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[localfatheaded]

for better or worse I have picked up my pen...
Ideas, comments and jibberish are all welcomed.

I really hope that some day I can get good enough to work in the entertainment arts industry, right now I'm a long way off so any pointers would be super helpful.

[bakatron]

thats so cool.

is it digital?

[localfatheaded]

so here are a few pen scratches, pencil smudges, and photoshop meanderings.
work has always gotten in the way, but no longer...
Thanks for stopping by
see you around the board.

[bakatron]

i love your life pen sketches. your robot however is insane - its like a decepticon on crack and draino. totally awesome.

[localfatheaded]

here are some more sketches

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[localfatheaded]

here are some photoshop stuff,
the mountains were an attempt at a speedpaint, but it took 2 hours, so i need to get it faster, the secondone i spent a bunch more time and used a photo I took for reference.

[Ignominious]

dude this stuff is good! especially your landscapes

[Glory666]

pen sketches are awsum, keep it up!

[localfatheaded]

an older page from my sketchbook and three scenes from references ...blah

[localfatheaded]

one more...why arent my thumbnails showing...huh

[Clodioz]

whouu,,, nice start!

your pen ones are really good,,,
And I love the beach! whouu that wave!

just,,, keep updating this!

ps.. I will help you :)

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after attaching your images,,, be sure to click on the clip and then Insert All :)

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[localfatheaded]

here are some more updates, some life stuff from ref, hands and hands, I need to keep drawing those pesky hands till they dont scare me no more, and then some other fun stuff.291184

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[localfatheaded]

this is the painting that i used my beach landscape for. let me know what you think.291885

[localfatheaded]

did this tonight, trying to practice skin tones while painting something attractive, trying to get past the place where a lot of the women i draw are too manly haha.

[localfatheaded]

did this for fun,on and off the last couple of weeks, just trying some new things, but its just not coming together, im not really sure how to progress the picture from here.

[Maria David]

Just fell in love with your pen sketches. :) And I really like those burning buildings in the latest pic.

[localfatheaded]

here is some recent things
HOrse was just over 30 mins, just trying to get it down really quick and get accurate colors.
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[localfatheaded]

oh and how do I change the pic for my thread? its been baffling me.

[Trollfar]

Nice work here, i like your hand-studies and and the beach. im really interested about the first orange fish. Have you worked some more on it?

[localfatheaded]

Here's a sketch for a robot-like dude i am going to try and make a 3d model of, it'll be my first non tutorial adventure, so im excited.
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more finished painting, focusing on a muted but realistic color palette, hope it works
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[localfatheaded]

just some quick portrait/light studies i painted, i gave myself a 20min cut off for each.Any suggestions would be much appreciated
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[localfatheaded]

some animals studies I did,trying a more painterly approach, just trying to be loose and have fun.
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[clanlord]

Hey my friend I really see that you're heading in the direction of realism, which I like the most in artists like you! The landscapes are very professional painted! It seems you can play with colors! Hehe wish you luck and keep the body studies I see that you can do more than that you're showing! Maybe sparing more time and do some more details will develope your skills!

[Sebastianrenaissance]

i like it.

it looks lite evryone here is much better then me. HATE IT:P

:al: :ai: :ak: :ae: :at: :ah: :ai: :as: :a!:

[Santon]

Good stuff.

I like the pencil/ink apartment buildings. They seem to do it for me.

I typically write more critically, but I'm running low on sleep...so it must be time to go to the coffee shop.

[iambanana]

I dig your landscapes and faces. Keep it up. Those speedpaints of those faces are great.

[localfatheaded]

here's my self portrait, how much it actually looks like me is debatable...also looks kinda waxy haha...things to work on. the second one i guess could be called "magic, the ungathering"....haha oh boy...
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[localfatheaded]

THe first one is from a picture i made for my mom...and the second one is a rhino, i spent all the time on the rhino and kinda just faked the background, but i still like it.

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[localfatheaded]

My girlfriend and her room mate wanted to be dragon hunters, so I took some photos and painted in the rest. probably the most finished piece i have done.

