Tea Drinker's Sketchbook <--- Three years later.....

[Tea Drinker]

Update

Feb 28 - page 4 - game unit concepts, poker, and korea land.
Jan 24 - page 3 - some years later a concept art job and some current pieces.




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April 13 - page 3 - tekwars, silhouettes, and solar queen action
April 2 - page 3 - shaman variations and invoker trent wip
April 1 - page 3 - staff concepts for dominance war
Mar 31 - page 3 - final chow 152 - sketch dump - dominance war action - staff designs
Mar 18 - page 3 - chow progress, dominance brainstorming.
Mar 17 - page 3 - color work, chow sketch, and dominance sketches
Mar 16 - page 3 - sketches, fountain study, and alchemy fun
Mar 03 - page 3 - wip, comic panels, and wtf! horny mice!
Jan 27 - Page 3 - Hands, environments, conceptual, and a shirtless hottie
Jan 11 - Page 3 - Torso study, character, and environment thumbs
Jan 5 - Page 2 - comics, studies, and character commissions
Oct 21 - Page 2 - Anatomy studies, Still Lifes, and sketches
September 15 - Page 2 Digital paintings
August 23 - Page 2 Watercolor and digital paintings
August 11 - Page 2 Watercolors
July 29 - Page 2 Contest entry, character, and watercolors
July 22 - Page 2 Phoenix mage, aliens, and a shell! :-D
July 9 - Page 2 Digital art dump - studies, cartoon characters, and random
May 20 - Page 2 Animation and Oil Paintings
May 2 - Page 2 Animation
April 23 - Page 2 Animation and sketches
April 22 - Page 2 Animation





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Hi, I'm an animation major from Edinboro University. I've been in a slump with drawing lately and found new inspiration through this site. I love my animation and cartoons but try to keep my fine arts up. I want to better myself further so any crits are very welcome. So happy to find a community like this !!!!!!!
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[Tea Drinker]

More scans, a character concept, muscle study, and watercolor.

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[Tea Drinker]

some marker sketches and figure studies.

[HanRa]

i love the first and the last picture of your second post... the first has a very interesting and dynamic construction, the last ist beautifully colored (i suck at watercolors, too impatient ^^).

the landscapes seem to fall apart for me. i'd wish less empty space and less difference in the direction of the strokes.

your study drawings have a dark mood, that differs much from the style of the rest of your work. I'd appreciate to see a few pictures in that cartoon- style, but in just that other, dark mood, for more variety.

[Tea Drinker]

i love the first and the last picture of your second post... the first has a very interesting and dynamic construction, the last ist beautifully colored (i suck at watercolors, too impatient ^^).

the landscapes seem to fall apart for me. i'd wish less empty space and less difference in the direction of the strokes.

your study drawings have a dark mood, that differs much from the style of the rest of your work. I'd appreciate to see a few pictures in that cartoon- style, but in just that other, dark mood, for more variety.

Thanks for the advice, I've actually never really realized how most of my cartoonish drawings all have a more upbeat tone. Definitely plan to update with more variety in mood, and get in some more landscape work.

Here's some more though from my sketch books and some digital doodles till I can update with those improvements.

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[Kat_Warrior]

Man, your stuff kicks ass! I also love your wide range of style - a nice mix of real life and cartoons. Also, the lighting on that first picture - just stunning.

[Maestro Andres]

You got nice stuff going on in here. Your cartoon style is very lively. Like somebody said early, very different from your life drawings! Gotta watch out in your anatomy, in which some of your drawings are off. Remember the proportions of the body, that's the key to all. To memorize it, a good way is to do studies such as skeleton and muscles.
Anyways good stuff in here, since you are an animation major, I would love to see some of your 3d stuff because I have been doing 3d too! Well, keep it up!

[Tea Drinker]

Kat_Warrior: Thanks glad you're liking my stuff

Maestro Andres : Believe it or not I actually don't have much in the way of 3d animation. I took the basic course for 3d to understand the fundamentals and the lingo that comes with 3d animation, but the facilities here are not so great, lightwave and flash, thats about it. I have a focus more on traditional animation as the direction for that here is extremely strong. I have though played around with zbrush a little; I'll try and post some models as I get to know the program better. But yea I see what you mean on the anatomy ^_^ definitely need to keep watching out for that, need to do more hand studies for sure.

