Digital Book With Digital Sketches

[Chris_Grisham]

I guess you can take a look at my junk? It's not very good, but I am trying to learn. Most of everything you are about to see is just from the last few weeks because I bought some of the GnomonWorkshop Dvds and I got inspired to start drawing again.

I highly Recommend them you guys. Anyway so I used some brushes from one of the dvds you may or may not recognize so I don't take any credit for them, but most of the paintings I try to use my own brushes so yeah. Also there is one or two plates from the dvd in here that I used to paint on so don't flame me if you notice that it came with the dvd and it was good practice. Oh who cares it's a sketchbook.

Okay ♥

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/ShipConcept.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/undadasea.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Twinshipsintheislands.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/SpeedOfSoundConcept.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/snowracers.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/SnowMan.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Skinny.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Sketches002.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Sketches001.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/sketch003.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/self-portrait.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/SandTraped.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Process-Gif.gif

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Process-2-1.gif

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/ParadiseGarden.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/myspaceport.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Gaze.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/GarbageSector.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/FuckingGarbage.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Fog.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/FallSketch.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/EndofDays.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/EarthsTrashCan.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/ColoredChurch.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/CharcoleWoman.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Canyons.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/BirdWatchers.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/2ndmattepainting.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/1stmattepainting.jpg

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/landscape1.jpg



Well I think that is all, but I'm trying to stay inspired so expect more soon.

Thanks for you who leave comments and crits to fuel my inspiration.


P.S.- GTA4 is kinda distracting me though ;)

[Chris_Grisham]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/SkyScraping-1.jpg

About 1 1/2 hour in Photoshop CS3

[Jamesy]

You've got some nice stuff here, Chris! I'm a bit new to photoshop, so I can't give you much advice there, but it looks like your experimenting a lot with the different brushes. Anyway, have fun with that and post more soon!

[Chris_Grisham]

Hey thanks jamesy! I have been practicing quite a bit the last few weeks. Everything you see here is about all the photoshop I've done other than a few pointless scribbles here and there so I'm still a super noob at it. I think I'm learning pretty fast though. I've been reading lots of books and watching tons of dvds... it seems to be helping wonderfully.

I'm just trying to learn like crazy until i can afford to go back to school.

Thanks again!

[Chris_Grisham]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/DownToEarth-2.jpg

This is one I made today when I wasn't play GTA 4 :)

[Chris_Grisham]

Hmm not sure what i think...

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/HighPlacesCropped.jpg

[Hyptosis]

Good work, lots of movement and enviros, keep it up man. Can see huge improvements.

[D.Focus]

damn dude, you look like you're on your way to some good enviros. doing way better at this sci-fi scenery thing than i am. only crit is that when you go to render the details in them you losr the hard edges. ifeel like the fuzziness is taking away from all that good depth of field you've got goin on. nice work. post more. :)

[Chris_Grisham]

D.Focus- thanks a lot man. nice tip I will try and stop that.



Hyptosis- thank you... some of yours look pretty good to me, i'm pretty new though so i don't have the best eyes for seeing what it really good you know?

[Chris_Grisham]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/welcome.jpg

Something I made for my crappy website.
You can see it Here (http://chrisgrishamart.weebly.com/)

[Chris_Grisham]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/nationalpark.jpg

speedpainting i did today... Ps CS3 30 minutes.

[Chris_Grisham]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/greyoutskirts.jpg

This is crap... i know, but it's still practice. I've been very busy the last few days so this is all I've really had the time for.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/BeatenPath.jpg

[Jamesy]

I kinda like the feel of the last two, they remind me of the halo universe. I noticed with the last piece and an earlier piece that the birds all have the same position (with some just angled a little). You'll probably notice from life that groups of birds don't flap their wings in perfect sycronization. Anyway, I'm probably being nit-picky, so just keep them coming!

[Chris_Grisham]

yeah you are partly right, because i did these bird think they are like hawks or something and birds like that hardly flap their wings at all. They just ride the wind all day.

I noticed this because I watch them fly around over a field behind my house every time I go out and have a smoke.

Good eye though I give you credit for noticing that.

[Chris_Grisham]

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Conceptdesign001sketch.jpg

This was about a 10 minute pen sketch i decided to throw some paint on. Just goofing around really. I'm thinking I'll do something much like this but refine it way more.