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[localfatheaded]

painting that was inspired by Whit Brachna's environment design video. which I have to say that vid was incredibly helpful and inspiring, some great ideas...and I had a great time painting this, doesnt get any better than that. 386137

[localfatheaded]

Here are some more recent sketches from my sketchbook, time to find a new one...this time I'll get one that isnt bigger than my scanner...
so yeah some figure and light studies, some scribbles, and a monster, any ideas let me know. Later

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[localfatheaded]

here are some more figure studies, some hands and feet.

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[clanlord]

Hello... nice to see your way of improvement... the most important thing NEVER copy... you're not copying I see, some ideas are very original, you're talented...the studies are very good too... wish you luck! KEEP GOING!

[localfatheaded]

here are 2 quick still lifes i did from my room, I definitely need to keep working on that, and do some more still lifes, and the last drawing is a sketch from ref. any pointers would be appreciated. thanks

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[Santon]

Cool enviro...
love the lamp. Yay...lamps

keep up the good work dude.

[clanlord]

Very big amount of detail, very good keep it up!

[localfatheaded]

here's a small update, I wish I had more, but I have been super busy.
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[JellevdVegt]

i c alot of good stuff here. just watch out for the scribly lines, i c some of them in your drawing style. post 31 is good btw, i've got the same video :)

[Jamesy]

There's lots of good ideas here and the quality has definitely gotten better since you started this thread at the beginning of the year. For the still lifes from your room, I'd suggest using different colors. Notice the color of the objects around your still lifes and how they relfect off of one another. I suck at explaining stuff, so just find some painting books/articles and learn as much as you can from them. Good luck with everything and keep at it!

[localfatheaded]

here are a bunch of stuff i have been sketching out, a couple of rough horse sketches for a painting, some studies and some some more random stuff. I was definitely trying to make the sketches cleaner and tighten up my lines and be more deliberate with what i draw, I think it went well, but i have to say the more I draw the more I can see how i need to get better, so any suggestions would be appreciated.

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[thesadpencil]

hey nice sb you got here, i really like the looseness of your sketches and your style is pretty kickass as well. i think your digis would benefit a lot from putting a bit more time into them and finishing thme up, like the enviroment in post #31 is definitely a step in the right direction, other than that just keep on trucking.

[localfatheaded]

he are three color practices, just need to paint alot more.

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[Peetaer]

man, that environmental painting at the top of the page is your best one by far. that looks so fucking good. environments seem to be your strong point (something which i'm lacking i'm afraid). your creature designs are awesome! lighting and shading is also very good, very realistic. the only thing that i don't see on here, which would really help you with your creatures, is anatomy studies. do some of those.

rock on dude. peace.

[Verehin]

Cool works! never give up

[localfatheaded]

here are some new sketches, some quick ones and some ones i spent some more time on. trying to do some more finished sketches, also doing some ref drawings, human form and such...also really excited because i just started taking a life drawing class so i'll be posting some of those in the coming weeks. all right back to the sketch pad.

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[Freddy Lierman]

Hey Local ! Awesome stuff you got man! Your landscapes are really nice.
I like the one you said you had trouble with. And that selfportret is really awesome to. Keep em comin man!

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

nice stuff man. Your landscapes and enviros are awesome, only thing I would crit is that you should not use a picture as a physical part of the painting, but as a reference. That would give you more practise. The other stuff is comming along nicely to, so just keep having at it:)

-E

[localfatheaded]

Everyone loves a still life... I also have some drawings from my figure drawing class I have to scan...going to do that soon.

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so here is my first batch of figure drawings, first time i've taken a figure drawing class, so thats really exciting, learning a lot already, some contour, gestures, and some shading. let me know what you think, and if anyone has any comments or suggestions, I want to learn and get better, so suggestions and critics are welcomed. oh yeah and most were to big to scan so I photo'd them, later realizing how crappy the light was, tried to adjust a couple of them in PS but that idea wasnt working out so, just posted the pics and know next time, to scan in parts or photo in much better light.

