Sage's Daily Sketches

[Sage]

SAGE'S DAILY* SKETCHES
BLAHBLAHBLAH BORING SHIT THAT DOESN'T MATTER here are some links.

01/04/11 (http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2532/img0043w.jpg)
oh hey look i started again
02/15/11 (http://i53.tinypic.com/11rgjgp.jpg)
02/15/11 (http://i52.tinypic.com/2z3qtcp.jpg) sharpie'd
02/21/11 (http://i55.tinypic.com/173bmg.jpg)
03/01/11 (http://i55.tinypic.com/x9h6t.jpg)
06/25/11 (http://i52.tinypic.com/k0k8rt.jpg)

*artwork is actually not added on a daily basis in any way, shape, or form, whine and bitch like hungry little brats if you think i update too slowly.
disclaimer: whining and bitching like hungry little brats is not guaranteed to make me care.

[Weeping]

I.. kinda like it! (:

:hug:

[The Dark Lord]

I actually like it. Although it does seem a bit rushed, which you've already alluded to, the top half of the sketch is really good. The body curves too much, in my opinion, but that's my only real issue. It'll be interesting to see how you improve once you get back into sketching reguarly and at a sociable hour, given that it was drawn at 5am and your first in 6 months!

[Magus]

I know you are going for a comical-style character... but you have to be careful. The head is very large compared to the body.

Perhaps you have seen this before, doesn't hurt if you see it again.
http://upstairs-art.com.au/images/body-proportions-male-female.gif

[UnknownError]

I like it. :D
Its cool.

[Sage]

Finished another sketch today, right here in spare block. Will post once I get home- this one is looking much better.

[Sage]

Added another for today. I could've waited a few minutes and saved myself the trouble tomorrow, but no, making excuses for myself would defeat the point of the artistic endeavor. As I said before, I'm hoping to get one or more new drawings up every day, and if anyone is really anal about following my progress, I'm working within the pacific timezone.

Edit/Update: Just sorted out my schedule for today. I have time to finish today's piece but I'm not going to be back home until very late so it might not show up here until tomorrow.

[Weeping]

They're like.. cool ^^

[Kitten]

its so sketchy looking, i love it. (:
first one is better.

[Vonn]

They're both good, for a rush. I kind of like the size of the head in the first one.

[Zazu]

04/01/11 (http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/2532/img0043w.jpg)

This one intrigues me, what is the object in the left of the drawing?

[Magus]

This one intrigues me, what is the object in the left of the drawing?
Looks like a vulture to me.

[Zazu]

Looks like a vulture to me.

Actually yes I can kind of see that now.

[Magus]

Actually yes I can kind of see that now.
Dude, you need to train and work you right brain.

http://www.marcofolio.net/images/stories/fun/imagedump/faces_everywhere/face_vase.gif

Do you see a face or do you see a vase?

[Azunite]

Dude, you need to train and work you right brain.

Image (http://www.marcofolio.net/images/stories/fun/imagedump/faces_everywhere/face_vase.gif)

Do you see a face or do you see a vase?

Both :D

[Fact]

Dude, you need to train and work you right brain.

Image (http://www.marcofolio.net/images/stories/fun/imagedump/faces_everywhere/face_vase.gif)

Do you see a face or do you see a vase?

When I look at the top, I see a vase/goblet.
When I look at the bottom, I see two faces.
If I look in the middle, I can see both depending on what I want to see.


Anyway, your drawings are pretty amazing! :D

[Sage]

Apologies for the lack of updates, folks. I've picked up the stomach flu lately and I've spent the better half of the past few days in bed or hunched over the toilet purging my bowels. I'll get back in the game once I'm feeling a little better.

[Continuum]

Good luck excreting the virus, Sage.

[Weeping]

Well, I hope you'll get better soon! Cause I kinda miss your daily sketches..
and of course cause it's not fun being ill but.. meh..

