Almostjakob's sketchbook

[Almostjakob]

Hi, my name's Jakob. I've been lurking around this place for a few years now and I thought it was time I made a sketchbook of my own.

I've been drawing for as long as I can remember and it's mainly what I spend my time practising, I never use reference pictures when drawing or painting I try to memorize how things look by studying pictures and then just put that on paper and see how much I really know.

Only in recent years have I started becoming interesting in digital painting and it's something I hope to improve.

So I'll be posting all my sketches and whatnot in here as often as I can and hope that you guys'll enjoy them. :assspank:

[Almostjakob]

Today's stuff. . .

http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/2262/sdag.jpg
http://img710.imageshack.us/img710/5713/fsafasjpg.jpg
http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9616/streetgurl.jpg

[Skysong]

Good start. This gal with machinegun bigger that my screen, probably consider resizing pictures so they can be seen without scrolling.

[Almostjakob]

http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/2115/sketastafas.jpg

[Almostjakob]

Oh . . .

http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/7422/snowjp.jpg

[Almostjakob]

Just a alien heavy armour concept done for a friend's story. http://f.imagehost.org/0260/vicfatty.jpg

[Gisaiagami]

I like you Sudy
Use reference photos?
The face awesome e color mood is good

[Almostjakob]

I like you Sudy
Use reference photos?
The face awesome e color mood is good

Thanks!

No I never use reference photos, however I do a lot of nude body studies.

[Jamie Romoser]

badass sketchbook dude looking forward to seeing more
some stars from me :sungod:
have a good one
-Jamie

[Almostjakob]

badass sketchbook dude looking forward to seeing more
some stars from me :sungod:
have a good one
-Jamie

Thanks man :^^:

Speedpainting 1 hour~ :
http://i.imagehost.org/0717/whut.jpg

[FightingSeraph]

I see that you are off to a great start. Just keep practicing, and you'll do great!

[Almostjakob]

Haven't been doing much sketching on the computer in the past couple of days. . .so here's something I did today. :lounge:

http://i.imagehost.org/0147/gsd.jpg

[Almostjakob]

Just practising and so forth. . .:wtf:
http://i.imagehost.org/0022/angelordevil_upload.jpg

[Almostjakob]

Speedpainting of the day. . 35mins~:asspat:
http://img109.imageshack.us/img109/265/whatpm.jpg

[Imaginary]

Oooh, lovely atmosphere in the latest speed painting there dude. Keep it coming. =D

[Almostjakob]

It's been a while since I posted something. . .haven't really had anything that I was able to show to you guys.

So I decided to show a stylized female face I've been sculpting on in Zbrush for the past hours or so.

http://j.imagehost.org/0980/galz2.jpg

[Almostjakob]

Maybe I should start posting WIP's since this sketchbook is starting to collect dust. Oh well here's a new piece anyway, worked on it on and off whenever I had time really.

http://j.imagehost.org/0312/random_done_upload.jpg

[Almostjakob]

Hello world.

Another character design for a friends short story.

http://frogfishart.files.wordpress.com/2010/04/thetubem8.jpg

[Almostjakob]

So I haven't posted anything in a long while, so I'll do small "collage", if you will, of my stuff in no particular order. It's just random stuff really. . .have been having a hard time with coming up with solid ideas.

http://h.imagehost.org/0277/safweererw.jpg
http://a.imagehost.org/0590/ohnohoon.jpg
http://j.imagehost.org/0598/asgfageeg.jpg

[Osau]

I am loving your stuff. Your female figures in particular are incredibly intriguing because they all aren't super-model thin bad-ass gun-wielding chicks. What program do you use for your digitals?

[Almostjakob]

I am loving your stuff. Your female figures in particular are incredibly intriguing because they all aren't super-model thin bad-ass gun-wielding chicks. What program do you use for your digitals?

Thanks a lot! I do try to stay away from the stereotypical female figures as much as possible, it's more of a challenge that way and the end result is usually more satisfying. Oh and I use Photoshop cs2 for digital painting.

[Kfeeras]

nice! study a little more anatomy, it helps tons. And do a little lifedrawing, helps a lotwith the female figure

[Almostjakob]

I ought to spend more time on painting the background "props" as well as colour blending. . .everything looks so rough but I guess some like it that way.

http://i.imagehost.org/0852/postishupload.jpg

[Nenad]

You're good, some of your work looks amazing, keep on!