As this is now I think it is horrible, but hey I post it anyway.

[Chris_Grisham]

Hey guys, here are some quick speedpaintings I've done over the last few days with my new Intuos3 9X12 tablet!

I love it, it's freaking awesome!

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/DSCF2249.jpg

There it is, thanks dad!

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/NYC2095.jpg

Quick 45 minute speedpaint testing brushes.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/NYCin1000yearslighted.jpg

Another city scape about an hour.

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/ScreamerSketch.jpg

Sketchy zombie thing with no teeth?

http://i162.photobucket.com/albums/t243/chris_grisham/Party-Halo.gif

Can you taste the Halo?

[Chris_Grisham]

30 minute or so speedie.

[Chris_Grisham]

Crotch Rocket of the Future? Could be...

About 45 minutes - Photoshop and painter speedie.

[loveandasandwich]

The structure ones are really great! Definitely your strength.
work moremoremore on those organic enviros! youre definitely working hard youve just got to do more!

[Chris_Grisham]

Thanks chelsea, I'll try my best to keep it up and practice. Thanks for stopping by my SB!

[Peter Stapleton]

Hi Chris, nice stuff, putting that dvd to good use I see. I agree with what D.Focus was saying, you seem to lose your edges a bit which I think is caused from relying too much on low opacity brushes.

[Chris_Grisham]

Peter - Yeah I get what you are saying, I'm working on that.

Thanks for the tip.

[Grafguy]

cool enviorments :)
the floating church looks cool to me, id like to see more stuff in that kinda style
keep it up ;)

[MonkeYoakum]

Looks like some nice stuff, that wacom is sexy. All I can say is paint from life, sometimes I see tonal inconsistancies and edge issues. Soft edges can be your friend, but you want to use them in the right places. Also on that Halo pic, even though Im sure it was just for fun, again the values are weak on the gunfire shot and the edges should be harder from such a strong light. Keep at it man, lookin great!

[Rachnir]

I like your stuff. It looks verry alive. Keep posting!

[dchan]

nice styff over here! like your cityscapes! great work!

[Chris_Grisham]

Grafguy- Thanks, the church was a pen sketch during a boring lecture at school witch i decided to color a few weeks ago. I kinda like the way it looks I'm sure I'll do some more like that soon.

MonkeYoakum- Thanks for the helpful tips. The halo thing was just me being goofy, but you're totally right about everything. I'll work on that as good as I can. Thanks.

Rachnir- Thanks Mate!

dchan- Thank you.

Okay thanks for your critz and comments guys i'm going to try and work on this stuff right now as I think of something to draw.

Thanks again!

[gtgamewizard]

wow awsome stuf mate, as spacialy the landscapes!

[Surion]

great stuff, keep practicing!

[Chris_Grisham]

Gtgamewizard- Thanks mate!

Surion- Thanks a lot!

Here are some really lame and old sketches I found from a couple years ago... I though my Sketchbook lacked some actually scans from a real sketchbook.

Anyway there is a whole load where this came from only my scanner is very slow and I only have the time to scan a few here and there.

Thanks again!

Beware these sketches are horrible :( but old too, I'll update with newer stuff later today perhaps.

[Chris_Grisham]

Here is a 1 hour painting using a ref. The small image is obviously the ref used.

:)

[Chris_Grisham]

Another speedy from ref. This one of downtown fortworth. It's not exactly the same I know, but I don't really care either ;)

About 2 hours, I don't like it much.

[mbetteker]

I am seeing alot of cool stuff here. I like that you are checking out the dvd's, they have helped me out immensely!

Keep studying from photo reference... From what I can see it is looking good however you are missing alot of the gradients and little indications of material that the photos have. Just keep doing them and your eye will become more trained. Keep it up!

[Chris_Grisham]

Thanks, I'll keep a closer watch on that.

[Chris_Grisham]

Here is a 1 hour eye study from ref.

I like it!

[Mr. Perfect]

Oh my god... Your environments are absolutely astonishing.... everything else is interesting as well, but your natural elements are most incredible. I'm so happy for having been exposed to such a fantastic sketchbook. Wow. Well done.

[Chris_Grisham]

Thanks Mr Perfect! You complement is much appreciated.

