Karyl's Bookie Wook - If you're reading this... I updated.

[Costau]

Kingpin? Haha, these thumbs came out nice. Are these just ideas for one illustration or is it a series?

[KarylGilbertson]

You got 'er man. And yeah, it's just going to be one illustration.. just trying out a couple ideas for composition (nice new avie by the way)

[Cacodaemonia]

Woo, page 9! :D The thumbnails are looking good, 'fraid I can't offer any suggestions on those at the moment.

[RoboMonkey]

Hey there, Ook !
That Venom looks impressive :) I also like the background; the lights in the windows and stuff. Good atmosphere.
But there is something bugging me with Venoms right leg. I mean, I get the perspective and that the leg is supposed to be real close to the viewer and stuff, but it still seems to stick out a bit too much.
And I'd maybe consider changing his left lower leg/ foot. I mean, this is probably purely a matter of taste, but I believe that you've been thinking a bit too "human" when you've been working on that area. Because venom is such an over-the-top-muscle-spider-mutation, but in the painting, his left lower leg and foot actually look like the ones of a normal dude, just more muscly. I think you could go more over-the-top with that part.

Man, now my criticism is reading like some really nit-picky peace of crap. But I was really trying to find some constructive criticism for that one. Because that Venom painting looks really neat and I can't wait for you to finish it :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Worked some more on this... tones are almost finished.

[DStraX]

Your colors seem a bit cartoonish to me.. maby do some colorstudies from life and try to get them more realistic? :P

[Jonas_J]

Nice kingpin painting, can't wait to see it colored :)

[Cacodaemonia]

I really do like this composition. :) Maybe try darkening the table a little? It seems to draw too much attention.

[KarylGilbertson]

@DStraX: Yeah true. These latest batch, well they're comic characters so cartoony sort of fits the bill. BUT I do tend to pick very saturated colours, even when it's not cartoony stuff, so you're right. I should do more colour studies from life.

@Braintree: Thanks man!

@Cacodaemonia: Woot thanks for the comment! I finally made a decent composition!!! Also, you're spot on about the table... I'll darken it for sure.

[Cuervo]

Alright Ook mate,
Bring on the colour with the king pin picture...can't wait to see that one finished.
With the Venom picture... i keep looking at his foot... maybe a bit to small for the character frame... or the angle at which its at compared with the roof top... im not sure.. but other than that, nice painting. keep it up mate. ;)

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cuervo: Thanks man! NOW UPDATE YOUR BLOODY SKETCHBOOK :D

[KarylGilbertson]

Latest batch from the moleskine..

[jackpot_anjr90]

Nice work! Keep studying that anatomy so your poses look more natural...maybe do some gestures and life drawings :) Keep it up!

[KarylGilbertson]

More work on this... CRITZPLZKTHX

[Emil_J.]

Nice colors on the mafia dude!
My critz would be that the highlights on his head and sleeve are a bit too bright and white. So goes for the guy in the background.

[Jonas_J]

Crit for the king pin, Im going mega nitpicking here :D:
- head anatomy: his "skull" (or, the round part from the eyes and above) is too small. It makes his forehead seem tiny. maybe it curves too much inwards too fast too.
- the fleshy part above the eyes and below the eyebrows seems to be too large compared to a guy who is frowning (I assume thats what he's doing because of the wrinkles in the skin between the eyebrows). So move the eyes up abit.
- He's a bad ass mafia type, so make his jaw more square and masculine.
- The shading on the side of his neck seems to be a little too bright compared to other places in shadow.
- The hand on the table is not that interesting, compared to the fact that it has a strong highlight (and contrast with the dark suit). Also it seems a bit ... fat/sausage-like? So make it more interesting (maybe take a photo of your own hand for reference). To keep the hand interesting, maybe place a sort of secret mafia-brotherhood type of ring on it.
- The other hand (the one with the cigar (which is awesome)) could maybe have some more red color in the light, where the cigar's light is reflecting.

Well thats all I can think of. Happy painting! :lifedrawing:

[shamandalie]

Why hasn't this thread gotten any stars yet? *throws stars* :D

[KarylGilbertson]

@Fumble: True true. I like the drama of it though, even though you're right about it being too much. I might change it, might not. Thanks for the comment mate :)

@Braintree: All solid points. I'll try to address everything before I call 'er done.

@Shamandalie: BOOYASHAKA!!! Thanks d000000d!

[Cacodaemonia]

Good crit from Braintree. I pretty much agree with everything except for the skull part, simply because that could be considered an element of style. I guess it depends on if you were deliberately making his skull a bit squished.

[KarylGilbertson]

Okay, I'm calling Kingpin done, and I'm also uploading some thumbnails for a painting I'm starting work on...

[jigje]

Love the lighting in Kingpin Ook and you nailed the texture in the deadwood thumb. Your book gets better and better man. Edit - oooh 10th page, Im involved in a mile stone :)

[Pixie Trick]

One thing that really bugs me about the Kingpin Piece, is that the desk and window are at two different angles. Generally when you put a piece of furniture in a room, you align it either parallel or perpendicular to a wall. Although the desk may be placed differently, it's putting me off balance. Some more hilights on his jacket wouldn't be out of place either in my opinion. It really is quite a nice piece and I wouldn't mind seeing it pushed further even if you think it's done. I like the thumbs too, the closeup on the drift wood especially.

[KarylGilbertson]

Holy shit it's been 5 days... :/ Well there was a weekend in there but still. Shitty on my part.

Working on some thumbs for a new pieces.. leaning towards the bottom right.

[SMILEFACE]

DAMN YALL BEEN WORK OVERTIME ROCK'N THE MADD SKILLZ! .... do you skate?

