I shall post my "art" here...

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[G-man_2000]

Great start, awesome sketches!

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Thanks G-Man

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[mrh7448]

Hey, nice work. I like the gestural and sketchy quality of some of your work. I like the first few sketches, though the head on the first one is a bit of an awkward position

[Maverick]

I love the daredevil pose in this one, really want to finish that one up.

Gestures

Study completely inspired by a sketch of an amazing artist named Hurricane.

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Quick studys for a big project:

Messin around with the Iron Man design

meh

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Venom + other stuff

Random sketches

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Wolverine

Referenced from a photo

Sitting

[Dri]

Really nice sketches with a delicate feel to them. Even your action poses have some kind of sensitivity to it.

[Maverick]

Thanks

Here is an update on the Daredevil

[Travis]

Some very fluid, lifelike gestural stuff. I'm really diggin it.

[Beastie]

The 'far' arm on the daredevil sketch is longer than the arm on our near side.

Top of shoulder to elbow on the near side is 8cm long on my screen - far arm measures at 9cm over same distance.

Thats a considerable difference.

I'd shorten that down a bit before progressing with finished pencils.

Oh, btw, you've got some lovely sketches throughout your blog... :)

[Maverick]

Thanks fellas, here is some more crap.

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More junk. I'm doing some stuff that I can't show; most of my effort goes into that stuff.

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Sketch of Emma Frost aka White Queen

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Trying my hand at a female Spartan warrior

[G-man_2000]

You make those Awesome sketches look so easy. Great movement in almost all of them.

[JimLeeforGod]

Me like! Keep it up! More Art Please! :D

[Maverick]

Thanks guys here is some more stuff. Trying to get comfortable with a style.
Elektra

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[Juan2.0]

On your Red Sonja...her head is too small...maybe that is why you are having difficulty fitting the face on there.

On Gwen, she seems to be leaning or her legs are angled wrong. Remember when figure drawing that you have to figure out the balance (distribution of weight) within the figure. I usually draw a line down the center of my figures to figure out the balance of them...like this:

http://www.juansoriginalart.com/gwenstacyao2.jpg

See how you have her legs too far over where her torso is evenly balanced out.

[Maverick]

Juan-Right on both accounts. I did notice how horrible of a job I had done on the Gwen Stacy piece when I started assembling the piece in photoshop after scanning. Time to study some Loomis for figure balancing and weight distribution. :o

[Maverick]

These are photo referenced. I'm drawing some pics from photos to practice anatomy. I was having somewhat of a block on poses, etc. and I'm trying to get over that bump so I can draw as much over the summer as possible (College = zero time to draw). When I run out of ideas I don't draw and this has tremendously hurt my growth as an artist. So I'm hoping this will boost my skills a bit. I have to be careful not to let referencing become a crutch though.

I'm drawing a rough manikin underneath each picture first to learn proportions and make sure everything goes in the right place, basically following the Andrew Loomis model. Then I go over the rough manikin type model adding details and finally add costume and such. So far I have been shying away from legs I noticed. This routine is helping me with speed, proportions and anatomy. I am trying to do one a day. I was drawing small heads on my figures too and have been so far pretty unsuccessful in breaking that habit, I think these pieces are an improvement, but let me know what you think about that.:o

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Invisible Woman. That odd dark spot on her belt is where my eraser mysteriously burned through the paper. I have no clue how it happened but its very annoying. Photo reference was used.

http://img175.imageshack.us/img175/2669/invisiblewomankq5.jpg

[Manji]

You have some really nice stuff here and for some reason at times your stuff reminds me of my own. I don't mean that as an insult or complement :p but I just get a that vibe off of you stuff sometimes. Anyway nice stuff and you are getting better. Keep it up.

[Maverick]

You have some really nice stuff here and for some reason at times your stuff reminds me of my own. I don't mean that as an insult or complement :p but I just get a that vibe off of you stuff sometimes. Anyway nice stuff and you are getting better. Keep it up.

