=marcnail's sketchbook=

[marcnail]

Hi guys !

I've been lurking for some time /years/eons, and I'd like to show some
of my sketches, WIPs and stuff.

Some newer works from my moleskine sketchbook from 2008/2009
and some digitally colored things I'd like to share.
Recently I've been trying to create my artwork without lineart directly
in PS, but I still have to learn a lot. Its not as crisp as my older stuff.
The Girls, yeah...a weak point. They look a bit shitty. I have to take
some classes again, I guess. :)

[marcnail]

Wow, the thumbnails quickly become very cluttered due to the different sizes..hmm.

Another one. I called this "Blast Bug", its Starship Troopers /Warhammer 40k-
inspired (obviously). Blue Pencil and the colored version (fast and sloppy).

[marcnail]

Some futuristic suits and armor compilation.
The guy on the right looks a bit " Should I really stand like this ?"
(Yeah, bad posture..), but I like the details on his equipment.

[marcnail]

Its good to just scribble a lot, ideas flow more easily.
Sometimes the stuff is not that original, but you can reuse
bits and pieces of it later on. The "Prophet" dude is a bit
inspired by Clive Barker and his Hellraiser Universe.

[rattus]

nice cyberstuff sketches!!

[Virg]

your pencils are really good, not too sure about the girls proportions in the first post and I think some areas of their body need more darks in the skin to give more volume. Keep sharing id like to see more. :)

[FightingSeraph]

I approve of what you have so far.

[marcnail]

your pencils are really good, not too sure about the girls proportions in the first post and I think some areas of their body need more darks in the skin to give more volume. Keep sharing id like to see more. :)


Exactly, the proportions are admittedly strange. I have to work on that.
Shading also. It looks too "2D" so to say. It does not pop out as much as
I wanted it.

;)

[marcnail]

Colored sketchbook stuff.
Here's a link to the finished artwork on deviantart:
http://fc18.deviantart.com/fs39/f/2008/313/b/1/death_head_by_marcnail.jpg

[Leon Roé]

you have some great stuff!
I realy like the guns in the first post, love the rifle on the botum left.
Dont wurry to much about the girls, some times it just takes time.
I know I whas frustrated a lot for a long time with anatomy.

Goodluck :blahblah:

(Sorry for my bad English)

[marcnail]

Golem.

I struggled with this one a bit. I couldn't make him look interesting enough,
till I came up with the Gun-Arm and the red lights on him. Mean mofo.

Some WIP stuff, and the semi-finished state.

[marcnail]

you have some great stuff!
I realy like the guns in the first post, love the rifle on the botum left.
Dont wurry to much about the girls, some times it just takes time.
I know I whas frustrated a lot for a long time with anatomy.

Goodluck :blahblah:

(Sorry for my bad English)

True. Its one of the most difficult things to do. Its always easier
to create thingys from your imagination than really make something
true to life (such as getting the anatomy straight), but I'll get there.

[marcnail]

Ah...the metal years strike back:
skulls & swords.

pencil & some grey copic marker

[marcnail]

Collection of spaceships from my Moleskin sketchbooks.
Mostly 2008-2009 stuff. Pencil, Fineliner and some grey copic.

[Raiderukkus]

woow good work , for kinda game ,remind me gears of war

[marcnail]

Some Manga-style girl I came up with, but never finished.
Never liked the Hairstyle, maybe I'll do something with it later on.
Its more or less a character sheet with my thoughts/notes on it.
Her character changes too much in the colored version, she looks a
bit too male for my taste. Oh well.:davi:

[marcnail]

Here's an attempt at 3D. Some might argue, "thats not a sketch", but with
Mudbox, its really coming close to that. Here are some stages, before I
abandoned this little project. I did many tests,some Photoshop paintovers.

I gave this fella intentionally stubby and short legs, which should not be able to
support his frame, but i liked this disproportion very much. He almost looks a bit
dwarfish. I might add, that I absolutly suck at 3D modelling, the stuff I produce
in my spare time, is always so full of errors and mistakes, its crazy. But its cool
for concepting stuff in three dimensions quite fast.

[OO7OO7]

Great work, looks professional.

[marcnail]

robohead photoshop doodles

[marcnail]

An older work from 2007.
Pencil Sketch and rough coloring in PS

[marcnail]

More Green crazies. Since everybody tries to do his own HULK, I had to do
some as well.

