Markham's Sketch Thread

[Markham]

...since my last one is locked in a different forum.

   Anyhow, for those who don't know, I'm a student trying to get in the animation program at BYU.  I've done animation as a hobby since 2003, but I didn't really have any idea of where I wanted to go with it until late 2004 when I happened to post an animation on Newgrounds the same day that Adam Phillips uploaded Prowlies at the River.  Now I am in a never-ending quest to stop sucking and get better at drawing.

So here are my sketches, starting with the last few images I posted in the old thread:









And now for some of last night's sketches from the Sacramento "Pompsicle" weekly drawing session:

[chluaid]

they're all great but my favs are the first two pages (cats and gun ppl).
btw, if you want to repost your sketchbook, I'm happy to provide the code for you. Just drop me a PM with the link to the ones you want to bring over here.

[Markham]

Thanks, though I think I'll leave out most of the older stuff.  I already put what I thought were the best ones from that thread into this one.

[Markham]

Another week, another sketch...es.  This week they got some guy who was 6'10".  I learned that suits are fun to draw and that, out of all the props at this place, they really need to get a Tommy-gun.

[Markham]

[Markham]

Quadruple post!








This week, the collection of weird props gets... weirder.


This pose was a bit odd, so I threw in some small furry animals for good measure.

[elephant]

I'm not one for reasonable critique, but I think they're all adorable.
Digging the resting man and the antler-lady especially. Got to love horns.

[Markham]

Too tired to say much.  I'm back in school again, taking two different figure drawing classes among other things (15 credit hours in all...)

Here are some gesture drawings:



Here are some figure drawings:

[Markham]

I recently upgraded from Flash 8 to CS4, so I can now open files from when I worked at a webdesign firm over the summer.  Here's a rejected logo I did for a company:




And for up-to-date happenings, I may still suck, but holy crap, I've improved.  Here's a figure drawing from the 25th of January:




And here's stuff I did this month (the image quality sucks, since the pages are too big to scan and I took pictures of them in my car, at night, which didn't help my camera's auto-focus):

[the Deuce]

DUDE! You're so totally improving! Keep going!

[Espen]

Hey Markham.

Cool Logo, its totally their lose for rejecting it.

really nice studies man, you're doing the right kind!

keep on rocking man.

[Pieter]

Sweet stuff, you're on the right track.
On the second one of the last stuff the hands/feet and head are really tiny.
Some of the legs and arms lack some form to them because the shading and linework is a little too generalized (meaning that they lack some nuances).
But that will get better with practice.

Also when you're shading try to give a more loose and powerfull impression.
Right now it lacks some punch, kind of like a kid would colour in a colouringbook.
Maybe you could use a softer material, like a 5/7B pencil or some caran d'ache. (I can't really tell what you're using tough, the quality of that pics isn't that great).
What helped me allot is to look at old pen and ink drawings, they have great sensibility in showing of the form by following contours and trough crosshatching.
When I have model drawing at school we often do exercises (5-10 mins) where we try to use as little contour as possible and try to build the model out of light and shadow.
They do that just to get us out of that colouringbook kind of shading.

[Markham]

[Markham]

This one spanned two different class days.  The first day I got the torso, legs, and right arm down.  The second day he wasn't in the same position, which threw almost everything off.  Mostly I finished the arm, did the shading, and attempted to put in a head which I gave up on and went back to shading.

I've been trying to focus on shadow shapes more, which has helped some despite the roughness of the pad I was using.  The lectures on the upper and lower leg musculature helped as well.

[Markham]

I don't remember if I've shown any of you guys this, but here's a background I did a little over a year ago:

Here's a link if it doesn't show up.  I made a few major changes to my website, and I don't remember if I need to change any other settings.

[edit]
Fixed.  I had forgotten to update the .htaccess settings when the Brackenwood forums moved.