Hi, how are you?

[JM]

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/JohnBcopy2.jpg


Please go to the last page

[enthombed]

hey Juliana, great work here, the first is a promisse of a great work in this thread, wellcome lady, you name is the same name of my sister.

Cya

[hurricane]

Hello and welcome to the SKETCHBOOK section!
if you'll keep this a somewhat daily or weekly activity you will learn alot and have a blast!

cheers and i wish you all the luck!

[JM]

Alrihgt, here's more stuff

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/img007.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/img006.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/img002.jpg

[JM]

Here is more

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/img005.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/img004.jpg

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/img003.jpg


C&C welcome naturally~

[Tigermilk]

hey julianna, lovely sketches, a great start on your sb! :)
I can see you're already able to capture what you see quite nice, keep it up!

t

[Bawbbb]

Jooo-leee-annah!!

I am sooo glad you are sketching again. I was getting worried that life would consume you and bury your first love: art. This is some good stuff alright, and I am glad others are encouraging you as well.

These sketches are tight yet loose all at the same time. I think with more practice your hand will become more proficient and your lines will become more efficient (which means simpler). Less erasing (not that that is bad, I use one, too) but just that the lines go down easily because the hand knows where and how to create them because it is experienced. Somewhat like a singer: when they first start out their voice is tight, but the more they sing, the more beautiful it gets because it gets used and practiced.

I look forward to that with you. I love seeing talent developed.

N. E. Way, ttyl

[Elnady]

Nice sketches
Keep it up :)

[JM]

Hello, thank you for the replies!
Here's some more I did today.

http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/Sketches.jpg

[enthombed]

hey julia, great drawings as allways, tnks for share this.

See ya

[jharford]

Hey there Julia,
Very nice linework, and your shading style is very comfortable to read. Keep it up, and i hope to see more expressions.
I look forward to seeing more, especially more portraits.

[Niels23]

Great life drawings, Julia! Nice lines and interesting shading. Post more!

[JM]

I will as soon as I can get my scanner to work. :^^;:

[Jason Rainville]

I will as soon as I can get my scanner to work. :^^;:

Yeah that's shitty beans. You should really get a tech genious over to look at it :(

[Cordy]

The rendering on those figures has a cool look to it. keep charging

[jharford]

You can borrow my scanner :P.

[JM]

Went to work today and scanned some images.
The bottom is a self portrait from a couple years ago.

[Jason Rainville]

Hooray!

These are great. Nice shading, I don't know how you people get such finesse out of that brutal bludeoning pencil. I'd like to see what you can do without a ref.... you need to practice your imagination too!

[Cordy]

the bottom one is classy.

[Fishspawn]

I like your method for rendering shadow on skin, it makes it look rough but you get the values down well. I like your studies, but i think you should take on the challenge of drawing the full figure from head to toe. The first one in post #4 was the one that improessed me the most, and it is the closest to a full figure. Keep up the good work.

[aph]

Yeah thats a good point working solidly on the head has its good points, but working on some figure drawing would help. Hands and bodies are very expressive. The first two drawings from your second post show that, a lot more involvement for the viewer. =)

Good work! Nice job on the update. Keep going back to that scanner!

[JM]

Ask and ye shall receive.
I'll try and upload some more tonight.

[aph]

Nice update. Really considered and interesting piece. Those hands are awesome =) Well done!

Btw, what sort of type of things do you like to draw or want to draw?
Keep going!

[Cordy]

hey, what kind of ref are you srawing these from?

[JM]

Right now, I'm trying to focus more on figure drawing. I like drawing people mostly I guess.. but I would like to start drawing environments and other things soon.

Here is an update.

[Jason Rainville]

Good good :) How long do you spend on these if you don't mind me asking?

[aph]

I like this one, great update.
Just some minor crits:
The girl on the right, the thumb on her right hand seems a bit too high or out of place to the plane of the hand. I really like those fingers though.
Her chin needs a bit of sorting too, but I guess you noticed that one hehe.
Looks as if her ear is too high, maybe thats just the way she is. Keep going =D

[Spats]

Very nice drawings - solid stuff.

