Joshua Townsend's Sketchbook

[JoshuaTownsend]

Hey everyone. I'm pretty excited to be posting on these forums. I've seen some really amazing stuff around here. I also look forward to looking at everyones work (with time). All comments and criticism are highly welcomed.
Thanks for the time (and this forum).

Here's a piece I did for the 'Young Artists Among Us' exhibition in Hamilton, Ontario, along the lakeshore.

I'll definitely be posting more work soon!

*EDIT EDIT* Will do, thanks nonobot.

[Nonobot]

Pretty funky start, welcome to CA and I cant wait to check back when you got some more stuff up.
The shading on that charcter is pretty good, but I think the background and other characters lets it down a little bit.

Uhm, you are in a right section, you can post this kind of work to your sketchbook to! Nothing wrong with that, so no need to delete it. Sketchbooks are a great part of the forums, shows how you work out your stuff. So post all kinds of jazz here.

[JoshuaTownsend]

Here's a bunch of drawings I did 3 to 4 years ago. Also, a 3d model I made in a ZBrush trial (an attempt to model my room mates character design) and I marker still life I did this summer.

[JoshuaTownsend]

Here's a sketch I did from the movie '300'

[sarbro]

awesome stuff...they look so real!
keep it up, the marker stilllife is my favourite, nothing to critique, just keep it up!

[PaintMyBrain]

wow! some of the best carcoal stilllife drawings Ive ever seen, I mean that. Some parts of them actually look like black n white photos. Please post more great work!!!

/Brain

[Xamllew]

You sir, do some amazing work with charcoal (or graphite or whatever), that hallway piece blew me out of my boots. Such smooth shading yet they still retain their sharpness.

[JoshuaTownsend]

Thanks all!

Here's some quicker conte work.
I'm attempting to 'self teach' myself how to draw and paint (I do read up on it a bunch).
Having some difficulty with drawing the form of a person, but I'm sure I'll get better.

[JoshuaTownsend]

Here's the blueprints to a 'space slug' I'm designing.

[JoshuaTownsend]

Also, some photoshop painting practice.

[Jonas_D]

with the paint study, however the first one's face is more detailed, I'm more fond of the 2nd's one pose, it feels more comfortable in my eyes ^^The marker drawing is very good! At first I tought it was a digital painting Nice stuff you've got here, nice traditional work!

Cheers!

[a la bapsi]

i really admire your analyzation of your own work, and how you take the time to write it all down in your studies.
That's a good habit to have while painting, keep it up.

[JoshuaTownsend]

Thanks for the input guys
Here's a self-portrait I drew today from a photograph.

[PaintMyBrain]

very nice selfportrait man. I love the dark and mysterious aura in it