scrapping book

[krossj]

New Sketchbook for the newer username.

[krossj]

A recent sketch, an idea for a statue set for something I've been doing (went a bit crazy with the rendering but going to try and use some of the shapes for a model) and old sketch - digital doodle

[paperX]

cool so you started a new book aye :)
sweet stuff man, i really like the whale-ish monster and the face of the "digital doodle" keep pushing it!

happy new years too :)

[MrHoboX87]

That whale thing is awesome, ditto for the rendering.

[Visceral 619]

Hey,

Glad to see your new sketchbook, great rendering as always, hope to see some awesome stuff in the coming year.

Happy new year dude.

[krossj]

paperX - Cheers mate, yeah the username thing was getting a bit silly. Thanks for stopping in, happy new year!

MrHoboX87 - Thanks man, cool name!

Warground Zer0 - Thanks a lot WZ. Happy new year man!


doodles

[Brendan N]

I will always love the eerie weird wrongness of your sketches. These belong in a film or something.
Keep it up dude, looking forward to seeing where you go with this book.
And have 5 mate
cheers

[krossj]

Brendan N - Hey mate! Thanks a lot for the nice words. A lot of great stuff on your thread, like your speed's and the photo's looks ace! cheers.

[Brendan N]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=275164&stc=1&d=1199742672

^ that crab-like being completely skeeves me out, only you can make something so simple (and rendered in blue haha) so creepy. no crits mate, love the strong linework as always.

thanks for the kind words dude,
cheers!

[_andreas_]

nice to see new work from you!

have you ever tried some storytelling with your art?
i would love to see some poems/shorter prose being made to pictures
by you.
also it would be great to see some colored washes of some kind over your work..
just some bits of messiness.

just some thoughts =)
keep updating!

[myalias]

your rendering is really beautiful, and i like the recent line drawings.

one crit i would have is to maybe experiment drawing with a completely different technique or drawing completely different subject matter. you dont even have to upload it to ca, just experiment on scrap paper.
I love your work right now,and i am really into this kind of subject matter, but as an artist it is easy to fall into a comfort zone. it is important to always step back once in a while and view things in a completely different way. you should try to expose yourself to as many different methods and ideas as possible (i feel like a hypocrite because i myself draw a similar subject matter repeatedly).

[DannySketch]

really nice , your hatching is bold and exciting in a lot of places,

but i agree with myalias it would be interesting to see what you come up with, with another subject matter.

good stuff, cheers

[tensai]

my only crit is i wanna see more man, more!!

[krossj]

Brendan N - haha, ran low on the blue for now, thanks for dropping in mate! Really enjoying the photograhy and colour in your thread, cheers.

_andreas_ - Thanks a lot for the imput mate. Yeah there are a couple of illustrations about but they are really shit, I'm working on finding an approach and developing the basics. Definatley need more colour and messiness going on, Cheers

myalias - Cheers for the crit mate, really made me think and try new things. I've been experiementing more since your post (still need to do a lot more) and finding some different approaches through it, not really much point uploading it at the moment though. Yeah defienetly, the past couple of months I have went into that comfort zone far too much and this update really isn't much of a vacation from the usual but I am doing more experimentation now than I was before starting this thread so feel like I am learning some new things. New subject matter is something I have to really concentrate on, been studing various objects but need to do a lot more. Big thanks for the input man... now, when you going to give us an update?Cheers Mate!

DannySketch - Cheers man. Working on it at the moment, trying different things, thanks for stopping in and the kick.

tensai - Cheers tensai! your work is mind blowing at the moment, those images using the lightboxes from the show you posted were fucking great, cheers mate.


Been experimenting with things but not much point uploading that stuff, so this is just some sketch stuff, cheers!

[krossj]

scribblings

[krossj]

logo design, quick facial feature studies, sketching

[jdeegz]

very nice confidence in your line work man.
id really like to see some finished work from you, i think you can make somthing great. I am wondering if you are using underlays or not becuase, most specifically your ear study, your lines are SO neat! i admire that very much.

[krossj]

jdeegz - Cheers man! There is some under drawing on some of these sketches and a couple of the studies but not really on the ear studies. Thanks for dropping in.

[krossj]

......

[krossj]

values, old and quick ink life sketches and some sketches

[tensai]

love the life drawing sketches man. i mean i bet you will improve a lot like everybody else who goes regularly but you have a beautiful approach to them.

[DanielC]

a h shit... soo much to catch up
You're doing good man. The life drawings are tight, do some more !!

[Fellah.]

Great work, man! The whale is awesome (and all the rest).

[paperX]

sorry for disappearing man, i really like where this sb is going, more experimentation, more studies...more of your usual brilliant organic forms...definitely no complaints here man, keep this up all the way :) (well i guess you could add some colour stuff here too, yeah? :P)

[krossj]

tensai - Thanks a lot mate! Unfortunatley not going regulalrly at the moment but trying to find somewhere, hopefully find some place soon. Really enjoying the work you have been putting up in your SB, some amazing stuff.

DanielC - Cheers Daniel! How's it going? The post you made at the Gorillaartfare blog at the start of the month was really great, looking forward to more.

