studies & doodles

study

study

speedpaint from imagination

study

doodle from imagination

another doodle from imagination

study from real life model

~olyadbg 

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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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

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.

~olyadbg

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

What I've been up to lately - concept art home work

For home work I need to create a model sheet

here's a progress

I know the character supposed to stand with wide opened arms but this design isn't going to be for 3d modeling anyway

I left out a lot of details but I guess it's kind of okay because the whole point is to get to know the process and learn as much as I can.

It's my personal design

so what's his thing?

His the bad guy but not from his point of view

he's just doing his job

so what if he was kidnapped as a kid to a devil worshiping family?

brainwashed to believe his duty is to bring a child into this world and use it as a vessel

so he found a pathetic woman and married her

once she brought a child he simply disappeared

It was a little girl known as the little red riding hood (yeah yeah, they told us to write a version of our own to the story and for some reason I gave it a twisted touch)

The little girl poisoned her mother's mind who was a pathetic woman to begin with

until her soul couldn't handle life anymore

The little girl offered her a deal, once she murders a family member she will become whole again

she agreed and went off to her mother's house

she murdered her like an animal 

and then the hunter came in and killed the psycho

and took the little girl with him and smiled

"mission accomplished" he thought 

The father is also the hunter

~poor English~

I need to draw some more facial expressions and some gestures of the character

oh the weapon he uses

~olyadbg

Studies

I feel like I got worse

like I forgot how to study, how to draw

how to put all my knowledge down on a psd file or a simple piece of paper

It's hard

I had a great schedule and I had a great progress

and then it stopped

and it rolled back

It's just a feeling I had\still have

 and I know I need to overcome this and get back on track

study, work hard and achieve my goals

I never believed this much in this dream of mine

and everything is possible

I didn't finish my homework yet

but here is a start

I need to do a character design and make a model sheet

I need to get into details and draw some gestures and facial expressions

here is a quick study to understand better the hip bone

analyzing this way really helps instead of just copying

if anyone sees this, I hope it helps you to study 

~olyadbg

color study and spitpainting

color study, worked with big brushes

and a drawing done for a facebook group called Spitpaint

the point of the group is drawing something in 30 minutes that is related to a certain topic

I did "Floating Tree"

my first spitpainting, it kind of weird

next spitpainting will be better!!

~olyadbg

sketches

here is a sketch I did in class (concept design course) instead of listening :\

and another sketch 

~olyadbg

Color Study

Here is a color study from the book "Color and Light" by James Gurney

There's a piece there by Martin Keane

The face has more complex colors, the nose and cheeks area is more red.
The zone from the nose to the chin tends towards blue or green and the forehead is more yellow.

I used a big brush and I know it doesn't look very good
and comparing to the original it's almost horrible
but it's a start
...



next color study will be better 
maybe one day I'll recreate this study and we will all see the progress :P


~olyadbg

Drawing practice

not much

but it's something

~olyadbg

Random Drawings - gestures, feet and a dog

random studies

need to practice much more than that!

~olyadbg

Face Expressions Practice - Drawing

I'm sick :(
got the whole day to practice


~olyadbg

Facial Expressions Study - Drwaings

another study

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la random drawing studies

I know the basics of drawing a head but I just felt like I need to refresh my memory and get back to studies

when I sketch faces/heads from my mind it looks kind of bad.... 

and here are some sketches without paying much attention to anatomy