Tonic's sketchbook (4th September, page 5)

[Tonic]

As two-month vacation has started, I'm going to improve my drawing skill. From Tuesday, I'm going to draw outdoor works, mainly architecture type and perhaps I'll mix them with fantasy/S-F theme, to make it much more fun. Also, I'm going to improve drawing people, since I'm pretty bad at this :)

Also, I created this thread not only for sharing works, but to get critiques - I would really appreciate if someone can tell how I could improve my works, what I'm doing wrong and etc. I won't bite ;)

For start, I'll attach few pictures. They're a test exams (I'm not sure if it's named correctly - those works are simulation of real exams to school where I was trying to attempt and still trying). Made in about 2 hours. I've used fineliner, marker and watercolours.

[Tonic]

This is Serapeum. The quote from book said about the Serapeum temple, where you could see the statue of Serapis god. I didn't want to draw a classic architecture and Zeus-like statue, so I tried to make it a bit different :-P

[Tonic]

Whoever has readed Frank Herbert, will know what's about :P It's a Diune and I had to draw a scene which included harvesting machine, convoy, sandworms. It could be sandworm going to attack, eating machine, or convoy attacking sandworm. Whatever you want :) In this scene you can see that soldiers killed sandworm child. Knowing that, I think you can imagine what's going on. And it won't be nice.

[Tonic]

Future town. Nothing less, nothing more. I've used S-F theme and a Matrix motive, where machines were controlling human population size.

[Tonic]

Hm, there I had to draw the scene of building defense on icy planet. Perhaps to defense from invasion?

I didn't like it much - mainly because of watecolours. Those green pillars were supposed to be light beams - they had to be brighter than surrounding. And atmosphere would be better if I used green light you can see in other works. Also, mountains are pretty unnatural.

[Tonic]

It was a nice book quote from Lord of Ring series - it was describing a Tom Bombadil's house. I gave a fantase scheme and there you have a walking house :)

That's all, I don't have test exams works more - majority of them were left in my preparation school (it's a tradition, good works are taken by boss, so beginners would have a nice source of inspiration). Luckily, in September all works are photographed and burned to DVDs. As I get them, I'll post there.

Hope you like :) Also, I'm waiting for critiques!

[Tonic]

Rolls Royce. I have no idea which model, the drawing was based on photo I found on net. 50cm x 70cm format, about 4-5 hours.

[a la bapsi]

you've got some serious watercolor and perspective skills. *_*
i can't give eany good critique, but i can say that you've motivated me to get off my ass and get a hang of perspective. :]

[Tonic]

you've got some serious watercolor and perspective skills. *_*
i can't give eany good critique, but i can say that you've motivated me to get off my ass and get a hang of perspective. :]

Hey, thanks :) About perspective, a small hint - drawing complex geometrical blocks helps a lot - I think that's where I mainly learned perspective!

Well, about my works, seems that I have more works that I've done when I was preparing to exams, but forgot about them :P

Sketch with trees - drawn by rotring ArtPen with F size nib (it's a fountain pen for drawing):

[Tonic]

The famous Atlantis. Don't bother with violet spill - it was accident :)

[Tonic]

Jack and the Beanstalk:

[Tonic]

That's one of projects - as architecture means projecting :P Also, it's a bit unfinished, it lacks one projection. A pension:

[Tonic]

Another project - a public chair, so you would sit in town:

[Tonic]

Last drawing - I have a few drawings to photo, but I will do it later. In meanwhile, enjoy:)

A town (the perspective is kicked to left, but it's caused by bad angle when photographing):

[Tonic]

Oh well, I had to draw a lot during vacation, but I've ended with only few works :P But that's not what I would like to tell - I would like to announce that 10 days ago I've bought a Wacom tablet! Yay!

At begining, I was scaried by first doodles I've made, but after a lot of experiments with Brush creator, papers, layers settings and a lot of other things, I'm slowly getting idea how to work and I'm getting addicted to it, seriously :P
A completely different drawing and painting styles, mainly because of layers, opacity and stylus pressure control, suits my taste totally. I don't like a time-taking planning and careful drawing/painting. It seems to take ages.. there, in digital, I can rush into without afraid - undo command, eraser, color, contrast adjustments and a lot of options will help.

Anyway, there isn't much works, since I was focused of tools experiments, but it's better than nothing :) Let's go!

This is one of first works, made with aerograph pen. It's a submarine inside underwater cave. Pretty speed work, but got me with mood. My dad says it looks like USG :P Anyway, it's up to your imagination:
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/4834/submarineiy8.jpg

After few works, I've concluded that I can't create nice works basing only on paint brushstrokes. Probably it's because I'm rather drawer than painter. So, to get a nice paint, I must firstly draw a drawing, then paint. And so, there we have effect:
http://img84.imageshack.us/img84/3372/elfos9.jpg

Stil, I'm having problems with colours and light. I've said to myself I'm lacking true painter skills and I need to practise. Later, I wanted to draw just for fun. I've decided to use pencil with grain texture and that's what came out:
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/8639/robot1dr3.jpg

And drawn a another robot:
http://img244.imageshack.us/img244/9711/robot2sv7.jpg

As you can see, the imitation of pencil on grain pattern is great!

Next, after improving a bit coloring skill, I've panted this:
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/9845/robot3tz3.jpg

I've used paper to make texture. It made robot much more interesting :)

I've also discovered that using only Dodge and Burn tools can create climax works, there are two examples, made in 5-10 minutes:
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/4320/sepiatownvh0.jpg

http://img225.imageshack.us/img225/5796/sepafogip3.jpg

On second pic you can see some of fog - I've used pixlart's tutorial of creating Cloud Brush (or sponge, can't remember correctly). If you master this brush, it can give very nice effects!

Next picture shows closely how much I'm used with Cloud brush/sponge and dodge team/paper texture:
http://img295.imageshack.us/img295/5950/palmsmg9.jpg

Next work was done with sponge&burn and a bit of oily brush. Made in 10minutes, randomly:
http://img383.imageshack.us/img383/4158/priestyv3.jpg

I have another two works made by traditional fineliner, one of them is a WIP for COW's beast. I will upload them tomorrow.

Probably buying tablet will become a best investment in my life :D

[Tonic]

http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1627/womanheadscolouredks2.jpg

http://img98.imageshack.us/img98/2876/finalyl7.jpg

[Tonic]

This one was a work for front cover competition. Failed :P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/front_cover.jpg

Imprisoned dragon, 1h speedpaint
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/imprisoned_dragon.jpg

Ice golem, 1h speedpaint
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/golem.jpg

Er, it was based on one tutorial, perhaps a combination of lama and dog? :P Again, one hour speedpaint
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/tapeta.jpg

A sketch
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/sketch2.jpg

[Tonic]

Mr. Onion

[Tonic]

Hey, guys, why is so quiet? I would love to hear any critics or hints for improving my works!

Returning to topic. there is a character concept for a certain game. It was made for contest. Uploaded it a few minutes before deadline, my adrenaline was boiling quite madly :D

[jedininjaman]

Love it man awesome work
I love the water color washes in the very last one you did
jedi

[buzz]

crazy work i love the first water color and your drawing are great

[Tonic]

Whoa, you replied :P Thanks :)

Robot:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/robot3.jpg

Weird object:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/weird_building.jpg

Ups! Inside temp, screwed nicely the anatomy:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/inside_temple.jpg

15 min speedpaint, I love it:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/tablica.jpg

Fisher, used the photo as reference:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/wedkarz.jpg

[Tonic]

Fungus creature

EDIT: Forgot about WIPs. The first image is a final work. The rest are WIPs.

[Tonic]

I've used Alchemy fot this work. It's a great software if you have problems with inspiration - I'm going to use it oftenly!