[Bevoniuccanna]

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[Sage]

I've been feeling a lot better today. I'll get something done and maybe even see if I can move my old scanner down here so I can stop taking photos with the bloody camera.

[Charleigh]

Realy good ^^

[Weeping]

Sage! Wake up! :D

[Sage]

Well, looks like I don't have class in first period tomorrow due to a badass free graduation breakfast. Since I can stay up late, thought I'd give a crack at filling up an entire page in my sketchbook. You can check back on the OP to see what I came up with. Or you can just click here (http://i53.tinypic.com/11rgjgp.jpg) you lazy motherfucker.

I won't bother explaining it all, but I'm doing some concept art for a project a few friends and I are working on. A little bit of a French theme going (Remember when the French were cool? Me neither.) on and my scanner is still busted so I'll see if I can go over this in a sharpie before or after school today for clarity. Pencil marks smudge against the pages and fade over time anyway, so I'll have to do that anyway.

[Sugaree]

Tim, your artwork is great. Post moar.

[Sage]

Tim, your artwork is great. Post moar.

OH LOOK WHAT'S THIS HOW CONVENIENT I JUST FINISHED THAT PREVIOUS SKETCH
link (http://i52.tinypic.com/2z3qtcp.jpg) for you laxidasical lards, also on the OP.

[Iceman]

Is an excellent drawing indeed.

[Peace God]

OH LOOK WHAT'S THIS HOW CONVENIENT I JUST FINISHED THAT PREVIOUS SKETCH
link (http://i52.tinypic.com/2z3qtcp.jpg) for you laxidasical lards, also on the OP.
Oh shit, that looks fuckin' amazing now that you've cleared everything up with the marker.

[Origami]

01/04/11 - I've always been a fan of the "sketch" look on drawings. This piece is no exception. The person's lips I feel could have been done a tad bit better, as well as some form of definition added to the clothing. The vulture, overall, is very appealing to me. IMO.

02/15/11 - I have no negative feedback. I absolutely enjoy this piece.

[Sage]

02/15/11 - I have no negative feedback. I absolutely enjoy this piece.

In all fairness, I fully admit some of the anatomy in the picture could use work and a number of my lines are pretty sloppy.

[darkwoon]

Composition and contrast management (or lack thereof) are my main gripes with 02/15/11. Each individual element of the picture has qualities, but they are completely drowned when combined.

[Sage]

Composition and contrast management (or lack thereof) are my main gripes with 02/15/11. Each individual element of the picture has qualities, but they are completely drowned when combined.

I'd suspect that's largely since it all just started as individual doodles that I only felt like connecting much later into the process.

[darkwoon]

I'd suspect that's largely since it all just started as individual doodles that I only felt like connecting much later into the process.
That's indeed true for the composition. The contrast issues remain at individual element level, though, especially for the soldier and for the gun lady.

[Sage]

I'll see about finishing another one tonight.

[Sage]

I really shouldn't post incomplete work, so here's a little something (http://i55.tinypic.com/2ciab5z.jpg) I'm working on. It's still a work-in-progress so I won't add this to the list on the OP until it's done.

Edit: Yes, I realize the right side of his face is a little stretched. I've already fixed that, but I won't be assed taking another picture until the entire thing is done.

[Fruit_Tart.]

Wow. There're all pretty great! Keep up the good work. :)

[Sage]

Okay, I lied. Moar work in progress (http://i52.tinypic.com/vemd6p.jpg).

[Sage]

Finished the work in progress piece I posted earlier. Yes, part of it is still in pencil, but that's just boring filler. I may go back to this one some other time.

[TravM]

Okay, I lied. Moar work in progress (http://i52.tinypic.com/vemd6p.jpg).

Good work man. I can appreciate it.

[Sage]

Good work man. I can appreciate it.

I'm not sure, based on the link you quoted, but the finished version of that one was just added to the OP.

[Iceman]

I like the new one that you just finished.
What's the average time it takes you to draw that?

