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LEXINGTON, Ky. Renaldo Woolridge's shots kept falling. Too bad none of his Tennessee teammates joined in.
The senior forward set a career-high with five 3-pointers and tied his career-best with 17 points, but the Volunteers fell behind early and never mounted a rally in a 69-44 loss to top-ranked Kentucky on Tuesday night.
"He did a good job of knocking those shots down, but he has also put the time in to improving his shot and shooting consistently," Tennessee coach Cuonzo Martin said. "He did a good job, especially in the first half, of keeping us at bay."
It was far from enough.
Kentucky (22-1, 8-0 Southeastern Conference) got off to a sizzling start by hitting its first 11 shots over the opening 11 minutes as the Wildcats won their 14th straight overall in another dominating performance.
Freshman Anthony Davis had 18 points, eight rebounds and seven blocked shots to lead Kentucky, which has won 48 straight at home.
"They did a great job of setting the tone early," Martin said. "They did a great job of executing their offense. Anthony did a tremendous job protecting the lane and making plays defensively. I've said it before, he's the difference, probably one of the best, if not the best in the country at changing the game with his presence on the defensive side of the ball."
Tennessee (10-12, 2-5) shot a season-low 28.1 percent and struggled with foul trouble all game.
The Vols' main inside presence, Jeronne Maymon, scored 13 points, but picked up his fourth foul with just over 12 minutes to play. With Maymon gone, Davis feasted down low, blocking his seventh shot of the game when he rotated and swatted Kenny Hall's attempt.
Davis has an NCAA-best 108 blocked shots this season to help Kentucky lead the nation. He made six straight free throws before hitting a 17-footer that gave Kentucky a 57-36 lead with 6:52 left.
"He is a shot changer," Tennessee guard Josh Richardson said. "The dude is like 6-foot-10 with 7-6 arms."
Davis scored the first two baskets of the game, then stepped out and hit another long jumper as Kentucky built a 10-2 lead at the first media timeout.
With just under 14 minutes left in the first half, Terrence Jones went hard to the basket, scored and drew a foul. With both teams congregated in the paint, pushing and shoving started before officials separated the sides.
Trae Golden and Davis were assessed technical fouls, and Davis drew an offensive foul on Hall on the ensuing possession that fired the Wildcats up even more.
Michael Kidd-Gilchrist was fouled on the next possession and made both free throws, Marquis Teague added another and Kidd-Gilchrist's layup gave Kentucky a 22-5 lead with 11:39 left in the first half.
Vols freshman Jarnell Stokes picked up his second foul 25 seconds later to go to the bench and Tennessee's best three players - Stokes, Maymon and Golden - watched the rest of the half because of foul trouble.


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As San Francisco is denied a vote on banning circumcision of boys, US-backed mass circumcision programmes in Africa gather pace.
In July a judge stopped a proposed ballot on plans to outlaw the circumcision of male children in San Francisco. It is the latest in a raging debate over whether the practice of circumcision is justified. Preventing the transmission of the virus that causes AIDS is at its heart.
On the one hand people argue it is a quick and effective way of reducing HIV infection. Others say it should be classed, like female circumcision, as a form of genital mutilation.
Those in the first camp argue that circumcision helps protect against HIV because cells under the foreskin are vulnerable to the virus. When the foreskin is removed, the skin on the head of the penis becomes less sensitive and so less likely to suffer micro-cuts, thereby reducing the risk of infection.
Medical research 'inconclusive'
Those in the second camp point out that research on whether circumcision reduces the likelihood of men contracting infections is inconclusive.
The British Medical Association's line is that 'the medical harms or benefits have not been unequivocally proven but there are clear risks of harm if the procedure is done inexpertly.'
Dr Antony Lempert, chair of the Secular Medical Forum, proposed a motion to the BMA annual congress conference in Cardiff this June, calling for doctors to stop performing 'irreversible, clinically unnecessary surgery on the genitalia of non-consenting minors'. The motion was not debated.
But that didn't stop NORM-UK — an anti-circumcision group— lobbying delegates in Cardiff in its first official demonstration. The group wants doctors to stop viewing the procedure as a minor and inconsequential op, in adults as well as children. Its members argue circumcision reduces penile sensation, might harm the immune system, reduces pheromone production and disrupts the body's natural function.
Last year the Royal Dutch Medical Association adopted as official policy the line that the circumcision of boys is medically unnecessary and advocated a 'strong policy of deterrence'.
