Julian's Sketchbook

#1

Hey there,

my name is Julian and this is my sketchbook. Here I am going to post my daily sketches, speed paints and concept arts, hoping to receive some constructive criticism and being able to showcase my progress as an artist. I have to admit that this is a big leap of courage on my part. I usually don’t like anything I draw and all I ever see are the mistakes. I guess this is kind of common among artists. I realized that I probably will never reach a stage where I am completely satisfied with my own work, so I might as well take the courage and showcase my work online.

Enough of the babbling; I am looking forward for some feedback.

Cheers,
Julian

#2

Silhouette sketches in Photoshop. About 1hr of work.
This is basically just random doodling.
I didn’t have any previous design concept in mind.
It’s all very sketchy and dirty, so excuse the lack of detail.

#3

Some silhouette sketches for character design.
About 1hr of work per image, all done in Photoshop.
I hope the images are not too big for viewing.

   [img]http://img10.imageshack.us/img10/7384/sketchsilhposeswww02.jpg[/img]

#4

Here is a concept sketch from one of my previous design doodles.
I spent about 30 min. on each drawing. So nothing fancy here, just trying to gather some ideas. I did some image googling on astronauts beforehand to get some inspiration.

#5

I got all excited about astronauts from the previous speed sketches, so I actually sat down and tried to draw one myself. I didn’t do any previous sketches for this one, just jumped straight into Photoshop. About 1hr of work.

#6

Yay, more silhouettes. It seems I was in a robot mood today.

#7

And some more robots, because they are so much fun. About 1hr of work over all.

#8

I took one of my silhouettes and did some quick render sketch on top. Spent about 1 hr over all, so it’s all pretty rough and unpolished, but hopefully gets the idea across.

#9

Here are some speed sketches that I did yesterday. All done in Alchemy, I spent between 2-5 minutes per sketch.

#10

Yay, more speed sketches. Alchemy sure is fun.





#11

Some Render Sketches based on my previous silhouettes, I spent about 1hr on each one. All done in Photoshop.

#12

Awesome. :slight_smile:

#13

I did a lot of experimenting during the past days with different brushes and work approaches, so quite a few sketches went straight to the waste bin. So it goes, but here are some that turned out OK.

God-Of-Zilla: Thanks mate. Anything you liked in particular?

#14

Here are some paint overs from silhouettes I have done before. I am trying to incorporate another sketching phase into my workflow, so I can focus more on generating ideas before starting to render. Not that I dislike rendering, it just takes so freaking long.
I still find it very hard to work quickly during this concept stage; it’s just so tempting to move right into doing details.

Anyhow, here are some pics, all work was done in photoshop, about 4 hrs of work all in all.

#15

Here are some more sketches done with Alchemy.

#16

Some sketch paintovers. Done in Alchemy and Photoshop.

#17

And some renderings on top of the previous designs.

#18

I think GodZilla got it right: awesome! Great thumbs and workflow…you are really digging into the design process. What about a few non-bipedal characters? Would love to see you develop one of these further.

#19

It’s been a while since I updated this thread. Lately I have been drawing more away from the computer, you know, with pen and paper and stuff. While I am really enjoying the speed and flow of working this way I noticed that I am incredibly lazy when it comes to scanning my work. I will force myself to scan my sketches more regularly from now on so I don’t end up updating this thread on an annual basis.

I have been doing a lot of life studies lately, mostly speed sketches where I clock myself to only spend 2 minutes per drawing. It’s a lot of fun and forces me to focus only on the important stuff.

The following drawings were all done with ink pen and black copic marker. The topic was love couples snugging, hugging, holding hands and all the good stuff. All the reference were taken from google and flickr, since I don’t have love couples snugging, hugging and holding hands around me all the time (although being single myself it certainly seems that way sometimes).



#20

hey there,
wow - Alchemy has really inspired you and in turn - you came up with some awesome character thumbnails! - its amazing to see your progress from using that program o__o