[Emil_J.]

the imaginative work you got here is really good. Your pencils stands out, especially the ones from #3 ! keep updating more :)

[marcnail]

the imaginative work you got here is really good. Your pencils stands out, especially the ones from #3 ! keep updating more :)

Thx. I'm a bit partial on the posing of the characters though. The amount
of detail is ok, but their posture could be better. I'll try to incorporate
that in future character sketches.
:)

[marcnail]

More MUDBOX sketching. Its not easy to add these little details
which are supposed to look like armor plating and stuff like that.
It always looks way too soft. Ah well.

[marcnail]

Goin a bit crazy with textures, overpaints and such.
Color exercise/test. (forever WIP)

[marcnail]

Landscape Sketches in Painter X and Photoshop CS3
The one on the right was done with a foto ref of the
Himalaya Moutnains.

[SteFlack]

Great environments in your last post, the one on the left has a really nice atmosphere to it. Love the sketchbook pages you’ve posted so far too. Looking forward to seeing more.

[marcnail]

Helmet/Headgear compilation from my moleskine sketchbook.
Ballpoint Pen, Fineliner, some Pencil

[marcnail]

Some messy car doodles. Most of these are rough idea sketches/thumbnails for
a "Mario Kart"-Type Game, so many of these look quite cute and cuddly
with their oversized ballon tires.

:)

[marcnail]

Stuck on Robotics.
I need to sketch more real-life things.

:)

[polydrawer]

cool work dude , your designs are overall pretty good
make sure you get the proportions right on some of your more human stuff that's about the only comment i can give you ^^

keep it up

[marcnail]

cool work dude , your designs are overall pretty good
make sure you get the proportions right on some of your more human stuff that's about the only comment i can give you ^^

keep it up

GNAH ! My weakness ! :donk:
Yeah, I have to improve that...I guess...

Some Vektor-Work from 2008, mixed with some photoshop textures

[marcnail]

Demon Thingy. Did some Overpainting on this one, and gave it some
more muscle and a ....erm..."face".

[marcnail]

Head sketches . 1 hour.

[Kristo Novo]

cool stuff in here - i like how you´re improving your work in different ways - inspiring thread :-) maybe do some more life/anathomy studies

[marcnail]

cool stuff in here - i like how you´re improving your work in different ways - inspiring thread :-) maybe do some more life/anathomy studies

Yeah, I'm planning to do so in the future. life drawing is definetly important.
:)

[George Abraham]

You got some good conceptual skills. Thanx for sharing.

[marcnail]

Various Ideas and In-Betweens.

[marcnail]

Some Helicopter studies. I took some inspiration from Soviet Choppers,
because they always look ugly (in a good way) and terrifying.

[marcnail]

Fantasy themed stuff. Sketches for a Golem (Stone Elemental) and scenery
for a knight themed artwork. Next some girls with ridiculous "armor", which
seems to be only there for decoration. The one in the middle is a bit on the
goofy/insane side... ;)

[marcnail]

Inspired by Resident Evil and John Carpenter's "The Thing".

[marcnail]

Since the "Tumbler" was destroyed in "The Dark Knight", it's time for a new batmobile. (since some ppls asked, thats the FRONT you're lookin at...d'oh!)

[LosPescados]

You've some really great sketches and drawing!
I'm subscribing to this thread !
Keep em coming, I hope, one day, I'll be as good as you!

[marcnail]

Sketch Dump for today.

1) Ideas for Demons, Structure of their Heads, Horns and such.
2) More random Stuff, directly inspired by watching movies and games, almost like fanart. Nothing too original, just scribbling.
3) Leftovers from a abandoned vertical Scroller Shoot'Em Up, these were
to be scanned in and mirrored, in case anyone was wondering.

;)

[marcnail]

A mythical creature, the Wendigo.
Initial Sketch & two color variations.

[LosPescados]

Great sketches,
on the first sketch: the creature in the top middle: Try to add some bigger wings, the small (try out) wings don't fit that good.

[marcnail]

Some Heads with weird implants. Dang I need a new moleskine.

[marcnail]

Bubble Suit Idea and some quick transport ships I made while on the subway.

[marcnail]

Cambot Sketches. I don't know who came up with the "aerostat" term, but
it sure sounds cool.