Fellah. - Cheers mate! Your last few posts have been fucking awesome! Especially the comic work you had up in the FF section... anymore coming soon? Can't to see more stuff, Cheers.

paperX - Thanks mate! Yeah trying to do some new things (slowly). Haha, yeah colour is still a problem trying to work on it more, cheers for dropping in dude.


Some more quick, very old life drawing and some doodles

[Flaskpost]

Looking really good! Still loving your lines!

[krossj]

Flaskpost - Thanks a lot Flaskpost! Been using thicker mech pencil (0.9) recently, trying to take something from it, cheers.

some quick nudes and hands, tried out that dot technique on a study but started to feel like I was just copying, might give it another go and see if I can learn something from it

[krossj]

watercolour study, quick nonsense doodles and creature thumbs

[paperX]

sweet dude! i really like this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=314406&stc=1&d=1204314150) did you do that from a photo or an actual life drawing session? its fantastic. also...what's 0.9mm lead like? just thicker? digging the thumbnails too, keep up the updates! :)

[Diego]

Cool book man, love the dynamic lines and the shading.
Keep it up.

Cheers

[krossj]

paperX - Cheers mate! It was from an old master's drawing (rembrandt... I think) post card I have, I'll see if I can find it online. Want to try some more of that technique with drawing from life, see how it goes. Yeah it's really just thicker but I'm finding it easier to get quick lines down with at the moment. Thanks a lot for dropping by man!

Diego - Cheers man!


Some of the stuff from today, studies, another one of those doodle pages and a sketch. Blue and black biro

[krossj]

silly creature thumbs

[Visceral 619]

hey,

nice updates dude, I really think you should try to work to a fully completed concept one day, you have really eloquent lines along with creative ideas as well as the awesome shading... jump into the deep end and see how things turn out.

later dude.

[lacadam]

lol i like the dot technique, keep the stuff up

[krossj]

Warground Zer0 - Thanks dude! Yeah something has to change, slow process just now, got to get down to it and do more finished stuff. Thanks for the post man.

lacadam - haha... cheers!

[Call0ps]

nice silhouettes man, i can image also as brushes :D 5stars since i also know your previous work ^^ keep it up man

[Diego]

ahhh, the latest updates are really good.
One crit with the sillouttes, they really look like abstract shapes, you could define the eyes more or also use more simmetry. Also more recognizable elements to help the whole.
In the last pic, the first one is really cool and i could see a creature in there, obviosly you can in all of them because you did, but as clearer you do in the beginning it'd be easier to work it up later. Hope it helps dude, i'm playing with silhouttes right now too. Check for the pros' silhouettes and study them too.

[krossj]

Call0ps - Cheers mate! haha thanks for dropping in.

Diego - Thanks for crit Diego! Yeah I'll try and build some up from a more solid foundation of shapes (tried it with some of these recent thumbs) and symmetry is defiantley something I have to try and grasp with these thumbs. Always on the look out for how others mess around with things, do you have any links to pro's thumbs or silhouttes? Cheers man!


Some fast statue, creature, character thumbs and a study and sketch, crits would be great. Cheers for looking

[Visceral 619]

Hell yeah, those figure sils are awesome, they read extremely well, good range of characters as well.

[krossj]

Warground Zer0 - Thanks a lot mate

[Diego]

Hey dude, those silhouettes are reading really nice. The character's ones are my favourite.

Keep it up dude.

Cheers

[krossj]

Diego - Cheers dude, got to do more of the character ones and develop some of them, thanks.



sketching

[krossj]

Some old, some new...

[krossj]

some sketches, doodle's, environments. Planning on taking the bird sketches and developing them into silhouette illustrations, see how it goes.

[krossj]

Some ink doodles

[krossj]

messing around with ink and digital...

[krossj]

.....

[Flaskpost]

Beautiful birds! And the way you describe form kicks ass! Keep it up man!

[Hive_minD]

You've got some nice stuff, but that crow is actually stunning!
Looking forward to more :)

Chris

[flatliner]

Hey man, you got a really great range of styles here, love the tight pencil stuff and the inks too.

Really nice

[Visceral 619]

love the updates, I totally agree with Hive_minD regarding the crow, it looks awesome. The creature sketches are also very nice.

Another thing........ HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!!

Hope you have a good one, take care.

[krossj]

Thanks a lot everyone!

Flaskpost - Cheers a lot mate!

Hive_minD - Thanks Chris!

flatliner - Thanks man, been trying out some new things seeing how it works, cheers

Warground Zer0 - Cheers WZ! haha, thanks a lot mate!


Some more sketches/ studies, added a (mess) detail of the skull, photo didn't turn out great, cheers!

[Bendragon]

Better keep an eye on this place. Its looking promising.
You seem very comfortable handling faces and heads. You managed to capture them in 3D! Also loving those birds. Really like those mark makings youve done with the ink.
I think some of your creature designs are hard to read and need more visual clarity to them. It seems like youre forgetting about the form sometimes, draw them the same way as you would draw from observation and/or referance because you have some lovely observed drawings going on.

