colors n shit

[Lakka]

So... Hey yall! I'm Lakka, and sometimes I go by the name Matias and in the worst case scenario, Matu.

I'm opening a sketchbook as it can only be for the good, I have alot of learning to do, and this will surely help in many ways!

I refound drawing in the extremely boring classes that I chose to go through, and last summer I got myself a tablet and started actually practicing.

Just recently I made the decision to pursue a dream of being an artist of somekind, and like many kids before me, I love games and the game industry ofcourse is one of the things that intrigues(spelling) me!

Anyway I turned 18 Dec 25th, which means I have to start thinking of the future in someways. I ment to try my luck with medschool, and thus I only studied biology/math/physics/chemistry for the past 3 years, but like I said I do not wish o pursue that anymore. This basically means that I have alot of catching up to do in art.


About that dump... I wasn't kidding. Please do tell me if you really think I should delete most and only have like the ones from this week or something.

I'm just laying them down alphabetical order, that apple is currently my one and only traditional painting of somekind, can't wait to do more!

[Lakka]

almost forgot mousehorsemanshapeshifter.jpg himself!

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[Lakka]

some pencils, I'm not too good with these :|

Practice, practice... :)

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and just thought I'd add this

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[Lakka]

havnt used photoshop at all as I do not have a full version of it, but thought I'd play around with it as it definately has its positives!

Used some custom brushes from m@ which was new thing to me, so it was a small learning experience! :)
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[Lakka]

this fellow is supposed to be a pilot of somekind

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[Mepp]

You have here some very nice things! You need to work on perspectives and proportions. I like how you work with color!
Keep it up and post more!

[Eugie]

Hey thanks for dropping by my sketchbook, I love your one piece "piece." Then again I can't help it cause it's my favorite show keep on truckin.

[mentler]

Strong Works

[Lakka]

Thanks all!

Mepp I agree, thank you for pointing that out. I've been struggling with both perspective and proportions for awhile now, and it really kills alot of work :(

Eugie, same here :)

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[Lakka]

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[lilnebo]

wooo really nice sb, great start and alot of hard work
Keep at it your already great but you'll be even better

[MechanixMilitia]

I love your colours in the digitals!

And thanks for commenting on my sketchbook :)

[Lair Radical]

Very nice start here, as others have said just work on perspective and proportion. For me at least the two come hand in hand, as you progress on one you'll progress on the other. You might even practice something completely unrelated, like hands, and find your whole figure improves.

[Green-eyed demon]

wow, color is really your strength but some of your work need a bit more contrast (darker color). You also need to keep practicing your anatomy and proportions. Keep up the good work and keep drawing and painting every day and you'll de a bit better every day ! Definetly want to see more of your works !

[ArtZealot]

Hey, thanks for stopping by my sketchbook. You definately have some nice stuff in here. You mentioned a few posts up about struggling with perspective and proportions. I'm sure u already know but that stuff just comes with time, and drawing from life (or photos if life isn't available). I also hear a lot of people say that drawing from other artists work (really good artists only) helps if an actual figure is hard to find. I really like these:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=349919&d=1208501229
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=349920&d=1208501262

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=349954&d=1208501721

The composition on all of them is really working. I think theyre some of your nicest pieces.
Anyway, keep it up, you have a great sketchbook started here. cheers'

[Genius_Malignus]

Theres some good stuff up there.
Your sense of colour is good, but you should definitely practice proportions on your characters.

[Heal]

Echo, echo, echo...

Good looking sketchbook, there are a lot of good studies in here. You've got a killer knack for color and composition. Proportions and perspective need work. Copying master paintings/sketches can help with that, as well as life drawing. However, what's been helping me a lot lately with my figures has not been lengthy studio session figure drawing but rather snap gesture drawing on the street, no longer than 30 seconds per figure (even if they sit still for longer than that, which they rarely do!).

Sorry if any of that was redundant. Keep going! :)

[Quigleyer]

yeah your color and composition is looking pretty nice. I like the overall movement and your painting ATTITUDE is awesome. Messy as shit, but at the same time together.

I'm just feeling you've got some anatomical issues that can't be ignored. Try to work on that some, because your stuff has great potential.

[Lakka]

Thanks all! I havn't really gotten much comments of any sort on my drawings before, so you are being a huge help!

The head of my tablet pen is pretty darn short right now and I've lost the spares, got to keep the pen in a stand up position :P

I think I wont do much digital untill I get some pen tops, so it's time to do something useful, like gestures and anatomy :)

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[xinleh]

Hey man I see lots of potential there so keep up the good work! I'd say work on your pencil sketches and foundation works more, as they are the basis of everything etc. Study proportion, gesture (as some of your figures seem to lack) But I can feel the 'weight' of some of your figures already, so that's a good sign. :)

....AND DO I SPOT ONE PIECE? I LOVE ONE PIECE! <3 /fangirl

[Fishspawn]

Hey, thanks for dropping by my book! Ton's of improvement just from your first post to now. I agree with what many have said - your colors are looking great but your proportions need attention. Drawing from life is the best way to learn proportions and accuracy when drawing or painting the body! Studies from artists like loomis are good as well, but if you really want to rocket your drawing abilities I recomend finding a place to do life drawing from models.

Glad you're pursuing your dream of becoming an artist. Keep up the hard work and it will become a reality!

[Lakka]

xinleh, fishspawn:

Thanks! I drew a 90-45 second poses from pose maniacs yesterday for a few hours, and realized how I am lacking routine in drawing the human body. At first I couldnt really do any confident lines and everything looked terrible, but I noticed that after a few hours I had gotten some routine. I am planning on doing the same thing today again, and maybe study hands and feet a bit!

I tried getting accustomed with photoshop a bit, I still do not feel at all comfortable with it. :( I'm not used to the color picker and I like to roll 360's with the images quite a bit in painter! :D

No pen tips today, not yet anyway :(

This image reminds me of someone elses, if you happen to know whos, please tell me. :)

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[matty_mcmullen]

hey thanks for checking out my sketchbook. i like alot of your painted works there's some good atmoshere in them, although i do agree with proportions and perspective a tip from me would be walk away from your drawing or painting for a while then come back to it fresh and you should see those errors. anyway big improvements are going on and live the dream.

[Lakka]

no problem matty, was a pleasure checking out you sb!

About proportions and anatomy I just finished filling the sketchbook with 45-60 from pose maniacs, with a few anatomy studies in there concerning feet and arms, so hopefuly that will help me do some longer, and more accurate sketches on the human body, which I am planning on doing starting today!

I'll scan a few sketches along with the longer ones which I hope to be doing today, for now I'll put in an old digital so it wont be all text. :)

This is my first mecha, it has a 'nice' amount of errors, but part of them are because I was alot less experienced when I did this. I drew it sometime early this year. Consider it just something from along the trip :D

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Thank you for checking.

[Novbert]

Great SB here. Yes, there are some issues with the proportions of your human figures, but the colors, the textures and your brush use are really awesome.
And posemaniacs is a great start to learn anatomy.
Keep posting!

[MeTaL-Mike]

Thanks a lot for the visit and the nice words. i certainly see some awesome stuff in your sb. keep up the good work as well man. cheers.

[Dreln]

Amazing colour choices in your pieces. I really dig them. Good to hear your practicing your anatomy, especially a whole sketchbook full of it, crazyness.

[curry23]

wow. You have some great lighting in there! I can see some major improvements from the beginning.
I think you might like this artist: gunnerromantic (http://gunnerromantic.deviantart.com/gallery/)
She has some awesome lighting too that may be inspiring.

Thanks for your kind comment on my sketchbook C:

[dCepT]

Thanks for dropping by my SB :) You're colors are your strong point right now! You're not afraid of them, and you vary them, so that's cool! I'm gonna join the anatomy-chorus, though... hehe.. that'll help the general look of your characters, and help out on your poses and such as well :) Saw mentler stopped by here, you can check out his stuff, he's got like a ton of anatomy studies and notes on here, so do a search on his username ;)

Keep rockin'!

dC

[Tigermilk]

Hey man, thanks for stopping by my SB, appreciate it alot! :) Some of your colors looks really really great, keep it up!

