Hello and welcome!!

Nice stuff you have here! I can relate to, I love drawing characters too!!

Love those studies, mate. Those will help you level up so fast if you stick with them.

Hope to see more! :smiley:

@big-misch
Hello, thanks for visiting my sketchbook :smile:
Yeah, I hope those will help me improve, because I'm really struggling when drawing a character from imagination. I would stick with them for quite some time and see if it would get better :).

Yesterday for me was one of these days that anything you do related to art - you fail. I just couldn't draw accurate, so I've decided that after portrait which I did using photo, I will draw one character sketch from imagination and I'll make a break for the rest of the day. I've had to think about what I want this character to be, so I thought hmm... maybe a man from the jungle with wooden staff or something. I didn't think too much and started drawing and in result I got static pose. I forgot to think about how do I want to pose him, that's not good. So I've decided that today I'll draw some of the sketches more loose and exaggerate the lines (as Proko said in one of his YT videos about gestures, that if you exaggerate the lines in gesture there is a reason behind it - to not let the final sketch turn into static pose), also some of them I keep as I sketch usually and some of the rest I'll mix those two techniques - more precise with a little bit of loose accents here and there.

Today sketches:

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Yesterday sketches:

As for weekend I've decided to take a break from gestures, and just chill out reading Michael Hampton's book. I had an idea to better preserve knowledge from the book with studying sketches by Mr. Hampton, so I did couple of them :).
Probably tomorrow I'm going to do more, and then from Monday back to gestures :smile:

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Dang!

Lots of studies! Looking really nice man! :smiley:
Keep up the hard work!

@big-misch

Thanks man. I think I could do more of those, but sometimes I don't have enough free time :confused:
Anyway, I need to keep drawing and don't even think about getting lazy :smiley:

Today again I did sketches after Mr. Hampton, but nothing too fancy this time, just a quick ones with a lot of errors haha :smile: Sometimes I'm getting blind on proportions, need to fix that asap :smile:

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Yeah man, those Hampton studies look SOLID :fork_and_knife:

Thanks for stopping in my thread!

These studies are looking good mate! Keep it up! :smiley:

11 days later

I'm here again with new sketches of today.
Still I'm having trouble with finding enough free time to draw, but well I hope so it would change in a few days.
Anyway, to not get super rusty I found a little bit of time and I did 10 sketches.

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28 days later

@big-misch
Thanks man!

Hello after a while. I wasn't posting due to commissions and lack of time related to start of new semester on my university, but I'm back with few pieces.

Portraits (commissions)

Portrait for my friend, as a birthday gift

Bigger commission (including four portraits). I will post final piece, steps in GIF and photo of printed piece on canvas using giclee technology (adding those words wasn't my idea)

Steps GIF:

Canvas print (giclee)