[Flaskpost]

OOH. More birds! :) I´d love to see you introduce some few, well-placed colors on those inks. Just a dot in the eye of the bird, or a thin outline or something. Could be cool!

[Yosul_Gongju]

I absolutely love your ink/digital piece with the crow and the man's face following that. The way you render flesh on your creatures in the earlier posts is very smooth/soft, and believable. Your line weight is also very descriptive in your sketches. Awesome work! One suggestion, though. It seems as though most of your work is rendered with the same smooth texture that I mentioned before. Perhaps you could try experimenting with scales/tree bark/callouses? It'd be fun to see what you could do with it.

Overall, this is great stuff. Have some stars :)

[Cepro]

You have some very nice drawings in here.

[Smoke]

I love your inks, you've got some seriously badass style when it comes to that. The dark feel of the skulls and the bony creatures is fantastic.

[Kian]

very good work mate :)
Keep on with the studies.

[Brendan N]

Fucking A dude, been way too long since I last payed a visit.
Love the new stuff, the experimental approach you use in many of these is just blowing me away. Inks are top notch.
Nothing to crit mate, just pure bloody beauty.

[Dan Valkar]

the crow its really cool... good and sweet lines and rendering....nice studies too..keep it up bro!!

[Quinn Simoes]

You have a very nice pencil rendering technique and great bird drawings!

Quinn

[tensai]

love that figure man. but also the new birdies. post more and more and more and keep on experimenting. cheers.

[krossj]

Bendragon - Thanks man! Yeah, I think Yosul_Gongju is talking sort of about the same thing, need to find more approaches, study more and implement that. Cheers for the crit dude

Flaskpost - Thanks mate! I've been doing some watercolour splashes on some other inks, might try and do some more and post them, cheers for stopping in again man.

Yosul_Gongju - Cheers Yosul, going to try and take that approach further. Thanks a lot for the crit, yeah, have to expand, might try and do some more bark/ tree studies and apply that to something. Thanks man!

Cepro - Cheers Cepro!

Smokey186 - Thanks man, trying to do some more inks and experimenting with things, cheers

Kian - Thanks mate! Yeah, got to do a lot more studies, hopefully have some up soon, cheers

Brendan N - Thanks a lot mate! How have you been? Cheers dude!

Dan Valkar - Thanks a lot Dan!

Quinn Simoes - Thanks Quinn!

tensai - Cheers mate! Can't wait to see more of your inks! Thanks for dropping by.


Some more ink and biro. Cheers!

[DorianNagel]

The ape and the face are just .. WOW
Would be nice if you create some wallpapers of that :-)

[krossj]

DorianNagel - Thanks a lot for the nice words man! cheers man!


a wip based on an earlier sketch

[Brendan N]

I'm good mate, if a little overworked haha; how're you? what're you up to?

Man you are making my day with these inks, fuck me they're fantastic. Beautiful linear qualities you have here as always. That face in post #63 has my background.

cheers mate!

[RandAlThor]

Hey Kross, you def have a way with the inks and pen stuff, i'd like more of that for sure. Theres also something about your organic forms that i like too, do you start with an image in mind, or does it evolve from one line to the next? Either way keep posting ;-)

[Lyno]

Ah man, I love your work.

Keep going please.

[chras]

WoW... Awesome work..

[shamandalie]

The face. WOW. Dude you are great! i love your character thumnails too! :)

[krossj]

Brendan N - haha, glad to here mate! I'm alright, preparing a portfolio for an upcoming interview at the moment, see how it goes. Thanks a lot dude, I'll drop by your book soon, cheers!

RandAlThor - Thanks man. Just mixed really, sometimes just mess about with lines other times have little bit of an idea. Thanks man!

Lyno - Cheers dude

chras - Thanks a lot man

shamandalie - Thanks man, have some more thumbs about, trying to do some other things in silhouettes also.


thumbs and ink

[Visceral 619]

damn dude, I think I've just seen my favorite sketch done by you, that last one with the dude with his jaw ripped off, that's pretty sick.

[snubbed]

your ink stuff is showing a lot of style and cool attitude. So, on the crow one that everyone likes, what part is ink and what part is digital, because as far as I can tell the entire thing is ink?

[krossj]

Warground Zer0 - Thanks a lot mate! How's it going?

snubbed - Cheers man. Just went over some bits on the head I had left lighter, found it worked better like that, the border aswell, not much really just a couple of small adjustments, thanks!


sillyness

[Ex Nihilo]

Your ink pieces seem to be pretty popular, and it's no wonder. I absolutely love what you do with ink.

[tensai]

this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=331828&stc=1&d=1206399508), this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=331829&stc=1&d=1206399524) and this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=334797&stc=1&d=1206744652) one are pretty insane. love how dark they are and i love the contrast between mad rendered and emptiness in them.

very nice work.

[Giorge]

Oh very nice sb , love the life drawings ... keep it rollin'!!!

[krossj]

Ex Nihilo - Thanks a lot man!

tensai - Thanks mate! love your last update.

flamable - Cheer dude!

[krossj]

Another ink sketch, with a line pre-lim doodle of it and some quick studies.

[Quinn Simoes]

Really love your style! The sketches in post 71 are very nice.

