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Delicious progress.

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Ok so this is some older stuff to give you a little context

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Now
This is all stuff from the last few weeks:

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this is what I am working on right now.

[Swordhand]

Coo stuff. I like 'the start' sketch

[batcustard]

Just got some new brushes and also got CS3 at home WOO! These are a few brush experements.

[Bendragon]

Hey man, some good drawings in here! Keep working on them. Keep practicing the digital painting too. Research into the basics of painting and work on them one by one and you could start evolving with the new found knowledge :D

[batcustard]

Thankyou, I usually bring all of my digital paints to oilpainters and ask what they think. Its hard sometimes to get them to realize that the values aren't thrown out the window and so in turn hard to get harshness out of them. Which by the way people: rip me into molecular bits, thats what the internet is for... Or I mean, you don't have to be nice, because you are just the disembodied voices of experience and I can't hold it against you.

Recently I have been playing with the idea of giving the viewer slightly conflicting depth information.

anyways awesome to hear good things from somebody of your standard.
also I made this and I think it hilarious:

[batcustard]

working on figuring out how to get this character and his robot to fly. I want the robot have good sideways movement but bad up movement so it has to actually swing him upwards and then when his torque is taking care of his weight ... then the robot can move upwards while he sits almost suspended for a quarter second. Its not working yet but I think its sellable.

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rough robot sheet.

[Swordhand]

Wow! that's really cool. I think the speed at which the robot rises when it actually does is is why its not working, but nonetheless really cool work.

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repaint for an animation concept

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woo camera

[batcustard]

the blurryness is simply a harsh fact of life Im afraid.

[MyOrangeHat]

Yeah I don't have a scanner either so I use a digital camera and everything is blurry for me too. If I light it well enough sometimes it's not quite as bad but it's never crisp like a scanner.
I really like your sketchbook. The amount of movement and gesture you get into a figure is making me want to switch majors so I can learn that too! I really like your faces and expressions too. Nice stuff. I'll definitely check back to see more. :)

[batcustard]

When I was young, a motivational speaker came. He wore a cardboard box spray painted silver, pockmarked with dials and lights built from paper and pigment. When he first skulked onto stage, I knew those springloaded tubes on this cardboard abominations body housed human legs.

He stood in front of the mic for a few moments, soaking what I suppose he imagined was awe. In reality I believe it was confusion.
"hello dudes and dudettes!" he said enthusiastically.

Thanks to that man I will always be tempted to use that phrase, and I guess more importantly: thanks to that phrase I will always be tempted to remember that man.

[batcustard]

I realize that this reads as a bump but I did just make it.
*edit* "and I think its pretty cool, but will never do anything more with it."

[DeeLock]

Life, life, life, life!

I wanna see more life drawings!

Even if you're going for a cartoony style, drawing from life will give you the skills to better understand and organize what you see. You'll be able to take that back to your cartoons and they will be much more believable because of it.

[Janos]

I actually like your cartoon characters, but DeeLock is right: Life drawings me want. The animation with the flying robot is just too fast to read I'm afraid. Slow it down if possible.
The expressions on the characters is very nice.

[batcustard]

Let me explain my situation: I am graduating this semester after a long vicious education. So everything in here is being produced for my final animation or being made between classes. Basically when I come to the digital surface for air, this place gives me a little spring in my step. When time presents itself, lifedrawings will come, I promise. Until then, digital paints=me alone in a room.

But really thanks for dropping by, and Im sure I need to hear it too from time to time.

[Nettle_Mountain]

well, posemaniacs are nice then and then...

Nice cartoon style, good drawing skills as well, just draw more and little more solid if you like

It's bit hard to say anything coherent from blurry sketches or digitals

[Katzenminze]

well i think i can see a lot of greatness from your sketches :) very cool stuff, the animation of your flying robot is very dynamic.
like your drawing style you have alot of emotion and fluidity in your figures. way to go!

[phoenicorn]

Nice to see your experimenting. the animations are cool and cant wait to see more

[batcustard]

backdrop for animation. Tired, so very tired.

[Max Challie]

Hello there. I have to give you kudos for having one of the most adorable usernames I've ever seen. Your sketchbook thumbnail is also great!