[Jonas_J]

Bottom right and bottom left are my favorites. leaning towards bottom left - nice lighting and reflections.

[Cuervo]

Hey Ook, things alright aye?

I agree with Brain on the thumbs.. the bottom left is the strongest i reckon, although the top right one keeps grabbing my attention lol (which im sure doesnt help).

Also, just msged Brain and Fumble, theres a team chow starting soon, drunken wastrel entry? up for it?

[vardoburrito]

post #126 lines are sweet n hooded ladies are always sweet.
A few nice characters n more horses please. :)
I dig the values on most of them.
Colour theory studies perhaps? :)

Keep it up bro.

[RoboMonkey]

Hey Ookchk !
I find your latest moleskine update really cool. I even like the letters you did there. Typography that isn't actually crappy isn't something one can see often haha.

[jigje]

Ummmm, hellooo, time for an update Ook.

[Pixie Trick]

Daily Update... aily update...ly update..update...date...ate....te...... *twists knife as echoes fade into the distance*

[KarylGilbertson]

Holy shite... thanks for kicking my arse guys. I think I kinda got a little burned out and took a few days for some R&R... like a whole week. Anyways, I am back, refreshed, and refocused! KIAI!!!

Here's some preliminary thumbs for Team CHOW...

[fluorine]

I went to your website, you have some really great works! those character design sheets gave me some idea about improving my own portfolio site. Thank you! Hope to see more of your stuff for team Chow II.

[KarylGilbertson]

@flourine: Thanks for the comment dude! Glad you dig my stuff... though most of it's old and needs replacing :) Good luck on Team CHOW!

Here's today's batch...

[jigje]

Woooo Hoooo, Ooks alive. Cool thumbs man. It'll be fun watching these develop.

[kikindaface]

Hey dude, it's been a while i didn't came to your sb ! nice stuff ! Your characters have a nice design, and a nice balance ! Keep up the good work, and do more of everything !

[Pixie Trick]

Characters are looking very nice!

[Cacodaemonia]

Hey, sorry I've been MIA. All these character designs are looking great! They have a lot of motion and variety to them. :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Crikey it's been forever again... been working on this painting based on the thumbs I did back on page 9. And yes, it's a cell phone pic. :P

[Pixie Trick]

Your colours are looking quite muddy and dark my dear. I think a better pic would be needed for more help since everything has a red-ish cast to it. Maybe you could try holding up a printed copy of the thumbs and comparing the differences? There's a whole lot less contrast between everything, and from what I can tell, what was green-ish grey, and blue-ish grey is a more red-ish grey and brown-ish grey. (English needs more names for colours!!!!) Might I ask what type of paint you're using?

[Cacodaemonia]

Yeah, these are looking really dark and reddish. Are you working dark to light?

[Costau]

Hey man, your character designs came out pretty cool. The only problem is they tend to look a bit stiff, you should really work on some gesture drawing and loosening up a bit to help with those dynamic poses. The thumbnails for the cowboy piece, I'd say my favorite is number 2 just because it tells more of a story in the picture. Number 4 was a good choice as well, but I think it needs a little something more to tell a story. Aside from him just standing in an alley way next to a car.

[KarylGilbertson]

Some more sketchy fun from the Team CHOW thread...

[Cacodaemonia]

Cool helmet designs! I really like the one on the far right in the middle row and the very bottom right one. :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's some of my sketching from today, politicos and evil priests for Team CHOW

[Cacodaemonia]

I absolutely adore the sketchy face in the top middle of the first image. It's got so much character and life, with the slightly crooked mouth and bumpy nose. Awesome!

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cacodaemonia: Thanks for your recent batch of comments eh!!! I am a wanker and haven't been keeping up on your sketchbook. I will go there now :)

Also, I finished that oil painting I was posting about above, I will see if I can get it properly photographed and upload a better image... it turned out decent.

And of course, gotta update with more Team CHOW stuff... :)

[Jonas_J]

Great stuff for the team CHOW!
Of the helmets the bottom right one stands out.
Also like the direction the "evil guy" concepts are taking.
Moar please!

[KarylGilbertson]

Got a decent picture taken of the latest oil painting... Thank God my father-in-law is into digital photography and computer graphics... :D

[YihyoungLi]

The oil painting is delicious. The handling of colors is clean and pure, and the brushmarks prove that. The top left one is really convincing. On the contrary, some of your digital pieces are a bit messy imo (I'm looking at the ones on the previous page). Some areas could be less marky so the planes are more readable. Also, some of the really black shadows (like Kingpin's neck and the shading on Venom's muscles) flatten the characters. Maybe some skin tone studies in gray scale could help out.

Keep up the good work. :D

[Cacodaemonia]

Wow, these look so much better than the cell phone shots you got before! Really awesome job on these - I'm afraid I don't really have any crits. ;)

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cacodaemonia & Yihyoungli: WOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO!!! :)

[Costau]

Nice job with the colors. Are you self taught in oil painting?

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cole: Yeah, more or less. I decided to start messing around with it in college, and some of my instructors helped me and gave me pointers but it wasn't technically part of the curriculum so I was on my own for a lot of stuff. Thank God for the internets!

[jigje]

Sweet oils Ooky

[KarylGilbertson]

Some thief sketches for the Team CHOW activity...

[Cacodaemonia]

The evil thief's mask is scary. D8 What species are they? I see pointy ears... I like the designs so far, though the evil one's outfit might be a bit too heavy/clunky for thieving? I'm imagining the metal spikes and leg guards banging against things and making noise.

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cacodaemonia: They're orcs. I thought doing a take on an orc that isn't a huge slash-and-smash kind of character might be interesting.

