jdeegz * - 1/04 * - Going to Melbourne!!!

[jdeegz]

Here we go.

PS Im going to study abroad in Melbourne, so any there let me know we can meet up!

[jdeegz]

Some of my figure drawings from earlier in the week.

[jdeegz]

Some attempts at drawing Clint Eastwood, i am so bad at faces, I lost my nack for them.

I think during my senior year at school, i got more concerned with speed thatn quality, so i lost alot of my skills at shading and details becuase of not practicing them.

[jdeegz]

During my Visual Language class we were discussing some photographs taken by my fellow students and a silhoutte (spelling? haha) stood out to me, added a hand, some wierd quote from our discussion as well.

'It is being uneducated, art makes culture and culture is the most important thing in the world." somthing like that, we talk fast haha.

[jdeegz]

Due to my dissatisfaction of my clint eastwood attempts, i followed them up with a study on the structure of the head, found a nice page and followed it, i think it may have helped a bit.

[jdeegz]

Lookin at some other DSG's i drew a bit this morning, there is also an indiana jones that i did, but unfortunatly i forgot to scan it.

[jdeegz]

K Cool, i took some photos of my bigger sketches ( done on newsprint) from my drawing class.

Here is the first classes work, atleast my better stuff, would it be useful if i posted everything so you can see what my bad shtuff is? i think that would make it easier to crit.

This is also my first ever figure drawing class, i have never had a model before ;x

but i liked it!

[jdeegz]

Heres some from the second class

more of the same stuff, but i got a little quicker.

[jdeegz]

3rd class we brought in some pastels and conte crayons and did some negative shape drawings.

some cool shtuff

[jdeegz]

aaaaand yesturday, our fourth class, we drew on dark paper, and immitated lights, it was pretty cool too, i love this class : )

[jdeegz]

Some homeworks for the drawing class, David ortiz and Agustus(sculpture)

[jdeegz]

Some faces I did, rather quick, i dont think any were more than 10 minutes.

Hopefully you can tell who they are : )

have some more great ones from my drawing class today, i will put those up as soon as i find a camera.

[jdeegz]

C'mon im puttin out some work and no one says anything!?

let's go! ;p i know my stuff isnt too good how can i improve, even just small steps, it would be great, it is afterall what i am doing this for.

[jdeegz]

i think im beginning to rely on refrence ;x time to use some creativity today!

[jdeegz]

really really bad quality right here, sorry about that, i drew really light haha.

[Fishspawn]

Hey jdeegz, thanks for stopping by my book. I can see some improvement already in this short time. Keep up the figure drawing, it's the best way to improve. If you want some good ideas/anatomy to help your figures, try out Bridgeman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life, or Andrew Loomis' books. Bridgeman should be easy to find, and loomis can be found online. Always make sure to break things into simple shapes when drawing, and focus on proportion and accuracy before doing detail (such as the contour or value). I look forward to seeing your progress! Keep it up.

[jdeegz]

man i wish i had a better way to get stuff on here =\ im just using a camera and taking a picture, the paper is white, but comes out orangy so i gotta fiddle with photoshop alot. anyways, i think this is my favorite atm, whatcha think?

[Fishspawn]

The faces are looking good. Torso looks too stylized. You should know the ribcage and pelvis (or at least simplified versions for now) and how the muscles lay on top of them like fleshy drapery. With regards to hands, try to learn the anatomy and construct from simple shapes, although it mostly just takes doing them over and over.

About the camera, you just have to get better at taking the pictures, and try to have as much light as possible (sunlight, lamps, flash from camera). That's the only way i can figure out. Still usually takes messing around in PS.

Keep it daily, thats the best way to improve.

[jdeegz]

haha thanks, im trying to keep it daily but between partying and allready assigned homework my time is tight, but really this community is really inspiring me to draw, i feel way more compfortable than when i had started sketching!

[jdeegz]

Hey, i got these books, Bridgman's Complete Guide to Drawing From Life, and Loomis' Figure Drawing for All it's Worth. These two books are awesome, thank you so much for reccommending them.

i did a few Loomis works. the first one i copied and and practiced, the 2nd is all form my mind except for the figure on the left. i love this way of drawing the human form its really effective of showing motion and balance.

I'm trying to get my pencil strokes to be more fluent instead of what loomis says as "Petting" the lines which i am used to doing.

[Jens]

hey man, keep it up, with hard practice you can get anywhere!!

it's good that you are noticing your mistakes in that last piece. Remember what you dislike and like about your work, that's the key to improvement!!

[jdeegz]

yeah i always look for my mistakes and learn from them, its the bestest way!

[jdeegz]

Hey yo, i had some ideas for a bigger composition so i sketched them out, one is a female being looked at by her capturer or somthing, its not fully developed haha. and the second is a man on the ground being stuck by another man wielding some type of weapon. lemmie know what you think!

[jdeegz]

I just wanted to post some digital painting i did to see what some reactions would be, the first one is a picture of a beast in an alley way, i think i am going to continue working on that some time i have free work.

[jdeegz]

some more random digital paintings. that cat was for my cousin, its a portrait of her kitty, she loved it! thankfully haha.

[Discoskull]

What's up jDeegz
Thanks for visiting my sketchbook!
You're coming along quite nicely, it seems. Keep it up. Draw lots of live people! It's ridiculously helpful, and it never stops being a goo idea.
I especially like that one face near the top, right under that chick's portrait sketch, that's all grainy and robert-crumb-ish in style. I'd like to see it up close, actually.

[jdeegz]

Some cute faces.

[jdeegz]

A hand from Bridgmans and one of my own that is horribly horendous? how do i explain a really bad drawing? haha

[jdeegz]

some sexy boots from my anatomy book.

[jdeegz]

i feel like i am having the harest time attaching my heads to bodies, the jaw always looks wrong and its just akward looking, any tips?

[jdeegz]

new sketchbook wooooo!!!!

[DARAF]

At this point all I have to say is the obvious. Keep up the good shit. Do it daily and as often as possible.

[Fishspawn]

Yo. Keep up the anatomy studies, they are looking good. When digipainting, use the biggest brush possible for each area, only use small brushes when you have to. Do as much life drawing as possible, anywhere you can! Keep it up.

[Discoskull]

Keep it up! You were asking about connecting heads to bodies - the jaw connects halfway to the back of the head, right below the ears, and two bigh neck muscles decend from there and connect at either side of the "v" of the collarbone.
When the head is divided by thirds, the brow and top of the ears are at the top line, and the bottom of the nose and ends of the jaw are at the second line. Get an anatomy book and draw from life, oh yes.
And yes, I'm making due with a mouse, as I don't have a pad. I usually do cell shading with the laso tool (comic style)...
Anyway, keep posting

[jdeegz]

yeah i just have to work on Noses, Mouthes, and Necks the mos ti think, i am having the harest time with them =\ i need more live drawing time!!!!!

[guitarjames]

hey ,
some nice stuff in here.. most crits have been said but also when painting digi maybe try and use a higher opacity brush..

keep it up .james.

[jdeegz]

more from my new SB!

[jdeegz]

GG IMAGE DUMP!

BORING WEEKEND = LARGE FILLING OF SKETCHBOOK

:)
enjoy.

[jdeegz]

extended, dont want to fill it all in one post might be a little crazy.

[jdeegz]

and more..

Had some boring class with a pen and sketchbook at hand...

I went ot the MFA Today, (Tuesday) instead of going to another boring class, i took some pictures and if yo uguys would like to see some let me know, they are of mostly greek/greko-roman sculptures, which are my favorites : ) i plan on doing alot of drawing sform them so heads up !

[Fishspawn]

Yo. Drawing from statues is a good way to learn - try big charcoal drawings, you can really get good values that way. Keep studying loomis and bridgeman, they are always good for you. Your studies keep looking better, just make sure to apply that new knowledge to your other sketches, always be thinking while you draw. Keep it up.

