jdeegz * - Now with a paper backing! * -

[alesoun]

I Love It! ;)

[jdeegz]

ugh, this new copyright stuff is reaaaaaly no good CA.org =\

anyways, some stuff i thought was better, then i looked at it again and BLAH!

ive got to re-work a bunch of it for reviews, so hopfully ill have some nice finished peices for yall!

good luck on finals everybody!

[kenjitsu]

It's so harsh working with pens and inks, when there are no room for mistakes, you have very nice things going on here, I might suggest you to ghost line lines and perspective, with either the lightest marker or thin/light pen, and only put down/darken definitive lines once you are sure, otherwise it'll just be messy (correcting). Even if it's a fast sketch. Study Feng Zhu's technique for that. You can always paint over something light making it barely noticeable, but you can never hide something dark. Start light, and work your lines up. This is ofc just my theoretical crit and sounds kinda logical to me, I have no practical experience to back this suggestion up. :D
Like I said, Good stuff. Do what feels the hardest, and be amazed of what you actually can do. :)

[kidult]

Great amount of studies and work, keep it up!

[Fishspawn]

Hey man keep it up, vehicles are awesome and people are showing improvement again!

[Discoskull]

That last finished vehicle is absolutely banging. Great dirty cargo vessel kind of feel. Your technical sense of perspective is tight as hell, per usual.

Keep pumping out those figure studies! Do lots of hands - they help wonderfully with organic subject matter, and they make the other bits of human anatomy seem much easier to draw.

[jdeegz]

little compliation of some work from the past semester, got some more drawings that I will try and get scanned in, but putting them on CA is just a real pain in the ass.

[jdeegz]

fun fun fun =D

s'all about fun guys!

been a moderately productive vacation, hoping to turn it up a notch now that im getting bored of video games again haha

lets goooo!!!

im working on a digital, hopfully itll be nice enough for a portfolio addition! and with you guyses help i think i can be!

[jdeegz]

TWJ#$T(WT

my asteroid miner, a tad late yoitisi =D

imagine them in a row, lol, had to cut it into pieces to fit them on here!

[jdeegz]

cave man?

[MattGamer]

looking good
the perspective work really helps in
the long run. if you keep studying that
it will help you in the future, a lot.

more gesture work! :D that creature is sweet,
humanoid/octoface dude with spear and dino tail. ;]

keep working hard, and never give up! the day you
give up is the day you start sucking at art. you can
never suck if you never stop! good days to come! :D

[jdeegz]

THUNDER DOOOOOMMMEEEE

1 hour and topic was Gunslinger



2nd img was a warm up :D

[jdeegz]

new thunder dooooomeeee

Military Land Vehicle

[jdeegz]

being lazy

[jdeegz]

some figures form duh dome of mine, some self portraits that don't REALLY look like me, but they do look like a human so im partially happy with them ahah, and some industrial objects, then some penis towers ! :D

[Fishspawn]

Hey man keep it up your painting is getting better and your drawings are getting really tight :)

[jdeegz]

yesturdays fun fun!

i can post the process if anyone wants me too, its not that exciting though, haha

[jdeegz]

raarrrrr

[kingkostas]

Your industrials are really hot.Let me send you some stars.
You only have to study more anatomy.Try to understand it like you do with your industrials.
Keep up working hard!!! :D
Thnx for stopping by my SB

[jdeegz]

faces....the mother load....komodo dragons!

[jdeegz]

faces....the mother load....komodo dragons!

[jdeegz]

mwahahahah!!!!
ive got some ideas brewin for the IDOW, hopfully i will be able to finish it on time!

[kingkostas]

nice sketchies.Keep up :D

[jdeegz]

very little ref, i had a lot of fun pushing this piece :D

[jdeegz]

zzz shitty l4d TD with kenji, the td wasn't shitty, but my result was BLARHGHEOGWERHGESRg

30 minutes with no refs

[jdeegz]

some sketches,

im tryin to figure out how to draw cars.

drew a porsche 959 for my friend

[Fishspawn]

Dude keep it up but use more refs with your enviros. That porsche is pretty rad. faces are getting better as well.

[jdeegz]

Jim is back!

[jdeegz]

I drew a girl.. and i liked it!

[jdeegz]

She is a pretty thing. Mrs Monroe.

[Konstruktion]

Nice portraits, especially #279 and #278. Good to see other people struggling with ps hehe. Keep practising the digis and don't forget the traditional ones, your anatomy looks a bit weak

[jdeegz]

wehtowteroehrfgljndefighk

I am having a hard time trying to sketch a head with just lines. I was studying loomis, and I think it may have to do with my getting used to sketching on my tablet rather than paper.