Keep it up!

[JM]

Yes, you're right about the figure on the right. I was kinda lazy with it..

Here's something new.

[Jason Rainville]

Like I said, good tonality. That last one is great!

[2100]

Hey Julie, great sketchbook. You have an good sense of proportion, keep posting!

This one is particularly well done. I love the texture and the strong lines. It is also deceptively clean.
http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/img007.jpg

Are your friends modelling for you?

[JM]

Yes, that is my boyfriend whom I made sit in his shorts for me actually.
What do you mean by deceptively clean?

[Jason Rainville]

Well I take it as: it looks like you're quite scribbly and smudgy with your pencil, but in actuality everything in terms of value and line is all in the right place :)

[Cordy]

Some of your shading has a smudge effect to it- but that might be intentional.

last one looks good.

[cerbercus]

Your style's really unique and impressive. Whilst the lines aren't smooth it doesn't stop the images from looking realistic, which is very effective!
Like Rhinestone, I think that your figures are stronger than the faces, but I guess with the method you draw with that the faces would be hard to draw??

[aph]

Wow that new one is great! Nice.

Heres some small crits:
- I think the eye is too far forwards, it tends to be more sunken into the face, and this is normally evident from the side more than anywhere else, that said.. some people are different so. =D
- The hand needs to be pushed further so that it matches the rest of the picture. (more value)

Keep posting and hitting that art! Good work =]

[canned_fruit]

great drawings you get here :D

[JM]

Here are a couple of skeleton/skull studies. They aren't great cause the proportions are way off. I was using a photo.
I'll also get a whole skeleton in there someday.

There is also a pic of a girl I drew at the bus stop who was reading a book, and the other faces are just me trying to draw from imagination. Those ones aren't great cause again, the proportions are all funky. I'm trying to work on that more.

C&C~

[kuroart]

sweet pencils. They have a nice naturalness to them
keep em coming.

[Mikko Voipio]

Hello there Julianna. You're anatomy studies are looking good. Really like this (http://i14.photobucket.com/albums/a346/MysteriousBlue/img007.jpg) one
I'm really sorry for your eye and nose bleeds.

[stephen]

very sensitive use of contour lines, me likey.

[cerbercus]

Those recent pics are great! I see what you mean about proportion but practise makes perfect eh?
I love the face of the boy looking up!

[aph]

Yeah good effort with the skeleton and skulls, they are looking good to me. Minor things ofcourse, but you've obviously noted them so lesson learnt! Just remember to refer back and don't make the same mistakes! Keep em coming ;).

[maxetormer]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=27917&stc=1&d=1159231409
sweet work mate!!!

[Jason Rainville]

And you said your skeleton was crappy.... Ima do mine over after seeing this :bashful:

[JM]

I know the one girl looks almost pregnant.
C&C~

[cerbercus]

I love the figure study, it's really nicely done.
The breasts and face seem slightly... I can't place it... not in the correct positions?

[Cordy]

these last ones are good, but some of the heads seem squashed.

[JM]

Cerbecus, do you mean on the top or bottom figure?
And yeah, I should pay more attention to the head.

[cerbercus]

The figure on the left in red. From head down to knees/thighs. That's the one I'm talking about ^^

[Jason Rainville]

Titties!

I mean, your descrition of form and accuracy in your bodies looks damn-near spot on, but your faces seem to fall a little short in comparasin. If I were you, I'd probably work on faces as well as imagination work. :)

[entdroid]

Hey Julianna, nice sbook! Your studies are really impressive and your lines are great, I must agree with Rhineville about the faces though.
Keep up the good work!

[Cordy]

Frick! I must be the only loser in the SSg who hasn't done the anatomy project.
The compostion on them pages with the skeltons is looking great.

[JM]

After some job searching, school searching and soul searching, I have finally decided to produce a few things.

C&C~

[JM]

At cafe today.

[Cordy]

good update. There's someting about your figure's eyes that don't seem to fit with the rest of there body. can't really pinpoint what it is, but it's something to look out for.

