Henk's sketches

[HumbleHenk]

Thought I'd start one of these.

Constructive critique is most appreciated!

[HumbleHenk]

Okay. Now I know how this attachment manager works. Will post more appropiate sizes next time.

[Christoffer]

Oh my, that figure painting rocks. Having that slimy character right next to kind of gives a split impression. Haha! I'm guessing you used photo ref for it. Must've taken some time. Impressive nonetheless, not to mention the other two. Great start. Välkommen, förresten.

[Peetaer]

Very very cool stuff. Let's see some more....please.

[HumbleHenk]

Oh my, that figure painting rocks. Having that slimy character right next to kind of gives a split impression. Haha! I'm guessing you used photo ref for it. Must've taken some time. Impressive nonetheless, not to mention the other two. Great start. Välkommen, förresten.

Well thank ye. Yup, used a ref for it and it took about 2-3 hours. Och tackar. ^_^

[HumbleHenk]

Some more female forms.

About 3-4 hrs methinks.

[HumbleHenk]

A little humanoid tick I produced in about 4-5 hours.

[HumbleHenk]

Started doodleing something for practice of anatomy (esp. hands). After a little while I thought about turning it into something else, something more complex. The thing is that I have no idea what, so I put it on hold for now.

Nothing much right now, but you'll get half an arm atleast. :P

[HumbleHenk]

Here are a few graphite sketches. Some of them are pretty old, like a year or so. The women are kinda new though.

When I sketch like this I don't really go for the likeness. More form. I've sketched far too little in my days, so I'm kinda benighted when it comes to anatomy or sketching in general for that matter. Some things I get but mostly I'm fumbling. Plannin' on doing something about that. So you'll get alot of anatomy, studies of people and quick paintings/concepts/sketches from now on.

[HumbleHenk]

Woopsie, forgot the actuall drawings. Well HERE they are. *slaps forhead*

[HumbleHenk]

Some more of that arm. It multiplied. Meant as an anatomy study of male arms.

[Kfeeras]

wheeeew really awesome start, man!!! Great pencils and sense of shape and form!! Hope u keep up ;-)

cu

[HumbleHenk]

Thank ye Kfeeras. Don't worry, I'll never stop. ;)

Here's something I cooked up during a few beers with a friend.

About 4-5 hrs. Practising colours. ( I guess you can see who I used as reference, allthough I changed a few features :P )

There's a bigger version On my DA page. http://twistmyflesh.deviantart.com/art/Priestess-of-hell-111183778

[GimpPainter]

Hi

the last picture is really Nice

[HumbleHenk]

A wip. Started this a few hrs ago. Still practising colour. Tell me what you think.
I will start doing full body shots soon I promise.

[HumbleHenk]

Here's a piece for colour and anatomy(hand) practise. A slightely irritated, frustrated gambler.

Tell me what you think.

[Christoffer]

What I think? Well...um gee. It kicks ass, simple as that. He totally looks like he put out a major sigh and gave up. Very nice updates over all. Looking forward to your full body paintings/sketches..anything really.

[HumbleHenk]

Tackar tackar. Other than main practise of the aspects I mentioned, that was the feel I was going for. Nice to see someone interested ^_^

Here's a very quick one (15 min perhaps) done with a few beers running through my veins :S. I am totally inexperienced when it comes to colour. Haven't really studied any colour theory or anything so I'm fumbling in the dark. Did this to try what would happen if I went through a colour scale of green, blue, red and yellow.

Next one'll be a full body.

Anyways, time for bed methinks.

[DaStreets]

Veru very good digital work. Tons of details and depth. Great focus and style. Please keep posting. Comment me if u like, thanks

[HumbleHenk]

Started this an hour ago. Colour and anatomy practise again. Going for a slightly deformed style.
Not the final form. I just started rendering the peck and shoulder to decide which colours to use.

[HumbleHenk]

Another wip. It turned into something I didn't expect. But that is something one have to count with when started out with no plan at all other than "I'm have to practise some anatomy".

Again, it's not finished. Gonna take a break to rest my arm and watch a movie. Probably "outlander". See If it's worth the time.

[Zeus12]

Good job with anatomy, I like the multiple hand concept. I can't wait to see your WIP finished.

Keep postin, you will be popular soon I reckon' :)

[HumbleHenk]

Thank you Zeus12. I hope you're right.

Here's the dude completed. Named it "Hotheaded", thought it seemed appropiate.

Need to practise clothes and textiles...badly.

[HumbleHenk]

Hah, thought I'd do a mini challenge over at cgsociety. A 35 min sketch of what one consider "Pure evil". I didn't notice until after I was done that this particular segment of the challenge forum was active 2007. *slaps forhead*

Anyways, here it is..

[HumbleHenk]

I thought it had potential so I started making it into a real painting..

Here's a half rendered teaser :P

[Vloth]

Fun to see you here too! I always enjoy to see people's sketchbooks and not only their finished art. Also, those pencill sketches are looking good!
Hurra hurra!

[HumbleHenk]

Hi there Vloth. Nice to see you've started a sketchbook here too. Thanks btw. ^_^

Some environments done today for practise. I'm trying to capture a feel for an upcoming piece. I tend to never do any backgrounds so I'm pretty new at it.
I love eerie swamps and cozy ancient forests so I practise those, for I intend to work my art into a certain direction, where I hope it will be considered cozy, magical and often tranquil (when I don't do macabre stuff that is). And It's pretty hard to portray a certain atmposhere when there's no environments in the piece. So I practise :) .

Spent about 30 min on each, give or take 10 min. Photoshop.

[nurraymjo]

Man your stuff looks great.

[Obstbrand]

your understanding of lights & shadows is great!

keep it up mate

[Janos]

The enviros are really nice. Try adding details to make them interesting and not just moody. #23 doesn't work for me. The lighting is very nice and original and teh concept as well, but the forshortening looks wrong. The hand seems small.
Try taking a pic of you in that position.

[HumbleHenk]

nurraymjo - Thanks !

Obstbrand - Thank ye. And don't worry I'll never stop.

Janos - Ah, these enviros where only to get a feel for it. But I'll keep that in mind till next time I sketch environments. And ah, you're entirely correct there. I was busy getting the anatomy correct-looking so I missed that. Will practise some forshortening. Thank ye for the C&C, most appreciated.

Now here's another environment wip. Will work my ass of on this one methinks. There'll be a character thrown in later (Was thinking about an alien shaman or somethin like that, perhaps a hunter.). 1 h in so far perhaps.

