Crankshaft's Sketchbook

Charlotte wrote:

Rule no. 1: The only fail is not trying

You're really good with mechs and artificial shapes, but you're also starting to really improve with your anatomy and gesture studies, you know. Your first figures looked like mechs or piles opf boxes rather than soft fleshed people, and that's much different now. Just keep going. And remember the rule!

Thanks so much Char! Your comment made me chuckle bc I actually looked back at my old figures and they look like spaghetti! The struggle is real

Thank you Banji, Charlotte, Thomgirl for the encouragement! You guys are too nice

Little update on the rendering. Still trying to get the values down.

More fail. At this rate it may take 100 years to do something decent.





Another cgma assignment. The goal was to paint over the values of the painting provided. Learned so much about color, temperature, variation and saturation.



I told myself to just do some blind sketching without design specs to loosen up and now the fail is even bigger. I've learned a lot here. It's far better to always design with some specs bc that directs all your shapes and ensures consistency. Plus that's what you'll be doing in the real world. It also gives you something to draw ie if you're drawing a plane that carries heavy cargo then you know it needs wings, propellers, landing gear, a large fuselage, heavy duty engines etc. These are some kind of drones.

Those environment sketches are looking awesome Crank, the mech is looking equally as awesome!
You're obiously discovering your strengths so far to be non mechanical inorganic objects, you are definitely not failing there. You can't be a master with every aspect most artists pick a style and subject and perfect that.

I know you have to learn anatomy, color, light, perspective shape design..etc. but you should have confidence knowing you are getting real good at one style of art. The anatomy studies will start to look better and better too, I remember a time when some of your mechanical structures looked flat, but now look at your stuff, complete 180 You'll get there with anatomy too.soon.

Some lousy updates. Holidays finally coming to an end but I got lots of work done.

Flying aircraft carrier. Guessed at perspective but I wanted to see how well I could design something without thumbs, which I'll be doing next since I want a slightly more sci fi version. Loads of design problems here, too many identical proportions, poor silhouette, poor shapes, too blocky.





Some thumbs (?) or iterations of the front nose of the ship.



Some random doodles. Was trying to figure out what to draw next.





Anatomy fail.

microscopi wrote:

Those environment sketches are looking awesome Crank, the mech is looking equally as awesome!
You're obiously discovering your strengths so far to be non mechanical inorganic objects, you are definitely not failing there. You can't be a master with every aspect most artists pick a style and subject and perfect that.

I know you have to learn anatomy, color, light, perspective shape design..etc. but you should have confidence knowing you are getting real good at one style of art. The anatomy studies will start to look better and better too, I remember a time when some of your mechanical structures looked flat, but now look at your stuff, complete 180 You'll get there with anatomy too.soon.

Thanks man for taking the time to write all that. Means a lot ! I don't think I'm getting good at anything, even mechanical things...I look at guys like Scott Robertson and I wonder if it'll take another 100 years.

Visual library/draftsmanship study. It's a London interior called the institution of civil engineers. Sort of gave up half way thru. It's just way too complex but I did learn a lot. The forms are pretty awesome, just look at those pillars alone.





Schoolism assignment wip. Still focusing on the basics first.



Anatomy fail.

Updates!

Visual library/draftsmanship studies. The new Bugatti Veyron Gt Sport. Look at those crazy forms. Definitely something I could use later.





However the car was really hard to do at first so here's the first attempt. I came up a with a little tip that helps with measuring proportions. I can draw cars but not people >< Goes off in a corner and cries.



Schoolism wip.



Anatomy fail.





Some thumbs of that aircraft carrier. Still not happy with any of them. ><

Nice updates. I like the car pic, but really partial to the little house.

Hoping to start sketching here some myself, but won't probably do much this coming week though. Took the whole weekend getting my new setup together, transferring stuff over, etc.