[teh.meh]

thanks for popping by my sketchbook! I can see a definite steady improvement in drawing from life here, but as mentioned in the last post you need to practice that as much as possible so that you can learn elements needed for drawing from your head!
keep it up

[jdeegz]

some statue drawings. now at my school we did almost nothing other than acylic paint and graphite so charcoal is pretty much a forieng substance in my hands. gota some learing to do me thinks ;x

[jdeegz]

another statue, im really happy having the ability to go to the museum of fine arts for free with only a 5 minute walk aswell :)

last one is an idea i sketched out, the middle man is holding his helmet in his right hand and it came out kinda wierd looking, i think it shows to much palm.

[Basil]

hi jdeegz,

nice start on your book. you are definately on the right track by doing lots of sketching and foundational exercises at this point.

i suggest you try varying up your subject matter with some objects/still lifes and landscapes. it's great to study anatomy, but it's also very difficult before you've gotten much practice rendering simple shapes. household objects like fruit and dishes make for very clean gemoetric shapes.

keeeeeep sketching and you'll get there :)

[jdeegz]

charcoal! thanks for the replies guys. I still have alot of trouble drawing people from my immagination, i always screw up the joined =\ gotta draw more, must! draw more!

[Beelow]

Nice progress dude. Keep going with the sketches. Try seeing those shapes. Do not draw what you think you see, see what your drawing. What I mean by that is observe the model or what your drawing and not looking at the paper too much. Hope that helps a little. Thanx for stopping by my sketchbook dude! XD

[Obi-one]

Great improvment in less than a month.

Keep sketching.

[jdeegz]

some mo mo

[Fishspawn]

Hey, thanks for checking up on me again :) I see you've already improved much with charcoal, but here are some tips to using it very effectively. The bigger you work, the easier it is to make charcoal stuff look prettier. Don't be afraid to smear a soft charcoal (like vine, which is easily erased) all over the paper and then erase out lights, while pushing darks with more concentrated stuff. Learn to use the side of square charcoal and you can get some very expressive lines - vary the pressure on one side vs the other for gradients, twist it to vary line width, etc.

The advice about simple shapes and focusing on what you're drawing is very important. Knowing your medium is nice, but knowing how to analyze and break down anything into simple shapes, as well as knowing how to render simple shapes perfectly, makes you a master.

I like the sketch of the horse, i think over all you've improved a lot since i last visited, keep it up!

[jdeegz]

is there a way you guys can show me what you mean by seeing shapes? i know its a hard thing to show but i dont really understand what to look for when you say that =\ maybe show two pictures, one of a shape seen object and one not? i dont know hahaha

[jdeegz]

its been a while and i havnt drawn much, =\

[Fishspawn]

Heres a silly tutorial i made to try and show you what i mean. Take the figure, you want to put light on it from the right. So you pick simple shapes, like cubes, cylinders, cones, and spheres, and use them to represent parts of the figure. Its easy to find how the light effects these, so then you have accurate and easy lighting. Note that you dont have to use the same shapes for the same parts each time, you can use different ones depending on how you want it lit. Get Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters and Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale. He explains it much better than I.

[jdeegz]

hey, ive got an Art history final in which i am doing a piece, not sur eif i should paint or just draw it, then write a short paper on it. earlier in the semester we all chose a work of art from the MFA and we have written two papers on it, now we have the third along with a project.

i chose this piece.
Cuirassed Torso (http://www.mfa.org/collections/search_art.asp?recview=true&id=151342&coll_keywords=domitian&coll_accession=&coll_name=&coll_artist=&coll_place=&coll_medium=&coll_culture=&coll_classification=&coll_credit=&coll_provenance=&coll_location=&coll_has_images=&coll_on_view=&coll_sort=1&coll_sort_order=1&coll_package=0&coll_start=1)

and now this is my sketch, i made it a statue infront of a coliseum type building the man on the left is feeling it and there is a woman walking in front of him a small distance off.

i think my biggest problem at this moment is his left foot, it seems.. wrong, i dont know. if you guys can point out anything else please please let me know i really want this to be great :)

[Fishspawn]

Feet look okay to me, its his hips that are off. his whole right side (our left) looks too woide and his hip isn't right there either.

[Hyptosis]

man.. scrolling from begining to end, you're making like.. lightyear jump improovments.. keep it up.. O_o

[jdeegz]

haha thanks for the comment hyptosis

not sure what u mean by the hip is off fish!

[jdeegz]

four quick self portraits.

[jdeegz]

one mroe self portrait, i have some more that i did but the teacher snaged em and put em on the wall heh..


three ten minute still lifes, two of a towel on a hook and one of my backpack on a hook, tell me what brand it is and you get a smiley face sticker!

[jdeegz]

i got a little carried away with a simple perspective exersize haha,

the second is my mom's birth day gift :) its our dog that we just adopted after fostering it for two months. yay Nikita!
http://www.gsrne.org/NIkita.htm some more real pictures of her if you wanna look at them : ) also GSRNE is an awesome program, anyone who wants to foster a dog in the new england area should do it! they pay for food and medication and such all you do is give the dog a home and some love!

[madhatter106]

Get Drawing Lessons from the Great Masters and Anatomy Lessons from the Great Masters by Robert Beverly Hale. He explains it much better than I.

I concur - Hale is great, I would have loved to have seen him lecture. His books are great stuff!

[Fishspawn]

I think it's time for an update! I love those self portraits and the dog. Keep trying new things and practicing a lot!

[jdeegz]

been a while =\

[jdeegz]

shome mo, ima get the doggy pic when i go back home, i gave it to my mommy : )

[jdeegz]

and mo....

[jdeegz]

i smell image dump?

[jdeegz]

some more

[jdeegz]

and more

[jdeegz]

and more...

[jdeegz]

k.. so you may be wondering.. wtf jus thappened? well i had a few pictures, its relaly a sad amount when you look at the last time i posted pictures was december 3rd, it is now the 27th... that i only produced tha tmany pictures, well its alot more than i used too in college.

k so in this brouhaha of images we have a few concept sketches that i think are really great and i would love to enhance them further-more wether it be on the compute ror in tradition painting. I have the dog finished up, that was actually finished before thanksgiving, yeh, long time haha, my mom still hasn't hung it up, i guess my family is lazy ;p and two paintings, 4x6 in size, of ireland, her xmas gift, im cheap, but she likes em ;p

I PLAN on doing alot of work over the next two weeks or so cuase i am off from school, but im finding the hardest thing about drawing, well, is starting, haha. Ill sit on my bed or what ever with some paper and a pencil and say, yeah i should draw this and that, but i never do =\

thanks for stoppin by!

[Renier van der West]

Hey thanks for posting at my sb! you've got some really cool drawings. It's great that our using loomis, it helped me a lot.
Keep posting man, oh and that one dude is Bruce Willis right.

[jdeegz]

some more dogs for my cous

ive been playing tooo much WoW...

[jdeegz]

this site is acting up on my thread, any way i could fix it somtimes i cannot connect somtimes i can!

anyways, updated doggies.

[jdeegz]

holy crap two days in a row posting!?

k heres some cool designs and then some digital painting while taking a break from the dogs.

[jdeegz]

i finished one of the doggies!

[Fishspawn]

hey, glad you're updating again. Hardest part about drawing is sitting down and doing it, and then to keep doing it when you get frustrated (which is pretty much inevitable when you get the first step down). Looks like your figures are getting better proportions etc. For things like the elephant - check out some real elephants - you can't actually see their eyes because they have huge eyelashes and deep eye sockets. Their noses and faces are covered in wrinkles - which is a good excuse to show form with "wireframe" lines. Dogs are looking good. I really like the two paintings that make up one picture.

Biggest crit is your tendency to not post for a month and then post 5 times in one day. I'd rather see a drawing a day, even a crap sketch, than not see anything for months and then get some good stuff. Mix it up, keep it consistant. Looking forward to more.

