Jaik's Sketches & Thoughts

[Jaik]

Thanks Nowio! Good suggestion with the hood.

Clockodile: Yeah I think I missed the beat with that rock bridge. That bothered me but I couldnt work out what it was that was wrong. Thanks for that!

Thanks Smrr! And welcome back!! Generic concept art poses are my specialty though! Just kidding.. I really need to work on dynamism -__-
Yeah I'm thinking next weekend? ill msg you soon.


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Didn't update in a bit. A combination of learning 3D (which proved fruitless and have nothing to show for it) and doing a couple of art tests for a company (probably a waste of time, I passed and they liked what I did, but the devils in the details I guess) but this week I go back into it a bit.

I have found that digitaltutors.com have a lot of good 3D tutorials on there. So I am thinking of getting a monthly sub to them. Seem to have a really good range of basics all the way up to some really advanced stuff. But apparently the quality of the tutors varies from tutorial to tutorial.

I've also been feeling really fatigued lately. Can't concentrate, motivations down, stress is up. All those wonderful things. I've narrowed it dwon to 3 things.
One is diet, I have been literally having chocolate as 2 of 3 main meals in a day some days. I'm just to lazy to cook myself food, so its normally just two bits of bread and a pre-cut bit of cheese when I do actually eat. So need to start doing something about that.
Two is coffee. I drink 12+ cups of espresso strength coffee a day and anything less than that I get a headache. So I've started cutting down. Caffeine withdrawals suck. So bad.
Exercise. Most exercise I get is walking from my room, to the pantry to get chocolate.

Three big changes, I think it will take me a few months to implement them properly since it's all about small steps in keeping habits -_-;;

No enough rambling onto art:

Finished the bloodsports char, but didnt do a back view. Lost motivation.


A sketch, which frustrated me because it sucked and my values werent good, neither was my imagination. Queue value studies.


Value statue study. I think it helped


Application. Still not great but better I guess.


Illustration of Link, because I just finished playing A link Between Worlds. So much fun. I also just discovered I could buy Oracle of Seasons on the Nintendo e-shop. I think fan art of a similar fashion is in order.
Need to still do more on this though. Trying to use a really desaturated palette and make it look realistic. Kind of gears of war style.


Another value study (backlighting):


Application, it looks like I only spent about 5 min on this, but this was probably about two hours of me painting, then over painting then failing and restarting. Super frustrating, I think I need more studies.


All in all not a great few weeks, but not too bad. Thanks for stopping by guys, the daggers really help me feel accountable and give me the strength to keep at it.