Here's a new variation on the Good Thief:

[Cacodaemonia]

The new sketch is an improvement. :) You might want to bring up the waist on those shorts, though. I know I couldn't manage skulking around in low-rise pants without my butt hanging out. :P

[KarylGilbertson]

One of my finals for Team CHOW. Finished up the Good Thief, of course if you have any changes I could make to improve it, pipe up!

[a.lam]

Paintover!

http://dl.getdropbox.com/u/1780851/good_thief.jpg

So mainly the issues I had with it were that the color scheme was too grey, the modeling had too many hard edges, and the pose is stiff as well as not planned out properly beneath the armor.

Don't forget to draw out the whole body before you start drawing armor!! The clothes and stuff are getting in the way of you creating 1) a dynamic pose, and 2) an actual body underneath.

For colors, my issue with it was that it was very cold for one thing, and very washed out. As you can see, I didn't up the saturation very much at all, but I think the colors are a lot more balanced. I warmed up the purple with some red, and unified the color in the skin. i put the colors I used to the side (the lighter one is the opacity level I actually used to paint with). I used pretty low opacity and smoothed out a lot of the hard edges. I think most of your edges are too hard. Musculature might look like that under your skin, but skin is one continuous piece that doesn't grip every crevice of your musculature, so you wouldn't get super hard shadows as if one piece were going underneath the other. I painted down a lot of the highlights, as skin is fairly matte. I also painted down a lot of the shadows, because the lighting isn't that strong on the rest of the piece.

You should take a look at the color theory streaming class. I haven't seen it yet, but I really want to, and I'm sure it's awesome. A basic rule to stick by for now is that colors should always be balanced in some way. In a piece like this, where there is no background, it is important that your balance is quite even between dark and light, warm/cool. Your character would have looked at home in a misty grey landscape, but on it's own on a white bg, it looks very grey. I've been noticing that in order to calm down your saturation thing, you've been adding a ton of grey to everything. You don't have to add THAT much grey :P

Think of Buddhism and the Middle Way. In this case, I made your midtone more saturated to balance out the relatively de-saturated shadows. The whole piece is pretty grey and cool, so I added a little bit of red to everything (except the skintone). It honestly took me longer to write this out than it did to paintover your piece, so you're pretty close. You just need to go that one step further to get unification.

Hope that helps!

[Jonas_J]

Nice work on the Team CHOW! a.lam mentioned pretty much all i had to critique, so all there's left to say is: keep it up :D

[mike butkus]

Good drawing skills and character designs.

[Emil_J.]

Nice Team CHOW! i really like the initial sketches a lot. and the final one as well of cause :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Wow, thanks guys! Thanks for the comments, they make me feel all warm and fuzzy inside. :D

here's my Team CHOW Final pieces...

[Cacodaemonia]

Nice variety of designs! My biggest crits are toward the good thief. I know you're done already, but stuff to keep in mind in the future...

The musculature in her legs and neck is not quite correct. I can't really explain it well, but since I've been studying Bridgeman so much, I highly recommend you take a look at the book, too. It's helped me understand where all the muscles go under the skin, and how they're attached to the bones. In particular, the upper/front side of her left (on our right) thigh is funky - it's almost concave, when it should be bulging slightly due to the shape of the muscles and the way she's standing. Lastly, her forearms are a bit too long, especially compared to her upper arms, which are quite short.

Keep it up man! :D

[Ntropii]

Nice, love the character designs! Dig the horse with the arms too. :mod:

[kikindaface]

Hey duuuude ! Nice character designs ! i really like the thieves ! Keep it up !

[Jonas_J]

Good character designs mate.
Also you seem to have gotten a pretty good grasp on hand anatomy.

[KarylGilbertson]

Alright guys and guyettes I know I have been a bad bad Ook and haven't updated in a long time. I have an art show coming up in just over a week and I have been in a mad rush to get some paintings done, still going but I haven't had much time for uploading them.

Sorry for the crappy old-ass digital cam pics on some of these... the colour is off and they're all blurry. Just use your imagination!! :P

[Cacodaemonia]

Hey, these are looking awesome! I can't wait to see better scans/photos of the paintings. :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's a new painting...

[Kim_bot]

Cool stuff here! The character designs are very nice. The one with the stag though, I don't know if you were using a reference but I feel like the left antler should be angled more to the left. It looks like both antlers are angling off to the right. Either that or the position of the head/ears is off.
Keep it up!

[Cacodaemonia]

Hmm, now I'm wondering what he's throwing that soear at... Is this part of a sequential piece?

[KarylGilbertson]

Hmm, now I'm wondering what he's throwing that soear at... Is this part of a sequential piece?

Hehe it's not a sequential piece exactly, BUT it is based on something... Spencer did a piece for our art show that is a picture of a boar... This here is a castaway throwing a spear at said boar on some deserted island.. :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Workin' on a new painting... crits?!?!

[Jonas_J]

Hey Ookchk.
lots of nice paitings! really good way to paint skies.

crit for the current piece:
the cast shadow from the building is really sharp, while the cast shadow from the figure and car is fuzzy
The further away from the building the shadow gets the more fuzzy it should become.

[Emil_J.]

Hey Ook - how did your art show go?

crits?.. the car bumper looks like its seen from the front while the rest of the car is not. hmm... other view agree with Braintree crit.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's this finished up... thanks for the comments guys!

The art show isn't done yet, actually.. it opens not this weekend but next weekend, and then runs for a month.

[KarylGilbertson]

Another one... used a few ref pics for this, the main one is here: http://www.damian-quinn.co.uk/images/SteamEngineLarge.jpg

[Pigeonkill]

Nice character concept for the thief.

