AmishCommy's Studio Journal - Update 07.26.05 (poopy environment)

[AmishCommy]

I started a Studio Journal on my website. it's the place I drop everything i did in the studio or in the sketchbook for the given day. This is an attempt to get myself to draw more often than I have been drawing lately.

Here's an image I did in Photoshop with the wacom. It took about 15 mins to do. If I spend any more time with the wacom I get bored and start longing for traditional media.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_10-18b.jpg

Here's the link to the Studio Journal (http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal)

[Main Loop]

very atmospheric, its cool.. looks like watercolor...

[AmishCommy]

here's another qiuck photoshop sketch
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_10-23a.jpg
i started doing this after reading an article in TIME magazine about the looting of asian artifacts from deserted temples for western collectors.

Studio Journal (http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal)

[AmishCommy]

I did this almost a year ago and, like most things, i never finished it. This is a character for my friend's comic called the Vanishing Sun. We started developing it in college but it never went anywhere because Alex quit school and we lost contact with each other. Since then I've been doing some doodles and character designs for it when i feel like it.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/chr-arton04.jpg

Alex, if you stumble on this post get in touch with me.

Studio Journal (http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal)

[AmishCommy]

been slacking a while.

It's getting harder to find time to do some werk fer myself. I started doing some simple still lifes to get back into the groove. i'm trying for speed and color/light. Never really practiced this. especialy in oils.

i did this in an hour. just in time to slack some more (missed Carnivale last night.) i also attached the pics of the still life set up. the colors are a bit off due to the digital camera. i had some problems with the apple. couldnt get the color right. it had more greenish yellow in it. also looking at it juxtaposed with the pics i notice some faults in the actual rendering of the fruit. whoops

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_11-03a.jpg

have fun ripping me apart - i know i've been doing the same to a bunch of you. feel free to return the favor

[AmishCommy]

quickie self-portrait in oil. it's tiny. something like 7x4 inches. I've never worked this small in oils.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_11-07a.jpg

[Pencil Soldier]

Good detail for such a small size. God knows i dont have enough control with a brush to do that- and now you know that too. :p

[AmishCommy]

here's some more concept werk for Vanishing Sun (my friend's comic)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/images/chr-ardent03.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/images/chr-ardent04.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/images/chr-santo01.jpg
these were dome some time ago back when my fountain pen wasnt broken. i loved that thing eventhough i smacked the shit out of it for not werking. the black and white drawings were done when the pen was running out of ink.

[endregan]

awesome journal!!

ive been doing still lifes recently and i found the best thing is to look for shapes. if the negative shape around the fruit doesnt look right then the inside shape wont. there isnt only the shape of the object but also of whats not there!!

for example the apple is tilted but in the picture its perfectly straight. if you look again at the still life youll see that its just shapes and you use colour to represent the shapes.

im still learning myself but i hope that helped a bit!

keep it up!

[AmishCommy]

more concepts for Vanishing Sun. this one I did tonite in about 30 mins. still trying to figure the whole photoshop painting thing.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_11-15b.jpg

[AmishCommy]

started sketching some model sheets for a comic i've been werking on forever with no results. seeing if photoshop will help me start it back up again. Here's a quicky before i pass out.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_11-16a.jpg

[AmishCommy]

quickie sketch in ps

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_11-20a.jpg

[Main Loop]

havent checked this one in a while.. nice stuff.. i like the ballpoint sketch feel to them.. are you making the faces slightly deformed on purpose(like jon foster does)?

[AmishCommy]

Main Loop - i dont think the deformed faces are intentional. i just put the pen to the paper and hope something good will come out. sometimes there may be a meathod to the madness but usulay i let my subconsious do all the hard werk.

as fo jon foster - that dude rocks. he took me and my friend lana out to lunch at the San Diego comic con. that and he hooked us up with some mad contacts.

