Cuppa Joe's Sketchbook- Occasionally Updated...

[Cup of Joe]

More doodles from imagination.

Also, I really need to start planning my drawings better, because my dumb ass can't seem to manage fitting a pair of feet on the same page as a body.

[Cup of Joe]

Alright, this thread has basically been a bunch of drawings of dudes. That is a problem. This post attempts to begin to remedy that problem.

[Cup of Joe]

More stuff. Ps doodle from imagination, and a PS sketch and some drawings from ref.

[DanielC]

Good lines, but i think you could go even further in the details and stuff... just let that pencil go man... and do some pens, paints, etc too !

[Cup of Joe]

DanC- I definitely hear ya. I'll try, man!

Today- PS enviro from ref with some slight liberties taken near the end.

[Cup of Joe]

It's true.

I'm trying to be a little less timid with the pencil so these were basically done by just throwing down anything that came to mind. I'm also working in pen a bit. Also, two SPs. Interestingly enough, one is a bit too squat and one's too tall. Mathematically, by the squeeze theorem a middle face exists between them and is equal to my face. I will continue to attempt to calculate it.

Also some random texture studies. I'm going to start studying trees and drawings of them, cause I'm clueless when it come to those fuckers.


Lastly. some concerns that need to be addressed: I need to draw more. I never draw my damn hair in any of these SPs. All of the SPs are from the same angle because that's the only place on my drawing desk I can fit a mirror. Therefore, I must either get a new mirror or figure something else out because this is honestly ridiculous. Finally, feet suck, faces suck, clothing folds suck etc. etc...

[Ryn]

Wow, you have been progressing immensely, and the diligence with which you keep up the studies is very impressive.
Keep those up, of course, but you really need to start moving into move finished stuff. Unless you start advancing your knowledge to the next level, you'll eventually just taper off as 'someone who is really good at doing studies'.
It like when I showed my sketchbook to Jason Manley, and he asked me what I wanted for a job. I said concept artist. And he pretty simply asked me, "Well, where are all your concepts?"
Studies are very important. But unless you apply them to what you REALLY want to do and what you REALLY want to be good at, they won't be nearly as valuable as they can be.

All the best mate.

[~Faust~]

Hey still checking regularly, mate, just ant to post for a change and tell you how amazing you're doing, I really dig this: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=414701&stc=1&d=1216269896

And that's mainly because I dig good drawn breasts. Well done brother!

Your overall observation-skills are fricking amazing.

Your colors are getting better, also! I know it's frustrating when there's a gap between certain aspects of drawing and painting but push them! I'm sure they'll be pretty beautiful in no time!

[Serpian]

Dude! Girls! With boobs!

Them SPs are gettin better, but you're still a bit sloppy with the proportions. Try getting that right before you put down the values, it's much easier to correct when you've just got construction lines. And when you do get to values, try getting more of them. Charcoal, perhaps?

I admire the patience I see you have. I can never slow down and take it easy.

[Cup of Joe]

Ryn, Faust, and Serp, I hear you all loud and clear. Thanks for the crits and encouragement!

I will be gone for a week or so, so no updates for a bit. Not that you would have noticed the difference, to be honest.

Anyway, here's the usual. I feel like I've been plateau-ing for a while now. I think the key for continuing to push forward lies in more finished pieces, and expansion into other mediums. At the very least, for now, even If I'm not overall improving, I feel like I'm becoming slightly more consistent, so that's something.

More to come soon-ish.

[Cup of Joe]

Just thought I'd pop a little wip I started before popping off.

[Cup of Joe]

Oh crap. So much shit has been going on. I went to Seattle, then school started, then college application, and now my power just came back on after just under a week. I have so much crap to upload that it's not even funny, so I will be doing this in chunks over the next few days, because this page is already killing my bandwidth.

In short, here is part one of a bunch of crap.

[Christian223]

what a great show of excellency :), a little ciritique for you because you deserve it: neck and shoulders shoul be longer, like 1/3 longer of what they are now, experiment with that though.

Keep it up! :anime: :asspat:

[Serpian]

What? You had no power for a week? At all? Man , I thought being without just the internet for a day or two was bad enough!

The latest update is overall pretty sloppy, thick lines, messy hatching, I know you can do better that that! The one with the sunglasses is pretty cool, though.

[Cup of Joe]

Christian223- Thanks mate, I'll watch that!