While I'm here though, heres a couple sketches of my fellow animation classmates, a digital doodle, and pastel study from a class still life.

[Demo]

Very good i like the color choices for almost every pic truely excepctional

[sony]

sinister's side of rainbow,its really hard to use all those pure colors & you have done it neatly, in earthbender010, the belly is acting odd and distracting, make it more subtle and soft

[Pseudocognition]

I love that you can do amazing life drawings and still go back to your fun, unique style :) That watercolor in post 2 is incredible! Keep it up~

[ghoulio]

thanks for checking my SB, Yours is impressive, nice sketches and character designs...like the anime style.

See ya later...

[Augmenton]

I love your style and the bright, vibrant colors you choose to flesh your pallet out with. Nice work.

[Eric Cartman]

awesome washes and charcoal!!!! keep it up!!

[FlameDragon]

Really really amazing works!! :)

[metalyst]

You use color rather wonderfully. Your figure drawings need to be tightened up a bit. The tonal qualities are there, but they look a little sketchy as opposed to an academic finished drawing. Try working on your quality of line. Your color work uses bold colors and bold, uniformed strokes. Keep up the good work.

~ metalyst

[Tea Drinker]

Thanks for the wonderful comments! Really love the suggestions and am working on them. I'll try and get the scans in soon, my life lately has been consumed with animation. I'm in my final year as an animation major and really am trying to get a really good animation ready for the winter festival. So I won't be sleeping till winter break. But here are a few things that I have and I'll get most recent stuff scanned sometime after I finish working on my animation tonight.


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this is still in progress but thought it'd be cool to show the development thus far.

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[RC_Koala]

Your faces could benefit from more construction. Right now they're somewhat lopsided and wonky. I'd recomend you do some more portrait work and study facial anatomy before attempting this anime style.

[Rabid]

These are looking very nice Michelle...definetly miss drawing with you in the Boro. I think the fluidity of your pieces is what keeps me looking. Very powerful lines and a weird concept/animationmajor/fashiondesign style. Truly a gift to have a range of areas!


Favorite has to be the second one is post#5 Beautiful stuff...

Tom

[Tea Drinker]

Well been on hiatus for a long while, mostly due do particular life events and final semester college type things. But one more month and that degree is mine! Here are a few sketches as of late and also linked to two of my animations I'm working on. Love any kind of comments or suggestions!

A master study of Vermeer "Young Woman With a Water pitcher" in oils. This was a two week/ 4 class period study so I haven't gotten the chance to really get into the cloth of the table the map tapestry like the original.
http://img155.imageshack.us/img155/3460/michelledaviesstudywebct8.jpg

Study done in corel (soft vine charcoal brush) of an old woman. Been working on life studies to get better with painting via computer.
http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/340/studyfacewomanold01webms4.jpg

Random character design
http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/3976/ameconcept001webld7.jpg

Drawing done for our weekly campus "Bad Movie Night" poster. This week we have playing "Jesus Christ Vampire Hunter"
http://img238.imageshack.us/img238/8127/badmovnitejesusvamphuntxj1.jpg

These are a few sketches for a friend and a project shes working on
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http://img231.imageshack.us/img231/374/rat003ci4.jpg

This is done for a game sage buddy of mine in Dream of Mirror online. Hes the short guy and the female is his girlfriend
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current animations
This is an animation thats gonna be played while the Erie philharmonic is preforming. I'm one of four animators working on this and we each have a section of the piece. It's all painted in Corel and still a work in progress -_- can not wait to be finished.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFlDIbjGBbM

And this one is painted via computer as well and is a work in progress for my advance animation class.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3x_elGXTzA



More to come and let me know if these pics are too big. Thanks for looking :heart:

[Whitevillage]

Thanks for the reply in my sketchbook. :) You have some very nice character designs there , sinister's side of rainbow is a great concept and well chosen colours, the mousegirl is cute. I'll check out later your animations, i'm always interested in animation in general.