[Matsign]

Thanks for your comment in my sb! I'll try and do more environments n stuff.
You have a good eye for having fun with the color digitally. I think what you can improve on is giving dimension with light and shadow, which you can do with shapes and value, possible with a pencil. While the color is good and the concept is good, it needs just a touch of refinement. Otherwise you are kickin ass. You really snuck onto the scene here huh?

cya

[Lakka]

Thanks all!
Novbert, indeed posemaniacs is a really nice way of drawing poses at home :)

It's been a few days without posting anything, I have been doing only traditional drawings since I can't really draw with the tablet pen right now, and I'd have to use a really old and slow scanner on a reaaaaaaally old and slow PC to scan, so it will be a long task to scan everything :|

But I'll do it eventually, right now I'll post this thing I did a week ago after I realized it was kind of hard to draw shapes with the short pen tip, so it's pretty abstract. :p

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[coletheslaw]

i love the way you're blending your colors...good stuff!

[Lakka]

Thanks cole! :)

So heres some things I have been doing this week, I am kind of frustrated
with myself when it comes to pencils, so I guess this is just what I need.

Anyway, I put some Deep Forest playing and started scanning things, if someone manages to watch them all through without having to use spare eyes I'll be happy :steph:

Most of the poses are from posemaniacs and the rest of the images are ugly and from mind :| , I have yet to scan any anatomy studies that I have been doing lately, but looking at them is kind of like getting thrown in to a tank full of S-acid.

Also took a photo of that first painting of mine with the apple since the scan turned out deadly for it

Hope you are ok with the presentation.

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From here on the poses are from posemaniacs I think, they are 60second poses so I won't have a chance ti get stuck up on the small things, which I would otherwise do and then I'd ruin the whole pose :D
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[tokotewhero]

great studies man!! keep at em, those 60sec posses are great. you learn so much about posture from those. well at least i did. good work. i ve got a feeling your a bit like me, where we tend to neglect legs and feet a bit when we draw. my suggestion to you is do some studies on feet, legs and knees. might help. keep on keeping on. :)

oh and thanks for the advise in my sb. ;)

[mentler]

Thanks For
Stopping My
Thread And
Leaving
Feed

Love When
I See
Thumbnail
Gestures.

One Of The
Best Ways
I know To
Improve.

[Smeg Head]

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook, appreciate it :)

And wow - Your work here is stunning, love the colours and I especially like the monks that you've drawn for some reason, you're certainly going places :bow:

[enrigo]

Good to see that you start doing more drawings. I think your digital paintings are kick ass, but with more practice on drawings it would even be better !

[archipelago]

cool stuff!

dont be afraid to go in and draw sharp, definitive shadow shapes!

cheers

[Puck]

Some of your rendered work seems to lack form, so it tends to look a bit flat sometimes, or rather that the form is unreadable and sketchy. So that's an area I would recommend you concentrate your studies - thinking of the geometric underpinnings (such as cubes and cylinders) of your figures. I think I'd like to see more simplified structure basically.

Good work on the posmaniac figures - keep at it.

[Lakka]

Smeg head - thanks, I drew the monks because I saw a document of shaolin monks and their lifestyle was quite inspiring, the way they keep with their program that is :D

Tokotewhero - Indeed looking back I always just left the leggs as some abstract lump of nothing or didnt draw anything on em :D I actually did do a few studies on legs and knees they are somewhere in the thumbnails, I used someone from CA as a reference not 100% who it was, but he had some really nice studies! I will be sure to work on both the hands and feet alot, they are really something I'm scared of atm :(

mentler - The pleasure is all mine :) Indeed the gestures really helped already, can't wait to fill a few small sketchbooks with them again :)

enrigo - Thanks! yes I really need to work on my pencils, I feel like they are terrible at the moment, everytime I try to render I mess the whole image up, I dont shade the parts I'm trying to shade and all that :( Hopefuly there'll be progress in that! :D

archipelago - I shall try :)

Puck - Thanks for commenting, Would you mind telling me if it's mainly the pencil work or both digital and pencil? I know my pencils are pretty goddamn terrible, and they need alot of work all around. About the digitals, I'm not quite sure myself. Do you think they also need extra progress and concentration on the form? About that simplistic form thing, thanks for the advice! I actually started using that on pencil sketches recently and I got to say it has taken a load off my brain, I'll try to scan something in the upcoming days - we shall see if it's a downgrade or upgrade :)


I finally have pen tips in the shop waiting for me btw! So I'll be able to do some digitals too, maybe try mixing traditional+digital - that is something I've never done! :)

Thank you for the help and support all!

*edit, btw my friend came on my PC and voted 4 stars on this thread of mine without even knowing what it was for, on my PC and my account. Is there a way to delete that vote? :O

[DeKal]

keep up the studies..your definately on the right track.

[Matsign]

Lakka, I like these gestures. Keep yourself focused on finding the shape and building the contours around them. Don't get caught up on a hard spot, simplify it and move on for these quick ones.

[Roczniak]

you are doing great with colors, keep impoving your line, you got a star from me

[Lakka]

Finally I got my tablet pen in order. I've been lazy with scanning but I've been drawing everyday! :)

Roczniak, thank you for the encouragment!

Matsign, a really good piece of advice, thank you :)

Dekal - I'll try my best to keep doing studies everyday! :D

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[VilleK]

Hey man, it's nice to find you here. Keep working hard and you will get where you want!

[Lakka]

Hey Ville, thanks for dropping by :)

I'm hoping for things to turn out that way. One of these days :p


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[Puck]

Puck - Thanks for commenting, Would you mind telling me if it's mainly the pencil work or both digital and pencil? I know my pencils are pretty goddamn terrible, and they need alot of work all around. About the digitals, I'm not quite sure myself. Do you think they also need extra progress and concentration on the form? About that simplistic form thing, thanks for the advice! I actually started using that on pencil sketches recently and I got to say it has taken a load off my brain, I'll try to scan something in the upcoming days - we shall see if it's a downgrade or upgrade :)

I think i notice it mainly in your digitals, but that's probably because your digitals are fully rendered and the fuzzy lack of form is more obvious - I think I'd like to see more hard edges and a more simplified tonal structure (i.e. 3 or 5 distinct levels between black and white total). I'm very guilty of this myself, so that's probably why I'm commenting on it :). It's just that your digitals look like they are behind a thick atmosphere and the characters structure is a bit too lose.

For example, in pose #9 - the armoured samurai dude; The top part of him looks really nice with the form clearly explained - but the lower body gets really ambiguous. And the characters in post 10, 19 and 22 don't really feel solid to me.

I like #45 (the knight), but the rendering on the sword makes it look thick like an umbrella, I think the dark side should be lighter (i.e. the lighting makes it look like the form is turning fully around, rather than at a slightly different angle).

A good exercise would be to take the old man's head you just posted and do a series of lighting studies showing it with light coming from different directions (from above, below etc).

I hope that helps - I'm sorry if my comments are a bit ambiguous themselves!

[Lakka]

Ahh thank you for taking the time Puck!

About the atmosphere, I tried doing some blending with a palette knife, I did think for a second if it was going overboard, and apparently yes :p

I'm going to try and keep a clearedged silhouette on characters for awhile now, maybe do a few b/w studies today while trying to keep the form together, and trying to add some anatomy/pose- factors in them!

Hopefuy I'll be able to learn something out of it! :)

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[Chupacabra]

love that abstract pic!

[Lakka]

Glad you like it Chupacabra! :)

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[Lakka]

redid the bobo from page 1, I feel like it kind of flopped, but it happens :p

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[Juhani Jokinen]

Moro Lakka!

Insane amount of work you've got here- I'll just throw in a quick pointer before my laptop battery dies. The second monk image ( with the sword ) is definitely the strongest of this bunch- btw, did you use a photo ref for that? anyhow, it's the strongest image because you've painted volumes and masses instead of single lines all over a picture. That immediatly gives the painting more impact. Look at for example the work of Coro or Shawn Barber, especially their quick oil portraits and you'll see how they treat form as volumes instead of lines.

Which gets me to my point- try to use as big brushes as you can and try working in B&W until you get to grips with value. You also mentioned earlier that you are not too competent with traditional pencil drawing and in my opinion that's just the thing that you should know in and out before taking the leap to digital.