Drawing made in Alchemy. After I made it and look at it, I imagined a space ship that landed on another planet's swamps with junks.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/mandat_alchemy.jpg

There I add opacity to Alchemy drawing, so I can easily paint over.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip1.jpg

Because rough paint over is done, I start detailing, starting from sky and background junks
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip2.jpg

Ship details
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip3.jpg

To get a good feeling of space, I've drawn perspective lines
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip4.jpg

There I added few different photos and fiddled with layer blend modes (Default, Multiply/Gel, Overlay, Screen etc.) and opacity. After getting a satisfing swamp/water texture, I've used Distort feature to match with perspective (there perspective lines helps). Next, I've copied a ship, mirrored it vertically, added Glass Distortion or somewhat, then opacity. The ship's reflection doesn't look great, but that's enough/
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip5.jpg

There I disabled layer with perspective lines and added few correction to ship reflection
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip6.jpg

Foreground. The appearance of cat is a must-must :P
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip7.jpg

A pretty big leap - I've added more details, textures and contrast. Also, I've added the fog between water and background junks. Not only it's climax, but gives feeling that bacground is a bit further.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip8.jpg

Then coloured it, gaining a final work. Also, I've blurried (it's a pretty neat trick, I must admit!) foreground, so it's much easier to focus on main part:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/alchemy/mandat/wip9.jpg

Hope it's useful.

[munkes]

Very nice sketchbook! It's been interesting to watch your WIPs.
You're very good at architecture and environments. It seems to me like your human anatomy skills are not as strong - they're not that bad at all, but it would be nice to see some life drawing, or other kinds of anatomy studies, in here :)

Edit: I love the fungus creature's design, but I don't think the butterfly has been well integrated in the painting. I know you've blurred it to stress that it's up close in the foreground, but it just seems like it doesn't belong there. If you added some branches and leafs and stuff that were just as much in the foreground, and blurred those as well, I think it would work better. I hope you understand what I mean. Right now the butterfly seems too big and clumsy.

[Tonic]

Yeah, my anatomy sucks comparing to CA's skilled character painters. That's why I'm going to learn it this year. I will probably start with Loomis books, since he draws great self-real humans (combining comic style with real proportions).

About fungus, yes, I understand you very well and your suggestions sound reasonable, but the problem is that I don't feel that butterfly doesn't belong there. Perhaps I need to practice more with compositing or experiment more to see what's better? :) I will try with adding more things to foreground next time.

Thanks!

[Tonic]

Four new works:

Alchemy version:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/alchemy.jpg

Painter version:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/2614662.jpg

15-20 min speedpaint in Photoshop:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/2634144.jpg

Two towers, Photoshop:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/2637541.jpg

Worm, or The End of World if you want :P:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/2642746.jpg

I think I will move to Photoshop for various reasons. It's better optimized, easier to manage and painting is somehow lighter. Barontieri's brushes are soooo great, I love them and recommend to everyone who likes sketchy and textured brush strokes. Though, Painter has a specific way of mixing colours and has Blend feature which I miss. It's something Photoshop doesn't have, so I won't move in 100%, rather I will use both programs.

Returning to works, I think I need to work more with references and on colors. Especially anatomy. Lately I printed Loomis works, so it's much easier to learn. I must admit Loomis is a great choice for me - not only his works are very nice (clean, simple and dynamic), but he explains pretty well, it's easy to understand him. In next week I'm going to draw anatomy :)

[Lateman]

cool environments and great designs. but sometimes your perspective i throwing of. maybe try to paint outside ... landscapes your a hall or the rooms you live in. good work so far

sry for my bad english

cheers lateman

[Kfeeras]

dude what an amazing improvement over just a few months. especially the one you made with alchemy!! its great to see somebody actually taking advantage of this prog. have to try for myself oneday. keep up!!


cheers

[Tonic]

Thank to you both! Lateman, it's just that I didn't bother with perspective since I focused on other things (composition, athmosphere, lightning and colors). Now I think I will start slowly with drawing perspective properly.

I finished today's work. Right now is 1:30 AM, I was sleeping nearly on keyboard before painting, but after I started it, I did wake up :D The idea and composition came from one hydropix's work (this guy did many stunning works, if you haven't seen them, then I suggest strongly to do it :) I'm going to learn as much as possible from his works.

As I'm looking at it, I think I need to give more agressive brush strokes - I have feeling that work is a little too soft.

[Tonic]

Three works. Not much, but oh well.

First work was based on Aivazovsky's painting. He was a russian painter who was painting mainly seas. And he was master with this - some of his works had a very strong athmospheres that punched me into my chair. Example paintings there (http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e8/Aivasovsky_Ivan_Constantinovich_The_Harbor_At_Odes sa_On_The_Black_Sea.jpg/783px-Aivasovsky_Ivan_Constantinovich_The_Harbor_At_Odes sa_On_The_Black_Sea.jpg) and there (http://www.armsite.com/painters/aivazovsky/images/aivazovsky20.jpg)

Wikipedia: link (http://www.google.pl/url?sa=t&source=web&ct=res&cd=7&url=http%3A%2F%2Fen.wikipedia.org%2Fwiki%2FIvan_Ai vazovsky&ei=v2kTSZb_N6bywwHr6vHOBg&usg=AFQjCNFqHniRDtcqoorPfXZINHgdTfywtQ&sig2=IjWST93WvMyddxv2x4JvlA)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/aivazovsky_windmill.jpg

This work is a cropped version of this image (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/fisher_villagefull.jpg). The reason why I've cropped is that full version has a weird composition, too much elements (and so it wasn't so clear). In my opinion, this cropped image is much simplier, clearer and nicer.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/fisher_village.jpg

And third one was made for Witcher game fan-art contest. Inside forest during autumn.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/jesien_savoire500kb.jpg

Any critics?

[DARAF]

Nice studies man.

[Tonic]

Thanks, DARAF.

One work was posted in Critique Center, the second was made today and I'm not very happy with it. Too sketchy and inferior architecture isn't clear. Also, I've made the video of painting this work. I've messed a lot with compressing, but I'm sure that this skill will come handy!

The first - Skull Gate, the second is temple's inferior. And there's a link to video on Vimeo: http://vimeo.com/2226128

[Tonic]

Rainy forest

[Tonic]

It's been one and half month since my last post, whoa! I must work on my discipline. Beside the five works that I made for EOW#100 "Epic", there are others. Let's go with news:

1). I've made a personal website devoted to my art. It was about month ago, but recently (few days ago) I've modified it, so it has not only Gallery and About me, but also 'How do I create?' (Jak tworze? in polish) and, the best thing, my blog. There I will write everything about my art (new works, my fails and successes, etc.). Since I'm a PHP freaking beginner, it was driving me nuts because I wanted to integrate blog with my website style and content. I didn't want a separate website consisting blog and I've managed it somehow - at least it looks fine at surface :P Unfortunately, it's only in polish language, but as I'm done with corrections and code cleaning, I will start translating it and make English language a default choice.

Anyway, there's link http://tonic-art.com

2). In free moments during EOW#100, I did three speed paintings for relax purpose:

Rusted armour, inspired by Fallout
http://digart.img.digart.pl/data/img/vol0/24/85/download/2881660.jpg

Being, based on Transcendent One from Planescape Torment
http://digart.img.digart.pl/data/img/vol0/47/62/download/2837771.jpg

Again inspired, this time by sketches done for Prince of Persia 4
http://digart.img.digart.pl/data/img/vol0/88/85/download/2835550.jpg

3). Since I'm very bad with choosing presents for Christmas Eve, I've decided to paint watercolours. It was hard to make seven works in four days, but luckily I did it http://conceptart.org/forums/images/ca_smilies/normal/anj_hip.gif

Bridge
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eve2008_watercolours/bridge.jpg

Cameleon
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eve2008_watercolours/cameleon.jpg

Castle
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eve2008_watercolours/castle.jpg

Chalet
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eve2008_watercolours/chalet.jpg

Priest
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eve2008_watercolours/priest.jpg

Ruines
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eve2008_watercolours/ruines.jpg

Temple
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/eve2008_watercolours/temple.jpg

The last days of this year will be productive a bit - two watercolours and two digital paintings for forum battles (Castle on snowy mountain and Robot factory, for which I have a interesting concept). Also, since a new year is coming, it would be a good idea to summarize this year and think about plan for next year, focusing on my art development.

There are few sketches for Robot factory.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/robot_factory/sketches.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/robot_factory/sketches2.jpg

As you can see, there aren't any really interesting ideas.

