Krato's Sketchbook now NSFW!

[Krato]

OLD SKETCHBOOK

[FourTonMantis]

Looks good. I'd say push the contrast and establish some midtones. The values aren't blending so well; crank down the opacity to blend them together, especially on the grapes. The planes on that apple look great.

[rossipoo]

Yay! same age as me! we can improve together!<3 post moar most moar!

[a la bapsi]

hey
how 'bout some trad drawing up i here.

[Krato]

Drew this today suggestions?

[Helltroll]

For that pumpkin, I'd say to establish a fuller range of values. It looks a tad flat right now.

Keep it up!

[Krato]

um, quick drawings on photoshop

[a la bapsi]

moar.

[sourgasm]

on the pumpkin one, one suggestion would be to do what artsy folks call "turning the form." make a layer on top and set it to "soft light." then grab a big fuzzy round brush, pick a nearly-black hue of orange and hit the lower left edges of the pumpkin with it. keep it very subtle and build it up. then do the same on the upper right, but to a much less obvious degree. finally, pick a nearly-white hue of orange (adding a bit of yellow helps, or adding blue if you want to go for contrasting sky-ish highlights) and move your highlight just inside of the shadow on the upper right (follow the form of the pumpkin with them). lastly, modify the stem shadow to follow the shape of the stem. you'll start to get that spherical feeling from it. check the attachment to see what i mean.

hope that helps!

[Krato]

We had a ventrilo practice thing today and i won "most creative". My creature makes perfect sense.

[Nibras]

No way you guys are doing fun stuff!
Krato change your sig to just "sketchbook" :P it makes more sense people will click it
Sweet figure drawings they look really nice and clean lines too :D
Keep at it!

[IanE]

Sourgasm beat me to my critique, so I suggest you read his post a second time.

When applying colours, be sure you check out how they work in real life, or at least from a quality photo. The world isn't as vibrant as we think it is in most cases.

[Krato]

Alright, so im working on an idea for the current chow, their are apparently obvious mistakes that i will hopefully work through.

Crits welcome

break from vent, studying life, ref and stuff. Will return in a month or so.. + Where can i get allot of quick hand pics, of course the internet, but i was thinking of a posemaniac approach, i tried their system, its in Japanese and loads quite slowly..

[a la bapsi]

looking forward to your next update, then.

[Krato]

a little practice, not sure if im done with this face, probably am, some things wrong with it of course. crits welcome. Ok back to practice.

[Krato]

well at least its an improvement on the one above. Um, is their a site or thread on CA that tells you how what base color appears more where, like the nose is more red for ex-- i think. Also what is a good way to make pores on photoshop or add detail to skin?

[Krato]

used a tutorial to try and make this picture, what do you think?

[silvestri99]

I'd say to just keep drawing and working on your values more. Some of your pieces appear more flat because you just need more contrast between the lights and darks. Maybe some value studies would work?

[Aveh]

I think you're at a place where the best thing you can do is just continue to push forward. Just the act of drawing and concentrating on making a drawing will help you make the improvements you want.

A suggestion from my perspective, focus in a little bit and push yourself with just line, get it as tight as you can. IF you get bored with that , try getting some value in. Just a thinking out loud kinda thing. Keep at it man.

[IronFistGoon]

You have a great start on your sketchbook. I want to see more of your stuff. Especially more pencil on paper. You seem to have a good eye for you the gesture, but I think it would help you to work more analog. When working in Photoshop work in more values. Something you may try is to only work in greyscale for a while. Really try to push some of the tones.

[Krato]

Quick sketch with the stream and a random leg/bone study i did on photoshop.

I tried to use a deeper difference in values on these two pics. Suggestions + tips for environments would be appreciated.

IRONFISHGOON:I would like to put my pen and paper stuff on here but i cannot i dont have the stuff to do it.

AVEH: Yea, now is probably a good spot to start, what better age than 16?

SILVESTRI99: Yea, i have heard that my values are often low created flat images, so im going to try and change that.

[Jove]

Hey tiny Turtle, nice studies man :D Now do the same with the environments as with the everything else, you know the drill, study from ref photos or life studies first to build a visual library then start doing stuff from imagination, keep at it :yayca:

[rossipoo]

Sure dude! WHAT SHALL WE NAME IT!?!?! Btw show me how to do the link word thing, i mean i cant find out how to make it so that my whole link fits into a URL Word thing yeah.. -.-

PS i like the buildings! keep it up!

[Krato]

Hello, used a ref photo too draw this, i finished it up today but cant find the pic on Google again, so once ill find it ill repost -- if its necessary.

[Helltroll]

Good job on the latest landscape, you're improving!

[rossipoo]

i smell something, kinda smells like.. improvement! haah!

regarding the name! THE HUNGRY HIPPOS! :D

[Krato]

Pic of some mountains with snow used ref, crit

[Zorcron]

the mountains look great i might suggest more color IE: Emphasizing the purple and blues

also perhaps emphasize the distance in the mountains far away by lowering the contrast and pumping up the contrasty parts of the foreground

just my 2 cents :)

[rossipoo]

Great paint, but as Zorcron said, Yeah try more purple and blues,

AND AND, Eagles? Come on now! Its all about polarbears, Falcons, turtles, Phoenixes, and penguins! :D or rhinos :D

[Krato]

Quick painting i did today used a little bit of ref.

