Sketch Challenge...

The only rules are that it have a sketchy feel and that the time taken to complete the work is written down somewhere....

Also posters could write a brief summary describing their thoughts on their work.
This is meant to be a sketch so redo's are to be avoided if possible and try to keep it honest...
Even if you think its not so good or you could have done allot better...
Still post it.....its part of the fun...

So lets get sketching people.
ill start the ball rolling....
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This took me 45 minutes...

I started off really slow and felt i was a bit lost at the start trying to feel out the figure and it was slow going...i'm a bit rusty.

It started working a bit after about 15 minutes to a point and then i felt i had lost my way and my hand started to smudge the thing all over the page..
But i'm posting it anyway.....i know i can do allot better so let the fun begin....

http://www.talkgraphics.com/picture....&pictureid=228

No pencils in the house so I used the pen in my pocket to sketch my mate sleeping on the (more comfortable chair) next to me.
Time take: roughly 5 minutes (not that it should matter)

I had to try one more last night as i was a bit disappointed with the last one:
again a figure drawing...anything to motivate myself...
this one has come up a little better spent well over an hour on it...
to be honest this one was also a bungle fest....I had to erase her butt and arm and face and re-do these areas anyway...
I want to keep this up and it would be fun to see you all up here. (not naked your art i mean)
P.S the face it the hardest part.. for my next one i might try only a face....
But ironically the face almost being an after thought has the best feel out of any part of this sketch....
im a bit scared to hit the hard lines in the face as the result is often like someone who has copped a severe beating LOL

P.P.s sledger you cat is a fine sketch especially since it was so quick.... thats the type of feel im looking for with mine... but obviously i need to hone the time taken down... if it was off a real model she would have cobwebs on her...(perhaps ill force myself to go faster.)
http://www.talkgraphics.com/picture....&pictureid=229

a way of life sketching..

these would only have take a couple of minutes each

they are storyboard ideas taking shape ..

and of course - the donkey... 3.5mins

Thanks for posting these, Steve. You certainly have a unique style.
You should get that website up and running. The sales might well be worth the effort, I imagine.
Saludos,
Bob.

Originally i sketched this in pencil in about 20 minutes but I was interrupted a few times and the finished result was a whisker shy of believable and as i only have one pencil here a bit flat and i knew it wouldn't scan nicely.
So i spent the next 40 mins going over it with a pen...
eventually i couldn't tolerate it any more.....
I think its got something but its no-where near as good as it potentially could have been...anyway practice makes perfect.
http://www.talkgraphics.com/picture....&pictureid=230
Handrawn: good to see someones design process... often we only get to see the finished product and its interesting to get an insight into how others work as so many of us live in little bubbles of creative isolation....

This is a completed one,framed and all.
I gave it to my father in law,it's my inlaws kitchen view.

This is one i didn't like the way it turned out,
So have to do it again someday

A pencil sketch I did last night. I think I spent about 45 mins on it ( I kind of lost track of time while drawing all those leaves)

The initial sketch was in pencil (30 mins) then i went over this and rendered it again with a biro for scanning which took another (40 mins), i probably went a bit over board with the biro actually but the original intention of this "sketch" was fulfilled after the first 30 minutes (ie getting the proportions etc correct...
So anyway more of an exercise than a masterpiece.
http://www.talkgraphics.com/picture....&pictureid=234
Haakoo: you should keep it up looking good.
Angelize: very elegant, also... (stay with me...I need all the help and motivation i can get.)

Most all of my sketching is done pretty quick usually 10 minutes or less.

A4H:Friends of yours?
I don't draw enough from my imagination lately,
(of course assuming this is where these images came from...You never know in the United States:)
I wouldn't mind a "mind meld" with the first dood (assuming he was gentle, looks like some serious "lobeage") and perhaps high tea with the last)...

it seems enough for me simply attempting to draw what i can see.
Good to see thiscreative process... i have a folder back in Melbourne which has a few such pieces i should fully render them as .xar files...
(One of them i have already started...finish date? I've been too busy jabbering on this site lately.)
Cool work.