[Yetska]

pretty cool sketches dude...
now i cant wait to see some of youre animations :)

[Niels23]

Great life drawings! Stuff from mind is looking good too. But post №17 is my favorite: enviro, mecha and that 'kiss' are superb! Keep up the good work!

[Tea Drinker]

Thanks for the great comments ^_^ heres a couple sketches done from some stock images I did the other night.

Ulver: Thanks for the comment; I had forgotten I finished that kissing one so I posed the finished version below

[hedwordup]

hi teadrinker, lovin the work in particular the life drawings and cartoons which i think are brush pen? im using those but their too expensive for a full range, anyways really like your life drawings and they all seem pretty accurate to me but I think you could work on a couple for a bit longer just to give them a bit more punch, especially the woman next to the lamp. something seems to be missin from it that i cant quite put my finger on, maybe just a little bit more line work other than that their pretty tight.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120987

[clanlord]

Really approved manga style! I like it a lot! And pretty good shading keep going! Looking forward to see more of your stuff!

[KelsM]

Nice sketchbook, you've got a lot of variety in here. Good life drawings, too. I would say overall, try to pay more attention to proportion. Some of your figures are looking mushy. Try blocking out a simple skeleton gesture first that establishes where the joints and bones are in relation to each other.

[kingcoyote]

Hey there!

I really enjoyed looking at what you have going on here. The progression since just last November is very impressive. I especially liked the figure drawings in your last post. The forshortening and movement are excellent, and your line quality on the blacklines is superb.

I agree with KelsM about paying attention to proportions in your figures, but that sort of general advice is something we can all use. In particular, watch out for faces. Consistantly I noticed very long noses and low mouths. Fine for monkeys, not for people. A general proportional rule is that the eyes fall halfway down the head. The bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and the chin. the mouth is halfway between the bottom of the nose and the chin. Just shortening up your nose a bit, and raising the mouths will help a lot.

You're doing some great work, and I really do look forward to seeing more of it.
Keep at it!
KC

[Tea Drinker]

KelsM Nice sketchbook......try to pay more attention to proportion. Some of your figures are looking mushy. Try blocking out a simple skeleton gesture first that establishes where the joints and bones are in relation to each other.

You know I really haven't thought much of it but I think I really don't put enough thought into the mechanics of many of my subjects. I will definitely be doing a good amount of more studies with more thought process behind the relationships between joints and bones. Thanks for the comment and suggestions :heart:


kingcoyote Hey there!

I really enjoyed looking at what you have going on here.......I agree with KelsM about paying attention to proportions in your figures, but that sort of general advice is something we can all use. In particular, watch out for faces. Consistantly I noticed very long noses and low mouths. Fine for monkeys, not for people. A general proportional rule is that the eyes fall halfway down the head. The bottom of the nose is halfway between the eyes and the chin. the mouth is halfway between the bottom of the nose and the chin. Just shortening up your nose a bit, and raising the mouths will help a lot.

You're doing some great work, and I really do look forward to seeing more of it.
Keep at it!
KC

I think I'm having some old habits that don't wanna die lol but I totally agree. Faces tend to be a weaker point in my drawing knowledge too. I really hope after these few weeks are over I plan to do a ton of facial studies. I really appreciate this input :heart:


Been super busy lately as this is the two week crunch line for my animations as one is due finished by Monday and the other by next Friday. My life has become class, eat, sleep, and animate :xpld:

The first one is just a sketch I did the other day in art history and the other was a concept for the Shapeshifter CHOW but didn't get the time to go further on it. I plan to go further though once I get some time. I was going with a woman assassin to hawk type of thing. Oh and I posted my current update on my animation that is due Monday. A little info behind this is it's one part of four parts. I'm part 3, and this will be compiled with the other parts and played to a live orchestra (erie philharmonic). It's all painted in corel, each frame file named, compiled in monkey jam (an animation program) then edited together in windows movie maker, and all on one laptop :heart: there seems to be a lag issue in some parts that we can not figure out so I will be recompiling everything tomorrow in aftereffects as we think it's a rendering issue with windows movie maker. all comments and thoughts would be greatly appreciated.

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[Tea Drinker]

study from my painting 2 class in watercolor.