[KarylGilbertson]

An environment i started tonight, for EOW... a couple hours in. Trying out Paint Tool SAI... have to say, I'm very impressed so far.

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished this up... EOW 121: "It's In The Book"

Check out the other entries, and vote (preferably for me) here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=170368

The due date is the 12th, so I don't think voting starts until the 13th.

[Cacodaemonia]

This looks awesome! How did you go about laying out your perspective?

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cacodaemonia: Thanks :D I pretty much just winged it :)

Here's a speedy enviro from today, probably about an hour.

[Cacodaemonia]

Damn! Well, it looks pretty awesome for being winged. ;)

Cool structures in this enviro. Couple things: the green in the middle ground seems too saturated to me, and the highlights on the middle ground building may be too light? I don't think they should be much lighter than the highlights on the foreground building, right?

[Emil_J.]

Hey Ookchk

Pretty much agree with Cacodaemonia crit.

I do have a comment on the perspective though. The house in the foreground is seen straight on, but the house in the background is situated a bit higher then the foreground house, and it is seen a little bit from the top, since the bottom of the house curves a bit down. hmm maybe i'm just seeing it wrong :P

Anyways keep doing those environments :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's something I'm working on for the Industrial Design of the Week... the theme is "Mobile Fort" and must be either medieval, steampunk or dieselpunk. I hadn't heard of dieselpunk until now, so I was intrigued...

Btw, this is photoshop over a SketchUp model I made :)

[a.lam]

Hey buddy, it's looking good! Since it's a development piece, the only thing I can really comment on is the design. It'd be good if there were doors or something that indicated the scale of this thing. From the wheels you sort of gather that it's big, but how big? Ridiculously big? Or just slightly bigger than a modern day tank? How big are those guns? Is it that the thing just has small treads and big guns, or is this an enormously huge fort with even bigger guns? Needs something to give it more context... Not everything on this thing can be big! Some stuff has to be small to give it balance and visual texture.

I also think it needs more interest. I don't know anything about dieselpunk but it looks like a 1920's train attached to a couple of fat-looking torpedoes. It seems disproportionately wide in comparison to it's length, something which I don't find aesthetically pleasing. I think the basic proportions of the vehicle need to be revisited. I like the 1920's train part, but the other stuff just doesn't seem to connect with it in a way that says "someone made me this way on purpose". I realize those steampunk-esque movements are all about salvaging things and making them into victorian era machines, but any jackoff can sit a torpedo next to a train. You're a concept artist! You need to solve this problem in a way that makes people say "WOW!" instead of "oh."

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's an update... still a ways to go on this.

[Cacodaemonia]

Hah, cool design. The painted teeth are fun. This a war machine, right? If that's the case, those windows on the front of the cab seem very vulnerable.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's a little painting I did for a local art fundraiser... 6x8", oil on canvas.

[EmiAlvarez]

wiked designs!

[TASmith]

nice apple! You paint very well. Interesting tank, although so much glass on a tank? Fun design, though. Watch out for your greens on foliage - there's actually very little green in there. It's mostly oranges, reds, and purples with just a hint of green over each color.

[Emil_J.]

That life painting is really well executed! lovely colors.

[KarylGilbertson]

EmiAlvarez: Thanks a lot yo!

TASmith: Thanks for your comment! I will investigate the foliage colours, as you said... very interesting... thanks for the heads up :)

Fumble: Thanks d00d!


I finished this tank off... less glass now :) Vote for me if you like.. :P

[Pixie Trick]

I really like the IDW! Very cool.

[TASmith]

I'm not sure how practical that tank/transport is, but it's got a ton of character. Good job!

[Jonas_J]

Really like the oil painting of the apple. Tank is cool too.

[KarylGilbertson]

:steph:

[Cacodaemonia]

Sweet SP man! The lighting and subtle textures look great. I think your skin looks a bit too uniformly pink in the light, though Really love the shaded area on your neck...

[KarylGilbertson]

Sketch for this weeks' EOW.. "Ice prison"

[KarylGilbertson]

My entry for this week's EOW... went in a totally different direction :P

[Emil_J.]

Your environment are really getting better and better! :D
A suggestion for you sp a few posts back, perhaps you could render out the eyes a little more, just to give the piece a clearer focus point.

[Jonas_J]

Echoing fumble, your environments are really improving! The finished piece is really good, but i also really like the first ice prison sketch.

[Fiddzy]

Your environments are really nice, as its the Mobile Fort vehicle above. I really like the soft saturated colour scheme that you seem to use, very good.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks guys, appreciate it! :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's some preliminary stuff for the 2706 Jousting activity for CHOW/IDW... Also if you will notice, I changed my name :)

[kikindaface]

hey dude, i really like your environ on post #339 ! Keep working on thumbnails and industrial design, you're really good at it ! Maybe you should try to work on your colors, sometimes, the values painting looks more interesting that the colored one, because your colors are a bit " boring " ! Just try to see your favorite artists' paintings and use the same palette ! Anyway, keep up the good work !

[Pixie Trick]

Hmmm..... I think if something were made for jousting, it would be a bit more streamlined. It looks rather like a heavy duty, all terrain type of vehicle right now. The ruggedness and all...

Nice to meet you Karyl Gilbertson! The enviros are looking nice (..agree with Walid D, but still, very nice!). :geekg:

[Costau]

Hey Karyl thanks for the advice in my thread, it's going to come in handy.
You've made a huge amount of progress, kudos. Especially your designs and draftsmanship has gotten much better. Your figures are still looking a bit on the stiff side, the one thing I can suggest is try to understand how weight carries the figure (gesture drawing helps a lot with this). Your environments are getting much better, what I think would help a lot though in your paintings is trying to get more contrast, but I'm not sure.
That last post of the jousting bike is coming out great, I especially like your way of finding shapes and thumbnailing it out. Bah! putting that stuff aside it just looks Kick Ass! There.