[AustenFM]

Pretty bad ass stuff in here dude, really digging your ideas. No real crits for ya, looks like you've got a nice handle on anatomy and your style in general, and it already looks like you're improving fast!
Maybe you could watch your proportions as far as head size to body size goes, maybe some more tones in your pencil work?

anyway, I'll be back around, keep it up!

[Reject-D]

try working on a bigger canvas.. i think your working too small for your digitals.. keep it up!!

[marcnail]

try working on a bigger canvas.. i think your working too small for your digitals.. keep it up!!

You mean format-wise ? Yeah. I'll save them in higher-res next time,
if thats what you're referring to. I just wanted to make sure,that they don't
exeed the forum layout.:oneye:

[LosPescados]

You mean format-wise ? Yeah. I'll save them in higher-res next time,
if thats what you're referring to. I just wanted to make sure,that they don't
exeed the forum layout.:oneye:

You can always work in higher res. And resize your picture whenever you post it on the forum. And keep the PSD file as high res.

[marcnail]

Quick environment sketch with just a speck of color.

[marcnail]

Similar desaturated, almost grey....

[marcnail]

I worked on the previous environment some more. Added some color, maybe a bit much.

[MacTire]

Nice sketches Marc, nice integration of the digital into the pencil work!! Though I must second one of the previous posters in suggesting you practice some anatomy.
Nonetheless, Keep up the good work!!

[Rotor]

Sweet linework here. You also have some fresh designs like the mechanic stuff.
I'm sorry but I'm not much of a critic, just keep them coming. :)

[marcnail]

Pretty bad ass stuff in here dude, really digging your ideas. No real crits for ya, looks like you've got a nice handle on anatomy and your style in general, and it already looks like you're improving fast!
Maybe you could watch your proportions as far as head size to body size goes, maybe some more tones in your pencil work?

anyway, I'll be back around, keep it up!

Thanks, I know about the anatomy issues, but its really weird, sometimes I seem to get it right,then in the next sketch the old problems pop up again. Its lazyness I guess... work work...focus.

About the tones, yeah I'll see into that. Normally I just use the pencils as rough preliminary drawings for my color digitals, so they often lack shading.

[marcnail]

Nice sketches Marc, nice integration of the digital into the pencil work!! Though I must second one of the previous posters in suggesting you practice some anatomy.
Nonetheless, Keep up the good work!!

Absolutely, its my weak spot. It truly compromises some of my conceptual ideas.

[VogelA]

Nice sketches, I like seeing how you went from doodles then through refinement and on into 3D. Your creatures and figures are awesome...keep up the great work

[Parcel-Sisters]

You really have a good hand for sketching. I love all of your pencil work; it seems like you just go at it and come up with some really neat ideas. You've also got some really nice color work, something that I need to work on. Keep contrasting colors, it looks great!

[LosPescados]

Nice work! I really love your sketchbook! (subscribed to it)
However you might want to fix the bottom of your closes rock a bit. It isn't 'sticky' in my eyes.

[marcnail]

Nice work! I really love your sketchbook! (subscribed to it)
However you might want to fix the bottom of your closes rock a bit. It isn't 'sticky' in my eyes.

Yeah, it lacks a proper foundation.

[wilkerson]

Enjoying this thread. I like that batmobile. A tip, I think you should clean up the edges on your industrial drawings. Also the lines in your character are great, but you obscure them with your paint. Try to find some way of retaining the claraity of those details in the later stages and pick your values very carefully to illustrate the form.

[marcnail]

Enjoying this thread. I like that batmobile. A tip, I think you should clean up the edges on your industrial drawings. Also the lines in your character are great, but you obscure them with your paint. Try to find some way of retaining the claraity of those details in the later stages and pick your values very carefully to illustrate the form.


Thats a good advice. I do tend to overdo the painting sometimes. I guess
after each coloring session I need to do another pass and make the final result "sharper" again.

[marcnail]

Starting to color this Golem from one of my previous posts.
First some grey values. I hope I don't overdo it and make it mushy.

[marcnail]

next step, a bit too soft.

[marcnail]

Some more stuff:

1) Inspired by the wellknown EVA Mechs, love those shapes.
2) Ornamental skulls, i decided to keep the blue pencils
3) Eye Studies. Just a couple of eyes.