Serp- You got me man. Those were almost all done on the bus, but that's no excuse. Also, having no power sucked, but it wasn't that bad, because you don't expect much anymore.

The dump continues. This is all junk from my Moleskine that that I did in Seattle. More dumpage to come.

[Cup of Joe]

More stuff from the past. The dump is almost through now.

[Cup of Joe]

Just about done scanning now. Also, I can't stop my scanner from making everything fuzzy, any ideas?

[humanNature6115]

Keep pushing.

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http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761 (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761)

[Cup of Joe]

End of the dump. Current stuff coming soon.

This post is mainly digital paintings, but I slapped on a picture of an oil painting in progress.

[Serpian]

How soon is soon? Not soon enough, I think.

[Cup of Joe]

Whoops. Remember when I said soon? Yeah, I meant in two months.

To start, good news. My janky old computer has gotten replaced, so internet access is no longer an issue. My college apps are also basically done, which was the main thing on my plate (besides laziness) keeping me from updating. Also, I had to design a website for a few schools, so I have one now. Check that shit out and give me some tips, since It's just some HTML I threw together. You can find it at www.josephkameen.com (http://www.josephkameen.com)

Anyway, I realize it's been forever since I've been active here, but I really want to be an active part of the community again (that and I feel like my art has gone nowhere over the last 6 months.) So, let's get to it!

[Cup of Joe]

Some shirt designs for the school tailgating club.

[White Rose]

Welcome back :3 wow your skills have leveled up so much.. I'm looking foward to seeing your new stuff :3

[Cup of Joe]

White Rose- Thanks a lot!

Here is a rough draft for a school magazine cover and a few marker drawings from a few days ago.

[Cup of Joe]

Photoshop doodle from ref.

[DanielC]

You're still there dude ! :)
Awesome ! Keep working !

[Festival Bobcats]

Damn, dude. I just looked at your first page, and then came to this page... and holy crap you've improved. Where do you go to school, by the way?

[Cup of Joe]

DanC- Thanks man! Glad to be back.

Festival Bobcats- Thanks, I'm in my senior year of high school now.

This is the final version of that magazine cover.

[Kim_bot]

Great improvement here! I wish I had something definitive to crit, but I don't, so just keep it up! I like what I see.
For some reason I really like the typewriter that you posted earlier. Is that a print by any chance?

[Cup of Joe]

College Apps are finally done! That means it's time to break the radio silence. Bunch of junk from the last few weeks, some finished, some not.

[Cup of Joe]

Just wrapping up this dude here. Kind of took the general direction from Ghost in the Shell and ran with it.

[Idiot Apathy]

Sweet progress Joe, keep it cookin.

[~Faust~]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=529547&stc=1&d=1227894371

Dude, you're making leaps! I really like where your pencils are heading! Look, you make me end every sentence with an exclamation mark! That's how awesome you are!

[Cup of Joe]

Thanks a bunch to IA and Faust!

Jesus Christ I suck at updating. Maybe that can be my new year resolution.
Anyway, here's some fairly recent stuff. Most of it is from photo reference, although there is a Lautrec study in there.

[Serpian]

Man, sorry I haven't been here in a while! And what do I get when I get here? A smack in the face! Wow, massive improvement! Just look at that shading in the third to last picture! And the life drawings!

So... any updates?

[Cup of Joe]

Sheeeiit. Been a while, huh? Anyway, I've just been spending this time finishing up high school as best I can and preparing for college. In fall, I head up to Boston U for the College of Fine Arts program. I've still been drawing regularly, just not scanning.

Anyway, here's the latest batch. Let's see if I can keep this up again since it's summer now.

[Cup of Joe]

No excuses blah blah blah. In the end, I'm back, hopefully to stay.

Here are some painting from the last few weeks, three digital and one oil. First and last are from reference, middle two from imagination. Select daily sketches from my absent period will be coming soon. Daily updates are back for now. Let's have some fun.

[Cup of Joe]

Today's batch.

[Cup of Joe]

How it is how it is doodles for the day.

[Cup of Joe]

More doodles from today.

[Cup of Joe]

Today's lot.

[Cup of Joe]

More doodles.

[Cup of Joe]

Here are some of the things I have been doing aside from personal work. These are a series of life size caricatures of teachers at my high school that I did for another teacher.