[Almostjakob]

Long time no see, as usual. . .

Well this time around I have a good reason for it. SCHOOL. Hopefully I'll be pumping out more art because of this as I now will probably get some proper guidence.

So I painted to quick 1,5H portait out of my mind with one soft brush in Photoshop just to have something to go along with this post.

http://img59.imageshack.us/img59/6033/aznfs.jpg

[Almostjakob]

It's been a while since I posted something here. Thought it was about time I dusted off my sketchbook and submitted something new.

Down below I've posted a mix of both completed and incompleted practise pieces and assingments.

http://filesmelt.com/dl/fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuckkkkkkkkkyoufacefag_copy.jpg
http://filesmelt.com/dl/Mattepaintinguppgift.jpg
http://filesmelt.com/dl/someshitlikethat.jpg
http://filesmelt.com/dl/closeyereyeslove.jpg
http://filesmelt.com/dl/dancingintherainNEW.jpg

[dsacc]

Great work, you should definitely update more! Keep up the good work.

[Falchion]

Nice rendering, although there are the occasional anatomy quirks that I'm seeing...

[Pluscandy]

You art is amazing!:D I love your girls and the way you paint skin is stunning~:) Can't wait to see more~<3

[Almostjakob]

@dsacc: I'm going to try and update my sketchbook atleast once a week.

@ Falchion: Only have myself to blame for the anatomical quirks.
I ought to use reference pictures a lot more than I do now. xD

@ Pluscandy: Thanks!


A little quickie done at school. :painting:

http://filesmelt.com/dl/lunchtimemofo.jpg

[Leroy Oosterling]

Wow, your art is pretty sick. Those girls you paint, very nice. Sensual.
Minor issues with the chest area, other than that, keep at it!

[kiwigarbage]

Some decent stuff up in here :D

Watch those facial proportions, I think you tend to make the face too small on the head, and you also tend to flatten the nose, especially in a straight-on view.

Good luck

[Bergulf]

Some pretty cooI stuff in here. I think you have a lot of potential. As others have stated you should use more reference and draw more from life to sharpen things up a little.

[Almostjakob]

I actually used a reference picture of a friend for this painting. The picture was taken at a halloween party, hence the blood.
I did my best.

http://filesmelt.com/dl/rebecca_portrait2.jpg

[Almostjakob]

Another one done from reference. Not as pleased with this one however.

http://frogfishart.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/study1.jpg

[Cozmo]

Oh, I'd be plenty pleased with that one. :) Very well done. If anything, the hair over her right shoulder looks a bit washed out, and as I look at it, her shoulder itself does too. But other than that, this looks great.

I like your work! Well done!

[Medusoid]

Very nice quirky style you've got their :D
Do you actually manually adjust the angle every time you start on a new spot?!? or do you have some ultra cool setting on your computer that senses the angle of you pen?

[Almostjakob]

Just a quickie done in school.

http://frogfishart.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/afawefawfafasfasfafsasf.jpg

[Almostjakob]

Found some neat brushes and decided to try 'em out. Down below is the result of my mocking about.

EDIT: removed the signature.

http://frogfishart.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/sillybrushes1.jpg

[Velocity Kendall]

wow that last one is really strong.
i might reposition or lose the sgnature though it clutters the image a little
do you know a good place to get photoshop brushes? ive been using the defaults and didnt really realise you could get new ones... d'oh!

[Almostjakob]

wow that last one is really strong.
i might reposition or lose the sgnature though it clutters the image a little
do you know a good place to get photoshop brushes? ive been using the defaults and didnt really realise you could get new ones... d'oh!

I'm pretty sure there's a thread somewhere on this forum with some nice custom brushes : )

The ones and some other ones can be found here: http://www.polycount.com/forum/showthread.php?t=60767&page=4

[^_^]

Nice start, your stuff reminds me of a friends. Careful about those feet tho, they don't seem to sit in the world properly and watchout for wonky eye heights.

Keep up the zbrush practices.

[Almostjakob]

Thought it was time to clear the dust off of this sketchbook.

This is some pieces since I've done since the last time I posted anything. Most of them are just random pieces done for shit's and giggles and some are practises of sorts.

Enjoy!

http://i.imgur.com/DT87C.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GUdsX.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/fsaZE.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/X0Ktk.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/W9uQN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/4obcH.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/WRfiI.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/kdnFR.jpg