[/b]IVAN GIL'S VITAKORA'S SKETCHBOOK[/b]

[QETALIVAN]

I have been around the idea of opening my sketchbook for a long time...but never managed to do it....
I ll try to change that from now on....
here you are....my first speed paintings and doodles....(the first of many others I hope)[B][B]

[QETALIVAN]

Here we go with my latest study and color practice. I took an old watercolour just to save time drawing and began repainting it with photoshop(finally I regret a little I did it cause it took me longer to fix the mistakes and remake everything than if I had started from zero...I also upload another Batman(I really love Batman for lightning practice.

[QETALIVAN]

I am not very good with "computer stuff" so finally i decided to post again the images, so the tumbnail could be a nice recent pic. Most of this speed paintings are a bit old, but as soon as I upload the old stuff I will post recent ones.
comments are welcome!

[QETALIVAN]

This was a comission I finished one month ago for a miniatures series. I am not totally happy with them, but next time I ll improve.

[julkillo]

Pues sí que te has pensado lo de abrirte el SB,pero bueno más vale tarde que nunca,tienes muy buenos trabajos,estos últimos diseños están muy biem,sigue colgamdo cosillas paisano

[Dan Valkar]

un comienzo bastante prometedor! la primera imagen es muy buena...la iluminacion esta muy bien...en los ultimos personajes, vendria bien una reduccion del tamaño para poder apreciarlos mejor..el paladin y el enano son mis fav..ahora sigue posteando!

[QETALIVAN]

Well, here we go with some more concepts!
Julkillo, gracias por tu comentario. Si, me lo he pensado bastante, soy un poco desastre....espero seguir posteando.

Dan Valkar: Si, el Paladin tambien me encanta. A ver que pasa cuando lo esculpan(La mayoria de mis diseños son para diversas compañias de figuritas de plomo, como guia para los escultores)

[destinyapocalypse]

wow your first job fantastic i love it

[fantasyartist]

Estupendo trabajo! I really like those last warriors. Post more!

[julkillo]

Muy buenos estos últimos

[Aneru]

Que maravillosa, sus obras. No puedo esperar para los proximos.

[DaStreets]

Beautiful work and nice penmen's-ship. Very clean drawings. I also like the warrior battle character's you've created. I luv to see great digital work, i want to be on you level one day. (Stop by my page if u ever find the chance, thanks)

[The7Artist7]

I agree your inks are sweeeeet! :drool: :yum:

I'm sitting here wanting to say stuff but I don't know what to say other than More Please! :D

I'd love to see you do Spiderman ...:down: hint...:down:hint! ;)

[TOOLED!]

beautiful lines man, there are some spots that i couldn't stop staring at. just beautiful. only crit is your anatomy gets a little wonky around the neck shoulders and arms. keep it coming man.

[David79]

really like the concept !! keep it up

[Adrian Wilkins]

you got some realy good concept here, i especially like the guerrero flying thingy
and your first post it'sreally awesome :D

[johanflod]

your drawing are very dynamic. I say this because I have a hard time with this myself and you seem to master it :)

[QETALIVAN]

WOW!
IT´S BEEN A LONG TIME SINCE I STOPED BY IN CA, SO, FIRST OF ALL MY EXCUSES FOR NO ANSWERING YOU ALL BEFORE.
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destinyapocalypse : many thanks!:sungod:
fantasyartist: yeah, I hope to post more soon....
julkillo,Aneru : muchas gracias gente! me alegro que os gusten!
DaStreets : You hit the point, I am not bad with the pen but its the only technique I feel comfortable with...unfortunately I dont reach half that level on colour illustration...wich is my first goal now.
The7Artist7 : me doing spiderman?? well just visit the blog and you can see how I drew it 6 years ago...now i would do it better(I hope), it would be a dream come true to draw spidey for marvel.
TOOLED!: aT last one crit! yeah you are right...need to improve many things on my anatomy...unfortunately after years on focusing on another points It gets harder and harder for me to avoid old "tics"

[El Jeremie]

Nice work.
Love the guy riding the pterodactyl

[Redfrog]

Some great stuff in here man! Your inks are fantastic!

[QETALIVAN]

Hygami : I m glad you like the winged warrior, it was a bit of a nightmare to produce that sculpture, and so, the concept, and I have at least three or four fail attempts.
johanflod: Its good to hear every now and then that I can master "something" wich is normally my line art, because I lack any minimum level in most of the other stuff( colour, composition, design, flexivility of styles...I could go on and on) But this is the real challenge: to fight and learn.
so, lets everybody jump over our tablets!

spookybabydoll : thanks you, actually that was a sketch for a bande dessinee I was planing....