Cole

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

You've got quite a bit of good stuff there, I especially like the thing you did for the fundraiser, that was good. Not such a huge fan of the mobile fortress though, it seems a little wonky and has sort of a wierd design to it. Keep at it though, you are doing quite well, just don't underestimate the value of studies, both with colour, anatomy and design:)

-E

[kikindaface]

hey dude, wanna add something about your values ! I find you're using really light values, well generally, you should go from 20% grey to 80 % grey, but try to take some enviros and change the image mode to greyscale on ps, and check the value range, you'll better understand what i mean !

[KarylGilbertson]

Holy balls it's been way too long since I've updated... here's something I'm working on, that will hopefully materialize into something worth submitting to SPECTRUM...

That means I need your crits!! haha

[KarylGilbertson]

Some more work on this.. Crits would be really, really, appreciated.

[Black Spot]

Thanks for friending me. Now you'll never be rid of me.

I look though all the pages here. Your environments are great, you have a good grasp of distance. Your mechanics (guns, tanks etc) are also good. I like your oil paintings and your still lives have improved loads. Then we come to faces, most of the eyes are too big to be realistic and the planes are not quite there. You've hardly done any in the last few pages except for your latest. It's your one real weak point and you're going to have to address it. We all have them (value is mine) and the only way forward is to tackle it head on until it's right.

Keep up the rest of the good work as well.

[Jonas_J]

Hey Ookchk/KarylGilbertson ;)

Like the work you've done so far on the current piece. the secondary light-source on the body really helps sell the forms. maybe use it on the face aswell, to help define it some more.

[Abrodos]

Last one is an interesting starting point. The biggest thing I can see is the composition:I'd make the canvas a bit bigger, so that it's not so overcrowded. Also, I don't think the tilting of the image helps it, it might be better without.
Anyway, can't wait to see it developed! Keep working:)

[KarylGilbertson]

HOLY SHIT I UPDATED... It's been way too long.. Don't really know what happened there.

Anyways, I'm working on a submission for the IDW activity this week: 2017 bike.

Here's my thumbs, and the beginnings of an ortho drawing...

[KarylGilbertson]

Something I was working on for the Industrial Design of the Week activity, an "Anti-Riot Vehicle". I was unpacking from my recent move though and I missed the deadline, so I don't think I'll be working on this anymore...

[KarylGilbertson]

Another something I won't be finishing, because it's BORING :P (should've chosen a more dramatic angle/composition)

[KarylGilbertson]

My entry for this week's CHOW

[KarylGilbertson]

Starting to work on my next CHOW entry, "Gaia"

[KarylGilbertson]

My WIP for this week's IoW - "Energy Gun" some kind of gravitational field generator :)

mmm... Analog... also, I was shading with a 2H pencil so the values are pretty light... I'll work on that, it's the only pencil I had...

[Black Spot]

Good grief - updates! Ha! The eyes on your Gaia are fine. Hope you update again soon.

[KarylGilbertson]

woo more updates, more IDW stuff

[KarylGilbertson]

Now for something completely different... not too much thought in this but I needed a break.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's something I started working on a long time ago, forgot about for months, and recently started up on again. Just some practice stuff, nothing too crazy...

[KarylGilbertson]

More work on this...

[cgaddict]

Nice updates, really enjoy your use of perspective and your dynamic compositions. No critiques from me, just keep doing what you're doing :D

[Black Spot]

Nice update - like the freckles - I have tons.

[KarylGilbertson]

This is as far as I've got on my IDW submission right now. There was a bit of a mix up and I missed the deadline, but I still want to finish these off for the portfolio. Perhaps this weekend.

[Black Spot]

They're looking good. I like the blue rim light on the second one.

[Angel Intheuk]

Eh up! Great Industrial Design pieces :) ditto what Black Spot said about the last one. The freckle girl is really lovely too, I think you can push your values more though, just at the corners of the mouth, top of the neck and the ears and temples

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comments guys! And yeah, gotta push those values.. :lifedrawing:

Finally finished off that IDW submission, way past deadline but eh, something new for the folio.

[raminafshari]

nice weapons drawings , its good to know they are just pictures . it reminds me quack games :uzi2::uzi:

[KarylGilbertson]

@raminafshari thanks for the comment!

Decided to get CHoW a try this week... we'll see how it goes.

This is "Samael", an archangel. There are lots of descriptions of Samael, including that he is the Angel of Death. This week's CHoW brief says to depict Samael as a fallen angel, so here he is.. The fallen Angel of Death, about to forcefully remove your soul from your body :)

If you're interested... This started out as an extremely messy pencil sketch, before being mercilessly mucked with in Photoshop. More tweaking of anatomy, perspective and composition to come.

[Black Spot]

Weapons turned out well. Look forward to seeing the CHOW finished.

[KarylGilbertson]

Well unfortunately the CHOW won't be finished, well "fortunately" as it were because as I started throwing colours on it, I realized it was looking at best, corny and at worst, stupid. So I nixed it, and decided to join in on the DSG instead. Here's "The Great Robot Judge"

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's another DSG... "The Depressed Thing"

[Black Spot]

There goes life as we know it.

Great to see you updating more often.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks Black Spot! Though, I am going on vacation for a couple weeks so there will be a lack of updates until I get back.

If I have time to finish my IDW, I'll post that as well before I leave.

Here's me playing with the "Harmony" tool someone linked to in the lounge:

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished my IDW just in the nick of time! Although I didn't have time to colour it, this week. Oh well.