[jdeegz]

hey, im gunna try and post once a day, just for you fishspawn : )

cept this weekend... going to new hampshire then moving back into boston lol
so this wont last long, but i will be back on thursday i hope!

heres a digi im workin alongside of my dogs, i kinda like it, iono!

i did some pencils earlier but i dont have a scanner or a camera at the moment,

later.

[Fishspawn]

Yay. I think the digi has promise but it looks like you're rushing it. It would be smarter to block in the whole pose first, making sure it's balanced and proportioned correctly, before putting in any color or details like the folds on the clothing. From what i can see of the character i like him, and you did a great job on that hand, that's a tricky hand pose to do. Good luck posting every day until the weekend and after your return, that daily commitment, if held, will yield huge dividends in the future.

[jdeegz]

todays duties :) duties, hah!

[Fishspawn]

Don't let this book fall into oblivion :yayca:

[jdeegz]

updated for fishspawn :) thnks dood!

this project i am taking 8 friends of mine and turning them into a cast for a zombie movie that takes place in my dorms. hahaha.

[Fishspawn]

Heh, i love zombies. Good job, tons of improvement from your last digi! I think some of the scribles on the outside of the page distract my eye a little because it looks like detail, but then it's not, so you might want to rework those areas with bigger brushes or smoother transitions - or just actually put in detail! Looking forward to those other 6 :)

...love the first guy's pose...

[jdeegz]

THE ZOMBIEEEESSS

k this is 3/6 doods, enjoy!

(no more zombies left, all real people from now on : ( )

[jdeegz]

here are two more, matt and kait!

only one left, they're all due tuesday, oh crap!

i think this first one is my least favorite =\ i couldnt think of what to put in the image other than himself, even he is boring too =\

[jdeegz]

here is a sculpture of an old time Thor that i did for my drawing class

it was my first ever sculpture, i used this stuff called plastaline. like clay, little harder, but it doesnt dry its pretty cool. very oily.

i took more pics, but they all came out blurry so ill repost.

below those is a sweet skull picture for the same class :)

[Fishspawn]

I Like the sculpture much :) A lot of your hatchwork looks like it has no thought to it - try to be more careful and either follow the form with all of it or none of it.

[jdeegz]

here is an illustration i did.

it is a facility in which scientists are mixing two versions of ebola with the common cold to make a bio weapon. They are testing it on people to get exact reactions, rather than using monkeys. The victim that was infected with a strain of Ebola Reston that was geneticly engineered to effect humans has escaped. Ebola Reston was found in Reston, VA. It is a strain of Ebola that can infect via airborn allergines, originally harmless to humans. So if you see somone wandering the streets spewing out thier melted insides, run as fast as you can away, and hold your breath!

[BryanYoung]

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook. You're improving steadily. More drawing from life will help. I noticed on those last batch of self portraits and the sketches of the towel and backpack it says you did them very quickly. At this point I think it would be better for you to take your time drawing these, so you can understand what you're drawing and why it looks the way it does. Once you understand how the forms work you'll be able to draw them faster, and more accurately.

[Discoskull]

haha
I enjoy the zombies quite a bit, especially the chicks in the flashlight beam.
"Shoot them/ Get out" heh
I'm no expert at wacom (at all), but I'd say use bigger brushes, and use "undercoats" or whatever they're called (separate layer, multiplied, of a color at 40% or whatever, to give the picture an over all tone).

That skull owns, and I quite like this last one...pretty strange.

Keep it up, look at naked people!

[jdeegz]

been a long ass while, i uninstalled my games. i plan on reading working and drawing a lot more ;P

[jdeegz]

first landscapersss

i need to make the moon look bigger, need a moon texture know any good ones?

i think im going to make the ground smaller - less of it.

this is a WIP along with the portrait above~!

later doods.

[Discoskull]

Hey dude!

I want to see th last one finished. Now!
Is it going to be a dome with a city inside of it? Or an artificial habitat? Or a gigantic planet rising over the horizon?

It's a good start, in any case; keep addin' them layers.
Oh, and perhaps the brushes on the moon/dome could enhance their spherical natures even more; there are a couple strokes that are flattening them out a bit.


Oh yeah, and thanks for pointing out that type-o in my comic ;)

[jdeegz]

:) that's exactly what i need, some person to say get this shit done now. or by tomorrow or what ever. I work way better under pressure ;x

here is a pic of Harrison Ford - found it online but I'm pretty sure its from temple of doom (my favorite one ) :)

it blows, but i am going to keep working on it because i can't disgrace my favorite actor with a shitty portrait! I'll get it eventually lol

[Fishspawn]

Had to bring your sb back from the dead! Those mountains with the moon rock, would love to see that finished. Um. Yeah. Start posting again.

[jdeegz]

ooooooooooooooooooooookay
seriously, i want to start updating again, lol, someone please keep nagging me. it works.

here is Doomchamp Prowling - reworked.
and an update to the Harrison Ford pic i never posted, i should finish him, though he needs ALOT of work, his entire face is the wrong shape =\

[jdeegz]

heres what i've been up to other than the doomchamp pic (which i love :) it is my desktop pic haha)

[Fishspawn]

All right! Doomchamp is sweet. If i were you i'd scrap the harrison ford study, do a bunch of quick studies of him from different angles / with different expressions, and then do a new paint of him. I like the pink flowers against black - i think that would look great if you blended the pink so that the flowers looked soft. (obviously in a different copy because it looks great as is) Improvement! Keep posting.

[jdeegz]

Out with the old, shit show that is my sketchbook. On with the new kick ass drawings and renderings. I'm going to be doing a lot of "draw what you see" stuff because I need to build up my "visual vocabulary" as an industrial designer! So i got some new ideas, new way to get my pieces into the computer - using my roommates scanner (sweet!) - and a new attitude about drawing!

So here I ripped the first one from NoShadow, who rocks, check him out here if you havn't already. http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=63786

The other two are concepts for helmets that soldiers may be using in 10-20 years, still in the works but they are almost done. I am planning to design an entire suit including clothes, weapons, armor, and information devices. The way I am doing this is making everything practical, no Halo or Gears of War type armor because it's bulky and have numerous limitations. I am taking account to all of the things that are harmful to a soldier like gas weapons (which will be the primary weapon in a few years because it is so effective), bullets (duh), and various other things. This should be fun!

[Steve-I]

I have to agree with Fishspawn,
that would be the BEST way to go about it, but, if you don't want to do that just re-doing the project from scratch and being sure you use guidelines along with what you have already learned should tie it together.
Lets see what you can do.

[perspexart]

Some of my figure drawings from earlier in the week.


nice drawings
thanks for showing us

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[Robert.B]

Hey dude thanks for dropping by by den. HeHe im flattered you used my work as reference. I like where your going with intent of drawing from life it will only make you a stronger artist! good luck, ttyl.

[jdeegz]

So, i did numerous Harrison Ford sketches like you guys suggested, they are pretty bad, but not aweful haha, still fun to do :) they were in pencil and im having trouble scanning them in. I may just go over them in pen and try to make corrections, the 2nd look sort of thing.

Here are the lillies updated and a face...

[Fishspawn]

Man i thought i posted after the helmets. Anyway they are looking good. I think you could go even simpler and more beautiful with the flowers. I dont think they need that much black (they didn't have it before...) and i think the transition from white to pink could be better. Face is looking good but he has no top/back of his head. Well he does but its really tiny. Can't wait to see those harrison ford sketches!

