Still slapping on the digital paint and learning more about painter and photoshop, here are some doodles from the last few weeks taken from my sketchbook.
anatomically incorrect yes!
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/sketchbookfinal.jpg
character portrait speedy
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/shadowwoman.jpg
purple dragon having a well earned rest
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/satdragon.jpg
done for the dsg over at concept art more painterly style, topics were forest giant & zombie cyborg.
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/forestgiant.jpg
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/zombiecyborg.jpg
Lovely stuff! :) As all your work actually.. especially colors are great!
My only grip would be.. that it seems sometimes as if you'd rush to coloring even before you'd establish a good solid drawing underneath. It's a pitty, as that's the only reason your pics don't quite live up.
I know those are "just" doodles.. but good composition and character anatomy&posture are maybe even more important in that phase as there are no details that could "distract" the viewer from possible mistakes..
Anyway, great work otherwise.. Keep it up!
Igor: Thanks, i do know what you mean, bad habit of that mine trying to paint over early mistakes:P All good points ill keep in mind when next doodling and studying:)
Here are the last two dsg entries both about 90 minutes trying to keep some consistency to the images working with topics that you dont know what there gonna be from day to day is a nice challange too. Topics were adam and eve and vampire monkeys respectively
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/adevedsg.jpg
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/monkvamp.jpg
topic was evil corporate giant about 1.5 hours.
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/corpgiant.jpg
Regarding picture number three, I just have to say... yay dragon! :-*
I really like the highlights on the most recent pic, especially on the face and hand. I'm not quite as keen on the sketchy green lines around the lapels. It's kind of unclear as to what they're supposed to be.
Oh, and the second most recent pic- should that be reminding me of H. P. Lovecraft's deep ones, or am I a just huge freaking nerd?
Dragonrose: Thanks, yeh dragons are good. The sketchy green lines are supposed to be a dragon:P type design on the fabric/suit, guess it reads okay to me but i did that bit very quickly so to everyone else it may looked like i dropped my paint brush.:)
the monkey one? it may remind you off the deep ones but i had to google just now to find out what they were, so i wasnt influenced by it when i was drawing, i found out that the cthulhu world was lovecraft work which i never knew before.
latest one, the topic was conquerer of hell
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/hellconk.jpg
This one proved a real challenge dont think i captured enough story in either of these two. The topic was the first day after the world wide blackout.
My first attempt was where the military had set up luminous cabling powered by generators to direct people with, dont think it read all that well.
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/electric.jpg
so i did another more simple idea
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/cityafter.jpg
Damn. Do you make images like that on large posters too? Do you accept paypal?
Haddas: I wish i was setup to do that, maybe in the future i will ;D. If you want a copy of any of the images in a larger photoshop or tiff file to print out just pm me and ill send you one, or ill upload it to my site for you to download from there.
topic was the cowardly lion
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/lion.jpg
If the resolution is big enough, you could get a nice movie-poster size print done at a store like Kinkos or such. It'd cost a bit, but it'd be worth it on some of these.
lgm: yeh i seen those stores online a couple of times, just never really followed through, hopefully in the future ill be working in bigger resolutions and prints will be possible:P
here was todays topic the heartless tinman
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/tinman.jpg
topic was a bit messed up two in one i did the brainless scarecrow
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/scare.jpg
*edit Bad Voo-doo Man thanks I'm sleepy today forgot the g ammended now
add the 'g' to [/im] so it displays..but it looks good;) checked it by copying url
topics were female heroin and the gods storm
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/heroindsg.jpg
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/gods.jpg
topic was the blood collector - tried to work on contrast and triadic colour once again:P
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/blood.jpg
Astounding artwork, I'm loving them all. Great choice of colours in every picture, as always in your art. My favourites of those would be the world wide blackout one and the God's storm one.
Are you working on any game projects at the moment? Maybe I should get you to paint backgrounds for some of my several game ideas... (well, maybe after I have finished one of my current projects first...)
Keep up the good work!
Petteri:Thanks, i do really wanna contribute to some ags related projects let me know when you come up with something that would suit my style, although I'm sure there are much better background drawers around i would like the chance to work on something. My scripting sucks so i doubt i could ever make a game on my own
Latest topic was god of war
i totally missed the topic and tone here.
http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/godofwar.jpg
modified the image tags the page doesnt take ages to load ;D
topics were the washing of sins and jupiter based alien
(http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/wipingnew.jpg)
(http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/jupiter.jpg)
really nice stuff. my favorite is the glowing cables
Aah.. another concept art junkie! You handle the painting techniques well, and the designs are nice to say the least. Albeit, you should practice alot on proportions, make some studies whenever you have the chance. Also refine the work a bit, it's speed paintings, but can be finalized more. I know, finalizing is really hard, I don't finalize enough aswell. Hard to add detail and texture without loosing the smooth flow of the picture.
Keep it up! :D
stuh505: Thanks! the glowing pic was my least fav maybe because i really struggled to do it but everyone likes it(maybe because they can see i struggled with it:P) go figure
2ma2: Thanks, yeh proportion and anatomy is something i try to do when i can, and i do need to do more studies and will do next time i have holidays:)
todays was half orc assasin - very tired and lazy today just the pencils
(http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/assasin.jpg)
topic was moon alien ;D my last post for a while
(http://www.thedumpvalve.com/sketches/moonalien.jpg)