Redfrog : Nice from you pal, and pretty nice Toys!!! I specially like the pirates, hehe.

well, talking about pirates....lets include some frebooters around here:

:pirate:

[QETALIVAN]

here we go with another pirate! more to come!

[thesadpencil]

hey very awesome sb you got here, the first post is badass, i'm really liking all your characters and your style is pretty wicked as well. you also have some very nice lineart. maybe push the values a bit more in your paintings just to give more contrast. but other than that just keep em coming i wanna see more.

[QETALIVAN]

I just realised that it would be much better if you could see how many of my designs finally end in a nice 3D figurine. So from now on I will post the designs with the sculptures whenever I can.

here we go with a concept I really enjoyed doing...for years I wanted to make a cat-man, and finally I was comissioned to do it!
The sculpture is 6 cm tall, and its not finished yet. I will upload later pics of the finished miniature.

thesadpencil: thanks for critics, that´s what I need...if I want to improve.

oh, i forgot to add that if I dont say the contrary, my usual sculptor is Joaquin Palacios. Saludos desde aqui, si me lees, maister!

[Jasper Flick]

Very nice!
Awesome to see the sculpture next to the image.

(Pretty please keep images within 1000x1000 dimensions?)

[Christian223]

Great drawings, i really like those fluid lines, they are awesome, thanks for sharing. :yum:

[satoko-san]

awsome i love all ur pics there so cool

[Miss_Hula]

Really nice drawings. That sculptor friend of yours is lucky to have such detailed drawings to work on :)

[QETALIVAN]

and now lets upload something new! This time after many drawings finished, i am going to upload real sketkches, not intended to be finished, just ideas, warriors and stuff that comes from my mind....


Christian223:you are very welcome!
satoko-san: thank you!! and welcome to CA!
Miss_Hula: thanks for the compliment, but actually its me who is incredibly lucky to be able to work with Joaquin Palacios, one of the best professional miniature modellers worldwide, and my teacher, too(in sculpting)
for those interested, you have a nice online gallery here:

http://www.thesculptorscorner.com/gallery2/main.php?g2_itemId=3912

[kidult]

Awesome lines in the old fella there! Great work here!

[Rockhart]

very cool stuff.... thqat's pretty much all I have to say :^^:

[lithiumdawn]

Good stuff keep it up

my sketchbook
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=132538

[algenpfleger]

Hot damn, awesome characters in here man. Awesome lines too. Thanks for sharing! :)

[QETALIVAN]

the update of the day, an old sketch I had in the sketchbook I used in my time living in Ukraine, added some quick almost-flat colour. I realized I have not many girls in my sb, and actually I love women!

kidult: thanks a lot!
Rockhart: thanks !
lithiumdawn: thanks! I ll try my best!
algenpfleger: tanks for ur comments, pal, your stuff made me start a new self-portrait thread, so thanks twice!

[cyqunea]

These are awesome! I love how you draw faces.

[LuckyReaper]

fantastic sculpture.

[QETALIVAN]

Another Cat-man, I already told you that I am crazy about them, didnt I? this pic is from my archives.....its old already, I added some texture and quick shading, but I am thinking in making a good colour full rendered illustration....if I have time.

[QETALIVAN]

These are some of the characters of a comic project I ve been involved for the last three years. I hope some day, it can see the light...out there. But the comic market is flooded by fantasy stuff nowadays...

[QETALIVAN]

Well, here we go with more stuff of my comic project. Its very old stuff, but actually I havent improved that much on my sketching skills the past three or four years, I have during this time,focused on inking, sculpting and painting (and travelling) so they fit quite well with my recent postings.

[PieMonster]

Hey, thanks for visiting my sketchbook! You have an awesome sketching style! I really like the Guerrero Kabir dude. Oh and the sculpture is cool too!

[Autumnal Dream]

Fascinating sketchbook! Inspires me to do more fantasy stuff.. :) like it really.

- cheers!

[Farsh]

Your drawings are really kickass. And to have your works made into sculpts, I'm green with envy! Your characters are dynamic and have such convincing movement, keep updating, i'll be sure to be back.

[Eon]

Badass sketchbook you have here. I really like this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=463518&stc=1&d=1221396670). IT's always nice to see an artist's process. I'm really digging the fantasy pics on this page. Nice ink work, looking forward to coming back in here.

[QETALIVAN]

I should apologize for posting so much old stuff in here, but actually my recent works....are for clients(wich is good!) and that means I cant show anything so far....besides, working professionally doesnt let me so much time to make personal work, and having bought a flat recently makes me use this free time to build furniture and spend time with my wife.....so again I will post very old artwork. But it is artwork I really love, even technically is out of phase.

