!! Jasper's Sketchbook: February 4th (NSFW) Livestreaming link inside!!

[Jasper_]

What's uppp everyone. My name's Jasper, here's my progress...

----------------------------------------------

Update:

If you wanna check out my first sketchbook, for improvement's sake, it's here: Old Sketchbook (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85427)

Otherwise hit up that last page.


----------------------------------------------
Archive from '08:

Alright, my last sketchbook kinda faded off into nothing. I've done alot more stuff since then, so I will post all that here.

My name's Jasper, I'm now 17 years old, and I'm trying figure what I'm going to do in college right now. I'd love to do something involving art, but I probably won't be going to a big art college, I don't have the money for that. I'll try and stay motivated and update at least once every week.

Any comments, crits, etc. is appreciated. I want to get better, so anything you have to add will be helpful.

I'll upload more stuff as I get them scanned.

Some studies:
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/HandStudyr.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/HeadStudies2r.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/AnimalStudiesr.jpg
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/AndreAgassir.jpg
Heres is some random sketch in painter, no ref.
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/sketchcrazyfacejpg.jpg

An unfinished sketch that I thought looked cool
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/FutureSwordGuyr.jpg

Here the first self portrait I've painted so far, for teen challenge 39. I haven't studied much color yet, so I left it black and white for now.
http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/SPreadytosubmit-1.jpg

I'll have more stuff soon once I get it scanned.

[GiantRibot]

hey, thanks for the post in my SB. there isn't alot of stuff in your's, but it looks like you're off to a promising start.
just keep drawing

[Jasper_]

GiantRibot
thanks man

Ok, here's some more stuff I just got scanned.
The first four Loomis and Bridgman studies I did at work in my really small
sketchbook

271843
271842

271855
271857

Portrait of a middle eastern man
271844

This one is almost a year old, colored pencil study, about 45 minutes
271841

I was drawing this character the other day, and I realized I need to do some more torso studies, so here they are
271852
271853
271854

I've got a vine charcoal study of my drawing teacher that I'm trying to upload, but every time a resize it it becomes an unreadable file. I'll post that up when I can figure it out.

[Carbono]

Nice studies, you're on the right track man!
Wish when i was 17 i could draw this good. Your stuff looks really nice. Love the torso studies.

Keep it up!

[Marjolein]

17 and already so damn talented!!

[Lotet]

nice stuff, deamn, really love ur anathomy studies, im 1,5 years ahead of you and you still beat me, not good at all >,<

[Jasper_]

Carbono - Thanks, those torso studies are definately helping

Marjolein - Thanks for the kind words

Lotet - Thanks man. I don't think I'm better than you are. You've got a different style of artwork...I haven't even really developed my own style yet.

Ok, for some reason, this picture always became unreadable when I resized it. It's a 45 min portrait of my art teacher at school, using vine charcoal, almost a year old. I'll have more stuff soon.

276893

[The Curehead]

hey man i'm 17 too,your stuff is great.I really like the bridgeman studies,inspires me to do more studies.

[Jasper_]

Thank The Curehead

Heres a start to me teen challenge entry. Deadline is close, so any suggestions would be helpful.



http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/Postapacolypticwarlordajpg.jpg

[Saturns Gate]

Bridgman is the man! :) I currently have most of his anatomy sketches plastered over my wall, which kinda makes me look a bit strange to my fellow university friends. :P

Good stuff here, keep doing as your doing! :)

[monsi]

Keep up the loomis and bridgman studies! they will do wonders for you. I really like the torso study as well.

Keep it up you're doing the right thing

[Slav]

i think that you might want to now move into shading your studies. it could really help them pop. keep doing what you're doing.

[markey2d]

hi there

man im really surprised at the quality of you pencil stuff at just 17, you have some really nice line quality.

keep up the studies, and lets see some imaginational stuff too

[Jasper_]

lol thanks for the replies

Ok so much for updating every week...

I've got a lot of drawings and other traditional stuff that i either dont have scanned yet or my art teacher still has to grade, soo...i'll just throw up some digital stuff that i thought turned out well

If any of these images are too large, let me know and i will try and resize them.

These are just some random sketches, not finished and not really going anywhere
368139
368140
368142
368130

this one i looked at the game cover for shadow of the colossus and copied the silhouette, then i just filled it in with whatever
368129

finally colored one
368134

i kinda like this one, did it for a homework assignment for drawing class
368133

another sp, i think they are starting to get better
368141

[Jasper_]

Ok here are some of the life drawings i have been doing

372412

372421

372415

372413

372416

This one we had to try and use edges and shapes and stuff to define forms more

372417

I work at an ice cream place...so i drew a banana one night when there was a break in the flow of customers

372420

I'll have some more interesting stuff scanned soon that i should be able to post later tonight

[Creatinity]

clean stuff...
you got good observational skills...
i like your digitals...
keep on practising, it will only get better :D

[Frogisis]

These are real solid, keep up the great work.

You're breaking away from it in those last two paintings, but there's a danger in some of them of becoming too "academic." You've got natural, top-tier drawings, and have the fundamentals down as well as anyone else, but it seems like you're restraining yourself in terms of composition and subject matter.

I'd love to see what you did if you just "went nuts" on a drawing.

[sketcheth]

You've got some nice work going so far, my friend. You sound like you're in my position. I'm going to a state school for a couple years and then I'm hoping to have enough money and a good enough portfolio to kind of make ends meet so I can transfer to a bigger school. But in the mean time, it's not really where you go, but what you do while you're there. Keep up the good work. Stay inspired.

I really like the self portraits, but don't be afraid to use some more powerful colors and dramatic shadows. Keep it up

[Blaz]

Hey there!
Long time no see! ;)

I love the first SP in post #14!

Keep up with the pencil studies!

[Jasper_]

Creatinity: thanks man, im trying to stay motivated and practice as much as i can

Frogosis: hey thanks for the reply, for the crit...i will try and just let go on more drawings and see what happens

Sketcheth: yeah man my senior year is getting closer, i've gotta come up with a decision on what im going to do/where im going to go. im a newb with colors so any helpful crits about theory and such will help. thanks for stopping by

Blaz: hah thanks man i like that one too. i forget what brush i used but i think it turned out well.

Alright heres some more stuff scanned today, mostly drawing homework where we had to draw and image of a word, but i can't remember what the word was for most of the pictures??:\

comments and such are welcome, no matter how harsh.

373560

I thought this one turned out well for using no ref
373562

373559

373558


this one was done at a boring day at work on some spare peice of cardboard i found...
373561

[Pulverizer15]

dude! did you draw that picture of the tornadoe from a pic you found on the internet, cuz I have an identical water color sketch.

[Jorge Gecov]

Nice sketchbook.
You are doing a great job with animal and human anatomy, keep it up!

Cheers,

[Jasper_]

Pulverizer15: i did that tornado picture a while ago out of a national geographic magazine...awesome mags for landscapes and such

Jorge: thanks man im tryin my best

ok so here is my first color life study done in photoshop. fruits and stuff always seem to be great subjects for still lifes, so i went with a tomato that i had in my fridge. i enjoyed this waaay more than doing a picture from a photograph, i kind of like not being able to use the color picker and choosing the colors myself. not quite sure how long i spent on this, but i kinda got bored and didnt want to finish the stem.

