Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Dracken: Thanks, you are right, I guess its about the journey not the destination :D

Lyraina: We totally should.. I don't think my fox would do so well.. Your hunter definitely would have won if it was glowing pink.. Should have made the change!

Ramalooke: illustration wip? Oh god, it doesnt even look finished *crawls into hole and dies* lol jks :P

Thanks Rio, I was trying to make the fox look like it was smelling the thing in his hand.. which was supposed to be a story cue.. But I think I failed at doing that. The 'exaggerate everything an extra 30%' is something I need to take into account more often.

Thanks Blewzen :D I tried.. I tried oh so hard...

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Hey Guyssss, so it seems like the first month of 2014 is already almost over. Usually this would be the last post of the month, but after I have finished house sitting in this beautiful place I am off to the Hunter Valley, which is the local wine growing country around here for a weekend with the girlfriend for her birthday, so there will be no computer.. But I have been playing around with water colours lately so maybe I will be able to do some watercolors :D

So before I go posting work I really want to point this out (ImSkeptical mentioned it in his sketchbook) so I looked in to it and Holy Crap.. This is amazing. habitrpg.com It's like a video game.. except to win you have to succeed at life. Its so good. You level up and can eventually get pets, which you can turn in to mounts. You get stats that help and damnit, just look at the link. So amazing. Just dinged level 2 last night :D Which is good because I was at half health from being unable to get up 15min earlier every day -___-

Also this week I discovered the importance of diet. Since I am here on my own, normally at home I just eat what ever the family cooks, or at least I have the option of whats in the pantry.. Here I sort of failed at doing any kind of shopping.. so my choices were eggs, bread, cheese, grapes and onions.... The last couple of mornings I have woken up feeling so terrible and a multivitamin instantly makes me feel better. (Today was the worst, because yesterday I ran out of grapes and bread.. so I had an omlette and onion sandwhich for dinner last night, where the omlette replaced bread...) So yeah, all in all, diet is important people. Eat healthy and exercise and all that jazz..

if you cant tell I am rambling a bit because I haven't had a conversation with someone other than the post man for 4 days... god I am lonely... I dont know how freelancers do it....

On the plus side, I got into a routine, and although I had to work everyday, getting up at 5-6am and doing the days work before 9 meant I could still draw all day. And get paid more. Bonus. But because I don't have my family to 'distract' me to take breaks, I find by 9pm I am wayy too tired to go on most days. So I guess I have to weigh that up.. because I still procrastinate until around 11 so its not like I get more sleep -___-


Heres the anatomy. I really want to finish the arm before the end of January, so I still have extensors left to do then I am good. I wanted to get as much of the body done as possible before life drawing started back up on the 6th of Feb.







And warm up gestures, I decided mid week to just focus on arms (much better for applying what I was learning) So here is a page


I started doing the 30min daily still lifes. These are actually quite fun.


Sketcharoos



And now this is the Itachi fan art I am working on, I included the most distilled page of thumbs, and the colour comps. Just to show process I guess? I dont know.. See how it goes. Experimenting with different pipelines.






Also, first time trying this Fibonacci spiral thing.. Am I using it right? I read up a bit on it and it seemed to make sense but yeah..



And finally here is the oil painting I did for the girlfriends birthday. Its of the town her family grew up in in Croatia, Lumbarda or something.. P.s. Oil painting is hard >_> most of the time is spent on things you done see (mixing colours) but it's interesting to see that you can improve in one medium even if you pretty much work exclusively in another (oil painting vs. digital)