Jon's Sketchbook

[jablar]

too dark colours in the last one,... the lips colour is crazy
but nice studies in the previous post, keep going...

[jondawo]

Jablar: Thanks, I tried playing around with it.

[Magentis]

Wooooow the hard work is surely starting to pay off, very notable improvement! Loving that mech from post #74

May I suggest, if it hasn't been mentioned before, that if you're having trouble with a certain piece or photo study, flip the image that you're working on horizontally? Your eye becomes so familiar from staring at the same image that sometimes flipping the image will refresh your view and you'll easily spot out certain aspects that need attention which might otherwise be overlooked.

My 2 cents you're doing wonderfully on your road to improvement, keep going

[Magentis]

Wooooow the hard work is surely starting to pay off, very notable improvement! Loving that mech from post #74

May I suggest, if it hasn't been mentioned before, that if you're having trouble with a certain piece or photo study, flip the image that you're working on horizontally? Your eye becomes so familiar from staring at the same image that sometimes flipping the image will refresh your view and you'll easily spot out certain aspects that need attention which might otherwise be overlooked.

My 2 cents you're doing wonderfully on your road to improvement, keep going

[jondawo]

Magnetis: I actually flip all the time although I find it isn't as useful when doing photostudies since the person will look different when they're mirrored right? Thanks though, it's nice to read something encouraging like that and I should probably be flipping images a lot more than I do

Here's something cheap

[Magentis]

You do make a good point, it usually just pinpoints certain things that stick out to me, especially when I work with my head tilted (habit) and everything is lopsided, haha. Fresh lines on your last piece!

[jondawo]

sketchy

[Matt-Radway]

cool sketches! Love the girl in the bottom right of ur last post, keep it up !

[jondawo]

Matt-Radway: Thank you mate

[jondawo]

These are some comp sketches for the current Environment of the Week: Birthplace of a god, Caverns of creation.

[Psychobuddy]

Wow-wee someone ate some awesome pills between the last page and now! Keep up the hard work, it's surely paying off.

[jondawo]

Psychobuddy: Thanks man. Nice to read although I'm not sure it's entirely accurate


Some studies and a wip
Personal note: knowing the rules of perspective does not equal applying them to your drawings...

[Veshkau]

Some really nice stuff in here, especially those latest character designs. The spacegirl is very Carlo Arellano which can't be bad! Keep up the good work

[jondawo]

Veshkau: Thank you Carlo is one of my favourite character/creature designers.

Not much this time.

[jondawo]

Did end up doing some sketches

[jondawo]

meh bleh bluh

[jondawo]

Photostudies. I feel like I made some progress understanding colour.

[jondawo]

The forest is from imagination. The unsettling head is referenced. poor girl. I'm sorry.

[jondawo]

idon'teven

[jondawo]

Some village girl character

[jondawo]

I studied some of Alex Pascenko's characters looking at costume elements.

[jondawo]

Might work more on this at some point. WIP for now then.

[jondawo]

Small update.

[jondawo]

An experiment.

[jondawo]

more experiments. Should do some with reference.

[crisimikiwiki]

really really digging your sketchbook mate.

[jondawo]

crisimikiwiki: Thank you

[jondawo]

The Critique center rocks.

[jondawo]

More stuff from the critique forum.

[cfhd]

Really love the progression in your Sketchbook. Also really good thread in the critique forum. Lots of great stuff going on in there. Keep it up!