Evolution of Art - JeffBrown's Sketchbook

**jbrown67** · December 21st, 2010, 11:12 PM

here's a girl...

**jbrown67** · December 22nd, 2010, 12:23 AM

great wall of china

**jbrown67** · December 22nd, 2010, 05:29 PM

a bit of a quick sketch...

**jbrown67** · December 22nd, 2010, 06:10 PM

drapery study

**Syle** · December 22nd, 2010, 06:14 PM

These are looking good my friend. The portrait of the girl looks especially nice. Are you planning on refining any of these? And were they done from observation, or imagination?

**jbrown67** · December 22nd, 2010, 08:50 PM

another quick portrait. I'm having some difficulty getting these to look right. I'll keep working on them though. any tips?

**jbrown67** · December 22nd, 2010, 09:15 PM

a horse running... quick mood sketch. Background is my imagination, horse is loosely based on a reference

**bpic** · December 22nd, 2010, 09:26 PM

some strong environments, I would say you should maybe knock out a TON of figure studies, since your figurative work isnt as strong as the environments. Have you tried to draw through Bridgmann and Loomis books? Good stuff with the environments though, good compositions and nice value control.

**bpic** · December 22nd, 2010, 09:26 PM

Very good for 17 though, I might add. Keep it coming!

**jbrown67** · December 22nd, 2010, 10:45 PM

skintone and lighting study

**Flanagan** · December 23rd, 2010, 01:41 AM

Hey man, thanks for looking at my sketchbook. Your enviros are nice! I notice a lot of your studies are "quick". I'd say make some studies that are longer, some anatomy studies, figure poses. I like to google images for fight scenes and/or body builders to study the muscles and poses. You've great potential, man, keep it up.

**jbrown67** · December 23rd, 2010, 05:44 PM

syle: yeah, i'm going to refine a few

bpic: yeah, I really need to catch up on my figures. I will upload a few pencil sketches soon

flanagan: no problem! good advice... i really need to slow down. often I start something then get an idea halfway through for the next thing. I'l try to finish everything a bit more instead of going on right away.

here's a drawing I did while listening to bobby chiu. he's pretty inspirational! I worked on finishing this one up a bit more than usual

**jbrown67** · December 23rd, 2010, 06:37 PM

here's a figure drawing... I tried this one a bit different, more based on dark and light shapes than contour lines

**kapowell** · December 23rd, 2010, 07:01 PM

Your environments are stunning, the perspectives are constructed in a way were it feels like i'm actual standing inside the world you've created. Also the lighting being in the far distance really adds to the mood and depth behind each piece.

great work

**Flanagan** · December 23rd, 2010, 11:35 PM

The hand study is good. I can tell you spent some good amount of time on it. The figure has good contrast. Keep it up, man.

**jbrown67** · December 23rd, 2010, 11:38 PM

kapowell: Thanks! I appreciate it! Any critiques would be welcome though.

flanagan: thanks! I shall keep it up. I'll stop when i'm dead I suppose. Or maybe I will still keep going.

Here's a piece based on a brilliant idea I had, to pause a movie and use that as a reference. Actually it's just stupid that I haven't thought of that earlier. I used to google image search movie stills. but that doesn't make sense when I have the movies. This worked out alright. I spent a bit more time than usual. but probably still not enough. this is from prince of persia, ref is in the top left

**Medusoid** · December 23rd, 2010, 11:48 PM

DUDE! Your sceneries are absolutely BRILLIANT!
Your work is just amazing, and are you seriously only 17?!?

**jbrown67** · December 23rd, 2010, 11:50 PM

Originally Posted by Medusoid

DUDE! Your sceneries are absolutely BRILLIANT!
Your work is just amazing, and are you seriously only 17?!?

Thanks! Yep, just turned 17 a couple months ago.

**Jamie Romoser** · December 23rd, 2010, 11:57 PM

Cool sketchbook man
I would suggest working on your construction before going into rendering
keep it up and have a good one
-Jamie

**jbrown67** · December 24th, 2010, 01:01 AM

omertA: yeah, I should have sketched that one out more clearly before I started. I have been painting without sketches for so long, it's hard to get out of the habit of just blocking shapes inacurately.

Here are a few anatomy studies on specific parts. I plan on doing more of these with more detailed references.

**Heavens** · December 24th, 2010, 01:58 AM

Your environments are impressive, and your getting there with the anatomy. Keep practicing! And nice sketchbook btw

**strangedawn** · December 24th, 2010, 05:06 AM

For a 17 yr old you are great,i also like your environment, just keep on practicing and studying keep up the good work just keep posting!!Good luck!!

**SteFlack** · December 24th, 2010, 06:55 AM

Hey man, good to see you posting over here. Nice start to your sketchbook and I really like the girl portraits, hope to see more of them.

**Charmer** · December 24th, 2010, 08:12 AM

very good studies! keep it up!

**jbrown67** · December 24th, 2010, 06:57 PM

hey everyone, thanks for all the positive comments! I really appreciate the criticism as well too if you have any.

**Medusoid** · December 24th, 2010, 10:43 PM

Great work man and I know your strong point right now is scenery but it looks like your doin some heavy work with figures.
Two suggestions (and I'm not saying I dont struggle with these myself)
-try to loosen up your character's stance, they look a bit stiff. My suggestion would be to do some drawings with bent toes, bent knees, keep the elbows away from the body
-and the other idea is to check the shoulder to hip size ratio. something in that area looks out of sink w/ the other.

Now in all seriousness please don't take this the wrong way. I would be really upset if you felt I was coming off like an arrogant ass. And dude your work is freaking amazing!
But I just feel like I don't notice my mistakes allot of the time until someone else points them out to me so just know I'm trying to give encouragement here not cut you down.

Merry Christmas

**jNeumann** · December 24th, 2010, 10:48 PM

Hey, looking good. The digital horse-sketch really caught my eye. I like the value range in your grayscales as well. Keep it up!

**jbrown67** · December 24th, 2010, 11:29 PM

Originally Posted by Medusoid

Great work man and I know your strong point right now is scenery but it looks like your doin some heavy work with figures.
Two suggestions (and I'm not saying I dont struggle with these myself)
-try to loosen up your character's stance, they look a bit stiff. My suggestion would be to do some drawings with bent toes, bent knees, keep the elbows away from the body
-and the other idea is to check the shoulder to hip size ratio. something in that area looks out of sink w/ the other.

Now in all seriousness please don't take this the wrong way. I would be really upset if you felt I was coming off like an arrogant ass. And dude your work is freaking amazing!
But I just feel like I don't notice my mistakes allot of the time until someone else points them out to me so just know I'm trying to give encouragement here not cut you down.

Merry Christmas

Thanks! On the contrary, I reeeally appreciate criticism like that. I don't always see stuff like that. I saw something was wrong but I couldn't figure out what. If you have any other criticisms they are always very much appreciated.

Merry Christmas to yourself as well!

**Medusoid** · December 24th, 2010, 11:34 PM

Glad to hear it, though my fountain of intelligent comments is a very shallow one and so I find it best if I don't suggest too much and that way I seam smart

But if I think of anything I'll be sure to tell you

**sykeros** · December 25th, 2010, 05:34 AM

great stuff! i'm (like everyone else it seems) loving your environment work! great perspective and composition...and lighting.. and everything, haha.
the figure drawing just needs practice and lots of observation. the torsos on your last musculature study look a bit long.. i think it's more the hip area than the upper part actually.
anyway, i look forward to seeing more