[jharford]

hey!.
GREAT work!. i love the guy at the table.. really nice.
All good practice.. i like your nudes. I hope to see more of them... larger ones are the better ones.

[aph]

Lol that fist into the womans face, don't remember seeing that before haha! Nice touch!

I reckon these are looking pretty solid =D Keep up the work Julianna! Its worth it =). Let us see what you do with your new paints too.

[JustinBeckett]

Hey great work here! I especially love that portrait with the skeleton studies on the left!

[JM]

I suck for not drawing more. Here's all I could produce over the past few days..

[Darktwin]

wonderful faces, great structure to your faces. Keep up the good work :)

[aph]

Welcome to page 2! Grats ^_^. Nice work on the faces, dont be afraid of posting the WIP! You will learn a lot more that way. Keep up the great job =)

[Cordy]

I think the girl's left eye is too high on bottom face, but besides that these new ones are some of your best work yet.

[JM]

Hah, I didn't even realize I had a page 2 yet.Thanks for the comments guys. I'll continue to work hard at getting my proportions right.
Onto these, I feel pretty amature for drawing a girl with a gun, especially when I don't know how to draw a gun.

Please gimme lots of crits~

[Jokisalo]

I'd call this eyecandybook. Lovely thread, and i stay tuned.

[JustinBeckett]

That last sketch of the girl with the gun is great!! Good job.

[JM]

So I started to colour in the girl with gun pic. The gamma on my screens are really wierd so I don't know if it will look too dark or too high contrasty on other monitors.
All you gun enthusiasts will probably scoff at my gun design too..
I have never really drawn one so if you can crit me on that so I can get it right, that would be uber.

[Cordy]

hey julianna. I'd say that her right leg might be turned out a little to far, and the gun will probably need a hole at the end of the barrel for the ammo to come out of. other than that, it's dang nice.

[aph]

I agree with Cordy in that the right leg does seem to be too far, its a sideview while the pose would suggest a different angle to the leg. I think the contrast is pretty high as well, maybe could use some attention. Love the face and design though pretty cool, think about making it a bit more your own though. For the gun get some ref!

Oh just also, make sure that the lips curve around the head, they seem to be a bit flat on the face. Keep it up Julianna! You took a huge leap and its really great so keep at it.

[2100]

Hey, I see improvement! I like the drawing of the fat man at the table (oct 19th post)

Your lines seem to be growing more confident, yet retaining the same fluidity. Keep it up!

[Ricardo Hernández]

nice drawings :rendered: !

[redehlert]

have you been good this year? still trying to figure out what i'm gonna give you for the gift exchange...had to peek at your profile and sb to get some inspiration. good work in here....be easy on yerself and have fun with what ya got goin' on here. it's alllll gooood.
cheers!
d

[GunTrouver]

You are on a good way, and the last one will look great with a bit more work. Just consider the tips the others gave you, the thing with her legs and feeds. And I think it would be better to use some less strong colors, maybe a bit more pastel-colored and a less shiny violet. It's more friendly for the eyes.:)
Keep the stone rolling!

[JM]

Scanner is kaput which is why I haven't bothered to update this thing in so long, so I'm gonna see if I can use the one at my work.
Here's a preview of some stuff..
(Studying an anatomy book by Joseph Sheppard)





[Edit: Guess it would help if the images actually showed up.]

[Texahol]

webcams are HAWT!!

can't wait till you get a scanner for more l337 picksharrs PICSHARRS

studies look great, look forward to more :)

[Stark]

Nice studies. Keep at it and you too can be as cool as texahol! lol

Not but really, the pics are shitty quality, but I can tell that the studies are well done.

KUDOS

[Slash]

Nice tits!

Cool to see you trying out coloring, pretty nice result, although a little oversaturated for my taste. The ladies are beautiful, keep em coming!

[PaulGanguly]

Wow, well done all around - I think some minor crits would be to either scale back or fine-tune your shading so that it doesn't look so "choppy" or "heavy" like it does not. Maybe try small pools of darker tones, and blending them out where you need them with a blending stick.

As far as your monitor's color problems, you've obviously got an eye for smooth tones, so I don't think that'll be a recurring problem in the future.

