A lot has changed

[Eric Young]

MAY 21, 2008 ~ The best stuff is in the back! feel free to skip right to the last few pages if you want!
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Hello, I decided to make a new sketchbook. I'm 18 years old and an art student at DCAD.
I have an older sketchbook filled with a lot of crap I don't like anymore lol, so I decided to make a new one with new stuff and some of the stuff I liked from the older sketchbook. So here goes,

http://i164.photobucket.com/albums/u33/Eric0322/MindTitan1.jpg

[Eric Young]

A few more, I have a bunch more I will add later.

[Eric Young]

here are a few more character designs

[Eric Young]

The first one is my first serious try at a storyboard, its just a random scene from a graphic novel i'm planning on writing. The second it another random scene as well. I personally like them both but i'm open for any suggestions. I had to erase the words simply cause I guess i didnt write neat enough and it wasn't readable when i scanned it into the computer.

[Eric Young]

Hello, been a while since i updated this, sorry, i wish i was more consistent, i been busy. Here are a couple drawings i did tonight. Please tell me what you all think, thank you!

[Eric Young]

Here is one more, let me know what you think. Im going to go draw some more so hopefully i'll have something worth while to post later

[Eric Young]

I was just messing around with this kind of sketching and i really like it, its different from my normal type of shading. I think im going to explore this type of drawing for a little while, please let me know what u think and any suggestions you might have on improving it.

[Eric Young]

new painting i did the other night, black acrylic on 9x12 canvas, i really like how it turned out, please tell me what you think.

[Eric Young]

Here are a couple new things I've done recently.
The first is a painting I did for my girlfriend, done with acrylics. Sorry for the crappy pic of it, i took the pic with my cell phone because it was too big to scan.
The second is a character design of mine, i was experimenting with colored pencils, something I rarly ever use and i actually kinda like how it turned out.

Please let me know what you all think of my stuff i love hearing what people think, even if its criticism lol.

[ped454]

Your stuff is weird and it disturbs me. I'd like to see more.

peace

[Eric Young]

I'm a weird person I guess lol thanks for the comment, you will definitely see more!

[Eric Young]

Character i did tonight, again experimenting with color pencils.

[Eric Young]

I really like this one, Im going to color it I just wanted to add the line drawing of it first. I really pushed the anatomy hard ( even though it isnt human lol ) And i think it turned out good.
Tell me what ya think~

[Eric Young]

Finished it! I think it turned out great! When i scanned it though some of the lighter areas turned out looking white but other then that I like it.

[Eric Young]

First is a collection showing the stages i went threw in drawing the character. the second is another character, i havnt finished it yet though

[Eric Young]

Big update, lol sorry i havnt posted in a few days. here are a few pages from my sketchbook, the first couple just being some characters of mine. the last drawing is just a couple of head drawings i did from dvd boxes lol.
Please tell me what you think, i'd really like to hear from all you guys.

[Eric Young]

Bust of a character of mine

[Eric Young]

Older drawing of mine, I reworked it a little bit and i might do a little more but for the time being I like it

[Eric Young]

way different then what i normally do, I started it in a restaurant the other day and I just finished it. I always carry a small sketchbook on me in case im ever caught someplace and I get bored lol.

[The Curehead]

hi good start here.i like the head studies.
I think you should work on the design aspects of your characters a bit more,to make them stand out a bit.
Like if they are reckless,they might wear less Armour or if they have a culture based on something try and bring that out.
for example your doing something with dragon/demon/bat wings on most of them.So maybe try an incorporate some of that into the design process; like by giving them maybe flame motifs,or dragon teeth,scaled armour,maybe make them utilize fire.
I havent given you the best examples but It could developing your designs could really improve a lot of these sketches.
good start keep posting.:)

[Eric Young]

Hey, thanks for the comment Curehead, yeah I can see how my designs might seem a little comfusing. Thats probably because I need to explain them all better lol.
Basicly, i've created another world, with its own races. Humans, which are just normal humans. Yamsah which are the race i draw most often, they look just like humans except for the small bat like wings on there upper back. And Fiends which are basicly a monster like race. I've been developing and writing a graphic novel around this world i've created for the last couple years.
Thats why my designs are so off the wall lol. Anyway, thanks for the tip, i'll keep it in mind, I always apprreciate any comments.

Anyway, back to my drawings lol here is one more.

[TOOLED!]

im seeing alot of progress keep going man, and don't be afraid of refrencing your figures.

[Eric Young]

Hey Tooled, thanks a lot for the comment. It's funny you should bring up referencing because I just got a fantasy art book the other day that has a bunch of models posing in fantasy positions. I think I'll try referencing them. Thanks again for the tip, I appreciate all comments!

Anyway I'm going to go draw now so I'll have more to post later on.

[iceman478]

nice stuff

[Eric Young]

Thanks a lot Iceman!

Here are a few women drawings I did last night, first are just some face studies, the second was just a study of the female body but then i developed it into a character. I'm going to finish the character once i decide if i want to do just black and white value or color.

[Eric Young]

i added value

[Eric Young]

i really like these bust drawing, i think they are turning out nice. I like the level of detail and accuracy and time i can spend on the face and head. I must say i can even see my own improvment.

[Gadbury]

I agree with The Curehead - Some more little design elements would really distinguish you characters more - Go a bit more crazy with the designs of some of these characters and it will show a bit moreof a story of what they are about - But some decent drawings, will be good to see the next update!

[Eric Young]

I'm back, sorry i havnt posted in a few days, i've been getting ready to start college again this week.
Here is just a line drawing. It started out as just the upper body but it looked kinda odd with just the upper body and arms floating so I drew in the legs but now I think they look kinda weird. Oh well i'll try and fix them when i finish it.

Mr. Gadbury- Thanks for the comment, I'll try and go a little more wild lol. I been trying to draw fantasy yet keep it realistic so I've been trying to mix up cultures to try and get outfits that are different yet similar to things in history. But i'll try and go off the wall and see what I get lol.

[Carbono]

You got lots of designs but too few studies(and only face ones), i believe it should be the other way around.
Try to practice some anatomy, some basics, you'll see huge improvements quality-wise and time-wise when doing your designs.

Keep it up!

[Eric Young]

Thanks for the comment Carbono, and i can see where your coming from. I don't have many anatomy studies in my sketchbook because I don't post them. I do my anatomy studies differently them most people. I don't really like the idea of drawing anatomy over and over so I made it more interesting. Every time I draw a character I do anatomy studies, I draw the whole character nude and draw all the muscles, then when i personalize the character into whatever im drawing, just erase the anatomy as i add clothing. That way I get better at anatomy, but I still have the fun of designing characters. It takes a lot longer to draw a character but I think its worth it.

