Nothing to see here anymore

[Jens]

Decided to start a new thread, new stuff is at the top, older stuff at the bottom.

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch002.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch001.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/double.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/double2.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage54.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage58.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage56.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage57.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage45.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/girl2.jpg

[Fellah.]

Hi man
What a great start at your sketchbook!
Super pencilwork! Mucho talent!
I love those birds and creatures! Nice stuff!
More :confident

[mentler]

This is a great start to a new sketchbook thread ~~~~ birds and other critters very unique indeed

[Art_Addict]

yeah i agree, i like the birds and other creatures as well.
Nice imagination

[hurricane]

great stuff !

keep em coming!

cheers!

[Carnifex]

very good rendering but train your poses more.

[Jens]

Thx a lot for all the replies!

Carnifex: Yea I'm very much aware of my disability to draw bodies. This is the very bad result of a stupid habit I used to have. When I started drawing I just drew heads over and over, neglecting anatomy and poses. I'm trying to work one this. I got a different sketchbook where I practice these kinds of things. I've been getting good results lately, when I look back a month ago. But still a lightyear to go.

Some random stuff.

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/double3.jpg

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/double4.jpg

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch003.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/kid.jpg

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/double5.jpg

[mentler]

The little head studies are really getting a lot of depth both form and emotional content ~~~ congrats you have move into a new dimension in your work ~~~ thank you for supporting my threads as well!

[flatliner]

thanks for the kind words and crits, all your characters have perfect expresions and emotion. I feel inspired :tihi:

thanks!

[Kaoki]

Hey man, you've really got some great stuff here, always noticed that you improve with every post man, the birds are great btw! uber great! keep it up mate

[Cypher]

really nice work you got there, i'm dying to see more :blahblah:

[Farvus]

Great drawing style. This whale with latern made me laugh :).
Just keep it up.

[~Faust~]

That are some awesome pencil renderings and the characters rock even more! You're great man. Much to adore! Show more! :}

[OleOlsen]

hey great stuff....your work on the head is really diggin me....really nice!

[Sems]

Hey your drawings are looking pretty good, I especially liked two of your creatures the first one on the right in the first post and the bird head thingy. Really imaginative, is the girl who's sitting down with her hand near her face with blood coming out from her knees hand ment to be so big? Good posts especially the rendering :)

[metroeast]

Really nice tonal work with the pencils. Your anatomy and composition are pretty slick too. I wish I half the attention to detail that you do.

Keep em coming

[Jens]

Wow thank you for so many replies!

metroeast, thx

Sems, well I had so much problems with that hands I decided to keep it like that, even though it's a bit too big.

OleOlsen, cool thx

Faust, thank you!

Farvus, yea i was thinking of latern fish that like in the deepsea :)

Cypher, here's the update, a bit small but still an update

Kaoki, thanks a lot

flatliner, that's good that you want to draw now :)

mentler, thanks, I'm going to keep visiting your thread as well like i've always done.

Here's a small update
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch004.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch005.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch006.jpg

[deez]

haha, love your drawings
great pencil and rendering skills
wanna see more

[davi]

great stuff mate, watch those outlines though, the outline of the "lip flaps" on the last guy are alittle too strong.

[ConquerorBen]

awesome work on the people. try some more full body sketches in wierd poses!

[final]

Nice rendering! You just made me jealous... :tihi:

Keep it up!

[Jens]

here you go ConquerorBen, i'm gonna try doing more of these everyday.

davi, thx for replying man :)
I think the outline happens when I first plan to do heavier shading, so the line is the part where the shadow will be the darkest, and then decide I'm finished with the sketch. The shadow on that one became even darker cause i messed with the levels.

final, no need to be jealous :)

deez, thx, here you go a new sketch :)

drawing full bodies is harder than I thought, must practice more!!!
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch007.jpg

[Darktwin]

I could really learn value from your awesome render studies, simply amazing stuff you got going on here. yeah I must agree drawing the figure completely is pretty challenging, but with practice anything can happen, thats what I've been working on lately (human anatomy). Great work and keep posting. :}

[Crash]

yeah full bodies is a bitch to draw, ive tried to use a manikin with mixed results but the one thing that matter and pays of is....practice.

Oh and life drawing mixed with anatomy studies.

I really like the way you use light in some of your drawing but be carefull so you dont end up like me, adding to much shadows.

i really like the last not upside down full body shot, has alot of "jens" in it.

