James's Sketch Book

[kikindaface]

nice sketches dude ! Be carreful with faces including some perspective, sometimes it doesn't fit well ! Anyway, keep it up, you def know what you're doing !

[Jamesxwu]

Thanks guys

comp master studies

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studies and sketches

[Veneq]

Whoa James! Nice updates! Lovely Loomis-esque head drawings too.

[CoreyH]

So many, they look great. Seems like you're learning a lot man

[SpectreX]

Nice sketchbook here! A lot of progress going on. Keep it up!

[Jamesxwu]

Thanks guys
Master copy thumbs and imagination sketches

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Studies and sketches

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Dragoon Soldier

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Head studies

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Cyclopes

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Master copy Studies

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S&M

[Wolkenfels]

great stuff, james! it is always a joy to browse through your sketchbook.
would like to see the last one in a more polished version.

[Jamesxwu]

Thanks Wolken

Self Portraits

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Landscape Neighborhood

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Landscape drawings






















Imagination




Girl portrait




Landscape

[OtherMuzz]

Hey man, You are so diligent and hard working with this stuff. It's awesome to see the progress and kick ass work,


I'm noticing a big issue with your rendering, and that's that most of your materials have a chalky appearance to them.

I think this is a two fold issue but they are both heavily combined. You don't seem to consider the size and softness of the light source that you are painting. This is important as this defines how a specular will appear on a surface. Eg, a scattered soft light will have very hazy soft speculars, and a small hard light will have hard shiny speculars. Of course this is also defined by the material, and you should make sure to pay far more attention to how hard speculars should be on various materials.

The other part is how you render them, you have to pay a lot of attention to the hard and soft edges of a specular, this is what defines what type of specular it is, it's super important! The differences between your version on the left and the soft specular i did on the right are subtle but i feel it is super important.

Maybe do some Bouguereau studies (man i should do this too), most of the time he uses a really diffused main light to give his scenes a kinda dreamy feel. Pay close attention to the hair. How sharp the speculars are, where they are, how they are placed. Look at the skin and try and work out how he is placing them.

This is a hard thing to explain, but did i explain it well enough?

[Jamesxwu]

Photo studies and imagination sketches

[Tygerson]

Great studies! I really like the nicely defined planes of the mountains.