Slashy's Sketchbook

[slashy]

Hello Cubebrush community !

My name is Greg and I'm from Poland. I'm ready to take my art journey to the next level and that's the reason why I'm starting a sketchbook - mostly to be consistent - I hope so !
I would like to work as a character concept artist in future, because that's what I enjoy doing the most - create characters, both in 2D or 3D. But that I am more into characters than for example environments it's not the reason to ignore other subjects . I'm planning to do the most of my work related to characters, but from time to time I'll do other studies.

For now, I'm posting mostly imaginative stuff except one piece that is related to Overwatch art contest that was held in my country a while ago. It's obvious that this piece is more of a fanart than 100% my work, because the idea for a character was established before I got myself to painting it. But I think you know that guys and I don't need to explain it :), but just in case.

Ok, so here are my art pieces, that I did in the last ~2 months. I wasn't serious about art yet, just had fun with it. That's why most of them are just weird doodles I think

Oh and I almost forgot - I really looking forward for comments and critique. I think it would help me so much. I know that I'm struggling with many subjects like color, light, anatomy etc. But I'm not sure what to fix at the first place.

[slashy]

[slashy]

Sorry for multiple posts but "Sorry new users can put only 5 images in post"

[edit] Last piece in 2016. Happy New Year to everyone !! Let the progress be with us !

[adayics]

I really like the brush stokes you have in a few of these paintings. like the first one and the road hog one. Its a nice texture/style. I like it. and for a lot of the characters you've drawn they have a more caricature kinda style to them. like that third last one. I'd love to see more people studies and some gesture drawings. I think if you did some of those they would help a lot with anatomy for you. Cause i can see where you're getting at with your anatomy troubles. I think its mostly how the arms are suppose to move in the poses you have they look like they'd struggle to get in to those positions and let a lone it would feel awkward, as well as some of the drawings look as if the arms were kinda dislocated. so you're just extending areas that shouldn't be as far if you're going for more realistic proportions.
I hope I was able to help a little for what you should try to focus on. ^ - ^
But great work hun. c: Keep it up.

[slashy]

Thank you for visiting my sketchbook adayics !

Yes, you were really helpful. Just pointing that arms in my drawings are dislocated is so true, I can see it right now but wasn't aware of it before, thanks !

I'm going back to basics. I need to train my anatomy, gestures, so probably I wouldn't post any imaginative pieces for a while. Ok, so for today I did a couple sketches with Quickposes as references.

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[enalya]

Hey welcome!
You have very interesting and unique art, it catches my eye. I think my biggest feedback would be to define things more, the shapes and details. Most pieces are very rough and almost lazily finished. Opposed to that, I do appreciate your pretty good use of values.

Keep it up

[slashy]

Thank you for visit enalya and thanks for comment and crit :). I was wondering why my rendering is rough and I think I could have an answer. It's probably due to my lack of knowledge in anatomy and at some point I'm just stuck and I don't know where to go next when rendering a piece. It's probably also correlated to color use, light etc. So, I'm going to do alot of basics now I hope I won't bore you guys with those :).

Anyway, here's the next pack of sketches as for today. Only 11 pieces, cause I didn't have enough of free time

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[enalya]

Good thinking Keep it up!

[slashy]

Thanks enalya I will.

Next pack from today evening. I'm going monothematic, but I hope those studies would help me in future to be more loose and precise I'm going to incorporate hands, feet and portrait studies to my schedule in near future, so stay tuned ^^. And of course pure anatomy, yay !

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[big-misch]

Hello and welcome!!

Nice stuff you have here! I can relate to, I love drawing characters too!!

Love those studies, mate. Those will help you level up so fast if you stick with them.

Hope to see more!

[slashy]

@big-misch
Hello, thanks for visiting my sketchbook
Yeah, I hope those will help me improve, because I'm really struggling when drawing a character from imagination. I would stick with them for quite some time and see if it would get better :).

Yesterday for me was one of these days that anything you do related to art - you fail. I just couldn't draw accurate, so I've decided that after portrait which I did using photo, I will draw one character sketch from imagination and I'll make a break for the rest of the day. I've had to think about what I want this character to be, so I thought hmm... maybe a man from the jungle with wooden staff or something. I didn't think too much and started drawing and in result I got static pose. I forgot to think about how do I want to pose him, that's not good. So I've decided that today I'll draw some of the sketches more loose and exaggerate the lines (as Proko said in one of his YT videos about gestures, that if you exaggerate the lines in gesture there is a reason behind it - to not let the final sketch turn into static pose), also some of them I keep as I sketch usually and some of the rest I'll mix those two techniques - more precise with a little bit of loose accents here and there.

Today sketches:

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Yesterday sketches:

[slashy]

As for weekend I've decided to take a break from gestures, and just chill out reading Michael Hampton's book. I had an idea to better preserve knowledge from the book with studying sketches by Mr. Hampton, so I did couple of them :).
Probably tomorrow I'm going to do more, and then from Monday back to gestures

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[big-misch]

Dang!

Lots of studies! Looking really nice man!
Keep up the hard work!

[slashy]

@big-misch

Thanks man. I think I could do more of those, but sometimes I don't have enough free time
Anyway, I need to keep drawing and don't even think about getting lazy

Today again I did sketches after Mr. Hampton, but nothing too fancy this time, just a quick ones with a lot of errors haha Sometimes I'm getting blind on proportions, need to fix that asap

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[jfan]

Yeah man, those Hampton studies look SOLID

[big-misch]

Thanks for stopping in my thread!

These studies are looking good mate! Keep it up!

[slashy]

@jfan

Thank you

@big-misch

Thanks

I was pretty busy in the last few days, so I didn't posted as well I didn't draw... meh.
Anyways, I found a little bit of time today so I did few sketches, just five pieces, but I guess it's better than nothing

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[slashy]

I'm here again with new sketches of today.
Still I'm having trouble with finding enough free time to draw, but well I hope so it would change in a few days.
Anyway, to not get super rusty I found a little bit of time and I did 10 sketches.

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[slashy]

New sketches of today

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[big-misch]

Looking good, man! Keep on trucking!