J. Sketchbook

[jhonshadow]

Hey everybody, I'll start my sketchbook now, I hope to see a nice progress by the time this way and to get some great feedback
Hope you guys enjoy the work I make and feel free to comment!

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Greetings Jhonny

[jhonshadow]

Some recent work.

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Some sketches

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shadings

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another quick study

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To be honoust I was afraid to post this, but accually I should because this is how I started my first paints and speedpaints
in order

(dd/mm/yyyy) (images from left to right)
first speedpaint: 20/07/2012 (had no clue what I was doing)
second speedpaint: 10/08/2012
Sp3: 10/08/2012
sp4: 01/09/2012
sp5: 01/09/2012
sp6: 21/09/2012

paints I took more time on than 30-45min
paint 1: 14/08/2012
paint 2: 26/08/2012
paint 3: 03/09/2012
paint 4: 24/09/2012
paint 5: 06/10/2012
paint 6/15/11/2012

the recent work (max 2 weeks ago are above these, new work will follow after these ofcourse)

[jhonshadow]

the lineart is copyrighted to Marien Nick.
I did the painting part.

[PeteJ]

your stuff looks good, but it also looks like you have been drawing mostly from photos. Try drawing more from life.

[jhonshadow]

thankyou, but most paints in here aren't accually from photo's
the pineapple, sp2, sp3 and the seal are the others are my imagination. (the apple was in front of me when I painted it)
but thanks again

[DvrJeroen]

Hey Jhonny! great to see you've started a sketchbook here!
I really like your life paintings ,and the robot shading is very nice :p
For the speedpaints, don't be afraid to experiment with a lower horizon (view closer to the ground), It seems like most of them are aerial views.
Putting down a perspective grid would help getting a better sense op depth.
And remember, less is more! Dont get lost too much in detail and focus on the general composition and values.
its good you're doing lots of speedpaints..its a good way to practice and improve.
But anyways, keep updating this sketchbook , and..keep drawing! (:

[jhonshadow]

another speedpaint had about an hour time so did this fast

[jhonshadow]

started with this, not good yet but everyday few poses will Improve my drawing skills I suppose ^^

[RissaKay]

Some great stuff! But I would highly suggest you look at the basics, because it seems like you are trying to run before you walk. Try loomis and vlippu stuff--you can find them free online, and they'll help you lots. Keep drawing buddy! Excited to see ya improve.

[jhonshadow]

ow yea I remember that book, yea think it's better to start from there tnx

[jhonshadow]

second session from today

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today sketches

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another speedpaint during class, was about visual library how we see a tree, this is my result after about 15 - 20 min (I guess that's the time aprox)

[melman]

Great start+) You are doing well on poses, keep it ut and you'll be fine)

[jhonshadow]

today session

[Lyno]

Hello Jhonny,

Cool to see that you're already interested in anatomy and the human figure itself, but, I would advice you to concentrate on one part first instead of trying to learn everything;
-Start studying and mastering the proportions first before adding the anatomy of the figures. It's like start building a house when the foundations aren't in place yet.
-Have a look at the Loomis books (PDF downloads: http://alexhays.com/loomis/ ) . Learn the right proportions.
-I guess you're copying those poses from PoseManiacs? Start simple, PoseManiacs often has those strange poses. Start copying the figures found in the Loomis pdf's.

Good luck!
Lino

[Elias Leonard]

not so bad yourself :p I really like your studies on human proportions and the waterfall

[jhonshadow]

@Lino Yes indeed I look at posemaniacs, but will start the loomis book now.
@Thnx Elias

[JuliusObviousMagnus]

Cool start, keep it up.
Not much else to add, just practice and work work work

[Joeri V]

Hey there,

your speedpaint really admired me, i guess you can only improve the speed with practising ?
i'm a slow painter by my opinion but i want to learn to do it faster, is there a technique you use ?
or is it just practise, practise aaaand more practise ?

keep it up jhonny!

cheers

[jhonshadow]

Hey there,

your speedpaint really admired me, i guess you can only improve the speed with practising ?
i'm a slow painter by my opinion but i want to learn to do it faster, is there a technique you use ?
or is it just practise, practise aaaand more practise ?

keep it up jhonny!

cheers

Hey Joeri, well the speedpaints get better by doing it a lot, I also do studies and bigger paints between to learn more about color, light, composition... after a study I often do speedpaints to try different lights, different colors and different compositions to get the feeling. It's a lot of practise ^^

greetz and tnx mate

[jhonshadow]

well not much time for studies atm, finals are coming and for my drawing we need to make a fantasy chariot (so I took the necromancer guardian) and atm making some thumbs but the roughly shaded thumbs still busy with so dont mind the lack of those

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necromancer car thingy update (they wanted it more simple silhouet so got this out of one)

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small speedpaint 40 min

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a small moodspeedpaint approx 50 min.

[t.monkey]

Thanks for stopping by at my sketchbook

You've show some nice progress on your speedpainting skills here !
Perhaps it might also be a good idea to make some more paints from photo reference, it will help you to improve your feeling for colour.
And also for your anatomy perhaps you could better start by doing some more static poses. I see you did some very advanced poses in here, from a high and low point of vieuw, these are very dificult to draw correctly in perspective !

http://lovecastle.org/draw/
personally i concider this website to be very usefull and it has some not to difucult poses on it. And the timer is really handy !

But it looks like you are very motivated and show some nice progress, so i wish you the best of luck with DAE !
It's all about motivation in the end !
Keep up the good work !