[Sir_E_Pent]

Hey One who drinks tea,

Thanks for stopping by me sketchbook. I do appriciate your words. You have some amazing stuff here. I really like your use of colors. I have yet to venture into the color world but plan to in a few years.

[Mikaty]

I myself am studying animation but the school that I attend focuses more on 3d animation, so I try to stay balanced by practicing 2d on the side. I enjoyed your water color paintings. I started using water colors recently and I've learned it is a very hard medium to use.

[Tea Drinker]

Thanks for the kind comments and here's an update on the Philharmonic animation I've been working on.

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[Tea Drinker]

This is another animation work in progress being done this semester. It's animated using photoshop cs, monkeyjam (a free simple animation/xsheet program) and windows movie maker. All thoughts are welcome :heart:



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[Tea Drinker]

Heres the full Erie philharmonic animation we did. It played live last night to the Erie philharmonic orchestra and went very well ^_^ also is some doodles I did for a buddy of mine.


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[kingcoyote]

Hey Tea Drinker!

I really enjoyed the animations! My wife and I watched the philarmonic one together, and she said it was really pretty. Keep up the great work!

KC

[Tea Drinker]

Thanks Kingcoyote :heart:

current work in progress, and the reason I won't be sleeping this weekend.

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[Niels23]

Very good work on that animations! They`re just great, thank you for sharing!

[kingcoyote]

Really nice, quiet interlude... The transition between when he meets the butterfly, and when he chases it deeper into the woods is a little shakey. It seems like you went on to th next thing before finishing what you were working on.

Keep up the great work, I can't wait to see how this turns out.

Oh yeah, I also thought the music went very well with the story, and its flow and movement.

KC

[Grafguy]

I LOVE the animation with the little boy.
U most have put alot of work into it, making every frame and stuff :p
keep up the great work!!

[smuli]

Impressing variation of mediums and drawing styles through the sketchbook! :) The animations are amazing and other pieces I especially like are the Vermeer study and http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=344691&stc=1&d=1207877678 (the left one just pops right out, great foreshortenings). Watch out for wide ankles and big feet on the figures though. Keep these coming!

[Tea Drinker]

Been an eventful last few weeks. I am now a full fledge animator! well one with a diploma now that is. Been helping fixing up my family's house while getting things together so I can send portfolios/reels to animation studios. Currently working as well with a buddy on getting a portfolio site up. But anyway figured I would post some of my paintings and progress that was made on the "My Forest" animation.



kingcoyote - Thanks for your wonderful comments, they really do mean alot.

Ulver - Glad you like them; thanks for watching.

Grafguy - Glad you like the work so far :heart:

smuli - your very right on the ankles and feet it's a bad habit. But gonna work on it for sure




Still a work in progress, but this actually showed at my University Spring film show. Hope to get more progress done on it soon but have been slowed down due to my stylus has disappeared in the chaos of moving home. So now I await a new shiny one via mail.
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[Sir_E_Pent]

Hello again One who Drinks Tea,

I like the paintings, just one question. Is the tea pot ceramic or silver?

[chesya]

Great colour vibration in this last one with the use of tightly packed spectral colours arounf the edges.

Very expressive

[clanlord]

Amazing art, beautiful animation series! You have a telent, which must be developed! I vote EXCELLENT!

[Tea Drinker]

Just a dump of some things I've been doing lately :painting:

first two are studies, and the last one is actually something I digitally painted for a good friend based on her character designs.




Tony Kain: the teapot is ceramic. It was a painting exercise in creating the impression of a ceramic texture but I think it ended up being more a study in color XP

chesya and clanlord: Thanks for the comments; much love to you.

[Arteater]

you have some unique style,

I'm liking the blonde girl second to last. Great work with you colors and lighting, keep it up :D

[Gail_Blitzy]

I love your life drawing pictures! and some of the image concepts are quite interesting!

[Tea Drinker]

Thanks for the kind comments <3

Heres some recent works. The first is a commission on the concept of a phoenix mage. I had some fun goofing with brushes on it. The alien one is actually a fanart in support of my good friend's webcomic Trying Human. If you like aliens, area 51, and abductions this is a good comic for you. She had been having a hard week and I made it to cheer her up. And the last one is a quick study of a shell my sister brought back from the beach.