[jdeegz]

k, so i sorta got the scanner thing workin, not sure. so im workin on gettin all my stuff on the comp. i've been drawing like 8 pages a day haha. i got nothin else to do and i want to rule!
so here are pen sketches, just cuase i gotta get used to it fro ID.
i drew girls.. i never knew what they were before lastnight. theyre pretty!

so in this batch is an idea for my moon planet thingy that i painted a while back, cuase that picture stinks. dunno what you guys like it for! maybe you'r just sayin it to make me actually do somthing, haha. thanks :)

2nd one is a guy, i want him to be leaning on a tree, gotta keep working on the weight, i cant seem to get the anatomy right, i might have one of my roommates pose for a second hehe.

the last few are pictures of girls i found online, bodies are allright, but the heads were terrible, so i stared drawing them and the shoulders. i found that less is more when it comes to faces and pens. i think the outline of a face is the hardest thing for me, they always look man-ish.

k ill try scanning the harrison ford pics now, later!

[jdeegz]

k forgot these two marines i drew, they were fun. and here are the harrison ford pic, not bad, they were all pretty quick, i think i forgot how to take my time and render lol.

sorry for all of this art, i can't help it, its fun :)

hope you don't OD, haha

[Fishspawn]

Hey man I think you're really starting to capture Harrison's crazy facial expressions - keep doing those studies! For girls i'd reccomend staying away from online photos like that - you want to learn how to draw real girls. Usually the best reference (although of course i reccomend drawing from life) is in artistic anatomy books or on photography sites like pro.corbis.com. Faces are tough - just do tons of them. You're right that "less is more" - i read a study that attractiveness was largely based on smoothness of the skin, so you want to subtly hint at things when trying to draw good looking people. However, you should probably not worry about that at this point and just focus on drawing in the structure underneath and all that good junk. Bah i'm in a rant mood this morning, gotta go draw!

[jdeegz]

hi, some more pics of "harry" - roommates didn't recognize him, so i dont know what to do, pretty happy with em :)

[Fishspawn]

I see you drawing circles and lines before you sketch but i have no idea what they're for. They are supposed to map out the skull and jaw so that you can accurately measure proportions and imitate a 3d form. Your sketches have no skulls so they can't look like Harrison because he has a skull. It would be better to be thinking of skulls and not put down any preliminary lines than to put down lines that have no meaning or purpose.

Keep putting in the foot work but put in a little more thinking while you do it ;)

(top line is eyebrows, middle is nose. These are proportions from Ron Lemen's tutorial: http://www.anticz.com/heads.htm)

[jdeegz]

damn... don't you hate it when they look terrible after thinking the may be allright while drawing them? =\

[Fishspawn]

That head on the graph paper is a mabilion times better. Try to really analyze and simplify the planes of the head.

[Discoskull]

Great updatesmanship you've got going on.

That cat-ape in the rain/shadow is quite awesome, I must say. It pops immediately, which is fun to do with lots of black.

Keep it up with the facial/head studies, too; the improvement is steady - so keep doing them!
And that scratchy-ish line work in the last post - particularly on the graph paper - I enjoy where that's going.

Like I said - keep it up! And draw more figures, too - do 4-5 a day, more if you can (I need to take my own advice, methinks).

[jdeegz]

maaaan my arm is going to be huge with the hour sof drawing every day hehe, most of it is for class and doesn't make sense so im not posting it. but here is some form stuff the tank and the ipod and water jug sheets are from class work. rest is just sketching. no harrison fords or figures yet today ill do some before i go to bed i hope, im real tired haha

had 5 hour drawing class then worked out then drew then went to our studio spaces and helped finish setting up then came home and drew. yeesh!
luckily i have an hour of class tomorrow and im out for the weekend, heel yeeeaaahh!!!!

later - i may update again but dont count on it =\

[Fishspawn]

Rhinos are awesome. The dude in pen is looking much better than your previous work. Cool tank but did you use reference? The proportions on it don't really look like a tank. Keep rocking.

[jdeegz]

thanks - im falling in love with these pens :)
the tank was from my dome - i was in the middle of class practicing ellipses lol, its pretty bad.

[Alex Baer]

your figures show improvement throughout this SB and its good that you keep practicing, it will help you get rid of the stiffness of some of the poses, definately take advantage of the weekly life drawing sessions at MassArt. keep at it.

[jdeegz]

yeah.....

[Discoskull]

Good stuff, oh yes

The first 3 images of post 112 are my favorite; especially that one male body, and the whatever-the-hell-it-is just below the rhinos; it's good that it's convincing, even when I don't know what it is :)

I enjoy these last updates, too; I'd say play with the values in your hatching even more, add more medium tones and all that jazz.
That guy on the right just above has an awesome eye socket.

[Fishspawn]

I see skulls! Awesome. Play with the light side vs the shadow side more - make sure that the light is clearly defined (and if it's not because you're using photos... well thats one of the reasons why I don't like using photos.) The guy on the right there is awesome - i can really see the dimensions of his face. The one on the left is less clearly defined with value and it looks like his cheek is pushing an inch into his face when he's really just smirking. (or grimacing or whatever it should be called). Anyway... awesome progress, I can really tell you're learning and expirimenting!

[MattGamer]

Keep up the drawing, I can see progress! The more you draw the more you see. The more you see the better your perception of the world around you. Thing become easier (at least in art).

Do those foot studies! :D Cheers!

[MR. Carbon]

I can see that your progress through out your post and believe me your heading in the right direction. Form is a definitely important thing to lock down in your art but first if you don't mind me saying that you should first worry about your construction. Your sketches will become freaking amazing if you were to first master your line quality, Have confidence and let those lines flow through the silhouette. To much of one thing can't be good. Man, I'm telling you, If you could make one line tell the story of a hundred, your well on your way to greatness, I struggled with that too, and still do. Then once you got that lock that down worry about form and Proportion, so on and so forth. Thanks for your feedback on my stuff, I really need to engage in the story element.

[jdeegz]

just some random doodles. finished off another pen =\ i mean i like these things but they have no life at all! gotta work on my photoshop painting, as you can see its really no good. i want to learn how to do grayscale paintings better.

[Fishspawn]

Hey man, I really like the vines/tree/rock thing. With your paints you should be thinking much much simpler. Don't try to define muscle! Just think of the blocks, cylindrical shapes and spheres that make up the figure and start there. Make sure you have a light side and a dark side and all of your shadows are accurate. You should only go into detail (muscles, folds on clothing, etc) because you have nothing else to do. Then it doesn't take much. The guy's head is the most clearly defined thing but you could push the dark side of it a little darker. Keep up the good work, there's improvement with every post!

[jdeegz]

man, I'm getting a lot of work, i mean a lot... I haven't even played Halo 3 yet...
sooo here is some stuff from class today which I liked. There is a good explanation of line weights that I wanted to share on the first page. It's pretty useful when you're designing.
the smaller drawings were all timed and from our heads, it was a fun exercise.

[Fishspawn]

Hahaha, I haven't even played Bioshock yet and I've had that for a month! Nice lines. Also note that you can use line weight to show where the light source is and emphasize points of action or interest. What you've got going is looking good!

PS: Do more figure drawing so you can give me more crits!!! ;)

[jdeegz]

okay, a simpler version. i plan on having him looking at an explosion, should i mix the red/orange light in now or later?

[Clodioz]

cool but I think that the left arm should be darkner ...

[Fishspawn]

Simple SHAPES not values. This is really rushed becuase I don't have much time but hopefully it gets my point across. Also when you do put colors make sure not to oversaturate!

[AmontilladoAg]

Such progress in this SB :D

More life-drawing, please :) and perhaps dogs, too :^^:

(And listen to Fishspawn -- givin' ya good stuffz here, man)

Cheers :teeth:

[Discoskull]

Good updates, keep them coming -
I like those everyday items in post 123, actually! Great line weights.
Implement more line weights into your "scratchy" stuff = fiddle around with it, experiment! And don't play too much Halo!

Oh yeah, thanks for the tip with the shiny metals - it helped mucho.

[jdeegz]

yoooo holy crap i feel like SUCH a slacker, i don't know what i am doing with my time anymore. Anyways, here is some stuff - mostly crap from this past week.
and my updated "Badasssoldier.jpg" lol...

