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

[KarylGilbertson]

GO TO LAST PAGE FOR NEW WORK!

Below is some new work to update my sketchbook thumbnail.

[Demo]

i like the contrast and colors for all the animals
work on bringing more to the forums and id like to see some figures from u.

[xenos]

i like most the top left one and the gray one in the middle :)

Edit: also the one in the bottom could work very well as a classic scifi book cover. You know, the one where the space explorers are stranded on a hostile planet, full of predatory vegetation and the explorers try to fend of the dangerous things...
But if you decided to finish the top left. Could you make it so that theres one in the foreground, but i really think it would look cool if there was a swarm of them a little further back.. i think they would look cool in a swarm.. long limbs everywhere.. :3

Edit2: but but dont put too much faith in my opinion. im not really that good yet ;)

[Smoke]

Hey Ookchk, Some nice thumbs you got here.

I'd like to see either the 4 eyed gecko thing, or the tentactle mollusk takne further, they look kick ass.

Good luck.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comments guys! I'll keep your suggestions in mind for sure :)

And now, since I don't wanna post something art-less, here is my update for today: I actually did this a couple of weeks ago, but I haven't shown it here so I might as well. C&C Appreciated!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Some more stuff!! 2 updates in a day, woo hoo!!!

[Micaiah Nelson]

Your work looks great.

[Demo]

im liking the figures too good renderings remindes me a lot of some game but im not sure what ill try to figure it out keep it comming!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks so much guys, for the kind words!! I'll be back tomorrow with another update! :D

[zephyri]

Really like those last two posts, great feel of character about them, especially the guy. The feet on the female are the only thing that seem a little at odds with her otherwise graceful stance, I'd somehow expect them to be more slender, but that could just be me!

[Blythe]

Sure Karyl, you brat and your find it yourself attitude. BOO.

Edit: Good show, I already commented though. ^^

[KarylGilbertson]

What else have I been up to.. hmm..

The first one is just an hour-long speedie.. the second one is a "thank-you" for reaching 10,000 pageviews on DeviantART. There's lots of anatomy no-nos in that second piece, but honestly it was more an exercise in painting OVER lines instead of under them.

What say you, brigands!!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's tonights update!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Some process work for one of the above characters, and some older bits. Enjoy!

[KarylGilbertson]

Holy crap dudes... it's been a minute since I updated. Figured I might as well resurrect this thread instead of starting a new one.

Tons of work has been put in between then and now, but I'll only show some of the more recent stuff... hopefully I'm improving?

[mysteryofalbesila]

lots of great sketches, keep it up

[Nibras]

WOW cool stuff, really nice start to a sketchbook.
Your digi stuff is really great and you concepts arre aweasome just keep up the great work :P
peace

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comments, guys! I really appreciate it... thanks for the kind words. I hate to update without an image, but I promise I'll have another batch of arts ready by tonight :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's the product of tonight's practice session:

[Maerrick]

hehe Bartelby Arrow has some interesting costume designs i like the one on the send to the right costume. you definately have some interesting sketches i'm not too fond of some of your photoshop pictures. i think its the anatomy issues on the face. try doing some foundation studies for the face because i think that is one of the things you need to work on.

[KarylGilbertson]

@ Maerrick: Do you mean the last one in particular, or all of them? I am in that awkward stage between realism and stylization... and I can't decide quite which way I want to go. I will certainly try to do some studies though.. I could certainly do with a better understand of facial forms and structure.

[KarylGilbertson]

Hey guys, I'm back. I promise I haven't been slacking, I just don't always take the time to jump on CA and upload stuff :)

Crits would really be appreciated on these ones.. these are for a personal illustration, and one I would like to bring to a "finished" stage. The first one was the first attempt, which started out without a real concept and then was abandoned. The second attempt is what I'm working on now.. some futuristic airship pilot character.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's tonights! God I need to get to bed. about 40 minutes.

[KarylGilbertson]

Continuing to work on my Airship Pilot painting. THoughts?

[Blythe]

Hey Karyl. She still needs more volume on her rib cage and you rounded her bottom nicely but then her shirt doesn't seem to follow this curve outward. Her right arm is very tubular, something weird is going on with where it connects to her shoulder. Anatomy before renderfest!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's todays update, about an hour and a half more work into it. Reworked face a bit, rendered some headphones, hair, reworked the torso and arms..

Thoughts?

[KarylGilbertson]

More work on my Airship Pilot piece, and a quick 20 minute self-portrait from this evening.

Thoughts?

[KarylGilbertson]

here's today's update, still working on this bastard:

flipped 'er back, threw in some more rendering and stuuufff.. getting a little carried away, still got some more stuff I wanna fix.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's update... I didn't feel like working on my airship pilot tonight. So I did something else.. I've been looking at William Whitaker's work a lot lately, I am trying to get better at lighting and re-teach myself how to draw/paint faces.

*crickets*

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's more sketchvomit! Drawn in ballpoint while waiting for some rather large files to import at work.

[KarylGilbertson]

I took a couple days off from updating because I've been quite busy, and while I've managed to squeeze in some painting every day, I didn't want to bore you folks with a deluge of tiny, almost un-noticeable changes. But here's the latest version of my airship pilot: I've gotta render a couple areas, but then it's just touch-ups and it's done!

[KarylGilbertson]

A little deviation from the standard TV programming: I took a break from rendering my little illustration and did this, from reference I grabbed from Flickr (I love that place). Though it's obviously not even close to done, I'm not sure if I'll ever go back into this, as it was only ever intended as a study anyway. I'll just give it to you as is, for now.

C&C are always appreciated! I'm getting lonely.. :P

[donalfall]

The piece from April 19th is sweet. Can't wait to see the final version. Nice concept. The last portrait is nice, but the eyes seem very slightly mis-matched. Is the right eye higher than the left? It's something I commonly do myself, so I can't really hold it against you. You have a nice sense of colour, I really like your pieces.

[KarylGilbertson]

@ donalfall: Thanks mate! And right you are-- her eyes are off. I hadn't noticed that! Mind you, I like to think that had I continued to work on it, I might've caught that. But I didn't. Thanks again!