However, you've made some definite progress and I like your ideas :)

Just my 0,2€

-Juhani

[Lakka]

Thanks for dropping by Juhani!

Both of the Shaolin monks are from reference, or the poses and proportions atleast, the faces are pretty ~~ :P

I have actually started doing things B/W or monochrome at start, and then building up on it, like that shorthanded barbarian. :D

Bigger brushes are something I really should try and remember to use more, I got a tip that small strokes on top of those bigger brush marks give ok texture, but I keep taking things overboard, overboard with bad execution >_<

Anyway decided to take the hint and drew this B/W start on a tribal guy of some sort, I'm going to try and get a bigger value range on it now! (and fix the hands)

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[Lakka]

Oh and just wanted to add; Anthriel, I 100% agree on what you said about pencils! I spent my time without digi equipment doing traditional things, mainly pencils, and right now I have a sketchbook with me everywhere I go! :)

slapped some colors on this dood

the second one has some color tweaking not sure which one I like more so why not have both :8

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[VincentWolf]

wow, great sketches :)!

[Dan Valkar]

hey nice stuff, a lot of work...maybe u need to try harder on colourin' but so far ur work its good....keep it up bro!!

[Lakka]

Hey Vincent I'm happy to hear that :p

Dan Valkar, will do ;)

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[Lakka]

Gonna work on this guy for the rest of the day I think

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[Tomat]

Thanks for the comment in my sketchbook & keep up the good work, lots of good stuff going on here!

[Lakka]

Thanks Tomat!

Meh, did not turn out like I planned but --->

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I just can't keep myself from using the purplz :| Might work on the torso/hands a bit more, but the head is prety much that I think.

[The Original [E]]

You have a lot of great character ideas and you have a lot of talent with color and the digital media. but I think your character designs will greatly improve as you continue to do more anatomy and figure drawings. You have all the good ideas, you now just need to further your understanding of human anatomy and proportions. Once you do that your paintings will be even more amazing. Keep up the good work!

[Lakka]

Thank you for the motivating words Mr. [E]!

worked on the demon a bit more

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[Sedig]

You have a lot of great ideas going on in here. The posemaniacs studies a a good step--they're a great way to practice gesture. I've noticed a lot of small head thumbnails--these are an awesome way to ideate characters. I'd really like to see you take one or two of these and turn them into a much bigger, longer study. See how far you can take a little thumbnail.

This latest piece is coming along--you've made a lot of progress on it. You might want to take a closer look at the leg/feet area as you work on it more. Right now there is little to indicate which leg is in front of the other--try to clarify.

Looking forward to seeing it finished, and looking forward to future updates.

[Diego]

HEY, the last one looks really good, but i don't quite like the colors in his left arm, too saturated i think, and in the face, too distracting and the details of the face can't read well. If i squint my eyes, the torso area reads really good, but those spot are a bit off..
About the legs, i foresee him with a more agressive pose, maybe with his legs wide open and the knees half bent.
Well, hope the crits are helpful.
Cheers man.

[Lakka]

Thanks for the crits Diego and Sedig! I tried to fix some spots that you mentioned. Added some epic Armor of Phail ;|

I worked on the guy don't feel like taking it any further I think, Probably gonna do something similar but try building the character on one of those posemaniacs thumbs, something in the lines of what Sedig was talking about! :)

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Just thought I'd add this, found it funny myself. :steph:

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[Lakka]

started something off of the posemaniacs poses;

I need to do something with the leggs later today

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thanks for looking

[Vagabonda]

Ktulhu are great!!

[Lakka]

If you say so! :asspat:


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[Ekul]

Awesome job on your stuff! Your very good with using color. I liked the giant mech-type thing on page 1 thats sweet

[Lakka]

Hey thanks Ekul!

Started with colors not sure if I'll start all over again or just color on top of this.:oneye:

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[UnSharpened]

Hi Lakka, thanks for dropping by my sb.
You've got quite solid understanding of light and shape, which makes your painting looks great in terms of forms. I am not sure your likeness, but one thing I would suggest that you may like to check the compositions of your painting. The colour and texture are nice, I think once you apply the composition with the background, it will look more lively:P. Keep the nice work.

[Sedig]

Ths guy works pretty well--both pose and context are believable. As of right now, one thing sticks out to me: the spear hand. Right now, it's not quite holding on to that spear. Open it up a little more to account for the spear's thickness, and you might check the angle. The colors don't bother me as is--I really like the desaturated sepia-ness you've got going on. It's somewhat similar to the effect you get when you use watercolors with coffee. All this one needs is a little tightening/adjusting, and it's money in the bank.

[Lakka]

Thanks for the feedback Sedig and UnSharpened! I'll try to work on it later today, I am kind of stuck with it atm, dont know what I should do with it right now :(

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[Lakka]

This is a bit messy but I kind of like how it turned out, gonna do a few of these and then start working on some older things methinks

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[Sedig]

I like this last one too--your brushstrokes look really confident, especially in the nose area. The planes are well defined. About that piece with the spear--you might post it over in the critiques section--you'll get more input on that piece specifically.

[Tomat]

That is a very good looking hat.

[Lakka]

Heh glad you like it Tomat :)

Sedig yeah that is a good idea, but I guess I'm not going to go much further with it! :^^:

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[Lakka]

Felt like doing something 'fun' before going to bed after a good amount of being awake and well, these two are a bit trippy for some reason :sungod:

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[Johan_79]

Hi :) I had lot of fun going thru your work. you seem to inprove with every pic you do. have one crit though! I think you sould try work with some grey scale in PS or painter to get better at values. mostly to get better at getting more contrast in your pics. Gotto say I really like your dark pieces. lots of contrast and really intresting to look at.
Good job, keep it up.

[Lakka]

Feels like a step backwards at points, I think ill quit working on this specific image and hop to the next one :-\

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[Green-eyed demon]

Good improvement Lakka ! The Volcan scene and your fisrt mecha are really impressive and have a great sense of color ! Keep the good work !

[Lakka]

Thanks GED!

Dont really know what to say about this, drew it after being awake for quite awhile, I guess it speaks for itself :lens:

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[Lakka]

meh, feeling lazy :lounge:

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[Sedig]

Strong sense of light in the last two posts. Also, remember--sometimes we take small steps backward before we make big leaps. Don't worry about it, just move on.

Just a thought on the last one--I think it might work nice horizontally, like cropped down to about an inch over the umbrella, and extended to the right another two inches or so. Again, just a thought.

[Lakka]

Hey I actually did a cropped one too, didn't figure to extend it though, thus it looked so teenyweeny I decided to post the one with the full sky :davi:

Gotta remember that next time!

Now that you mentioned it though, I guess I'll post this one too
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[Lakka]

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[shrikant]

i like most of ur stuff & working style!
keep it up!

[Sedig]

OH SNAP. You've got some great light going in in that last tank piece. If you plan to refine it further, be careful. Don't lose tha light in the details, cuz I really like it.

On the beach piece--if you feel ambitious, go ahead and extend it. I much prefer the horizontal.

[~Faust~]

Did someone say your colorschemes are awesome?

I do so hereby.

[matejkovacic]

Thanks for visiting my sketchbook.
I like a lot of your pictures. The moods come
out nicely. The snowy ones, the mountains.
The square one with the big sunny sky has
an interesting mood too.

Keep up experimenting, practicing.

Good luck,

Matej

[Lakka]

my 2nd and 3rd acrylic attempts (one of em is more like playing around)
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The colors are a bit wierd in both, the bottle is crooked and I'd like to do a small glaze on top with the bg color if I only knew how :overhere:

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[Lakka]

shrikant - will do! :)

Sedig -Yeah don't think I'm gonna touch the tank, I'll try to do the horizontal from the sea/beach thing tomorrow!

Faust - Thanks alot :D

digibreak ends now starting with these 2 wierdos :yum:

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[dhchamp]

hi,

Thnx for stopping by at my sketchbook. and thnx for the comment. Ik know practicing drawing objects and people from real life with a pencil is always a good way to learn. Im just kind of lazy to scan my pencil drawings since i dont have a scanner on this PC. so take a bit more time and im already short on time often.
but i just started posting so more will come. as well as actuall pencil drawings and acrilys paintings.
i dont have much to say s about your work that hasn't already been said here. nice colors. makes a lot of difference. but your figures and machines need better proportions to make them look believable.
good work though.

