What ImSkeptical learnt this week (Sketchbook)

[ImSkeptical]

nastobi123 - Thanks man, the specific movie is Barton Fink by the Coen brothers. It's one of their earlier movies and I still think its one of their best. My reading of it is it's about the creative process, so it might specifically be relevant to watch from our point of view as people trying to create stuff xD.

As for screenshots, I just watch a bunch of movies, so I take my own using VLC player. But I do hear there's good websites out there with hd screenshots, I have a friend that uses www.cinemasquid.com/ , and it looks decent. Have fun studying :D

Jaik - Man should've read this before submitting. Materials is something I need to look into, its defiantly a weak aspect of mine. Probably also to do with my complete lack of knowledge about how to paint specular highlights. Thanks always for the thoughts dude.

JacobJanerka - Thanks buddy, looking forward to ya kickstarter and the return of chillin in bali :D.



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So, had a weird week. Had to go to the city for random things 2 days in a row. Didn't want to waste the long trip to and from the city. So I bought some new pens. I actually had a few products in mind, one was this brush that you fill with water so you can mess with colored Hi-Tec Pilot pens. You can see it in one of the John Park gumroads, hopefully I'll be able to do some and just post it here. Anyway, I bought a couple what I thought looked exactly like it



As you can see, its all in Japanese



Including the instructions....

So upon finding out black ink was coming out, I discovered I had instead bought another kind of brushpen to add to the growing brush pen collection ( I think I have 6 different kinds now). But by chance, this was the brushpen I was always looking for. My other favorite brushpen, the famous Pocket Pentel, is really great because its got this really nice actual brushy tip allowing lots of calligraphic line variety. Specifically, super super fine, to thick really easily.

I found though, that I enjoyed the pocket pentel the most when it was nearing getting dried out, cause you could do funky textural stuff, and kind of do light pseudo-underdrawings before committing to thick black lines.

So this new brushpen, you can just keep it in that semi-dried state all of the time. If it gets too dry, you just squeeze it a bit and keep going. And it has pretty much the same tip, this actual brush thing that you can paint super fine with.

So I ended up spending the rest of the week playing with the thing. Here's my stuffs. Its roughly in chronological order because I thought it would be nice to show how I experimented with a new tool.



































Pretty much a mix of anatomy and armor, reference and imagination. I was working mostly on foreshortening and legs for anatomy, and the leg area for armor. I also studied a bit of fluid anime effects at the end there.

Also worked a bit more on the chow and submitted it, looking forward to the next one. Other than that I did jack all but play and watch Streetfighter. Thanks for being awesome, keep looking and or reading.