Hi Morphonious
Thank you for your comments. I really liked your sketches, I thought they were good. Most all of my drawings are from my imagination. But many times I do use a photo for a model of something. But then again most of the time I just get a pencil and start drawing. A lot of my sketches are quick because then I do fully render them digitally. Here is one I did recently. It called Hawg Wild. I did the line work in Xtreme and then painted it in photoshop.

did a little sketch on the tablet, no paper used. Its an evil Joker :D

The nude poses where pretty good -
The cat on the stool was nicely done in 5 mins -
I really liked the 3 min donkey pic -
Hans made a lovely soft drawing of a room...really nice work -
Hi Frances, thats a great tree you made...looks like it was a lot of fun!
Bruce, love the detective and the biker hog they were very good too but the evil jester/joker topped it for me well done!

Michele

Thanks Michele
all the sketches were nice. Maybe we can get some more posted in here ? ;)

thanks Michele :)

just could not resist it - my avatar done with the new xtreme 5 freehand setup - set to suppress control points

< 1 min

the paper I'll save will pay for the upgrade ;)

oops just noticed - no nostrils :D

Here's a few sketches to share...

With only having 6 mins to complete the outline is as much as I can get to give the impression of what she is doing only....

The hardest thing about making sketches/drawings these days for me is not having the undo button...what a handy little tool this is...in this case not handy at all! :rolleyes:
I decided to have a practice of drawing a child, as I don't draw them very much...due to different facial structure. So the small statue I had around home would do the trick to get started. As you can see the first effort took about 21 mins and the same girl statue facing front on, took 45 mins to get the general shape and then time after that refining the drawing.

Michele

P.s>Great stuff, (A4H, Handrawn & Perrfeck)

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Originally Posted by Purrfeck

The hardest thing about making sketches/drawings these days for me is not having the undo button...

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I agree im finding it very hard also...
As everything i have read seems to be telling me that its a mistake to try to get "finished" lines/details down first, i.e putting down hard lines straight up as if one were tracing over invisible underlying art,
(Which is the way I'm used to trying to work and also the biggest mistake most artists make so I'm told as its human nature to try to get some key details down right first from the get go i guess)...
So im really trying to do as the experts recommend and start by getting a hazy feel (gesture type drawing) for the whole thing over all and only then start to build up the detail evenly and only hit the hard lines at the very end...

But i'm finding it very hard to break old habits...

(I was doing an awesome figure drawing class back in Melbourne and I'm really spewing that i don't have access to that up here... and even if i did i seriously doubt any old class would measure up to that guy as his class is totally awesome...(the guy is a real "gun" artist and a great inspirational teacher...)

P.S. I was sick for the last few days and fell behind in some work so i haven't had time yet... but i want to keep up the sketching as I feel it is so important...

Some talented individuals here on TG....

Prelim sketch for a cartoon I'm doing. About 10 - 15 mins

http://i598.photobucket.com/albums/t...Scan000034.jpg

Some great sketching from Steve, Michelle and Kinetica!

Great sketches everybody. Enjoying this thread :)

I did this trying out Xara's freehand sketching improvements. time: approx. 5- 10 mins

great sketches everyone

here's another piece of SBing in xxp5 >5mins [it has been cropped slightly - they are in the front seats of a car]

still can't do the final art line work in xtreme, until such time as we get dynamic stroke shaping, but for very fast layout work this is brilliant for me

http://www.talkgraphics.com/picture....&pictureid=261
A WIP of mine (off a photo)...
Actually i have abandoned this as i had to squash the image down vertically to get the proportions right for this post...to my horror i realized as i was drawing that i had the pad down flat on the table but the photo up in front of me....the result being a stretched out image.....What a comical error...

