Sketchbook | Joshua Chennault

[DaveLeekArt]

Man! These are fantastic! I love your style. It reminds me of a show my kids and I watch sometimes, Hey Duggee. Very simple yet elegant. You mentioned working with vectors.. this is something I want to learn so I can scale some of my work but I’m not sure where to start. Any suggestions? I downloaded Vectornator but that’s about as far as I’ve made it haha.

[Joshua Chennault]

@DaveLeekArt Vectornator could be fine. Though I've never tried it, I'm always a fan of competition for Adobe software.

I personally use Affinity Designer, but it has it's own problems (especially bugs that crop up with updates that aren't solved for sometimes months). Affinity products are buy to own and they go on sale for half off a few times a year.

I used to recommend Gravit; however, it has gone the yearly subscription route for full features which I dislike.

[DaveLeekArt]

@frownhub thanks a lot. I’ll check out Affinity and start learning the ropes.

[Joshua Chennault]

Figured I would dust this old thread off. Been working the past couple of years, but now have time to develop on my work/style, so I figured I would start with February's prompt (Trapped) and dig into the back catalog of SVS prompts a bit and produce some more work.

Thought I would start off with a sequence of images for this one, but I hope to dive deeper into my whole process for some other prompts I have ideas for. So here are some sketches.

[Joshua Chennault]

Lineart and Color for February's prompt, Trapped.

[Joshua Chennault]

Made some corrections as I wasn't liking a couple of the birds, hands, and ropes.

[Joshua Chennault]

And this is where it ended up. Called it done for now. Still plenty of things to do differently (and better), but it's at the very least a good start.

[Joshua Chennault]

Working on some more prompts from the past. Flight had really inspired me, but I unfortunately didn't have the time to dive into the art, so I kept the ideas in my back pocket and started creating a story from it.

Anywho, I am going through the design phase for my little witch character. I have a lot more plans for Giustine Isabeau, so stay tuned. There are still some design aspects I want to fix on her, but I like where it's going so far.

[Joshua Chennault]

Getting a sketch in for the aftermath of Gustine's first flight on her broom. This character and the story I am developing for her came from the HTFYA prompt Flight that happened a few months back.

[Sarah VanDam]

@Joshua-Chennault I like how you’re pushing for small-medium-huge shape language and proportions here!

[Joshua Chennault]

@Sarah-VanDam Thanks Sarah.

[Joshua Chennault]

Getting the colors and shading laid in now. Made some edits to the sketch, by adding the birds nest resting on her helmet. It's getting there, but will probably have to set it aside for a day or two and come back to see what I think.

[Jim Gleeson]

@Joshua-Chennault I like the waitress illustration especially.

[Joshua Chennault]

Last time on HTFYA Jake had Anthony Wheeler on to help out since Will and Lee were out. Since then, I have joined Wheeler's weekday streams and just thought I would upload some stuff we've doing over there.

[Joshua Chennault]

Sketch, inks, and some quick color for my griffin.

[Joshua Chennault]

Here is an update for the griffin as well. Edited some aspects of the character.

Making a character sheet for it and giving a few details on griffins in general for this story. Griffins, unless they are babies, are almost always this really big creatures. So I drew on an experience from Jr. High when our class took a trip to Galveston and ate at a restaurant there near the beach where the gulls constantly accosted us for our food.

Just thought it would be neat to see some griffins that are bit more goofy and annoying in the city life of a fantasy world. Kind of gull or pigeon-like mixed with a bit of rat.

Mind the teeth.

[Joshua Chennault]

Been working on a lot of character stuff that spawned from the Griffin prompt and fits nicely into a story I am working on right now.

[Joshua Chennault]

Worked a bit more on the May prompt for Living Underwater. Wanted to work a bit more on the character design/story based on the sketch I posted in the WIP thread, before I go into the sketch further and refine.

Got some basic information on the third image. Little tidbits about how their society/culture functions. They tend to operate in small communities, or even just families. Intelligent, but they remain in a hunter/gatherer stage. Usually found in tropics, around the continental slope, shelf, and the shallows. Sometimes ventures into more open water, but prefers nearer the coastlines. Basic 'religion' where they revere the manta ray, but fear creatures like sharks and orcas.

Coming up with history and backstories really drives me to work on and finish illustrations, so I tend to deep dive into that...sometimes too much, but at least it is fun.

[makekong]

@Joshua-Chennault thank you for the inspiration!

I recently teamed up with an illustrator for a couple guest drawings for one of my stories (the booklet will be like a journal from a handful of travelers each recording what they saw in sketches)
And I have this huge loredump and reference images that I sent to them, but I realize dI need a nice character design file like the one you have here, so Ill get to work on it.

[Tash]

@Joshua-Chennault I love your design for the merfolk! And I love how labeled the different details! Can't wait to see your finished work!