Good work.
-Paul

[Lad]

I really like what you did with the shading on the noses very nicely done. Over all your anatomy work is just excellent! Would I would like to see is more concept stuff! Think monsters that go bump in the night or super ninja fighting robots!

Keep up the good work!

ps. get your scanner working

[cerbercus]

Wow I'm really impressed! You've come on leaps and bounds!! Maybe try some softer shading techniques in the digi painting of the gun-bound woman, but I know it's only a WIP picture so you might have already considered this ^^

[JM]

Thanks for all the crits~
Please keep em comin' and I'll keep improving ;D

As promised, here's the latest.

[Texahol]

oh god, girl who draws dinos <3

lines are looking pretty good. When you go to put down tone in pencils, think about how your stroke is going to read form [cross contour hatching]. how you put down the stroke of tone makes a big difference in how the form will read. :)

looking forward to more, and looking forward to some fully resolved works.

[Stark]

I'm in love I think....yep, I am. These lines are sexeh! You used a scanner didn't you? Congrats!

That dino is awesome...you are varying the topics and that's awesome. The studies are also top notch and I like those a lot. :P Good life studies (if those are what they are)

Keep at it!

[JM]

One more.

[Lad]

I guess Texahol wasnt joking about the dinosaur thing :P

Have you check out "Dinotopia" ? If not you should!

I really like your lines on the guy to the left of "hand not loose enough, too shakey..." really confident. Now I only wish I could draw at work :)

[Maestro Andres]

Hey Julianna, what a lovely sketchbook you have here. I enjoy a lot of your first posts and really dig the colored one of the girl and the gun. Keep it up!

[Delmar]

Well, i always love to see a bunch of good pencils, just like yours.
My fav. is also the figure drawrings of the boy.

Keep it up !

[JM]

A character for this board game...
I'm beginning to colour it.

[Stark]

I envy you. The pencil looks way better than the painting, but then again, the painting is still a WIP, so you'll get it looks just right in no time. The lines and concept are spot on, I like it.That right thumb though needs work...bending the wrong way. And watch that wrist, it looks broken or something... :|

Keep at it and I'm sure you'll get it right.

[Lad]

Wow! From your first drawing of this prospector to this new and improved one is AMAZING to say the least

Cant wait for the colors :)

[Texahol]

prospector pete is looking good. I'd redo the hands though. They're pretty sloppy, especially with such a nicely done face.

[JM]

Started off on a master copy of Leighton's "The Summit".

[JM]

I think I messed this one up a bit..

[JM]

More dinosaur studies.
(I know the one head of the 2nd dino is kind of really small.)

[Solon]

Good anatomy studies. Sheppard is a good source. You have to love those biceps "exclamation lines" :). keep posting

[Stark]

Awesome dinos...The shading is really good, but it looks like you could make them more..shiny? lol..the master study looks really good

[bunny]

great work here!

I'm really diggin' your pencil work. Those dinosaurs are looking great :) Your hatching is awsome.

I'd suggest that you experiment a little with your subject matter. Your studies are awsome. Your dinosaurs are awsome. Maybe do more of your own concepts? Those dinosaur studies could be used to create some awsome dragons.

You might also want to do a little more colour work. You did a great job on this piece http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=43970&stc=1&d=1162451988 You might want to work with more "neutral" colours, however, before you get into bright purples and whathaveyou.

this http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=100403&stc=1&d=1172632322 is lookin great so far :) keep it up man!

-N

[Texahol]

tones are looking remarkably better after the master study. Something to keep in mind, when doing value studies, is working on a neutral background, and pushing it to light and dark values. It's very easy [and quick!] to do when working digitally. It will also help keep your values more accurate.

as for the dinos, I would look into the construction of the front arms. You seem to have given them a bit too much human shoulder connectivity.

more studies, and more of whatever you do to keep it fun :) you're definitely on the right track

[Sorknes]

Oooh. Me likes the master study. Good one. And it shows in your next ones too. :)

[enthombed]

Nice pencils and cool shade, keep posting more like this.

