J's Sketchbook (Daily Updates, Monster Shenanigans)

**jdelle** · October 24th, 2007, 10:57 AM

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**fragmentedchimp** · October 24th, 2007, 11:09 AM

Sweet. looking rad, dig all the digital stuff, especially the two hellish horsies head butting. only piece that really stuck out was the bright yellows on your 3rd from your last posted - but im pretty sure thats my perception of style and what not acting a foo'. Cool stuff, awesome concepts - more! the the forum luvs it.

**Micaiah Nelson** · October 24th, 2007, 11:52 AM

Pretty awsome stuff man. And Welcome to CA.org

**ChaoticKnight** · October 24th, 2007, 12:18 PM

Crazy stuff man. Welcome!!
This will be a sketchbook to watch. My personal favorite is the second-to-last aquatic creature. beautiful color design and texturing. I assume you painted that over a couple sketchbook pages?
Keep posting!

**Rabid** · October 27th, 2007, 11:28 AM

Very nice stuff. Favorite is the white winger on the second row of old sketches. Color and textures are fine, but great poses make the pieces exceptional!

**lynntendo** · October 27th, 2007, 12:04 PM

Very nice work! My favorite is the jaguar in the tree with all the hands, very cool imagery. Keep it up!

**joaKimArt** · October 27th, 2007, 12:30 PM

Wow, very good stuff here! Tremendously great!

Liked the black dragon (nazgul thing toward the light contrast). Keep it up! =)

**Mydrim** · October 27th, 2007, 12:41 PM

Damn! You are amazing! Bookmarked

**Sublimus** · October 27th, 2007, 12:51 PM

'Bout time you got on the boards! HUURAY!

**DanielC** · October 27th, 2007, 01:06 PM

Very cool stuff madame !
Something that would be nice to see is some really big varations in the color of your creatures/character. Kind of like her's http://www.nezuyukiko.com/
Any case, keep working !!

**Dookymobile 3000** · October 27th, 2007, 01:07 PM

She Lives

**Ninth** · October 27th, 2007, 01:29 PM

Hahafuck, it's about time your art reminded me of how much of a talentless git I am.

I got your note via dA btw, anything particular in mind?

**Rikutida** · October 27th, 2007, 01:36 PM

C:

Welcome to CA~
nice to see your around here

(and Naomi shut up :CCC you are not talentless)

**vimmel** · October 27th, 2007, 02:13 PM

amazing stuff! I really like the evil dolphin in the first post, looking sweet!

keep it up

**Ninth** · October 27th, 2007, 02:14 PM

(Yeah, well, there's probably a reason why all my best shit only comes out after Jenna posts. XD)

J, it's interesting how you're trying to resolve human figures--with more attention paid to muscle mass than to muscle structure as with your creatures. Stylistically it's an approach that doesn't quite work for me, yet, but I wouldn't have you come at people from any other sort of angle. Hm.

**Noomi** · October 27th, 2007, 02:52 PM

(i find that with hyoo-mans the hardest thing is facial structuuure for me..)

have fun at cA, anyways. My favorite would have to be the red rooster thing and the labratory room sketch thing? uh. I like color and detail.

**CrowCandy** · October 27th, 2007, 03:31 PM

It probably doesn't mean much anymore hearing this kinda stuff as you surely do so often, but thank you very much for sharing your wonderful creative work with us all.

Thank you for your inspiration.
I sincerely hope that no matter what kinda bullsh*t people of the web world throw at you, you will never stop drawing, even if it is only for yourself and shared with no one else. It is good to know you are out there.

~Shelley
(I have watched your artwork since 2004)

**Ambitious13** · October 27th, 2007, 04:59 PM

Eh heh. New work from you is like candy.

That being said, on the topic of drawing human faces (which will be difficult to address correctly, as you have what, two posted right now?):

Eh... Actually, I'd love to see more examples of human faces from you before I try to break down where you can improve, but I can at least offer some advice. When you're drawing/constructing the human face, my life-drawing teachers always said to keep the form of the skull in mind, and then build up from there. The face has a buttload of varying surfaces, and making a drawing adequately represent those surfaces can be a challenge... as it stands, the two faces that you've posted sort of read as "flat" to me. Your monsters have definite structure, and the same principles can be applied to people.

ALTERNATIVELY, your mastery of limited palettes and light/shadow and visual appeal is absolutely mind-blowing. I really liked the discomcat.jpg, probably due to a preference to bleached-out colours, textures, and the overall looseness of the drawing.

**sampsonx** · October 27th, 2007, 06:54 PM

You have an awesome imagination and creature design skills that are 1337

**Camara** · October 27th, 2007, 07:30 PM

WoooooooooooooooooooooooooooWWWWW!!!!!!Awesome stuff!!!!

**Coleb** · October 27th, 2007, 08:15 PM

Very imaginative and beautifully rendered. Please post more. I´d like to see more of your pencil work too.

**ruzkin** · October 27th, 2007, 09:55 PM

So, so awesome to see you on CA. Amazing works you have posted here, the breadth of your technique is fascinating.

**Yazzman** · October 28th, 2007, 08:37 AM

Wow, great stuff.

*subscribes*

**Sk3tcher** · October 28th, 2007, 08:46 AM

really cooooool creatures
keep up
love it

**Yiako** · October 28th, 2007, 10:42 AM

Great creatures. It seems that we have another Mike Correiro around here!

**RandAlThor** · October 28th, 2007, 10:54 AM

Right click - Save as.... ;-)

**scooterella** · October 28th, 2007, 12:02 PM

aoww man I posted something but I don't think it stuck so if this is a double post, sorry!

oh dammit jenna, with the dragons! *shakefist*

Lovely lovely pictures, glad to see you are trying more people. I would suggest next time when you sketch hands to draw from life (yeah really like the teachers say). The way you draw wrists for instance is a little weird and I think drawing your own hands would help you a lot with that.

Good work and seeee you in class monday!

**Arn J.** · October 28th, 2007, 01:01 PM

I officially love you now.
Thanks.

**Leo Ki** · October 28th, 2007, 01:33 PM

Originally Posted by jdelle

and I draw ridiculous shit

I suggest you fundamentally revise your definition for 'ridiculous' and 'shit'

A feast for the eyes you create
Go on and don't stop

**Ampersand** · October 28th, 2007, 03:16 PM

Wow, my day is made. I've admired your older work for quite a while and it's great to see recent stuff from you. I always hoped vaguely that I'd see you posting on here some day.