Thanks for sharing!

Quinn

[HAJiME]

Eerie creature things. Look like bits of the landscape woke up, opened tired, crusty eyes and started walking about.

[lilnebo]

Dang dis book is willllllld!! lawl aweasssooommmmeee shading techs really really goood and great ideas just keep at it man and peace

[krossj]

Quinn Simoes - thanks man, trying to get more stuff like that up, cheers!

HAJiME - thanks man, been playing round with that idea for a little too long, cheers!

lilnebo - thanks man! always cool to see people from scotland on here, cheers!


some doodles, mainly line practice

started a blog (http://krossj.blogspot.com/), not sure how often it'll be updated though.

also came across this site capcom has put up, lots of concept art/ illustrations from Okami, haven't played it but still looks great - http://www.okamiart.com/

cheers

[kidult]

Your ink stuff is very good. Such a sweet style too! More please!

[krossj]

kidult - thanks a lot kidult


some doodles. trying to come up with an idea for a nest, creatures would hatch on the outside then scatter (or fall down) into the mouth of the den, going to try and develop the creatures and inside/ outside. and another ink sketch.

[Kan Muftić]

some very hot stuff in here!

[krossj]

Chupacabra - cheers man, really enjoy your stuff!


ok, had an interview for an art school yesterday and I'm not sure how it went. The interviewers were cool but they were telling me that the illustration course they had wouldn't be appropriate in some aspects... suppose it's my own fault for not being as familiar as I should have been with the stuff coming out of there... hear back in a couple of weeks, might have to try somewhere else, or leave the art school thing out altogether...

more ink, messing about with another bird ink sketch just now but might give the ink a rest for a while, get back to some studies. cheers

[donalfall]

Great drawings man. You should consider fine art printmaking - Your style was made to be Lithographed.

[RandAlThor]

Messy inky goodness.... more ;-)

[krossj]

donalfall - thanks a lot donalfall, cheers for dropping in

RandAlThor - cheers dude

one more ink doodle. back to studies. cheers

[Diego]

those ink studies are cool as hell dude, you're getting really good at it. Love the mix between the splashes and controled lines, you should push that further. I think you're getting nice stuff with this technique and so keep it up.

Cheers dude.

[UnSharpened]

Much love with your ink work:D!!!
Those spots you spread onto the paper makes it looks like explosion goes on in your images, very powerful, but I hope that you won't get dirty with your clothes and face when you do that:P. And thanks for inspiration of the crazy line works, chaotic but beautiful.
Awesome!!

[PeggyChung]

hey there Kross, im really enjoying your ink work-think im gonna bust out my inks and take a stab at it. hope to see more!

[cotron]

your hatching style is really nice... looks almost velvety. I'm a big fan of spattery inks, too :)

[Smoke]

The proven combination of ink + skulls is still proving to be a win my friend.

[ruben_g_ramos]

I love your shading style, especially on the first page creatures. Amazing.

[frog and *BAM*]

the ink studies and especially the figure work stands out for me.

[Ryan DeMita]

wow, great stuff man. i was just drawing some gorillas today actually and after looking at yours, i realized mine suck. :) i love the intensity in your work. awesome.

-ryan

[GriNGo]

excellent drawings man.. you're inks are astounding, and you have some fine rendering skills... can't wait to see more!

[krossj]

Diego - cheers man, trying to take it a little further, have to start tying it with other subject matter though, thanks man!

UnSharpened - thank you very much! haha you should see the state of the floor, haha. thanks!

LadyLioness - hey, thanks for stopping in, yeah go for it! Cheers

cotron - cheers a lot man! really like your stuff, post some more

Smoke - thanks a lot mate! went a bit overboard with lines on the last skull, cheers

ruben_g_ramos - cheers dude!

frog and *BAM* - thanks dude!

Ryan DeMita - thanks a lot man! gorilla's are always fun to doodle, cheers for dropping by dude

GriNGo - cheers Grin!


got some studies done but they are all on a bigger pad and most of them aren't worth sticking up so just an ink from a bigger pad and some doodles

[lilnebo]

Sup kross :P, i thought i'd check back again, so cool to see your from scotland or atleast live there :P (am half scottish half sudanese(african))
But i just couldn't ressist checking back on you sb all the creativity just got me hooked :P.
As i've said i love you shading so much and it so amazing that it's in pen, i feel pretty comfoy with using pens and draw with them alot but can never get shading results any where near yours, and pencil shading it's just crazy, shows you have so much knowledge.
I was just wondering if you had any tips for shading, as mines seems to suck if you seen my sb i end up shading too much and killing the picture or not putting enough shade usauly because i have like less than 3 mins to finish a sketch lawl.
Anywayz i was doing some studies, from some of you work if you don't mind it's just really great to see how you work.
Another thing is the way you draw faces, i lovvvvve it!! (well it's not like theres anything i don't love :P)
it really brings the picture out of the page makes it have a very strong 3D shape.
Oh god i'll keep on going for ever if i don't finish this now :} XD
Also subsed+ to you thread
Just really keep up the great work and keep posting more!