Ie just like the corporate logos they put down on football fields (ie stretched out so they appear to pop up to a certain camera ETC....)
Anyway after a few hours painstakingly dabbing the pencil around trying to get the delicate features etc what a laugh...
Anyway its the kids in the pool.... i might try another photo and another face...nothing tests your metal like a likeness...tricky

P.S. Keep up the good work people ;)

Nice to see everyone's sketches. This is the latest sketch that I did. It is with my tablet and illustrator. No pencils or paper used for this one.

http://www.talkgraphics.com/picture....&pictureid=262
Pencil sketch 20mins
Going over it with a biro... 20mins more...
didn't quite get the likeness, practice practice practice.

I like all the new scetchs from everyone..keep up the good work!

I see you been practicing morph, this is a wonderful sketch!

Michele

Yes... posting here constitutes about 80% of my practice. (Occasionally I botch one :))
But i did make an effort with that one to chill out.

Thanks for the encouragement...I really need it actually.

The last few were hits from my "wonder wall" !
Tis amazing what 85 photos and a big wad of blue tack can achieve.
What better fodder...and if i make a mistake I'm definitely not going to miss it...

That last one is very nice Morph. Good work. Is that one of your kids ?

yeah (TY)...."raphael"...
He is 21 months now...a bit younger in that pic.
I also have a nice photo of my daughter i would like to do justice to also...
I have tried this particular one once before a while ago but was "offended" when i did not get an adequate likeness :).
With this last one i did post it as it was a profile and i did want to keep posting and it is such a nice pic but again the exact likeness escaped me.
But if i do a portrait I would not like to release something that does not convey the "spirit" of the subject...especially one of my own kids.

With me, my skills are a little lopsided in that im a far better renderer than drawer and if i for example traced just a few lines (enough to get the key features in place) i could do work that i know be so much better than what i have done thus far that it would wow everyone but this is not the point is it.
It would also help if i had more that one pencil....i like using a 6H for fine shading that's kinda like scratching with a needle lol and would never show up on my scanner anyway...im not pandering to my strengths... im trying to develop my sketching skills.
Bring on the sketches.....
(Im finding i like using an ink pen...if i could get ball points in several shades of grey....who knows......)
Thanks David

you could try one of these:

http://www.cultpens.com/acatalog/rotring_Artpen.html

I would suggest nib type 'sketching EF' and if you use a converter rather than cartridges you can mix your own shade of ink [only use fountain pen black ink in these, as they will seize up if you use waterproof drawing ink - best is pelikan 'font' ink if you can find it, and dilute with de-ionised ('distilled') water]

ok - they are wet ink pens not ball - but the tips are rigid same as a ball pen, and they 'glide' - great for sketching

yeah thanks for that (they look pretty fancy).

Pencils will probably do me and with 3 or 4 different types i can do quite well (I should get some more when im next in Darwin) but i am naturally very messy and the discipline required to avoid smudging the thing all over the place sometimes escapes me.

But for these exercise i probably don't really need more than one pencil as im not supposed to be indulging myself with fancy rendering just getting the proportions right and sorting the tone out with some hatching perhaps.
But its hard to resist sometimes.

Anyway keep up the good work people....
you all want to see a champion?

http://whizzywhizzer.deviantart.com/


This guy uses charcoal (i had a chat to him a while back... he's one of the charcoal kings on deviant art....that's the standard to shoot for...breath taking....when i asked him how he avoids smudging the page he said he starts on one side and works across totally completing it in one pass like a flat bed scanner.....is that full on or what!

the cadillac is impressive [ I note that was done in graphite rather than charcoal, as was Mickey] :)

I am impressed by everyone's attempts. All the different styles are interesting and each has its own unique appeal. Great job everyone.

thank you Nancy :)

You are welcome. I like your fluid and free look to your work. As I've stated before, you have the ability to make a statement with minimal lines. A great fete (or is that feat?).

fate :D
Ross may not agree, but personally I respect the concept of the Muse