Work in Progress

A work in progress. Dessert jetbike rider
sorry i dont have much time to write at the moment, but id love crits on this one! Let rip talented blog friends!

Love
Alex

Jet Bike Racer

Heya,

this a painting i spent a couple of hours on last night. I really found the things i learned from the Rubens study i did last week were very useful.

im not sure what his name is but he's a desert jet bike rider/mechanic. :P


i like how this one turned out, i hope you do too!


Oh and i almost forgot, this a quick sketch of kouhei chan (one of the hairdressers at Cut For You)

SketchBoooooks

Dear Blog,
Today i bought a scanner. I got it for about $40 and it looks like a giant vacuum cleaner, but it facking rocks. its about 3 times faster than my one in aus and it has about 5 times the resolution. sooooo, now i can post my sketchbook scans from the last little while. please be warned, these are just sketch book pages so theyre bound to be sketchy.


Some five minute colours on a page

And some train and cafe ballpoint sketches







Some normal sketch book pages----

Conceptart.org debut?

one of my ambitions while was in japan was to start entering some of the weekly competitions on conceptart.org to try and keep me out of my comfort zone. this is my rather rushed entry in last weeks topic, coconut cruncher. it wasnt a topic that really inspired me at first, but i guess the point is to take a walk outside your comfort zones right. This is the link the COW forum if ur interested in taking a look at the entries. theres always a couple of amazing ones :)

ok, the next one is only a low res one because its a work in progress. it started out as a doodle but i got a bit carried away. im not really sure how this will pan out yet

much love
alex

Cowboys

I watched No country for old men this morning. wow. its a great movie. it made me remember why i love film, and filmmaking.

I drew a cowboy because i now know that cowboys are badass

Study

EDIT::
Sorry my batteries ran out as i was posting this. i didnt even realize that i went up.
The first face is a study from a Rubens painting (i bought a book with his paintings a couple of days ago). Man if you feel like a good dosing of humble i really recommend trying to do a master study, man its so much harder than i expected. please dont try and find the reference because i really didnt capture the essence of it. Rubens' version looks like a much younger girl and her eyes stare straight into yours from the page. its pretty amazing.

haha the second one is a random follow up to the last post. i messed with it for a little longer trying to put something worth looking at in it. it really is a mess- too much destraction in the foreground and a conterproductive composition (dont worry im not looking for compliments, this is more like a learning journal for me) I sorta like the idea that came through though. maybe it could be something i can follow up at a later stage...

LOve
Alex

Jungle time

this is me playing with some brushes in photoshop. i originally had a creature design in the center but i pussed out. i was too caught up in how the light would play and the design of the creature suffered. its a hard business trying to think of light, design, composition and pose all at the same time. i need to practice!!

i might take this further soon. if i can think of somewhere to take it. i was thinking of putting a giant stone sculpture/ancient city where the mountain is now, or maybe a hunter in the middle ground looking into the distance. we will see!