Here is a character I started drawing, here is an example of my characters half way threw drawing them. As you can see I have all the anatomy, but when I go to add clothing I just erase the anatomy. I do this proses every time i draw a character. This character I don't think im going to finish simply because I made it a little too big and I can't fit his foot on the page. But I just wanted to show you how I did my anatomy studies.

[Eric Young]

I finished this one today during my break between classes.

[Eric Young]

These two are the exact same drawing actually, i just want to show you all how I do anatomy studies. First off I did an anatomy study of this character, as you can see in the first picture. The second is the same drawing but I personalized the character. I draw his clothing, layer by layer, over his anatomy then erase the anatomy away. This is how I draw all my characters so that I get the anatomy practice and still get you practice my character designs.

Edit: Please let me know what you all think, any crits are more then welcomed!

[Retronym]

I agre with Carbono, you're refferenced work is easily your strongest, I think you'd benefit from looking more often to life/photos.

[Eric Young]

Thanks for the post everyone! I love hearing for all of you.

Retronym- yeah that prolly would help, and actually i have to draw 10 sketchs of people / living things for my Drawing II class so i will post them on here once i finish them, to see what you guys think

Sorry I havn't posted in a few days, i'm trying to balance my school work, girlfriend, and looking for a job and doesn't leave me too much time to draw anything I want, at least not enough time to finish anything worth posting on here. Anyway, i managed to draw a couple things today, the first actually i started a few days ago, and as you can see im not done yet. The second is a character design I drew in my school sketchbook while waiting for my 4-D design class to start, i plan on redrawing it in my personal sketchbook later and finishing it with either color or just value. Anyway tell me what ya think!

Edit: Um i don't kow why my drawings are not being shown, and there is only a link to them, but if anyone can tell me why and how to fix it i'll do so asap.

[Eric Young]

i finished this drawing

[Eric Young]

For some reason I can't get the attachment thing to work right on here anymore... i dunno if I'm doing something wrong or the site is messing up, but here are the drawings fom my last 2 posts, i just used photobucket....

EDIT : Site got fixed so i removed the photobucket images.

[Eric Young]

I had to do 10 of these real life drawings for my Drawing II class. I'll only post these 4 cause they are the ones i like the most. The first one is my sister, the second is my nephew, the third is me, and the last if my girlfriend.
My teacher said they were good but they were only suppost to be sketchs and mine were closer to finished drawings lol. Oh well it can only help my grade to do a little extra.

[dtr.aty]

i guess you have to practice some anatomy)

keep it up!

[Eric Young]

I do practice anatomy, very often actually. Read the first post of mine on this page and you will understand how i do anatomy lol. anyway, thats for the comment Dtr.aty.

[Ruffy]

Great costume designs, how do you thinkup all this stuff!? the shadow work is really well done in some of your drawings and it really brings them to life use this cos it achieves a great effect! otherwise, stay fresh and original and keep them coming. peace ;)

[Eric Young]

Ruffy- Thanks for the comment! I usually look at history and ancient cultures to get my ideas for costumes and then i just combine them all together.

Sorry I havn't been able to post anything the last few days, I have been really busy with school work and havn't really been able to draw anything I want lately. But here are a few head sketchs i did between classes.
Let me know what you think~

[Eric Young]

Here is an assignment I had in my 4-D class. We had a model do the jesture position and all we had to do was cody the pose and then create our own character. It looks, in my opinion, kinda odd cause you can't see the other arm, but you couldn't see it on the model. This drawing took me maybe 20-25 mins.

[Eric Young]

Line drawing, i'll add value a little later.

[Eric Young]

18 x 24 Still life i did in my drawing II class. I covered the whole page with a mid tone charcoal then i drew with an eraser. i really like how it turned out.

[Eric Young]

finished it, i think. Tell me what ya'll think~

Edit: I changed something in the drawing, so I uploaded the new pic.

[Eric Young]

A blaster blade (gunblade) design I have been working on. I really like this design. tell me what ya think.

[Eric Young]

First off, I'm sorry I havn't posted in like a week, i been way too busy with school and I havn't gotten to draw anything for myself. I drew these two last night, i was up till 4am lol.

First pic is a bow and arrow design.

The second is another character of mine

Tell me what you all think please, I love to hear any comments from people.

[Eric Young]

still life painting

[Eric Young]

A character drawing of mine
Characters name is Mettah.
Please any crit would be greatly appreciated!

[Eric Young]

This is a sketch of a drawing i'm planning on doing, I havn't been able to draw much of my personal stuff so I figured I'd post whatever I had. I have a bunch of anatomy drawing i did in school, if I ever get them back I'll post them...

[Eric Young]

Yo, more stuff. These are some weapon designs I drew while watching a movie. And the last one is a school project I did that I really like. As always, i'd like to hear any crits!

[Suncut]

You've made some really nice progress on the proportion of your characters from the first page. I think you're really missing an important aspect of anatomy by doing only line version of the anatomy before drawing on the clothes, that way you don't really get to analyse the planes of the body properly and it slows the learning progress. I suggest you draw some half-naked characters occasionally too, so you get to practice really shading the body ;). And on the still life drawing for future reference I'd make a little more difference between the darkest values of the drawing, not all really dark is black.

[Eric Young]

Suncut- thanks for the comment! Yeah some shading of anatomy would help me I think but its funny you should suggest the half naked characters, thats what I have for you guys now. Its not totally finished yet as you can see but it's turning out really good in my opinion.

The first drawing is some quick skull studies I did in school.

The second is a character of mine, it's not quite finished yet but I plan on finishing it soon, hopfully today.
All comments welcome as always!

[cocaine]

theres a certain awkwardness about these sketches

i cant quite put my pinky finger on it..

[Eric Young]

Lol I don't really know what your talking about, but the skull study, i took the pic on my phone so it's kinda blurry.

[Eric Young]

It's finished! Tell me what ya'll think!

[Movenski]

E, thanks for the comment and allow me to return the favor. this drawings got a lot of good things going for it, the angle, pose and detailing are all nice,
my only critique'd be that i think all of your textures in the drawing are treated too similiarly, i.e. the chair is rendered the same way as the cloth, the skin is similar to the armour and its flattening your range of texture which'd really bring the drawing to a new level. and you might want to hint at the upper arm behind his curled up forearm to push that depth a little bit more.
other than those i think its pretty fly. did you use any ref?

