Sketchbook Thread of MadGiraffe

#1

I’ll be posting a picture (or more, if I feel like doing so) here, on a daily basis.

Whether you like it or not.

Now, I will begin with a selfportrait (Photoshop) to start things off.

Colouring it later, possibly.

#2

Hallo Pepijn :slight_smile:

you look scared…
Mind filling in a few things about your art career so far? Just curious :wink:
looking forward to your daily updates!

#3

Some anatomical studies done in PS, every one is made from comic book reference except the one in the bottom right.
Spot the difference. That’s right, no hands. :smiley:

Working from a comic book lying in front of you while drawing on the screen is kind of annoying though.

#4

Goedenavond.

You’re right, I do, perhaps because I’m paranoid, but you already knew that…didn’t you? DIDN’T YOU!

cough

So about my art ‘career’, more lack of. In short, I’m a lifetime doodler of weird thingies that most of the time end up not being finished because of the love of trying new things, which has gotten the better of me and as of now I’m in a rut.
But just this week I’ve been trying to get back out, starting with myself.

I’ve done one year of Gerrit Rietveld Academy right after finishing ‘high school’, didn’t like it, too artsy fartsy. I wanted to please the people, they wanted me to express my inner self.
So I did one year of Game Design & Development, and absolutely loved it.
But because I have a hard time motivating myself, even when I like to do it and know it is good for me, I didn’t make the first year and can’t reapply.
It still is a path I want to follow but perhaps trough other means, I still want to, somehow, get in the Game Industry, working on the visual aspect of games.
But sadly, I was a bit late this year for applying to a new school and I don’t know if I can get in anywhere, because I was rejected for both Illustration and Animation at the same school I done Game Design at before.
I looked at psychology, which is also one of my favorite things, but almost all were focused on psychotherapy, and I want psychoanalisys. The only school offering psychoanalisys does this fun lottery to pick students who can study there, bastards.

Thanks for the reply.

#5

Hey cool.

I kinda know what it is like to loose motivation and interest. Personally, it’s a mental switch I had to flip over… Well it happened and now there is no stopping me hehe.

Sometimes one knows things are about to change in his life, but it can be hard to really say why and what. One of those things is the way of approaching things.

If you haven’t already, check out Digital Painting Video Sketchbook - by Bobby Chiu
Start with the bottom ones (sep27) in the first post and work your way up.
When you feel your motivation drops in that amount that it would cause you to slack, go back to that thread if you have to.
It helped me in this way that now when I feel less motivated, tending to slack, I can force myself (most of the times) to pick up my studies/work.
I hope it helps you too.

About your gestures, try being more economical with your linework. Observe, then draw, observe, then draw,… Not sure if you press your pencil/stylus hard when you draw, but I have to tell myself constantly to loosen up my grip on it. Once I do the lines are much more fluid.

Keep at it, this is definitely looking promising!

#6

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