374183

[vibhas_virwani]

hey man , nice sketchbook dude ... ur damn good with the pencil ... keep it up ... will keep looking for more updates and thanks for dropping by my sketchbook :)

[seth1]

I really enjoyed your line work on those animal studys. Good work man.

[Flaskpost]

hey man. solid improvement here, from the first post to the newest one!
keep up those bridgman studies! :)

[Jasper_]

vibhas virwani - thanks man i will

seth1 - thank you, i've gotta get some more animal studies in here

flaskpost - thanks dude bridgman studies are awesome, i love the way he simplifies anatomy

Heres some pen and ink work from art class, i've never used this medium for drawing before but i really like the results.

385843

The rest of these are a bunch of gesture studies, good ones and bad ones, from the first lord of the rings...unfortunately i only have it on VHS...

[Jasper_]

some hand and animal stuff

387435

387437

387441

[razz]

Neat stuff. Nice improvement on those portraits. Keep up with this stuff. Maybe try spending some more time on your sketches. Speed shouldn't be something to aim for now, in my opinion. I'll be watching ;]

[Jasper_]

Wow long time since any update...seems like a have these weird breaks.

Hoping to get an inuos3 9x12 soon, and get rid of this 4x5 graphire...so pumped for that.

Sorry for a lack a work in this post, just one here that i thought was worth posting. Once I get some more pencil stuff scanned i'll have those up.

A study of a portrait on deviantart.com that I thought looked really nice...trying to practice using textures to incorporate more realism into my work.
471969

[JailHouseRock]

Cool sketchbook man,
nice studies and cool portraits.
and that last post is one of the best here. Awesome.

nice work man, drop by my sb if you find the time.

matt,

[Jasper_]

JailHouseRock - Hey thanks man, appreciate the comment.

Here's some more studies i got scanned.

[Jasper_]

Hah heres another sp, photo ref to get the profile view...lol idk what happened with the hair.

[Senira]

Your life drawing/studies look like they're coming along nicely. As far as your illustrations go, I think you need to develop your shadows further so that there's more contrast in the overall piece.

Keep it up!

[Joce]

nice portraits

[thespianmonsalvo]

Beautiful work in here. There's a lot of improvement in your SB.

[Silvenon]

Wow, you're really getting better, that SP is awesome. Hope to see more :)

[RokasButkys]

Great studys.
And your rendering is master exploder :)
Show some more.

[Jasper_]

Senira: Thanks, i've been told I need to work on that in the past, I'll do my best to push values

Joce: Thanks!

thespianmonsalvo: Thanks dude

Silvenon: Thank you, I will try to keep adding stuff here every week at least

DoctorPencil: Thanks man I will



Here is my latest group of studies. Using a ballpoint pen for one of them, completely butchered that womans face, at which point you can't really fix it...so yeah, whatever. Need to work more on quick accurate faces.

[Jasper_]

Ok heres some digital stuff, might as well throw these up here since I'm never going to work on them again.


lol, this is a quick color study in the 7 minutes i had before i went to school in the morning

482268

the rest of these are just random crap

482269

482270

482272

[seth1]

Great to see you are sketch before school mate, That's a good habit. Just keep doing what you are doing and you will get there.

[Jasper_]

seth1: Thanks for the encouragement

Ok here is my slightly unfinished Teen challenge entry:


http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/TC53b.jpg

And here is some 3d stuff. A full upperbody portrait I've been working on and a character based on M.C. Barrett's asura concepts. I hope it's cool that I used his illustration for reference. Heres his original link (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=220883&stc=1&d=1192741798)

Ear detail:

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/3dselfportrait.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/face.jpg

http://i88.photobucket.com/albums/k192/Pyroclasm00/asurawarriorjpg.jpg

zbrush is a pretty awesome peice of software.

[Jasper_]

Ok here's a sketchy sketch I just did to see how my imaginitive stuff is coming

Posted the a random rough stage that I managed to save out of it, might not help anyone, but whatever.

485584

random progress step

485581

[Jasper_]

Here's one i just finished, no ref again. I think I work much faster without reference, cuz I'm not bothered to try and make it look exactly like something else.

anyway sorry for posting twice in one day with minimal artwork, i just wanted to get this one up

485851

[Jaytea]

No reference? Ffff... man, wish I could do that. I really like your anatomy studies, and your CG stuff is pretty awesome. :] Keep it up, man.

[Jasper_]

Shalite: THanks


Ok I've been real excited as my intuos3 9x12 just came. It's kinda weird though...cuz I also learned that one of my classmates died in an automobile accident the same day...so that kind of killed most of my excitement. The hallways in my school have never been so quiet.

Anyway, here's a study I did testing out my new tablet, from photo ref.

488734

[Peetaer]

So wait, are you going to school for art? If not, then you really need to reconsider because you're crazy talented and must develop that talent further. Good stuff here man. Keep posting!

Those Bridgman's are super good, some of the best I've seen on here. You've got mad painting skills too. Rock the fuck on dude!

[LisandroG]

This is a fantastic sketchbook man, I wish I was like this when I was 17, instead of wasting time.

I'm seeing a lot of improvement here and the studies are great.

Ah! nice to find out theres someone else in PA on conceptart.org
I'm sure you've realized from looking at schools here, there's not much haha

lemme give you my experience so far at PCAD being a junior there summed up in one word - mehhhhh....
some of the teachers are good, and im learning quite alot and getting plenty of practice. however although the quality of the school and teachers is ok (for how small it is), there are not very many determined/serious students there in my opinion. not really going to find a whole lot of challenge from other students, which is kind of bad because I've always thought you should want to have a least a few people better than you in your classes so you're challenged.

keep up the great work, I subscribed to your sketchbook

[Darlene]

Wow, you've got some great studies! If I might ask, do you draw from anatomically correct medical thingies, or do you draw from something else for your studies? I'm always wondering if people have references to their studies, 'cause I'd like to do arm studies and leg studies and all that too! :D

[Nibras]

Crazy stuff in here :)
Really really cool sb!
I love how your coming up with your own style so fast, your use of textures to paint is great.
Your studies are looking good man
All i can say is keep it up

[Jasper_]

Thanks for the comments guys, answered most of your questions in your own sketchbooks.

Thanks LSeraph for the info, really appreciate it.

Just finished this one, trying out a new technique/style. I know the general rule is to start with larger brushes and work your way smaller. This time I started with really small brushes...and didn't really go any bigger. Idk I kinda like the way it turned out, looks a little more sketchy than normal.

489937

[LisandroG]

interesting technique on the last one, really like nice subtle tonal variations. keep experimenting, you might find you can incorporate some of this technique into they way you painted stuff your other stuff.

nice work

[Jasper_]

LSeraph: Thanks man I'm gonna keep playing with that style and see what i can get from it.

Trying to just sketch something again, started refining some of it, never really finished, but I thought it looked decent enough to post. I like how the forms were turning out. Again trying to use small brushes like a pencil for the head/upper body.

492595

My art teacher asked me to do a caricature (spelling?) of obama and mccain for our school newspaper. I've already done McCain as a marker sketch, but I think I might just do it again in photoshop as I liked the results.

I managed to save 6 or 7 steps while I was doing this, so I'll probably post a rough tutorial at some point. Just wanna share my thought process.

