Dirty C: Sunday March 7

[Dirty C]

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DISCLAIMER

It appears that people are unreasonably averse to reading every single inch
of column space in here (gads!) and so haven't figured out that I left the
atelier quite some time ago. I'm not there anymore, and most of your questions
on the subject can be answered simply by clicking on that 'school' link up there.
Please go do that, I'm useless and can't be of much help.

The below is from sometime in 2007. Thus it is historical only. New stuff is at the
end of the thread. Thanks!

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Hello!

I think it's about time I restarted my sketchbook. For those who don't know me (come on now, I won the Republican nomination in 17 states and the Democratic nomination in 12! Ron Paul ain't got shit on me!) I'm a foreigner of inconsistent origin - one of which is actually american, but we don't talk about that - studying at the CA Atelier under Grand Master Carl Ivan Dobsky III and a bunch of those people with the flashy banners up there.

So here's some pictures I drawed. I guess I'll upload some more later on, but wanted to get it started with some of the stuff Mr Chan has been holding me down and making me do. The agony!!!

Fanks!

[Dirty C]

Oh I should probably post the LMS round one entry. And then I should probably get my shit together and do round two. Post funny ideas for my consideration here, please. I'm just not that imaginative.

LMS3 Round One: The entry which let me get beaten by Chan (him again!!) but still somehow sneak through past far better entries:

Oh, before I go I should really quickly say a huge thank you to all the people who made it possible for me to cheat so fraglantly and get back in. And still major respect to Zephyri, Robogabo and Inverted Chalupa - the famous artist Mike Bierek - though he doesn't exactly have much to cry about these days.

Thanks again!

[cartoonfox]

Sweet, Ol' Dirty is posting again!! :]

[Smarty]

Amazing stuff! The Atelier looks amazing, you sure were skilled before you went in but where will you go now?!

the machine designs remind me of some FFX Al Bhed type stuff.

Anyway nice to see some updated stuff :D

[Aly Fell]

Ooooh! What lovely pictures! That LMS piece is fabulous! :)

[donalfall]

...I guess I'll upload some more later on, but wanted to get it started with some of the stuff Mr Chan has been holding me down and making me do. The agony!!!


Yeah, it must be terrible for you, you poor b*stard. :D

I thought your LMS entry was one of the best - and definately the funniest. Work is looking fantastic. So it IS worthwhile studying under those guys.

[monotony]

ah looks like I just came at the right time.
this is looking totally sweet. love it all. and that lms entry is awesome.

[Discoskull]

Wonderful stuff. I enjoy starring at them and drooling.
Some of them look like a superiorly bad ass version of The Empire Strikes Back.
If only...

[Mat Kaminski]

Man, amazingly good work.
I bet you can slap those black and white sketches out like nothing.
But the main part of it is most definitely your coloring.

What programs do you use if you don't mind me asking?

Anyway, keep up the good work for sure. :D

[crisis]

wow.. just posting to give you some stars.. so awesome

[nonie]

About time you got one of these going. Smashing!

Looking fucking great, man. Keep it up :)

[[void]]

Good to see you posting again christian, look forward to seeing more.

[Olof]

Whooh! Killer stuff!
Care to point out for an idiot how to paint on b&w digital sketches? Do you just paint atop a new layer or do you use some kindofmultiplicaftionlayer? I'm retarded.. and curious.

.peace

[Exquisite Beast]

Cool. Planet Hoth meets Alien vs Crisis

[pbgse]

wow sweet stuff and the last one omg :D omg omg

[Diego]

Super cool you have started a new sketchbook. The colors are stunning.
Hope to see more.

[Trashy]

Oh god...those B&W are freaking stupendish. Awesome stuff sir!

[Profil]

Really good stuff. What a tremendous progress since I first saw your stuff at NAR's forum.
I really like the shoes from the colored version of the character.

[Nam]

Nice work, solid values and cool ideas.

[Colepoopface]

Really inspiring work! just all around great stuff. Keep it up.

Cheers

[enthombed]

hey man,nice concepts, your values are great, hope learning something from your stuff.

keep posting

cheers

[Mitchell]

Great Stuff man, I remember checking out your SB in montreal and thinking " Damn this stuff is badass" and now you've upped that badass x10. Can't wait for what else is in store.

[Toxdel]

...awesome...

[DannySketch]

yay i've been waiting for this day!

good stuff man, please keep this going, u still doing the traditional sketchbook stuff?i loved that stuff.

hope your well.

[l0stinth0ughts]

hey man good sense of humor, but i wanna see some more if you want critiqes. but i can critique you, get up and start posting or drawing DAMMIT. jokin. i see in the first few post, most of them you were playing around with the outfits they were wearing. but it seemed to dark to bring out the details. i would like to see some lighting in a few so i can make out a working image, at the moment i just see black shadows. but so far as compliments go, very good characters i see, keep up the good work. hope this helps ya out. :rocker:

[jMarkus]

i have no future in art... oh sorry sis i say that outloud... you are just way too frekkkkin good man, all props available go straight to u, +TOP inspiration! 5 stars man, u def are a 5 star artist .. cheers

[selfu]

great workz man, respect 4 the concepts :hatsoff:

[kidult]

Wow awesome stuff - super envious of been able to study with the great Dobsky and Co. Please post more!
The painted mech is my fav!