[HumbleHenk]

A WIP. Started rendering the environment. I'm still decideing what sort of character I'll add later. The lower dark area might become a stream or some kind of body of water. I feel kinda sure about rendering the background before deciding the rest since this one will probably work as just an environment piece by itself.

perhaps 3-4 hours in so far.

[HumbleHenk]

A few 1-3 min poses (and one super duper special thumbnail environment :P ). I suck at this. So I practise ^_^ Want get more precision in my lines so I do these fast ones. So far it's pretty cylindrical and blocky shapes ( I'm VERY heavy handed). Gonna do a few pages every day from now on. Hopefully in a few months they'll be a bit more fluent.

References from fashion magazines and The last of the Mohicans.

[HumbleHenk]

Thought I'd post another WIP of the environment I'm doing. It's about 40% done. I'll add more vegetation one the ground level, perhaps some more atmospheric effects, and then a character. The forground is temporary I think, probably do something about it at a later stage but then again, perhaps I won't.

And another sneakpeek of the ugly fellow I'm doing in between.

[Feldbusch]

Really cool !!! like it :D

[Artastic]

Wow, great work. I think I hate you. In a good way. lol. Man, I hope to be this good one day. Your pieces rock.

[Helltroll]

Bravo, sir. Mindblowing forms and values.

[HumbleHenk]

Feldbusch - Thanks!

Artastic - Heh, keep on hating ;)

Helltroll - Thank ye thank ye.

Now here's just something quick in between. My friend referenced.

Around 3 hours.

[HumbleHenk]

Dug up some old sketches to show ye. Two birdie tattoo designs, a woman and my hands from years back.

[HumbleHenk]

Two quick SP's for ye.

[David79]

great sketchbook have here mate ! great palette of color :D

[Christoffer]

Jösses! O_O
Those SPs are great, especially the right one (I think you have a new avatar haha). I'm digging the horror theme, and that portrait of your friend is also very nicely done. Good job on the expressions. I also like the choice of colors, not to mention in everything else here. I want to do digital SPs too but my last efforts have been horrible to say the least, so I need to study more before I even think of doing another digi SP. That environment is coming along very well. It's going to look gorgeous. I'm jealous. Looking forward to seeing a full picture of that pure evil character. CGsociety is a great place. Haven't been there for ages though. Keep working hard, mate!

[HumbleHenk]

David79: Thanks! ^_^

Christoffer: Sorry for the late reply. Thanks. Well what is the best way to study if not paint and draw? So start doing them sp's right away mate! The pure evil guy (which is now called "Dirty") is coming soon...I hope. Have a comission I'm gonna finish before I do personal stuff again. But expect some sloppy, badly done sketches and whatnot.

Here're some creature heads for ye.

[Vloth]

freaky sp's D: though really good. ah yes, keep it uppp!

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

wowow what a work u got

those digitals and sketches are excellent

sooo niceee

[Gloominati]

Ah Man, fucking sweet work all the way, thanks for sharing!!
Lets pimp this thread with some stars :yayca:

[Bacard]

This stuff's sick. Keep it up, man! :D

[HumbleHenk]

Vloth: tackar ;)

`ej: Ey, thanks man! ^_^

Gloominati: You flatter me. Thanks a bunch mate!

Bacard: Thank ye. I sure will .

[HumbleHenk]

Hi there..Been a bit lazy lately, with submitting new works and sketches that is, not doing them. I'm doing a bunch of sketches and small paintings for school applications. So I'll post two small acrylic doodles from those. Slightely referenced from fashion magazines.

[HumbleHenk]

Here's tonights doodles.

[HumbleHenk]

Working on a comission which is fuckin boring. Took a break and did a sp instead.

from photo around 3 hrs.

[MGLDyson]

Hey, man.

Really diggin' the palette you've got going on with your painted stuff. It really compliments the sunject matter's tone.

Your environment is really shaping up nicely, too.

[HumbleHenk]

Oy MGLDyson. Thank ye.
Yeah, I try experimenting quite alot with colours nowadays. Trying to go outside of my comfort zone.

The environment I think you're talking about is finished and can be found here: http://twistmyflesh.deviantart.com/art/Quarrel-114583723

[revenebo]

Awesome stuff... I like the b&w images the most (like the last three creatures faces).

[HumbleHenk]

Ah, lovely.. Planning on doing more of those.

[HumbleHenk]

A portrait of me mate.

Again around 3 hrs.

[HumbleHenk]

Another portrait of another bud.

He looks drunk but was not. We sat down one day and shot alot of photos of us doing various faces for this purpose actually. Painting references that is.

Think I nailed the values better with this one than with the previous two.

Same time here. One day, when I've mustered the patience I'll spend 10+ hrs on one. See how far I can take it with that much time on my disposal.

[HumbleHenk]

Nailed the features pretty fast with this sp so I had the time for more details.

[Alexandr Pascenko]

you have great studies in here i´ll drop by more often to get my ass kicked!

[Ghostbrush]

whoah! I am perving your studies......now i gotta go draw some more, ur kicking ass in here

[HumbleHenk]

Alex: Please do

Thanks both of ye. ^_^

[LoneInDarkness]

I love the mini environment! Well done. I also saw your great portraits! Keep up the great work.

[_MOTH_]

awesome stuff
i very like the black and white faces
cool

[HumbleHenk]

LoneInDarkness and _MOTH_: Thanks a bunch. There'll be more portraits soon.

Here're two creature sketches I just did.

[LoneInDarkness]

Great detail on the two recent creatures! Interesting, progress some more maybe in there story line ?? Who knows!

[HumbleHenk]

Thanks LoneInDarkness. K, k in the future I'll add some kind of "story" behind my creatures.

Here's a freehand face I did right after waking up today. And some asses for ass and skin tone practise.

[HumbleHenk]

You've seen a pot-bellied alien before, but have you seen a pot-bellied alien BOXER before eh ? :P Perhaps you have. I know I haven't.

Anyways, a BW sketch which isn't really a sketch, too refind for that. Tried doing something pretty detailed without any refs. A lil' challenge.

Around 4 hrs.

[HumbleHenk]

A quick nothing and a wip for a more advanced piece.

The wip is from an idea I got while stareing into the ground out walking the dog. In a few more steps you'll see what I mean. I hope :P

[HumbleHenk]

Here's a bunch of PS stuff. Some for a purpose some is just me goofing around. The organic forms are mainly for trying out colour combinations.

Will post some pencils later.

[DStraX]

this is a pretty fucking great sketchbook dude :O I can not belive you dont get more comments!

