Jacob's Art and Design Dump

[Jacob]

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Hi everyone, Jacob here

It's kinda been a long time since I updated this thread, but I have a lot of new work to show!

I used to do strictly traditional art, but I now study graphic design in college and do a little illustration for fun, so I figured I should share some of it here!

Please leave your thoughts below in the comments if you wanna

Ps. I will be updating this thread when I have new work from time to time!


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Spoiler: Graphic Design Work

Slugabed Vinyl Design

Album Front and Back

Inside Liner Notes

Vinyl Center Sticker Side A

Spoiler:

For this project, I was tasked to make a vinyl cover, inside liner notes, and vinyl stickers for a fantasy vinyl of any artist's music of our choice. I chose Slugabed, an atmospheric electronic music producer. We could only use collaged typography for this assignment- meaning the majority of it had to be hand-created and we could not collage images of items, only text and letters.

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Moons Of Saturn Festival

Cover and One Spread

A Second Spread

Poster and Tickets

Spoiler:

For this project I created a fake music/film festival- titled Moons Of Saturn, Sci Fi Festival- for which I then designed a 20-page publication for, as well as tickets and a promotional poster.

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Phobia

Spoiler:

This project was a 3d piece about communicating a specific word, and it had to be a hanging mobile. I chose the word Phobia and decided to create a spider installation with bouncing legs and letters wrapped in web

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Avicii Promotional Poster

rip </3

Spoiler:

For this project, our local music hall asked us to create posters for artists that performed there in the past, so I chose Avicii. I used spray paint and laser-cut stencils as the primary elements in this design to create kind of a psychedelic, color design to capture the sound of electronic music (in my opinion)

Spoiler: Illustrations

Definitely more to come as I find files saved to my computer, as well as when I finish more pieces in the future! Stay tuned!

And thank you for looking :]
<3
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[Pokemanz]

Aw man I love the squid you did haha

 

[Jacob]

Aw man I love the squid you did haha

thanks nat : D

 

[EtchaSketch]

The watermelon you did is SPOT ON!
I also love the shading technique on Mike,
The only thing i have to comment on is the difference in yellow from the fave to the body of the pikachu but
Other than that, well done!

 

[Jacob]

The watermelon you did is SPOT ON!
I also love the shading technique on Mike,
The only thing i have to comment on is the difference in yellow from the fave to the body of the pikachu but
Other than that, well done!

yaa... I tried to put a lot of detail into the face so it kinda made the color look lighter than the rest of his body xD

Ill try to avoid that from now on thanks!

 

[Mayor London]

I like the lips ._. i say at 2 am

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Too much shading on Mike himself, the sunglasses ARE SO GOOD

 

[Jacob]

I like the lips ._. i say at 2 am

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Too much shading on Mike himself, the sunglasses ARE SO GOOD

thanks haha!

 

[Money Hunter]

DUDE DUDE THIS IS AMAZING

 

[CreakySilver]

All I can say is wow. Your colors, shading, and details are very good. I'm probably going to go really in-depth, your art is so good that I pretty much need to. (Sorry if this post takes a decade to read!) Also going to do it drawing-by-drawing since there seem to be no consistent issues with your art.

The fish: Again this is beautiful, it almost makes me feel bad to critique it! The only real issue with it is that her eyes seem to be a bit awry. Her right iris appears to be a bit higher than her left one, and this makes it look a bit skewed. (A tip that will save your life: When you do a sketch, before you proceed, look at it in the mirror to see if there are any flaws in the symmetry. It's weird, but when you flip the drawing those flaws come popping out.)

Everything on from this point isn't really an issue, but something you could improve upon:

The tail could be made to be more dynamic... It's hard to tell whether the 'spines' of the tail are supposed to be like bat wings, or they're just flowy like the rest of the tail, but if they're like bat wings, they should be a bit more rigid, and if they're just part of the tail, then I think it would help a lot to make the tail more like a piece of fabric, with folds and creases. (A little bit like this)

The animal eye: Since I don't know what animal this eye belongs to, it's hard to critique it. (The only thing I could talk about is the anatomy if you got it wrong, because the shading is beautiful.)

Mike: Goddamn your camera... Anyway, the dark green shading is rather rough on this one. I can see a lot of the individual strokes. I know it's a painfully slow process, but try using brisk, very, very soft marks of dark green to slowly do the shading, adding on more marks in darker places. It's a very painful process, but it looks a lot smoother in the end. Also, the shading on the right arm and leg is a bit too dark - it looks like your light source is coming from the right, but they're darker than the left limbs, so it looks rather odd.

Pikachu: The shading is kinda wonky on this one! I think it would help a ton if you added in some more dark shading around the legs and back of the torso. Getting past that, there are some bigger issues. Its right back leg looks larger than it should be, and the bottom of the rest of the legs appear to be enveloped by the fluff, which is understandable if this is supposed to be a very shaggy Pikachu, but it makes the right back leg look even stranger. This could also benefit from the mirror trick. Its blush... Um... Circles? (We're gonna have to send an angry letter to Nintendo demanding to know why Pikachu's fur blushes.) also look a bit awry and not symmetrical. (The right blush circle appears to be a bit lower and larger than the left one.) The left ear also looks pointier than the right one, and the mouth looks a bit skewed. I think it would help if you had equal length of the mouth on both sides of the nose.

Agh, sorry for being so hard on you with the Pikachu one. It's just a fact that problems will start springing up with more complex subjects. (But don't stop doing them! They're good for you.)

Sunglasses: Nothing. I have literally nothing. It's fukin beautiful.

Watermelon: DELICIOUS I NEED THAT WATERMLEON RIGHT NOW wait was i suposed to be critiquin a pictures

The human eye: This could probably do with some upper eyelashes! Other than that, I'm not exactly sure what the white speckles on the skin are supposed to be. If they're supposed to be highlights, then they should be much smaller and scarcer. I also think the eyebrow could do with a few more hairs. I think that it'd help a lot if you added smaller ones around the ends of the eyebrow, to give it a sort of fading out look.

Squid: Although the colors on this, as with all of your other pictures, are quite beautiful, I think it could do with an extra tone or two. Maybe a faint dark purple for the dark places, and then a little bit of light pink in the lightest places? And definitely some blue in the eyes! (Also, I know this may have not been in the original design, but maybe some highlights in the eyes? I think it'd really make it a lot better.)

Orange: The pith on this orange (Yes i had to google that term, it's the white stringy stuff on the orange) looks kinda off. Especially on the left orange slice, it looks odd and jagged. I think it would help if, rather than painting it inwards towards the orange, you made it a bit more random and fluffy. Also, the pith is a bit too thick in some areas. Other than that, the leaves are a bit odd-looking. I think you could add some more details to them, (Yay orange leaves! The most delicious part of any orange) mainly the light line in the middle and the lines coming out of it.

Lips: Well, first off, some of the highlights on the lips look a bit scratchy, like the white paint wasn't getting along too well with the rest of the picture. That's kind of a shame really, there's really no way to get around that. Other than that, the top teeth look kinda odd. The left one is much longer than the right one, and we can't even see any more teeth other than those two, which makes it look like all her other teeth just don't exist!

Well that's kinda all I have. Sorta. I may have left out some parts. But I don't want to blab for an eternity... Only half an eternity. Seriously though, your art is amazing. Keep practicing.

Too much shading on Mike himself, the sunglasses ARE SO GOOD

What are you talking about? Never too much shading!

 

[Jacob]

DUDE DUDE THIS IS AMAZING

wow thanks!

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All I can say is wow. Your colors, shading, and details are very good. I'm probably going to go really in-depth, your art is so good that I pretty much need to. (Sorry if this post takes a decade to read!) Also going to do it drawing-by-drawing since there seem to be no consistent issues with your art.

The fish: Again this is beautiful, it almost makes me feel bad to critique it! The only real issue with it is that her eyes seem to be a bit awry. Her right iris appears to be a bit higher than her left one, and this makes it look a bit skewed. (A tip that will save your life: When you do a sketch, before you proceed, look at it in the mirror to see if there are any flaws in the symmetry. It's weird, but when you flip the drawing those flaws come popping out.)

Everything on from this point isn't really an issue, but something you could improve upon:

The tail could be made to be more dynamic... It's hard to tell whether the 'spines' of the tail are supposed to be like bat wings, or they're just flowy like the rest of the tail, but if they're like bat wings, they should be a bit more rigid, and if they're just part of the tail, then I think it would help a lot to make the tail more like a piece of fabric, with folds and creases. (A little bit like this)

The animal eye: Since I don't know what animal this eye belongs to, it's hard to critique it. (The only thing I could talk about is the anatomy if you got it wrong, because the shading is beautiful.)

Mike: Goddamn your camera... Anyway, the dark green shading is rather rough on this one. I can see a lot of the individual strokes. I know it's a painfully slow process, but try using brisk, very, very soft marks of dark green to slowly do the shading, adding on more marks in darker places. It's a very painful process, but it looks a lot smoother in the end. Also, the shading on the right arm and leg is a bit too dark - it looks like your light source is coming from the right, but they're darker than the left limbs, so it looks rather odd.

Pikachu: The shading is kinda wonky on this one! I think it would help a ton if you added in some more dark shading around the legs and back of the torso. Getting past that, there are some bigger issues. Its right back leg looks larger than it should be, and the bottom of the rest of the legs appear to be enveloped by the fluff, which is understandable if this is supposed to be a very shaggy Pikachu, but it makes the right back leg look even stranger. This could also benefit from the mirror trick. Its blush... Um... Circles? (We're gonna have to send an angry letter to Nintendo demanding to know why Pikachu's fur blushes.) also look a bit awry and not symmetrical. (The right blush circle appears to be a bit lower and larger than the left one.) The left ear also looks pointier than the right one, and the mouth looks a bit skewed. I think it would help if you had equal length of the mouth on both sides of the nose.

Agh, sorry for being so hard on you with the Pikachu one. It's just a fact that problems will start springing up with more complex subjects. (But don't stop doing them! They're good for you.)

Sunglasses: Nothing. I have literally nothing. It's fukin beautiful.

Watermelon: DELICIOUS I NEED THAT WATERMLEON RIGHT NOW wait was i suposed to be critiquin a pictures

The human eye: This could probably do with some upper eyelashes! Other than that, I'm not exactly sure what the white speckles on the skin are supposed to be. If they're supposed to be highlights, then they should be much smaller and scarcer. I also think the eyebrow could do with a few more hairs. I think that it'd help a lot if you added smaller ones around the ends of the eyebrow, to give it a sort of fading out look.

Squid: Although the colors on this, as with all of your other pictures, are quite beautiful, I think it could do with an extra tone or two. Maybe a faint dark purple for the dark places, and then a little bit of light pink in the lightest places? And definitely some blue in the eyes! (Also, I know this may have not been in the original design, but maybe some highlights in the eyes? I think it'd really make it a lot better.)

Orange: The pith on this orange (Yes i had to google that term, it's the white stringy stuff on the orange) looks kinda off. Especially on the left orange slice, it looks odd and jagged. I think it would help if, rather than painting it inwards towards the orange, you made it a bit more random and fluffy. Also, the pith is a bit too thick in some areas. Other than that, the leaves are a bit odd-looking. I think you could add some more details to them, (Yay orange leaves! The most delicious part of any orange) mainly the light line in the middle and the lines coming out of it.

Lips: Well, first off, some of the highlights on the lips look a bit scratchy, like the white paint wasn't getting along too well with the rest of the picture. That's kind of a shame really, there's really no way to get around that. Other than that, the top teeth look kinda odd. The left one is much longer than the right one, and we can't even see any more teeth other than those two, which makes it look like all her other teeth just don't exist!

Well that's kinda all I have. Sorta. I may have left out some parts. But I don't want to blab for an eternity... Only half an eternity. Seriously though, your art is amazing. Keep practicing.



What are you talking about? Never too much shading!

ok lemme just say, thank you soo much for taking your time to write that all!! I read it all and took into consideration, its really gonna help me out!

 

[kayleee]

The sunglasses are bomb but really you have a lot of talent they all look good

 

[Jacob]

The sunglasses are bomb but really you have a lot of talent they all look good

thanks!

 

[Kirindrake]

This is amazing, and that's amazing, and everything here is absolutely amazing C:
THOSE FREAKING SUNGLASSES THOUGH OMG :O

Did I mention that it's all amazing? c;

I'm no realism expert so idk what to say about anything really, but what I WILL say is that the tail on the pikachu looks a little... odd? compared to the face and such? Probly because it's so perfectly shaped, idk...
IT'S STILL AMAZING

 

[Jacob]

This is amazing, and that's amazing, and everything here is absolutely amazing C:
THOSE FREAKING SUNGLASSES THOUGH OMG :O

Did I mention that it's all amazing? c;

I'm no realism expert so idk what to say about anything really, but what I WILL say is that the tail on the pikachu looks a little... odd? compared to the face and such? Probly because it's so perfectly shaped, idk...
IT'S STILL AMAZING

ahh yay thanks!

 

[yoshiskye1]

I just saw this thread, your art is very very good! Like I just got up so sorry if my wording doesn't justify it but wow.
General comments:
You have a refreshing style. So much realism focussed art is quite bland and repetitive but you don't shy away from using colours and different types of marking to create your effects and in my opinion that brings so much to your art. It is difficult to make unique, different realistic art as after all, the object is being interpreted in the same way. You manage to make your art flow and your use of colour really adds so much.
Specific comments:
As many people have already mentioned, the sunglasses are OP. The shading and lighting is near perfect as is the colour. Really can't fault it
I recommend using guidelines when drawing people/animals to help align facial features. The importance of symmetry can't be underestimated
Also the watermelon is fantastic! Your highlighting is near perfect and it's just very vibrant!

You certainly have a lot of talent! Keep it up ^_^

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Also, i'm no expert or anything but I have studied art for almost 3 years now so if that counts for something the yeah

 

[tokkio]

omg these are all so amazing wtffff brb crying rn T__T

also, if you don't mind me asking, what are the art supplies you used and what brand of watercolor you used..?

 

[Miharu]

These are superb!!! Really great job!! ;//v//; Especially the realistic drawing ones!!!

 

[Jamborenium]

holy sh!t that watermelon, it looks so damn realistic, I want to just take that drawing and eat it I honestly wish I was good at giving criticism, so I'll just continue to admire that radical, watermelon drawing

mmmmmmmmmm /licks screen/
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[Azza]

Oh mah lawd they all looks so amazing but they human eye is kinda creepy but that doesn't really matter XD Awesome job! I'm not an artsy person, so I wouldn't be the best person to give you feedback. They look so realistic!

 

[Jeff THE Best]

Wow! Beside my drawings that would make mine look not really good... The colors are awesome! With what did you do your coloring? I guess coloring the drawings those make a big difference... That watermelon... looks like I could take it and eat it. It looks really good. Anyway, everything looks awesome, without saying what has already been said.

All I can say is wow. Your colors, shading, and details are very good. I'm probably going to go really in-depth, your art is so good that I pretty much need to. (Sorry if this post takes a decade to read!) Also going to do it drawing-by-drawing since there seem to be no consistent issues with your art.

The fish: Again this is beautiful, it almost makes me feel bad to critique it! The only real issue with it is that her eyes seem to be a bit awry. Her right iris appears to be a bit higher than her left one, and this makes it look a bit skewed. (A tip that will save your life: When you do a sketch, before you proceed, look at it in the mirror to see if there are any flaws in the symmetry. It's weird, but when you flip the drawing those flaws come popping out.)

Mmmmhh... I will try that when I draw next time because I draw and sometimes it ends up crooked at the end. I would post a picture of one of my drawing, but... I will wait and make a thread to show it