[~Faust~]

Hmmm the second one has great atmosphere and especially the eyes of those figures make for a nice mood, but you still lack a coherent brush-technique (My flaw as well, so don't worry) and you tend not to simplify where yo should. Like in the lower left corner. there is too much going on, even introducing a completely different light-scheme what damages the whole composition.

I like the first one very much!

[remmy]

Thx for stopping by my sketchbook you've got some great colours going on that's for sure. You anatomy and proportions need some work... but doesn't everyone's. However if your looking for some study resources check out my signature. Keep up the great work.

[kelly x]

Hi and I can write today!!! Imagine that -- I've wanted to tell you that your action totally rocks and looks like you work your ass off!!! Kelly:punkgirl: :batgirl: :steph:

[Lakka]

replies tomorrow, 6:30am=bedtime =[

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[Chris_Grisham]

Most of your pieces are very vibrant in color, I think it looks beautiful man, keep it up!

[Lakka]

dhchamp - Cheers, I'll try!

Faust - Indeed the character in the front doesnt really fit there. Though I did not plan for anykind of "piece" while doing it, so it's more like a page from a sketchbook with random things flying around. Simplify, that is one valuable thing which I've yet to learn about enough, lets hope there'll be progress in this part one of these days! :)

remmy - hey, thanks for the links, I'm going to attempt having a go with them (one didn't work though, or am I wrong?). Thank you for taking the time! :)

kelly x - thanks, I'm happy you like the stuff here :D

Chris Grisham - That I'll do, that I'll do ;)

I scanned some stuff, most of them have bad reflections on them as I forgot to apply pressure on top of the sketchbooks so the paper wouldn't get all curvy :-\

So contrast is a little bit on the downside here - sorry for the huge images, the DL is still pretty bearable though

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made on top of one of the pencilscans, it's stupposed to get a logo somewhere and some text thus the blank right side! :)

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[Peter Stapleton]

Hi lakka,
I can't tell if you do this or not but when you draw your heads it would help if you laid down the construction lines of the head. You seem to make the same mistakes with your heads so constantly checking the proportions of the features with an anatomy book will help you improve in no time.

[Lakka]

Thanks for the reminder on heads peter, every now and then I totally forget about whats underneath the skin and just draw a bad face, lately I've tried to think about it a bit more, but I guess I should do an exercise along the lines of

Skull-->muslecs and tendons--->tissue to grasp the concept

One of the pencil sketches colored

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[Lakka]

one more of the sketches

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[Lakka]

iai havnt done an enviorment of anykind in awhile

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[Camara]

Try to define more your pictures,they are too messy.Some of your pics have a very good composition,enviros are the best,but you have a big problem with proportions when you draw the human figure,so try to fix it.

[~Faust~]

Still working hard I see, I see some nice strokes in that latest environment, gives me some pointers as well, thnks! :)

[Lakka]

Faust - cheers :)

Camara - Yeah you got that right :p The problem is, the more I try to work on the problem, the more it comes up :-\ I kind of like a small "messy" aspect BUT I dont want it to be too messy for the viewer, so you wouldnt mind defining this a bit more? :) Anyhoo I'll try to fix teh messy and proportions one of these years!

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I don't mean to sound like a dick but if someone is going to vote "Terrible" - you wouldn't mind telling what's the matter and how I could upgrade to "Bad", now would you? :) I know people wil go "wataflol he looks at the stars" but it does give a small hint on whether I'm going in the wrong direction or not, and theres 8 votes thus far, and with my peanutsized brain I am able to keep up to like, atleast 10! :lounge:

[Lakka]

after today I wont be able to post for awhile, but when I'll be able to post again, there'll hopefuly be alot of things to post :)

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psychedelic music and nonsense, what a great way to form something wierd!

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diibadaabaaduu still here, hopefuly I'll be able to leave this weekend atleast! :)

Thank you for checking!

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[thespianmonsalvo]

I really love your environments! They have a great style and sense of color to them.

[Lakka]

Heres some Hogarth gone wrong, yey, better luck next time :p

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Glad you like them thespianmonsalvo :)

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I have been doing bad in terms of progress lately :(

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I've done some anatomy studies this week while I was away, hopefuly I'll be able to put that knowledge in use sometime soon :)

Didnt post these yet

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[Sedig]

Keeping up the good work, I see.

A few posts ago Camara made a point about messiness. It was especially evident in that massive SB dump, and it shows up again in the latest Hogarth studies. My thoughts: You are rushing your pencil work. Instead of taking the time to get it right the first time, you go over a line again and again until you end up with a very dark line that looks only okay. In other places you render far to quickly, without taking time to consider the structure underneath. Next time you tackle Hogarth studies, spend a bunch of time looking at it before you put pencil to paper. Really identify where the top of the head is before you strike the line to indicate its location. Don't use twenty lines when you could use only one. This is partly the source of the messiness. Just be a little bit more thoughtful and careful with your linework, and a little less aggressive with your rendering. Slow and steady wins the race. The time and effort you put into your pencil work will show through in your digital stuff.

[Lakka]

Thank you Sedig, I'll have to try and stick with as little lines as possible to get used confident with lines. This is one of those things I hardly even realize by myself, it kind of like looking at clouds and seeing different things in them, sometimes when I draw a total mess I (and most likely only I) can see the image within it, and then it goes like "Umm yeah this is fine - new page" and nobody else even gets it.

Thank you for the motivation, I have some sketches from a cartrip I had coming back home, I tried to have cleaner lines in those too but, it doesn't really cut it.

One thing I'm having trouble with when drawing with pencil/coal and so on; I tend to make the images dirty while I work on a certain area, without noticing, then the contrast is gone and once again it's a mess even with that + the huge amount of lines I use. Blah.

Thanks again Camara and Sedig for bringing this up, self-critique just doesn't work for me -at all- when looking at quality, so it's a goldmine for me.

Camara: If you have something to add to what sedig said, please do! :steph:

I'll upload some SB-things ones I plug a scanner in

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[lilnebo]

awesomness
really cool stuff man
keep at it

[Lakka]

thank you lilnebo! :)

one piece characters and random things + a few studies
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[Sedig]

There are a few things that you can do to prevent smudging. My personal favorite is simply putting a piece of scrap paper under my drawing hand. Or, if you are confident enough, save the rendering for the very last. Get your linework solid before you add value. Also--it might help to draw lighter. No need to carve the lines and values into the paper, just let the pencil slide. Drawing lighter can also give you more contrast. If most of the drawing is light, the really dark darks will POP. I'm sure that others will have different, better, solutions so keep your ears open.

[Lakka]

Thanks Sedig, I'll try that paper trick next time :)

Trying to leap in to Ps for awhile, still hard to get over the colorwheel+rotating in Painter :(

it's basically a mess consisting of good brushes done a la talented person :mittenbop:

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[Lakka]

newbie, around 1h I wish I had more time for once, but I can always work on it later :]

It is quite distorted :|

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[~Faust~]

that painting is actually pretty nice I think. The facial structure isokayand the colors work. The hat might be a little of, but that canalways be explained with a bad fashion-sense :P. Those scull-studies are rad, too. Verrrrrrrrry important!

[remmy]

More great stuff man, good to see your working hard on your studies to
I am always pleasently suprised by your choice of colours i think its kooky in a
good way. Keep it up, I wanna see you improve.

[destinyapocalypse]

nice digital jobss i like this

take care

[Lakka]

Hello it's been awhile, I havnt been able to post I'm afraid, as my own PC is not in shape to be used :(

Thank you ~Faust~, I guess I should look up somekind of an etiquette for hats, as I just like to draw them, yet I have no idea how, kind of like ships :p

Remmy - thank you for the kind words and motivation :)

destinyapocalypse - Glad you like them! :D

Anyhoo, I've been laying around at a summer cottage and drawing with traditional media and hacking some paintings apart with an axe (almost atleast :p ).

I'm quite unhappy with the fact that my PC had my studying material on it, and I havn't been able to use it at all, and the small village library close to the summer cottage didn't have anything I was looking for, although I did grab a few books from there.

