A scratched sketchbook

[Scratched Glass]

just bought a new sketchbook. snagged a recycled one for the toned paper. good color and has nice little textures in it. scanned in the first 5 pages of it. I'll post more as it fills up.

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/sketch1.jpg
quick self portrait showin my sketchy ass beard i was growin in.

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/sketch2.jpg
study from life. thought it looked interesting.

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/sketch3.jpg
another sketch from life. local pond.

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/sketch4.jpg
did some quick 1 minute head studies

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/sketch5.jpg
random life sketches. some took longer than others. just tryin
out that nifty red pencil. sorry kinda hard to see.

ill post more as they come. i havent done anyting sketchbook related in a long time so it feels good to be back into it. feels like why i started doing art in the first place again

[Scratched Glass]

has these in there too. they scanned in a different shade. scanned em in at different times. they scanned in dark, tried to lighten them. they look a little saturated. my apologies.

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/sketch6.jpg

random character from my head

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/sketch7.jpg

same with this one. also noticed that the first sp i did looks a little odd. but it was kinda dark and tried to do it quick =x

[Sam0s]

:8: i love em, keep postin man, they're all lookin good (!!)

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[StephenC]

sweet ...eye candy

[Naenz]

Very nice, the red pencil is interesting. Could you post larger scans? I'd like to see the marks a bit clearer.

[Tristan]

whew that's inspiration Dave,

I'd be worried about my own work ethic if I hadn't stayed up all night drawing.

We gotta pull some serious pieces out this spring break!

[Scratched Glass]

i agree man, gonna try to pull out some nice work this break.

[I.was.ink]

These are very nice. I like the line quality, and I wish they were bigger. We share the same sketchbook!:D

Mine is toned as well, i juice up the opacity on mine so that you can see it better, mine don't scan well either.

no update? :(

P.S check out my stuff in "my daily sketchbook" thread!

[Scratched Glass]

scannin some new stuff now. ill scan em larger so you can see the line quality

[Scratched Glass]

ok sorry for the filesize on these. scanned em decent quality a bit larger. anwyays these are the next few pages in my sketchbook.

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/grem.jpg

this one is just a sketch of an illustration i might be doing for class. just threw in quick background objects to figure out how im going to work out the space

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/hellguy.jpg

this one was just a 3 in the morning sketch of some painting i wanna do someday as being the leader of hells army, with like skeletal legions behind me. who knows.

[Scratched Glass]

ok these are just 3 gesture pages i did the other day. they turned out ok.

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/30sec.jpg

30 second gestures. i throw in random face studies.

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/1min.jpg

1 minutes gestures

http://www.rsad.edu/~dgreco/2min.jpg

2 minutes gestures


... i feel like i got more accomplished with the 30 second ones than anything. i def slowed down durin the 2 minute ones and got almost the same accomplished as the quick ones. anyways. ill post more as they come!! thanks for looking.

[Atmospheria]

man...these are neat!! you have a good sense of line fluidity.
They need some contrast though....i liked the one from the profile a lot!

[tarwater]

These are very nice. Exactly what sketchbook is that? I've been looking for one with that kind of tone.

[Scratched Glass]

all it is, is just a reclyced sketchbook. the recycled paper has a nice tone to it

[Scratched Glass]

i agree completely atmos. i find it hard for myself to push some areas really dark to give it good contrast. still have to work on that. i rely to much on line sometimes and not value.

[I.was.ink]

Keep updating this mug. I want to see more from you. More! :mad:

[ZippZopp]

very nice! i like! i just picked up one of those recycled sketchbooks too, and i love it. by the way, what are you using for your white highlights?

[thomasaurus]

these sketches are great, perhaps this is the beginning of a Daily Sketchbook?

[metaphysiks]

nice start man, i would almost recommend putting this in the daily sketchbook section except it looks like u are actually getting comments in this section, so why move backwards. keep up the good work
chris