[HumbleHenk]

Thanks man. Yeah, well I'll keep up anyways ^_^

[DARAF]

Great studies mate.

[HumbleHenk]

I promised some drawings no? Pretty self-explanatory stuff.

[wi2rd]

very nice shaping on some of these!. great depth

[HumbleHenk]

A 4 hour portrait of some nude model from the internet. You get the steps too. I worked from a photo thumbnail, no zooming. Reason for no zooming was to not to rely too much upon the reference. I "cheated" at one stage, which is evident in the steps. Made the face too long and shortened it by lowering half of the face just a lil' bit. The finished version is slightely adjusted, form and value wise. Not too happy about this.

But it was good practise.

[HumbleHenk]

A lil' something. Trying out some light from below this time. Looks a bit like some vampire from the Buffy series.

no ref.

[HumbleHenk]

Another wip..Damn, I'm beginning to stack up on unfinishied pieces. I have 3 now. Probably pretty common for other people. It bugs me though. I'm overdosed with inspiration.

Painting frenzy.

Anyways..

[HumbleHenk]

Another wip.

[VogelA]

haha I think the more WIP's you have, the more excited I am to see them. 5 Stars man, love your work. Your figures are awesome and your creatures are bad ass...keep postin'

[Yngling]

Very very nice. Your sense of form and lighting is amazing! One thing I noticed though, when you render skin, you almost always go for a 'gloss finish' of sorts, with specular highlights aplenty. It looks great, no offense, but it doesn't 'feel' skinlike. On your 'ass-studies' and referenced works however, the more matte surface works wonderfully. Maybe you could try to mix them, so you can have more variety and liveliness in your skin surfaces. Like in a face, the cheeks are never as shiny as the nose for example.

Still, I am nowhere near this level yet, so feel free to do with this comment as you wish:P

[HumbleHenk]

VogelA: Thanks man! Means alot.

Yngling: Yeah, I've thought of this during the process of this one. I want to get a more realistic look for my characters and the hard part with that, for me anyways, is to first establish the right values and keep them during the detailing. (I got one of John Brown's sculpting videos running in my head ^_^ Words about the same issues you mention here. ) But I think it'll be fixed when I've worked on the skintextures (breaking up lines, adding pores, birthmarks etc.).
Right now it's mostly the basic forms of the face.

Thanks alot for the input. Genuinly appreciated!

[HumbleHenk]

And another one ^_^ Please go here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2273469#post2273469 To give cc's on this wip.

[Jamie Romoser]

Looking good HumbleHenk.Thanks for showing the step by step of your female portrait learned alot from it.
Until next time -Omerta

[ConCrete]

Awesome stuff man...

Loving the attention to surface and tonal range.

The amount of studying you do is admirable. You are going to be a Rockstar someday. Inspiration in a can.

[Shard]

kickass stuff dude!! more! :tihi:

[PxelSlayer]

I just have to vent - RENDERING! WHOA! YOU KICK A**!

K, I`m feeling much better now. Have a nice day. :)

[Diego]

great book man. keep it up the good work

[Leonor]

I love the gambler (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=580342&stc=1&d=1233450400). Very interesting creature, especially the colour you achieved in his skin. You have this glow and nd waxy shine going that's very interesting. Not sure about the background, though. This portrait (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=679533&stc=1&d=1243189312) is fantastic too. A shame you didn't finish.

[JParrilla]

woah.. its a shame I hadnt seen this sketchbook before... awesome awesome awesome! Your portraits in photoshop are great. You really nail the tones everytime and the details are just spot on. not much more to say

[courtyard]

Good god, man. In my subscriptions folder you go.

[HumbleHenk]

OmertA: No probs mate. Nice to be able to share some knowledge.

ConCrete: Thanks. Yeah, textures is the most fun for me. I aim to stack up on a Big bunch of them.
Oh, I study way to little. I get too easily distracted by other passions in life. :S But artschool awaits in fall. And those 2 years are gonna do me good methinks.

shardana: Thanks! You'll get more. ^_^

PxelSlayer: I'm flattered ^^

Diego: Sure will.

Leonor: Ah, I'm glad you do. And yes, I'm often too lazy for bgs. Gonna have to work more on those in the future. Ah, yeah. I'm not much for graphite sketching. Find it very dull indeed.

biggjoee5790: I big Thank you for you. ^_^

courtyard: Ah, lovely and thanks.


You'll only get these ugly fellas tonight. I've been busy lately with work, visitors and fishing ^_^
I've also updated the slightley more advanced piece I'm working on. Lookie here: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2273469#post2273469

[Imaginary]

Nice use of dark values there, they all look kinda creepy. Wouldn't wanna run into any of em... Although... Maybe if i had the small pistol thingy Will Smith uses in Men In Black, it'd be ok then. :D

[HumbleHenk]

Yup, agree with you there. At least the latter two. The first one looks at least as if it has potential pf being non-beligerent. And yes, That would surely work nicely indeed.

[kingkostas]

Very solid works, awesome!!!
Keep up mate :D

[HumbleHenk]

Went fishing today again, so you only get these today. Some aliens and some forms for colour tests.
The creature heads is something new for me, but I find them really enjoying to do so expect more of the same. Will also do some more portraits soon methinks.

[Icecold]

Your values sence of form and fotorealism killed my face.... *traying to get from floor*

That is great show of skills playing the role , whoa.

[Nele Klumpe]

uahh! Awesome stuff o___O and scary!

[HumbleHenk]

Yup the harrowing and macabre is my kinda thing.

Thanks, both of ye.

[mrdigs]

great sketchbook, those alien heads are amazing !

[HumbleHenk]

Some doodle and full body concept. Now, doing fullbodies is one of my weaknesses and I always avoid doing them because of this (I'm a heads guy ^^) But I say fuck that. I'll force myself to get uncomfortable. *Raising fist in air* ~ anticlimax

Now tell me if anything looks off balance or proportion-wise.

[Thor's Hammer]

Wow. Revisiting, and still amazing. Better and better. I love your naked women and monsters man. Love em.

[HumbleHenk]

Thor's Hammer: Thanks man. Keep visiting! ^^

A lil' update on the fb thingie. I've got work tomorrow and a party right after so I need the sleep. Damn frustrating indeed.

Anyways..

With and without clothing. (forms not final)

[wi2rd]

hey awesome work here!

[Kalim]

Oh....
this is great!
so sticky
I love those acrylic

[monotony]

your rendering on the alien heads is awesome.
and I like these color and form tests. looks like I could touch them.
really good work!