Cheers

[Jason Rainville]

Sketches are hard to critique.... do more finished works! Not only because what you've done so far is great, but that I can probably crit those :D

[JM]

Okok, so I tried a little conceptualizing.
Still drawing alot of dino's cause I feel I should get good at it before I start making up my own stuff.

[Jason Rainville]

Killer dinos ( :O )

Liking the musculature on the sitting animal, same with the elf-dude, but I think his eye closest to us might be a bit big... keep on pushin :)

[JoeEffect]

i like the pencil sketches,digit.pic too.keep posting.

[Longxiang]

Wicked lines, I envy.

[novice]

stunning

[JM]

I thought I would share something old as something 'new' here.
I like this one a lot even tho I can see many errors with it.

Cheers~

[aph]

Julianna!

Yay you've been working hard! Well done! So impressed ^_^.

I really love that creature you came up with, its great. I don't think you captured the same sense of bulk in the running picture, maybe it could be what the younger ones look like? =D Really awesome though, I hope you keep posting and posting. Your stuff has vastly improved.

That last one must've been a hell of an excercise in patience ;)

[Texahol]

hot damn!~

more art plz <3 <3

the perspective might be a bit off on that last one...but the use of hatching and tonal variation is amazing. :O

[JM]

Just got back from a little vacation. Here are some sketches of people on the bus as well as at the stations. I drew some mountains too but didn't feel like scanning them cause they're meh.

[Stark]

Your bus station gestures are really good. Great job at capturing the looks and "feel" of the moment. How was the vacation?

[JM]

Stark: Vacations are awesome :D
Went to visit some friends in a town I used to live in, and although I don't miss the town itself that much it is still nice to get away.

Here's Prospector Pete finished.
Tex: After not looking at my earlier drawing of him in this thread for a while and then seeing it again now, I see what you mean with the hands...

[Stark]

P.P is a nice color and even more amazing pencil. But now that you've colored him, you should outline him better so that the colors don't seem to melt together...

Keep at it

[JM]

Some sockeye salmon. This one took me way too long.
(The fish further back is a female and the one in the front is a male)

[Stark]

Looks good...but I already told you that...good colors and reflections...

[aph]

Wow nice Julianna, very impressed, the red reflection at the top is distracting a lot though. Hmm.

I'm so proud ^_^.

[Maestro Andres]

Lovely picture your last one. You did good at capturing the underwater elements such as refrections and reflections. In the same lines as aph, I just think the red reflection on the left above that fish is not quite matching with the perspective. It doesn't really look to be on the water surface only in the water. Hope that helps, keep it up!

[JM]

I got kinda bummed after some guy said I was only "alright" (I guess he meant my looks), and I was thinking that almost the whole time I drew these. :\

Ohhh well...

[novice]

don't get bummed out, don't take any notice of some guy saying your Mediocre, your work its truly unique, i love your line work keep it up. sorry i know i'd be the same gritting my teeth and hiding in my drawings getting reculsive and bitter, i guess you found your nemesis, who was it?

[Stark]

I concur with novice...Your work is fantastic and the line work is even more amazing. And if he was talking about your looks...let me talk to him...I'll set em straight. >:O Keep doing what you're doing!

[_andreas_]

your allready getting better!
this one is REALLY nice
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=30072&stc=1&d=1159644445
(and the upper head from the last post)

keep it up!

[JM]

Holy, page 3.
Thanks guys. It certainly does suck hearing that kind of feedback from someone.
He was just some guy that I'll never see again anyway.

Here's another SP.

[Jason Rainville]

:meow:

----

translation: Crit on this last one here - looks slightly different than the other two recent ones, so I'm inclined to think that this one is the deviation. In that case, you're chin appears a bit too long in this one with eyes spaced a little further apart. Nice as always though, forgot to mention the one before this (second one of last update) is fucking incredible :D

[Stark]

I'd hit that

[Keenox]

I really like your drawings! You are very talented. For how long have you been drawing?

