Numlaut's Sketchbook

[numlaut]

EDIT: New stuff at the bottom.

[numlaut]

Blah. :<

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This is the first time I used corel painter -- kinda like how it turned out.

[Icedearth15876]

The apple turned out great, good job on that. Your watercolors are very good also, makes the drawings look much better.

[hedwordup]

the landscape is excellent definetley my cup of tea i bet you have a load of impressive work judging by what you have shown so far so post it good to see different media in your work

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120987

[numlaut]

The apple turned out great, good job on that. Your watercolors are very good also, makes the drawings look much better.

Thanks, I used to do a lot of watercolor paintings a year back, but suddenly made the switch back to acrylics.

That landscape I posted was a revisiting on the spontaneity of watercolors. I used watercolor to splash some color down and then used gouache and pen to finish it up.


the landscape is excellent definetley my cup of tea i bet you have a load of impressive work judging by what you have shown so far so post it good to see different media in your work

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120987


For the longest time, landscapes were the main focus of my art. I think it had something to do with the fact that, in a landscape -- one without buildings or people and where everything is natural without any man-made structures, you can focus on painting what you see, not needing to worry about perspective or whatever.

you could throw together a sketch in say, 3 minutes to get the basic composition down, and then spend the next week or so painting it, and figuring out what works and what doesn't.

It was only a year ago that i finally decided to include some aspect of civilization in to some of my landscapes.

[numlaut]

This is about a few months older than the first landscape I posted.

Last year, i wanted to make a series of maybe 20-ish paintings on a cave civilization that I came up with, but it never came to fruition. knowing me, if I ever did follow through it would probably be 8-9 paintings before i finally get sick of it.

This is the first of the series-that-never-was, and is supposed to be the gateway (viewed from the inside) leading from the outside to that cave-city thing. I like to call it "the Gateway." lol. lame.

you can see the gateway in the first painting in the background. the first painting is called the "trade district." :x

I never really finished the painting, the version posted is from before I decided to fill in some of the brown, and fix several mistakes. I don't have the most recent with me at the moment, nor do i know when I'll get it back, but when I do i'll see if i can post it.

there are a lot of things that went wrong with the painting. I think the first thing you'll notice is "...wait, why are the lanterns bigger than the buildings and the ships?" -- that was an error on my part, that I left be, mostly because I liked lanterns and I thought the idea of a outrageously large lantern was cool.

Second, I think i messed up on the perspective, and the water, and the -- ok, lets put it this way. there wasn't a lot of planning that went in to this piece. I didnt use any references (I rarely do, although that is something i plan on changing,) and i just wanted to get at it.


yay. done ranting.

[numlaut]

3:55am, Saturday, June 14th, 2008 my grandfather passed from this life to the next. While sitting next to him, I did a few sketches -- these I would like to share with you.

[Nibras]

your stuff is awesome :::::D
Really nice concepts landscapes is nice too
so is painter painting
Keep at it man
and keep posting your stuff is great

[numlaut]

Fabriano sketchbook, I'm disgracing it. :[

At LACMA with my adv. drawing from the nude class, among other things. The trip to LACMA is from pages 7 and on, the crap before is from home and elsewhere.

To be honest, the only thing I like in this sketchbook are my drawings of my dog on pages 4, 5, and six.

[numlaut]

continued from the last post; i really don't like my gesture drawings. they look.. uncontrolled, for lack of a better term.

[numlaut]

A work in progress painting to make up for the sketchbook pages :o

[numlaut]

Yar, sketches from my figure drawing class.

[numlaut]

Portrait of my friend for his birthday, WIP.

[ohnojenny]

I love your work! From your sketches to your paintings... it's all so well executed! You have a great eye for color in addition to your execution of the human body. Just mind boggling. :3 Can't wait for updates!

[azekariel]

My gesture sketches are also very uncontrolled, but I suppose it takes practice. I actually like yours a lot; they seems to flow much better than my own.
The paintings are great too, you use colour very well.

[5coop]

Fabriano sketchbook, I'm disgracing it. :[

At LACMA with my adv. drawing from the nude class, among other things. The trip to LACMA is from pages 7 and on, the crap before is from home and elsewhere.

To be honest, the only thing I like in this sketchbook are my drawings of my dog on pages 4, 5, and six.

i love your messy sketches :) im trying to figure out why you blocked out the womans face later on, did you like, use yourself to draw from nudes or something?

[numlaut]

First two spreads in my new moleskine woo

The first was just a random painting to get me to start using the sketchbook, while the second looks alright to me at the moment, but I get the feeling that there are some anatomical errors here and there that I haven't noticed.

Right. Anyways.

[Robert.B]

great studies man keep on arting?

[leoart]

Good sketch Numlaut,keep it on.

[numlaut]

sorta back :\

been working on this for the better part of the evening.

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some figure drawings from first term at art center.

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some more figures from first term.

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lol heads

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comp and painting. second term.
guess who's bapsi?

[zombifried]

You have some really strong figure studies. Really developed skill on the paintings as well Good work!

[numlaut]

thanks zombifried.

some character design for Digital Imaging.

[numlaut]

ohrite another painting woo

[sketcheth]

I really like the work you're producing, the traditional paintings look great...very strong, I love looking at your brush technique. You're a student at the Art Center? How's that treating you so far?

[numlaut]

Thanks sketcheth, Art Center is brutal -- I haven't slept right in almost a year and all I can think of now is the break coming up in about 3 weeks. But I love it!

Another painting, the mouth and chin are a bit rushed. I kinda slapped them on the last five minutes of the pose. It was a two week pose, but i missed the first week so this is all I got... :|

I'm gonna submit uncropped paintings from now on.

[numlaut]

Finished this a while ago, but didn't have a chance to post due to the INTENSITY of finals.

[numlaut]

Can't remember when this was finished, but it was probably around Week 9 or 10. The assignment was to illustrate an article of my choosing. I picked one about some guy who tried making coffee with odd things because his water is frequently shut off just as hes getting out of bed. Turns out hes tried black tea, Perrier, and flower vase water. None of which worked, might I add.

[numlaut]

Well. This was the product of over eight hours of hell and frustration, several re-drawings, and one broken drafting pencil. Gary has done it again.

But damn, it was worth it. Scored 110 out of 100 points. :]

[numlaut]

jesus tapdancing christ.
sorry for the unholy size.

[numlaut]

Sketchbook Dump -- Vilppu & Bridgeman studies, and other stuff.

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[numlaut]

holy crap. i need to make these files smaller

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bridgeman studies, object drawings and posemaniacs gestures

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[numlaut]

the blue one is my comp&painting final, the pink one is a 10 hour oil painting.

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HOLY ASS. 3 point perspective city.

[numlaut]

Drew my studio space in about 20 minutes? Paid no attention to perspective.

[numlaut]

i don' know
type
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let's see

you should type
SHIT IN A BOX
lol

okay
now submit it

[numlaut]

Figure drawings from earlier tonight.

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[numlaut]

Yea..

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[numlaut]

HOLY SHIT LOOK AT THE HEAD.

yea. done in acrylics, about five hours. i decided to stop using oils sice it COST A SHIT LOAD OF MONEY.


yea. head. too small. fuck me.

[Robert.B]

keep on rocking in the free world man. Oh and here I think you dropped these stars ;)

[a la bapsi]

i think you did a good job with her torso and arm. ;D
good job.

[numlaut]

Thanks, Robert & Bapsi :]

moleskine, trying to do at least one spread a day.

EDIT: SORRY FOR MISSPELLING YOUR NAME, BAPSI.

[numlaut]

awesome. Thank you.

[numlaut]

oh yea. more stuff that i just finished.

[numlaut]

uhhh. all from imagination. trying to see how much i actaully know -- well actually, thats not true. that rhinoceros beetle was drawn from a ref. everything else was invented.

well yea. :|

[numlaut]

i dont know.

[numlaut]

this one too. its on the back of hte other sheet.

[numlaut]

doodles. wanted to paint something for a long time -- i suppose i'm weeding out the shitty ideas now.

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pencil figure composition and a page of bad invented figures

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completely forgot about this spread.

[Joyvenn]

Powerful drawings..HERE WE GO!!
about heads: better draw smaller than bigger heads, because you ability to show the human figure isn't limited to faces and heads..and the body becomes much, much stronger..8)

[numlaut]

sorta a study; more of a "how the hell do i paint an environment" study -- so i just eyedropper'ed most of the colors...maybe i should have just done it in black and white.

kinda gave up on it.