Keep drawing! :D

[SMILEFACE]

wow brillant colors an very dynamic gestures an it would be great to see your final project when you finish'

[Verehin]

Very original works we got here)

[batcustard]

Sometimes a mans gotta pick up sticks to draw another man with big muscles and animesque qualities.

[batcustard]

Lost something in the coloring... lost alot. I always have such a hard time reconsoling that.

[Vishaka]

I really enjoy the animation stuff, and you've got some nice colors. It'd be cool to see some of your concepts in a more finished form. :)

[jvdz]

Nice stylisation (sp?) going on. Going to look cool once slapped together with those fun characters moving about that world. Keep experimenting! Coloring on the 1951's-pic shows progress. Looking good. I'm not so sure about that on the purple one, but hey it's a sketch. The character in red has the best feel to it.
On the coloring subject: you might wanna take a look at the Practical light and color dvd from g.n.o.m.o.n. That's just a treasure trove of information. It helps to form your own point of view as it's suggesting to look very closely to the things around you. How light affects the color and so on. Might be stating the obvious, but the information is so true and you keep getting back at it every once in a while.
Keep grinding!

best wishes,
Jan van der Zee

edit: moderator: can't I say G-n-o-m-o-n ?

[batcustard]

hey-lo
Just ended my final semester, which was brutal. Ive been sketching in the past few weeks but couldn't find the time to convert them all and post em up.

jvdz-thanks for advices, I haven't gotten into yet but plan on checking out a lot of tutorials, I have some dead time..... in-betweeny time graduation/"real"world time, and in it Ill give a looksee.

(Edit:Images were freaking HUGE)

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This is fangly, he is a one dimentional character... like skeletor.

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1ghosty
2bubbles
3How I often feel about god.

[SMILEFACE]

he your lines are getting out of control good its like they are in a harmonic caos sssooo cool an sooo much energy keep w/ the goods'

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this is some stuff from today

[HugeHarHar]

Hey!

You've got some great digital work in here, and the animations on the first page are pretty sweet. Any more you're going to post, and what did you use to make them?

The posts on the second page show a lot of variety. Thanks for the comment, I'll be watching now, so keeeeep on posting!

[batcustard]

been working mostly in my physical sketchbook and my camera is missing... Im sure it will turn up.

[vardoburrito]

[I got yer link from the animation section]
-This last char looks adorable. :)
-pink drunk is funny.
-the whole #36 are sweet blocks.
-i would love to see #24s progression. Studio 4°C'esque. :)
[In my tired eyes anyway]

oh man, good stuff.
[Have you got a blog or website fer your animation works or what what???] :)

[nurraymjo]

Quite original. Love your style. Incredible works.

[SMILEFACE]

damn YEAH I WISH YA POSTED MORE!

[DeeStar]

nice figurative work, i also like the backdrop for animation on page one. The character concept on your last post, is that 3d?

[batcustard]

Got out of college, moved from Pennsylvania USA to Victoria Australia. Ive been drawing in physical mediums pretty much non-stop. I just need to bring it all into the wired.

It will be nice to be part of a dialog again. Monologuing has been a bit tedious.

Yeah that character was 3d.

[DKHutcheson]

Your sketches are so liberating to look at. So raw, and energetic. You're my new hero.

[batcustard]

Sometimes life gets kind of complicated
Mr. Spect: Your post haunted me.... I'm back now. Thanks!

Dwardo: No I don't have my animations available except for very old very embarrassing stuff.

DK:Thanks, Your work is pretty slick, so it means a lot.

nurraymjo:thenkya

HugeHarHar: Thanks man, your work is fucking unbelievable so again, it means a lot!

[SMILEFACE]

WICKED UP DATES HOPE the MOVE IS GO'N WELL

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This is a self portrait. I think I like it with the line better.

[SMILEFACE]

I think so too the line realy bring that side of the face forward an surprizingly dosent cut the comp +1

[batcustard]

I think I am going to flesh that mask thing out into a full narrative. This would probably be the first bit, or close to it.

Grandmaster: I think its because the face is made up of more delicate linework, which when competing with neon pink, needs a little help to bounce back to center. Also the move went extremely well. Melbourne is pretty much the bees knees.

[batcustard]

oh symbolism! you card.

