jdeegz * - Now with a paper backing! * -

**jdeegz** · February 27th, 2008, 08:02 PM

a little layout mock up for a presentation at the end of the year (reviews)
some new drawings on it, thought i'd sahre for the 2 people viewing

another soldier baddy from my art history class today. yep, it ws boring.

**Fishspawn** · February 27th, 2008, 08:50 PM

Water pitcher is looking good and the soldier is much improved from the one before.

**jdeegz** · February 27th, 2008, 09:26 PM

what one? the painted one?

**jdeegz** · March 1st, 2008, 12:23 AM

meh, just wanted to share with you my set up

not to happy bout these sketches, would like to do more like them. the morgan roadster came out icky, didnt really do much sketching before it (mapping it out i guess youd call it) and yeah.. so what ever!

**jdeegz** · March 2nd, 2008, 03:49 PM

last one was my attempt at the COW - hyperactive is the topic.
i was thinking along the lines of his noodle like head needs to be so hyper active because he feeds on different particles in the air and hes got to feed that fat body!

2nd to last one, does it appear to be that you're looking down at it? hes climbing up a cliff.
decided on the POV after i arleady drew the char so it snot fully thought out hhehe

rofl...

**jdeegz** · March 3rd, 2008, 11:30 PM

lwekin for internships around this here boston area.. its tough =\
dunno what im going to do this summer. moneyz needs to be maidd..

heres some more stuff. i am interested in the IDoW (star ship) so ill be workin on ideas for those!
i stayed after my literature class in my studio and played on othe cintiq, had to use alias sketchbook because PS wasnt reading the pen pressure =\ oh wells.

**Mihail** · March 4th, 2008, 11:32 AM

Nice sketchbook, man. There's a definite progress in your skills. Keep it up

**Fishspawn** · March 4th, 2008, 07:57 PM

Proportions on your people still need a lot of attention, keep working on those. Planes are looking good, really like the first one in your last post. Keep it up~

**deadred** · March 13th, 2008, 12:54 PM

there's big improvements so far! continuing with studies like you're doing will let you get the hang of human proportions in no time (the closeup face on the left in in this post is very good, compared to some of your imaginative characters), so i guess it's all about practice. keep it up

**jdeegz** · March 14th, 2008, 12:02 AM

uggghh..

i hate human form :-(
ill get it eventually.. i hopes

**jdeegz** · March 18th, 2008, 10:19 PM

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india ink is not what i expected to be...

turned the green a shitty shade of yellow instead of white =\ oh wells...

some day i;ve ought to lock mysel fin our computer lab and paint all day with the cintiq, ive got alot of images ready for colors and edits

**Fishspawn** · March 19th, 2008, 01:01 AM

Faces in the last post show improvement, keep working on studies like that! I like this recent one - interesting to look at and it's clearly and nicely drawn. Keep up the good work!

**vimmel** · March 22nd, 2008, 06:25 PM

yeah man, great sketchbook!

nice studies!

Ill keep in touch

keep drawing man.

**jdeegz** · March 22nd, 2008, 11:41 PM

ij4t903u49ttg goomazee gama

thanks alot for the respones, i thought i was the only one here =\

**Discoskull** · March 25th, 2008, 06:48 PM

Wow dude! Crazy improvement and kick ass posts since I've been gone!
Good to see the life drawing; the angular style is really working for you, though it'd be cool to see some organic lines in the life drawing. Keep up the life drawing.
Industrial design stuff is kicking, and that weapon is sweet. I'd love to see it in action.
This was the perfect thread to visit right before I attempt to draw tanks/mechs...

**jdeegz** · April 4th, 2008, 09:12 PM

hey dudes
been busy, as im sure yall are aswell so that isnt really an excuse
I've got ~40 page of cat tower concepts, that i'll wait to post hen i get a final layout ready, im going to work on finishing my water pitcher this weekend for my portfolio, ive gotta get an internship =)

anyways heres a soldier thing with a thing on his arm or somthin. hahaha
i dunnoo...

should i color it?i dunno =\
i think i grew apart from it, maybe ill redo some areas tommorow or later this evening.

**Fishspawn** · April 5th, 2008, 11:47 PM

Nice! This is soo much better than your previous digis! Only problem i see is that i think the secondary light coming from his arm is too bright - it would read better if that leg was still in the shadow mass. Other than that it's rocking out of control! Great to see your improvement, keep it up~

**mayk** · April 6th, 2008, 07:04 AM

Hey, you asked me how you to from grayscale to full value, and color it without repainting. So...earlier I usualy built forms with details ( after that I added layers colur, multiply, color dodge, overlay), and sometimes I lost it, so in recent jobs I draw with no particularity, try to work harder with colours.

Thanks for comms

PS. I hope you understand me, my english is poor

**jdeegz** · April 7th, 2008, 09:43 PM

thanks dudes, im glad yah dig, and thanks for your thoughts mayk.

heres my recently completed project for my Human Factors class, i've got another project nearing completion, i hhope

hope i can land an internship ><

i think i am going to start another painting this evening, i have some free time and the materials i need to finish my project havn't been bought

**vimmel** · April 8th, 2008, 01:32 PM

damn, you've gotten awesome since I last took a look in here!
Hope you found a job man.