I did another portrait, thought with no reference. It looks pretty good to me :) I think her lack of hair detail kind of hurts the piece, I will practice on that.

[jdeegz]

sketchy doo's

[jdeegz]

lil dude

[jdeegz]

sketchingg

no refs, had sumfuns

[Texahol]

you're getting better, but do more reffed studies, and focus on really pushing them. You can't push your imaginative work, unless you push your referenced work further.

[Izer]

Excellent head studies, turned out to help with some nice portrait work. Those cars are great too. Keep up the good studies.

[jdeegz]

self portrait via mirror

this workout was like 300lb bench presses.

[Robert.B]

Hey Iv been meaning to comment in here earlier iv just been a bit busy with work. Just a few thing you might want to consider as your doing your studies. Vary up your mark making as with your brush size ( hard edges, soft edges, and lost edges)and edge quality.
Push your values and have the saturation mach that value depth. Remember to flip your canvas and double check the proportions. Also spend a bit more time with these studies laking maybe 4-5 hours really going through seperat detail passes.

[Mat Kaminski]

I like the quick sketchies that you have done :D

Keep rockin' I'll comment better next time lol.

[jdeegz]

thx for the comments, just another quick SP for values.
still working on a solid workflow, i think it is coming along. I certainly am much more comfortable with heads than i had previously been and i am learning very much by doing these portraits.

rob, although i would like to mix and match brush styles, i just have a hard time stopping, and looking, and deciding which brush i should pull out. I think that is not just a brush but a problem with my entire paintings. I need to get the patience and knowledge to pull back, and look at the drawing for a minute, and think about the next stroke i make rather than slopping them all on.

I know it's weak but i am still dipping with colour once or twice a picture because i for some reason cannot get an accurate read with values yet. sigh, I'll understand soon i hope :D

See you tommorow.

[jdeegz]

sketchies

[sketcheth]

Dude, you've made some hefty progress since you started this sketchbook! Wow...everything is just so much more confident! Aaanyways, stick with the self portraits. It's always good to try studying from life. I'm really looking forward to collaborating with you on the ChoW! S'gonna be awesome.

[jdeegz]

my tractor progress, i have some other non computer sketches that show the function that i am looking for.
started a new self portrait,
and only got to two pose studies.

[jdeegz]

updates

[tonysaurus]

you're going to be one angry old man

[jdeegz]

stuuuuuuuuuuuuuufffff

[Niva.]

Hello Jdeegz,
Thanks a bunch for commenting in my SB, I must return the favor. You've made incredible progress in this book, I can't believe it's the same artist who drew the stuff from the first page when I look at this last one. Commenting and critiquing is rather pointless because you're doing all the right things. Cheers and thanks once again!

[jdeegz]

more scribblers

[jdeegz]

more skribblers

[jdeegz]

eeeeees morphhiinnngggg

[jdeegz]

team chow workings

[jdeegz]

dftty8u

[jdeegz]

drdh111

[jdeegz]

progress on my lizard, and starting a portrait of another aussi friend of mine, Pete, this is 15 min in.

[jdeegz]

pppeettteeee

[jdeegz]

some development, costumes are probably not going to stay the same

[jdeegz]

fisherwoman / crazy

[jdeegz]

dthjnngb

[jdeegz]

some updizzles

[brainiachound]

Enjoyed seeing your progress and development in your sketchbook! Art On!!! :)

[jdeegz]

some updates.
i think my original fat man pose is the best for his personality.

[RickyRubyo]

hey man. great designs, i felt the thread rating should be higher so i bumped you up to 3.5. now the stars round.

love the alligator man!

[jdeegz]

vbnmv mh

[kidult]

Good job on the linework and figures.....needs some colour round here tho!!!

[tonysaurus]

nice lizard studies.. did you purposely decide to not give them tails?
imo, you should try giving them different postures.

[jdeegz]

updizzles

[jdeegz]

giant dragon flyyy

[Ashrumm]

I like your lizards man keep it up try throwing some value on one of those. You know develop the form a bit. If you are not comfortable with color at this moment keep it grey-scale.

[jdeegz]

colours!?

[Niva.]

Your linework is really good imo, it seems that right now when you try to do volumes and light is when things fall apart. Also the colors some times don't seem right, in that last one it's simply too saturated. Work with more muted colors, mid tones, then only use high saturation when you try to bring something up. I think you're doing the right things, just more time is needed. Cheers!