[AmishCommy]

my internet has been down so i havent posted in a while.
heres a recent photoshop sketch. still trying to werk out the kinks in my use of photoshop

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_11-26a.jpg

[AmishCommy]

new photoshop sketches. weeeeee!

none are finished

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-06a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-06b.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-06c.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-06d.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-06e.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-06f.jpg

[pvrhye]

Good stuff. I'm still looking for somone to beat my ass in the Thunderdome. You up for it? I think I'd put up a pretty good fight.

[Vader]

Your work is looking great. The first image is my fave it has a nice nateral look to it.

[AmishCommy]

Vader - thanks, seeing all the great werk on this site inspired me to put the wacom to good use.

pvrhye - i'm totaly down for the thunderdome challange. The only thing is i'd like to see your werk so i know what i'm up against. (all i found is the x-girl you colored)

[pvrhye]

Actually. I already found a challenger. But thanks for the offer. I'm up against Seung Ho. I have one hell of a battle ahead of me. As for the reason I have little work up... I don't own a scanner so getting something scanned is a bit of an ordeal. I tend to work in traditional mediums for any of my more serious work.

[AmishCommy]

haven't been able to draw cause i werked too much last week (70 hours)

this is my atempt to catch up. all are done in photoshop
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-13a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-13b.jpg


this one i actualy spent some time on. just over 3 hours. i did about 2 hours of it last nite instead of sleeping.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-13d.jpg

my main problem with photoshop is that i loose a lot of my spontanaity. gives me something to strive for i guess

[AmishCommy]

weeee, more goodies

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-13e.jpghttp://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-13f.jpg

[chudzta]

Hey looks like your finally gaining hold of some photoshop techiniques and usage. The last two posts' characters have held a sense of personality and the facial realism to make you start to believe it. Keep chugging.. you have quite a mind. keep up the devotion when u can. piece - chudds

[AmishCommy]

i'm on a roll this weekend

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-14a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-14b.jpg

[rhemrev]

Ok then, I'm inspired.....thnx man!

Great stuff by the way, I need draw more aswell, very cool way to keep pushing yo urself....:)

-Edwin
rhemrev.com

[-The Swift-]

wow! really interesting style! i especially love the guy on the bike! what did you use to do it???? nice work!:)

[AmishCommy]

-The Swift- - all the sketches from the post before the one you're asking about are done in photoshop. I still use version 5.5 and i made some customised brushes from random things i scanned.

rhemrev - you're welcome, i figure i owe it to all the tallented people o this forum that inspired me.

[chudzta]

the second one has a neat mood and abstractnessish to it. I always have to be a realist and admire some nifty designs such as that. keep goin pal - chudds

[rhemrev]

Yeah, coming to these boards does help to get inspiration..:)

Also, after having seen your thread, I've yesterday inmediately added a digital sketchbook to my site, where I'll be posting my doodles on a daily basis.....:) Like you, I was looking to find a way to push myself to produce something at least everyday, and i think this digital sketchbook feature will do just that for me...:)

Keep up the good work, maybe even drop by at my site sometime...:)

-Edwin Rhemrev
www.rhemrev.com

[AmishCommy]

new batch

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-16a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-16b.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-16d.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-16e.jpg

[AmishCommy]

more ps sketches

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-17a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-17b.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-17c.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-17e.jpg

[AmishCommy]

more photoshop sketches

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-21a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-21b.jpg

[AmishCommy]

booooya!!!!

I actually like this one.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-24a.jpg


this is an EXTREEEEEMLY happy little accident!

[AmishCommy]

here's some progress of the image above:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-24b.jpghttp://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-24c.jpg


and some more goodies i werked on last nite:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-24d.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-25a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-25b.jpg

[AmishCommy]

today must be some kind of national holiday or something cause i actualy have a day off. so instead of getting acquainted with the sunlight i stayed indoors and did this.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2003_-_12-25c.jpg

[AmishCommy]

happy new year to all. i already broke my resolutions by not doing any new paintings or drawings in almost 2 weeks. pooo!

but i'm back now. here's a werk in progress for a birthday present:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_01-11a.jpg

oh and if you feel inclined please comment. i'm starting to think you don't like me

[AmishCommy]

this took forever to do but only cause i'm listening to "Dude, Where's My Country" by Michael Moore. reading is too stressful.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_01-17b.jpg

and this i did earlier in the night. WIP i'm strugling with. sugestions?
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_01-17a.jpg

[John]

Cool stuff you got here. I think in the latest update the character gets somewhat lost in the background. I'd also like to see more details in the weapon and the fire, since that is what i seem to focus on most, and that is where the least detail is.