[Jens]

crash, thx for the nice comments! you are right, and I will keep going, nothing is stopping me, except mayby my lazy 2nd personality

darktwin, exactly you have to keep going every day


Mmh drawing has been a bit though on me today so I'll present you with little new stuff and some older stuff I can still look at.

new stuff

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch008.jpg
a detail for the head for the people who were intrested in the rendering
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch008b.jpg
i don't care a lot for this one, the rendering has to much visible strokes, not placed on the right places. i'm looking for more solid strokes, closer togheter, seperate strokes only visible at a few places. i think I made this guy's shoulder too narrow, you tell me what you think.
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch009.jpg


this is the older stuff.

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage52.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage53.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage47.jpg
from reference
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage46.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage40.jpg

[stewart one]

nice work there man! And thanks for the comment in my sketchbook :) i like your shading alot.

[redehlert]

New fan! What were you sayin' about my creatures....shit! Look at yours! Dig your sketch style too....inspiring, to say the least! I want more, mkay?
Cheers!
D

[Jens]

stewart_one, no problem and thanks for the compliment!

redhelert, here's a little snake head for you. at first he had a lizard body, but for some stupid reason I always keep erasing stuff when I can't get them to look right :(

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch010.jpg

[endercoskun]

beautiful stuff.
i liked the style and i liked the girl with the bruised knee.

the crit i would give is about the faces. they seem a bit too "cartoonish" compared to your nice cross-hatchy style. (but they are getting better)

keep'em coming:D

[kapturowski]

You are able to control your values very nicely, looks supersweet!

[Fellah.]

Jens - you got real skills man! The last girl is mind blowing!

[Robolus]

Yes, great creatures and characters. You pencilwork is top!

[Jens]

damn, i'm not used to getting this many replies :)

ender, i don't think you're totally right about that they're cartoonish, but i understand what you mean. I'm trying to evolve to a bit more realistic style but I don't want to end up with boring standard faces.

thx a lot btw

kapturowski, thank you, i checked your sketchbook as well :)

Fellah, thx for your comment, it means a lot to me

Robulus, it's cool when someone replies who you've been following through every update, thank you :)


Something great happened today, I passed my year at school. Both theory and atelier!!!
So now I got 3 months of vacation without worrying about anything, except drawing mayby.


here's a little of the needed body practice, full body is from a tiny ref pic, torso is from my mind
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch011.jpg

[Badger]

Congrats on passing!
Great work here, do you work often in different media?
what size sketchbook do you use?
Inspired me to go draw...
-Badger-

[zao75231]

very noice, i love your stuff man, keep it up!

[redehlert]

More schweet work! Congrats on passing! Which Atelier program are you attending?
Peace.
d

[final]

Een dikke proficiat, geniet van uw vakantie :wink:

Really like the body from ref, but the wrists seem just a bit odd...

But hey, love your style ;)

Now don't you waste those 3 months!!!! (just keep posting please :^^: )

[Crash]

I tried something yesterday and it was to just paint (in painter) the shapes of the muscles with using a extremely small pallete (2-3 colors) just to understand the shapes. I think i learned alot when it comes to volume and understanding it so i can work faster with my pencil renderings, the faster i (you) work the more fun it gets since you can start and finish with one and start another idea and play with them.

With the torso you Could (im not saying you should) try to just draw a box, make some weird angles on the box and then draw the chest in the box with the same angle, helped me alot understanding it.


Just my 2 unwanted euros :P

[endercoskun]

cartoonish may not be the exact word (that's why i used the quotation marks:bashful: , my english :^^;: ). anyway you're welcome:)

and congratuations on passing...:) keep up indeed!

[lots of smilies!!]

[Jens]

ender, thx man :) i think i understoud what you meant

crash, yea those are good excercices, not sure if i'm gonna do that second one, but i'll keep the box in the back of my mind when drawing

final, i'll try to not waste the vacation

redhelert, thank you, i'm attending the Illustration course, in St Lucas in Antwerp

zao, thank you very much :)

Badger,
Yea I try a lot of different stuff, if you go to the guest self portrait forum you can see the selfportraits i do. I try to do a different technique every day. I draw a lot in pen when i'm doing life drawing. In school I'm doing a lot of charcoal drawings. Then I got a brown paper sketchbook where I try a thinned down version of the el coro technique. And once in a while I take out the acrylics to do some painting.

I use a A5 sized sketchbook (8X5 inches i think)

here's yesterday's and today's crap :)

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch012.jpg

[hurricane]

great stuff man!!

got nothing of worth adding :)

keep on fighting man! awesome progress!


cheers

[Jens]

hurricane, always good to see your reply :) thx

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch013.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch014.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch015.jpg

[character]

great stuff as usual man. i'm really digging your rendering. keep at it =)

[Mr.Blonde]

Very cool stuff- very interesting designs and nice rendering. I demand more! heh.

