The 10000 Hour Rule - Art Edition - 7626/10,000

[JakeB]

BenFlores - Ah yeah, I repainted the hair, cheers man. Yeah I guess oil paint sounds about right, I've just been concentrating on brush work a bit more recently. Trying to simplify planes, that sort of thing, and that gives it that kind of look. Maybe it works. Who knows lol.

smrfette - Haha thank you :).

JJ Aaron - The comp looked a little weird when I took him out, so I pushed him back a bit, hope that works a bit better? And yeah, blurring/smudging some stuff helped a lot. Cheers dude, glad you like it.

BVB - Thank you :)

Studies
Crappy trees


quick hair


Book cover studies


Scifi character studies


Ascension Thumbs


Ascension Characters


Ascension Rough


Hey, posted this on facebook, but figured I'd drop it here too...

So, I've been tracking the hours when I work on art stuff for a while now, in order to test myself against "the 10,000 rule". And, the whole time I've been posting to a blog. Only problem was, the blog was kind of a mess, hard to navigate, and it wasn't the kind of thing I'd want to point potential clients at (too many crappy abandoned sketches etc). Anyway, that's all changed now, it's separate from my portfolio, it's tidy, and it works much better. There's even little menus so you can jump to any 100 hour period in the process so far. It's cool, you should check it out :).

Also, it's on tumblr, so if you're a person who's also on tumblr, that's even better :).

http://the10000hourrule.tumblr.com