[numlaut]

Joyvenn: Thank you, I will keep that in mind :]

Five hour painting, done in acrylics. I'm still trying to get used to the drying time.

[numlaut]

sketch dump.
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[ohnojenny]

Great sketches! I'm curious as to what you used for the last one -- watercolor on regular paper? Bold, and beautiful!
Acrylics dry fast from my experiences. They that way for you?

[numlaut]

yea i used acrylic ink for the last one. i had just gotten my hands on a few bottles of acrylic ink, and decided to try them out on my sketchbook. and yes, acrylics do dry fast, but there are ways around that.

[numlaut]

Some prints and commission samples from Anime Expo.

I have extra prints of these for sale if anyone's interested. :D

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[numlaut]

since everyone was going to give mr. delicious' schedule a try, i thought, sure, why not -- i'll give it a shot too. so this is today's 2 hour portrait color study. i had a lot of fun doing it. gonna do another tomorrow

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doodles in a new sketchbook alabapsi gave me. i'm not sure that i like spiral sketchbooks -- sure they're convenient, but the pages have a tendency to flap around, tear and otherwise have themselves mauled.

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[numlaut]

doodles, sketches, etc in an a4 moleskine alabapsi got me, plus crappy brigman studies from earlier today.

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[numlaut]

alksjdga;ls shitty scan. i'm not sure what happened -- it looks like the scanner bumped up the contrast by a lot, so i think i'll take a picture of this later.

[sanakris]

Wow man your foundations are coming out strong. Your doing all the right things just keep on drawing. :)

[numlaut]

sanakris: thanks, i really hope that i am doing the right things :]

more crap from my sketchbook and five minute figure drawings.

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[numlaut]

finishing up my small moleskine.

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[Hipalien]

I just checked out your three pages here. Damn you are a hard working artist! I dig you gesture work big time. Also like some of you painting/color work. Just keep going as you seem to be doing really well in my book. Geez after seeing all your work I feel like I need to get back to work! Later.

[numlaut]

Hipalien: thanks. sometimes i wish i do more.

just finished up my a6 moleskine.

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[numlaut]

a4 moleskine stuff. i dont think i care about the appearance of my sketchbooks enough.

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[numlaut]

Oh yea. stuff from my other sketchbook.

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some random figures that were having tea on my desktop

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[surrealitycheck]

Hi Morgan - this is Luke. Want to do some anatomy later with me and Bapsi?

[numlaut]

oh, absolutely. what time?

[numlaut]

orite. i have a painting to post.

i repainted the model twice before getting fed up and just painting the hands.

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[numlaut]

object study from life. not happy; need to do more. i am a faggot

[numlaut]

another object study from life. god damn this one took so fucking long.
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[numlaut]

I got a new derwent made moleskine knock-off for about $8. 80lb white paper, and more of it. with an additional pocket in the front. kinda like it better than the moleskine. :|

i'm using it for life drawings, sitting at restaurants, malls, coffee shops whatever. maybe a few paintings because that nice 80lb paper is just begging to be painted on.

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[FalyneVarger]

Very nice pencil work here!

[grenappels]

keep it up its obvious you work hard on your shit and some of it is really impressive!

[numlaut]

grenapples & FalyneVarger: thanks :]

Did another object study, this time of this bronze pencil sharpener i've had since forever. almost gave myself an aneurysm starting out, but i like how it turned out in the end. probably took around four hours give or take?

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Derwent spread from yesterday. spent the day with bapsi and ended up drawing eachother. unfortunately it doesnt look like her :|
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[numlaut]

Went out to dinner with my parents tonight and drew a bit while we waited for our food to come
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[numlaut]

a bit of analytical homework.
will post more soon.
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[cdejong]

Hey man your still life paintings are really cool, and I dig your sketchbook pages. That analytical figure is really nice too, very solid. Just watch the muscles on his back and arm on the left side... it looks a little too twisted, although that just may be the pose and the exaggeration that comes with analytical figure drawing. Either way it's pretty sweet.

Keep posting!