*edit* I have a tie for my favorite pieces: This (http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/double4.jpg) and this (http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketchpage40.jpg)

[Frank the Ninja]

I love this. Your rendering is really good. I think you should try more variety in body types though, like fat, different proportions, etc.

Keep it up!!

[Jens]

frank, different bodies will slowly start to appear because i'm finding more courage to do them

character, thx man

Mr.Blonde, thank you, here is some more

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch2.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch016.jpg

[Crash]

you know what i told you about the last pic, and the same goes for the one on the left.

The easiest thing with lower armmuscles is to know where they connect (that goes for everymuscle).


Great stuff jens.

[Hyver]

you had a great thing going with these figure studies (http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch007.jpg) .. lotsa dynamics in there.. definitely follow that road, son! ;)
you know you can pencilrender to the bone by now.. time to move on yea?

[Tigermilk]

Love you'r pencil renderings. I see lota control, man.
It's possible some of you'r faces are a bit off, but other than that, I think your pretty much nailing the anatomy. In any case great stile.

[Magic Man]

You have an amazing unique style man, very very cool, keep this stuff coming.

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[jensen.ragoonath]

hey dude some wicked stuff > lovin the deformed noses makes me feel better ..lol but seriously got some good inspirational figures goin there

[Jens]

thx for all the replies i'll try to answer everyone in the next post

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch017.jpg

[dashi]

definitely dig the style here
your faces are really unique but i don't see that as a bad thing
wanna see more
cheers

[Jens]

dashi, that a really nice comment about the faces, makes me happy :)

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch018.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch019.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch020.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch021.jpg

this may look to dark on some monitors :/
http://www.codytilson.com/9ine/LMSTD/jensVShugeharhar_TD.jpg

[Gloominati]

whow awsome stuff goin on here, your style and rendering is freakin great!! Keep em comin dude, thats some great inspiration here!

[hurricane]

very nice updates Jens !!

i see that your working on the body/movement...
looks like your taking big steps :)
keep on doing what your doing, i've always been a fan of your style !

cheers man!

[berf]

awsome stuff. I really love your pencil work. The style of the faces rocks. and the way you draw noses for some reason is really awsome to me.

[mentler]

Drawing is the best drug ‡

That's what I'm talkin' about ‡ major league progress on this thread ‡ really nice action on the last post ‡ love the pointy little fingers

[tabris.17]

Hey, thanks for your comments in my sketchbook :).

Your pencil work is really nice, I wish I could use pencils like that, not enough practice and experimenting I guess... That painting is awesome too.

Can't wait to see more.

[Red_Rook]

jens, baby, sometimes ya scare the pants off a me. In a good way.


I havea little crit though, alot of your faces are very unsymetrical, try and watch the center axis that goes down the middle of the face more, to line it up straight :)

[Jens]

red_rook: you're probably right, i've always had problems with symmetry, time to do something about it

tabris: yea, i do a lot of selfportraits where i experiment with different ways of hatching and shading, it really helps. Also drawing with inkpens helps you make better strokes.

mentler: absolutely, it even has that effect of self isolation that harcore drug addicts have ;)

berf: thank you, noses are usually related to my own nose (so i have been told), which is a very prominent feature on my head :)

hurricane: thx a lot man, your comments mean a lot to me

gloominatie: i'm glad i've inspired you, now go draw :D


http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch023.jpg

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch022.jpg

[Form]

the bird guy on the top of this last post is f'n UNREAL man, AWESOME!! I GO DRAW NOW! :donk:

[Pixeldragoon]

Cool stuff, really it is! :D

[Jens]

I thought it would be cool to put up some up close scans so you can see the strokes and how i try to make them wrap around the form.

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch024.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch024b.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch023b.jpg

[Jens]

Something i posted in the finally finished section

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/gezicht.jpg

[maxetormer]

Yo dude! the girl on the top of this page is
really nice rendered and the expresion looks
real natural, yummy!

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch024.jpg

keep the goods coming my friend!!! :painting:

[Jens]

Thx max, you reminded me to post here :)
the girl you mean was drawn from ref, just so you'd know :)

I'm gonna post some stuff from my other sketchbooks. The ones in ink where mostly done from life, except the weird guy with the glasses

Then some anatomy studies, copies from different books, nothing special, still getting used to the paper which is thin and soft.

