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RE: James's Sketch Book - kikindaface - 05-04-2013
nice sketches dude ! Be carreful with faces including some perspective, sometimes it doesn't fit well ! Anyway, keep it up, you def know what you're doing !
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 05-22-2013
Thanks guys
comp master studies
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 05-23-2013
studies and sketches
RE: James's Sketch Book - Veneq - 05-23-2013
Whoa James! Nice updates! Lovely Loomis-esque head drawings too.
RE: James's Sketch Book - CoreyH - 05-23-2013
So many, they look great. Seems like you're learning a lot man
RE: James's Sketch Book - SpectreX - 05-23-2013
Nice sketchbook here! A lot of progress going on. Keep it up!
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 05-30-2013
Thanks guys
Master copy thumbs and imagination sketches
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-07-2013
Studies and sketches
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-07-2013
Dragoon Soldier
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-08-2013
Head studies
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-09-2013
Cyclopes
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-12-2013
Master copy Studies
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-13-2013
S&M
RE: James's Sketch Book - Wolkenfels - 06-15-2013
great stuff, james! it is always a joy to browse through your sketchbook.
would like to see the last one in a more polished version.
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-16-2013
Thanks Wolken
Self Portraits
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-18-2013
Landscape Neighborhood
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-20-2013
Landscape drawings
Imagination
Girl portrait
Landscape
RE: James's Sketch Book - OtherMuzz - 06-20-2013
Hey man, You are so diligent and hard working with this stuff. It's awesome to see the progress and kick ass work,
I'm noticing a big issue with your rendering, and that's that most of your materials have a chalky appearance to them.
I think this is a two fold issue but they are both heavily combined. You don't seem to consider the size and softness of the light source that you are painting. This is important as this defines how a specular will appear on a surface. Eg, a scattered soft light will have very hazy soft speculars, and a small hard light will have hard shiny speculars. Of course this is also defined by the material, and you should make sure to pay far more attention to how hard speculars should be on various materials.
The other part is how you render them, you have to pay a lot of attention to the hard and soft edges of a specular, this is what defines what type of specular it is, it's super important! The differences between your version on the left and the soft specular i did on the right are subtle but i feel it is super important.
Maybe do some Bouguereau studies (man i should do this too), most of the time he uses a really diffused main light to give his scenes a kinda dreamy feel. Pay close attention to the hair. How sharp the speculars are, where they are, how they are placed. Look at the skin and try and work out how he is placing them.
This is a hard thing to explain, but did i explain it well enough?
![[Image: mO92A.jpg]](http://snag.gy/mO92A.jpg)
RE: James's Sketch Book - Jamesxwu - 06-27-2013
Photo studies and imagination sketches
RE: James's Sketch Book - Tygerson - 06-27-2013
Great studies! I really like the nicely defined planes of the mountains.