[m0uS3r]

yep slimy stuff happening here, caution

ALIEN INFESTED ZONE

yep really strong pieces keep them up man

cheers

[Iridyse]

Ahh, fantastic work here ( I came through your DA page,haha). Lovin the attention to detail and all the cool creature heads.Your hand studies are very very nice too.
I'd like to see you experiment a little more with color - try a range of hues, patterns and such(and that's advice I should be following myself) You're very good with the form/lighting already, some more color experiments and you'll be superawesome!
More please!

[shumizu]

Your creatures are damn great!!! very inspiring...

cheers

[>Flo<]

Real nice work, you render the lights and shadows as if it's real, your studies around organic is really awesome, wanna see more !

[jigje]

Wow, so I found my new favorite sketchbook. There isn't an image in here that I don't like, I have sore eyes from putting them back in every time they fell out when I saw the next piece.

The stages of development you show on some of the images are so helpful to a complete begginer like me.

One thing though, someone should have told you that you can't just post photographs for your self portraits! hehe :)

[Criminal Components]

realy loving the contrast in your digital stuff, but i can see what you mean about getting stuck on heads (I have the same problem!) They are fantastic heads though.

[Joce]

wow awesome

[Not_Deadman]

Damn, your painting skills are sick!
I really love
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=689287&stc=1&d=1244140978

[Troubadour]

mmm nice. i like the itty bitty witty detail you put on your work i.e. highlights, makes everything look...moist...

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=689416&stc=1&d=1244150962 (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=689416&stc=1&d=1244150962)

but this ones legs seem a bit off to me. maybe its just the long torso short legs that throwing me off, if that was intentional then good job :P

[HumbleHenk]

Good to be back.
I'm sorry guys. Haven't been able to paint or sketch for some time now because of my part-time job. Construction work oriented stuff. And we've also had a special holiday here in sweden, so I've been "dragged" around to various parties here and there. ^_^

First of all: Thank you everyone for the lovely comments. Makes me more enthusiastic about showing more stuff. Means alot!

and:

Iridyse: :) nice to here the network works. I think 'bout this all the time mate and I sure will work on it. I thank you genuinely.

jigje: I'm glad to here that. I'm gonna post some more process steps of various works in the future. I know I love to see the steps of other's pieces.
And yeah, sorry 'bout the photos :P No, but really I'll also post some of the reference photos for future selfportraits.

Criminal Components: Yep, trying to challenge myself more nowadays though. Thanks a bunch.

Troubadour: Thanks. Yes, I think I've done something about those issues which you'll see in this next submission.

You'll only get this update today. But something more'll come tomorrow methinks.

[Bergulf]

Lots of great rendering and use of light and shade here. It’s good that you are pushing things a bit and drawing stuff that you normally don’t. The full body minotaur is looking good I think. As mentioned earlier the legs look a bit unbalanced but if you fix that it would look solid. Does he not have hands? It appears that you start to do fine details before you have finished the basic structure.

[YihyoungLi]

Some of the monsters are amusing, while a couple are kinda disgusting haha. Great details and rendering.

Your technique--painting from dark to light--reminds me of Bobby Chiu's technique. It has a kind of earthy feel, while focusing on the three-dimensional-ness of the object. Although this can be easily organized in rendering a single character without a background, the technique might cause problems for more complex situations. It may be more beneficial to lay in the value as it is (or as close as you anticipate, with adjustments later); that way, you can organize from the start how you want your composition to look like.

I'm really a newb, and I should be working on this too...but this is what my painting teacher tells me haha. Work from big to small.

[Arthe Xavier]

Sometimes you see Sketchbooks like this; sketchbooks which make you feel both inadequate and inspired. Your work is amazing, sir. :) I would love to see more 'step-by-steps', since I feel that I could learn a lot from those, and they're very interesting to explore.

Anyway, keep up the magnificent work. Definetely bookmarking this. :)

[HumbleHenk]

Bergulf:
Thanks. Yeah, I had no real plan for the minotaur so I haven't added the hands yet since they're an essential part of the character when doing humanoids. And, I didn't know that it would turn into a minotaur until I added the head.
But yes I'm sometimes too eager during the process of a piece ^_^

YihyoungLi:
Lovely ^_^ Yes. I'm usually more structured though when working on more complex pieces. But sometimes I need to render an area to figure out where I want to go with the piece.
When doing more simple works like this minotaur I generaly work on 3 layers. 1st: BG, 2nd: structure and 3rd: rendering layer. That's my base structure of the layers. When I get an idea during the process which I'm not sure about I add another "expermentation layer". After the idea is tested and if I like it, I usually merge it with the rendering layer.

Arthe Xavier:
Thanks a bunch! Warms me heart ^_^

Just these two today. Been working on a submission so haven't done much else.

[HumbleHenk]

Sorry for not being active. Have had alot of living life stuff going on ^_^ Moving in a month or so, so I want to see my people a bit before I go. And I've been doing some construction work and whatnot on top of that. I'm moving to Gothenburg here in sweden to artschool for two years. So you can bet your newborns that I'll be 100 times more active when that time comes. Anyways..

A portrait of Evangeline Lilly and the steps. Hope you get a hang of how I work when doing portraits. If not ? Ask ;).

Pushed the realism a bit further this time. ( I seem to have no serious problems with rendering and detailing while doing portraits, it's always the forms which is hardest to nail. About 10 hrs, photoshop.

[skorpi]

wow, your work is really impressiv

[prrrszalony]

Amazing rendering skills :D Do you consider doing some time lapse video?
Thank you for steps, there was useful :)
Ill be watching you... :ninja:

[Mumph]

Tjenare! I just looked through your sketchbook and i must say it´s awesome! Really inspirational stuff.

[HumbleHenk]

prrrszalony: Thank you thank you ^^. Time laps, well yes someday i'll surely do that. Been thinking about it. Got any programs to recommend?

Mumph: Halloj. Tackar tackar.

Here's a wip of my newborn contribution. The piece'll make more sense later on. I hope I finish it in time.

[Thor's Hammer]

Impossibly gorgeous man!! I can't even tell it's drawn unless I look REALLY close. That is awesome. Wow. You should do a tutorial video. Color me overly impressed.

[prrrszalony]

well try maybe http://www.livestream.com/

Great last one, maybe this tree is too much shiny :)

[HumbleHenk]

Thor's Hammer: Thanks

prrrszalony: Yes I'm aware of that. It's not final. Ah thanks gonna check it out.

I'm off to some partying but before I go, here's another step:

[HumbleHenk]

Just a little update on the piece I'm doing right now.

I'm off to party once again..Ah, summer.

