TheChevver's Artistic Journey.......or just a sketchbook

[TheChevver]

My name is Ed, I'm 17 and from Bath, England. I'm going to do an illustration degree (hopefully) at uni. I know that I need to practice or learn my perspective, anatomy, proportions and some more technical issues. Here is some of my stuff so far. Please crit away:)

The digital paintings are me experimenting and trying to get used to PS.
The marker drawings are again tests, but I only had one tone so I know they are a little flat.
The weird alien/bug creatures things are from an old school art project entitled: mysterious and fantastic creatures.
The Jazz musician drawings are from my current art project on Jazz figures.
The character drawings and paintings are just personal studies.

I'll try to keep this as updated as possible, i'm currently practicing the things I know I need to practice and learn - so expect more marker and graphite images!

[Φ]

wow man! you´re off to a very good start!!! amazing enviros!!! keep it coming!! I´d like to see some studies!!!
cheers

[TheChevver]

Some more stuff that I have done recenlty. Continued my marker studies and have been to a couple of life drawing classes.
The digital environment was very heavily influenced by a vid I watched of David Levy Working.
The bots are just marker studies (I know the nonsensabot has bad pers and proportion problems - hence the title)
The marker enviros were just fun thingies.
I also dunno what happened with the reverse view of the speeder, looks well wrong.

[TheChevver]

quick one today. Having real truoble defining shapes, everything doesnt really make sense - possibly because i used no ref.

[Φ]

:rocker:

those enviros are crazy good°!

[TheChevver]

Quickie this evening. I know it's rough.

[TheChevver]

Tonights quickie. Only a 1hr painting so please dont crit the roughness.

[TheChevver]

very quick vehicle design done tonight.

[Meilin]

ah love your enviroments man they're great. especially the mountain one, it has a awesome sense of depth and lots of fun things to rest the eyes on

[JailHouseRock2]

Hay Ed,
Welcome to CA mate
Some really cool stuff here dude, lovin the marker sketches and enviroments, keep it up!

amtt,

[TheChevver]

quickie this evening.

[TheChevver]

Another one this evening :)

[TheChevver]

another one today. I'm doing this series around the theme of finding old technology from a distant war.

[Jaytea]

Wow, your CG stuff really blows me away. The atmosphere for each one is so unique and executed wonderfully. : D Can't wait for more!

[TheChevver]

Another from this discovery series.

[TheChevver]

Another from the discovery series. Really should stop these and go back to drawing people. My figure anatomy is crap!

[TheChevver]

My first mecha. I'm not very confident with these paintings. I wanted them to be more defined and clear. Practice i spose.

[TheChevver]

WIP from a current painting i'm working on. It's very flat i know, im working on the perspective/composition to correct that. This might end up as part of a Card Game project i am involved with, who knows.

[TheChevver]

Some quick enviro study. I'm out of practice.

[psychoboy]

amazing paintings, bro!

loved the 1st two paintings;

All the best for yo future

[headlessAdi]

welcome to CA dude
.....good start.

like the digitals

my only major critique being workin on human anatomy
Keep Posting

-Adi

[TheChevver]

Psychoboy - Thanks for the comment
headlessAdi - Thanks, yeah anatomy is my weakest area. I'm hopefully doing a load of life drawing later this year.

[MasqueradedSin]

nice concepts, i really like the environment ones.

[TheChevver]

Been a while since an update, so here it is. I havent had access to PS for aaages so i've just been drawing. These are just some random concepts, from enviros to vehicles etc. Most are very quick concepts, the idea being to just get in basic shapes for the composition, I went into deeper detail on the ones I was getting into. Working like this also really helped with my perspective, which has been poor. I need to sort out anatomy now.

Part 1:

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Part 2