[Asire]

Wow, some sweet work in here. I like how the painting is turnign out from the 19th, and i think the flickr reff is wonderful, has a nice charm, even if her eye is a little out. I am jelous of your ability to paint :)


Also, thanks for commenting in my SB, I appreciate it :)

[KarylGilbertson]

@ Asire: Thanks for stopping by! I don't really think of myself as much of a painter, but maybe one day! I've certainly improved a lot over the years, just gotta keep working I suppose. And your sketchbook is marvellous :)

[humanNature6115]

Good stuff. Like the colors

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[Pixie Trick]

You have some very nice work here! :) Keep it up. In terms of you airship pilot, its looking good, but she has some issues with her left shoulder and butt. The shoulder *I think* is too far over but don't hold me to it. It looks as though you balanced the shoulders by where you placed the spine without consideration of the perspective that you are seeing her at. I love the colours in it though.
The refed girl in the last post has a really nice feeling to it. There's nothing wrong with studies!

[KarylGilbertson]

@humanNature: Thanks mate!

@Pixe Trick: she certainly has some issues... I've had problems with her but since the get-go... I don't know if I know HOW to fix it. I'm glad you like the colours! I think I struggle with that, and I'm trying to improve, so maybe it's working :)

[Reject-D]

i think waht could help you out is higher contrasts.. for more depth and more expression for the picture use darker colors and lighter spots.. for example the cyborgish girl.. add more highlights for more effect and darken the shadows where the light will cast.. please excuse the sloppyness... i was typing fast and im very tired..

anyways besides that i think you got some good paints coming along!! nice perspectives as well..

if you could stop by my sb and give it a big long crit that would be tight!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Haha, can you tell I'm loitering on the forums right now?!

@Reject-D: Thanks for the crit! I agree with you, I could definitely benefit from more contrast in my work.. but I used to be even worse! hehe :P Anyways, you're certainly right, and thanks for pointing it out, I'll continue to work on it! :)

And I can certainly be persuaded to peruse some sketchbooks.. :)

[Kaffinated]

your digital work is making some great progress. Tho you tease me with these picture less posts!

[KarylGilbertson]

@ Kaffinated: THanks a lot bud! I shall tease no more!

Today's update is a portrait of one of my instructors from my time in college.

[humanNature6115]

Like the blockyness.

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[KarylGilbertson]

@HumanNature: Yeah, in school they made us do these studies of planar head sculptures to get a feel for the structure and planes of the human face/head. I had him for that class, so I figured it was only right to show how much I learned :P

[Madfishmonger]

Nice stuff, you do great things with colour. I really like your pencil sketches.

[KarylGilbertson]

@Madfishmonger: Thanks a lot, matey! :)

I'm finally ready to call this one finished.. I could probably work on it forever, but why not move on... here's the final version:

[tmbritton]

Hey, I thought that I'd check your stuff out after you stopped by my sketchbook. If you don't mind I think I'll offer a bit of constructive criticism. I like your sketches but your paintings look stiff. I think a bit of it may have to do with you don't seem to be working color into the modeling of forms. What I mean is that everything seems to be variations in value of it's local color. There aren't really other colors being worked in the the shadows or highlights. Except for the purple and yellow portrait above. That's my 2 cents.

[KarylGilbertson]

Hoo! It's been a while, I think I had a kind of mini-burnout. Here's some sketches I did while waiting for gigantic files to import at work.

Two things I need to get better at drawing: Cars, and aliens.

[KarylGilbertson]

Stuuufff

[KarylGilbertson]

Some doodles from work today.

[KarylGilbertson]

some more stuff... come on people, let me know what you think! :D

[KarylGilbertson]

Some early ideation for the DEEP stuff.. just playing in PS for a bit.

[Frogisis]

I like the straightforward, iconic feel you've got going. It all looks pretty friendly and "heroic." You've got a lot of bases covered, too, with the sci-fi and wizards and even kinda romantic comedy with a couple of them. Some really dynamic and energetic action might be something to try. A lot of these characters look like they enjoy fighting bad guys.

[KarylGilbertson]

Hoo! It's been a minute. I have a legitimate excuse gais, I swear.. I moved into a new place and it took a week and change to get the internet going.

Here's some doodles recent doodles, DEEP-inspired and otherwise...

[KarylGilbertson]

Some thumbnail sketches for DEEP.

[KarylGilbertson]

some silliness:

[KarylGilbertson]

A whole crapload of DEEP concept sketches...

C&C please! I'm lonely... :davi:

[KarylGilbertson]

I couldn't handle anything heavy tonight, so I did this little practice piece.. gonna go fall unconscious now.

[KarylGilbertson]

Nothing special, just playing with a red-green complementary colour scheme..

[KarylGilbertson]

Decided to start on another piece of personal illustration, here's the start.. I've been doing tweak after change after tweak, and something is still wrong with her face, any suggestions?

[Shmaba]

Some perspective issues on the face, the nose and mouth in particular.

I found a good reference image on idrawgirls blogspot (http://idrawgirls.blogspot.com/2007/11/learn-how-to-draw-face-woman-girl.html) there's also a video if you wanna watch :P
(it's not letting me post the actual image on here :( use the link to see it)

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the tip, and the link Shmaba. I will see what I can do about them there perspective issues :)

[TOOLED!]

ook! hey karl, whats crackin. sb is lookin good. my fav pic has gotta be the dude on the mountain on fire it good times for sure.

[KarylGilbertson]

Hey Chase! Thanks for the kind words, I'll go stalk your SB now :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Okay, here's an update of the previous work, I've been observing female facial features in life and in advertisements, and I think I just had the proportions off.. I don't know if this is "right" but it's a lot better... Any other thoughts?

[KarylGilbertson]

just a little speedpaint I whipped up this evening. Not sure If I'll "finish" it so I thought I'd post it up here. I've always had trouble figuring out how much atmospheric perspective is enough/too much.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's some little doodles from a "draw my character" artistic event thread over at Monkeyslunch Forums (http://www.monkeyslunch.com/forum/).

[KarylGilbertson]

playing around.. I need to get better!!!

[KarylGilbertson]

I'm really bored tonight, so I was playing around in photoshop some more.. I don't really know what this stuff is... just experimenting.

[KarylGilbertson]

I needed to do something vaguely concept arty but totally unserious. This is what came out.

[KarylGilbertson]

A WIP of a T-Shirt I am designing for a friend's band. Who doesn't love robots?!? Freestyling the design on this one, which is sloppy... but fun.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's the finished T-Shirt Design..