[mrpank]

damn dude
your a great artist

[thesadpencil]

really great stuff here. awesome concepts. just try to push your darks/lights more and maybe emphasize line a little bit more. but other than that keep posting. i wanna see some more.

[PerinGalitte]

You give me multiple orgasms. 5 stars and subscribed. *wets self* :O

[Chuck,mate.]

tasty stuff, mate. :)
wonderful technique you got here, what an awesome SB.
keep it up and running!



Pat.

[Molly]

nice dude, very nice! We miss you over here.....(well, I do....) ;)
Mx

[spudstudios]

wow.. you have just jumped up in skill so fast! Great stuff!!

[young paddy1]

The atelier is obviously doing you good your stuff was great before but seemed to lack a definite direction, now your skills seem far more honed. Cracking character work especially the colour and I really like the massive robo thingamy.

The only thing I found to crit is the girl under the gut, the shadows from the bloke fall in a way that makes the girl's chest look quite odd.

cheerio

[seth1]

Awesome work man! Your Lms Entry is pure eye candy.

[Jorge Gecov]

Dude you're awesome! Love all the stuff.
Keep posting!!!

Cheers,

[Dirty C]

OK, so the policy in my old sketchbook was that I would never post without an image, so here's some ship thumbs I did months back for this Atlantis thing I've had in my head for a bit:

Paddy - i'll take a look at that! Cheers mate.

And as for everyone else, thanks a lot! It really does make a difference. And yeah, we should probably do another Atelier post shortly. I haven't taken any pictures of life drawing for six months or something silly and I guess it'd be good to show some of that stuff.

The Atelier's gone through many personnel changes in the past year and it's been sad to see people go. I'm definitely looking forward to meeting some new friends this year though, and Unbreakable joined us just this week. As well as Zach Oldsomethingsomething who is probably the guy next in line to take Whit and subsequently Mike Bierek's Ninja God crown. Some people just seem to piss art all over the rest of us :) Mind you Dobsky rains down on everyone just the same haha

ok ok enough bullshit, here's a picture.

[Kan Muftić]

Hey, really cool stuff here.
I'll keep visiting this place.
Cheers,
Khan

[yoitisi]

Yep awesome stuff in here. Somehow this thread title in combination with your avatar image cracks me up :P

Those last ships work really well to explain shape and idea with a minimum of brushstrokes. Got to practice that myself :). Keep 'em coming.

[Saturns Gate]

Shiiiiit, that is some good thumbnailing ya doing mate! :) Loved ya LMS entry too, twas funny stuff! Keep up the good work : 0 Crits!

Sean

[AmbientChroma]

Truly inspiring stuff, it's artists like you that keep me going when times are tough. Keep it up :D

[skorpi]

Great stuff, very inspiring

[Hilbruks]

Really fantastic stuff. Love the concepts. Very imaginative.
Still could push the colors a little further :)
Keep it up!

[Eux]

Fantastic stuff. It's stuff like this we all push ourselfes towards achieving someday.

[Craig D]

Heya Christian
Nice stuff in here
You really captured the feel/shape of some reef fish in those ship thumbs.

[Zord]

Damn dude, that rotating robot thing is bad ass! Thanks for sharing! :)

[Reject-D]

dude your character designs are off the chart!! keep em coming!!

[smugbug]

Subscribed. :D

[InvertedChalupa]

weeeeeeeeerd! some ho-fessional stuff indeed : )

Lovin those concepts dude

[Majestikirai]

Raaaaaaaad. <3 I love those pack-animals on the first page. Great work!

[Erick Willand]

really good stuff here, makes me feel like I just suck and should just take my pencils and go home.
really though, cool...very cool.

[kveye]

wow, great designs. awesome.

btw how do you generate those thumbs, do u use any specific technique? and how d u decice which one work and which doesn't?

[Jack Frost]

bloody good show DC, how much do you think the Atelier is shaping your current work and techniques?

[HunterKiller_]

Axsome mechanical designs!
The X guarantees extra awesomeness.

[marioucci]

fuck!!!

You are a dot in the sky now. amazing new work man!!!

mario

[Hive_minD]

*cough* tutorial *cough*

Nice stuff, I'll be back for sure!
Chris

[dorobo]

impressive!

[cakeypigdog]

massive progress mr c, well done on all your hard work!

[zweiDee]

A Dirty paint so nice stuff, awesome!

[lefran]

Hey :)
Glad you're posting again! Awesome work in here as always, and i really love your LMS entry- was really witty!
And to second Molly- i too miss you- come back and visit!

[coldrum]

Theres some really strong concepts here.. that illustration on the first page is just nasty... love it keep it up : P

[Quicksilver]

Heya, Christian!

So great to see you posting again. Did you say you were back in the LMS? Bloody hope so anyway, yours should have won in the first place.

Cheers for the help earlier too, I really appreciate it :) Come visit us in the UK when you can; we miss ya!!

