Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Okay so more crap.. Trying Character work, material study then the beginnings of a quick turn around to apply the study.. not going so well.. but I'll get there..

Random exercise working from outline and trying to see forms, harder than i thought, but it was fun so i will do it again.

And a bunch of environment stuff, some of this is from the beginning of september.

[DK]

Ah, sweeeeet you used the Random character generator and it came out pretty nice too! You should post them up at: http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-1063.html to add to the collection. Great work overall man!

[Jaik]

Dennis: I think I'll post the one I uploaded today, but I think that last one can fade into the recesses of my sketchbook, not bad for a first attempt at a character but no where near good enough to post where everyone can see xP

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Another update, most of this is done with in the last week, I think I am now up to date with updates or else there are pieces I cant find/dont care about lol.

Did a portrait, didnt realise it was Olivia Wilde until a friend pointed it out.. because I'm an observant like that -.-
Some industrial design stuff, with a Mechanika study and then my own comm bot.. didnt turn out like i wanted but meh.
Feng Zhu inspired skulls, a character which is hard to see, and a creature. Blah blah blah. I probably dont need to explain what each image is, I think I've gotten past the point where my portraits look like pineapples and my robots like stepped on toasters... I hope..

[DavidFisher]

good studies man i like your sb stuff i need to do more of tht

[Camron]

sweet stuff dude , those study's are looking sweet keep on pushing :)

[Lumens]

Good job on the randomly generated creature!
Your latest portrait definatly does not look like a pineapple.

[Jaik]

Haha thanks everyone! Yay for non-pineapple portraits.

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Really gotta keep updating, but it takes so much time -.- scanning, adjusting, resizing blah blah blah.
Sketching in coloured pencil is awesome, dont know what its so different from normal graphite but I recommend people give it a try :D
Last cannon is made up, and if anyone could crit the very last thing that would be great, i really need help pushing it further, it will eventually be colour.

[Jaik]

I feel as though there should be more of an update, so I think I'm forgetting a couple of pieces, this is why I shouldnt wait so long to upload.. But a combination of daylight savings and work means that its a bit of a hassle to update in the mornings. Not happy with the portraits but put too much effort into them not to upload =/ They were for sickbrushes class.

[Jonesoda]

Working hard, keep it up man!

[Jaik]

Thank you Mister Jones :D

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Im going to try and update this more often, beginning of a new week and a new promise, lets see if I can keep it (I doubt it).

These took a lot longer than I hoped, with the mechs I wanted to see how I improved from a study, so I tried designing one, did a Mechanika study then designed again. My visual library really isnt strong enough to do these sort of things. Going to try and work out a way to improve this, I think Ill focus on Mech for a month and see where it gets me, especially considering its my weak point.

Also one of the knifes for sickbrushes class

[Jaik]

The second pic is what Im going to do in oils.. hopefully.. couple of 45min sketches for the brentoring that im stealthily following along with and a few mech studies.. more and more mech.. all the time.. woo

[Jaik]

Not a big update, had my 21st over the weekend so between that and work and hangovers and many nights out i havent done much, but should be getting back to normal pretty soon. Between now and christmas is always hectic because a lot of family have birthdays etc, so itll probably slow down a bit.. anyway, mech mech mech :D

[Jonesoda]

Sick mech/robot stuff! keep it up I'm looking forward to seeing more.

[Jaik]

Thanks Jonesoda! This is the last of it now :P

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Okay so its the end of my 3 weeks of mech studying, I think I definitely improved, but still a really long way to go, but i feel a bit more confident about my abilities to atleast experiment with it.

Three for today, the first one took me some crazy like.. 8hrs or something.. then the next took me 1.5hrs, I detailed a lot more on the first one, but the difference between these two I am not sure its worth the extra time, what does everyone else think? The last one was just a quickie sketch, took maybe 45min, even less.

[Jaik]

Started my character creation stuffs.. First ones going to be Mavis from Sickbrushes class, working on a character turn around eventually lol.. Its really fun to actually get into the character and work out all the small bits of design.. Enjoying it immensely.
Sorry if the brainstorming sheets arent readable or dont make sense, but I thought it would be cool to show my process from start to finish.

[Flo]

hey man, i really like your stuff. the mechanika studies are a good idea, maybe i will do something like that in the future.

cheers,
flo

[Jaik]

Flo: Yeah they really helped, definitely recommend them.

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Sickbrushes character creation assignment.. massive weak point.. need to learn more.. damn..
and a portrait i did for a friends birthday, sorry for the crappy phone pic.. cant seem to find my camera.. will repost when I do.

[Jkutz]

very nice structural work! i love the robotics.

[Jaik]

Thanks Jkutz :D

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Sorry about the lack of updates, drawing been going slow for the last couple of weeks, had some medical issues with my dad, hospitals suck the life out of you i swear. But I wont bore everyone with that, all is okay now by the looks of things..

So I've been working on characters some more, this guy took me a long time, far too long, need to work on my speed.... but he is definitely better than the last :)

And a better pic of the image about, better res can be found in my devART gallery.

[Jaik]

This is my first post of 2013, so I'll only post the things I've done since the new year..
I made a little improvement thingy because the 4th of Jan marks a year since I started drawing every day, thought it was worth a shot, made a little faceboob post which I'll just C&P here lol.

"My last years new years resolution was to start taking art seriously, draw everyday and take a shot at improving my art. I guess its the first new years resolution I took seriously and today, January 4th, marks a year exactly since I started.

I'm not really a positive 'you can do anything you set your mind to' kind of guy, but I wanted to upload this comparison as proof that if you really truly set out to prove to yourself that you can do something, very little of it is talent and it is all about the hard work you put in. So if nothing else maybe this will serve as motivation to someone to keep a new years resolution, improve a skill, or make the most out of the year.. I don't know, as I said this really isn't my thing..

Out of the two on the left A is copied from a photograph and B is made up, these were the first two portraits I attempted back in January 2012. On the right is from sometime in December so its not really from 2013, most of it is made up, or little bits referenced from about 5 or 6 different photos. All three took roughly the same amount of time; about 4ish hours, maybe a little longer on the newer one (still needs a few hours more work)."

The rest are pretty much speed paints trying to get back into things after such a long unproductive period.

And now for the big question. I NEED HELP. I'm sort of stuck as to where to go next, I haven't had many critiques recently, more so to do with me being a recluse than anything else, I dont know where to focus my study and where to go from here. Does anyone have any suggestions? Please help :)