RM

[Eric Young]

Hello everyone I'm finally back, I havn't been able to post in a while simple because i've been so busy in school and I just got through midterms. Well... finally able to get all my stuff together and scanned into the computer, I have like 20 things to post but I'm not going to post them all right now in one post, I'll do a few right now and a few later on today( After i get some sleep!!!!)
Movenski- Thank you for the comment and the kind words, And i totally agree with you on the texture I've been trying to work on how I render textures.

First pic (really bad cell phone pic) - It is a project i'm working on in my 3D class, It's carving stone, something I've never done before but its new and fun!
Second Pic -A still life drawing using black and white charcoal on grey paper.
Third Pic- I took my drawing that I did for fun and redrew it a lot bigger and added a backround, this was a homework for my drawing class
Fourth pic- Charcoal drawing of legs, done in class, took about 1 hour
Fifth pic- Charcoal drawing of the upper body, took about 1 1/2 hours

Thanks for checkin them out, please feel free to leave a comment, all comments are more then welcome. Check back later today for another update.

[Eric Young]

Here are some arm anatomy studies I did for my drawing class, its more of a test on practising drawing with a dipping pen and india ink.

[Eric Young]

Here are some leg studies, not very interesting but it's something to post lol

[Eric Young]

whats up, I'm back with something more interesting to post!
- The first is a painting I did for school, Its an experiment to play with the idea of dulling or nutralizing a color by adding either earth tones or grey.
- Second is another painting I did in school, its a still life and the experiment was getting dulled and nutral colors without using browns, greys, blacks, or whites. In order to do that was by mixing a colors complement (The color across from it on a color wheel )
- Third is a character design I did for fun. I havn't been able to do a character design in so long because I've been so busy, I was happy I could fit this in.
Please critique anything or leave a comment, I love to hear what people think.

[Lateman]

amazing progress!
i like your studies very mutch. your charakterdesigns are traditionel but well done. keep fighting

best wishes
Lateman

[Eric Young]

Thank you Lateman for your comment, I think I've made a lot of progress too. I looked through my old sketchbooks from a year ago and there is a huge difference in my drawing abilities then and now lol. I guess my first year in art school is really paying off, also this website had been a huge help to me over the past year.

This drawing is a character design of a character i created, named Atacent Apollo.

[Eric Young]

Another Character design I did today!
Please let me know what you think on this or any other drawing i've done, i really wanna hear everyones comments and/or crits!

[Ivan the Not-So-Bad]

Hi, thanks for commenting on my sketchbook. Looking through your sketchbook, I can see that you began it with a great sense of your creativity in your works that has consistently carried through.

The best part though is the progression in your anatomy knowledge, as I can see that growth from the first piece to the last. Keep up whatever it is you're doing, its working.

[Eric Young]

Thank you Ivan! It's nice to know others can see me improving.

[Eric Young]

I got bored and wanted to play with my colour pencils so I drew my pencil sharpener!

[Eric Young]

Character concept of a king! Let me know what you think!
( My damn scanner is like 1/4 of an inch too short to get the whole picture!!! It cut off his foot!!)

[Eric Young]

Character I am working on~

[Tiago]

There has definetly been progress from the first few sketches but I have to agree with most of the coments about working from real life observation and anatomy studies. Like Suncut said, sometimes just the lines just aren't enough. The ones you did are a good start but you should keep doing them.

One of the turning points for me as far as drawing characters was when i took an anatomy class back in highschool. It had nothing to do with art, but learning about the muscles, what each was and how they connected and worked together made a really big difference for me. I'm not saying it will work for everyone or even that you need to take an actual anatomy class, just keep working on the anatomy studies and anything from life.

The design of the characters is one of your stronger points but the anatomy shortfalls are holding them back in a way.

Cocaine posted that there was somethign awkward with your drawings. I'm not sure if this is it, but the faces sometimes seem a little too wide, or in the ones where they are facing to the side the jawline is too long. On the females the torso seems too wide in comparison to the legs and the legs also seem a bit short. For the eyes and nose you also don't have to draw every detail to make it realistic.

Other people criticizing your work is helpful but one of the biggest parts in improving is noticing for yourself what seems off about drawings and then correcting whatever that happens to be.

I hope you don't mind me doing this quick drawover. My version isn't perfect either but a lot of the time it's easier to see something than have it explained.

[Eric Young]

Tiago- Thank you for the very detailed critique! I can see what you're talking about. I am working on my anatomy skills, most of it is through school in my drawing class.
On the critique of my character design you drew for me, I really appreciate you going through the trouble of doing that for me, I agree on a few things and others I'm not too sure about. I can definatly see how my jaw bone is a little too big. And on the hand, I figured it wasn't perfect, I redrew the hand like 4 times and that seemed to work the best. And the relaxed arm, you drew the arm pretty much in the exact spot it already is. I guess it's hard too see under the clothing. The one thing I don't agree with is your drawing of the waist, I didn't want to draw her that skinny because she isn't a model, she is a fighter/warrior and I don't think a female warrior would be that skinny. But I appreciate you giving me such a detailed critique and spending so much time on trying to help me! Thanks again.

[Tiago]

Your welcome. I really like the way you design your armors and it would be a shame for some of that to be overlooked because something else in the drawing is looking odd.

The arm I just did to see for myself if it was positioned right with how I had done her upper body and not because you had done anything wrong with it. I guess I should have erased it after i saw that it was fine. :P

The other option if you don't want the skinny model look is to bulk up the legs and arms a bit to match that torso. Like I said, my versions weren't perfect either and I was just trying to get the torso to match the legs and arms.

For drawing hands, something that can be helpful is looking at your own if you have doubts or think that something you have on the page looks awkward. Regardless of if your drawing male or female hands the basic structure will be the same and should give you an idea of what is off and how to correct it. This will also work for other parts of the body, but for the hands its probably the easiest since they are right there in front of you.

[Eric Young]

I was playing around with photoshop and came up with this! I think it's pretty good for painting with a mouse.

First one took only like 15-20 mins and the second took like an hour and a half.

[Eric Young]

Hello! It's been a few weeks since I have been able to post. I've been extremely busy with college. But I do have a ton of stuff to post so i'll post some now and the rest later.

First- My first attempt at oil painting. For my first try ever I think it turned out good, I rather enjoyed this medium so expect more in the future. (30min painting)
Second- The interior of my bedroom, was a homework assignment I did for my drawing class. Done 18"X24" with charcoal. ( 1.5 hour drawing)
Third- Cityscape done 18"x24" with charcoal (3 hour drawing)
fourth- Female model done 18"X24" with charcoal ( 2 hour drawing)
Fifth- Male Model done 18"x12" with charcoal, (15 min drawing)
sixth- Make model done 18"x24" with charcoal (2 hour drawing)

[Eric Young]

Finish the update:
First: Pirate concept I am currently coloring with color pencils
Second: Character Head studies
Third: Frog sketch
Fourth: A character design i finished a long time ago but forgot to post on here.
Fifth: Hippo sketch
PlEaSe Leave a comment and I'll return the favor!

