Sketchbook: mistermojo

mistermojo · Oct 2012

See latest post for recent stuff!

Prints: http://society6.com/JoeHill
dA: http://mistermojo28.deviantart.com/

Sketchbook thread, why not

This'll mainly be digital painting, with some 3D stuff thrown in:

Two Listen · Oct 2012

Ooh, nice potential here. I like the feeling of these, neat ideas.

You've picked up some neat tricks. There's room for improvement all around, hard to give specific crits. Not sure how far along these are meant to be but I think each of them feels a few steps away from looking "finished". Composition on them seems a little awkward as well. (I use that term knowing nothing about it, but it just feels like they all could've been laid out more effectively to be more comfortable to look at.)

mistermojo · Oct 2012

Two Listen wrote: »

Ooh, nice potential here. I like the feeling of these, neat ideas.

You've picked up some neat tricks. There's room for improvement all around, hard to give specific crits. Not sure how far along these are meant to be but I think each of them feels a few steps away from looking "finished". Composition on them seems a little awkward as well. (I use that term knowing nothing about it, but it just feels like they all could've been laid out more effectively to be more comfortable to look at.)

Very valid points, thanks

I'm very guilty of rushing into a piece without planning it out properly...the top two took a few hours whilst the bottom one was something very quick so I could get a feel of some nice brushes I found (here if anyone's interested).

Something fairly recent:

and a first try at 'space art' over summer

mistermojo · Nov 2012

Haven't updated this in a while, I really need to force myself to practice more but motivation is hard to come by at the moment. Some more older stuff, these are embarrassing to look at now:

mistermojo · Nov 2012

Something 3D, low-poly Darksiders inspired character of my own design:

p.s, anyone know how to change the size of images on here using the handles? It just resets the size when I post.

Concept:

3D:

mistermojo · Nov 2012

Had a go at some super-quick environments:

mistermojo · Dec 2012

Something I did over the summer:

mistermojo · Dec 2012

Been trying to get half-decent at ZBrush, watched a few tutorials on features I didn't know existed and came up with some weird alien dude:

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mistermojo · Dec 2012

Trying to practice more, never done anything too stylised so decided to change that:

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mistermojo · Dec 2012

Here's a fairly awful fantasy hammer thing I did quite a while ago:

aaron2 · Dec 2012

Some really good digital paintings out there!
So you have done it in blender or just your own work?

aaron2 · Dec 2012

Some really good digital paintings out there!
So you have done it in blender or just your own work?

mistermojo · Jan 2013

aaron2 wrote: »

Some really good digital paintings out there!
So you have done it in blender or just your own work?

Thanks

If you mean the 3D Stuff, it's all 3DS/ZBrush.

mistermojo · Jan 2013

Something a little different, I was fortunate to attend a workshop hosted by Leavon Archer (http://www.leavon.co.uk/) and picked up a load of new techniques for hard surface in zBrush as it's an area I haven't touched on yet.

Wanted to make an 'army robot' with a bit of personality so I wanted him to look a little awkward. This is far from finished and I might develop it into a portfolio piece at a later date. I've named him "Al" $:\$

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mistermojo · Feb 2013

Starting to refine some earlier ideas for my final year project at university - I have to paint 6 environment pieces based on the world of Wild Skies (see http://www.projectholodeck.com/wildskies)

I'd love some feedback on what I have so far as it's important I get these right

Colours and composition mainly

Blake Mead · Feb 2013

Beautiful environment paints. they have a lot of life.

mistermojo · Feb 2013

Blake Mead wrote: »

Beautiful environment paints. they have a lot of life.

Thanks a lot

Here's some more I did today:

mistermojo · Nov 2013

Wow, I've not posted in here for ages! Time to change all that.

A lot has happened since my last post but I'm still churning out environment speedpaintings, they're so much fun! Here are some recent ones:

mistermojo · Nov 2013

Something a bit different

mistermojo · Nov 2013

Not had time to do anything today, but here's something from a few months ago:

Twoflower · Nov 2013

mistermojo wrote: »

Really like the colors in this one

mistermojo · Nov 2013

Twoflower wrote: »

Really like the colors in this one

Thank you! Everyone seems to like that one, it's funny because it's my least favourite of all my recent paints, and it took me about 10-15 minutes :poly124:

Here's something I was working on yesterday:

Nut · Nov 2013

you can see the improvement of your art trough, from first to the last.
I like that one with the snow and that one with spaceships on sunset. Not only you had choose nice colors, the composition is well done, it tells a story, you have a melancholic feeling.

mistermojo · Nov 2013

Nut wrote: »

you can see the improvement of your art trough, from first to the last.
I like that one with the snow and that one with spaceships on sunset. Not only you had choose nice colors, the composition is well done, it tells a story, you have a melancholic feeling.

