Justin's Sketchbook

[JRettberg]

Basically just a thread for display of my learning curve, as I've been studying quite a bit lately

[rafa zanchetin]

Hey man, welcome aboard!
Nice to have you around too.

[JRettberg]

Nice to be here :)

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Study of a sculpture

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Sketches

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MY LIFE FOR AIUR

[rafa zanchetin]

Fuck yea man! Love that first portrait.

Keep them coming!

[JRettberg]

More sketches

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Marker sketch

[JRettberg]

Spitpainting batch! :D

[rafa zanchetin]

Nice studies man! Are they all for the daily spitpaint or just the orcs?

[JRettberg]

They're all daily spitpaint :) the cloud dragon one is super speedpainting funtimes, topic was 'Dragon Quest'

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Another couple of spits, slowly getting better at these things. I feel like my sense of color is improving a bit with each one i do

[JRettberg]

More, more, MORE!!!

[JRettberg]

Working on my brush economy as well as texture, color/mood, and conveying emotion through facial features

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Another brush test

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Another brush experiment

[Adam Lina]

Lots of cool stuff in here. That first charcoal and this last portrait especially.

[JRettberg]

Thanks man! I'm liking the last portrait's workflow, I'll definitely be doing more like it

[Mr. Toodles]

duuuude so slick those portraits hit my Warcraft funny bone so good, so gooood.

[JRettberg]

Haha thanks dude! I'll keep 'em comin :)

[JRettberg]

30 minute spitpaint with topic 'child of the lava lake fountain' (i combined two topics)

[JRettberg]

Illustration in progress! feedback is appreciated, feel free to tear it to shreds. Trying to address some issues that I have been dealing with in my recent illustration works; mostly texture, anatomy, capturing emotion in the face... some other stuff

[rafa zanchetin]

Hey man, i like the idea on this last one, not sure if the quality of the image is low or you're using a really grainy brush, but it's seems like it's dirty. It's not all around, just on some parts. :(

[JRettberg]

another process shot, almost done with this one

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Hey man, i like the idea on this last one, not sure if the quality of the image is low or you're using a really grainy brush, but it's seems like it's dirty. It's not all around, just on some parts. :(

yeah, it's the brush i'm using. it's pretty grainy, i'm trying to be more aware of texture in my work; staying away from that 'digital' look, in the final stages of the painting ill smooth some stuff out and finish it up :)

[JRettberg]

WIP on a piece of splash-art I'm working up

[JRettberg]

Decided to Re-work the design and composition of the last WIP I posted. I wasn't really putting much thought into it and i was skipping a lot of the process so i wasn't learning a whole lot. I may as well go through the whole process and make this a portfolio piece if i'm going to be spending the time on it. Here's some concepts and a mock up of the new comp