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[Jane Radstrom]

Hello! I'm not really a concept artist, can you guys forgive my lack of warriors and bikini babes? I am a lover of cool sketchbooks, though. I've been lurking around in this section and thought that I might share some stuff in return for all the inspiration. My sketchbooks are mostly little notes I've taken from life and experiments with mixed media. I'd like to know what you think!

[AlexC]

wow, this work is stunning, Im guessing a mix of inks, gouche, watercolour, copics and pens..
A crit on this http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=112979&stc=1&d=1174787501
the values are very mid-tone. Think about the eyes and hair as the darker sections and use a few more values.
Are you painting over books?, Interesting idea:P
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[bunny]

Mmm... mixed media, sketchbook-books, "Is sally B. dead yet?". Awsome work. I'm subscribing to this.

[Sanest]

Yea this is some really cool stuff, i like the style...alot.

Keep posting more!

[designboot]

Fantastic stuff here!

[Misty L.]

Wow your stuff is really great! It's a really neat idea to paint in books, I especially like how the letters sometimes are completely covered and other times are visible through the paint!

[Jane Radstrom]

Misteh, Designbot, Sanset, Bunny - Thank you!! it gives me the warm fuzzies to get responses. ;) Keeping my sketchbook in a book was really fun. I experimented with alot of ways to use the text as pattern, as inspiration, to write poetry, all kinds of stuff. The book that I picked was almost 400 pages long, and I ran out of steam at about 250. It was sometimes tiring to deal with all of the busyness - you can't just do a clean, simple, fast sketch because it won't show up well. I want to go back to it and finish someday, though.

AlexC - I have a big box of stuff - inks, watercolors, acrylics, caran'dache, tombow pens, paint pens... I usually grab something that I want to work with every day, after a few weeks my purse can't hold it all anymore so I clean it out and start again. Very techincal process. ;-) Thank you for the crit on my drawing! I have been looking at the little Dover book of Sargent portrait drawings, and what you said is probably exactly what Sargent would tell me...

Here's a couple of pages from last week, a trip that I took to NYC. I am not very good at brush pen drawings, but I vow to keep going anyways.

[AlexC]

hmm, nice update
never heard of "caran'dache", can you tell me what ones you used those for?
With the brushpens, when I use them, I usually use them with a .5 pen or similar, and use the brush pen for the dark spots etc, and the pen for lines...mainly because fat outlines dont work too well usually.
Is most of this stuff from life, imagination, ref? or a mix of all?
groovy stuff

[tensai]

ahh - very very nice work. love the lines and the loose complexity of these.
one of my favourites:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=112975&stc=1&d=1174787437

keep rockin the book and hook us up with some more!

[Jane Radstrom]

AlexC- Caran'dache is a fancy word for watercolor crayon. They have the texture of crayons, but dissolve to make waxy opaque washes. I don't think that I used them on any of the pages which I posted above, but I have one scanned that I'll post for an example. That's a good system with the brushpen, now that you mention it I am pretty sure I have seen other people doing that without realizing it. I'll try it, although part of me wants to be a purist and learn the dexterity to do even tiny lines with a pen. ;)

Thank you, Tensai! Hope to keep exciting you.

Some more new stuff, and some more old pages from my booksketchbook. I used alot of layers of caran'dache to make the blue/green page - the last one. My friends like some of these recent pages, but they scream James Jean to me. Although, it seems to be a common misconception that JJ has the monopoly and was the originator of the cool sketchbook "thing". A generation back it was all about Barron Storey, I think he's the bigger influence for me. I got to meet him last summer. Barron told me to put things in a box and make every sketchbook page an image - not just a set of floating heads or renderings. That is what pretty much spawned my whole mixed-media sketchbook frenzy.

[AlexC]

:) another great update Velo!
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=115203&stc=1&d=1175178375
this one is my favourite
thanks for explaining what Caran'dache is :)
with the pen/brushpen comdo, Metalwinds does a particulary good job( you may have been referring to him anyway)
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=37275&highlight=metalwinds
nice pages

[bhanu]

who cares if you dont do concept art. this thread is dope.suggestions? post more , lot more , keep posting.This is too good.
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[bunny]

Mixed media frenzy indeed. This stuff is just so awsome. I envy your control over colour and how your palettes go so well with he colour of the paper you're drawing on. Keep that shit up!!