Dave's Sketchbook

[Swecks]

wth is up with this posting system?

[Swecks]

Small update,

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Damn i need to get better.... :blah:

[roidvoid]

hey good start to a sketchbook!
i like image 10-3 it has a real immediacy to it. james jean has five pages in process recess that look a lot like that image. i should try and do a few of those myself!
i think you could work on proportions. better knowledge of proportions will help you with the figure drawings and even more on your imagined characters.
keep drawing!

[Swecks]

small update:

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still frustrated with resizing files without destroying quality too much... >:{
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[Andy P]

Hey man, very cool to see this much life drawing going. It's great when you treat the sketchbook page as a whole composition like this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=218444&d=1192412015). Try not to retrace your lines so much on the figure drawings, put one line down and stick with it, you'll get more confidence in your line.
Awesome start to the thread, you've got a good eye!

[Flakari Leader]

I love all the life studies, especially the one in the lecture hall. It's inspiring to see.

[Swecks]

...now if I can just remember out how to properly use this.... :wtf:

Dangermouse illustration and a 2hr oil study.
Anyone want to tell me how I get text inbetween the images? (as they dont seem to appear in the space that I'm writing)

[Swecks]

Sketchbook update

[Swecks]

Been really inspired by Algenpfleger dedication lately. If I'm going to get anywhere, I need do the same.
Some crappy photos of anatomy studies from Mucha and Bridgeman, and something from the moleskine:

[Swecks]

some pages

[Nele Klumpe]

Wow, great update, love your sketches!

[theUNKNOWNsketcher]

Great progress!!! Bravo!

[David-david]

Dungeons & Hunchbacks? HAHAHAHAHA!

You should develop that concept!

The more I went down on the page the more I liked your sketches.

[Swecks]

Thanks for the comments all! :)

David-david: Actually what its supposed to say is "Dungeons & Douchebags", but I managed to forget the 'E' after telling myself not to, lol. Argg I always do that! >:(

[Bill]

Looks good Man, keep dropin' 'em.

[Sublimus]

A-HAH!

(This is Whitney, nice start here, dude.)

[Swecks]

Sublimus: Yeah man, I've decided to get involved in the community instead of being alone in my moleskine. ha. :) (Good to find ya tho! Will keep up with ur book!)

Pathetically small update. So for that, I suck:

[Blythe]

Nice studies! I love your pen work in the sketchbook. I hope to see more.

[DeadlyFreeze]

Lots of solid work here man, keep cracking away at it.

[Swecks]

Thanks for the encouragement ya'll :)

Haven't done any environments in Photoshop for at least a year now, so I thought it was time I jumped back in.

Looking at various people for inspiration and to learn from and pretty much am just making it up as I go along, tryin slowly figure out how the pro's do it. (mostly lots and lots of practice, I know)
We'll see how far I take this... (next one will be more thought out with thumbs)

[Swecks]

small update, gonna really try to get this weeks CHOW done

[jjgriffin]

Having met Autumn in real life, I can definitely vouch for her caboose being much nicer in the flesh (or the denim, as it usually is).

Your lineart is improving by leaps and bounds, Sweck.

[Swecks]

thank you sir :), btw awesome signature thing/quote there lmao

[Kasper_P]

Really really cool moleskine you got going! About the enviro, you should probably try to do reffed ones first. I see you've been trying to lay down every leaf of grass, but look at pictures and see how much they are actually visible from the whole. You should just put down what you see/feel.

[Swecks]

.....sleeeping