[Mattan]

The pencils are awsome, but I think the ink stuff is even better... the inks are alive and wriggling. Very good. Very good indeed.

[Crazy Pills]

Damn cool sketchbook. Your pencil rendering style is great - but the thing I like most is the intuitiveness in your composition. It is very fluid and intriguing. Keeping my eye on this one.

[drew.gee]

Hot damn. These lines got me pumped!

[krossj]

lilnebo - thanks a lot lilnebo, I replied in your thread, hope it helped, cheers!

Mattan - cheers man! trying to get more ink stuff done, thanks for dropping in.

Crazy Pills - thanks dude! cheers

drew.gee - cheers man!


some quick stuff

[lilnebo]

Hey kross again.
Wow thanks for taking the time on my sb really great advice am actully going to start doing it tommorow.
The last update is cool, i like the silhouttess they look crazy!
The face has a very nice feel to it, just keep killing dawg!
peace nd keep drawing

[DeKal]

your stuff is reall good man..love those organic abstract forms in post 16 and 18..47.79.85..theyre all dope!

[krossj]

lilnebo - thanks nebo! Keep sketching

DeKal - thanks a lot man! really enjoying your thread


doodle, update again in a while, got to try some new things. cheers

[Reject-D]

love the abstract feel!! keep it up!!

[monsi]

damn! your line quality and hatching is sweet! I loove it. great stuff :D

[DanielC]

Good work kyle ! the inks are nice to watch. Keep working man !

[krossj]

Reject-D - thnaks man!

nethus - thanks a lot nethus!

DanielC - cheers daniel, really like your recent stuff, hope things are going good.


some sillyness, the first page is just a quick doodle about for some armour, got a bunch more like these

[DeJakhalz]

Very intresting stuff, some are very good designs. Maybe take a lil more time in really finishing a piece in a great ammount of detail would be cool. Cheers keep it up

[coletheslaw]

awesome stuff..you have a cool style and a great variety going here..keep it up

[wholecar]

perfect lines !
MOREEEEE !!! :)

[Azalin]

My God, what a SB, what a Rendering! your not human are you?

[krossj]

DeJakhalz - thanks man, yeah I need to get a lot more finished, have to try and take a lot of things further, thanks for stopping in

coletheslaw - thanks a lot, cool name

wholecar - cheers dude

Azalin - haha, thanks!


silly shit

[Visceral 619]

really loving the skull and ink combos plus the amour studies, its always refreshing visiting your SB.

[Smeg Head]

Fantastic, I really love your loose linework when doing the faces and expressions, really really nice technique.

[Quinn Simoes]

nice doodles, I always enjoy looking though your SB.

Quinn

[krossj]

Warground Zer0 - thanks mate, hope things are going good

Smeg Head - thanks a lot man, red dwarf fan?

Quinn Simoes - cheers quinn

[Giorge]

Very ... surrealist pencil work great job m8, keep penciling

[krossj]

flamable - cheers dude!

thumbs

[Lyno]

Hi krossj,

Thx for the tips you gave me, I'm sure to follow them up.
About the drawings, first of all I love your style (so subscribed :) ) but just a little thing I wanted to say. Try to push the contrast a little more on some of your drawings, like the quick doodles on the previous page.
Anyway, it's just a little tip but it will make them really pop :)

About the tumbs, the sillhouettes are really nice but maybe you could take them to a next level by adding some lighter colors to define the form a little more.

I'm sure to check back later!

[krossj]

Lyno - thanks for stopping in and thanks for the input, cheers

[kidult]

Like the flowing linework on the bottom one!

[Mattinian]

ahh very creative. you push wierdness to a new level :]

[Diego]

Man, those pencils are killers, the shapes are shading are getting really good. I'd love to see more contrast, just that.

keep it up the great work dude.

[sameolesame]

how's it going...
the last one is interesting, whoever had that should go in for a check up, maybe they can be removed, jk. good stuff, interesting to say the very least, I like what I'm seeing.
no crit, just posting to give encouragement.

[krossj]

kidult - thanks!

Mattinian - haha, thanks

Diego - cheers mate! i'll try and get some more contrast in to things, thanks

sameolesame - ok...? not sure what you mean. thanks for stopping in and for the encouragment, cheers

working on a college related project and some other things so just some really quick sketches, cheers

[Moftah]

neat...

Moftah's Sketchbook

[MarkWinters]

Imaginative, well rendered, cool inking technique. 100% bad ass! Thanks for sharing!

[Twiggy]

inspiring :)

[Quinn Simoes]

Really nice armour design sketches in those last two SB pages, keep posting!

Q

[Diego]

Man, those studies rocks, the lines are super rhytmic, and the shading the follows the forms just great, keep at it.

[krossj]

Moftah - cheers dude!

MarkWinters - thanks a lot mark, means a bunch, cheers

Cydonix - cheers cydonix!

Quinn Simoes - thanks man, you keep updating also, cheers

Diego - Thanks mate, keep posting your stuff aswell, cheers

some quick stuff, still working on that project. inks look too much the same, going to give them a rest, get some more pencil sketches done. also dosen't look like I got on to an illustration course in art school... might be for the best, going to have to think about what to do. cheers

[krossj]

silly shit, illustrator doo...

