Sketchbook: Jackwhat
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Right, to save spamming the - what are you working on - thread i'll chuck all my shit in here. Although adding another thread to maintain probably isnt the best idea especially when im tryin to get better. Hah.
I wanna be a concept artist so I'm currently brushing up on as much as I can so hopefully i can be of some use to someone sooner rather than later. For the time being i'll probably just be throwing up studies n the like seeing as im doing them daily with a friend of mine and theyre good shit to do.
Any comments/crits or general advice would help a ton!
Commencing dump of recent work -
I'll probably dump these ere once a week or something! Should probably start working on some portfolio pieces of something like that soon... will be nice to see how much studying is paying off!
I wanna be a concept artist so I'm currently brushing up on as much as I can so hopefully i can be of some use to someone sooner rather than later. For the time being i'll probably just be throwing up studies n the like seeing as im doing them daily with a friend of mine and theyre good shit to do.
Any comments/crits or general advice would help a ton!
Commencing dump of recent work -
I'll probably dump these ere once a week or something! Should probably start working on some portfolio pieces of something like that soon... will be nice to see how much studying is paying off!
Replies
*edit- agrees with mezz* Finish something damnit!!
No critiques, but I would like to say... I wanna see a full rendered painting one day! :P I know it's nice to breeze right through all these paintings, but there's still something to be said for being able to stick with a piece until it's fully rendered and complete. If you wanna be a concept artist, you'll have to be up for and ready to complete work to the art director or whoever's standards. I'm not saying you should start crazy detail rendering every piece, cause I love the large strokes look, but maybe just choose one piece once in a while to detail?
And are you going to get back to painting more humans/faces? I'd love to see more of that too.
Mezz; I dunno what it is with me and finishing things! If im pushing something fairly far it'll take about 6~ hours to get to a decent standard - fixing mistakes etc - but if the overall feel of the image is right I dont like pumping up the rendering because it feels like a chore - that being said my stuff is really fucking loose and I _have_ to finish some shit up at some point! I'll see what i can do for ya haha, cheers!
For now, boobs + environments - one being more industrial which was a lot harder than organic shapes... at least it is when youre trying to get it all lined up and accurate.
These are only hour long things, trying to speed up a bit so i should probably be aiming for a bit more finish that these have!
More girlies and environments; some of these are not so good, especially the recent ones - i've not been getting enough detail in in an hour and sometimes my hues are a bit off... othertimes theyre accurate. Swings and roundabouts.
More of the same from me, I think im gaining confidence with my environments as they seem to come out a bit more accurate with more detail in the time! I dunno when i'll start to seriously apply some stuff that i've learnt, im kinda happy just doin studies for ~3hours!
I still find buildings and things really hard to nail, i cant work out a good workflow
The environments are indeed starting to look very good, you're getting a lot of very accurate detail with few storkes. The colours are always working out very well.
The female studies are going pretty well, but some areas need more details. The hands especially, they're always very roughed in and could use more detail. Yes, they're a hard area, which is all the more reason to work on them. Overall, a nice feel and I'm seeing improvement
haha the girl with the blue background is corinna, even stylized i still recognize some
when its about female references you cannot hide from me
Rens, errr... RESPECT?! or I dunno... haha!
Cheers bounch! hehe.
Right, photobucket has removed some of my booby pictures so there are now less girly images in this thread (sorry rens). I've slowed up a bit with the digital stuff lately, although i REALLY want to get back to colour studies as its really been bugging me the last few days trying to get my head around it all. So a traditional update for a change with shitty 5-15min self portraits/blind contours and other shit.
anyways, Your brushwork is very effective, cool stuff!
Good stuff, the pencil work has some really nice details and shading. Also, cool concept painting. Just one thing I was wondering about--Did you do something different for the top three paintings? Because certain details and brush strokes don't seem to work as well as they usually do in your paintings and kinda stand out.
The top three paintings are 15minute paintings, I do 2 of those and 2 1hour ones most days, I end up striving more for colour accuracy rather than details. I seem to spend most of my time trying to figure out colour at the moment, tis a confusing bitch and i want a nice epiphany where it all suddenly makes sense.
- Wanna work my way through all of Bridgman because my anatomy sense sucks so hard, infact i should probably do some drawings from my head soon too so i can see where im really having problems.
My monitor died on me the other day so i'm now drawing in mah sketchbook till i get that fixed up! Practicing some much needed anatomy and shit! I should probably try and work on a portfolio or finished piece at some point but ack, dunno.
Sketchbook stuff is the recent shiz;
Most of these are from a fashion book thing i have, i figured that my fashion sense is piss poor as is my knowledge of casual poses - so study study.
However, it's been ingrained in me from my teachers that real life is always better to work from than a picture. Why not find a nice coffee shop or whever to sit at, while waiting for your monitor to finaly arrive, and sketch and sketch all the people there until they start eyeing you funny and get offended and ask you to leave?
I probably should do more still lifes n shit to practice drawing ack i dunno, heres some more of the same for the sake of replying!
Well, you know, if you ever get a chance to sketch some people with other company go for it! :P
Saidin cheers man!
Fuck me this died in a bout of inactivity. Man, spent 2 weeks without touching my tablet for no particular reason, well aside anime/l4d/ill gripping me no end.