[Fishspawn]

Waywaywaywya better! I still think you could tone down the white parts on the shadow side just a little so they're not as light as they are on the light side. Cars and doodles are looking good - watch the length of the faces though, they are looking a little stretched out. Hahah we all feel like slackers - just draw more!

[jdeegz]

yo, here is some crap i just mushed out... ths lake is an image i'm going to use in a wine label for my nieghbor, so i also added a small thumbnail size to see if it works when you see it smaller. don't know if ill update again later, but i will be drawing all night. later.

[Fishspawn]

Is that Lake Tahoe? Its looking good. Guy is missing his side but the teddy bear is looking great! Have fun drawing~

[Discoskull]

Nice with the lighting on that guy! Can't wait to see him finished.

This last study of the lake is looking good too - keep pumping stuff out mang!
Consider yourself so full of good art that you simply must vomit daily to keep from dying of a massive hemorrhage.

[jdeegz]

thanks for the replies dudes. when i check my email and i see a notification that somone replied on my sb, it's like a mini-xmas :) here is a decent dump of some stuff, not so good and not so bad. I've been drawing a lot of space ship concepts but they are really terrible. I may show them because they are so bad its fun to laugh at :P anyways, im botching the explosion in the sky on my painting, I don't really like it. Guess i gotta think of somthing else to put in the bg!
later!
-Jim

[Discoskull]

Update-tastic!

I really do like your hatching line style. Perhaps I should employ something similar as I'm trying to learn how to paint without lines...you know, like a value-stepping-stone
But yeah - that homeless dude or whatever, 2nd from last, is great - he's simple, but he shows nice line variations.
Perhaps the dude-in-progress needs even more dramatic lighting now that there's a huge explosion in front of him :)

Keep it coming

[Fishspawn]

Yeah if the explosion is there then he is lit wrong. I thought it was to his right and almost level with him from how you lit the figure. Keep practicing, i see improvement!

[jdeegz]

k. im gettin the hang of line weights now. i did some concepts for an aircraft and a hellochopper that i like. the boat came out sweet too : )

yeah i know the lighting is all wrong for the dude, i am not ging to use the xplosion, its yicky anyways :P dunno if i have time to continue him, i'd rather keep learning how to use my pens and markers than painting now. I view learning traditional meduims more important.

well here is a dump. some good some bad, as usual :nohope:
im thinkin of buying a scanner, but i may wait for Christmas or somthing, i stopped borring my friends cause its really annoying snagging it and plugging it in and stuff, that's part of the reason i've been updatings so infrequently =\
later!
-Jim

[Fishspawn]

Boat and gun look great! Some of the other stuff is looking pretty graphic, which might be what you're going for. Keep striving to think in 3d!

[Discoskull]

That boat looks jawesome. As does the copter.
You should draw a robot, yes indeed.

[Reject-D]

your art has improved a ton since your first page.. you still need to work a bit on your character anatomy but other than that your artwork has been improving and thats what the whole point of the sketchbook is about so good job !! keep it up!

[jdeegz]

yeah, i need to take about 1,000 more anatomy classes, or find websites with models on em, the one fishspawn gave me doesn't work for me =\
thanks for the quick responses :)
-JimBOOOOO

[jedininjaman]

hey man great work here your diligence is admirable keep it up
some things to keep on eye on,
-line quality, make sure that your lines are solid and less sketchy, it is ok to have sketchy lines at the beginning but just make sure you clean it up a bit by the time you are done
-shading, make sure when you shade that you arent just shading to shade make sure that your shading adds to the form and shape of the object dont just shade to shade, and also dont just scratch in the darks with lines , rather block in the form with a thick part of the lead so that it is all unified, also so the texture isnt wack

but ya nice work keep it up and ill see you around
-jedininja

[jdeegz]

shit man, im soo tired. lots of work...
and now my computer is dead/dying.
we'll see what happens.

[jdeegz]

><

fun.

did some quick sketches of some military personal.
a street lamp / ufo thing.
and a big dude that is supposed to look strong, and has a sweet hammah.

yeah, no more red sox = more time.

getting less homework too for some reason, im nervous....
k talk to you soon!
-Jim

[Fishspawn]

Rock on. improoovment. yeah keep drawing.

[jdeegz]

hio, thanks for stickin with me fish!

[Fishspawn]

~Always a pleasure. New markers are looking much better. We need to get back into daily updating.

[jdeegz]

zOmg, i r posting on my threadz.

look out, new scann0r. it pawns too.
Epson Perfection v200, :)

oh right, i got a new comp tha ti built myself, so i am full fledged nerd now :steph: but yeah, i got photoshop CS3 too, and it is so purrty and the new way it is laid out, like Flash MX was is SO helpful cause you can see the entire picture instead of it being covered by panels, lol.

k, so

during the break, I established many projects for myself. the main one that I will be updating on here for is simliar to the final i had last year in which I took my friends and made them Zombies / Swat dudes. This time, I am going to have them rollin out on a space ship. I don't know if i should have them all be crew members, or what. I kinda want to stay away from weapons on this one >< So i am thinking like an exploratory trip to another planet or something. So anyways, here is a start. It's the profile of their spaceship. I'll update again in a bit with a colored sketch aswell. I am excited :) I hope you guys are too.

[jdeegz]

>< its aite =\

[Fishspawn]

I am excited :)

[jdeegz]

zomg page 6, it only took a year... (/sarcasm)
workin on some 3d for the ship, i dont think i really like painting on the comp =\
lol markers are so shimpul.
k more 2 pnt ship renders comin up.

[Ignominious]

i think you have an amazing grasp on industrial things. it looking amaing! but i'd try to work some more on the people. i see a big gap inbetween those two. study from life, get a few books, and you'll be great
keep it up!

[jdeegz]

thanks dude, people are coming right ups :) ill do a butt load today.
i need to get some references on space suits and normal suit and ties.
i started doing some idea thumbs for the truck that will be in the spaceship.
I have a very odd idea for some of these pictures, and hopefully my skills can throw em down as i see them in my minds eye.

my new comp's harddrive had bad sectors so i sent it back to newegg for another. for some reason it has to go all the way to california when it came form new jersey, so i sent it on the 15th, arrival is no the 21st.. 3 day shipping my ass. anyways, i had to go back to my old comp and i finally got all my sketches up here. so i am taking a huge dumb on the CA bandwidth right now. sorry for em all. they are mostly just garbage thoughts but i though i'd share anyways.

[jdeegz]

i am workin on some ideas for a small tank with lots of fire power, probably run by one or two people. possibly aimed by one person that is about the carriage.
some weird space cowboy thing. and a car flyin over somthin.

cool

[jdeegz]

some better tankish things

[jdeegz]

painter rules ><

[jdeegz]

f-16 hornet...

postponing my made up tank thing, going to study mechs and how to make it pop with contrast!

[jdeegz]

chchchch eck it out

[Discoskull]

Dude! You're updating again! A lot! Where have I been?
I'm digging the vehicle designs. You've got quite a grip on it, and you're working it. It coos with satisfaction.
Your perspective skills are progressing quite nicely; I'm envious. Keep going with it. The streamlined jet-car things in 154 are rocking. Makes me wish I'd taken some industrial design classes.
Something seems a tidbit off with this last guy perspective-wise, but all it needs is some cleanup, and it's still a WIP anyway.
I like where you're going with the fighter jet, too; makes me want to see more color / painting.

And keep posting characters to ride around in your vehicles and kill things!
The new ones on the last page are really cool ideas.
Keep your Life Drawing Blade sharpened as well, when you're not in the mood for mechanical stuff.

Keep it coming

[jdeegz]

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[Fishspawn]

Tank is getting better, keep working on it, might be getting a little too contrasty though. Anyway, keep up the good work.

[jdeegz]

some quickers for color studyin.