[Nibras]

Heey

Lovely pencil stuff, really great to see those pages of the sketchbook.
It's cool to see all the imagination work and you've got a great balance between studies and fun stuff :P

Your black and whites are looking awesome and so are the acrylics

Looking forward to more

Keep at it

[numlaut]

cdejong: Hey thanks. i realize that the muscles are hugely exaggerated, and I copied from a photograph so i just followed the lumps that were present. lol

lilnebo: Thanks, although i have a tendency to think that all i do are studies. maybe i'm wrong, but it certainly feels that way. :|

Unfortunately, I haven't posted in a long time so I'd like to get back into the habit of doing so. These are two drawings I did for a class last term. One is a rubens copy and i haven no idea where the girl is from.

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[numlaut]

Oh right, I have some other stuff that I should show. These three were projects for a class -- they're at varying levels of completion. You can find higher resolutions of these on my blog.

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[freakmod]

I love the USB gadget painting from earlier up top. Looks so realistic I want to touch it! The figure drawings look really solid. Nice concept art ^ blue one with the mice is wicked. Green looks fantastic too.

[numlaut]

This is part of my Expressive Type final we had to scale up a 6cm univers black s to 10cm by hand, rendered in graphite. MY S IS FUCKING PERFECT. I GOT A C+.

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[numlaut]

freakmod thanks, i worked the hardest on the one in blue. the other two, not so much lol.

alabapsi >:C /heavy breathing

I'm taking Digital Landscape and we went to the arboretum to paint on location in gouache. for the first time. I easily bough $80 worth of gouache for that class and i think it was worth every penny. I FUCKING LOVE GOUACHE NOW. 887933

[numlaut]

Some figure compositions from last week. i need to touch up my drawing.

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[numlaut]

painted a pawn a while ago. I don't really like where i went with it. :| gonna do more sooner or later.
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[Aryeh]

very nice sketchbook. Some of your stuff reminds me of Michael Menteler.

[numlaut]

lolbbq Thanks, I can see the resemblance in a few drawings I've done. Thanks for stopping by :]

First time painting a portrait in gouache -- its a damn pain, but at least it's somewhat of an improvement. At least I'm starting to get a feel for the medium.

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[numlaut]

Decided to redesign my logo. After hearing a million times "your logo looks like a swastika" it finally dawned on me that it would probably be a good idea to redesign it.

So here are the preliminary sketches.

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[MasterExploder]

Nice color studies mang, really looking realistic. Also those figures are looking great, keep it up!

[shambok]

I really like your anatomy studies ... they have such great form! Keep up the awesome work!

[numlaut]

MasterExploder, shambok: Thanks for the encouragement :]

Some miscellaneous figures. Mostly they were invented and a few were really quick copies. Also included is a photoshop painting that I did last night in class. It feels like I'm getting worse at digital -- maybe its because I'm trying out new brushes or its because i'm trying to go for a different feel. whatever the case, its annoying and frustrating.

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Did some Thumper studies for a class; they were a lot of fun to do. I've also included some figure drawings as well.

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working on a leyendecker master copy. :|
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an update on the master copy. its nearing completion, but I need to noodle with colors and finish rendering a few portions. damnit, leyendecker is a god.

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[Kamber Parrk]

Hey numlaut!

Thank ye fer the drop by to my SB!

Damn! you gotta a lotta really tight and nice "public life studies."

And, your traditional life studies are really solid.

Plus, who doesn't like the idea of Thumper bearing various armaments!

[numlaut]

Kamber Parrk: Thanks, glad you dropped by :]

Another update on that master copy. I kinda stopped working on it for a while -- I should probably think about finishing it up. Also attached is some in class figure paintings in photoshop in reverse chronological order. the first two or so were 5 minute paintings and the last two were 25 minute paintings.

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[numlaut]

Got some more drawings in my green sketchbook -- been fiddling more and more with watercolors. Now i'm trying to paint instead of just enhancing the drawings. I think I ruined a good portion of my drawings that way; then again, they weren't anything good to begin with hahaha.


Edit: I fucking forgot to advance the month on my date stamp. It should read 021310, etc etc. Damnit!

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[numlaut]

I also did this painting. Screwed up the guy's eyes -- I'm going to tell myself that I will go back and fix it as best I can. There's a 30% chance that I'll actually do it. :|


Edit: Hm. Now that i find myself staring at this painting, i realized that not only are his eyes on completely different axes, i made it look like he got some skin removed from the left side of his scalp and from underneath his jaw. its really disturbing now that i see it. again, a 30% chance that I'll go and fix it. lol.

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