Finbarr's Sketchbook

[Finbarr]

Hello all! use to come here often but this year proved to be one of the hardest for me as I lost a lot of family members. as the new year soon on the way I felt the need to reinvent myself and begin the year with a new sense of motivation. Now that the intro is done lets get started. Here are some digital and traditional sketches/studies.

Sketching







Color Studies



Metal studies. Preparing for something.





Digital sketches. Hoping to finish them soon. Gathering reference.

[Finbarr]

Getting back on tract. Been in my sketchbook mostly but haven't been able to take pics so i'll just post my digital experiments.

[Finbarr]

Going to try this again. I stopped being active in a lot of communities because of work but needing to mingle with people with passions such as my own (hard to get that in Texas). Here is some old and new stuff.

[darktiste]

Waw nice i can see you like 3 thing concept art, illustration and caricature but the question is do you know what you really love.

[Finbarr]

That's something I am trying to narrow down. I love art and illustration but I am fascinated with design. I really want to dip more into concept art but don't know where to start. Caricature is something I have recently added to my skill set. Thought it would help me with designing characters.

Here are some studies from this weekend.





Starting to put in some value for the last caricature.



Also will be working on my industrial design skills. Love this book so far!! I recommend picking it up!

[Finbarr]

More progress from last nights livestream

[Mr. Toodles]

om nom nom nom those portraits nom nom, to good for your first post ;) haha, I think i saw your caricature of Thompson on facebook earlier!

I am way to envious of that book you own sir. Please blog about your experience for the well being of the internet :P

[darktiste]

That's something I am trying to narrow down. I love art and illustration but I am fascinated with design. I really want to dip more into concept art but don't know where to start. Caricature is something I have recently added to my skill set. Thought it would help me with designing characters.

Here are some studies from this weekend.

1.Try to take a category of thing you want to be able to draw(object,creature,landscape,vehicle)
2.Find reference
3.draw them a few time
4.brainstorm
5.thumbnail
6.kill the idea that don't fit depending on criteria you have in mind
7.start slowly with form then go with how you work the best

If you can do you follow the step you will be avoiding a lot of mistake.Not only does those step will help you to create mental image of the object but it help to come up with ''new'' design of the subject.

[Finbarr]

Thanks Mr. Toodles!! Glad you like my stuff. I actually have a number of Scott Robertson's dvds. Fun stuff and a great way of thinking!

@ darktiste - Thanks man very informative post. I'm actually going to be doing that very same thing this weekend after I finish the Caricature. Now to figure out the subject. Been going back and forward with a certain character in my head so I may do that first.

Here is a sketch from yesterday I did. Needed to get rid of stress from work so decided to just sketch it up for a bit. Need to do more studies.





One of the painting assignments from the schoolism class. That was fun to paint!



Also Copic marker fun!

[Finbarr]

Work has been kicking my ass but here is some recent stuff.

Sketches











Caricature





And a project I am working on for my portfolio.

[Patrick Gaumond]

Hey man nice sketchbook!

Is that reflection on the helmet way up there a photo inlay? It looks really great :)

[Finbarr]

Sorry for the late reply. My job is killing me :(. Yeah it was a photo inlay. At that time I was experimenting with different things and that was one of them. Can be pretty cool on a better piece lol.

[Finbarr]

Taking on my worst fear......Color

[Finbarr]

Sup guys. It's been awhile. Been working a lot. Also been thinking about where I want to take my art and what i want in the future with it. Come August i'll be working less, taking classes from gnomon and other places, and giving my art career a real shot.

Anyways here are some experiments.

Practicing different design elements.







and Caricature fun




Need to get more on my studies.