~~Naomi xxx

[TIO_MATT]

You have really improve now I really hate you!!!:wtf:

[jinok]

cool work great and clean lines vary profeesional

[Dirty C]

Hello!

So, um, first of all, thanks to everyone for the kind words! Little overwhelming to be honest. I don't know if I can answer everything, but to answer a few things:

No, I don't have an amazing process for the thumbnails or anything. I guess it's kinda half way between the way Andrew Jones finds shapes (convergent, really, I found that his way of thinking is similar to mine rather than that I studied it) and the way Coro's taught us. Actually to be honest I bounce between pencil drawings in my sketchbook and black and white shape finding in photoshop. Often it takes a few rounds in each before I get the inspiration I'm after. For instance the big mech thing didn't work until I saw Cotron's chandelier in his new house and got an idea from that. Lots of dumb stuff like that happens really, and it's always the oddball thing that gets the job done.

As for the Atelier, well it's obviously had an impact. But one of the nice things here is that everybody's design sensibility has stayed very separate. In any studio you expect people to start looking like each other, but I guess the absence of clients has prevented that here.

It's really nice to see some old faces popping up, especially from the UK! Mario, long time no hear! Fran, Molly, Naomi I miss you too don't worry :) Um, absolutely everyone else thank you. And to be honest, my technique isn't really hammered out enough to do a demo. If you want a demo I'd suggest you pester Shamagim, cause he's got really fast with a slipstream method he's been using lately.

Oh, also, regarding the Atelier, I really can't give more info than is answered on the 'school' link at the top there. Except for two pieces of advice:

1.You have to WANT it. This is the main entrance criterion. Carl will not be easily swayed, let me tell you. And frivolous queries don't get much mileage . If you really want to come, you'll find a way to bend the universe round you and that'll happen.

2."Ah-telly-YAY". NOT "At-lee-air" or "Ah-tilly-year". There you go, now you know :D

OK so enough verbage. Thanks again to everyone. This is an illustration for the same nomad thing for Chan:

[mysteryofalbesila]

awsome works

[aph]

Nuts, totally awesome!

For once I can't even complain about a lack of updates hahaha.
Only thing that bugs me slightly is the top of the joint that connects those two pipes. It is flat and the one on in the bg isn't, bit of a weird crit sorry, it just keeps distracting me and I don't know why =)

[seth1]

Good work all around man! On the last piece I think composition is lacking! You dont know If there going off the side of a mountain or what and the scene really seems compacted. The mountains don't seem to resend as much as should. I definitely think you could take it further. I see a lot inspiration pulling from InvertedChalupa designs.

[sanoma]

Awesome, awesome work...great technique, makes me wish I'd studied more!!!

Keep it up!
-Mack.

[Rod28Pereira]

Great art man, love it.
Keep posting please.

Cheers,

Rod.

[Hive_minD]

update! We want mooooore!

Chris

[Anurizm]

great use of color. I like how you make your forms look good and solid.

[Lotet]

dude thats some sweet stuff u got there! love ur creature designs

[Flaskpost]

Lookin awesome, dude! Glad to see stuff from you again!
You got a pretty heavy tangency with the beast and the cliff.

[facosta]

Hi Dirty C,

Great works. I really like where all of these are going. Some very nice ideas. Thanks for sharing!!!!

[Mr.Delicious]

you got the cool in you man niiice

[Dished]

Wooooww

These are fantastic! cant wait for the next update! :D

[Norwood]

Yooo DirtyC,

thanks for the comment at my sketchbook. Yeah, I was going to a community college, and Art center's night program. Just taking a class here and there. But I'll be studying Transportation Design (ID) full-time at Art Center starting in May.

I've gotta say, you've got some killer work.LOOOOOOVE your LMS entry. Hilarious, and awesomely executed!

Oh, and about my earlier stuff. I guess the wheels didn't make sense because they were quick 5-10 min renders. As for the latest stuff, I took my sweet time. haha. Keep kicking ass man. You're getting somewhere!

[FedDark]

40_dirty-c_round1:dur: :bounce: )))))

[nonie]

Sweet illo, dude. Keep kickin ass :)

[Coinpurse]

what a dirty sketchbook.
Amazing work man, very inspiring!

[jhagen22]

Great designs! Your grasp on color and lighting is awesome. I am definitely inspired!

[Dirty C]

OK so this is as far as I'm gonna go with this one. And also here's my first cast painting - 10x16 on board. Oh and my fingers and some paperwork haha

[nonie]

I think you got almost the same angle and lighting as me on that cast. Photo doesn't really do the painting justice... It turned out great in real life.

[Dirty C]

Did a quick still life tonight cause my surfacing sucks and I figure this is a good way out of it..

[zephyri]

Just wanted to say thanks for the kind words, means a lot. It was to push myself against guys like you and Aly that I joined this place. Great to see you get your chance in round two though!

The still life is deceptively great, your economy of brushstroke is just spot on, definitely something I've yet to master. And I envy you tonnes being at the CA Atelier, it really looks awesome.

Fab sketchbook, massively inspiring.

[Beelow]

so why do they call you dirty anyways? Hip sketchbook. I still love your Lms entry dude. Gotta give yourself a little credit. Hot still life. I need to start doing that now. I suck at textures.

[EricElwell]

Hey! Great stuff! You work some really ace contrast on the black and white pieces. I honestly feel like I've learned something from viewing your sketchbook, now off to apply it! :) Keep posting more stuff! Definitely watching this one!

[liam.c]

super hot hot hot !

[Eclair]

bravo

[Delmar]

really great stuff!! Love your use of colors and lighting..!

[Dirty C]

Thanks guys!

OK still life #2. I'll take another photo of that cast painting as soon as I find my camera charger as well.

[SalOnimaruRem]

HOT SHIT MAN!!! :mod:

[Diego]

bad ass, thanks for sharing dude.
In these kind of drawings http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=309922&stc=1&d=1203799351 you start with a solid line drawing and then you add the values? or just start painting the character and change it as you go?
Anyways, cool to see what you are up to.

[starzik]

Wowzaa - you are quite brilliant! 5-star and all that good st00f!

[Nadiamoon]

Hey. Your sketchbook is a thing! Love it

[Call0ps]

loving your from life exercise, surfacing its quite nice man keep working ( u dont suck at it man! ) ^^ keep sharing plz

[vimmel]

wow, the lightning in that last drawing is awesome. great stuff man

[Cavematty]

Great stuff mate.
Your lighting is amazing, and beautiful colour sense too.

Love it. The 'CA Aht-ly-ehr' seems so great! I wish I could afford to cruise across from little ol NZ and join y'all for a few years, but unless life deals me some unexpected dumpings of cash... I'll keep learning on my own.

Will take ur advice and start pestering Shamagim for a tut too.

Keep posting and you'll keep inspiring me [subscribed] [starred] !

warm regards

[Dirty C]

Another one - sadly didn't have time to finish out the cloth. ALso the drawing sucks but I didn't spend much time on that as the exercise was the render.

Also I hate the stupid proof setup shit in PS. This looked a LOT better before I exported it and realised I'd once again failed to hit Command Y when I started. So the curves are all wack. Gah.

[Cavematty]

Yo Dirty! Another great study. How long do you spend on these usually?
Also - what does cntrl-Y do?

I see the title bar for the image comes up "RGB/8/CMYK" suddenly! Is this some kind of pre-print setting I should've been applying all along but never knew about? Hate not knowing these things! Tell me TELLLLL ME!


plz? hehe

[Hive_minD]

Dude your studies are amazing. Really inspiring and great to look at. Wouldn't mind seeing your work with a higher resolution though :)

Chris

[Molly]

fan-bloody-tastic mate...beautiful studies.....you've come aloooong way man...I need to catch up....

[Visceral 619]

wow man, your skills have really flourished, loving the concepts.

[JanDaniel]

o.O

awesome stuff, dude!

[Big-Dave]

I love that artic battle painting, full of energy. The still life is awesome too, you really nailed the wood texture on the table top.

The only thing I'd crit about that is the near white reflection coming from the back part of the base of the glass. Since you're seeing that through one of the sides of the glass, I would probably try to push it back a little, so that it isn't as intense as the areas that catch the light on the front. Even on glass that isn't opaque, not all the light will get through the glass, so the parts you see through the glass aren't quite as bright as those you see directly (although they can be pretty damn close)

Anyway, awesome work, look forward to seeing more of it soon :)

[MeTaL-Mike]

awesome works.

[PerinGalitte]

Your painting is so sick. So, so good.

[enthombed]

nice paitings. posting more.

Cheers

[Arteater]

great work

[smokenmirrors]

Phenomenal work! Those nomad character designs (creatures too) are SICK!!! super clean and yet not at all stiff, but fluid and dynamic to a umpteenth degree.

I wish I could attend that school... if anything just for being in the company of fellow concept artists continually cranking it out!

beautiful work!

[Quinn Simoes]

Dirty C, your latest still life paintings are great. Really nice SB!

Quinn

[James Wolf]

really inspiring work in here! I love all the creature concepts and variations :)

[Maestro Andres]

Awesome and inspiring. The last illustration was really kick ass and your still paintings are coming along great. Where did you get that last mask anyways? :P

[Vulgar`]

The last one reminds me of the bunny mask from Donnie Darko - a symbol of darkness half covered in darkness. The others have said it all. I'll be back.

Keep doing you

[Warforce17]

At first: THANKS FOR SHARING.

Your picture have life. I can imagine the reflections of the bottle and your skelleton looks really nice.

*Wait for new picturs

[Dirty C]

OK I've been pretty crappy about replying to people, so I'll try a bit harder:

Firstly, to all of you who said nice things, THANKS! It's very much appreciated.

Maestro Andres: The mask is from Sardinia. I don't remember which culture it's from - Muraghic....? but it's one of the pre-Carthiginian stone age civilisations. It's actually a donkey but looks more like a devil of some sort. It's from this awesome festival they have where one dude in the village dresses up like an animal and runs round messing with people's shit. They apparently go really nuts, too - like smash stuff and act like total dicks. But it's part of the festival so it's cool.

Big-Dave: Hm, thanks. I'll take that into account with further glass stuff.