Maybe you can steal some of sparth's fire (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=11197).

[AmishCommy]

bling!

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_01-18a.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_01-19a.jpg

[AmishCommy]

damn it's been a while since i posted. its been a while since i sketched.

here's a PS quickie:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-09a.jpg

i like the gesture of this one. probly gonna turn it into something.

[eyebooger]

your style , Im lovin it!. Its very spontaneous and expressive.
keep up the awesome work :thumbsup:

[AmishCommy]

thanks eyebooger.

here's spontaneiety gone awry:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-10a.jpg

and here's a quickie PS sketch that i like only cause it looks like charcoal:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-10b.jpg

[AmishCommy]

WOW!!! THANK YOU EVERYONE FOR ALL YOUR OVERWHELMING SUPPORT!!!! no, really!!! i can't find enough time in the day to read everyone's comments. (end sarcasm)


well i've been slcking something fierce. cant seem to finish anything.

i'm suposed to be werking on new pages for the MegaCon but i be slacking like a slaka!!!!

here's some new werk:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-15a.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-16a.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-17a.jpg

[GhostofMacbeth]

Looking pretty cool Arkady

[Silvertone]

Awesome stuff man!I'm diggin your style.

Some of your stuff reminds me of George Pratt(one of my faorites).You didn't happen to go to school at Pratt did you?

[-The Swift-]

GREAT work, you've really got the hang of ps. i love the pen sketches, great work, great progress, keep it up!

-The Swift-:)

[AmishCommy]

weee, someone noticed my desparation for some attention.

thanks Glen, Silvertone, and -The Swift-, thanks for the ego boost.


Silvertone- i took a comics painting class with George when he visited SCAD. but i'm probly gonna go to the illustration academy in VA this summer so i can get some more guidance from good ol' George

here's a new dissaster. fucking around with some textures and colage in PS. (been looking at McKean all day)
i guess its a WIP, we'll see if i decide to develop it
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-20a.jpg

[AmishCommy]

some things i did the last few days.

quickie photoshop study from the back of my head:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-22a.jpg

and a sketch (with PS color study) for my Sniper comic which will probably never get finished:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-22b.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-23a.jpg

wish i had time to do more. kinda keeping up with this so as to get more practice

[AmishCommy]

goodies:

Don't know why it took me so long to do this:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-24a.jpg





and he're a preview of the new Sniper sketches i'm werking on:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-25c.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-25d.jpg



I'm way too lazy to bother with perspective so to make it werk and keep the spontanaiy i modeled some simple shapes in Maya and then used them as a guide for these sketches. Here's an example:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-25a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_02-25b.jpg

[GhostofMacbeth]

I really like the turning sniper shot for some reason. Nice stuff.

[Spacey]

I'm lovin your black and whites (especially the "Give me your lunch money" one)

Awesome, keep it up.

[AmishCommy]

holy poooo!

i've been neglecting this for some time now. pooo!

Glen, Spacey - thanks

just been so busy. and most of the new sketches are in my sketchbook and need to be scanned yet. i did these last nite instead of sleeping (oh man did i pay for it at werk today) i'm werking on some robot designs, mostly just fighting with shapes. trying to make them look cool.

enjoy





http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-17a.jpghttp://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-17b.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-17c.jpghttp://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-17d.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-17e.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-17f.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-17g.jpg

[AmishCommy]

weeeee! new update:


just screwing around:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-31a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_03-31b.jpg

[AmishCommy]

more:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-01a.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-01b.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-01c.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-01d.jpg http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-01e.jpg

[Silvertone]

I'm seein red x's from your Mckean inspired pic down-but I
CAN see them when I type my post, under my reply box!:confused:

Anyway cool pics.Your black&white mechas remind me in a way of an old Argentine artist named Alberto Breccia.Especially his L'eternaute stuff.

