Cakey's sketchbook

[cakeypigdog]

cheers guys!

finally found time to update!!

huante make it up as you go technique creature:



more fruits studies:



fruits and pigs:



some heads (going to play at colouring them in pshop)



brush pen (fave toy) hippo samurai:



recent life drawings:









and some more pigs!

[yAdam]

Cool work here cakey! The hippo samurai are awesome, hehe

[mya]

Great stuff, Cakey - very nice hippo samurai!

[oishiiniku]

Top stuff Jakeypigdog!!!

Your life drawings are looking toight! Excellent pig studies, too. Especially that top left one looking up. Pigs CAN look up.

Keep it up, fella!

Ta, Nick.

[Wetterschneider]

More pigs, and cakes, and dogs too! The Huante inspired image with the gentle watercolor treatment is very beautiful.

[bhanu]

amazing studies man,
Really impressive ,especially the face studies.The hair on the faces look really cool.The batman doodles also have a nice feel to them.
Your color composition also looks good.
Keep us updated.

[cakeypigdog]

i just wrote individual replies to you all and then firefox crashed and i lost them all. meh.

thanks very much for the compliments, means a lot to me.

here is a tiny update: some thumbnails for this weeks chow (clockwork colosus)
going to be a fun one.

i plant to opt for the shape of the largest thumbnail but to detail it with the city scape - factories off the second in from top left chap.



thanks kindly once again for your encouragement chaps, i feel like i am finally starting to hit a good srtide in making progress!!

[RES]

oh jakeycakey great work and i like the thumb nails they look really cool can't what to see the finished pic.

[Lewis]

Haha like those CHOW sketches
I myself was trying too, but somehow i can only design creatures and humanbeings. U on the other hand make drawing robots look so easy. IMO, the upperleft one is the best.
BTW i loooved this CHOW entry of yours
http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f8...g/leader1a.jpg
Just to let u know
Keep it up, your inspirational

Lewis

[sleeperservice]

Cakeypigdog,

I can't believe what great company I keep here on CA. Your work is really solid. Your life drawings strike me as different from the rest of your studies. Do you use two dimensional reference when you do the rest of your drawings or do you just draw from memory and imagination?

If anything, I think that your life drawings could benefit by sticking to more straight lines and refraining from over-modeling. Basically the figure before you in life drawing is no different than the concepts and ideas you draw from your other studies. Try thinking of it the same way when you are drawing from the model. Also, pay attention to your light source when you are setting up the model pose. You should have a strong direct light with no other indirect light sources complicating the shadows with reflected light from different directions. If you have a clear idea of where the light is coming from, you can almost conceptualize what areas will be hit with light. I think the reclining man in your more recent studies is the best example yet of a definite separation between light and shadow. Try drawing the figure with only black and white tones and describing it as best you can with only those two values, like a poster image. If you start with white paper, block in only the shadow areas. Be careful not to mistake halftone areas for shadow. Make sure to include the whole shadow area, even those areas of reflected light. If you start with a dark toned paper, block in only the light areas, including those for halftone.

For my studies I start out with a the smooth side of a Canson paper, 19 x 24. I pretone the paper with soft charcoal to a medium value. I start out my value studies with blocking in a the shadows with a darker value than the tone of the paper. After this is roughly figured out, I go in and start wiping out the light areas with a chamois. The goal when working in about 4 to 5 values is to put down the medium ones first, reserving your darkest darks and lightest lights for the highlights and accents.

Hope this helps! Oh and they do say that it is important to draw with your whole arm, so standing at the easel helps. Don't know why this is the case though and sometimes my feet get tired.

I wish my conceptual work was up to your level. Please don't hesitate to leave feedback for me at any time. I love your robot studies and characters.

[ArcoNL]

Man, great pig studies.......! Keep 'em coming!

[cakeypigdog]

hi chaps,
here is my wip on the colockwork colosus. really enjoying this. c&c very much appreciated at this stage!

no time for replies now as dinner is ready but will do proper replies to everyone tomorow.

sleeperservice: thanks so much for your excellent advice. i replied in your sb. cheers!

edit: removed dead image!

[cakeypigdog]

here are my individual replies sorry for the delay and thanks to you all for taking the time to post here!

yAdam: cheers indeed my friend, i will be doing some more samurai bits n bobs. an ibex and a basset are wip right now.

mya cheers my dear: you should start a sketchbook yourself you know: your stuff is just oh so pretty!
oishiiniku pigs can ineed look up mr nick. come life drawing with res and i dam you! loving your sketchbook mate, its a continual source of inspiration to me!
Wetterschneider thanks: i kind of saw it as a failed experiment but i will play with the method more. as the man says: it s just such fun!
bhanu thanks so much! i feel that i am hitting a stride now so i will try and keep up a good pace of updates.
res ah my good man, so sorry to miss the life drwing last night. was gutted! did it go well. i wish youd update your sketchbook with your new drawings : you really are the abolute shit with your fast drawing these days. i bow to your fast pen skills!
lewis thanks for such kind words! its very nice to get noticed at all around here. i really enjoyed that chow: i have a new technique of putting graphite powder down on bristol board and then working back into my drawing. its really fun! putty rubbers are top! thanks again!
sleeperservice thanks again. your a star!
arconl thanks chap!

no artwork this post /me slaps own wrist, but i will put up my final colosus later today! thanks again!