Any C&C? It sucks to draw in a vacuum... :(

[Demo]

wow been a long time since iv been in your book, glad to see you havent been slackin off. liking the improvement

[Asire]

Same as demo, this is my first time in here since... well since the last time. It's great to see your work moving forward. I love your sketch work and pages of design and thumbnails.

One thing I notice is your gestures on these sketch pages, have tonnes of movement and character in their silhouette, but your larger final figures become somewhat stiff.

I wish I could offer a solution, but I do the same thing, in fact I do it a lot worse than you do, but I thought any crit I could give may be of some help.

Can't wait to see more.

[risingfromashes]

OOk drawing in the vac. sucks no question...sorry to hear that's the case
-as far as the design: it's clean...simple repro...nice graphic quality to it...get's the job done...nice work...
-if I had to question anything though I would tighten the edges/lines a bit more (really play up the graphic angle) and give a definite place to the white areas showing in the robot...but that's just clean up work..
keep doing your thing!!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's a little exercise in using photos in matte painting, done for an activity over at the Monkeyslunch Forums: ML Forum (http://www.monkeyslunch.com/forum/)

[Shadeykris]

Haha. I found you, Karyl!

I like the colors in the one you posted on July 5th (headshot of a guy). The skin tone seems natural. Its glowy.

The bluegreeny speedpaint landscape (I know its not finished but):

I dont think you haev enough atmospheric perspective yet. Your clouds, which are lovingly rendered, are kind of the most detailed at this point, and they should be furthest away! I would make them much softer. Since you have 3 of them, you could also use them to show depth, making them 3 destinct sizes, 3 levels of detail. The furthest cloud could be quite fadey and close to the color of the sky. You could also push the mountains back with more of a blue or purple blue, and I would get rid of the scratchy lines on them. Those ones look equally, if not more contrasty than the city/mountains in front of them, and they should drop back.

I kind of want to see some huge dark shadows on the structure, maybe even casting one too. It's big, the underside of it is definitely going to be dark.

Where's your light source?

Your composition is also kind of steady... its broken into thirds, but they're all equal thirds. Which one do you want to be dominant?


Cool stuff!

[Farvus]

Hey. Nice sketchbook. The T-shirt design is my favourite here. More ink stuff would be great. :).

[KarylGilbertson]

THanks for the crits guys!

I'm designing myself some new business cards.. here's what I've got so far. Thoughts?

(it's a double sided card btw)

[KarylGilbertson]

It's been a bit.. I did a quick landscape speedpaint from ref to shake off the rust. It's way off, but hey, at least I'm painting :P

C&C Appreciated! The ref was taken by Gioschia over on Flickr.

[KarylGilbertson]

I had this idea, where doing a few studies based on the various artists I really look up to might let me mentally access what specifically about their work makes me like it so much. Or something. Anyways, the first batch is based on some works of the wonderful Mr. Jason Chan.

I think I was decent at capturing colours (no eyedropper allowed), but the proportions are way off from the originals.

C&C!

[KarylGilbertson]

Working on some promotional postcards to hopefully get me some freelance work... here's the design I've worked up:

Sorry for the lack of actual art-related updates, but I've been trying to get a company set up so I can do artwerks for monies and I haven't had a lot of time between that and my full-time job, and my wife. :P

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's some sketches from my stupidly lined Moleskine, done this morning.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's a doodle I did up today while I was bored over lunch. It's not much, but I've been playing Mass Effect again so I was inspired to do a futuristic trooper design...

[FightingSeraph]

That's some good stuff you have, but I've seen better.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for that, any constructivity in that head of yours?

[KarylGilbertson]

Working on a small piece for a fundraiser at the local art gallery. Revisiting my "hive queen" sort of idea from above, here's the comp. Admittedly I didn't try out a lot of directions with this one, I don't have much time and need to be concentrating on my freelancing business. :)

Hopefully will update with some rough colours soon.

[FightingSeraph]

Thanks for that, any constructivity in that head of yours?
Actually, What I meant to say was while your actual drawing skills nice. Your design ideas are hit-or-miss with me, but at least you know what you're doing.

[KarylGilbertson]

@ FightingSeraph: Thanks, that's a little better. I definitely have to work on my design skills, you're right. I don't push them far enough a lot of the time.

here's the colour comp, as promised... I have to admit I'm having some second thoughts about the whole concept.

[KarylGilbertson]

Hey chaps & chapettes. I've gone back to the drawing board (aka my kitchen table) to develop a different idea for this gallery fundraiser painting. Here's some thumbnailing and a comp of my favourite idea thus far.

[Demo]

looking back through these and i find myself growing really fondly of how you render your eyes any thing i would say at this point is that these blue stills are coming along great but the last one with the oriental temple the angle seems a little over done iv kind of seen a lot with this angle so mabey play around with it maby drop the camera down and shift the camera over to the righ that way the left hand guy is right by the edge maby just creative thoughts

[Hyptosis]

cool stuff, you do render eyes wlel, also the wooden pirate guy was the best =]

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comments guys!

@Demo: Yeah, I see what you're saying. Looking at this after a few hours, I'm thinking I also don't like the way that some of the big gate is cut off on the right. I'll try playing around with your suggestions and see if I can come up with a better composition.

@Hyptosis: Thanks eh! I don't know how effective scrap wood armor would be against cannon fire but it was sure fun to draw :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Tweaked the composition a little, and did a tonal study. Thoughts anyone?

[KarylGilbertson]

trying out a new fandangled way of designing stuff...

[KarylGilbertson]

I figured it was about time to update this bastich... Just some playing around in Photoshop. I really need to work from reference more, I think.

[KarylGilbertson]

I've been working on some oil paintings. The first one here is for a "free association" exhibition with the starting theme of "myths & legends", and is still a work in progress. The second one is a piece done for a gallery fundraiser, and is complete. Sorry for the crappy pics, all I have at the moment is a cell phone cam.

[pencilgeek]

hey great sketch book.

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished this one off:

[KarylGilbertson]

Hi guys,

I was thinking about my skills, both where I am at and where I want to be. I am thinking that I really need to increase my knowledge of colour and tone, by painting from life. So I've decided to do a still life a day. My immediate goal is to do this for a month for now, and possibly extending that once I see how things go.

Anyways, here's the starter piece!

