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Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Chiprocks1 Date: August 13, 2013, 4:49 pm
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Deadlines are great. In fact, they may be the best thing for any
artist out there and it doesn't cost you a damn thing other than
commitment. So, a little back story as to why I am creating this
thread. I am swamped with a lot of things, juggling and
multi-tasking on everything but the one thing I want to do...my
art. I will start drawing one day, only to get sidetracked by
something else the next day and tell myself I will get back on
track the day after. Only problem is that it usually snowballs
into "next week" and then "next month".
So, my goal for this thread is to give myself a deadline each
day and that means owning up to the thread to have something to
post each day. Well, definitely each week. But my goal is to
have something up by the end of each day. So, what do I intend
to post? Well, I feel a bit rusty so I will start by grabbing a
bunch of comic books, coffee table books and whatnot and start
by doing gesture drawings, page layouts, real life drawing and
everything in between. Will probably end up drawing scenes from
whatever movie or TV shows I watch as well once I get back into
a serious groove of drawing where I don't even have to think
about it. They will either be very loose or more rendered. We
shall see where this takes me.
The reason why I want to work on page layouts is that I have a
sh*tload of short stories and full screenplays that I have
written over the years and want to get these down in storybook
format. Ultimately, I want to pencils, color and letter these
into comic books. I will leave the inking for someone else to
do. I'm curious to see how fast (or slow) it takes me to improve
artistically. I suggest any other artist out there (you know who
I'm talking about) start their own threads and do the same if
your serious about your art as well.
One last thing, I won't be doing scans (for the time being)
because it takes a long time to scan and will be counter
productive to getting stuff up here in this thread. So, I will
just take pics and upload from there and keep myself moving
along quite nicely. Stay tuned......
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Mac Date: August 13, 2013, 4:53 pm
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I think it's a good solid plan. You know yourself better than
anybody, on what your capable of doing. It's aggressive, but I
imagine doable.
Write the plan... Execute the plan.
I have a similar self- commitment. To play the drums, whether
I'm in the mood or not. Practice, practice, practice. It makes
you better.
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Neumatic Date: August 13, 2013, 10:35 pm
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You know, I'd like to read some of these screenplays.
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 6, 2014, 11:18 am
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Okay, I was a bit premature with starting this thread. I didn't
realize how many other things I had on my plate that needed to
be finished before I could devote serious time to drawing. With
everything more or less done, I've started to reignite what I
started out to do. I've spent a couple of days just doodling
nonsensical sh*t that is more for getting the cobwebs out than
actual finished work. Man, I'm f*cking rusty as nails! A little
back story here. One of the time consuming things that kept me
from being able to spend quality time drawing is that I'm also
downsizing as much as possible in my life and that is unloading
stuff on eBay to sell that I just don't need or want. Naturally
I have a lot of sh*t and all that has to be inspected, tested,
photographed, cataloged and then ultimately listed as an auction
on eBay. That takes a lot of time and eats away at most days.
It's exhausting and after a long day devoted to that, the last
thing I want to do is draw when I have other art related
projects that I'm working on.
One of the items that was in storage was my Wacom Intuos3 6x8
Tablet. I didn't even think this would be worth busting out
because when I bought it, it was something like 50 bucks on
Amazon and that was years ago. I figured that I'd be lucky to
get 15 bucks for it now. Obviously not worth my time or effort
to list it on eBay. Anyway, I pulled it out of storage and
checked to see what others were selling it for. To my shock,
these are averaging around $250 for a complete package,
including the Original Box, which I still have. So, that got me
thinking, "Why is this going for more than what I paid for?" I
don't have any leads from other users. But with my tablet now
"worth" something, I decided to at least check out that it was
still in working condition. Uploaded all the software and
drivers. All good.