[batcustard]

Ugh my bandwidth has been cut down

[batcustard]

Im moving back and fourth between two comps for the first page after the prologue, which will consist of some of those bald images and a bunch of abstract chaos. Then I want to build the story up to that point. Starting from here.

Anyways... seth is a real person and I was thinking of using this in the first bit its something he wrote that sticks with me.



Elegy for quiche in June

In the northwest corner of Pennsylvania, south

of lake Erie, my bedroom sits elevated and small,

its windows ten feet from the ground and painted

shut. Sometimes, I leave my door open, to air it, so

it’s not quite as stuffy. Sometimes I look

to my dresser, and beside my mother’s image

stands cousin Sicily Rae, who lives

in Austin. I can see my reflection in her

hair, glossed over. I think she looks

like my mother’s sister’s daughter. We’ve never

met and, on my nightstand, she’ll never look

less real or even different. Or any more

like Sicily Rae now, who is no longer a little girl.

I have so many memories of June bugs

in summer, when I would see just how many

I could catch. Always walled into a shell,

black and feeling with antennae against my

hands. Holding onto one a short while, I’d let her

go when she pushed just so at the creases

between my fingers. I found one dead in my room

once, legs stiff like knitting needles

poking from my mother’s tote. I thought it funny

how she loved to make me quiche: spinach and

tomato patched together like a quilt. It was her

mother’s recipe; she hoped I would make it too.

But I was never any good at baking. It seems

so long ago, I can’t remember the ingredients.

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I had to fix it before bed.
4 hours till work... woo!

[My57]

crazy stuff you got here man. Can't wait to see future stuff.

I wouldn't mind seeing some of your more fine art stuff, (by that i mean anatomy studies, realism, etc.)

Thanks for commenting before. Not to sure if thats it, will have to wait and see what he says about it, but it looks to be that way.

[cout<mecha]

Bat, long time no see! You are defying the laws of gravity in here, although I wonder sometimes, what was said, you are come along with a style. Wonder what you would do with a bit of observation. Enjoyed your comments at the "animation" threads. Of course they are still debating the 'porn' thing! Whoosh! Bloosh!:rocker:

[batcustard]

I do all my observational work in physical sketchbooks. When I get home with my wacom I like to play. Ill post up some physical stuff when my camera arrives in september.

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so Im working on flash stuff.
Er... programming is time consuming. But hopefully it will end up leading to some more interesting posts in the near future.
anyways this is something that happened in flash when I got distracted.

[batcustard]

fine.... I posted something from "observation"
UGH I used a photo...I feel so dirty.

[SMILEFACE]

WICKED UPDATES dig the story AN THANKS FER THE PO !!!!!YOU ROCK AHH AN THE BANG ONE IS HOT

[batcustard]

this (http://www.emmanuelmalin.com/pages%20images/vampires.html) is literally my favorite painting. Manu is so good.

Anyways I drew the following after having a dream about beating somebody to death with a cat.

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I have no idea what I'm even drawing.

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gonna pick this back up on the morrow.

Sean Lennon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IT2YTURFEWc&feature=related) is pretty good. Listened to it for the last 3 updates.

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:mod:

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working on backgrounds for a new sort of experimental project

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big time WIP obviously

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update

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same project

[J.roxanne]

i love your Color!~ so fresh. keep up

[batcustard]

*whooooops*

[jatherip]

intresting style in here. yes, the bright colors are fresh!! keep painting, mate!

[batcustard]

Im working on commissions full time now WOOO! No more 9ta5 for this guy.

[batcustard]

a few colored (comic book panels?), a comic book action scene I am doing as a sample of what my sequential art can look like, and a old drawing from observation(on a netbook, with a small wacom that had no pressure sensitivity) of my friend reed inking a screenprint.

[batcustard]

All of these are from the last two days. I haven't slept much.

[batcustard]

drawn from life while I was read to

[batcustard]

Yep Merry christmas

[batcustard]

Can't think of anything to say about these.

[Kasei]

Wow, love your style--you've got some fantastic concepts here man, really love the energy! This sketchbook makes for some very inspirational browsing. :)

[batcustard]

I hate uploading pictures on this site. The categories and sub-categories are a cool idea but damn does it get annoying when I am entering the SAME thing over and over and over. Sometimes.... Somtimes, Ill admit, I just click at random. Photography, personal, black and white, fantasy, zbrush?

