What ImSkeptical learnt this week (Sketchbook)

[ImSkeptical]

Heavenwill - Thanks buddy, but i've seen what you've been doin. You've been trucking like no end. I am definitely jelly.

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Hell's yeah 1 year! Lets go next year! This time I have goals too, death line goals you might call them...

First is finally get paid for something
Next is move out

That's pretty much it :D. Simple goals but I think one of them will keep me busy xD.


So I've been thinking what I want to do with this sketchbook. I really enjoy typing a lot of stuff, but sometimes I feel I can't suggest to someone, 'read through my sketchbook on this random forum for what i think written in a strange tone'. I am being influenced to move the words to a blog setting by http://stapletonkearns.blogspot.com.br/ , his blog is like stupidly amazing for the illustrative knowledge. So why not streaming and audio/youtube you say? Well its pretty much i'm just embarrassed to do this with my parents walking in and out. Thus the goals :D. Also words are underrated these days, skipping through a video and having to listen and watch through a part is pretty inefficient sometimes compared to what some words could do. Unfortunately, words have so many issues, but ill talk about that later.

But yeah, there's also the matter i don't want to just post the same words with the same pictures here and on the blog. But I enjoyed the process of reviewing what I did over the week in a casual manner, I think it really helped in planning for the weeks and thinking about things deeply.

So the plan right now is to probably cut like my 'intro' and 'outro', and just chat with any of you guys who wanna and also comment on whatever I decide to post. Then on my blog, i'll try be a little more cohesive of like ideas and theories I'm thinking about and playing with. We'll see how it goes, it sounds a little too ambitious and ambiguous to work out.

Other than that, as a last horah to the depth in text to this sketchbook, i present some of the notes and accompanying sketches to the workshop i went too! Exclusive and uncropped :D. Well except for some of the first ones, i was sharing the sketches and didn't think about it. Hopefully this becomes a secret present to the readers of this sketchbook. None of the notes probably make any sense, but here they are. Hope you enjoy them.

















Some of them didn't want to rotate properly, so you're gonna have to drag them into Photoshop and do magic on them. But that just makes the information more secret/important right??? xD.

Here's some random robots


Random sketches of cool art on cghub to try out new brush handling and sketch workflow (none of the designs are mine)


Anatomy


Trying supersculpy again. WIP, doing Asaro head (Google planes of the head .org?).


Here's the changes I'm making to my Aria fanart when I realized at the workshop I didn't know shit about composition


Here's the rest of Dan's amazing class



Trying out suggestion by Khang Le to use photo manipulation/ matte painting to learn photo realism better. Though the first i just did a study out of habit xD.





As for the traditional stuff I promised, you can look on my blog or this post on another forum where I tell a little bit of a life story (Teamliquid Post). Hopefully you will enjoy it if you've played games/a competitive sport before.

Thanks as always for reading/lookin. Be back weekly again, and hopefully with less words.