You can see as well how I was doing 8 years ago, yeah, they are from 2000, before THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING was first released, and so, with much more influence of BACKSI movie, and other illustrators like ANGUS MCBRIDE.

Hope you enjoy this FAN ART stuff of LOTR.

PieMonster: thanks, man. Kabir were the "bad guys" of the story.
Autumnal Dream: I am glad, thats is what I love about CA...the inspiration I get from other artists, the sharing and learning we get.
Farsh: Yeah, its lovely to have my drawing made into sculpts...the pity is that I dont do them myself(a thing technically I could do....if I had the nuts)
Eon: thank you. I hope to be able to keep updating so you may return often.

Again, thank you all for your comments, be sure I try to visit almost all your skecthbooks....and if I hadnt left a comment yet....dont worry, I will...

[QETALIVAN]

Well...I was wrong about the date....my memory fails...I actually began re-reading the book and drawing things in christmas, but this character concepts were made in february, already in 2001...
by the way, I read and drew all this in IRELAND. Wich was very inspiring, because for me, Ireland is, and was, a real SHIRE in the real world.
Hello people from Kerry!

[Renegade89]

Saludos, muy buen sketchbook, estan bien expresivos los personajes, aun en los que hicistes hace ya tiempo :) . Las miniaturas se ven geniales.

Sigue con el buen trabajo.

[lilou]

whoooooaaa!!!! phantastic!!!
great detailed style you have in here, and those lines!!! damn, I wished I could have such loose and awesome linework on my sketches.... *goes away to practice*

seriously, this sb is cool!!!

[Jacky-Boy]

I really love your pencil drawings, you have a really confident pencil stroke, but you add plenty of lovely details. You were saying that you've been practicing alot of sculpting and inking lately, is there any chance of seeing some of this stuff? :}

[QETALIVAN]

Finally I will post something new.....this time is a chick you all know....but now the complete image. It took me an entire week of work,mainly because it was the first fully render digital illustration I had done in a couple of years. Second, it was the first made in photoshop(all previous ones were made mainly with Painter) and finally, and this was the worst...it began with a comic style lineart base....and I turned to a very realistic piece....without reference, never ever work without reference unless you have master how light works! otherwise you will find yourselves repeating and rerendering for hours and will get a final mediocre result. Fortunately the dramatic lightning hides many of the mistakes.


Renegade89: Muchas gracias!!

lilou: Thaaanks!! now go to practice! :lifedrawing:

Jacky-Boy: thanks a lot..I wish I had 10% of my confidence in drawing with color....(now its me who go to practice....)
About more sculpting....I will be posting more...but unfortunately 80% of my work was done for a company and I never kept pictures of my sculptures(I always thought I would have time to do that later...yes, stupid me)

[Delmar]

Hey there! Great inks! dynamic and nice characters.

The coloring is at the moment a bit vague. There are some good color theory tutorials on the board...they helped me a ton figuring out values, chroma and all that good stuff.

Cheers

Andi

[QETALIVAN]

Delmar, you are totally right.......colouring is my weakest point....need to practice....need the time too....

some more designs with their sculptures...

[carlosranna]

Nice concepts and GREEEAAAT sculptures!

[Bruma]

Hola Ivan, al final hasta me he registrado porque si no es que no puedo comentar nada. Y aquí estoy como Bruma, no creo que venga nadie a buscarme por aquí.

Este guerrero en montura alada 1 tiene cierto aire a los dibujos de Moebius, no? La montura alada, me refiero.

Bueno, que son muy buenos todos, por enésima vez. Espero que algún día tengas un poco de tiempo y me cuentes con qué tipo de materiales trabajas. Software y demás.

[Delmar]

HEy there! Here the link for the color tut you asked for....I like it because it has all terms of coloring in it...it's not in depth but a good start.

Cool Sculptures, are they for a project or is this private stuff.

Cheers

Andi

Edit:
Sorry...hehe...here the link

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=17837

[Eon]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=473751&stc=1&d=1222339533

I like how it turned out. When you put that much time into something you end up learning. That's what really counts. Next time it'll take you less time to produce a piece of that level or you'll produce better art with the same time allocation.

For the elf though I think the green background is too close to his greenish skin tone. The dark blue with the scultures work a lot better. For some reason I'm really drawn to the lines you used for his boots in the sketch. Really like your ink.

[M0RS]

So much dynamism and expressive line quality! What a pro. Thank you for putting your work up.

