portrait studies / cross-hatching

Progress of portrait caricature from imagination 

Caricature from imagination

Portrait study from old master Andrea del Sarto

Portrait studies from old master Anthony van Dyck

Anatomy studies / Digital painting studies

Ribcage and pelvis anatomy. Done from Vilppu and Bammes.

Digital paintings.

30min speedpainting study from Zhaoming Wu painting.

Study from fashion model photo.

Master study. From Anthony Van Dyck.

Digital portrait commission

figure studies

more studies from Vilppu. Coming up next anatomy studies from Vilppu-Bammes-Hogarth-Loomis-Bridgman.

Figure study

Study from photo. About 2 hours.

Painting studies from old masters

Started new painting studies from old masters. Main importance is values and time. For those studies I usually take from 30mins to 1 hour.

Matejko

Repin

Rubens

Sargent

Sargent

More studies from Vilppu

More studies, more technical, less creative. ;]
However, after I learned basics (spheres, boxes and cylinders) by heart, I will do creative stuff with figures, portraits, landscapes. I promise. Now, I don't have much technical knowledge. Until August, I will be doing those studies, and in August, I will incorporate more finished and my own drawings/paintings.
My goal is to get more practice each day and become better and better at drawing.

Figure studies from Michael Mattesi - Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators book

Book by Michael Mattesi  (Dynamic Life Drawing for Animators), is one of the most important books about drawing fluid, dynamic figure. It's also not about copying surface what you see in front of the model, but feeling the action of figure. Off course, those poses are exaggeration of real life, but it is best why to learn about human figure.
So, I have made several drawings from that book. It's just a drawings, I hadn't read this book yet. Then I will read it, I think so, it will gain a lot of knowledge to me. I will redraw those drawings several times, until I fully understand pose and then I would know how to draw it from imagination.

Adamkus WIP II

Ok. Caricature development continuous. In this stage I have added color and worked much more accurate with values.

Adamkus WIP1

Caricature of former Lithuanian president Valdas Adamkus.
WIP 1

Figure studies

Two figure studies from Glen Vilppu, one of the master in animation and superb teacher. I have his DVD's and I am studying it with pleasure. His approach is very important, because his main concern is on basic forms and building everything on layers. You should check his out, if you don't know him.

My stuff

Ok, I  though that I should show you my older traditional stuff, in case you don't know me. So, basically there are portraits and figures done with graphite or charcoal.

More drawings on my portfolio Piesimas.lt

Brad Pitt caricature

Second caricature. This time Brad Pitt. I hope so, you recognize him ;]
I am still struggling with showing form, I need to do it more 3D, now it's bit flat. However, matching values makes more realistic.



WIP's

Travis Barker caricature

I have made my first caricature with digital tools, Wacom Bamboo Pen & Touch tablet.
It was very interesting to experiment with different medium. My approach was inspired by top caricature artist Jason Seiler. His DVD about making caricatures inspired my to work much more in this genre. I hope so, that if I practice a lot, I will improve really fast.

If you guys interested in WIP's (work in progress), have a look.