I was thinking about how to make it looking cool and that was a moment I though that I always focused on form, not content/idea/design. You know, colours, lightning, atmosphere, bizarre perspectives and etcetera. It was a moment I though it's about time to focus more on content, instead of form.

That means inspiring and trying to understand Eastern artists (especially Japanese artists with their crazy ideas!), as they focus more on design and ideas.

Anyway, I was trying to get a interesting idea and there is it: a genetically modified tree that doesn't have fruits, instead of them there are robots or their parts which, after they are ripe, are removed by scientists. These "fruits" are later assembled, creating a complete robot.

A vegetable robot, you would say :P The idea is much more appealing than a plain factory with ordinary machines creating metal robots, don't you think?

[Tonic]

Finally I've started to learn anatomy. As so far, only sketches for improving the observing skill, needed to catch the essence of various poses and put energy into sketches. I'm going to progressively learn rendering light and shadows to at least semi-realistic level. Used posemaniacs.com, the real world and some magazines as references.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketches/anatomy_01.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketches/anatomy_02.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketches/anatomy_03.jpg

This below drawing was a medium experiment - the anatomy is crappy as hell. The elbow is placed too low, the same with ass and her left arm looks as it was ripped out and glued back. Nonetheless, it was fun to play with fine liner, pencil, brown paper with rough texture and fluid text corrector:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/experiments/woman01_resized.jpg

And now speedpaintings. Firstly, I would like to show old works that were done 2-3 month after I bought tablet. I find them pretty cute, so I'm posting there:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/weirdo.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/eggy_thing.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/mask.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/doggy.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/worm.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/puppy_photoshopped.jpg

And now newer works:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/compilation_01.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/01_photoshopped.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/03_photoshopped.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/02_photoshopped.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/04_photoshopped.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/speedpaintings/prison.jpg


The remaining 7 speedpaintings are WIPs for underwater metropolis. Some of them are influenced by sparth's paintings.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab45_underwater_metropolis/sketch1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab45_underwater_metropolis/sketch2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab45_underwater_metropolis/sketch3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab45_underwater_metropolis/sketch4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab45_underwater_metropolis/sketch5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab45_underwater_metropolis/sketch6.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab45_underwater_metropolis/sketch7.jpg

[Tonic]

Captain Starfish is angry because I don't work that much as I should be :P

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/captain_starfish.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/desert.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/forest.jpg

Exercises, used references, mainly own colours and small modifications

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/studies/horror_1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/studies/horror_2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/studies/speedpaintings_01.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/studies/speedpaintings_02.jpg

[Tonic]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab48_golgotha/sketch1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab48_golgotha/sketch2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab48_golgotha/sketch4.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab48_golgotha/sketch5.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/digart/cab48_golgotha/wip1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/studies/02.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/sketchbook/studies/03.jpg

WIP with the badass version of Asterix:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v613/Cinot/concept_art/knight/wip1.jpg

[vardoburrito]

I love the enviros and textures on some of these.
The metal fireball-tentacles. oh yea.

[Tonic]

Thanks, dwardo :)

Sketches (warrior on snow was inspired by Kekai Kotaki's artwork; jungle and mine inferior are from my head, honeypot ant (or ant that overdid with food) was based on photo, so I could study light)
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/sketch_compilation_04.jpg

Tree in cave, from my head. I like this artwork mostly:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/tree_in_cave.jpg

Based on photo, a bit modified:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/rocks_01.jpg

Based on photo, a small exercise of observing colours, values and harmony of blocks - done in about 20-30 minutes:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/mountains_walking.jpg

A old portrait sketch. It's not flawless in anatomy terms, but it has something I like, perhaps it's about person's glare. It was drawn from my head:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/portrait.jpg

Asides those works, I recently got early symptoms of, I suspect, CTI (carpal tunnel injury). At least, I know it's something caused by RSI. Big hands + small A5 wide tablet (the hand can cover 3/4 of working area easily) = ouch! Since A4 wide isn't that much bigger, I'll have to buy A3 which is darn expensive, so I'm trying to participate in small local contests, perhaps a luck will help and in the end I'll buy a big tablet. In meanwhile, I'm taking precautions, such as breaks, exercises, limiting drawing time (I'm only drawing sketches or important works, for contests and forum battles), though it's hard to suppress my urgent for painting :P

[revenebo]

You rock, man. You're progress has been lightning fast. And you bought a Wacom less than year ago?!

I've studied architecture too... I wish I had known digital painting before, it could have been of great help in designing and rendering projects.

[Eiki]

Great studies, colors, environment, so much strong and inspiring things in here
what I like most are the watercolors! I am a complete noob with watercolors, would like to be able to handle them better ...
Your stuffs shows, how great work you can do with every medium :)

[Bartovan]

Great stuff Tonic! I like your designs. The watercolors are really amazing! Keep going!

[animosapien]

hey tonic..
kwool styling..
i lik the way u handle traditional medium. even those digitals towards the end were super sool.tre in the cave.. great subtle psychadelirium..haha
keep posting and do feel free to walk into my sketchbook...

Noizz

[Tonic]

Thanks you for kind words :)

You rock, man. You're progress has been lightning fast. And you bought a Wacom less than year ago?!

I've studied architecture too... I wish I had known digital painting before, it could have been of great help in designing and rendering projects.

Actually, it was 8 and half months ago, I bought it at the beginning of September. It was the best choice in my life :)

About architecture - I've never studied, nor I'm studying - I've failed entrance exams two times, this year I have a third attempt :P Though, for two years I go to preparation school for architecture candidates and that's there I learned a lot.

Great studies, colors, environment, so much strong and inspiring things in here
what I like most are the watercolors! I am a complete noob with watercolors, would like to be able to handle them better ...


Watercolours are tricky villains. When I started, after 2-3 months of irregular training I couldn't see any significant progress. Then suddenly a so-so good work popped out nowhere, then next half year I was training about 2 times per week (3-4 hours each time), then next half year about 7-8 hours daily. Then I had a 2 months break, bought tablet and half year later I returned to watercolour, bought better equipment (and expensive as hell) and started practising. Unfortunately, majority of new works are left in my preparation school, but once day I will take I shall make photos. Anyway, I have a few in my house. Some are just normal watercolour, some are experiments:

My graphic interpretation of Abh woman (Abh is a nation created by Japanese novelist Morioka Hiroyuki. Based on his works, a manga and anime were even created! But the books were the best, I just submerged in a whole new well-written space, nations and their cultures and I recommend this to every S-F fan)
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/watercolours/abh_woman_sketch.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/watercolours/abh_woman_painted.jpg

Abstract
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/watercolours/abstract_01.jpg

Antarctica base
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/watercolours/antarctica_base.jpg

Watercolours + acrylics, a burning palace? :P
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/watercolours/palace.jpg

Snowy landscape
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/watercolours/snow_landscape_experiment.jpg

Snow mountain, mainly watercolour with some tipp-ex (a liquid text corrector, I'm not sure if it's a proper word) for refining shapes.
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/watercolours/snow_mountain.jpg

The image speaks itself
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/watercolours/warriors_in_forest.jpg


Your stuffs shows, how great work you can do with every medium :)

I personally think that good artist can use everything on everything and still make a nice work. Besides, being universal in mediums allows to develop many mixed medium techniques, different ways to create forms, textures, colour blending and many, many other things.

Now digital works:

Fast 30min sketch - junk lake
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/junk_lake.jpg

Lighting study
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/leaf_in_light.jpg

Haha, I have no idea from where it came out
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/round_robot.jpg

There, by accident I've created a awesome multi-purpose brush and painted this samurai. But I didn't save it and lost. I'm trying to repeat process, but I can't remember what options and textures I've used :(
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/samurai_black_white.jpg

Lighting study
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/street_light.jpg

There I wainted to do something more painterly than usual. Used ArtRage then finished with Photoshop
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/warrior_painter.jpg

[L0bo]

so much awesomeness inside here.
lots of mood and atmosphere !
guess ur a sparth fan.
similar style. love it

[AustenFM]

Hot damn, great stuff all around!
Your early watercolor perspective works were fantastic, you had me hooked with those, and everything else is great. You're improving super fast.

Keep it up, cant wait for more!