[QETALIVAN]

Well, lets update some more concepts! the old wise men were for a sculpture I had to do myself...but I cant find it now in my hard drive(its a real mess)....so I will post it next time

carlosranna: thanks a lot!
Bruma: Vaya, muchas gracias por tomarte la molestia, guapa. Espero que te pases a menudo por aqui.
Delmar:Finally, the links, hehe, thanks, man.
Eon: Totally true...I learned first, than preparation and planing can save a lot of time. Fortunately, I have kept improving since then...but in black and white so far...
M0RS: thanks you!! I am glad if I can inspire a little to someone out there.

[QETALIVAN]

I cant find my philosophe....so I will post my last design and the last miniature made from it(again by JOAQUIN PALACIOS).....soon on sale on www.andrea-miniatures.com

[Farsh]

Damn, how cool is that? Great job man.

[M0RS]

Thanks for the feedback, man. Your pen/ink work is unbelievable.

[S.C.P]

Hi there,really like your Fantasy Artwork.The ink drawings look great!

[pen-paper-renegade]

Im a fantasy art fãn and yours are great...really huge detail and the compo on the characters are really lovelly...the only thing i didnt see and you have obviously the skill to do it was some wonderfull backgrounds to complement the characters...

[QETALIVAN]

Well, for first time in ages, I post something just fresh from the oven, a speedy I finished 1 minute ago...Couldnt focus on my current comission...

Farsh: This is not the first design I get for production, if that is what you thought...I have been designing fantasy characters for miniature companys for almost four years(seldom comissions, Thou this year I have been quite active)

M0RS: thanks, dude.

S.C.P: thanks a lot.Soon I will post more greyscale images.....but you have to wait for now...

pen-paper-renegade: I must admit I never behaved like a real illustrator, and so, I have not that many "illustrations". My main production consist in comics, character design, sculpting and literature. Only now I am focusing more in learning about value, composition(colour sometimes)....need to do more backgrounds...

[Nettle_Mountain]

Yeah, backrounds are hard when it is so easy to do OC or just add some grey values over there...
Only critique would be that sometimes your pictures here are maybe a little bit too big or it just might be me and my screen resolution... (1440-900)
more stuff, looking good there

[Buckster]

splendid design and line work mate, I love the comicish style to your art. The sculpture on page 1 is my favourite, you are an excellent sculptor, more of that please ^^

Cheers

[QETALIVAN]

After a long time without posting, now finally I have some stuff that is coming out....so I can show it to you. First, some more sculptures(in this case they are sculpted by different people, wich I dont even know) the painting in the figures is done by Jose Manuel Palomares, one of the best model painters nowadays(you can find more about him in: http://www.miniartproductions.com/

Finally some promotion of our new coming tabletop game. A game about Pirates, Rum and Treasures. For those wargamers who might be interested, please have a look at the links.

Soon I will post more stuff. oh, the black and white illustrations were made for the rulebook. the simple colour illustrations are card game images.

hope you like it, guys.

[QETALIVAN]

here the Ron and Bones stuff....(oh, just in case you r wondering, Ron and Bones are the Two main Characters of the game, two captains...

[Ulver]

Your characters are really great! And that interior with the pirate girl - looks damn good.

[enthombed]

Amazing thread, i really like when you show one concept and after this the statue fot him, very impressive.

I will visit here in the next update.

Cheers

[QETALIVAN]

Nettle_Mountain: yeah...backgrounds, need to work on it...about pics being big just ctrl+scroll the mouse wheel for a moment to adjust the size, and then come back to normal anytime a pic is too big (or too small)

Buckster: I say again, sculptures here are not made by me(although I am sculptor as well) they are mostly sculpted by Joaquin Palacios. thanks for your comments, yes my style comes from comic books...I can say I am a comic book artist who began working professionally as sculptor and has ended up in digital illustration.

Ulver: thanks man, hope to post more things that you like too.

enthombed: welcome on board then! I visited your SB as well...

And now, a quicky,
Another one bites the dust!

[animosapien]

wow..
thats cool...and very neat work indeed..
so the sculpt..is it vinyl..?
looks terrific..did you do it yourself..?
mind blowing sketchwork and very neat indeed..

keep goin dude

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

First of, great figures, I am really impressed, especially with that Barbarian King, he is amazing. The others are good too, but he was just excellent! I like the illustrations, but the one with the piratess is a little confusing. Her legs seem to come from a body at the far edge of the table, but the lady herself seem to be sitting at the side. Even so the rest is impeccable. I don't have to much to add, except this makes me wish I played tabletop games again!

-E

[tsabu]

Hey fantastic works :) and i see You really update more often than before. Thanks for crit it's nice to have one from professional artist :)

[Ulver]

nice dino! hope to see an update soon!

[jatherip]

awesome fantasy stuff.....i like the style!!!!
keep rocking :)

[ariel_medel]

Excellent work!! I love the b/w pirate woman. Did you make the sculptures as well?


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