[Nibras]

Karyl, really enjoyed going through your sketchbook. Refreshing and inspiring.
Great amount of creativity going on in here and I really just enjoyed seeing your sketches and getting some feel for what goes on in that head of yours. Great imagination :)

[Black Spot]

Love the croquet stick.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comments, guys!

Who updates their sketchbooks while on vacation? THIS GUY! :yayca:

Went and did some sketching at the zoo, sorry for the bad scans I had to use my iPhone :)

[Krato]

neat guns !!

[raminafshari]

guns are relay grate

[Black Spot]

Love the animals.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks guys! Merci beaucoup!

Somethin' new...

[KarylGilbertson]

Sometimes I surprise myself. This is one of those times. An IDW submission done in like 2 hours?!? I don't know WTF happened there...

[KarylGilbertson]

Okay, giving this another go because the brief is for a limo, as in more car like and less plane like.

[KarylGilbertson]

more work on this...

[raminafshari]

very cool card drawings , they looks like mafia gangs car . dont stop experiencing.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's my final for this week's IDW - Presidential Limo

Here's my "description": "The year is 2023- A dramatic increase in homefront attacks by militant Canadians forces the US Government to make certain Bond-like self-defence "upgrades" to the presidential limo."

The moral of the story- Don't fuck with Canadians :canadapatriot:

[KarylGilbertson]

Took a night off from all the concepty shit for some low key figure studies. ref is included for comparison, I got it from Characterdesigns.com

Working on my tones and brush economy... Probably about a half hour on this. Thoughts?

EDIT: Argh of course as soon as I upload it I see a shitload wrong with it (skewed!!). Ah well... live and learn

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's piece! Pretty happy with it... at least about an hour and fifteen. Ref posted again, got it from Characterdesigns.com again.

Undie Ninja FTW!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's, I'm messing around with a new palette- based on Bob Ross' oil painting palette, lol

I do like the colours in the piece, it's not quite accurate but I was on a deadline (I was painting on my lunch break).

Reference is from Characterdesigns.com again.

Thoughts?

[griffinfly]

hey thanks for the visit! :D feel free to poke me if you need any specific crits

[Black Spot]

I like the colours even though you lost a bit of the form. Pubes should be celebrated and not made into a landing strip.

[KarylGilbertson]

Ahaha are you really critiquing me on my pube painting ability? lol I will work on that next time :D

[mantisforce]

you have an intersting style,
http://www.mantisforce.com
please take a moment to check out a position that you could fill.
Thanks for your support.

[KarylGilbertson]

Hey guys, it's been a minute... I will admit I have been playing a lot of Halo Reach.

That said, I am working on a traditional painting, I'll post it when I am done. Also, today at work I got an opportunity to do some 3D modelling! Very exciting. I did it with SketchUp, and the trees and vehicles are from the SketchUp model library (made by other SketchUp users, I'm not sure who).

[Klaus Reinbach III]

Seeeeeriously XD, needed like 10 min till finaly the answer screen was loaded.

First, nice and interesting stuff =).
Second, you still work on http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1060520&stc=1&d=1284155428 ?
Like Black Spot said, lost a bit of form =). Look on the head again, the shape. You can try to mesure it with your eyes from the elbow till the forehead, then the hand. I would suggest that you look at the shadows in the shadows too, special to their value, like on the right breast from light to shadow. It generaly is darker.

oh my~ and 10 min later till I could send it too. Dangerous thread it is haha.

Have fun =).

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comment! I wasn't planning on going back to that study, but maybe I will... it is very rough, and could use a lot of work.

Thanks again!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's that traditional painting I was talking about. Had to use acrylics due to time constraints (grrr) but it turned out okay. Not super happy with it, but it's not terrible. For a local art gallery fundraiser. Wanted something simple and appealing...

[Black Spot]

Did it sell and how big is it? If small - good. If big the boot should be more to the left compositionally wise.

The sketchup picture looks like it comes from the Sims. Is that good or bad? Depends on how many toilets you can lock them out of.

I take pube painting very seriously. Women have enough to cope with being the right shape. Billy Connelly did a great skit where he discussed why pubes stopped at a certain length and if they didn't the possibilities of various styles. Until they start going haywire, I like them as they come.

[KarylGilbertson]

Yes, it's quite small- 9x12 inches. It hasn't sold yet, the show doesn't go up until Oct 1st, then it's a silent auction on all the pieces for two weeks or so I think.

Hehehe Billy Connelly is great.

[KarylGilbertson]

So my wife is a teacher and her class studies animal habitat and adaptation in science. One of their projects is to design an animal with specific adaptations to its environment. I had told her that it sounded like a lot of fun, so she asked me to do one for an example... and here you have the Great Desert Lizard! lol :P

[KarylGilbertson]

This is a little speedie I did for today's Daily Sketch Group.

[Black Spot]

The lizard looks like it might have some turtle in him. Cute though.

[KarylGilbertson]

What I'm workin' on for this week's IDW, "Artic Rally Vehicle"

[monotony]

cool work, karyl!
I really like the the Great Desert Lizard especially its face :).
And the shape of the arctic racer is awesome. I like that you worked with skids and not wheels!
maybe you could break the red surface here and there a bit. right now this "one color" feels overwhelming and uniform to me and makes it look slightly like a toy. maybe some openings where you can see some of the tech inside, some solar cells on top or sails on the sides.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comments and crit monotony! I tried to work in your suggestions...

Here's my final for IDW

[KarylGilbertson]

Hoo boy I thought I should drop by and update so you know I'm not dead. Been working on something for CHoW but I don't want to upload it until it's done.

