LonelyAmoeba's Sketchbook

[LonelyAmoeba]

ok here is my online sketch book, critics very welcome.

[LonelyAmoeba]

been doing lots of drawing lately but its mostly boring stuff, ill post these up instead. i dont really like the way i coloured these but they are the first ones i have ever done so ill play around more.

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

i like what you did on scan 12

strange sketches i like it

[LonelyAmoeba]

Thanks `ej! it was a while ago i painted that and i remember trying to copy what i did but never being able to get it looking the same again.

[Feil Magnus]

omg your characters are scaaarry, their evil smile give me the chill
well depending on what you aim, you may work on anatomy a little to give some structure to some characters, scans 6 and 7 are very good, shadows well rendered, they even look real, very god ones.
keep posting and welcome

[LonelyAmoeba]

Hey thanks for the comment Feil Magnus, yeah i think i will start learning anatomy i havent really looked in to it too much before.

this one is from today, wierd perspective.

[Vingrey]

Mwahaha, wicked style man! As mangus said, work on anatomy! It'll boost quality of your pictures. Style is there already, and I love it! =)

The last one is just "WTF?!" (in the good way of course).
The skeleton looks pretty much okay by the way. The arm is a bit long though. And watch out for "falling syndrome". Vertical line of mass should help prevent this.

Let us see more!

[LonelyAmoeba]

Thanks Vingrey! yeah i see what you mean im definitely drawing those forearms too long, i tend to do it with the legs aswell i've noticed. been working on bits of anatomy here and there though i like the cartoony style much better its good to know anatomy!

heres one from today, a landscape and some of my posemaniacs 30 sec pose sketches.

[LonelyAmoeba]

i just did this aswell, playing around with photoshop. i like the way what little background i did turned out

[LonelyAmoeba]

I just did this, now my eyes are blurry. i dont think it was worth it.

[LonelyAmoeba]

playing around, like this one

[LonelyAmoeba]

did this today, character concept. rock and roll ak47 white trash, meet Nate.

[LonelyAmoeba]

new pics from today

[LonelyAmoeba]

i started a little animation and got bored of it very quickly, this is all i finished. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=guYN4TaRsRk)

i did this sketch today, i really dont like it when i draw like this, the style bugs me.

[LonelyAmoeba]

two more

[LonelyAmoeba]

did this today, heres the sketch, the paint (because i thought it looked pretty cool by itself) and then them combined

[LonelyAmoeba]

this was surprisingly fun

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

wow very nice updates and cool pose studies aswell
keep it up!!

maybe try to use some different material and also mix things
( like working on different paper, cutting things out paste it on top of something for example)
just trying to give advise :D

[ashess]

hi there amoeba. some nice things here. espec the colors bring it alive. but I'm a little confused to where this is all leading. maybe you should tell us a little about yourself and what you want with your work?
Nate reminds me of the preacher from Trigun.. which is good :p

[LonelyAmoeba]

Hey Thanks `ej! yeah i've been thinking about getting some textured paper to do some doodles on when i get it i will upload what i make! for the moment im having lots of fun making digital stuff though

Thankyou ashess too! i haven't seen any trigun before but im glad you like him! i guess maybe i should talk about myself yes? but i thought it would be boring. Im not actually sure what im looking to achieve yet, im 20 years old and am just starting a design and art course next year (which includes some life drawing!), im very interested in art, illustration, animation, concept art everything 2d, some 3d, digital, traditional a bit of everything really and im not sure which direction i'd like to take. i just want to make art and get these things out of my head :blahblah: self expression i guess

[LonelyAmoeba]

if i finish this im afraid ill be arrested. and some sketchbook stuff too.

[Bahne]

Very interesting stuff u got here :)
keep it up :)

[LonelyAmoeba]

painted this today in gouache

[ashess]

hehe. nuffing wrong with a broad interest. what do you mean afraid you'll get arrested?
anyway, what direction isnt really important yet. there's a lot of symbolism in your stuff though. you can not tell us what its about. but I think you should yourself have a clear idea of what its about. Like that drawing 'questionable'. a male figure, in a somewhat african style, manhandling a baby. that's what I see. is that what you are wanting to portray?
you stuff is like little messages. what are they saying? :D

[LonelyAmoeba]

Hey Thanks for coming back ashess! i was just meaning that its such an inappropriate picture it'l get me arrested (haha) yeah i do have ideas i pour into these and i know what they are to me, there is a certain degree of paranoia in them i've noticed though :S

these are sketchbook pages from today

[LonelyAmoeba]

i have this problem where i hate most everything i draw or make, i try my best to ignore it but it is very hard on motivation.