Photo Study 32 – Old man

Photo Study 32 - Old man

Just watched Cloud Atlas. (I know I am slow, only watching this movie now even its released in year 2012). Its an interesting movie with a different way of story telling and great visuals. Though i think that some mini plot is unnecessary and they should focus on the remaining plots instead. Its because there are just too many characters and I can’t really figure out the relationship of the characters between the different eras. But nonetheless, it has a great idea behind it and great visuals (not too many CG. haha).

Anyway, I did this study pretty quick in one sitting. Don’t think I want to put too much time in photo studies. Just learn from the photos, get the idea and then move on. Think its more effective that way as i can do more studies. Hope it works better this way.

Also, stay tuned for more studies from Cloud Atlas. I screenshot a bunch of them, all waiting in a folder for me to paint. haha.

Sketch: Hampton studies

hampton3  hampton2  hampton1  hampton5  hampton4

 

Some studies i did from Michael Hampton’s book: Figure Drawing- Design and Invention. Its a great book for learning figure drawing. Coincidentally, i wanted to draw more male figures and the pages that i read are all male examples except for one.

Manga Study: Air Gear

air gear study

 

Though its has been a few year since Air Gear is completed, i still enjoys the way the artist draws. Some of the character designs, fight scenes, environments, machines are simply awesome. Its the first manga that i read till the end just because i enjoy the art. (not saying the story is bad, it gets weird towards the end but it is complimented with better art! haha.)

WIP

WIP

Trying to push my lineart further. I Start off with a perspective study and end up drawing my own character and designs. (which is probably why it took so long… ) Not good with line arts, but i push myself for this piece.

Manga studies

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Practicing to some manga characters.

Got to learn more about cell shading and simplify my line work. I think learning from the masters of manga will help me in those aspects. But strange enough, i find it hard to copy manga characters.

Sketch: 40 faces

faces5   faces4   faces3   faces2   faces1

 

Faces studies. Each about 10 to 15 minutes. Aiming to improve my usage of lines and of course the head construction.
Still lacking when the head is tilted at some weird angles. Also, I cant draw expressions well. Need some suggestions and more practice on that.

Sketches during lectures.

spec  girl3  OL  mongo  hng  hey!  girls  falling  cute2  cute  egyptian  character3  sexyhair  pursuit

Drawings i did during some of my lectures. Was forced to take something quite unrelated as a result of the school’s policy. But it ends up giving me more time drawing. There will be more to come and i am ready for it, as long as you let me draw. =D