Justin Beckett (sketchbook) On a self taught artistic journey Big update! Mar 17 2010

**Dan1989** · May 2nd, 2005, 11:07 PM

Hey, those paintings of the sky are way cool. Are they done in oil? The last batch of characters is wacky

I like them. Just wondering, but have you ever been to http://www.saveloomis.org ? If not, you really should! Good luck and keep up the good work.

**JustinBeckett** · May 3rd, 2005, 05:49 AM

thanks dan, and no that painting is in acrylic... And yes, i have all of loomises books

really great.

Thanks mate.

**Sara-San** · May 3rd, 2005, 10:40 PM

^_^ I really like the carnival things... reminds me of an artist that did a book of the fae... can't remember his name though.

**Zram** · May 4th, 2005, 02:05 PM

HI Justin,

Your sketch/paintings are really good. Keep practicing that; and don't forget to practice more simple shapes, the cylinders cubes and boxes that help define the forms in you pieces; especially important in landscapes with architecture/machines off or miss matching perspectives can really throw off pic that would rock otherwise. Look at your lites and darks, some of your grayscale stuff needs more contrast to create a greater depth. Using the same quantity of darks in the forground and background flattens your pictures to much.

Thanks
Marcelo
(please take my comments as they are ment; to help you possibly do things better. its all about you )

**JustinBeckett** · May 4th, 2005, 06:24 PM

thanks man, i will keep your comments in mind.

**Profil** · May 4th, 2005, 06:28 PM

didn´t I write here the other day? strange
oh well nice paintings and drawings.
what more to say?
study more pictures of nature ?

**JustinBeckett** · May 4th, 2005, 06:33 PM

Hey profil, yeah i guess you never did

Thanks man, yeah i need to study more.

Gotta get to that...bleh. I guess to me these really are studies.

**JustinBeckett** · May 6th, 2005, 03:55 PM

a quicky

More coming also, but i need to scan them in..

**Dan1989** · May 7th, 2005, 11:42 PM

On the latest one: It reminds me of something from Star Wars, which is a good thing of course XD I hope you made the features on his right side bigger on purpose though. Good work.

**JustinBeckett** · May 9th, 2005, 05:11 AM

Thanks dan.

Anyways, on a different note, some how im getting bored by this sketchbook thing, nobody seems to want to comment enough, and no one really ever posts any more...Its not even really worth me takin the time " TO" Post...I have tones of stuff i can, if i see people start posting more, therefor, im sure they will comment here more, as i can comment in theres....

**darkarts** · May 9th, 2005, 02:55 PM

I love your work - I can't really give a comment about anything, just a motivating word.

I especially like the swamp painting

**charcoalArtist** · May 9th, 2005, 03:34 PM

Hi justin

just dropping by to make sure the link to your sketchbook in my signature works properly, I'll offer some comments later when I have time to browse

**Profil** · May 9th, 2005, 03:35 PM

on the latest, try to push the values and blend them a bit more, otherwise its cool

Btw, I post when I see stuff, or got acces to computer, post morrre.

**Sara-San** · May 9th, 2005, 10:37 PM

*pokes with a stick* arrrg not my fault. Work. I like the blue thing, but perspectives!! I hope you did it on purpose.

**charcoalArtist** · May 10th, 2005, 10:55 PM

Hey Justin, hang in there, I like your landscapes.. The blue character reminds me of stitch (as in lilo an stitch).... hope you will get around to adding more detail later on

**Dan1989** · May 14th, 2005, 01:01 AM

*nudge* You so need to post!

**JustinBeckett** · May 17th, 2005, 01:50 AM

shit sorry guys, hehe, kinda been lazy lately..

Here are 2 sketches i did tonight

**JustinBeckett** · May 17th, 2005, 01:51 AM

oh heres another..kinda crappy.

oh wait, and another...

**JustinBeckett** · May 17th, 2005, 01:52 AM

Oh wait and another hahah, This one is unfinished, cause i screwed up the anatomy, and was to lazy to finish, It was fun, painting in the nipples

**JustinBeckett** · May 17th, 2005, 02:24 AM

shit and another, i got so much crap on my comp...ahh

**Dan1989** · May 17th, 2005, 03:51 PM

The painting of the woman's torso is great, it displays form pretty well, only complaint is that her rib cage is a little too big. The drawings are good too, did ya use ref on those? Oh and your environments are cool as always! See ya.

**Profil** · May 18th, 2005, 03:04 PM

What dan said and try to study face construction and anatomy, for that check loomis, bridgman and do some self potraits where you construct your face up. Keep up the good work.

**JustinBeckett** · May 19th, 2005, 11:19 PM

Thanks dan..

Profil, yeah i know

Here is another one, did it in 1.5 hrs. PS CS

**Dan1989** · May 20th, 2005, 01:51 AM

Last one is nice, only crits are the fog could look better (not that I could do it any better) and the highlite on the rock on the far right looks a little off, maybe it would look better if it were located more inside the contour of the rock? Until next time, keep up the good job.

**glikster** · May 20th, 2005, 08:50 AM

ditto to what Dan said. I love the skyline and the rocks in that last pic, but especially the clouds and hazy mountains.
keep working!

**JustinBeckett** · May 20th, 2005, 02:52 PM

Thanks dan and glikster, I appreciate the kind comments, i will post more soon!

**JustinBeckett** · May 22nd, 2005, 03:30 AM

Here is 1 i did tonight in 1hr. I used photorefrence found on google. But, i did change somee things.. kinda added my own touch, so really its not an exact copy i find.

**Dan1989** · May 23rd, 2005, 01:45 AM

Latest one is really cool looking! It might look better with some larger brush strokes though. It's also hard to read some of the forms in the facial area. Still good though, see ya.

**Sara-San** · May 23rd, 2005, 11:21 PM

I really like the latest one you did, and of course, your environments.. can't say that I'm a fan of the ink faces... I think you did too odd of shadowing on the female face... I find that over-rendering dramatically reduces the apparent attractiveness of female faces.