Kanoxe's Sketchbook

[kanoxes]

[kanoxes]

Almost time for rendering!

[kanoxes]

Time to learn how to render properly :s

[kanoxes]

Messing around

[kanoxes]

drawing figures still taking me ages, really need to get better at this

[MattD]

I'm really liking the progress you're making on the halfling, looking forward to seeing it finished.
I have trouble with the armpit too, I usually have to stare at my own for longer that is really comfortable. A book that's really helped me with learning figure drawing is by Michael Hampton just called Figure Drawing, I've gone through it a couple of times

[kanoxes]

taking me so long to finish - I need to work with painting more rather than just line

[kanoxes]

got bored of anatomy and painting, so just a quick 30min sketch

[kanoxes]

and attempt no. 27 of trying to get better at anatomy

[cedricgo]

Alright, so I'm still learning anatomy too, but I'd say the major thing right now that doesn't look right to me are the pectoral muscles.

When lifting your arm like that and from that point of view, the pectoral muscles will move over the the collar bone and wrap around behind the arm. This will also hide a big part of the deltoid and even a part of the pec itself. I tried to show what I mean below using a basic diagram that I hope will be clear enough.

I also think that you can bring the lower part of the abdominal muscles lower towards the crotch. And I think there should be a bit of the lateral muscles showing, especially on his left side (our right). But I'm not confident enough to attempt drawing them unfortunately. But they would come from behind and wrap around to connect somewhere around the armpit I believe.

So I hope this helps and if you have any other questions feel free to ask. I'll try my best to answer

[Alboba]

Hi, you got some great stuff going, I just wanted to critique this for a second. You are going with muddy colours here. I recommend taking some other colour like blue (or anything really) for the shadows as well as the light. Right now it seems like you just took a darker colour from the clothing piece you were just working on and made that darker for the shadows and light. This makes your painting look rather flat. There are several anatomy issues, especially in the upper body part, so you might want to revisit some anatomy studies to improve on that. The right hand is way too big and at the wrong angle from how the sleeve is directed, they don*t really look connected. I also recommend working in bigger shapes regarding your rendering, it seems that you got a little lost in details on the pant, jacket and boots. Try working from big to small shapes in terms of shading, this will make your process a lot faster. But most of this stuff you are already working on from looking through your thread, so don*t let my words get you down. If you stick to studies you will improve ten folds I bet

[kanoxes]

Bunch of stuff i've been working on randomly that I thought I'd dump here. Mainly focusing on studies at the moment

[cedricgo]

One thing I noticed is that you tend to draw very short arms on your character. An arm at rest should have the elbow aligned around the navel and the wrist around the crotch area. If it helps, you can always draw a guide arm at rest just to make sure you get the right lenght.

That's what I did in blue here. And then in red would be how it could look in position.

And then you just draw the arm using those as a guide and you should get a more accurate arm

I do enjoy the style of the face you draw. It's very stylized, but they're nice.

[kanoxes]

Sorry for the delayed responses

@cedricgo thanks for your comments on my anatomy sketches I need to get back to overlaying the muscles on pictures again, have not done this for a while.
I didn't even realize the arm lengths, I have drawn loads of proportion drawings on paper but seems whenever I "Pose" the arms, I have this inability to proportion them correctly. I will try your blue line method in the future and see how I get on

also my faces are extremely stylized, I hate attempting to draw realism as I tend to get frustrated and takes the fun out of drawing for me

@jilltonic Thanks for your comments, I'm heavily focusing on anatomy/ values and rendering with values so hopefully will see some improvments in the near future

[kanoxes]

[cedricgo]

Nice! That's pretty cool! Really, I think the only major issue I see is with her right arm. I believe the upper arm is slightly too short, and that the wrist and hand could be bigger. Also, I'm not totally sure, but the elbow area doesn't look quite right, but that's also an are I struggle with.

That's the changes I would do. Just making her right arm longer, lower the breasts a bit since there's more space now and make the wrist and hand going away from us bigger.

Beyond that I dig where this is going. I love the face and her expression. The pose itself is cool and the hair flow nicely. I don't know how far you're planning to go with this, but it could make a very nice illustration

[kanoxes]

Diving into a completely new realm of colour/rendering/values :s

Any tips while i'm experimenting are welcome

[cedricgo]

I find that last one actually kind of cool. It might need just a bit of refinement, but I like the whole idea of the crazy patch of colors and rough strokes. It reminds me a bit of a rougher watercolor or marker sketch.

The first one also works too, but there's definitely a little something that I like about the second one.

[kanoxes]

@cedricgo I completely agreed, I got to a stage with the dark blue where I just "wasn't feeling it", so I went a little crazy...I got a picture online of a random landscape photo and picked/ splattered colours around.

[kanoxes]

Learning more about the planes of the face, fat pads, colour/ values (found a method of using Cntrl Y to switch between black and white quickly... its been a life saver) and rendering....its hard