Keep drawing man

**jdeegz** · April 24th, 2008, 11:46 PM

erro.
cant not post in the month of april, that'd be soo bad.
so what have i been up too?
well, not much really, i've been relaxing before the storm that we all know as finals. I've done some sketchings, lots of thinking, exercising. Most importantly, I've been looking for a summer job to bring in the rent money. Yeah, fun i guess.

the other day, wedensday, my Human Factors class to a trip to the Natick Soldier Center RDE&C - its basically a relativly small military base where they conceptualize, develop, and test the products soldiers are given to take into theatre. It is basically my dream job, and i got to visit it, amazing day. We got to see the new fabric they are using for the military suits, 'universal camo' we got to go to the biomechanices room. this place rocked, they have all these sensors and a work out area, what they do is equip soldiers with thier new gear, and they perform exercises and rate... everything from the preasure on your heel when you step down, to your breathing. I got to run around with a 40 lb kevlar and carbon fiber vest with a 40 lb backpack. It was pretty sick, i couldnt imagine wearing the 120 lb backpack the marines use! THEN there was the3-d anthropometric scanning room, where a person suits up in spandex, stands on this stage, and four scanners go up and down the body, and the image it captures is sooo life like its scary! they're in the process of developing a 'video game' to simulate doing chores while being shot at using the unreal tournament engine haha. okay i could go on for ever about this place, it's so fking awesome and im applying for an possible internship i can there!

k so i got some sketches of random shit, mostly done in classes that bore the shit out of me

then i did some random color....things testing complementary colors and how they can act as shadows and high lights. ima do some more, i can see it being very beneficial learning these so they stick in my head.

thanks for visitin! dont forget to leave a comment!

**Fishspawn** · April 25th, 2008, 02:43 AM

That sounds like an awesome place! I hope you get the internship. I like some of the ideas you've got going on here, especially that little evil dog

You're getting better, keep it up!

**jdeegz** · June 17th, 2008, 12:40 PM

the machine

the illustration

**jdeegz** · June 22nd, 2008, 10:39 PM

K, here's a biggy!

So i've been chillin, keepin busy.

working on some webdesign, can be viewed at www.dsglass.org
It is one of my co-worker's portfolio, she is a Glass Major here at Mass Art, and graduated two years ago...maybe?

Been thinking, but not really doing anything for the Deep event going on here. I found it annoyingly vague, and hard to work for.

I have uploaded my the boards I used for my presentation for my final reviews onto my FTP. They are large images, and currently are unworked for viewing on the web, but soon i will have a written presentation that works with the images so they can go on my online portfolio.
You can view them here
The Cat tower
The Water Pitcher
The Norelco Razor
My Service Idea

Okay, so here are some drawings, some paintings, I am working on my discipline, and Painting 1 / 2 small still lives in black&white a day. Hopefully i can keep it up, and also my daily gym routine =D

Enjoy!

Ps Wow this is a doozy. sorry!

**fantasyartist** · June 23rd, 2008, 06:47 PM

Nice stuff in here mate! Just a few points I think you should work on:
You seem to use a lot of straight lines. Nothing wrong with that but try throwing some curves in there. Also be more carefull with your constructions. It seems to me that you get impatient and rush to the details in most of your drawings. I think you should do more drawings from observation and try to understand the overall forms as well as the details. Do more research on common things such as those aircraft and tanks and try to understand how they work and why they're build that way. Having that knowledge will make a big difference when you are coming up with designs. I hope I'm making sense here. Just keep working hard my friend!

**Diphallia** · June 29th, 2008, 07:05 PM

Try painter, you'll hate it.

**jdeegz** · July 13th, 2008, 02:36 PM

been teaching a computer animation class at my college for some high schoolers. firs t time in the field, its pretty fun =D the kids are having fun as am i. I haven't been drawing as much as i like due to mainly laziness and i've been attracted to team fortress 2 the past week or two.

i've got to stop trying to conquer the world, and just float on some clouds above it.

keep shit simple, eh? =D
k
later
-Jim

**jdeegz** · July 17th, 2008, 10:31 PM

yup..

**jdeegz** · August 9th, 2008, 11:55 AM

hmm..

i feel like i have not drawn at all this summer, but looking back, i really have done a good chunk of workin'.

currently updating my portfolio with my industrial design work from the school year. I will post it as soon as its done on here.

so I HAVE actually worked on that digi, i 'finished' it, meaning i was mentally finished with the piece so I called it done =D, time to move on!

I am working on a character now, I have noticed he is sort of a mix between a vortigon from half-life , and a prophet from the halo series. But i am going for some sort of being that is very smart, but arrogant and condescending. His species talks through with their minds. I haven't decided if they should have eyes or not. But anyways, i figure i should paint this guy up soon, or at least do some test runs with him on the comp.

I started to think about his companion but haven't uploaded the pictures yet.

So here is a large dump, hopefully it will cover for me not posting in a month, haha.
-JIM!