vantrum's daily sketchbook

**vantrum** · April 26th, 2005, 03:36 PM

go to end to see current work!

i am a SCAD student majoring in 3D animation and possibly minoring in sequential art. here is some stuff from my last two sketchbooks. hope you enjoy! C&C welcome!

(um.... photobucket died. the images are all out of order now, but all images past this post will be daily (hopefully), and in order.)

**vantrum** · April 26th, 2005, 03:37 PM

**vantrum** · April 26th, 2005, 03:39 PM

**vantrum** · April 26th, 2005, 03:40 PM

**vantrum** · April 26th, 2005, 03:43 PM

ok, everything past this point is new. and in order

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**vantrum** · May 1st, 2005, 02:07 PM

i can't figure out how to fix my signature... does anyone remember what the syntax is to correctly make a sketchbook hyperlink to this thread?

**Cyrus** · May 1st, 2005, 02:38 PM

Concerning your signature, it looks like you're just missing a bracket at the end of the first "url."

As for your art, very nice. I'd say more but you've put me in the mood to go practice.

**vantrum** · May 2nd, 2005, 02:45 PM

waiting for a phone call in the dorm... my room is where people do their homework

**Choo on this** · May 2nd, 2005, 11:02 PM

nice.

i like ur tree study.

**Majofo** · May 3rd, 2005, 02:15 AM

NIce stuff man!
I really liked that one with the three hands and the one with the tree where the one branch is going onto another page
nice stuff ya got going there man,

~Matt

**vantrum** · May 4th, 2005, 12:45 AM

thanks guys! glad to see people visiting my sketchbook

here's tonight's doodle...

**evidence** · May 4th, 2005, 01:58 AM

great work, looks like you really put yourself through a vigorous routine. i like the outdoor observational stuff a lot. what kind of fabercastle pen is that? a brush pen? i think i want to try one..

sketches and progressions

**thief** · May 4th, 2005, 02:13 AM

fresh.. nice sketches, beautiful book cover

..i should start daily sketching, my laziness is killing me

**vantrum** · May 4th, 2005, 02:20 AM

hey, thanks for the nice words! i wouldn't really call my drawing vigorous... because it is really how i relax. with homework in history and speech, as well as helping out texturing a friend's animation set... drawing at the end of the night is kind of my wind down.

i do draw in the park a lot, however. that is relaxing too

**vantrum** · May 5th, 2005, 12:27 AM

more quick park stuff, as well as some army man melting...

**Masayasu** · May 5th, 2005, 12:34 AM

Love the perspective. The character poses are really nice too. Both things that I need to work on. Keep up the good work. I will keep an eye on your stuff.

**madkhemist** · May 5th, 2005, 01:01 AM

really nice work! everything from the figure work to the robots and the small landscape sketches. i really like the way you break the borders in some of your pieces and utilize the next page(i know alot of people do that but i just wanted to point it out). very good.
congradulations you amused me for a half hour...
i think im gonna go draw now.

**hurricane** · May 5th, 2005, 01:16 AM

nice stuff, very planned and interesting to watch, good stuff !

post more!

cheers

**vantrum** · May 7th, 2005, 12:11 AM

so today i went to GDX at the SCAD atlanta campus. what that means is that i got on a bu sat 4:30 AM and drove 4.5 hours (on sideways seats) to atlanta, and heard a day of video game industry related lectures. it was great! i did not, however, get enough sleep the night before. as a method of staying awake, i drew off and on all day - on both the bus as well as durring the lecture.

it was a long day and i am ready to hit the sack... it felt good to draw a lot, though. some nice practice looking at my left hand carefully

**Hunger_Artist** · May 7th, 2005, 05:59 PM

oh man, I wanted to go to the game developers exchange, but I didnt know any means of getting there. Was it helpful at all?>

Btw, nice hand studies!

**vantrum** · May 13th, 2005, 06:06 PM

so my roomate and i got inspired to make a very high detail sci-fi 3d model as an experiment - and i am the concept guy. he is currently working on an auto-rig script for maya (which is totally amazing), and this model will hopefully be the test mesh. here is a preliminary sketch - hopefully many more to come - better to do the planning on paper, instead of in polygons

**vantrum** · May 13th, 2005, 08:52 PM

some more detail stuff.... maybe i will start modeling soon. who knows?

**vantrum** · May 14th, 2005, 08:59 PM

some more coffee shop stuff. trying to draw faster and looser... with marker. mixed results

**vantrum** · May 19th, 2005, 02:50 AM

detail refining for our spaceman... working out the little stuff. dave has modeled the handgun, but we have not yet started on the body.

**cotron** · May 19th, 2005, 03:36 AM

cool book man! prolific, and there's a good sense of your persdonality in it. lots of people are missing that from their drawings. the life drawings are cool, they all make interesting compositions on each page. try bringing a portable watercolor set out with you sometime and playing with that... or toned paper w/ a light & dark color pencil to quick identify light and shadow. if that makes any sense. glad to have seen your book, keep up the cool drawings!

**vantrum** · May 20th, 2005, 02:03 PM

thanks for the encouragement cotron!

so i'm going to be painting my skateboard... here's my first idea

**vantrum** · May 22nd, 2005, 01:51 PM

more possibilities...

**Fellah.** · May 22nd, 2005, 02:09 PM

A lot of good stuff here dude.
Nice handstudies!

**Johann de Venecia** · May 31st, 2005, 12:21 AM

Got a lot of stuff going here, man, it was a pleasure browsing through it! I really like your enviros and hand studies.

**nootboi** · June 2nd, 2005, 10:55 PM

ALL OF IT!

Ok I’m on here now you ravenous tyrant. The burrito was good... well I had a veggie one because I wanted guacamole... good anyway.

This post comes from the new computer, which humbly kicks all of the asses in the universe, and even ass like appendages, without discrimination SIMUTANEOUSLY!

That's right, I went there.