492596

[Jasper_]

Ah here's a new sketch. I kinda stopped after finishing the torso and head area, just got bored with it i guess. Also just finished a pencil SP, so I'll get that and some environment work up when scan/finish things.

I love actually being able to draw accurate lines with a larger tablet.

496568

[Jasper_]

Okay here's the McCain portrait that I just turned in to our school newspaper. About an hour and a half on it.

500408

[Jasper_]

Things have been scanning way too light lately...hmm...guess I'll have to play with some settings later. Here's some traditional stuff.

501160

Yeah I realized my eyes are way too big, but I didn't feel like going back and doing all that erasing...
501161

Totally screwed up the last one in the corner, didn't really take the limits of the paper into account
501162

well i like two of these sketches
501163

Here's one I did a while ago with markers. I like it, but I like the ps'ed one way better.
501164

[iphigen]

The pictures of Obama and McCain look gorgeous, I can't stop giggling when I look at them :D

[WickedEdges]

Wow you have some great stuff going on here and I can see the progression you've made. If you aren't already plannin on higher education for art of some sort, then you'll be wasting a LOT of talent, my friend. So please just keep up what you've got going on and use your life experiences in your work. Rock on.

[madhatter106]

The Obama caricature is spot-on. Perfect. Makes me wanna vote for him.

The McCain is okay - I think it's more successful from the eyes up - the nose looks too thick, and though he is very jowly, there's much more variation and shape in the real-life version. He's referred to as "Walnuts" on one of the liberal blogs, in part because his cheeks have that same "walnut" like texture. I think the smile should be wider - when he puts that forced-through-the-rage smile on, it's usually wide, to show those horrible yellowish teeth. I think your second McCain is more successful, though.

Maybe I've been watching too much debate coverage, and reading the Huffington Post too much lately? ;)

The other speedpaints are good. Keep going with the Bridgman and other anatomy studies, it's a good source and something we all should delve into. One recommendation I would make is to make sure your full figures don't look too short - some of the early ones seem like they should be taller. Something I do when I'm doing figures that are standing and not in any extreme forced perspective or foreshortening, is to make a quick thumb/forefinger measure between the top of the head and the groin, and then from the same groin point to the feet...if the measures are close, then I know that I can flesh in the rest of the figure without it looking too tall or too short.

Best of luck and keep drawing and posting. :)

[Christoffer]

I see a strong contrast between your hand drawn sketches and digital paintings. You have a great sense for color and greyscales.
Keep the studies coming and your sketches will look at least as good in no time.

Your avatar SP kicks ass along with your other SPs. The colors in post #46 are awesome.
You should definitely finish it some day. Sorry about your classmate btw.

[Jasper_]

iphigen: Haha, thank you. I'm really glad to hear that you got a laugh out of them.

WickedEdges: Thanks. I'm definately trying to go to art school somewhere, just not sure where yet. I'm trying to improve as much as I can nowadays.

madhatter106: Thanks for the crits man. Yeah I know what you mean about McCain, I don't think I studied his features enough. Spent about half the time on him than with Obama. Newspaper deadline was approaching. And I'll definately keep that in mind about my figures.

Christoffer: Thank you, I think I'm spending too much time doing digital stuff and not enough with traditional. Thanks for the sympathy as well.


Ok, here is another self-portrait. Trying to make this one look more sketchy. Since I missed international self-portrait day due to visiting RISD, I did one anyway. This one from life, and I'm really pleased with tthe way my colors turned out.

[Flaskpost]

this last selfportrait is beautiful man, awesome colors. would like to see the structure of the head a bit more clearly tho? planes n stuff!
keep it up mate!

[Jasper_]

Flaskpost : THanks man, I see what you mean about the planes. I had a relatively soft light, and I guess I was trying to come up with a lighting scheme of my own at the same time and neglected the use of planes.

I've noticed now we have an area to input copyright info when uploading images? Is this due to that Orphan Works Bill or whatever? I haven't been following it too much.

Alright here's more digital stuff, no reference on anything except the self-portrait, from a mirror.

This one is really the first time I just went with something and had no clue what i was doing at the beginning. Hence composition and such may be off. All of these are unfinished, and I don't know if I will continue any of them, but I'm happy with where they're at now.

513018

Female torso study from memory, filled in the rest with crap.

536508

513021

Here's the color palette I developed before I started this SP, trying not to use colors from life.

513024

513025


Crits are welcome, especially on perspective, color, and composition as that's where I've had the least experience.

[WickedEdges]

Great SPs, man. Keep it up. Those are going to look good going into art school.

[DeeLock]

Whoa, that first painting in your last post is sick!

[Mr.Juicy]

i'm jealous of your skills at your age... :)
Keep workin and in no time will get another pro!!

[Jasper_]

WickedEdges: Thanks man, I just had my portfolio reviewed at MICA and they said the self-portraits are great, so I'm going to keep doing as many of those as I can.

DeeLock: Hey thanks, that was a new approach for me, I'm glad it turned out well.

Mr. Juicy: Thanks dude. Well I'm almost 18 now, so don't be too jealous.

OK, nother self-portrait, a character design of Winston from the novel 1984 (Meh, this could be better, any advice is good), and some random doodle that I liked and finished up a bit more(Might still work on it later, but I'm ok with where its at).

520306

520307

520308

[sebastian_H]

hi,

i'm 15 years old now. i could only dream of beiing so good as you about two years. Lot of practise i know. but still.
Is this still your hobby or did you make your work of it?
Like your things. Esspecially the kind of watercollor type thing witch te drop of collor. NICE IDEAR. Please have a look at my sketchbook

Sebastian

[Jasper_]

sebastian_H Thanks a lot man. You just gotta work your ass off. Well
right now this is still my hobby, but I'm hopefully going to make work out of it
when I'm out of college.

Ok heres a new one that I think turned out well, finally got around to finishing it.
This first one is the initial color palette I started with, looking for shapes, the
second image is the finished piece. Crits are highly encouraged.

553971

553972

[hunchback]

nice work with the paint
i need to paint more.....
painter or photoshop??

cool work dude

[Bagg]

really great sketchbook here, your colors look brilliant you really have a good understanding of composition and color pallets very jealous :)
i really like the last piece you have just done it is really striking keep up the great work.

[soulburn3d]

I really like your last piece, that creature (and the atmosphere around it) looks fantastic.

- Neil

[Dan Valkar]

ur brush stroke its freakin' cool mate! nice stuff!

[Ricardo Robles]

This last piece was really good. you got a great knowledge of light and shadow & color with your age. You´re a great artist, but gonna be better.

[monsi]

fantastic stuff! I'm really liking what you're doing, keep it up!

[kidult]

Great colours on the last one!

[Clochette]

Sweet! :) The last one is really special, in a good way. There is issue imo (like a little lack of strong edges somewhere) but it still work very well.
Keep it up!

[DStraX]

nice stuff! I espesialy like the last digital paining you posted.
one thing I would recomend you is try to clean them up some more

[Oden]

Whoo the last coupla paintings have been sick! the portrait at the top of the page is awesome too...the last two compared with that one at the top have very different styles of brushstrokes, but they both work really well. You've got a command of it for sure...I know you might be limited on time, but keep on pushing/rendering them (especially the last one).

[Bushido]

Hey tnx 4 stoping by!

