Hec's sketchbook

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Hey ho, people. So my friend Luke advised me to start a sketchbook here on ConceptArt in order to chronicle my progress as an amateur artist, and hopefully to motivate me to draw more. I currently draw comics primarily, and have a website set up to publish them (the link is in my sig, if anyone's interested,) but I've been trying to explore different styles over the past year or so, as I don't want to get bogged down in stylised cartoonery.

I don't have a scanner, so I can't contribute any of my pencil sketches, but here are some pictures I found to give a rough idea of where I am / where I've been. So... thoughts? Advice? I'm not sure how this usually goes. I just stubbed my toe.

These are in a random chronological order - some were done a couple of years ago.

Thanks in advance!

[Lav]

hai, great start for your SB :) the only comment i have is that your green orc/goblin kind of looks flat, it looks more like a wooden mask than it looks like a real face, it lacks a bit of volume.
I really like your full character renderings and the last 3 paints :D

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Cheers for the advice and the kind words! I think you may be right; it's missing something. Perhaps if intensified the shadows at the terminator, it would add some depth?

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Sketch for today. No scanner, so I had to take a photo - totally murdered the quality.

[Lav]

about the "mask issue" i think it mainly lacks values, and his head doesnt feel complete, you should normally see more of the back/side of his skull at that angle. And maybe if you add a neck to it it would help as well. And the light grey things aren't really clear, i assume it's hair? (sorry if i'm wrong >.<) but it doesnt look realistic. Hope it makes sense :P

But i really like the other stuff. Cant wait to see more :)

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To be honest, realism wasn't exactly my intention with that particularly piece.

I reckon you're right about the skull shape, though. It's difficult to know, when cartooning, exactly how much to exhagerrate. In trying to keep the eyes centred, I had to place the face there, but I thought showing too much of the head would distract from the foreground. Guess I should have gambled a bit more!

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Okay, here's a better version of the previous drawing, and another one I did right afterward.

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Here's a couple of sketches I'm doing for a mini comic in time for the UK Web Mini Comix Thing 2010 (see here for details (http://www.ukwebcomixthing.co.uk/)) I'm thinking something in a Charles Dickens parody type thingamajigger. This is the first time I've worked with an ink and nib in four years, so I'm quite excited to keep experimenting.

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just a sketch of a skull from an anatomy book.

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Another one from the victorian adventure thingy. This one is based on my friend Angela, and named 'The Artisan'. The character is, I think, some kind of forger.