stylized studies and a doodle

doodle from imagination

stylized study

here is the reference

stylized study

here is the reference

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Portrait level up

My level up!

a study

Acrylic sea doodle from life

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studies & doodles

study

study

speedpaint from imagination

study

doodle from imagination

another doodle from imagination

study from real life model

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master studies and a character design

color studies

master study 05

master study 06

I think originals are by Eugen Bracht

trying to design a character

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Master Studies

I realized its time to start with master studies.
And with these studies I understood how much I was afraid to use saturated colors...
you can see this behavior in the first studies. fourth one is best so far and still there's so much to learn.

I have to say that the point isn't about copying. it's about understanding colors. 
so of course no color pick and no tracing and no nothing. 

I have to admit that I kinda cheated in the third one. in the end I used Photoshop saturation. still looks like shit. but in the fourth I had new information to avoid such tricks! 

Its not bad using photoshop tools in general. but when the whole point is to learn how to pick correct colors by myself, its useless.

artists:
1 - Albert Bierstadt-Merced River,YosetimiValley
2 - Eugen Bracht
3 - Antonio Torres Fuster (Tarragona, 1874-1945)
4 - lute-player-1635-Bernardo-Strozzi


I only did 4 and already feel like I got better. :D
I need to study like my life depends on it.


~olyadbg

face structure and value study

here is the process

lately i've sculpting a head in Zbrush so now I take a little break

to draw a portrait and understand the structure in the process

some of the studying I did in my head 

and then I added some details and rendered a little bit 

oh

here is the reference

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Practice speedpaint

some speedpaint

3d zbrush head 

oh and here is something weird

I wanted to make an awkward creature

well looks pretty awkward isn't it? lol

but somehow it looks like a seal... or something

I took random animal bones 

nothing special 

gotta practice more and get into details

~olyadbg

face studies

face studies

I think I'm getting better but I'm still lazy with the details

original: Reference

and before drawing Ian McKellen I tried to draw a random chick

and I failed so hard 

looks nothing like the original 

I don't know why I even care

it's not like I want to make portraits 

I thought, since it's face study and I'm posting a link to the reference I have to make it a real portrait... so it would look pretty much alike...

and the whole point is just to know how to shade a face and colour it.

so I don't know...

oh I almost forget

my first attempt in Zbrush! I'm a total noob

but we had a zbrush class in College (Concept design course)

They gave us homework to make 5 heads

the first one is supposed to be a shitty one to get used to the program.

and it's supposed to be a learning process.

I just sculpted as it was simple clay

so it was kind of fun

here it is, didn't use reference (forgot to research out of excitement)

oh well... XD

it's something!

~olyadbg

color&value face study and something

I'm kind of ashamed that it looks nothing like the original, and no it's not Putin.

It's a face and value study and I probably have to give you the reference and I really don't want to because I failed so much lol... 

but here it is: Reference

but I guess it's ok because I'm not looking for making portraits so it would look exactly like the original but it's a great skill that needs to be obtained over time.

after that I did another study

in this one I didn't really try to look like the original and well.. its really far from looking the same

in this study I practiced using color with multiply layer and screen layer

It looks nothing like the original: Reference

and a project for my Concept Art course 

I wanted to challange myself and I did, it was very complicated for me.
Though it really doesnt look that great and I learned a lot from this piece.

I had a lot of mistakes and next time you will all see my progress

I don't like this piece... but I'll get pro 

~olyadbg

value study and a beast

A study I did to understand better tone and light

here is the reference

I kind of failed with the accuracy and I wasn't patient enough and wanted just to see the result

but I'll be doing a lot of random studies and I'll get better every time

here's a beast I did for homework

and then later I tried again but came up only with the bones and not the muscles

I'll be doing a lot more things like that and then I'll try to get a finished and polished result when I'll get a little better with this

~olyadbg

city in the clouds and a study

didn't upload anything in a while

a quick drawing of "a city in the clouds"

didnt go into details

i'll do more drawings like this more often

and a Frazetta study I did a while ago

I've been working on a new drawing and now finally I have time to do something else

I'll upload it tomorrow

~olyadbg

best study ever

I'm so tired, such a long day
I went to work today and right after that to college (concept art course) 
it's about 11 pm and I thought of doing a color study 
who else if not from Frazetta

so tired but happy I started this study though I might continue it tomorrow...

~olyadbg

Leg anatomy, faces hands and doodles

studies! more and more and still not enough

but now I'm back

so here are some face studies. a doodle from the right. a bit practice on hands though I really need to do hundreds of those..! and then leg anatomy study

when you've got to do something you just need to stop thinking and sit and work on it

I had a lack of motivation lately

I was confused by my schedule and inconsistency

it's not about the art schedule

it about all the other things I need to do in my life

I'm trying to balance those things

and I think it starts working as before

To do: 

*colored face studies

*study the rest of the leg anatomy

*armor study 

*environment mood study for my project

*study famous pieces (color and composition)

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Random drawing studies

gestures

For Daily Spitpaing (facebook group) done in 30 minutes

wood eating demon:

color study

sketch for home work 

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sketch\wip

this one is really weird 

no reference, started as a sketch with golden ratio and added some color that's all..

I don't think I'll finish this one...

a lot of anatomy problems but I didn't really pay attention and jumped into color because I just wanted to try out the golden ratio again 

it's all about studying. Not everything has to be perfect. every time I learn something new and try not to repeat my mistakes.

but not finishing pieces isn't great as well..

A doodle and some 2 min gestures...Yeah I'm pretty slow.

Usually I draw 1 min gesture.

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Gluteus Maximus

la yesterday studies studies

and some of the homework from class

It's really great to study anatomy to actually understand the figure.

It's so complicated and amazing and it's really interesting.

~olyadbg

Destroyed Planet concept - Gallifrey - Doctor's who destroyed home

The Time War, more specifically called The Last Great Time War, is a conflict pitted the Time Lords against the Daleks.

The homework assign is about a destroyed planet.
When I started thinking about the concept I thought "Doctor who!" :D

Gallifrey was the homeworld of the Time Lords. 
It had been implied that it was destroyed along with the Dalek Empire, by the Doctor during the Time War.

Weapons used by the Time Lords included Bowships, Black Hole Carriers and N-Forms

Near the planet you can see a white circle, well it's a black hole

 According to "Interstellar", (a movie that I should watch!)  black holes are white (from the glowing ring around it)

It was a lot of fun to draw this 

First time I used golden ratio, it's cool and I'll definitely use it again and try to understand it better

~olyadbg