[Jaytea]

Great oils, man! I really like the blending on the helmet piece. Also, those clouds were pretty nice, even without a ref, haha.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's attempt:

[kidult]

Nice still lifes - try observe a little more when you paint and try think of the form more. You got good colours on these ones but not so much form.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks, kidult-- I definitely see what you're saying, I'll try to pay more attention to form with the upcoming still lifes.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanksgiving (I am Canadian) was a tough day to get any drawing done, between 3 family dinners and having friends in from out of town. This is all I managed to scrape together:

[KarylGilbertson]

*Gasp* A tape dispenser! Tonal exercise.

[Pixie Trick]

It's marvelous to see some still lifes! The last two look great! Watch the edge of the roll of tape, it's the same as the background and nearly the same as the dispenser .. hilights maybe? Watch the elipses on your potted flowers too.

Gotta love Thanksgiving. So much food you could feed armies at my place. :D Yaaa.... leftovers! :p

[KarylGilbertson]

@PixieTrick: Thanks for your comment! I definitely got to work on those ellipses, you're right. I don't *quite* agree with the edge of the tape, though.. it did kind of blend in with the background and such, and I was trying to draw what I saw. However I could've probably made the edges sharper, and that would've helped. Thanks again!

Here's tonight's addition.. Ducky! I broke out the analog sketchbook again, and used a real pencil! hehe.. Tones are pretty much what they are on paper, I didn't do any Level adjustments.

Doing still lifes has really laid bare just how much further I have to go to improve... it's harder to hide my shortcomings in style or concept.

Voila!

[Nightblue]

nice still lifes :D I started doing them recently and it really helped me, so keep doing them for sure! I love the simplicity in your paintings.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's my still life for today.. some dead flowers. I've really been inspired by Waheed Nasir lately, so I was trying to incorporate a little more happy looseness into this latest one.

[KarylGilbertson]

Missed a couple days because the wife and I went out of town. Here's today's:

[KarylGilbertson]

Downloaded a copy of ArtRage, I have to say it's a lot of fun, though like anything I am experiencing a learning curve.

In other news, I think I am going to have to back off on the "Still Life A Day" thing a little bit. Life threw me the slightest of curve balls and I couldn't get one together for two days. I'm going for three a week, since things probably won't be slowing down any time soon.

Here's todays update and a hand study I did while playing around in ArtRage.

[wilkerson]

Just popping in. The coffee cup's good, nice rendering. The flowers are cool as well.

[KarylGilbertson]

I had to do some painting tonight, but I felt some bizarre tug at the umbilical cord to draw some face out of my head.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's something I was working on tonight, just a random character with not a lot of thought behind the design. Revisiting old techniques. I think my painting has actually improved some. :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Wasn't satisfied with some of the elements of the last attempt, so I started from scratch. Here's about 2 hours of more work.

Crits plz!

[KarylGilbertson]

worked on my random adventurer dude some more... probably about four hours into it now...

[algenpfleger]

Loving the life studies man! Try doing some with stronger light sources, to help you understand the whole concept better. Characters are looking great too! Keep going :)

[Φ]

hello there, cool stuff here! great SB! I rally liked post 96!
keepitupman!
cheers

[KarylGilbertson]

Worked some more on my random adventurer dude. Is this better?

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's a stupid little warmup from tonight, around 20 minutes.

[KarylGilbertson]

Couldn't sleep, so I did a quick reffed study. Ref is here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgw/2379312246/in/photostream/

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's a traditional painting I just finished up, for a show next year:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v128/gibbz/100_1292.jpg

[Pixie Trick]

It might just be me, but the upper ax looks like it's pointing towards the minotaur a bit. Just my 2 cents.

[KarylGilbertson]

Alright chaps... sorry it's been ages.

Here's some new shit I've been doing over the last couple of days.

[Blythe]

Flames, yaaaay!

Question. why did you cut him off just below the knee?

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's something I did today.. a speedpaint based on an old piece I did for school... seeing if I can do better. About an hour.

I've been drawing every day for the last little while, but I am too lazy to scan every day.. need a snapscan or something.

Anyways here goes!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's one of my better sketches from the last couple days... finally decided to stop being lazy (kinda) and scan something.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's something I'm currently working on... trying to cut down on the Xboxin.

[Helltroll]

Good stuff here, nice variety!
Keep it up!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's an update on this painting:

[KarylGilbertson]

Alright, I'm going to call this done... but C&C are still appreciated :)

[KarylGilbertson]

I got a new Cintiq today at work... :D So I decided to test it out on a (fake) cast study.... (fake because I didn't use ref, hehe)

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's update...

working on a concept for both my portfolio and for an upcoming illustration..

WIP- C&C encouraged! (especially if it helps with my anatomy)

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's some thumbnails and comps based on my horsey-dude, for an illustration once I figure out his design.

WHY ON EARTH DID I BUY A MOLESKINE WITH LINES!!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's something I'm working on for freelance... it's some cover/poster art for a small indie game.

[KarylGilbertson]

rediscovered Posemaniacs and did a bunch of 30 sec gestures... rusty rusty rusty.

oh, and some other stuff. Developing a creature thing.

[KarylGilbertson]

More work on the creature design above...

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's something I cooked up late last night... had a blast with this, it's not perfect but I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE PRETTY PICTURES!!! :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Some more doodles from today...

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's offering to the dark gods of sketchbooks and concept art:

[Pixie Trick]

Wow. A big jump in improvement! Yaaa!!!!!!!!!!!! for you. :D One thing that just bugs me is that for the poster (looks really good btw) is that the guy's face isn't underlit like the rest of him. I can see reasons, but I think it makes the top half of him look quite flat as you are eliminating most shadows. And just check out the gal's far arm in post 126. Maybe just try doing that yourself. (You've got her hand on the wrong way and angle....) hehe... painful. :P

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comment, Pixie Trick! The crits are good, and I'm glad I seem to have improved... let's keep it going!

Here's some sketches from tonight:

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's doodle... working on my horse demon character some more.

[KarylGilbertson]

Worked some more on this one.. still have some tweaks and such to do, but it's getting there...

[KarylGilbertson]

I downloaded two new pieces of awesomeness: the Andrew Jones Thumbnail demo, and the Zbrush trial version. Playing around with some crazy thumbnails! I love thumbnails, they're so therapeutic, loose and fun, and open to interpretation, like rorschact ink blot tests. In this case, all I see are vehicles! haha...

[sourgasm]

it's cool that you're trying a bunch of different stuff. that's a great way to let your style come to you, you know?

make sure you work with reference regularly, too. that's the most important part.

keep up the good work!