[plafstarlight]

Awesome stuff man! I really enjoy the whole progress displays of your realistic portraits and the arm studies in the beginning. And the crazy monsters aren't too shabby either :p Keep it up :D!

[phiq]

You clearly possess a strength in moody lighting and realistic rendering! Great sketchbook! I especially like the studies. Where did you get the original photo for that bodybuilder woman pic?

[jigje]

Man, when you apply your incredible photo realism to a fantasy or imaginative piece, the result is marvelous. This creature lives!! You could sell it as a photo to a tabloid.

[Finn Diesel]

Wow. Your sketchbook is incredible. I really love the portrait of Evangeline Lilly. Spot on.

[Samuel Gray]

Some really good rendering skills you have. In your work I see a lot of the "cool" monsters that everyone creates on here (yours are very unique for sure) that doesn't really tell a story. If you want to be doing these for practice and just character concepts sure! Great! but if you want to start creating pictures I would like to see you push things further and pull everything together.

I was wondering what type of settings you use on your brushes, cool man.

[Hocus Focus]

Holy moly, incredible textures!

[HumbleHenk]

phiq: Thanks mate. I've never used any bb women as reference. I found that woman on some porn site somewhere. She has a very defined body, excelent for...studies ^^ I might've made her a tad more defined than she is in the pics.

jigje: Thank you. This is one of the directions I want to take my art.

Samuel Gray: Thanks. I agree completely with ye. I'm just in a mindless sketching mode right now, doing half-assed stuff to keep it going.
As I said before; I'm moving soon to a big town to study at an artschool. (I'll be sure to get my shit together then. Me promise. ;) ) So I'm busy enjoying the company of friends and whatnot while I still can.
As for the brushes I just use a standard round brush with pressure sensitivity, sometimes for some textures I enable the scatter (if it's called that in english) setting on this round brush. Sometimes I alsouse an airbrush with low opacity.

Here's just some crappy quickies. The more complex pieces I've submitted wip's of will have to wait a while. Have patience ^^

[HumbleHenk]

Here's a Höna I just did. A couple of hours in PS.

[jigje]

Cool as always Henk. I love it. Whats a Hona?

[HumbleHenk]

Hona is really the word for "female" in swedish. But I meant to write Höna but I couldn't cause DA didn't have the letter available for the titles. And "Visa Hönan" is an inside joke among my friends.

[HumbleHenk]

Btw Höna means "Hen" in English.

[HumbleHenk]

Here's Robyn. Go here: http://twistmyflesh.deviantart.com/art/Robyn-133699936 for bigger version.

The steps can be found here: http://twistmyflesh.deviantart.com/art/Robyn-steps-133725375

[paran0id]

Fucking awesome! Thats detailed awrite =P How much time?

[Ricardo Robles]

post 127 is incredible, but I have to love your lighting method since first page of this SB.
Great, great work!

[Haal100]

Your pictures are so organic, and the choice of the colors is really amazing. :)

[Teundeboer]

You have such an awesome way of rendering. Your creatures have great contrast and skin. And that painting of the Lost girl... stunning.
Keep it up

[Kuidf^!]

The picture of that girl on page 3 is pretty darn good 10 hours worth while keep it up dude its great !

[polydrawer]

awesome job man,
love the strong contrast and high speculars in your work

keep it up

[ariel_medel]

Damn, your Evangeline Lilly portrait is amazing, if that's having problems with rendering I wish I had them, hahaha...


my sketchbook
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2411351#post2411351

[HumbleHenk]

paran0id : Ty. Somewhere between 20-30 hrs. Never keep track though..I just estimating.

Ricardo Robles : Thank you. It'll probably be my most detailed piece when it's done. You sure do got some cool stuff indeed. I'm honored.

Thepico : I love organic forms so I study them alot. Thank ye!


Teundeboer, Kuidf^!, polydrawer and ariel_medel : Thanks a bunch!

Here're the first two sketches done in my new place here in Gothenburg, Sweden:

[mike butkus]

Great imagination and wonderful rendering skills.

[HumbleHenk]

Thanks Mike ^^

Been a while. Reason for that is the fact that I haven't had an internet connection at my new place, here in Gothenburg.

A bunch of croquis and other stuff from school. As you can see I'm a real newbie on how to work the pencil when it comes to fast stuff like these. Started of with pencil and ended up with using a graphite crayon (1cm wide). Thought that worked better for me since I like to work more with forms than lines.

It sure is challenging, but damn fun.

[Kan Muftić]

That vampire scares the shit out of me!

[daveneale]

Such awesome textures and colour combos. Perhaps a little too many smooth forms-but super cool all the way through. 5 starts from me-will be in here again for sure!

[HumbleHenk]

Aloha!

Chupacabra: Goodie goodie. Love your stuff!

daveneale: Thank you. You're very welcome to revisit.

Here're some stuff from school. First 3 are Muybridge studies. Found a book with a helluva lot of his studies. Allthough the pics are a bit small they're beautiful and almost optimal for anatomy studies, especially for studying movement (duh-uh!)
The rest are from life.

[Holland]

Great life sketches dude! The shading on the first page is perfect :)

[Max Swinton]

Great work, the vampire is incredible. As is the rest but that stands out particularly to me.

Max

[Vloth]

Aah några riktigt fina studier där, gillar speciellt de översta i senaste posten och fötterna i förra. Fina tekniker, mer krokier!

[NickyBeats]

wowsers. dude, i just spent a long ass time looking through your whole sb! i LOVE your imagination, very dark and twisted, my kind of stuff!! also your very good at doing portraits, human and alien. keep it up, ill keep stopping by for sure.

[mariusz]

very cool anatomy sketches, keep it up!

[SalOnimaruRem]

kick ass skizzlebook man!!!

[Anurizm]

amazing stuff you have.

[GunTrouver]

This is very cool!
More please:)

[dannE-B]

hey just showing my support!! keep up the good work...some nice studies and interesting designs!

[HumbleHenk]

Thanks everyone for showing support! Makes me pants tingle. No but really, I genuinely appreciate it.

2 quick zombies for ye. Nothing fancy. You'll get some graphite skizzle tomorrow.

[Ricardo Robles]

great works
love your rendering technique!
keep it up.

[Greip]

Schyssta grejer! Tycker du är duktig på kroki trots att du inte hade haft det innan (?), har för mig du sa något om det på DA.

[HumbleHenk]

Ricardo Robles: Thanks!

Greip: Nämen halloj. Tackar tackar. Yepp stämmer, testar lite olika teckning-tekniker men har inte riktigt hittat det jag vill ha än.