No offense taken considering you are probably my favorite artist on these boards:D When are you updating your SB. Need inspiration dammit!:o

But seriously I believe our stuff maybe similar because of the artists that influence us. I see some Wes Burt, Marko Djurdjevic stylizing in your work. I don't know if you know who Wes Burt is but he is one of the conceptart.org guys; uber talented in his pencil renderings. I keep switching between that style of rendering and a Charest/Yu thing.

And I agree with your sig too, I can't draw the marvel way either.

[Manji]

Thanks man I really appreciate that (although totally undeserving) I will try and post some stuff soon just been in a slump and what not due to my wife's trip to the hospital etc. But things are lookin' up.

Oh yeah I know who Wes Burt is, and yeah I love his stuff. Wes Marko Adam Hughes, Alex Maleev and Hiroaki Samura all have a huge influence on me along with others (non comic related) I still hope I am developing my own style. But seriously you are really starting to come around and I always take notice of your posts as a result.

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I remember reading about your wife. I'm glad things are looking up for you and her. Thanks again for checking my stuff out :)

[Dri]

I don't know if you know who Wes Burt is but he is one of the conceptart.org guys; uber talented in his pencil renderings. I keep switching between that style of rendering and a Charest/Yu thing.

And I agree with your sig too, I can't draw the marvel way either.

I prefer your work not switching to the Yu style because the strength in your linework much like Manji, relies on building linework that is organic. That looseness disappears when you adopt a more complete linear approach that Yu/Charest adopt.

Your faces look great. Just focus on the figures as much as you do the face and the rest will follow. If you love putting heaps of detail in your work, put in as much effort in your construction. You may have gotten stick for you're work looking referenced. I see it differently and think some reference will help you refine proportion issues. More life drawings will take you a long way.

The invisible woman sketch is closer to your natural style imo. I hope you run with it because not too many people can pull that drawing style off. Time to check Wes Burt's stuff.

[Maverick]

I prefer your work not switching to the Yu style because the strength in your linework much like Manji, relies on building linework that is organic. That looseness disappears when you adopt a more complete linear approach that Yu/Charest adopt.

Your faces look great. Just focus on the figures as much as you do the face and the rest will follow. If you love putting heaps of detail in your work, put in as much effort in your construction. You may have gotten stick for you're work looking referenced. I see it differently and think some reference will help you refine proportion issues. More life drawings will take you a long way.

The invisible woman sketch is closer to your natural style imo. I hope you run with it because not too many people can pull that drawing style off. Time to check Wes Burt's stuff.

Thanks and I can send you some links to other similar artists if you want.

Here is a quick sketch for the hero vs horror drawoff, trying to experiment with composition. This was done fairly quickly its John Constantine of Hellblazer vs Vlad Dracula

[Dri]

Give us the links to some of the artists, Mav. I think i'm going for the wrong approach for comic art. My brain just doesn't think that way. Wes Burt is not my cup of tea though and I much prefer your styling to his for some reason. Might have to check out David Mack's reflections again. You should see some of his drawings studies. You'll get real inspiration from those.

[Maverick]

Give us the links to some of the artists, Mav. I think i'm going for the wrong approach for comic art. My brain just doesn't think that way. Wes Burt is not my cup of tea though and I much prefer your styling to his for some reason. Might have to check out David Mack's reflections again. You should see some of his drawings studies. You'll get real inspiration from those.

Mack is the shizznit, I kinda forgot about him and its fun looking at his work again.

Here are some amazing artists that I try to follow pretty regularly and they have some influence on my work.

http://souvlaki.jp-ar.org/index.php?page=1

http://exiter.livejournal.com/

http://kahnehteh.blogspot.com/index.html

http://www.kalvachev.com/

http://margueriteillus.canalblog.com/

http://www.kevart.com/pages/menu_pg.html

http://www.daarken.com/Flash2005/main.html

http://www.jonfoster.com/pages/ill%20frame.html

http://www.justinsweet.com/GALLERY/index.html

http://www.stevemcniven.com/

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72334

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Here are better scans of some of the stuff I posted earlier and some new stuff as well.

