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Hey guys, did i ever have one of these? I don't think i did.

I finally got a new tablet, so i'm finally diving back in to trying to get good at painting and drawing headfirst. Hopefully this sketchbook will help me guilt myself into putting out/refining even more work!

Will occasionally be nsfw. Some doodles and WIPs to start ->

I like the last two, but the first girl has some serious proportional issues. Most noticeably the hands are too small, and arms too short (hands should reach about mid-thigh)

I do think you've got a good grasp on facial proportions though, judging by these sketches and sculpts you've posted in the past. You just need to study more from life I think, as it's sometimes clear that you're drawing things based on memory and not observation.

Keep it up!

Dead on crits, jaco, thanks. I'll try and rope in the freaky proportions in the future, and pay special attention to the arms.

meanwhile, been chipping away on this guy a bit




just starting on the values, still tweaking the design as i go blahblahblah

Got sick, havent been drawing enough. Almost done with this, not diggin the helmet.

Nice start man, I see A LOT of potential here. My main crit is that it looks like you're jumping into details and shading before locking in the main forms and pose of the characters. That aside, I can see there's a lot of effort in your drawings and will be keeping an eye out on this thread. Goodluck and keep at it!

Thanks for the feedback, man. Appreciated.

Some other doodley stuff.

I need to draw more often. Freaky shit going on with the perspective/foreshortening on the arms and legs.

she got a big ass.

Originally Posted by vofff

she got a big ass.

nonsense.

heh yea

got a chance to get back to this, meh stuff

i think it was that weird tribal wood skirt

Gonna try and do more art/update this more regularly.

Some recent speed stuff. Trying to relearn zbrush; in reverse order:

Today is a very polycount day for me, so i thought i'd update this thread with the shit i've been doing. Input, advice, and questions VERY welcome. Keep me thinking and talking about art, please!










TOO MANY STATIC POSES AND NOT ENOUGH STUDIES I KNOW

Aside from being WEIRD AS HELL, this experiment/study in skintones was a pretty gigantic failure. Way too under-saturated, and my knowledge of anatomy is just too iffy without using some reference.



It looks pretty acceptable after i abuse the hell out of it in photoshop, but that's definitely not something i want to depend on.


In addition, robots.



I want to make a LOT more of these, but thumbnailing is something i find extremely difficult. I have a specific aesthetic i'm shooting torward but i'm finding it very challenging to hit.

Looking sweet so far. I'm really liking the latest sketches you've been busting out. You've got a lot of flavor pouring out, keep it up!

Lots of cool stuff.
Keep it up

Thanks a lot, guys, encouragement is very appreciated.

This weekend i'm gonna be busy with my soul-crushing retail job, so i'm trying to squeeze in time to do more traditional sketching. Generally i find trad media extremely frustrating; i don't think i know what i'm doing, and i think in general i utilize my sketchbook pages very poorly. Going to try to specifically focus on this in the coming weeks... Not off to a good start. Messy, messy, messy!



Tonight i was inspired by lemonhead's thread to mix some ink in with some liquin i recently bought. This is super cool and i want to do a ton more of it, but it's EXTREMELY challenging to work with. Very easy to completely destroy an image with a few errant strokes.



I think some of my difficulties with this may be the sketchbook paper i'm using, i want to pick up some with a smoother, more marker-friendly surface and see how it goes. I also actually just need to buy some goddamn markers. I'm using a cool grey 10% to do kindof an underpainting on these, and it helps, but it's the only marker i have, i think laying in a few tones with darker markers and then working even darker tones in with the ink would probably be a much better workflow.




Lastly, A few more robots! So bad at thumbnailing, only did a couple, which i guess is completely missing the point.

nice sb m8
there are some very interesting sketches in here, i really like the looseness of them.

keep up the good work

Greetings from minimum wage hellscapeville, squeezed a LOT of shitty sharpie doodles inbetween (and during!) work shifts. There's very little i'm actually proud of here, but i want to try and keep momentum posting in here. Art's art!

I'm getting extremely into doing these kindof abstract little environments dotted around here -- they all suck, but they're teaching me a LOT about composition and, really, painting in general.

Random lines taking shape into something with some kind of illustrative power is an empowering thing to play around with



Also, these. I made these in a rush; no excuses, they're terrible. One's a study, one isn't. I think it's pretty obvious.

additionally, some sculptris silliness:



eddiiittt, slipping this one in here:

Found a couple hours between work and deus ex for digital art tonight. Started work on this robot dog concept, and then got a bit distracted. Mechanics are complicated! So i'm just gonna kinda lay down values and hope it all makes sense at the end.

woof woof bleep bloop.


System404's sketchbook is astounding and inspired me to doodle in color a bit. No ref or anything because i'm lazy and stupid.



edit with another

I made a really simple new brush and tried it out:



Then took it for a quick (1-2 hr) study after John Signer Sargent.

Very educational, and eye-opening about howlittle attention i pay to detail. I fucked the proportions and perspective waaaay up because I didn't look carefully enough, so instead of waste a bunch of time repainting everything im just gonna take what i learned and stop here. Something to focus on going forward.



The way sargent uses color is inspiring, powerful, and straightforward. I wish i could learn a lot more about it.

Trying to keep the momentum up, here's a little bit of what ive been doing lately. Been studying loomis a bit, nothing worth showing yet. Meanwhile, doodles:

ps



(yuck!)

sketchbook pro





As an aside, i started playing with this micron brush marker that gets really cool, natural results. Want to draw something less terrible with it, will probably post more soon!

edit - some more:

I discovered charcoal pencils and fell in love. Odd thing not to have tried before, i guess. Hopefully a LOT of charcoal sketches incoming one of these days soon. I did a few off of the pixelovely gesture drawing tool and want to do a lot more.

Meanwhile;

Scoob's sdk


More Sketchbookrpo



Overall this is one of those shitty days where art feels pretty worthless, but i'm trying to muddle along anyway. Keeping positive and doodling is always the way forward.