Jade's Book

**JadeMere** · September 25th, 2012, 07:19 PM

Hey everyone,

Here are some sketches, I have loads of them but I'm not too familiar with CA's uploading system so these are just a few to get started! Most of them are rough preliminary sketches or studies for larger projects, hopefully I can upload more a little later!

Thanks for looking!

**JadeMere** · September 25th, 2012, 07:36 PM

Sketches

**PhilipO** · September 25th, 2012, 07:42 PM

Great start dude. Gotta love your tigers, they are truly awesome!

Keep it up!

**Cheboboh** · September 25th, 2012, 08:00 PM

Truly awesome tiger sketches and those poses look pretty amazing to me.

Looking forward to those larger projects!

**JadeMere** · September 26th, 2012, 05:17 PM

PhilipO - Thank you very much for the reply! It's very encouraging and hopefully I'll be able to get more uploaded, CA doesn't seem to be cooperating today

Cheboboh - Thanks! Hopefully I'll venture over to the finally finished section with some illustrations!

**Rustveld** · November 12th, 2012, 05:25 PM

Lovely work on those tiger sketches! The pencil work in the first one is especially great. It would be nice if you incorporated the lines and textures you have in your traditional work in your digital pieces, I think it would make for a stronger image. Keep up it up!

**JadeMere** · November 13th, 2012, 12:03 PM

Thanks for the reply Rustveld! Usually after I'm done with an image in painter I pop it into photoshop to add textures

**JadeMere** · November 13th, 2012, 08:25 PM

Here's another unfinished digital one. I lost motivation for completing the picture a while ago/got off track on where it was going. Started in Photoshop, ended in Painter.

**JadeMere** · November 24th, 2012, 06:21 PM

Finished image

**Skitters** · November 24th, 2012, 06:27 PM

Good LORD, woman! Work of this quality is what I aspire to be like, since I draw big cats all the time! Quick question, what basic shapes do you break the head and snout into when you draw big cats?

**JadeMere** · November 27th, 2012, 05:05 PM

Hi Skitters, thanks so much for the lovely comment! When I draw large cats, I try to use a variety of curves and straight lines to get the shape of the jaw and head before I start drawing. Here are some really bad drawings to sort of show how I start (my apologies, they were drawn in photoshop and I'm not use to sketching digitally!) And one finished sketch.

I'll use the circle shape for the head and then straight, more angular lines to map out the fur. I suggest finding pictures to reference where the face is very prominent without a lot of fur because it will help you find where the bones are, and then you can draw the fur on top of the bones after you have the shape

As for the jaw, I usually use circles to map out basic shapes

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Sorry, I'm not good at explaining things!

**JadeMere** · February 2nd, 2013, 01:25 PM

wolf sketches

**Doot Dee Doo** · February 2nd, 2013, 02:37 PM

Wow, this is a top rate sketchbook! Seeing how you carried over your knowledge of cat anatomy and how they carry themselves onto that dragon in post #8 is interesting.

How often do you draw cats from life versus from photos?

**JadeMere** · February 2nd, 2013, 03:04 PM

Originally Posted by Doot Dee Doo

Wow, this is a top rate sketchbook! Seeing how you carried over your knowledge of cat anatomy and how they carry themselves onto that dragon in post #8 is interesting.

How often do you draw cats from life versus from photos?

Thank you for the lovely comment! There is a large cat zoo right by my house, I will sketch them from there or take reference photos, probably more photo reference at this time because it's often raining and there's no cover

**ChisLu** · February 2nd, 2013, 03:40 PM

Your sketchbook is full of awesomeness, thank you for uploading!

**Spellsword95** · February 2nd, 2013, 04:51 PM

Your last wolves sketch is absolutely gorgeous.

I wish I could say more, but I can't, because it blown my mind away. And tiger head is also fantastic.
I mainly see human anatomy and figure studies here in sketchbooks, your animals are great fresh breeze. Keep posting more, I will be watching you

**Flügel** · February 2nd, 2013, 05:18 PM

wow, your sketchbook is really really lovely.
i lovey your dynamic sketched-lines.

**Doot Dee Doo** · February 2nd, 2013, 10:40 PM

Originally Posted by JadeMere

Thank you for the lovely comment! There is a large cat zoo right by my house, I will sketch them from there or take reference photos, probably more photo reference at this time because it's often raining and there's no cover

That's so cool. My zoo only has a few snow leopards, which can be fun to draw but I've always wanted to see a tiger or lion. You certainly do them justice.

**Colour Coded** · February 2nd, 2013, 11:22 PM

Love your studies of big cats and wolves. More!!

**mundanity** · February 3rd, 2013, 07:03 AM

Amazing stuff. The lighting on the unfinished digital lizard is gorgeous.

**Niam** · February 3rd, 2013, 09:44 AM

these are just amazing D: moar!!!!!!!

**JadeMere** · February 7th, 2013, 06:10 PM

Thank you all so much for the kind words, it's really encouraging! I do love drawing animals, especially cats, it's always so relaxing for me to start off the day with some kitty sketches. I'm also a huge Wendling fan, she really sparked my love of drawing large cats