I'll upload a better photo in the morning on my next progression.

To compensate for the terrible photo.

This was a drawing i did to practice anatomy while i tried learning it for a while.

Basically i took the lessons i learned from studies and applied it to a picture.

It was basically draw it and be done with it type attitude.

Ballpoint pen i think? Well some sort of pen.

Here's a better photo.

So i have an update i want to do on my WIP SO BAD right now. I am simply falling in love with this piece. I am about 10 or so hours in with work time total so far.

But when i uploaded it, i even took it to GIMP and tried clearing everything up the best i could and it still looked like it deserved to be on luwano's thread. So i have decided to wait until the morning to use sunlight in order to give a good photo.

This is. The most accurate photo image you will ever see of this drawing.

Moving on to next section, showing alittle of last so you have an idea of what it looks like.

Latest update. Also added more for you to see.

At 7/2/12 02:47 PM, PMMurphy wrote: Latest update. Also added more for you to see.

Wow man, loo.ks cool! thats alot of detail you are putting into it! just how i like it

At 7/2/12 02:49 PM, Ramatsu wrote: Wow man, loo.ks cool! thats alot of detail you are putting into it! just how i like it

Thanks. I feel like i haven't done a piece yet that truly shows my ability. So i'm sitting down and trying my 100% best effort with my current skill sets and knowledge. I think this is about 15 - 20 hours of worktime so far.

I was up till 4am drawing in this grass -_-

update

Time to push some darks here and there, and make the grass more "lively"

Also the water still needs a lot of work

update

At 7/6/12 01:53 PM, PMMurphy wrote: update

sorry wrong file

So this drawing is actually pretty bad, i am going to stop working on it so much.

but here is an update.

So with some critiques i learned how bad this project is and decided to stop working on it. This is what it looks like about halfway done. It's always sprayed with fixatif and hes going to hang it on his wall too. My brother likes it so thats all that matters, time to study fundamentals to improve my art.

This is as complicated as my still lifes are going to get right now.

At 7/8/12 09:20 PM, PMMurphy wrote: This is as complicated as my still lifes are going to get right now.

Looks good, you should practice more of these.

At 7/8/12 09:37 PM, Kashi wrote: Looks good, you should practice more of these.

Thanks i plan to. The paper quality is really poor :(

So much shading mon!

At 7/8/12 09:20 PM, PMMurphy wrote: This is as complicated as my still lifes are going to get right now.

Your shading is excellent, but I think you need to concentrate a little more on your contours. In your still life as well as in that mario drawing, there are a lot of basics forms that are misshapen, especially in circles and ovals (in the mario drawing, the warp pipe is the most noticeable). When practicing still lives, make sure you try to make your drawing as much like your reference as possible. Try out more difficult subjects that require you to focus a lot on your line work to have it look right (like a ceiling fan or something). I think that would help you a lot. :)

Thanks for the comments.

As for the circle / oval problem that is something that will be fixed through drawing more. I don't draw much, i have like 40 total drawings including sketches and stuff dating back to 2005. My circles and ovals and stuff are going to be off. The reason i don't continually rework them until they are perfect is due to the paper and i dont want to mess up what im working on.

Purpose of these exercises is to improve that complaint. Circles are tough. Especially freehand. I could always get tools to help me draw perfect circles and there are many traditional artists who do that. Most of the drawings you see that are pin-point accurate and not mishapen are done with many tools like triangles, rulers, t-squares. Because you want to limit the amount of strokes you put down on the paper early as little as possible. Since the most important layer is your first layer.

But my still lifes will get more difficult as i progress and i didn't spend much time shading it. The reason i picked this exact object is because i wanted to visualize the contours around the whole thing. Also i wanted to draw something see through.

But thanks again for the suggestion, i will do stuff a bit more challenging i guess but i am going to build my way up first and do it slowly.

Also there is something called 'drawing from the right side of the brain' that im trying out.

Its where you don't draw shapes and stuff that you think is there, but instead you draw what is actually there. So in other words you look at the negative space instead of the positive space of what your drawing. Draw that, then slowly add more to it as you go.

So basically you draw the outline first, then you start drawing the shapes that go inside that outline, by looking at their outlines then you repeat process until your finished.

Eraser and Sharpener

These shadow casts im getting are confusing me.

So i drew one of my paintbrushes.

Here is a compositional drawing.

quick sketch of my brother

this one was hard to draw. Looks nothing like its supposed to.

At 7/11/12 04:33 PM, PMMurphy wrote: this one was hard to draw. Looks nothing like its supposed to.

wow! i don't know what im looking at! but it looks good.

At 7/11/12 05:56 PM, sweet21 wrote: wow! i don't know what im looking at! but it looks good.

Its an empty acrylic paint tube, a cheap one from a starter pack that costed me about 6 bucks. The color is black.

This is prolly the worst one i have done so far.

So i started drawing this. Finished the composition drawing and wanted to start shading and such. Then i sneezed. Tried putting stuff back together didn't work out. So i decided to do an imagination exercise, i drew the composition using a reference then shaded and added shadows without.