[jdeegz]

updizzles.

[jdeegz]

updizzles

[James Wolf]

nice character :) you should play around with some textured brushes, i think it would help hint at details with less brush strokes, anyway keep it up :)

[jdeegz]

convict finals board

[Fishspawn]

Hey man rockin updates! Massive improvement, good to see you're still working hard~

[jdeegz]

Fish: It aint work if you love it :D
glad to see you're back!

this guys got some anatomical errors that i plan on fixing shortly.

[jdeegz]

had done this awhile ago, forgot to upload it.

schools startin, goin to see where i can get time to sketch soon! :D

i wont forget about this ole thing any more!

[jdeegz]

Hey guys, i wanted to post some images that i generate while i was in australia. The first three are from my RFID toy concept, The Offroad Challenge. The user would set up a track, and try and guide their car from start to finish using RFID chips in each of the checkpoints. You can check out the full book on my website at http://jdeegz.com/toy1.html
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the cover
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here we've got the car, the battery charger, speed ramp, and start/finish lines.
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the straight away, the corner turn, and the mudslick!

This next image is from my sporting directions class where my partner and I designed a backpack for Ice Hockey!
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This presentation is not online yet, but hopefully I will find some time to polish it to my liking and present it to you guys!
cheers

[jdeegz]

Hands, hands, heads, eyes.
My figure study sketchbook has begun :)

[jdeegz]

figure drawing!?!?!

for the first time in almost 4 years, i got some figure drawing in. THey have open figure drawing sessions in the illustration department every wedensday at 1pm. And i finally have that slot open in my schedule, so i am going to go to as many as possible.

i think they came out pretty darn good for being so rusty aye?
:)

[alesoun]

They did, and the way you composed them works.

*jealous*

:P

[ryan mcshane]

your work is good :) i'd like to see you using more traditional mediums over the digital, you learn more.

[jdeegz]

some quick shading, trying to think about which character i want to push farther. pushing it will involve a costume design as well as face development. I am going to try and work in the same silhouette this time because that's what i have heard yah gotta do in the biz. later!

[Softskin]

Nice to see your progress... quantum leaps. Be careful of not drawing hands from 90 degree angles as they are almost never like that. And it's boring to look at. Otherwise nice work.

[Sickbrush]

Hey Jdeegz, thought i'd return the favor

I like what you're doing around here and i can see some major improvement and i believe you're on the right track.
I see you're trying to stay away from color somehow. Let me tell you a little secret:
As you paint more and more, it changes the way you look at pencil drawing. By practicing paint a lot, you gain a certain perspective on color, mood, volume, depth-of-field, etc. and all these help you immensely in your traditional drawing area.
Don't be afraid to wreck some paintings, you learn something even from the worst (if not Especially from the worst). I'd like to see you try on some more color and nerve.
I feel what you need now is more Balls in your paintings :D .

Regarding this last character, i think the best options would be nr.2 and nr. 4. I like their poses alot and i think they help build your character quite well. regarding the pose, 4 might actually be better, it has a sense of movement and gesture specific to an old yet curvy and selfconfident lady.

Keep up, i'll be dropping by to see your progress on the lady and i'll try to help around here and there.
Cheers!

[Vatsel]

Diggin the expressive characters and the stylization, Good stuff!
Your character designs are great too :)

Maybe some more color?

[jdeegz]

This is what happens after i've been concept ideating for my industrial design class. It has nothing to do with a fitness calculator, but sure is a hell of a lot cooler.
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Got bored of drawing my 'weather buddy' so i drew him with a sword and in my style :)
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Bored, again, this time in my environmental science class.
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Bored, assistant teaching 'drawing for designers' i forgot i had students, and drew shit instead haha, oh wells.
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[Fishspawn]

Good stuff man, major improvements all around.

[jdeegz]

thanks Wes.

heres my weatherbuddy concept. i've got to figure out how to communicate that he hangs on a wall indoors and has a weather sensor that wirlessly transmitts data from the outside.

[jatherip]

man, the spaceship looks uber awesome!
good improvement at all! keep at it!

[jdeegz]

some moar pictures, done today.

[jdeegz]

did some sketching to kill some time and get my mind off of my projects haha
adios!

[jdeegz]

uuugghhhhhh

stuffs. preparing presentations has to be my least favourite thing about my major.

