Sketch/Doodle Dump - Office Doodles and Sketchs

Wow, over a year and a half! Time to dust off the blog and post some more!

So I have been drawing at the office I am at (working with the family business) and have resorted to drawing on lined paper with pens. I still use sketchbooks, but drawing on lined paper allows me to make more mistakes (and subsequently learn from them) and treat these pads like real sketchbooks. I don't know why, but I have this phobia of being perfect. As though my sketchbook should be my very best work, even if the drawings are from photos, stills from cartoons or movies! I don't know, doubtful I am the only one who has trouble with this

Anyway, so I wouldn't say I have greatly improved since last. I have improved, if only slightly. My lines are still not that tight (as in they are scribbly), my knowledge still seemingly low, construction is still a bit of a challenge, and I am still stuck in my contour shell. At least that is how I have been viewing it, but that is what it is about. Climbing that hill so you can climb another!

Lets get down to it. There is some order to these drawings (in that they are oldest to newest) and some of them have been folded. Please ignore some of my written comments (and my terrible penmanship) they are just obvious statements that I like to make so I won't forget. I like to critique my own work, on my work.

The next few drawings are based on different athletic body types. You can find the original images here: Athletic Body Types

I found a website with some decent reference material which I used as a "life drawing" session. The website can be found here.

At this point I was just aimlessly doodling, and drawing from Frazetta Paintings/Inkings.

The next three images are just something I did for funs sake.

I would like to post some sketchbook work, but the scanner is far too small to allow this. So this will have to do for the time being. I am looking to practice tones and having multiple figures in a single image. It also gets to be incredibly difficult placing people correctly (with composition and environment in mind) while maintaining proper proportions. As for the Frazetta work, he is just too good. To get the subtle shapes, colour, lines and tone he applies to his work (and applying it to my own) takes more than just self-study. I will most certainly revisit some of these subjects sooner or later.