[Badger]

Nice work man, i love those thumbs.
Keep an eye on your characters necks, i know i'm one to talk when it comes to anatomical issues. But the rest of your paintings are so good it's a shame that the necks sometimes too a bit dodge.
Cool fruits studies, that book is nuts.
I look forward to seeing what you've done with the colossus, that type of metal is an ambitous thing to render. Maybe add a warm red, or orange to his eyes, lighting up his face, to really bring in focus.
But what do i know, i'm just a young'un.
-B-

[Smitherines]

Nice work...your life drawings don't seem to be as strong as your invented work and illustrations...some small heads on your life drawings. Keep up the good work

[cakeypigdog]

cheers badger! will do some anatomy studies of necks

smitherines: i will try and focus on proportion more! that one in sanguine nearly killed me when i stepped back at the end and looked!

heres the colosus



and a 30 min speedpaint of an ibex from lunchtime!

[newman]

suh-weet!
(your third from last image seems to have fallen over b.t.w.)

[RES]

I’ve updated where’s yours.........now it my turn to badger you HA HA HA

[davison]

Havent you been a busy bunny! very nice very nice! im gona have get my shit together and post a bit of my junk (first i'll have to pic up a lap top!)

[cakeypigdog]

thanks kids!

ok , decided to update this more rugular...

i have been painting and drawing an awful lot lately so i will try and put some stuffs up: lots needs finishing/ taking photos of but heres some recent bits!

These are my more recent speedpaints: started about a month ago. They are mostly all 20 min paints: lunchtime sessions with a few nice chaps at work. had fun and learnt plenty... i am actually starting to get results that i dont hate!!

















a few thumbs from a meet up with res and mya last night:



a pencil drawing of a random character:



will take photos of latest life drawing soon: having fun and finally making some progress!

cheeers!

[newman]

really like the monkey butterfly, the rest all look cool too (except the wrestler woman, she's a bit poo)

good work!

[cakeypigdog]

cheers ben i quite agree with her being poo. must try harder!

heres a sizable update: first some life drawing:

5 min gestures:



a few 1-2 hour charcoal studies (thanks to sleeper service for advice and ricjithekiller for showing me the light with this wonderful medium!) only just started using it in this way so stay posted for more ...





a couple of sanguine and chalk ones on blue canson pastel paper





fridays speedpaint (from a photo this time- no colour picking, tracing etc)



and an amalgamation of sketchbook bits and bobs all group coloured in painter:



more soon, C&C welcomed as usual!!

[oishiiniku]

Top update, Jakey! Your lifedrawings have really come on lately, both tonally and in terms of proportion. That second chalk on blue number is verrry nice! Good compendium of doodles, too. Although something bothers me about the skin tones - maybe too much red in some of them? Could be my crappy monitor.

Looking forward to more. I need to kick myself up the arse and do something...

Ta, Nick.

[cakeypigdog]

cheers for the crits nick,

looking forward to your next update mate, your recent doodles have upped the benchmark yet again!!

here is a colour fix on that last one

[DR_Inferno]

This is all so outstanding!

[Gloominati]

some really nice lifedrawing skills goin on in here, I dig all of these figure drawings! Though you seem to have trouble transfering your lifedrawing skills into your mindstuff, maybe you should try this little exercise:

Look at any kind of referencepicture for some time and try to remember as much as possible, then put the referencepicture away and draw it from your mind. That will train your memory quite a lot and maybe you will be able to use the things you've learned from lifedrawing in your mindstuff better.

Keep at it mate!!

[cakeypigdog]

dr_inferno: cheers muchly, your encouragement is muchly appreciated.

gloominati: cheers for the advice i shall have a proper go at that soon... it sounds like a good technique to develop...

been doodling away on a character design for a group project that me, RES and MYA are doing. you can check the main thread in the WIP forum...

here ya go:

[Recursive_End]

Good good good !
I've never seen this thread before :/
Very good work on the characters. Can't crit much, just keep 'em coming !!

[cakeypigdog]

cheers Recursive_End! thanks for the encouragement! it sure is quiet in here

here are a few more bits n bobs

a few more lunchtime 20 min speedies:

'the owl and the pussycat'



'simian pilot'



'forest guardian'



my wip for this weeks chow



a scan of a load of my free form with pen character designs (fun)



and a few trys with a new super chunky 9b pencil that i have been enjoying alot!



got some more life drawings and some bigger stuff but need to take photios of them , so they have to wait a while. still really enjoying myslef and feel lik i am making some progess...

[cakeypigdog]

finished my chow entry!