[KarylGilbertson]

@Sourgasm: Thanks for the comment mate. You're right, I don't work from reference enough... I gotta try to fit more of that into my routines. Thanks again eh!

And, on another note: I did some more Zbrush thumbs, playing around with some custom brushes.

[KarylGilbertson]

Playing around using Android's methods some more, I built some sort of trooper guy.

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished this project up... It's not perfect but client is happy and I'm m-m-moving on!

[KarylGilbertson]

Worked some more on this guy... not so excited about him now that I am starting to render. I think I'm kind of "boring it up" while I go, maybe...

[KarylGilbertson]

A quickie grayscale painting, it's for a poster for a film festival my sister is putting on.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's a drapery study I'm working on... about 1/3 to 1/2 done... WIP

[RETEP]

hey ook,
a lot of great stuff in here! i can see some major improvements.
your character design in post #152 is looking good. i think the lines between the armor are flattening him out a bit, maybe darken the lines as the wrap around his body. and maybe bumping up the saturation on the colored parts that have been rendered. don't give up on it, its a bad ass design!

[KarylGilbertson]

@RETEP Thanks a lot man! I'll try your suggestions and post an update later on... Thanks!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's the drapery study finished up, with the reference posted as well, I thought that might help for comparison and critique.

(I got the reference from here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/sbmontana/364964322/)

[a.lam]

Nice back-to-basics action! I've been realizing more and more how being out of school and in a production environment has degraded my basic skills at tone and form :S

I think I'd punch some of the darks around the edges, to really push the depth.
Some of the folds look flattened out, or like you can't tell which part is in front of the other, and it might be a matter of just putting a 1 px pure black line in the right place. Yeah, there is no such thing as line in reality, but you aren't recreating reality, you're emulating it. After all, photorealism used to be called trompe l'oeil or whatever, fools the eye. It's not necessarily about literally recreating what is there, but rather finding what makes it look the way it does.

As a pure study, I think the color photo might be confusing you in terms of how light or dark stuff is. You should try converting your ref to greyscale to see where your lighting is off; that spot in the background that is too light at the top is totally throwing off your lighting scheme, because the contrast up there is very low but you are making it seem like it is still in very strong light. But only the middle of the cloth is experiencing that spot light, the top and bottom are fading out a LOT, which is why using the ref for the cloth is making it seem flat there. The eye sees the brightness in the background and wants to see the same contrast occurring in the folds.

Hope that helps!

[Pixie Trick]

Hmmm....

A couple of things to mention for this one.

Look at the outline of your cloth. Assuming your canvas is the same size as the ref, you should be able to compare distances from the edge to where the cloth should be. This is really only a way to tell if you are off, not so much as a way of drawing it. Compare angles and see if they are the same. Is the line from the top of the two gathered areas the same distance and angle apart? On thing that helps me is to imagine a cross of perfectly perpendicular lines over the area I need to work on, and then compare how sharply the line I need to draw is angled in comparison. Everything is relative. A lot of your lengths are off as well. It's mainly training your eye to see small differences.

Another thing in terms of value, is to see the subtle differences in that as well. For example, the fold that does down the right hand side that is very white- it gets slightly darker at the bottom and top, and has little creases all over. If you look at the shadow you have at the very top of this fold as well, you have a very dark shadow. In your ref, is that shadow darker than the one on the wall from that area? Remember that something dark on a white bg will look darker than something dark on a dark bg. Compare your hilights to each other, and your shadows to one another. By the end, it's kind of like those games in newpapers etc. that say "Find the ten things that are different in this pic, from that one." It's a game seeing how well you can imitate life.

If you feel like it, you can try overlaying one on top of the other on low opacity or some other type of blending mode and distinctly see differences that way.

I agree with a.lam in that you don't have to perfectly copy nature to a perfect extent, but you might want to keep in mind that many teachers will keep you from using black for a couple of reasons a) it immediately takes attention away from anywhere you are not using it. This can be used to your advantage however- such as the accentuation of shadows etc. I would suggest using a very dark grey if you were to do this however. b) it is almost never seen in real life. If you go into the colour picker, you know that nearly nothing will be a pure colour in the corner, and that everything is mixed with some grey. Same goes for black.

Also, I think that it is important to be able to calculate values from a colour. You will often see people telling others to put a coloured painting into greyscale to see what it looks like, and if the values are on. If you use colour you need to know value. Doing a b&w from colour, is really just simplifying things for you.

Okay, well this turned into a novel very quickly... oops and sorry. I hope you can understand what I'm trying to say. Anywhooo...just do some more. :P

[KarylGilbertson]

@a.lam & @Pixie Trick - Aah, CRITIQUE! How I love it. Thanks for the comments guys, it is certainly appreciated.

More, more more! This is my coffee cup that is sitting beside my Cintiq on my desk here at work (sans the lid). It's got a brushed finish for the most part, but that top bit is chrome finished.

[Cacodaemonia]

Hey Karyl, thanks for stopping by my sb! :D You've got a lot of stuff here that I've never seen at ML. Keep going!

Man, I'd love to try out a Cintiq some time, just for shits and giggles.

[hedwordup]

you have a really nice depth of tone in a lot of your work, even the clint eastwood character. Little details like the white outline around the forearm really set it off in a good way. Keep on going, it seems you know more than me so i'm hesitant to crit

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2287046#post2287046

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cacodaemonia No problem at all! I post here more than ML, I have to admit... bigger audience. And Cintiqs are lots of fun :)

@hedwordup Thanks for the comment! It seems like I'm doing SOMETHING right. hehe... btw, in appreciation of your comment, I returned the favour in your sketchbook.

[KarylGilbertson]

JUUUST starting on this one, but it looks like it is going to take me a couple days to finish this so I thought I would upload a WIP.

It's another drapery study, I'll post the ref with the final version... it's really hard to paint wrinkly sheets!

[Collin Smiley]

I love how you art is so colorful and drastic it goes good with your drawing style

[SMILEFACE]

WICKED ' enviros RAD' characters an a BAD@$$ coffie cup now thats what i like to see!!
keep w/ the goods'

[Cacodaemonia]

Haha, agreed. :) It's looking good so far though. :)

[KarylGilbertson]

@collin6099: Thanks dude! I personally think it's a little TOO colourful at times but I do like vibrant colour schemes, that's for sure. Thanks for the comment!

