Sketchbook Thread

[Anonymous No.4182183]

omg you draw :D can I see your sketchbook?

[Anonymous No.4182187]

Flow for this 3-4 hour doodle:
>Icarus
>sun
>infinity
>despair
>sublime
>spectacle
>sin
>disassociation

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[Anonymous No.4182270]

ref versus imagination (dont ask why i made a portait of a war criminal its complicated)

[Anonymous No.4182297]

I have yet to finish this thing.

>>4182270
delicious

[Anonymous No.4182298]

>>4182270
Sure thing pol. I really like these the hatching is really nice. Now do one of Stalin.

[Anonymous No.4182303]

>>4182270
These are gorgeous

[Anonymous No.4182314]

messing around with perspective

[Anonymous No.4182373]

>>4182303

[Anonymous No.4182375]

>>4182297
blog?? this is wonderful

[Anonymous No.4182419]

[Anonymous No.4182421]

>>4182419
Where do I go to learn scifi dystopian environments

[Anonymous No.4182422]

[Anonymous No.4182424]

>>4182419
Where do I go to learn how to draw scifi dystopian environments, my man

[Anonymous No.4182427]

[Anonymous No.4182430]

>>4182424
Move to China my dude, these are studies from photos I took living there.
That place is as dystopian sci-fi as it gets

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>>4182433
>>4182436
No idea why these are sideways, sorry, they are not like this in my phone

[Anonymous No.4182462]

>>4182430
what tools do you use?

[Anonymous No.4182465]

Drawing cars is quite fun.

[Anonymous No.4182470]

here's my shit

[Anonymous No.4182478]

>>4182462
Ive been using a .5mm micron fine liner for the last 2 years, I love them.
Any black super fine line pen would be fine though

[Anonymous No.4182479]

>>4182190
Fuck you, that's great.

[Anonymous No.4182481]

>>4182270
You drew him because of the water thread

[Anonymous No.4182492]

>>4182270
I draw abhorrent people all the time because they have so much character. Mugshots are a great source of character studies too

[Anonymous No.4182494]

>>4182465
Sweet
>>4182470
Your work will be improved tenfold by working on your line quality, chicken scratching is really bringing the quality do wn

[Anonymous No.4182508]

Looking at these threads always inspires me to improve and work harder.

[Anonymous No.4182509]

>>4182494
Thanks, here's another piece i did, this time with pencil.

[Anonymous No.4182514]

>>4182190
The boots were a nice design choice.

[Anonymous No.4182531]

>>4182270
Don't worry, I also draw portraits of real life nazis all the time

[Anonymous No.4182545]

>>4182375
thanks anon, im on twitter, @art_mellon

>>4182427
I love these thumbnails. Blog?

[Anonymous No.4182794]

>>4182508
Based

[Anonymous No.4182848]

>>4182190
>>4182373
Fucking saved

[Anonymous No.4182928]

>>4182479
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>>4182848
Thank you so much anons :D I’ll keep working in this direction

[Anonymous No.4182935]

>>4182190
nioce

[Anonymous No.4182947]

>>4182935
Your work is so impressive anon, I’m happy you like mine :D

[Anonymous No.4182969]

>>4182481
i dont know what water thread is. anyway; the sketch was made for an art college project. i designed a small zine with illustrations about war in serbia. I brought my drawings in and started describing the project to the rest of class using a projector, the door opened and some random, official looking people went in. It turned out they were some serbian artists that were visiting our college on that exact day and nobody informed me about it. They were really angry about my work lol. Their translator kept asking me why there was a huge ass drawing of radovan projected on the wall with „remove kebab” written over it and what was i talking about. I stormed out of the class. The upside is that I read more about the conflict afterwards and learned it wasnt as black&white as media portrayed it to be.

tldr: dont go to art college

and thank you for kind words about my sketches

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>>4182419
Good shit

[Anonymous No.4183053]

>>4182187

You cab label it all kinds of fancy schmancy things but I just see shitty lines

[Anonymous No.4183073]

>>4183053
It's doodling. Clean lines were never my intention, just excavating some unconscious material, my guy.

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>>4182424
Just live in asia

[Anonymous No.4183238]

>>4182439
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>>4182433
I love your style so much. Sorry if it's a /beg/ question, but what did you study to get to your current skill level

[Anonymous No.4183360]

dunno where to ask this so I'll hijack this thread, should I really start with digital drawing? or is it better to learn the fundamentals with pen and paper?

