Raph's Sketchverse

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[Nick Waldinger]

Good stuff man, keep doing those anatomy studies! Your inks are also pretty cool, I look forward to seeing more.

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Nick Waldinger, thanks a lot man.

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[Einver]

Dude, your stuff is full of flavor! Those traditional master studies rule.

Followed on DA. I really like the direction your concept art is taking too.

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Einver: thank for the kind word man !

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[sansReAnne]

Dude, all from last week? Ugh, I feel ashamed. Awesome work ethic and sheer amount of studies. Keep it up!

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@sansReAnne ; yes it was all from that week, I am trying to finish a sketchbook before the end of the years, I had 93 pages to do in 19 days. Right now, there are 6 pages left :)

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[sansReAnne]

Haha wow that's awesome.  I wanted to finish mine before the end of the year as well, but I'm not sure I'm gonna make it cause I tend to draw thumbnail size and have been slacking terribly.  Gonna aim for your level of output!

[AfricanVoodoo]

This is amazing bro! I love the amount of passion you put into your work. I might do a challenge where I have to complete a sketchbook in a month full with studies!

When you do those sketches of military men and people in medieval clothing and armor, are you doing that for your visual library? How often do you do it?

Thank you!

[Raphael_Nadeau]

@sansReAnne ; Yeh man it's pretty hard to finish a sketchbook, I always have difficulties when I have like 25 pages left. The sketchbook seems to never end ahah. But I learned to just do stuff with focus and the really care about the result, I care more about doing it and the process and thoughts while doing it. With studies like those quick hands/feet/head studies I am trying to find repeating simple shapes and how I could use them while I am doing it without ref. But yeh man, don't aim ''just do it'' ;) !

@AfricanVoodoo ; Thanks man, yeh I am pretty passionate about getting good and improving. 
So you would have to do around 6.5 pages per day, if I don't count the holidays week I had that page average. The mindset I had while doing this was also to try to always do more pages than I was supposed to (the average I calculated) during the day because that way if I had some unexpected event I would be good and I could take some time to draw something else since I was ahead of the schedule. Mainly Cause I know that I could loss the motivation near the end so I was better to do more at the beginning. I saw during this 93 pages/19 days that it is pretty doable to do a 200 pages sketchbook in a months, but if I did it I would have to do only that and that could hurt my abilities to have ideas and draw from imagination. On the other side, it is a good way to get you going and to spark the motivation and the have a good work ethic and schedule. 
For armor/military ref i mainly go on pinterest and yeh I hope it can help me with my design while I draw from imagination. I scheduled to study costuming/armor on Wednesday, so 1 time per week.

Hope it helps dudes !

so didn't do much during holiday week... finished the 6 pages left.

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last week off, gonna get back to all this, this week.

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