Jake Bullock - 10000 Hour Rule - 1969/10,000

[JakeB]

HIT 800 HOURS HERE

Haven't posted in a while, here's my recent stuff though.

My entry for last week's CHoW - Raging Elemental Colossus.



Studies













Work on Morgan le Fay for the Mentoring project. So yeah, Mongol Morgan











Someone pointed out a slight anatomy issue. The small head makes her look like 2 kids in a huge suit. Need to fix that lol.


WIP for this week's CHoW - Infected Scientist


Gestures



Expression Studies, fast ones...




Aaaaaand, to round it all off. Pencils










Decided to use some old CHoW briefs as pencil exercises, so this is from CHoW 002 - Human Merchant

[idenzel]

the pictures youdid with reference next to them look really good. i am inspired and admire all the work you put in, keep it up and thank

[JakeB]

Denzel - cheers man, I'll try

Some current ish stuff.

Final CHoW from last week


Horrible sketch, trying to apply last week's studies


Figure study


Portrait Study


Glowy study


Hands studies


Sargent Study



Hands


Expressions


Clothing


Started a recomp study, pretty fun


Scrappy Portrait


Morgan WIP


Work for this week's CHoW - Life




Sketchbook stuff



Gestures






Loomis






Andd that's it I think.

[JakeB]

K, recent stuff.

This is as far as I got with the last CHoW, kinda bailed on it towards the end, was kinda bummed out with it by the end of last week.


Decided to redraw Morgan, wasn't working too well.
WIP


WIP


And some work for this week's CHoW - Really enjoying this one so far.
Rough character layout


And an actual illustration
WIP


Little bit of sketchbook work






Ummm, studies
This is where I pushed that 'recomp' study to.


















And then just Gestures and Loomis stuff








As always, any feedback's most welcome

[Zauselbart]

nice sb
your studies are really inspiring!
keep up the good work
thanks for sharing

[JakeB]

Zauselbart - Cheers man, I'll try

Last coupla days
Still life


My Final for this week's CHoW


And some more work on Morgan

[JakeB]

So, it's been christmas so everythings been a bit more up in the air. Here's what I've got to show.

First and foremost,
Merry Christmas, in January, whatever.


Current progress on Morgan


Initial stuff for Mongol Mordred



Materials


Other Studies








Got some Acylics for Christmas, first time I've really used them. Good fun, looking forward to more.


Just been doodling through the holidays, so, loadsa sketchbook stuff. Studies first.
Biro






Pencil


Marker pen + Biro (this is so much fun)












And some personal stuff.
Markers








Pencil




Marker and biro

[JakeB]

So, it's been christmas so everythings been a bit more up in the air. Here's what I've got to show.

First and foremost,
Merry Christmas, in January, whatever.


Current progress on Morgan


Initial stuff for Mongol Mordred



Materials


Other Studies








Got some Acylics for Christmas, first time I've really used them. Good fun, looking forward to more.


Just been doodling through the holidays, so, loadsa sketchbook stuff. Studies first.
Biro






Pencil


Marker pen + Biro (this is so much fun)












And some personal stuff.
Markers








Pencil




Marker and biro

[JakeB]

So, I haven't posted for a while, what with the forums being down, and not being organised. So, bit of a dump of everything from the last couple of weeks. Pretty much since Xmas.

OH, AND SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE OF THIS POST, I HIT 1000 HOURS (if anyone's keeping track)
only 9000 more to go!

Markers




Loomis


Working on Mordred




Zorn Study


Still life, didn't finish it, light was changing too much.. Still, learnt a bit


Markers








More Stuff for Mordred




Marker studies


Studying Fur


And playing around with some stuff - Viking dude.


More stuff...

Blocky kinda study, trying something a bit different.


Value Study


Marker pen thing


More Mordred work






And I started messing around in sculptris today. Think this could be a fun way to study form, gonna keep going with it





Recent shit..
Loomis - Started doing these first thing in the morning. Before getting dressed or worrying about anything else, and it's really helped. I can get out of bed much more easily knowing that I'm going to draw straight away .








Studies














Sketches





Also, I've started doing these daily character things. Couple of hours each, here's 1-5










And finally, progress on Mordred..

[JakeB]

So, been crappy and not posting again. Back to regular posts soon.

Loomis














Studies












Sketch stuff
Trying to apply a study and failing miserably




Some gestures in there as well


Some More daily characters
















And I redrew Mordred, starting fresh.
Update with some colours tomorrow

[lt_ken84]

Great studies! KEEP IT UP!!!

*****
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[Katastrophi]

Awesome work! And plenty to look at, you're definitely improving a whole lot. One thing, i feel like in many of your sketches, especially i feel like your eyes are rather on the small side.

[feliciew]

Superb sketchbook! Great to see your improvement, super inspiring.

[JakeB]

IT_Ken - Cheers, shall do!

