Dpaints Sketchbook/updated 11/25/2011/more NSFW

[dpaint]

Aftera couple of months here, I've finally gotten around to starting a sketchbook. I work mostly from life and my imagination and then develop ideas later on for finshed work or production art. Black and white is pencil color stuff is oils done in life drawing sessions. Mostly it is a way to keep my skills from getting too rusty.

[cdejong]

Cool stuff Dpaint, I really liked your plein air paintings in finally finished, so I'm looking forward to seeing your oil figure studies.

[dpaint]

cdejong,
thanks. Im posting some quck 10 and 15 minute poses for everyone to see. With these I only have time for gesture,shape and color and I let the details go. I'll post longer poses later

[Kezhi]

Nice sketches and peed paints here Dpaint~
I'm really loving that tree, all the knots and twists make it seem very much alive.. in a creepy following you though the forest kinda way..

[dpaint]

Thanks again. Here are some longer (45minutes to an hour) poses.

[sarbro]

your paintings are awesome!!
are those apinted with oils?

[dpaint]

Thanks for the compliment and thanks for asking about the paintings. All paintings are oils, all painted from life and all painted in an hour or less, alla prima. The sizes are 16x20 or 18x24 inches

[Zazerzs]

Rock on Dpaint :) Glad you started a sketchbook!

nice oils for sure.

subscribed.

[kungfumike]

Great paint gestures! I love the light on the figures.

[dpaint]

Some master copies of Hogarth, Frazetta, Fechin, Loomis, Bridgman, Ploog Dorne

[dpaint]

More stuff from my sketchbooks

[Bummer6]

Really REALLY nice stuff! :D Especially your paintings caught my attention. It's been a while since I saw someone paint so well using traditional media.

[Lhune]

I love your understanding of shape and colour. I'm extremely envious of your ability to paint and how well you draw hands, I'll definitely be following your art :).

[torstan]

Great stuff. Love the lifedrawing work. What medium are you using for the colour poses?

[Slothboy3000]

Great sketchbook, dpaint. I love those enviroment compositions, and the colour choices on those alla prima figures are beautiful.

[nofu]

It's cool to see the art behind the person who's been spreading so much valuable knowledge throughout the forums. And I must say you do not disappoint in the least. I stay to see more aka subscribing.

[Farvus]

I have the same thoughts as Sticks. Fantastic sketchbook.
I really like those quick pose paintings and jungle sketches.

[Angel Intheuk]

Absolutely love the jungle sketches, so full of life :D Digging the oil paint studies too (makes me want to drag mine out the cupboard)

Subscribed!

[a_mckeown]

Hey mate, love your sketchbook so far. Particularly like the acrylic(?) anatomy and face studies. Makes me want to get out my paints :)
*cheers for the respons to my thread in the discussion forums*

[zerdron]

nicely done sketches on those dinos.

[Diarum]

lol you sure do like those naked ladies don't you lol, glad my teacher wasn't in here when I scrolled up. Nudity is frowned upon at school lol. these are awesome to say the least. hope to see more! lol are you going to post more?

[LORD M]

Hallo Dpaint, great stuff you got going on in here. :) I absolutely love those jungle environment drawings, please do more of those! You got a good understanding of the human anatomy and its forms, although imo your biggest weakness is the face when it comes to placing the eyes in space. I see you're working on it and that is good, I too need to work on it a lot more then what I currently are. I can suggest you to do some self portrait studies infront of the mirror, and looking at statues if you got any of such close to you.

P.S. I saw your oil paintings, very beautiful. The vawes that had light shining through them was astonashing. :)


I hope you'll update soon so I can come back!

[pauloricardo]

Hello, you have a good SB, I prefer the forest drawings... keep going and share more of your work and comments with us...

[dpaint]

More sketches from life (mostly sitting in airports)

[TacticallyWacked]

I would LOVE to see more of your sketchbook environments!

The 45-1 hr studies are excellent! The first in particular...reminds me of someone and I can figure out who...

[dpaint]

Time to update with some life drawings from public places, mostly airports

[dpaint]

It has been almost a year, what a slacker I am. Here are some quick oil studies
There is a lot of experimentation going on wwith these with types of surface, paint application and color. Most are 12x16 to 16x20. the last three value studies were on an 18x24 canvas board done by wiping out with a brush or paper towel with a little mineral spirits and no paint.

[CLANLESS]

Hey, dpaint, I really like your paintings and your use of color in them. For the last few paintings, how long did each generally take you?

[dpaint]

Hey, dpaint, I really like your paintings and your use of color in them. For the last few paintings, how long did each generally take you?

I should check my own threads more often or hook up the email notification. The last batch of color paintings were one to two hours

[MrFrenik]

It seems you might not update TOO often, DPaint, ha, but I'm subscribing in the hopes that you put some more stuff up soon. Good work, man.

[dpaint]

These are my preliminaries and thumbs for the final digital paintg which is here (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=3310248#post3310248)

I chose the chapter of the book called Champion and Chief.Unfortunately Dejah Thoris is nothing more than something to save in the first book. I thought about having her in a fighting stance (early thumbs) but changed back to the description.
The process is, sketches out of my head and thumbs first. Then I use a mirror to refine them and shoot reference for a more accurate pose. In the case of the thark head I made a little 2 inch clay model of the head for reference. The background is from my ref and a max model I built to help with my visualization. I then scan the pencils and combine them in layers in PS and then move things and change them as I refine them and problems crop up that forces me to deviate from the initial thumbs.

[JeffX99]

Nice! Love the sketches and process description. The thark head studies are great...tharks are such a bitch to design to Burrough's description but still make cool.