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[Grafguy]

good stuff :O
ill keep an eye on this sketchbook ;)

[localfatheaded]

here is some new stuff, i felt like it was time for some pens, first two from ref, then a robot scribble, and i felt like painting it and threw in an earlier pic as a background. I was actually quite happy with it, well in the regard that it started as a scribble, I figure if i spend more time planning and drawing, then maybe that'll make my paintings better, Im really not very good at painting in things on the fly.

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[Buckster]

hey man, nice progress for you here. I am very impressed by the life drawing sketches, bravo.

Keep the fluent lines from those sessions when drawing form the mind as well.
You are moving along nicely, keep working at it and you will go far man.
Mischeviouslittleelf gave some great advice on reference, I agree ^^

Cheers

[localfatheaded]

here are some more body studies, the people are from reference, the house drawing is from out a window, hopefully do some more painting stuff soon.

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[localfatheaded]

just finished this up, just had some fun with it, started from an old sketch i had and took the time to paint it up, i probably could have worked on it forever but decided this was a good point to stop.

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[carnal]

real nice stuff.... I have the same shell/disk method calculus formulea in my sketch books too, hahahaaa... to bad I couldn't turn in my drawings instead of taking the calc II final... some of your landscapes blow me away. my digital landscapes look like I drew them with crayons... I think my brush tip is called crayon. eeee

[clanlord]

Cheers man! I am always happy to see some sketches from you... I really like the amount of detail you're putting in your pieces... Keep them up, update more often!

Hug,
George

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haha just did this, its was a bunch of fun.

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[shamandalie]

Hey dude, you've got some good stuff here. i like your studies. DRAW MOARRR!! :D

[localfatheaded]

the first 2 are older things I did, then a t-shirt that I did awhile ago for my friends band, and the last one is recent but not super new, Hopefully i'll have time to get some more of my life drawing stuff up tomorrow, and maybe do some more paintings. Thanks so much to everyone that has posted and checked out my sketch book, you have been most helpful and inspirational see ya

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wow big update! a bunch of figure drawing stuff and couple of pages from my sketch book, also a b/w hand study, really got to work on my values.
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[localfatheaded]

here are a couple of sketches and a painting i have been working on recently.
let me know what you think! sweet page 3!

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[vanbythevaseline]

Definitely getting there with the anatomy, I'm seeing some MASSIVE improvement from the first page. I really like them, keep it going, but remember to watch certain areas, like when your subject is sitting or when someone is lifting their neck up. Right now, I'd say you are at the stage of trying to capture angles in the figure and how the body bends. Don't stress it, and don't stress outcome. And remember, Sometimes exaggeration helps ;)

As for that painting, I'm seeing a white strip on her nose, and it's bringing my attention to that on that picture. I think you should tone it down with a red or a warm color. Also, I can't see the caruncula lachrymalis in her eye! I'm seeing so much of the sclera (White opaque) but I don't see that small little pouch in the corner of her eye anywhere. Pull that white back a little and give us some more detail there. But overall, VERY nice painting, and good job :)

The image of those hands just loaded for me, and WOW, those are beautiful, almost look like a 3D sculpture. Beautiful render!

[localfatheaded]

vanbythevaseline thanks for the points, I might work on that painting some more, but yes i'll definitely keep those things in mind.

shamandalie haha Thanks I will draw mooarrr!!! haha

clanlord you rule!

carnal yeah i wished that exact same thing, calc II suuuucks!

Thanks everyone for stopping by and commenting, I really appreciated any kind of pointer, Im hear to learn and get better so the more help the better,
here are some more sketch book pages, Im going to try and start updating more often, but trying to use my scanner is a pain, but serious i should quit my whining and start drawing, I also have some painting stuff i've been working on so hopefully i'll finish those up soon. later

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[sinneart]

Awesome update - love your pencil work - such detail! It may be too late - but I was thinking that it would be really interesting to see something happening in the reflection on the gun (of the painting in your previous post). It's such a focal point, it would be the perfect opportunity to make someone look twice.