[marcnail]

Some serious looking heads. Page from sketchbook and colored in PS. 8)

[marcnail]

A collection of more recent sketches.

[corel]

Great great great sketchbook.
I really like your syle! especially those protoss-like figures!

[marcnail]

Some older Stuff [2008]. I was a bit underwhelmed with the
female Strogg in Quake IV, so I made some of my own.

[marcnail]

Great great great sketchbook.
I really like your syle! especially those protoss-like figures!

Thanks man, I appreciate it. :)

[Jamie Romoser]

Whats up marcnail!
Cool sketchbook you have here man.
Im digging your character ideas.
Keep having fun drawing/painting -Omerta

[marcnail]

Strange little series. Still working on the face of the girl and the pose. I don't know if I continue that one.

[marcnail]

Generic Trooper Suit. WIP
Needs some more Details, Gadgets, Weapons. (new head ?)

[marcnail]

I did some tweaking on this one. The green luminescent color
gives it a "Green Lantern" Look. Good presentation practise.
Needs some sharper details. Still very sketchy.

[marcnail]

Racer Sketches (Sideview)

[marcnail]

Quick Paintover.

[marcnail]

Some Doodles. As you can tell, one was made after watching "Terminator Salvation".

[marcnail]

Snorkelman ! YAY !

[marcnail]

environment_hills.

gotta do more of these.

[Peetaer]

Absolutely love your work man. Your take on sci-fi is just awesome. Some of the designs you've come up with is just totally wicked.

Would love it if you could give me any kind of critical feedback.

Keep rocking dude!

[marcnail]

Behold the mighty oversized wanky arm...

[marcnail]

playing around....

[marcnail]

...aaand a third one.

[Bartovan]

Great stuff man! I like your character and vehicle desings. Very inspiring.

[marcnail]

Festering demon skull....
I mirrored the skull to get a somewhat better symmetry.
Always fun to do. Reminds me of these old 80s metal LP covers...

[marcnail]

Cute Hovertanks...Yay !:yum:

Recreational Sketches during Lunchbreak. The blue lines are from the preliminary scribblings...

[marcnail]

Update - Lunch Sketches.

[marcnail]

Reworked Alchemy Doodles

[marcnail]

A little Test. I wanted to see if I can use one of my Mudbox Busts for some quick paintovers with them looking too similar.

[Peetaer]

Sick work here man. Love your weapon designs and the Snake Eyes character. Real cool.

[marcnail]

Something different. A tree...:)
Moleskine Scan and a quick PS coloring.

[Demon Lizardman]

I am really liking those aliens.

[marcnail]

Ok, then I got some more of them for ya...

With this piece I tested some quick coloring techniques.
Basically its just a gradient (red & cyan) and some touching up in PS.
Came out allright I guess. ;)

Maybe I use this guy here for a full view later on.

[Peetaer]

Man, like I've mentioned before I really like your style and seeing your work and really thinking about the feedback you've given me has definitely inspired me to really start diving into just drawing from my imagination. Any tips on drawing conceptually? Just drop me some in my SB.

Thanks dude!

PS: Oh shit, forgot to mention: nice touch with that gradient technique

[marcnail]

Lunch Sketches:

Ideas for Sentry Guns:

[marcnail]

Sentry Guns Sketches 2

[Dromer]

Great sci-fi designs. Loving the shotgun, could really hurt a dude.

[marcnail]

Great sci-fi designs. Loving the shotgun, could really hurt a dude.

Yeah, it looks mean. Its inspired by that old toygun id software used for Doom. ;)

[Tom van der Linden]

Dude, you got some great stuff here. Only thing I have to say I would like to see you do some other genres, because you clearly excel at the cyber sci fi genre. Keep it up!

[marcnail]

Allright then, some Fantasy-themed daggers, swords and stuff.
I seem to have a preference for very broad blades, gotta put more
variety in it.

[marcnail]

Still trying to capture the female form in a less realistic, but more
stylized way. (read: comic book). Still not satisfied. The postures
are too stiff in a way.

Some sketch comps (there's even some Batgirl there):

[marcnail]

I worked the first time on a Cintiq today, this is the sloppy result:

Knight

[marcnail]

Palace Guard. (Rough color sketch)
Mixture of ancient roman and asian (chinese & japanese) influences.