[Anonymous No.4183375]

>>4183360
===> /beg/ ===> sticky though you should really just get off the computer if you're too retarded to read

[Anonymous No.4183431]

>>4182509
this is really nice anon, care to share me about your shading and cross hatching foundation? I've been trying to mimic artists with this type of cross hatching technique but I feel like I'm missing out some sort of fundies behind it.

[Anonymous No.4183438]

>>4183360
Pencil/pen and paper is better to start with since it's really just you doing everything. No undos, no stabilizers, etc. Best way to learn imo. Digital is not necessarily bad for learning though. The most important thing is to practice consistently so if you're more comfortable practicing in digital then do digital. If traditional then do traditional. It's not really that big a deal.

[Anonymous No.4183799]

>>4183238
Thanks anon, the best advice I can give you is to draw with a pen to develop confident line work, I have a long way to go still but that’s one of my goals for drawing in pen. Also just draw things you personally think is cool, that’s how to keep art interesting and keep your passion up.

[Anonymous No.4183802]

>>4182509
Much better, this is actually really awesome. This almos looks pro comic artist level to me gorgeous lines and forms and value

[Anonymous No.4183806]

>>4182545
Thanks man, I have Instagram @heretic_artwork

[Anonymous No.4183809]

>>4183360
There are so fucking many distractions in digital art that you’ll spend so much time dicking around and improve really slowly. Stick to pen and paper for AT LEAST 6 months and up to a year if you actually want to git gud

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[Anonymous No.4183971]

>>4182439
You are absolutely forgiven, anon.
It's not like it's your fault for the tragic nature of digital images, that once taken can never be altered.
Oh, how I wish someone would develop some sort of tool to correct the mistakes of fate.
Unrotatable pictures are the final hurdle of our species, you bear no responsibility for it at all,

[Anonymous No.4184313]

>>4183971
They rotated after I uploaded, clearly said that in my post

[Anonymous No.4184372]

this thread makes me feel very insecure

[Anonymous No.4184380]

Could someone red line this for me please

[Anonymous No.4184381]

>>4182969
>remove kebab
Gold.

[Anonymous No.4184500]

>>4184372
It should make you motivated anon. Strive to be better than us. I sat through a drawing session with Peter Han once and he told us his biggest motivation is seeing other peoples work and figuring out their ways so that eventually he can become better than them. He was super stoked to see everyone drawing and said for him it is the best feeling in the world. Be like Peter, Anon.

[Anonymous No.4184556]

>>4182270
>>4182509
love the character in these

>>4182419
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>>4182433
>>4182436
>>4182439
love these, especially the architecture
(also its rotated because non /p/ boards strip EXIF data that includes rotation)

here's what i've done over the last week

[Anonymous No.4184566]

>>4184380
here ya go, brother

always love taking the opportunity to help someone out

[Anonymous No.4184634]

>>4184556
Thanks, I had no idea about that. I'm glad to hear you like the architecture stuff because it's by far one of my greatest weaknesses

[Anonymous No.4184659]

Posting a few more pages since people seemed to like them more than I expected. And want to post some thoughts about sketchbooks because they are something that gave me a lot of trouble in the past but are now my favourite thing to work on as an artist.

First of all the way you think about sketchbooks is extremely important to your productivity as an artist. When I was younger I had an awful habit of starting a sketchbook with a few good (from my perspective at the time) drawings and then being petrified to draw anything else on the sketchbook lest I "ruin" the whole book. So I had a collection of half a dozen sketchbooks lying about my house with 2 -5 drawings in each one, absolutely worthless and not even worth flicking through. Though I knew this was a problem I never really did anything about it.

