A sketchbook with alluring... something possibly?

[octopus_interphone]

A new sketch book because the old was was filled with more excuses than actual art... then it was severely neglected never to be seen again. I'm 20, with the handwriting of a five year old, and I hope to generally get better at this art nonsense.

post one for thumbnail oooooooooo.

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[Nightblue]

The hand studies are very nice, especially the 2nd-to-last one.

I dig the style of your jellyfish also =) very interesting way of creating the tentacles.

[octopus_interphone]

thanks for the comment nightblue =)

the snail is based off of an old anatomical print, some pattern studies and life drawing from the summer. I work in a really big sketchbook so I have to take photos of the pages, hence the shifting quality of the images. (and also some images shifted from the first post)

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[Eponine]

I really like the drawings of your hands.. and all of it basically.. i like your lines!
However, the last two - tree, I adore them! Just something about the angels and positions.. wonderfull!

[Tigermilk]

Great lines! I really like the studies you've made from life. Hoping for more color. :)
/tiger

[octopus_interphone]

thanks for the encouragement guys.

for some reason I haven't been working with too much colour lately, I shall change that. In the mean time heres an etching and oil paints from last semester, and random sketchbook pages.

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[octopus_interphone]

Drawing in transit, copy of a pipemonster I didn't create, and tiny tiny crosshatching. It's something at least.

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random wing and brush pen. the second drawing is supposed to be a dash board and a windshield wiper, but feel free to see whatever you want.

crits and such are very welcome.

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[octopus_interphone]

so I got myself a tablet, all very exciting. there are so many options and brushes and settings it will take a while to get a hang of it. I did a colour study from reference of course, the grass is just a mess of lines, not too happy with that part.

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comments or crits anyone?

[octopus_interphone]

past week in transit. people won't sit still but their bags will... and then some Bridgman studies.

[octopus_interphone]

I want to learn how to draw without reference. it seems every time I put the pencil down.. I forget everything I know. very interesting. chicken scratches everywhere.

so I decided to work on gestures some more. here's some sketches from transit (surprise surprise) and a few pages of many notes from an awesome collection of handouts by Walt Stanchfield on gesture. found it really helpful, now I just have to put it into practice.



(theres a link somewhere... http://www.fatkatanimation.com/POST/BLOG/GESTUREDRAWINGFORANIMATION-V1.pdf)

next update: something interesting and colorful I swear.

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[octopus_interphone]

cannot for the life of me freehand cubes in perspective. so more rulers and lines and such. not pictured: pages of disembodied cubes, and half-assed gestures. I'll put up some... uhh... complete-assed figures soon.

The weird dog thing is referenced from somebody else's sketch but I didn't write down who so now we will never know. The digital painting of drift wood... is very undriftwood like, got the texture wrong and some of the edges are much too soft. I'll have to try that again.

crits anyone?

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[toubab]

nice works, love how you play with lines! :)

[speedysam267]

nice stuff! I think it's pretty cool how you put your notes up, I was tempted to read them but then decided not. I might later though... the animal in the second to last picture came out nicely in my opinion

[dark_maggot]

Really cool stuff you got here. I specially like your life drawing and figure drawings, they have really unique style that I don't see often.

[octopus_interphone]

thanks for the comments guys!

speedysam - my notes are up because they look cool, I doubt anyone could actually read it if they tried. if you want the information contained in said notes though, click the link in that post to the gesture book thingy.

first digital sp from life where I am impersonating a plank of wood, apparently. I had trouble not turning the face into a muddy mess, not sure if I succeeded. this took too long to do. so slow.

I see a few problems that I may go back and fix when I'm not sick of looking at it. does anyone want to tell me what I could improve in this? pretty please?

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I have not been updating much because in a strange turn of events, I have way too many pages to document. here's a few until I, you know, spend the time to photograph everything.

really quick ink stuff and a few select gestures.

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[blacky]

Of to thunderdome we go!
Wish you luck and hope to see a great "everybody butchering everybody" he, he

[octopus_interphone]

woohoo, butchering!

a quick study of a giovanni panting playing with textures... uhh.. well a texture. kinda lame.

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lets see... something not LMS related or boxes floating in space...

A kneeling chair. wow exciting. I'm excited.