Thank you! Trying to inject more of a story into my work, I do think I'm better than I was at the start of the year but I got a long way to go yet. Here's something really quick I was doing yesterday, I think I could push it a bit further but I don't really have the inclination to do so...

Also I really need to stop with the orange lighting/sunset paintings. Something different next time, promise!

mistermojo · Dec 2013

A b/w sketch I did the other day:

mistermojo · Dec 2013

Hey again, returning to an old theme with this one, didn't spend anywhere near as long on it though, gonna start on some figure drawing stuff soon methinks

And here's something even quicker, trying to work in monotone:

mistermojo · Dec 2013

Hey again, gonna start uploading my sketches in batches to try and encourage me to practice more

here's the first (couple of repeats, ignore them)

mistermojo · Dec 2013

Decided to push myself today and do a portrait, I'm not confident at all when painting faces and doing longer pieces, so this was a challenge. It's a painting of Alice Morgan (played by Ruth Wilson) from BBC's Luther. One of my favourite TV shows, and one of my favourite characters, highly recommended.

Paused an episode halfway through and screen-shotted Alice for reference. Copying from a photo isn't too bad, I just gotta learn how to paint people from imagination, need to go back to the fundamentals I think, but overall happy with how this came out

mistermojo · Dec 2013

Had a few days without non-work painting so here's something new, would like to get this more detailed at some point. As always, critique is more than welcome!

mistermojo · Dec 2013

Kept working on the last piece but I'm kinda sick of it now so I might move onto something else :poly124:

mistermojo · Dec 2013

Hey guys, I did a couple more sketches tonight, let me know what you think! Also belated Happy Christmas to all who celebrate it!

mistermojo · Jan 2014

More for the new year

mistermojo · Jan 2014

Another! Would love some opinions

sun_smasher · Jan 2014

A little late in the game, but I just wanted to say that I really like the concept a few posts back. The one that has a slight asian feel, early morning, red banners... The angel and composition of that one just struck me as cool.

mistermojo · Jan 2014

sun_smasher wrote: »

A little late in the game, but I just wanted to say that I really like the concept a few posts back. The one that has a slight asian feel, early morning, red banners... The angel and composition of that one just struck me as cool.

Hey thanks

It's funny because that's probably my least favourite :P This is why I love other people's feedback, everyone always sees my stuff different to how I do.

Did a livestream tonight (http://www.twitch.tv/mistermojo28 if anyone's interested, I usually post when I'm streaming on my https://www.facebook.com/jhillcreatives page) and came up with this, probably gonna keep detailing:

mistermojo · Jan 2014

Decided to call this done after a little detailing:

mistermojo · Jan 2014

Hey guys, I made a speedpaint/timelapse video of the last piece, hopefully someone will find it useful or interesting or could offer me some tips

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mistermojo · Jan 2014

Not done anything I'm allowed to show recently, but here's a re-touch of an older piece, I've worked over the general values and colour as it really needed sorting out:

mistermojo · Mar 2014

Something new! Let me know what you think

FKGA · Mar 2014

That one is really nice! Good job:)

mistermojo · Mar 2014

FKGA wrote: »

That one is really nice! Good job:)

Thanks! Glad you like it

mistermojo · Mar 2014

New one, hope you guys like!

FadesEdge · Mar 2014

Really love the bright white tall building concept. One of my favourite things i've seen in a while.

mistermojo · Mar 2014

FadesEdge wrote: »

Really love the bright white tall building concept. One of my favourite things i've seen in a while.

Thank you

Nut · Mar 2014

I like that tall building, I kinda have hard time with extreme perspective like that, but you did it really neat. Anyway I have a critique, the bottom of the concept is to bright, you have multiple bright areas on the picture, the viewer don't know where to look first. I suggest to make a single focal point and build the other light areas rather less saturated, bit darker. That is my opinion, so it's up to you. Have fun ^^

mistermojo · Mar 2014

Nut wrote: »

I like that tall building, I kinda have hard time with extreme perspective like that, but you did it really neat. Anyway I have a critique, the bottom of the concept is to bright, you have multiple bright areas on the picture, the viewer don't know where to look first. I suggest to make a single focal point and build the other light areas rather less saturated, bit darker. That is my opinion, so it's up to you. Have fun ^^

Thanks for the critique! Always looking to improve so it really helps. Other people have said the exact same thing so it's definitely something I'm gonna work on

Nut · Mar 2014

Never mind, glad to help ^^

mistermojo · Mar 2014

Some image spam incoming! A relatively finished piece, and a bunch of sketches from this month:

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Sketchbook: mistermojo

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