Molly: Love ya sweetie. Get in touch.

Cavematty: Um, like 3 hours..?? And Ctrl-Y is how you toggle between your current colour management settings and the proof setup you have selected. A lot of people have trouble with their images getting desaturated when they export to jpeg. This is because the colour management setup for export is different to that on their monitor. It seems that the best way to correct for this is to go view->proof setup->monitor RGB. Then you have to go view->proof colors. This is the same as Ctrl-Y. You should find that your exported image has the same colour makeup as the original. The problem is, Photoshop won't let you have this on by default, and once again I sodding forgot to do it, so last night and tonight's images are once again screwed cause I had to fux with the curves to try and get it right after working on it for hours while not in proof setup. Yay gay.

Diego: Hey dude. Well, I bounce between line art and digital shapes a lot. I think I answered this elsewhere actually, but yeah it's a bunch of different attempts to get where I want to go. Sorry, no El Coro Technique to follow here :D

OK so here's tonight's one. We went to the deYoung museum today and I scribbled a bunch of shit, so when i get a scanner again I'll start posting sketchbook pages.

Cheers ears!


Gerraah I just posted this ad the values are all screwed up. I hate you Photoshop and your screwing up of my curves.

[InvertedChalupa]

Hey dude GREAT update man... love the still lifes and the comp...

hope you don't mind me addressing this:

SETH1: We all had the same class and all had the nomad topic which is the reason for the thematic "similarities". As for being inspired by my designs? I absolutely couldn't disagree with you more...

see you tomorow dirty ; )

[PerinGalitte]

How do you get your values so accurate? :S That looked like a photograph when i first glanced at it.

[Craig D]

Hey C
Very nice stills.
On your composition, you seem to like to have objects to be just touching the edge of the pic frame. Is there a specific reason behind this?

[cartoonfox]

Latest illustration came our really nice.
Great studies too : ]

[Innerabove]

Such great concepts! I love the great way the furred warrior and hi mount mesh together - they really are from the same, ice-aged world. Really interesting color schemes, too - nothing too pushed, really shows your grasp of light. Great stuff, altogether.

[Victor B]

just wanted to stop bye quickly and say I'm loving the still life's thanks for posting

[joaKimArt]

Some really cool stuff.

[Call0ps]

because he pratice a lot PerinGalitte :) hard work will take u anywere ^^ DirtyC the studies are phenomenal, keep up the great work man

[nonie]

That bottle of linseed oil looks so slick... These still lifes are awesome! I dunno why you keep whining about the curves, they look great on my monitor :P I don't worry much about differences between pshop and web and other monitors... Probably because I'm lazy. It doesn't seem to affect that much unless I'm using a CMYK profile. But yeah no one else is going to notice a difference so don't be so worried about it, looks good from here :)

Perringalite - cast drawing training helps with values a lot. We all did really extensive value/form/light training at the atelier.

[kakapoopie]

ayy absolutely love the 5 legged robot...

[DeJakhalz]

Damn this stuff is sweeeet no crits keep it rolling thx

[Alex Alexandrov]

super cool stuff 5 stars ... i will be watching this SB

[Bendragon]

Been stalking you for some time now. The improvements youve made is inspiring and scarey!

[Flipnastywebby]

for some reason i want to yell at you.
i really enjoy your work, but sketch book i thought ment sketch book, not portfolio, or finished pieces.
your last man standing piece was amazing, one of the most memorable but sir....miss...errrr fellow CA...er, great pieces, but i see this thread more and more becoming a portfolio site rather than the sketch thread i personally thought it to be.....


...grant you stuff is deff. worth the five stars you have...well done mate.

good luck with the second round in LMSIII

[RogerAdams]

Really fantastic work. I've got to go through your sketchbook again now...

[Dirty C]

Flipnastywebby: OK dude, here's some sketchbook pages :) The first few are from the other day when we went to the deYoung museum and I sketched a few awesome artefacts from a few different regions. Then there's some guns obviously, then it's a bunch of random doodles and early design stuff for Chan. Oh and some gestures.

Inverted Mike Bierek: Yeah, thanks for tackling that one. Seth1, the assignment was to show a nomad battling something else and to describe what was going on there. The fact that Mike and I both chose a snowy environment pretty well meant we were both gonna use leather, fur and of course snow. The direction we received was to make the beasts fit the climate, so we both ended up with furry animals. Other than that, if you can find any common shapes, I'd be surprised :)

PerinGalitte: What Nonie said :)

SKETCHBOOOOOOOOOK!!

[nonie]

<3 sweet, the DeYoung stuff is kickass... I gotta go there again sometime.

[Mark Bot]

sweet stuff man.
really loving your SB

[monsi]

damn man, reallly nice stuff!

great ! :D

[Kian]

Hey Christian. Hope everythings going good. This SB is f**kin brilliant mate. Really well done!

[pnt]

amazing stuff man
keep sharing

[krazybov]

yikes

your stuff is too bloody good mate

keep it coming

[Eclair]

wow... nice pencils drawing.. especially shading.. love it..

[Cyanid]

yeah you got another sketchbooklurker here! awesome shading/design

[zweiDee]

very nice pencilz!

