Gems Sketchbook miiiasssmaaasss

[GemGem]

My old sketch book is full of crap i dont even want to look at...due to...emotional attachment 8 |
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[Sukizan]

Really cool style, I'd love to see some digital stuff from you. o:

[GemGem]

from my latest void comic battle...this wasnt so much about story but rather getting used to panneling...a bit

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[GemGem]

some quick marker renders :D
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[kingkostas]

hehe welcome back mate.I see you keep up with the style and the character of that comic.I remember them :D
Keep up sharing
see ya

[Randis]

man, thats a cute style! i like the blue girl (second pic) sexy curves!

[GemGem]

thankyou guys :D suggestions and tips would be awesome

a compilation of sketches i did in july
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[GemGem]

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finished it :3

[GemGem]

ah lolly, shes one of my faves of my characters <3 shes so lovable and voluptuous

i draw her ALOT

please excuse all these piles of drawings

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[kingkostas]

dunno what to crit mate, i just want to say that i love the characters and they all have strong emotions,mood and motion.
Dunno maybe trying doing some polish rendering of some of them,just to present them in another way.
I mean , this last is very good but maybe try making a digital painting with just the character and even without background :P

haha just keep up mate :)

(wow damn i havent seen these posts.Damn great. The pixel work is very good, and i think you should finish the one with the harp.Really great.)
see ya

[GemGem]

and heere is Ben, another fave character of mine, hes a rhino beetle person...hence the large nose thing

these drawings arent so good
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[GemGem]

sorry to post so much

here are some random comic pages that ill just randomly think up...i wish i had more, i enjoy doodling these

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something i was doing for a Void battle, but i had a falling out with the person who made the little ladybug chick here so i didnt go on with it

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something i began but didnt finish, wow what is even the point of this comic?

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um.... yeh

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[GemGem]

some observational drawings i did at the natural history museum
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some pseudo observational/imaginary human studies :C
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and some other stuff
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[AlexEh]

I remeber seeing your stuff awhile ago on DA! Please keep posting wehaha!:D Love the comic on the first page very much, the paseing makes alot of sense and so do the characters.

[The man with no name]

Holy cow you have been busy, your animals sketches are great, keep up the good work :D

[miycko]

great stuff dude, love the comics. that first one had me laughing so hard i had to read it twice, you have a great drawing stye & very nice characters :)

[AustenFM]

I remember your work was one of the last things i saw just before I dropped out of void for the second time, I would like to go back again sometime to bruise some asses, hmm..

Your work is very stylized which is awesome, though it seems you use it to hide anatomy flaws sometimes, mainly on your male characters. I would really like to see some in depth muscular studies from George Bridgman if you haven't done so already.

Maybe try working on your style variation as well, more realism would be awesome.

Anyway, badass work, keep it up!

[GemGem]

thanks guys, and yeh, i tend to get into anatomical and stylistic ruts, it drives me insane, but when i draw anatomy and fail miserably, i feel awful :C i wish there was a way i could embrace new learning. something about drawing from reference really makes me very paranoid and stiff, so i screw up and get put off it.:davi:

heres some more stuff, enjoy

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[GemGem]

This is my first void battle, I lost :D by only a few points mind you, seems the audience enjoyed rape more than genital mutilation. WHEW, but i learned alot through drawing this comic, i'd left it to LITERALLY the last minute. we were given 4 weeks to complete this, i slacked off the first three weeks and almost killed myself doing this comic within just 3 days, im proud and also ashamed of this XD
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[GemGem]

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his expression pretty much sums up how i feel about my art right now.

[GemGem]

please pick these apart and help, im so frustrated, i just cant get any of these right.
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[GemGem]

...please?

[Pretty_Angel]

Hey GemGem! Your stuff has become quite interesting over the years. Great progression overall! :D

For your anatomy problems: It's a bit hard to give some advice to so few sketches. The thing is anatomy practise is not done with a few scribbles. You need to do a buttload more studies. At the moment I can just advice you to read a good book (Loomis or something) and do sketching/practises at the same time. It helped me a lot because one of the important things is also understanding.
The other one is observation. I don't know if you used references for your sketches, but if you did you definitely need to work on your observation skills. For example: the male full body figure has way too long arms or the butt/upper leg of the headless body at the bottom is a bit deformed. If they're from head, the sketches are ok - but you'd still need to work on your drawing-from-mind skills.

Sorry, that I can't be more helpful atm. I'll keep you on my radar and see if I can come up with some more useful critiques in the future.

[AustenFM]

(well fart, I was beaten to the punch, here's my message anyway.)

Hey, updates are looking good! 3 days for a comic with that quality, I'm impressed, I couldn't produce something that nice in a 5 week deadline, hah! Its awesome to see you working on expanding your artistic horizons already, not a bad start at all. And lucky you, you're on CA now, help will be plentiful!

Your last post is not bad, but like you said there are problems, mainly with body/limb proportion, and on the head shot, his skull seems a little smooshed, though the main problem is with the neck, it's pinching too much near the body. Now most of this can be taken care of with more observational/ life drawing, but I've got something else for you.

Let me start you out with this link http://processjunkie.blogspot.com/2007/09/best-figure-drawing-books-ever.html

This is where I first came across Andrew Loomis and George Bridgman books , If you haven't heard or seen these already, they will replace your Bible, Qur'an, and Torah all together! These books have some of the most valuable information I've come across and if you look around the forums here most people will agree. Start out easy with Andrew Loomis (try fun with a pencil first) and once your comfortable with what you've learned jump straight into George Bridgman (constructive anatomy). If you go through these and take whats being taught to heart, you'll be amazed at what you produce afterwards.

Also! http://posemaniacs.com/?pagename=thirtysecond - Posemaniacs, if you don't have access to a life drawing class I suggest you get into a good habit of doing a set number of timed gesture drawings a day. Even after a week you'll see major progress in your figures.

If you already know of these then ignore what I rambled on about, if not, then I look forward to seeing some studies from you in the future.

You've got the talent now you need to ignite the flame.

[Chison]

i am just come in to said the you are awesome^w^amazing..........
i draw worse than you and don't really want to say much.want to hide away*W*lllll
just like Pretty_Angel said ,the man at top left,he hand are too long

and the body size & height are actually around the same as women (you rise a step drawing that man,that mens 8-pack are actually close to that womeni think you can make him bigger?) just ignore me cause i can be wrong?
you way you get used to comic make the head bigger than normal a "little" which people can spot?

keep it up^^
because you draw comic style a lot you often draw the head in a slighty bigger proportion

[GemGem]

oh god this was hard for me :C

my first twenty minute session on the 30 second setting, i suck right now, but im gunna try to do at least 15 minutes of this a day

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[GemGem]

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just a couple of sketches from yesterday.

also, i have had a few people telling me im wrong to use posemaniacs, that im a idiot for thinking it will help.

im kind of sick of all the contradicting opinions, whos to say any way of learning something like this is wrong? if the result is getting better...

egh nevermind.

[GemGem]

chunky babes are so fun to paint

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[FightingSeraph]

Excellent use of markers, Photoshop, Painter (?), and what appears to be Oekaki. Pretty Angel is right about the studies, although that comic involving saffron is pretty funny.