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[Rabid]

Nice pen work here, I really like the loose pencil gestures the best though, keep it up! When cross hatching try to use the cross angles at a little more or less than a straight 90 degrees, it helps to define darker areas and shapes after the first couple passes...

Those patterns...can I take a guess


If so good...this book brings back some memories when I first started...:)

[alice_]

needs more work lady!

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thanks for the tip rabid peanut. I never read that book, the one I was studying was Rendering in Pen and Ink by Arthur Guptill, old school dip pens! the patterns were either randomly made or based off of Harry Clarke's ink drawings.

Alice - it sure does. Can't vouch for the quality, but here's an update at least.

Most of these were done during the workshop, ended up with more pages of notes than drawings though. I was sick the entire time and was feeling really crappy. sadface. hope I didn't get anyone else sick.

I found doing drawings of my scarf nice and relaxing so there's quite a few of those.

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This one was from the hour long thunderdome during dinner one night, the topic was "octopussy" the drawing sucks in countless ways, but I thought it was funny.


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[0kelvin]

Hey Elyse, it was great meeting you at the workshop! I really enjoyed hanging out.

Great stuff in here. I'd love to see you try another self portrait after Manley's colour theory lecture. The drawing on your last one is good, but the colour is a little weak. The saturation and contrast in the chair and background really draw the eye away from your face.


Eric

PS. The Black Froctopussy rules.

[Idiot Apathy]

Oooooooooooooook, why the hell didn't we meet at the workshop?
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=277267&d=1199932887
I was right there on the couch!!! Probably ... not in the picture though.

[davi]

aww
nice meeting you in Seattle, even though it was only briefly, the froctopussy is adorable!

[Jason Scanlon]

You are so much cooler than me. I need to do some inks. It was nice meeting you on the last day of the workshop; would have been nicer the first day.

[octopus_interphone]

0kelvin- had a blast at the workshop too. I will defiantly use my new found understanding of colour and whip out some more self portraits. For the last one using the bright bright saturated colours was a stylistic decision. The muddy colours in the face really need work(especially on the right side), but with the background colours I wanted to show the ungodly, abomination of nature, flourecesnt red of my chair and how it grays anything naturally coloured, like the face.

heres picture of it, unedited. Ok ok so maybe I was just so excited about being able to use that hideous saturated colour I didn't care how much it would distract from the picture as a whole.

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idiot apathy - we did meet. :P

davi -thanks man. It was cool meeting you though it is strange now having faces to put to the names.

.61803 - so much fun talking to you, even if it was only on the last day :( do ink! ink is great! if you think I'm cool the smoke and mirrors must be working :)

[Vorace]

heeeey miss Octopus_Interphooone

It was really nice to meet you at the workshop

I like a lot your studies and also the girl in post 23! great expression

why no more color stuff? those were looking great

mooore please!

[MurdokX]

Yes i will post soon! ok I m actually going to scan them now! which will take time!
Just have been doing concepts for modeling classes since i arrived!!

Glad to meet you, your knowledge shows on your line! im jealous

post your pictures you took on that wonderful last day! with your wonderful cam!

Cheers

[S.C. Watson]

Elyse,

It was great hanging out with you at the workshop - you've got an awesome eye with that camera of yours! :P I didn't realise you were right up the way in Vancouver! That's just a hop, skip and a jump, if that.

Enjoyed browsing your sketchbook - love the looseness of the inks - it's been positively *years* since I've done any ink work - though nothing as fun as what you've got here. all my stuff was uptight hatching :P

All the best,
~Shane

[octopus_interphone]

thanks orgeano!

now for the most lame pants update ever... (which will go nicely with my lame pants lms entry tomorrow.)

started a four foot oil painting, doesn't look like much but you'll see. Still need to photograph my sketchbook...

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[ajvenema]

wow! i love the loosiness in your sketches! go on with that!

in the cloth things u are a bit too fast i think, theyre messy. Try to b more patient or something, it doesnt matter if it takes 10 min longer:P

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ajvenema - thanks. I'll have to work on having patience while rendering.

evil genie chow wip, some sketches and the lamest lms3 entry ever. I won't make excuses because I can only get better. right? right??

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[octopus_interphone]

some acryilc-ly painted pages from my sketchbook. plan to work a bit more on a few of them.

