Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Samszym: I should give it another try. Maybe I will try it out with the next bloodsports. good suggestion :) I also tried out your suggestion of adding arms and legs to the bean.

Thanks Rio, you are right. :)

Thanks VegardS

Lyraina: I may or may not be set up on a dining table at the moment because it is the only place that I can fit in this house lol. :P

Thanks Raz :) The metal on the tail is actually as a counterweight for the added weight in the front of the fox. If it didn't have this it wouldnt be able to jump :P

Thanks Dracken :)

Thanks Tygerson

Yay Smrr is back :D I feel like I am a disappointment this week :(

Interesting suggestion JonHop, I'll try enlarging the small thumb next time, instead of redrawing. I think I can see what you mean, it does loose a lot of energy.

Bjulvar: Thanks man. You are right, the design link was one of the more important parts of the assignment and I didn't succeed at that. All those things you suggested I should have done if I had more time.. I will try and apply them to the next one though. I think that is the most important thing to take away from doing these BS's. We will be doing the next one soon, you should join us! :)

Rama: I will finish it! I swear >.> I put too much effort in to it to not finish it, just a few things in the works at the moment :)

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Well.. there is practically nothing to update art wise this week.

This week I moved in to the house I am sitting till the end of January and one of the provisos of this is that I work full time for the business, which is good because I need the money, but bad because it ups me to a full time work week as well as settling in to a new place.

This week also marked the end of the two week period for Bloodsports 1 for me and Lyraina. We will be doing Bloodsports 2 on the first Monday of February, so we are planning on putting up a thread in community activities so that other people can join as well. I think this is a very beneficial exercise as it allows you to see the areas you otherwise don't realise you struggle with (for me, finishing an illustration to the level I want in two weeks is insanely difficult).

I also have 90% finished the traditional oil painting I have been doing for my girlfriends birthday on Tuesday, which has been taking up a lot of time, because normally if I do a painting for someones birthday, it comes to them several months late. Doesn't quite work this time lol.

The website is about 40% coded into HTML, so that is moving along fairly slowly but steadily. Hopefully I will have it finished by the end of January.

This weeks two images:

Trying out the suggestion to add arms to my beans.


Okay now Bloodsports. I really am not happy with this. I failed terribly at the Jaime Jones style (thinking about stroke, value, colour and form all at once was too much when I didn't have a pipeline in place for even creating an image like this) so I changed tact and went with a borderlands 2 sort of style. It didn't quite make it, but it was an interesting style to try and emulate, I might try and do it again in the future. A lot of fun.
I wanted to add a second fox to show more of the design of the fox, but ran out of time. I will still try and finish the character turn around so that I can add that to it. I really did learn a lot about process in this but it also took a lot longer than I was planning. So there were no anatomy studies to do.

/end fail update.