James Zapata's Sketchbook of Magic Candy Dreams

[bloody]

thanks for steps.

[Scriar]

Nice work, I like the way you have done the lighting on the Scarecrow picture

[merl1n]

Great stuff! Some pieces just seem too "laboured". You could try to render your images with less brush strokes. Leave out uneccessary or just indicate it and you will get more lively results imo.

keep it up anyway

[Pixelhead]

Something new I'm noodling.

[Pixelhead]

And done! Had a bunch of client work and worked on this in between.

[GEB]

nice lighting dude! Her face seems a little off but I don't know why. Maybe it doesnt feel as nutural as the rest of it

[Flaskpost]

sick!

[shockowaffel]

You've got a great hand for rendering , light and colours.
I wished I could do that, too.
I want some more fanart of yours, they're so much fun...except Ivy.
I was al ittle disappointed of how she looked compared to the level of awesome the others had.
Still, very good pieces.

[fudgeloaf]

ohhhhh james only just found your SB man, great work! dunno how i missed your goku

[Pixelhead]

Here is some poop I pooped out on livestream yesterday. Come hang out, sometime: www.livestream.com/jamesart

[LePush]

haha that newest piece is so fuckin histerical xD great stuff man, great stuff!

[Obstfelder]

Awsome super villain portraits! Great to see your WIP's and how you build up the image. Do you do any lineart or construction lines there for reference too?

The cigar wielding dwarf is great.

[Pixelhead]

Thanks!

Obstfelder: I usually go straight into color and form by blocking in major areas first, then rendering as I go along.

Here is some more livestream stuff from last night! See it at www.livestream.com/jamesart

[Pixelhead]

An update to a recent piece.


And some sketches!

[Pixelhead]

A bad day


Also, some more client stuffs on my blawg! www.jameszapata.com

[Patonki]

ahahaha holy shit!! You've improved a fuckton since '10! How did you do it? Just tons of studying and drawing?
Amazing work.

[ja1307]

its always inspirational to look through a sketchbook and see a ton of improvement and just imagine the work behind it. Makes me wish there was more hours in the day. You have one very creative brain lots of ideas going on. Really like your action pieces a lot, your lighting in the last one reminds me of Brad Rigney. Good work man def be checking in like I said it inspirational.

[JerryActric]

mmm mmm i like your man with the pretty mouth James, But really looks awesome

[Pixelhead]

Thank you all so much!

Here's a new piece coming up

[Veneq]

Mmmmm Mexican Pointy Shoes... thanks for making my life and knowledge of the world more complete James.

[NickyBeats]

GOOD LORD!!!!!

awesome stuff lately man!! love all of it! great colors and details! very nice dude!

this guy is especially fucking amazing!!!!! --->

[Engor]

Man, I love your sketchbook! Very inspirational to me. A lot of cool ideas and I can really see that huge progress you made in these few years.

[MacTire]

Fantastic work James! I love the Mario and "bad day" pieces. Looking forward to seeing development on Mr. Dent's portrait!

Keep up the great work!

[TFsean]

damnn got to love those edges, sick stuff and great designs too. If i had to crit something some of your shadows can seem very dark in value, ya i know theyre shadows but i feel some could be less black but im nitpicking to try and be somewhat constructive

[Jon Guinn]

Great sense of light and shadow. your getting better with every piece you do!

[Pixelhead]

Harvey Dent!

[FatMoStank]

Impressive - most impressive , you made some increadible progress.

[kidult]

faraaark! harvey dent!

[SteFlack]

Awesome work James, your Batman images are amazing.

[Jockemon]

Wow the Two-Face painting is awesome!