[Icecold]

Jestem w szoku! twoje umiejetnosci wzrosly tak bardzo w tak krotkim tempie! Genialne po prostu genialne, czeka cie dobra przyszlosc kolego.

Spodziewaj sie pw bo bede mial mase pytan ale to pozniej, narazie musze sie zajac kilkoma sprawami, pozdrawiam.

[Capital G]

fantastic enviroments, i really like your colour and compositions

[NicHolS]

great work here buddy, the leaf study blew me away! great depth... traditional paintings are good too

[paran0id]

Woah, leaf study and street light study are fucking awesome. Especially the street light. The glossy floor is so real. How much time did it take?

[strings]

Hey mate, pages 1 to 2, that's right two thus far, were incredibly SUPERLICIOUS. Yea, I make up words. Looking forward to future updates. subscribed, ding!

[Tonic]

so much awesomeness inside here.
lots of mood and atmosphere !
guess ur a sparth fan.
similar style. love it

Hey, thanks! Sparth is one of my favourite artist who have influenced strongly in my art life, you got point :)

Hot damn, great stuff all around!
Your early watercolor perspective works were fantastic, you had me hooked with those, and everything else is great. You're improving super fast.

Keep it up, cant wait for more!

Thanks, I'm really glad about improving!

Jestem w szoku! twoje umiejetnosci wzrosly tak bardzo w tak krotkim tempie! Genialne po prostu genialne, czeka cie dobra przyszlosc kolego.

Spodziewaj sie pw bo bede mial mase pytan ale to pozniej, narazie musze sie zajac kilkoma sprawami, pozdrawiam.

What are you talking..? Kidding, thanks! :)

fantastic enviroments, i really like your colour and compositions

Big thanks! :)

great work here buddy, the leaf study blew me away! great depth... traditional paintings are good too

Hey, there! I'm glad you liked it :)

Woah, leaf study and street light study are fucking awesome. Especially the street light. The glossy floor is so real. How much time did it take?

About two hours. But keep in mind I'm training in architectural preparation school and it helps a lot with this kind of stuff.

Hey mate, pages 1 to 2, that's right two thus far, were incredibly SUPERLICIOUS. Yea, I make up words. Looking forward to future updates. subscribed, ding!

Thanks, I hope you'll still enjoy viewing there :)

This week was a bit busy as I focused on various contests. I'm trying to buy bigger tablet and laptop, so I could paint outdoor. I'm drooling when I think about walking in forest with mobile chair and laptop/tablet in my backpack. Feeling the wind, sun rays or rain, no civilization, no damn noise and noisy people.. oh yeah, I'm looking forward for it! But, first money is needed so there contests come in.

So, for start, contest arts:

1). A graphic promotion of camp (check this word, it's a aesthetic term and has various definitions - but let's say it's a perfidious kitsch). Left is my work, right is a painting I inspired:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/camp/wenus_birth.jpg

2). Adobe in my country has organised a contest for anti-piracy poster. With my dad, we've come with two ideas. I did create artworks and general ideas and my dad has give a text. "Bez piractwa, bez zmartwien" means "Without piracy, without worries" and it's a Adobe's slogan. While "Gdzie jestes, Czarny Baranie" means "Where are you, Black Ram"? This saying has two meanings. One is a paraphrase of Black Sheep - and I'm sure you know it - a black sheep in family :) The second meaning is also paraphrase, but for Polish poem about catching black ram, and seems that in Poland there a known child play where they choose one for being black ram and the rest task is to catch him.

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/adobe_antypiracy/adobe_antypiracy1.jpg

The second poster isn't really interesting - just using a yin yang motive:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/adobe_antypiracy/adobe_antypiracy2.jpg

3). Another contest - Flipshake. You have a rectangular card and it has two images, each on each side. They have to make a history - you see front image, then flip card and see second image, then say "aha!". That's theory, because it's hard to get a interesting idea. 95% of creativity is a key to success, 5% of well-done card is the rest. I've struggled for week trying to get interesting idea, made dozen of sketches and chosen only one that sounded funny. There is idea - on front page you see a famous optical grid. You can feel the black things in intersection areas, but every time you focus on them, they disappear and appear in other areas. On second image.. well, see yourself :P

Front page:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/flipshake/flipshake_front.jpg

Back page, after you flip card:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/flipshake/flipshake_back.jpg

You can find my entry http://flipshake.com/flip/1489_Caught_me. Hover mouse cursor on image's corner, and once you see a "Flip" text, click it to flip the card.

4). Another contest is about garden project for Leroy Merlin. Unfortunately, it's nothing much interesting and there's too much of house instead of garden. But, oh well, I enjoyed it.

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/leroy_garden/garden_project.jpg

WIPs:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/leroy_garden/wip1.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/leroy_garden/wip2.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/leroy_garden/wip3.jpg

And then Photoshop just frozen completely. I was like "What, are you kidding, Photoshop?". Unfortunately it wasn't kidding ;( So I had to make a screenshot, paste it and enlarge it few times, resulting a extremely jaggy edges. I had to overpaint some areas. I didn't repainted all areas, but I was satisfied enough. There you can see how it was small comparing to previous WIPs :P

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/leroy_garden/wip4.jpg

There's another contest I'm working, but I'm afraid that showing it before contest results might give problems, so I have to keep it until about 15th June.

That's all about contests. Now other stuff :)

Two digital works:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/knight_munch/knight_munch.jpg

WIPs:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/knight_munch/knight_munch_progress.jpg

Waterfall:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/waterfall.jpg

And, for end, I would like to show traditional works I've been doing in 2008 between January and June, in preparation school. I've taken them back from school about week ago and I must say that I had mixed feelings after I saw them and remembered times - I will write about it later. These works may be different style than usual, but please keep in mind that they we're done in 95% on 50x70cm paper (19.5" x 27.5") and made in 1.5h, rarely 2h. All made freehand, using watercolours, markers and fine liners. Sometime with pencil.

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/airship.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/altdorf.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/forest.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/gaudi.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/imhotep.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/island.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/mage_hut.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/mask.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/pursuit.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/rhodos_collossus.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/room.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/undercity.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/waterfall.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/geometry_01.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/geometry_02.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/geometry_03.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/geometry_04.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/domin/geometry_05.jpg

Now, what I think about them? I think that after I've started using digital painted, I lost/forgot abillity to design and create those forms. They're much superior to those made in digital works. And it forces to rethink about my doing of art - or in more specific question - how to combine digital painting with those traditional artworks?

EDIT:

Forgot about scultpures. These two are inspired by Santiago Calatrava. The topic is "Perforation" :

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sculptures/perforation.jpg

[Abrodos]

Lovely colours and mood on your digital works! Also, the antarctica base is awesome. And it's nice to see that you also do some sculpts, i want to see more of them!
Keep up this good work man :)

[strings]

Calatrava designs are so well done, I'd not know of the name until I was introduced to it by a fellow colleague back in school days. My city also have one of his bridges down at the Lakeshore, it's a spectacle to see.

I like the first work on the digital work, something to scream about! haha. I don't know how you manage your time, but you seem to have a great handle specially with the contests! Keep on

[GriNGo]

Nice SB man! You work alot & hard... so kudos to you. I specially LOVE the camaleon watercolor you posted in the beginnings of this thread. Amazing. keep it up!

[Tonic]

Lovely colours and mood on your digital works! Also, the antarctica base is awesome. And it's nice to see that you also do some sculpts, i want to see more of them!
Keep up this good work man :)

Thanks! :)

Calatrava designs are so well done, I'd not know of the name until I was introduced to it by a fellow colleague back in school days. My city also have one of his bridges down at the Lakeshore, it's a spectacle to see.

I wish my town could have some of Calatrava's work. I'm just digging his sense of forms, unbalance, openwork and sense of movement or denying gravity. I'm thinking about buying big book with his works for about 80$. And I think studying his works can help with my artworks - for example, David Levy studied him (and not only) and now see how he's doing with architecture in his digital paintings. They're plainly awesome. Not many artists can create interesting architectural objects (there sparth and hydropix comes to mind, Maxime Desmettre has also very interesting forms).