And lastly a stupid oversized leprichon


http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s1.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s2.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s3.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s4.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s5.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s6.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s7.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s8.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/ink001.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/ink002.jpg

[Tigermilk]

Awsome...! :S

these latest are really, really good. Keep the anatomy studies up!
Tiger

[Gloominati]

yeah these studies are looking really great. hehe strange, the fact to see some studies makes me remember that I should draw more from life :)
rock on, dude! YOu really should update more often to gratify dudes like me!

[Form]

v. nice jens

now the hard part is to keep doing those anatomy studies a couple times a week! if you do that the improvement will be readily recognizable!

liking the freeness of the other stuff, i like the girl with the bar over her eyes, and i like the first guy with the long arm - a lot!

lets oc sometime bro! keep it up.

[sve]

Hello, Jens. Went two times through your thread. Very, very interesting. Your faces. They are so involving, they grab an attention of passerby and I want to stay and speak with them for hours. They already have proper expressions before I even say anything. I don't understand how you do this, do you add something from your feeling to this faces? very talented work.
And I like your nudes and neck studies, very useful to me.
You have these drawings of some musician, I know that it's not from movie 'Ray' (about a life of Ray Charles). But at first I thought maybe it is. I drew him when watched the movie. Well, thank you for your work, I enjoyed a lot.
Regards, Sveta

[FuT]

very nice stuff!!!you have a great style. i like it alot.

[chris ocampo]

this stuff is looking good jens. the blue pen and red crayon drawing is really nice. keep going.

[Zebz]

An applause is in order and I'm givin' it! :yayca: I love the studies, bro. You're workin' hard and this thread is evidence enough of that. More studies tho. Keep workin' on those faces. I'd like to see you get even more lifelike with 'em and maybe even push the contrast a bit more. Dramatic lighting? Perhaps. I always love ca-ruuusin' through your SB's and it was nice to come across a new one. I want more tho! So bring it! :upset:

[hurricane]

i'm gonna ctrl + i (turns it negative/inverse) your ass :) stop doing faces and only draw bodies for a month atleast :P work on motion and weight... freezeframe olympics or something :)

great faces, you know how to draw em :D

great great great! update more often !!


cheers !

[dCepT]

Your rendering-skills are STRONG, man!
I'm gonna have to second with Hurricane, though... we wanna see some more bodies up in this :)

The leprechaun kicks ass! Is he wearing an adidas-suit? :D

d-C

[Jens]

wow so many replies

dCept, I'll be working on that thx

hurricane, damnit man you're so on to me.. I'll be stealing you're body knowledge at the workshop

Zebs, thx for the comments, good advice!

chris, thx!

fut, thank you :)

sve, you gave me the nicest reply I ever got.. I thank you a lot
About feeling added.. I imagine what the person's thinking I think about the expression, I sometimes act out his expression. I guess it also works giving a character a story, but I don't do that a lot. There is also something very specific I look for in my faces. I can't really explain it, it's just something I see on the streets or in the bus. Just how real people look in a certain angle. Take the blue ballpoint girl with the red.. it was a normal girl, not very pretty but only in the angle I drew her she had that something I like. Also with the last ink sketch. The head of the guy. The drawing is sorta what I saw in his face in a flash

Form, I will be doing them several times a week thx man I also like the two sketches you pointed out

gloominati, yes go draw gogogog

tigermilk thx

[Hyver]

i'm gonna ctrl + i (turns it negative/inverse) your ass :) stop doing faces and only draw bodies for a month atleast :P work on motion and weight... freezeframe olympics or something :)


/me adds another lensflare on top
listen to the man if you want those 5stars :p

[Fellah.]

That girl is top sweet man! Good job - rough rendering and line work - just the way i like it! Hurri gave you a good advice :^^: Keep rocking dude!

[Jens]

fellah, hyver you're so fucking right!! can't say it any other way

I went to the statue park today with school, but this is really the only good thing that came out me.. the rest was mostly quick gestures that don't really make sense scanned in.

both from the same statue, like the bic face way better
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s10.jpg

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s11.jpg

[sve]

Wow, Jens. What an interesting reply on my comment, to catch a facial expression in flash and be able to save it for paper! It's very hard! You do it like nobody else.
Thank you, Sveta Dudetta

[Zebz]

Ooo, Jens.. lovin' that first one! The face is really nicely rendered and textured. Likin' the contrast in the face as well. Very nice. Bring on s'more. :P

[loomer]

great sketchbook man...very nice rendering skills, and i love your little wierd creatures. Last post is looking sweet too
peace!

[Jens]

Thx for the replies everyone!!

[kefenatorjr]

Great work Jens, keep up the sketching I will be sure to keep an eye on your book

[Jens]

thx for the reply!!