After drawing with charcoal sticks and pencils for awhile I found myself at a small island camping with a bunch of friends, and noticed that the coal from the fire was really nice and something I wan't to use more!

I got home today and didnt really have anything else to do so I scanned some things from the sketchbook I've been carrying around while sitting in a car/bus.


*crap I put the drawings in too big of lumps, got to cut the files down a bit :p

I'll edit them in around 15minutes if this old pc keeps on living

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[Lakka]

first try at a self portrait, yes I do look like a baby, but something isnt quite right here.

Anyhoo this was done in a hurry standing infront of a mirror on bad paper in an hour, just wanted to get it over with if you know what I mean. :) I was afraid that it would come out nothing like myself, but that is not entirely the case! :p


I'm going to head to a shop and buy some proper paper and some pencils and then I'll work on another one, with lengthier session :)

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[Diego]

Hey man, lots of pages and tons of ideas, you should take them further, at least some of them. I'm really digging the loosess but not that much the lack of structure, and the anatomy issues in the arms and legs.
Anyways, you have a lot to play with but also you should take your time studying more of these subjects to enrich your ideas.
Anyways, good to see you're working hard.

Cheers

[Lakka]

Hey Diego, thanks for your comment!

and yes my anatomy is very lacking, I was able to study the head, and then my pc went dead and so did the studymaterial I had grabbed off from here and there :(

There were no real books on the subject at the small village library which was located close to me while I was away from home, I did look at some images and photos to digure out the leg a bit, hands are still a mystery. :lifedrawing:

About taking fuerther, yes I am planning on using some of these sketches for digipaints, black/white at first, and maybe try color on them later if I feel confident enough.

Going to start asking questions about my pc components right about now, like when am I getting them back....

hopefuly soon! :)

Very small changes, maybe too small to post... :(

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[jedininjaman]

Hey man its obvious your working hard just make sure you are working hard on something in particular. I would recommend cleaning up your shading, shorter strokes, and more thought i think would be necessary but keep it up and stop by sometime, thanks :)
-jedininja

[Jussi Tarvainen]

Moi Lakka.

Nice variety of stuff you have here. From what I can see I would encourage you to put some time into studying anatomy if you haven't yet. I like the acrylic stuff as well, quite good resemblance to reality.

[tschahri]

Hi there, fellow finlander! Great sketches, I especially like your use of colours - the digitally painted pieces look very nice.

[Lakka]

tschahri - hey hey :) Thanks!

yousa - thanks, I guess I'm just plain stupid when it comes to anatomy, I dp try to learn, everythings ok when I'm copying and studying a subject, but putting it to use is somewhat hard for me, so I guess it just needs some extra work :)

jedininjaman - Thank you, I assume you were talking about the pencils, and yes my pencil technique is very bad, I wish it will work out someday :p

was finally able to get somethings working onthis old pc so I tried some coloring, I guess I'll do another one in a row now. The UI of painter isnt quite working right now, so I got tired of working on the image, but I hope to return to it when I get my own PC back!

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[CKLamb]

I've got a few more things up my sleeves, but it'll be awhile. By the way I like your digital stuff, you seem to be making some headway.

[Lakka]

CKLamb - Thank you! Oh and, I´ll be watching! :D

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[Maridius]

Thanks for dropping by my sketchbook! Good to see some new faces in there.

You know was trying to come up with something no one has said about your SB yet, came up dry and then it occured to me that many of your poses are similar in stance. I just ran into a handout (really, these things just happen) by Vilppu (http://www.vilppustore.com/VDM%20First%20Chapter.pdf)--on gesture drawing. I never understood the difference between gesture drawing and a quick sketch until now. I think I'll give this a whirl myself cause I get 'stuck' on certain poses.

[Taneli]

My second name is Matias, nice to meet you.

You are pretty good! The poses of your characters look a bit stiff though. The one problem I see is that the head is almost always going straight up from the neck. Try to get more variation with that, it might bring more life to your sketches.

Keep going!

[Lakka]

Maridius - Thank you for taking the time to share the link! Another good place to draw poses is posemaniacs, I have some sketches from posemaniacs in this SB if you want to see what kind of gestures it has, or jsut try googling it(the bestestest of answers :p). I shall try to put extra thought on studying poses from now on!

Thank you Taneli, I think you hit a goldvein!

Not quite sure which version I find better, I guess the one with more hues.

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Byy the way, apparently I have been downgrading quite a bit as the 2 last reviewer have given me a bad and a terrible for grades(2 and 1 stars) - any ideas on what I've been doing wrong lately? :-\ (once again it's not that I spend my time atching stars on topics, it's just that I'm not stupid in the sence of lowgrade math and can't help but to notice the grades I get. Trivial, yes, but still it's a bit of a downer)

Got to do some anatomy studies after sleep, can't ait for that PC of mine to get back in condition

[Lakka]

started doing a B/W of this guy, I'm going to take this one a bit slower I think, thats why I decided to take a break on it now and go preactice some tennis serve

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"motherfucker stole my horse"

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quick color on a sketch from the scans earlier, just wanted to do something before I hit the sack for awhile :mittenbop:

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Yay, and for today; I'm sick :|
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[Lakka]

Dont really have anything to post but this is more like an announcement;

so it took.. awhile, but I finally found out that PAinter has freetransform, (yes I am just that stupid)

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[Lakka]

small "issue" with the light on this one :D

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couldnt end the day with a shitty pirate so I made one with orange hair, so he's not shitty, umm, yeah dont know what I'm talking about

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Wip, character in the front too dark and there is supposed to be some shady characters/crowd in the background, I hope to work on this one for awhile

*edit, I guess adding the image might help.. :D

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yay page 6 :)

[Lakka]

Didnt change it much, but the reason I'm posting it again with such little updates is merely because I'd love to get some crits on it, as I'd love to make it my first major image, a stepping stone of somekind, and I would love to be able to have something to build on!

I do not want to overrender anything, but I wanted to make it seem like it has multiple duels going on, with a bit of foul play, I havnt added much of thaat foul play yet, but that person with the pistol hanging from the ropes is one thing. And yes I'd like the folks in the front to be the 'focus' of it all!

Thank you in advance. (I feel cheesyyyyy now :o )

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Time is all I have and yet I find it running out all the time.

It's a wierd world!

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Will Ferrell as Chaz the master figureskater & sex addict

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the face came out a bit too thin, wouldnt probably recognize as ferrell if it wasn't me who drew it :|

[Lakka]

I need to draw some beautiful beings from ref's and can't think of anything nicer to start off of :oneye:

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[~Faust~]

Hey don't worry, your progress is apparent! Also, your lines are getting better, good strokes on that last painting.

I'd recommend to you not to get too hasty into those full-blon no-ref illustrations! Eventhe pros that do those kind of paintings use photos all the time to deal with difficult problems on the way.

A good thing to do would be compositions, meaning stilllifes with multiple things lying around as well as geometrical compositions (Cubes, cones, etc) from the mind. Your ref-work show you have good observation-skills and an eye for shapes, now you must train your sense of form!

[algenpfleger]

Oooh your values are good. Digging the subtle textures too :)

The lighting in #153 is nice, though i think the fog is a little too extreme. You might want to play with simple lighting situations by painting rfom life, for example just standard desk lamp and some simple objects to paint. Reality is the best teacher you can get :)

[Rhett Harrison]

Getting alot tighter nice to see you taking things back to values, I'd advise you think more about edges - hard/soft, blended transitions continuous or broken line etc.

[lilnebo]

Nice studies man
your hitting it hard :)
Your stuff is improving for sure
the value studies are the best, but really try to focus when your studying this is what will help you the most, if your studying faces really focus on the structer, see how the shadow falls and on which areas, build the face in panels etc It helps tons
thanks for comment on my sb
keep it up and have fun
peace - nebo

[Lakka]

lilnebo - thank you, I am happy that you found improvement! I did some small studying of the head trying to think of it as a few planes, I hope it will help in the future!


