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**Jonas Heirwegh** · May 30th, 2007, 11:53 AM

Another one.

**Zoroko** · May 30th, 2007, 11:59 AM

Fantastic work on those ships! You got some great penwork going on.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · May 30th, 2007, 01:26 PM

Environment studies.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · May 30th, 2007, 01:49 PM

More studies.
Env thumbs coming up.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · May 30th, 2007, 04:14 PM

Architecture studies.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · May 30th, 2007, 05:47 PM

Some environment thumbs.

**Anurizm** · May 30th, 2007, 05:57 PM

that bottom right one looks great.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · May 30th, 2007, 10:18 PM

Finished the linework of this environment. I'm waiting for my copic markers to arrive but I'm gonna try to put some value in photoshop in the meanwhile.
Without value the linework is very hard.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · May 30th, 2007, 11:31 PM

Putted down some value in photoshop.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · May 31st, 2007, 01:47 AM

Alright, my first speedpainting. Not sure how long I spend on it because I started over a couple of times but I guess maybe over an hour. Pretty happy with it actually. Any crits?

**mentler** · May 31st, 2007, 03:10 AM

Very cool book <> 5 bones

**Anurizm** · May 31st, 2007, 03:29 AM

post 69 and 70 are awsome. I believe those copic will do great on it. your speed paint is nice as well.

**JellevdVegt** · June 3rd, 2007, 03:12 PM

nice sb, in your thumbnails i see you are pretty loose. loose is off course no problem in a thumbnail, as long perspective is somewhat accurate. but i think some of yours will get you in trouble if you want to work one out big. thanks for the post in my sb btw, i know of my fengzhu addiction :0 i see you dig scott robertson hehe. i think its ok for now looking at other artists, as long as no copying is involved. they are both excellent teachers

i started my sb at the same time as yours, thats coincidence! another coincidence: i come from the netherlands too! lol

good luck dude!

**Machineabuse** · June 4th, 2007, 11:07 AM

Some killer thumbnails coming along over there. I'm particularily fond of the enviro ones.

I'd suggest doing some minus borders. Sometimes you got to leave a little more room to have those 'happy accidents' you know

You should try to diversify from the 'flying block of steel' motif in your "aircraft". Aerodynamics is an organic thing, it yearns for moving parts and surfaces to control the flow of air. Purely monolithic designs look like they move in straight lines, usually towards the ground.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 4th, 2007, 06:27 PM

@mentler: thx for visiting my sketchbook!

@Anurizm: thx

@Teh Gosu: I'm figuring out whats the best method for thumbnailing, you can put down some lines and value for composition and then start with a bigger final image or just nail that perspective and some detail in that thumb so I can just blow it up and work on an overlay. thx for the comment.

@Machineabuse: You have a really good point about those aircraft thumbs, I should study some real aircrafts and stuff. Going to work on it pretty soon, still busy with environments at the moment.
thx for the crits!

Something between thumbnailing

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 4th, 2007, 07:33 PM

Life drawing. 1 min pose, really hard to nail those lines. Got more poses but not worth showing

longer pose

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 4th, 2007, 08:04 PM

Some new thumbs

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 4th, 2007, 08:06 PM

and more

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 4th, 2007, 08:08 PM

More thumbs.. learning something more every page. all thumbs are done on A3(11.7 × 16.5) btw.

**Anurizm** · June 4th, 2007, 08:12 PM

those are some awsome thumbs, I can your thumbnailing skills improving

**hurricane** · June 4th, 2007, 08:14 PM

great sketches!
keep at it, i love the scifi stuff

cheers

**mentler** · June 6th, 2007, 06:45 PM

Still knocking out top notch studies. Already 5 bones from me.

Give this dude some stars

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 6th, 2007, 09:44 PM

@Anurizm: Thx man

@hurricane: Thx! I love doing it

@mentler: You are too generous! Hehe, thx for comment I appreciate it!

Another speedpaint, just testing some brushes I got from M@. Sorry for the small image but my photoshop crashed and I didnt saved so I had to take a print screen. And like always I'm overworking the image... need to set myself a timelimit. Not very happy with this one actually.

**designboot** · June 7th, 2007, 06:58 AM

nice sketches!

**MattGamer** · June 7th, 2007, 02:31 PM

Real exciting sb. Thanks for sharing and you motivate me to make thumbs all the time! I constantly see things that I want to thumb, but think it is too dumb to do it. Now I have the confidence to do so. Thanks and cheers!

**tensai** · June 7th, 2007, 08:31 PM

really, really good to see all those thumbs your pumping out. i agree with your self crit on the last piece, i think the lighting might be what confuses me, that and it doesn't have a strong focal point or something so it's hard to see what you're saying with this one (should have done some thumbs first?

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i came across this post that i thought you might enjoy too, about creating depth.
again - awesome work man.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 11th, 2007, 07:08 PM

@designboot: thx!

@MattGamer: Good to hear that I motivate you

Thumbs are fun but not easy to do it right imo. thx for the comment!

@tensai: Yeah I sould have done thumbs first lol

I was just testing some brushes and worked out that piece, was pretty fun but over to the next one

Thx for the link, learned a few things to create more depth. thx for the reply!

From life drawing today.

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 11th, 2007, 07:40 PM

5 min

**Jonas Heirwegh** · June 11th, 2007, 07:57 PM

**Looped_Warrior** · June 12th, 2007, 12:56 AM

Nice to see some fellow ID around here!

Nice SB you have got yourself going on here... great enviros too! No Crits really just keep expanding your visual library and you will be able to come up witth things that you never thought possible...