This one http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=509155&stc=1&d=1225747541 is so gorgeous!! Fantastic strokes!

I can wait to see more like that one!

Cheers!

[Jamie Romoser]

Nice work!

[Lakka]

The way you worked #69 really seems to have given the image some extra life.

Keep it up, it's going well! :)

[Vulgar`]

Last one is raw. One suggestion would be to put some type of structure in the foreground. Maybe a buoy on the foggy water?

[monochromalice]

Hi, i'm new to these forums. I was looking at, i think the mica thread (?), and clicked a link here to your sketchbook.

First off, your digital paintings are AMAZING. holy crap. I wish i could digitally paint. I've always wanted to try it, but i'm too poor to afford a wacom tablet. :(
What is your process? Do you first block in shapes and then proceed to go up in value and hue and block in smaller areas until you start detailing?
In your anatomy studies, what books do you use?
Did you use any books to learn color theory? Because your sense of colors are great. I wish i could paint skin like that irl...

Keep it up! If i knew how to subscribe, i'd subscribe to this too.

[Jasper_]

Haha wow I've never recieved so many comments after a single update.

hunchbackmagee: Thanks for looking, its all photoshop. Could never get things going smoothly with Painter.

Bagg: Hey thanks man I'm going to try and produce more like it

soulburn3d: THank you, I was trying to have it give off an ominous vibe thing.

Dan Valkar: Thanks dude, been working on my brush strokes.

Ricardo Robles: Thank you, thats good to hear.

monsi: Thanks! I will

kidult: Thank you

clochette: Thanks, and thanks for the crit. I was just trying to keep the edges sharp around the creatures face area, to attract a focal point i think, and leave the rest a little undefined. Maybe that didnt work as well as I'd liked, so thanks for the observation.

DStrax: Thank you, I'll try and spend a little more time on my work.

oden: Thanks i've been trying a lot of new things with brushes and such. Sometimes I guess I just get bored with a peice and leave it a little unfinished, i gotta work on that it seems.

Bushido: No problem. Thanks, I'll do some more experimentation with those brushes.

Omerta: Thanks

Lakka: Thanks man

Vulgar: Hey thanks for the crit. I agree completely, I was experimenting with a shoddy looking ship in the foreground, but I felt like it was beyond my skill level. I gotta break outta that fear.

Monochromalice: Thanks a lot man. Yeah those tablets are damn expensive, I worked my ass off serving angry people ice cream all summer for that. Process? well its generally a bit different every time. I just wing it mostly. I throw down some colors until I get a few that seem to work well, and I try to quickly define some shapes. Once I get an idea of what I want, I will pick stronger values and lay down the lighting right away, then I'll begin adding more variation to the colors and definition to the elements i've made my mind up about. I use many books for my anatomy studies, bridgman, hogarth, vilppu, loomis, peck, and sheppard all have written some excellent anatomy books that I study from. Colo Theory? Heh, I'll admit i dont really know much about it. I just try to look for colors that are visually appealing I guess. Lots of life studies help with color, i think.


I'll try and reply to each of your sketchbooks in the coming days as well.
Here are two life paintings that I've finished recently, I trying to do a lot of work that would look good in my portfolio for art school, and I wanted to finish these for National Portfolio Day on Sunday. The second one is a bit unfinished, but I've done most of the grunt work.

533992

533993

[DStraX]

Thanks for the comment on my sb:) greatly apreciated dood. the to last pics are just supreeme! realy just fantastic.

[Jasper_]

DStraX: Thanks man, no problem.

Well I just turned 18 yesterday. Thats cool I guess.
Alright heres my sketch for the day.

535321

[wookiedabo]

happy birthday man. still life paints look good, if a little boring. still life can still have exciting composition. I really like that character, really nice structure on the face, and the hand forearm and hand in particular. good stuff.

[monotony]

really good work here!
I love the selfportrait on top of this page. very unconventional brushes.
and the recent paintings from life are ace.
keep working it.

[sebastian_H]

Wow,

Liking the cup, tape and tennisball verry much. like i could grab them of my screen. NICE JOB

Sebastian

[sebastian_H]

why have u posted nothing just like my. i would liketo see some more

sebastian

[kopalipse]

dude i am a noob ur a inspiration to me and I was wondering how you got so good!!!!!!!!! Also what tablet do you use?

[sketcheth]

Really like all the self portraits and the still life stuff, keep doing that, they look great! Good luck with your applications. I'm dealing with that again right now...I can commiserate with you because of it. Keep it up!

[Jasper_]

wookiedabo: Thanks man

monotony: Thanks dude I will

sebastian_H: Hah, yeah sorry I've been pretty busy with school and college applications and such. I've got quite a bit more traditional stuff that I will post once I get around to scanning it.

kopalipse: Hey thanks. You just gotta keep practicing and doing studies. I gave up video games for a while and just focused on my art, which I think I benefited from in more than a few ways. The first few pages of this thread, I used a Graphire4 4x5, but now I have an Intuos3 9x12. Both of them are wonderful pieces of equipment.

sketcheth: Thanks man, yeah those applications take up so much time. Good luck with it, I've still got a lot to do yet.

Ok here's a picture I made for a contest.

565683

[Jasper_]

Alright here's some more stuff, most of it I just posted in my critique center thread, but I might as well show it here anyway.

[Christoffer]

Goodie! Nice new updates. Your traditional stuff is catching up.
Your digitals all look nice as usual. The worm-like creature with the bird is cool.
Looks like there's an epic showdown about to happen dispite the difference in size. :P
Would've liked for you to use bigger strokes on it's body though.
To me it kind of looks like it's been put together with with small pieces, almost like a clay model.
The same goes for your grey scales, but there it looks kind of cool, hehe.

[Hari Gopinathan]

this stuff is brilliant ---are those self portraits that you've made??? irrespective of whether or not they are self portraits--they are pretty awesome man!!!

[Jasper_]

Christoffer: Thanks for the observations man. I'm glad you mentioned the 'epic showdown' between the bird and monster thing, that's exactly what I wanted to portray by keeping the bird in a higher position, making the bird seem like an adversary instead of prey.

Hari Gopinathan: Thanks man, yes they're all self-portraits.


Ok this is just a 10 min sketch i did to warm up before continuing on something bigger and more important. Just to get my hand back into the feel of the tablet and blending things. I think it turned out well enough to post.

593831

Here's a self-portrait of myself, kinda exaggerated a few things to get a caricature feel.

Edit: Colors are not looking the way the should after I upload it, so I'm trying to fix it.

Yeah things are looking terribly bland and desaturated, if anyone has had this problem before, feel free to chime in.

Edit2: Ok I guess it had something to do with the color profile.

[Kristo Novo]

cool stuff you have here - just follow the path you´re on :)

[Inkfish]

great studies, keep it up! Hope all goes well with the art-school application :)

[PieMonster]

You've got some really cool work here, dude, keep it up! :)

[Jasper_]

Thanks guys!!


I haven't had much time to just sit down and relax and draw for a while, trying to make a lot of college deadlines, and all that stuff just takes so much time. I can't wait until I'm finished with all of it. Here's one last piece I managed to do in my spare time, and also include in a few last minute portfolios.

Self portrait, Playing with some brushes and textures and stuff, just to see what would happen.

