JoshDArtist's sketchbook.

**JoshDArtist** · July 26th, 2009, 08:52 PM

asomatous: thank you very much for the wonderful comment and crit.!!!

I think you are correct about the filter getting in the way, and perhaps the reason I am responding to it much more favorably than the original is due mainly to the value contrast... I may just go back into the original and push the contrast up a bit, do a bit more value painting.. or, perhaps your suggestion of going back into the filtered piece might be more effective...either way, excellent eye for catching that... that's why I love this site!!!!

**JoshDArtist** · July 26th, 2009, 11:53 PM

went ahead and actually combined the 2 previous images. It toned down the linear elements alot, yet the contrast/value is still there... also popped some highlights on the rocks, just to push em closer to the viewer.
off to paint!

**JoshDArtist** · July 27th, 2009, 01:22 AM

So, just picked another thumb (from the first series of them) to illustrate..
A typical monster attack..
here's the start

**burialchamber** · July 27th, 2009, 01:55 AM

cooooool monster. might be more dynamic if you showed one of his feet coming down over the buildings he's smashing. Right now the focal point is on that apparatus at the front of his body, and even though it looks like some kind of mouth, from his stance it reads more like an eye, as if he's looking at a group of people he's readying to attack-- except there's nothing down there. The image is kind of disunified in that sense. Also, if you cropped it tighter so that the monster took up more of the canvas, he would seem a lot huger. But I really like the monster design, and the pose he's in is great.

**JoshDArtist** · July 27th, 2009, 08:11 AM

burialchamber: yeah, I'm having ALOT of fun with this one... i am planning on turning the eye thing into a type of laser/beam something... lol...
there will be folks below.. and more smashed stuff...
I'll have to try out the foot thing, see if it works with the image... good idea though

**Bicnarok** · July 27th, 2009, 08:18 AM

excellent stuff

**kingkostas** · July 27th, 2009, 10:09 AM

Nice works mate,specially your traditional stuff.
I am not sure about using the filter so much.
Keep up

**JoshDArtist** · July 27th, 2009, 11:06 PM

Bicnarok: thanks!
kingkostas: Thanks for your comments... yeah, I agree the filter is a bit much at times...
-----
Worked on the monster today... she's so pretty. lol .
lots of work done on it today, but still lots more to go...
I'm happy with where it's headed...

**JoshDArtist** · July 28th, 2009, 10:10 PM

not much time tonight/today... figured I would throw in some more details...

can't figure if I like the "eye/mouth/laser" black, or glowy white better???
I'm thinking I will go back to glassy black.... hmmmm

**JoshDArtist** · July 29th, 2009, 12:20 PM

hmmm... not showing that I updated it last night, wonder if this post will do the trick??

**chanfanlea** · July 29th, 2009, 01:28 PM

ur amazing

wish i was that good...

**JoshDArtist** · July 29th, 2009, 04:28 PM

chanfanlea: as with anything in life, just keep at it and you WILL do better...

**Jesus Food** · July 29th, 2009, 04:43 PM

very cool pic. i like the position of its legs, it doesnt look like a robot..wheres randy quaid in a jet when u need him

**JoshDArtist** · July 29th, 2009, 10:29 PM

lol.. is will smith in this one too???

**Jesus Food** · July 29th, 2009, 10:36 PM

yea, quaid blew himself up for the cause tho, will smith is too vain to ever do that

**JoshDArtist** · July 29th, 2009, 11:51 PM

well... I'm just bout tired of this one, time to start another I think...
elements of the foreground that are a bit rushed, i realize...
overall, not shabby...
I can only get better...

**burialchamber** · July 30th, 2009, 01:13 PM

Cool, dude. Nice job on this. Next time it would be good to make sure the perspective on all the buildings is consistent. It would make the whole piece read as being more solid and developed. Also, you might want to think about adding a greater range of values (especially darks) and areas of higher color saturation.