Trying Human website (http://www.introducing-emy.com/th/)

[Tea Drinker]

some recent stuff.

[Tea Drinker]

Recent watercolors. Some of these were entered in auction.


If anyone has any suggestions on better ways to photograph watercolor paintings, it would help a ton. I have real issues in photographing these pieces. Much of the color always tends to get altered or lost. Makes me wish we were taught about color photography and not just black and white in Photography 101 :P


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[smuli]

Those watercolour pictures are awesome, you sure master the medium. I really like the designs and use of colour on the surreal females. Joker's bent knee seems to be a bit too high though. Hope to see more of these watercolours, they're the most impressive thing i've seen in a while.

[Tea Drinker]

Thanks Smuli, I really enjoy making the surreal fantasy females. I see also what ya mean on the Joker. Really wish I hadn't sold it to my friend lol maybe he'll let me fix it up.

These are just some recient things. First is a digital painting baised off of a pencil sketch in my sketch book. Been really trying improve and find my niche in my digital painting. Second is a watercolor I did in between doing some commissions. And the third is a collaboration commission where my friend did the sketch and I did the paint job on top. Again working on the digital painting thing ^_^

[Nele Ooms]

This thread is really impressive!!! I want to see more and more :)

[Tea Drinker]

Just a few more finished things I've done lately.

And thanks for the kind comment Nele Ooms :^^: .

[cout<mecha]

I like your warped off anime figures and your nexus study paintings. I also like the industrial painterly aspect of color in these last two. Really hope you will do some more animation in the future as well. Have a great one!

[Tea Drinker]

finally got around to scanning in some of my studies and sketches; so here's a small dump of scans for now.

[TASmith]

great sketchbook! I love the comics, especially your comic anatomy is great. The biggest problem I see here is with your anatomy from life. You and I share the same problem: drawing at two different scales, a smaller proportion for torso and head, and a larger one for the abdomen and legs. You should digitally cut your life sketches in half, and redraw them, with a larger and smaller version, just to see the difference.

In practice while life drawing, you should try thirty second, preperatory sketches, before going onto a longer, rendered drawing. Make sure the top half and bottom half really fit to scale.

The watercolors are excellent, post more of those. Also, the latest digital woman is really well done. Her chest may be a little low, and her cheeks a bit flat, but she's got character.

[Niels23]

Nice colors! I like your life drawings a lot! My suggestion - try to put more contrast in your drawings it can help them look more impressive. Great work anyway!

[Tea Drinker]

I've made it one of my resolutions to update way more. So here's a small dump of more recent things.


the comic pages and covers are my recent colorist work. The line work is all Joshua LaBello but all the color work is me. I currently am working as a colorist for a Cult Horror comic based on the Leprechaun and the warlock; which will go to print late spring, early summer. ^_^ I love cult horror so I' having a blast with it.

The black and white one is a study I did today from a stock photo image.

The two environmental pics where small attempts. I'm still working on teaching my self to to environmental paintings. Still a long ways to go in that department.

the last bunch are more recent commissioned character paintings.


Ive also in the last month or so been using a livestream channel to let people see me work live and for me and Joshua to work on the comic in a virtual studio. the site i use lets you live stream free and I think it has alot of potential for art demonstrations or mentoring. I wanna post about it but not sure what thread would be best. Any suggestions would be great.

If anyone wants to check out my live stream channel its http://www.mogulus.com/digital_paint_tv

[kingcoyote]

Fantastic amount of improvement since the summer! I really enjoy the flow/sense of movement, and body language in these last few character paintings. Also that Grayscale study is top notch, too.

[Tea Drinker]

Been busy working on comics this week but here's some stuff I've done on the side.

The first is a study still in progress from a stock photo. The next is a quick character painting of a friends rpg character for the game Exalted. And the last three are thumbnails of environments. Still working on teaching myself environment painting so I figure I'd start with just simple black and white thumbnails. Still a long way for me to go though.

kingcoyote - Thanks for the kind words. They mean alot :heart:

[Robert.B]

wonderful work here ^_^ and welcome to vent!

