Environmental Sketches/Studies

[brasshorsekiller]

I'm not really used to painting in Photoshop without lineart, so I've been doing these for practice over the past couple days. It's a really fun way to learn.
Each sketch took about 20 minutes.

Any advice/feedback would be good. Thanks.

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS1.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS2.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS3.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS4.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS5.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS6.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS7.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS8.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS9.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS10.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS11.jpg

http://www.wildpixels.com/brasshorse/images/sketch/LS12.jpg

-a

[mtomczek]

wow. Nice work dawg. They are progressively getting better.

[ChaosEidolon]

hmm...good idea. great way to get the creative juices flowing im sure.
The colors you picked are great for the mood of the pieces

[cartoonfox]

cool work, cant find anything wrong really. maybe a bit bigger?

keep it up.

(btw, i LOOOVVVE your creature designs. and even though i only found out about your art a few days ago, your my biggest insperation. keep posting :))

[hethe]

Man I had to reply here too because these are so cool! Gunbattle yay!

.hethe

[spok]

amazing work man...fuckin'amazing

[I.was.ink]

These are great.

I like how you captured different moods in each of them.

What if you tried rugged terrain? Cliffs, mountain sides, caves, ditches, canyons, that sort of thing.

:)

[Phuzion]

Yeah! Brasshorsekiller comin' in full effect! Heavyweight hitter in tha' house! Really really nice moods. I like the exploration with the particles, great choices there. I also love the tilted camera angles. Good stuff! Peace

[daarken]

awesome stuff. i really like the mood and colors for each composition. nice directional elements with the lights and little floating thingies.

[Nucleardan]

i'm diggin' the bamboo forest the most. Haha, kind of reminds me of Samurai Jack. :)

Dan

[AndreasM]

Theese ones were uber! `nuff said..:D

[rothgar]

all of them are nice, but I especially like #8, great atmosphere for a forest fire

[Nimrod]

Ooohh nice. I bet these are really fun to do. They make very engaging pictures despite simple compositions - I think this simplicity is one of the hardest things to acheive in art. Well done! Inspires me to make some of my own!

[Shadowkiller]

nicely done i like how it goes from a rough real look to almost a cartoon look

[Kress]

these are done with no sketches? I hate you. I hate to say it but I have no crits dude, as studies/exersizes they're strong, clear and the palletes are all congealed. If I was smart I'd try some myself, but I'm dumb, and afraid of color haha.
I like the tilting of the cameras too...
Now that you've done this, take what you've learned and make some a bit bigger, but with one or two more colors added to each pallette to make them a bit harder to deal with.
Post more I hate you, err, uh - I mean, I love you. No, not you, your work. God nevermind.

[jmascho]

nice dude

The atmospheric sense of them is convincing, nice play on the colors/moods. I'm glad you progressively got away from the little lights. :D

[Red_Rook]

NICE, the little partical elements (leaves or what ever else is appropriate) give it alot of atmosphere. Im also really digin the bamboo. =) Nice One.


-Rook

[Genesis]

All this without lineart? Amazing, keep em coming :chug:

[f00l]

these are brilliant ...

[remedial]

these rock :) they acheive so much for being sketches and they really have me wondering/creating stories behind each. great stuff man!

[Strang]

great use of colors

-Strang

[pogonip]

Keep that up it's a great practice for color ...reminds me of disney animations color keys :beer:

[Rusty Red Robot]

Nice pictures! Great colors! I especially like the one with lave/fire in the ground and firey cracks in the pillars/burned trees.

[brasshorsekiller]

Haha Kress. :)

Thanks a bunch for the feedback, everyone. I really do appreciate it. I'll try to post more stuff soon.

[rubygenesis]

awesome, i await the more stuffs ~_~

[shyst]

BRASS HORSE IS ONE MY FAV ARTISTS.....

his website is killer his colors are killer these are killer....

he should be a pro in no time.....

those darn canadians..like john byrne -steven platt-

Brass will follow....

more bra!

...shyst
Bernini-

[DragonGX]

:cool:

[die_with_honor]

like it all

[talmir]

I like them, I really do. But the particle effects are a bit overdone. They fit in some but in others I think they´re a bit overdone. Use them, by all means, just no all the time.

[marc_taro]

hey - good stuff, cool to see you testing new work. Are you still drawing these with a mouse? if so - even more impressive...

~m