Evolution of Art - JeffBrown's Sketchbook

**jbrown67** · April 22nd, 2011, 02:31 AM

wowzah i have painted a lot today. Me and my buddy Eric Quigley (Quigleyer) are doing a sort of fantasy based art story. We both need some more fantasy pieces in our portfolios and we are usually great at bouncing ideas off of each other. Here's my first piece, I named him timmy. I'll update it again soon.

**jbrown67** · April 22nd, 2011, 06:40 PM

update on that last one! feeling so pumped for art lately! AWWW YEEAAAHH

**Mischeviouslittleelf** · April 22nd, 2011, 06:48 PM

Hey man,

I suggest managing anatomy and color theory a little better before going on all out pieces.

-E

**jbrown67** · April 22nd, 2011, 07:37 PM

Mischeviouslittleelf: I agree that I definitely need more anatomy and color work, and I'm doing a lot of studies for anatomy in my physical sketchbook, but I also need to work on stuff like this because otherwise I just feel stuck. Also I like to do occasional finished pieces so I can look back and see that the difference isn't just rendering technique, but also color and anatomy. Thanks though!

**jbrown67** · April 22nd, 2011, 08:21 PM

hogarth arm studies

**Medusoid** · April 22nd, 2011, 09:41 PM

hmm I think you might be looking at the body in the wrong way when your drawing it dude
Allot of people do this so its no big deal
When you draw them human body it can really hurt your perspective and form if you draw each part like "well this is an arm so it looks like this and this leg muscle goes here." If you do that you will end up with frankenstein-esq sizes. By this i mean your arm will look amazing and so will the torso but they dont match up in size or other ways. So try imagining it ass one solid piece not as a group of body parts that are attached. I'm serious you may think I'm full of shit but this works and not just for me. Try practicing but just drawing the silhouetted outline of a person or make a drawing from an upside down reference so that you can get more associated with the entire form rather than the parts that make it.

hope that wasn't harsh or anything but I'm just offering advice based on what I can see.

Good luck mate

**jbrown67** · April 23rd, 2011, 12:58 AM

Medusoid:
Thanks, I know and I understand that. It's not like that's all im drawing, but I'm doing each part just as a side thing. the arms in my drawings were really suffering and it's not like that's the only part i'm working on. working solely on complete figures won't help me figure out how the individual muscles work. I know what you mean by just getting the forms down, but I need to understand how they all work. My sketchbook is a bit misleading because I don't post all my physical sketchbook studies which are mostly complete figures. I'm just following what Hogarth is doing in his book too, it you see on the last page I did a few complete figures too. I get your point I just can't do only complete figures. Very much appreciated though.

**Medusoid** · April 23rd, 2011, 01:00 AM

no problem man
I think u misunderstood me though I see that your doing full figure studies I meant work on how your visualizeing it and I wasnt talking about the arm one though I see how that was misleading. I dont think I know how to explain what I mean very well. maybe someone else can do it for me XD

**jbrown67** · April 23rd, 2011, 01:33 AM

ooh i think i see, yeah i'll try some of those. I still think it's important to figure out how the muscles work through drawing them, it's what people like hogarth, bridgeman, and loomis do, but yeah now that I think of it, i've seen the silhouettes done by some people on here so I should give it a shot. thanks! sorry about that misunderstanding.

**jbrown67** · April 23rd, 2011, 01:48 AM

this what you mean medusoid?

**jbrown67** · April 23rd, 2011, 06:42 PM

i saw some of these black and white lighting studies in dave rapoza's sb from a long time ago so i thought i would try some.

**jbrown67** · April 23rd, 2011, 11:52 PM

a couple more studies

**jbrown67** · April 24th, 2011, 05:36 PM

alright. today my art doesn't suck so much. Sadly this might be all I have time to do today but I might post again tonight...

**jbrown67** · April 24th, 2011, 07:11 PM

I guess i did have time to update

**jbrown67** · April 24th, 2011, 11:40 PM

portrait study

**Danny_K** · April 24th, 2011, 11:51 PM

good stuff in here, study and paint from life and photos as much as possible so you can understand color and values better.
Dont rush with the anatomy studies take your time analyze and study everything carefuly, get the most out of what your studying.

keep it up!

**jbrown67** · April 25th, 2011, 03:46 PM

thanks danny!

wwe photo study. this guy looks like frankenstein

**aretoon** · April 25th, 2011, 04:01 PM

you can do better! don't stop pushing!

**jbrown67** · April 25th, 2011, 08:06 PM

aretoon: yeah man I know, looking back at stuff even like that portrait today makes me realize how little effort I put into that. Here's one with a bit more effort.

**jbrown67** · April 26th, 2011, 06:35 PM

life drawing and final update on a comission

**jbrown67** · April 26th, 2011, 08:16 PM

and a new enviro!

**jbrown67** · April 26th, 2011, 11:29 PM

photo study for lighting, color, anatomy....

**jbrown67** · April 26th, 2011, 11:48 PM

first person to guess the source artist wins.

**jbrown67** · April 27th, 2011, 05:19 PM

portrait...

**JakeSparrow** · April 27th, 2011, 06:04 PM

Lovely studies and I like your environments and architecture designs keep it up!

**jbrown67** · April 27th, 2011, 09:53 PM

thanks jake!

here's an enviro from imagination.

**NickyBeats** · April 27th, 2011, 10:52 PM

great stuff man! youve gotten alot better since pg one! great job on that photostudy, of the mma fighters!

**jbrown67** · April 28th, 2011, 12:49 AM

thanks nicky!

some more studies

**Partisan** · April 28th, 2011, 12:57 PM

hey man finally found the time to return the favor, all I have to say is to keep pushing further ! Studies do tend to be boring from time to time but they will help you to get a lot better ! And its good to see you doing a lot of these !

so long
Seb