I'm All Thumbs

Here is a little exercise I started to incorporate in my daily routine.  Just little thumbnail studies done in the morning or after lunch to get warmed up.  I just take a few minutes to play with different palettes and/or compositions.  Some of these are done at random, and some are based on existing paintings or photographs. 

That's all I got for now, thanks for looking!

Joe

Sketchbook

So, I promised a couple of pesky Canadians that I would update this slow moving, sketch-blog-thingy.  So here is an update from my current sketchbook.  Hope you're happy...Canadians(Mike & Tobi)!!!

These are just a couple of quick thumbnail pages that I like to squeeze in when I have some time.  Thanks for looking!

Joe

p.s. I actually really love our neighbors to the North

Homework cont.

 Ilya Repin

John Singer Sargent

I promised something NEWish, so here it is...more homework.  Something ORIGINAL coming soon.  

Thanks,

Joe

Outtake

       Here's another sketch from GoS.  It's an Atlantis statue concept that didn't fit it's intended space very well, so a simplified version was redesigned in it's place.  I'm posting this version because it was more fun to draw :)  Anyway, hope to post some NEW material soon.

Thanks,

Joe

Warmin' Up

Trying to get back into some personal sketches...gotta keep up with the Kwanses.  This is an old sketch I decided to warm up with, I'll probably update it as I go along.

-stay tuned

been a while...

Needed something to keep this thing going.  This is for Dave Chow who's keeping it traditional and burning through his sketchbooks!  It's a little diddy from costume night at an LBC figure drawing session a while back.  Thanks for looking...be back soon....



joe

Happy New Year / Box Art

Here are early box art sketches that I did for Ghost of Sparta.  Obviously these didn't make the cut, but I thought I would share them anyway.  The concept of these covers was to keep Kratos mainly in shadow, as if he were an apparition.  This plays on his title as Ghost of Sparta.  The second part of the concept was to play up his red tattoo which symbolizes the loss of his brother, who appears later in our story...yada yada...

                                            Here is the initial sketch of the final direction.

The work you see on this blog is most of the work I was able to do on this project.  I came on pretty late in the game.  So, if you really want to see who made it happen, check out the work of these talented brozifs: Steven Wen, Tobi Kwan, Justin Murray, and JJ Shaw.

Also, Happy New Year!!!  and thank you so much to everyone who has stopped by this little sketch blog in 2010.  I really appreciate your time and comments.  Here's to 2011!

Thanks.....stay tuned.

joe

Ghost of Sparta: Atlantis Sketches

Concept Art: God of War - Ghost of Sparta

Atlantis color study

 

 Atlantis statue

Spartan civilians

These are a couple of random pieces, I hope to post more in the weeks to come. Thanks.

Warm Ups

needed to post something new...

Winslow Homer Study

He's got some inspiring work, I dig his use of bold, graphic shapes.
http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=897

Value Study

A sloppy value study...that's all I got for now. Hope to wrap up some old stuff I've been working on, I'll post it when I do.

Happy New Year

I figured I should post something for the new year to get this ball rollin'. This is an old studio test that I did about a year ago when I was on the job hunt. I've seen the test posted by a few other artists so I assume it's ok to post.

I want to thank everyone for stopping by and supporting this little sketch blog. I'd like to extend a special thanks to everybody who leaves me some feedback, it's much appreciated. Here's to another year, good luck.

- Joe

Brush Lunch

I made a few new brushes and messed around at lunch. This doodle is based on the thumbnails that I showed below.

Flying Things

Here are some rough little sketches done for fun. Exploration, nothing more.

Sketch Update

Here's a lunch sketch I started a while ago. You can see that it got away from me a bit, and I didn't really stick to the thumbnails at all. I tend to like the thumbs a bit more, so you might see some of them pop up again in the future. Stay tuned.

Homework

Here's another study. This one is based on the work from Daniel Gerhartz. These studies usually start as morning warm-up sketches and never even get saved because they're so quick or abstract. This one turned into a fun brush/smudge experiment.

Still trying to wrap up the sketches from the last few weeks.

Orange - w i p

"Orange whip? Orange whip? Three orange whips."

Moon - w i p

Updated...still in progress.

Homework

Here's another Burdick study.

Guard

Here's another Mucha study from his Slav Epic...maybe still in progress?

Color Study (wip)

Mucha study

Scott Burdick study

Sketchbook

Rummage Sketches

Here are some originals that were later colored, these were done for a project that was ultimately canceled.