James Hackett

I have been working on my website again, and in the process of putting up my daily sketches including the ones I missed. I decided to return to my old format for clarity. So to kick things off here is a tutorial that I kind of did before but never quite finished. It looks at my process for one particular style that I developed over the last few months and it is a fairly quick look at it. The entire process took about an hour or so and a couple replays of the latest muse album. Njoy!

The image here is the final outcome, tutorial after the jump.

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Today I was featured on the internet magazine, Outlish. Please check it out I think it is one of the first interviews I have had about my art and myself in that way.

I plan to catch back up with my daily drawings aroundmid next month got some changes to make etc.

Someone broke my website I am in the middle of trying to fix t, but with a lot of heavy exams coming up this may take some time for me to babysit this effort. I will try to find a decent solution to get all this working well again soo. For the visitors I get please look for me to be back to getting my dailies up soon.

N joy!

Coloured the pieces for my assignment. These are not the actual ones however just some pre sketches.

Another class drawing, tried to make my shading less graphic.

Class sketch. My instructor is on to my me now, he wants me to adjust my graphic shading style for something more classical. Damn! I was enjoying my speed.

More from the kiddies class assignment. Our group decided to do a kiddie spin on whimsical rock-like clothing inspired a bit by Coraline.

Some sketches for a class assignment doing clothing for kiddies 4-6 or so.

I just randomly sketched this inbetween work with no idea why or for what, when I put this up as my daily on facebook a friend wrote something for the character. I enjoyed the life she breathed into him. The writing for it follows.

One hour and 15mins. That is exactly how long i have been standing here waiting for someone who at this point i am not even sure is going to show up.
I must be mad or insanely desperate at this point to still be here, but every time i try to just walk away, and go fill this mundane weird Tuesday with something better, i hear a nagging voice in the back of my head that insists…”Just a little bit longer…”
It has gotten so insistent that i started humming that old maxi priest tune just to help pass the time and keep myself in place. Even this place made me feel like leaving, nondescript walls covered in old raggedy fliers, Coffee served by people who were too cheerful and oh so ready to tempt me off my “new healthy lifestyle” with sugar filled goodness that made my hips swell with every inhale through my nostrils.

Where in the world was he?

He was in fact watching her, for exactly one hour and 17 mins. He was seated out of her line of sight, and carefully committing to memory all the details of her, the way she tapped her fingers with impatience, the way her eyes seemed to miss nothing, glancing to and fro, people watching, and the way she gazed longingly at the baked goods section of the coffee shop.

Beep. The signal finally came in, she was cleared, and now he could go meet this woman who had been waiting for him to appear for the last hour and 20 mins.

Out of the corner of my eye, i saw someone walking towards me. He was dressed in a way that made him stand out, just because he blended in so well with everyone else in this artsy fartsy hang out. He looked like one of them, but in my eyes, and mine only since no one else was paying him attention, his whole ensemble looked like a well put together mask. Which is why he caught my eye. No one who really belongs in a place fits in perfectly. When you belong and you are comfortable that part of you that makes you different from everyone else, shows.
That was Luke. It had to be.

Switched up this one and used conte pencil, I love conte and enjoyed the freedom I showed in this drawing. I left the sketches around it just to give a feel for the page I was working on.

More practice of faces, this is one of my classmates Lisa.

Just some more work from class. Speed is up just need to work on my attention to details and my face structure.