I like the first work on the digital work, something to scream about! haha. I don't know how you manage your time, but you seem to have a great handle specially with the contests! Keep on

It's simple - I'm not studying, nor working - just preparing to entrance exams :P

Nice SB man! You work alot & hard... so kudos to you. I specially LOVE the camaleon watercolor you posted in the beginnings of this thread. Amazing. keep it up!

I wish I could work really hard, as I have plenty of time - I've calculated that if I were more disciplined, I would make 2-3 fully painted illustrations daily during few months :(

Anyway, there are few works, entrance exams are coming so I don't spend much time on digital paintings. Not long time I've started to paint portraits digitally. There they are in chronological order:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/geisha.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/gramp_child.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/old_arabic_man.jpg

Then I saw Zhang Lu's portraits and I thought I'll try with his painting style. Without reference and it looks more animu-ish than semi-realistic :)
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/animu.jpg

But it helped to change my way of doing portraits - I hate copying exactly like photos and it was killing fun. I've started to use photos only for learning proportions, values, face features and few things, then I could do what I wanted, like changing colours, contrasts, painterly brush strokes and various things to make portraits more interesting than photos.

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/black_gloves.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/bird_mask.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters[img]/old_japanesse_man.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/yellow_woman.jpg

Two sculptures, the topic is "Light rays"

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sculptures/light_rays1.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sculptures/light_rays2.jpg

[Fumble]

awesome stuff!! - i particularly like your traditional pencil/watercolor pieces

[Icecold]

Quote from eh movie "Dude,teach me!" 5stars from me.

[Sean McClain]

wo! your lighting studies are a trip, and your envirements have improved so much in a year like light speed man! awesome sb:)

[Asatira]

Wow, incredible stuff. I particularly love seeing all the traditional renders. I swear, you kill when it comes to environments, and your other subjects are great as well.

[spaztastic]

<3 l love your sb XD

[Ricardo Robles]

I really love your work, specially the watercolors.
You´re doing a great job with the light studies, some of them are awesome.
Great imagination:D

[Hyver]

very impressive progress! i'm humbled in awe

[IanE]

Wow, incredibly beautiful work.

Your watercolours are brutally inspiring and your architectural designs make me demand that you share more with us.

Gave you the 5 stars you so rightfully deserve and a subscription as well.

Amazing work.. wow.

[zou]

You reminded me how far we can use our brain when designing. :thinking:

This sb is very inspiring. :yayca:

[Tonic]

Fumble, Icecold, darknight, Asatira, spaztastic, Ricardo Robles, Hyver, IanE and zou - thank you all very much! :)

There isn't much new works - I've had entrance exams in previous week. Now a three months holiday has started and soon I will start drawing seriously :D

Anyway, there you have 30-60 minutes digital doodles and few traditional drawings. Played mainly with colours, brush strokes and breaking my colouring habits:

Without references:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/ruins_02.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/mountain_sunset.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/city.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/samurai_killer.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/cave3.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/cave_entrance2.jpg

Uhh, zombie disco?
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/zombie_disco.jpg

With reference for training values and experimenting with colours/brush strokes:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/beach.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/rock_beach.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/tree.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/two_trees.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/ghost.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/long_hair.jpg

Traditional drawings:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/arms.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/room_things.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/black_gloves2.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/fag.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/moustache_man.jpg

[lordbiernac]

hey dude :) your getting better and better, the progress is really visible... :)

Wyglada na to, ze probowales/ probujesz dostac sie na architekture... Do jakiej szkolki chodziles/ chodzisz? Bo niektore tematy z rysunkow powyzej wydajami sie znajome i tak jestem ciekaw :)

pozdrowki

[Tonic]

hey dude :) your getting better and better, the progress is really visible... :)

Wyglada na to, ze probowales/ probujesz dostac sie na architekture... Do jakiej szkolki chodziles/ chodzisz? Bo niektore tematy z rysunkow powyzej wydajami sie znajome i tak jestem ciekaw :)

pozdrowki

Hey, thanks!

W tym roku miałem trzecie podejście i wygląda na to, że się dostałem na dzienne - tzn. brakuje wyników maturalnych, ale 21 pozycja po dwóch etapach raczej brzmi dobrze :) Co do szkołki, chodziłem do Domina.

Pozdrowienia :)

[Verehin]

!!!THIS (http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/two_trees.jpg)!!!

Awesome art!

[lordbiernac]

gratulacyje :) rzeczywsicie powinno byc dobrze :)
pozdrowki

[bouroune]

yo,
i discovered your thread, such an amazing progression, really love your last update, the digits have a traditional touch which i dig a lot, nice pencil too, keep on sharing!

[zou]

so much fun

keep it

[patrickdeza]

I like the depth in your drawings and paintings.
Keep it up =)

[Tonic]

bouroune, zou, patrickdeza - thanks! I never liked true study drawings/paintings - rather I'm trying to make art looking good. Though, without studying, there will be limit how far I can go.

Anyway, there's a little update and I would like to ask you for a favour.

Month ago I've made a entry for Corel International Design Contest, for General Illustration/Fine Art category. At this moment, there's voting stage. The 10 most voted works from each category (there are few of them) are going to judges. So if you don't mind checking entries in this category and voting, I would be glad. Though, you need to be registered to Corel site and there's a lot of works.

The gallery of General Illustration/Fine Art entries (http://coreldraw.com/media/g/2009_contest_illustration/default.aspx?Sort=PostDate&PageIndex=1) and my entry (http://coreldraw.com/media/p/58347.aspx).

This is my entry. It was done entirely in CorelDRAW PhotoPaint X4:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/corel_design_contest_2009/corel_contest_entry.jpg

If you really like it and want to vote for it, I would be happy. But I would like to be fair and I'd appreciate if you look at other entries - I personally don't like asking others to vote because the number of friends being a important factor in judging works doesn't sound reasonable :S Art skill is a art skill, not a internet social skill. That's all about this favour. Thanks!

And the progress of this work (huge file, 2.7MB):

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/corel_design_contest_2009/progress.jpg

There are three sculptures I've made few weeks ago.

"Gripping and tensile forces" - one of sticks got broken by my teacher who showed me that sculpture was off-topic :P There was a bending force, not gripping. It makes a big difference.
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sculptures/gripping_tensile_forces.jpg

A sculpture for a symbol place of Jews extermination. It was too modern and fancy, hence low 6 point from 100 :)
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sculptures/jews_extermination.jpg

"A wind goes there where it wants". It was rather a joke, but it got plenty points :)
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sculptures/wind.jpg

And one digital artwork, with reference:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/abandoned_factory.jpg

[Icecold]

Witam ponownie, przylaczam sie do Biernaca i rowniez skladam gratulacje :>
Mam prosbe moglbys podeslac mi na pw swoj brush set? widze ze masz dosc ciekawa i praktyczna kolekcje. A teraz druga prosba, skoro juz lato wiec zapewne masz troche wiecej czasu, czy moglbys sporzadzic jakies szybkie tutki, odnosnie tych stylowych prac jak chocby ta?:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/tree.jpg

Jakis czas bawie sie juz w digital painting ale ciagle mam problmey z yzyskaniem ciekawych efektow i zalezy mi na efekcie podobnym jaki widac w twoich pracach. Wiem , ze duza role odgrywaja custom brushe, ale mysle ze kilka porad sie przyda, z gorydziekuje. Bede dozgonnie wdzieczny za kazda porade, tez chialbym kiedys tworzyc na twoim pozomie.

Best wishes, Ice

( For all those who didnt get a word of the wall of text above, well i just said..dude you rock! :P )

[AmbientSounds]

damn good sketchbook, I'm feeling inspired now. =) Thanks for the wip on your Corel contest piece too, it's really interesting to see how people put their paintings together.

[Tonic]

Icecold, custom brushes have a very little role in creating such effects you mentioned. What really matters is what you have in your mind and how much experiences you have, especially with traditional painting. You need to grab opaque and water based paints, experience a lot with them and observe the ways the brush strokes are blending depending on paper texture, your hand pressure, amount of pigment/solvent etc. Also, it's a very good habbit to analyze other paintings - try to figure out hues, values, saturations, edges of forms, when and how they change. After practicing, you should somewhat subconsciously achieve these effects. But really, without these things I mentioned and not only, custom brushes won't help you at all.