So, I decided to also give the Tablet one last chance and spent
a few days with it to see if I could finally get over the
disconnect of drawing one location (tablet) and looking at
another location (monitor). It just does not work for me. At the
end of the day, I just absolutely hate it. It's not natural for
me and it doesn't help that as recently as last week, I spent
more time at Best Buy messing around with the Surface Pro 3,
just drawing for the sake of drawing. It was fun. It was natural
and it's what I ultimately want out of hardware to be use for
artwork. Having this most recent experience drawing on a Touch
Screen just made the Tablet even more of an obsolete product in
my eyes. So, with my tablet tryout completed, I've since
switched over to drawing on paper and will continue to do so
until I get my SP3 (after August 31 for the i7, contingent the
reviews are kind and all the issues plaguing the i5 have been
worked out). But yeah, this tablet can't exit my house fast
enough.
Anyway, back to chicken scratching on my sketchpad and hopefully
I can shake the rust and get back into the groove again. I'm
better prepared now as well. I've cleared off a portion of my
desk and have my sketchpad open. This way when I sit down to
work on whatever stuff I need to work on, the pad is there and
it will force me to draw something.....anything, before any
other things take hold of my time.
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Mac Date: July 6, 2014, 4:42 pm
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I find that for me, there are two tough struggles. Getting
motivated, especially starting off with rusty like qualities.
Then I found that habit, that consistent drive to do 'that
goal', the next challenge after maintaining, is improvement.
And the only way it's worked for me, is do it over and over and
over. I love it when it 'clicks' and you nail that next
challenge.
In other words... practice, practice, practice.
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 27, 2014, 9:44 am
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As mentioned over here
HTML http://pennycan.createaforum.com/comic-books-and-art/comic-con-2014-(july-23-27)/msg29977/#msg29977,<br
/>I am using Campbell's Ruff Stuff Volume 3 and 4 to draw from.
For starters, just looking at one page is very inspiring and
inspirational and keeps me drawing. Another thing by drawing
from reference is that I don't have to stress over trying to
create poses. My objective right now is to just draw and get in
a consistent rhythm of doing it over and over. There's so much
to pull from in these two books that I will learn more from this
method than I would from trying to make stuff up as I go. That
will come later.
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Neumatic Date: July 27, 2014, 11:05 pm
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You know, Chip, if you wanna experiment in J Scott's style, you
might want to check out FB101's photography on DeviantArt...
they might inspire some "new" pieces and poses.
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Chiprocks1 Date: July 27, 2014, 11:43 pm
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Thanks for the heads up. I just 'Watched' him. Definitely got
some amazing photography skills as well as some highly usable
poses.
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Chiprocks1 Date: December 5, 2014, 10:32 am
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Okay, I'm gonna switch it up a bit now. I've been drawing from a
lot of comic books as well as photo reference books I've checked
out from the library, but that has run it's course because they
can only offer so much before it goes into repeat mode. What I
want to do now is to grab screencaps for movies and utilize the
USB input on my Vizio. Would like your input as to what movies I
should grab. Looking for movies that have very unusual / extreme
perspectives and angles and what not. Right now I have the
standard flicks that I want to draw from, those being pretty
much all the Superhero flicks (X-Men, Batman, Spider-Man, Thor,
etc...). Of course I have the Terminator screenies. Not a big
fan of Tron: Legacy, but the screenies look amazing and they
have a few extreme angels that I'm looking for, so I will be
saving those Caps now. So, movies that I may not like, but look
good will be a welcome choice. So, guys, give me some movie
titles you think I will benefit from drawing. Much appreciated.
Thanks.
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Re: Chip's Daily Sketch Thread
By: Mac Date: December 5, 2014, 2:35 pm
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Avatar
Renaissance: Paris (extreme contrast.... black and white, would
test you for a unique perspective
Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow
Matrix flicks
Hugo
Alfred Hitchc*ck films (Vertigo, Birds, North by Northwest)
Once Upon a Time in the West / Sergio Leone Spaghetti Westerns
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