Justin Owens » thumbnails

Daily… Value sketch

jay — Sun, 08 May 2011 20:58:46 +0000

An old house on a hill.

Daily… A few more

jay — Thu, 05 May 2011 21:20:27 +0000

Daily… Environment thumbnails

jay — Wed, 04 May 2011 21:17:36 +0000

Trying to get back into the habit of sketching environment thumbnails. It’s great studying from life, but I also find it invaluable working from my imagination (and memory). It helps everything stick.

Daily… Thumbnails

jay — Thu, 21 Apr 2011 15:56:15 +0000

A couple thumbnails for an idea I had for a painting. At this point I’m just trying to figure out general placement and proportions, I’ll do another round of sketches better describing his expression and clothing etc. I had been thinking of going with the portrait versus landscape orientation, but seeing them all next to eachother, I’m less sure. I like the vertical arrangement, but having open space ahead of him is nice. If I stick with my plan, the final piece is going to be 16″ x 20″.

Daily… City thumbnail

jay — Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:54:16 +0000

A thumbnail inspired by my walk in the city today.

Daily… Thumbnailing

jay — Wed, 26 May 2010 04:10:28 +0000

I finished up the last week of the semester on Friday, feels nice to have a moment to breathe. I’ll be leaving my job soon to focus full time on school/portfolio building. I’ll be taking a summer course now that I’m working towards a degree. I’ll be taking Color and Design which is pretty much a learn how to paint class. You start with the basics of how to mix colors (and of course the whole what colors go together).

I took such a class at my previous college, but it didn’t transfer over. It’s one of the core classes for almost all the degrees here. I’m really excited at the prospect of taking it now though. I have a few years experience at the school and my drawing and (digital) painting skills have come quite a ways, I’m excited at applying all that to traditional paint.

Throughout the day today I painted out these quick thumbnail sketches. I probably spent around 10 mins on each one all using the Oil Pastel brush again.

Daily… Vehicle thumbs

jay — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:59:09 +0000

Trying out some thumbnail designs using a ballpoint pen.

Daily… More napkin vehicles

jay — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 00:15:10 +0000

Another set of napkin vehicle sketches, I’m liking this process.

Daily… Marker thumbnails

jay — Tue, 16 Feb 2010 05:41:53 +0000

A few more vehicle thumbnails, this time done with markers. I want to take one of these and try rendering it out.

Daily… Thumbnail exercise

jay — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 22:54:25 +0000

I was getting my software loaded up on my laptop after having sent it in for repairs. I did some thumbnail exercises to get warmed up.