[jordyskateboardy]

Thanks for dropping by man. I like the stylished stuff you do. That's your strongest point. But like you allready are keep on working on the realistic stuff as well. WIll greatly benefit your overall work. The biggest issue I think is that you tend to get a bit muddy. When being stylished make sure you got clean lines and no small interuptions. That will probably bring you a level up

[Collin Smiley]

I realy like your one of the guy at the table, nice

[batcustard]

Ok, I have come to a decision about this sketchbook. I really hate how much of a completely blatant hassle the uploading process is on this site. You would think after spending hours drawing something it would be worth the time to jump through all of those hoops, but I find that it truly isn't.
Anyways, I tried to take the advice you guys gave me and clean up my work a bit and use more refs.
So without further verbage, I present Photobucket uploads:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/Bootypotter2.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/bret.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/dave3.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/Dom.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/Domsploitation2.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/Andrewth-1.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/Andypire-1.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/gabelette.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/randy.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/Andy-1.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/Bleach-1.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/Foland.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/thisisallIhave.jpg

[batcustard]

:asspat:
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Keito.jpg

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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Zeenpaku.jpg

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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/cartoonvoilence.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/ripmeapart/WATSON.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/mintysadness.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Nugsad.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Nug.jpg

[batcustard]

NSFW
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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/musicnerds.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/positiveandnegative.jpg

[cout<mecha]

Truly awe inspiring stuff you are doing in here BAT although it's been sometime before these last few ones. Very loose and controlled while still keeping some of your old mores in there. Defiant as always b'gummit! Lovez it ti deth! Keep bussin by gatry! See you next time,:mod:

[batcustard]

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/coldfall.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Timish.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/twoheads.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/whatImworkingon.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/fatherfrancis.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/sugarskull.jpg

I call this last one "Remember bad"
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/rememberbad.jpg

[batcustard]

Enjoy this fairy
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/fairee.jpg

Also I'm probably moving over into modeling permanently.
So updates will be a little more regular as it's something a little easier to show progress in.

[LtPlissken]

Hello.
I see that you have this sketcbhook for quite a long time now.
That is so great, it shows how serious you are about your
artistic intentions.
I totally agree with you about the annoying upload procedure.
As your art is concerned, I like it very much, but unfortunately
I cannot give you some smart advices, cause I am not exactly
in the same waters as you are with these paintings. I am just
a self taught artist, with weak all around skills.
I wish you to have at least half of a motivation power as you
had till now, and you will serve something serious to the world in
the near future.
Take care and keep posting.

[cgaddict]

Lots of variety of work here, I especially enjoy the more humorous pieces. Keep it up, great to see you practicing so much.

[batcustard]

Ran into some edgeflow issues with this one so I just knocked some extra poly's in and sculpted it for fun. I'll start from scratch again tomozza. Program:maya.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/body.jpg

[8bit]

i dont know how you do it, but you get a whole lot of character into your colour work!

Lets see more!

[Justyna]

Your sb is cool :)
I like your unique style, looks like you draw quite fast and with ease :)

[A_Knight's_Art]

Really cool sb! I like your style and the animations, nice to see some 3d aswell. Keep up the good job. :)

[batcustard]

8bit: Thanks dude, Love your book so it's good to hear....read...see?

Justyna: What a delightful compliment, thankyou!

AKA: I haven't seen your book yet but I'll definitely check it out soon soon but I gotta smash the bedtimes, anyways...Thanks brosif I totally plan on keeping the 3d coming in force.... after I get back from across the country this next week.

It's so great to have had you guys take the time to come in and look at my work. Invigorating and beautiful that the ideas we produce don't just ecco into empty space if you know what I mean?

ANYWAYS
New edgeflow! KAPOW!
Gonna go to Bloemfontaine (can't spell it) for a week so no comp. Gonna take some paper but I'll probably end up drunk instead of studious.


http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/wholenewbasemesh.jpg

[LtPlissken]

Gonna take some paper but I'll probably end up drunk instead of studious.


Haha.



Nice 3D studies.

[iven]

Lot's of variety in here,......And I saw your animation, it's cute
but a bit too long try to do it short and spicy. But good practice
what you did keep animating it, my first movies where way to long
too !!