[Carnifex]

gah! i had completely forgotten about this sketchbook! top notch stuff!
(you know,i used to do like you before i got to this forum,render heads and neglect bodies)

edit: this one (http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s5.jpg) is almost on a marko djurdjevic level. wow!

[Teigrob]

I like your rendering, when you're not rushing it (like the head muscle study). I also like your hand studies, but I noticed that you (like me!!!) have a tendacy to not know what to do with the hands when you do a full body drawing. Practice 'acting' with your hands more. All in all, good work.

ps, tell your friend Robbe he needs to pull up his pants or they'll get pulled down all the way someday! :D

[Jens]

teigrob: you're so right!

carnifex: thx man, i do draw bodies I do!!

what my friend Robbe would look like if he was a boxer
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/robbe.jpg

[Alex J Cunningham]

Nice stuff man, keep up the studies!

Cheers.

[sve]

Hello, Jens. I'm very fond of your work. I like these thoughts and quiet calm mood that I always have after observing your art. Your work is effecting me, my state of mind. I like your new sketches, and especially I'm impressed with the face of a boy on the bottom of the random page and the face of Robbe. I took him with me.
Sveta Dudetta

[shyamshriram]

Lovely Stuff ! post more !

[Mr.Blonde]

some of this stuff is quite nice, I like the one with "robbe" as a boxer, keep it rolling!

[Jens]

supposed to be bush
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/bush.jpg
some overpainted photo of a russian nurse that i gave a squidhead
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/squid.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch029.jpg

[Jens]

more studies

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s26.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s27.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s28.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s33.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s29.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s30.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s31.jpg http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s32.jpg

[Slash]

I see some very nice studies in here! I like it! Keep it up!

[Ink_Monkey]

Wow ... some freaking HOT shat here. I love the pencil renders and the syle of the bird man .... tight.

[seth1]

Cool work! I really like the anatomie studys and the hands! Keep it going.. Cant wait to see some more...

[bizarre]

it's really quite admirable how much detail you can put into such small pieces of paper.

keep up the good work, mate!

[Mike Frank]

Really nice stuff in here, I like the variety of work and mediums you got going on. The hands are looking sweet, makes me want to go draw some of those :) Your rendering is good as ever too. I agree with one of hurricane's earlier crits we need to see some more bodies -- one thing I like to practice is just drawing really quick getures from my head, in whatever poses I can come up with.. try all kinds of angles, twists and whatever. Dont sweat getting them right too much, just do a lot of them really fast.. it will help you see what areas you need to work on and also help you put more expression into your stuff.

[Gloominati]

Killing new stuff in here, dude! I love these lifedrawings and especially the hand are awesome.
keep on rocking, man your stuff is great!!! :D

[sve]

Jens, I like coming to your book. Never bored :). There are so much interesting work. I like all update, but the most appealing to me are portrait of Bush (I knew it's him right away. Why did you decide to draw him? an interesting material? >:D); puppies (lovely), the pen hand, squidy Russian nurse, a room with floor (?) lamp (Oh, it has so much of a cozy, homey emotion, you need to do a bigger painting or a drawing of it, it has so many details and features of the person who lives there :)), all the sketches-portraits. Thank you so much, I enjoyed, as always
Sveta Dudetta.

[Jens]

sve,

The portrait was done for school. We have to make a illustrated card every week about something that happened in the news or to you personally. So I took an article about Bush saying that god told him to attack Iraq etc. The one i posted here isn't the finished one.

The room is in a second hand (no more like fifth hand) store. You can buy all kind of junk for a low price :), clothes, toys, bycicles, chiars, closets etc.
The place is extremely messy :)

Thx for commenting!!

gloom, thank you :)

some_guy, yea i do these things but i'm too embarrased to show :)
I wish i could get my bodies to the level i draw the hands in

bizarre, thx man, come back to europe :)

seth, monkey, slash, merci beaucoup!!

can't post without some work :)
A portrait in gouache, no underdrawing, a5 size. Took about 1,5-2 hours.
I think gouache is a powerfull media once you start controlling it.
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/images/sp145.jpg

[sve]

Funny, funny! Even hilarious! :) But admit it, the second hand store means that this things were personalized, loved and bought with something in mind. I think I was not that far in my guess :) . Although I did blush a little :).
Portrait is great, a lot of personality in features and these brushstrokes. The portrait is consistent with what I feel about your art.
Sveta Dudetta

[oishiiniku]

Hey Jens,

Oishiiniku (Nick) from Prague here. You're making real progress with your sketchbook! Great mix of studies and imaginitive works here. Good mix of media too. Your line in your pen studies is really striking. Keep going with those. Keep pushing with everything. It was good to meet ya and I hope to see some more updates soon.