Overall, awesome stuff. Keep rockin.

[localfatheaded]

sinneart: thanks, good point.

here are a couple little updates, I just got a little travel sketchbook, so now I'll be sketching everywhere i go. yeah so any comments please let me know Im here to get better and thats exactly what I want to do.

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[localfatheaded]

here are a few things that I have done recently...

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[localfatheaded]

so here is a figure study from reference, a speed paint trying out new brushes and such, and a fire shooting robot i have been working on.

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[localfatheaded]

Haha happy Halloween this is my pumpkin, he's cool we hangout.

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[jedininjaman]

great pencil and figure studies mate and the pumpkin kicks some ass too
i think some colr theory bits would improve your works a lot
but ya keep it up mate and stop by sometime :)

-=jedi=-

[localfatheaded]

did 3 paint studies on the human form, just trying to get a feel for painting and values and colors, any pointers thoughts a or anything would be most helpful thanks.

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here are some quick environment practices, and a robot that blew shit up!
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[localfatheaded]

did this last night, definitly had fun with it, need to figure out how to push my painting further.

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here are some things, two nudes to work on skin tones, a dude with a gun from ref,working on colors. a random environment and a paint of a kid stabbing something.

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[localfatheaded]

thinking i need to work on color, I realized continuing to try and learn in photoshop was a dumb idea, so I found my old water colors and gave them a try. havent tried these things in forever, and was afraid that i wouldnt get anything. I had fun and got some inspiration, I painted in my sketched book and I realize I need some thicker paper, so going to try and do some more.

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[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Good strong studies here, some nice enviros, really got a good feeling for those. I like your femme studies, so keep doing them, I also like the life drawings, so keep those up, nice understanding of form you got there. I would advice you to pick out one in every ten studies you do and try to push them a little further, so to keep yourself out of your comfortzone, but still, this is mint stuff here:D

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[localfatheaded]

Mischeviouslittleelf: thanks for the advice, I'm definitely going to follow it!

screwing around trying some new things out, dont really like the first one(sucks) but i like the second one. just gotta paint more...

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[localfatheaded]

here are a bunch of watercolor paintings I have done recently in my sketchbook.

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[Fishspawn]

Hey localfatheaded, thanks for stopping by my book. Looks to me like you're doing all the right stuff - focus on your life drawing as much as possible. With your figures, i'd say watch your overall value shifts in addition to the subtle variations in each area. Squint your eyes a lot. With digital I'd say use bigger brushes - a lot of your work has a "scribbly" feel from using a little brush to render out stuff. Try blocking it in with the biggest possible brush and work your way down slowly until you use the small brush for only small details. I like your stuff - keep up the hard work!

[localfatheaded]

more recent stuff, some quick figure studies, some charcoal, watercolored over some figure drawings i did earlier, and spent some extra time working on some figure drawing, trying to make them look good and stuff, and a little speed painting, trying to learn them brushes and lighting and texture, and color, and tone...and yeah painting.

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[DoubleThink]

Your life studies are brilliant. Keep it up, you're really improving here!

5 stars from me :)

[shao li]

great skill ,you have good sketches and ideas, you also know how to color and design using digital softwares.just keep posting!= )

[localfatheaded]

alright here are 3 quick color and paint studies, definitely need need to roll my sleeves up and really finish a painting soon.

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just did this guy real quick...need to paint paint paint!

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[Fraz]

To your earlier question, just delete the attachment on your first post, and then attach whatever image you want to be the little icon thing.

Nice art aswell. You have improved tenfold, however, I suggest replying to peoples comments as it is courteous to show that you are taking their advice.

[localfatheaded]

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sinneart: thanks I do think thats a great idea, I'm hoping to maybe work on that piece some more soon and I'll definitely keep that in mind.

jedininjaman: thanks! yeah I definitely agree I need color work

Mischeviouslittleelf: thankyou, yeah I'm definitely starting to do that it has helped me out, I think I have been on the path of never really finishing things, and I realize now that you if you dont finish pieces and push further ahead then you wont really go anywhere.

