Devin's Sketchbook

[devin]

painting sketch:



and a study:



and a 30 minute spitpaint:

[devin]

working on a new painting, I think im going to go back in when my eyes are fresh. opinions are welcome as always :D

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[Nikt]

Cool sketchbook! I like how you feel the colors and how loose your studies, I believe it couse y focused on one thing and don't wanna waste time on what you alredy know. I thinks that's right way of making studies, i should do the same...)

[will123will]

Hey man, thanks for the sketchbook visit. Great stuff in here, love the brush strokes in your work, not
much to really say except keep up the good work.

[devin]

thanks guys :)

[rafa zanchetin]

I've been checking your sb for some weeks and I must say, what an awesome range of skills you have, it's everything I'm aiming for. Keep posting.


p.s.: Love your rocks!

[devin]

thank you!

here is some more sketchbook stuff and a couple more sketches

[ImSkeptical]

I forgot about your sketchbook! I need you to tell me how to get your edges so nice and gooey man :p, I'm so bad at that. Thanks for posting :D !

[devin]

thanks man :D for the actual technique I just use the smudge tool with the default round brush set with scattering on. When it comes to edges, I think that it's really helpful to think about what you want to be important in the image based on how you personally would interpret what you are painting. Consider an image as if you were actually looking at it in real life, you don't instantaneously take in and understand every single element, it takes some time to adjust and for your attention to shift to more subdued areas. I think that the eye instinctively goes to areas of contrast, whether it's black vs. white, moving vs. stationary, etc. Hard edges look hard only in comparison to soft edges; contrast and controlled variety are really important. I've been trying to think about what I would actually see in the first few moments of my attention and then create a hierarchy around that. That's at least what I want to do in theory, It's still getting to me how difficult I find adding interest and detail to focal points ;\ Hope that helps a bit!

anyway here's some more sketches, really need to work on anatomy...

[devin]

[devin]

Working more on that horse painting, I've found that it is really hard to apply knowledge that comes easily on familiar objects on small scale to unfamiliar subjects on a large scale. Happier with how it's looking now but I stiill want to simplify the values and background, there's some weird sharpness going on where there shouldn't be I think.

[devin]

thanks man!

imagination thing and a couple of studies :3

[Nikt]

Great studies! Love brushstrokes)

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[devin]

I'm still trying to sort out this painting, feel like I took a step back in some areas so I might backtrack a bit.



Study of a sargent painting:











and I've been doing some paintings from life on my iPad, I'm reallly enjoying doing these so far, feels like a whole new world away from my desk opened up. I've been keeping up with the watercolor practice too but I'm still mostly just learning how to control the medium I think.