Ta, Nick.

[Jens]

yow nick, too bad I didn't get to talk to you a lot.. i have a problem sitting still when there is so much going on around you :D

Glad I could talk to you, your sketches rock

sve, thx


here's a few of the many prague sketches.. (everyone liked the monkey ;))
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch030.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch031.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch032.jpg

[BAKI]

nice sketches,
love the setember 20 and 21 sketches
keep em comming

[Cyberotter]

You have a nice quality to your work. The hand studies are one of my favourites. Maybe your eyes are a bit far apart, but that may be a choice you made.

[Zebz]

I'm glad you had a great time in Prague! I wish I could have come so badly! I was so close but I had already committed to some other stuff. Man. Was that true that Andrew did a portrait of you? How cool is that crap?! Anyhow... lovin' the sketches. Nice clean lines. I like first one of the last batch the most. Very nice. Keep it up!

[sve]

Hello, Jens, I like this face on the third page a lot. You are wonderful wizard :)
Sveta Dudetta

[Azrael]

cool work here. pleasantly disturbing.

[madplanet]

You have a great sketchbook, Jens. I really like your pencil drawings the best, they inspire me to do better. And I must add that the monkey is cool, too.

[Ryu]

Heu jens, i loved hanging out with ya buddy !
and i like your stuff, u know it !!!

Cya :)

[dCepT]

You're getting stronger and stronger, dude! I like the one you didn't render as much.. the one of the bum Coro, Carl and the gang were painting.

And, dude... who wouldn't like the monkey?!? :D

d-C

[Jens]

dCept, cool thx man, that one was drawn from head actually based on the guy

ryu, the workshop was way to short, i hope i meet you again!

madplanet, thx man!

azrael, sve, thx

Zebz, yea Andrew made a portrait of me, quiet a moment for me :)
Got a hard time posing with the spotlight in my eyes, saw some weird colors after a while :)

cyberotter, i can be a choice if i want someone to appear weird. If you want a person to look dumb you can also place eyes closer than normal. You don't want to keep to close to standard proportions. But somethimes i just fuck up :D.

BAKI, thx man


carl dobsky.. pelted by gammarays.. turns into the hulk + coro's inner self
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s34.jpg

coro inking away in his sketchbook
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s35.jpg

the head model x4
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s36.jpg

the nude model
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s37.jpg

gestures out of the head (got lucky with these)
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s38.jpg

zombie freak
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s39.jpg

marko and coro whilst not looking
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s40.jpg

joeri, chilling
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s42.jpg

something digital from school, used a b/w photo of miles davis for ref
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/jazz.jpg

[hurricane]

thats a awesome update man, your stuff was awesome to see again, you have progressed so much its scary... we must meet again soon !

[light]

I really like your gouache portrait painting in this last update and your gestures, but there seems to be some perspective/proportion issues in your portraits.

[Fellah.]

Man, really cool drawings of dobsky and coro! Beautiful lines man!

[Badger]

Great stuff still. I want your lines!
Values are still the shit man.
Was great to meet you in prague.
Your a very talented fellow :)
-B-

[Ryu]

nice painting !! really like that one
i hope we ll meet again ! i ll maybe go to belgium to visit the illustration school when they open to show the students work (i dont know the name, open doors ? ) ... so if i go, i'll let you know ! :)

Btw, do you upload your illustration stuff here? or on another thread ? i'll be very curious to see those !

peace

[Gloominati]

great new update man!! I love these fucking loose lines so much, I could spend the whole day looking at them!! That portrait of 'the head model x4' is really awesome.
Give us some more of this killer stuff, mate!!

[Art_Addict]

Yoooooo !!!

Cool post my belgian friend! :) Gestures are nice and i like the gouache portrait.
Do some more digital too!...

Take care
Tom

[mentler]

Your Prague stuff is nice fresh and loose <> I like the personally I see invading your works
great sketch book style

[Jens]

Little thing for school I'm gonna silk screen

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/skull.jpg

Some selfportraits of the recent sp update

you can check out the rest here
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=54160&page=3

this shows the various moods i'm in when I do them. I think it's important that you somethimes focus on the feeling. First one feeling stressed out, tired etc.. second one feeling bold and undertaking (or something like that)

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/images/sp160.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/images/sp161.jpg

thx mentler!!

art_addict: sup man, i wish i wasn't so busy with school we could set up a meeting right now

gloom: thx man :)

ryu, the trumpetguy is one of the illustration stuff, i just don't post a lot of it

don't forget to let me know yes

badger, great to meet you too, you're too kind with your compliments :D

fellah, pretty happy with them myself :) thx

light, thx

hurri, thx man =D

fat kid, hehe I just proposed to model for him at the right time :)

[draw]

Great stuff Jens
Beautiful confident line
Always loved your portraits

[crimsoneye]

You are from eatpoo, are you. It good see some of your other drawing Jen. I really like your rendering of your drawings.

