Ash's Sketchbook

[ashashe]

Hey everyone! I'm Ashley, and this is my sketchbook! I've drawn my whole life, but I've recently started taking it seriously, so I've been working out of the Loomis books and all that fun stuff. Hope you enjoy!

Some snippets:

(2012)


(2013)





A piece I did for a Christmas present for my boyfriend. I had never challenged myself to paint an owl or a dog before, so this was something groundbreaking for me and I learned a lot from it. I'm terrible at resizing images and stuff so the original is massive! haha The full download of it is on my deviantart here : Herne The Hunter





And nooow studies:





And some doodles:



That's all I have the time to post for now. Gonna work on value/color study tonight probably. So excited to try and keep this updated! I've seen so many sketchbooks where people become so amazing in less than even a year, so I hope to be a part of that. Thanks guys! :)

[ashashe]

Studying my buns off. Don't have much time to post stuff, trying to get better at that lol
Here's some face bits for now

[smrr]

Hey Ashley! Seeing some hard work in here, which I'm loviiiiing!

The first pieces look good, you seem to have a good handle on anatomy already, my thoughts are that you should try to focus more on form and value. Form in the body would include observing the planes of the body/wireframes. And for value, I mention this because I noticed you seem to have used solid black in the Herne the Hunter piece... which can in turn break the 3d illusion within a 2d space.

Here are some wonderrrful links (if you already know about them, my bad :3) to some interesting skin tutorials:
http://navate.deviantart.com/art/SKIN-a-...-144294636
http://navate.deviantart.com/art/SKIN-a-...-145159387
http://muddycolors.blogspot.com.au/2013/...today.html

I hope you find these helpful, I know I sure did ~

Anyways, keep up the killer work and you'll be smiling -cheekily- in no time!

[ashashe]

Thanks so much for the feedback~! :) Value and texture (especially skin) is something I definitely struggle with, and those links you posted are amazing, thanks so much!

And here's a knight dude doodle before I hit the hay

[ashashe]

Hey Ashley! Seeing some hard work in here, which I'm loviiiiing!

The first pieces look good, you seem to have a good handle on anatomy already, my thoughts are that you should try to focus more on form and value. Form in the body would include observing the planes of the body/wireframes. And for value, I mention this because I noticed you seem to have used solid black in the Herne the Hunter piece... which can in turn break the 3d illusion within a 2d space.

So I took a look at those skin tutorials and fiddled around with trying those for skin; here's a wip from imagination, about 2 hours in:




Probably just gonna paint naked people for a while til I get it right

[meat]

When you're drawing your figure, try having the curves overlap each other at one end - not like an X, only one side. Right now a lot of them are like 1 continuous long line with bumps all the way down one side. Having that line broken up into multiple arcs and curves, and have them overlap can help add feel of 3D-ness. Try it!

[ashashe]

Quick post; dragon person. Studies tonight!

[ashashe]

Portraits from photos and a doodle. My scanner seems to light things up like a christmas tree haha

[ashashe]

I suck at keeping up with this. Haha Have to start really making time to post stuff.

Here's some stuff I've done for my friends' bands!

[Kaycee]

I like the tiger and your very first demon drawing a lot! And that owl... Wow.

[ashashe]

I like the tiger and your very first demon drawing a lot! And that owl... Wow.

Thanks so much!! :) I took a look at your sketchbook too, keep it up!!!!! <3

[ashashe]

Gotta post more of my studies as I do them, no excuses. So many places to post art on the internets

Here's some latest stuff, Game of Thrones fan art. Now back to woooork

[ashashe]

Studyyyyyyyyy trying to do way more of them

[ashashe]

Snake study wip cuz I'm gonna start a painting with a snake haha

[meat]

I like your album covers, the green and magenta leopard, the 3 wooden crosses, and the GoT fan arts. I'm not sure if it's related to graphics design or illustration, but you're good at cover-like stuff - storytelling stuff that's not utilizing things like a stage with background and character. Does that make sense?

[ashashe]

I like your album covers, the green and magenta leopard, the 3 wooden crosses, and the GoT fan arts. I'm not sure if it's related to graphics design or illustration, but you're good at cover-like stuff - storytelling stuff that's not utilizing things like a stage with background and character. Does that make sense?

Thanks!!!
Yeah, I know what you're saying. I'd like to push myself out of that comfort zone though and do full blown paintings with narrative and stuff, stuff thats more fluid than what I'm doing. I think the only reason I'm sorta good at cover-stuff is because most of the work I do for people is for local bands haha

[ashashe]

So much for doing something different haha Design for a band wip. More studies soon, need to get my scanner hooked up. Been working out of the Loomis books to improve my faces

[ashashe]

finished shirt design. Going to start having to turn down work like this, Im so sick of it lol

[ashashe]

wip thing

[ashashe]

ooookay so my scanner is the pits so I managed to take pics of all the stuff I've been doing on paper, basically doodles and loomis stuff since my faces are garbage

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