[Texahol]

juli juli juli

when doing self portraits, if you can get a stronger single light source, or "dynamic" lighting, I think it will help you with pushing your values. Also, if you get good values, you won't have to be so dependent on those hard dark lines you use.

also, with the hatching, you might want to look at this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=51658&page=4)
sone_one does a couple of portraits, and he really impressed me with his use of hatching to show form...something I'm still trying to figure out :|

[Flaskpost]

Very nice SP! The nose are drawn in a different angle from the rest tho.
Lovely stuff in this sketchbook!

[JM]

Alrightyroo~

So here's me trying to figure out how to draw a samurai. The sketch looks much better than the one I tried to tackle in PS. I'm trying to get used to painting more in PS but I still suck pretty bad.

[JM]

And one more SP.

[Texahol]

ah that last samurai on the sb page is looking pretty active! I'd think about tilting the sword so the tip is going towards the viewer [I know I know, it'll be harder to draw something thin like a sword at an angle] I think it'll give him that extra bit of preparedness to strike.

nice grinning wolfie too <3

hrmm I need to get into gear, you're gonna kill me on this project!

self portrait looks like a quickie. I need to start doing sp's again so I can call you lazy for not doing full value renders...buuuuut I can't right now without being hypocritical :O

[JM]

Here's some more dinosaurs and some birds. Had to use google'd refs for the birds.

[Lot]

wow juliana, you have great skill, i like very much your drawings, they have a lot of movement and expression, the animals are just great, you seem to have a very good look in the shapes and volumes, congratulations¡¡

[naomiful]

>< arrr I was trying to look at the other pages but it wouldn't let me. ; ; So.. anyways, your last update is really nice, nice studies and awesomeness to do dinosaur studies ~ great sb

[squidmonk3j]

nice stuff. the birdies are very nice, and ur dinosaurs are also very nice. i'd mebbe try to consider the weight of the subjects, tho...they seem to be tilted at slightly weird angles. as u seem to handle mass pretty well, considering how mass operates in space shouldn't be too difficult:)

keep it up!

[Texahol]

YAY 4 UPDATEZ!!!11!!eleven!1!!one!1!
Your lines are pretty schmexy as usual, but don't be afraid of the eraser to make them more schmexy! These studies are really nice. I think one of the only thiings you are lacking is fleshing out [furring out? har har] your animals. Your values seem to be a bit spiked in the light areas, with large differences in light [usually the white of the page] and shadow areas. Maybe concentrate on three tones in the light, and two in the dark [ I think, or it's 3 tones in the dark and two in the light] when thinking minimalistic. Right now you've got white of the page, dark grey, darker grey. If you ad wider range of value, it will help render 3d form.[it's why you liked that hippo so much, use of values]

although, where are the cute things being ripped apart by the dinos? :< I was so looking forward to that! hehehe

<3 as usual. Keep up the good work :)

[JM]

Squid, you're right about some things tilting.
I started to colour this one a bit in PS and I hope I can fix the tilting problem.
I'll try and do what you suggest Tex and hopefully show it in my next update :D

Thanks very much for all your comments. They are really helping me~

[TopSecret]

Julianna your sketches are very very inspiring, please continue updating! What tips can you share with us for drawing the human head/face? I find it very difficult to know where to start.

I used to love Dinosaurs when I was younger... still do. Fascinating creatures of nature.

[DennisCurrie]

Love your lines, especially the loose stuff. I can tell you've been at this for a while.

Also, love the self-portraits in red pencil. You really captured the mood within yourself. And, I love the lines.
Oh, did I mention I love your lines? Keep up the good work.

Peace.

[Rabid]

Love your renderings of the faces, your line weight emphasizes alot of clarity but check you skull and anatomy studies, some of the bones are misproportioned...shouldn't be a big concern though since they don't translate into your gestures or renderings. Thanks for the crit! :)

[JM]

TopSecret: Tips? Oh man.. I can't really think of anything useful to say at this point. I'll have to get back to you on that, haha.

Here's some doodles with a pen. They're a little lame but meh.

[TopSecret]

No worries Julianna ill have to fend for tips elsewhere then! LoL its all good :)

[Stark]

Wow...the first guy is pretty awesome. I would like to see you take that a bit further and give him some color and a full body or composition of some sort. Keep at it!