[Tiago]

It is good to see you working on life drawings. They all came out prett good. I also like how the hippo came out. As far as crits, the legs on the pirate are in a strange position. I'm assuming the long neck on the head studies was intentional.

[Eric Young]

Thanks for the post Tiago, yeah the pirate is in an odd position, that was my intent. I kinda got tired of the standing pose I do a lot so i wanted to try drawing a character kinda caught in the middle of a twisted movement. And yes the long neck on the head design was intentional.

[Eric Young]

Finished coloring my Pirate. Let me know what ya think

[Eric Young]

My final project for my 3D design II class, its a lifesize suit of armor I made out of duct tape. All it is, is many, many layers of duct tape. I used over 1100 feet of duct tape makeing this. Then I put a chrome colored duct tape over the top for a metal-like finish.

[Eric Young]

Hey, I'm back, expect more from now on, now that im out of school for the summer i'll have tons of time to post my stuff.
- My girlfriend baught me a set of prismacolor markers for our year anniversary, so I was up all night playing with them. I think it turned out pretty well for my first attempt with markers. If anyone has any tips I'd love to hear them. Also if anyone knows what colors make a good skin tone I'd like to know. The skin tone i made here is a little too dark then what i was going for.

[Eric Young]

Sup
First-fifth: This is a comic i had to do for my 4D class, Sorry if you cant read the words, I had to take the pic on my cell phone since the pages are too big to scan... its on 11"x14" paper and my scanner is only 9"x11"... but even without reading the words i think you can still understand the story.
sixth: another drawing i did, trying to get used to these prismacolor markers, i'm still having trouble mixing a good skin tone...

PLease and comment or suggestions you may have i'd love to hear them.

[Eric Young]

It still needs some more work but it's kinda close to being finished

[Eric Young]

attempt at a child and there proportions, i think the heads too big, but im happy with the colors, i think the skin tone is pretty good. i used prismacolor markers

[Jamie Romoser]

nice characters you have great imagination keep those studies up they will help you alot.

[Eric Young]

first- Did some foot anatomy studies and a quick naked girl.
second- last night my power went out, so i drew this by the light of my cell phone. Took about 3 hours and the power came back on shortly after i finished.

[Eric Young]

I was looking at some of Gustave Dore's and Durer's engravings and inspired me to do some pen and ink drawings. I also wanted to experiment with the pen and ink style and mix it with prismacolor marker.
First - I drew a character from one of Dore's illustrations for the inferno, it's the man who takes the souls over the river styx.
Second - a creature concept i did using pen and ink.
Third - a small little demon figure i drew from another of Dore's illustrations. I then added my signature and took a toothbrush and some ink and added the ink spray.
Fourth - I did the samthing as the one above this. I used my sign insted of my signature.

Leave a comment please and i'll return the favor, Thx for looking!

[Eric Young]

pen and ink drawing, i'm going to add color later. Also I should have a bunch of sketchs for the Chow underwater event soon!

[CecelyV]

;1607324']Thanks for the comment Carbono, and i can see where your coming from. I don't have many anatomy studies in my sketchbook because I don't post them. I do my anatomy studies differently them most people. I don't really like the idea of drawing anatomy over and over so I made it more interesting. Every time I draw a character I do anatomy studies, I draw the whole character nude and draw all the muscles, then when i personalize the character into whatever im drawing, just erase the anatomy as i add clothing. That way I get better at anatomy, but I still have the fun of designing characters. It takes a lot longer to draw a character but I think its worth it.


Impressive character design [E], I dig the great amount of detail you put into your characters. At first I though, "how does he come up with the details?" But as I read more I see they come from the graphic novel you're penning. I've thought of doing that myself. I have such a wild imagination I often think I should write along with my drawings :^^:

I'm focused on anatomy studies right now, but I think I'll try my hand at your style of character design...incorporating that with my anatomy studies should definitely make my portfolio and my studies more exciting.

My advise would be to keep going, you're doing great. Keep up the anatomy studies and character designs--especially while you're in art school. I'm 26, married and have a day job...let me tell you, time to create is a lot harder to come by when you have a day job outside of the creative industry. Treasure the time to create you have and try to get a job in our field.

Great job so far!

[Lakka]

You improved a whole lot with those lifedrawings. I'd suggest you go and do alloooot of them, as they clearly seem to be working for you :)

[CecelyV]

;1651144']A character drawing of mine
Characters name is Mettah.
Please any crit would be greatly appreciated!

Here's a crit for your Mettah character design :^^:

I think your proportions are done well, and I like his costume design. I would say you need to pay special attention to weight. If one leg is up in the air, then the other is obviously carrying most of the weight. This isn't getting communicated as well as it could be. I would suggest using value to aid you there, and perhaps exaggerating the pose a bit more. If one side is weighted, then he'd be leaning more to that side, yes?

Hope that helps. Awesome sketchbook, I subscribed. Keep it up, your work is inspiring :D

[Augmenton]

Very nice drawings. I really like the detail you put into your work. Just a few suggestions, though. You should try working on your line quality - vary the thickness and how dark your lines are to add weight and dimension. Also, the anatomy is off in several areas (I know, it's hard...I have a ton of trouble with anatomy!) Aside from that, you're on the right track, I'm liking what I'm seeing.

[Eric Young]

Thank you CecelyV, Lakka, and Augmenton for all of your comments! I really appreciate so much feedback on my sketchbook! I agree with everything you all said, I know my anatomy is not perfect and i really need to work more on my female anatomy and line weight is something i always seem to forget about when im drawing but i've been trying to incorperate it in my characters. Thanks again for the comments!

First - i colored the drawing i posted last
second - pen and ink of another character of mine, the character is ment to appear young he is only about 12 - 13.
Third - i then colored the drawing with prosmacolor marker! ( yes the skin is colored, its a very light gray.)

[Eric Young]

This is another one of my characters
First- done in pen and ink
Second - then colored with prismacolor markers

[Eric Young]

First - I added some more value, I think it's pretty much done
Second - a quick sword design i did

[Eric Young]

Still a Wip, One of my only character drawings i've done with a full backround

[Eric Young]

did some more work on this, i should have it finished soon

[Kfeeras]

compliment on the dresses and drapery - very believable and well thought. your anatomy is a little symbolic f.e. the arm muscles you draw, but nothing that won't improve with practice and study. use reference for the poses and don't forget the perspective.
your drawing has a very nice etching-quality that i like

cheerio

[Eric Young]

Kfeeras - Thank you for the comment and the critique, I'm always glad to hear people like my stuff!