[krossj]

ok, so leaving for a while, have to sort some things out. will still be drawing and still browsing now and then, might update the blog a little. thanks to everyone who posted and those who came back, cheers folks

[matty_mcmullen]

love your rendering

[Diego]

Hey dude,
Well, keep on drawing, and hope things sorts out as you wish and to have you back soon with lots of drawings.

Good luck dude.

[lilnebo]

hey kross :P
LOoking SWEET!! really awesome man am trying to keep up with your sb sorry i havn't een over i a while i've been pretty busy
SEE POST 130 AND END OF 136 the designs are aweeeeeeeeeesssssssssommme! really good
Keep it up man i wanna see more! and again just can't get enough of the cool shading
Thanks for comment on my sb, i've done life drawings today and on my couple of last posts, but i know i need to do more and will do :P
cheers

[krossj]

matty_mcmullen - thank you

Diego - thanks man, decided to keep posting for now, heh, will try to keep posting. cheers

lilnebo - thanks, good to hear keep up with them


hiatus on hold for now, heh, thumbs, silly doodles, ink sketches

[krossj]

thumbs and a rough canyon crawler creature sketch

[Visceral 619]

nice updates kross, love the expressive strokes, the last post with the the monster concept looks really nice.

[DanielC]

Keep working man !
the last one has some pretty cool texture on it. more ! :]

[krossj]

Warground Zer0 - thanks a lot mate!

DanielC - cheers dan!

[krossj]

sillyness

[Flaskpost]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=381700&stc=1&d=1212334675
supermegaultra cool! i wanna see those developed! blow them up in photoshop and paint away!

[krossj]

Flaskpost - cheers dude, messed around with them in ps for a little bit, going to go at it again


a couple of pages of sillying around with letters and a doodle

[Call0ps]

hey man long time no see :D beautiful pencil renderings. love the inks <3 keep it up sir

[krossj]

Call0ps - hey mate! thanks, cool sketches in your book, cheers for dropping in

[tensai]

hahaa - jesus christ that's one beautiful web of lines there mate. the mouths are great and the way the noses seem to pop out of the page really works. love it, very unique/rare man..

[krossj]

tensai - cheers mate! enjoying everything your putting up on your blog! thanks a lot for dropping by


more scribbling and quick doodle page

[Visceral 619]

nice sketches

[krossj]

Warground Zer0 - thanks a lot mate!


sketches and some letters with a thumbnail for a silly image, working it up at the moment. more coming

[luness]

What a trippy SB! I like those inks man! specially the ones with skulls and insect legs.
Very cool stuff!

[Quinn Simoes]

Very nice sketches in the post above (#155).
Love the designs!

Quinn

[krossj]

cheers for dropping in guys

luness - thanks a lot man! really like your work, can't wait to see what else you post! cheers

Quinn Simoes - thanks mate! liking all your deep work, keep posting!


some doodling and thumbnails, going to take them into ps, and another sketch on that pic from the last post

[krossj]

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[Slechtvalk]

Awesome Stuff!
I really like the aquatic style designs/sketches and the overall line flow.

:scribble:

[krossj]

Slechtvalk - thanks a lot! messing about with line more these days. cheers for dropping in


some really quick stuff from doodle books, two creatures, quick studies of my cat with some skulls and a study. working/ messing around with other stuff

[InvertedChalupa]

some pretty fresh style you got going there hombre : ) really like the ink stuff your doing... it'd be kind of cool to see more anatomical details in your creatures me thinks. it'd add a lot to the believablity and "cool!" factor imho.

keep it real doooood

[krossj]

InvertedChalupa - cheers dude! thanks for the crit, yeah, have to try and make some of the anatomical details stick out, started looking at more animal antomy and going to try some more studies soon. thanks a lot for dropping in


trees, enviros, another ink face and some muck abouts with ink trying to find some designs for some things i'm messing about with

[m4rc]

really really nice work over here
i'm in love with sketch-4

the last one reminds me something but ...can't remember when and where i saw that :D

[krst]

not bad at all; nice sketches.

regard.

[Sebastianrenaissance]

hey,

i realy like your style. especialy with te ink and the one at top of this page. how do you get that dry ink shaddow? i realy like it. Please have a look at my sketchbook

sebastian

[MeTaL-Mike]

awesome sketchbook man. love your style.

[Smeg Head]

Thanks for stopping by ;)

And wow, I love your ink work it's fantastic, plus the creatures you do in pencil are awesome - Keep going :D

[krossj]

m4rc - thanks a lot! yeah it reminded me of something also but can't think what, heh

krst - cheers krst!

Sebastianrenaissance - thanks dude! the dry ink stuff is just done with a dryed up brush that had ink on it... sort of destroys the brush though. i'll drop by your book soon, cheers

MeTaL-Mike - thanks Mike!

Smeg Head - cheers dude, keep up with the studies



ink sketch, going to try and get some finished stuff done now, cheers

[DanielC]

arrr keep at it man ! .. ARRRR *EVIL LOOK* ARRR.... 8=|

[sekard2]

How the hell is this a 4 star thread.This beats a lot of the so called 5 star threads IMO.Good stuff from the man North of the border.

