A.Combarty's Pork Bound Ball of Sketch

[ArtyCombarty]

Two figures, one stout and heavy with a white winter cap, the other top heavy with salt on its rim and an olive for a hat, sloshed over a cyberhill on one dark internet evening, spraying their vital juices everywhere with the effort. But before the last of their deliciousness spilled onto the webbish grass, they saw before them a website filled with artish fancies, and they knew they had found paradise.

Overly eloquent introduction aside, hello! I was just introduced to this site today by a user who goes to school with me, and after having a fairly long look over it, I find it absolutely fantastic. This being the case, I would like to be a part of it, starting with some fishy sketchiness. Critiques are most welcome, as I need to get better, and I love learning from others on how to improve. My current tip-top goal is, at the moment, to go to art school and dabble in matters illustrative, though others include improving anatomy drawing skills, becoming comfortable with a variety of mediums, and learning to observation sketch, something that I never really learned how to do.

That being said, a swarm o' sketches across the land!

PS: Remind me to use better lighting.

[the ANGRY filipino]

Welcome to CA, the breeding ground of Art Monsters!
Keep drawing and learning...this is the place to level up
your art.
If you are serious in improving..stick around CA, you will be glad you did.

I like the way you did the third drawing ( the inked one)..its got some mood,
and those frown lines on his forehead look like the frown lines on my own actual forehead..lol.

Keep on drawing and posting!

[Psychotime]

The first pick REALLY reminds me of a creation by Doug TenNapel

[vardoburrito]

That watercolor reminds me of all the kids book I used to, NOT read, but
just look at.

Nice intro also.
(I wish I had something like that hanging around in my head, to no avail)
:)

[ArtyCombarty]

His name was El Pompadour Panbreadastino, but to his enemies, he was known as the Loaf, a fluffy, but imposing, figure dressed immaculately in the finest suit and tie money could afford. I knew him well, too well, I reflected as he loomed before me, blocking the only way out. I gulped, too loudly, and he silently sensed my fear, chuckling to himself. He knew my ways, how I hadn't gone to the gym in years for fear of head perspiration, how I could hardly walk up a flight of stairs without the assistance of a forklift. And as my last meal churned in my belly, he goaded me, one last thing to do before the lunch hour was done. One last thing. Tears in my eyes, knowing there was no way out, I did his bidding, hands trembling, lower lip quivering. Those blasted carbohydrates interferring with my diet, blast them! Blast them! Blast them! Blast them!


Thanks for the feed back! And I had never heard of Doug TenNapel until you mentioned him, Psychotime, but I looked at some of his images, and they're pretty fantastic! I must view more of his art in the immediate future, thinks I. Indeed, says me in return? Quite so, retorted I to me matter-of-factly.

Some sketches I did while doing research for my next piece. The idea behind this is a female figure interracting with nature, but it got out of hand as you can see. Work is needed on my female anatomy, surprise surprise. More complete material tomorrow. Cheers!

[5coop]

Hey patrick wassup. Glad i found ya. Anyways like i mentioned in class, i love the black one with the wrinkles. Glad some people agree with me. AHahah nice snale joke but your girl needs a lot more work! especially the one on top.

[ArtyCombarty]

All my girls need work, mang. In my little art world, they're all, sadly, born deformed because of exposure to radioactive Gerber's apple goo. Or something. I dunno, I'll improve if I keep at it, which I plan to do!

[ArtyCombarty]

Oh, to be a fluttering sea unicorn, so full of life and gaity, speeding through the azure depths, leaving a rainbow wake behind. What joys I would experience as I gallopped about wonderous coral complexes and through dazzling schools of bejeweled fish. And when I would get caught in a net, my magic horn wouldn't do very much, but at least I would be oh so colorful!

More anatomy, something that must be addressed! Hopefully I'll get a realistic sketch ( a REAL realistic sketch) done this weekend. In the mean time, we must contend with El Phunkaloco and his watercolored antics.

[ArtyCombarty]

When choosing a spanking new bass guitar with which to use as a grotesque replacement for a magnificent scepter for the time when I sit the throne of the world, questions come to mind, important ones concerning the physical nature of such a bejeweled baton. Primarily, how does it splinter when I smash it against an amplifier? Does it twang when it does so? Is there a bacon compartment? These things are vital to which item I shall nominate as that with which I rule the planet.

In this edition, Shockwave gets fried. Hooray watercolors!

[ArtyCombarty]

Whilst traversing the desolate city walks in search of nutrition, we, that is, the Admiral and I, came across, quite fortuitously, a most looming structure of commanding presence, a lonely iron mountain separated from us by a wall of tin, a partly constructed hospital. How we wanted to melt down that metal barrier and see what secrets lurked between its beams, what mysteries called from its colossal catwalks.

Unfortunately, under construction hospitals are off limits to the public, so after snapping pictures of the fantastic looking building, I sketched a part of it, a prefab office and the main compound itself behind it. I loved every bit of it! And it gave me the opportunity to improve my observation sketching skills. Huzzah, Admiral, our quick journey for lunch culminated with great productivity!

[Redfrog]

Some nice stuff here, man...and i really did the humour in your posts as well. Great stuff...keep it up!

[ArtyCombarty]

Caught up in the Spider's web, we took tea of fly, overlooking the dusty room that the Spider had constructed his home within. He balanced his saucer on one spindly leg and slurped the brown liquid up through his mandibles. "What I am most concerned about," he said, continuing his previous comment (one of such strange diction that I shan't trouble you with it exactly) is that there isn't enough expression in my world. We are limited to the meticulous engineering of our webs, but they are all of a fairly standardized design. Where are the Goyas, the Eschers, the Worhols of the arachnids? If you look at enough wbs, you realize that they are all the same thing, effectively, and you tire of them." I nodded in agreement as I wriggled and undulated my body as the Spider put his tea cup down on a sticky string and went to fetch some biscuits.

A poor sketching day today, but I struggled through my frustration and got some work done that are signs of improvement, I think. Also, two realistic sketchs from Saturday, done as best I could. The good news, I think they turned out realistic. The bad news, the person I sketched doesn't looklike that at all!

[ArtyCombarty]

Flipping open a dictionary causes one to wonder what people were thinking when they came up with words. Some mischievous prankster must have conjured up the word "winkle-picker" and convinced everyone else that it was a smart way of saying "pointed shoe." Oh, how terribly misinformed they were.

The realistic faces I made with the help of those fantastic head sketching tutorials in the assistance section. I tried not to look at the faces provided too much, unless stuck, and tried to stick to interpreting what I was supposed to do through the text. It was quite fun, and I learned a lot! Thanks to fredflickstone for posting those!

[FightingSeraph]

That's some great stuff that you have there. As for Doug TenNapel, he created Earthworm Jim for Shiny Entertainment, along with Klaymen, Project Geeker, and Sockbaby.