[Thujon]

Hey DerMonkey what scool do you attend to? I gues its in Germany? ( Ich schreibe trotzdem auf English, ok? )

Nice sketches, so far.... plz moooore more more....

[lilnebo]

Sup again monkey!

Looking fresh with these latest pieces.
Steady improvement as usual

Keep at it

[DerMonkey]

long time no post, here are some recent scribbles.
thujon: ja, ich geh auf die muthesius kunsthochschule in kiel
thx lilnebo :>

[Big Bad Wolfman]

Loving your recent scribbles DerMonkey, especially you last post. Some nice linework throughout.

[DerMonkey]

cheers!

here is some stuff that accumulated in the last weeks...
also a little tweaked version of the oc-session with dasAdam this night. i'm still working on this :)
and a test of the new alchemy version. it's kinda funky :>

[Mull]

I'd love to see the last one (I'm presuming thats the OC one with DA's logo on?) finished up, its got great potential and so many avenues you could explore with it

[Izene]

Wow!
Very nice colour and mood!
Well done there!

[DerMonkey]

indeed, i'm stil working on this one mull :)

todays breakfast nudes. the big one on the left is copied by Cloud, who's the reason why i'm doing these anyway
the other two are photo-referenced
hmm i really should go for the faces next imho...

[DerMonkey]

two more...

i'm listening to this concert while drawing:

You Tube

//edit: aahh, i can't stop myself... must be the music :D

[dasAdam]

lovely nudes mate =) ive seen 2 of them already. the new ones are great as well
im looking forward to see way more .

cheers!

[DerMonkey]

thx adam! already jealous for going pc-gaming rather than doing figures?

today only one for breakfast. may do some more this night :)
head is too small...

//edit: speaking of improvement: i dug out this really horrible thing i did in '06... :D

[Thujon]

yay very cool..... you have improved so much!!!!!

[DerMonkey]

thanks! :D
from today... finally something from life ^^tho the shopping dude is from head

i'll be off home for some days... intensifying drawing.
maybe online sometimes due to hightech-handhelds :>

[bsfea]

lol, the comparison of the drawings is nice. I agree that you improved alot, as your recent sketches are really cool. Very dynamic poses, they really give a feel of movement...
I'm wondering if you could figure out the main changes in your thinking while drawing since then. What did you change to improve the way you did? Probably in terms of how you see the subject's shapes or the technique to translate the stuff to the canvas.
Or is it plain practice and the sum of uncountable small tipps and hints you got at art school + drawing, drawing, drawing...?^^

[DerMonkey]

thanks bsfea and a very good question! :)
you somehow already said it; i feel quite a change in my approach in art in general, but i think it wasn't the art school allone which brought the change. we don't really have an illustration major (), but the accumulated information and experience there (at the school) makes you think in other ways. hard to discribe...
in painting or drawing particular, for me it definintely was beeing here on cgpad and getting very good critique on the one hand, and practicing, thinking and practicing on the other hand (having fun was also important! ). that definitely opened my mind to other ways of painting^^
in those recent pencil studies i learned much about perceiving the object as a 3 dimensional shape; by rather creating the forms than copying them.
ok that all probably didn't help you much, as it is quite vague... but yeah, practice practice practice...


well, haven't got that much done at home as i hoped to, i was busy visiting old friends.. but i got a few things and ideas, and also this little thing i did on my laptop, that why the colors are so crappy^^;
i'm still gonna finish this one off :>

edit: enough for today, continue tomorrow.