Fishspawn: wow you dont know helpful those comments have been!

DoubleThink: thanks man!

Fraz thankyou, yes that is definitely very valuable knowledge and I appreciate you sharing it with me.

so this is what I have been working on recently, its not quite done but close, I posted an earlier version awhile back, but I really like were its headed, any comments or suggestions would really be appreciated thanks! wow and I just realized the power of save for web in photoshop, how cool...how lame i just realized it haha


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[robel g]

I love your sketches and the way you shade. Great studies

[Rustveld]

Love the studies and your pencil work. You have a good sense of color too. Keep up the good work!

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robel g and Rustveld: thanks you both are far to kind!

so here are 3 sketches, sorry they were all pretty quick, the blue guy I was just trying out a coloring method, and the next two are 2 thumbs of ideas i had, so hopefully I end up finishing one of those out... and of course more figure drawings needs to be poorly photographed soon.

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[sinneart]

Great action shots in those last couple of images - personally, I'm rooting for the last one to get pushed further! In regards to the colour study - it might help if you did some in depth life-studies of metallic/reflective surfaces (unless his armour isn't supposed to be metallic at all, then just disregard me;)). Great stuff!

[WickedEdges]

Wow great stuff. Keep going! What program do you use?

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sinneart: thanks, and yeah it was supposed to be metallic-ish, but by the end i went with a matte finished and decided I needed to do some more studies.

WickedEdges: thanks and yeah I use photoshop, I wanna give painter a shot, but so far I really am loving photoshop.

and here is a shiny surface/armor study definitely needed to do this one...

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[localfatheaded]

been working on this for a while and sucks to try and export it from photoshop and have the colors go lame duck on me, any recommendation about sharing photoshop art with accurate colors beside inviting everyone over to my house to wade through my room and peer at my tiny laptop screen. well this piece was really fun and i definitely tried a bunch of new things and learned a few things too, it was really difficult and rewarding, which i like.

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[zalxemptyx]

i see great art here

keep going at it (=

[jozulus]

Thanks for your comment.

You made a pretty hard work in here, i think you had and will improve a lot, throught these drawings! Especially pen drawings are nice.

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[KingElvis]

looks like you really spend sopme time on that shiny armor up there. looks great!

[localfatheaded]

zalxemptyx: thanks and I will!

jozulus: Thanks for stopping by, yep we just gotta keep trucking

KingElvis: thanks man!

here is some sketchbook stuff, just trying to get better!

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here is a little robot painting... crits needed please...

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here's some more...sorry if its kinda big...

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crappy airbrush junk... yep really need to work on faces...kinda important

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here's some practice stuff darn nabbit

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been drawing a lot in my sketchbook, I will up load some stuff when I get my hands on a working scanner, here are some color sketches.

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[DoubleThink]

Those last two heads look bloody great!

Mind you though, I have a taste for the absurd :p
Those black and white cowboys are awesome too.
I'm curious to see those scans you promised :p

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DoubleThink: thanks! I am a fan of the absurd myself and take that as a great complement, and yes really soon!

just playing around with colors and focusing on trying to create a little sense of atmosphere and just to try and paint as quick as possible, these were all 10-20min exploration sketches.

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Here is a more finished portrait of one of my favorite authors.

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[PeNcIl ReBeLlIoN]

Wow man, those reference paints are off the chain!

[localfatheaded]

PeNcIl ReBeLlIoN thanks man!!!

here are a couple of pages from my sketch book, hope you like, and thanks to everyone that takes a look, i really appreciate it, I definitely would like to hear your comments, and if you post in my sketchbook, I will make sure to send a post back your way as well. thanks and see ya around.

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here is a recent painting that I did, trying to push lighting and environment depth, definitely happy with how certain parts of it turned out,made me realize I need to be aware of the whole painting, it doesnt really help if you zoom in 400 percent if the details you add dont add to the feel and look of the whole painting.