[marcnail]

I got a Intuos 4 (A4) at work today. Testing....Testing...

[marcnail]

A little revision.

[ChristmasBunneh]

i really like the techy stuff. keep it up!

[marcnail]

Armor guy

[marcnail]

Braiiiiiiiins....chrr....Braiiiins...

[marcnail]

sssSSSSsss.....

[marcnail]

Working on a Crab...eh...Thing.
Blocking some grey values first.

[marcnail]

Working on a Crab...eh...Thing.
Blocking some grey values first.

[marcnail]

Added some sketchy legs at its back, some color testing

[marcnail]

The End of Days. Idea sketch.
Archangel Gabriel observes the northern hemisphere he just obliterated.
Just imagine that the angels of the old testament are real, but are actually
dormant alien insectoid bioweapons, who cleanse the earth every 65 Million years.
Their halos are high powered energy emitters which incinerate everything
in sight. Might make an interesting scifi-disaster movie. Not terribly orginal,
but delightfully unsettling.

[marcnail]

I'm fascinated by post-apocalyptic settings at the moment.
Obviously inspired by the worlds of "Terminator" and "I am Legend".

I used some simple 3D Blocks for the layout of the city, and painted
details on top. The VTOL-Jets are just freehand. Just experimenting
with this technique right now.

[Razorb]

i like the wepaons uve got going on at the top! the 2 guns, keep it up :D

[marcnail]

i like the wepaons uve got going on at the top! the 2 guns, keep it up :D

Thanks. Yep, the weapons seem to get a lot of attention. ;)

[marcnail]

Creature Quickie "Brute"

[marcnail]

New stuff. Gunship sketches and a page of small thumbnails.

[marcnail]

Gungirl Sketch, just some Greyscales..
She could be Snake Eyes Sidekick or something.
:)

[Jamie Romoser]

Badass sketchbook you have going here
some stars from me :)
looking forward to seeing some more
have a good one
-Jamie

[shambok]

You have some awesome work here! I really like your style ... keep up the great work!

[marcnail]

You have some awesome work here! I really like your style ... keep up the great work!

Thanks man, much appreciated.

:)


Badass sketchbook you have going here
some stars from me
looking forward to seeing some more
have a good one
-Jamie

Aaand strike. *High Five*

:D

[Helena Markos]

Great sketches. I like how you draw machines, especially, though my favorite have to be that landscapes peppered in here. Very nice.

[marcnail]

Weapon Fetish Sketches
No Lineart, just Photoshop. 1-2 hrs

Note: Yeah, the Sniper Rifle with Bullpup Config wouldn't work that well, I agree...Ammofeed etc.

[Jamie Romoser]

oo dig the simple color on your latest update looks way fresh
cant wait to see more :yum:

[marcnail]

icy lands. 30min. sketch during lunch.

[marcnail]

I took my recent skull sketch, and made some variations with it.

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A few variations on a female enemy type for a fictional fantasy-themed game.

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more gun sketching.

[marcnail]

Small Update and Comps of late 2009/early 2010 sketches.
Digital and traditional stuff. All sorts of media like ballpoint pen, marker,
fineliner or pure photoshop. I had plans to try the postapocalyptic "Crazy Mongo" as a 3D character, but I had no time for it.

[struve]

Wicked stuff!!

[marcnail]

Hmmm...at least she has firm boobies...:oneye:

[Peetaer]

You've been busy and I like what I see! However, one thing that really stuck out that I think you could modify is the way you tend to draw breasts on your female characters. First off, the women in your drawings usually have breasts that are not proportionate to their figure and secondly, the design of your breasts are little too round. They remind of fake titties (implants). Maybe this is just what you were going for but it's something that stuck out to me and seemed a little on the absurd side of things...

Good to see you being so busy! Keep them coming!

[marcnail]

Well...the "Titty Problem"...
When I draw breasts more natural, they always appear saggy to me.
Not sure if thats a result of centuries of looking at "comic book-pornstar
heroines", but you're definetly right on the money. Gotta do some research
on that. Stay tuned.

:)

[marcnail]

Sunday evening character heads.
Had some fun with mirroring the images.
Very obvious when you look at the blue guy.

:)

[marcnail]

Morning Warm-Up Sketches, some stylized comic-heads and characters.