First - I finally finished this drawing! I really like how it came out. The only thing that pissed me off was that at the very end of drawing it my pen dripped a drop of ink on the piller he is next to... i painted over it with white gouche and then re inked and markered it, you can sort of still see the patch.

Second - I recognized i needed some more work on my female anatomy so I did some female figure drawings from some nude photos.

Third - another figure drawing, the face isn't perfect, i didnt spend much time on it.

Fourth - an extremely quick design idea, for CHOW, i wanted to sketch real quick before i passed out. Took about 2 mins total.

[Eric Young]

i did this just now while sitting at the computer listening to music! I think it turned out rather well.

[Eric Young]

a drawing I did last night.

[Eric Young]

Armor design i did, i was inspired by the armor of the judges from Final fantasy 12!

Please leave a comment on this or on anything else in my sketchbook, i really want to know what everyone thinks! As always if you comment my SB i will return the favor.

[kidult]

Nice to see your use of trad medias - just keep practising and going! Do u do any digi work?

[Eric Young]

First - helmet designs i did to try and find something to go with the armor i posted.

kidult - Thank you for the comment, and yes i do try and do some digital work but It's all with a mouse ( I need a tablet badly) It takes forever so i rarly ever complete something that i do on photoshop. This is an example of a project i was working on in photoshop. It is no were near done but its enough to show you if you want a digital example.

[Christian223]

Hi, your drawings are really nice :)

Heres a critique if you want, im not sure if you paint like that on purpose, as your style or not, but i think that you should try painting something from real life, or a photo, to get a feeling of how things actually look colored, it will make your coloring look more realistic. I dont have experience using markers to color, so i cant give you any tips using that, maybe you should try changing mediumds to color to make your life easier, try acrylics or oils, they seems simpler to learn to color in my opinion since you can see more clearly the color relationships, the values and the saturations of colors.

Ok, keep it up!, Jesus bless you.

edit: By the way, loomis has written a good book on how to color, Here http://www.fineart.sk/index.php?s=136&cat=13
You should also read "Succesfull drawing" by Loomis too, to resfresh your knowledge on how to light objects.

[KingCobra00]

The figure studies are really nice, but I think they'd look better if you added in some darker values.

[Eric Young]

Christian223 - Thanks for the crit. And to answer your question, yes i do paint like that with the markers on purpose. Lol I wanted to combine my love of pen and ink engravings with color, so I do the drawing in pen and ink and then go over it in color, I think it gives it a very nice graphic effect that is fun just to look at. I just started this style so it's still kinda new to me and i'm still working out the kinks. For example i relized that if I use a micron pen insted of a dipping pen and india ink then the micron ink kinda fades when I add the prismacolor marker.
When I want to make some think with realistic color I usually use color pencils or acrylic or oil paints.
Thanks again for the comment !

___

This drawing is of a character of mine, done in charcoal on 18" x 24" paper. I had to take a picture of it with a camera since it was way too big for my scanner. I hate taking pictures of my drawings cause the camera always fucks up the art... the brownish tint and the faded look of the right leg are not on the drawing, they came from the camera... so please ignore those things if you post a comment.

[Eric Young]

I need to make some changes on the whole left leg of the last drawing I posted. I realize what I did wrong. ( Thanks to the Critique center ) I'm going to try and fix it and have it up and reposted today

[Eric Young]

I changed the left leg and i think it makes it a lot better

[Eric Young]

A WIP of another character design. I can't decide how I want to finish it. Either in pencil or with pen and ink.

[Eric Young]

I decided to do it in ink and marker. Tell me what ya think! I'll be more then happy to return the favor!

[Eric Young]

First - Character head
Second - 2 more character heads and a quick costume sketch
Third - 2 weapon designs

I have a full time job for the summer so it's going to be hard to have something to update every day... So if you can leave a comment I would love to hear it! As always I'll return the favor ~

[Eric Young]

YAY! I was able to find time to draw today! This is a Character of mine. Took about 3 hours to get this far. And I plan to add color so probably another hour of work and it'll be finished. Let me know what ya think~

[Eric Young]

Colored it with prismacolors

[Eric Young]

Another character design in pen, ink, and prismacolor! PLEASE Let me know what ya think on this and any others in my sketchbook

[Eric Young]

Animal concept design. Something someone would ride.

[Eric Young]

been a while since i've posted. This is a WIP of another character of mine.

[Eric Young]

Finished it

[Eric Young]

This is an old drawing I did a while ago but I just recently colored it with prismacolor markers. Tell me what ya think, I think i still need some practice with making values. If anyone has any tips I'd be happy to hear them.

[TOOLED!]

good job man, i can tell that the practise is paying off. your color needs work as well as the line quality, but that will come with time practise and experimentation. good luck and keep it up.

[Eric Young]

2 drawing i've done recently.

Thank you for the comment Tooled, yeah I know i need some more work, i've been practicing every chance I get.

[Eric Young]

more practice with prismacolor markers. This drawing is not totally done yet, it still needs a few touch ups.

[jedininjaman]

Your profiles need work, practice that and you will be good to go, noses are often to big or too long, and your eyes are too high, but the markers are excellent, very neat lines in your work I have to say, I have been messing with markers recently and am thinking about investing in some, any tips would be welcome, try some more interesting poses rather than people just standing
keep it up and stop by sometime
-jedininja

[Eric Young]

jedininja - Thank you for your advice and your complements. Yes I also noticed my profile heads are not totally correct, thank you for the critique. And I do more standing poses lately because I'm trying to focus more on the design then the action, but I know they are more boring.

Since I too was getting bored of the standing poses this new drawing is more dynamic. It's still a w.i.p. but i should have it finished in no time.

[Eric Young]

I stayed up all night but I had to finish this. I think it turned out really well, please tell me what you think.

[Eric Young]

Busy night leads into a bust morning, I had an idea for a helmet design I wanted to sketch out so I did, then I decided to play with my new Copic Markers, They truly are amazing. I just wish I had more colors and that I didn't have to drive an hour to the only store I know of that sells them.

[Eric Young]

more practice with copic markers.

[clanlord]

Hi [E] ! Nice to see your improvement! But you still got to work more serious on learning the anatomy and catch the movements better! Otherwise the shading is very cool (brings memories about the ancient chinese drawings)! So keep going!

[Eric Young]

clanlord - Thanks for the advice, Yeah I've been trying to practice more.

This is another more dynamic character design. I really focused on the pose for this one.

