Trails of Crumpled Paper and Chewed-up Pencil Stubs~

[Jessibelle]

Had a bit of a theme of drawing/painting from life this week... I wanna do at least one day a week where I just focus on "from life" cause I got a lot from these. :')

Sketchbook


Oil paint - A bit rushed since I tried to do the bulk of the painting in one sitting.


And two more of Mum's christmas present; King and Queen of Diamonds.


There's not much this post, since I had a godawful weekend that left me feeling like crap, and I'm working so many hours at work at the moment since it's so busy (I work in a cinema, and the new James Bond film has just been released. Go figure.)

Hope everyone has a good Halloween!

[Kerah]

Jess! Really sweet update, gotta love those little plastic penguins

[Flaskpost]

great facial studies on last page! especially the planar ones

[smuli]

Good head sketches and oil still lives, glad to hear my sketches inspired you. Good lighting and colors especially on the one with two penguins!

[Jessibelle]

@Smuli, Flaskpost, Kerah: Thank you guys so much!

Long time no post... My scanner decided to break on me so I don't have as much to show as I'd like. So, here, have some sketchbook pages. (36 pages to go... I will finish this book this year!!)




Finished all the christmas presents I needed to, so I'm looking forward to getting to work on some more challenging portfolio pieces... I wanna get a certain amount done before christmas. :')

Also, I got twitter, for those who use that sort of thing.. Follow me @theJessibels

[Jessibelle]

I work ridiculously slow. Really need to work on that.

Sketchbook pages


Small oil painting, based on Grieves' song Smile for the Blade


And a digi-portrait of Ed Sheeran to relax. Tried playing with the colours a bit more experimentally, ended up making his skin look like plastic. Oops.


May as well face the fact that I'm not very good at updating this sketchbook thread regularly... On the off chance you might want to see more regular stuff, I've made an Art blog which is alot easier to keep updated. Pop over and say hi, it's still a baby yet.

[Jessibelle]

Forced myself to stick to half an hour on each of these, trying to work faster/more efficient... Surprised myself by needing less than that some of the time. Need to up the ante next time.



Oil painting of the lovely Lass Suicide


And the sketch of the next painting, which I'm looking forward to starting tonight...

[smuli]

Good values on the new stuff! I like the brushstrokes on the half an hour studies, but watch out for making the knees and calves too thick.

The newest oil portrait is awesome, great facial features and subtleties on the skin and I like how you've made the background softer/blurrier. My only critique is that you could've left some softer edges for the hair too to make it look more natural, less like a solid chunk. Apart from that, stunning work!

The Smile for the Blade painting could really use a more dramatic lighting. Most of your references in general seem to have had a magazine-like lighting coming from the viewer that doesn't make much of a statement. For photo reference with dynamic lighting, characterdesigns.com is a great place to start. Just a notion though I guess it's a matter of preference.

[Jessibelle]

@Smuli: Ahh, thankyou!! Yeah, I've been looking through my work and it seems the knee/calf thing is a recurring thing... Fair bit of leg anatomy revision needed there, I think. And yep, hair is a constant nightmare for me, but the soft edges would have helped!
Also, which references do you mean? Because for the oil portraits (like the ones in posts 277/268), I've been choosing them particularly because I loved the lighting and colour in them.. It'd be a bit disappointing to hear I'm picking out the wrong ones :/ but for others I use self-shot ones or deviantart stock usually, so I can understand it being a bit washed out but I usually sacrifice that for more variety with posing... If that makes sense?
Thanks again, I always enjoy your comments, always helpful!

New finished painting... Had a lot of fun with the details in this one. Feels good to get back to fully finished illustrations.


Sketchbook pages - mix of life/ref/imagination


And some leg studies done before work this morning

[AngeUnge]

hello hot diggidy your live poses and pose drawings woo hoo!

i see those clothes there i seen that brand aha aren't they just wicked?

nice sketchbooks. but those ink heads make me curious! got any more inks?

[smuli]

I like the lighting in the paintings you mentioned but looking upwards on this page, the two colored paintings on #276, almost every sketch in #275 and the card illustrations have light coming directly or almost directly from the viewer. Your drawings don't lack depth but it's a lighting that doesn't show the forms in the clearest possible way. I personally prefer playing with shadows so maybe I'm biased but thought I'd point out it seems like a habit.

The newest painting looks really good! It has a 3/4 lighting enough to show some cast shadows, the high-key palette works well and the steam-punky environment details look great! As for critique, I think the big pipe she's sitting on could have either some metallic shininess or a clearer look of patina, now it kind of lacks a sense of material, and the ankles seem a bit thick again comparing to the little feet. I see you're working on leg anatomy though. Composition seems to lean a bit on the left because there's so much more detail there. Just minor nitpicks though, great work!

[OakLeaf]

Your sketchbook is looking awesome lately!

[magicpudding]

Awesome sketchbook. Great to see tight traditional studies in pencil mixed with more expresive digital work. You've got a great feel for tone and surface rendering. Good going, keep it up!

SB

[Stroudle]

Thanks for the kind words on my sketchbook! You're really inspiring, and I adore that digital piece you just finished. I'm definitely going to keep watch over this one.

[TNiznet]

Where you been, show us some art!