[a la bapsi]

VANDERPOEL. (http://theconga.blogspot.com/2009/01/human-figure-john-h-vanderpoel.html)

have fun studying.

get your ass a scanner. it's an investment.

[CastorFiber]

Your stuff is comming along nicely!

[Krato]

Quick sketch thanks for the VANDERPOEL bapsi and also thanks castro for visiting

[Zorcron]

in this last one even though its a sketch i think a secondary color would really spark , the values are there perhaps giving the fire in the caves real strong values as right now they are pretty hard to read

eye squinting ftw :)

[juicy]

the devil has a vagina!
haha - cool stuff i like the enviros!
more!

[LoneInDarkness]

Thanks for your advice, will do! That is my main concern, doing anatomy studies, can't draw concept creatures and other characters without being able to do anatomy correctly... Anyways! I looked through your posts and I am amazed by your environments! Very good, I love the general flow of the pictures, next stop smaller details!

[SMILEFACE]

hey your enviro's rock i like the half bone half muscle study keep up the goods'

[CastorFiber]

That last one is nice, I would like to see you refine it a bit - That would be nice to see in step-by-step pictures. Good job!

Edit: Oh, yeah thats right - thanks for you comments, I think you are right in everything you said.

[williams73]

hey with your stuff when you think your done and have saved it convert it to black and white. I think this will help you see how to create more depth

[NewmanD]

Really nice art... I like landscapes, and would like to see the last one environment with full details...

Keep it UP!

[mike butkus]

I like your landscapes, good job!

[Krato]

thanks for all the landscape comments, i dont think they are that special but thanks anyway for the friendliness. Hopefully i will be able to improve these more

[Zorcron]

i would definatly not worry about drawing anything from memory yet it just gets you in to bad habits when you can be observing and learning from life ;)

keep up the fight!

[Krato]

Pic using ref from, a site that i cannot recall.

Zorcron:Thanks for the useful comment, ill be sure too visit your sb again, thanks.

[Krato]

Another study with ref.

Why cant i get these pictures to make a thread pic? I got rid of my old one, i tried to replace it, but now its not showing up. :/

[a la bapsi]

i see you're paying good attention to color.
keep it up.

[rossipoo]

yayy moar moar

[Zorcron]

keep em coming , your use of color is improving but with those photos in paticular there seems to be a lack of color variation which can be good and bad haha

as in with the lighting they have got set up there is not much room for any other colors then the ones they like for the photo shoot or whatever they have got set up (it seems to me anyways)

[DanielC]

Keep the studies coming !

[Krato]

Keep the studies coming !

0.0





Mission complete.





Also thanks for the comments guys, i will try too put more pics in. today.

[CastorFiber]

Looking good, the last studies are really good. I'll have to do some of that myself. moar! ;)

[Krato]

some more stuff

dile told me to paint with one hue so i did, looks better than the colorful one

[Octorok]

Well you're off to a good start. I see you like to do landscapes and environments. That is a tough one. Studying perspective is going to be murder.
Try not to rely so much on photoshop so much. Traditional mediums are still highly regarded these days.

[Wolfentir]

Youve made quite a lot of improvement from what i saw on the first page to your most recent post. The helmet is awesome as well as the color figure studies

[Krato]

:D like how this one turned out. Took about, im guessing two hours i did allot of other stuff in between. :)

CASTORFIBER: Hey thanks for visiting, yea i gave you a link on your sb with some good studies you can do.

OCTO: Thanks for visiting my sb, yea trad mediums are still in favor but i learning how to paint on photoshop will/should help me be able to paint traditionally.

WOLF: Thanks Wolf

[Nibras]

You painting is improving soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo much.
Fuck man
Those paint studies are so freakin great
Really awesome improvement
Keep at it

[Krato]

:D thanks nebo that means allot. I wont be updating anything this weekend, im on vacation and i forgot to bring the pen for my tablet so i will be doing sketches and life studies with pencil.

[Not_Deadman]

youre getting better at painting! keep it up! one crit i have is for http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=672692&stc=1&d=1242535738

i would either omit or kinda change the cast shadow of the person's arm. If you want to keep it, try to make it so it adds the the illusion of 3-dimensionality, because in my honest opinion, the shadow makes the face look flat

my favorite is http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=675641&stc=1&d=1242834966 it looks awesome

[Krato]

ok, so i got back from a trip to SC were i forgot to bring my tablet's pen. So now that im back home i made a still life of a shell (that i got in SC) with photoshop.

Deadman: Thanks, allot of people like the helmet :D

[Jamie Romoser]

Love seeing the progression here!

Till next time -Omerta

[clockworksnail]

Hey man, you looked at our crappy (but very new) sketchbook, so i came to see yours.
we are the same age, well.... your the same age as connor, but im pretty sure i'd be the same school year as you, and il be 16 in a month, so yer, maybe we cud progress together? liek i realise there is almost nothing in mine and connors sketchbook right now but give me a few weeks to get my shit together and it'll all start coming out. i like your sketchbook, i think you got talent. that medievil helmets probly my favourite but its all pretty cool......... so yer chat me back, il watch you!
cya, ....Clockworksnail, (i'm Kurt btw)

[Zorcron]

dude give us an update!!!