In the meantime I have been playing with 3D modelling some more, in Blender this time. Trying to wrap my head around UV Mapping. I got the bottom to work without too much fuss, but trying to figure out how to best unwrap the top part is brain exercise :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished up my CHOW! Of course it's not perfect but I am pretty proud of it... Also I think it's funny :P

[KarylGilbertson]

Nov 1- International Self Portrait Day

[KarylGilbertson]

Workin' on something for EOW... started with some thumbnails (which I am not gonna scan) and moved on to this, a quickie Blender render to help with perspective and composition.

[Razorb]

nice chow entry dude :)

[Black Spot]

So are you going to introduce me to your handsome friend in post 426?

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks Razorb, glad you like it :)

Blackspot, I feel like you may already have known this person :)

I was reading Oblio's sketchbook thread with his account of CA back in the early days, and I got so effing inspired I had to do this at lunch. Two posts in one day FTW!

[Justyna]

Hey, cool designs, especially with mechanic things like ships and motorcycles :)
Keep it up!

[aks9]

really nice sb! those cars are really well done

i think on some of your figure drawings, the forehead seems to cut off a little quickly, leading to a shortish/flat top of head (on page 14, the ones on previous pages dont seem to have this)
your selfportraits are really good
the wolf on page 11, wah, awesome, is this effect done with some custom brushes or what?

[Wr00m]

Nice chow! keep up the good work m8!

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the kind words guys!

aks9: Thanks for the crit, I will keep an eye out for that :) The wolf was done with some custom brushes for PS, yes, but I didn't make them myself... I'm trying hard to remember, I *think* it's Barontieri's brush set (you can find it on google)

[KarylGilbertson]

Some more work on my EOW submission... still miles and miles to go on this one, but it's a start...

[KarylGilbertson]

More work on my EOW submission over lunch.

[KarylGilbertson]

more work on this... spam spam spam

[KarylGilbertson]

Forgot to flip this again but oh well on I go spam spam spam

[KarylGilbertson]

work work work... zug zug

[KarylGilbertson]

Felt like working more tonight, but not on my EOW... just a quick study from life.

[KarylGilbertson]

moar work. After I updated I went and read Miles' sketchbook. It slapped me in the face. HARD.

[KarylGilbertson]

gogogogogoogb

[KarylGilbertson]

Calling this piece for EOW done. Played around with it a bit more, minor changes yadda yadda yadda... Less talk more ROCK!

[KarylGilbertson]

Some figure work from this morning... I'm being very hesitant and my brushwork is all over the place. It sucks but I'm learning...

[KarylGilbertson]

Got it in my head tonight to try a little exercise where I "reboot" one of my characters from my final project back in school in 07. I was pleased to see, it definitely seems like I've made some progress in those three years! Still not great though, the new design is a little boring and needs some spicing up. Might go back into it.

[KarylGilbertson]

Few new things... A horrendous landscape from photo ref, I'm posting the ref so you can see how I didn't even get close, but hey I'm working and learning right? Also I don't remember where I got the ref but I did NOT take that photo.

After that, my thumbs for this weeks EOW...

[Vulgar`]

Improvement in abundance!

[andres333]

nice improvement and the last piece is coming along really good

[KarylGilbertson]

Just playing around... Not really pleased with this it's very fluffy and not very thought out. Mehhh...

[KarylGilbertson]

Some work on the latest Enviroment of the Week activity... Topic is "Pilgrimage"

[KarylGilbertson]

new self portrait... photo ref from Photo Booth!

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished up my EOW, and the story that goes along with it:

Long ago, while fasting in the desert, a tribal shaman communed with his ancestors. They led him to an amazing site in the most isolated place in this vast wasteland.

There, in the sand, was a gaping hole. Some sort of wondrous craft had crashed through an uncommonly thin area of ground, coming to rest in the expansive caverns below. Following his ethereal guides, the shaman was able to find a cave entrance and work his way down to the otherworldy wreckage. This marvel, though half buried in sand and unknowably old, still glowed with an eerie light. The shaman carefully removed a piece of the craft, and returned to his people with his trophy and the tale of his find.

Ever since, generation after generation of tribespeople have followed their shamans into the desert, to see with their own eyes the marvel beneath the sands. Here they worship, believing it to be a vehicle of the gods. Here they study this wreck, still glowing after hundreds of years, hoping to one day learn of its secrets.

[lennon]

Cool studies fo the figure. The woman in the previous page was very cool.

[KarylGilbertson]

Raghghahg I haven't updated in forever... Here's something shitty hehehe. I have been thinking about compositions like this for a long time, and I'm not sure exactly why. I felt a need to make some marks so I kind of brain farted this out...

[Flanagan]

The EOW is nice, and the short story behind it makes it that much more awesome.

[jNeumann]

Love the story behind the EOW, the self portrait is great as well. Keep it up man

[KarylGilbertson]

Some more stuff... Think I might put in for this weeks' IDW thread, "Deep space light vessel" if I can finish by the deadline. Here's what I've got so far:

[Sponcer]

Looking good, mister man! I like the weapon concepts you had been doing. Some of the digital paintings could use a bit more contrast for me, but we already chatted about some of your tones greying out.

Man, I haven't been on this site in years.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's some recent 3D work. I'm pretty proud of this. I realize it's not really all that good from an objective standpoint, but from a SUBJECTIVE one... Well let's just say this is leaps and bounds above anything I've been able to accomplish in 3D before this point. Keep workin'...

[KarylGilbertson]

Yikes, yesterday's update looks even worse when I look at it now. I went back to the drawing board and started over using more reference and "subsurface" modelling. Again, this isn't really "good", but it's better, and that's enough for me for the time being. Here's the latest attempt:

[krysjez]

hey :) that 3d model looks not bad at all actually! except the wrists and (not sure about this) knee/thigh area look a bit funny.

