup

Today it seems I'm not in the mood to do something right :/

28.08.2011:

warmup; 2mins per pose; with references (0.5 mechanical pencil)

exercise; only straight lines; with references(0.5 mechanical pencil; 2mins per pose)

Warmup II and contrast exercise

And here is my warmup from saturday morning.

27.08.2011:

warmup - 2 mins per pose; with references (0.5 mechanical pencil)

constrast exercise; with reference (photoshop; 80 mins)

Figure Drawing Training Tool - 2 min

At conceptart.org I found a link to a for me incredible site: Figuredrawing. This site includes a tool, where you should create art in an extremely short amount of time - in my case 2 minutes. Today I have done this for the first time in my life. And god, I suck. :/ But I want to do this daily from now on. So yeah, I hope it gets better after a while.

26.08.2011:
(spend only two minutes in every pose)

0.5 mechanical pencil; with references

More color and light/shadow studies

Study of color, light and shadows from photo references.

25.08.:

photoshop; same brush; with reference (50 min)

Later this day:
(unfinished)

photoshop; same brush; with reference (30 min)

Photoshop exercises

I used the yesterday created brush to draw a picture without outlines and smudge tool :)

24.08:2011:

done in photoshop (only one brush; 2 hours; with reference)

In the evenings:

done in photoshop (same brush; 1 hour; with reference)

Portrait stuff and exercises

It's quarter to one in the morning and I'm trying to study human faces plus light and shadows.

23.08.2011:

woman (0.5 mechanical pencil; with reference)

Same day, but 4:00 pm ;)

photoshop exercise I  (with reference)

photoshop exercise II (with reference)

squirrel and parrot sketch (0.5 mechanical pencil; animals with references)

22:20 this evening:

(It's so great. I found a brush adjustment, which looks like pencil strokes ;) )

no references (Photoshop CS4)

Later this night:

female eye; no references (0.5 mechanical pencil)

Follow me on my journey

Hi everyone,

I always loved drawing, but the last three years I don't did it any more. So I decided to "restart" drawing. I want to learn anatomy, perspectives, light & shadows and everything else important. I don't know how long it would take, but I hope that someday, I can call myself an artist :)

The aim of this blog is to show my progress, so I and also you can see, how I hopefully grow.

Today is the 22.08.2011 and here are my first studies:
(just click the pictures to see them full-sized)

some sketches and first hatching trials

exercises I

exercises II

light and shadow; hatching I

light and shadow; hatching II

animal sketches (with references)