Walent's sketchbook

[walent]

Really love your stuff :D
Writing down good ideas is great, my folder is called "reminders" haha. Think one of the big things I was going for was to just draw slower and going outside and drawing with graphite pencil/precision ink marker combo really seemed to work. I never erased anything and have 2 chances to make the sketch work. So by the time I reach the inking stage I try to work super precise.
Do you go outside sketching? judging from your work I think youd find it quite fun :D

I gotta agree on not getting attached to your art, just focus on the process, thats the thing you get attached to, no matter the result.
I do struggle with the same issue and atleast digitally the new layer seems to fix it(traditionally you just gotta take it in stride and move on), but your stuff is so intricate and you really put time into good brushwork that I can understand it being harder.

One of the things I do when I start fucking up or am in a mess is just paint over it, simplify it to base shapes(for example if you screw up a mouth you paint over it with basic form strokes and you go again). In that way you are also constantly building upon the base sketch.

Also check this out, escpecially the 3rd episode :)
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL...0pfMiuir1u

Thanks for sharing those, I only knew the first episode.
Made me wanna know more about van Gogh's story, how he would only show his paintings to his brother and still kept his motivation, makes you ask yourself, would you still do it if you knew only one person would see it?

Unfortunately I don't go out to sketch as much as I would like, but that's about to change since it's getting warmer outside.

Lately I've been opened to observing the things I really enjoy doing, constantly asking myself what is it that I want to focus on.
Looking at a lot of old masters made me realize I'm all about things that look amazing, as in visually appealing. So I guess that's both design and illustration. But not the industrial design thing, I'm thinking more like composition design, shape arrangement and stuff like that. I don't think I ever enjoyed researching design and actually creating a costume or armor, it was all about how the armor is hit by the light, what shadows does it get.

But when it comes to designing shapes and twisting forms to match my composition, I am having too much fun.
I'm looking at Dean Cornwell right now and I find his work so amazing and inspirational, that even if I had 10 mil $ in the bank right now, I'd still want to paint like that.


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Pinned things I need to keep doing:
1. continue practicing heads
2. draw - linework only, digital or traditional
3. paint - simplify a lot, observe the big shapes, mark making, negative space shapes

I'm gonna start studying old masters a lot. And not just comps and colors but maybe I'll get into doing a full rendered one. Mead Schaeffer and Zorn are on the list.

A friend pointed to an amazing artist called Walter Molino - (1915 - 1997), not exactly my style, but the flow and the dynamic poses are well worth studying.

Another thing that bothers me is that I am using the background a lot to add or subtract shapes from the silhouette of the character. I find it very hard to sculpt the silhouette using the eraser and keeping the character on a separate layer.

Been doing a lot of sketches lately. It's 1 a.m. now and I've been sketching since 11 a.m.
I also joined the Star Wars contest, which made me realize Star Wars is a huge design inspiration for me. Having a lot of fun right now.

So here are some sketches I did lately, master studies and other stuff: