Walent's sketchbook

[walent]

I love the raw energy of your lineart. Can`t really complain - you are truly an inspiration.
I admire the looseness of your brushstrokes  - it is sometimes hard to tell wheter you used
digital or traditionell mediums. Damn, this is something I want to learn too.
Please keep sharing

Thanks, I appreciate it. They're all digital btw

Awesome jaw-dropping sketchbook! really inspired me to push even harder. Regarding the art blocks you had, i recommend maybe reading Manage your Day to Day , by 99u, or Eat the frog. I found them very enlightening. Maybe start your own project, something that contains all the things you love, and you don't plan your pages, you draw mechs when you want, figure drawings when you feel like it, and before you realize, you have a story there and you kickstart the thing! :)

Thanks for the feedback on my humble work.

Man, I think your suggestions might have just changed my life style. I never realized how much I procrastinate.
I have my mind flooded with a lot of ideas for some time now, they're basically for an adventure game (I'm a huge fan of adventure/puzzle games, I've played them all - almost all) and every time I thought about it I remembered talking to friends telling me how hard programming a game is, how implementing AI is tough and how hard it is to find good animators nowadays and so on that I instantly forget about everything.

I also always thought that it's ok to go with the flow, not having a routine, mainly because I absolutely hate routines and I try to stay away from them as much as possible because I get bored very fast. But now I find out that most of the great people out there have their routines, because being a professional mean you have to train your mind to work on certain hours, when you want to and not wait for the mood.

So I decided to make a schedule, train harder, work more, get up earlier, when I'm working it's no more facebook, no more e-mails, no more phone.
And I'm also gonna try to make an exercise and imagine that I have all the team set up, I have the 3d artist waiting for my concept sketches so he can start modeling them, the animator waiting for the characters and the programmer and so on.
So what is there to do now? Start working of course!

So thank you, I needed that!

Oh and btw, I've been wanting to clean up my damn fridge for months now, and you know what? I'm gonna go do it right now!

Woah, amazing sketchbook man! Looks like you are studying all the right things for visual communication. I'm totally pumped to get back to studying after seeing all the work you are doing, thanks dawg. :D

Keep it up, I'm gonna be watching for sure.

Hey, thanks man, I'm always glad to see people get motivated by my work.

Everytime i check your sketchbook it blows my mind away. Please, continue.
Congratz on your work dude (:

Thank you :)


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One thing I am trying to keep in mind every time I work is DON'T GET ATTACHED TO YOUR WORK WHILE YOU'RE DOING IT. Every damn time I'm working on something and it turns out amazing and I REALIZE it and I stop, I look at it and say "wow, that looks pretty nice", at that exact moment my idiotic part of my brain switches on and I get a lot of thoughts like "oh, shit, this is beautiful, I don't wanna ruin it", "how can I be sure not to ruin it? oh oh I know! I'll make a new layer"
Can you guess what happens? Of course, I ruin it with the next brush stroke. I lose the energy, the flow, the rhythm I had the moment I create that new layer. Because that new layer assures me that I can do whatever and I can't ruin it anymore, BUT it also ruins the ability to continue my painting in the same way. So my solution: I don't get attached, I don't care, I don't start a painting by saying "this has to be my best painting yet"
I just start it with the acceptance that I could fail big time and I'm just gonna scrap it and start all over again. And I'm having a lot of fun doing that!
And as an exercise, from time to time I decide to delete some of my best sketches and do them all over again from scratch.

I'm also trying to write down everything that's on my mind and everything I realize over the course of a day. And I'm gonna try to write them here as well.


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If anyone is looking for nice portrait references, here's a cool Tumblr for that: http://veraxvoltus.tumblr.com/

Here's some more of my stuff that wasn't a fail, kept practicing faces