♦♦ Jackdaw's Sketch Thread ♦♦

[Rodimus25]

Nice studies and great stuff B, keep em rolling

[Krato]

that blue skull is awesome!! along with the guy with the spear some ways up, his hand doesnt look like its really holding onto the spear though :<

[seetsy]

yea man dude your improvement is awesome, im loving that pirate ship a few posts back

[LAL]

woo……so many exercises,good works!I like the post 242#man ,keep the nice work up!

[seetsy]

nice work man, your colours are looking good. are those figures from imagination or ref?

[aLDoDarK]

wow, I really like your drawing and colouring, I just wondering how many study drawings that you made in 1 day, cos It just so awesome! I wish I could learn from you XD

[seetsy]

i really like this last one, beautiful colours and poses, the studies are paying off. I just noticed that the one side of the cape is blowing in the wind while the other side of the cape on the far left is sitting still. I think if the wind was blowing this strong maybe even the girls hair would be affected as well.

Same thing with the cross necklace, its vertical position kind of stands out, i think it should be on an angle a bit for some movement or if you wanted to keep it straight maybe make the chain look a bit more taut to show some weight.. anyways these are just some small crits, i really like this one man, keep rocking!

[Krato]

nice mouse study!

[vatteh]

Your nice two updates look great. For a critique, I would say that her hips on the chick in the twisting motion looks off to me. I'm guessing it's due to her left waist-torso area being too light to be projected far enough into space, but it really could just be me. This is a great sketchbook by the way. Keep it rocking man!

[seetsy]

really u dont keep psds? hehe i like that pic tho.
Love that tricycle uh ..duck guy, hehe its awesome, definitely keep exploring this type of style, i think it looks great

[Rodimus25]

fricken awesome updates B, love em all!

[Mat Kaminski]

Man, your paints are GREAT!

I especially love your post #'s 246 and 243 :3

I'll crit around as time goes on.

[Hellbeard]

Exceptional work. I really like the Duck-Sky-Pirate - very imaginative and inventive (also, the rendering is totally sweet).

All in all, radical.
Also, you're awesome.
It's hard sometimes when you lose sight of the feeling of joy at creating art. I certainly know what that feels like. You inspired me not only to keep working but to think about why I'm working. I don't think it's in order to have fun and yet fun should be in there somewhere. No idea what I'm saying here.

[isso09]

Dude, you're a baller. Keep it up. Especially like the personal pieces, do more of those!

[Lakka]

You work very well with traditional mediums. Very impressive!

[seetsy]

sweet that skeleton painting is awesome, youve got some great traditional painting skills there, really cool handwriting too

[PNate]

Your sketchbook is great and your CHOW is hilarious. Im voting for this one!

[Nonobot]

Loving your stuff, pretty wacky ideas, that are rendered well!
Part of that well looks like its overlapping the fabric a bit, I might just be looking into it too much.
Shes like " look at my bling "! Are you going to colour it? :v

[Rodimus25]

Wow B, loving the last piece, traditional right? Great pose, nice form, and really solid lines

Hope alls well mate.

[Cameli]

MAaaan arthur such a nice and crazy sketchbook!Love ur fantasy and crazy chows!

[carriejo]

wow, I love your style! keep it up man!

[a la bapsi]

k this sketchbook is fucking awesome.

i love your dedication.

[blackcherry]

Awesome sketchbook all the way through. Your art is amazing!

Oh and great start on the veteran piece for the last CHOW, made me laugh!

[karantina]

the last post is very magical. I can just say wow. Great rendering in black-white.

[AlexEh]

Very nice drawing on the last post, this sketchbook rocks, thanks for sharing.

[Cyberman]

great moleskins stuff! I like the bird piece, is that traditional?

[NickTrip]

You've got an awesome sketchbook here. Congrats on the wedding!

[NickTrip]

That tooth fairy image is really cool. That's a great idea!

Since you asked for some perspective:
I think her right arm is too short. If it were hanging at her side, her elbow would be around the bottom of her rib cage and her hand would be around her abdomen. Also, I think her hips aren't quite wide enough compared to her shoulders.
The last thing, which might be hard to change, is that by the santa boot in the foreground we seem to be an inch or two off the ground, worms eye view. It doesn't seem that we're looking up enough at the tooth fairy. The perspective around her feet and knees looks pretty good, but then up by her head we're still looking straight on, when really she's 5', x" above us.

Oh and Santa's boots ought to be shiny.

I hope that helps! It's looking really awesome.

[NickTrip]

That tooth fairy image is really cool. That's a great idea!

Since you asked for some perspective:
I think her right arm is too short. If it were hanging at her side, her elbow would be around the bottom of her rib cage and her hand would be around her abdomen. Also, I think her hips aren't quite wide enough compared to her shoulders.
The last thing, which might be hard to change, is that by the santa boot in the foreground we seem to be an inch or two off the ground, worms eye view. It doesn't seem that we're looking up enough at the tooth fairy. The perspective around her feet and knees looks pretty good, but then up by her head we're still looking straight on, when really she's 5', x" above us.

Oh and Santa's boots ought to be shiny.

I hope that helps! It's looking really awesome.


I'm glad I double posted too.

Oh and I drew this little scribble for you as a thanks to the extra thanks. I'm thankful that you thanked me two thanks, on Thanksgiving no less! Thanks!

Yeah I know it doesn't make sense...

[Tigermilk]

Really nice work man, colors look very tasty. Would suggest basic life drawing and croqui sketching to fine tune anatomy.

Keep posting!