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[Idiot Apathy]

sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet abstractionsss. Really liked your LMS too :)

[0kelvin]

I really liked your LMS. Not lame at all! :) I think you stand a pretty good chance of making it through to the next round.

Those acrylic pages are really cool. You should try incorporating that chaos and texture in some of your digital painting as well.


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[alice_]

yeah, i like your LMS entry, hope you do well! also i hope you get to finish this weeks chow, its looking good so far!

[Vorace]

^Woaah I love your CHOW!!

Great abstract too!

more!

[octopus_interphone]

thanks everyone, but y'alls that like the LMS are craaazy.

0kelvin- I'm defiantly going to try when I figure this program out. There are too many shiny buttons and options.

I'm going to work more on the chow.. later... yeees later.

The Great CA Outage of '08 resulted in me going to lifedrawing. The model could not hold any pose more than 30 seconds and the long poses migrated...drastically. So that was difficult. Did a bad job at drawing the complete figure.

also started an oil sp from life last night. (pardon the blurry picture)

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[BludHund]

Hello Hello, looks like I'm practically the last one to swing by after Seattle, how embarassing.

The digital selfportrait on the first page is GOOD, maybe the best thing you have posted here. Why?

1. likeness

2. Good areas of value, descriptive of the forms

Now of course, you really didn't go into detail in the clothing, which is bad. But only because you didn't crop it out or otherwise reduce it too a background element...if you understand what I mean...

Also it would have been nice if you had added some detail (highlights) to the hair.

Other than that I have only one word of advice, in general:

When working with a pen, hatching in an arbitrary direction is dangerous, crosshatching is almost always BAD. Better to try and use those lines to describe planes, texture, contours. On the other hand I really liked the ink wash thumbnails you did back on the first page. Why not experiment more with that, or maybe charcoal? Something that lays down nice loose areas of value quickly.

anyways, it was nice meeting you, I'll definitely be checking this here thread regularly.

PS

I like the LMS too. :P. But the 'smiley face' is ridiculous, its seems like you're disrespecting your own work. The real power of the composition and symbolism is unquestionable though. The colors might be a bit confusing and the different amounts of rendering / detail are a bit jarring but those are my only other crits.

[octopus_interphone]

bludhund - thanks for taking the time to give me a crit, it is very appreciated. I didn't finish the digital sp because overall I didn't like where it was going, super smooth and really stiff looking. Thought it reminds me that this sketchbook is severely lacking in pieces that have a lot of time dedicated to them. Certainly have to work on my crosshatching.

about the lms, there were so many inconsistencies and problems and then time ran out, so I said screw it, I'm done. The only thing I do like is the composition, and the colour blue. everybody likes blue.

my chow is chowing all chow-like in the chow thread, I want to do more on it before posting it in here.

Meanwhile here's a charcoal skull I did last night, I now see that the lower beak has to be fixed up and the edges in the light have to be a bit sharper. I've been looking at it too long though, anybody else see more problems with it?

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[0kelvin]

I think you stand a pretty good chance of making it through to the next round.
I called it!

Congrats! Good luck in round 2.

[alice_]

now you are my hero! congratulations on winning your round!

[Idiot Apathy]

Eeeeeehehehehehhee; http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=288872&d=1201384648
:D :D

Love it. You should take the concept further.

[octopus_interphone]

0kelvin, thanks! and you have a gift. do not waste it.
alice, teehee thanks :}
idiot apathy, sure why not? look for something in the coming days.

many half start things floating around and unphotographed sketches... so a small update. finished little skull guy and a half-started self portrait of questionable likeness. (the one in oils is not going so great.)

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[Vorace]

where are the glasses!?
I like a lot the bird skill. There is a part in the hole in the nose of the bird that looks a bit blurry, and I would looove to see some colors on it. Ok I would like to give better crit, but my technical vocabulary in english isnt good.

I like a lot the style you have in your lines drawings too!

ciao

EDIT : Wow grats for LMS!!

[TheGnoll]

whoa man, some MASSIVE improvement going on since i last saw your stuff!

much respect, keep sharing!

ciao

[RandAlThor]

Hey Octo, I love the textures you have in your moleskin? they are all done with acrylic right? I've tried a similar thing once or twice but just ended up with a mess, do you think you could post some steps or a walkthrough thanks, this would be an immense help to me thanks..

