Sketchbook: justjake
polycounter lvl 11
Hi there. I call myself a "digital artist in training". My goal is to be able to draw and paint any character I can imagine in 2D, and in 3D to be able to model and render anything I can imagine. These first couple of posts are my last efforts in the 3D world before I went on a sabbatical to learn traditional art, properly. Please be harsh in your critique.
Two projects I have been working on recently:
This is an enchanted Dwarven axe used to kill a Balrog, set in a Lord of the Rings universe.
I'm not very happy with the normal map for this or the outlines I made for the gold on the diffuse.
Comments and Critique welcome.
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My real life drawing classes are still going great but I've found we can come across the same pose every time we start the course over. This is still the place where I make the most progress however.
I've started working on "proper" drawings now. I'm drawing pro wrestlers in a dedicated sketchbook. I really take my time with these to get them right but I don't have the guidance or paper size of what I do in life drawing classes.
I've almost completely nailed the discipline side of drawing every day I just need to make sure I am practicing in an efficient way. Getting into the habit of just drawing every day has taken me years.
I need to push into more ways of learning to draw. In a perfect world I would be taking life drawing classes 5/6/7 days a week.
It's getting harder and harder for me to upload all of my art here now, for numerous reasons.
I upload on two other pro-art forums besides here, all at the same time and generally with the same content. Each site has it’s own quirks with uploading, but they are all blown away by Instagram. On Instagram, every night I can just snap my drawings for the day, make a collage, paste in the hashtags, post and it’s done, all on my phone and it takes two minutes. I can’t do that every night for three different forums.
I upload my artwork for feedback and accountability. Here, and on the other forums too, feedback is naturally 100 times better than Instagram. However, now that I have my accountability (that I am studying almost every day) on Instagram, I don’t feel like I need to come here and prove that I am drawing day in, day out.
I like my thread on this forum. I like how it is just a great big WALL of life drawing. I want it to continue, but the bridge between my sketchbooks and these forums is getting harder to cross with every upload.
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