ZZDas

So this is my fave singer...and i really hope he wins tonight!!

Berg Factor-X Portugal (Gimp-Painter weekend test) by ZZDas

Desenhar ao vivo é uma especie de degrau na aprendizagem que tem que ser alcançado...mas custa.
Ao contrario de desenhar modelos, que deve custar mais a este do que os que o/a desenham, ao desenhar na rua tornamo-nos no centro das atenções e foi por isso que quando comecei, escolhi a companhia dos meus três cães na desculpa de os passear e um local mais distanciado possível da civilização para preencher o vazio da folha no meu sketchbook:
Passado alguns dias repeti a dose mas desta vez mais próximo de possíveis transeuntes.Mas ainda na companhia dos cães, foi impossível adicionar cores ao sketch o que acabei por fazer em casa (o que foge das regras do USk por isso só aqui fica o link)

Ainda não disposto a abandonar a presença canina, fui mais longe e decidi desenhar em pleno semáforo!
Pois...não funcionou para alem do sketch a carvão...tive que terminar em casa.

Seguiu-se vezes em que só o sketchbook me acompanhava, tornando o registo mais calmo:

Apesar de adorar a companhia dos meus cães, resulta melhor sozinho, e é o que tenho feito desde então.
Bons sketches a todos!
(escrevi demais?)

Figure drawing study

USk PT-N Challenge 4 - Doors

Portas - Challenge 4
A rotina casa-trabalho-casa (e o frio e chuva la fora) só me permitiu esses por agora, mas até fim de Fevereiro quem sabe as portas que se irão abrir...

Gimp-Painter quick sketch before lunch by ZZDas

Finally installed!!

This is how it went, also my first post as the newest member of Urban Sketchers Portugal-Norte

Sou Sandro Duarte, criador do projecto ZZDas , recentemente enamorei-me com Urban Sketching e após ultrapassar o nervosismo/receio de estar na rua a observar e ser observado, tem vindo a tornar-se uma necessidade.
Ainda estou a praticar com aguarela mas no dia a dia trago sempre um sketchbook e uma esferográfica como parte do meu edc(every day carry) por isso, é a midia mais provável :) .




Mais fotos

Bons sketches a todos!

Didn’t had much time to push it up more…but it’s done, now let’s make some more!!

Hoping it wont rain…

Should be back soon

Sketchbook watercolor process by ZZDas

Watching Proko [ http://www.youtube.com/user/ProkoTV ]…

2013 Sketch dump 3/3

2013 Sketch dump 2/3

2013 Sketch dump 1/3

Adding a wheel… by ZZDas

You probably know i take commission for ballpoint pen art, but sometimes i’m also commissioned  do some re-touch on the original :)

wakeupmarch:

crissle:

collegehumor:

Finish the 6 MORE STEPS on

How To Get Nothing Done: An Illustrated Guide [Click to finish me off]

THIS IS MY ENTIRE LIFE

SHAQ THIS IS YOUR LIFE HAHA

Supirinha - Skype sketch jam by ZZDas

Skype Sketch & BeatMaking

Here’s the beat https://soundcloud.com/zonalibertada/supirinha-prod-by-g-silva

This is a commission i did last year, yesterday the client gave me permission to show the original, because otherwise i would never show it as part of my commission rules.

digbicks:

The Arrow of Time, Diego Goldberg

Every year on June 17 — that’s his anniversary with his wife — Goldberg takes a portrait of everyone in his family, and adds it to this project. There are no formal preparations, so the photos reflect the way each person looked on that day. There is no fancy equipment either. Goldberg uses his Nikon — at first he used film, but now he shoots with digital — to take the pictures. "Even if everybody has a camera, and anybody can do it, nobody thought of such a simple idea." But, he adds, "sometimes the simplest ideas are the best."

Diego says he gets mail every day from all over the world, and viewers express one of two things: “I will do it when I form a family” or “How come I didn’t think of it?” In response, Diego says: "Find your own angle and stick to it. After a couple of years you’ll see it was worth the effort." 

Some artists create their artwork using a pencil and paper, others use a mouse and a monitor, and my favorite kind uses flour, sugar, and eggs. This insanely huge and probably delicious Frozen cake featuring sculptures of Olaf and Sven was made by UK-based cake-making wizard Laura Miller. I didn’t quite believe it was made out of food goods until I saw the ‘making of’ photoset. The cake was created for Make-A-Wish UK’s Bake a Christmas Wish fundraiser.

Ganached and facial features made using modelling chocolate

Covered in white fondant

First spray of color

Adding some darker tones and black to create contrast

death-limes:

helpyoudraw:

How to Paint Fire by Imaliea

are you a wizard

First, I want to say how lucky I feel to have a regular spot to post here on Muddy Colors.  It is humbling, inspiring and a great opportunity.  Thank you.

Sometimes when life gets really busy, either with work or family, it is tough to make enough time in our busy schedules to practice. I will often find myself in the middle of many deadlines and other obligations and the first thing that I will let go is taking the time each day to do a little personal sketching or painting.


This is a mistake though, because I find that I take the most risks and receive the most gains when working on personal projects. I think about growth often. What am going to do today to improve? If want to paint as well as Waterhouse or Rockwell, what I am doing about it? There is certainly much to learn in reading or from teachers, but at the end of the day it will be in front of the easel that most of the improvement will happen.


I may never even approach the skill and quality of the great artists that I admire, but I am certain that if I don't actively work towards a goal of improvement, I will fall much shorter otherwise. I was talking to a very talented and commercially successful artist and asked what they were doing to improve. He looked at me and said "Nothing, I am able to paint to the level I sought." Please take me out into a field and hit me over the head with a shovel if I ever utter such words.


Each morning I try to take an hour or two before I start working and draw, read or paint. This week, I did a little sketch over two days to share here and recorded it. This is about 3.5 hours of painting time done over two mornings. I shot the reference for this about a month ago. I had some floral wreaths made for a painting series I am going to be working on and asked my daughter to model them for me.

I did this little 5"x5" sketch on masonite with a lot more texture on the board than I usually use (if you read my Norman Rockwell post you will remember how struck I was with the texture of the ground).  I still painted pretty thin, but I liked the way the texture underneath worked with my brushstrokes on top.  I need to explore this more.

I started with a pencil drawing, then inked the important lines with a Micron Pigma pen followed by a quick wash with casein and then went right into oils.

Watch the video below to see a time-lapse of the sketch.


I find doing small personal pieces like this immensly rewarding professionally, but also psychologically.  It feels great to start and finish a piece in the same day and they give me a little boost each time.  Some are duds, but often enough there is a spark of inspiration or problem that resolves and I take a baby step towards my goals.

Now that it's delivered, i can show it!

If you saw this somewhere else then you know what it's all about, but if you don't, i'll let you know soon...
Made this for a ""soon" announcement so it's really low poly, but somebody can make use if it so i share it
Made with Sketchup on Ubuntu via Wine but had to take it to Windows to export the images, also used GIMP to compose the sky and some color adjustment
I save it as SketchUp version 7 so you can open it from v7 to v8 or 2013

I do! instagram.com/zzdas
For my (almost) daily morning sketches, tests, anatomy studies and whatever...
So if you do, then go here instagram.com/ZZDas and say hi! Or if you're on your cellphone just serch for #ZZDas

Done on my edc sketchbook with watercolor and watercolor pencil, inspired on a photo i found on pinteret