But! im back into the fucking drivers seat... Heres some shit from old > new, some of which ive posted here or there already but ah well!
(Studies first, although some are older/newer than the more finished looking shit)
- Most of those studies were done at the front end of November and since ive kinda not bothered with them. I've kinda hit a point where it feels like if im not doing it all then its not really me. It's served its purpose as a good reference for colours and now ive got to put it all into practice and hopefully pull that shit from my head as and when i need to.
So yeah, im probably going to stick to drawing stuff from my head - straight to colour, as colourising grayscale is a pain in the arse.
So heres some doodles/competition entries/concepts from mid november to now!
At least, that's my hope
Great studies as usual, and I really like the painting of the guy in the suit!
Yar mezz, i actually managed to shock myself with a dire painting from my head, so im more passionate again. It was kind of insulting how bad it was, so ive got to get my arse in gear :P
Hopefully i'll be revived now, Wrath of the lich kings teeth are losing there hold on me and im annoyed at how shit things are so i'll get back to doing this seriously!
First a quick dump of some lineart I coloured, which is actually nice to unwind with! Then some really terrible shit from my head which resulted in my motivation and the study that followed.
pleasure to look at as always
Don't let those winter blahs slow you down!
Not much to say, I'm just musing one thing: The paint brush style you used on Chun Li, I really like it, but I wonder about how 'feminine' the style feels. Like I said, it's no big criticism I'm just wondering. It feels a little chunkier and grungier to me, like it would suit a guy better... but at the same time, looking over it, I really like the style... lol
I just think it's something to think about for other paintings
now get motivated and for fill our needz for artz!
I'm just trying out digital painting for the first time and I'm looking at those and thinking "There's no way he did that in 15 minutes!"
Any tips on a workflow???
Thanks and great work!
Agreed on the style Mezz, I think it would look better with some better blending here and there!
Heh Marnik! Most are 1hour I think although there are some 15minute ones still? - Some got deleted by photobucket and I didnt bother to replace them or edit my posts :E
Dunno about workflow, I'd say whatever you find most comfortable would be best - If im working from reference I guess a midtone colour and block out a lot of the form, then just start defining the edges with darks and start working lighter.
Right, im trying to get a portfolio together so I'm actually aiming more towards finished shit lately - Seeing as most of my "work" is study related I cant really show that and show im capable of drawing fantasy/scifi concepts. Hrrr.
Random assorted update of which most have probably been posted here or there already.
- Shame I was too lazy to finish off my war general in time for the deadline, Was busy with stupid shit
I have a question about your studies, are you sampling your colors from your refs or picking and mixing them yourself?
Thankies lemonhead and vikramvr! It took way too long though, although I learnt my lesson on that
Not much to update with but an update all the same... fortunately I have done some other things besides the small amount on my Dominance War. I should really be cracking on with that though. eep. Alas, some 25-1hour Colour studies will have to do.
Steps of my blotchy process~
http://i62.photobucket.com/albums/h91/Jackwhat/0413Study_Steps.jpg
Lineart / anatomy studies~
Gasp, is that a finished rendered piece I see snuck in there? Loving that scraggly old guy, though I think his beard could be a little more rendered imo.
Am I crazy or is there something blurred about the top two? Like they had a quick blur filter in photoshop put on them? Or maybe I just need my eyes checked?
Anyway, good studies all around, keep it up!
And no more procrastinating! (She says as she continues bumming around on Polycount instead of working herself... ahem)
Nah, its not your eyes but it is a softedged brush. (its a squashed circled with blurry left/right parts).
Cheers rens!
More studies! I'm glad im painting regularly again, and ill probably start up my dominancewar again in a few days too.
really love what you're doing here, inspiring as always. see you on #md!
Heres some assorted shit thats been posted here or there. Some of the sketches are for a forum activity on another board called "ArtPG" where you level up the more you draw based on your character. I thought id be great to start up so I can craft a story and have an insentive to keep posting and leveling up my character.
- Cheers for the comment in the other thread, bounch!
Keep it up!
Heh ferg, i'd say im more inspired by www.misterfungi.com than robg :E
Thanks toren!
Finished up my ArtPG character thanks to a shit load of comments/crits/paint over help from the apedogs forum, I dont really have any plans to do much more to it as its got to the point where id rather have it as a stepping stone than something to keep revisiting, learnt a lot though so all is good! And a couple of studies too... gunna do some traditional studies - first off sargent, because his colours are fucking rad.
keep it up
Avoiding studies for the time being, trying to flex my imagination muscle so its not so fucking shit and boring. It's probably one of the most frustrating things so far, especially when youre trying to think of something cool and it comes out not so.
Theres a few more sketches/doodles and what not that couple these, but they arent really of any merit besides wasting bandwidth.
I shant post all the backstory to these, because its a wall of text i wont bore you with here.. so pictures;
- and if you are curious, and want to see more on it... go check out the ArtPG section on the link below! Started by the awesome Prometheus.
http://www.sirmikeofmitchell.com/apedogs/viewforum.php?f=11
I really need to take a looser approach to my things, so im stealing - http://www.youtube.com/user/idiotapathy84 - his approach and just tryin to come up with more interesting and crazy things.