I moved abroad for a few years (in 2016) and took a year-long detox from PCs and tablets etc so that I could dedicate myself to physical pen and paper drawing, and forced myself to start a sketchbook and FINISH THE DAMN THING NO MATTER WHAT. I wouldn't tear out or deface shitty drawings and I would make a concerted effort to at least mostly fill each page from cover to cover. And I did it, and it's literally the beat decision I've made as an artist. Since then I am now working on my 5th sketchbook (they are usually quite small but my third sketchbook was something like 2 hundred pages so it took eat longer to fill than the others, I have such a love hate relationship with that thing)

Anyway I ended up writing a bit more than I thought I would, idk if anyone gives a shit. But I'll post a couple more pages with some thoughts anyway

[Anonymous No.4184665]

I like to keep pages at least somewhat themes, of there's a particular type of design I want to work on I'll do a ton of studies and sketches all related to that design or idea or whatever it is trying to develop on that page. It helps me stay focussed and motivates me to work more and more on that subject until I fill the page at least, if I feel like it I'll keep working on the left page (I usually only draw on the right and make some notes on the left.) If I want to do some studies about something else before I finish the page I'll start a new page and go back to the old one later

[Anonymous No.4184670]

>>4184665
I usually leave shitty sketches on a page, and find that even a page full of shitty sketches can be redeemed by ONE cool looking sketch, they will attract your attention and you won't notice the shitty ones as much, so don't be discouraged by shitty sketches.

Although sometimes, as is the case on this page, and sketch is just so damn ugly that I can't stand looking at it and I will actually tear out th page or cover it up( that's rare though, I've done it about
5 times in the last 3 years. I covered this page with gesso and I might do a little oil painting thumbnailstudy on it later.

[Anonymous No.4184672]

>>4184670

[Anonymous No.4184676]

Last one for now, one of the most important things about sketchbook drawing is that, while is is okay and fun to show it to people, you should NEVER plan to, or think about showing your sketchbook to another sole WHILE you are drawing in it, the sole desire to show your sketchbook to people will tense up your drawing and cause you to overthink how you're drawing, which is literally the worst thing you can ever do while studying, you will learn way more when You are allowing yourself to just be shit sometimes.

Alas, a lot of normies who I show my sketchbook to don't really like it, asthey don't really get the point of the way I'm drawing while k draw in my sketchbook, they expect beautiful illustrations on every page, and it is the fact that k don't give a shit about that expectation that allows me to improve, and it was the most valuable thing I ever learned to do.

[Anonymous No.4185132]

>>4182270
I took inspiration from you and drew another equally old dude

[Anonymous No.4185178]

Benny jackson looks like a cool guy

[Anonymous No.4185491]

the only ones im happy with here are the crying dude and the bike, idk what to do to improve. i also blatantly just copied other people's life drawings for the ladies at the bottom

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>>4187502
>>4187496
Cool in a weird way. Reminds me of sinixs old sketchbooks

[Anonymous No.4187523]

>>4185132
nice, i like the shadows in this nose/mouth area.

i have another war criminal in that sketchbook btw. and some random lady (both from reference of course)

[Anonymous No.4187582]

Think I'm finally getting the hang of drawing convincing forms in space a bit more.

[Anonymous No.4187644]

weeboo shit...

[Anonymous No.4189295]

>>4182183
bump

post your fucking sketchbooks

[Anonymous No.4189296]

Chillen. I was banned for a month for pretending to be 17.

[Anonymous No.4189313]

[Anonymous No.4189316]

I guess it's a Charlize Theron movie

[Anonymous No.4189331]

God, looking at most of these, they're so good.
I'm really ngmi

[Anonymous No.4189342]

>>4189296
Man your hatching and handlettering is visibly improving, I'm jelly. I remember you posting that model chick saying lines from a book or something. Well if you're actually that guy, that is

[Anonymous No.4189343]

>>4189331
Shut your pie hole and draw. All of them were at your level at some point, but they didn't call themselves ngmi since that thought would get in the way of work

[Anonymous No.4189400]

>>4182190
didnt u get banned for being underage or was that a meme? still anon, you're really good! if you keep at it you'll make it for sure

[Anonymous No.4189403]

>>4182439
reminds me of artem solop's style

[Anonymous No.4189405]

>>4189331
Literally everyone fucking sucks at first. Working every day in your sketchbook is the best way to improve

[Anonymous No.4189411]

>>4189403
Never heard Of him before I'll check him out thanks

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>>4189296
https://youtu.be/-p0OadRapq4

[Anonymous No.4189617]

>>4184566
Xd

[Anonymous No.4191166]

first time i bursted out laughing while drawing and its a fucking autoportrait done in the morning class

[Anonymous No.4191171]

>>4191166
This is actually funny. Good job!