[jdeegz]

refs used, forgot to post ><

[jdeegz]

another one,

[jdeegz]

t7i867i

[jdeegz]

back to some pens.

i think

i want to actually render a character.

Hm...

gotta pull some refrences together though.

I'm supposed to be doing research on some water pitches, but i have no idea how to make a mock up, so i figure i will just present some ergonomic statistics i found online ><

Here are some storyboards for my other ergonomic project, i am displaying how to work an electric razor, there are a few more strips that i need to do but heres two tah start :)

[jdeegz]

here are two more story boards, followed by some thumbnails for a ergonomic water pitcher. some 3d models are on the way. our main focus on making it comfortable, how a normal water pitcher isn't? i dunno, but i gotta do it :p

[Fishspawn]

Like the razor thumbnails, they are clear. Color studies are improving. If you want to rende a character remember that the overall value is the most important thing, details should come naturally if you really pay attention to the big picture. Keep it up!

[Discoskull]

I'm quite enjoying the updates
Glad to see the ref stuff! #166 is my favorite, methinks.
The ones in 163 are a good start - push em more! Beat that majesty into them, even if they beg you to stop. They'll thank you later. Pushing the atmospheric perspective would really help, as well as the detail in the foreground.

Really like the style of Shaving Guy, and I the mechanical drawings are kicking.

[jdeegz]

Norelco
Reflex Plus

[jdeegz]

a little more creative juices flowin through me now :-D

and a few redone panels for my project / half project.
did more than the other kids, i think, putting more in, learning more, dont care about the grade :P

[Discoskull]

Yay concepts! I like the beginnings of that environment, second image down :) Would like to see where it leads to. Bony polar bear looking thing definitely comes off as some sort of arctic duo, though the growths around the neck don't look as naturalistic as they could.
Razor bits are nice and streamlined, but the black objects (like the plugs/cords) get lost with the black halo.

More concepts! Drawing from photos of animals, and looking up prehistoric animals, helps me with creature concepts.
MegaFauna (http://www.kokogiak.com/megafauna/) / prehistoric mammals are some of my favorites, apart from dinosaurs, of course.

[jdeegz]

off to the home for the night :(
some pretty drop sketches that im pretty happy about.
the soldier is kinda fucked up, ill see what i can do when i paint em

[jdeegz]

hey yo, just wanted to update yall with a few of my water pitcher drawings

did some other stuff, atleast i thought i did.. hehe, oh wells ><

so here we got a few pages of my pitchers, roughly posted in order of time, goes in rows, not columns. uhhh

we got my gun dude colored, dont like em, i try to through to much retarded detail, gotta kep shit simple. it is my motto afterall.

a paint tube that i rendered pretty nicly, i dig it.

and some other shapes - a 3d render of a water pitcher cuase i was bored, and my buddies teapot - both drawn during the inclass crits :-P

[jdeegz]

some more shizzle
i dig my markers, wanna learn more wid em, these are weak !

[Fishspawn]

Studies are coming along nicely. Really dig the helicopter and the digi alien dude. Cool to see you working through different ideas for the water pitcher. keep it up!

[jdeegz]

pitcher is in modeling phase :-D
just gotta get a presentation goin now, should be all set for wedensday!
our next project has to do with pets and pet toys, oh booooyyyy

[Movenski]

deegz,
you've got some cool ideas happening on here, for your mech suit dude, have you thought about using a whiteout pen with your marker renderings to punch up the "bling" on the metal surfaces? its a tech. learned in college and its useful for the ID stuff as well. kudos on the progression with the paintings as well,

RM

[jdeegz]

sketchery dickery dock.

so yeap. gotta draw some more water pitchers this evening. got my presentation tommorow. Well not really presentation, but ive got to show my final ideas on how i will present it at the end of the semester.

Hmmz. I should post some pics of that, but i already got 9 sketch images, dun wanna flood ths system! :P

got some nice pencil gestures that i am diggin, rest are just doodles during classes.

[clayman101]

Dammit I did it again. I reply to something on the first page without checking to see of there are more. Sorry for this post, I'll post again when I've looked through the whole thing.

[jdeegz]

a little layout mock up for a presentation at the end of the year (reviews)
some new drawings on it, thought i'd sahre for the 2 people viewing :P
another soldier baddy from my art history class today. yep, it ws boring.

[Fishspawn]

Water pitcher is looking good and the soldier is much improved from the one before.

[jdeegz]

what one? the painted one?

[jdeegz]

meh, just wanted to share with you my set up :)

not to happy bout these sketches, would like to do more like them. the morgan roadster came out icky, didnt really do much sketching before it (mapping it out i guess youd call it) and yeah.. so what ever!

[jdeegz]

last one was my attempt at the COW - hyperactive is the topic.
i was thinking along the lines of his noodle like head needs to be so hyper active because he feeds on different particles in the air and hes got to feed that fat body!

:)

2nd to last one, does it appear to be that you're looking down at it? hes climbing up a cliff.
decided on the POV after i arleady drew the char so it snot fully thought out hhehe

:vodkamachine:
:vodkamachine:

rofl...

[jdeegz]

lwekin for internships around this here boston area.. its tough =\
dunno what im going to do this summer. moneyz needs to be maidd..

heres some more stuff. i am interested in the IDoW (star ship) so ill be workin on ideas for those!
i stayed after my literature class in my studio and played on othe cintiq, had to use alias sketchbook because PS wasnt reading the pen pressure =\ oh wells.

[Mihail]

Nice sketchbook, man. There's a definite progress in your skills. Keep it up

[Fishspawn]

Proportions on your people still need a lot of attention, keep working on those. Planes are looking good, really like the first one in your last post. Keep it up~

[deadred]

there's big improvements so far! continuing with studies like you're doing will let you get the hang of human proportions in no time (the closeup face on the left in in this post (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=314785&stc=1&d=1204348964) is very good, compared to some of your imaginative characters), so i guess it's all about practice. keep it up :}

[jdeegz]

uggghh..

i hate human form :-(
ill get it eventually.. i hopes

[jdeegz]

yeyhshh455hh55hh5

india ink is not what i expected to be...

turned the green a shitty shade of yellow instead of white =\ oh wells...

some day i;ve ought to lock mysel fin our computer lab and paint all day with the cintiq, ive got alot of images ready for colors and edits

[Fishspawn]

Faces in the last post show improvement, keep working on studies like that! I like this recent one - interesting to look at and it's clearly and nicely drawn. Keep up the good work!

[vimmel]

yeah man, great sketchbook!

nice studies!

Ill keep in touch :) keep drawing man.

[jdeegz]

ij4t903u49ttg goomazee gama

thanks alot for the respones, i thought i was the only one here =\

[Discoskull]

Wow dude! Crazy improvement and kick ass posts since I've been gone!
Good to see the life drawing; the angular style is really working for you, though it'd be cool to see some organic lines in the life drawing. Keep up the life drawing.
Industrial design stuff is kicking, and that weapon is sweet. I'd love to see it in action.
This was the perfect thread to visit right before I attempt to draw tanks/mechs...

[jdeegz]

hey dudes
been busy, as im sure yall are aswell so that isnt really an excuse
I've got ~40 page of cat tower concepts, that i'll wait to post hen i get a final layout ready, im going to work on finishing my water pitcher this weekend for my portfolio, ive gotta get an internship =)

anyways heres a soldier thing with a thing on his arm or somthin. hahaha
i dunnoo...

should i color it?i dunno =\
i think i grew apart from it, maybe ill redo some areas tommorow or later this evening.

[Fishspawn]

Nice! This is soo much better than your previous digis! Only problem i see is that i think the secondary light coming from his arm is too bright - it would read better if that leg was still in the shadow mass. Other than that it's rocking out of control! Great to see your improvement, keep it up~

[mayk]

Hey, you asked me how you to from grayscale to full value, and color it without repainting. So...earlier I usualy built forms with details ( after that I added layers colur, multiply, color dodge, overlay), and sometimes I lost it, so in recent jobs I draw with no particularity, try to work harder with colours.