Yet so far as Western health policy in Africa is concerned, the benefits of the procedure are incontrovertible.
In 2005, a randomized controlled trial of men in a South African township found that circumcision had helped reduce HIV infection by some 60%.
This trial caught some major players' attention. The World Health Organisation, UN, Bill Gates and the Global Fund now all support circumcision as a preventative measure against HIV. With their financial backing, African countries have embarked on vast circumcision drives, aimed at adults and parents of newborn boys.
In July 2010 Bill Gates used a video from a Swaziland circumcision clinic to illustrate his call for mass circumcisions in Africa. A few months later the country launched its Soka Uncobe (Circumcise and Conquer) campaign. This aimed to operate on 80 per cent of the 18 to 49 year old male population by the end of 2011- a programme funded by the US to the tune of some $30 million.
'This sort of major scale up of adult voluntary male circumcision programs has never been attempted with this size population or in this short a time frame,' said a press release announcing the launch this January.
Events funded to encourage circumcision included a pool tournament funded by the Swaziland National Sports Council, which was only open to the circumcised.
A top football team publicly opted for the procedure and the polygamous Swazi king, Mswati III, issued a personal plea to his subjects to fight the 'terrorist virus through circumcision'.
Focusing on newborns
While the initial focus on the campaign was adult men, Swazi policymakers are now shifting their attention to newborns.
Data presented at the International Aids Society conference this July makes it hard to argue against Swaziland's approach. Following a circumcision campaign in the same region of South Africa as the original trials, researchers found 20.0% of men who remained uncircumcised had HIV, compared with just 6.2% in those men who were circumcised.
The researchers observed that men who opted for circumcision tended to be younger and better educated. Despite this, they still calculated that circumcision reduced HIV prevalence by 55%.
They also reported positive results in every aspect of sexual health six months after circumcision. The subjects were 18% more likely to report overall satisfaction with intercourse and 6% less likely to complain of a lack of interest in sex.
However critics have questioned whether these improvements are a kind of placebo effect created by the publicity and pressure surrounding circumcision. And there is a substantial body of opinion that argues the Orange Farm results might not be able to be replicated elsewhere.
Other issues have also been raised. In the same month as Bill Gates aired his promotional video, the Swaziland Times revealed that the government had sat on research from 2007 showing that circumcised men had higher rates of HIV than uncircumcised.
A 2009 report, 'Levels and Spread of HIV Seroprevalence and Associated Factors: Evidence from National Household Surveys' by USAID, also found that: 'There appears to be no clear pattern of association between male circumcision and HIV prevalence. In 8 of 18 countries with data, as expected, HIV prevalence is lower among circumcised men, while in the remaining 10 countries HIV prevalence is higher among circumcised men.'
And 40 senior professionals endorsed an article in the American Journal of Preventative Medicine last year warning that the South African trials should not be used to justify mass circumcisions in different African populations.
The report quoted studies conducted since the South African trials showing that male circumcision is not correlated with lower HIV prevalence in some sub-Saharan populations but is correlated with increased transmission of HIV to women.
'This new evidence warrants caution and further study before recommending circumcision campaigns. In addition, ethical considerations, informed consent issues, and possible increase in unsafe sexual practices from a sense of immunity without condoms must be weighed,' it said.
Health officials in Malawi announced last year that, unlike its neighbours, it would not be adopting a policy of mass circumcision due to a lack of evidence. The chairman of the country's National Aids Commission, Archbishop Bernard Malango, said no difference had been found in HIV infection rates between Muslim districts, where most men are circumcised, and Christian areas, where circumcision is not practised.
Critics have also warned complication rates have not been properly assessed. The original trials reported low levels of complications. But, as with other aspects of the study, these may not be replicable across Africa. Rates of surgery-related complications observed in three randomised controlled trials of male circumcision for HIV prevention were 1.7 percent in Kenya, 3.5 percent in South Africa, and 7.6 percent in Uganda.
Despite the controversy – and Malawi's stance – Swaziland-style campaigns are taking place all over Africa. Gates has also funded circumcision drives in Kenya and Zambia, which held a Mr Male Circumcision contest last year and has a target of 80% of newsborn boys to be circumcised by 2020. Zimbabwe has recruited a reggae star to back its Be Smart Get Circumcised campaign.