[TravM]

I'm not sure, based on the link you quoted, but the finished version of that one was just added to the OP.

Oh wow. Didn't realize that. Second opinion in a second.

EDIT: Besides the unfinished parts it looks like, still looks good since it's more defined.

[Sage]

What's the average time it takes you to draw that?

If we're talking a page-filling clusterfuck like this (http://i52.tinypic.com/2z3qtcp.jpg) or this (http://i55.tinypic.com/173bmg.jpg), usually an hour or two in pencil. When I go over with my marker, I can cover every line in about 40 minutes if I'm feeling lazy or it could take as much as three hours if I wanted to be extremely meticulous. For reference, both of those images were more on the lazy side of things rather than meticulous.

This, of course, isn't counting any time I waste looking up reference images or staring flatly at my blank sketchbook without a single idea.

[Iceman]

If we're talking a page-filling clusterfuck like this (http://i52.tinypic.com/2z3qtcp.jpg) or this (http://i55.tinypic.com/173bmg.jpg), usually an hour or two in pencil. When I go over with my marker, I can cover every line in about 40 minutes if I'm feeling lazy or it could take as much as three hours if I wanted to be extremely meticulous. For reference, both of those images were more on the lazy side of things rather than meticulous.

Fuck me then. It would take me

Three years
Stencils
Multiple redos
Ruler


Let's face it. I will never be able to draw.

[Sage]

Let's face it. I will never be able to draw.

Anything can seem difficult if you don't understand the methodology to it. I used to look at the Japanese (written) language as nothing but incomprehensible gibberish, but with the right instruction, I'm able to read it semi-fluently after only being in the class at school for two weeks or so.

Anybody could learn to draw as well as I do, even better than I do- They just need to be committed to putting up with the mistakes and garbage they'll inevitably make and actually looking up how to do things properly.

[Iceman]

If I took the classes, I could probably improve but, I don't think I will be taking a class anytime soon.
As for the Japanese writing, it seems interesting, and I may look into learning some of it one day.

[Suicune]

The last two ones have my attention the most.
What exactly is happening in those sketches?

[Sage]

The last two ones have my attention the most.
What exactly is happening in those sketches?

Nothing really. They're separate images on the same page.

[Weeping]

Sage. You're awesome.

[Mario T]

looks cool

[Sage]

Preview (http://i56.tinypic.com/14jt21k.jpg) of what I'll be finishing today. I'm hoping to have this sketchbook completely filled by the end of March- that leaves me with roughly... seventy, eighty something pages left, since I've torn a couple out.

[Iceman]

What is the new one about?

[Sage]

What is the new one about?

Just a character sketch so far. I've yet to decide on what to fill the rest of the page with.

[Iceman]

He looks like a explorer. So maybe a jungle background, or an Australian background.

[Sage]

He looks like a explorer. So maybe a jungle background, or an Australian background.

She, actually. The faintness of pencil marks makes the female lips a little hard to make up, and the scarf and loose clothes sorta downplay her chest.

[Kaya]

I like your artwork.

[Sage]

Whelp. Felt like taking a brief little break. To make it up to you all, here's (http://i55.tinypic.com/eknc55.jpg) a picture of me beating my friend Greg with a spoon on a stick.

[Syvelocin]

I know my opinion means shit, but what I admire about them is the sketchiness. That's usually my preferred style anyway. It adds more depth to a piece, in my opinion, than clean-cut perfection, obviously. My personal favourite is your most recent addition.

[Sage]

Sketches tend to be sketchy. That's what distinguishes them from lineart.

[Dorsum Oppel]

I really enjoy the last one.

[Sage]

I really enjoy the last one.

Filled the background, and half the page has been inked over. Finished result should be done tonight- I'm very happy with this one.

[Kahn]

I like all of them so far, anticipating the next one.

[Sage]

It's doooone (http://i55.tinypic.com/x9h6t.jpg).