What did you do that in, by the way? Max?

[KarylGilbertson]

Hey thanks for the comment krysjez!

The software I am using is Blender (2.5, which is a beta release). Blender is open source and therefore free. It is full-featured, can do everything the other software suites can do (as far as I know) but isn't really used professionally. However, I'm hoping that if I can learn the techniques, terminology, and process, then switching to another software package should be easier since I'll mostly just have to relearn the UI. I can't afford anything else since Autodesk discontinued their Maya Personal Learning Edition. :)

[Black Spot]

3D is really tough and you're doing pretty well learning it. I like the last couple of SPs as well. You're really improving.

[skMOP]

Good progress on the 3D man.
One thing I notice though is in the 3/4 view of the figure, the head seems oddly attached/a little large..

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comments guys.

skMOP I think you're right that the head might be too big. As for how it's attached, it's actually only half attached at the moment, I have to go in and rework parts of the neck and fix it up.

[KarylGilbertson]

More work on this. Still nowhere near perfect, but I fear that many problems would have to be redone completely to fix. So I'll move on to UV unwrapping and texturing, and try again later!

[Black Spot]

It's still an excellent start to 3D. You must have so much patience.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks blackspot, it is certainly a kind of trial-and-error business.

I've done some basic texturing of this fellow, and attempted to do some rigging. Rigging is hard, and I think I've made it harder by having messy topology in my model (also known as: vertexes all over the friggin' place).

Ah well, the work goes on.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's some work for this week's CHOW, it's pretty craptastic I know. I am going back to the drawing board, and trying my hand at going analog using ink and markers. Will scan when I can.

[Black Spot]

Th gun is good. I know what you mean and I should start again more often as you can learn a lot from painting crap the first time, not that yours was that bad.

[KarylGilbertson]

hehe the gun was photomontage at this point... I had planned to paint over it :) you can see the light source is from the bottom, whereas the rest of the figure is from above :P

[KarylGilbertson]

A little something something. Not much, but hey I thought I should update.

[KarylGilbertson]

another little crappo sketch "scanned" with my phone. Hopefully this will turn into something cool, though. Eventually.

[KarylGilbertson]

More updates on this, and finally something to actually LOOK at. :)

A mixture of Paint Tool SAI (love that program) and Photoshop for these.

[KarylGilbertson]

Made some little spot illustrations for a blog post today. I like when I get a chance to do that...

[Black Spot]

I like those last two - very striking and clean even with the texture.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks eh!

Here's what I've been working on in Unreal Development Kit. Mind that some of this stuff isn't mine... Skybox texture, water material, beach texture- All these things came bundled with UDK. The box and the axe are my creations though, modelled, UV wrapped and imported in from Blender.

The next step is for me to get the axe in as a usable weapon complete with animations... Much harder than just sitting on the ground completely still!

Then, maybe we can use the axe to destroy the box? Hehe it's fragile you know.

[KarylGilbertson]

Going analog styles for this week's IDW. Ink & Marker!

The topic is "Star Maker", and this is the top view. Orthographic side view forthcoming, I don't think I will have time to do a 3/4 view unfortunately.

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished this up...

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished this up as well! :)

[KarylGilbertson]

This was for another EOW activity, "winged fortress" but I have missed the deadline. Still want to finish this up, so I’d love some feedback!

[KarylGilbertson]

Update update update, I made you out of clay... Update update update, I'll play with you all day...

[Black Spot]

I really like EOW picture. When you've rendered the figure it might give a better idea of where you're going. The turnip might need a slight push in terms of value.

I've already said on twitter about the armour- choose either shiny or dull, but you could engrave it as well to mix it up.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comment! I spent some more time on this, hopefully it's starting to head in a better direction. I did add some engraving, I think I'll probably add some more and/or tweak the shapes a bit. Don't want it looking boring.

Been spending more and more time in Paint Tool SAI, as well, and less time in Photoshop. As I am getting more used to the way things work in SAI, I am coming to like the way the tools work a lot more.

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished this off! Not perfect of course, but I'm pretty happy with it. Pushed myself! :)

[Black Spot]

Looks tons better. Knew you could do it. Now how about an update?

[KarylGilbertson]

How about an update indeed... Finished this off last night.

[Black Spot]

Sorry, but I'm not sure about the structure of her face. Her eyes aren't lined up to her nose and mouth.

Congrats on the news. Exciting times.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thank you! :) As for the problems with the painting above... I think I see what you mean, I think it's all about the eye on the right. The perspective seems to make more sense if you cover that up, that eye is too "straight on" I think.

Here's a study I did last night based on one of Nerahla's photos, since they're awesome. :) About 2-3 hours in Paint Tool SAI.

[Black Spot]

The main problem with using photos is sorting out the perspective that it distorts to make a picture that doesn't look like it was ref'd from a photo.

[KarylGilbertson]

A couple new things... Been playing around with MyPaint (open source painting program) after installing Ubuntu on my laptop.

[Black Spot]

I like face on the first but both seem a bit chopped off on the top of the head.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's some digital studies I did for an oil painting, and then the oil painting it turned into :)

[Black Spot]

The lighting is a bit flattening on the oil painting. Maybe making the shadows a bit more dramatic would help flesh her out. Also don't be afraid of giving her skin different colours.

[KarylGilbertson]

I was a little late for taking part in International Self-Portrait Day, but I decided I had better finish off my portrait anyways...

[Black Spot]

Neat SP even if you are rather pink.

[AllyAlbon]

Gorgeoouus self portrait! And your most recent environment is gorgeous x