Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Lyraina: I get my anatomy stuff from all over the place but my favourite sources are the tutorials from Ron Lemen in the IFX anatomy vol. 2, classic anatomy for the artist by someone (sorry I will find the amazon link soon, can't find it at the moment) which is pretty dry but really detailed which is where I get most of the technical information from, and then drawing fundamentals from 3D Total, which is an amazing book with some killer illustrations in it. In my next update I will try and make a bit of a list for you with links etc.

Rio: Yeah I definitely want to show his arm more than usual, but the pose I have him in (have to do some ref shots) is one of his iconic poses so I want to keep the read from that. I feel like I keep making excuses for why the studies aren't being applied =/

Thanks Smrr :D:D

Tygerson: Bloodsports are something Dan and Dave started to help artists promote themselves and get better at the same time. While the promotion isn't really applicable for doing them now, they are still really good for getting an artistic pipeline and applying studies. My and Lyraina are going to start making the threads in the community challenges when we start them up (the first two weeks of every month, so we are starting the next one tomorrow) once we do I will link you the thread and you can see all the info.

Bjulvar: I enjoy oil painting, but clean up is a bitch, and the amount of times I tried to press ctrl+z and realised there was no keyboard is kind of scary lol.
Pfft, yours are more interesting than mine.. I basically just did the same one over again -___- I havent tried a grid, definitely going to try that this week. And I will try to do one in the dark 0.0
And yeah, like I said, bloodsports. This week. Do it :D

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Not a lot since it was a pretty disruptive week, but I did manage to update on Sunday still :D

Went for a bit of a hike in the Hunter Valley.. Don't know if the daggers know, but theres this evil thing outside called the sun and it burnt the shit out of my skin.. safe to say I won't be leaving the house any time soon again... But I did get some nice (I think) pictures.. We also found goats, goats have gigantic testicles, ref pics soon to follow...

Arm gestures


The one spoon I managed to get done this week (Sorry Bjulvar D: )


Finished the arm anatomy, now going to do form this week:


Update on the itachi Piece - It will probably go back burner the next two weeks while I do bloodsports, which gives me a chance to take ref pics.
Not really happy with it, doing skin and faces with little or no ref is very very difficult and trying to capture the same essence a cartoon has is surprisingly challenging.. But I keep telling myself to just go slow and I will get there.