[Anonymous No.4191182]

>>4191166
POST FEET

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>>4191182
have some dignity anon

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>>4182187
I like it

[Anonymous No.4192148]

>>4182373
dope af

[Anonymous No.4192188]

I feel like I'm improving, even though it's really slow

[Anonymous No.4192507]

>>4192188
It feels good to be a practitioner.

[Anonymous No.4192970]

>>4192507
Yeah, thank you anon :)

[Anonymous No.4193017]

>>4182190

I want to play as her in a video game.

[Anonymous No.4193059]

>>4192148
Thank you :)
>>4193017
Oh! That’s really flattering to me anon, thank you so much

[Anonymous No.4193098]

>>4189400
I did get banned but it was temporary lol, thank you! I appreciate it

[Anonymous No.4193099]

20 minute pose from figure drawing

[Anonymous No.4193131]

>>4182187
>Thinks green-texts are some topic lbles .
bro you just posted mega cringe
>shit lines
>nothing valuable
>low effort
>neck yourself redditor

[Anonymous No.4193134]

>>4193131
Rude
See:
>>4183073

[Anonymous No.4193153]

>>4193131
>stupid newfag retard doesn't know greentext has more than one use
>uses shitty faggot fucking zoomer insults

[Anonymous No.4194064]

>>4182373
So you gave up and went back to drawing only girls?

[Anonymous No.4194099]

>>4194064
I didn’t give up but I forgot and slipped back into habit, thank you for reminding me

[Anonymous No.4194122]

tips on improving sketchbooks to not just be random construction, heads, naked women, and barely much else?

[Anonymous No.4194189]

Warmups from imagination

[Anonymous No.4194190]

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[Anonymous No.4194254]

>>4194122
Pick a subject that interests you or you need to improve on, such as clothing, enviorments etc. Then fill some pages with that shit. You could even dedicate entire sketchbooks for a certain subjects. It may be a challenge at first, but keep at it. Feels good to get out of your box once in a while.

[Anonymous No.4194354]

>>4194254
ok thanks!

[Anonymous No.4194847]

>>4187582
You sure are, drawing in a box is a great exercise, I need to go back to that.

[Anonymous No.4195246]

>>4192188
Scuffed James Sunderland

[Anonymous No.4195255]

>>4182190
>>4182303
>>4182373
Blog?

[Anonymous No.4195322]

>>4195255
Beholdnika on both insta and Twitter :)

[Anonymous No.4196836]

>>4194064
Tried to include more variety in this page, thanks for reminding me anon

[Anonymous No.4197297]

Posted this in beg but sometimes posts get ignored there. I spent up to 5mins on each skull. The left ones were challenging. Am I feeling form well? Or am I overextending my skill level? Any suggestions on where to focus my attention? Honestly drawing skulls has felt better than grinding Loomis circles.

[Anonymous No.4197303]

>>4197297
Based and skullpilled. Do more anon, you're on the right track

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[Anonymous No.4199274]

>>4187582
Cool bugs

[Anonymous No.4199278]

>>4196836
Damn,those are pretty good anon

[Anonymous No.4199612]

>>4199278
Thank you anon :)

[Anonymous No.4199656]

>>4182187
Keep it up

[Anonymous No.4200357]

some sorta cluttered office setting with screwed up vanishing points. dunno what to fill in the shelves with yet, maybe just nine million more books

[Anonymous No.4200359]

some sorta cluttered office setting with screwed up vanishing points. dunno what to fill in the shelves with yet, maybe just nine million more books except this time I remembered to attach the image

[Anonymous No.4200385]

Marker studies of some cows

[Anonymous No.4200396]

[Anonymous No.4200416]

>>4200385
This is great anon!

[Anonymous No.4201070]

>>4200396
woah what is this this is cool

[Anonymous No.4201090]

>>4201070
Its called the 4 toed samefag

[Anonymous No.4201095]

>>4182373
I want to achieve this level of shading with pen/ink

[Anonymous No.4201099]

Some Inktober drawings and full body studies is what fills the last 30 pages of my sketchbook

[Anonymous No.4201100]

>>4197297
Keep going. You have better lines and work than most beginners! Keep at it anon

[Anonymous No.4201102]

>>4184566
this did not need to be .4mb larger than the original.