[Iceman]

I like how the pig is incorporated into the drawing. Well I like all the pigs actually.
May I ask what is in the background, around where the creek disappears?

[Sage]

May I ask what is in the background, around where the creek disappears?

Ruins (http://projectego.net/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/fable-2-see-the-future-ruins-98137.jpg).

[Origami]

It's doooone (http://i55.tinypic.com/x9h6t.jpg).

Exactly how I imagined you would look.

[Sage]

Exactly how I imagined you would look.

My snout isn't that crooked, thanks.

[Origami]

My snout isn't that crooked, thanks.

Oho, I see what you did there.

[Iceman]

Oh, that's what I was thinking, just wanted to check.

And the pigs?

[Sage]

And the pigs?

They're slaves and criminals subjected to heinous scientific tomfoolery that turns them into tasty delicious fat little pig people to be ground up into cheap canned food for the masses. Unfortunately for the powers that be, they retain enough human intelligence and ingenuity to operate lever-action rifles and wear silly hats.

[Iceman]

First glance they reminded me of the pigs off of Animal Farm

[Sage]

First glance they reminded me of the pigs off of Animal Farm

I haven't read it. I got the idea while eagerly awaiting lunch at school when 'March of the Pigs' by Nine Inch Nails came on my ipod.

[Iceman]

Ah, I am going to read it again on my own time though. It seemed like a good book at the time. Nice short read, I believe.

[Sugaree]

Bumping this thread because Tim is a lazy rat bastard.

[Weeping]

You really should keep on doing these daily sketches, Sage!

[Sage]

I should clear some bloody space on this desk is what I should do. I've had an idea or two floating around. We'll see what comes of it.

[Origami]

I'm here, showing support for your less than minimally adequate work ethic and what not.

[Sage]

Poor sleeping habits are a burden on my work ethic, but I promise* I'll have at least a work-in-progress sketch up by tomorrow guys.

*lie

[Magus]

I have noticed that some of the pieces has that space western elements going on in them.

[Sage]

I almost forgot I even had this sketchbook. Here's forty minutes of sketching (http://i52.tinypic.com/k0k8rt.jpg) about three and a half months after my last update. Don't you guys just feel the love?

[Magus]

I almost forgot I even had this sketchbook. Here's forty minutes of sketching (http://i52.tinypic.com/k0k8rt.jpg) about three and a half months after my last update. Don't you guys just feel the love?Why are the heads so big?

Okay, here is a homework for you. Draw a character in a dynamic pose, in a 3/4 oblique view with visible foreshortening.

[Sage]

Why are the heads so big?

Stylistic choice, really. It's concept art for a game project a friend and I are working on, and considering the lighter hearted nature of the project, I didn't feel like drawing things as realistically as possible was necessary.


Okay, here is a homework for you. Draw a character in a dynamic pose, in a 3/4 oblique view with visible foreshortening.

Sounds pretty boring. Maybe later.

[Scarface]

I really like the character to the left it's very detailed, like it's very authentic looking. I think you hit the nail on the head with it man.. Very well done on the torso. Overall you can pretty much guess my favorite one, but both are very well done.

[Sage]

I've started work on a few more sketches a few hours ago, but it's four in the fucking morning and I don't quite have it in me to stay up longer. Expect some updates later today. New sketches will be ready but I highly doubt I'll have gotten around to inking any of them yet.

[TheMatrix]

Your sketches are good - better than anything I'll be able to do.
Very good. +1

[User Deleted]

Oh, wow, those are impressive! I didn't know you sketched? Ever add color? I have tried a few times and ended up ruining them. Now that I think of it I don't think you are supposed to color sketches :whoops:

[Angel Androgynous]

I like them. And I also like your...sketch-y style. (:

[Voldemort]

those r good, i also love sketching, i do it everytime i dont do anything or i found a good stuff 2 draw.

[FearsomeEnder]

Very mixed like if dragons and knights