Loosey Goosey

I've been getting lately into the process of things, not so much the finished product where I do try to go for tight finishes (fail at it), but I am really enjoying the process and creation of gestures and thumbnails, and I feel it's really helped me communicate better with my instructors on how I want and it's sped up my projects cause of that communication. 

The stuff above was from a sketchbook that I lost. MUAHAHAHA

The stuff below is from a sketchbook I couldn't sink into, but now that I've found a direction I want to develop and pursue, it's proving to be quite adequate for this gestural approach that I like. I'm making use of the size and the paper type to throw together heavier inks.

Matteo Scalera is an INTENSE inspiration right now, I love his work, and you guys should all buy Black Science, his comic that came out today.

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I just came up with a hilarious short comic idea, that is all.

Mimic The Masters Studies

Nathan Fowkes Study

I had a conversation yesterday about functioning your practice/process/learning in comparison of a sprinter and a train. The Sprinter moves are incredible speeds but eventually will have to slow down and walk to catch their breath and then sprint once again. The Train maintains a consistent speed and never slows down (Unless you watch Baccanno, that train was fucked from the beginning)

With deadlines falling around me at all sides (it's so fucking hairy right now I can't even begin), I'm still trying to stress the importance of studying correctly and getting these values and shapes right, they're not there yet but I'll continue to work on it to make sure things are as close as I want them to be. I have such a "I WANT TO GET TO THE DRAWING" part, or in this case the coloring, but I just gotta slow down and focus. 

Pr0cess is s0 imp0rtant. 

Jumping the gun can be for sketchbook work.

Boxing in Colors...

Bike Courier (semi-futuristic)

Just some silhouettes so far, it's a 2-week-er. 

Prooooooobably gonna combine ideas from poses 2-4.

No idea what I'm doing

This is a quick jump, but here we go

I wanted a kind of rustic futuristic looking suit, hopefully the colors come through, probably gonna change the hair color as well. haha and color the knee pads.... and add in a bike. and add in shading. 

Final for this one, couldn't draw/design/have enough space for the 4th pose (sorry!)

Crits for this one.... one of the issues was consistency, the outfit looked like a different person wearing it for each time (at least in terms of build) and the helmet could use a redesign (yup yup) 

More Environments

This probably looks super dark on a mac I bet. 

I'mma call this one done, I don't know how to do rock texture... soooooo. 

I have no idea what I'm doing with this one.

think I'm getting there... Think so

Final for this one, not perfect but getting there. :P

This study was my favorite, it wasn't the one I presented with (I kind of wish I did actually), to me it shows the most of what I learned in terms of color and composition/form and also took the least amount of time.

this should be in a post of it's own.... but meh! Lawren Harris Study. 

Comic Roughs

Lately I feel like I've been diving into everything, from environments, info design (shitty info design), characters, and comics.

Working on the clock here, no colors, just tones. Maybe I'll add in textures. Maybe.

Info Illustration Synesthesia

Process for my illustration broadsheet:

Rough lines

God my face rendering is shit! Paint some warmth into there as well.... This could just be alot less flat.
Gotta throw down some type and.... shit.

I have no idea how this project is going to turn out.... I guess that's a good sign?

This one is going alot better I feel,  I start off with a strong high contrast orange and then I slowly (so slow) reveal the form by using light values, I hope to show more form through cool values after.

Hahahahaha if only.

I need some kind of visual movement through here.

Some other touch ups, but now for layout

 

Make the brain transparent, but no nuclear colors, mute them down abit (Pastel colors), add some visual interest with the type, maaaybe even add the scribbles with the brain and connect them to symbols. Add some 3d-color-tinge to type.

Mortality

Now I'm a some-what healthy individual, I don't really exercise, but still a very particularly skinny individual. Today was/and still is a good day in terms of productivity, or at least I feel that way and I've been rocking to  the Django Unchained soundtrack after watching the movie this morning, freaking brilliant. It's usually these type of days that I let myself have a little nap, I've worked hard right? Got a lot of thumbs done, and concept work out of the way.

I rest my head on the pillow and just relaxing, I dunno what happened but I guess I was thinking about my parents splitting up, how my dad is eventually going to be living in a duplex by himself quite a ways away from the home that we all currently reside. I was thinking about how although not a death sentence necessarily, the separation and my lack of wanting to maintain a relationship with him all equates to a death of love, a family member, a parent and a human being.

A voice chirps in my head "Well, we all die alone anyways." Something that a classmate of mine once said, it was a rather light hearted conversation despite it all haha.

We all do die alone, even if in an event where multiple people die, your experience is yours and it will end regardless of what you do.

As I lay in bed thinking, the fact seriously dawned on me, I curled into a fetal ball and hid underneath my blanket as if to conceal my sadness away from an imaginary crowd or audience.

Someday the lights are going to go out.

The reality of it all is both sad and motivational, I got out of bed and went to my desk to write this and hopefully soon got back to work.

What am I doing with my life? What is important? How can I live less carelessly?

Thumbnail Sketches

I have a sketchbook dedicated to thumbnails, I fucking love doing thumbnails.

Larger ideas of some of the thumbs, the 4th one is more of a misty cloud thing and I don't feel like taking the time to render that with pencil crayon.

Environment Studies

Learning the ropes of environments through studies:

Feel like this one is a lot weaker.

The rest of the studies

Sketch Dump 2.21

Just another sketchdump, I don't like having a post dedicated to one picture (only sometimes), so I'll keep this one constantly flowing as best as I can...

I find myself comfortable enough with the medium to experiment with different weights, dry brush techniques, and diluted ink. But maaaaan just looking at Nico Delort's stuff... I'm gonna have to pick up a scratch board or 10...

Sometimes I wonder where/when I will go back to tight pencils, before ink I loved the constructed, tight pencil look, and that look definitely transfers to ink 100%, but right now I do like it very loose and expressive.