Botswana wants 80 % of its adult males circumcised in 5 years. Rwanda is aiming to circumcise two million men by 2013; Tanzania is targeting 2.8 million. If the same rates of surgery-related complications found in Uganda afflicted Tanzania, over 200,000 men would have problems.
A commentator in Malawi is now asking whether its officials' public statements on circumcision had anything to do with the country failing to qualify for a Global Fund grant for HIV in 2012. Malawi's application for 'Round 10′ funding had included plans for mass circumcision, contradicting the officials' statements.
Meanwhile in San Francisco the man behind the proposed vote, Lloyd Schofield, says his group is likely to appeal. If he succeeds, Africa's circumcision programmes – and their wealthy backers – are likely to come under even closer scrutiny.
Neither will Norm-UK be supporting the African campaigns, despite the latest research from Orange Farm. Activist Stuart Worthington points to a 2005 study which showed a link between female circumcision and lower HIV rates.
'Even if there were twenty such studies all showing statistically significant protection from a minor form of female cutting, there's no way that any form of female circumcision would ever be promoted. Why the double standard?'
The HIV and sexual health charity, The Terrence Higgins Trust, also sounds a note of warning. Jason Warriner, governance director at the Trust, said: "In the UK there's no evidence that circumcision reduces HIV prevalence amongst gay men. Condoms are the most effective way to prevent HIV infection."
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California's corporate tax rate is currently 8.84%. According to the California Taxpayer's Association, only nine states (Alaska, Connecticut, Illinois, Iowa, Maine, Minnesota, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and Rhode Island) have a higher top rate. Nonetheless, a bill that could increase the corporate tax rate for some publicly traded corporations by over 47% continues to move through the California legislature, passing out of the Senate Appropriations Committee last week on a 5-2 vote.
SB 1372 (DeSaulnier) would replace the current rate for publicly traded corporations with a schedule of rates based on the ratio between its chief operating officer or highest paid employee and the median compensation of all employees employed by the taxpayer, including all contracted employees. The compensation of the chief operating officer or highest paid employee would be the corporation's total compensation as disclosed pursuant to Item 402 of Regulation S-K.
According to Senator DeSaulnier, the purpose of the bill is to provide "an incentive to corporations to reduce the disparity in the amount of money they pay their CEO and the amount they pay their average worker." In this video, Senator DeSaulnier cites SB 1372 as part of his EPIC program. Students of California history may recall that the writer cum socialist Upton Sinclair ran for governor in 1934 on a campaign of End Poverty In California. See Upton Sinclair, I, Governor of California, and How I ended Poverty: A True Story of the Future. Notwithstanding Sinclair's literary claim of veracity, he never made it to the horseshoe. Senator DeSaulnier has reminted Sinclair's EPIC campaign as End Poverty and Inequality in California.
If the concern is income inequality, then perhaps the state may want to look to its own pay practices. According to the Sacramento Bee, the average salary of a state worker in 2012 was $56,800 while the highest paid state employee earned $2,230,000, yielding a ratio of 38 to 1. Is that ratio too high, too low, or just about right and by what criterion is that determined? Whether the ratio is 1:1 or 400:1 tells you nothing about whether the highest paid employee is over or under paid. Moreover, this bill will likely have significant unintended consequences. For example, the bill will create a strong incentive for public companies to reduce the number of low-wage employees by contracting out those positions. The bill will also discourage pay-for-performance compensation arrangements. More importantly, the bill would punish succesful companies with strong stock price performance. However, that may be an intended consequence since the author's stated purpose is to end inequality.
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Jaci Dalenberg became a surrogate for her daughter Kim and son-in-law Joe Coseno after the couple were unable to conceive on their own. The Coseno's were already parents to two teen children, but longed to add to their family. They had begun the adoption process, but after several heartbreaking disappointments, Dalenberg offered them her womb. If that isn't love, I don't know what is.
The couple used in vitro fertilization and the embryos were implanted in Dalenberg's uterus. The babies were born at Cleveland Clinic's Hillcrest Hospital in Mayfield Heights two months premature, each weighing less than three pounds. According to hospital officials, babies Elizabeth, Gabriella, and Carmina and grandma are all doing well.
At the beginning of this process, Kim Coseno began a blog about the experience. After the children were born and the news "exploded", she says she had second thoughts about sharing her life with the world. Not every stranger who has read her blog has been supportive, but she's decided to keep the blog public. She writes: "I remember at the beginning of our long journey I read other peoples stories and it helped us. It gave us ideas, it inspired me, it made me cry, love and sometimes get a touch of reality. I am going to continue to write and keep it public."