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[Juan2.0]

How are you doing on the commissions on Comic Art Community...getting any bites? :)

[Maverick]

How are you doing on the commissions on Comic Art Community...getting any bites? :)

none so far. I'm gonna give it a try on ebay, how do you do with the commission stuff on ebay?

more drawings

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I don't offer commissions very often anymore on there...but when I do, they still sell fairly well for the most part. Nice Red Sonja...her face is gorgeous. :)

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Thank you :D

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[Dri]

You'll have to be faster, Mav. You can tell when something is quick or not because you can tell when someone measures their work. I'd like to see some real gesture in your work as an experiment. Also if you want to sell your work, you have to make your woman's faces look more interesting. Some of the facial expressions have them looking bored. Sounds harsh but you have a good drawing style that'll be hard to resist when you get some nice expressions. You just got to push the exaggerate more, even if it's referenced.

To better your technique at drawing from reference is life draw. Do it like there's no tomorrow. You'll be the better for it. Capture the gestures first then the details last.

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Ok something completely different from what I had been doing.

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I really enjoy this sketch even though I ran out of paper at the top of the page.

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Some Bridgman studies and my own stuff in the bottom left corner.

[KrisDiaz]

first off let me start by saying...you got a lot of great stuff here!....second is a quick question..i notice a lot of people own and use bridgemans guide to drawing life and im just curious if you feel it has helped you any...i personally bought it after a few people referred it to me and i dont feel that it helps as much as i was led to believe!

[Manji]

You gotta really study it the Bridgman stuff Kris. I can't speak for Maverick but I know I really love the Bridgman construction methods. The best I can say is just really study and see the volume and depth of his work. Of course everyone learns differently so a different approach may 'click' with you.

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first off let me start by saying...you got a lot of great stuff here!....second is a quick question..i notice a lot of people own and use bridgemans guide to drawing life and im just curious if you feel it has helped you any...i personally bought it after a few people referred it to me and i dont feel that it helps as much as i was led to believe!

Thanks for looking, to clarify I am drawing from Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy although I have flipped through his Life Drawing book a few times.

To answer your question I also used to have the same opinion as you about Bridgman. I tried picking up his life drawing book a few times but I just couldn't get into it. As a beginning student of anatomy, I didn't think Bridgman was a good choice since his style is so loose and gesture-like. First of all his work isn't very clear as to what the muscles look like exactly (I used to be a detail freak). But once you figure out the very basics of anatomical form, (Andrew Loomis's figure drawing is the best in my opinion) Bridgman is awesome to look at. I can really appreciate the subtleties of his line and how much he is conveying with his drawings. The looseness is refreshing and but not abstract.

For now Bridgman's Constructive Anatomy is working well for my short-attention span. This inability to finish anything is probably apparent in this thread. Also this really is the first time I'm giving it a serious shot.

Also I recommend Artistic Anatomy by Dr. Paul Richer and translated by Robert Beverly Hale. The first (serious) book I bought on drawing. I highly recommend it and I think its underrated. I honestly don't reference it as much as I should have since I've had it.

Anyway, these are all just my opinions. Bottom line for me is for loose and quick: Bridgman. For more intense study Dr. Paul Richer. For the basics and all the way up: Loomis. I have to agree with what Manji said that different approachs work for different people.

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Oh and some drawings.

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Some new stuff:

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More randomness

[Manji]

Really like the last one. Lot of energy on that one.

[Maverick]

Really like the last one. Lot of energy on that one.

Thanks, it was fun letting loose.

[1peace]

Neat Stuff!

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Thanks, I wanted to work more on one of the sketches posted earlier. Plus I think it looks better on its own.

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