Almostjakob's sketchbook

[Almostjakob]

Hi, my name's Jakob. I've been lurking around this place for a few years now and I thought it was time I made a sketchbook of my own.

I've been drawing for as long as I can remember and it's mainly what I spend my time practising, I never use reference pictures when drawing or painting I try to memorize how things look by studying pictures and then just put that on paper and see how much I really know.

Only in recent years have I started becoming interesting in digital painting and it's something I hope to improve.

So I'll be posting all my sketches and whatnot in here as often as I can and hope that you guys'll enjoy them.

[Almostjakob]

Today's stuff. . .

[Skysong]

Good start. This gal with machinegun bigger that my screen, probably consider resizing pictures so they can be seen without scrolling.

[Almostjakob]

[Almostjakob]

Oh . . .

[Almostjakob]

Just a alien heavy armour concept done for a friend's story.

[Gisaiagami]

I like you Sudy
Use reference photos?
The face awesome e color mood is good

[Almostjakob]

I like you Sudy
Use reference photos?
The face awesome e color mood is good

Thanks!

No I never use reference photos, however I do a lot of nude body studies.

[Jamie Romoser]

badass sketchbook dude looking forward to seeing more
some stars from me
have a good one
-Jamie

[Almostjakob]

badass sketchbook dude looking forward to seeing more
some stars from me
have a good one
-Jamie

Thanks man

Speedpainting 1 hour~ :

[FightingSeraph]

I see that you are off to a great start. Just keep practicing, and you'll do great!

[Almostjakob]

Haven't been doing much sketching on the computer in the past couple of days. . .so here's something I did today.

[Almostjakob]

Just practising and so forth. . .

[Almostjakob]

Speedpainting of the day. . 35mins~

[Imaginary]

Oooh, lovely atmosphere in the latest speed painting there dude. Keep it coming. =D

[Almostjakob]

It's been a while since I posted something. . .haven't really had anything that I was able to show to you guys.

So I decided to show a stylized female face I've been sculpting on in Zbrush for the past hours or so.

[Almostjakob]

Maybe I should start posting WIP's since this sketchbook is starting to collect dust. Oh well here's a new piece anyway, worked on it on and off whenever I had time really.

[Almostjakob]

Hello world.

Another character design for a friends short story.

[Almostjakob]

So I haven't posted anything in a long while, so I'll do small "collage", if you will, of my stuff in no particular order. It's just random stuff really. . .have been having a hard time with coming up with solid ideas.

[Osau]

I am loving your stuff. Your female figures in particular are incredibly intriguing because they all aren't super-model thin bad-ass gun-wielding chicks. What program do you use for your digitals?

[Almostjakob]

I am loving your stuff. Your female figures in particular are incredibly intriguing because they all aren't super-model thin bad-ass gun-wielding chicks. What program do you use for your digitals?

Thanks a lot! I do try to stay away from the stereotypical female figures as much as possible, it's more of a challenge that way and the end result is usually more satisfying. Oh and I use Photoshop cs2 for digital painting.

[Kfeeras]

nice! study a little more anatomy, it helps tons. And do a little lifedrawing, helps a lotwith the female figure

[Almostjakob]

I ought to spend more time on painting the background "props" as well as colour blending. . .everything looks so rough but I guess some like it that way.

[Nenad]

You're good, some of your work looks amazing, keep on!

[Almostjakob]

Long time no see, as usual. . .

Well this time around I have a good reason for it. SCHOOL. Hopefully I'll be pumping out more art because of this as I now will probably get some proper guidence.

So I painted to quick 1,5H portait out of my mind with one soft brush in Photoshop just to have something to go along with this post.

[Almostjakob]

It's been a while since I posted something here. Thought it was about time I dusted off my sketchbook and submitted something new.

Down below I've posted a mix of both completed and incompleted practise pieces and assingments.

[dsacc]

Great work, you should definitely update more! Keep up the good work.

[Falchion]

Nice rendering, although there are the occasional anatomy quirks that I'm seeing...

[Pluscandy]

You art is amazing! I love your girls and the way you paint skin is stunning~ Can't wait to see more~

[Almostjakob]

@dsacc: I'm going to try and update my sketchbook atleast once a week.

@ Falchion: Only have myself to blame for the anatomical quirks.
I ought to use reference pictures a lot more than I do now. xD

@ Pluscandy: Thanks!


A little quickie done at school.