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here are some loomis studies and figure studies, just working on the human body, proportions and muscles.

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[Raziel_mn]

wow great stuff up there. I love ur effects :D

[George Abraham]

Nice eye for behaviour and color.

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Raziel_mn: thanks man!

zaorr Thanks I try :-)

here are some of my more recent sketch book stuff, a bunch of figure studies, and some from figure drawing, and some random robots and things,
please leave a comment, i would much appreciate it, thanks

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[localfatheaded]

haha found some super old stuff that I thought was funny hope you find it somewhat amusing.

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[localfatheaded]

here are some more random pages from my sketch book

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[localfatheaded]

and here is further progress on a painting that I have been working on, I do love my robots!

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[localfatheaded]

woo 3 days in a row of post, I know no one really cares, but I'm stoked, more sketchbook stuff. mostly studies, need to work on the body a bunch all my women look like men and my men look beat, haha but at least I know I have a crap load of studies to do, more studies and stuff on the way, yay for me boring for you!

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here are two color studies from life, both were 30 mins, I'm thinking a long color study/ still life would be great for me.

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[donalfall]

"Actually it's a ribonuclease" - that is some funny shit man. You're obviously working really hard, and the improvement is showing. Your pencils are getting really strong.

[localfatheaded]

donalfall haha glad you liked it, I'm glad someone got it:-) and thanks for the words of encouragement.

here is my most recent painting... just trying some new things out... any crits would be awesome thanks.

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[localfatheaded]

here are some free sketches I did, and some posemaniac thirty second poses, I have more it just seems pointless to scan all of them, I need to do them regularly... here ya go

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[localfatheaded]

here are a bunch of drawings from life... as you see one of the hands I started to digitally paint over, kinda a cool experience, I'm going to try it some more maybe, need to draw more get better, more studies.

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[localfatheaded]

here are some studies, a color study from ref, and then some light studies from ref, and then 2 anatomy studies, and dam I wish I was in dallas for reverie , but alas Im not, instead its work and school and trying to draw during every free second that I have, hopefully the next one I can make it,
just trying to get better, I have been doing tons of studies, need to get a better understanding of the human form and faces...I'm going to keep doing studies for a bit and hopefully start expanding my drawing from my mind... blah bed

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[localfatheaded]

and i know everyone was freaking out, afraid i wasnt going to post today, but ha I did... just some studies from reference and a random robot sketch. woo kick ass!


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[localfatheaded]

here is a still life I did from a garden angel that was outside the house, haha you can compare it to a drawing I did a couple of months ago of the same angel, this one is way better, I definitely learned a lot spending so much time working it out, and really saw some of my short comings, so much to work on, and please I would really like some comments, crits, pointers or tips or anything that might help, I really am trying my hardest to get better, thanks!

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alright time for some junk... embarrassed to post these crappy studies, all from ref either life, photo, or book of sorts, but the point being that I actually posted, and that hopefully it'll inspire me to kick ass tomorrow and try and redeem myself.

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[localfatheaded]

mooooorrrrrreeeee junk! eat it and weep, that first page was from my head practice with no reference, and then seeing all the stuff i need to work on and then studies, ok more drawing.

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[meticulous]

Awesome hard work here - it really shows!
I'm really jealous of your anatomy studies - Inspiring me to keep on hammering the posemaniacs ;) Keep up the hard work! Looking amazing!

[localfatheaded]

meticulous thanks man that really means alot, keep drawing!

alright the first 2 are warm ups from figure drawing, the 3rd one is a long pose about 6 hours, I totally ran out of time rushed at the end and totally f'd up the face, I should have just left it and just kept at the slow pace I started at, lesson learn, sucks I learned it like this haha. then a bunch of photo studies and the last one is a crappy drawing from my head, that shows me everything I have to work on, like ankles and toes and hands and faces and muscles and everything. keeping up with the posting pretty well, I'm even surprising my self.

