Nathan's Sketchbook

[Nathan]

Hey all,

The names Nathan. You can find my full intro here

Excited to jump into this. I can’t promise regular updates, but I will do my best.

For my first set of drawings, I’ve gone all the way back to the basics with the beginners series. Here are my sketches from watching tutorials last night. These are sketches to capture the basic form, and playing with light.

 

Apologies for the quality of images. Any tips to taking photos of the sketchbook are welcome 🙂

[RobertSeal-Coon]

Hey man,

Good start.  Not sure if the perspective is from the photo of the page, but the mugs from the side view look a little twisted.  One of the things that I find helpful is to think in terms of what part is parallel with what.  For example, even though they are round, if you imagine a line between the outer edges of the opening at the top and the outer edges of the base, then they should be parallel.  It’s always amazing how much a slight difference can make things look a bit off.

Hope you don’t mind the critique, I find them helpful.

Keep posting!

[Nathan]

Hi Robert,

Thanks for the feedback! I don’t mind the critique.

I went back and checked my drawing, the ‘warping’ of the cup is definitely a result of the photo. I went and checked it and it looked fine. But I’ll definitely take on your feedback for next time (as well as improve my photo taking skills haha).

I’m long overdue to post some stuff up. I’ll do that tonight.

Cheers

[Nathan]

Ok, latest work over the last couple of weeks. I’ve been slowly working through the beginners course. I’m loving it.

The skull is still a work in progress. There are some things I want to tidy up and also go into more detail with. Loving the process 😀

[RobertSeal-Coon]

Hi Nathan,

Really like the shadows in the latest especially in the skull and in the paint tube on its side.  The core shadows look perfect to me.  How long does it take you to do something like the skull drawing?

[Nathan]

Thanks Robert,

The skull drawing as you see it above, took me about an hour. That not including the thumbnail sketches beforehand (add another 20 minutes). I ended up spending another hour later redoing some bits and refining others.

[Nathan]

3 images from the Lay-In Exercises from chapter 7 of the beginners’ course. I did some others, but they were rushed and I wasn’t happy with them. These are the top 3.

This week I’ll be doing the full rendering. I’m excited and intimated. But you got to be in it to win it.

[loscapim]

Nice Nathan! I’m also going though the beginners path. Is great.  I just started the series of your last post. Keep it up! 🙂

[Nathan]

Finally done. I’m really happy with this. I learned a lot. I’m looking forward to landscapes

[alec.justice00]

Wow, these look great! Love the plate studies, how long did the full render take?

[Nathan]

Thanks, Alec,

I’m not sure how long exactly the full render took. It took me a week to do, stealing 20 – 40 minutes sessions when I could. (It was a busy week for me last week). If I added up the time spent, I would say it took me about 3 hours or so.

[Nathan]

Been having some fun making my way through Beginning Head Drawing with Steve Huston. Learning heaps. Here are my sketches so far.

^^^ For some reason I added an extra plane below the eyes. haha oops.

Trying to visualize the placement of the eyeball.

[RobertSeal-Coon]

Haha – I have a sketchbook full of drawings that look exactly the same as that from when I did the beginning head drawing course.  I thought for a second you’d got hold of it!  Love the rendering exercise above too.

[Nathan]

Here some practices of noses. Also did some ears but I didn’t get to take photos.

However, I’m really happy with how this is progressing. I decided to use everything I learnt and start a full rendering. Here is where I’m at:

I’ve still got a bit to go. This dude is a lot more wrinkled and has some tufts of hair, however, I wasn’t confident enough.

I’m currently going through the hair and aging tutorials in the more advanced classes. I’ll be finishing it this weekend. I’m really happy with how its progressing. It’s definitely one of the best renders I’ve done 😀 😀

[Nathan]

Boom! Final finished. Really happy with this 🙂

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