Jeso's Stair Case To Awesome

[Jeso]

Hot damn you are killing it!
I'm really in awe with the gesture studies, imagination two bottom ones and the crouching one is a runner up. The torso study on zbrush looks good!!! Cobra-dragon looks very believable, are you using it for something? Story or otherwise?
The weakest probably that motorbike attempt within the shoes and the bipod mech legs on the last? (mainly a perspective thing, far away being bigger than closer one, but you might have run out of space lol).
I caught you attempted a pair of faces that had somewhat different proportions that the ones you seem to like ( a couple of guys) but most seem to fall back on a certain similar ratio (kinda feet inside the same triangle). I think you could go crazier but that's up to you ha ha.

About the lines, tricky. When I began I focused on linework because it kept things simpler.. then after starting to paint, I realized at least for me, that I would learn so much more and way faster by painting than by drawing, because drawing you filter a lot of info out, when you paint you can't do so (to a point, you can always go grimdark and put everything in shadows lol). A line drawing can just hint at a shape or what not, but is mostly empty space within enclosed space ha ha (that's why is quick!). So I dunno, I see you don't seem to have issues with your paintings or colors, so you keep following those steps, wherever they lead, not everyone has the same needs or paths to follow heh.

Thanks man.  : )

And about the line work, I still stand by what I said I firmly believe drawing is the most beneficial thing you can study. painting is always secondary. Even when the final product is an actual painting.  

With drawing You don't necessarily filter any information out, except color. You can draw contours, and value from lightest light to darkest dark.  with cross hatching or whatever.  Drawing encompasses every single aspect of representational art, and does anything painting can do, except the color part obviously.  


If you felt like you learned faster with painting, maybe thats just cause it feels like a more "complete" thing to do, a finished painting feels like a complete product, in comparison with just lines without values.  Now of course im not saying not to paint, of course you need to paint, and study by painting.   Is like, I paint, lol. Thats how I make my living, doing painted work.  The biggest thing that differentiates a novice painter and a really good painter, 9 times out of 10, is not their painting skills at all. But the drawing underneath. Now, by drawing im not strictly talking about crisp lines, Im talking about any form of under painting you had, scribbles, painted lines, or just the structures that you are able to conjure out of your head, CAUSED by all the actual drawing you've done before.

But anyways, here's today's update.  : DD

gesture studies, hand studies, and some imagination heads and stuff.  Also a quick head sculpt in zbrush.