[batcustard]

I drank in Bloemfontein like it was my fucking job.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/rocketship.jpg

I've been playing with this idea of spirit animals that are just people wearing animal hats.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/birdboyandtigergirl.jpg

[batcustard]

Lot's of variety in here,......And I saw your animation, it's cute
but a bit too long try to do it short and spicy. But good practice
what you did keep animating it, my first movies where way to long
too !!


Yeah man it was WAY too long, that project is pretty old I have since abandoned that project about a year ago, I should just change my sig. It was one of those situations where I couldn't figure out how to spice it up without putting double the work into it, and cutting it down burst the purpose. I should update the link :D.

I'm thinking of trying to do something with the spirit animals as a cute animation, but need to really push story elements around first this time.

and limit myself to 25 seconds.

[Klaus Reinbach III]

You are full of energie! =) some cool stuff in here.

[FightingSeraph]

I really dig that flash animation and the 3D work myself.

[batcustard]

ANYWAYS, here it is at the moment.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Blue.jpg

[batcustard]

A little more work on that previous model, I'm starting to think the refs I'm using are of a guy with scoliosis which is maybe not the greatest idea.
LT: Thanks for dropping by, you have a really positive vibe which I dig in a big bad way. Haha, maybe it's just the white soothing text?
Klaus: It means a lot to have somebody at your level of development check my work, thanks for your time bro!
Seraph:Those are my real jobs, the hope is that I'm pretty good at them! Thanks for checking the page out!

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/dreammonster.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/dreammonster2.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/LeavingAhrizcity.jpg

[batcustard]

This is the devil? I don't know, I'm tweaking old flash vids and I got bored so I drew this in one of the frames.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/devilwearshat.jpg

[batcustard]

After an argument with a friend about hat real estate, in which I stated more than one hat isn't classy and he vehemently asserted that, it was, in fact: classy.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Thenightofmanyhats3.jpg

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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/selfportraitstyles.jpg

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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Friendlyteamofanimals.jpg

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http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/animalteam02.jpg

[*Rena*]

I really like the last two post!:tihi:
Funny characters and nice colors you've got there!!
Hope to see more from you...

[LtPlissken]

Just as Rena said, your characters are interesting
and funny. Now try to make some brutal scenery
with lots of blood on it.

[batcustard]

Lt: Gore you say? Maybe next post.
Rena: Thankyou kindly. I will probably continue to update pretty regularly.

If you can't tell by the sudden appearance of curly blond hair everywhere, I have fallen hopelessly in love. So there is an intense chance of seeing a lot more pictures like these, because it feels like every time I fire up my old intuos... I can't help myself.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/anightapart.jpg

[iven]

Stylized drawing EH, I have a suggestion for your SB. Did you ever try to
make a collage with all the images you have, than post it.

Just look at my stuff I just post maybe in a few month, but one page contains
a lot of inspiration. Not so much scrolling and more for the eye on one page.

Anyway, cool stuff I like it !!!

[ImagineTheEnding]

I your drawings of cartoon animals. They have a lot of character and uniqueness to them. Also their color palette has a nice softness to it.

[batcustard]

Just for you Lt Plissken

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Happythanksgiving.jpg

[batcustard]

Iven, I had never actually thought to do such a thing. Maybe?
Imaginetheending: Thanks for dropping by man, again, Beautiful work in your SB.

Here is part of what might be a new daily routine?

I mean I know how everybody feels about labels, but I'm finding that I really enjoy making these cartoon animals.... Furry?

It only counts if they are sexy humans with animal heads right?

Oh well, owl day!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/owls.jpg

[andres333]

amazing style i'm speechless, and those 3d models are looking good

[batcustard]

Owl day continues
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/owlday03.jpg

[batcustard]

Shrewathon!

Andres: Thanks dude! It was such a beautiful moment to get that post, I ended up working an extra couple of hours. It's always nice if somebody I respect experiences and enjoys some of the work I do!

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/shrewathong.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Shrewathon02.jpg

[batcustard]

Whoah, nearly posted this in somebody elses sketchbook! haha that would have been ultra embarrassing!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/SHREWATHON3.jpg

[batcustard]

Gonna slow down on the next few updates probably this one is a little dumpster divey

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Shrewathon4.jpg

[cout<mecha]

Hey Bat! Lotta new updates since I was last here. I like your human model. It needs some pumps in a bumps tho. If you are working in Z-Brush should be EZ!