Thanks for comms :)

PS. I hope you understand me, my english is poor ;)

[jdeegz]

thanks dudes, im glad yah dig, and thanks for your thoughts mayk.

heres my recently completed project for my Human Factors class, i've got another project nearing completion, i hhope :P

hope i can land an internship ><

i think i am going to start another painting this evening, i have some free time and the materials i need to finish my project havn't been bought :P

[vimmel]

damn, you've gotten awesome since I last took a look in here!
Hope you found a job man.


Keep drawing man

[jdeegz]

erro.
cant not post in the month of april, that'd be soo bad.
so what have i been up too?
well, not much really, i've been relaxing before the storm that we all know as finals. I've done some sketchings, lots of thinking, exercising. Most importantly, I've been looking for a summer job to bring in the rent money. Yeah, fun i guess.

the other day, wedensday, my Human Factors class to a trip to the Natick Soldier Center RDE&C - its basically a relativly small military base where they conceptualize, develop, and test the products soldiers are given to take into theatre. It is basically my dream job, and i got to visit it, amazing day. We got to see the new fabric they are using for the military suits, 'universal camo' we got to go to the biomechanices room. this place rocked, they have all these sensors and a work out area, what they do is equip soldiers with thier new gear, and they perform exercises and rate... everything from the preasure on your heel when you step down, to your breathing. I got to run around with a 40 lb kevlar and carbon fiber vest with a 40 lb backpack. It was pretty sick, i couldnt imagine wearing the 120 lb backpack the marines use! THEN there was the3-d anthropometric scanning room, where a person suits up in spandex, stands on this stage, and four scanners go up and down the body, and the image it captures is sooo life like its scary! they're in the process of developing a 'video game' to simulate doing chores while being shot at using the unreal tournament engine haha. okay i could go on for ever about this place, it's so fking awesome and im applying for an possible internship i can there!

k so i got some sketches of random shit, mostly done in classes that bore the shit out of me :P then i did some random color....things testing complementary colors and how they can act as shadows and high lights. ima do some more, i can see it being very beneficial learning these so they stick in my head.

thanks for visitin! dont forget to leave a comment!

[Fishspawn]

That sounds like an awesome place! I hope you get the internship. I like some of the ideas you've got going on here, especially that little evil dog :) You're getting better, keep it up!

[jdeegz]

the machine


the illustration

[jdeegz]

K, here's a biggy!

So i've been chillin, keepin busy.

working on some webdesign, can be viewed at www.dsglass.org
It is one of my co-worker's portfolio, she is a Glass Major here at Mass Art, and graduated two years ago...maybe?

Been thinking, but not really doing anything for the Deep event going on here. I found it annoyingly vague, and hard to work for.

I have uploaded my the boards I used for my presentation for my final reviews onto my FTP. They are large images, and currently are unworked for viewing on the web, but soon i will have a written presentation that works with the images so they can go on my online portfolio.
You can view them here
The Cat tower (http://babel.massart.edu/~jdegruttola/random/cattowerlayout.jpg)
The Water Pitcher (http://babel.massart.edu/~jdegruttola/random/waterpitcherlayout.jpg)
The Norelco Razor (http://babel.massart.edu/~jdegruttola/random/razorlayout.jpg)
My Service Idea (http://babel.massart.edu/~jdegruttola/random/servicelayout.jpg)

Okay, so here are some drawings, some paintings, I am working on my discipline, and Painting 1 / 2 small still lives in black&white a day. Hopefully i can keep it up, and also my daily gym routine =D

Enjoy!

Ps Wow this is a doozy. sorry!

[fantasyartist]

Nice stuff in here mate! Just a few points I think you should work on:
You seem to use a lot of straight lines. Nothing wrong with that but try throwing some curves in there. Also be more carefull with your constructions. It seems to me that you get impatient and rush to the details in most of your drawings. I think you should do more drawings from observation and try to understand the overall forms as well as the details. Do more research on common things such as those aircraft and tanks and try to understand how they work and why they're build that way. Having that knowledge will make a big difference when you are coming up with designs. I hope I'm making sense here. Just keep working hard my friend!

[Diphallia]

Try painter, you'll hate it.

[jdeegz]

:sungod:

:ilaekae:

been teaching a computer animation class at my college for some high schoolers. firs t time in the field, its pretty fun =D the kids are having fun as am i. I haven't been drawing as much as i like due to mainly laziness and i've been attracted to team fortress 2 the past week or two.

i've got to stop trying to conquer the world, and just float on some clouds above it.

keep shit simple, eh? =D
k
later
-Jim

[jdeegz]

yup..

[jdeegz]

hmm..

i feel like i have not drawn at all this summer, but looking back, i really have done a good chunk of workin'.

currently updating my portfolio with my industrial design work from the school year. I will post it as soon as its done on here.

so I HAVE actually worked on that digi, i 'finished' it, meaning i was mentally finished with the piece so I called it done =D, time to move on!

I am working on a character now, I have noticed he is sort of a mix between a vortigon from half-life , and a prophet from the halo series. But i am going for some sort of being that is very smart, but arrogant and condescending. His species talks through with their minds. I haven't decided if they should have eyes or not. But anyways, i figure i should paint this guy up soon, or at least do some test runs with him on the comp.

I started to think about his companion but haven't uploaded the pictures yet.

So here is a large dump, hopefully it will cover for me not posting in a month, haha.
-JIM!

[jdeegz]

just one for today, finished pencil rendering of Turso, pronounced like TER-SO

=D

[jdeegz]

just one today =D

his name is Turso, dunno why, just is! haha

[jdeegz]

just having some fun, something that goes missing when making art sometimes.

[jdeegz]

lawlz

DINO SAURZ

[Fishspawn]

It's good to have fun when making art :) Keep up the good work~

[Kurjuus]

It's essential that you have fun at what you're doing, otherwise it's pointless to work your ass off for basically nothing since it's the process that counts, not the result.

I like yer designs btw, that last dinosaur poc is very cool :)

[jdeegz]

not truly DESIGNED, only had one/two days to do it, but still fun =D
its a cool idea, and i think it would be fun to build!

[jdeegz]

I will get some not lazy time to upload my sketches at some point, here is an open canvas, first timer =D
it was fun

[jdeegz]

2.33 mb of updates.

muahaha DIE 56kers DIE!!!

[ArtZealot]

I like those silhouette studies from the last post. I see a lot of cool designs in them. My favorite one is in the third row down third one on the right. It looks like some kind of organic spacecraft. Anyway, you have an awesome sketchbook goin, keep it up. Cheers'

[seth1]

Awesome man. You're going to be kicking ass by supper time if you keep on drawing this much. Love how you are designing things and making them work it's good practice. We will have to Oc some time ill give you a buzz next time I see you on. Keep up the good work

[jdeegz]

the world is ending.

two updates.


in three days.



of epic proportions.


thank you, and please enjoy.

[jdeegz]

quick diddle after class.

pretty formless. unsatisfying.

[Slash]

good work on the perspective practice, its important to have a feel for the fundamentals.

[Fishspawn]

Woot lots of updates. Doodles and design stuff is looking good :) I actually like that little digi vehicle - just pop some more form shadows in there and it will read better. keep up the good work, the improvement in here is solid~

[jdeegz]

IDW stuffs

concepts for my 'white bird project' and my product rendering HW tommorow.

[jdeegz]

Some more works, staying to spit out some markers. tommorow i have rendering, so i will learn what to do better / what ever a little faster than dicking around for weeks =D

yeah, im modeling some speakers right now in the shittiest program EVER.
AliasStudio 2009. Autodesk produces it, they also produce 3ds MAX and MAYA if you did not know, why my program chooses this shit program is BEYOND me.