[octopus_interphone]

vorace - it's hard to draw eyes under glasses so I started without them. what better way is there to practice your English than critting my stuff, eh, eh? :)

thegnoll - thanks

RandAlThor - moleskins are for chumps. those were done in a regular 8x10 sb. I will do some more and take some pics, not that I know what I'm doing but maybe I'll learn something.

I hate documenting my work (so very much), now there is a backlog. sadface. Just so I don't post without any art, here's a few lifedrawings froooom last week. I wasn't paying attention to the direction of my crosshatching again, I always forget.

a ten and two 20 or 30min, conte gets eeeverywhere.

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[DannyMuskens]

Man really dig your anatomy studys and your paintings are very good as well, espescially the dude with the huge round eyes, love the skull painting too. Keep it up!

[strybjorn]

really nice stuff here! the life studies are great - the looser ones are definately best coz the lines look so much more confident and have got a greater feeling of life in them.

your more recent life drawings seem a little stiff and less confident - like you're worried of not getting it right

awesome stuff - will be back here to see more!

[octopus_interphone]

DannyMuskens - thanks

strybjorn - yeah the last ones I was concentrating on accuracy, getting the proper angles down and such. guess it shows

I swear I'll get around to photographing what I've been working on lately, aside from the secret stuff that I'm not allowed to post...

this is from my tiny pocket sb, double the actual size (for some reason)

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[Vorace]

more stuff please!!


what is censored in the top of the page??

[hp]

oooh i'm a big fan of the acrylic pages in your sketchbook you're painting...nice life drawings too...keep it up :D

[Smarty]

Some nice life drawing :D My favourite so far trhough is the birds skull, the temperature and values are great. Also, do you have high res scans of those acrylic pages? they would make for osme awesome textures

My only crit is the self portrait, I think the lighting is a little generic, Its possibly easier to get a likeness with some harsher rim lighting and shadows going on?

[octopus_interphone]

vorace - government secrets. (well, just passwords and such)
hp- thanks
smart kyle - the face was not rendered at all, I just slapped some flat colour behind the line work so it could be seen easier.

I am now working at a really repetitive job which makes time pass really fast, I thought I updated just a few weeks ago. Working on two secret artwork thingies (lms and ... ) so should have something interesting to show by mid - late April, in the mean time tiny sketches from a tiny sketchbook.

also while sketching at a bus stop a business man told me that artists are god's gift to the world. That was much better than being asked for spare change.

and ignore the to-do lists....

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[voetsek]

yo thanks for stopping by my sketchbook, and for the crit. i don't really have any critques but i'll tell you i am enjoying your quick life drawings and sketches. the finished works look nice too.

[octopus_interphone]

still only have quick things to share. all from my pocket sketchbook.

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[Idiot Apathy]

Whoaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh, this is beautiful! <3
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=342391&d=1207643929

[0kelvin]

Oh man, I really like the nautilus. I love cephalopods... but I get the feeling not nearly as much as you do.


Eric

[Vorace]

ok now I love your stuff!
Your drawings have nice and sexy lines yep!
mmmmore please!

[Lake]

haha the nautilus thing is sweeeeet.

edit: made it my desktop. love it.

[MurdokX]

ahah ya giant-warlord- hot air balloon.... it is my entry to Dominance war! ahah, i actually gave him a slim job so he should be fine,
I love your line work and especially your journal-style entries/sketches your really confident! now more renderings!
About the skull painting, its looking fine, is it going to be a dead palette?? ;p
theres something flat unknown-square object that catches my eye, for a balance composition?

cheers

[octopus_interphone]

Idiot Apathy, 0kelvin, Vorace - :)

lake - thanks, I do have higher res (and better) photos of it if you're interested.

MurdokX - you're right, need to do at least some renderings, and put more time into my stuff. That skull is done in charcoal though, not paint... so it's going to stay monochrome.

now more quick things! surprise surprise. mostly ink and acrylic and fingerpainting.

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[Lake]

I am. SUPER HIGH REZ SCAN plz.

[octopus_interphone]

sketches from yesterday before my fingers froze off and my LMS entry.