Sniper stuff is lookin sweet too.Um, you're way better than me, but, why don't you just throw down a freehand perspective grid instead of makin a 3d scene?!

Keep dem posts comin!

[MrSmith]

nice job.

vote
nader


heheheh

[AmishCommy]

mr. smith - thanks.
I'd vote for nader if I can be guaranteed that kerry will beat bush.

Silvertone - i'd like to check out this Alberto Breccia fellow. Do you have a link to his werk online? is there any werk of his online?

There's several reasons for me not doing freehand perspective. Although i know all the rulles and tricks of perspective, I never trully practiced them and thus i really suck at it. That and i don't have the patience for it. Plus all them lines get really confusing. and worst of all is the erasing. I HATE eracing. I'd rather start something from scratch than erace. I mean i do it when neccesary but i don't like it much. But there's another reason for faking the funk using maya. Besides practice with a program that may help in the job search, when you create a scene in maya you can always move it around and find a good shot, a better shot, or new way to illustrate a scene. its really a great tool.





ok as for my productive sunday (yeah right) here's something wierd. I know it doesnt look like anything special but this was somewhat hard to do. I went shopping for some art supplies today (there was a sale) and i got some graphite sticks. I took the HB one in my left hand and the 3B one in my right and tried drawing with both hands at the same time. the 3B in my right hand is the darker line.

This first one was fairly easy beacuse if i think about one type of hand movement and move both hands at the ssame time i'm able to get a pretty symetrical image (took me just over a minute for this one):
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-04a.jpg




This second image was a lot harder. it is really hard to control 2 seperate hands doing seperate tasks and seperate movements at the same time. I took my time with this one (about 5 minutes). once again the darker line is the right hand and the lighter is the left (in retrospect i probly should have used 2 seperate colors to illustrate my point):
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-04b.jpg

A long time ago i saw some learning chanel program where this asian monk used to write caligraphy with both hands as a method of meditation. He wrote not just different words but different sentences at the same time (all were part of the same poem or something). the most amazing of all, becides the beauty and preciceness of his caligraphy, was when he used 5 brushes utilizing his hands, legs and mouth to write 5 different lines of text.

[Silvertone]

Here's some Breccia links-

http://www.ninthart.com/display.php?article=646

http://grumble.free.fr/breccia.htm (http://http://grumble.free.fr/breccia.htm)

http://www.buchmesse.de/comic-argentina/ebrecciaf.htm (http://http://www.buchmesse.de/comic-argentina/ebrecciaf.htm)

[AmishCommy]

i am slack masta....havent updated in a while.

I've been getting wednsdays off work consistantly for the past few weeks so I made myself try my hand at oils again. still not happy with the results. I'm trying to paint some simple landscapes just to get away from my "comfort zone" My 2 major chalanges here is the fact that i'm still trying to figure this whole oil paint thing out. and the other is that i'm using a tiny canvas (6x8) which i'm not used to. i like to work large.

well here's the damage:


this one took about an hour to do. for me anything over 20 minutes becomes a big mess and looses its spontinaity. my major issues with this is that the values are mostly the same. makes everything too muddy.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-14a.jpg

this one took just over 15 mins: i got tired of it real quick
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-14b.jpg

round 2: just over an hour. dissaster
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-14c.jpg


this one i did last week. took just over an hour. same problems as the week before.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-21a.jpg

here's the B/W image off my camera. Values are almost non existant.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-21b.jpg



i'll try it again this week hopefuly with better results.

if anyone has any advice or pointers i'm all ears.