Rhett - Thanks for the help, that is certainly something that I need to think about, I guess I should start off by doing some reading on the subject to get the basics correct.

algenpfleger - Thanks, I was thinking of making the left side of the image more clear, but I had this idea of how I want to add smoke so the it's a bit seethrough at certain spots, may not work but I shall have to try it first :) I spent some time the last week drawing random items I found lying on the table and so on :D

~Faust~ - Cheers, it's always a nice pack of motivation when you drop by! I'd love to try stilllifes with pastels as soon as I get some gear back from our summer cottage. And about references, you are certainly right about the usefulness, I often try to find a ref but end up failing miserably, I guess I need a system of somekind so I can start finding ref's without too much hassle :)


I guess it's back to basics a bit more for me once again, some more studies and working on the pirate image as soon as I get a PC that isn't broken.

Did these ~a week ago before leaving for a small trip, but it's something

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[keyu6215]

you should think about doing more studies and gesture drawings, in addition to studying the anatomy. I have been doing alot more of the above mentioned and have seen the improvement. eventually your brain will memorize the basic componants of the figures and you will begin to feel more comfortable drawing characters in dynamics poses. You have a nice variety of work, and like everyone else has stated your ability with colors is very good aspecially when dealing with fur and texture. in any case looking good! look forward to seeing more.

[Lakka]

sorry for not posting in awhile.

Thanks for your input keyu, I'll have to do more gestures I guess then, so expect more of those thumbnail gestures, except they will be less thumbnailish as I'll try to focus on the anatomical features a bit more too :)

Some things I was able to draw when I didn't really have a PC/tehinternets

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[Taneli]

Whoa, that snowy environment is 100% awesome. There's a kind of quiet and calm feeling emanating from it. And what does that mean? I don't know!

[Lakka]

I'm happy you found the image a mystery Taneli :p Thank you for your comment!

Now that I got my own PC back, and realizing a memeber of my family has been able to break atleast 1 memory stick of a pair and taking it out, drawing felt very smooth and fun again! No more shittyshittybangbang PC! YAY! :oneye:

I'm not really find of the tilted version, makes it seem smaller in scale, if you know why or what's wrong with it, please, give me some feedback on that version! :hugsmile:

Some 2 hours, here's a 90% version of the one I posted if it's too big http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/8034/cstl23bz4.jpg

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[RandAlThor]

Huge progress dude, keep it coming ;-)

[Envisor]

Nice to see someone working hard to improve. Good stuff you've got here. I like your style, its very gritty and dark. Keep at it.

[Smeg Head]

Fantastic SB, very nice progress from page 1. Keep going!

[Lakka]

Smeg Head - Thanks for you're comment, I'm glad you see progress!

Envisor - Thank you for the motivation :yayca:

RandAlthor - I shall try, thank you for the motivation I'm sure it'll help me on the way!

This time a character sketch, I'm planning on drawing a bit on this quiet ( :< ) saturday night.

Made a version with less saturation, which I like more I guess
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[Nellin]

Nice sketchbook! :D It seems the quality in your picture shifts. Im sure that it has to do with the time you spend on them and so on. The one that you spend much time on looks very good

[Lakka]

Nellin - yes it might be abit of that, but I'm sure that it'll shift anyhoo, the good with the bad, they're will always be both, and that's what makes progress feel like something :)

Thank you for your comment, this is an image I'm hoping to spend time on, it seems that I lost the .RIF for it, but the .jpg is hosted here, which I had to start using now :D

not quite sure where to go with it, other than the initial plan.. hopefuly inspiration will hit sailing here on CA :)

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Byy the way, I appretiate honest votes, but the last votes I've got have been 1's and one 2. So I am kind of feeling a small paradox here. Am I or am I not progressing? :-\ Telling me what I want to hear/what I don't want to hear does not help a bit if it is not true.


*Just noticed a massive issue with perspective, got to fix that tomorrow

[RichKid]

i see a lot of progress in some ways here, but i think it is more of a new found trick than progress. you have found that starting with dark and just placing in the highlights will give you really pretty results fast, but then when you take it farther it kind of falls apart. take post 162 for example. awesome highlight study of a pirate. now look at said pirate when placed into a lit scene. it goes flat and kind of mushy.
i would say do more studies of just single figures and objects for a while with the dark to light method (its what i use, but i went through a lot of other techniques of blocking in form before hand) once you can handle up on some single objects really well, then i would say start trying full "wyeth" style pirate fights.

and last thing, looks like you are doing black and white and then doing an overlay layer over it for the color. that will give you really kind of gross results. do either a multiply layer for the color or a color layer. these will come out a lot more solid and not look like the highlights are color dodged. and even then, the battle is still not even half over, there is still painting on top of that that needs to be done, it is easy to pick out with someone just does a layer trick. in the end i tend to like to work on just one layer, it kind of makes everything feel a bit more stable.

anyway, you have shown great strides over the last couple pages

peace

[wilkerson]

Cool sketchbook. I like the brush technique on the environments. I agree with Richkid about putting highlights on black. I gradual layering of skin tones would be more effective in rendering faces. I heard from a matte painter that the more sparingly you use highlights the better.
anyhoo, keep it up.

[Lakka]

Thanks folks.

Yes right now I am starting off with black and white, as I went in to some studying of tones recently, and I'm not really that used to coloring on that actually. I am using a multiply layer and after that an overlay layer for some hues and then overpainting on that though.

When doing the value studies I found starting off with a midtone silhouette worked best for me, and that's what I'm doing right now actually, same goes for the pirate in 162, but I do agree it is a bit too dark on the eyes- I was trying to get a nice vintage feel to it, didn't really work out, but hey :p Can't really think of putting him in a light scene since that would be 100% different lighting, it would need a paintover to fit in at all, but that's the idea of having different lighting in images :D

I'm trying to use alot of midtone for the sake of showing color right now, I havn't quite comprehended it yet, so that is a problem. But if you look at the earlier pages when I did not do B/W unerneath (I wish to stop doing that at some point, and keep value studies separate) I used alot of saturation, and I wish to tone it down a little bit, so I've kind of changed alot in my coloring, but is it working for me? I would love if you could flip through some of the earlier images and then check back here and give a good comment on that!


About working on one layer; for the speedpaintings that I've done without a B/W sketch, I usually work on one layer, to make it feel more painterish, but I have to admit that on that last pirate image the layers kind of got out of hand, though I've flattened it alot so far. :-|

I could say that things in post #162 kind of suffered from the fact that I could only use small brushes that did not take too much out of the PC I was using for them(an old - crappy - and bad one, which kept powering off and after scanning it's HD with my current pc showed to have alot of bad infections :D, gave me a thousand headaches :p)


Anyhoo, thanks alot guys, I'll definately try to tone the highlights down a bit more, and make the shadows mean more - while trying to show the color of objects with a midtone!

I'll go back to single rendering after the pirate brawl image, I feel like I do have to finish it otherwise it'll just stay laying around somewhere... :ore:

See you in a few hours for an update, hopefuly someone has noticed this line by then;

"I'm trying to use alot of midtone for the sake of showing color right now, I havn't quite comprehended it yet, so that is a problem. But if you look at the earlier pages when I did not do B/W unerneath (I wish to stop doing that at some point, and keep value studies separate) I used alot of saturation, and I wish to tone it down a little bit, so I've kind of changed alot in my coloring, but is it working for me? I would love if you could flip through some of the earlier images and then check back here and give a good comment on that!"

[Lakka]

Double post... that has been happening alot lately :?

[Lakka]

update on the pirates, might end it for tonight.

Going to build the floor and ropes next. I need to work on the those shadows a bit, and then I need to check some ref images for smoke.

Please do C&C

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Meh, decided to add planks befor ebed and changed some other things...

The box with the bottles needs to be put in to perspective

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[Lakka]

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By this speed I'll be able to reach the skill level of bad by the end of the week! :p

[Tmza]

Terve, and thanks for stopping by.
Really neat things going on in here.
Awesome lighting with that last speedy.
Really nothing to crit so just keep posting.

[Lakka]

thanks for your comment tmza, glad you found the lighing ok!

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didn't really know what to actually do with this one but Iäll do one or 2 more of these before the day is over

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[Ahim]

love the last one! also amazing pencil skills!

[Lakka]

Thank you for visiting miguelslo!

torsos yey.. Tried a new approach for the male torso but that did not work out :p

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hmm so it is a skull inspired by a photo (The skull was actually a neanderthals skull I think)

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[Nopig]

Like the lighting in your pics. Also some really nice faces on the previous page.

