Sketchbook: josfield

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Since I am doing a lot of drawing and painting lately I am finally going to start my own sketchbook, which I will hopefully expand regularly.

I am open to/thankful for any critique, suggestions, advice or comment

recent work:

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A landscape I painted a few weeks ago.

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This is a scan of sketch done with a ball pen on paper.

Pretty girl with curly hair 8)


working on the values

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kept the curls for this one... I think I am going to try a colored image of her next. I should definitely practice coloring. I usually just won't try to color it because I am afraid to be disappointed in the end.



I just worked on a colored version. This is the result so far:

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Practicing drawing of sitting positions

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New Approach for me: find out what you want to paint, before you actually start

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A few sketches for today. I really had a hard time with the robots. I am very interested in drawing/painting robots, but I really get frustrated with that. I guess that is because I just don't have any intuition concernig all the engeneering. That's why I did not go into detail with those. If anyone has an advice on how to learn to paint convincing robots please feel free to help me ;-)
I keep trying.

Also I wanted to get more into loose sketches. I always start "perfectioning" a sketch to early instead of roughly getting the silhouette/proportions and bright/dark areas done. Maybe a good way to practice would be drawing with a time limit!?

TheNatasha

I like your work so far, my only critiques would be to maybe explore the value spectre further. You tend to stay in the medium-light end.

Else than that I would probably do some life studies. But this shit is still awesome :P
- Would love a kith from le pretty lady with curls xD

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xD
Thank you, TheNatasha! Nice to get some feedback ;-)
You are absolutely right about the value thing. And about the life studies as well. Good point. It would actually be fun to do some of those again.

Adding more work: I did this one a couple of days ago:

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I tried to think the red haired girl through and wanted to do a clean detailed drawing of her, from which it might be possible to do a 3d model!??

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I worked on a first impression concept of a cottage today.

These are the references I used:


And this is the result so far:

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painting on time...

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A quick sketch from today:

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Today I did a few studies...

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Did a concept for a character for the Monthly HandPaint Art Jam March 2015 - Topic: "Ireland"

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I am doing more 3D than 2D work lately... ;-) here is a small diorama I did today:

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My final submission for the Handpainted Art jam March 2015, Ireland Theme:

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Concept for this month's Handpainted Art Jam -Easter Fantasie-

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Practicing the basics ;-) :

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I totally lost sight of practicing to draw and paint. This is not the way to get better.... :-(

This is a small sketch on paper from today:



I also did a digital, colored version:

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I practiced some landscape painting today. I wanted to do a few short time pieces. I worked about 30 minutes on each of them. It is getting better at least ;-)





here are the references I used:

http://images.fotocommunity.de/bilder/fotomontage/landschaften/alter-niederlaendischer-meister-oel-auf-leinwand-17jhdt-4af4723c-e48c-43cc-b38d-9c724d970d86.jpg

http://www.antik-kuemmel.de/media/Gemaelde%2009.12/eduard%20ockel1.jpg

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Okay, I really don't know why I am drawing small creatures with plants on their heads all the time for a couple of days now, but hey....

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I did a master-study today:


"head of a young woman", Anthony van Dyck

It is not a perfect copy, but I think I learned a lot especially, when doing the hair.

After receiving a package I got inspired by the postman :P

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Trying to figure out color compositions:

Cloudydays

I really love the strong grasp of color theory and composition you have in your paintings. Especially your color palette choices - all of the ones I've seen so far have been very eye catching and unique.

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Thanks a lot Cloudydays! I'm glad to hear/read that :-)

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I worked on that character concept for the past two days... I really had to force myself to stop working on it, because I already felt, that it suffered under additional effort.

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Today's work:

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I think I fell in love with owls ;-)

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Something I worked on for the past few days:



https://chantalhoreis.artstation.com/

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https://www.artstation.com/artist/chantalhoreis

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A few master studies to start the day. Nr. 1 and 3: Tibor Nagy, Nr. 2: Lynn Boggess, Nr. 4: Asher Durand

What I learned:
- Paint very loose outside your focal area
- details and constrast in focal area
- you can imitate details by painting random looking small colored patches/dots with high frequency and contrast

Still not very setisfied with these but the main thing is to ask why the artist did certain things and how, so in the end you feel like your knowledge increased...at least a little bit ;-)

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Continuing with environments...

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Haven't posted anything in a while. Here is a new piece I finished today: