PieMonster's sketchbook - 130412

[Izene]

Oh snap man!Amazing stuff!Keep em up bro! :D

[Jovian M]

you just keep getting more and more intense man. damn.

[PieMonster]

Sebastian Gromann: Cheers man, glad you like it! :D
-Marin-: Thanks a lot!
Aragah: Thanks man!
Mischeviouslittleelf: Tusen takk, mister! :D
Metal Fingers: Thanks, glad you like them!
skMOP: Yeah, trying to pick up the pace again after a pretty long break from CA, thanks!
Monsieur-Beefy: Thanks a lot!
Izene: Thanks, I will!
Jovian M: Thanks a lot, man!

Just a quick Conan (or someone similar-ish) sketch.

[Sebastian Gromann]

good to see you jumping more and more into the color-zone ! nice one yo ! :)

[Mikko Voipio]

The Conan "sketch" looks awesome so far. Why do I get some JHong feeling about it?

[Tugelbend]

Looking good man. Real good :)

[Vielmond]

Sweet use of hot & cool tones. I like your sketches also, they have a beautiful flow, time to stalk you and try to absorb some knowledge. >3

[PieMonster]

Sebastian Gromann: Yeah, I'm trying, just gotta stick with it to get better I guess (that and maybe a study or two once in a while ;p). Thanks!
Mikko Voipio: Thanks man. Yeah, maybe I took some inspiration from him subconsciously. :)
Tugelbend: Thanks a lot man!
Vielmond: Thanks, glad you like the sketches. :)


This is a quick thing for the new Teen Challenge (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=235467). Trying some of Min Yum's brushes (https://docs.google.com/leaf?id=0B1PzQPZUc_m8OGNmZTg4OWUtZWM1My00ZTQ4LTg1Z TYtNWY3Mjc3YzM2ZTNk&sort=name&layout=list&num=50).


http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1405695&stc=1&d=1327206076

[Izene]

Wow the Conan sketch is amazing!I think you hit the colour temperature head on! :D

[Jephyr X]

You're under 19?

I just clawed my own eyes out with jealously!

But seriously...impressive concepts, characters, environments, figures/foreshortening, and lighting.

:yayca:

[Jovian M]

last two posts are looking fresh, man

[Aragah]

:O
im competing with you on teen challenge? what an honor! good luck man!

[CassandraJ]

I freaking adore that Conan picture, the green shadows are gorgeous. And that chest... *drools*

[Jai Kamat]

Auuuuuuughhh those lines!!!! Awesome work, and you gave me a kick in the rear for sure. Back to work!!!!

[SamC]

Haha dude conans sword looks way too phallic the way he's holding it D: stuffs looking tasty man, keep it up :)

[PieMonster]

Izene: Thanks, glad it looks ok!
Jephyr X: No no, I'm turning 20 in a couple of months, just doing the Teen Challenges while I can, haha. Thanks man!
Jovian M: Thanks dude!
Aragah: Haha, glad you think so man, good luck to you too!
CassandraJ: Thanks!
Jai Kamat: Thanks man, means a lot coming from you! Looking forward to future streams.
SamC: Hahaha, you're right, gotta move his arms up or something. Thanks!

Just saw this challenge on ArtOrder (www.theartorder.com), which looked interesting, so I figured I should give it a shot.
Should probably put more work into the sketches and such, but here's some quick stuff.

[Giorge]

great bunch of sketches you have here :) , really like the clean line ones!

[PieMonster]

Giorge: Thanks!

More sketches for the White Wizard thing on ArtOrder (www.theartorder.com).

[PieMonster]

Quick sci-fi chick thing, done while watching Trevor Claxton's stream (www.livestream.com/claximumoverdrive), and some more White Wizard stuff.

[Dilated]

Ah you beast man, looking good.

[xinranliu]

Sweet skin tones on that Conan!

[Nibras]

Oh how I love you. This stuff is stellar! It's been a long time but I am glad you're doing it. Looking forward to more :)

[jedininjaman]

Rated you 5, I was so pleasantly surprised with your work. Awesome variety of techniques yet all with grace.

[PieMonster]

Dilated: Thanks man!
xinranliu: Thanks!
Nibras: Thanks, good to see you back in action as well! :)
jedininjaman: Thanks a lot, glad you like it!

Some color/landscape studies, I am so slow at these, arrrr.
The other piece is a wip for the Miyazaki bloodsport thing.

[PieMonster]

Shameless bump with updated Bloodsports piece. I feel like it works way better now, those studies actually helped quite a bit!

[PieMonster]

Some pen thumbs for the White Wizard and Bloodsport challenges. And a new White Wizard wip. If anyone has the time to give some pointers on the wips that would be greatly appreciated!

[Nele Klumpe]

I really enjoy looking at all the thumbnails and scribbles. There are quite a few that look forth being painted. Super inspiring! Also loving your loose lines quality. Looking forward to seeing the painting evolved :D
In the blogsport piece I think her porportions went off a bit. (Lenght of her arms compared to her head. Also she seems to be missing some hips?) Nothing that couldn't be fixed with some lasso surgery :) But I think you changed both of their head directions? They seemed to looks kind of in the direction of the viewer in the ealier stage, now they look up into the sky into nowhere. I'm not really sure if I like it more now. The first one had a more personal feeling to me. Just some thoughts, feel free to overread :)
Keep up the good work!

[Monsieur-Beefy]

Great studies for the bloodsports piece! I agree with AvisNocturna about their poses though. cheers :teeth:

[PieMonster]

AvisNocturna: Thanks! Yeah, you're right about the bloodsport piece, some wonky stuff going on. Will try to fix it. :)
Monsieur-Beefy: Thanks man!

Colour/drapery study from today,

[PieMonster]

Behold the finished Howl's Moving Castle poster! So much badness in it, argh.

[SaiVix]

wow... love your stuff!

[DefiledVisions]

Goddamn dude, your characters are so refreshing. Good to see your artwork still kickin' :) motivates me like hell to see all those thumbs and characterexplorations. You're doing it good.

[alexson]

Nice work, man! Great job on the bloodsport! Keep it up :D

[PieMonster]

SaiVix: Thanks!
DefiledVisions: Thanks dude, had a lot of fun with those thumbnails. :)
alexson: Thanks man, I will!

Some slight progress on the White Wizard for ArtOrder (www.theartorder.com).

[Fetsch]

Yo Mike here's the op hope it helps.

1420882

[midknight523]

cool piece

[PieMonster]

Fetsch: Thanks, that helped a lot! :)
midknight523: Thanks!

Finished up the White Wizard, quite happy with it. And I'm just gonna throw in a sci fi soldier guy whose design makes no sense, haha.

[Feil Magnus]

Totally love your thumbnails, a lot of those have a wonderfull potential as finished pieces.
Your color work is solid as well, all your hard work makes me realize what a slacking bum i am.

[Icecold]

Thank you for a visit in my sketchbook, aprecieted.

I'm totally digging that wizard, she's captured in a momentum.
I saw many illustrations of thats or which felt extremely posed and studio like.
Your is great, but i have a strong feeling that some kind of foreground element would help to build the depth a bit. Maybe some part/strand of her's with some motion blur for dynamism? You decide :)

Oh yes, 5 stars, definitely.

[jedininjaman]

Not totally sold on how the white wizards legs connect to her torso, and the right side of her back seems to extend too far, making the armpit quite large. The flesh tones and reflections are pretty nice looking. Keep up the work

[PieMonster]

Feil Magnus: Thanks a lot, I had a lot of fun doing those thumbnails!
Icecold: Thanks a lot man! Yeah, you're right about the depth thing. I think the part of her cape thing that is in the lower right corner could overlap more and take up a little more space on the canvas. Glad you liked the piece!
jedininjaman: You're totally right about the leg, didn't put a lot of research into that. You could be right about the ribcage as well, I'm not sure if it's too broad, or if the armpit area just looks wonky though. Thanks for the crits!

Here's some Bridgeman arm studies and some random nude studies, before I go off on an army camping trip into the frozen hell that is Norway's forests.

[LastGen]

Oh man, awesome, incredible and superb! :D
The female wizard came out great. Besides the sexy high heels the lighting there is really nice and atmospheric. Thank you, you're a great inspiration.

And keep your hands warm, my friend. You'll need them!

[Sebastian Gromann]

your figures are looking so effortless, dude! great proportions aswell! ;)

[PieMonster]

LastGen: Thanks man, appreciate the support!
Sebastian Gromann: Thanks a lot man, had fun doing them!

A quick doodle done while watching SamC's stream (http://www.livestream.com/samc).

[S Ciaffaglione]

Wow man amazing progress from page 1 to now. Well done!

[Mikko Voipio]

yeah, I have to agree with Ciaffaglione there about the remarkable improvement from 2008. The skeleton dude looks really awesome and should be made into a more refined illustration.

[Monsieur-Beefy]

Such sick lines! those nudes are amazing!

[sourgasm]

ha, nice posture on that last guy. i like his corset mouth :P

artorder entry came out sweeeet. some areas have a definite traditional media feel in the way the value changes are handled- particularly the legs and clothing. good stuff, mang.

[DStraX]

hei hei. kul ide på han siste karen der, litt lav kontrast men det er jo en effekt så om det var meningen er det greit :P

ho dama her (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1420882&d=1329056712)ser dritbra ut. om jeg må finne en crit så syntes jeg foten hennes tangerer for mye med den tøy remse tingen under foten hennes. så det ommerådet tar litt mer oppmerksomhet en det burde

[Alexanderjr]

Nice studies and great progress coming along in here! i really enjoy looking through your drawings and paintings man.

[Wetterschneider]

Love the landscape studies, the Howl portrait, and laughing about the transition from the Bridgeman studies to the nudie doodles. There's only so much focus one can give to Bridgeman before the mind starts to wander back to the ladies.

[ChuanMing]

Hey man. Totally digged the white wizard chick. Lookin good, lookin good.

btw O_O ur in the army now?

[-Marin-]

Mr. Skullman needs to be an enemy in Dark Souls *__* very cool design~

[PieMonster]

S Ciaffaglione: Thanks!
Mikko Voipio: Thanks, yeah I'm liking that one too, might work on it some more.
Monsieur-Beefy: Thanks man!
sourgasm: Thanks, glad you like it!
DStraX: Haha, takk for critten på han skjelettduden, den er jo helt utvasket. Enig med at det området på White Wizard-illustrasjonen ikke ser så bra ut, hadde en del problemer med å få det til å se bra ut.
Alexanderjr: Thanks, I'm really enjoying your sketchbook as well!
Wetterschneider: Haha, totally. :D Thanks!
ChuanMing: Thanks. Yeah, I'm currently serving my obligatory year in the army, got about 4 months left of my service. Not too bad though, seeing as I usually have every other week off.

Here's just a sketch-preview. And a contrast boost on the skeleton piece, since it was waaaay too washed out.

Sorry for the lousy update, but I'll be going into the frozen wastes of Norway next week. Going to do a more proper update next week though, most probably with a decent-ish amount of ballpoint/pencil sketches.

[wasabi89]

Hey man! Nice update, i looked thru ur entirely sketchbook and its awesome too see the progress you made from page 1 to now, I hope that someday i could reach your level man! keep well
bye for now =)

[FUSHANDCHUPS]

Nice Bridgemans man

[zelda_geek]

Cool stuff man.
I'm looking forward to the next update.

[walnut]

There's something a little skinny about that skeletonnor-guy (no pun intended). What i mean is it could some more texture and more edges bleeding into eachother. But apart from that observation, you're doing pretty damn well i should say!

[PieMonster]

wasabi89: Thanks man, that means a lot! :D
FUSHANDCHUPS: Cheers man!
zelda_geek: Thanks, here it is!
walnut: Yeah, it could certainly do with some more refining. All I did since sketching it out was use the levels tool, due to its washed-out-ness. Thanks!

Here are the sketchpages, some really wonky stuff in there.

[hunchback]

fuckin delicious!

[Jovian M]

Fuuuuck. Your lines are so tight.

[Sebastian Gromann]

yeah, damn, you always make me grabbing my pencil. so tasty. i guess, i'm addicted.

[LastGen]

Dude, the demons are fantastic! I totally agree with Sebastian; it makes you take your pencil and draw. That's what I'm gonna do right now, hehe. Thanks!

[Metal Fingers]

really digging the head on this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1440999&stc=1&d=1331630899) guy. Paints are getting better too! cheers! :D

[Jasper_]

Dig the pencil stuff as always man. Digital stuff is coming along great as well!

[DStraX]

heyo:) fantastiske tegninger som vanelig:D klarer ikke finne på no neggativt å si om dem.
finnes du på skype eller lignende? skulle gjerne snakka med deg i ett mer effektivt format jeg er dstrax over alt om du vill adde meg

[PieMonster]

hunchback: Thanks a lot man, really liking your new stuff!
Jovian M: Thanks man!
Sebastian Gromann: Thanks dude, glad you like it!
LastGen: Thanks!
Metal Fingers: Haha, I hate that face. Thanks man!
Jasper_: Thanks a lot man, glad you think so!
DStraX: Takker!

More sketches and stuff from last week. Went to my first lifedrawing thing ever, the poses were only like 2-3 mins though, hard to get stuff down.

[Jovian M]

Fuuuck. Fuuuuuuuuuuuuck.

[Fetsch]

mmmmmmmhhhhmmm great pages mate! :D

[CommandoFilis]

Oh mah god...Im in love with your pencils! @w@

[jedininjaman]

your pencils are pretty nasty, clever experimenting with the red/blue.

[Aragah]

uawhdiauwd
awesome schtuff!! im a fan

[PieMonster]

Jovian M: Haha, thanks dude!
Fetsch: Glad you like them, thanks!
CommandoFilis: Woah, thanks man!
jedininjaman: Thanks, the red/blue stuff was fun, should do some more of those.
Aragah: Thanks man, I'm flattered!

Some random stuff from this week, got a decent bunch of sketches lying around, but can't scan them until I get home.

The angry dude was supposed to be for the Sin chow (he's Wrath).
The armored guy is just experimenting with some texture/lasso tool, quite fast, and lots of fun.

[henri]

those last inks are just sooo good ! gave you five stars, but i think i've rated this thread several times already :D

[Vritra]

I agree with henri, your art is just great. Especially the traditional pages. This one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1445737&stc=1&d=1332290078), wow.

No crits from me, since I can't find anything to crit right now. It's above me anyways. Five stars.

[jedininjaman]

I put some thoughts into your comments regarding my line-work, I appreciate your insights. Your line-work on the other hand is absolutely fantastic. Literally some of the best I have seen recently.

[rich4rt]

there's some character in those characters! Keep it up :D

[Monsieur-Beefy]

aaaaaaaah I love your lines so much! you are awesome, keep it up :teeth:

[PieMonster]

henri: Means a lot coming from you, really glad you think so!
Vritra: Thanks a bunch, too kind!
jedininjaman: I guess I could have elaborated more on what I meant, but I hope you found it useful. And thanks a lot for the compliment, means a lot!
rich4rt: Thanks, I will!
Monsieur-Beefy: Thanks a lot man!

Sorry for the laziness, these are about 2 weeks old, just forgot about scanning them.

[Veshkau]

Great stuff. Loving all these character sketches and the monster in #794 is making me all gooey!

[Jovian M]

Your figures are realistic as fock

[karen_]

Really cool sketches!
Esp like the little thumbnails =)

[PieMonster]

Veshkau: Thanks man. I'm thinking about giving that one some more love, glad you like it!
Jovian M: Haha, there are so many issues with them, but I'm glad you like it, thanks mate!
karen_: Thanks, they're a lot of fun make!

A Sargent master study, and a quick WIP for the current ChoW. Should probably switch up his pose and give him some more trinkets and stuff. Very open to crits!

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-_JAHUXT-jOU/T4SH5bZnDMI/AAAAAAAAADU/m452RqUntOc/s1600/sargenstudy_100412.jpg
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/--xgXvLFCDmI/T4dEEzgjv8I/AAAAAAAAADc/eowXQ4Ke88A/s1600/hunterchow_b.jpg

[Shadow Stalker]

Dude, are you serious? Awesome sketchbook!

[PieMonster]

Shadow Stalker: Thanks, kind sir, glad you like it!

Just a random sketch for fun, it's a bit washed out.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-pQXdvsNtpig/T4iaMhqb9fI/AAAAAAAAADo/3kopI3C7Roo/s1600/sketch130412.jpg

[Aragah]

sweeeeet
:D

[SamC]

killin it :D

[TFsean]

Like everyone else has said, pencils are soo hot oh lawd oh lawd.
Sargent study looking very nice, I dont know if youre done with it or but your shadows seem more in the red hues while that of the original are more purple. There are also brighter more saturated reds around shadow edges, the overall feels good though, just trying to make post useful :P

[kingkostas]

I think my hunger for your sketches will never go away...really...!!!These are all awesome and inspiring. If you upgrade your rendering (god save us)
:D
keep up the great work man, lets both finish army and come back continue training :D

[Sebastian Gromann]

some more brilliance, please? :)

[DStraX]

great work dude!