[Eric Young]

This is a doodle that I spent too much time on haha. I started it with no real direction and kinda made it up as i went along. So yeah it's kinda sketchy and everything isn't rendered too well. I only spent like 2 hours off and on, on it.

[amazed]

ha ha, yeah, sometimes I just instead to doodle something, but instead I spend an hour. So.. critques, umm I would play it safe and say what other people are saying, work on poses, maybe do posemaniacs. You do have mad marker skillz though.

[Eric Young]

Thanks for the complement Amazed. And thank you for the Posemaniacs.com refrence, I found that site once a while ago and forgot what the web address was. So now i made sure I favorited it.

This is still a WIP. I like it so far.

[jedininjaman]

Invest more time into making sure all of the anatomy is correct in a piece for example the archer is pretty accurate however the troll after it is not at all so make sure to invest quality time into checking the pose of each character just as you did for the archer keep it up man
-jedininja

[Eric Young]

Jedininja - Yeah I agree, the troll drawing is horrible lol, It was more of a doodle then a planned drawing. I didn't check the anatomy or pose at all.

[Eric Young]

Finally finished it! I think it turned out great. All done in prismacolor markers. Please tell me what you think.

[Eric Young]

Redid the dragon king, this time in prismacolors not copics.

[Eric Young]

This is a little doodle I did while sitting in a driving improvment class that I had to take so that my licence didn't get suspended.

[Eric Young]

This was a sketch I did early this morning, only spent about an hour on it. It was more of a practice of prismacolor markers. So the pose and everything isn't perfect because I didn't spend much time on that.

[Eric Young]

Head sketchs of some of my characters. More practice with skin tone with markers.

[Eric Young]

Costume design I drew while baby sitting

[Eric Young]

Still a WIP, only the lineart so far. I'm trying to decide to do it in all markers or pen and ink and markers.

[Eric Young]

Stayed up all night finishing this. I think it's good, the only issue I have at the moment is the grays in the clouds didn't really show up too well when I scanned it into my computer. I tryed to fix it in phototsho[ by adjusting the contrast but it didn't help much. Oh well, tell me what you think please!

EDIT: I fixed the clouds and sky, I think they are a little better, so i rescanned the image and uploaded the new image. Tell me what ya think!

[Eric Young]

Another illustration I did last night of a character of mine called the Bone King. I used Prismacolor markers, I used a different kind of paper, I don't know what it's called but it was really absorbent. I think overall it turned out ok, I really had a hard time on the mountains in the background, the furthest one looks ok but the mid one looks kinda shitty i think...

[Eric Young]

Sketch of a tree I did at a park today.

[Eric Young]

Another prismacolor illustration. If you havn't noticed I've been really trying to branch out from the single character designs and put them into a background. They take a lot longer to do but they are more interesting to look, hopefully I'll get more comments with them.

[Eric Young]

Still a WIP but I like the pose of this one.

[Eric Young]

I finished this, I really like the pose I took a picture of myself as a refrence. Please tell me what ya think.

[FightingSeraph]

Not bad, and the markers add a touch of Jack Kirby to your drawings. Oh, I too use Copic markers.

[Eric Young]

I stayed up doing this only took maybe 2-3 hours, character done in prismacolor markers but the background I did in water color paints. I havn't used water color since.. elementary school? So this was really my first attempt but I think it came out rather good at makeing a nice night sky.

[Eric Young]

First - an unfinished armor design, now that i look at it, it looks pretty cool
second - the different masks of a clan in my story I'm creating
third - Random character, nothing really important, but I can tell now his arm is not totally proportionatly correct.

[CecelyV]

Love your character ideas ^_^ Keep at it, I'm looking forward to seeing more of your work.

I'm working with The Structure of Man DVD series, it teaches you to draw the human figure from your mind. I highly recommend it. Check it out:
http://thestructureofmandvd.blogspot.com/

If the link doesn't work, just google "the structure of man"

[Eric Young]

CecelyV - Thank you for the kind words, it's nice to know I have a fan. And thanks for the link, those dvds look very interesting.

Some simple sword designs.

[FightingSeraph]

Those are some nice swords you have there; they look like they can fit in an RPG.

[JinRa]

good line work.. and the swords are cool designs!

[jedininjaman]

I agree clean lines but one thing seems to bother me a lot about these is you keep making your face on one plane when really the face is curved so keep in mind the contour of the face as you draw and i think that will help a lot Fancy work though I really admire your dedication and I feel that you deserve some stars so enjoy and keep it up even if you feel others don't look
-jedininja

[Eric Young]

Thank you all very much for the comments. It really is nice to see that people enjoy my work.
Also thank you for the critique about my faces Jedininja, I'll try to pay more attention to that in the future.

First - just a head of one of my characters
second - Another character, I've been trying to put effort into making a background for my character designs.

[Eric Young]

Another character head

[Eric Young]

first - WIP
Second - some creature head concepts

[Eric Young]

finished this

[Eric Young]

Sketch with markers. Let me know what ya think

[Eric Young]

Soldier sketch.

[Eric Young]

Airship design and a giant hawk design

[ronin684]

Just browsing through and thought id say keep up the posts, like this sketch (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=430420&stc=1&d=1218031872) using reference definitely pays off. CharacterDesign.com (http://www.characterdesigns.com/index.php?sitepage=photosets) have some good photosets on their site, their male action poses set springs to mind. Keep it up :)

[Eric Young]

Sketch I did using line weight.

[Eric Young]

I colored the sketch with markers. I think it turned out well.

[darkenuf]

Carbono stole what i was gonna say
any way keep up the good work and make your figure more fluid

[Eric Young]

Thanks for the comments guys, sorry i havn't been able to comment back anyones SB yet. I'll try and do it soon.

2 quick drawings, full character thna a portrait of another character

[Eric Young]

Thanks everyone I just noticed my star rating! I'm glad people like my sketchbook enough to rate it! Again thank you!

[Eric Young]

another drawing with line weight. the pose was not referenced, i was surprised it turned out so well. I plan on adding color later.

[Eric Young]

another character design

[jedininjaman]

Try making your guys a little more stylized, and less practical everything looks okay, it is colored nicely and their is a light source and everything, only it is just a little boring add some spazz and attitude to it
-jedi

[Redfrog]

Some nice character ideas here,and your stuff is progressing nicely. Maybe even muck around with a bit of life drawing and anatomy, try some more dynamic shadows and poses as well to help you characters jump out more too.
Great stuff tho, and keep up the good work! :)

[Eric Young]

These two drawings are of the same character of mine, the first is a drawing I did of him about a year ago, i was flipping through an old sketchbook and found it. The second drawing is the same character that I just did in pen and ink. I find it very cool to see the same character of mine and how much I've improved and how much my characters have changed!

