GDSWorld: The Journey (Year long search for the perfect medium)

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Hey Everyone,

I'm on a year long journey to find my a style and medium that works for me and i'll be keeping this sketchbook updated with my latest works.
I started the journey 3 weeks ago and have already tried Watercolour and Ink. Bare in mind that i'm a Digital artist so this is all new to me.
If you're interested in my work, you can follow my journey on my youtube channel http://www.youtube.com/gdsworld or if you prefer facebook then http://www.facebook.com/gdsstudio

If you have any feedback to help me improve please let me know and my mates occasionally challenge me to try different things, if you think you have a challenge which you think will push me
as an artist. Just write it down below and i'll give it my best shot.

My website is live now, and i'll always be adding more content to it as I go along. http://gdsworld.co.uk/


This week, the medium is markers:


Life drawing session with Adrian Dutton (London)

and a skull study I finished yesterday (Zbrush):

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Sketch studies from today

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Reflection of myself: Self Portrait

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Was trying to imitate Sam Spratt's brushes and style. Obviously the masters know how to do it well.

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Started as a speed-painting but I decided to take it a little further.

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Jessica Ennis portrait

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This concludes the athletes portrait series for my first exhibition.
On to the next one....

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Fashion studies that I sketched using a ball point pen today.

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Carrying on with studies from the illustration book.


Some 10 minutes sketches from memory on an Ipad. Obviously no good at visualisation.


Photo studies 10 minutes each.

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Digital skull studies before going to bed.

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10 min studies from this morning.

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10 min studies I just finished. Beating yesterdays score of 6 studies. Ahhhh yeah!

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Some more photo studies and I also pushed myself to do some anatomy studies before going to bed. Feels like all the life drawing has helped me slightly in recognising the shapes.
Main concentration at present is on form.

10 min each

10 min each

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Some more studies.

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A sketch I started titled 'Diamonds' just before my first exhibition. Hopefully finish it off soon.

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Photo study for today. Approximately 2 hours.

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Some photo studies and drawing from memory on the edges.

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Can someone please help me? I need to change the thumbnail of this thread to something sensible. Cheers.

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A grand stadium concept which I started today by total chance. Still in progress.

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Photo study I started some time ago, decided to finish it off today.

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Some sketches I did yesterday for Concepteez Big painting event.
30 minutes each:

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Picked up Loomis's Drawing the Head and Hand. Here is the outcome:

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My first pen render.

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A bird study I did today and a speedpainting from yesterday.

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Some eye study for today.

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More studies:

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Another study, practising form and value rendering.

[Elderscroller]

Hi Gagan!

Just wanted to drop by and say hi after joining here and I accidently found your sketchbook

best wishes,
Markus

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@Elderscroller- Thanks man, nice to see you here. Now lets kick some butt! XD

Big update, mostly studies and a few finished pieces.

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A gun I painted day before yesterday. Some drawings around the house yesterday and some charcoal sketches from a life drawing session.