Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Thanks Tygerson, Danny, Raz, Cracked, Mario, MrJovi, and blewzen! :D I appreciate all of your support.

Yolo: Thanks I will look out for those next time. Sometimes seeing the back muscles is hard especially when the people in the pics aren't body builders lol. Looking forward to life drawing to apply these lessons.

Lyraina: My monitor is 27", it works alright, since its a beast of a screen. Though I sometimes wonder whether a M wouldnt have been better or sufficient. But I didn't want to buy an M then think 'oh I would have loved the larger one'
Also its a chainmail brush I made after looking at the ref and trying to work out repeating patterns. And yeah, edges are my arch nemesis at the moment and values.. >_> sigh.

Thanks Kidult. I will try and apply that to this upcoming illustration.

Dracken: Haha yeah, I think that definitely is one of the harder things to do, especially with long illustrations. But I will get back to it.

Samszym: I tried the black silhouette thing, it didnt work for me, I think for sci fi my visual library isn't strong enough to actually see what shapes are, instead they just look like mess.


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Alright, so bloodsports moved along this week. Next week may have a lot more or a lot less. I am house sitting for my bosses over on their property, nice in nature and all that jazz. Beautiful house. So I am not sure how disruptive that will be to my study patterns, however it could also be beneficial since I would be alone in the middle of no where with no family to distract me. We shall see.

Bloodsports continues to force me to make a basecamp wayyy outside my comfort zone. Doing turn arounds isn't something I have had practice with and they seem to take a lot longer than I thought they would. Implying detail still isnt easy for me, so I have to render out everything.. I need to watch more sci fi movies or play more sci fi games (yeah, right.. games :[ ) just to build up what is in a sci fi design..

Anyway anatomy first, finished off the beans, I will replace my daily warm up (which is usually 60min of gestures) with the beans for a month or so just to really nail them. They also really help with line quality, I find I am drawing much smoother lines since practicing them.








Starting arm anatomy


Bloodsports ----

I am not sure whether I will continue putting up the early thumbnails for stuff like this. I am not sure whether people want to see it, and it really extends out the length of the post lol.

Pet thumbnails, decided to go with the fox. I enjoyed it more than the others.




Char turn around.


Pet design (based of the study lol, I am lazy >.>)


Final composition thumbs






And the studies, the jaime jones study was for how I wanted to render the final image. I am not sure whether I will succeed in this because I tried to do it in my character turn around and it just failed...