[Eric Young]

Another example of my improvement, I have been having a lot of fun going back to some older characters I invented the end of last year and recreating them now. I've been meaning to do this for a while now but i've finally gotten around to it! I think this one turned out awesome, I'm try to explore the line quality and creating sort of comic book style inks.

First one is the new drawing I just did, and the second is the same character from about a year ago (end of 2007) I kept sorta the same design because I liked it still.

Please let me hear from you, I wanna know what you all think! (Although I'm probably preaty dumb to undate my SB at 2am... I'm a night person, I should rebump my SB again tomorrow afternoon if I want some comments lol )

[Eric Young]

bump >_>

[Foofea]

theres a definate progression, the last pic on your last post his head's a wee bit big, but the colour styling are great. more like comic book characters that conceptual :)

[Eric Young]

colored this one, I'm working on the other at the moment.

Foofea - thanks for the comment, yes the last picture in my last post, the head is a little big, I drew that about a year ago, I was just using it to see how much my characters have changed over the year.

[Eric Young]

finished inking this, I'm debating either leaving it black and white or adding color.

[T-M-K]

I've noticed that you tend to try and give your characters depth by making lines thicker on the side of the body that isn't hit by light. this makes them appear sort of 2-dimensional.

instead, vary your line thickness so that body parts that are closer to the viewer are thicker and lines farther away are thinner.

you've got a really nice, clean line, so I'm sure you'll do well :D

[Eric Young]

Thanks for the comment TMK I'll give that a try

These are 8 quick figure drawings I did, I did them straight with ink, no under drawing so the anatomy is not totally perfect but they are just quick drawings for practice. I think they came out pretty well.

[Eric Young]

I did a portrait of Anne Rice in ink for my illustration class, I think it turned out pretty well, but I dont have it at the momment hopefully I can get it back to scan and put on here.

[Eric Young]

I colored this drawing with markers, unfortunatly.. the colors didn't scan too well, i tryed adjusting it in photoshop but it only helped a little...

[Eric Young]

Took the pose of one of my figure drawings and decided to turn it into a character design.

[Eric Young]

another character in ink. I did not use any refrences so I know it's not right, the arm on his sword looks off. Oh well, win some lose some.

[Eric Young]

Colored it with markers. Tell me what you think!

[selfu]

hey man
i think you should maybe change your tools- for example- thin, synthetic brush for ink and watercolors or guache for coloring your stuff... i.m.o. you're making the colors to "clean" and ruff .. keep on working!

cheers

[Eric Young]

Thanks for the comment Selfu. Actually I'm starting to use watercolors in school, so maybe I'll adapt them to my personal work. I've always been kinda scared to use brushs for fear of messing up and ruining something completely.

[Eric Young]

First is another ink character design.
Second, a sketch, I was able to borrow a Wacom for a few days so i colored this sketch in PS!

[Eric Young]

I just painted this character design in PS, I think its pretty decent for never using a Wacom before and this being my first attempt.

[Eric Young]

For some reason the picture wont show... I dunno if this is just my screen or for everyone, I dunno if I did something wrong....

EDIT____ I forgot to change the format back to RGB. Dumb me anyways, I fixed it

[FightingSeraph]

For an attempt at a trace-over, it's not bad. However, you might want to up the contrast up a smidge.

[thesadpencil]

hey nice sb you got here, you have some really sweet characters, and i'm really diggin' how you color with markers. (i need to try it out sometime) i think your works would benefit from a bit more anatomy studies. and maybe if you pushed your values just a bit more you could help bring out more depth and contrast to the image. anyways keep up the good work.

[Eric Young]

FightingSeraph thesadpencil Thank you for the comments! FightingSeraph, I took your advice and increased the contrast just a bit.

The other two images are for a school project for my Illustration class.

[Eric Young]

This is still a WIP, I haven't finished inking yet. After that I plan on coloring it with markers as usual.

[Eric Young]

So i finished inking this piece. The first one is with a white wall behind the falling character. The second is with the wall shaded. It's going to be a night scene when it's finished so I think the one with the inked wall will fit better. Anyway... tell me what ya think!

[jedininjaman]

very dramatic clean lines you are soo consistent with these colors which is good but you might want to try branching out a bit, or loosening up your style and playing some
but ya keep it up and stop by sometime, Ill be back lol
-jedi

[donalfall]

Nice movement, good work done, but loads more to do. Your stuff still tends to look and feel very flat even though you're obviously working on it. You need to go to the sources that inspire you - the contemporaries that you enjoy and see how they handle depth, shadow and lighting. You're starting to get a little depth into your stuff and your perspective is technically good, but your rendering of your pieces just doesn't emphasise the feeling of depth like it should. It's all related to the need for contrast that FightingSeraph pushed for.

Good ideas though, good work coming through in your pieces. Your anatomy is getting better too, looking more confident. ;)

Hope that's a help...

[Eric Young]

Thanks a lot for the comments everyone! I'm happy to know that people enjoy my work and can see some improvment.

This is me branching out a bit i guess, Its a watercolor painting of a Parrot. I've just started useing watercolor so i really only know the basics but i really love how it looks with ink.

[SaiVix]

wow! I like your water color way more than your previous colored works. After viewing your SB, I noticed a big difference in your animal drawings. It has improved significantly. Keep up the good work man. Also, try some more life drawings. Draw your family and friends. Draw them in stick figures even.

[Eric Young]

first two are figure drawing i did in class second one is a drawing I did while at work.

[Eric Young]

Another drawing I did.

[NekuSakuraba]

Some Great stuff here man, Awesome detail and design all the armor is very nicely done =D

[Eric Young]

Still a WIP, working on it now :o I might be able to finish and post tonight.

[Eric Young]

Finished the character. I think this is my favorite version of this character I've done.

[Eric Young]

first is an illustration I did for my illustration class. Its 11X14 so its too big to scan... so I had to take a crappy cell phone pic. Hopefully sometime soon I can get a better one.
Second is a character design I did in watercolor. My teacher is really big on watercolors and wanted me to try one of my character designs in watercolor. So I did and I think it came out pretty decently, I need some more prectice with watercolors but I think im on the right track.

[Eric Young]

First - Some weapon designs
Second - Head of one of my characters
Third - New character design in ink.

[Eric Young]

This is a Scratch board figure Drawing I did. I really like this medium its fun and challenging to work backwards, lightest to darkest, drawing with negative lines. let me know what ya think.