[Chris_Grisham]

Here is another one hour eye speedy... these are quite fun! :)

[Chris_Grisham]

Heres a quick enviro made with a bunch of custom brushes.

About 45 mins.

[PerinGalitte]

I really like your studies. All your values are very accurate. The last environment looks pretty cool too.

[Clochette]

The eye studies are coming very interesting!
Keep them coming!

[Dan Valkar]

really nice eyes man!.

[dchan]

awesome studies. great envrion speedie. keep it up

[Chris_Grisham]

PerinGalitte - Clochette - Dan Valkar - dchan: Thanks guys I will keep doing some because they are really fun, but right now I need to pack before I leave the country for a month on vacation. I'm going to singapore and I leave in about 20 hours or so.

I'm scared of the flight... should be fun though, but it's going to take 20 hours!!!

:(

[Ekul]

wow your speed paints are very good
The Halo thing on the 1st page is awesome lol
Your eye paintings are pretty good, especially the second one.
My only suggestion would be to try doing paintings more defined/detailed. You clearly have the ability to do so and it would look awesome!

[Chris_Grisham]

wow your speed paints are very good
The Halo thing on the 1st page is awesome lol
Your eye paintings are pretty good, especially the second one.
My only suggestion would be to try doing paintings more defined/detailed. You clearly have the ability to do so and it would look awesome!

Yeah thanks, I've tried more detaild stuff, but tehy always turn out crappy IMO so I trash em. I'll try another though sometime soon.

Thanks for stopping by.


Hey you guys can watch this video I made about a year ago if you want... it's all on a whiteboard with sharpie ink. VIDEO (http://youtube.com/watch?v=G8I8MZyjFJk) .

[staticpen]

Ah, these most recent images are really good, man. I particularly dig the snowy one up top. I think the lighting on that was looks really legit. Keep it up! :)

[Chris_Grisham]

staticpen- Thanks man, I am learning new stuff everyday!


Okay here is a oil painting I made trying to be Bob Ross... it's a "happy little mountain". I don't really like it, but it's my first go at an oil painting so whateva.

And here is a sketch I just did of some pics in the "constructive Anatomy" Book by Bridgman.

Thanks for stopping by guys.


I leave for the airport in exactly 24 hours.... I'm getting nervous :(

[xenomorph-designs]

Nice enviros Chris! Good use of those Levy brushes. Keep it up.....

have fun on your trip!

[Chris_Grisham]

Thanks xenomorph-designs! Thanks for having a look.

[Chris_Grisham]

Here are some more sketches from the other day. Nothing cool though.

[staticpen]

Yeah! Bob Ross. Hahahaha. "Let's see what kind of bush lives here. Oh-there he is. He looks happy there." Aw, man. That guy is the best. Good job on the painting.
Bridgman's sketches are intense. His style is pretty funky-looking sometimes. But yeah, copying from those books is a huge help in learning the flow of the human body. Good stuff, man.

[Chris_Grisham]

Thanks Staticpen.

Here is my night stand next to my bed.

It took me 1 hour and 15 minutes give or take. I'm pretty pleased with it.

Let me know what you think.

[Zord]

You're definitely headed in the right direction. Mileage counts for a lot.

And don't worry about the flight to Singapore. There's plenty of crappy movies to see on the ride there ;)... along with plenty of time to draw. Also, be sure to try the 'chicken rice.' It's kinda like Singapore's signature dish sold pretty much everywhere.. and it's delicious.

Keep it up and have a good trip :)

[Chris_Grisham]

Alright Zord thanks for the tip! I'll have to try this rice you speak of.

[Chris_Grisham]

Here is a 20 minute speedpaint of wall-e. It's sloppy, but then again it's a 20 minute speedpaint.

:)

[Chris_Grisham]

Heres a 10 minute loser thingy. I don't even know why the hell I'm posting it.

Goodness.

[Hive_minD]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=382222&stc=1&d=1212376826
Those eye studies are looking great, but the last one is looking a little flat. Just mentioning it. Think spheres :P

Great work, keep at it
Chris

[thesadpencil]

hey dude nice sb you got here, you're definitely on the right track. i really like your enviros, all the structures are looking kickass. i also like your vehicles. your ref'd stuff is awesome, i'd say just keep on pushing forward, don't stop

[Chris_Grisham]

hive_mind- Thanks for the crit though I'm not sure what you mean... It look very sphereish to me? Maybe I just haven't seen as many spheres as you, but I swear it looks like a sphere in my mind. Hmm anyway thanks a lot for stopping by.

thesadpencil- Thanks man I will keep on.

[Chris_Grisham]

Alright gang, I'm leaving for the airport in a bit so this will be the last time you here from me for at least a day or two. Hell the flight is 20 hours alone!

I'm going to be so jet-lagged when I get there (Singapore). Don't worry I'll be doing lots of sketching on the plane, but I'm not sure if I will have a scanner when I get there, but I will post what I can.

I'm bringing my laptop too along with my intous3 so at least I'll be able to use that for sure.

If I take any sweet photos I'll be sure and post em for you guys to see!

Wish me luck on the long flight... I'm very nervous :(


Bye!

[Ekul]

Good luck, 20 hours should fill a few pages of a sketchbook eh?

[Dan Valkar]

the night stand its the best i think man! keep that track!

[Capital G]

Great progression in this thread, I really like your eye studies, have a great time on your holiday!

[KidApe]

Have a ton of art fun man! So are you going to Singapore some art stuffs, or do you also have another agenda=D yeah the sketchbook should keep ya busy for a couple hours on the flight.

[Lakka]

Hey man, thank you for dropping by my sketchbook!

You have some promising stuff going on here, jsut keep with it! I'm happy to see you doing studies on humans, as I was about to say that they seem like your weakness at this point, but the studies are looking nice, so hopefuly you'll be rocking humans out in no time :)

Keep posting, I'll be checking in ;)

[staticpen]

Aw man, 20 hour flight? Hahaha. Sounds like when I flew to Australia. What a beast!

Good luck and everything. Hope to see you updating again soon.

[Chris_Grisham]

Hey everybody I'm in singapore now... been really busy the last few days so I haven't had any real time to work on anything. Expect some stuff in the next 24 hours though.

Sorry for not updating yet it's just been real crazy here, and jet-lagged like a son of a Bee. Just wanted to let you guys know I made it alive :)


Ekul- Actually no, I was to scared to even take my eyes of the flight plan. I thought I would do a lot of sketching, but I was so scared I couldn't.

Dan valkar- Thanks Man!

Capital G- Thanks and I will.

Kidape- No it's actually just a vacation... seeing the world you know? Though I am keeping an eye out for some cool art related stuff to see. Saw a cool gallery yesturday, it was pretty fly.

Lakka- Yeah I suck a drawing people, but that just means I should practice it more. Thanks for stopping by mate.

Staticpen- Yeah this flight was a nightmare... ehhh cattle class if you know what I mean. Thanks for dropping by.


Okay heres a couple pics of the trip for those who wanna check it out.

[Chris_Grisham]

Here are some more... I'm trying to get these in order.

me on the plane... and theres a pic of where we are staying in singapore called gallope Gables or something like that. Its really nice.

[Chris_Grisham]

A few more... it's only letting me upload two at a time? Is that normal?

Heres what inside our place looks like, and heres a pic of me looking bad ass outside lucky plaza.

*sigh

[Chris_Grisham]

...... If you want to see all the picture I have so far just check out my deviant art.

Thanks for stopping by guys. Art update coming soon!

[jonnyj326]

realy cool stuff. I want a drawing tablet! I think the structures are wicked cool. would like to see more.

[Chris_Grisham]

Thanks man!

[Chris_Grisham]

realy cool stuff. I want a drawing tablet! I think the structures are wicked cool. would like to see more.

You can get a Bamboo Fun wacom tabet at bestbuy for about 75 bucks. It's not the best, but it's very handy if you cant afford a 300-500 dollar one like mine.

I used one for almost a year,

[Chris_Grisham]

Here is a quick speedpainting done today while it was raining.

About 40 minutes.

[BlightedArt]

Like everyone else said, structures are your strong point. I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest you try to make a hybrid painting of both industrial structures AND natural land formations. Be creative and make it interesting such as having giant weeds wrapped around buildings, or giant trees that have industrial sites poking out of them etc.

Try to make a convincing picture merging the two, you might get a few good ideas out of it as food for thought! :) Keep up the awesome work, and hope you enjoyed your trip!

[Whitevillage]

Yo, great paint studies you got there. Post #53 looks at a quick glimpse at it like the real thing, I think you did very well on that one!

[shamandalie]

Your works are really awesome!!! :DDDDD i really love your enviros.
Btw, i live in Singapore! If you are still around, i could be your tour guide. Nothing much to see though, since it's so tiny. XD

[staticpen]

Aw man, glad to see you had a safe flight! And yey for Pink Floyd. Haha.

And way rad speed painting man. You using photos of buildings and painting over or using custom brushes for those?

Good stuff!

[lennon]

Hey! nice study in that eye, and also, I dig your speed paintings. Those are some good brushes. Cheers.

[Chris_Grisham]

BlightedArt-Thanks, I will try that out and see how it goes.

Whitevillage- Thank you very much.

shamandalie- Yeah I'm still around, maybe we'll bump into each other.

staticpen- Thanks man, it was scary though. I don't want to get on another plane ever again. Pink Floyd yay! Custom brushes this time.

lennon- Thanks a lot dude.

As for an update, I'm sorry guys it's been crazy here... I know it's no excuse so I'll get on if for ya.

Keep an eye out.

[Chris_Grisham]

Here this is lame.

[Chris_Grisham]

Does anyone know how to fix this problem with graphics tablets? I am using it sometimes for an hour.... sometimes 10 minutes before it just stops working. It acts just like a mouse. No pressure... and it will not jump to the postion you are holding it at. It's making me very upset because it's been going on non-stop! The only thing that fixes it is a restart, but it just keeps happening every time I do.


I have Vista Premium on an Acer Aspire Notebook.




Anyway, sorry for not updating for a few days. I have been in Malaysia for my girlfriend's dad's golf tournament.

Here is a lame speed painting from about 15 minutes ago. I used gnomonDvd brushes in this. I really should try something more complex, but I am so pooped from all the stuff going on here.

I need a boost of inspiration.

[Karein]

Hey there, you have some awesome enviros going on here, I personally love the more natural ones, but your structures seem to be your strong point and they look awesome. Keep up the good work :)

There is a possibility something might be wrong with your tablet in general. A while ago i bought a Graphire 3, and had to have it repalced twice, as it just didn't work properly 0_0 The problem sounds alot like the first one i had. It just wouldn't do what i wanted it to, when i sent it back, there was something wrong with the cable. But after the second time this happened, they just sent me the newest model, and i haven't had a problem since.

I hope you get it sorted out soon :D

[staticpen]

Hmmmm... maybe take some cool photos and then use them as references back at the house? I draw from photos in magazines and stuff sometimes. It's pretty good learning, and fun, too.

[SoufMeng]

Does anyone know how to fix this problem with graphics tablets? I am using it sometimes for an hour.... sometimes 10 minutes before it just stops working. It acts just like a mouse. No pressure... and it will not jump to the postion you are holding it at. It's making me very upset because it's been going on non-stop! The only thing that fixes it is a restart, but it just keeps happening every time I do.
I have Vista Premium on an Acer Aspire Notebook.


Oh fucking laptops problems!!
It might be something wrong with the USB slots.
They dont all have the same capacities and it therefore affects the devices u wanna use with them.
For instance if u plug ur wacom in a central processing unit evrything should be alright but if then u try to plug it in a USB slot of ur keyboard wich is itself connected to the central processing unit then the shit just wont work...

As far as im concerned i just cant use the touchstrips of my tablet otherwise it starts fucking acting like a damn mouse!
But fortunately i dont give half a damn 'bout touchstrips...

Anyway i really suck with computers so try the lounge or some less private thread for support.



Here is a lame speed painting from about 15 minutes ago. I used gnomonDvd brushes in this. I really should try something more complex, but I am so pooped from all the stuff going on here.

I need a boost of inspiration.


Well at the start i just wanted to reply about the speedpainting so here we go.

First, u obviously started with a gradient wich u left unchanged for the sky until the end.

Thats a problem because as im sure u can see it all by urself, this element makes the whole pic look like its taking place in some kind of big room with some casual lightsource on the left wich is, i think, not what u were going for.

Then u used:

1 custom brush for the buildings, one or several custom brushes for the ship, another one for the rocks and one last one for the clouds/fog/smoke!

This is precisely y it looks absolutely lame!

In speed-painting u have painting, do u feel like u actually painted anything?

U didnt even bother to blend the rocks together!

Custom brushes when used by M@, vyle and others serve as shortcuts to paint something, according to their knowledge of it, faster,
they arent the crutch of the painting!!

This has been already said a thousand time to a thousand people so i just wont fully develop as im almost sure u already know it all but still i really had to, because ur hurting ur art with this kind of lazyness!!

Make some studies of skies, mountains and other stuff and see for urself how its all about shapes, volumes, hues, edges, values, scale,...

No custom brush can provide u with that invaluable knowledge.

Here (http://www.terragalleria.com/) for landscape
studies ressource.

I should have gone to bed half an hour ago, (its four A.M here!)
so i hope i didnt waste my time with and u wont make the same mistakes twice!!

No offense, just aiming to help u.

See u around the forums!!!

:teeth:

[Chris_Grisham]

Karein- Thanks Mate.

staticpen- good idea, thank you.

S.M- Epic Crit... most of what you said I knew, but thanks a lot. You pointed out some useful stuff. I know I have been a bit lazy the last week or so, but I'll make it up to you all.


Starting now here is my very first Darth Vader ever!

Hope you like it.

Speedpainting from ref. - 1 hour.

[Chris_Grisham]

1 hour from ref.

[Brashen]

Looking good mate~

[Chris_Grisham]

Brashen- Thanks Man.

[Chris_Grisham]

Some gears love... 2 hour sketch-a-roo... it's not perfect I know I see a few mistakes, I think I'll go back to it later, but right now.... nahhh. Most of my effort was put into making his face look right... after about 10 tries at that I am please with what I have, but the rest of him needs a little more treatment for sure. Like I said, I'll work on it a bit later tonight maybe or tomorrow.

Photoshop.

Crits welcome I used ref from screenshot from ign.

[Chris_Grisham]

This is another version with higher contrast and a little bloom.

[staticpen]

Niiiice dude. I have to say, it's nice to see you really draw something different. Was getting a little worried after the however many flying robot panoramics you did, heheheh. You really got his face down good, man. Good stuff.

[TOOLED!]

cool stuff man, way to pump it out. one major thing that im seeing though is your colors seem to be a little discordant and saturated. its cool if you start off that way and then grey down as needed, but reference some pics for your final paints.

keep it up man, you'll be pro-star in no time

[Chris_Grisham]

Staticpen- Thanks I'm glad you like it. The reason I did so many like that is because even though i did lots it was still new and fun for me... and easy.

But, yeah I'm trying different things now. Moving on a bit.


TOOLED- Thank you, I'm pretty sure you are talking about everything in general and not the latest one in particular... I meant for that one to be a bit saturated like the game. But you are right mostly.

Thanks for the crit.

[Chris_Grisham]

Here is I think my first attempt at some ocean waves from ref.

Took about 15 minutes before I became board with it.

[Chris_Grisham]

Just thought I'd let you guys know I'm heading back to the states tomorrow. I had a lot of fun here in Singapore for the last 25 days or so. I didn't get much work done though, but I guess it's okay.

It seems when I get back I may not be able to get online as much because our house just sold so I guess we'll be moving right after we get home... I'm not sure though. We may have a little time there, but if you don't see me that's why.

Wish me a safe flight back it's going to be another long 20 hour adventure.

Thanks,
Chris

[Chris_Grisham]

Wouldn't you know as soon as I land in Texas I find out we live somewhere new? It's kind of cool, but then again it's kind of a pain. I don't like people moving all of my things around without me around. Things get lost that way.

Anyway, I'm back. Sorry for the lack of posts, but internet is here now and things are finally getting together in this new house. Expect new work soon.

Thanks.

-Chris

[staticpen]

Welcome back, dude. Looking forward to the new posts. :)

[AG.]

some really amazing environments you have! Parts of some look photo-realistic!

[iven]

I agree with AG. some look photo realistic, specialy page1 is sooo cool.
But hey dude some more respect to your self and your art work would be good
for your career as an artist.

GOOD STUFF here keep working hard and head up kid you're good !!!

Kind regards :angel:

[Pixelwalker]

hey!

Welcome back dude!
Paintings are looking great, keep them up!

Also try to handle a few still lifes next time :)

Sil

[hücumkedi]

nice stuff,maybe you can add them some certainty or sth like that :)