[AmishCommy]

ok. i know this is cheap... but i'm posting to salvage this thread from oblivion.

my internet connection has been giving me shit for the past 2 weeks and my server is giving me shit right now. I want to add some images but i'm having problems uploading them. so tomorrow i'l rock the super update. I have a ton of stuff to put up.







oh by the way. how do i go about having this thread switched to the daily sketchbooks thread?

[AmishCommy]

ok, here comes the big post.


I started taking a figure drawing class at the local museum. I figured that i havent done it for almost 2 years and i was missing it.

NOTE: all the really yellowed ones was me messing with the contrast in photoshop so that you can ake out the lines

this was the first day:

these first 4 were fairly quick warm up gesture sketches
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-13a.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-13b.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-13c.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-13d.jpg

this took about 15 mins
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-13e.jpg

these last 2 were me strugling with a long pose. I get too impatient when i have to do long poses in pencil. i finish them off too quick
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-13f.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-13g.jpg






heres the second day

Warm-up sketches
I love the sketch in the center of this page cause it only took 5 seconds.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27a.jpg

I swear thats a woman
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27b.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27c.jpg

I brought all my oils but forgot my palette. I just happened to have some watercolors on me so i busted those out
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27d.jpg

Composition sketch (love the right shoulder)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27e.jpg

I grew impatient and tried to see if any spontineity was ready to come out of me (apparently not)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27f.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27g.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27h.jpg

ok, there it is. This was a quick watercolor gesture (30secs)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27i.jpg

The final product (20 mins) Love that right shoulder
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27j.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-27k.jpg





ok, ill break these up over several posts

[AmishCommy]

this was an illustration i was werking on at the begining of the month. gotta finish it in the next few days but i'm not sure if i will.

here's the progress:
day 1
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_04-30a.jpg


day 2
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-02a.jpg

detail
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-02b.jpg


day 3 (check out my hot cheating action)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-03a.jpg

detail
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-03b.jpg

[AmishCommy]

more of big update:

Museum class
Day 3

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-04c.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-04d.jpg

This time i remembered the palette. I strugled with this piece. kinda rushed it and was paying for it afterwards. 1h20mins
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-04a.jpg

black and white shot to study the values
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-04b.jpg



day 4
I was on this day. must have been the warm ups.

warm ups 1min each:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11d.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11e.jpg

detail (love the face)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11f.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11g.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11h.jpg

detail (love the pose)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11i.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11j.jpg


oils: 1 hour each (done in 20min segments)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11a.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11b.jpg

quicky practice sketch
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11k.jpg

and final (started this one out with a pencil sketch which was dead on, then did some quick washes in oil to get the main value shapes down. looked like watercolor. then spent the rest of the hour fighting with the face, in reality the models face was wider and older)
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-11c.jpg

[Miau]

oh my god ... absolutely amazing sketches! wow!!!

[AmishCommy]

thankee

[AmishCommy]

man has it been long since i updated this thing. I wish I could say that i've been busy doing some awesome artwerk. Unfortunatly i've been slacking like a slaka.

these here are from the last few days of my Museum Class

Day 5

1 minute sketches
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-18a.jpg

2 minute
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-18b.jpg

15 min.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-18c.jpg

30 min.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-18d.jpg

1 hour painting
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-18e.jpg





Day 6

1 minute gestures

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-26a.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-26b.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-26c.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-26d.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_05-26e.jpg



Day 7

I started this painting in the previous class.

This was disasterous from the begining. we spent an hour trying to get the perfect pose. No one could agree on a final. The model's poses were all too stiff and that made them boring. when we finaly decided on a pose she relaxed to take a break and the pose turned out awesome. when she came back from break though she messed up the pose by switching her legs. no one noticed untill we started drawing. it seemed wierd. then i noticed it but by then it was too late. and this is how the sucking started. the next class we picked up where we left off. and the sucking continued. I would have done better and more if i would have just started from scratch.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_06-01a.jpg

the smeared leg happende while driving home like a maniac. it actualy made it better.

