Sketchbook Thread of Johan Derycke

#981

You placed a question in Daniel’s thread that I’ve often wanted to ask myself, so I thought I’d stop by and see how you were doing in here. Looking good! :slight_smile:

#982

great work … looking forward:cool:

#983

Quite an interesting thread, you look like a very devoted person to art. Lots of amazing works esp the flower and the eye of the boy… your thread will be a great inspiration to me… and very knowledgable too… Thanks for your feedbacks on my drawing tooo:beer:

#984

HEY …Johan…:slight_smile:

I like your color obseving on that arm and shoulder study…just searching out all the different colors that are there, is a great way to train your eye to see…color…
The more closely you observe, the more colors you will see.
If you keep up that color observing practice…it becomes second nature over time, and your color vision becomes more acute and sensitive to what colors are actually making up what you are observing…and in time what you have seen today to only have 3 or 4 colors, will be seen as having 20 colors…
That’s the way it works, no shortcuts, just constant concentrated observation, which strenthens your awareness and vision over time…
It’s like a muscle that you keep exercising on a daily basis…it will get stronger with each passing day in which you exercise it.

On that minimal light exercise,…the herring or egret at the top…It’s leg at the knee joint is bent in the wrong direction…birds legs bend at the center/elbow joint, like your arm does, in relationship to the trunk /torso of the body,.opposite direction of the way your leg does.:slight_smile:

I like that shark…When they breech the surface like that, it is usually when they are striking a seal or sea lion at high speed from beneath,…and their body usually forms a nice curved arch as they go back into the water…they usually take a big bite out of the seal or sea lion, and then come back and eat their meal, after it has bled to death.
Making that arch in the shark and the composition, and having the seal or sea lion being raised out of the water by the shark as it takes it’s deadly bite, will add to the composition, drama, and action. and will make a very DYNAMIC IMAGE.

I really like what’s going on in that one with the leaves…maybe a bug…dragonfly or whatever, perched at the lower right end of the leaf…will really add to the composition, and give it a focus point of interest…nice composition ,atmosphere, and depth in that one…:thumbsup:

In your view from your room…Maybe a tonal/color value gradation from dark at the top of the canvas to lighter at the bottom…do that at the beginning, and everything in the painting will fall into place…valuewise, and will have atmospheric depth and lighting.
You might even put a couple of diaginals in the bottom of the composition, to tie it in with the diaginals leading into the moon/sun //light sorce at the top of the composition…overlapping, and repeated shapes and angles in a composition, add interest, direction, and depth to any composition, and can inliven even the most mundane of subjects…always think composition first…be the director, and set the stage…:slight_smile:
ALWAYS a pleasure seeing what you’ve been up to Johan…:slight_smile:
Keep up the GREAT and STEADY progress…:thumbsup:
TAKE CARE
Glenn

#985

hi Johan - I thought I have already been in your thread - but - I missed it somehow :slight_smile:
though I missed your images that were deleted (I am a bit too late) …
those that still remained are a pleasure to look at, some of those are really nice (especially those with flat color backgrounds and subltle white chalk shading on it, also the recent sketches/drawings are lovely, and I also love those ball-point pen studies, and many more :slight_smile: )
I will certainly keep an eye on your further work, looking forward to :slight_smile:
a.

#986

Wes
Hi! This Nintendo DS with Colors! looks like a really nice “out-of-the-house-toy” indeed!
Wish I could afford it :confused: Although I wonder how anyone paints on a tiny little screen like that!
I need a lot (and I mena aLOT) of practice concerning form… patience my friend :wink:

staticpen
Thanks for the visit. Best way to know someones opinion is to ask :wink:

MIX3XIM
Thanks! Waiting for updates in your thread :buttrock:

wickedsamara
Glad you like my (sometimes) poor attempts heh.

Glenn
I’ll need many many more color studies (and any other studies for that matter) if I want to become better. Well spotted on the birds leg! All these DSF speedpaintings are basically me trying to get as much info on in my image as possible in the given time. I tend to be too “rushed” when doing these. So I hope it will get better when I get used to it and I will be able to add some interest to those exercises.
Thanks for the advice and the great ideas! (Man I seem to be having to thank you a lot lately… Let’s hope I can turn all your advice into something good!)

Haven’t had too much time the past couple of days.
Here’s a few hours work on studies.


#987

alenah
Sorry about having to delete old images… my webspace is limited to 50MB unfortunately
Thanks for the visit and for being interested in what I do!

Here are some more studies



#988

Quick Character concept

Might explore this idea (which I got from fooling around and wearing my backpack in my neck at work for a laugh with the colleagues last friday) a bit further later on… just sketching it down so I still have something to work from if I ever get to it…

#989

Started playing with it in Painter but as I was screwing it up more and more the longer I tried… I got fed up with it. So this really is a dump :scream:

#990

Hey Johan! Nice concept! I love the colorized one, it is not a dump, cm on!:slight_smile: Looking forward to seeing more on this one!

Cheers!

#991

A promising dump - you could start again or just make it from scratch in the future. I like the origins of this idea - with you wearing the backpack on your neck XD

#992

Very nice with the color version! What don’t you like about it? The arm in shadow is a bit dark, but other than that I think it’s looking really cool!

#993

wow Johan! you have a great thread!:buttrock:amazing works! love your concept sketches too…

#994

Veridal
Heh thanks for the positiveness… (I rarely create something and feel proud about it. Usually I get sick of it pretty fast)
It’s just a sketch though… nothing special

sirielle
Yeah that’s the most fun part… the inspiration! Sometimes the most unexpected things can cause an idea to be born

Del
It’s ok, a couple of thousands more and these concept sketches will be better :slight_smile:

namnocilis
Thanks for the visit! Not as awesome as your thread though! Lot’s of creative stuff over there!

Been reading Doug Chiang’s book “Mechanika” so I thought I’d finally finish this vehicle concept I had laying around.

It’s supposed to be a vehicle used to go on a weekend trip…

Did some thumbs on other vehicles and robots but nothing worth developing came up… hopefully soon…

edit: added some shadow to the wing. Thanks for the crit!

#995

Hi Johan, nice work on the vehicle! The side wing seems to be a bit confusing: it catches too much light so it seems to be horizontal. Keep going!

#996

Love the vehicle Johan! You should really do some more vehicle concepts.

All your sketches are great tool! Keep em coming :smiley:

#997

Hey man, that looks really great! :slight_smile: Lots of lovely texture and grittiness.

#998

so where exactly can I get me one of of those to go on the weekend? :wink: Cool design

#999

Hey Johan!! That vehicle thingy is looking cool!:thumbsup: Love your figure drawings! keep 'em coming!!

#1000

The vehicle design is awesome! nice concept… i too want that vehicle for my weekend trip to other galaxies :wavey: