Jay Sneed

My recent homework assignment on a lecture on head poses while using the Loomis method. I'm definitely going to practice on my facial structures after the next one later. I'm posting up my notes soon!
#photoshop #digitalart #portrait #udemy #lecture #practice #headposes

Human artists, use only one piece to convince people to follow you

Been experimenting with my art style while practicing facial expressions for class on my head form homework assignment.
#portrait #digitalart #photoshop #practice #homework #udemy

Finished my most recent homework assignment on head forms. Photoshop is still a new thing for me to pencil on. But I love how it's coming out so far!
#photoshop #portrait #sketch #homework #digitalart

a stylized 3d render of an office at night. a dog is at a computer and staring at a tempting tennis ball in the foreground.

late night

Did four lectures on one sketch note. I'm really surprised on how much I've been improving with my shapes and pencil handling. Getting the opportunity to experiment with building my familiarity with the anatomy has been fun.
#lineart #sketches #notes #lectures #anatomy

My first digital art assignment!! It is related to the lessons on character design referencing. This gave me the room to experiment with my styles! It's my sort of toe dip into leaning much more into an abstract style influence mixed between Don Bluth, Bruce Timm, and Darwyn Cooke.

A drawing of Porky Pig and Daffy Duck. Porky is painted yellow, holding a bag of silver chocolate coins with one jammed in his mouth. He does not look happy about this. Daffy stands next to him with a paintbrush dripping yellow paint, dropping more coins into Porky's bag and rambling, written phonetically, the entire time. Daffy: Now--all you have to do is stand here and look pretty. I got ya some chocolate coins to last the year, so if you eat them all up then I gotta use real coins and I don't want to do that. So you're just gonna have to make do with what ya got. And don't move too much, because you might dislodge all the good luck, so just stand real still and make sure ya--

This is an accompaniment to another drawing currently in progress, but every time I see people showing off their lemon pigs for the new year, I tell myself "I need to draw that with Porky". Finally made good on my word, and at least one of us is happy about it!

A drawing resembling a vintage poster. Daffy Duck is perched on top of a sign that says 2026 - YEAR OF THE HORSE. The “horse” is crossed out and replaced with “duck”, per the marker in Daffy’s hand. Above is a speech bubble from Daffy that says “To have good cheer all through the year, just draw a duck for your good luck!”

Spent too much time agonizing what my first polished drawing of the year should be and decided to go with ol’ reliable. May your days be ducky!

Fanart from the Tex Avery cartoon, Little Tinker. Two skunks stand in the middle of the frame, the boy holding wilted flowers as his girl looks on happily. Their scent lines float above to form a heart, just as two trees in the foreground also make a heart.

A piece in honor of that one lovelorn cartoon skunk who just can't seem to hold a date--no, the other one! Here's hoping your Valentine's Day doesn't stink!

Started on my class assignment on trying to stay on model with or without references to build up a visual library. Seems like I might need a bit more practice on replication

Some more notes from class, including a realistic eye assignment we had to complete with stylistic variations. Took a few notes as a bit of a reminder on both my progress and something I've been trying to drill into my own head as an artist.

Been going back to my lectures for today. Might probably do another one later on. These have been getting fun at each step

Taking a lesson on rotating and looking at three-dimensional forms in all sides

Might need to practice on a bit of my pencil control so far especially when illustrating the cube and its grid guidelines.

My section 3 caricature project. I did my best what I could with the reference given and caricatured some of her important features into simple shapes. The chapter overall dove into the study of substance rather than flash.

Drew David Lynch's depraved demon Bob from my warm-up exercises. I got really into it since it was supposed to be originally a 10 to 20 minute exercise. There is a chance that it will be returned to and inked.
#traditional #sketch #fanart #portrait #twinpeaks #davidlynch #warmup

Took another stab at one of my lessons along with the extra assignment to stylize some of the realistic gestures.

#pencil #sketches #homework #classwork #anatomy #study

Remembering Scott Adams.

Digitally colored traditional sketch of manga/anime protagonist Conan Edogawa/Shinichi Kudo, waking up after having been shrunken by an experimental drug, his clothes too big for him, blood running on his face, from a blunt instrument. He sits on the grass while three light sources converge on him, art by Guillaume Babey after Gosho Aoyama, 2024

On January 5th, 1994, a manga about a shrunken detective started publication in the pages of Weekly Shonen Sunday. It would later become one of the most successful franchises in the entire industry. Happy birthday, Detective Conan!! #myart #art #detectiveconan #caseclosed #meitanteiconan #manga

Took another lecture on the importance of references and sketched out my best interpretation while following along. I'm hoping to start on the homework assignment to do the anatomy studies using what I've learned from my line, shape, and form lessons.

Choke! 🪓

Art by Jack Davis

Some more sketches from my most recent lesson along with the simplified figure pose sketches from tonight's lecture on highlights and shadow on character designs. Might need to work on my pencil movements as the classes go on but I'm proud of my progress so far

I've been working on a character design online course I'm taking on Udemy. Next year, I want to try to focus on giving my art a bit more direction and put in more time for practicing more often. I'm hoping to earn a certificate in various creative fields and expand my portfolio.

Rogue of the X-Men is holding an army general by the front of his shirt. He says, "Thought your kind were the good guys." "You killed those, sugar," Rogue replies angrily. "Now you get me."

Mornin', folks.

Did a full-on ink job of a novel accurate Roger Rabbit from Gary K. Wolf's Who Censored Roger Rabbit. I sort of put it in mind to treat Roger Rabbit as a muppet in a human world as implied from the early book covers. Plus, this also has served as a bit of a headcanon as to how the mind generated doppelgangers would look more like comic strip characters while the "real world" counterparts would probably look much more cartoonishly uncanny. Howard The Duck's comics worked by that logic with the character looking more like a cartoon duck but still can receive injuries, bleed, and die like any other Marvel character. You can definitely tell I took a few cues from Gene Colan, Phil Winslade, and a few EC Comics artists while inking this

I'm not as much of a professional when it comes to using color techniques but I did my best to get by. I wanted the flats to look as good as the retro print edits that came down the line.

The editing process for this was one of the funnest parts of drawing a good novel accurate Roger. I'm extremely proud of how this came out, even with the white background page contrast giving it an authentic book texture. I guess I'm not as much of a novice at coloring as I thought. Still, I definitely do need to polish my skills with a bit of practice and utilization lol

I really do wish that I kept the shadow version of the original flats and making an alternate version that utilized this factor fully

Color tests for the cover and book himself, Roger Rabbit! This gave me an opportunity to play around with the hue tones that went with the '80s aesthetic of Who Censored Roger Rabbit while giving it a timeless feel, much like the film.
#rogerrabbit #digitalart #colortones #garykwolf #novelaccurate

I did the original project itself as a revision of my take on a novel accurate Roger Rabbit. I wanted to try to capture the feel of the book given that the general focus of toons were aimed more towards printed/ comic counterparts rather than animated.

I wanted to try to give the toons a different edge than compared when it comes to the Disney take on the novel, which became a huge milestone for both animation and film. The covers have always had Roger to be depicted as a Muppet-like creature that coexisted with humans with Eddie Valiant being that contrast. So I wanted to do my best to draw Roger within that regard much similarly to how Marvel had always shown Howard the Duck to be in comparison to the other characters, entities, and creatures that he has encountered. Much like Howard, toons on the original novel are depicted as subcombing any sort of harm those of us with flesh and blood could in reality, with the only exception being if they could generate clones of themselves using all of their mental faculty to do so.

I wanted to play around with the colors as I went along by studying flats and watercolor as much as I could. So it would be able to translate once I did my trademark retro print edits. I did my best to especially play around with the lighting in different variations as to include a bright and colorful version that still gave off the grim emotion of the novel. The other, with a much more violet shadowy hue, would also lean more towards the darker nature of the book and give Roger a reluctantly sinister edge to his character.

As for the background, I did aim to do an abstract look that encapsulated the general balance between mystery-drama and comedy. So I wanted to study a few works by legendary film poster artist, Saul Bass, who was responsible for posters for many of Alfred Hitchcock's film catalogs. He also was responsible for the '70s take on the Warner Bros. logo, which definitely seems fitting to look at the not quite subtle Looney toons rings. I will have to make that work itself is still a work in progress since I do plan on doing the title and logo along with general formatting. I'm still a little bit shaky about the shattering/cracks in the background. (While they do serve a good purpose to display Roger's cracked mind, I feel like they do add a little bit too much than what I was going for. Still, that is why variations exist after all to give other people a choice of what they personally vibe with.)

Looking at the relevance of the most recent news of Roger Rabbit's right falling back into the hands of author Gary K. Wolf. Here's a series of mock book covers I did based around the original novel, Who Censored Roger Rabbit.
#rogerrabbit #garykwolf #digitalart #fanart #novel #abstractart

Swamp thing vs man-thing fighting in a swamp

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