Cuppa Joe's Sketchbook- Occasionally Updated...

**Cup of Joe** · November 3rd, 2009, 11:25 PM

Just realized how dumb it was that I'm drawing every day, but I'm still too lazy to spend ten minutes before bed scanning my stuff. Let's try and change that.

Started messing around with compressed charcoal today. From photo ref.

**Cup of Joe** · November 6th, 2009, 12:02 AM

More of the same. I'll try and get some stuff from my classes up soon.

**Jesus Food** · November 6th, 2009, 02:09 AM

nice profile sketches i dig the hatching man

**p sage** · November 6th, 2009, 02:25 AM

Daaaaaaaamn Gina </MartinLawrence>.

Excellent Cross hatching. Was this one a SP?

Gonna have to look back through your whole thread. Yeap. It's 5 ***** time.

**Cup of Joe** · November 7th, 2009, 12:57 AM

Jesus Food- Thanks man!

p sage- Thanks! Yeah, it was, but it doesn't look much like me.

Photoshop portrait from reference.

**Cup of Joe** · November 16th, 2009, 01:33 AM

more stuffs. Most of my drawing time has been spent on class projects recently, so I'll show those once I get the chance. Here's some doodles in the meantime.

**Serpian** · November 16th, 2009, 02:31 PM

Hey long time no see! I like the portraits from ref, hope you're learning a lot from them. One thing I think with your figures from imagination is that you need to use what you learn from other studies in them more. You always use the same head construction, and I know you can do eyes better than what you did on that cowboy, man! Anyway, keep working, you've definitely improved since I last was here!

**Cup of Joe** · November 23rd, 2009, 12:26 AM

Definitely get where you're coming from Serp, so I went back and fixed sheriff tiny-hands up a bit. Also, here are crappy pics of what I've been up to. Sorry for the quality, but I just don't have access to a good camera right now

**Cup of Joe** · December 16th, 2009, 01:11 AM

More stuff from school recently. Once again, sorry for the crap pictures. Some personal work is coming tomorrow.

Edit- forgot to mention that the first image is a Lucien Freud study.

**Cup of Joe** · December 16th, 2009, 12:14 PM

Some recent doodles.

**Ryn** · December 29th, 2009, 01:19 PM

Wow, so much progress! You are doing really well man! As a small crit, sometimes your faces (mostly the ones from imagination) look a bit off. Especially the eye size/placement, they look a bit odd. Don't be afraid to play with different facial expressions as well.
Keep up the good work man, you are really making strides!

**Cup of Joe** · January 27th, 2010, 01:08 AM

Thanks a lot Ryn! Eyes are definitely something to focus on in the future.

Anyway, here are some photoshop doodles, some from ref, some from imagination (you can probably guess which is which.) More soon, but for now I'm going to try to get out of my comfort zone a bit. Maybe some environments or architecture...

**Cup of Joe** · January 27th, 2010, 09:16 PM

WIP paper bag done in charcoal.

**p sage** · February 4th, 2010, 06:00 PM

Yeay paper bag!

Lookin good, COJ.

I think the highlights on the bag are too great, especially considering the lower contrast on the bottom of the bag (which is near the top of the pic). Do you see it?

Pretty good rendering on it though.

**Serpian** · February 18th, 2010, 02:09 PM

Nice drawings! The life drawings look good, but remember, plane analysis is not everything, you have to remember rythm and the general form and flow of the body... you know..

BTW, you tend to put big noses on your figures from the imagination. Keep drawing, keep posting!

**Jessibelle** · June 12th, 2010, 01:26 AM

Man, just looked through the whole of your book.

It's just mindblowing that you can go from this to stuff like this and it's so inspiring to just watch the journey - I love these sort of sketchbooks.

Just watching your hard work is so motivating and I can't wait to see where you end up, because I know it's gonna be amazing.