601194

Detail shot:

601198

[Lakka]

Nice looking and original artworks. I digg, I digg :sungod:

[azekariel]

Wow, really like the experiment with brushes, that looks awesome. Can't wait to see more!

[Janos]

The coloured portrait in post #98 is totally my favourite. It's awsome to see how you used the three-face-colour theory on that one.

Cheers

[Helioth]

Like the playful brush attempts, I think you should look into that more.
play with direction and 'weight', i found my magic photoshop settings were 60% opacity and 40% flow...

Gotta say your last few updates which I didn't really see either kick my teeth out, or in, or something, too, that is to say, they're good!
Keep the updates rolling!

[Jasper_]

Lakka: Thanks!

azekariel: Thanks I'll be sure to keep trying new things.

Janos: Thank you!

Helioth: Thanks man I'm trying to update as often as possible, I should have more time really soon.

Ok here's a sketch
I wanted it to read something like,"Man I bet he's killed a few mofo's in his day"

605950

[BubbaGump]

Keep up the experimental self portraits. But try to add variety to the compositions. They're mostly straight in the center of the page and head on. Try tilting your head 3/4 and scoot it to the side--do anything to make the composition interesting for your audience!

[Flaskpost]

yeah, very nice self portrait! i dig the values!

[DStraX]

awsome values on those portraits! and I realy liked the way you used the rake brush thingy one that pic in post #102

[Jasper_]

BubbaGump: You're right, it seems I take the easy way out far too often. Thanks for the observation

Flaskpost: Thanks man!

DStraX: Yeah thanks, I've seen a few other artworks that have made good use of a rake style brush, so I thought I'd give it a go.

Here's my CHOW entry that didn't make it cuz I forgot to link back to my WIPS!! A little disappointed about that, but whatever, now I'll never forget again.

The deadline approached pretty quickly, and I ran out of time to finish coloring it. I actually don't know how to begin color a grayscale image, so this was a learning experience. Let me know what you think, I guess I just used 'color' layers. Mayber there is a more effective way.

608940

608941

608942

[Tigermilk]

very fresh man, you're going places. :)

[Giorge]

love your self portrait dude , you should take advantage of that style of painting

[Jasper_]

Tigermilk: Thanks!

flamable: Thanks dude I'll work with that more in the future.

Here's a sketch, I might as well post it cuz I don't think I'm going to come back to it any more. I'm happy with where it's at, working on the whole rake brush style thing again. No ref, but inspired by the Great Deku Tree from Ocarina of Time. I think I may do some more Zelda inspired work soon.

620742

[Tofa]

dang you one talented mofo! :OO:O

[Christoffer]

The latest SP in post 102 kicks ASS!
Was that chow suppose to be the female sith lord? Too bad about the wips. I did that very same mistake on my first chow. haha! Anyway - there are some issues with her proportions, unless she's another species. :P I would've put more meat on her limbs, shortened her neck a bit, maybe increased the size of her head and finally adjusted her waist. It seems her rib cage is too long. The design is very nice though. Hehe. Cheers.

[jatherip]

christoffer is totally right! 1o2 rocksss!

[DeKal]

really tight work here dude.

[psantha]

F**k man your stuff is waaaaaaay good! ;)
Your SB is inspirational like hell!

[Jamie Romoser]

Your style is developing nicely.
keep it up man!

[AvisNocturna]

Really cool stuff in here. I espeacially like what you do with your brushstrokes, very nice!

[Craz]

Post #102 is brilliant.

[LisandroG]

Hey there, I remember you, you live in PA right? How is the art school search going?

It looks like you've improved quite a bit, nice deku tree

-Lisandro

[Strela]

Those renderings on the first page are off the hook. I need to start doing some finished pieces like that, I feel like I spend all my time with speedpaintings and test renders.

[sketcheth]

I really like what you've been doing with the rake tool...basically all of your fancy brushes. You've got a nice eye for those textures. Keep this stuff going! More! More!

[Jasper_]

Alright, It's been a really long time since my last update. I just got lazy with scanning and all that stuff. I've still been active throughout the forums however. Now that this whole college search business is over, and I'm finally done with high school, I now have a free summer ahead of me to make some nasty artwork.

I've decided to go to Rochester Institute of Technology to study illustration next year, so I'm pretty pumped for that. Heres a rather large update (for me, anyway) before I head off for the beach tonight. Gonna be there for a week, hopefully I'll be able to update again soon after I get back.

Chriis.zed – Thanks!

Christoffer – Thanks man. Yeah her proportions are really off…I just got lazy and decided to hide behind the poor excuse that it’s a star wars character, so proportions could be whatever.

Jatherip – Thank you!

Dekal – Thanks man your stuff is pretty kick ass too.

Psantha – Wow thanks I appreciate that.

Omerta – Thanks!

AvisNocturna – Thank you, I’ve been trying to put a stronger emphasis on my brush strokes lately.

Craz – Thanks!

LisandroG – Yeah I’m in PA. I’ve decided to go up north to Rochester
Institute of Technology and study illustration there. And I checked out your blog, it looks like you’ve made some great progress as well. Thanks for stopping by

Strela – Haha thanks, It’s funny, I feel like I need to work on speedpaintings and quickening my pace up a bit.

Sketcheth – Thanks man, I’m trying to get into photoshop’s brush system and try to work out something that fits my style.


Trying to work on some new things, branch out into different styles and whatever. Let me know what you think :)

I've got quite a bit of unfinished work in here, and some more I might put up later.

[Jasper_]

Heres something quick I did tonight, just tryin out a new sketching brush, not much time spend on either of these.

[YihyoungLi]

Thanks for being very careful in your sketches haha. Reminds me that I should do that, instead of rushing! Great stuff. :) Your anatomy studies are great!

[ikuru]

some really nice things happening in here, loads of energy, keep them coming!

[MacTire]

Great sketchbook man!! Liking the studies and the sith lord concept!!
Great work on those self portraits, really nice brushwork in the most recent one. Nice to se you're breaking away from the straght-on angles.

Keep up the good work!!

[patrickdeza]

your paintings have wonderful values =)
keep it up
5*

[kischi]

wow dude your digitals rock very hard. The shading looks so Cole Eastburn like - have to do more myself ^^
Cheers
Thanks for the inspiration

[Sublimus]

Fucking nice work, dude! You have a good eye for value and color - especially for your age. Just don't slack off on when you get to school. A lot of kids show up, and think they're hot shit and stop working hard.

Im sure you'll be fine though! Keep fighting the good fight!

[Verehin]

Cool works!

[hala]

Hey man! That would have been cool to know someone on CA in the same school :)
But at least there is finally someone within the tri-state area!
Your sb is awesome man---it has a lot of energy in all your pieces!

[kingkostas]

really nice works in here :D.I dont have anything to critique, i am here to remind you that you are on a good way and you must keep up!!! :D
Thnx for stopping by my sketchbook

[RickyRubyo]

i love your sketches and your use of value.

[mike butkus]

You have talent!

[keoshi]

very well done. i'm really digging your progress.

fantastic, keep it up!

[Jasper_]

YihyoungLi - Yes thank you, sometimes it's easy to get impatient and rush through sketches

ikuru - Thanks!