[mak_art]

fantastic work!

[BiTMAP]

The new concepts are very interesting, The game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Has a similar monster in it, however i think you exicution of it is a bit creapier.



I am baised on your work tho no?

[Alex Baer]

Your sketches are very nice, I especially love looking at the animals and dinosaurs, their body language looks very natural and lifelike.

A suggestion for the first monster in your last post though: I like the way you've positiond the neck, but the mouth is a little flat and unconvincing. Maybe if the lips were curled back a little it would add some more dimention to the sketch. Other than that, your work looks fine, keep it up!

[JM]

Daebaers - Hey, thanks for the suggestion on that monster. I probably won't go anywhere with it but if I do then I'll keep in mind what you say.

Something I've been poking away at for the past while. It's still pretty unfinished.

[Maestro Andres]

Wow, I don't know how much have you spent on this last one, but so far it looks very beautiful. I like how you paint the mist in the environment as well as the fade in the background. If it weren't for the animals in the painting, I would ask you if you are doing this from direct observation?

The detail of the tree's leaves and the grass is well done. Don't know what to suggest to make it better, but you really have outdone yourself in this one. Keep it up!

[Stark]

You...are....killer....

[Jason Rainville]

Cripes, welcome back to the land of the living :O

Really starting to look like it's less of the grass brush and more of a painting with just the circle brush. The fact that I can't tell where either begin or end means.... joo did gud :perv:

[JM]

TD submission.

[Stark]

Push that Dino further Juli. you can probably make that something awesome...In fact, I know ya can...continue it and add some good ole Hurri or Deadred textures to it and we have a winnar

[Texahol]

your wetlands pic is coming along very nicely. Try to continue thinking about lightsources and value ranges of the creatures in the environment. They stick out a bit right now because they have a strange range of contrast from that dark dark, to light colors in light...that really isn't present anywhere else in the image. I agree with rhineville about the brushes. The integration of custom brush and then your hand on top creates a good result. Get back in there and clean it up...and goodluck on that image :I it's come a long way from when you first started :)

that steampunk dino is a pretty cool idea. I'd like to see you finish that image up, and loosen up the posture a little bit. Just 'cause he's a robodino, doesn't mean he can't be smooth. or if you want him to be a bit of a stiff robo-thing, maybe make some chunkier parts to show some crudeness of design.

Looking forward to some moar artz!
disclaimer: erm. if this doesn't make sense. it's 'cause I'm tired.

[Nerahla]

Tex hit it on the nose (it's no fair how he does that so often) but really cool work and would love to see more :)

[ped454]

Your values blow me away at times. Your last environment is also very beautiful.

You know I just started painting with Photoshop about a month ago and I noticed that the brushes I use have a big impact on how the shading results....So i went into window-brushes and i started making my own custom ones. If you get a chance try it...its really interesting to see the kinds of textures you can muster up.

great work so far. cheers

[JM]

At art school now, and these are a few life studies that I'm able to scan so far. A lot of other work is pretty big and I don't have a camera at the moment, otherwise I'd have that here too.

Hopefully more to come~

[JM]

Some more

[Danuh]

Your dinosaur and animal studies are great~ I love how you capture their movement. Though right now I think my favorite post is #107. The red and black cross hatching makes it look like an old-fashion etching.

[JM]

It's time for a mega-update-a-thon. Soooo.. I've finally finished my first year at art school and this is some of the stuff that has erupted forth violently from my hands.
Let's start with some figure drawings..
(Sorry for the low quality photos)

[JM]

Some more figures

[JM]

Some of these are silly

[safesheep]

Wow, those life drawings are wonderful. You have a great understanding of planes on the figure, how they catch light or do not. Just very solid figures all around, great job! Don't let up over the summer, keep building that momentum (I'm saying that mostly for myself, almost finishing my first year of studying art too and I really need to keep the drawings going).

[Stark]

Not bad! You figure drawing is something else though. Seems you got a better understanding of line and rendering while at Calgary. Keep it rocking and keep updating. Also, some of them aren't fully grounded and seem to be floating a bit, but you've gone and passed my skill level of critiquing, so not much more I can say other than ^.