[Hive_minD]

You prick!
Your pencils are amazing. Some are better than others obviously, but many great ideas and designs are shown on those papers! Keep sharing, please :)

Chris

[MeTaL-Mike]

Cool sketches man. what kind of paper do you use?

[DeMoon]

excellent...

[Dirty C]

Thanks all!

MeTal-Mike: It's wood pulp ground up and stuck back together, then bound in a cover. Haha - it's a Moleskine notebook, not a sketchbook. I like it cause it's thin so there's more pages and it doesn't get shiny like the sketchbooks do.

Jon Kian - nice to hear from you dude! Hope things are going well!

These are some fast doodles I was doing between assignments and studies the other night, before some bastards dumped a load of work on my head that'll keep me pale and squinty for the next three months..

[enthombed]

Hey man, nice stuff as always, i'm trying to understand how do you do your pencils in some stuffs, i think this the great referente to me, because i'm trying alone in the dark eheeheheh.

keep posting.

Cheers

[jMarkus]

man, you are a crazy artist. oddly enough I am loviiiiing the last sketches, and the thumbnails from page 2 the most... somethin about the thumbnails just really catches my eye, they are fantastic!

[nonie]

<3 You're a monster :) Keep it up!

[Kan Muftić]

Someone is lowering all the 5star SBs. I backed yours up with some bling-bling.

[Flutic]

Great sketchbook, Your pencils are to die for!!
Love the concept characters too!

Greets,Tom

[Dished]

fuxxing hell! these are great yet again! imna go draw now cause this just made my dayy :]

[Molly]

...I just got directed to your old sketchbook, and I was like "woah, he's filled tons of pages in such a short amount of time..." then I noticed your post about the ressurrection of it...

Love the mechs here, and glad to see some SB work!

Do I have to say, 'keep at it?' naaah, you will do anyway...;)

Luv ya treacle,
Mx

[Cirrus]

nice sketchbook, you really got a good hand for volumes and colors, gotta keep an eye on this, much to learn here =D

[Dan Valkar]

awesome concepts and rendering skills mate!...such a cool work in here...keep it up!

[marc_taro]

nice sketchbookery - that skull with the net and shell thingy - that is really cool eh? I want one for my rear view mirror. (holy disrespectful to someone! that's why they shouldn't put the dead in museums!!) - so, you should come out to sketchgroup, make some art - hang with the cool kids.... - hey, I don't suppose you'd like to come do longpose with us next week ? (we're getting a model for a private six hour pose....) that is if your not all painted out with your fancy schmancy atelier crowd....

[aph]

Your the best.. around.. no-ones ever gonna bring ya down..

[AndrewLey]

Hey C! - you've improved a lot - some really great designs in here

[kev ferrara]

Great stuff in here! Keep pushing this hard and there'll be no stopping you.

[darkwolfb87]

Very inspiring, especially the sketchbook work! Subscribed :)

[Jorge Gecov]

Great updates!

[Flipnastywebby]

Now thats a freaking sketchbook! well done sir well done.
Whats this Chan thing you were talking about?
youre gestures and creatures....i really enjoy the way you render :wink:

thanks again broddy, and please keep sharing

[Cavematty]

Yo Dirty.
Great SB, I've been subscribed for a while, and loving your work. Colour sense and design... great sb to follow.
Didn't realise till you posted in the workshop thread you were a kiwi though?
Where were you from back here?
I'm from Chch, but now live in welly. Be real interested to hear your tale of how you got into the CA atelier and what it has been like heading over there to study etc. Great opportunity to learn from those guys. Very jealous :)

Now post more often :)

Matty

[mcunha98]

Nice job !

[Idiot Apathy]

ace tits. Man I need to browse more, had no idea you were posting such goodness.

[John Mahoney]

Awesome thumbnails!!!!!!!

[KarylGilbertson]

Wow dude, you rock. That latest batch of pencils stuff blew my socks clean off. Now I have to get new ones. :P

[humanNature6115]

Love tis stuff.


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

[Mitchell]

Great values man, Your forms read very well, and those still lifes <3<3<3

[Brashen]

Hhaha always a pleasure to see your works!!

[[void]]

Yo bitch... update! ^_^

hope all's well dude, feel like im learning a lot from just looking at your stuff sometimes.

[Icon]

hmmm hmmm smellls gooooooood!


:D some top notch things in here man. see ya soon....real soon.. eheheh

[HunterKiller_]

Love love love the sketchbook pages!

You better get your ass back to NZ for the workshop!

[Meralynn]

I love your sketchbook work! So much personality in everything.

[Nubb]

I'm thinking of something cooler than this sketchbook... nothing comes up :) Great works.

[Dirty C]

OK, so I had to scribble something so I could post some replies haha

I've got a lot of stuff I can't post right now, as it's all locked up in the big project we're working on at the atelier, so this'll have to do.

Thanks to everyone who's replied! It's always nice to hear from new people - the site seems to be all new people these days :)

HK - yeah man, I'm gonna try. We'll see how it pans out. Frankly I just want in on drinking the Aussies under the table.