Here're some croquis, more Muybridge and the first Painting from school (pretty small). Forgot to post it a while back. Acrylics and kinda embarassing.

My most optimal preconseption of my future as an artist at the moment, is having a freelancing career of conceptart and illustrations with a lucrative "fine art" career on the side, or vice versa.
Allthough I've grown pretty confident in my digital art (which would probably be the medium within the freelancing deal) I don't know what I want to do traditionally. Many ideas are there but the prefered form of execution isn't. Sometimes, in a state of frustration I fool myself and start hateing acrylics, but thinking clearly I believe it's a technique and style issue. I'm still to find the perfect formula for me.

Anyways, no more rambling. Here's the shit:

[HumbleHenk]

Aloha. Back from a week in Venice. It was fun, lot's of art and alcohol.

Some sketchy digi crap for ye. No refs. One done upside down for the extra challenge.

[HumbleHenk]

Some 5 min poses drom head. Not used to the wacom when sketching. Don't understand how some of you can get such smooth lines. I'm fucking struggling to nail a decent head-shape >8/ .

Anyways as you can see I'm no good. I still have problems with legs and the hips. I've realised that I need to practise keeping track on the whole shape during the process. That's why I tend to make legs too short. I seperate the torso from the hips and legs in the process and forget about checking the proportions. I mean give me time and I can nail most things, giving me time to spot the faults. I just need to get more efficient.

I've realised that I've used references way to much for the human body, I need to start doing more from head, to figure out the shapes and turn it into more of a thinking process. And to work fast I really really really need to practise that shit. Gonna do a few everyday.

If you don't get a daily update send me some anthrax.

[andres333]

I wonder how your sketchbook will be like in the future, cuz I gotta tell you that you're doing it great, and even though there are some issues I can see that you can recognize them, CONGRATULATIONS

[HumbleHenk]

andres333: Thank you. Yeah, I sure have an exciting time ahead of me.

More studies. All reffed me thinks. A week old perhaps. I did the pigieons today though. Practise studies for an upcoming piece.

[HumbleHenk]

Second time I make this mistake.. Here're the pics.

[HumbleHenk]

More doves and the first sketches of the main idea of an acrylic painting I'm gonna do in school. Inspiration from venice. A bored Gondolier perhaps.

Anyways..

[Spaggen]

I think your sketchbook should have 5 stars. I just love your digitals, so creepy and well done. And your life drawings and figures are fantastic. Fortsätt att inspirera! :)

[HumbleHenk]

Spaggen: Tackar tackar. Do you have a DA page? We Swedes need to stick together ^^

A few more poses from head. Damn hard with the wacom. But think I'm starting to get a hang of how to move the pen. I'll keep these coming so my sketchbook will probably get rather boring soon. Just warning ye.

[SteFlack]

Very nice work, I really like the sketches of the birds.

[HumbleHenk]

F*CKING legs!

Yep gonna practise them from now on.

2 from head then I got upset.

[Vloth]

jäkligt härliga duvor med massor av rörelse. Bra! Vill se den illustrationen färdig sen! Bra jobbat med så mycket studier, jag borde ju också... aaaaah.
det svartvita huvudet i post #167 är grymt!

[HumbleHenk]

Vloth: Åter igen; tack så mycket. Kul att du håller dig uppdaterad. Yeah, det känns som om jag kommit igång lite med studeringsrutinerna. Känns mäkta skönt.


Some legs and an update of the schoolassignment. Tell me what you think about it. Will do more suggestions of composition tomorrow. I'm after depth and movement.

[Kelson_noctourne]

um...holy crap i should've worn a helmet cause now my mind is blown. Where do you go to school at?.... TEACH ME!!! But seriously, man, you are awesome!

[Paolo13]

Another monster who draws monsters!!! Keep it up!!! Love your highlights!!!

[HumbleHenk]

oy.

An unfinished experimental acrylic painting from school, done a while ago.

[blexano]

I dig the last acrylic one. Good work.

Your rendering skills are insane!
I'm jealous! :D

[Spaggen]

Wow, some really nice updates here. The acrylic painting is just mind-blowing, great colors! :)

Btw, sorry for not answering you earlier: Nope, I don't have a DA page. :P


Får man fråga hur gammal du är? Hursomhelst, fortsätt att posta din konst och inspirera!

[Peetaer]

Dig your work/style. Very cool stuff. Can;t wait to see more

[karantina]

awesome works humblehenk..go on

[HumbleHenk]

Kelson_noctourne: Sorry I forgot to answer and thank you in the last post. I live and study in Gothenburg, Sweden. And thank you ^^

Paolo13: Thanks!

blexano: Thank you. Yeah I tried a new, more rough technique. Happy with the effect and I'm planning on refineing the technique.

Spaggen: Tackar tackar. Ta och skaffa en vet jag ;) 21 år gammal.

Peetaer: ty

karantina : Spank you. Will do.




Some asses from head:

[HumbleHenk]

Just being a tease...

[Vloth]

Det är roligt att se hur folk utvecklas och följa dem under en längre tid :)
Shiet, den där akrylen är awesome. Feta färger. jag vill börja måla lite mer igen, det är kul. Fågelsnubben blir ju riktigt bra. Massor av rörelse i den bilden. Blir fint, kul!

[Vloth]

Det är roligt att se hur folk utvecklas och följa dem under en längre tid :)
Shiet, den där akrylen är awesome. Feta färger. jag vill börja måla lite mer igen, det är kul. Fågelsnubben blir ju riktigt bra. Massor av rörelse i den bilden. Blir fint, kul!

[Spaggen]

Vad är det för fördel att ha en sida på DA? Mot CA menar jag då alltså. :) 21 år, okej. Hur länge har du målat och tecknat seriöst då? Studerar du konst också eller?

By the way, stop being a teaser and post the whole piece! >:{

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Hehehe, great asses:P

-E

[HumbleHenk]

Vloth: Tackar så hjärtligt! ^_^ Kan enbart säga detsamma. Keep in touch.

Spaggen: Tja ju fler ställen man syns på, desto större chans till exponering. Som konstnärer är det en pretty vital faktor i våra fortsatta karriärer. Sedan är DA väldigt lättskött. Jag är medlem Här, DA, Cgsociety och gnomon. Så när jag gör ngt nytt så är syns det.
Jag har vetat att jag ville bli en bildskapare sedan jag var 11-12 år tror jag. Tecknat "seriöst" sedan dess, sedan tog man upp photoshop I 16-17 års åldern och sedan akryl i gymnasiet. Studerar på göteborgs konstskola :)

Btw, one more teaser before the final piece. Thought I'd finish it today, but nu-uh.