About my brush set, I've uploaded brushes I'm using most often - download link (http://tonic-art.com/others/photoshop/brush_sets/tonic_v1.rar). But be aware that there are brushes from Yang Xuegueo's set and if you want to use them for commercial uses, you need to ask for permission via mail (blur1977@126.com).

For WIPs, I should try next time :)

damn good sketchbook, I'm feeling inspired now. =) Thanks for the wip on your Corel contest piece too, it's really interesting to see how people put their paintings together.

Thanks! :) At this moment I'm waiting for contest results, they should be before end of July. Needless to say, it's a quite hard time because I'm really hoping for possibility to get money and buy laptop for outdoor digital painting.

Little update:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/big_snail.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/colorful_cave.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/foggy_forest.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/forest_river.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/house_on_lake.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/ice_cave.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/islands.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/mountain_lake.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/rocks_and_trees.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/shaped_rock.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/snow_monster.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/snow_mountain.jpg

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/environments/swamp.jpg

[AvisNocturna]

Wow.. these are excellent! I actually thought one of them was a photo when I scrolled down. keep up the great work!

[Demo]

Wow you've really developed a lot since the first page. these are spectacular and hopefully there is a lot more to come good luck with all those contests im rooting for ya

[spoonfruit]

Holy crap....Im certain that Im in love your textures...and mood...and style...and color....actually...you're just amazing!! :D *subscribe*

[IanE]

Wonderful updates! Extremely fantastic progress over these few short pages. The three sculptures are awesome, so who cares if they're "off-topic" haha. Great work, thanks for sharing this with us.

[Ginji]

Really cool to see your work. :D good job

[Carbono]

Great works man, your paintings are looking nice and we can clearly see the development

This one:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/corel_design_contest_2009/corel_contest_entry.jpg

Is really a masterpiece.

[Tonic]

Really cool to see your work. :D good job

Thanks, mate!

Wonderful updates! Extremely fantastic progress over these few short pages. The three sculptures are awesome, so who cares if they're "off-topic" haha. Great work, thanks for sharing this with us.

Glad to hear you like sculptures. I need to make them again.. they gives a lot when it comes to designing in paintings. Calatrava's famous buildings were based on totally simple forms/models/drawings and it was enough for him to create such magnificent architectural objects, like Art Museum in Milwaukee (wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milwaukee_Art_Museum)).

I saw your sketchbook, I must admit it was really nice to see so much of architecture stuff! I haven't seen it somewhere else there ;)

Holy crap....Im certain that Im in love your textures...and mood...and style...and color....actually...you're just amazing!! :D *subscribe*

I'm still trying to be able to create very dense moods like Aivazovsky or hydropix did. It's sure a hard thing because you need to gradually learn more about colors, lighting and blending brush strokes (or three/four edges principle). These are basics needed to achieve such moods..

Wow you've really developed a lot since the first page. these are spectacular and hopefully there is a lot more to come good luck with all those contests im rooting for ya

Thanks! :)

Wow.. these are excellent! I actually thought one of them was a photo when I scrolled down. keep up the great work!

Hehe, I'm glad you thought it was a photo. With photo copying studies I wanted to sharpen color observation skill. Now I need to move from environments to people. Must learn anatomy and draw characters/creatures!

Great works man, your paintings are looking nice and we can clearly see the development

This one:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/corel_design_contest_2009/corel_contest_entry.jpg

Is really a masterpiece.

Thanks, glad to hear about development :)

About update, well, I basically didn't paint anything serious :( I'm busy with other projects. First, I've managed somehow to update technically my web portfolio, alongside with blog and I've replaced artworks in portfolio. There are few minor things to correct, but I'm quite happy. Check them if you want http://tonic-art.com and http://tonic-art.com/blog (though, blog wasn't updated for many months.. I should start writing there soon!).

Second thing, I'm working on three vacation projects simultaneously. One is a homemade paint pad (a homemade keyboard made from mouses) that is supposed to replace Intuos and keyboard keys. I just don't like Intuos4's unintuitive button layout and hand/eyes flying between keyboard and tablet. I want something to have under hand all time and do all actions I'm using when painting digitally with only this device. Brush list, flipping horizontally, layer operations etc. Something that would allow my eyes to focus only on work, not on annoying tool windows, menus and other distracting things. As so far, I was working on minimizing scroll wheel board. I'm doing it because I want the distance between three wheels (they will be used for, example given, adjusting brush size, brush and layer opacity) to be smallest as possible. Also, I need to work on button layout. There's a small peek:

http://tonic-lab.com/img/electronic/paint_pad/peeks/peek_02.jpg

And there are peeks of two other projects. Can anyone guess what are they? :D

http://tonic-lab.com/img/sstc1/rev2/peeks/peek_01.jpg

http://tonic-lab.com/img/homemade_case/peeks/peek_01.jpg

(I guess the second picture is easy..)

And one quick painting to make this post less off-topic, hehe:

http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/ibood/ibood.jpg

Oh, and by the way, I've taken a 2nd place in Corel's contest, yay! If selling some stuff will go well, I might have a laptop I longed for outdoor painting :steph:

Cheers!

[Trashy]

Tonic...oh my...some of those environments are breathtaking!

I saved of couple of those, some of those marks your making with the brushes are really nice!

[Tonic]

Thanks Trashy :) In any case, I've uploaded my actual brush set and you can find download link in #78 post. Brushes "chalko6" and "chalko3" are my favorite ones for these scratchy brush strokes.

[chuck18mp]

I really love your environments, you know what you're doing and you are good at it! :) Subscribing :)

[Flesheater]

This is some nice stuff you have here!

[Stefefef]

really nice environments you've got here! : )
My favourite piece is the painting with the tree and two men!

[Farvus]

Wow. Really fast progress in here. You go in every possible direction.

I really like your latest environments and pieces like this one - http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/ghost.jpg. Maybe try pushing enviros into something less monochromatic. Some anatomy studies would help too.

Keep pushing, man :).

[Icecold]

No Michaś czas na jakis update :>

We're missing you!

[Tonic]

I really love your environments, you know what you're doing and you are good at it! :) Subscribing :)

Thanks for subscribing, glad you like!

This is some nice stuff you have here!

Thanks! :D

really nice environments you've got here! : )
My favourite piece is the painting with the tree and two men!

I wish it was my idea - but it was a photo I found on internet. I liked it very much because of its weirdness - have you ever seen two guys in suits with one being on tree? :P

Wow. Really fast progress in here. You go in every possible direction.

I really like your latest environments and pieces like this one - http://tonic-art.com/gallery/sketchbook/characters/ghost.jpg. Maybe try pushing enviros into something less monochromatic. Some anatomy studies would help too.

Keep pushing, man :).

Using wider colour palette is still tricky to me because if you want a colourful work, mostly time you would have lay right colours just at the beginning, while I'm usually laying colours somewhere in middle with Map gradient/Overlay/Light layer/Color balance layers.


No Michaś czas na jakis update :>

We're missing you!

Sorry for keeping you waiting! For defence, I'm going to say I've spent few weeks on trip with my friends and we've been working on a graphic novel/illustration/concept "book" (very small, it's going to be published on internet in small volumes). We've made a lot, but there's still a lot of remained work. I'm assuring you will like it! It uses a motive with heroine travelling between various fantasy world :D I'm working on putting everything into first volume and make it looking like book - illustrations/sketches/concept drawings/descriptions/dialogues in right places. There are needed missing scenes that I and my friend we're going to work on and the whole DTP process is quite tedious - scanning, cropping, rotating sketches, typography, history, the read flow, compositions and other things. I'm hoping it will be finished within 1-2 months. In meantime, I'm leaving three illustrations I've made before project has started.