The day before the deadline I scrapped the miserable thing I was doing in favor of something fun and stupid. Even though it's pretty weak I still like it.

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[0kelvin]

I like the towels, especially the last one. The forms are much tighter and clearer than your usual sketches. I smell progress!


Eric

[Idiot Apathy]

Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeres the art updates ? :(

[Lake]

lol.... bump, apparently.

[octopus_interphone]

hey, not dead. moved to east coast to study ceramics. I don't think this site is really a place for ceramics so I will start posting drawings and paintings again. well, thats the plan - let's see how that goes.

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[Vorace]

she's aliiiiiiiiiiiiiive!!!

more!! love your studiiies

[0kelvin]

Hey, she's back! I was wondering what happened to you. East coast, eh? Well hey, I'm in Vancouver now if you're ever back on this side of the country and want to do some sketching.

Love the expressions! Post more! You've been away for a while, surely you've got something to show for it.


Eric

[Idiot Apathy]

Post the ceramics, ceramics are sweet. Lemme seeeeeeeee.

[octopus_interphone]

I have a lot of work to share, but must.. document...

anyways here are the first oil paintings I have ever done with a live model, about 20-25 min each and they are a lot less blue in real life.

my only documented ceramic work from last semester, some sort of tile. plus random old pages. it's an update at least.

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[Idiot Apathy]

Yayyyyyyy ceramics! Neato.

[Kalim]

You are talentet! no doubt. you have unique grawing and painting style. Love your images. especially those drapery studies

keep posting

[octopus_interphone]

Forgot about this thing again, whats new?

This clay tile thing is bigger than it looks, forgot to get a picture of the entire thing in one frame...

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[Lake]

wait.... woah..... what?!!?!?!

[octopus_interphone]

lake I don't know how to answer that, ummmm glorified muddy goodness? It will soon live on a forest floor somewhere.

now a couple oldish and newish tiny tiny sb pages:

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[octopus_interphone]

a lame wip of nothing in paticular.

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[Izer]

Wow wth is that thing up there?, looks likes bones and coins but like fossilized, i dunno but looks cool, anyways nice little sketches and that texture post is really good as wlel as the towel study.

[octopus_interphone]

thanks Izer, I made that thing up there out of brick clay, started with maybe 100 lbs of it? I sculpted vaguely naturalistic shapes to make a composition, it is meant to be outdoors and to fit into it's enviroment so it is based off the various textures of a forest floor.

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Working on portaits now, this is the first one without ref to see where I am at.

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[Lake]

Organization, clarification! I was just telling someone; if your values are organized, painting in a limited value range is a moot point. Make sure that they fall accurately across form and you don't have to make it so uncontrasted. To quote Kei, "if it's black, make it black"

[octopus_interphone]

Thanks Lake that was helpful. I will try to be make the values much more accurate and clear with the next one.

I always like how things look at the first stages the best...

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[Lake]

I always like how things look at the first stages the best...


That's because your values are better organized in the early stages; into light and shadow. It's simplified, but it's correct. Your highlights should be much more understated; your shadows should be less vague.

here:
http://smartflix.com/vidcaps/lvidcap_3762.jpg

is a good example, though simple, of well organized value. Light - halftone - shadow in a logical progression.

[MurdokX]

update more! i like your confident lines

that sculpt is really interesting, have you tried lighting it with a harsh light to see interesting shadows? you might see something you don't want. I remember i made this samurai mask from leftover presentation boards, then lighted from the top with a flashlight. Which made a samurai silhoutte! holding a sword! or i was just hallucinating!


This might help, the eyes is what we usually focus on faces. great way to build a head is to work from outside to inside, work the eyes last because for me it is distracting and i lose focus on other characteristics of a face that really makes up the essence, such as hairline and just structure. hope it helps!

[octopus_interphone]

murdokx - that's an interesting way to do the face, it makes a lot of sence too. That scultpure is on the other side of the country right now but I will have to remember to play around with photographing it.

lake - :)

first an extermely archival drawing... I made the porcelain bowl then drew in it, and some vaguely loomis-type studies.