[Nuke1415]

hjhkhuhkuhj

[mya]

Great style! There's a real dreams/nightmare-like quality to your work, and some really nice organic shapes. It'd be nice to see your hand at some colour work!

[fragmentedchimp]

Fantastic book. your inks are outstanding, oh and your creatures, complete adn incomplete. keep em coming!

[krossj]

DanielC - arrr! haha, yeah, i got to do a lot more. really liked your recent enviro/ tower stuff, hope you put up more, cheers for stopping in. i'll catch you on im sometime soon

sekard2 - cheers man!

Nuke1415 - ... jhkuj...? thanks for dropping by

mya - thanks a lot! yeah have to do a lot more colour stuff, try and get some up soon, cheers dude

fragmentedchimp - Thanks man, cheers for the post!


started planning that finished illustration, work on it over the next couple of days. just some studies and other stuff, cheers

[Quinn Simoes]

Your tree designs are very cool!

Love the fish drawing, great design and rendering.

Quinn

[lilnebo]

Hey hey!
Sup bro
your designs are awesome.
The fish drawing has a really good rendering, but all your drawings do :P.
I like how the torso of the girl is simple yet very effective of showing form.
Awesome work as usaul man :P
keep it

[Fellah.]

Awesome fish, man! All cool, bro:)

[kidult]

Such beautiful line man! Super cool! Im inspired to whip out some inks

[krossj]

Quinn Simoes - thanks Quinn! cheers

lilnebo - hey lilnebo! cheers

Fellah. - cheers mate! post some stuff! :)

kidult - thanks kidult, go for it! cheers

[Visceral 619]

sick updates K, the cross hatching on 169 is awesome, nice (scary) fish concept too.

[krossj]

Warground Zer0 - cheers mate! been trying to do more with that hatching approach recently, thanks for the post

[malpanka]

i really like your branch drawings, not sure about some of the monsters tho- i cannot figure out what are they and here they have heads and tails

[Verehin]

Freaking stile! AWESOME!!! this! is! awesome!!!!
I give you 5 stars:lounge: ...you deserve it

[krossj]

malpanka - cheers! yeah a lot of them are not very functional, have to try and make them more believable. thanks for the crit

Verehin - haha, thanks a lot dude!


working out some stuff and silly doodle page

[a la bapsi]

this is me.
in love with the way you ink.
I'm subscribing to this thread. can't miss anymore of this. <3

[AG.]

very very interesting!

[krossj]

a la bapsi - cheers bapsi!

AG. - thanks for the post AG


some sketchbook pages

[SnobbyOo]

hard work, great rendering and a fresh inspiration -> 5*s dude

[Flaskpost]

heeeey man! this page is full of greatness.
i love the way you use the direction of the strokes to show volume. really slick.
and this: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=410423&stc=1&d=1215784044
is fuckin ace!

[krossj]

SnobbyOo - thanks man!

Flaskpost - cheers dude!

[jedininjaman]

Dig the pencil sketches especially the dragon but your rendering should have more texture infused with it, stop by i just finished a pencil piece with a dragon in it, thanks
-jedi

[sjuskadur]

Im in love with the first to "scribbles" on page 6 !!! they are so cool, and there is also so much more stuff herer wich is awesome!

5 stars for my part

keep it uP!

[ohomoho]

Great work man looks creative and those last once are some dark mystery things :D

And your pencils are great

[lennon]

Well done with the cross-hatching. I think you have something interesting there.

[krossj]

jedininjaman - thanks man, yeah, more studies needed. will do, cheers

sjuskadur - cheers dude

ohomoho - thanks a lot

lennon - thanks man, trying to build on it

[DanielC]

keep at it man !

[tensai]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=410419&stc=1&d=1215783883
great new piece man. very nice to follow the variations / developments of your style.

[krossj]

DanielC - thanks for stopping in!

tensai - cheers mate!

[Visceral 619]

That's really beautiful, the texture works extremely well, I'm curious, what materials did you use on this one? Looks like a combination pencil, ink and charcoal but it would be cool if you could break it down.

[humanNature6115]

Strange mind mush.
Love it all.

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:mittenbop: :mittenbop: :mittenbop: Sketchbook:mittenbop: :mittenbop: :mittenbop:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761 (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761)

[krossj]

Warground Zer0 - hey mate, hows it going? it's just ink, used pencil to put in the tree at first, then used an indian ink pen and rendered it out. went on to using a brush with ink, kept the brush dry and started building up the texture, the sb page already had a rough texture to it, so that helped. probably should use charcoal instead, using a brush dry wastes it, heh. thanks for dropping in!

humanNature6115 - cheers man!

[Quinn Simoes]

Great updates! Love the beast drawing in post #196

Keep at it!

Quinn

[krossj]

Quinn Simoes - Cheers Quinn!