[AmishCommy]

i was checking out Phil Holland's pics from the workshop and di this quicky ink drawing of the girl doing the fire dance with my new Niji pen. (its like a Sumi brush and a caligraphy pen in one)

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_06-27a.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_06-27b.jpg




and these are just doodles (testing out the Niji pen):

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_06-26a.jpg

[AmishCommy]

this is the illustration i've been working on for my portfolio for the Comic Con in San Diego. I'm leaving for it in a few hours. The illustration is long from being done:


http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_07-21a.jpg




this second one is s beter compsition version. The shaddow is more dynamic. the only problem is i'll have to change the lighting in the foreground figure. there's just not enough time before the con. this will be a project for when i get back


http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_07-21b.jpg

[AmishCommy]

boy have i been slacking. no updates in sever months.

i did these in PS today. PS is being wierd on me. I lost like half my settings and half my filters (not that i use the filters). This is a project i'm starting (returning to). these are ment to be both color and compositional sketches. no ref.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_09-13a.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_09-13b.jpg
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_09-13c.jpg



My comp was infected with all kinds of nasty shit when i got back from Cali. I had to reinstall everything, format the C: drive. PAIN. I ended up loosing a ton of links to everyone's sites and some of my favorite PS brushes. HATE!!!!
oh well.

I'm moving to NYC in a few weeks and once i get set up there i'm gonna scan in my summer sketchbook. its filled with sketches from the ComicCon, cali, and NYC.

[AmishCommy]

something i started last night. may do a process sequence (eventhough there is no process) just kinda jumping in and seeing waht happens.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_09-14a.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_09-14b.jpg

[maxetormer]

This last one has very lovely natural stance to
it i like it a lot, your caracters flow and
dont look stiff thats something that i like
a lot on an image.

keep it up and keep posting :D

[AmishCommy]

weee, a reply!
thanks for the kind words maxetormer. I just moved to NYC and i don't have my set up quite ready yet that's why no new updates. haven't done too much new work. but after this week i should have my new comp here and as soon as i get it set up you can be sure i'll be updating like mad.

[AmishCommy]

UUUUUUUUPDATE!!!!


damn was this thread beginning to get neglected or waht?

So i moved to NYC and took my swet time getting a new comp and getting myself situated. But lo and behold - NEW WORK!!!!!


So i figured that its about time to graduate from Photoshop 5.5 (main reason is that i needed the whole folder structure in the Layer pallete - it still sucks cause i cant get extensis to work properly on PS CS) also my new comp is a little wierd and won't let me install the drivers for the Wacom. so this was done with a Wacom that only works like a mouse (no presure sencitivity and no erase)

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_11-16a.jpg

What's really cool about the new PS is all the fun things i can do with the brushes. The piece above took forever to do and its not finnished but i got this nice textural look to it that resembles the way i normaly paint. Here's a detail:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_11-16aDetail.jpg






and this is a project i'm working on:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2004_-_11-16b.jpg

[AmishCommy]

Been cranking all week doing storyboards for an indie film. I went a little overboard with the finality of them. I know i'm spending way too long on them (especialy for waht i'm getting paid) but i want them to look sassy cause they'll be used to sell the movie to investors. Can't go into details of the movie. Still don't know a lot of them anyways. These are some of my favorites.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/Storyboards/11-06FINAL.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/Storyboards/11-08FINAL.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/Storyboards/11-09FINAL.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/Storyboards/11-15FINAL.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/Storyboards/11-30FINAL.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/Storyboards/12-04FINAL.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/Storyboards/13-01FINAL.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/Storyboards/13-03FINAL.jpg

[AmishCommy]

took a few minutes to myself and did some quicky sketches to experiment with brush uptions in PS8.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2005_-_01-04a.jpg



this one i'm gonna develop further.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2005_-_01-04b.jpg


Detail:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2005_-_01-04bDetail.jpg







Happy New Year to all.