MacTire - Thank you!!

patrickdeza - Thanks I appreciate it!

kischi - Haha, that's quite a compliment, Cole Eastburn is an incredible artist, I'd love to get to his level. THanks!!

Sublimus - Heh thank you, I'll definately keep up the work once I'm in school!!

Verehin - Thanks!

hala - Haha yeah, I know what you mean. Thank!!

kingkostas - Thanks for the support man!!

RickyRubyo - Thank you!

mike butkus - Thanks!

keoshi - Thanks bro I will!


Ok so I just got my laptop for school, and I've done a self portrait to test it out. It took a little while to get into the groove of using a system for painting, but I like the way it turned out. I turned up the contrast a bit, cuz I think the laptop screen kinda makes things look a little different than they are. Let me know if these images seem too dark or light or contrasty or whatever.

I also painted a view from my porch during/right after it rained. I didn't want to get alll distracted with texture brushes and everything so kept it simple with one brush and a blender.

[Jasper_]

Ok the first sketch was inspired by a book I recently read, "The Terror" by Dan Simmons.

The second is a study from one of Alex Kanevsky's (www.somepaintings.net/Alex.html) paintings.

[Retronym]

good use of blue in the last nude, I'll be taking that idea away with me.

[MacTire]

Very very very nice work Pyro!!

Awesome work on those digis! Really liking the energy in them. Thanks for reminding me to get braver with colour choices!

Keep up the great work!

[sketcheth]

Wow wow wow! This last page seems like a giant leap in a great new direction. Your values are stunning and the studies of the figures have such a rich sense of lighting! It's amazing, man... Keep it up!

[Soka145]

Hey please come and check out my work, just join thanks again Nick. great work pyro man all the best x

[Jasper_]

Retronym thanks dude, but don't credit me with having the idea first ;)

MacTire thanks man!

sketcheth thanks a lot bro, glad to hear the studies have been paying off :)

Soka145 Hey thanks man, you should start a sketchbook thread and put a link in your sig, then i'll be able to check it out


So I've taken a freelance job illustrating a graphic novel, which is just awesome. I'm so pumped to finally have a job actually making art, it sorta makes me feel like all the studying and work hasn't been for shits and giggles. That's what's been taking most of my time lately, and I won't be able to post artwork from it yet :( But I've got some other WIPs and stuff that have faded off into the dust, the dragon piece is the only one I actually finished. Take a look and tell me what you think.

No ref on anything except the bowls, which were a still life

[Dan Valkar]

nice stuff, really like the last too, cool brush stroke and concept....

[Jasper_]

Dan Valkar Thanks man!!

Here's a bit of crap

a fighter study, a ball of skin, and some style experiment

[AKIRA Wrong]

Cool works!

[Camara]

Wonderful!!!

[kingkostas]

loving the value system mate.141 post is awesome and actually all the next are also awesome.Keep going like this
btw the head of the dragon is fucking sweet

[witek]

I love that many your works are made very painterly and fresh,and you also explore many styles and techniques , good job

[DefiledVisions]

Your values are great! Especially like the demon-looking thing back in page 5, great sense of colume.

[LisandroG]

Hey, thanks for stopping by my sketchbook, I appreciate the helpful comments

I think your more recent work looks great, you have a great handle on working digitally. I'd say do more life studies and traditional work, though you'll likely be doing quite alot of since you're starting art school. My experience at art school so far has been primarily self-driven, so remember that you gotta stay motivated and always be working on your own. Thats my advice anyways.

I'll keep on eye on your sb, keep up the good work :)

[Bones Weep Tedium]

Is it just me, or does anyone else think that Ball'o'Skin looks quite tasty...?

Nice work in here, I like your digi-sketches, how they are loose and smudgey around the edges but really tight and precise in the centre of interest. I'm looking forward to seeing more! :)

[Kan Muftić]

Nice to see you growing!

[Shard]

awesome stuff dude..u walked a long way since page one and it shows!!
keep em coming! :)

[Abrodos]

I'm really digging your value works in BWThe one inspired by "the terror" is simply awesome. By the way, which tool do you use to achieve this blurry/smoky look? Is it some kind of smudge tool, or simply low opacity brushes?

keep up that good work!

[jatherip]

cooool stuff, the pencils are neat and the brushwork is amazing!!!!

[Mark Tarrisse]

You've some really nice works, plus we can obviously see your progress, lets have some more ! ;)

[Jasper_]

Okaaay so it's been a really long time since my last update, but I'm still making art. Most of what I'm doing now is schoolwork that is too big to be scanned or freelance work which I can't post yet. I'm going to try and find more time to do some personal paintings or studies or sommething to give me a break from work and allow myself to explore.

I won't bother getting to replies this time since I doubt anyone whose commented here is going to check back after however many months it took me to post again.

I've also tried recording myself doing a speedpainting. The video is kinda eh, but I like the end result, so just check it out and let me know what you think. Mannn I miss being on these boards.


WglLQY0EzmQ

[Jamie Romoser]

Cool update man that process vid of the robot was awsome always interesting to see how each artist starts his or her works.
The robot legs look really dynamic great job
looking forward to your next update
till next time
-Jamie

[Jasper_]

OmertA: Thanks, glad you enjoyed the video and the robot man, I'm gonna try and keep going with that style to see where it goes.


Here's some more stuff. I brought my laptop and tablet today to an open figure drawing session at my school. I wanted to try digital painting the figure from life, and it was really awesome. The poses are about 15-20 mins each.

[ArtZealot]

Awesome stuff man, that last update is great. I like on the last guy how loose and quickly it looks like it was done, it almost gives him a sense of movement. I really can't critique anything, it's killer stuff all around. Thx for posting.

[neuroballistic]

Solid work in here. Really like where you're going...and would really like to see how that guy with the round head turns out.

[Seage]

Hey, thanks for dropping by mate. I must say, im totally floored! Your work is super inspirational, and I love how much you experiement. You look right on your path to becoming one of those painting legends with the crazy imaginations that no one can keep up with, and the hardcore skill.

totally subscribing. Im thankful that you posted in my book now, or I dont know when I would have found ya!.

[drd]

Dude, awesome stuff. I love the way you use your brush; wish I could sit there and watch you do it.

[Me,Myself & Me again]

Awesome stuff man. Really digging the robots.

[Virg]

pretty creativr stuff man, ! all pages are full of creativity, your shading and brushwork is top , all i can say is keep working !! And yeah my laptop is a VAIO :) funny you recognized the reflection lol. How is yours working so far ?? I had trouble running cs4 but with an update the slow performance was fixed.
Cheers~

[Pigeonkill]

You are making a lot of improvement. Thanks for the vid. You have interesting brush strokes.

[dtran]

Awesome speed painting video! always love watching those. Also may i add i very much enjoyed your sketch book, please keep these coming!

[Jasper_]

ArtZealot Thanks a lot man, I appreciate it, your work is awesome.

neuroballistic Thanks dude I'll try and get around to finishing it.

Seage Hey thanks man those words mean a lot, I'll keep trying my best.

drd Haha thanks

Me,Myself & Me again Thanks dude!

WhiteC Thanks a lot man. Yeah I love the way my laptop is working, no hitches whatsoever so far. I've got Vista on mine still, but it's not a problem. Still running CS2 as well, we use CS4 at school, and I don't know, I'm just not much of a fan of it.