@Grandmassa Mr. Spect: Thanks mate! Badassery is what I am aiming for. Keep checkin' back!

@Cacodaemonia: Thanks eh! (and thanks for bumping the thread eh... hehehe)

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As far as an update goes, I worked on this a little more tonight...

[sandeepbarot]

great work

[KarylGilbertson]

@sandeepbarot: Thanks!

[doncam]

Nice SB, nice variety of work.

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's update. I needed a break from the usual stuff so I did a quick tonal headshot... it kind of sucks, actually. I'm not impressed. Guess I'll just dust myself off and try again later...

[KarylGilbertson]

Back to drawing from reference... did some POSEMANIACS today and it was frustrating at first, but felt pretty good by the end... getting the cobwebs out.

[frozenbean]

Nice work so far, I'm digging the style progression.

[KarylGilbertson]

@frozenbean thanks mate! So you're from Victoria eh? I'm from BC too, just way up north :)

[Cacodaemonia]

They definitely loosen up as they progress. :)

[stimulus]

Hi Ookchk,

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook. Those are amazing posemaniacs studies for only 30 seconds. I really like your demon horse. You have a great imagination.

[Puck]

The drapery studies you've been doing are looking good - it seems like a very good way to get a handle on tone. I like the poster cowboy as well - nice cutout shadows (I wonder if it could be done in just hard black and white). All the little still-life's are good too. The cog-assassin from May is a very nice design - I'd like to see it in action. I don't really have any crits sorry - you seem to be going in the right direction, just keep at it!

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's another update for today... decided to finish off the work day with a quick landscape study. It kind of sucks, I cut off a whole chunk somehow on the bottom. Ah well, keep on keepin' on I guess...

Original image is by Robert Voors, I got it here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/robert_voors/1676964584/

[a.lam]

That reference photo is gorgeous.

I think once again, the color photo is confusing you. In that image, think of there being only 2 colors; the background pink color and the dark green of the foreground shadows. Almost everything else is just a tint or shade of those two colors. It may also be worth it to break everything into clearly defined areas of those tints, using a hard edged brush. The fuzzy brush and opacity blending is making the image look messy. If you simplified your shapes and tones more, you could focus on the composition of the image (which is better with the bottom chunk included, IMO), and the actual shapes that are there. Think of this like an oil painting; the more bold you are with your brush strokes the better it looks in the long run. Fuss about with it too much and it starts to look like blurry mud.

[KarylGilbertson]

@a.lam: Very good point. I think that would definitely have improved the image, if I had stuck with a harder brush and tried to make things a little clearer. And I agree about the bottom part of the compostion, too: my "cropping" was purely accidental :S The darkest values are down there!

[KarylGilbertson]

Another thought: it might be interesting if I simplified the image into 3-5 values and kept it pretty graphic, it would definitely be clearer, and probably better than my latest attempt anyway.

[Pixie Trick]

Newest drapery study is looking good. Nice job on the hair. Good to see the posemaniacs too.

In terms of your landscape: I know it was meant for a colour study, but might you just look where the house on the hill is in comparison to the centre of the page? Much lower and to the right. The same things I mentioned go for this too. It goes for absolutely everything you could possibly want to paint from life or photo. Go ahead and grab a hard brush with high opacity too. I know some people here go for the completely 100% opacity hard brush for the entire thing just for the practice. Try the graphic... It's just practice. If it turns out sucky, just try some other way. Keep up the woooooorkkkkkk!!! :sungod:

[KarylGilbertson]

@Pixie_Trick: Thanks for the comment. You're definitely right.. might have to try this again and see if I can do better.

I picked up Whit Brachna's environment videos last night, so I decided to try my hand at sketchup today, and I have to say I really like it. Here's my first attempt at an enviro in Sketchup:

[Cacodaemonia]

Hah, nice! I didn't know you could do that sort of lighting and such in Sketchup, though I have used it to make basic environments for reference. Looking forward to seeing more. :)

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cacodaemonia: You can, but you need a plugin to do it. I used LightUp, you can get a free trial for a limited time... you can see the little badge up in the corner there.

Tonight, I worked a little more on this bad boy... thoughts?

[hala]

OOO i like the creature in the last post, it seems like it could use a bit more polish to it, But i really love the design and the colors. :)

[Cacodaemonia]

Yeah, definitely polish it up, but the design is awesome. :) I like the scarification-type marks on it. Makes me think of a kelpie or something, since it's an evil horse-like creature.

[KarylGilbertson]

@Hala & @Cacodaemonia: Thanks for the comments guys, yeah it definitely needs some more polish (still a WIP), I will be definitely doing that, I'm glad you guys like the design! :)

[Abrodos]

That "little pony" looks good! I especially like that combination of colours. I have two minor crits; first one is the extra pair of arms. It looks good, and well-placed within the horse anatomy, but that position is a bit forced. The hands are resting, but no t the arms. I have the impression that, if the arms were resting, the elbow should go just in front of the dagger-shaped scar of the foreleg.

Also, one thing about the spines: Given the colour and texture, the normal thing would be that they are extensions of the protruding bones, so they shouldn't grow from where there's only muscle. Try to visualize the creature in "parts": First, the skeleton alone (bony spines included); then, add the muscles, and finally the skin.

Well, I hope it helps!
anyway, grerat work in here! keep it up!

[KarylGilbertson]

Played a bit more in SketchUp today... I made a tire, haha! I want to go in and build some sort of sci-fi utility vehicle, BUT I don't actually have a design yet. I felt like playing in SketchUp though, so I made a tire but that's about as far as I'm willing to go without a design. Maybe I shouldn't have even gone this far, but what the hell! Hehe.

[Eon]

Very good works throughout your sketchbook! The still life objects are getting better and better each time and keep going with the drapery studies (I should do these too!). Tough as hell but what doesn't kill you will only make you a stronger artist!

[KarylGilbertson]

@Abrodos: Thanks for the comments man... I definitely have more work to do on the horsey dude, and I think a lot of your comments are good, but I actually -did- try to get the bone splines right... They are coming out between two muscle groups (maybe I should try to make the difference between the two groups more pronounced?) and I was envisioning them coming out of the strange horsey scapula. I dunno. I'll take another look and see if I'm off.

@Eon: Thanks for the comments, and for checking my stuff out dude!