[andres333]

Shrewathon!

Andres: Thanks dude! It was such a beautiful moment to get that post, I ended up working an extra couple of hours. It's always nice if somebody I respect experiences and enjoys some of the work I do!



woah thanks to you, how come I'm respectable?? hehe :) :) :)

[LAL]

lovely style!please post more!

[batcustard]

Cout: Man I miss Z-brush. My name is Zee, so I got really excited when it came out and I could use it. I was like "yeah, ironic styles!" but I don't have access to it anymore. I'm making everything in maya. Let me give you some advice in return though, mainly about Zbrush. There is no sense in taking a FUBAR model into Zbrush, it never fixes problems. Zbrush is really just an intensifier. So if you have a good model it makes it look fucking awesome, but if it's even a little off, it makes it look crazy weird.

Andres: Of course I respect your work man! You have an insanely solid grasp of depth and the angles of surfaces. You have mad formal styles and I don't know how somebody, like me, who draws pictures couldn't do that.

LAL posted in my sketchbook EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
*fans self in a dainty fashion then faints*
Beatles groupie styles!

Anyways BATCUSTARD.COM is MINE! So this might be the beginning of a lot of pictures of bats and custard.

I posted a progression of the bat so that you guys get an idea of how I do shit.

1) basic shape with color
2) rough drawing linework
3) slightly different take on linework
4)*this almost always happens* A return to the shapes in step(2) with a few elements from(3)
5) Use colors from step 1, refine and post!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/batcustard01.jpg

[batcustard]

super quick just before bed
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/batcustard02.jpg

[batcustard]

Yeah so doing some character designs. I need to do some work on my reel tomozza so maybe I'm gonna have a gap day. Probablies not though
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Batcustard04.jpg

[batcustard]

Hey dudes, still awake.
Did some more character sketches, thinking about starting up a webcomic?
I mean, I realize there are about 5 billion of them already, but I think my style and speed would be refined by the process and it would be a good thing to link up with my reel?

Don't know.
The second piece is just me trying to demostrate something for the artist that does samurai vs. Zombies.

I don't exactly highly recommend the comic, but I have a weakness for clearly western created fo-anime samurai demon stories.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/batcustard05.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/zombie.jpg

[iven]

Dude,.......amAAAAAAAAAAAAAAZING shit here.
Specially on page #4 after my post, slow down man LOL
page 5 has a very nice sheed the big guy, good sketch man,
but some life drawing would be good for you EH

Didn't you complained about uploading, LOL
you seem to enjoy it more than drawing :assspank:

My last size was for example 1200 pix to xxxxx hight

1200 is good because 2x 600pix or 3x 400pix and they are still
big, so I can still lough my :moon: OFF

:cheerleader:

[LtPlissken]

Just for you Lt Plissken

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/Happythanksgiving.jpg



MEGA-Awesome.
I really appreciate this.

[batcustard]

Ivan: Thanks bro. Yeah I mostly do gesture work from life. The alternative is drawing from photos, which I guess I could do, but I have very little interest in it. In the next few months though I'm moving to a bigger city so I'll probably be able to find a Lifedrawing group.

Lt: haha, no problem dude. I'm afraid that's the most violence I can do!

Man, I need a writer.
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/BC001-1.jpg

[Lechri]

Those illustrations are adorable! (And by those, I mean all of them). Very expressive stuff... Interesting to look at.

[LtPlissken]

Violent enough my friend, it satisfies my needs.


hahaha, who is this guy in your comic?
Chuck Liddell, drinking coffee with his room mate
on the balcony in his retired days?
Great one, we should think of some conversation
between them.
You are going to bigger city?
wow, send me a postcard please.

[*Rena*]

bwah ha ha ha!:D
hilarious works!

[batcustard]

Letch:Thanks man! Wecome to the community dude!
Lt: Yeah, go for it! I realized after doing the art on that one of me and my roomate talking that it's not actually super funny... so I'm just gonna save the strip for when I think of some good dialogue.
Punchcat: Thanks! I like your stuff too!
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/BC003.jpg
http://imgur.com/L0OFA.jpg

[Kungfoowiz]

Yeah, the guy with the chainsaw was awesome. =)

[keigo]

Really nice works! Like your style, sketchy and simple and clear. Ypur comic was funny too :)

[J@n!t]

OMG! Your Existence comic makes me want to cry! Poignant...