Mischeviouslittleelf: Ty. More on the way!


Here's another teaser from the one I teased with yesterday.
Some sketches from school, failed Kristen Stewart and Megan Fox attempts (painting is so much easier!) , some Serpieri and some Anders Zorn (school assignment).

[HumbleHenk]

Woopsie... Here's that Kristen Fail;

[Lateman]

cool asses! nah that is no real fail ^^

keep it ... you know ... up n stuff :P

cheers late

[HumbleHenk]

Hi ho!

Lateman: Thank you and yep; I sure will.

Two small acrylics, of which the colours are effed up, from school and my latest piece "Succubus".

[Rushlord]

That portrait is fucking awesome. Sweet and unique rendering and style. Love it!!!! :)

[Spaggen]

Okej, jag förstår. Du har helt rätt om det där med exponering. Men just nu ska jag satsa allt på att försöka komma in i rutinen att jag tecknar och målar varje dag och att jag utvecklas så mycket som möjligt, delvis med hjälp av detta forum. Sedan när jag känner mig redo ska jag definitivt blev medlem på en uppsjö av olika sidor hade jag tänkt. Tack för ditt svar. :)
Hur är Göteborgs konstskola då? Själv studerar jag på Gotlands konstskola. Skulle vara kul att höra skillnaderna.

Okey, I'll take the rest in English. The drawings are looking really good. I like your lines. And your latest acrylic paintings and the digi are just ace man! I don't have any critic really. Just keep posting art, I want to see more! ;)

[wilkerson]

Amazing rendering, would love to see a tutorial please:)
great anatomy too.

[HumbleHenk]

Spaggen: Sounds like a plan.
Göteborgs konstskola är väldigt praktiskt inriktad. I hanterar ngn uppgift från måndag till torsdag, fredag är det kroki och föreläsning. Har just börjat med lite konsthistoria som tar upp kanske 1½-2 timmar i veckan. Det är det enda teoretiska vi har. Skolan är öppen länge så man kan även stanna kvar efteråt.

Thanks btw!

wilkerson: Thank you. A tutorial eh? Gonna have to figure out what I'd cover then. If you visit my deviantartpage you can see a few progression steps of a few of my stuff. But I'll think about a real tutorial in the future.

Some studies and an environment doodle. The erectus thing is a study for a painting in school.

[Tommoy]

Awesome work! Five stars worth.

[Spaggen]

Okej, då är det nog i princip som Gotlands konstskola. En uppgift i veckan/var tredje vecka, kroki och föreläsning på onsdagar, tillgång till skolan dygnet runt osv. Dock har vi inte haft något teoretiskt än.

Grym uppdatering förresten. Vill se mer. ;)

[HumbleHenk]

Spaggen: tackar. Här har du! *kastar*

[Spaggen]

Man tackar. Enbart till mig? Känner mig mäkta smickrad isåfall. ;)

Really nice colors and rendering, especially on the one in the right corner. Very natural and realistic.

It feels like I'm spamming your sketchbook, haha. :P

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

SVENSKE!

Hihi^^ Jävligt heit djevel tjej^^ Värkligen bra tekstur på huden och det ser ut som om anatomien är bra, men halen fungere inte. Den ser ut som om den är laget av plastikk.

Just in case my swedish is absolute shait, the point was that the tail isn't working for yours truly.

Kul at finne enda en från norden:)

-E

[Tmza]

Nice sketchbook with fantastic artwork.
That acrylic painting on top of this page is just stunning.
More plz.

[Flaskpost]

good stuff, Henk! mera ass n titts! :)

[HumbleHenk]

Mischeviouslittleelf: Pretty bra svenska ^^ M'kay. Been planning on going over that one one more time, I'll fix the tail then.

Tmza: Thank you. More on the way!

Flaskpost: Ty. More ass and titties will eventually come in your way.


An update of the nosophoros. Struggling with the foreground at the moment. But it will soon be ready.

[Strassenpenner08]

wow !! these creature in your update looks awesome ... the expression is implemented very well :D

[NickyBeats]

nice tits!!! your really good at anatomy and figures from imagination! love those acrylics too!

[Sublimus]

That acrylic at the top of the page IS. SO. BAD. ASS.

Love those titty studies too!

[alexson]

woho pattar! Riktigt najs rendering på den där succubusen!
Keep up the good work!

[smokenmirrors]

nice SB! youre rendering skills are top notch! :)

[Qikalain]

I think i commented your stuff already once on deviantart, anyway. great rendering.

i just realised that sometimes you leave one eye unfinished etc. do you feel unconfortable drawing eyes.. ? i have a huge problem to put eyes on the same level .... the same size etc. i just never get it right and i really feel like i dont know what im doing...its already like a phobia

[badass]

thanks for posting that portrait process. very helpful

this sketchbook is super inspiring. keep it up!

:)

[HumbleHenk]

thanks everyone!

Qikalain: Hm I'm not sure what you mean, I don't consider myself having any bigger problems with eyes. Atleast I enjoy doing them. Give me an example.

And thanks everyone! ;)

Have been kinda inactive on the updateing lately so here's a pretty big update for ye. Practising them pencils yo.

[vinter]

I love you little bird studies! And the expression studies at the first pages are awesome. The tits are a tad to big for my taste:P But they don't look over the top:)
Keep up the good work! Looking forward to see more of my neighboring country men^^

[htkpeh]

boa nice!
i realy like you`re ideas and using of light and shadow

[jbrown67]

awesome sb! really great studies and drawings and...well everything. keep it up.

[NickyBeats]

yo man! you need to come back here and UPDATE THIS THREAD!!! love your work!

[DefiledVisions]

totally agree with Nickybeats !! get yow ass over here :D och så är du svensk! studerar du fortfarande i göteborg? såg att du nämnde det i en tidigare post. Hade varit kul att se dina nyare grejer! tjo

[Eric Young]

wow, just checked out your whole sketchbook. Looks really awesome, I love your aliens. Keep it up, can't wait to see more.

[The_Flying_Dutchman]

Very nice work, especially the subtlety of the highlights.

[insane lemur]

wow, love the pencils

[HumbleHenk]

Hmm.. Loooong time no being here or anywhere else internet-wise for that matter. Been off exploring silly stuff like fine art, life and people. Feel it's time to change that. Been itching in my fingers to start drawing muties, hellspawns and other cool stuff for some time now. So I start off with some old studies and doodles that's been lying around and later on some new stuff.