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[Idiot Apathy]

God I love the bowl! Make more, sell me one <3

[Vorace]

you improved a lot!!

loving this sculpture...remind me of some ultra epic infernal landscape

[octopus_interphone]

I have a lot more work to go on this...

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a small update.

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[Lake]

is that a self portrait? it's working a ton better than the "painting caucasian females" heads you did.

[octopus_interphone]

lake - yeah that's vaguely me, trying a more agreeable blending method too.

This is my peice for the girly thunderdome 'something wicked this way comes', it is what I can do in 4 hours with no refrence (woo three votes!) I should have finished it, the idea behind it was basically the spead of disease knowingly through gifts, good old hbc blankets helped spread smallpox so there they are. Should have gave myself more time so it would make sence when looking at it...

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maybe I will start updating again. gestures and mediocre things:

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[hp]

omg i love the (i'm guessing) cups? great designs!

[octopus_interphone]

hp - thanks! you guessed right, here they are finally glazed.


I need to draw more.

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I am not dead (probably)

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[ParanoiaArtist]

Really sweet stuff. idk even what to say lol. your ceramics are really neat and great studies

[Jason Scanlon]

cool stuff

[Vorace]

miss octopus is ALIVE

[octopus_interphone]

I should really be updating this more! I haven't picked up oil paints in almost a full year now, here is a slightly out of focus still life I just finished. There are things missing, such as the acutual shadow of the red bottle and a few things I'd like to change but I have been looking at this for too long.

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[octopus_interphone]

haha this thread is ooooold.

After a long hiatus from ca I'm back. I am actually going to try (for real?!) to update once a week. I want to improve on my digital painting skills and the things that come along with that territory - figures, enviroments, all that good stuff.

here's a small oil still life study, and an even quicker flower from memory.

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[octopus_interphone]

these were done really quick to flesh out an idea I've been meaning to do something with for a while. there will be more. eventually.

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[Jason Scanlon]

cool sequence. I'm interested.

[octopus_interphone]

attachment manager you kill me.

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[Wilko]

I'd definitely eat cereal out of your bowls! Dig the design. - That's something I haven't said on anyone's SB before...
Liking your work so far, keep it up.

[Idiot Apathy]

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee I like these !

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eee thanks guys!

My figures from imagination are pretty bad, so I am starting with basic construction for better understanding. The other is the Skeleton of Procrastination, we are good friends.

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more quick sketches for a bigger project.

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the others.

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I now present to you: a blob.

real things coming soon.

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20 min portrait, the pupils just a little bit ridiculous.

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I have been spending a lot of time on construction and getting my brain around sketching things in perspective. Now I really need to take the time to do some studies slowly and accurately rather than my usual messy shorthand way.

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[Metal Fingers]

I really like this, like a lot! (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=988501&d=1275267316) The colors and the shapes just seem to go really well together. you've got a cool sketchbook and I'm waiting to see more, cheers.

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When I was looking for some files to upload here I realized that 80% of the stuff I have been working on this past month are still in progress.

more sketches for sketchbook.

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construction? what's that.

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[Kesse Jeller]

i like the shorthand mess there is something about it that captivates me, though messy it seems almost every line belongs right where it is, i say you should stick with the messy drawing style and just add watercolor or some other fluid medium.. your clean works are great as well and i think you have a good shot at selling your work or at least being recognised down the road if your arent already i havent looked up your gallery or anything yet.

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kesse - thanks, it is good to know someone likes my scribbles. I haven't been doing much traditional lately so I might get back into that.

Here are a few things done from imagination, they are not that great but it is good to see where my knowledge of things is lacking.

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oh wow, I have outdone myself his time. I Need to get back in the habit of updating this thing in a timely manner.

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another something before I go out, some colours on a doodle.

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adorable deadly spaceships.

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a moderately impractical spaceship.

any feedback would be wonderful.

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playing around with some brushes, oh look it's a ball. wow. amazing. it is red.

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[Jason Scanlon]

Wow. I actually composed that response before i got down to the last post. I like the gross transparent thing best.