Pigeonkill THanks man!

dtran Thanks dude I will!


So I finally got a digital camera yesterday, so I was able to photograph some of my figure drawings from a course a took last summer. I got a lot of these guys, so bear with me I'll try and post the better ones. Once they're outta the way I'll get some of my school stuff up. Comments welcome!

[paperhead]

Nice, especially the digitals I love your brush strokes :)

[Virg]

yeah cs4 is kinda slow... i was on cs for a long time until recently when i bought that laptop with windows 7, i thought it would be optimal to run cs 4 64 bits. Great studies , your in art school ??? How did you change your username btw, i always wanted to change mine :P keep posting :)

[Yig]

Wow, you're awesome, I love your loose painting sketches, so loose yet so,... defined :)
Keep it up, you've got all the talent needed, gotta keep crackin' the whip now :)

[drd]

Man, I love drawing the figure! Nice ones dude. I can't really offer critique on figure drawing technique, I'm no vilppu, after all. (speaking of which, I need to get at that drawing manual...)

[Nibras]

Wow, you got some sweet paintings in here, very creative Ideas.
I really like your value work and where it's all going, the perspective grids that your doing had me a bit curious, I've not seen much people use them in images but they make yours really pop out.

Very cools stuff, keep up the great work

[P]

wow, your work changed so much from page 5 to 6 :o

[MacTire]

Damn.. phenomenal work since I last visited here!! Excellent improvement man, good to see you're really getting the best out of college! It's really aiding your personal work.

Looking forward to great stuff in the future!
Keep up the great work!!

[Zorcron]

wonderfull work you sure do have confidence with your line and color

i'd love to see some things you are less comfortable with perhaps picking up sculpture ? something new and out of the bounds...


very inspirational work i also thank you for the many informative posts you have made in the Art schools / Education forum

hope to see more soon !

[Loathsome]

Love your sketchbook, subbed!!

[Quinn Simoes]

Very cool Sketchbook! Great self portraits and anatomy studies!

[monstertree]

I want to see more of the alien dude in post 161, he deserves more work on him imo -go on, you know you wanna!

[DeKal]

great stuff dude

[Jasper_]

Ook so I think I replied to all of you in your respective sketchbooks, thanks everyone for your comments.

Here are some more of those figures from my summer art class plus my first attempt at a still life with oil paints. Thanks for checkin my stuff out, leave meh some feeeeedback hah

[Jasper_]

Ok here's some sketches from this summer when I went to the beach. Some dumb girls I was with kept feeding the seagulls so there were a million of them flocking around us. I figured it be a good time to break out the sketchbook. The other one is a house drawn from the beach, and a tree from in front of my house. Also a quick still life from last night before my roommates wanted to turn out the lights to sleep. I may finish it more tonight.

[Nettle_Mountain]

Hi there, best thing is how you have started to notice all those hue variations in colours in your still life, i can only recommend trying to get cleaner edges and do more of those

keep posting definitely

[heix33]

Hi, I saw your comment on accepted portfolios, that you got into some unis with scholarship with your portfolio, so, would you take a look at my portfolio and give your opinion or suggestions?

[sketcheth]

All the life drawings are really nice man, proportions seem to be real strong. I'd say overall with the pencil work keep trying to push your values. Some of your concept stuff is looking quite tasty! Keep going!

[CUKIERass]

love your drawings! Inspirational I got to study more! Thnx for a inspiration-subscribed!

[Jasper_]

CUKIERass Thanks dude

sketcheth Definitely agree about the values. Since those figures were over the summer, I feel like my values have improved a bit since that is a huge focus at college now. I'll post those when I get chance, they're all 18x24 so it's difficult to move them back to my dorm.

heix33 Sure thing man I'll take a look

Nettle_Mountain Thank you I will


Ok here are some more figures. These are a few from an open figure drawing sesh, done in my sketchbook with pencil. Haven't drawn that small and in pencil in months, it really feels good to get back to it and take a break from charcoal/conte/pastels for a bit. Hopefully I'll find some freetime soon to wip up some digital stuff and post that, I've longing to start doing studies again on my tablet. Lemme hear yo comments!!

No scanner in my dorm so I did my best with a camera

[Janos]

Nice forms in these life drawing images. Not sure if you get all the body-planes already, but you are getting there! Proportion is excellent!

[Jasper_]

Janos Hey thanks, I'll make sure to keep an eye on those planes on the next figure drawing session.




Here's a warmup sketch that I decided to take a little further. I guess I got bored and started putting in random blocks at the bottom, I didn't know what to do with the feet legs. No ref for this one.

[Knarf]

Nice charcoals man, and very very nice piece on this update. Definitely will pop back again to see how this thread goes.

-Frank

[kingkostas]

Great studies, and damn i love this last one!!!great values :)
keep up

[Jasper_]

Alm0st, kingkostas Thaanks guys!


I'm having a little more time for personal work this week. Here's the first self portrait I've done in a loooong time.

[Verehin]

thats cool...5

[MacTire]

Great stuf Jasper!!
nice to see studies, some nice shading on those figures.
As for the character, I only just realised it was male. You may want to shave down those hips and thighs, since my first read registered that as female. Great work other than that!
Great work also on the self portrait!!

Keep up the great work!!

[Raoul Duke]

Keep on rockin in the free world!

[DANKA]

Really nice works...expecially the digitals!!! keep up!

[weashell]

awesome handling of figures/anthomy and really promising digital stuff! im smell talent in the air xD wtb more characters =)

[darkos]

Nice work. Love it!

[NeonDuck]

those life drawings are really good, they stand out!

[Janos]

The colours in the selfportrait are exellent. I dont think teh outline adds anything though, it detracts form the awesome blue eyes. I say change it to a more similar colour like the background.
Also the digi sketch a few posts up looks real good. The texture and the composition look fine. Lol at trying to hide the feet. I haevn't even started studying them... feet are so hard.

[Johann de Venecia]

Your figure drawings are top notch! Did you do all those with a live model? The sp is also very good.

[mike butkus]

Wow, beautiful concept sketches! I love the creepy little dude with the hat.

[Loathsome]

Intense sketches man, keep them coming

[Braintree]

The creature/character in post #193 is awesome :D

[Jasper_]

Thanks a lot for the comments dudes!!

MacTire I see what your saying, maybe It's because most of the live models we've had this year have been women. Thanks for the crit!

Janos Thanks for the crit! In this case I actually think it helps with the silhouette, it wasn't reading well beforehand. I was contemplating what to do with the background for a while, could never settle on anything solid though.

Johann de Venecia Thank you, yes all of them were done with a live model

Here is some figurative stuff from school this year. I've recently lost a large body of what I consider my best and most recent figure work, as it went missing when I handed it in for a grade at the end of the quarter. Hours and hours of figure drawing...very annoyed and dissipointed that it happened. I feel reluctant to blame it on my teacher, for a lack of organization, but whatever, can't get too attached to your artwork.

[Peetaer]

Wicked last post man...very artistic...

[Jasper_]

Peetaer Thanks dude!

Ok here is a full body, life sized self portrait done with colored pencils and pastels for my drawing class. Half was supposed to be anatomy and half skin tone. This was such a bitch to do, but I think it turned out ok, for my limited experience with traditional media.

