An hour of anatomy sketches

Since last sunday at a comic convention I felt my anatomy skills were up to some polishing, so I decided to sketch for an hour using this wonderful website: http://artists.pixelovely.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/

These are the sketches I came up with, starting with a lot of very quick sketches continuing into longer and longer periods per pose. I concentrated mostly on shape and placing of dark and light areas. I feel like my shading needs some work, but I'm fairly satisfied with the shapes.

Face a Day 6

Someone asked me: "what is your style?" That's a difficult question... So I drew him a portrait of one of my comic characters. I've drawn her for years and even though I haven't drawn her in a long time, I guess this style is as much mine as any that I have used and still use.

Face a Day 5

Again an unsuspecting model. This time one who was moving a lot and people were standing between me and her all the time. So I didn't get the folds in her hijab (I think it's called) right. So I left them out and filled in everything except that.

Face a Day 4

Face 4 is based on a real person, but only loosely. She didn't know I was drawing her so she isn't angry at me. I hope.

Face a Day 3

Number 3 was done without a reference.There is a story behind this portrait and you may make it up yourself.

Face a Day 2

The second face is my father while he was watching television.

Face a Day 1

I'm starting a Face a Day challenge. Why? No real reason, except that I feel I haven't done anything "artsy" for no good reason in a long while.

So here is face number 1!

ATC's en ACEO's WIP

This is what happens when I let myself work on what comes to mind... Too many different ideas! It looks like a collaboration betwee different artists *grins*

But it's all mine and I'm happy working on these :)

Sword Art Online fanart

Collaboration with Lumen. I sketched it and Lumen inked and coloured it. This anime is fantastic! I might draw some more fanart just because :)

Pestvogel

Ok, now I'm really loving my markers. This is getting easier and easier. There is just one mistake I made... once seen can not be unseen...

Puffin

I just love the name of this bird ^^ Oh and the look of course!

Fuut / Crested Grebe again

 

I'm not the only one who likes this bird :) made for a trade at the ATCs-for-all forum.

warming up sketch

Warming up sketch after watching Sword Art Online :)

Vulture

Made for an ATC trade. The vulture was a request and I was intrigued. I like the piercing eyes and big beak.

Young bird

Cute little chick

Oehoe in the moonshine

I like this silhouette and the light effect of the moon is nice too, though the marker stripes still show a bit.

Snow bird

I love this little bird and I'm really getting the hang of using copic markers.

Fuut / Crested Grebe

One of my favourite birds ever :)

Hawk

My name sake ^^

5 minute figure drawings

It's been a long while since I've drawn figure drawing. But since it was this weekly challenge to draw six nudes in 5 minutes each from this website http://lovecastle.org/draw/, I thought it was a good excuse to try again.

I find I have les trouble with female nudes then with male. The shapes of females are more fluid and I can draw them in almost one stroke. But even the male nudes were fun to do and I'm going to practice more ^^