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[Bill]

Hey,

Your figure stuff looks good and shows improvement. You're on a good track there I think. The Mechanical red arms of the girl above have really nice form and lighting. I wonder if dropping some blues or other colors into the shadows might give them another level of reality, interest, sparkle... Anyway, nice efforts here. Good Stuff.

[tintaymanchas]

Amazing work! Beautiful line quality, Thank you for stopping by :)

[localfatheaded]

Bill thanks for the words of encouragement and the suggestions, I'm definitely going to experiment with that, and once again I love you sketchbook, hopefully see you around the boards.

tintaymanchas Thanks! I'm trying my hardest :-)

alright more studies from me, just trying to work on understanding the body, the last page is a non ref drawing of some faces, need to work on more face constructions and understand the face proportions better, and more eye studies cause most my people looked crossed eyed of sorts. later

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[mrdigs]

Good stuff ! love the robot in post #125.

You're putting me to shame with all those anatomy studies ! Keep it up, they're clearly paying off.

[brentos8]

Really nice sb man, thanks for stopping by mine. ONly suggestion would be to watch the porportioms of the heads on your full figures. They seem a bit small at times and unfinished, other than that, great stuff, keep it up.

[localfatheaded]

mrdigs thanks!

brentos8 Thanks, yeah that has been something I have been trying to work on, and its good you mentioned it, cause now I know I should be extra cautious...and I think that same problem afflicts my next post haha oh jeez...

alright here is a little something I have been working on...still not done, but getting there

1st thumbs...2nd rough/light study...3rd render in progree....

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[solomon01]

Heya,

Just dropping in to say hello.
I like your figure studies especially with the muscles and arm/leg studies.
The Dominatrix looks very awesome :D
How long have you been in this forum?
Anyways, I added some more stuff to my sketchbook just yesterday. Thought you might drop in and check it out.
Go here (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=154626)

[bbwolf]

That´s really nice going here. The studies are very sound and the colors are promissing. About the last piece, her left leg, the one that points to the right from our view, should be a bit more towards the viewer. That comes from her hip position and connects a bit more with the viewer. Just imho. Also she´s a tough whip wielding grrl. She should hold her head high. Proud, raised chin. Again just imho.


Keep it up. see ya ´round.

Wolf

[localfatheaded]

solomon01 thanks, i'm not sure, i guess I have been hanging around for about a year, but i really have no idea haha

bbwolf thankyou...and yes I think you're right, some things to tryout.

alright i just bought a mirror so now i can torture everyone with crappy self portraits that dont look like me...

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[keelman91]

Wo fucking spectacular work,love d sea creature painting lol

[localfatheaded]

keelman91: thanks man!

here are some more stuff, A free sketch and then some leg, arm and face studies, and then a 2 and half hour portrait. gotta just keep drawing and posting, thanks everyone
later

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[devilminer]

hey thanks for the comments...dude your artwork is very very good. the tech stuff is salivatingly cool. i like how you tried to mimic your brushwork like you've done your scribbly pen drawings...just too cool. i'd like to see more paintings or landscapes...kinda to get you to experience other stuff i guess. keep going, don't stop...

i can't wait for more.

[localfatheaded]

devilminer: THANKS! thats really means alot, cause your design and tech stuff is top notch! yeah I have just been trying to develop my pencil drawing, but I was thinking of doing a new painting pretty soon.

here are some face studies, ink scribble and life drawing woo...

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[MacTire]

Really nice work man! Really liking your shading! Everything looks great but certainly is'nt stopping, you can really see the improvement!

Keep it up!

[brentos8]

NIce looking pencils. Good expressions on those faces, I need to do more of that.

[localfatheaded]

MacTire:thanks I'm just going to keep on trucking!

brentos8: thanks! we both need to keep pushing ourselves!

here are some quick portrait studies in gouache, I figured if I wanted to learned to paint I better go buy some paint haha, so I'm just trying and it out and beginning to figure it out, I'm going to try and do these pretty regularly.

