This is my sketchbook. There are many like it, but this one is mine.

[Finn Diesel]

I'll attempt to use this thread in the same way that I use my blog but for more rough work which, in theory, means that I'll be updating it much more often. We'll see...

Some pages from my moleskine...

[Icedearth15876]

Great work, the human sketches look great. Keep it up.

[DannySketch]

Ah you talented hardworking son of a monkeys uncle.

Welcome good sir, I hope you keep this going, those Lion drawings are gorgeous mate, cheers for sharing.

[wookiedabo]

I love that outlined bird on the white background. And the bloke in the hat sitting in the tree. cool pages mate, nice start.

[Finn Diesel]

Icedearth15876 Cheers, much appreciated

Dannysketch Thanks man. My second post in a week, madness.

Wookiedabo Thanks for looking. I'll view your sketchbook as soon as my internet stops messing about.

More pages from the moleskine...



Work in progress for my character project. This one is a wraparound book cover. The guy's face looks stupid at the moment, but I'll sort it out...



The first is copied from 'The Fall' by Tarsem - one of my new favourite films, I highly recommend it. The second is from Band of Brothers, which is also genius...



Some stone busts...



Some studies of J.C Leyendecker...



That's all folks, thanks for the feedback

[Smarty]

you have a ver strong sense of design and setting which show in your more stylised stuff. Your noses aren't very convincing though. With the placement of the base being the main issue i think.Have a quick looks at some facial structure writings. I use Loomis, alot use bridgman.

[DannySketch]

Nice stuff finny boi

Gotta agree with kyle's crit, your basic structure is slightly off on some of your faces, but that'll come with practice.

Leyendecker studies are lovely, that man was a god, you could always take a stab at oils?

[Finn Diesel]

Smarty Yeah, I think I can generally draw facial features ok, but getting them all to work together in a normal looking face is pretty hard! Haven't done any life drawing in ages, but getting an anatomy book ain't a bad substitute I guess. Cheers.

Dannysketch Thanks, that Leyendecker sure was one talented son of a gun. Try Oil painting? Never! Well, maybe... but me and painting go together like flies and honey.

[DStraX]

hey, cool sb! I like how clean it looks

[ajvenema]

im in love with the deer!
nice work, looks pretty illustrative, you do something in that direction?
anyway, keep going, and id love to see you make a mess of some pages sometimes

[TheButterBunny]

lovin the stuff in your moleskin! such varied subjects, but all in such a high quality!

keep it coming!

[Finn Diesel]

DStrax Thank you.

ajvenema Thank you. Yeah I'm starting my Illustration degree in September. Quite exciting! As for the neatness, that's just a style choice. I usually don't like the messy stuff I do, and it invariably ends up getting rubbed out or binned.

TheButterBunny Thanks. Most of the moleskin stuff is from references, so its not that original, but I'm glad you like it

Here's another spread (values were added in Photoshop).

I was going for a Joao Ruas / Audrey Kawasaki look for the second one.

[Mon Chat]

im gone lend you my copy of hogarth. you's gone study.

[Finn Diesel]

I'm a little ashamed of myself for producing so little work these last few days. I sprained my ankle playing football on the weekend and spent a couple of days watching it swell up and go all sorts of colours. Despite my best efforts though, I can't use this to justify such latent behaviour on the art front. Some of this is new, and some of it is just stuff that has been sitting around waiting to be developed.

Another Leyendecker study. Pencil this time, not so adventurous...



Another tree. I don't usually like my looser drawings. You won't see many.



Reminiscent of the 'Stone Gardens' from the Edge Chronicles...



A self portrait.



One of the character pieces I have yet to develop. A long time ago I read 'The Alchemist' by Paulo Coehlo, and to me this guy seems to represent one of the characters from the story. If I had a lightbox I'd enlarge this piece and tidy it up James Jean stylee, but I don't, so I'll have to find some other way of doing it.



-Finn Diesel out.

[DannySketch]

Gah dude I freaking love your designs and enviroments, you ever tempted to paint one of these up digitally?

Your characters and 'people' are prob your weakest front, the line quality lacks the same sort of confidence, originality and love that you give to your designs,

Take a rest on the ankle mate, those peasant dwellings wont invade themselves...

...

because your a viking...?

oh never mind

[serhc]

love that little true in your thumbnail, got me to click into your sb, haha

i particularly like the ones where you've cleaned up (or just laid down) really clean lines...kind of a lines man here. they do look a little stuff sometimes though - maybe starting out with some looser sketches might help? i dunno, just a thought

keep at it sir

[Finn Diesel]

Dannysketch Thank you. I've shaken off my crutches at last, so Falmouth better watch out! Here's a digital environment piece for ya! - some generic spacey architecture. Average.

serhc Thanks for looking. At least the digital stuff stops me obsessing over linework! I'll keep that in mind about the looser stuff too. Cheers.

[DannySketch]

GAH! Thats what I am talking about bro!fricking A! Do and show more of these, I love em.

[Abrodos]

I really like that last enviro. I think it would be even better if you added some waves to the water (right now it gives a very static sensation, it could be sand from a desert instead of water) and some darker shadows on the tower in first term, to separate it more from the background. Anyway, nice work so far!
Keep it coming

[Finn Diesel]

DannySketch Gratzie!

Abrodos Thanks for the crits. If I decide to tighten up that piece I'll bear them in mind.

Here are some quick digital environments. Going mental with the palette knife brush


And an imagination sketch from the moleskine, don't ask me to explain it...


Worked in some tones on Photoshop. Garish use of colour I know. Will probably change it.


My scanner has been taken away from me, so future updates will be digital stuff for a while.

[Finn Diesel]

More quick landscapes. Only once I arranged them did I realise the compositions are all pretty much the same. Oh well...

[Finn Diesel]

I love drawing Karst peaks at the moment. Inspired by Robh Ruppel

[Grafguy]

nice sketchbook so far
i really like the moleskin one, thought 1 thing bothers me, on the left side, those bricks looks like there just pasted into it, they don't seem to fit in the whole thing
keep up the good work

[Finn Diesel]

Grafguy Yeah, I wasn't really sure about those bricks either. Will put something else there if I continue to work on it. Thanks for looking!

I just found another landscape picture I did a while ago. Not great, but it kind of fits with the other stuff so I thought I'd put it up anyway...



I'm going to do more architectural environments from now on.

[Joyvenn]

Hm.
not bad..great sketchbook drawings. clean and creativ.
Apart the stone garden tree and the greek gips figure, please.

[Tigermilk]

great sketchbook man, thanks for sharing!

[JustinBeckett]

Nice start!

[luness]

Hey man, thanks for the kind words on my SB! You've got some pretty awesome stuff as well. Just one suggestion. How about if you develop and finish some of your ideas and concepts. The talent is there but I think you're keeping it for yourself, haha, so share it

Cheers!

[OmertA]

Very cool ideas and concepts here man.
You deserve some stars
till next time -Omerta

[Cacodaemonia]

Wow, really amazing sketchbook! Some of your faces look a little weird in the eye/eyebrow areas, but everything else is awesome. I especially love these two:
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...kin2/12-13.jpg
http://i122.photobucket.com/albums/o...kin2/25-26.jpg