Jumpfalls SketchBook!

[Jumpfall]

Hey i guess im a newb as far as this fourm stuff goes. but who cares i honoustly just wanna put my stuff out there and get some honoust feedback so i can improve and become the illustraitor ive always wanted to be. the pieces im going to put up here at first is quiet old work. when i have the time i will put up my more recent stuff on.
as far as comentary i would love to here the negatives to my work what im missing and what i need to improve altogether. i just relly wanna become great :) thanks

[Lord Sharpie]

It's a great start. I would try starting with simpler, gestural figure drawings to really practice and hone body proportions and anatomy. I can see you're stylizing, which is cool, but by strengthening your foundation with anatomy, light/shadow, and line weight, your overall quality will really improve and then style can come more naturally and more intentionally, less accidentally. One of my former art professors had a really creepy fetish for figure drawings: he was obsessed with drawing skeletons. It was weird and sometimes overly repetitive, but it was one of the single most effective methods I've ever learned for understanding the human figure. You should definitely try it out.

[Ejrekai]

Hi. You've got some nice details going with your characters. I agree on the above poster about studying anatomy. I've been trying to do that myself lately, and it's always a big boost in improving my own work. I look forward to seeing more of your art.

[donalfall]

I like your name. It reminds me of something. :) I also like your art, but you gotta keep pushing all the topics mentioned by the guys. There's a couple of mistakes worth mentioning about the pieces above, and a couple of good strong points too...

The first guy seems like his arms are too short. But I like the way his hoodie is rendered, shadows etc are well done, but they need to pop more. One of my lecturers once said "don't be afraid of tone". The girl playing the console is great, the capture of her expression is spot on. Her legs meet oddly tho. The one closer to us seems to be thinner than the one further away from us.

The third piece looks good too. I like the slouching pose, it seems pretty natural. Again, bit more tone wouldn't hurt, just to deepen out the shadows in his hood and so on.

The fourth piece, the profile, has lots of anatomical flaws. Unless you know a dude whose jaw is bigger than his brain case. :) If it's stylized, that's fine, but it's still awkward. To execute a "style" has to be more fluid/dynamic. Fluid dynamic? Anyhoo...

And the last piece is probably my favourite one. That is a seriously cheeky grin. Looks great. Again, more tone for "pop" would be fantastico. Did you use photoref for a lot of these?

Hope I helped a little.... post more!

[Jumpfall]

Hey guys

thanks for the advice, yeah like i said earlier theses are quiet old drawings and since i have been working on my anatomy, but i think i have lost the style i once had and liked so much, im speaking on the rendering and shadowing i used with the hooded figures.

but thats just because i took so much time off improving other areas that matter. ill post some newer sketchs as soon as i fix this damn scanner :P

[Jumpfall]

Alright i finally got my scanner working so i thought id put up some of my other sketches on here. now i have a bad habbit of not fineshing my art. and writing little things to remember on my drawings also so dont mind anything out of the ordinary. and i relly took in the comments given to me last time so keep em coming they relly help. these are a mix of newer and older drawings n i havnt put any time into shading the ones i relly want to but i can always put em on again when there fineshed. anyways tell me what you think.:lifedrawing:

[Jumpfall]

one more i forgot to put on