[Jens]

shadow practice from imagination

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch033.jpg

a kid and a monster
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch034.jpg

[Jens]

figure drawing, 2 minutes

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s47.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s43.jpg

[Profil]

Awesome.
Great meeting you in Prague man. Good luck in your quest being whatever you want to be.

[Carnifex]

oy,wish i could get that many details in one minute.props man.

[Diego]

GOOD stuff man, really like the looseness of these figures, i wish i could do that.
Anyways, great book so far, so keep it up.
Cheers

[oishiiniku]

Hey Jens, those life gestures are looking top! The red ones (particularly the bottom one) are really impressive. Keep it up!

Ta, Nick.

[hurricane]

cool ones !! i love the line quality ! there's some that are alittle wonky !

my fav : http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s47.jpg

[Tigermilk]

Hey jens! I've checked through your sketchbook again man. Unbelieveble stuff. Very expressive lines and I love the latest lifedrawings.
Allso checked your selfportrait thred. Amazing. Nice development.

Keep on rolling.
Tiger

[Zord]

Jens, very cool stuff you have here. Loving all of it, especially the loose lines. The studies with the muscles of the face is nice too. Very inspiring sketchbook.

[D.Labruyere]

hi jens,

really nice stuff you have got here :) I like the way you shad your things, though one little crit; by some drawings you have really big shadows on the face, but when you go down to the rest of the body they somehow dissapear. but still really nice stuff.

I have also checked out your self-portraits, they are getting better with each and every one you make.

yours sincerely,

haldor

[Jens]

something I posted in finished forum

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/womb.jpg

[Carnifex]

can't add more than ohhhhh.
i like the graphical background.

[tensai]

really like the pen sketches from life. nice loose line quality and gesture.

[SamBrown36]

What's up man, nice to meet ya in Prague. I should have given you that pen cause my friend lost it anyway. Good sketches by the way. I'll keep an eye on this thread my friend.

[anti-]

Fuck man. I'm in love with your pencilwork. Very inspiring stuff.

[mentler]

Life studies are fun and the baby Jarkawa is darling <> Pragure was good for you!!!

[Jens]

So much nice words in here.. just want to say I really appreciate any one of your comments!!

sam, good to hear from you again!

new sketches

bottom ones inspired by Lukias
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch035.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch036.jpg

a friend said that I should stop smoking drugs after seeing this one.. but it's all out of a non sedated head :D
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch037.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch038.jpg

[thirdeye]

Nice update Jens, like the last two especially :)

[maxetormer]

GOOD updates man, thanks for the post :D
your really tearing the building apart around here,
this one really blowed my pants off

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/womb.jpg

right on the kinda of stuff I love seeing;
the use of graphic desing on fine arts is something
Im gonna start to incorporate in my work as well.

that cat at the bottom looks cool as well, weed or not, your
imagination is one trippy place to visit my friend, and u can bet
I will frame your portait of me man, when you go rich and famus
this drawings will be my money piggy he he :D

P. S. the sence of bulk cause by the use of light on this
one is just freaking good man, really I LOVE this drawing!!

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch033.jpg

[Carnifex]

can only agree with the guys above me. the pussy in boots is way cool. give him a hat!
sorta reminds me of alice in wonderland because of the slightly human face.

love the skeleton kid on the last page aswell.could fit well into a story.

[sleep]

your self portraits are really inspiring. keep up the good work. some more finished peices would be great too, if you have the time :D

[marioucci]

amazing sketchbook and incredible evolution mate. my favourite is the guy at the bottom of: sketchpage57.jpg .

One thing i notice is that your shading work is more evolved than your contour lines. by shading your drawings you show a confidence of light/shadow that doesnt exist as strongly in your silhouette lines. nothing good or bad on that.. just something i noticed.

Keep it up mate!! you are bookmarked here already:)

saludos

Mario

[jtheanswer]

Your shading technique is wicked! May I ask which types of pencils do you use?
Thanks.

