Sketchbook: James Schnick

JD_Sculpts · Aug 2020

My personal artdump journal. Im at the beginning stage of my journey but I think I am now confident enought to share some of my work... mostly WIPs but I think that is also an exciting part of this journal. Especially as an artist you often forget or even unwillingly close your eyes to the stuff that you already made. So this sketchbook is also a reminder for work that I have already done and I should be proud of!

So in that sense to the future me: Be proud of your work!!

Here is my artstation if anyones interested: https://www.artstation.com/jdschnick

Also critiques and feedback are welcome.

JD_Sculpts · Aug 2020

Starting with my dragon that was done in zbrush, that absolutely looks like a rathalos from monsterhunter....

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JD_Sculpts · Aug 2020

hand practice

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day 3 iteration

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JD_Sculpts · Oct 2020

gave day 19 another pass, preparing him for texturing in subtance, cant wait how it turns out!

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JD_Sculpts · Oct 2020

artstation glowup 2020

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JD_Sculpts · Oct 2020

so here is the day 19 entry after the sculpt pass and texturing in substance painter. did some post processing in photoshop. took huge inspiration from Marcus Whinney. he does a lot of cool stuff that makes me so excited as an artist. and he has a lot of dragon concepts renders like this one on his page i think they are all amaaaazing wtf
https://www.artstation.com/marcus_lw/albums/all

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JD_Sculpts · Oct 2020

block out i started last stream. think gonna work on that tomorrow again

https://www.twitch.tv/jaydee21/

concept by maystrenko : https://www.artstation.com/artwork/lmykO

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JD_Sculpts · Oct 2020

more sketching, concept by sutthi

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JD_Sculpts · Nov 2020

been very inactive the last 2 weeks with posting stuff online. well ill just batch all the stuff for the last 2 weeks here xd

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JD_Sculpts · Nov 2020

trying to channel my inner weeb. always been scared of doing 3d anime characters. lets be honest they are frickin hard to do. so with the announcement of the reboot of shaman king ive got some spirit to finally do a full anime character (yoh btw). I did try also in the past to do a 3d version of taiga asaka from toradora and well ive been pickin the project up again and it seems like i wasnt far away from finishing the last time i touched it.

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JD_Sculpts · Nov 2020

soo heres taiga at her current state. probably gonna rework the hair a little but all in all she is almost done

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JD_Sculpts · Nov 2020

refined the head a little... anime in 3d is soo hardd dammnn

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JD_Sculpts · Nov 2020

still practicing female faces. i think just 100 more and they will eventually look at least a little bit good for me

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JD_Sculpts · Dec 2020

working on yansculpts bunny girl AGAIN. did one in januar and it looks so horrible that i decided to rework it....
progress right now: finished hair
next up: cloth and accessoires

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JD_Sculpts · Dec 2020

JD_Sculpts · Dec 2020

forgot to post the update of this cutie. literally did the fix of the anatomy the same night because i couldnt sleep because of it

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did the texturing the week after. kinda done just need to do a proper render in blender! or maybe ill just use Zrender to psd workflow

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JD_Sculpts · Dec 2020

So ive been participating in the cgboost challenge 21. prompt: snow creature. ofc a dragon.... not really satisfied how it turned out but better done than perfect. im really really glad that i finished it. gotta dump some wip shots in here

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JD_Sculpts · Dec 2020

And here is the final submission

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JD_Sculpts · Feb 2021

a fix that i did after the deadline. and forgot to post here

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JD_Sculpts · Mar 2021

been doing pokemon speeds from kanto. hope i can do all 151

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JD_Sculpts · Mar 2021

venusaur was actually the first one. thought about how much of a underdog he is compared to charizard and turtok. give this big boi some love mannn...

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JD_Sculpts · May 2021

my april batch XD FINNNALLY i have managed to stream on a consistent basis. some pokemon, gohan from dbz (present/commission for my beloved cousin), a buff character which was inspired by hunter mortenson and a speedsculpt master study of nohzro's character taiga

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JD_Sculpts · May 2021

JD_Sculpts · May 2021

inspired by hunter mortenson. still concepting and pushing around on the side. not really sure what to do with this chracter

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JD_Sculpts · May 2021

master study, trying to imitate nohzro's style. reference of his oc character taiga! still need to spent more time on the details, since it was only a speedsculpt. but ill probably would like to refine it and give it a body

Sketchbook: James Schnick

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