Katastrophi - Thank you. Huh, yeah, you're right. I'd never noticed that lol. I'll keep it in mind

feliciew - Cheers

Yesterday's stuff

Sketch


Shitty Character


And some more work on Mordred

[JakeB]

Right, so I've been trawling through old sketchbooks recently, and decided to mix up what I'm working on a bit. I've been doing studies, but I'm not really learning all that much from them, so gonna try and focus more on imagination stuff. Also, going to be applying the studies I do much more literally.


So, stuff from this morning.
Loomis





Sketches




Gestures


And a shitty application of the sargent study from the other day..



Oh, btw, the threads I've been checking out are

Hannes (algenpfleger)
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...2-what-is-this

Dave
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...-Body-Contact)

And Miles
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...s-sketchbook-D

If you haven't had a chance to look through them, or you've only flicked through, its definitely worth having a more in depth look. You can kinda see how people learned, and how they picked up new stuff. Pretty interesting, and very inspiring.

[JakeB]

New stuff...

So... think I've finished Mordred


Just for comparison's sake, and stuff. Here's the 4 finals


And my first attempt at Arthur, from October (I redid him after Merlin).



Sketches




Characters




And studies

[JakeB]

Pretty chilled out Sunday, back to it properly tomorrow

Trying to memorise facial anatomy, and applying it over a photo




Today's character


And a sketch

[JakeB]

Wahey, yesterday's stuff







For Isra's class on Crimson Daggers




Daily Character

[Spudonkey]

love the dedication, those gestures in last post look great

[JakeB]

Spudonkey - Cheers man

Been kinda ill and in bed for a lot of today. Got some studys and an environment done though..

[JakeB]

Quick update before bed.

Yesterday's Character




Studies from this morning. I felt gross, so was working super slow. Here they are though. I try not to discriminate about what I post here, no matter whether I like it or not. So yeah..





Today's character, was pretty happy with this



And today's environment - still need to work on these so much!


I think I'm going to alternate each week, between doing daily environments/characters, and just pushing one for the whole week. Should help me get a balance of quick ideas, and expanding my visual library, and at the same time, I'll still have to push stuff to a finish regularly. Not sure if that makes sense.. So tired. That's the plan though

[JakeB]

Passed 1200 Hours Here

I just deleted my timetable. It's been working pretty well, and for just starting out having some regiment is really useful, but I think I've been trying to follow it too rigidly, and that's been stopping me from tackling the right stuff. So yeah. We'll see how it goes. I'm still going to be studying every day, trying to apply stuff, etc, it just won't be at set times. Tbh, it probably won't make a lot of difference to what my posts look like. Just thought I'd mention it.

So, today's stuff.

Study


Kinda applying it


Sketchbook
Studies and a character


And anatomy

[JakeB]

Last coupla days

Sketchbooks




Anatomy




Gestures. Started doing these from videos on youtube yesterday. Way more fun, so far anyway.




Pushing that idea a bit further, gestures from a fight scene


Working on an Attenborough Portrait. Experimenting with the Zorn Palette digitally. Pretty fun





And a character WIP, although I think I might stop working on this here, after realising he's literally just a square.

[JakeB]

New stuff

Bridgman


Gestures


Sketchbook stuff


And a new character WiP - Witch Doctor

[JakeB]

Today's stuff

Bridgman


Iron Man gestures


Study, playing with focal points and stuff - big blurry brushes




Tried to apply it, but after a 2 hour break - didn't go so well


Pencils


And Witch Doctor progress

[JakeB]

Today's stuff

Bridgman Studies


Applying it


Finished this perspective exercise for Isra's class - draw your room in 1 point


Marker Studies


And Applying them


And some more work on the Witch Doctor. Getting there

[JakeB]

Kevin - Cheers dude

Finished that witch doctor dude, but been in a kind of slump since then. Gonna power through it tomorrow and get back to it. woooooo

So yeah, the final


A Daarken study I did for it


Marker stuff




Self Portrait


Some design studies


Character sketches

[V3T]

Holy crap their is alot of work here o_O Those studies really shine through and show how much you are learning! Keep pushing that work out, brah!

[kevin_]

nice updates! i am noticing you are getting some desaturated colors. dont be afraid to put some stronger colors in there, if you have to you can even color pick every once and a while you'll be surprised at what colors are actually being used. anyways other than that keep it up!

[JakeB]

V3T - Cheers dude, Yeah the studies are helping a ton

Kevin - Thanks man, yeah I definitely have a problem with my stuff getting muddy. That's a good idea though. I might have to just take half an hour at some point and totally break down an illustration with awesome colour. Colour picking and stuff. We'll see, I'm working on it anyway .

Much better day today. Seem to have randomly done a load of pen and paper stuff, which makes a change. But it's all good.

Bridgman Studies


Imagination poses


Pose studies from professional's work, there's some daarken stuff, and some from spectrum in there


Applying from memory


Thumbnailing


Pushing them a bit


Design studies


And, again.. Applying from memory


Oh, and this happened... Get it? It's a fork. And it's in the road. Like a fork.. in the road. Fork in the road? I'm sorry