[humanNature6115]

Nice figures.


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[Texahol]

omgomgomgomg I want your babies.

One piece that sticks out to me is the weight shift of your ogre. I see from the guy that's flying backwards that the ogre just struck him, but the overall posture of the ogre is "i'm about to swing this here hammer/club/thing" not "i just swung this and kicked your ass" Also there's no real foreground elements in the left hand side, which realy flatten the space, and bring the puny human into the foreground instead of the middleground where he should be. Just darkening that shrub a bit and having it less influenced by the mist might be enough.
your life drawings are really sexy as usual [erm can I really say that about old naked men...:nohope: I really do mean the quality of the drawings] I'm really looking forward to more updates...so that I can be even more jealous of your improving skillsets. You done any painting at school? I wanna see some of those! ;)

[JM]

Tex: I think you're looking at it the wrong way? He just took a big swing and lunged forward as he was doing it. That's about the position you'd take if you just swung something from left to right.
Yeah, I agree with you about the empty/flatness of that side, which I will see about what I can do to fix it. I also have to fix the dudes shield cause the pieces are flying the wrong way which I just noticed...

Stark: Thanks :) I've gotten a lot more opportunity here to study the figure. I'll give you more to crit soon enough~

Safesheep: Thanks, I guess now's the time to see if I can keep things moving :P

Here's a couple more. Crits always apreciated!

Edit: Yeah actually Tex I think you're right bout the ogre. I think it might be the hammer being placed wrongly. And I think the guy flying back's arm is also kind of misplaced. Siiiiigh...

[Texahol]

I think on the ogre, the posture is probably 'correct', it's just that it's too late in the action of swinging a hammer, so it reads more like a windup. If you had more torso twist, or had him offbalance from the swing [giant hammer would create a lot of force], it would read more as a post-swing. Another option for this scene would have been to illustrate just after the hit, making it really dynamic...and allowing you to have shards of the sheild follw the direction of the hammer creating a 'connect-the-dots' action.

I think the shield shards are fine, I wouldn't worry too much about the direction. It was a powerful hit and the shield is 'sploding!!! boom! I think they work well compositionally anyhow. the falling guy does have something funny happening in the torso/shoulders, but I'd honestly need ref to figure out how that would look :/

I'm not sure how much I would worry about fixing everything, as you want to submit this in your portfolio for school...so maybe keep it clean, fix the easy stuff and remember what you learned for the next time?

not really sure what to say about your life drawings, aside from being jealous :) looking forward to more schtuff!

[Jason Rainville]

Of course curiosity got the best of me and I strained to read the writing on this one. (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=358042&stc=1&d=1209446251) So out of nowhere I had to laugh.

Awesome... needs an update :D

[JM]

Hello -
I've been enjoying art school a lot so here is some stuff from my studies. We got to do a nude model the other day which was nice - haven't had one in a while.
Also, I've been getting into watercolours so here's a few veggies from life - did some portraits of a few of my classmates but still trying to get the hang of painting people.
Oh yeah, a few studies of Anthony Hopkins face for a school project. (Ref pics taken from the net)
Aaaand a few pages from the ol' sb. Trying to get better at drawing people from memory - I'm also trying to draw more action, jump, kick stuff to make my sb look more interesting! Haha, sorry my stuff is still pretty basic at the moment. I'll eventually get more into digital and less academic whatnot.

I hope you do enjoy, and comments/crits extremely welcome!

[JM]

And some more.

[Carg0re]

your figures are so smooth, really great!

[Texahol]

about damned time u updated :)

those watercolor veggies are really nice!

you should post more regularly...

[JM]

So I've discovered I really like watercolour. Here are a few from class of a couple of classmates, and another still life featuring... dun dun dun, a JAR!
I'm slowly but surley getting the hang of it - right now trying to experiment with colour, and one day I'll be able to make these things look so effortless it's like I did it in 5 mins.

Anyway, hope you guys dig.

Comments and crits are always and extremely welcome!

[Texahol]

cowabunga!

[Stark]

Oooh, colorful