-Jim

[jedininjaman]

great work and hook me up with the dream splicer :D
This should never happen (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=472435&stc=1&d=1222224687) though I mean really in every other piece you have great clean lines and then in this it is hard to tell any form at all because you can not tell which ;line is the correct line
but you are doing great just keep what you learn from studies and transfer it over

but ya keep it up man and stop by sometime
-jedi

[kingshaj]

keep it up yur on the right track bro!:)

[jdeegz]

=D

fun fun fun!

now boring school work =\

[yoitisi]

Great progress on your industrial design sketches :) The last asteroid miner is definitely an improvement over the older sketches, though I'm not entirely sure what you mean with that 'flap jack' sketch.

A couple of general things that might help you:

First of all, line quality can really help to make a drawing more clearer. In some of the sketches in the last and earlier post, you still scratch too much. This makes the drawings harder to read. If you have a complicated contour or line, break it up in it's basic parts (straight, curve to the left, curve to the right etc). Also, line weight can help to give a drawing more depth (for example, lines on the underside of an object or on the shadow side of an object can be heavier then lines on the light side -usually the top- of an object).

Secondly, you need to construct you're shapes a bit better. Even just adding a centreline over your shapes would already help enormously, as it'll help you keeping it symmetrical. More organic shapes usually need some cross-sections to be drawn first before you can draw the contour, because they are often hard to predict. Draw transparent (meaning, draw the lines you can't see at the back of an object too). If you need to add anything to the back of a shape, this will be a great help to make sure it aligns and connects properly to the initial object. Also, never leave lines out if they are right in front of the viewer like in the mixer drawing. You miss the lines that define the edges closest to the viewer, not drawing those lines means you miss an important piece of information for the construction of details like the holes on that edge.

Lastly, when cleaning up your line art like with the little turtle, you also lose a lot of information about shape and proportions (much like the example of the mixer above). This is fine if you plan on bringing that information back with rendering them out, but if you're not planning on fully painting them then leaving out all the sketch/construction lines will make your drawing less clear.

Hope that helps a bit :D

[jdeegz]

hi

thanks for your comments guys.

yoitisi, thanks for the reminders =D

heres some more, trying to figure out the whole 'draw cars like scott robertson' thing. they're pretty blocky and poopy but what ever.

the watch, motorcycle, and tank were done on vellum with markers, that was alot of fun. First time using vellum. it's like plastic tracing paper, super cool.

ima work on doing some interior renders for the idow and my rendering homework =D

some other projects im working on - Designer Luggage (Garment Bag, laptop bag, and a tote / duffle bag), a handheld shower head using the Electrolux design language and branding, pretty fun.. sort of, shower heads are sort of bleh. and im building a magnetic water fountain which should be super rad.

later dudes, stay busy!

[jdeegz]

some other crap

im pretty unhappy with my sketching for some reason.

the main crit i got form my teacher was that i need too loosen up, but i am quite loose, looser than most others in the class it seems. I suppose it is because i tighten up near the end of a sketch to focus on details/darkening punch lines.

i cannot draw a head, except this talib kweli, but i drew him about 10 times, at least.

gotta do 15 product design sketches for rendering hw. bunch of em will be rendered on the cintiq, bleh.

BLEH

[Fishspawn]

Dude your designs are getting much better! vehicles and objects are looking much more fluid and solid. And that face is by far your best yet! If it takes 10 times to get a head right, do it 10 times I say :) Keep up the hard work, big improvements are happening~ Draw draw draw!

[jdeegz]

some more from todays doodlodomy.

[jdeegz]

hey
some more digi's

food for your braaaaain
your brain for my food?

updated revolver, forgot a little shadow though oh wells. ill touch it up again i suppose

[Discoskull]

Been awhile since I've dropped by! Tons of improvement.
You can draw the shit out of some props and machinery, and your animals are marching right along as well. The screaming cat/ stork sketches are excellent.
What would you suggest if I were needing to get better at industrial design/ machinery? No matter how much I diddle, I always find it hard to wrap my mind around the anatomy of complex machines (in order to get creative with it, I mean).

Keep on trucking - and draw some more humans!

[ReviseTheMethod]

Great stuff lately! =D I dig those industrial design sketches in #230 =)

Keep working on your skills, and when you feel ready I would love to see a finished concept along with process-shots :)

HUZZAAAH!

[Dannelf]

You're in lack of stars dude!
4* from me! :)

[jdeegz]

thank you very much for the replies guys, you're great =D

Bunch o sketches, not even all of them, rawr.
got some shower head concepts goin on in here, my current Industrial Design 1 project. coming along pretty well.. ill have the entire project done soon and ill post it up along with the story.

-Jim

OH P.S. I GOT ACCEPTED TO SCHOOL IN AUSTRALIA FOR NEXT SEMESTER!! WOOOO

[jdeegz]

a grunt im workin on.

no refs, hard =\

[jdeegz]

Black Per!

[ReviseTheMethod]

Nice progress! =)
I'd suggest using some bigger brushes to define the values on that wip, because I don't think that small pecky strokes work well with that kind of armor - which to me seems like it should be quite smooth with large planes :)


I've got to go to bed now, but I'll be back soon and give some more advice if you want me to :)

Cheers!

[jdeegz]

RAWR

thanks method.

[Robert.B]

Keep kicking out the goodies m8te. Watch some of your distortion and make sure its following your vanishing points. Peace!

[Fishspawn]

Congrats on being accepted to school in australia ^_^.

On the grunt i think your initial sketch reads the best. It has highlights in the right places and all of the form reads. If you still have that version saved I'd say go back to that and just keep pushing it working that way. Push in some form shadows with a soft round but other than that it looks pretty nice. I think as you worked on it further you got less confident in your ability to render and it got messy and unreadable in the process... I have had that problem myself. Basically at some point i realized that all i have to do is look for each shape and render it out simply. Midtone, core shadow, highlight. All you've gotta do is push those shadows in the first sketch and he'll read better than the latest one.

You're getting some good rendering in these design sketches. Those glasses look nice, and i like the visual trick you've got in that one XD

With faces and bodies i'd say put them into your comfort zone. You're really strong with industrial objects in perspective - so when drawing the head think of it as carved out of a box in perspective. The more you can understand and simplify in your head the easier it will be to draw it out.

Keep working at it, you're getting better faster than you realize. ~~

[Discoskull]

Your technical drawings are f-ing tight as always. I want to see more of your original designs - robots and body armor and stuff! You are really good at the mechanical/ technologically advanced stuff (but you already knew that). I envy your sense of perspective.

Only thing I'd say atm is keep working on your figures. They're still a bit stiff. More life drawing!.
Sketching 5-10 hands every day really helps out with organic drawings as well (speaking of which, I really need to take my own advice, heh...)

[jdeegz]

oO

srsly don't like this whole copy right bull nanny.


tried some new stuff, also focused on loosening up, worked a lil bit.

[tonysaurus]

jdungz! jdongz.. jdiggz.

you're so prolific, i had no idea :|! it's fun looking back at your 'ideations' from class. you've inspired me to start compiling my work and making my sketchbook on here. :|

anyway.. i know you probably have heard this a bunch, but you should be more conscientious about your line work. looking back at your thread i noticed the line work on your vehicles is real tight, to me it shows you were thinking a lot about the line. I think it's just when you're dealing with circular shapes that you start getting 'chicken-scratchy'.

it's great to see that you're exploring expressions of the face. i think you can improve many of your drawing techniques by doing self-portraits (and portraits of others). oh, and of course drawing from observation. it sucks you guys don't really have a class in ID that helps you improve drawing skills.. imo, your progress is mostly from your personal work.

oh, and we have the same computer case :d

[jdeegz]

it sucks you guys don't really have a class in ID that helps you improve drawing skills.. imo, your progress is mostly from your personal work.




LOL

oh tony..