[geckochan]

#130 and 131 are *charming*! The texture and loose lines really work for you.
The spaceship is intriguing. Very jellyfish-like and yet not organic. Which feels a bit counterintuitive/funny, but that could maybe be the point? (PS I know nothing about spaceship-design-related things, so disregard as desired!)
Oh yes! And a giant bird is a wonderful getaway vehicle <3

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jason - ...you must mean grossly cute thing.
gekochan - thanks! that is the first spaceship related thing I've ever done so I'll take any feedback I can get.

scanning stuff is a pain... so I won't. I've decided to actually learn anatomy instead of awkwardly faking it all the time. These were done in ink, nibs, and a pointed stick. That cup is my current favourite, I made it too.

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grainy photos for all! yaaaay!

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nib testing doodle. wet ink is easy to smudge. fancy that.

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this page takes forever to load...

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some more ink sketches I'm working on.

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[skMOP]

Awesome inks!
I like the piece in #129, nice lines and a good neutral color over it.

[Lav]

nice sketchbook you got here :D Hope you'll update it regularly because i would love to see more :)

[JcinNYC]

amazing work!

[0kelvin]

Hey there! It was great seeing you tonight! I'm not on CA much these days (wow, this is my first post in almost a year!), but we should totally keep in touch. I was going to give you my info at the workshop, but I had to run before it was over. My email is ericpoulton at gmail.com, if you want to email me, add me on Facebook, whatever.

I like the page of character thumbnails on post #124. There are some fun costumes in there. And the transparent jellyfish thing in #130 is awesome. I love the sense of humour you put into your art.

The jellyfish spaceship is a cool design, but the painting doesn't look like it's to the scale you've labelled it with. It looks quite little. This is partly due to it being painted almost entirely with big, chunky strokes. Something this big should have, at least implied, a lot of small details. You've got a bit of finer detail in the yellow structure coming out the bottom, and I think that's the strongest part of the painting. You almost have to approach something that big like it's a cityscape. You could even use something like those mirrored sketches from posts #141 and #142, grab bits of that abstract detail and throw it into parts of the ship.

Or you could just change the scale to 1000 cm and call it a day.

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skMOP, Lav, and JcinNYC, thanks for your comments!

0kelvin - while I was working on it I couldn't figure out what makes a isolated object look large or small, but the detail makes a lot of sense now. I'm done with that one but on the next I will have to keep that in mind.


I should photograph some stuff... thought I did but I will update anyways. Lots of anatomy studies coming this way soon.

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[Lav]

with what program are you making those? I like the compositions from the last 2 paints of post 149 :)

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lav - for the terrible quality drawings I use tegakie, one of those online drawing apps. no layers, no pen pressure, no eyedropper, no textures, and limited colours. Sometimes I find it easier to work with limitations so I don't get stuck thinking about the millions of ways I can render something.

Speaking of a million ways to render something I just bought Painter Sai, and I love it. Need to play around with it some more to figure it out. Here is a ...lump?

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[Jack Smith]

Wow, those skull, mouth, nose and eye studies look fantastic.

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Time for my yearly update I guess!

Since the last update I got a full time long commute job, quit, spent a month going across Canada and back, and nursed a seriously sprained right thumb.

Here's a few sketches from my travels.

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...and some digital stuff. I do studies then completely forget everything when I do anything that is not a study. wonky proportions all around.

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one more little thing.

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[Kayla0]

Beautiful style you got going on- nice expressive strokes!
a sort of controlled chaos look in that most recent one, I like it :D

[shambok]

I absolutely love your studies!

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a few doodles.

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[MoKhi]

Great sketchbook! I love your digital doodles. They're very alluring.
I want to see more

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MoKhi - thanks!

What a weak nose. I really really need to do more life/photo studies, like... really.

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this isn't technically good but I like it.

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[KT]

Yeah, lumpy space princess!:rendered: I like your studies, especially that anatomy study where you used the pin through the pelvis to show the relationship to the upper leg, good stuff.

[Dalibor Dejanović]

Hey you got some nice drawing, also you ceramic work is pretty cool! Looking forward to seeing more :)

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KT, Dalibor Dejanović - thanks for stopping by :)

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This skull doesn't make sense.
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obvious craig mullins influence here. I still need to some more nose/mouth studies because I don't really understand the shapes when I try to paint from my head. This portrait has structural problems but I think I'm getting better at values? maybe?

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Every time I open this thread I am cringe at how old everything is! Time for new stuff then.

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I would love some feedback on these over saturated enviros.

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