Now, here's a vehicle design for that tire from the last post.. Not sure on this. I liked the thumbnail quite a lot, but now that I've left it for a few hours and looked at it with "fresh eyes" it might be a little too "simple" from a design perspective. What do you think?

[a.lam]

It does seem a bit simple, but then again a hummer is just a box on wheels...

Maybe look at actual truck proportions and see where they actually place the wheels in the chassis. The main shapes of your truck are super symmetrical, which is taking away from interest. For example, I'm not sure that the cabs of trucks are perfectly centered between the wheels, even in monster trucks that don't carry much else except for the driver. It might help to really details what this vehicle is for and that can help you to influence its shape; for example the new batmobile is modeled after military vehicles as well as stealth planes. Built for the military, rugged and also apparently invisible to radar.

Remember Bauhaus; form follows function!

[KarylGilbertson]

Working on a rendered logo thing. Fun so far!

[KarylGilbertson]

More work.

[KarylGilbertson]

Have a day off today, so I am playing in Photoshop like crazy:

[kikindaface]

Hey buddy, you have a nice sketchbook ! you are showing a nice improvment ! your weapon designs are really cool ! the only advice i can give you is to work more with pencil, it's the basic of art :p I'll come back !

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comment Walid!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Worked a little more on this tonight... now off to watch Massive Black videos :D

[jigje]

The rendered logo thingy is ace. Cool book Ook, like ya style.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comment Jigie!

[Fumble]

Hey dude :D the SSG is up and running!
Some real cool sketches you have here - especially the weapon and logo design.
Maybe some more focus on the human being. And then as previously said, some more traditional pencil drawing would be nice too :)

Cheers!

[RoboMonkey]

Hey there, SSG buddy !
Thas lasergun looks amazing ! And that corridor you're working on keeps gettin better and better. Still looks a bit unfinished to me (isn't it ?) but you're definitely getting there.
But I also have to agree with Fumble: More pencil drawings would be nice. Because the sketches from page 6 are awesome.

[Cuervo]

Hey Ook! firstly i have to say im rather damn jelious that you get to work with a cintiq...

anyways....your fabric studies have come along nicely, esspecially the one on the woman. Also, your work with sketch up is far better than i could get done, i.e. the ditail in the hallway, hope your carrying on with that one?? if you can apply your rendering shown in the logo pic to the hallway i reckon you'll be onto a winner! :D Also nice work on the gun, the way you got there is class, with the brushes for shape...

keep it up mate

[Braintree]

Greetings fellow wastrel! That rendered logo is lookin good. Also the sketchup piece is looking to be coming along nicely. Keep 'em coming :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Here's today's update.. had to stop slackin. I got my Cintiq back at work finally so I pumped out a little grayscale random character design...

[Gilead]

Good stuff in here. I particularly like the pencil sketched monsters on page...five?
Your paintings are showing more spacial depth than they did at first. Good work.

[Costau D]

Hello! You're use of vivid colors is a nice touch, love it. I think you should concentrate some studies on environments a bit, cause it seems to be a weak point compared to your other stuff. Perhaps concentrate on learning about environment perspective, and lighting. It will help with understanding how to get your environments looking more... open. Paint paint paint...

[RoboMonkey]

Hey there !
Your most recent character is really really nice. The armor is pretty cool. Though there seems to be something wrong with the perspective of his visor thingy. It kind of looks like one is looking at it from below, although the viewer is about at eye height with the character.(Could be that I'm wrong, though).
Either way, really nice.

[KarylGilbertson]

@Gilead: Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook! Thanks for the comment!

@Costau_D: Good idea, I'll try to work on my environments more.

@RoboMonkey: Thanks for the comment mate, I'm not sure I'm seeing the problem with the visor but that doesn't mean it's not there. Maybe I'll try flipping it or something and have a look. Thanks again!

Here's a WIP of a creature design I'm working on...

[KarylGilbertson]

Alright, worked some more on this... Started rendering on the right side there. Trying to figure out, "How rendered is rendered enough?" on shit like this. Any thoughts?

[Fumble]

I have a few comments on the creature from post #211: I find the upper arm a bit too short, the elbow should go down to the navel (on a human that is). The ribcage looks weird (i dont know if this is intentional). If it isn't, look through some anatomy books and study the ribcage/torso.

The logo is looking sweet. I dont know much about rendering, but some of the tubes/wires looks a bit over-rendered compared to the rest.

Keep rocking :)

[RoboMonkey]

Hey there, Ook !
I can't exactly fgure out what it is, but it seems there is something wrong with that creatures (upper) legs. Although it could be intentional, so I don't know.
Anyway, your logo is totally neat. I guess I can't really help you with your rendering problem, because I think that both the right and the left half of that thing look real nice in their own way.
Though I have to agree with Fumble: Some of the tube stuff on the top kinda stands out compared to the rest. The pattern on the black tube for example is a tad too sophisticated compared to the a bit more abstract texture of the rest of the logo. (Although one could probably argue about that).
I hope that last one wasn't too nit-picky :) Because that logo is totally sweet.

[Cuervo]

Hey Ook,

im going to agree with fumble and monkey (sounds like a t.v. show lol) ...anyway... yeh about the wires and pipes at the back. maybe if you could bring out the middle a bit more to capture the eyes attention i.e. slightly desaturate the metal / wires.. maybe that would do it? im not sure...jus a suggestion.. but aye, keep it up mate!

[KarylGilbertson]

Fumble, RoboMonkey, Cuervo: Thanks for the comments! I will definitely implement some of your suggestions.

Was just playing around with PS today... lots of problems with this one, but my main aim was just to play with texture and pattern since a lot of my work lacks this, and becomes shiny and plasticy.

[KarylGilbertson]

Celebrating International Portrait & Composition Month! Here's a portrait of yours truly (with the ref)

[RoboMonkey]

About the first painting: the only thing that really bothers me is the dudes eye. It looks like it's a bit to far in the back. (Reading the sentence I just wrote, I kinda doubt that one can actually understand it. Do you get it ?)
ANYWAY. About that portrait. PLEASE tell me that you didn't trace that in Photoshop. Cause if you didn't, you totally are my hero. It looks freaking awesome.

[Cacodaemonia]

LOVE this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=706941&stc=1&d=1245900102).