[Tea Drinker]

Stuff I've done on the side of getting coloring work done. only 4 more pages to go on the first volume of The Warlock vs. the Leprechaun and I just got started working on a Michelle Obama biography comic.

But anywho these are some hand studies, a few color studies of environments, a human study ( still having issues in the arm area), a conceptual piece done for a nividia contest (still wanna work more into it) and a enviromental painting (got some really great help on vent for it. but I still have a long way to go in learning to do good environments)

More to come soon :heart:

[Quike Garcia]

Really nice work on values :D

[CUBICcube]

Nice sketchbook I like your amount of completed works hehe and the black and white girl from the reference picture

[Tea Drinker]

Coloring comics has been taking up most of my time blah. But I'm getting faster so soon I'll be outputting alot more work I think. So heres some current workings.

First are a couple of watercolor paintings I'm working on. No where near finished but figured why not post some WIP action.

Can't post whole pages of what I'm working on but the first sunset one is from a comic idea me and the inker have been thinking of doing. I think its cheesy to use lens flare but it seemed to work pretty well for the panel. The next 3 panels are from the Michelle Obama biography comic I currently have been working on. sadly not allowed to post full pages of this as well, but allowed to post a few panels. I really like how the old man came out. Then the western is a test page we've been working on. Dunno how I feel about it still.

And the last two are from two OC sessions with Jove lol. its very relaxing and fun to say the least.


More to come soon as I plan to join up in the Dominance War competition among other things :heart:

[monkeyman478]

Jawesome stuff! Tis skillfull keep going. :)

[Tea Drinker]

Quick domination war brainstorm sketches, a quick study of a fountain, and a bunch of Alchemy doodles I did the other day.

[Tea Drinker]

Tek Wars pin up I did the color work on. Gonna print in a free comic book day issue which is action packed. a sketch for dominance war and a chow sketch.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3205/3363465841_e5d196f1bf_b.jpg

[MacTire]

Really liking these recent studies and digitals! Great loose lines in these pencil sketches. Keep it up!

[Shard]

me likes :) great stuff!!

[Tea Drinker]

progress on this weeks chow and more brainstorming on dominance war.

[Jamie Romoser]

Hello Tea Drinker :sungod: nice sketchbook you have here.
Cant wait to see more updates dominance war looks likes its gona be a fun project.

[IanE]

Mmm... tea! :D

Your characters have improved lots in both creativity and production. Well done! I think you can still work on your values a little more - darker darks, bright highlights, and richer colours maybe? You're so close! The values are just a little bit too close together in a lot of cases. Lots of progress going on in here!

Continue to grow and learn! Gave you some stars to keep you from going hungry :)

[Tea Drinker]

Holy crap stars!!! Thanks IanE :heart:

Felt bad I haven't posted my work lately so heres a dump of things so far. most are brainstorming and concepts plus that chow from last week.

Hopefully I can get some more refined drawings and ideas by the end of week here ^_^ just have to drink more tea I think.

[rossipoo]

WOW AWESOME updates. LOVING THE STAFF and character comcepts

[Tea Drinker]

staff action. working on shaman designs and tree people designs tonight.

[JailHouseRock2]

Wow you've made some awesome progress on this page alone!

Your photo studies are looking great and your sketches are awesome, as are the Al.chemly and digis! Really dig the watercolours as well, any chance of some more of them? Hell everythings great!

Really nice job on your CHOW piece too, the lightings so cool!

So sorry not to many crits apart from working of some more anatomy(which we could all do really!).

cheers
matt

[Tea Drinker]

outfit variations on the shaman invoker.

also did some work on the trent invoker. Totally gonna do a bunch of variations on that as well. I'm thinking the female invoker with the shaman theme won't stand out as much as something more whimsical like a trent type creature person.

[KonnA]

Tea Drinker! Your work is very awesome! I love the OpenCanvas, that made me LOL.

Well see you for now!

[sony]

i loved 4 6 8 12 thumbs these got my eyes. i wish you get the dominance war title :)

[Ghostbrush]

Wow so much progression in just 3 pages! its really great to see!