[tensai]

really enjoyed this mess you got going overhere. its nice to see some more rough work on this forum.

keep it coming man. :vodka1:

[H.Evans]

hey cool my vote counts!! i got you a 4... keep up the good work. its good to see you focus on spontaneity, it will be interesting to see if you can spend more time refining some pieces without messing them up like you say happens, i guess try workng tight in just a few selective areas if you dont do that already

[AmishCommy]

tensai - thanks dude, I'm all about the rough stuff. there's more energy there.


Hillartsympho - thanks for the rating man. I was doing my best not to be an ass and give myself a 5 (or any rating for that matter). as for tightening up -- I was looking at HPX's thread and mining it for info on his process. I got some tips about PS brushes and went to town on a quicky:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2005_-_01-06a.jpg



so here's waht i did with this piece:

I started off with a quick gesture of the skull in PS8 using a small round brush. Then I rockes a dry brush for some texture. After that I printed out a copy and threw some ink on it. I use a toothpick to add some quick gestural texture. then a nib for some touchups and the splater. (I loves me some splatter) Then is scanned it in and played around with the colors in several multiply layers. (i'll post the layers over the weekend for all to see) the whole thing took about 2-3 hours but the only reason is that i was experimenting with the brushes and color.

[AmishCommy]

here are some of the individual layers for the piece above.


Here's the tighter version of the initial sketch. as i said in the previous post, I did a quicky sketch in PS then layed in some tone and texture with ink and a toothpick.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/skull-A.jpg


then a background color on a seperate layer.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/skull-B.jpg


new layer> with some push and pull of color and value. note the introduction of complementary cools:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/skull-C.jpg


This is waht it looks like on top of the background color:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/skull-D.jpg


Then I wanted some green in there to give it a pukeish color. I made a green layer and changed the layer to overlay instead of normal. Then I pulled out some highlights and darks with the eracer:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/skull-E.jpg


this is waht it looks like with the color layer:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/skull-F.jpg


and then the Final with the background color:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/2005_-_01-06a.jpg

[buZu]

:O im stonned....

[AmishCommy]

here's a WIP of a pic i did over the summer. I restarted it with a slightly new composition. this is my 4th time restarting it. Trying to finish it this week to submit to sectrum 12:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/lionblade06FL-A.jpg

[AmishCommy]

here's the final image I'm submiting to Spectrum 12:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/lionblade06FINAL.jpg

[AmishCommy]

I've sorta been meaning to do a tutorial of sorts.

so here's the start. This is generaly how i work. this is not recomended becasue in reality its a stupid way to work.


1. I start making some doodles in PS. I sould be thingking about waht I'm trying to show and composition, but in reality I just try to let go and let my subconsious drive my hand. The poses I end up doing turn out the same and fairly static. but occasionally something interesting happens.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/WIPs/vamp01.jpg


2. then i throw down some color to see if something happens that sparks my interest in the sketch. I like the one with the chick resting the gun on her leg. This is a character of mine and I sort of have a vauge story that I can attach to the sketch.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/WIPs/vamp02.jpg


3. I like the forshortened leg so I start developing it. So far everything is going good. I use a round brush with the opacity set to pen pressure (thanks HPX). Added some complimentary color and started checking my values by converting to greyscale. So i decide that I want to comit myself to this sketch and try to make it into a finished illustration.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/WIPs/vamp03.jpg


4. here I crop out the other doodles and flatten all the layers (i had the line work on layer 1, initial color on layer 2 in multiply mode, and a color overlay on layer 3). Then I bump up the image to 300 dpi at about letter size. I like to work big.

Then I move the arms a little to fix some anatomy issues. left shoulder in a little and right shoulder a little higher. (in reality to save yourself time you should work out the anatomy and composition sketches first then start in with the color.) I fix up the face a little but looking aty it now It looks way off and will definetly be changed.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/WIPs/vamp04.jpg


5. this is really not a big step from #4 - extend the canvas and work out the left leg in a new layer.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/WIPs/vamp05.jpg


tomorrow I'll start fresh on it with more work. Also try to convince friends to pose for reference. Tune in tomorrow night.

[AmishCommy]

did another hour on the WIP.