**JoshDArtist** · July 30th, 2009, 10:44 PM

burialchamber: yeah, I totally get the value thing now, looking at it again.... grrr.. but there's always next time..
AND the always fun perspective... to be honest, it didn't even cross my mind for this one... just a jumbly city in layers was in my head...
but I think you are on to something with this piece, some nice , simple perspective on the main buildings would have popped the dimensions nicely...

**JoshDArtist** · August 3rd, 2009, 01:47 AM

just some random stuff im doing tonight,
some silhouettes, (creature concept) and I just got alchemy, so i was
playing around with that tonight, figured I would load up a quickie I did on there.. kinda fun,

**Dibujio::Guru** · August 3rd, 2009, 04:34 AM

Hey what up josh love the new stuff.Really digging the monster drawing loveing the sure size of it coming into the city f>ing things up.lol Epic!!

**JoshDArtist** · August 3rd, 2009, 07:19 AM

Gorilla@Attack: lol! Thanks alot man! Yeah, I'm diggin' the feel of it as well, I may have to do more of those type....

**JoshDArtist** · August 3rd, 2009, 06:22 PM

Quick concept sketch-up of one of the silhouettes from last night... might play around with this guy tonight, or start another scene from a thumbnail...

**JoshDArtist** · August 3rd, 2009, 06:52 PM

line drawing of the dude above... time to do some editing, fleshin' out

**JoshDArtist** · August 4th, 2009, 12:14 AM

hee he hee..
so he wound up extremely comic-styled... just something about that damned hard line I'm addicted to, I suppose.
At any rate... couple of hours and this is what I got:

**Bagg** · August 4th, 2009, 12:25 AM

Hey man, I'm really liking the sketchbook so far

Plus I think that last monster you drew even though you seem disappointed at it being in a more comic style I think it looks insane, love the colours in it!

My only real crit so far is probably in a couple of the pictures such as the planet with the asteroids and the monster in the city I can see the filter you have used and they seem to distract me from the picture which overall is very well presented.

Keep up the great work

**JoshDArtist** · August 4th, 2009, 12:32 AM

Bagg: Thanks alot! I like how the colors turned out in the latest one, as well...

I am struggling/slowly working away from that damned poster edges filter... and the more people notice it getting in the way, the easier it's getting to get away from it.. lol..
(thanks to everyone for making me aware of it..

seriously, that's why I post my shit up here... I friggin love this site.. )

Thanks again!

**Hamms** · August 4th, 2009, 10:24 PM

Thanks for the comment in my sb.

I think you've got something going on here. I liked the painting of the boy and fish on the first page, and the thumbnails looked awesome. I think the last creature is looking pretty wicked, then again, I'm a sucker for comic-stylized images.

Keep on groovin' man!

**burialchamber** · August 4th, 2009, 11:51 PM

Hey bro! These are some juicy updates. That last monster is awesome (the comic style one), and actually I think it's one of your most successful pieces so far. I would say that you might want to try pushing the shadow values darker in the chest area, adding a couple of different hues of green to the skin tone in some areas, and possibly give him some textures (eg: make his horn-thingies look like they're made out of a different material than his skin). For next time, you might like to take a look at muscle insertion points and try to understand how they connect to bones and what shapes they make when the limb is in different positions. A lot of what you've done is very convincing (especially the lower section of the large set of arms), but certain muscle groups (such as the shoulder area of the large set of arms) don't seem to connect in a way that's functional.

Great designs, keep it up!

**jackpot_anjr90** · August 5th, 2009, 01:05 AM

You've got some great work here! You should downsize your pictures a bit for internet display though. Having to scroll to see the whole image doesn't really help to see the overall picture. Keep it up!

**JoshDArtist** · August 6th, 2009, 07:28 AM

Hamms: Thanks alot, man!!
burialchamber: yeah, anatomy on this guy was half-assed at best.. lol... I'll be sure to keep an eye on it!
jackpot anjr90: Thank you very much! Yeah, I hear ya about the file size, gotta keep an eye on that.

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