[Cup of Joe]

And here's what I'm currently doing on the side. It's a larger-than-life-size (the tallest figure in these photos is probably 9 or 10 feet tall) creche based on an older set. Kind of interesting duplicating something I didn't make myself.

[Cup of Joe]

Thought I'd give photoshop another go. Might try and do some PS life-paintings soon.

[Cup of Joe]

More dailies.

[Cup of Joe]

Back to business! I took a break for a while there because I've been preparing for and then moving into college. I'm going to Boston University with a major in painting. I know that maybe it would have been better to go to an art-specific school, but BU gave me a scholarship that I couldn't refuse, and no art schools I applied to gave me enough to make them even remotely affordable. But, I think I can definitely get what I want here with enough work on my part. So, here starts the next phase of the journey.

[DanielC]

havent stopped by for too long... good to see you've been busy man. Keep working :)

[Cup of Joe]

DanC- Thanks for dropping by man!

Here is a bunch of little life drawings from dinner.

[Cup of Joe]

Just a little bit more work on this.

[Cup of Joe]

I am back. Rather than bombard this page with a bunch of old stuff, let's just cover the last few days.

[Cup of Joe]

Just realized how dumb it was that I'm drawing every day, but I'm still too lazy to spend ten minutes before bed scanning my stuff. Let's try and change that.

Started messing around with compressed charcoal today. From photo ref.

[Cup of Joe]

More of the same. I'll try and get some stuff from my classes up soon.

[Jesus Food]

nice profile sketches i dig the hatching man

[p sage]

Daaaaaaaamn Gina </MartinLawrence>.

Excellent Cross hatching. Was this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=799174&stc=1&d=1255147012) a SP?

Gonna have to look back through your whole thread. Yeap. It's 5 ***** time.

[Cup of Joe]

Jesus Food- Thanks man!

p sage- Thanks! Yeah, it was, but it doesn't look much like me.

Photoshop portrait from reference.

[Cup of Joe]

more stuffs. Most of my drawing time has been spent on class projects recently, so I'll show those once I get the chance. Here's some doodles in the meantime.

[Serpian]

Hey long time no see! I like the portraits from ref, hope you're learning a lot from them. One thing I think with your figures from imagination is that you need to use what you learn from other studies in them more. You always use the same head construction, and I know you can do eyes better than what you did on that cowboy, man! Anyway, keep working, you've definitely improved since I last was here!

[Cup of Joe]

Definitely get where you're coming from Serp, so I went back and fixed sheriff tiny-hands up a bit. Also, here are crappy pics of what I've been up to. Sorry for the quality, but I just don't have access to a good camera right now

[Cup of Joe]

More stuff from school recently. Once again, sorry for the crap pictures. Some personal work is coming tomorrow.

Edit- forgot to mention that the first image is a Lucien Freud study.

[Cup of Joe]

Some recent doodles.

[Ryn]

Wow, so much progress! You are doing really well man! As a small crit, sometimes your faces (mostly the ones from imagination) look a bit off. Especially the eye size/placement, they look a bit odd. Don't be afraid to play with different facial expressions as well.
Keep up the good work man, you are really making strides!

[Cup of Joe]

Thanks a lot Ryn! Eyes are definitely something to focus on in the future.

Anyway, here are some photoshop doodles, some from ref, some from imagination (you can probably guess which is which.) More soon, but for now I'm going to try to get out of my comfort zone a bit. Maybe some environments or architecture...

[Cup of Joe]

WIP paper bag done in charcoal.

[p sage]

Yeay paper bag!

Lookin good, COJ.

I think the highlights on the bag are too great, especially considering the lower contrast on the bottom of the bag (which is near the top of the pic). Do you see it?

Pretty good rendering on it though.

[Serpian]

Nice drawings! The life drawings look good, but remember, plane analysis is not everything, you have to remember rythm and the general form and flow of the body... you know..;)

BTW, you tend to put big noses on your figures from the imagination. Keep drawing, keep posting!

[Jessibelle]

Man, just looked through the whole of your book. :O
It's just mindblowing that you can go from this (http://i34.photobucket.com/albums/d109/cojcpm/CIMG1023.jpg) to stuff like this (http://attachments.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=799174&stc=1&d=1255147012) and it's so inspiring to just watch the journey - I love these sort of sketchbooks. :)
Just watching your hard work is so motivating and I can't wait to see where you end up, because I know it's gonna be amazing. :D