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10-26-2008 @ 7:26PMMichelle said...
The triplets are named Elizabeth, Carmina, and Gabriella. Brittni is the girl behind in the incubator in one of the pictures on the blog.
10-26-2008 @ 7:56PMJan Bay said...
I have to admire her stamina. Carrying triplets to term at any age is a pretty phenominal accomplishment.
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10-26-2008 @ 9:05PMGeegee Davis said...
That is awesome !!! I am a 60 year old mom and I think that is the most loving thing I have read in a long time. Absolutely wonderful !!!
10-26-2008 @ 11:09PMdee said...
FYI - Embryos are never implanted they are transferred. If they were implanted, every IVF cycle would result in a pregnancy. That being said, Congratulations! to the Coseno family.
10-27-2008 @ 6:02AMHeather said...
Oh wow!! That is beyond love right there for their children and grandchildren.. I give her 100 KUDOS for birthing her own grandchildren. They will for sure always have a extremely strong bond, but to do something to wonderful for her daughter like this is just going above and beyond!!!


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Border officer hiring binge got ahead of screening
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Those who get polygraphs are selected based on risk assessment methodology, which means something in their background raises questions. About 60 percent of these applicants are found to be unsuitable for employment because of prior drug use or a criminal record that wasn't disclosed.
In January, a spokeswoman for Customs and Border Protection, the largest law-enforcement agency in the federal government, said the screening pace has picked up since last year. Now about 30 percent of all hires are being tested.
The agency also is supposed to conduct background re-investigations of employees every five years, but it has a backlog of 13,654 such cases.
The stream of corruption prompted Congress last year to pass a bill bluntly called "The Anti-Border Corruption Act of 2010." The legislation requires Customs and Border Protection to polygraph all new hires in the next two years. It also calls on the agency to initiate background investigations on all those in the backlog within six months.
Spokeswoman Kelly Ivahnenko said the agency recognizes the backlog is unacceptable. She attributed it to not having enough resources to keep up with the hiring surge.
"We're fully supportive of the intent of the bill," Ivahnenko said. "We know 99 percent of frontline officers and agents serve with commitment and honesty, but one of these cases is still too many."
She said the agency will be able to meet the legislative requirement to polygraph all applicants by the end of 2012.
Despite the emphasis, background investigations are not foolproof.
Jones, 47, passed background checks in 1999 and 2004, according to court records. That would have been just before and in the middle of the period when he began taking bribes, which prosecutors allege he did from 2000 to 2009.
Jones, of Bonita, has pleaded not guilty and is free on $150,000 bail. His attorney declined to talk about the case, and Jones did not respond to a request for comment.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Edward Weiner, a veteran of previous corruption cases who is prosecuting Jones, said the officer appeared to be "under the radar" of suspicion for some time.
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Carolyn Martin, a Carlsbad investigator and president of the American Federal Contract Investigators Association, faulted the background investigations handled by the Office of Personnel Management.
"If these investigations were done the way they should be done, there is no doubt in my mind that Mr. Jones would have set off all the red flags, whistles and bells," she said. Investigators ought to have checked deeply into his finances, including a side business, and interviewed him at his home, she said.
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July 6th, 2013 #301
Hey Rostas,- indeed your drawings are improving. But I would also say that you should do more constructions and planes. I myself was very ignorant about the importance of this fundamental skill. Nowadays I`m drawing stick-figures and simplified torsos - it really helps. Never did this really before because I was, as I said very ignorant. It`s like starting over - but without the feeling of repeating the same silly errors over and over again. Nevertheless, sketching is important, but there is a major gap between sketching (based on fundamental knowledge) on doodling. But that just my opinion.
Back to your sb: yes improvement. However, I think you should consider presentation...
you`re taking photos of your sb - that`s fine. Buuuut, every single drawing is distorted. I postproducted
one of your portrait and I think this version is way better because it is easier to read. *eyefriendliness*
Hide this ad by registering as a memberJuly 6th, 2013 #302
@ Klaus - Yeah you're right man! I should put a more aesthetic look on my pages. They look kinda boring to watch this way.I'll try and do that.I'll also do more plane and construction exercises. Thank you for giving me all the great advice . Will follow up on it. Cheers!
July 7th, 2013 #303
Quick update before I restart putting sketchbook pages.
July 8th, 2013 #304
Some thumbs and a funny thing,before I upload more pages.
July 9th, 2013 #305
5 more pages incoming .
P.S : Made pics of the second sketchbook. Will dump once done with first!
July 11th, 2013 #306
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July 12th, 2013 #307
More pages incoming !
July 15th, 2013 #308
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July 16th, 2013 #309
More pages incoming. Almost at the end of the first sketchbook. I finished the 3rd sketchbook these days and going for another one until the end of this month. Cheers guys!
July 16th, 2013 #310
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July 17th, 2013 #311
I am going to be brutally honest with you, as I dont think you have improved much at all. What has needed to be said to you hasnt, and all you get here are peopel saying good work, and great progress.
1) Really start to think about what you are doing and why you doing things.
2) Dont just copy aimlessly without really thinking about why something is looking the way it is.
3) How can you relate key ideas, and makthem work for you
4) Think about really about what a mark is, and the lines you are making.
5) Drawthrough of your objects is your best friend, and it will help you immensley in learning.
6) Before you start think about what are your golas for your learning session, and what do you want to achieve from them.
7) Why does a form look the way it does, and what types of systems can you help your brain better understand these forms
8) How can you make information and learning systems meanfor yourself that you understand key concepts that help you draw and paint better.
These are just some questions you should be asking yourself while learning. Do not try to make picture perfect images, but understand what you are doing and why you are doing itso when you do get aroud to attempting a still life, protrait etc, you can combine the concepts.
Again I am not here to be nice to you, if that was the case I have just posted keep up the good work. You are here for and harsh critique. If you want to improve then I shall give it to you.
July 17th, 2013 #312
@ Markmaker - I sincerely appreciate the brutal sincerity of the post and it's intent . And I will definetly take all of those things in question don't worry. My aim is to improve and I'll take everything in order to do so. And I did improve in these 2 months I've been drawing from life. Just saying " You haven't improved much at all " doesn't really help me " as much as the other points did. I know I've improved. I was really bad at the beginning at traditional and drawing from life in general , and let me tell you , my photohraphic memory has improved, my visual perception and observation , and construction-wise and anatomical-wise , you'll see throughout the pages and at the end of the first sketchbook and at the beginning of the next. I never said I'm trying to create perfect pretty pictures and I am trying to understand everything that's around me. I am committing very hard to this and I'll be restarting fundamentals as soon as possible , drawing still lifes and etc. and I will try and take ever point you have placed for me.
Let this be known however. I will achieve my goals and I will take any kind of help and criticisms because I need them. Without hard work and the mindset to learn , no one can improve , but I intend to do just that.
I am here to learn , so thank you !
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July 17th, 2013 #315
I see by the tone of your reply in my greetings post that my feed back didnt go down to well with you. This is why I dont post in this section or this site much anymore. We have petulant little kids in this section, which if you give them feedback that might help them think about why they are doing things or how they can help their own learning, they take it as insult. If all you want or people to tell you is " how greta your doing, or "how awesome your work is then". Then DONT BLOODY ask for comments or crits. I am only going by your intital thread title "I WILL become PRO in a year - The journey of a devoted artist"
My bloody greetings thread has nothing to do with your SB or the feedback you receive. IF I wanted feedback on anything I would post that here, but guess what I have a school that I get feedback from, so please dont come in my greetings post and start your little petulant thread and the tone of it, like I did something to offend you.
IF your so called Destiny is to be an artist, then bloody do it, dont come whining in my greetings threads of all places and posting in sarcastic quotation marks etc. Your the one asking for crits, feedback, ratings and a big massive thread title
I WILL become PRO in a year - The journey of a devoted artist. NOT ME!.
July 17th, 2013 #316
@ markmakey - I responded to you at your greeting thread because it's insulting to claim that I haven't improved much at all , even when I do know I've improved. I've experienced it myself when visualising and observing people. I've been doing this for the past months and you can't tell me what I learnt and what I didn't. I never said your feedback isn't appreciated and I want every feedback possible and criticism as long as it's not intended like this.
"Hey you haven't improved much at all , but I'M GOING to tell you how to improve cause I know better." - That's how it sounded for me from your point of view. You have a very snobbish tone to which your talking to me in this post. I wanted to see what you we're capable of in spite of your reply to me. And curiously , one of your firsts replies to a sketchbook thread is mine.
