[Cj_Marsh]

Amaakir- See I love that old one but I also like some aspects of the newer ones im trying to get a good middle ground with my design but I really want to pay a bit of an homage to the old harley

oni- thanks oni! I noticed that as well when I posted its a terrible habit of mine im really wanting to break, I have alot to learn Im trying to focus on heads in general for now kind of take baby steps into figure studies, and starting with females my weakest part seems like the best place to start.

small upload of a portrait of a friend of mine and something not really art related but my friends wanted me to make it for game of thrones :P

[MarcSampson]

be careful with black it should be the last touch not the fundation. never use black in skintones. try to keep your tones in the mid area later add highlights and dark tones

[Cj_Marsh]

@marc- thanks marc! Im trying to break the habbit of using straight black I started using an off dark grey, for sketching its a bad habbit im trying to break and so far its been a challenge.


Really hate myself for updating so long of a time frame but my day job( me living in kansas) got hit by a tornado and destroyed a few buildings and they have been keeping us extended hours and longer work days I seem to never have enough hours in the day to try and work on my art anymore its a little discouraging, I hate my day job so much but I try and use it as drive to better my art work and hone my skills. Still trying to get my finances underway so I can go to art school currently I am looking to move to LA not just for the school but also for the industry. Everyday I wish to live my dream of becoming a concept artist. Im trying to push myself as best as I can hopefully I can get finances all taken care of within 5-6months and will be underway but its those 5-6 months of working a dead end shit job that make it hard. But enough of me rambling here are only a few fem studies. I neeeeeeeed to do more work hopefully things with my day job cool down more and I can get some much needed rest and have an entire day of working on my art, again.

Crits/comments/encouragement good or bad is welcome!

[kevin-]

cool sb, there is some nice progress in here. work on your form and contrast a bit and keep pushing out work! keep it up!

[Cj_Marsh]

changing up with some enviros for the current challenge at new worlds!



kevin--Thanks man for dropping by! I really need to do some more contrast studies, I may just do some black and white still life paintings

[Cj_Marsh]

small update on the enviro...would have been sooner, I blame diablo 3

[Cj_Marsh]

ok trying to chip away at all my unfinished work/ideas its my new goal to try to get one of these unfinished works done by the end of the week im going to try to get more done if I can, but the old image is in this SB somewhere!

[Cj_Marsh]

decided to get involved in the drawing jam going on right now and here is the concept of the people im working on for the swamp type dwelling people, really wish I was posting studies
so here are my awful pictures I have

[Cj_Marsh]

also wanted to share this is my facebook profile for my artwork and if you could support me by liking me I would be very greatfull watch me try to get better and push to be the best I can.....Artwork of Cj Marsh

[Mrscribbles]

Hey CJ! Nice to meet you. Glad you like my work. I'll post this on you SB thread as well but I'll do my best to help you out.

For line work in particular, I can dump a million artist your way but I'll only give you three.

First is Gustave Dore. His engravings are absolutely amazing. buy his books and study them carefully and look how he uses cross hatching to separate values and line weight to pop out objects. the thing with line work is it doesn't lie. It tells everything. And it tells how much experience the artist has. every single line has a purpose. Check him out.

Next is arguably the most relevant master to study for conceptual inspired artist like yourself.

JC Leyendecker is friggin bad ass. His techniques are founded on appealing design and you see that with his dynamic shapes to the smallest detail. He had a method of dobbing his paint strokes, and sub dividing his subject down to simple counter balancing shapes based on the characters rhythm and weight. study how he uses lines and do pencil studies of his work. for you honestly, I would drop everything and study leyendecker for a whole month just doing line drawings of his paintings. You'll be amazed at what you'll learn. I'd hold off on painting. That will come later. Do what they all say and draw draw draw.

You can find the last artist here on CGHUB and you might already know him. But check out Carlo Arellano at http://chainsawart.blogspot.com/. You'll notice he uses the same techniques as leyendecker using simple shapes and line weight. He's amazing and you can learn from his style. Don't copy his work but just study it.

If you want your work to get as good as a comic book artist, draw until you can over achieve their work. This might take you months or even years but heck, we only have the rest of our lives to better ourselves right. So I hope this helps you. Hit me up whenever you have questions. Keep studying. Take your time. Enjoy life, and draw draw draw. Cheers.

[Cj_Marsh]

Mrscribbles nice meeting you as well and thanks a ton! yea I checked those artist out and your right they are just amazing! I plan on doing a bunch of master studies of those two guys and really going to try more line work, do a bunch of studies of portraits, figures, and other things! Thanks again a million times!!

a quick uruk hai study did a line drawing and then added color in a different way than what I normally do and see how that works, will most likely lay off the color for awhile though.

[Cj_Marsh]

did a figure value study still need to fix up the hands and finish the stick hes holding but short on time today and yesterday hopefully finish tonight after work...hate my day job takes out so much time away from my work....on a lighter note I made these a few days ago and feel I should share one is a fun face swap I never really did that and found out how to do that so had some fun the other is a nice little motivational picture I made (probably made already) but made this one and if these guys are not a good motivation to draw then I dont know what is...

[Cj_Marsh]

another concept of the kingdom of branae for the drawing jam not sure if this will be final design or not any critiques would be great!

and finished the old man value study learned alot of new things about it and really had fun with it need to do more!

[Cj_Marsh]

more for the concept new idea of them riding giant frogs

[Amaakir]

This whole concept would've been great for the CharacterForge Challenge that CHoo is running just now! I love the mount btw, a giant frog, AWESOME!
KEEP DRAWING!