Sketchbook | Joshua Chennault

[Joshua Chennault]

Lurked here for a number of years, but finally decided to actually join the community. A bit about me, I'm a graphic designer & illustrator, and I am currently looking to expand on my illustration skills. I work solely in vectors (paper & pencil sketches...sometimes), and I like charming characters, hamburgers, Marvel, and history.

Anywho, on to the art. I'll post a few things here for a taste, but you find more stuff on my portfolio in my bio.

[carlianne]

@frownhub Hi Josh! Your work is so great! You should share your instagram with us too! (I already looked and the little party dino is soooo cute)

[keithryanstudio]

Excellent work.

[Joshua Chennault]

@carlianne Thanks. I got social links in my signature now, so anyone that wants to take a peak is welcome to it.

[keithryanstudio]

@frownhub nice, I haven't figured out how to add mine to my signature yet. Thought I had it

[carlianne]

@keithryanstudio I see it in your signature

[keithryanstudio]

@carlianne yes, thanks! I found the setting and updated it

[Joshua Chennault]

WIP - Standoff

Just a quick progress shot. Like where it's heading, not sold on the color scheme yet, still toying with that. One of these days I should show how I make these pieces, from sketch, to building blocks, to final.

[Joshua Chennault]

Decent stopping point on this one right now. Might come back to it a bit later to add some more bits and bobs but I'm pretty happy with it at this point.

[Cole Rts]

These are awesome illustrations! I love the flat cartoon-y style. The colors are all very diverse but still work well together.

[Larue]

Great graphic design, I 'm lovin your whistling waitress, like Wallace goes 2D!

[Joshua Chennault]

Going to be working on this little gal next. Simple sketch.

[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.