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I've always ingnored Betty Edwards's book "Drawing on the Right Hand Side of the Brain" because I stupidly thought that I never needed it. I have changed my mind and I am now reading it and doing the exercises, so we'll see how I get on. Here are the first three drawings she asks you make:

The self portrait (:o)

The drawing from imagination (one of my drawing weaknesses)

My hand

Hey Cartuneman, you're pretty good at digi-colouring for being self-taught! It's a difficult thing to do, after all. Like I said in your thread, I like your coloured-pencil work and you just need transfer that style over to photoshop, maybe use a grainer, spackled brush instead of a soft edged one.

Her are my latest skecthes all fone in Sketchbook Pro, my Grandma and Nephew. Babies are so hard to draw proprotionally. Not too pleased with any of these.

Thanks for stopping by Katana.

Yeah, I'm not having much joy with my italic pens, they are felt tips rather than a proper calligraphic nibs and to get those varied strokes you describe I have to slow the speed of my strokes down which feels a bit unnatural. I'd love to be able to do pen work well but I've never pulled it off. I can but keep trying though :).

Thanks again,
Claire.

Here are some digital paintings of St Trinian's church in the Isle of Man that is featured in the Manx fairy tale "The Buggane of St Trinian's". I'm aiming for that eerie atmosphere, c&c always welcome, thanks.

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Here is my latest progess on the CG Talk Strange Behaviour Challenge:

I'd better get my skates on, time is running out!

Thanks Jabberwocky,

I didn't know you did CG work too. I still have some way to get to your drawing level though.

Thanks for visiting.

Haven't posted here for a while, here's an attempt at cartoonyness from me, done in Artrage and hope it's visble this time.

Here are some more sketches done with pencil on paper. Some face studies and some copies of Arthur Rackham's goblins.

Thanks.

My latest pursuit is to learn solid anatomy, so I'm going from the bones outward starting with the vertebral column. Here is a drawing copied from Paul Richer.

Thanks for looking guys and taking the time to post.

As requested here is some of my traditional work. It's called "Heavenly Angel" and I think I finished it in 2005. It's oil on canvas, 4 and half feet by 3 and a half feet and is part of a series of angel paintings inspired by my time living in Venice, Italy.

My favourite 3D software is actually Softimage XSI and that is what I am using to make my short film, here is an XSI render of the two main characters, you may recognise them from my avatar. They were modelled in XSI also.

Thanks Cartuneman, I think it took me about two hours, with the usual interuptions you get when you draw in a public place :).

Thanks, here's some more anatomy:

Here's an Artrage sketch (1 hour) of an open fire from a house up in Scotland.

I scanned my previous sketch and brought it into Sketchbook and defined the lines and gave the figure wings to turn him into an angel.

Crits always welcome.

Here are my final "Drawing on the Right Hand Side of the Brain" drawings. I'm astounded at the improvement when you look at my pre-"Right-Hand..." self portrait to my post-"Right-Hand...". My drawing is not perfect but far more accomplished than it was. I really recommend following this book. As ever comments welcome.

Value sketch after Daumier

Self Portrait

Here are a couple of sketches that were exercises in switching to using the right hemisphere of the brain.

A copy from an upside down Picasso that was done to show that when you look at something you should draw what you see not what you think you know is there.

A recreation of a childhood drawing that illustrates your use of symbols, something that the left hemisphere relies upon.

Not very original from me but all part of the fun.

Has anyone else followed this book?

Here are some more Drawing on the Right-hand side of the Brain exercises based on sighting.

A warm up copy of a John Singer Sargent:

A profile from life:

C&C always welcome.