Maybe you thought I was too full of myself naming my thread this way , but this also suggests that you also didn't read what I wrote in my very first post.
This is a reminder message for me and my dream . My thread's name is something to keep me pumped at the thought of working even harder than I do now. And I am committed to what I want to do and I've always dreamt of this.
I believe heavily on destiny and how it influences all of us and you don't even know the story to which got me into art and how I realised this was my road to take.
And have you even looked at any of my other pages? Or did you just feel inclined to be "brutally honest" just because I aim so high in such a small span of time.
I've seen people do it ,and with the work ,I believe I can do it also.
And hey If I don't do it , then I still had a goal , a goal that kept me burning inside with passion and dedication. If it's not one year , it'll be further along the way , but it's the THOUGHT that counts.
Visualising your dream and your end goal , can redirect those feelings and create opportunities within yourself to improve more ,and to learn more. So it's more of a big shoutout to me and maybe to those who feel the same way and want to do it.
Is it something wrong in being hopeful or being inspired to achieve greater heights ? I am willing to put the work so you should at least not be so snobbishly conceited by the looks of your -
"But guess what , I have a school that I get feedback from " - Well toodlydoo , ain't that great. Poor old me couldn't have a school to get FEEDBACK from. I'm sorry for being so lavishly coinceted as to hope for something that great as to become hugely better in JUST ONE YEAR.
Good luck with your school and as I said , your criticism has been taken and I am here to learn , not to take shitty replies.
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July 17th, 2013 #317
So instead of taking the feedback that I gave you that may help in your own learning and thinking, yoiuv'e taken one little bit out of it which you percievd as insulting and a slight on your character. I give up. Now anyone thats spoken with me in the CA hangout knows why I don't here anymore.
I didnt say anything about yout cant or wont, do anything you want to achieve your goals in any of my posts. Yet you seem to think I have slighted you. I gave you honest feedback which I felt you needed, but you seem to have taken real exception to it, which many do in the SB section, this is why the site has gone down hill in regards to the critiques given in this part of the forums.
I give up. Goodbye dear sir, and welcome to ignore.
July 17th, 2013 #318
@ markmaker - Thank you.
Here's some more stuff.
July 17th, 2013 #319
Thanks for the response Rostas. I'm a big fan of anything badass, medieval, sci fi, fantasy, demonic, whatever, so thats the direction I want to go. Like for movies pretty much anything ridley scott, john carpenter, guy ritchie, quen tarintino etc. Also a huge frazetta, vallejo, and corben fan. I pretty much have the same taste in everything, books, music, art, video games. EVERYTHING MUST BE DARK. AND EVIL. AND UH. SURROUNDED BY FIRE. I'm not satanic though don't worry. Anyway if you come across any artists that might be up my alley though let me know, I don't know a lot about art
I used to do self portraits I'll have to start doing them again
I would give you advice on your sketchbook but I am way too new to this to be giving anyone advice yet
July 17th, 2013 #320
Markmaker said it all man you arent thinking you are just mechanically drawing really think about things and if you can start from gesture drawing i see little flow and dynamism in your poses there are some great videos out there on the subject and more than anything always try different subjects trt drawing animals and buildings all sort of crap but think while doing it keep on finding relationships between the torso vs the legs always take note on where the bodyweight is an at last but not least, learn how to use lineweight you ahve a deathgrip problem and that leads to tendonitis and other hand diseases hold the pencil lightly and start very light dont make alot of strong marks let the sketch flow and then refine over that also ALWAYS use construction lines specially when drawing without reference its very important keep on going man you arent that far from progress its just that you arent using the tools yet.
BTW here is the video to enlighten you on gesture drawing AMAZING info and very nicely explained
July 17th, 2013 #321
@- Korzen - Dat fantasy . Love it. My favorite artists also count Frazetta and Vallejo . In the old masters I love Repyn and Sargent. Velazquez is great too . Thanks for coming by.
@ LionheartGFX - Thanks man .Yes , I did watch Vippu's videos and they are fantastic. He's a great teacher and i focus on gesture on some of the latter pages of the sketchbooks i filled these 2 months. My dynamism isn't so great at the moment but thanks a lot for the video . Will watch and take note. And I appreciate the fact that you're not rude. Markmaker made some points but they were pretty random points. You make a finer point at saying concretly what is wrong with what in my drawings. I always try and return to fundamentals as best as I can without splattering every subject. Will follow up with more stuff don't worry .