EOW challenge - naval battle
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/SscDfP9vnNI/AAAAAAAAAJw/6atYI0CPfog/s1600/EOW%23117_Tonic.jpg

Living lightning rod
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/SscBWnfTUgI/AAAAAAAAAJQ/nCSrrto3PZg/s1600/cab_piorunochron.jpg

Living weapon - kinda a flower that throws nasty bombs at long distance
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/SscC-JSuzVI/AAAAAAAAAJo/leHvczZLX0Y/s1600/finished.jpg

And bomb concepts:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/SscBlPhdXTI/AAAAAAAAAJY/wNMQDjURpj4/s1600/bomb_shells_concepts.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/SscBnDAcMuI/AAAAAAAAAJg/9yOTyTmLA8Y/s1600/bomb_shell_concept.jpg
(yeah, it should be leaves, not leafs.. sorry :P)

[chuck18mp]

Both the naval battle and the living weapon are amazing! I like the variety of bombs you created :) I do prefer the top-left one.

[theories]

absolutely gorgeous! all of your work is very inspiring

[android411]

amazing stuff dude, like especially you feeling for mood, colors and textures, but not only :) what would you recommend for a good color feeling if I may ask you...

[Icecold]

Bitwa morska jest genialna, aczkolwiek jedna rzecz ktora moglbys zmienic, a raczej dodac, to jakies rim lighty na zacienionej stronie statkow z lewej, by lepiej zdefiniowac bryle.


To all those who didnt get a shit of what i just wrote, hmm I've said he's cool ;P

[FAST ART]

suuupaa nice concepts..

[FraserMcT]

Bitwa morska jest genialna, aczkolwiek jedna rzecz ktora moglbys zmienic, a raczej dodac, to jakies rim lighty na zacienionej stronie statkow z lewej, by lepiej zdefiniowac bryle.


To all those who didnt get a shit of what i just wrote, hmm I've said he's cool ;P
I agree, he is pretty cool. Loving the art man. Moar!
Keep up the good work.

[Tonic]

chuck18mp, theories, FAST ART, FraserMcT - thanks to you! :)


amazing stuff dude, like especially you feeling for mood, colors and textures, but not only :) what would you recommend for a good color feeling if I may ask you...

That's a quite general question ;) It's hard to answer, but I think two things should be enough - a master watercolour painter Joseph Zbukvic (check him, he has really incredible moods in his impressionistic paintings) said a very truthful thing - "prevent monotony". That's one I'm thinking if I'm trying to push more colours. In practical it would mean you need to add colours in monotonous and lifeless areas, especially in shadows and subtle colours in half tones. And you may need to see countless times at inspirations - for vivid colours I would suggest George Kamitani's artworks. He's art director responsible for art in games such as "Odin Sphere" or "Oboro the demon blade". He just mercilessly places very different hues and yet artworks overall look very well. For colours in dark moods, I would stronlgy suggest russian painter, Ivan Aivazovsky.

Bitwa morska jest genialna, aczkolwiek jedna rzecz ktora moglbys zmienic, a raczej dodac, to jakies rim lighty na zacienionej stronie statkow z lewej, by lepiej zdefiniowac bryle.


To all those who didnt get a shit of what i just wrote, hmm I've said he's cool ;P

You know, there were rim lights and illuminating background behind shadowed sides of left ships, but it didn't look well when looking at whole work. Too much light effects and no mystery in forms. But then again, it could be that your monitor display in different way, like in much higher contrast? I have to check my colour management as well - I'm never sure if it's correct, no matter what tutorials I read :(

And again, thanks for you you all for such nice words! The collaboration project I'm working on will have around 40 pages and will consist of illustrations, comics and concept sheets. I can't wait to publish it on "It's finally finished" section! :D

[maximunki]

Hey Tonic, just looked through your whole sb and it's amazing. :bow: I especially love your environments, they're so atmospheric. I could learn a lot from you! Hope to see more traditional sketches too, as the ones you've posted are awesome. :)

[SteFlack]

Great sketchbook, love your style.

[revenebo]

You're kicking ass man.
Checked the three artists you suggested. I like that Joseph Zbukvic in particular, he is awesome.

[Sean McClain]

I like that naval battle peice man, looking foward to seeing some more:)

[Abrodos]

Amazing stuff man. I'd suggest to define the main areas on your pieces using strong, big brushstrokes, and think in terms of straight lines and hard edges. Sometimes your characters or objects (ship in the storm piece, 2 characters in living lightning rod) look a bit trembly or blurry-contoured, as if they weren't "sure" of what they should be doing. I hope that's not a too vague crit.
Anyway, that's some really nice work! keep at it!

[feeesh]

wow great sketchbook man! I think my favorite piece was your lighting study with the wet tiles, brilliant work. But its all frikkin awesome and inspiring. THanks for sharing.

[Seraph Fawkes]

Great works! Really dig "Living lightning rod" and "living weapon" design. Wish you luck )

[Tonic]

Seraph Fawkes - Thanks!

feeesh - I'm glad you're finding works useful :D

Amazing stuff man. I'd suggest to define the main areas on your pieces using strong, big brushstrokes, and think in terms of straight lines and hard edges. Sometimes your characters or objects (ship in the storm piece, 2 characters in living lightning rod) look a bit trembly or blurry-contoured, as if they weren't "sure" of what they should be doing. I hope that's not a too vague crit.
Anyway, that's some really nice work! keep at it!

Hmmm, so you are saying that using hard edges have to tell viewer in which directions the moving elements are going/willing to go to?

darknight - thanks! Lately I'm working daily after damn college on my project. It's getting closer to the end, but it's still a long way!

You're kicking ass man.
Checked the three artists you suggested. I like that Joseph Zbukvic in particular, he is awesome.

I'm sucker for Zbukvic mood's. He does outside watercolours in very short time, maybe one, two hours or so. I'm trying to hunt down his book about watercolour, but it was stopped printed few years ago and they can be found on ebay or amazon, but the price are extremely high :(

Oh, and by they way, I've started studying architecture since the beginning of Octomber ;)

[ste] - thanks!

Hey Tonic, just looked through your whole sb and it's amazing. :bow: I especially love your environments, they're so atmospheric. I could learn a lot from you! Hope to see more traditional sketches too, as the ones you've posted are awesome. :)

Yeah, I need definitely to return to serious traditional drawing. I was always only sketching in sketchbook. Thanks!

And about updates - none of this :( Sorry, but I don't want to publish project illustrations before its release. I'm "upgrading" illustrations, while my friend has to make comics for 5-6 pages, then send me them for colouring. We're in college, so it makes things slower, unfortunately :(

But lately I've got a nice camera and today I'm going to make some photos. I think I will post them there, after seeing your such nice words :D

[android411]

That's a quite general question It's hard to answer, but I think two things should be enough - a master watercolour painter Joseph Zbukvic (check him, he has really incredible moods in his impressionistic paintings) said a very truthful thing - "prevent monotony". That's one I'm thinking if I'm trying to push more colours. In practical it would mean you need to add colours in monotonous and lifeless areas, especially in shadows and subtle colours in half tones. And you may need to see countless times at inspirations - for vivid colours I would suggest George Kamitani's artworks. He's art director responsible for art in games such as "Odin Sphere" or "Oboro the demon blade". He just mercilessly places very different hues and yet artworks overall look very well. For colours in dark moods, I would stronlgy suggest russian painter, Ivan Aivazovsky.

tnx for your great reply and sorry for the general question, I´ll be more precise in future, for sure, I´ll check this artists out...

[Tonic]

tnx for your great reply and sorry for the general question, I´ll be more precise in future, for sure, I´ll check this artists out...

Actually it was good thing you asked this question. It forced me to think, which helps to clarify what I'm doing :D

Anyway.. I'm still working on collaborative project. Ugh, needless to say, it takes quite time. There are few 15-20 minutes sketches. Hope that somehow satisfy you.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/Sudcr5Z2ANI/AAAAAAAAAL8/SWDUfzT_7nM/s1600/slums.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/SudctX264hI/AAAAAAAAAME/BeetKZfVsUM/s1600/dargonkind.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/SudcqhdfZAI/AAAAAAAAAL0/fx9cxu2yojg/s1600/market_place.jpg

[Icecold]

Sprawdzilem tego chorwata, jego akwarele sa po prostu genialne!
Ogolnie to mam jeszce gore lodowa do nauczenia sie wogole, ale
nigdy jakos nie wychodzily mi enviro, moglbyc podac jakies podstawowe rady, i ew jakies tutki, w ktorych dokladnie tlumacza co i dlaczego i czego nie robic?