Icon - come on, less talk, more dates honey

Adam - quit it don't be silly

Idiot Apathy - is that your real name? heh - cheers boss!

Cavematty - Yeah I'm a JAFA, but I gotta say the last team I supported was the Hurricanes and I feel like Welly's where it might be at when I come home. If I ever do, it's been 9 years!

Flipnastywebby - you mean Final Chantasy?> Hahaa can't say dude sorry!

Kev - nice to hear from you sir

Andrew Ley - ok so of course you'd like it, i'm your biggest fanboy haha - seriously, thanks for dropping by!

aph - thanks mate

marc - cheers mate - i'm just about able to get six hours sleep and get my shit done for school. I'll definitely come along to the long pose when that loosens up though.

Molly - come visit sexy

Ok, sorry, I'm gonna be typing all night.. quick scribble hooo!!

[tokotewhero]

haha nice

[SoufMeng]

Beautiful sketchbook!!

[Hyptosis]

man, you sb is madness, great work

[nonie]

haha, aw, poor robot suit, he's so sad :( You're doing some hot shit for the atelier project too, can't wait to see where that thing goes :D

[Idiot Apathy]

Is Idiot Apathy my real name? Yeah dude, it's my maiden name :O
Nice robut.

[JustinBeckett]

You are the best. Wow. Perfect, stunning work.

~JB

[Dirty C]

Ok, maybe if this gets sent to members multiple times there's a better chance they'll listen, I figure. Please please follow the links below and do this right now. It's incredibly important.


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This is too important to ignore please participate and forward to your others.

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[TIO_MATT]

Great stuff as always....

[Vigilandus]

w00t another superstar sketchbook! :D :D

[nachoyague]

wooow woow wooow!. I wanna see more!!!. 5 stars!

[D@niel]

SUPER SB!! Amazing still lives, the lighting is so believable!!:)

[maxetormer]

very good designs no doubt about that. :star: :star: :star: :star: :star:

[steak-tron]

christian you're the fuken best main, you already deed et.

seriously tho, nice sketches m8. I did some old timey pistols like those of yours not long ago. didn't we talk about that? I got the cat on the grill see.

[Mr. Perfect]

Fantastic. Your stuff is simply amazing. I love the creatures most of all, but the people are top notch as well. Keep it coming!

[Extollere]

what? your work has improved ten-fold since I met you at the SF workshop back in 05. Of course, that was a long time ago.

[InvertedChalupa]

noooice! haven't seen the last coupla pages.

You "visions" are like a shot of awesome directly to my brain! : p

[Dirty C]

In reverse order of appearance:

Mike Beerick: I'll give you a shot straight to the brain. A shot of ME.

Extollere: Thanks dude!

Mr Perfect: Thanks dude! Beeeeee yourself!

steak-tron: What I can't figure out is what would happen if somebody tried to grill you before you'd transformed. Can you transform when you're hot? Cause you're hot.

Maxetormer: Hello mate, long time no hear. How's Mexico? Hot I bet. Like Steak-tron.

D@niel: Thanks buddy! For reference, I use a light!

nachoyague: Your comment deserves five stars!!

Vigilandus: WOrd up. It's the codeword.

TIO_MATT: Hola uncle! Where are you now?

Dirty C: Yore drawings are grate! But you kinda seem like a dick in here.


OK so I've been a slack bitch lately. Well, not really, there's a lot of work going on, I just can't post any of it. I'll post what I can when I can, promise :)

So here's some digital life drawing from today - 20 minutes each plus a bit of noodling after at brainwash where the Internet works.

fart noises!

[Dirty C]

I like to poop.

***I didn't post this. It's true, but I didn't post it.***

[InvertedChalupa]

I wander who would've hijacked your username? I know cotron would never do something like that... ever. He's not the kind of person who would draw happy penises all the time on my drawing board and my cast drawings and anything within arms distance...

just not in his character : )



um...you sure draw pretty.

[TOOLED!]

great stuff man, i couldn't stop laughing after seeing your fat guy on page one. that was feckin awesome. your character work is beautiful for sure. cant wait for an update!

[Hybrid_75]

Awesome sketchbook, i got a question about the lot of thumbs in post #28. I noticed they are mostly grey but with tinges of blue and pink (i guess it's pink I can't actually see it I used the puter) but was that just for those thumbs cause I see alot are just plain ole grey( still kick ass). Those thumbs with the colour temp things going on really look cool. Amazing work, 5 stars from me.

[DoomSketcher]

Dude you just lit the fire of inspiration and here I was about to call it a night. Thanks!

[GriNGo]

great SB Dirty C! thanks for posting your great studies and about telling us how the School is like... keep up the top notch work!

[Giorge]

Loveley sketchbook , really dig your stuff the one at #177 is really cool , still working on my transition between gray scale and color , cuz i hate the dark shadows that come up on the face ... anyway love to see with what you come up next ^^ cheers
P.S. "Someone is lowering all the 5star SBs. I backed yours up with some bling-bling." Chupacabra Ya it happened to me 2 today .... my fist rating :(, i had 5 stars , and 20 minutes later when i checked i had 4 ... bloody bastards

[Dirty C]

Yeah some unfinished thumbs I hadn't got round to posting from forever ago and a life drawing of a crazy model we had last week. Just some crap to resurrect the thread - We'll post more good stuff in the new nga thread soon enough I think ;)

[midknight523]

wow thats awesome

[Call0ps]

:) what a amazing notion of value sir! keep posting plz

[Nubb]

Last update shows great progress :D Great pieces!

