Joeslucher's Image Heavy (UPDATE Dec.15th)

[Joeslucher]

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[Eew]

heh if you do 6 hours study and 6 fantasy you be on front page next ! no crits for now (wanna see more from you first ! )

ps : check out my daily too ! :bashful:

[mentler]

Welcome to the dailies ~ you bring good weapons ~ you need them here ~ the sketchbooks never stop ~ they just keep coming and coming and coming ~ and don' t look at blank page for over 5 seconds or your mind will turn into mush! Come and see me! There is strength in numbers!!

[SamBrown36]

What's up man, glad to see you got the sketchbook up. I hope that open figure is on Wednesday so I can go too. Anyway, that one drawing kinda looks like a self portrait. It's close man, just kidding. Anyway, even if open figure doesn't work out for me, we'll still sketch next quarter. Slow Ride

[SamBrown36]

Hey, those ballpoint pen studies are pretty nice. I think with your foreshortened stuff, you should work with lineweight more. Just making the parts closer to the viewer a little darker will really make it look more foreshortened. Keep it up man. I'll be back in town in about a week and a half.

[Zebz]

Whoa, totally diggin that last painting, man! I can't wait for the scan so we can get all intimate with it! LoL I love your studies too. Keep those up. And keep working on your form. I've said this a million times tonight but remember that drawing is like sculpting on paper. Sculpt that form when rendering. Thanks for the inspiration! I'll be checking back!

[Joeslucher]

Thanks for the compliment on the painting. Hopefully I'll have it up next week. I'll try to sculpt the form more. Thanks for the comments.

[auden100]

Nice stuff. Those environments from the 27th look pretty cool. Good sense of perspective without all the tedious accuracy. As for comments, I'd have to suggest breaking out of your live use for the life drawing. Gradients suggest the form and texture far better than harsh shadows and lines. I think if you just did a couple of shadow studies specifically looking at the value represented, rather than shooting straight for black as the darkest value, then you'd figure out the rest. Maybe just use a harder pencil that forces you to compare contrast absolutely rather than from black to white. Anyway, keep up the good work. 12 hours a day or bust.

[Joeslucher]

Thanks for the reply. The drawings are a little deceptive because in reality they're extremely light drawings so I did auto levels in photoshop. Still I understand what you're saying about having more than two values in the image.

[jetpack42]

hey dude, dont worry about it. its not about the great pieces, or the bad pieces, its about the level of the pieces you can consistantly turn out. learn from your mistakes and do a few more. the pencil illustrations actually looks pretty good. a subtle fix on that middle girls face and i think you got a pretty good piece going. is that its finished state? i might throw a little more contrast in there for mood...keep on dude, its one baby step at a time.

[Joeslucher]

Thanks for the positivity Jet. Man you change that avatar daily it seems. Yeah I'll keep trucking. Tonights my last night monitoring open figure drawing and last week of attending this private sketch group so I probably won't be posting any new stuff until Christmas and might just start a new sketchbook on here for the new year. Starting off with my senior thesis.

By the way that's not the finished image for the girls dancing. That's less than half the image. The rest of the image is the stage and backdrop and the middle girls shadow morphs into a a puritan guy's hat. It was an assignment where we had to illustrate the crucible on stage. It's in pen.

[Joeslucher]

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