Last edited by Rostas; July 17th, 2013 at 06:39 PM.
July 18th, 2013 #322
I will try and fix my scanner sometime this week or so. I know my photos of my drawings look distorted and weird looking and unpleasing sometimes , but bear with me. I'll try and fix it so I can post more cohesive stuff so it can be seen better. Thanks !
July 18th, 2013 #323
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July 18th, 2013 #324
I've just gone through the majority of your SB - You started drawing fairly recently in a [real] sketchbook, after presumably doing mostly digital. I think you mentioned a while back that you had been exclusively doing digital. Your digital improved over time, but then you seemed to somehow lose a lot of that ability when you went to traditional. Perhaps your frame of mind was stuck in the past with the last time you did traditional? But your traditional drawings are gradually improving as well now. I'm impressed with the fact that you have stuck with art for years and years, it is hard for many to stick to such things. Good luck to you.
What type of character design for concept art would you want to do? Not as in 'Games', but more specific.
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July 18th, 2013 #325
Hey there! So yeah, a few comments. There's this reoccurring saying I hear a lot since I've recently started getting serious about art, and it's "work smarter, not harder". Your output is great, the effort is there. However, I think you could afford to work less on quantity and more on quality. Life drawing is really important, but will only take you so far if you don't understand what's underneath the skin. Instead of drawing what you see, try gaining a scientific understanding of human anatomy, most importantly proportions and ratios. I think you'll see a lot of improvement then.
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July 19th, 2013 #326
@ - Batzarro - Thank you for looking at my sketchbook and my progress . It's great to know people also look at the older pages so they can see how I evolved. The first drawings however from the first page aren't even the first I meddled with. Those drawings are like after 2 years maybe after I started drawing in its entirety. Because I started drawing 6 years ago. The kind of Concept Art I want to work with is a bit flexible. I want to be a freelancer but also have the skills to work in the industry of gaming/movies. I'm just refining my skills towards Character Drawing , Environment Drawing and maybe other stuff. You might say , "but wouldn't it be better to just concentrate on one" .
I agree , but I'd rather be flexible and know lots of stuff , because I love drawing lots of things. I just don't wanna restriction what my skills can do or will do. Knowing as much as possible will make me a better artist altogether and that's the goal right ?
@ Gutsworth - Yes , people have told me this and I wholeheartedly agree. Doing quality rather than quantity has showed more when doing finished digital paintings as well as traditional ones. But a certain dynamism comes about when just making some fast studies as everyone's brain processes things differently. I fore one part , had a pretty bad photographic memory overall , but it has improved a lot over the course of these 2 months.
I can remember things more accurately and details just seem to come more natural to me then they would originally. And life drawing WILL take you far. That's where you learn your knowledge, from real life stuff. I agree that preliminary studies and researching the underlying aspects will build upon it , but life drawing does more than doing from photos , or from any other source.
And basically, you learn proportion from studying real life people. You'll see that people don't just only fit in one category of head-ratios. Some people fit in 6 heads,other in 6.5 and others 7 and there are even some (which is rare) that go beyond. Like Loomis's ideal height , some of those head ratios are existent somewhere.
Life is as distinct and it can be , and beautiful.
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July 19th, 2013 #327
I think you still don`t know the difference between doodling and practicing/studying! your still concentrating on quantity - your sb looks like you are just drawing for the sake of drawing! come on, do some posemaniacs. loomis bridgeman (and all the other usuall suspects) studies.
July 19th, 2013 #328
I apologize for the distorted pictures, as I said , when I made pics of the sketchbooks I used one of my friend's cameras. As I don't have a camera of my own or my printer only allows things to scan when its full with ink ( yeah , Canon printers will do that to you ) and It's pretty dumb. Also proportions will get better with pages so I know where I'm weak. I'll be sure to take everyone's points and include Bridgman , Vilppu , Loomis in my studies and also other things to keep stuff interesting and fresh.
@ Klaustrophil - I did some posemaniacs and some Loomis exercises in the second sketchbook. I haven't finished posting the 1st one. You have to understand that I'm getting back into traditional. I'd rather have fun , and people don't seem to understand that art is having fun ( and since I'm not having a deadline to force me ) and you evolve when you're having fun. I did studies and etc. , and I'm getting into watercolor and oils soon , doing still life and self portraits, because I want to keep some variety in my sketchbook. ( Oh and btw if you don't consider drawing people from LIFE as studies, then you're doing something wrong mate ).