[marcnail]

Mercenary Dude with a P90-style weapon.
Not sure what to do with him, I like his pose and expression.

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A little Color Test, and a bit of refinement. Hm, the arm (with gun) is shit, have to replace that. Color is too yellowish. Color Profile of my 1st monitor is off...damn.

[konrad11]

Great stuff! Very good concept work is going here. I like it.

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Behemoth.
A colored version of a recent moleskine page.

[marcnail]

Generic character head. Done with mouse only and a rectangular brush+ some erasing.

[Jamie Romoser]

thanks for droppin by my sketchbook man
some cool updates here
have a good one
till next time
-Jamie

[marcnail]

@konrad11 & OmertA:

Thanks guys. Always appreciated. :)


Allright, some quick fantasy-themed ballpoint sketches next:
Trolls were always a bit underrepresented in Fantasy, so
I wanted to see what could be done with them. Essentially
Wolverine/Hulk-Hybrid with a huge-ass sword.
;)

[marcnail]

Mutants and otherwise malformed creatures are always my
favourite subjects. You can do a lot of sick stuff with them.

This was originally planned as some Wolfenstein-like supernatural Creature,
but I decided it works without the reference as well.

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SciFi-Girl with a Document Folder ...well, she needed to hold something.
I didn't want her to hold the usual weapon, for a change. ;)

[LAL]

Hi Marcnail,your design is very good!i like it !I think your are a rich imagination!keep it up!

[marcnail]

Sketchbook Pages. The evil horned lord ! bow your heads !

[radioblur]

Wow you have a good eye for design! Some of your characters are looking a little on the generic side, but you have a pretty wonderful sense of detail and micro-composition within costumes. However your figures are lacking a lot of structure and balance, and some of your images are missing a sense of macro-composition. If you work on your anatomy and structure (probably drawing more form life would help :> ) and try to really study your compositions as you paint them, you could really be a winner of an artist! Keep going dude, I can't wait to see where you're heading!

Also the skull design on the horned overlord guy's arm in the sketch above is sick. I am a little jealous.

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@ radioblur:

nice and concstructive criticism. just how I like it.
:)


Allright, next one. Some Variations on Trooper Helmets.
A tad "generic", sorry for that. ;)

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I heard that Hugo Weaving ist now confirmed for THE RED SKULL in
the upcoming Captain America-Movie, so I wondered how the Make-Up
would look like. I opted for total disfigurement, and made him look like
some burn victim (with red "skin") of course.

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Weapon Fetishism + Boobs

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Gunships, Vehicles...Moleskine Stuff.
Easy Sideviews, good for exploring shapes etc.

[HolyMane]

loved your sketches dude, your desygns are prety cool to see

[marcnail]

Thanks. I'll try updating more often.

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Quick Sketch of a "Secret Soviet Fighter". A litte hommage to Clint Eastwoods "Firefox"-Movie.

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Some abandoned Ideas, just greyscales. Some had a a bit of color,
but they looked IMHO better just monochromatic.

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Some Nudies (References from dA), dont know if I posted them before.

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Slightly battered looking car, postapocalyptic maybe ?

Sketchbook piece, blue pencil, fineliner + warm grey Marker.

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Russian Helicopter Gunship Kamov Ka-76

"These Gunships were instrumental in the invasion of
the USA in the winter of 2072. Highly maneuverable
and used after the war for the pacification of the
occupied New York and quick crowd dispersal..."

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Brawler.

An alien (?) fighter looks down on his adversary.

[marcnail]

More crass color abuse.

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Spike.
Real friendly. And glows in the dark.

[kidult]

Really cool work you got going, try some studies from life too, will help train your eye and rendering.

[marcnail]

Night Doodle. Overpainted Sketchbook Stuff.

[NyeAlexandaFrayne]

you have a lot of varied stuff man, keeeeep it coming! :)

[marcnail]

Thanks. Allright then, some Sculptris Doodles.
(Sculptris is that free 3D-Modelling Prog recently aquired by Pixologic).

These are screencaps from different stages of that little project.
I'm just trying to learn that prog at the moment. Problems arise when the
meshes get too big, that really slows Sculptris down.

[shambok]

Keep up the great work! I really like your sketching style ...so awesomely loose and vibrant.

