Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Tygerson: You make some good points about actually classifying what I mean when I am giving feedback. I'll keep that in mind in the future :D Thanks for that.

Lyraina: Haha, a trip down memory lane made me laugh.. I see what you mean when you say they are better in your memory.....
Thats true, it will be on a case by case basis. I try to personalise the feedback I give as much as possible, but sometimes general "work on your values" is all I can come up with.
Thanks for the tip on contrast, I see what you mean. Darker skin is hard for me for this exact reason since my values arent quite there yet.
I really liked the smoking lady pic, I think one day I will do something similar on a canvas in oils.
Also THANK YOU for the head comment. If you didn't catch that I probably wouldnt have shrunk it down, I hope I shrunk it down enough...

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Alright, not going to write too long here today. I came down with a cold really quickly and feel like death (I was fine until 11am Thursday morning and then started feeling sick and by 4 I could hardly drive home from work, and its just gotten worse).

It was a perfect storm of misfortune for the Crimson Arena though, I lost about 6hrs of work the day it was due when there was still a whole days worth of work to go into it (my computer froze and corrupted the file), and I could barely stay upright because of sickness, but I got it done. Which made me feel good because I know in the future if I have to push through and work I can. But its not something I really want to ever do again..

*I also think in the haze of that day I inputted the timezone calculator wrong, according to what I worked out, I got my piece in with 15min to spare before the deadline. But I think that was very, very wrong. So I could have even worked on it a lot longer and done all the things I wanted to do -_-*

I want to explore some areas of it a bit more in depth at some stage. Like how the armor opens, and attaches etc. But this is it for now.

I struggled a lot to find the variations in colour I liked. If I had the time I would have played some more with it at the end.


Here are the studies:



And I used my girlfriend as the model for this, which came in amazingly handy, since I could pose her in the exact perspective of my finished piece and use the study as the actual head :D Probably wouldn't have gotten it done in time if I had to do a new head. Though I didn't quite do her justice =/


Weapon variations:




Clothing Variations, I was planning on doing this for every item, but it was taking a ridiculous amount of time.


Dead pan wasnt very charming. So I did this.. didn't turn out so good


Finals:




And a gif for shits and giggles
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