Bede wdzieczny.

[Jamie Romoser]

I really dig the atmosphere in your last update!
keep it up
-Jamie

[midknight523]

great SB

[Charles Ratteray]

beautiful , surreal, work and concepts

love it!


- C











the sketchbook:

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=111671

[Tonic]

You're embarrassing me digging out this such dusty sketchbook. I'm afraid I don't have much works to show as I'm mainly working on unpublished project and 3D thing (check my sketchup thread) :-( Sorry, but once the project is published, I hope you'll like it.

WIP for Buru (a lizard-like creature)
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/dacab/cab67_buru/wip3.jpg

Earlier WIP and some idea roughs.. needless to say, they're boring as hell.
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/dacab/cab67_buru/wip2.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/dacab/cab67_buru/ideas.jpg

1h speedpaint of hell gates
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/dacab/cab66_hell_gates/wip2.jpg

Souldiver - a guy who transforms into something else when he dives into spirit world. (by the way, now looking at human's pose, I think it was too much inspired by one of Kekai's character artwork. Sorry, Kekai!)
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/dacab/cab65_souldiver/duchonurek.jpg

Two WIPs:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/dacab/cab65_souldiver/wip1.jpg
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/dacab/cab65_souldiver/wip2.jpg

Another environment work:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/when_we_left_earth/1200px.jpg


High resolution, 1920x1200px dimensions version: link (http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/when_we_left_earth/1920px.jpg)

Ideas:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/when_we_left_earth/ideas.jpg

WIPs:
http://tonic-art.com/gallery/contests/when_we_left_earth/wips.jpg

[Charles Ratteray]

niiiiiiiiice!

lovin those glowing portal things too.

-C










the sketchbook:

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=111671

[Hellbeard]

Very enjoyable. Precise use of color, interesting concepts, dynamic compositions. Good work.

[Juki]

Amazing fireworks of color, composition and atmosphere.

[MacTire]

Very nice stuff Tonic!!
I can really see the Kekai influence (your avatar was what drew me here!).

Looking forward to seeing more!

[Tonic]

Thanks, folks!

Few doodles, for some of them a photo reference was used. Painting time - 0.5 to 1 hour.

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TBu2uFG7vZI/AAAAAAAAAS0/Xd3yABV6rts/s1600/mullins6_kompilacja1-5.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TB0JezI39gI/AAAAAAAAATU/6A5CeFeQEbA/s1600/mullins11_kompilacja7-10.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TB4kW1PcUKI/AAAAAAAAATc/2vGJqx8SMxY/s1600/mullins14_kompilacja12-13.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TCD0e6LsRYI/AAAAAAAAATk/-3RD4dWnXi8/s1600/mullins18_kompilacja15-17.jpg

[Eiki]

Awesome and strong work! What a great vivid style!

[Cameli]

Whoa fucking awesome Colors and enviroments!They bring out such a nice atmosphere!

[Philip133]

Niesamowite, naprawdę niesamowite.
Sam niedawno dość zacząłem się w malowanie wkręcać, i Twoje obrazy naprawdę mnie mocno motywują żeby jednak dać radę i wypracować sobie fajnie technikę.
Dzięki :)

[Jazz]

Hey, Tonic!! Man, it's been a while since I even said hi to you! :( Hope all is well!

Your works are gorgeous! I gotta start fiddling with brushes more often. You have such expressive strokes going on. Really awesome!! :D :D Love how you bring together bright and more diffused colour--makes the pictures pop out!

[Tonic]

unnamed.device, Eiki, Cameli - thanks, folks!

Philip133 - hej! Cieszę się z Twojego entuzjazmu, ale powiem z własnego doświadczenia, że nie ma sensu na początku starać się o styl - lepiej popracować nad obrzydliwie zwykłymi, nudnymi, brzydkimi i czasochłonnymi podstawami - styl przychodzi z czasem, automatycznie.

(translation - generally, I said it's better to not focus at getting own style at the beginning of digital painting adventure. I think it's better to focus on boring and time-consuming fundamentals - style will come with time, automatically)

Hey, Tonica !! Man, it's been a while since I even said hi to you! :( Hope all is well!

Your works are gorgeous! I gotta start fiddling with brushes more often. You have such expressive strokes going on. Really awesome!! :D :D Love how you bring together bright and more diffused colour--makes the pictures pop out!

Hey, Jazz! Indeed, it's been a while! I can't wait to finish screwing up exams and start having a long vacation for own projects :-P

Glad to hear you like works, studying Mullins works helped me a lot - somewhere on web you can find archive packages with his works. I think I like putting abstract shapes on canvas and then 'sculpt them'. Sometimes I would simply stack photos totally irrelevant to work's topic, then play with layer opacity, erasing random places etc., and then begin 'sculpting'. No, I must say I love it - it's more random, easier to define the space and forms and details are suggestive, instead of being painted precisely.

[Tonic]

Time to remove the mountain of dust

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TDSH788nw_I/AAAAAAAAATs/9IYrZnWmtkU/s1600/mullins24_kompilacja_21_23.jpg
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THYodhuB_MI/AAAAAAAAAVo/N56i8B_1LqE/s1600/skrzak.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THYoVnrSLEI/AAAAAAAAAVk/N65FXcOWzyc/s1600/wip4.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THbPmLh34sI/AAAAAAAAAVs/QaLEXNiVNvA/s1600/speedpainting45.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THbPn1pvc5I/AAAAAAAAAVw/J4Ir0GD0JlM/s1600/speedpainting46.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THbPqq_SPfI/AAAAAAAAAV0/Y_YNAuDTdHI/s1600/speedpainting47.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THj95jz8eiI/AAAAAAAAAWA/YkVKdkkv36E/s1600/mullins26.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THj91VCOWYI/AAAAAAAAAV8/Y1KcXLuigYY/s1600/24_wip7.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THo4H7-oplI/AAAAAAAAAWM/239oE3w17wI/s1600/mullins28_wip4.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THo4BlI2GGI/AAAAAAAAAWI/CDrxOBNCNWI/s1600/mullins27_wip2.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THwjt9lXHTI/AAAAAAAAAZE/PxUYmNqj0j4/s1600/mullins29_wip5.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TH0hPXGetLI/AAAAAAAAAb0/B4E4ARXS5nk/s1600/speedpainting49.jpg

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TH0hN3pAJXI/AAAAAAAAAbw/yIhtOxIV9LE/s1600/speedpainting48.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TH5AerGZ0YI/AAAAAAAAAdk/QYKTffFPvdk/s1600/speedpainting51.jpg

Work done for Zagan Square's game client
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TH5Ab3D2anI/AAAAAAAAAdg/s0jA_0OpqFM/s1600/speedpainting50.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TIAGSdxnv2I/AAAAAAAAAeE/jPaIAy6Xv20/s1600/speedpainting53.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TIAGM4jsC5I/AAAAAAAAAd8/DNFA7qsmEGA/s1600/mullins30.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/TIAGQXQs5UI/AAAAAAAAAeA/jdgSxw-Yr5o/s1600/mullins30_wips.jpg

http://img683.imageshack.us/img683/1687/speedpainting52wip4.jpg

http://img830.imageshack.us/img830/1652/speedpainting52wip1.jpg

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/82/speedpainting52wip2.jpg

[seungy]

Some beautiful concepts and variation of colours.

For some reason I keep thinking that some of your character designs and the style that you do it in fits in with the Guild Wars game art

[xbert]

what a inspiring sketchbook full of lovely art - gladthat i stumbled on your sketchbook!

[alexson]

Really great stuff! Awesome stuff in this latest post, the last pic has really nice feel of movement in it! Keep posting!

[fragmentedchimp]

oh man. those oldies with ink and watercolour? maybe watercolour? whatever they were, awesome medium amalgamation! :)
more?

[hücumkedi]

i love them all but especially, http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_E10sOreXrC4/THYoVnrSLEI/AAAAAAAAAVk/N65FXcOWzyc/s1600/wip4.jpg this one looks like ottoman culture :)

[maeshanne]

your improvements are amazing, I love some of your concepts

[Mr.Thorne]

Fantastic work man. Some really creative ideas.