Dominance wars updates are looking great, a lot of work has been put into the development, I wish you luck Tea Drinker

all the best

Alex

[Tea Drinker]

been slammed with alot of work lately. Just picked up another colorist gig with a sci-fi series called TekWars; so I've been working alot on that lately. Written by William Shatner so as a Trekkie I am stoked!

Plan is to get ahead in pages tonight so I can focus on Dominance War.

1. Section from a page in Tekwars I did the color work on. And yes the script was specific that the colony ship was rusted :P

2 - 3. Some silhouette action

4. A Character painting piece I'm working on for a good friend. Still a work in progress.

[surrealitycheck]

Teaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa.

Nice concepts!

Now to the batmobile!

[a la bapsi]

HNNGH COME BACK

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[Tea Drinker]

HNNGH COME BACK

prtyprz

awww I miss ya guys. ain't the vent still down?
I got real busy with work. been preping for this weekend here at comic con. Picking up badges tonight ^_^ CA is a fun place.

[FranciscoShreds]

yeh... the vent is still down. :( Miss yah tea... have fun at comicon. :D

[Tea Drinker]

So some years later since my last post in short: I have worked many freelance contracts, traveled to Korea, and again returned back to the states to where I now work full time as a concept artist for a new studio called City State Entertainment. Worth every minute of the 14+ hour plane trip back to the east coast. I'm now working around alot of hardcore talent and industry vets which has seriously motivated me to get back into posting online. So here I am back in conceptart.org to reconnect and get back into constant updating and bettering myself further.
Not to mention I miss the action packed-ness of this place. hooray!!

Here are some recent things for now and I'll be posting more of my current things soon.

Any feedback as always both good and bad is welcome. Thanks for lookn.

[Lehmann]

thanks for your coment in my SB
i'll update some armor designs ( if i can find them, haha)

i really enjoyed your B&W concepts and the trees.

:)

[MoKhi]

Wow. That's some kind of improvement from your old work to your new. The color schemes are so much more unified now.
Congrats on the full time job. Did you keep travel journals? I can't wait to see more of your work.
btw. Thanks for the advice on my painting. I think it's exactly what the work needs.

[Tea Drinker]

I plan to post scans from my travel sketchbooks. especially the one in Korea even though half of it is me writing Hangul to communicate cause my Korean was very poor. I also have some fun sketches my Korean students made in my book. Korean girls love princesses.

I really look forward to more of your work as well. the painting is really coming along<3

[ErinLein]

Wow. Just wowza. I loved the first piece to the last on here. The lines, the colors, the values! The understanding \o/ the compositions, the concepts! The variety of those staffs is wonderful. The expression behind your characters and the choices of outfits and their colors is great. I'm impressed and gonna keep an eye on this~ Do you have a deviant art too?

[LukasUrvan]

It's inspiring and overwhelming all the good stuff in this thread. I like the layered textures in the side-lit figure you did using the little reference picture. That's some pretty nice Photoshop work Those trees are very cool too with their geometry. What other softwares you use besides Photoshop?

[sony]

oooo welcome back lovely colors in the trees:) would love to c those scans! Do it soon
Cheers

[TFsean]

Sick to see the progress youve made in your time away! Value and colour are beautiful. Well done on your current studio, I look forward to seeing you climb up the concept ladder :)

[bobtail]

Wow, there's so much improvement in the last couple of pages alone :)! Your paintings have great imagination in them!! I especially like those staff designs, and the character/costumes in the post after.

[Bunrt-Ice]

Amazing work!

[FranciscoShreds]

yeah drank!! that enviro is sexy!

[Tea Drinker]

cause of work, tera beta, and glorious soul calibur 5. My updating skills are fail.

Here are some concept work from the ipad game I'm doing concept work for and other random things.

Allowed to start posting concept work from the game I'm doing work for. yay!
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Promotional piece I painted in photoshop making fun of the famous Dogs playing poker painting with our in game enemy units.
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couple random photos from when I was doing some street painting in Korea. At least till I can get my sketchbooks from then scanned in.
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[jcpahl]

Great colors. Be careful with black in the shadows; it can sap the life out of what would otherwise be a vibrant color scheme.