[lilnebo]

Hey kross!
awesome updates a usual man
Really love the values and the shading ooooooo
Oh crazy creatures designs you should so do one for cow
I like the metally armor kind of feel that you get with your sketches
Well i guess keep it up and keep showing us more :)

[krossj]

lilnebo - thanks a bunch mate! thinks about entering the cow sometime soon. thanks a lot for stopping in, cheers!

silly doodles

[krossj]

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[Call0ps]

hey krossj how u doing? good lord man ! post #199 is freaking beautiful, u really did developed a new graphical language of your own :D keep developing it sir!

[Ty Oulton]

I really like your marine looking creatures a lot.

[psantha]

Hey dude I really like your art! Somehow it remind me to Tsutomu Nihei. Yes, full of depression and hopeless stuff. Keep it up!

[Ty Oulton]

I also love your brush strokes.

[krossj]

Call0ps - hey mate! not bad, yourself? thanks man, really means a lot. cheers

Ty Oulton - thanks man

psantha - thanks a lot man. i went and checked out some of that guys stuff, his architecture/ environment stuff is really cool, thanks a lot for mentioning it, might check out some of his books, any recommendations? cheers man!

Ty Oulton - cheers again Ty!

[krossj]

bad cough and doo

[Verehin]

Fuck!!! Awesome upgrade!

[krossj]

Verehin - thanks a lot man

[l0stinth0ughts]

nice!! i love black and youve just satisfied me darkness!! :rocker:

[Eerin]

The line quality and value range is really great. Your art has fantastic creepiness and foreboding to it, I LOVE It! I would love to see you illustrate a scene from a twisted fairy tale. :)

Keep it up!

[Radio24]

Awesome line qualities, super accurate sketches
I think you dark, dirty inkwork is beautiful, definitely your strongest stuff here. keep it up

[krossj]

l0stinth0ughts - cheers! thanks a lot for stopping in

Eerin - cheers Eerin! that would be cool to try out, not big on most of the fairy tales out there but would defienetly be fun to try. thanks for posting

Radio24 - thanks man! trying to do more of the messy ink stuff, cheers

[krossj]

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[Howie]

Beautiful stuff krossj, your stuff is very interesting to look at... keep up the great work

[Quinn Simoes]

Love this latest update krossj, very cool!

[krossj]

Howie - cheers man!

Quinn Simoes - thanks a lot mate, cheers!


was scribbling on some scrap paper and tried to take something from it

[Kian]

Dark! I love it. Nice work mate.

[krossj]

Kian - thanks a lot mate! cheers

[krossj]

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[Verehin]

I know Hussar, and his portraits....now,I know krossi and his portraits!

[krossj]

Verehin - thanks a lot man. am no where near hussar's level. really like his stuff, cheers dude.

[krossj]

some scribbles

[krossj]

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[krossj]

silly nest doodle

[DanielC]

hey man, good work going on !
those creatures are cool, monsieur. Do more more more !
I'd also try to add a bit of depth on the last one, but that's just me.
Keep at it man !

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

some really strong stuff going on here man.
I really enjoy your lines as the splashes are fun:)

You do some very nice creatures, so just keep at it!
Looking foreward for more stuff and...stuff:)

-E

[Quinn Simoes]

Love your last updates! Your spider creatures are disturbingly awesome.

Keep up the great work!

Quinn

[Fellah.]

Blowing me away, mate! The bird in 215 is stunning!

[t i m]

Really Diggin it man, kind of a Stephen Gammell type feel to it.

[krossj]

thanks a lot guys!

DanielC - cheers mate. thanks for the crit, yeah the last one is lacking in a lot of areas. your recent stuff is looking great. thanks a lot for stopping in dude

Mischeviouslittleelf - thanks man

Quinn Simoes - cheers quinn, thanks for dropping in

Fellah. - cheers mate. really enjoying your recent stuff, it's great to see you updating your sb again. thanks a lot dude

t i m - thanks tim. not sure if i have seen his work, i'll check it out

[krossj]

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[krossj]

was trying to keep it semi daily but going to take a couple of days and try some different stuff. cheers folks

[krossj]

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[krossj]

ink with some digital adjustments. Cheers

[jedininjaman]

sick, love the movement
*inspired

[Thomas Veil]

Very inspiring work - great designs, not the usual stuff you see often here at ca. And I especially like your shading when it's a bit messy.

[mentler]

Like It
A lot

FIVE
BONES

[Christoffer]

Very cool shapes and the shading is great. I don't know what else to say. Abstract art isn't relly my thing but it's nice to look at. :P

[Visceral 619]

been a while since I've visited your SB, loving the inks, the creature on 240 is looking fab.

[krossj]

jedininjaman - thanks man! really means a lot. cheers

Thomas Veil - wow, thanks Thomas! cheers dude

mentler - thanks you sir!

Christoffer - haha, thanks a lot for dropping in man!

Warground Zer0 - cheers mate! hope things are going well with you


some random stuff. doodle, really quick studies on some messy paper and creatures

[Quinn Simoes]

Hey krossj, great updates. I love your latest creature designs, very dark and menacing, excellent work!

Quinn

[kelly x]

I like this dark work, it says a lot!!

[jedininjaman]

great work man, you have such an awesome style, I love it
but try some different stuff, this all looks to similar to each other
but ya keep it up man and stop by sometime
-jedi :)