Self portrait looks great! I think your right (on the viewer's left) needs to be moved down just a little, and tilted slightly counter-clockwise. Colors look awesome. :)

[d4z]

love the belt thingy mech stuff up there! but i think u should keep up with the left part rendering rather then the smooth rendering on the right. i love the abit rusty texture :D

[KarylGilbertson]

@RoboMonkey: Yeah I know what you're saying about the eye. Also I think it doesn't adhere to the perspective used in the rest of the face. Also, I didn't trace it, or colour grab! haha I painted it the hard way... it's the first piece in a while I've been really pleased with the result. Thanks!

@Cacodaemonia: Thanks a lot eh! I can see what you're saying about the eye, too. Ah well :)

@d4z: I love the texture too, but since it's supposed to be an ultra-slick logo for the final product, painterly texture stuff doesn't really fit in... it sucks but what can you do :P

[Braintree]

Yup really nice colors in that SP. Do more :)

[Cuervo]

Alrite Ook mate, that self portraiture is the better of the two i think... just enough texture... lovin it mate, keep it up!

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks for the comments guys!

A couple pages out of the new (line-free) moleskine the wife bought me. Drew that last one while watching Shawn Barber's Foundations of Painting, which is pretty neat. m:asskisser:

Kind of a sad update, but I figured something is better than nothing. Tear me apart if you like, I can take it :)

[Cacodaemonia]

Is that a child's skull? The jaw seems very narrow. Shading looks cool though. :)

I was thinking for that hand - maybe try focusing more on shading than outlines? I know that when I try to draw foreshortened hands, they look like rubbish when they're just lines, but start to look more normal when I add shadows.

[Fumble]

the two faces are really good and so is the standing figure. The skull however looks a bit weird, maybe its because the forehead turns outward?

Anyways keep doing the daily updates :D

[Braintree]

Nice moleskin stuff! about the skull: i think the cheekbone and jawbone are a bit too small for the "round" part of the skull.

Keep it coming!

[KarylGilbertson]

Hey guys, thanks for the comments... as you say, the cheekbones and the jawbones are small. It *IS* a fetal skull, but with that said I'm sure there are anatomical issues with my drawing as well.

Thanks again! :)

[KarylGilbertson]

I'm going to call the rendering on this bad boy "done"... got a little more work to do on some layers I can't show you guys ;) hehe

[Cacodaemonia]

Looks pretty awesome! ;)

[Cuervo]

Ook mate, you got that logo spot on... well done mate. and i wouldn't berate yourself too much on the moleskin work ... some of the best sketches come out of not really paying attention.. keep it up !

[linkdude64]

I'm kind of a no0b, so this is kind of a basic question, but an easy one to answer, fortunately! What is rendering? Layering stuff?

[KarylGilbertson]

Hey linkdude... thanks for stopping by my sketchbook! Noob questions are alright... "rendering" is a term used to describe the work that is done to take a piece of artwork from a sketch/rough stage to a finished stage. It's about going in there and cleaning it up, working the surfaces, tones and colours to a polished, finished level (which varies of course depending on how polished you want/need the final piece to be).

I hope that description helps and isn't too confusing! comment again, or pm me if you need clarification or have any other questions. I'll help if I can (though I am somewhat nooby in my own right)

[RoboMonkey]

Hey man,
Really cool stuff that you got in your moleskine. And you did a real good job with your logo :)

[KarylGilbertson]

Some of you may remember the horse demon I was working on a few pages back... finally got my shit together (somewhat) and got working on the painting I was designing him for in the first place... I'm not sure exactly where I'm going to take this as far as painterly vs. rendered is concerned, probably more painterly.. still have things I want to do to it though before calling it done. I'll say I'm about 75% done on this.

[Cacodaemonia]

Hey, I like what you've got going in this painting. :) Watch out for those tangents, though! I've been trying to be aware of things like that lately, so I noticed them in your piece. Fore example: the hilt of the sword touches the frame, as do the horns and ears.

[KarylGilbertson]

@Cacodaemonia: Yeah I see what you're saying... I'm thinking of rotating the whole pic maybe 5-10% counter clockwise and see if that helps with any of the composition issues :P

here's something i started yesterday and finished up today... j'aime le drapery! :)

[Costau]

Hey man good sketch. Only thing I think will make it better is to touch up some area with a dark black.

[KarylGilbertson]

yeah man i know what you mean. really I tried, but my pencil was a bit too hard... need to maybe grab a 2b or something for the dark stuff.

[KarylGilbertson]

Finished this up.... not perfect but once again M-M-M-MOVING on!

[Cacodaemonia]

I like the edits and refining you've done. :) The tentacle/mustache thing looks better with some holes in it, and the bg fits in better now.

[KarylGilbertson]

Thanks eh! Your earlier comments definitely helped make it better than it could've been. Cheers!

In other news, page 9! woo!

[Fumble]

that horse-warrior looks cool. i really like the bloody symbol on its neck. The only thing i find a bit strange is the hand holding the sword. I dont know much about composition but i find that i somehow denies entrance to the piece.

anyways keep those updates coming :D

[KarylGilbertson]

Yeah man, I think I see what you're saying. I'm not going to fix it at this point, but it's worth keeping in my mind for the next one. Thanks for the comment d00d!

[Braintree]

You got some great updates here recently! the one with the horse is good, no crit.
The drapery/pants study is great too. only thing i'd say is too push your values with the pencil alittle bit more.

oh and ... freaking sweet signature you've got in that pants piece :P

[Costau]

The horse came out pretty good, almost like something you'd see on a heavy metal album. I agree with you about calling it finished, just gotta move on and learn from it. Study some composition, and layout principles as well. Such as in comic books or anything for that matter considering illustration, it is not wise to cut off limbs at the edge of a page around the joints. Sometimes it can be pulled off, but in most cases it becomes subconciously distracting. For example in your horse painting I couldn't tell if the Horse was half human and wielding the sword or someone else below him.

Over all though it still came out looking good.

[KarylGilbertson]

A bit of fanart I'm working on... some personal stuff! I'm calling this done, because I have too much shit on the go right now to deal with the issues on this piece.. such as venom and the surface he's standing on being on a different perspective from the buildings in the background... ARGH >_<

[Pigeonkill]

I like your avatar.

Interesting green horse with arms...freaky.

[Fumble]

cool fanart! the only crit i have is that the lower leg of the leg there is farthest away looks a little short.

keep it up dude :D

[KarylGilbertson]

thumbs for my next marvel super villain fan art... Can you guess who it is? :P