I am not doing drawing for the sake of doing drawings. Why do you say that? It's because I show lots of work? And the improvement will show over the pages. Improvement doesn't show in just one sketchbook. This is a 120 page sketchbook , not a 1000-page one. You'll notice improvement soon. I just hate it when people nag about stuff they don't notice.
80% of my 1st Sketchbook , the one i posted these days is consisted from people drawn from life , me going to the park outdoors mostly everyday, drawing people. You either must be blind or just wanna take cheap shots at me. I've progressed more than I could do with Loomis and Bridgman drawings btw . Even Loomis and Bridgman and Vilppu recommend doing life drawing. If you don't draw from life then how are you going to learn how it functions. Either give me a good critique , because most of what you said sounds unnecessary and drone-ish.
I will post more quality work soon , and concentrate more on tehcnical studies as well as life drawing , to keep it more varied. You're right in some aspects but others are just plain said to be said with.
P.S : I saw a glimpse of maybe some life drawings on your sketchbook , maybe on the first pages and etc. You should do more of that. Technical studies won't help much at all if you don't draw actual people outdoors. Take my word for it. Do more of that and you'll notice a huge leap in your work after 1-2 months of life drawing.
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End of the 1st Sketchbook - 120 pages - Month of May 2013
Recapping with what I learnt from the 1st one : - The body's proportions vary from person to person. From what Loomis said in his book , there are average , ideal and heroic proportion rates that define the art world and some other ones that aren't used that much. The proportions of the human being vary from 6 to 9 heads respectively , 9 being a very rare type found in our species, like very tall and unnatural heights. From what I studied in these 120 pages of my 1st Outdoors Life Drawing Sketchbook , the first of many to come , is that 7 to 7.5 seems a fair average , although I'd go as wide as to say 6.5 to 7.5 .
- Learnt a lot about mass and form and how the human body bends , along with the clothes on him. I used to be really bad at clothes but I got the hang of some of the physics of how cloth interacts while on objects. I also understood spatial localisation of objects in perspective and how without perspective and using a very ingrained knowledge of it , you cannot form a cohesive and believable human being. Everyhing is affected by perspective and I will have to fortify this aspect even more in the further sketchbooks and drawings.
- Most artists may not perceive this , but when you go outdoors to draw people , you eventually meet with some and have interactions with people. You're interacting as an artist with the environment , and emotionally as well. Staying at home , at the confort of your computer or your 4 walls won't bring you the closeness and that really natural feeling of drawing outdoors.
I remember this one time , i was walking home , and this image struck image of a man staying kneeled while the light shone through a spiky fence while he was mixing some rice beans in a bowl. He wa so concentrated on the rice beans , while the light shone on his head , and it looked magical. I thought to myself - " Wow , this is what most artists felt back in the days when they saw something really good to draw " .
It was an image I wished I could do and I still have that image with me . I wish to recreate that thing I saw that day , because it struck me as something really natural , with the expression of the old man , seemingly mixing that rice , unaware of this attentive traveler . The lighting was perfect ,the pose was great, the expression had a mysterious yet welcome feel to it. It just looked great overall. And it's not like I haven't seen lots of things while I was walking, just that this had struck me more than the usual because it looked like a real life Painting. I'm hoping I will be able to pull that image from my head soon and paint it / draw it and give it justice , but with time and work .
- I'm falling in love more and more with art and it's different mediums. I bought some oils to try , waterolor wax pencils , inks and various other things. I want to try them all ,but with patience and understanding. I wasn't so eager to try different mediums in the past. That about me has changed.
- I will focus more centrically on quality over time , as gestures and croquis are what the bread and butter of life drawing are. Most of what I've drawn in the upcoming sketchbook are life drawings and I will follow up with more variety , as in technical drawings , studies from Vilppu , Bridgman , Loomis and others. But more or less, just doing what I love to draw and that is pretty much anything or more of everything each day.
Also here is some Mirror's Edge fanart I worked because I was hyped for the new game. Hope you like. Wasn't particularly happy with the first version so I worked two.
Thanks for stopping by and commenting and offering your insight , and the journey continues
, Andrei .


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