[Mydrim]

Great! Especially the center character's so cool

[nonie]

that pose on the last one is great :D

[Quicksilver]

OooOooo I like the last one! Looove the figure in the middle. Please colour it~ :3

xxx

[Dirty C]

Some digi life drawings - 20 mins. Model was shocking, wouldn't stand still :S

[Nubb]

Cool ones! Nice light freedom. I like that bright glow.

[zweiDee]

oO awesome studies and b/w stuff!
big fan of your sketchbook!

[Dirty C]

Been playing with Evas..

[towy]

wow really nice Eva hh, your work so cool and clean

[Jacky-Boy]

I love your designs, so many cool variations on a similar theme. I don't know how you come up with them
Those little head paintings are badass.

[Charles Ratteray]

tight man! loved the black and white value ones.....very educational....very clean

lovely work


- C



the sketchbook

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=111671

[MarkWinters]

Awesome Eva's! Been watching Rebuild myself.

[mr. m]

great b&w as usual buddy! I especially like the head / helmet variations...
post more!

[Call0ps]

holy shit man! now this is what happens when you play with some fanart, an whole new level :P

[yongs]

I love your b&w stuffs! its really nice to see those variations. keep them coming!

[headlessAdi]

wow u are GOOD!!......man i wanna draw like you!!....keep up the good work!!

[Dished]

holy crap thats really awesome ! I really love those helmet ones and the one on the far right.

[Icon]

OMFG!

peace out.

edit: nah. seriously dude, big thumbs up.

[midknight523]

inspiring

[kidult]

Could you play with my eva too? so good!

p.s. for small crit by someone nowhere near your level - the middle ones left arm has some perspective issues near the shoulder.

Er how you get such nice contrast in values? any tips?

[HunterKiller_]

Evas??? Are you serious. That shit is off the hook yo.

[hp]

the one crouching down looks super awesome :D great values and stuff.

[Leo Snow]

Eva concepts are sick! dude, you're the great man )

And i really i like how you use the tone shapes, cheers!

[kischi]

Holy shit, man seriously these helm studies and the rest of the eva concepts are totally genius. I have to save them ^^
Totally love the design and the way you did them argh speechless.

[Chate Noire]

Fantastic work - designs, tones, poses...very very awesome indeed.

[Dan Valkar]

great b/w pieces man! love'em all, specially the second guy on this one

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=429522&stc=1&d=1217947184

[Clochette]

Great designs! *__*
I like your values and poses, very dynamic.

[Undertow]

Damn Christian, you've improved a great deal over the last year and a half! Nice work man.

-Mike V

[zephyri]

If this doesn't prove that the atelier works, I dont know what does. Beyond awesome, but you already know that, dontcha.

[Dirty C]

Thanks for the kind words everyone :D

Really wanna reply but we're under the gun again at school so I don't have time for anything, including not having time for the Eva stuff anymore. Looks like I'll get to draw plenty of sci fi stuff though which is sweet.

So here's where I was at with another doodle. Hope you like it and thanks a lot again (spesh Sam you silly northern lass)

[aph]

Nom nom nom nom nom, tasty.
Hope you are good.
Hit you up on msn soon sometime man, finally getting the interwebs back.

[monsi]

your rendering is very solid. love your work man :)

[Adrian Wilkins]

yeah man that deign kicks ass! I'm doing some black and white concepts my self in the moment... totally diging it!! :D

[Jaytea]

Love the way you paint these B/W concepts- damn, wish I could do that. Kick-ass work.

[DARAF]

Awesome works man. Love the still life studies and your greyscale thumbnails are sweet.

[localfatheaded]

wow real serious motivation, thanks for showing your work, Hope to see more...kicked my ass!

[selfu]

very impressive works...i can't sit here anymore ;) - my eyes gonna blow ;]

like your greyscale images...just inspiring!

cheers

[Blue Severin]

Dirty Old Man sketches, with tea and crumpets wot wot. Great to see your older shite, and the digi life sketches. You should post up more gesture stuff, that stuff's killer.

[Deodatus]

hey! Really great work in here. Big respect. Keep it up

[steak-tron]

Sweet robot dudes dude! I'll be seein ya tomorrow for our special hoe-down.

[maeshanne]

very nice sketchbook

[Rusty]

Nothing but respect from me dude, rock solid rendering skills.

chur
...Jase

[Coinpurse]

killer work man, those bots are sick!

[Hideyoshi]

oooh so neat! The EVAs are very tasty, so is the mecha after that! Love your design sense! Very cool SB! :)

[Twitchfinger]

Values are spot on in all these sketches, esp. on those EVA designs. Really like the head designs you were experimenting with!

[zweiDee]

damn, the the EVA Sheet. I hate you man, that's so good.^^