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here are 2 more. I forgot to mention that most of these are john singer sargent studies, so far the only one that isnt is the second one in the last post, that one is rachmoninov.

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[Kabu]

very nice pencil work!
i really like your painting in #121 cool design
...but i dont like that thing going from her right to her left arm above her chest...
great work so far, keep posting :)

[localfatheaded]

Kabu: thanks, and I'm going to try out removing that bar from that painting, I think you might be right.

here is a study painting of john muir, a painting from my portrait class, and a drawing from figure drawing, I need to draw and draw and draw!!!

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[Jamesy]

Whoaaa, you've been working really hard lately! You're making me feel lazy. I think you could push your values a bit more, other than that I don't have much to say since it looks like you're improving rapidly with all these studies! Thanks for the picker-upper!

[localfatheaded]

Jamesy: thanks and yeah I agree on the values, I gotta keep pushing myself, I have so much ground to cover.

here is some drawings of my hand, and 2 drawings from my mind, gotta keep pushing my figures, really want to make them look like natural balanced people, and dam if that aint hard as shit, I threw some tech stuff in for fun, havent done too much of that lately, and hopefully I'll do some environments soon, but I have some project for school due soon, that might hinder my arts...sucks.

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[DeeLock]

This portrait (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=647516&d=1239818902) is fantastic.

More stuff like that, you're really kicking it with that one but i don't see that sort of quality in a lot of your other portraits. So that means, keep drawing!

[localfatheaded]

DeeLock: thanks, and yeah I agree, I definitely spent a good amount of time on that one and I cared about it, sometimes when I do studies I get bored and rush them and hurry onto the next one, but yeah i think I really need to push myself to do my best every time I draw if I want to get better.

that being said here are some really quick sketches that go in complete contradiction to what I just said... hey I'm working on it.

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[batcustard]

love the water on your beach on page one, the dragon hunters are kind of funny. Watch your faces, sometimes you move/flatten the features. its really frustrating, but a face thats even a little bit off will totally ruin a HUGE painstakingly detailed painting in about half a second.

[batcustard]

favorite. (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=629112&d=1238008899)

[localfatheaded]

batcustard: Thanks, yeah I have been working really hard on my faces, I definitely have a lot to learn still, and I'm glad you like that painting, I have been planning to do some more like it.

Alright here are two more portraits, and a still life I did in my room, dont have much extra time for art right now with the end of the semester upon me, but hopefully I'll be back at it in a week, when I finish my stupid school projects...

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Here is a watercolor painting I did for a friend, the photo is terrible, but you can get the general idea.

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Scribbles and scratches, little ticks of nervousness and scrapes from my fleeting thoughts...

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here are some water color experiments, just messing around with color and stuff, and layouts, and the last one is a painting I spent a little more time on.

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[localfatheaded]

What amazes me...That here I sit in this airport, all of these people are going to be on this plane. All the lives, all the instances, heartbreaks, and elations, that make up each individual person, personality, emotion, every scare and every prize. The shear amount of history that constitutes this conglomerate, it shines so bright in the makeup and personality of each individual person, but yet it disappears into a group, into facelessness. I want to see the moments that make up a persons life, the reasons that they act the way they do, and how living in their skin has made them the person that they are today, whether beautiful or ugly, I want to see.

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quick thumbnails, dont even know why I post this crap

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another crappy environment sketch and a life drawing.

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[mrdigs]

the drawings of the shacks are great, life drawing's too.

the environment thumbnails - i love the first one in post #161, my only crit for the rest would be to keep an eye on the opacity, hardness of edges in the last few.

[DoubleThink]

Been a while since I've seen your stuff.

I just love all the studies you've been doing.
And btw, I saw that you mentioned that the you sometimes rush your studies, don't worry about it, there's always stuff you'll pick up, even if it's only seeing the larger shapes of it all.

The pencil portraits could probably use a little more contrast.
I wouldn't worry too much about rendering the hair, the face is the most important part.
Unfinished sketches have their charm aswell :-)

And the digital studies are sweet as fuck!
Keep rocking it dude!