[dCepT]

Nice lighting in the last one, yeah!

Crit; your edges sometimes read a little soft where I was looking for a harder edge.

Keep 'em coming!

dC

[Vertrucio]

Lighting and blocking are very good in a lot of your work. However, I'm very concerned by the lack of more defined forms within your work.

Take the skull you just posted. Bone is a hard object with areas of both curving surface and some pretty well defined plane changes. What you have there is a good approximation of the lighting of a scull, but it lacks the definition to be a good rendering of a skull.

The same problems can be seen throughout all the work I have seen in this thread. A lot of your bigger paintings have good lighting, and good approximations of shapes, but they all lack form and definition. Everything then becomes muddy once you look at things more closely.

As such, my recommendation is to actually take a step back from painting and using color, and trying to paint or draw hard forms in 3D. Or, better yet, draw from still lifes as accurately as possible, or at least try to draw and think of forms as much as possible while you're drawing.

This'll help you learn to lock down forms, and in turn it'll give your paintings better definition. That's what you'll need to become a concept artist.

[Lakka]

Vertrucio - Thanks, and your right about the form thing, it's something that I really need to focus more on.

I have been doing a bit of B/w studies based on photos and stuff lying on my table, and will keep on doing so, but I guess I'll have to try and work on the 3d-effect a bit more, something is definately missing.

dcept - thanks, I think I'll do another skull later today and try to fix some harder edges in there too and focus on what *Vertrucio mentioned!

Nopig - Hey, thanks for visiting! :)

*forgot to add somethings I did when I woke up

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[Lakka]

:-\

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[Lakka]

dingdong, I''ll do some more ref work tomorrow and then post them, just need to think of some nice simple objects that would be interesting to draw.

Don't hesitate to give tips on these "nice simple objects that would be interesting to draw" :rocker:

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rate&hate teeheehee

[Lakka]

3hours this morning

too much sharpen?


About the bridge, it would crash as it is, might need to put in some rope to make it sturdy :p

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[CUBICcube]

damn that last one is really awsome! the colors are great! your stuff is really cool, Its fun to see how much youve improved through your sketchbook.

[katinki]

wow! the last one is a real leap ahead! the rocks are rocky, the snow snowy and it has depth, one can feel the distance of the bridge! my only nitpick would be the purple reflected light on the pillars, it doesn't make sense imho and is distracting... but i love those ropes!

[Lakka]

Thanks both of you!

katinki, yeah, now that I look at those purplz, the only thing that comes to my mind is "Why?" :ore:

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Blurred one for no good reason...
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Thanks for checking!

[Caffeine_stream]

cool concepts, love the guy in the last picture, wonder where i can get a hat like that

[Kfeeras]

the blurring on that last image works well, but you mustnt blur his hat, because its the same level as the figure, im sure you know what i mean.
your landscapes amaze me! the best is the one with the crashbridge. the skull is superb, too.
still lifes, dude, you can learn a ton from these. from real life of course ;-) put an apple next to your monitor or anything (except the stylus) and paiiiinnttt.

rock on, keep up, have fun

-antonio

[Lakka]

Thanks folks!

Caffeine - make on from cardboard? :p

Kfeeras - cheers, yes drawing from life is good, I do do it, but I just don't have a scanner that would be working atm :-\ But yeah, maybe I should try doing it digital! maybe tomorrow! :)

still not quite there when it comes to this brush and that texture that comes with it, I'd like to smoothen it out at places, but dont know how :\

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[Lakka]

fugly :-0

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[remmy]

Dam more amazing works here. I really like the enviros (lennd22.jpg and
slid222232.jpg) simple lighting on the first but really quite effective.
Keep at it man your getting heaps good. Ha ha I keep forgetting to
subscribe when I visit. SUBSCRIBES!!

[Lakka]

Hehe, thanks remmy! :)

experimentation with a ghostship

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This one is the original before any adjustments, I wanted the ship to blend in to the BG but I'm not sure if this was a bit too much.
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[Puck]

The panther looks great.

Also, I really like the way you paint snow - In #196 with the warm shadows in the light and the cold blue shadow in the dark (with a nice warm glow on the terminator of the mountain shadow) - it looks very convincing. A good way to develop your tonal skills as well.

The pirate looks good as well (I'd go half way with the blur personally though, it's a bit too much for me) - the details in the face and beard read nicely without being too distinct, looks good. Though I think the texture in the shield fades to black too quickly

Mr. Fugly is only fugly because the proportions are off, I think especially the gap between the nose and top lip is too large. I noticed it in your portraits of celebrities (post #154-155) and the straw hat portrait at #160.

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With a bit of free-transform repositioning he's... well, he only ugly instead of fugly maybe? :)

Good work mate, keep it up.

[Lakka]

Thanks Puck! I might have to check back to that image and try to fix the errors , and maybe give him an ear to hear with! :p

I wan't to get in to mechas and stuff a bit more, but I just suck at thinking of any designs that make sense :|

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[remmy]

Dude I am trying out mechanical studies as well. To be honest I fail and drawing robots and vehicles, which is why I am just compiling and look for long periods of time at pictures off google search. I am gunna start doing some refs. Your mecha55 is sweet, I think you did a great job, I laughed when I saw you gave up on detailing the knee joints. Anyway great attempt you should do some more mechanical work. As for your ghost ship to be completely honest I can only see that your original is a little lighter than the first. I'm not sure what you were trying to achieve there but the ship looks alright.

[Lakka]

Haha remmy, yeah I was going down towards the joints, then I just thought to myself "what the hell am I supposed to do in here" and just scribbled a few lines in there :D

Thanks for your comment, again! :)

actylic painting wip, about 3 hours in I guess, started this morning, once again the colors seem alot more subtle irl :-\

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[Lakka]

Well atleast it isn't raining

around 45minutes I havn't been diigpainting enough and this is my pathway back in I guess, expect more to come! :)

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[Lakka]

soo I started drawing and whaddya know, the tablet stops working :steph:

anyway this thing got this far, started out as a brush test, and ends as one thanks to my usb port. :D

[Lakka]

small update on the acrylic painting, some parts got messed up, someparts didnt :p

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P.S. I need to l2photo :D

[Lakka]

there's quite a few hings I should have doen to this thing but I'll do em later tdoday :p

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[Lakka]

looks like nothing but still it is something.

Just something to think about. MMM, pie.

speedy before bed, i need to do some digital paintingpainting someday

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[Lakka]

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[Lakka]

once again my tablet stopped working.

Eversince I got some components back from repair my PC has been slow as hell and keeps freexing on me, and suff like the mouse and tablet just stop working out of nowhere... :-\

PISSING ME OFF

Didnt get to do much thanks to shit piece of crap they delivered back to me, it's just, baah, it started out like something fun but now I'm just angry

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[Lakka]

It's lonely in here :<

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[JamesF]

Hey Lakka, I can't really comment on the digital art you do as I've never actually worked a tablet before, well I can comment it but can't give you C/C.. it really does look cool tho, especially some of the characters you did..

what I like most are your acrylic paintings, especially post #206.., it looks very promising, I'll keep an eye on this thread and wish you the best of luck with your art, have fun :)

[New School]

Hey man i love your stuff i just have one crit. Everything that ive seen looks like you didn't finish it if you know what i mean. A little rough around the edges i suppose, the pieces just feel incomplete. I hope you don't take that the wrong way its just that i would love to see what you can really do "]

[remmy]

Lakka, more great loose paints especially the environments you have really gotten down some great concepts. Anyway you use painter right? corel painter that is. Judging from your paints I would say that you are a painter, so I challenge you sir to do some line work and tone on photoshop. If you have used photoshop for any of your work here I am shocked ha ha. Anyway I think you need to define your objects with either darkening your tones and using sharper highlights or use some line work to constrain your color. This is just my opinion though, I can't paint for poo, I just like drawing. That would explain why I don't like fine art. For me shapes need to be either defined or contained. Keep up the good work.

