Smoke's sketchbook

**takashmen** · July 30th, 2011, 06:01 PM

hi Smoke,

you are dealing well with atmospheric effects, your environments are interesting

but last two figures studies are flat and the color is grimy

i know that doing what is working out is satisfying but leaving the safe shelter will bring progress

hope you get what i meant

cheers

**a la bapsi** · July 30th, 2011, 06:02 PM

Hello, my name is Jason, I'm 22, I live in the UK, West Midlands, and here's some pictures.

**Velocity Kendall** · July 30th, 2011, 06:04 PM

Originally Posted by a la bapsi

Hello, my name is Jason, I'm 22, I live in the UK, West Midlands, and here's some pictures.

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West Midlands? Birmingham? Gutted.

**a la bapsi** · July 30th, 2011, 06:06 PM

Originally Posted by Velocity Kendall

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West Midlands? Birmingham? Gutted.

yes and my name is jason and this is my sketchbook

**Velocity Kendall** · July 30th, 2011, 06:06 PM

I like your cartoon bum

**a la bapsi** · July 30th, 2011, 06:07 PM

Originally Posted by Velocity Kendall

I like your cartoon bum

hello my name is jason

**Smoke** · August 4th, 2011, 09:25 PM

**pimpwacker** · August 6th, 2011, 06:59 PM

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook!

I really lke your lanscapes, although sometime I think it would pay to adhere to the rule of thirds more closley, I noticed that you often leave a main feature to close to/ pointing to the outside of the frame, causing the eye to leave the frame and become confused.

Ide also say that your gestures could use a bit of stretching out and balance, I think you might be getting too caught up with fitting them into their notches on the page and not concentrating enough on their flow and dynamism. -- that said, I'm only just getting into the habit of using gestures and the body construction system, so I might be talking out of my arse.

but yeah, nice landscapes, my favourate in here is the zeypher valley ambush.

**Smoke** · September 27th, 2011, 12:35 PM

Thanks pimp.

Imagination and studies.

Imagination

Study

Imagination

Figures from life

Study

**Smoke** · September 27th, 2011, 04:25 PM

**Smoke** · September 29th, 2011, 03:15 PM

**Smoke** · September 30th, 2011, 02:14 PM

**Ramalooke** · September 30th, 2011, 04:04 PM

Hi mate, you seriously need to do moar studies and figure drawigs

Neat enviros, cheers

**Smoke** · October 2nd, 2011, 06:52 PM

I know right.

**Smoke** · October 3rd, 2011, 05:27 PM

**Ramalooke** · October 4th, 2011, 03:54 AM

Very nice, keep pushing those studies

**Amarok** · October 4th, 2011, 08:27 AM

Really beautiful sense of atmosphere/space on your environments!

If you're feeling frustrated trying to paint the figure in your studies, don't forget you can always draw instead to keep things simplified until you're feeling more confident in you anatomy and proportion skills.

**kidult** · October 4th, 2011, 11:17 AM

Those enviros are coming along nicely!

**Smoke** · October 5th, 2011, 11:19 PM

Thanks!

Small update on lava dude.

**Klandestineone** · October 6th, 2011, 09:13 AM

I like this version more. Would the light from the globe light up the ground more, too? Not sure.

**GrayHouse** · October 8th, 2011, 08:35 PM

Hey!

Some nice observational painting up in here! I think with some of your imaginative stuff it would help if you bumped up the variety in your compositions especially in some of your shapes and mark making. I'm noticing some repetition and almost "stamp" tool marks in some of them. Keep up it up though, the narrative environment stuff is looking good.

Cheers

g.

**Smoke** · October 10th, 2011, 12:00 AM

Klandestineone - Yeah I really should fix that.

GrayHouse - Thanks. You're right about compositions being a bit boring an repetitive, I hope to be improving in that area through studies.

Here's a WIP master study.

**Ramalooke** · October 10th, 2011, 04:28 AM

try attaching originals to your study so we can crit it xd

**Smoke** · October 19th, 2011, 11:48 PM

**Ramalooke** · October 22nd, 2011, 02:25 PM

Only two things. First. Try avoiding pure black in your pieces. Second. Make images you're posting a bit smaller. Not everyone have huge screens ;<

**GrayHouse** · October 24th, 2011, 01:34 PM

Hey, nice post here. The value structure is looking good and I'm enjoying the limited palette and the warm light, but the thing I noticed is that you're missing the focal point! You have this nice warm light cutting through the mid ground and and it's not being put to work. Throw a figure in there, or an object, anything to tell a story.

Best,

g.

**Smoke** · November 10th, 2011, 06:24 PM

Thanks guys. I've resized these for you.

I've also been spending more time on basics, it doesn't show here because these are relatively old, apart from the necromancer baby thing. I'm trying to think more about what makes an image work rather than what makes an image look nice.

I will finish the forest at some point, I think it deserves some more love, if only because it was a spontaneous piece.