[Eric Young]

I shouldnt update my SB so late at night lol, i never seem to get comments that way. So.. i'm bumping it now :X lol tell me what ya think

[Eric Young]

This is an Acrylic painting of one of my character I did last night on watercolor paper. I really like how it came out considering that I haven't used acrylics since I was in high school (2 years ago.) Tell me what ya think!

[Eric Young]

i redid the inking on this one to really give it dramatic shadow

[mytarious]

;1543360']here are a few more character designs

Great work i think you need to vary the line weight and use more reference this will push your images out more and will make them standout .

[Eric Young]

Another character in markers and ink

[jedininjaman]

I really liked the watercolor parrot you did
I would try some more watercolors and let the medium talk to you rather than trying to make the water color look like one of the marker drawings
The 11x14 one and the scratch board are sweet too
keep it up man
-=jedi=-

[Eric Young]

new character concept

[Eric Young]

creature concept

[Eric Young]

Acrylic painting I did for my illustration class, quick one week assignment. S is for snake :O

[Eric Young]

Finished this illustration last night. Prismacolor markers

[Eric Young]

First - Portrait of Anne Rice for my illustration class.
Second - Two male watercolor sketches
Third - Male and Female watercolor sketch
Fourth - another male and female watercolor sketch
Fifth - Character design in ink
Sixth - Watercolor landscape sketch
Seventh - Vehicle concept design

[Eric Young]

Acrylic painting of a character of mine, I used no refrences so in that sense I think it's pretty decent. I'm still learning to walk went it comes to this whole painting thing.

[Eric Young]

small character illustration. still a WIP

[Eric Young]

i just bought a tablet last night so this is my first 100% digital painting! Let me know what ya think!

[Eric Young]

still practicing with digital painting with my new wacom, i'm loving it so far. I just did this in like 15 mins i really like the effect this method makes.

[Eric Young]

another painting test with color

[mollymillions]

Good body of work here, I'd recommend trying to make your figures look more fluid. Right now they're a bit stiff/static, more expressive line could make them more relaxed and probably help with the way the weight of the bodies sits.

[Eric Young]

mollymillions - thanks for the comment, i've actually been shying away from line recently. I've been working on painting, traditionally with oils and acrylics and digitally with my new wacom. Both my traditional are still wet so this is a quick painting of an arm I did in Photoshop

[Eric Young]

A watercolor painting i did

[Eric Young]

just some pencil drawings I did between classes, I need to update more often.. (and not at 2am)

[Eric Young]

an acrylic painting i did recently.

[Eric Young]

First - i already posted this illustration but I was finally able to scan it with an 11x17 scanner instead of my shitty cell phone pic.
Second - nude model, from reference
Third - Nude model from reference
Fourth - Armor and vehicle design
Fifth - Nude model still WIP, no refrence

[Eric Young]

i haven't posted in a while... but it wasn't from a lack of not having anything to post. I have a ton of new stuff, only all of it is too big for my scanner so i've been lazy and avoiding taking photos and scanning what i could. So i finally got around to it, here is some stuff. I've been teaching myself oils and the 2 color pictures below are both done in oils.
I really wanna know what you all think, please leave a comment!

[Studio Colrouphobia]

There is some really nice progress in here, keep up the good work :D I think you are onto something with those anatomystudies. More refferenced sketching is the way to go, after years of practice with live models, I still make anatomical errors from time to time, but it gets easier everytime I practice.

[Eric Young]

watercolor painting I did. Inspired by the watercolor works of Barry Windsor-Smith

[Eric Young]

These three are from my figure drawings class. First is a 1hr 30mins drawing of a female model. Second is three quick 10mins figure sketches of the same model. The last is another longer pose, 1hr 30mins, of the same female model. All of them done in charcoal.

[Eric Young]

Some vehicle/creature designs.

[Eric Young]

I put this up in the finally finished section also. I think it's good enough for there. ( i hope at least...)

[Eric Young]

I haven't posted in a while these are some pages from my sketchbook

[Eric Young]

I have a bunch of stuff in my sketchbook to upload still but I need to scan them... anyway, these are some digital paintings I've done recently.
First- quick speed painting, 15-20mins
Second- illustration assignment, poster for the winter Olympics all done in photoshop.

[Eric Young]

Huge dump!

A bunch of pages from my sketchbook and one oil still-life

[Eric Young]

Bio-organic vehicle concept i painted in photoshop. Please leave a comment, i want your comments!

[Eric Young]

first- digital painting, rider riding the vehicle from my last post.
second- watercolor painting of Gaia
Third- watercolor painting of a mermaid.

[Eric Young]

digital character painting. No real idea behind the character, more of an project to get used to digital painting.

[vayne108]

OK, I've looked thru your sketchbook, you have improved, one thing I think your missing is life in your characters, and a line of action. Otherwise known as gesture, it is a over looked fundamental by allot of artists. One a human body stands still it is never straight up and down. The body shifts and balances it's weight according to the forces acting upon, for example gravity. Here this might explain gesture better, http://www.ndoylefineart.com/gesture3.html. Plz tell me if the link breaks, I have a curse with links not working. Anyways I hope that helps.

[Eric Young]

vayne108- Thank you for the comment and the link, and yeah the link works.
Some stuff from my sketchbook. Vehicle concepts. Tell me what you guys think~

[Blythe]

Nice stuff. I particularly like this last vehicle, tentacles for the win.

You suffer a bit from the hairy line though. Try working on extending and smoothing that out, it could help you keep the life in your drawings.

Good work!

[Eric Young]

Blythe - thank you for the comment. Yeah my lines are usually a little sketchy when im working quickly. I'll try and work on that. :)

[Eric Young]

More stuff from my sketchbook.

[jatherip]

hey,
nice scetchbook, and, together with anatomy, you should also practice values, because your pics often are too light, with not enough contrast!

[Nrx]

hey saw your thread in art discusion and decided to drop by, now ive got a present :P
a harsh critique dont read this if your not ready for it!

why are you putting a bold outline around everything?

VARY YOUR LINE QUALITY!!

and more studies are needed, more faces from life more still lifes
push your darks and your lights experiment with mood and character

master copys too, find artists you like and copy there work line for line

i promise you if you do these things your skill level will explode

[Eric Young]

Nrx- thanks for the critique, yeah I agree with you. Although I wouldn't say this sketchbook is a very up to date representation of my work anymore I need to upload a ton of new things and I haven't really had the time to do it. But your comments are still valid, thanks for taking the time to take a look at my sketchbook.

This is a quick speed painting I did in photoshop. I'm really just experimenting with different ways of digital painting. This one I did in grayscale then used color layers over top and added some textures.

[Eric Young]

quick illustration I did in photoshop