Forrest's Sketchbook of Art Junk!

Loving the new character design, very nicely drawn and painted... His face reminds me a bit of Wolverine, he has that badass look, ha! Nice job.

I agree with CG The top image is done in a more "comicky" style then what you usually do but it looks great.
If I did a recap of my week... uhm...

I thought it WAS wolverine!

I'll just say he's Wolverine then if anyone else asks ha, thanks guys

So I haven't done as much as I would've liked over the last two days. Had a thunderstorm yesterday so I couldn't draw for the majority of the day but hopefully I'll make up for it later in the week. For now I've been doing thumbnails for my next illustration, been trying to do them in only 4 values like what it says to do in Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis. Also been thinking about how I layer the values and what works best and junk. And I've been doin it all with Eytan Zana's brushes which are really cool to work with

I'm going hiking tomorrow so not sure if there will be an update, we shall see!

Excellent sketchbook! It's really inspiring.

Forrestimel wrote: Had a thunderstorm yesterday so I couldn't draw for the majority of the day

Paper and pen?

What's 'paper and pen'?

@Charlotte: I actually broke out some prismacolor pencils and doodled a goblin head

Got too lazy to post last night cuz I got home late, so heres a morning post. And I will be sure to have another big dump of stuff later tonight because I'm goin hardcore today!

More thumbs and studies









Sorry for crappy camera phone quality



WIP of my next illustration

phew! Today has been rough, here's what I've done The illustration still isn't done, should be able to finish it tomorrow though

So it's been another week down since I started my "In an Art Shell" thing on DeviantArt. So here's all I've done this week, including the finished illustration I've been working on and some doodles from my livestream today

Also, I got critiqued by Ryan Yee today since he was in town doing a card signing thing at my local hobby shop place. I feel good about how it went, the main thing he told me with his critique was to use photo reference (since I don't ever use any). I'm not sure if this is useful or harmful for me though as a developing artist. Will I learn quicker or slower by using reference in my images? I'm not thinking it's cheating or anything, I mean I use pictures and 3d in my images all the time, but that's experimenting with techniques. This directly affects whether I can apply my gesture/body language studies. Anyway, I'm going to try it out but still do my studies and only use the reference image if I get stuck or need a refresher, not constantly have it up. Do you peoples have any thoughts on this?