DefiledVisions: I'm back! :) Göteborg yes. Studerar ett litet tag till fram tills sommaren sen är det dax att bli vuxen.

[HumbleHenk]

Found this old doodle. And a few newer ones from school. Just for keeping it up's sake.

[NickyBeats]

YOOOO WELCOME BACK DUDE!!!! no homo but i missed your ass!!! haha

[SpiralHorn]

Your figures are fantastic.

Also, I don't know if it has to do with how you're compressing them or what, but some of your digitals look like hi-rez pixel art, which is kind of cool.

[Mikko Voipio]

Me angry. This thread should have five stars. Some fucker has given you one.
This (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1416355&stc=1&d=1328482591) is beautiful. Probably took you a while.

[Bakker]

great suddle color use. Really like the anatomy studies, esspecially the second one.

[timo.]

Wow man i love those pencil sketches, also the creature doodles are sooo good. Can't wait to see more :)

[HumbleHenk]

NickyBeats: Thanks mate. No homo but my ass will be at your pleasure

SpiralHorn: Thank ye. Hmm, hi res pixelart. Ah well I'll accept that.

Mikko Voipio: aweful thing to do :) Yeah, drawn on A3 photopaper. Was an experiment so it took a little longer than expected.

Thanks guys.

Here is a couple of new ones. These were the first digital things I recently did after a 7-8 months break from digital art/illustration/concept art. Been trying to figure out what I want to do.
I've always separated my illustration/concept works from my more personal works, and I've spent the time exploring the latter these past months. It's been a good ride so far but I've come to the conclusion that illustration is the path I want to take right now. So I've started capitalizing on what I've learned and started painting digitally again. Anyways..

A futuristic guy having a minor altercation with his pet.

And a sort of medieval mercenary type guy. (Been playing a lot of Mount&Blade)

[Velocity Kendall]

LOVE this one
awesome work, 5 from me

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1416355&stc=1&d=1328482591

[GEB]

Wow nice work

[HumbleHenk]

This is roughly what 1,5-2 hrs gives me nowadays. Not fast enough. Need to focus more on the whole for increased effectiveness.

Barbarian and a sort of demon grunt. Will do a paintover on the latter methinks. Reason for no foot; I ran out of paper :)

[Wassim]

omg , that such awesome sketchbook , wonderful paintings so far , i like all the stuff around espacilly those painted characters , and it will be a honor if you give me some critiques on my stuff link (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=228463&page=5)

wassim

[HumbleHenk]

Wassim: Thanks mate. Will do will do.

Tonight's wip. An hour in or so. I'm thinking retro, I'm thinking NES, should be cool.

[Huduu]

I adore those life drawings... wow!
The attention to value shift is just stunning.

[HumbleHenk]

A sneak peek on my next more advanced piece. Shit's taking waaaay to long. But I'm relearning PS and trying on new techniques, brushes and what not so I let it slide.

2 bad b&w 20 min warmups (inspired by torvenius)

I throw in some older sketches too.

[NickyBeats]

oh shit! upload some more ink stuff dude!! that last one looks wicked!!

[HumbleHenk]

Finished (I think)

And a 20 min warmup

[phiq]

Nice! I like the way this turned out (the Oh crap! piece). Branching out with the colour choices? It's still got your signature lighting, which is always brilliantly rendered. Subject matter reminds me of that indy game on Steam, Capsized. Except underwater...?

Looking at the wip and the final version, I feel like I know a bit more about your methods. Some of it looks familiar; perhaps we are at a similar stage, or just render things similarly? It's just that the wip is no indication of how tight the finished result ends up being. The wip displays a lot of brush strokes; essentially, you had overdone it at that point, but it didn't come through in the final piece. I find this happens with me too. I think the point is to simply paint more and you'll get more efficient. My latest piece has seen me break that stroke-happy method and just start to slam the colours down, no fear! Know what I mean? This kind of skill-tightening is overlooked I think, even though it's a crucial stage, and it's one of the main differences between the seasoned pros and the rest of us. But as I said before, the end result covers this up completely, so I suppose the main benefit left is a reduction in rendering time, which is always good, lol.

Anyway, the way you've controlled the light is great; the red glow from the helper bot is appropriately overemphasized and contrasts well with the green. The atmosphere is nicely hinted at in the background too (mushrooms look sweet!). As for the composition, I think there could be a little more happening; the main issue is with the large grassy hill thing that frames the areas of interest. Perhaps increasing the complexity in its shape could add something, or adding more variation of some kind, just to help with all of that space in the middle. The arc that frames the protagonist is cool though. And finally, the armour of the protagonist seems to be made of an ambiguous material, and seems under-rendered, compared to the rest.

[HumbleHenk]

First of all, thanks Phil.

About the process and slapping down colours. As many times before this one started out as a simple experiment with sketching and gradients and ended with me zoneing in on stories, nostalgia, techniques and whatnot. I spent a few hours at the beginning trying out different compositions and a few quite bold (for me at least) slaps with colour :) Didn't take too long before I lost myself in it and let things slide. I tried challenging myself to venture into new areas technique-wise. For better or worse though, I soon realized it looked like my stuff usually do.

I guess I need to have more slapping done!


The things you critique are some of the issues I was a bit concerned with after I finished. For ex. I was much more pleased with the background 10 steps back when I had just sketched it out. Something got lost when the detailing and value tinkering started. (repainted 3 times I think)

Also so long since I worked on something more complex. Relearning a few things ( = time loss). The psd file was a fucking mess ( = time loss).

I put the issues aside and decided it finished, had spent enough hrs on it already anyway. I bare with me what I learned and venture on.

[Roope Maatta]

Your drawings and paintings are so freaking brilliant! Really makes me want to push myself more - thank you. Ah, your life drawings <3

[HumbleHenk]

Thanks Roope: Keep on pushing them skills mate!

Here are todays doodles. Some quick mountains and a wip (half an hour in) of my next piece. Atleast I think it will be. Have a few ideas..

And yes, an old butt I found lying around.

Environments since I need to do them. Trying to keep the process simple and effective so far.

[xyphid]

dude, your pencil renderings are killing me!

[Virg]

killer work dude, your pencils are really top notch !

[NickyBeats]

consider my jeans creamed.

great stuff bro!

[Jesus Food]

dude i love ur new original work, really visible progress :D

[HumbleHenk]

Thanks guys!

Just this little effer today.

[DennisH-Art]

Your art has been some of the most motivating and inspirational ones for me since I decided to start with digital painting. I've learnt a lot from observing your work, and it's awesome to see that you've decided to come back here. Keep up the great work!