[Anonymous No.4201150]

what do people here think of these videos?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSrx7mJ4DIg

[Anonymous No.4201688]

>>4201070
It's a depiction of the Ascension of Christ from a manga artist. It's a familiar subject from Renaissance art of course but it's being done differently there.

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>>4201699
did you take a stranger's pic to draw them?

[Anonymous No.4201708]

>>4201703
Hahahaha! I should sometime but this is from an eBay auction photo

[Anonymous No.4201716]

>>4201708
I was listening to some sort of surveillance video of random people being filmed though. It's a different drawing experience because people respond differently to a camera than they do to a sketchbook.

[Anonymous No.4201910]

>>4201095
Thats really flattering to hear, anon :’) I wish I had any advice but unfortunately when I shade it’s mostly based on intuition

[Anonymous No.4201933]

todays ramblings from my sketchbook

[Anonymous No.4201956]

tried doing a self portrait in 5-point perspective. Very challenging to get the proportions right!

[Anonymous No.4201991]

>>4182373
Fucking sick dude

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>>4201933
Very cool

[Anonymous No.4202583]

>>4201991
Thank you! :D

[Anonymous No.4202640]

>>4184566
gold

[Anonymous No.4202642]

>>4189296
>armpit boob

[Anonymous No.4202932]

>>4202642
it's some Egyptian form of icon.

[Anonymous No.4202933]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ssa8sx8NSXo

[Anonymous No.4202935]

>>4202933
Communist? Care to elaborate?

[Anonymous No.4202942]

>>4202935
I'm just a weathercock, not an ideologist anon.

[Anonymous No.4202944]

>>4202942
I mean no ill will. Why name the picture Communist structure? I need to know anon.

[Anonymous No.4202949]

>>4202944
It's brutalist architecture which was popular in communist nations in the 20th century due to no-fuss and affordable design. It exists in capitalist nations too, it's not exclusive to communist nations but it's much more common there.

[Anonymous No.4202951]

>>4202944
originally I named it JENGA. Chaubin is the photographer, I think it's later Soviet architecture, like mid-70's.

[Anonymous No.4202954]

>>4202949
>>4202951
Thanks anon. I learnt something new today.

[Anonymous No.4203073]

>>4182183
Can you give some criticism here? I bought this book on drawing fabric and I am really not sure what I'm doing I just kind of copied the example in the book. They don't really teach you anything. I couldn't do this without a reference.

[Anonymous No.4203089]

>>4197303
Impressive

[Anonymous No.4203100]

>>4203073
The book just shows you pictures and then they tell you here are the points where the tension comes from and it moves in this direction, which is completely unnecessary because you can just know that by looking at the wrinkles. When drawing from life or reference just draw what you see. When drawing from imagination there are no arrows to tell you what to draw so I want to learn some general rules so I can draw from imagination.

[Anonymous No.4203114]

>>4203073
As a fellow beginner, I think it helps to draw basic shapes, put the cloth on them and try to imagine how they fold and interact with the shape. Different materials interact differently.

[Anonymous No.4203148]

>>4203073
I've found books and tutorial to be usesless, Folds are the trickiest thing to study because there is so much randomness and chaos involved in the final shape. My best advice is just to simply study the basic types of folds, draw some very basic examples of each, then find references on pinterest of people wearing clothes with VERY minimal creasing and folding and try to identify the type of fold first, and THEN draw it as close as you can. Keep trying this with the most basic references you can (think simple t-shirt+jeans combos with simple poster and minimal folds) and as you start to get the hang of it, find more and more complex examples.

Drawing and painting folds is very much a process of just "feeling" the flow of folds in a certain posture, it takes a long ass time, just be patient and have faith that you will eventually get the hang of it.

the main types of folds as i understand it are as follows (search online for examples yourself):
Pipefold
Drop Fold
Diaper Fold
Half-lock Fold
Spiral Fold
Zig Zag Fold

[Anonymous No.4203246]

>>4203148
Interesting. Yea I just tried to draw from memory. It looks equally shit to my drawing from reference but I think you're right. I need to focus of the specific details. Draw different types of folds in different materials. The way I do it now is cartoony. I'm getting the point across but it's normie tier which imo is below beg tier. Thanks for the suggestion. I'm gonna try.