jigje, now in handy sketchbook size

[NicG]

Haha... You like to draw yourself, don't you? Nice job on the soldier!

Edit: Yay I get to start page 2 too!!!

[007-r0b3r7]

Hey man, LOVE your progress. You've improved so much since that first self-portrait.

Simple studies and (of course) practice will get you tons better at drawing from imagination. And when you add value to those, try to imagine the shading as depth, not color. Don't be afraid of it either. There's a happy medium

Keep up the great work! You're really showing improvement.

[Karein]

Ooh, page two. Awesome job.

Keep up the good work, I'd like to see some more basic sketches/studies

[JailHouseRock2]

Hay nice work mate, your getting the hang of digital quickly

[SMILEFACE]

WWWWWWWHHHHHAAAOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW tHE SOLDIER IS FREAK'N EPIC AWESOME RAD HAHA SO COOL!!!!!!!

[SMILEFACE]

ALRIGHT JIGJE I GOT HERE FROM YOUR LINK BUT I JUST SAW THE CAT WITH THE HEADPHONES ON THE COVER OF YOUR SB AN THAT IS THE MOST AWESOME THING I HAVE EVER SEEN HAHA I THINK YOU MADE MY YEAR HAHA so awesome YOU ARE EPIC!!!!

[jigje]

NicG - OK, you start all my pages K?

007 - Thanks man, I appreciate the kind words. It feels like its progressing from those first self portraits but of course, no progress is fast enough!! Please come again. *Indian accent

Karein - Thanks Karein. I have been doing some studies, I just didn't want to bore people with them. Here are some.

JHR2 - Thanks Matty. I get really happy with my digitals 'cause Im new to it, then I log onto CA.org, then I get really brought back to earth by all the AWESOME work here!!!

Granny - Haha. Thanks Granny. I wonder if Id even come to CA.org if you weren't around. Hmmmmmm. Manley needs to pay you a retainer I reckons.

Im sure you guys know what is what - some Bridgeman, Loomis and Tattoo style cherry blossoms and dragon. Crappy scans, sorry

[Karein]

Your Bridgman studies are really very clean, they look great. I'm not great at crits, but I would watch how you put down some of your figures, The weight distibutuion on some of them look a little off. Take the second woman for example, She looks like if she put any more weight on her right foot she would topple over.
But it is great to see some studies, doesn't matter if they are boring, it's a sure fire way to see improvement. Your going great though, so keep pushing

[Ink Fish]

That cat!!!! It lured me into your sketchbook! D:

Nice bridgeman studies and selfportraits. You seem to be getting shapes and form down pretty well. watch your saturation in your digital paintings. Seems a bit strong. More studies in colour and light (and not just from photos, but from life - apples! everyone draws apples!) and you'll get an understanding of that more.

[007-r0b3r7]

love the dancing-type people
looks great. keep it up!

[Pigeonkill]

You have a very consistent likeness in your self portraits. I like the goofy happy expression with the light saber portrait. One suggestion for the background you can experiment with the texture or dark gradient to draw more interest. Realistically it's rare to have one flat color for an environment.

[Jamesy]

Ahhhh, you've started a sketchbook! Keep drawing a bunch of stuff duuude!

[NicG]

Nice! I really like the dragon.

[jigje]

Karein - Thanks for visiting again. Pressed for time but I know I need to do heaps of studies. Im doing more now, thanks for the advice.

Ink fish - Because I can't really draw yet, Ive employed marketing strategies like the cat avatar to lure people to my book. Heh heh, I glad it worked. Thanks for the advice, Im trying to learn more about color.

007 - thanks for stopping by man.

Pigeonkill - Goofy??? But that's how I always look. Thanks mate, I never gave backgrounds the attention they need, Im trying to improve that.

Jamesy - Hey Jamesy, thanks for stopping by. Its good to break out of the Self Portrait sub-forum.

Nic G - Hey Nicky, I love Japanese Tattoo style dragons. I have one living on my shoulder.

I bought a medical study skull a while back and Ive sketched it in pencil before but this is the first crack at Photoshop.

[kelly x]

hi great work!!!!!

[JailHouseRock2]

Those sketches are GREAT! Awesome skull too!

Thanks for the tsunami heads up a couple of weeks ago too. Haha, funny that, yes I live very close to the cost... in fact I walked down to the beach at that exact time it was supposed to hit... nothing. Lol, not that I expected anything, it was low tide, and there's a sort or reef at our beach anyway! I thought it was funny... then of course I come back and hear the numbers that where killed in Samoa.

Anyway, cool stuff jigje,
Cheers,
matt

[Sirkenneth]

Great to see some posts! I like the skull a lot! Keep working on your gesture skills. Its good to try and draw people standing still for a minute or two. Keep at it man!

[NicG]

Really nice work on the skull!

[Cacodaemonia]

The structures look pretty good - nice sense of three-dimensionality. Your colors are what's bothering me. You've got what I'm guessing is a white light on a pale yellow skull with a red backdrop. I think the skull looks way too yellow, with no real variation in color. The dark parts of the skull are just a darker yellow, when they should be leaning toward the opposite temperature of the light source. Also, there should be more red bounce light coming from the surroundings and affecting the skull.

[jigje]

kelly x - Hi kelly, thanks for looking. Waiting patiently for your awesome, famous, incredible ipod game to be released. C'mon k so all at CA.org can buy it and rate it 5/5.

Jailhouse - Thanks Matty. Im really glad it was a fizzer in NZ.

Sirkenneth - Thanks mate, good advice. I know I need to do it.

NicG - Thanks nicky G.

Cacodaemonia - Awesome crit Chelsea and thanks for anwering my questions later too. Soooo very appreciated.

The colors in the photo ref for this are so brilliant and I hadn't tried an enviro before so I had a quick go. That's an Australian Desert Penguin, very rare and special.

[jigje]

NIBRU

[hala]

you can stop being totally awesome now!!!!!

Nice work man, you learn so fast!!!
my only advice is to watch the texture of some things--some things look overly smooth and don't mesh well with the texture of the rest of the subjects in the paintings. simple fixes
hope all is well my friend!

[SMILEFACE]

HAHAHA WICKED STUDIES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! AN HALA HE CANT HELP IT TOTALLY AWESOME IS JUST HOW jigje ROLLS HAHAHA W/ A BAG O' CHIPS !!!!! HAHA Australian Desert Penguin FER THE WIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[danlambert]

Your work seems to have drawn the mysterious Spect out of hiding, no pressure!

Peace!
Dan

[Pigeonkill]

The skull came out pretty nice. My only suggestion is to take it easy on the saturation of the yellow, which seems a bit strong. Skulls tend to be more pastel subdued chalk like colors. The yellow/red contrasting colors was a good call though.

[SMILEFACE]

where is the master of RRRRRRRRRRROOOOCCCCCCCCKKKKKKKKKKKKK!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!

[NicG]

Heeeeeeeeeeeeeeeellllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooo oooooooooooooooo... What's up Jigje? Are you banned or something?

[danlambert]

chirp........chirp.......chirp........

[thegrayslayer]

Nice sketchbook. I checked out your self-portrait thread also, a good spread of media building and improvement in technique and/or confidence is obvious. I think the sp wearing woolly hat stands out, all the knitted loops - that's devotion!

~Slayer

[jigje]

Thanks everyone.

So, I've not been around for a while. I've been quite busy and now I think I'll have some time freed up to draw more and post some things.