[Lakka]

James, thank you, and will do! :)

New School - I get what you mean, I have a serious problem with this issue, I'm not sure if I just don't have it in me to finish images, or is it just some mental thing that I lose iterest and roll on to the next one without realizing what moreI could have done. :-\

remmy - Hey again! Nice challenge, I'll try to do some linedrawings, I have actually been using a pen instead of a pencil for my bus sketches lately, so this is good timing from you! :yum:

This one is wierd, drew it while waiting for a friend

Le Treehouzio

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Like I did on the wormlegged women up there I saved this one in bw too, to see better how I messed up the values and such

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[Lakka]

trying to change my palete a bit, so I can concentrate on the forms a bit more

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[jedininjaman]

love the form depicted in this last one, really nice brush strokes, they are working for you , really move the eye around
keep it up and stop by sometime :)
-jedi

[Lakka]

Hey jedi, thanks! Will do :)

2 different versions from this one, still trying to work the palette out to, guess I need to go more wacko on it

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dont like the one with colors one bit

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*edit

took that ballofnothing out and gave the image some light, still sucks but it has light =[]

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[batang-gala]

Oh these are just lovely!! I really like how you use light. The colors correspond to that and the effect is just lovely! Love your works!

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My sketchbook:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=136427

[Lakka]

Thank you Batang-gala :steph:

I need to do ref studies next, as it seems like I've hit a wall of somekind

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[Diego]

wow dude, love the painterly feel of those latest post. Keep up the good work.

[Taneli]

Very courageous use of colours as always, I like it. I've been wondering,
are you doing any studies in between these paintings?

[thespianmonsalvo]

I love how you push your colors!

[AA-ron]

Really nice work, theres a lot of depth and great colors in all of your artwork. Keep it up!

[Lakka]

Diego, thank you for the input! :)

thespianmonsalvo - thank you, I'm glad you digg em!

Taneli - Some, not enough though. I've been trying to draw with a pen instead of a pencil, and to be honest I suck at it, I guess I should go back to a pencil soon and try that pen out another time :D It's mostly been just drawing stuff around me while moving around the town, so I have a serious lack of studies based on books and such material.

The lack of practice shows, ehh? :p

AA-ron - Cheers! :D

Thank you for the encouragement, all :)

remmy I did a fast line sketch for this one before painting over, I need to do that more often!

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[kingkostas]

Your colors are very interesting.You are towards a good understanding :D.
Maybe you need a little anatomy studies.(you are not bad but learning more will help you do more from your mind)
Keep up and thnx for stopping by my sketchbook :D
see ya

[eminkey2003]

I love the speckled, spongy brush here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=466600&d=1221681757 I've never seen something like that used this way.

I think the gangster's pose is waaay too stiff though. All of his limbs are straight, parallel, and tightly packed together. Try some life drawings of people standing around. It might help to pay attention to the line of the shoulders and the line of the hips.

[Lakka]

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[Diego]

Hey man, i like the last post but i think he's kinda stiff and flat, i think the sleeves of his suit should be bigger, even if his arms are skinny. Also some wrinkles in the joints and pants would suit him very well. With accesories like the hat, try to define the major ellipses in perspective, right now looks like a mix between an occidental hat and an oriental one. I think it should be smaller.

Well, hope it helps. Keep on working hard.

[Lakka]

Thanks Diego!

I tried working on it a little bit as a warmup. I decided to keep the pants straight since that's something I tried to get in there in purpose, the pants being 'straight pants' :p

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About the gun, yes, it looks like a blob of nothing, I couldn't find a ref for the gone and booy do I know my guns... :[

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[katinki]

cool mafia dudes! i enjoy the style you have going here!
but they look a bit stiff.

[Lakka]

Thanks katinki! Any tips on where the stiffness might be coming from? I know lifedrawing and such should help in the long run, but anything in particular you feel I should change/am not taking in consideration?

I guess this is my first actual try with photoshop, a bit less than 2hours bevause I think it's past my bedtime :|

Even used a filter, I'm very fodoshop now :steph:

I really like PS, but is there a way I could rotate the image like in Painter? Kind of got used to thinking in RGB colorwise and actually have a small liking for that, but the thingy in Painter is still calling out for me! =[

Anyway, Fat Tony here like's to beat people with a stick

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The forms are terrible but I think I learned something from this one

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Got to get back to the pirate image one of these days, just thought I'd do this to it for no particular reason... :p

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[Lakka]

Just wanted to get in the pirate state of mind, hah :steph:

I realized something while drawing this;

1.This is the worlds most akward pose
2.and something that had something to do with something like dark vs light :android:
3. I think the leggs are somewhat shorter than I intended, eventhough I wanted him to have some of those 'my pants got too short 20 years ago' pants

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In other news, I think I'm gonna paint my shoes with acrylics one of these days

Thank you for not replying :heart:

[kelly x]

Hey what are you doing!!! These have become amazing with the colors, painter-x?, and your subjects are so interesting, this is half the battle! Your skills are becoming quite mad!! Thanks for being here!!!! K

[M0RS]

Appreciate you stopping by my sb!
Your light and color knowledge is very adept. As such, your spaces are really convincing. The criticism about tightening up your forms/structure is paying off in the pre-planned pencil sketches. Some of the figures read a little stiffly, pose/action can say a lot about the figure.

Impressive work! The pirate fight feels like a delacroix.

[Taneli]

I like that last one! The pose is a bit strange as you mentioned and the fingers are way too long on his left hand. His vest is a bit stiff, loosening it would do good too. With some tweaking it could be really nice image to look at. Especially digging his face!

[remmy]

Quote: "remmy I did a fast line sketch for this one before painting over, I need to do that more often!"

I'm glade you found that guide lines help, though you could take it a step further and sketch some rough proportions for your characters before you go crazy with the paints. This will help you sort out proportions and pose problems before you have even begun to paint.

[Lakka]

Speedie before school comments later when I get back :hugsmile:

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See you!

[kingkostas]

All of your pirate works are really nice, especially the large composition in page 6 if i remember well :D
Keep up you are doing great!!!

[Lakka]

sorry for the slow upadte I have felt very useless lately, I don't understand why it's so hard for me to just get some study material I can handle and then study that so I can improve, usually it's so hard to start but when you get going it's just as fun as painting/drawing from the mind! :medusachow:

here's few hours of acrylics, made alot of bad decisions that I will try to fix next time I sit down with it. More contrast on the water, making a shadowline somewhere, and working on the left side will keep me busy :D


(I took the photo in bad lighting, warm temp :-\ )
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Kelly, thank you for the motivating comment! And yes, I am still pretty much doing all the digis with Painter! :hugsmile:

M0RS - thank you, I guess getting things look natural will take a long time for me, eventhough I can be very hostile against my own drawings, things like stiffness seem to get harder and harder to realize :(

Taneli - haha yeah the fingers seem to be long as hell, don't know how I missed that :D

remmy - aye aye, I did try to fight proportions with the sketch, might not show right now, better luck next time I guess :(

kingkostas - hey, thank for dropping by, glad you found something positive among the things in the thread :hugsmile:

[Lakka]

I'll take a better photo of the acrylic tomorrow in daylight and hopefuly update it abit

I finally feel like doing some digital stuff and BADAM my tablet stops working after 5 mins. Guess I better go to bed now :android:

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See you all tomorrow, time to drop myself down to 1 star :davi:

[Lakka]

installed new drivers and got my tilt and tablet itself working again, still hasn't stopped working so I'm hoping it wont crash anytime soon :steph:

I've been wanting to sit down and paint with my tablet for awhile now! Yay

20-40min each

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[Lakka]

one more

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[M0RS]

These are really fresh, both style and subject recall ink wash. Great atmosphere in the first one. Don't get so carried away that you ignore anatomy, that figures' arm is disproportionately small.

Diggin the acrylic, astounding color and handling.

[Lakka]

These are really fresh, both style and subject recall ink wash. Great atmosphere in the first one. Don't get so carried away that you ignore anatomy, that figures' arm is disproportionately small.

Diggin the acrylic, astounding color and handling.


Small hands is something I am always able to implement, and it makes me a tad angry! :D

I was supposed to write that the arm got hit with a shrink ray but I forgot! :[
(In all seriousness, time to get with some anatomy studies! :D )

[Lakka]

aloha

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[Lakka]

I guess this can fit in to the mob theme, that was what I was thinking about while drawing it, oh well, I shall see :hugsmile:

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Have a good day! :)

[Lakka]

too much B/W? :-\

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