Digital Cameras: Recording Progress on Drawing in One Day

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turbo-1 said:
glad to be getting art-updates once again, Zoob! please continue!
Thanks, Turbo. I have three more good ones to post.
Cyrus said:
You sir, are quite the master of shading. Impressed as always.
Thanks much, Cyrus. Glad you like them.
AFG34 said:
amazing! this makes me want to learn to draw.
Much appreciated!
DaveC426913 said:
Awesome.


Heeeey, is that a grid I see faintly through the paper? :biggrin: That would explain the perfect proportions...
Oh, Dave, Dave, Dave. The grid is useless to anyone who can't already draw pretty well without one. Try it: square off a photo and a piece of drawing paper and give them to someone who can't draw and see what happens. It will suck. Granted, it will suck a little more proportionately than otherwise, but it will still suck. Regardless, I use a grid only for drawings I'm going to bring to a high level of finish. I am always also sketching, sketching, sketching freehand.

In fact, it is time for me to leave the zoobie brush shelter right now and relocate to La Souris Perdue for an evening of sketching. Be back in the wee hours.
 
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zoobyshoe said:
Oh, Dave, Dave, Dave.
I didn't mean to be critical. More like good to see there's a man behind the wizard.:wink: You're waaaaaaaaaaay above me.
 
DaveC426913 said:
I didn't mean to be critical. More like good to see there's a man behind the wizard.:wink: You're waaaaaaaaaaay above me.
I don't think so. You mentioned once you never work on a drawing more than an hour and a half. I think if you put in 40-80 hours on a piece like I do, with or without a grid, it would make my stuff look not so interesting anymore.
 
Very nice Zoob. I still wish I could figure out how to draw hair so well.
 
TheStatutoryApe said:
Very nice Zoob. I still wish I could figure out how to draw hair so well.
Glad you like them, SA. I actually still resent hair: it takes such a disproportionate amount of work just to make it look acceptable.
 
"The Smoking Cat"

Poster for a fictional left bank cafe, The Smoking Cat, (starring Violet, the same girl in "Portrait of Violet" posted a few pages back).

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First time in a long time I did a background behind the subject.
 
Nice work, Zooby. Perfect proportions, shading, perspective, the whole shebang. I envy your talent. Truly.
 
Wow that's a great portrait, good job Zooby.
 
I have to say I am very impressed with these drawing, so much so I made the very bold. I think this should be made a sticky, its pure gold.

I hope you will be posting more drawings, they are simply a delight to look through.
 
GeorginaS said:
Nice work, Zooby. Perfect proportions, shading, perspective, the whole shebang. I envy your talent. Truly.
Nice to hear from you, Georgina. I'm happy you like my stuff!
lisab said:
Wow.
Thanks!
binzing said:
Wow that's a great portrait, good job Zooby.
Thanks, binzing!
Focus said:
I have to say I am very impressed with these drawing, so much so I made the very bold. I think this should be made a sticky, its pure gold.

I hope you will be posting more drawings, they are simply a delight to look through.
Thanks very much. Extremely nice of you to say so, Focus.
 
"Bring Your Alibis"

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Another poster. Took ages: I "finished" it about twenty times, then decided it needed more work. The model is a college student. She's very beautiful, but the dim lighting in the cafe where I took the reference shots for the drawing cast sort of German Expressionistic shadows on her face. Then in this one shot she flashed a kind of manic smirk just as I tripped the shutter. That ended up being my favorite shot, but I didn't know what to do with it: made her look sort of evil, which was unfortunate since she has such a lovely face. Then it hit me: such a lovely face deserved to be set in a lovely place.
 
JasonRox said:
Hey! Are you French? Or living in a french area?

Hey! I am half French Canadian, but I learned my French in high school and college and live in San Diego.
 
zoo-by-shoe,

Beautiful renderings. Have you ever tried Surrealistic drawing, like portraying dream images?
 
Kurdt said:
Nice work as always Zoob. I particularly like the poster style ones.
Thanks, Kurdt. It was an interesting experience to draw a bunch of things other than the human face.
Loren Booda said:
Beautiful renderings. Have you ever tried Surrealistic drawing, like portraying dream images?
Glad you like them, Loren. I've never tried surrealism, no. Don't have any strong leanings in that direction.
 
Updating:

Portrait Of Oz
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I experimented with the greyscale prismacolor colored pencils for Oz, not graphite. Oz is her nickname, and I keep forgetting to ask how she got it.
 
Sketch of Katy Wong:

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This is a completely freehand sketch, no grid or mechanically measured proportions. I like the way it came out. Katy is a local singer/songwriter.
 
Portrait Of Kristina:

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When I first saw this girl in the cafe where I hang out I was stunned: I couldn't believe a girl with such a big nose could be so hot. (Pretty much all the guys there find her amazingly attractive.) Unfortunately, the drawing didn't manage to capture how hot she is. I'm going to have to redraw her sometime. Regardless, she told me several strangers stopped her at various times and said they recognized her from a drawing a guy (me) was doing of her. We both got a kick out of that.
 
Wow. Are these from photos, or live?

[ EDIT: Silly me. Of course they're from photos. It was the one of Wong that made me wonder.]

Your attention to detail and subtlety in gradient is inhuman.
 
I already posted this in another thread a couple weeks back but I'll repost here to keep things together:

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The model is a girl on deviantart named Zeldyn. She posted a series of pictures of herself entitled "Crazy"; just her making crazy faces. I took one and exaggerated her expression even more to create a sort of icon of manic lunacy.
 
DaveC426913 said:
Wow. Are these from photos, or live?

All drawn from photo references. I can't possibly get anyone to sit for as long as it takes me to draw one of these. Even the "sketch" of Katy took about 5 hours. I'm not fast.
 
DaveC426913 said:
[ EDIT: Silly me. Of course they're from photos. It was the one of Wong that made me wonder.]
Yeah, I call anything I do freehand a "sketch". The one of Katy is a lot more finished than usual. Most of my usual "sketches" are not worth posting. They're for practice and look like it.

Your attention to detail and subtlety in gradient is inhuman.
Thanks! Anyway, I'm not human, I'm a zoobie.
 
rewebster said:
yeah, very nice work--

Thanks, rewebster!
 
Always mad love of your art:!)
 
zoobyshoe said:
Yeah, I call anything I do freehand a "sketch". The one of Katy is a lot more finished than usual. Most of my usual "sketches" are not worth posting. They're for practice and look like it.


Thanks! Anyway, I'm not human, I'm a zoobie.
I found the trick of the photo projector from the art class I took in my late 30's. But all it gives you is reference points. If you don't have talent, it doesn't help. Until then I had done everything freehand. All but 2 people quit the class, the last walking by me and snorting out "I thought this class was for beginners". I *was* a beginner. Now my oldest daughter, the artist, has stolen my projector.

You have a rare gift zoob, an absolutely incredible gift for capturing the life of the object.
 

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