I also have an illustration I did for my 2d design class, with the thumbnail sketches and final sketch included. No ref. I'm really pleased with the way this one turned out, and really enjoyed drawing on a tablet. But feel free to tear it apart.

[destinyapocalypse]

hey u have too good jobss i follow u

[Erick Willand]

wowa, cool stuff dude.

[Johann de Venecia]

The life sized anatomy self ref is awesome. I don't think I've seen that done before.

[Fumble]

woah that anatomy study is good, it almost looks like a real medical drawing.

[Alternative]

Wow. Just wow. Your work is incredible, and it is so nice to see your improvement. I am in love. You anatomy is really great. My favorite pieces are the one in your last digi, and the "sketch" that is currently your display picture. Very nice.

Hey, this might be asking way too much, but any chance you can stop by my sketchbook and give a word on how you approached learning your anatomy? And any other comments you might have.. I am 17 and I really want to get better and your work really inspired me.

Thank you,

Alternative.

[Quinn Simoes]

Great self-portrait!

Thanks for sharing!

[tylerfontes]

Nice stuff man. I'm not particularly fond of the width of the hips in your anotomy drawing and i would re work the left hand to give it more of a natural curvature (allow the pinky to recede behind the ring finger) but good use of color and all the anotomy seems to be in the right place and doing the right thing.(ie. no oddly flexed muscles) good work keep it up and always feel free to comment on my stuff.
I need all the help i can get
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=181639&highlight=tylerfontes

[thirdeye]

It's a funny coincidence - I was browsing through your sketchbook yesterday around the time you posted in mine :) Anyway - great stuff here too, love your anatomy studies, and your imaginative stuff is very interesting too, I really like your blending style on some of the greyscale pieces you've posted before...keep em coming :)

[Artofinca]

great sketchbook!

[Tigermilk]

Shit yes, awesome work bro!
Thanks for commenting my book too.
Keep posting!

[jsn]

Your work is really looking great!
The illo you did for your 2d design class looks really cool!

Keep up the great work!

[Seage]

Woah, amazing work in here. Not much else I can say really.

[Metal Fingers]

the lines on that last digi piece are real tasty.

[DazDaryl]

freakin awesome... so jealous. DAMN I SUX, does anyone have a machine to turn frustration into artistic talent?

[Jasper_]

Thank you for the comments everyone, appreciate it!!

DazDaryl: That mahcine is called a pencil!!:P

Okay here's some old stuff and new stuff, both finished and sketchy. Idk, I like some of it. Lot of it is poop now though. The last one is pretty recent, for my 2d design class, kudos if you can figure out the message.

[phizpietl]

Hey man those thumbnails are super rad. I like those a lot. Keep it coming!

Phil L.
www.phillietz.blogspot.com

[meticulous]

Really great studies and some very strong work here - Keep em coming!!

[Jamie Romoser]

really fresh uppdates man
keep up the hard work its showing
have a good one
-Jamie

[HTML rulez d00d]

keep up the experimentation. nice to see a wide range of styles

[Jasper_]

Thanks for the comments dudes, got you all back in your sb's.

Here's another one for 2d design, these images are supposed to function as one and make use of their juxtaposition.

[Aryeh]

beautiful work! Love you use of colors! Keep rocking on man! Cant wait to see what you do next!

[MattGamer]

very very niceee!! i've only had time to look at this first page and really enjoying your flow in your art. the life size portrait is epic. realll nice ;] i wanna do one now!

[Jasper_]

lolbbq Thanks dude I've been trying to push my colors a lot lately!

MattGamer Thanks man I've been getting some great feedback on that one!

Ok here's another self portrait, playing with some textures and colors and whatnot.

Also jumped headfirst into an enviro painting, don't usually do these. Over spring break I took my dog for a walk to brought my camera, which I really want to do more often. Took a few cool pictures before my dog hurt her leg and I had to help her back home. I used textures and samples from those photos to help make this, as well as some crazy brushes.

There are also a few of the pictures that I took and grabbed the textures from. Mind you, I'm not a photographer nor really into photography, just shooting pics for reference and such. Definately crits are appreciated on the enviro, I really want to get good at them!!

[MattGamer]

i like the sp and how you popped the nose out there with warm colors. ;] as for the enviro, since the background is pretty warm, you're going to have to cool it down to give the picture some depth. as we all know, the farther things are away, the cooler they are. it's doable just play with it and see what you can do just playing with the warms in the background. see if you can push it further back and give us a sense of thick environment. ;]

[milu]

great SB! a lot of interesting images and ideas in them! thanx man

[Mitze]

Very nice SB. Loads of different mediums and ideas. Good stuff keep them coming.

[Sublimus]

Been awhile since I popped in (and thanks for stopping by my thread).

Great work in here, dude! Keep up the hard work!

[Pixie Trick]

Very cool work! Love the experimentation going on. The texture in the brushwork is great! :sungod:

[Seage]

Love that self portrait. Really cool feel and nice textures.

[walnut]

You have some nice work in your SB, like the way you use textures. The SP is indeed pretty good, and the two pics in the post before it i digged as well.

[prsnsweeney]

wow nice very nice stuff love the gesture and figure drawings but my favorite is the 2d illistration looks so cool the one thing i can say is maybe define where the wall and the ground meet a little more keep up the very good work

my sb http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=183262&page=2

[Jasper_]

prsnsweeney Thanks for the crit dude I see what your saying, I will keep an eye out for things like that in upcoming works.

MattGamer Thanks man that makes a lot of sense, definately gonna try more environemnts.

Thank you everyone else for the compliments!!

Gotta update this page with some art, can't keep it blank, here is another self portrait!

[MattGamer]

likin that sp a lot more. remember there's blue in the area where your beard and mustache grow. ;] even tiny hints of it. but i like the way you pushed and pulled the values with colors. good work. ;]

[Jasper_]

MattGamer Thanks man I know exactly what your saying. My beard is actually pretty light so I tried a bit of blue at first, and it made my beard appear stronger than it actually is. I tried to suggest it using a greyish tone, hoping that the warmer colors surrounding it would cool it down. Thanks for the crit man!


Ok here is the last set of images for my 2d design diptych project. Incorporated some photo textures of my own to help out. Normally I would have liked to have painted everything by hand, but the deadline wouldn't allow it. Hope you like it, the theme here is 'heritage'.

943479 943480

[Adam Nowak]

I really like the last self portrait and the diptych rocks as well. One thing though, The knee is significantly longer than the other. Not sure if that was done on purpose to exaggerate movement.

[meticulous]

Niiiice updates man. These last 2 ... great use of those textures - I REALLY like the intertwined root wrestle - very cool.
I really like how you just experiment and have fun in here - great stuff as always - looking forward to the next update!!

[tolousse59]

Sweet work man. Really appreciate the texture quality and the painterly feel.

[Jasper_]

Gamerhomie Thanks a lot man, your right the knee is longer, it wasn't really intentional, but I felt like the idea of the image came across without needing to fix it, haha.

meticulous Thanks a lot man glad your enjoying my stuff!

tolousse59 Thanks dude!


Brought my tablet and laptop to open figure drawing again tonight, so here are some ten minute poses. The first one is probably a little longer, I came in on the middle of an hour long pose, so it's probably about 15-20 minutes.

[towy]

cool sketchbook really good , i can feel the move in this last update : )