[APW]

AWESOME! PURE AWESOMNESS! U should teach ART AWESOMNOLOGY!

[marcnail]

Tonights Sketch. Gotta do more environments.

"The Lava Cave" (aka The Ass of Hell).

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Postapocalyptic Mutant Sketch. Handsome, huh ?

[Benjy]

Great sketchbook. Lots of awesome stuff.

[marcnail]

I worked over an older life sketch with photoshop.
Fleshtones came out quite nice. Her Hair wasn't that Pornstar-blonde, but almost...
And most important: DAT ASS...

Plus: Other Sketches and color tests with my new Wacom intuos 4 tablet.

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Felt venomous today...
I left this at the "blue-pencil"-stage.

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Quick Paintover + some Gradient Overlays.

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@Benjy: Thx! :)

Some quick expressions on red note paper.

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Random Face on the street.
From memory.

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Girl Sideview. I think she had a cigarette also, but I omitted that. Just
didn't look good.

[freakmod]

Your sketches and lines are awesome, but to me your paintings need some work. I might suggest turning off any brush opacity in your paint program, and paint with 3 solid colors. Get that down and then blend them together, instead of using opacity.

[shambok]

Great updates ... thanx for sharing! Everything looks awesome!
Love the evil face version on the red note paper ... colour suits it very well!

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@freakmod:

Yeah, I'll do some research on that.
Photoshop is unfortunately not as good in color blending as
Painter for example without using opacity and flow.

@shambok:

Thx,man. :hugsmile:

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Some sketches from the last weeks:

The girl is based on a reference pic I found on DeviantArt,
I changed the color, face and expression a bit. Still not
happy with her expression.

Lunch Time Sketches /Meeting Sketches/etc.

Some Sculptris Doodles, you guys should really check it out,
I made some good progress with that (free!) App.

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Some bioweapon dude. Photoshop work over a Sculptris doodle.

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And the original raw Sculptris mesh, without PS manipulation.

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sunday morning sketch..

[Ian Barker]

your zbrush sculpts could use work on the edges. they're all looking pretty soft and squishy, not the look you want for deadly aliens.

keep up the hard work, it'll pay off :)

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your zbrush sculpts could use work on the edges. they're all looking pretty soft and squishy, not the look you want for deadly aliens.

keep up the hard work, it'll pay off :)


Well its not Zbrush, but Sculptris. Sculptris is really a pain in the ass,
when doing more hardedged stuff.

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[LAL]

cool zbrush stuff, I like them very much!

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Another Sculptris Sketch.


Oh and if you guys want to do your own stuff with that little
app, feel free to download it at pixologic. At the moment its
free, and in an alpha build stage.

http://download.pixologic01.com/download.php?f=Sculptris/sculptris.zip

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Some late December 2010 and January 2011 sketches:

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A bit too cartoony....

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Random guy.

[Geth]

Really cool art enjoyed going through and looking at all of your hard work keep it up!

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@US Assassin:

Thanks. I'll try to continue, if I find the time for it.

Another one for tonight. Maybe not very original, but fun to do:

T-Rex

[ladyknowles]

Sketchbooks like this keep me drawing! Great stuff :)

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@ladyknowles:
Thx ! Nice to know, that some people get a kick outta this. :)



Another quick one for tonight. A more streamlined armored dude /bot.
Thumbnail for this right up in the corner. I painted over a scaled
copy of this small thumb.

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Gotta do more environments.

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Quick Heads this morning.

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Sketching in Sculptris again, this was done actually from two older sculpts I had around, so its a kind of "kitbash"...

[Sushy]

nice work here :D

[Dope Fiend]

The sculpts are looking good

keep pushing your paintings and drawings, and as u said yourself, work on some enviros, or settings for your characters

keep it up!

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Some stylized versions of a comic girls head. Her nose is a bit off (too low) in the first two versions , I think it gives her some character. Looks vaguely arabic or indian.

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Not really a sketch, but I wanted to see what I could do with an old pic of a 70s BMW via Overpainting and collaging.

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Concept sketch for a challenge at zbrushcentral.com

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A little more development on the "Witch".
Overpainted Sculptris Model, I think I got something there

[surus]

Thanks for sharing all these cool helmet inventions! Keep on posting pencil pages, please!

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More Sculptris Sketches:

Centaur