Sketchbook Thread of jabuhrer

#22

Awesome start to the oil painting Joseph, I’m interested to see how it progresses. You have some great studies here - keep it up! :slight_smile:

[left]ETA - sorry for getting your name wrong, not sure how I managed that.[/left]

#23

Thanks everyone. Here’s a new sketch from this morning:

Whew…I basically took a week and a half or so off and completely got off of caffeine. Which means that I moved around at a sloth’s pace for 5 or 6 days and slept about 10 hours a day and had zero inspiration or energy…but I feel much better now and was able to get up and do this sketch before work this morning with no coffee!

#24

I remember doing that once, only it was chocolate withdrawals after moving away from my parents. O.o Best of luck, and I hope you continue to feel better!

#25

Glad your doing better. And so is your art. :wink:

My only critique is the neck should be roughly even at the base of the skull as well as where it connects to the ribcage. In your image, it seems the section connected to the base of the skull is too wide giving an uneven V shape. The back of the neck could do with more crunching too, adding some skin folds to stress that its an uncomfortable position to have the front of your throat flush like that (try it out :wink: ).

Keep it up!

#26

Whew…been a while.

#27

hey this is a great sketchbook. some really nice works are here

#28

Hey hey, great last sketch. Everything works for me, except the part where you smashed your nose into the page. :smiley:

#29

Thanks! Yeah, I guess I forgot to mention…for reference I was using a photo from the National Museum of Health and Medicine’s Flickr feed: http://www.flickr.com/photos/medicalmuseum/

This is from a civil war photo: “Cpl. Rufus S. Sinclair - Gunshot Fracture of Clavicle”

#30

Just a quick PS sketch I did on my lunch break.

#31

Hey Joseph, I see u have some cool stuff here. I really like n° 19, 26 and 30 posts; I would like to see more pieces like 26, maybe trying some different dinamic poses for the subjects, that has a really refined style. Keep the good work up :smiley:

#32

Nothing special, just a sketchbook dump.

From life:

From photo:

Both ~20 min.

Thanks!

#33

Just a very quick, very rough sketch from the train ride to work this morning.

#34

WOoooooow! Its been a while since I checked out your sketches and my goodness have you improved! I know I sound like a 13 year old girl but I’m totally stoked at how much ground you’ve covered since we last talked! Keep it up man!

#35

I couple of sketchy things, both from photo reference:


(extremely unfinished!)


(sketch on an airplane)

and thanks for the encouragement Chua, you rock!

#36

Hi there Jabuhrer :slight_smile:
Great to see the updates you’re posting here! I really like the way you’re capturing facial expressions :thumbsup: and also varying your choice of medium.
Drawing hands (and feet) can be quite hard - especially getting the right proportions, often we tend to draw them too small. It’s great to see you including hands in your drawings as the more you draw them the more confident you will become at them :slight_smile:

cheers and take care (are you still off the coffee? I’m not ready to give up my morning coffee but take my hat off to anyone brave enough to give it a go!)
a. :slight_smile:

#37

Thanks for the nice comments!

Annette: Yes, still off the coffee. It was a rough transition, but I have much more energy now than I did when I was chasing the bean-water dragon! :wink:

Chua: Thanks for the kind words! Your sketchbook is a big inspiration, so your encouragement means a lot.

Jeez, I’ve haven’t been drawing much lately, but it’s not cause I’ve been lazy! It’s crunch time at work, 12 hour days, and unfortunately right now it’s mostly 3D animation stuff…which doesn’t interest me as much as it used to. I have a sort of jack-of-all-trades position at a small company which means a lot of variety in the work (which is nice), but it also means that it’s often difficult to focus and improve in one area like I’d like to do. I’ve also been spending most of my “free time” (hah, what a joke) developing a new website for the local animation society that I belong to. I know, excuses excuses. This stuff isn’t really even worth posting, but I figure I should try to keep the thread rolling. Just some gestures from a recent life drawing session:

I’m hoping that things will slow down a bit in the coming weeks and I can do some more painting, and perhaps get time to do some more finished work. Anyway, thanks for stopping by :slight_smile:

#38

Wow - some really lovely work here and the figurative stuff has got a lot more accurate. I especially enjoy your traditional stuff. I’m doing quite a bit of work with oils at the moment and it’s a totally different skill set than working digitally but it all pulls together and elements of one type of work always feeds into another.

#39

Thanks Tom! Yeah, I think I like oils best, but it feels like oil painting makes me a better digital painter and vice-versa.

Here’s a new lunch break sketch:

I used a reference photo, but changed it from the photo quite a bit, for better or worse. After cranking this one out, it has occurred to me that I really need to tackle my fear of fleshtones. It’s easy to use the fact that these are quick sketches as an excuse to stick to monochrome drawings, but obviously that’s becoming a crutch. If anyone has any links to good flesh tone palette tutorials or anything, send them my way. I’ll try to make my next post full color (good, bad or ugly!)

#40

Ron Lemen did some great tutorials on skin tones a while ago and they’re something I keep on going back to. Really helpful and well worth a quick look !

http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/14030
http://www.gfxartist.com/features/tutorials/14033

Still impressed by your stuff and I agree that all sorts of artistic endeavours inform each other. Practising your traditional work/life drawing makes your digital work better and vice versa.

#41

Great sketch Jab.

And also I’m starting to read that tutorial Tonik posted. Very interesting stuff in there!