[kingkostas]

very interesting works mate!!love these stylized chars.These are looking great, just keep up upgrading the basics for overal progress
keep up the great work!!!

[keigo]

Thanks for visiting my sketchbook and dropped a line. Keep up with your works too! :)

[batcustard]

Kung-Fu-Wiz:His name is 'THOR2010.' Of course, thanks for dropping by. Loving the mechanical objects you've been dropping for the past few weeks. I probably need to do that at some point too!

Kiego: Thanks for dropping by dude!

Janet(is that right?) What an absolutely lovely thing to read! Thankyou!

Kingkostas: Absolutely invigorating to think you have even browsed some of my stuff.
Did some basic sheep!
get it?
anyways, yeah dude I know what you mean... I think.

Then there is a concept for a direction I might take my comic in. Check the high-res for icicle tears, snow lizard, earth creature, and plant cat.


http://imgur.com/9vTCz.jpg
http://imgur.com/XeDLC.jpg
http://imgur.com/fu3fA.jpg

[batcustard]

time to sleep
... trying to figure out how these images connect.

I find that when I plan stories I can only do it in a series of imagined images that I find intriguing. But I often end up in this exact situation where i'm like "ok he definitely has sheep and he has a raincoat... and he sees a person who is bleeding... but why?"

http://imgur.com/gjm6M.jpg

[batcustard]

http://imgur.com/R7Q5u.jpg
http://imgur.com/vv1P5.jpg

[Jaunay]

Hey thanks for commenting on my sketchbook I really appreciate it. You've got some great stuff here, I'm really digging your sketchy expressive style, the thanksgiving piece has so much motion and expression in it. I hope to see more like that. Your colour schemes are really good but i think you need to spend a little more time refining your cell shading technique. Other than that keep it up. :D

[JIEZHOU]

wow!!! nice work here .. keep it !!

[batcustard]

Jaun: Thanks, I'll keep working on it. I find it strange that people are reacting to that thanksgiving piece. That's the way it goes though I guess? I never know what people are going to like.

Jiezhou: Thankyou dude, I will, for sure.

Man I think I have been drawing DARE I SAY too much lately.

I need to get outside, lift some heavy things and breath a little fresh mountain air.

http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/mountain.jpg
http://i28.photobucket.com/albums/c226/zeebashiv/BC004.jpg

[LtPlissken]

Nice brainstormings you got through your
latest comics. Update?

[iven]

I really really like your work, one question:

What program do you use ???

I am (because I am an Animator) sketching around in flash I like the way
the vectors act if you edit them in flash, Illustrator is more complicated
for that kind of work and I can't animate it there.

Anyway I will pop in if I have more time and see what your story is about !!

[batcustard]

got a full time job as an animator. Lots of work, not much time for updates.
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[batcustard]

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[in2eternity]

Cool cartoon style you have )))
Congrats with your new job)

[LtPlissken]

Did not see you for a few months.
Welcome back!
I would always recognize your style.
Great job on your latest pieces, hope you
will update regularly from now on.
Handy gif is very interesting by the way.

[batcustard]

Art side of a two-person flash game.
http://i.imgur.com/vHZnG.jpg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pocTnKtEDZU
Keys and Passing positions for characters walk cycle.


Some of the more completed characters.
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[batcustard]

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[*Rena*]

I like your strong shapes!:)

[Kasei]

First of all, congrats on the animation job! Second, I'm loving the mad style you've got going on here--really fantastic characterization of everything, thanks for sharing!

[iven]

Have fun with your job I am working on getting into an animation program.
I asked already maybe I haven't seen the post but AGAIN, is that line work
done in FLAH or Illustrator,..........thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa aaaanks !!

You stuff looks great !!

PS.: I saw your you tube stuff, great so it was flash EH !!

[SMILEFACE]

wwwwwWWWWWWHHHHHHAAAAAAAA DIG THE STYLIZED ANIMALS AN GREAT USE OF STROKES AN NEGATIVE SPACES AN HAHA SHAPES XD