Over waht little sleep i got last night my mind resolved the composition slightly. So the back story is that her teammate was just injured by a terrorist bomb. Her Teammate is a HUGE dude that is not easily injured. She managed to get to the terrorist first - cornered him in an alley. I basically have this loose framework for a story and i'm playing around with scenarios and story ideas.


6. So here I basically addes the dude on a new layer. Had to have him lean on something so I added the box. I started adding some backgrounsd elements but then got rid of them because they didnt help the composition and I was doing it haphazardly without much thought. I'll work on it a little later.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/WIPs/vamp06.jpg


7. Added some color. Gonna change the lighting to come more from above rather than the left corner. De-emphisized her face so that it stops distracting me. That probably what i'll work on next.
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/WIPs/vamp07.jpg

[AmishCommy]

sooo much slacking on my part.

ok - does anyone remember the comic RAZOR from london night studios. Here's my version:


http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/RazorSketch01.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/RazorSketch02.jpg

this is still in sketch phase.
Don't ask me why i did this (I'm not allowed to tell)

[Moysturfurmer]

Your spectrum 12 image is great. I love the lighting.
And can we get the name of the film you're working (worked?) on, or is that classified?

[AmishCommy]

Moysturfurmer - thanks dude. I redid the image a few times becasue i wasnt happy with the lighting. Still not entirely happy with it.

the boards were for a movie called "The Pure" The movie was scrapped last month. I didnt find out untill Friday though. I even started the next batch of boards. It was supposed to be a break out movie for this director, Z (he's got some wierd arabic name that i can never remember), I met in NY. It was also supposed to be produced by Jeff Most, one of the dudes responcible for produssing all the "Crow" movies. The movie was scrapped to work on a Live action version of the "Razor" comic. That's what the previous sketch is for. I think i was supposed to keep this under wraps for another week but fuck it. I'm not getting paid enough to care. The Razor movie was writen by Most. and so far the script sucks. I can't get past the first 10 pages on it. Z is planning to change a lot of the script.

[AmishCommy]

some things i've been working on today instad of the illustration I have to be working on for the movie.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/ElfQueen.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/Orc01.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/Orc02.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/fightScene1.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/fightScene2.jpg

[AmishCommy]

here is my best Justin Sweet imitation. Still working on this. This one will be finished (unlike the others)

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/fightScene3c.jpg

[AmishCommy]

lets see, Final image for the orc battle scene:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/fight%20scene%203%20FINAL.jpg



and a new one i'm working on. the progress so far:

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/skeletonAP-A.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/skeletonAP-B.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/skeletonAP-C.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/skeletonAP-D.jpg

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/BlizzardJpgs/skeletonAP-E.jpg



its almost dawn so i guess its time to call it quits for the night. will definetly pick this up later tonite.

[AmishCommy]

man have i been neglecting this thread or what?

here's a new sketch i did today out in central park. Wemt out to people watch and to draw them too but ended up doing my own thing. This is for my "Master and Servant" entry for CGTalk.

http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/CGNetChallenge/girl-Ideas05b.jpg


this is charcoal and chalk on velum. its a lot of fun to play with. the Charcoal glides on like paint and comes off similar to the same efficiencey as working with a photoshop eracer. spent about 20 minutes on this one. started off with the head and then the drawing kinda evolved by itself.

[AmishCommy]

i am such a slacker. fist update in 3 months.

here's something i started a few weeks ago and now i'm sitting back down with it and i'm lost.

so it started out like this (some washes layered in PS with some effects on top. got the technique from Scott Robertson):
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/funeral-proccession01.jpg


and here's where its at right now:
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/funeral-proccession02.jpg

and a darker version
http://www.arkadyroytman.com/drop/StudioJournal/funeral-proccession03.jpg

so this is supposed to be a funeral proccession. i havent gotten that far though. the things in the foreground are monks simillar to the one on the bridge. havent done any details on them either. so other than the unfinished portions, any problems you see, or critues you have, lay them on me.