[jdeegz]

OH, and happy 3 year anniversary / birthday sketchbook! i wuv you! :D

[Randis]

Thats a cute concept. cheers!

[jdeegz]

cheers mr. naughty :D

did some diddles
left some diddles at my mums house =\
oh wells! ill draw em again.

[tonysaurus]

the last diddle (the red thing) looks so fast. needs a race stripe!

[Jabo]

Great figures and I totally love the spaceship in 343!

[jdeegz]

some drawing from lastnight / today WOO!!!!!
hi guys :D
thanks for the warm responses.

[Fishspawn]

woooo nice hands~

[jdeegz]

RFID toy concept drawings
and some updated tractors.
workin on putting some color into my portfolio haha

[jdeegz]

blargidy blarg

[jdeegz]

UUUGGGGHH I HATE FACES
you know what i hate more than faces
COLOR
why the hell cant i do color. i had to cheat and use the eye dropper every once in a while on this guy.
this guy is me. and it looks nothing like me.
but
atleast i participated right?
its hard to keep pushing somthing you have no faith in.
I think i need to practice drawing faces first before i try and understand how to paint them.

[jdeegz]

a slew of sketches
im thinking about pushing the car busting through the smoke, i think its got some potential.

[Fishspawn]

faces are the hardest. I feel the same way every time i try to paint one in color >.< That one may have been tough, but it looks like you learned a lot doing it. I often prefer to jump headlong into things i don't understand rather than slowly inch my way forward. Also there are plenty of pros who use the eyedropper for colors, it is rare to find people who are just good at painting them. It's all about the practice... Keep it up

[jdeegz]

sketchies!
:D
fun fun

[jdeegz]

forgot to post this thes odder day

[jdeegz]

i've almost filled my new sketchbook... which was my goal to do before dec 16th.
but i left it at home on thanksgiving, ! now im screwed!
ill eventually scan all of it and throw it up.

[jdeegz]

im still alive guys, ive got a whole semester of posting to catch up on, and itll be done!
im graduating tommorow, so sometime next week this book will be filled up again! :D

[Mat Kaminski]

Looking good on the industrial design deegz :D

I'm liking the color as well, very stylistic.

What I would suggest is to start up a ton more gesture and figure studies before moving forward with the character design.
Perhaps www.posemaniacs.com and www.characterdesigns.com with a splash of www.hel-looks.com for good measure :)
Make sure you get those proportions right as well as learning the muscle mass before moving forward on anatomy :)

Have fun, hope to see more.

[jdeegz]

WHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAT!?

NO MORE SCHOOL!
no parents! (lol)

uuh. so... goin to brush some dust off around here and make your brain explode with awesome-ness.

[jdeegz]

some concept sketches from the fall semester.

[jdeegz]

s'more from my skippy project in fall 09

[jdeegz]

this was a cool Disney-inspired project for a children tracking devices for theme parks :D

DON'T GET LOST!

[jdeegz]

spider/viking....


then my first sculpture. his name is Virgil, and he is my other first sculpture's (coming next post!) pets rhino :)

[jdeegz]

the boy!
named Idaho, after Duncan Idaho from Dune, and the above Rhino is named after Dante's inferno Virgil.

fun facts :D

[Niva.]

Dude! You've improved a bunch from last time I saw your work, cheers!

I like the fact that it all looks 3d, even when it's cartoonish I sense depth.

Also the sculptures are AWESOME.

Keep up!

[jdeegz]

BLah! all the images got deleted. they're up on my blog though! www.mostra.jdeegz.com

[neuroballistic]

Looked through your whole SB. It's cool seeing your improvement from post to post. Always gives me the happy fuzzies.

[jdeegz]

Hey guys!

just wanted to let you know....

i have a blog that im updating!

Yeah, i think its easier to brag and show people a blog over a sketchbook - and updating both is nuts!


check it out!

www.mostra.jdeegz.com

<3

[knut-]

You got a charming style on your enviros and mechanical stuff more from the colours view. Keep exercising on figures, you're doing well. Keep in mind the whole form and after that comes each part individually, i think. Keep up

[jdeegz]

Ooof... srry guys.. i have been disrespecting my sketchbook recently.

I've been hired to work at Subatomic Studios in Cambridge (started on 10/20/10).

Ive been having way too much fun for a job. Haha, loving it. I am doing concept art for new games, pretty much entirely building concepts and a few environments. Sorry for breaking all the links in the earlier post, I will try and get them fixed!

Thanks for looking!

Here are some images i worked on last weekend - some fan art, and a little animation walk cycle.