[Mime]

Sorry to spam you with non digital stuff, but i am building a portfolio for a school i want to enter next year. And they want mainly observation drawings, especially landscape sketches, life drawings, still drawings.
So here is a landscape sketch/drawing i just did from my kitchen, the picture is not of a very brillant quality because my scanner is out of service now and i had to take this one with a camera.
I would like to know if the sense of depth is enough , and if you can tell that there is lot of houses between the foreground and the mountains.
And any other crits are welcome

[Mime]

I know it is boring for you, but its what the school is asking to judge our level.

To not waste place i will post my other drawings for this school in this thread.

Other that the life drawings and pencil sketches, the school is also asking for color object studies (vegetables, fruits, leaves, insects, etc) with inks, gouache or other medias.
I just finished this, it was the first time i used those watercolor inks and in fact i really like using them.


sorry but the photo is a bit crappy

if anyone of you have any tips, crits or anything to say, please do it, it will help

[Mime]

is it so bad ? or so perfect ?
I would really like advices since i need to do this stuff tight to enter the school i want ... maybe i should have said in the title that it was a naked chick or something like that

[Akolyte]

The leaves are much better than the drawing, IMO...With your drawing, you need to rework your areas of light/darks in the foreground and make them crisper. Since they are buildings, there will be very crisp edges, but not solid lines. And, remember this word, "vignette" whic means= Objects lose detail and gain obscurity as they get closer to the vanishing point. Good luck with your college quest, you're in the same boat I am, I just sent in my portfolio. if you want, I can show you examples of what I am talking about.

[Mime]

Thanxs a lot akolyte, yes i see what you mean for the drawing, i will rework the general depth and i will do the foreground crisper and the background smoother and darker

[toast!]

the leaves are really nice ; they kinda ask for a background

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[Mime]

toast you should quit smoking, you should know that leaves dont speak or ask anything

thanxs for the comment, but there is a background, the white sheet of paper on wich i had put them when i painted them

here is a new one i did today, same technique and same sort of subject
the colors are pretty screwed up by the scanner its supposed to be bright green

[egerie]

Hiah Mime

I really like your gouache leaves there ! Never could suffer to work with that medium.
What kind of school are you trying to get in ?

And now something completely different..
I see mountains in the background there... May I ask where you are in France ? I'm from Annecy

-ege

[Mime]

egerie, thanxs for the comment. In fact its not gouache, its watercolor inks, some colored inks that mix with water ... in france we call that "encres fluidines".
In fact it behaves somewhat like markers, you cant do light over dark, even the lightest color will darker what has been layed before (exactly like multiply in pshop). Maybe it exactly like real watercolors but ive never used watercolor so i dont know
In fact i really like those inks, you have to really well prepare your colors before and you need to work from light to dark but after that its really nice to use them i think.

Hey Annecy, really close, I'm in Grenoble

[edit] forgot about the school, I want to enter "Emile Cohl" in Lyon, maybe you know it its a school specialized in illustration and the level and quality seems really high

[This message has been edited by Mime (edited February 12, 2001).]

[Francis]

Hi mime

One thing you could try is to vary the values between foreground, middle ground and background. That will make it easier to tell where objects are in relation to each other.

Also, I lengthened your chimney a little bit - it's probably sits exactly the way you drew it in your picture. However, for the sake of composition sometimes it's better to "cheat" a little bit, and avoid tangencies like that (the top of the chimney hits the top of the wall - slightly confusing, makes the viewer think that it's connected to the wall or something).



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TeamGT Studios

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[Duckman2]

I'd reccomend sudying some hardcore perspective books.

[Mime]

thanxs Francis for the help

In fact the chimney IS connected to the wall, as well as the nearest roof, thats why i tried to make them blend together

but i will sharpen the contrast in foreground and progressively smooth to the end, thanxs for that

[shardik]

also that top of the building or whatever is right in the middle of the image and breaks it in half.. it separates the image into equal pieces... for better composition u might want to crop off a little of the bottom of the image... i dunno.. the depth seems ok but i agree with making things closer darker

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