[Jens]

thirdeye, thx

max, sup man.. rich and famous.. don't think so :)

carnifex, hehe yea he's a crazy fellah.. i guess he's sort of a mix between puss in boots and the cat from alice in wonderland

tie, i don't really do a lot of finished stuff yet...

marioucci, yea you're right, the lines are usually a base for the shading so i shold work on line quality if i'm not going to shade it

jtheanswer, it's a hb mech pencil for the renderings, for the hands or life drawings it's colored pencil or a 2b-4b wooden pencil

a few more pages and this sketchbook will be full :D

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch039.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch040.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch041.jpg

[That fat kid]

hey jens, dang good pencils, very expressive..and you're renderings are drool worthy...btw, i checked you're SP thread and thought I'd just respond here, great stuff and great dedication, keep it up!

the fat kid

[Calle_]

hey man, nice sketchbook. as i said on irc youre great at drawing from life and ref, however when it comes to drawing from head (imo) i think you could smack in alot more detail and give them a little more personality, right now it feel to that they are just dudes =)
peace

[Joeri]

Yo jens!
firts time i actually looked in your digital sketchbook. as inspiring as the real deal...
god i love your stuff man.
hope there is a belguim miniworkshop soon so we can meet again....

keep up the good work!

-joeri

[Floris Didden]

Ey Jens, was good seeing you in Prague again. Love the quick pen life drawings. Some more then others, but defenatly quality stuff.
I'm really enjoying that personal style you got going, more so then the "realistic" faces I love the quircky stuff like on pages like these: http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch037.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/sketch039.jpg

That baby spyches me out. Would like to see more of those small drawings getting that colour treatment.

[Zebz]

More beautifully rendered stuff from Jens... I always smile when I cruise through here! Keep it comin'!

[dCepT]

Awesome stuff, Jens! Your rendering is excellent!
Imaginative stuff is really coming along as well! Good lookin' out! I'm inspired!

peace

d-C

[Jens]

just somthing stupid with a small nose, but since i don't usually show any digital sketches I thought I'd post this. Thx everyone, I'll try to answer next post.

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/fac2.jpg

[Hypronost]

Awesome stuff mate!
And your from Belgium !!

Very inspireing sketching. Can't name any favourites, to many.
I do like the loose simple lined ones, and the hand studies.

Great work, can't wait to see more.

[Jens]

hypronost, hey man sup. I checked out your stuff as well :)

these are the ink sketches I never show.. Man I feel so lost doing these..
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s52.jpg
http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/s51.jpg

[tensai]

again, lovely sketchbook. dont know what i like more the pencils or the inks. both are real good. i think the characters are cool but personally i also really like stuff like the beer brewery etc.

keep it up man

[Jens]

not sure what to think of this.. just getting somepractice in with ps. Colors are way too saturated.

http://users.pandora.be/NO1/Jens/face5.jpg

[Carnifex]

still works pretty well. the contrast is what makes this piece interesting,and it's still evenly balanced. imo a pretty strong piece.

[timpaatkins]

SOmeone has stolen all your pics!

[maxetormer]

Dude even your kinda on the rush sketchs look really good man,
that is one of the things I like about you work, it looks spontaneous, fresh,
and YOURS, and IMO I realiced not so long ago that been confortable
on your own shoes is more than half of the battle, so keep churning the
doodles out man, belive me you have no other way to go bu up up UP!!! :D

Aside that you might wanna read prometeus ANJ tut about color, just try one
or two of his excercisces, they work like wonders belive me,

http://itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm

Ron Lemen tuts are good reading as well

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9504

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=9505

the red pice is really good, but it still needs some tonal variation, its
to monocromatic, Im not all that good on colors my self, but I will
start doing still lifes to get a graps on them, I heard it good pratice,
you could try it too, Dont forget your salt while reading my post,
god knows Im still learing :P

See ya later Jens, take care!!!

[Ink_Monkey]

awsome... I love what you've got going on here Jenz. Theres all sorts a fun stuff going on here. I love the creepy cat in boots kinda thing .... I want to pet it, it makes me smile. Cant wait to see more meeoowww and stuff. Later :D
Ink Monkey.

Ps I still havnt cleaned up those monkeys >:| Im lazy i guess lol. see ya.

[walnut]

FRom the ones i can see it's pretty obvious that you've got the groove goin'. Especially in the looser ones, though your shading's sweetly tight too. Now i just wish i could see all the pics you posted, cause i feel now like i've only had starters and no main course.

[mentler]

Earning your Bones <> Going to dig up myself

[Jens]

I thought this thread died haha

Thx for all the replies, I temporarily removed all of my work, don't know when I will start this again. I just got to rethink some stuff.