Juan Antonio's Sketchbook

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Hi, my name is Juan Antonio and I'm an art student in Spain.
I just finished the first course of Ilustration here and I thought that summer holidays is the perfect time to begin my sketchbook.

Please, feel free to criticize my work because this way I will improve.

And forgive my bad english xd

[a la bapsi]

nice start with your sketchbook. ;D
I'm digging that cute monkey drawing~

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Thanks a la bapsi. I think that was my first drawing of an ape :wink: and I got a lot of fun doing it.

Here, India Ink Drawings and a bunch of human figure studios and Sketches I did the past days.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

More Studios and concept ideas.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

It's time to dust my Wacom tablet.
I'm still green and need a lot of time and practice until I can do that It looks like I want it :)

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Wow! It's been a long time since the last post, but it doesn't mean I've stopped drawing and painting.

Here's stuff from the past two months beginning with a pair of Acrylics I did the past july at Children's Iustration workshop Ilustrarte.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Two portraits with Indian Ink I did recently and an unfinished paint I'm doing now

[Juanan G. Bocos]

A Hellboy speed painting with the wacom tablet and photoshop.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

A unfinished comic-book page and more steps in the other day digital painting .

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I just discover the Copiic markers and I'm hooked with their scale grey markers.
This are some drawings that I did to play with them. I caaaaaaan't stop.
Ouchhhh, the right hand in the third drawing is tooo big proportionally.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

A few pages of Pencil Sketchs

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Some ink studios for the comic-book page I posted days ago. Greys, black & whites and threads lines.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

More things, india ink, markers, watercolors...

[Juanan G. Bocos]

More sketches and studios. We are drawing bones right now at the Art School.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I changed the Hellboy I did few weeks ago. This is the effect.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

More studios and drawings with markers.

[geoxen]

Pretty good, keep up the anatomy practice. Try drawing from life though, that'll really help you out. It'll also help give you poses with attitude, feeling of weight, and the essence of movement.

Keep it up though. :)

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Hi everybody!!!
I've been a bit busy last month but I'm back anew.
Let's go with some new sketchs and studios.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

A bunch of things I did the last two weeks

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Today the past weekend drawings, pencil, indian ink, gray scale markers...

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Merry Christmas everybody!!!!

More sketches and digital illustrations.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Ok, the year is near to ending and I think this will be my last post for 2008.
I see you next year, Happy 2009

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Ok, let's go, more anatomy. Muscles this time.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Some poses from posemaniacs (Crap, my heads are too big proportionally with the body), some sketchs and a digital illustrations.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I'm a bit busy right now with projects from the Art School, and I don't have time to do all the personal stuff I want.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Ok, It has been a lot of time since last time. So let's go with the pics.
Two digital paints, the second one unfinished yet.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Long time I know it. I've been very busy this past 6 months.
I'm working in this piece, but I think that there's a problem with the skin tone.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I continue with this piece.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Various work in progress. I have to find time for them XD

[Juanan G. Bocos]

This week updates, I continue with the warrior and the eye exercize from Don Seegmiller book The Digital Design and Painting It's a fantastic book, you learn a lot with it to improve your skills.

And speaking of books, I have another interesting book waiting to read, James Gurney's Imaginative Realism. I think I'm going to be very entertainment the next days reading it.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

For this week I decided to focus again in the human eyes and adding more elements like a hand and a handkerchief. While I was working in it I thought to add more things, like the autumm leaves but it's a work in progress so We'll see what happens with this painting this week while I continue working in it.

And I've been reading Will Pfeifer and David López's Catwoman comic book, what a awesome work, after finish it I needed to make my particular homage for this heroine (or villainess, depend of the day I suppose) so I did this sketch with markers.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Here's a quick study colour for a chick's painting. I don't usually do study colours, my mistake :)
And today's speed painting.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I worked a lot this weekend, most time in this piece that I just finish it.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

This past weekend I've been studing values so I painted a lot of polygons in greyscale until I decided to put in practice all that I learnt and paint some object from the imagination.
This is the result. I think I still need a lot of practice :)

[Juanan G. Bocos]

The first one is a selfportrait, I don't know if paint it at greyscale or colour, Wow I think the last time I did a selfportrait was two years ago XD. Just is time.

And I continue with values so I'm working in this second piece with grayscale, yep I know it seems that she doesn't have arms, still working at it.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Today I've been playing with colours again and what's better to do it than a still life. XDD
I hope paint almost one every day the next week.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I'm spending more time painting these still lives from photo reference than I thougth.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I continue with this girl, just add the left arm and in this moment I fighting with the hair.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Today's painting, a friend's portrait. Wow I have been painting many hours today and I've enjoyed every single minute while I did it :)

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I couldn't paint all that I wished this week, but I have a tendinitis in my drawing arm so I have needed to slow down a bit.
This are some environments, I don't like do environments normally, I prefer to paint characters but I think that it's very important master all themes so...

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Ok, I think it's time to finish this piece. I enjoy a lot paint in grey values.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I enjoy a lot this new season of Doctor Who, so here's the new Doctor

http://juanbocos.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/03/eleven-doctor2.jpg

[Brun]

Hey great stuff, love the doctor who illustration.

One thing I noticed, almost all of your faces are 3/4 and look almost the same. Try to focus a bit on different angles and try to give them all a different look.

Apart from that, you have some awesome stuff here!

-Brun

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Thanks Brun.

Yes, you're right and I usually repeat the same pose. I need to change this and in the next drawings I'll try to change the angle pose. :)

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Ok, let's go with some concepts sketchs

[Juanan G. Bocos]

I decided to continue with one of the sketch of the last post.
At the end I had two version, I think I prefer the right one, I'm prefer the natural background than the abstract one.

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Long time since last time I was here, but it didn't mean I wasn't busy.
These are some drawings and paintings from the last eight months

[Juanan G. Bocos]

Hi everybody!!!
I don't remember the last time I've been here but I have a new year's resolution, to post frecuently at concept art again.
These are some of my illustrations and sketches from the past month, with different techniques, pen and indian ink, markers, digital....