Plissken's SketchBook [now with a little Brutality, Gore and Violence]

[LtPlissken]

I am 29 years old, living in Serbia.
I am here to learn and to improve my art skills.
I thank you all who visits my sketchbook and who share his knowledge with me.

[Slothboy3000]

Learning the basics before trying to gain a personal style is always wise.
Andrew Loomis' "Figure Drawing for all it's Worth" is a great book to get you started. :)
http://gekos.no/art/index.php/component/option,com_idoblog/Itemid,60/id,68/task,viewpost/

[Braintree]

Hi!

A good way to improve is to study other's drawings and drawing from life. So here are some tips:

- Every day, draw 1 page of posemaniacs: http://www.posemaniacs.com/?pagename=thirtysecond
Start at 90 secs, then work your way down over time.
- Study from Loomis, Bridgeman and Vilppu's books. Here you can find all Loomis's books:
http://acid.noobgrinder.com/Loomis/
Copy their drawing and try to apply what you learn to your imaginative stuff.
- Draw stuff from life. Everything goes pretty much. People on the train, bus etc. Your dishes, shoes, cellphone, your hands, everything.
- Copy drawings you like. Just remember to say who your copying. and try to understand why the original artist placed the lines where he did.
- If your can find life drawing classes with models near where you live, go to those. Drawing from life is pure gold.

Drawing from imagination takes ALOT of work. Before you can do it properly, you need to study and create a library of shapes in your head. The aforementioned tips will help you build this library.

About the images you have uploaded here, one thing is consistent: In your faces, you draw the features (especially the eyes) too large compared to the size of the face. The exceptions to this is the two faces in the top right of 008.jpg, those are really nice.

Keep drawing and post your newest stuff! :)

[LtPlissken]

Slothboy3000; thank you for your quick reply. I appreciate you for posting and suggesting me the book. I am on my way to acquire the Loomis book. Will post drawings from the book later.

Braintree; I am very happy that you supported me right in the beginning and shared the info which is worth gold to me right now.
The posemaniacs site is just what I have been looking for. I will do later some 30 second sketches. Man, that is some awesome workout for those who want to learn to draw. Two thumbs up! I am on my way as I said to acquire some of Loomis books. Will use some references from there I guess. I will also try to draw from life as you said, however it looks a little complicated right now, but I will try.
"Drawing from imagination takes ALOT of work. Before you can do it properly, you need to study and create a library of shapes in your head. The aforementioned tips will help you build this library." - So that is the secret. I would never guessed that. Good to know. There is so much to do and to learn so let's get to work. I thank you all again for viewing and commenting.

For now,here are some hand drawing from some anatomy book I guess, I forgot the title of the book:

[LtPlissken]

Copied some stuff and tried to do something from my imagination. I was browsing other sketchbooks today, again. I slowly starting to realize...Man I suck!

[spark_zero]

Keep going man, things will start to get better! I like that first chracter with pen, good work.

http://www.portrait-artist.org/face/structure2.html

Though I would give you that page, because I can see that on that second sketch with the faces things seem to be off. There are many good tutorials in there, how to draw nose, ears, mouth etc.

[LtPlissken]

spark zero; thanks man
I did studied the link you provided me with. Very useful. I am bad at face drawings too :(
My work continues. Loomis book engaged, and some other imagination suckages:

[Zergaloth]

just keep going man. you know how to use a pencil, and you like it, so much is clear. now practice, practice, practice.

[RedSquirrel]

Better late than never yes?! I sometimes copy out other work, it's a way of getting inspired I think(just as long as you don't pass it off as your own its ok ;p)
Enjoy drawing, push yourself, but not too hard, and welcome to CA ;)

[DStraX]

looks like your of to a good start here, just keep up the studies. draw draw and draw some more!!! its all about mileage.
i think you need to give yourself homework. like draw 50 hands a day :)

Tim

[LtPlissken]

Zergaloth;RedSquirrel;DStraX thank you guys for watching and replying. I really appreciate.
Here are some more sketches. Nothing special but I have to work every day.
Andrew Loomis - Drawing the Head and Hands ignited again:

[LtPlissken]

More work....

[Novbert]

Thanks for commenting on my sketchbook, pal!

About your stuff: Most of your work suffer from the same issue: lack of structure and depth. I can see, that you laid your hands on Loomis' book - you just haven't applied his method.

Human face is all about structure and it can (and must) be drawn structured. It is also true that the human face (and the human body... and animals' body... and everything) can be broken down into basic three dimensional shapes (spheres, cubes, etc.) Just keep that in mind and try to really construct a face - you'll be surprised how easy it is ;)

And one more thing about conturs: you tend to draw all the conturs of eyes and lips. It's WRONG. linedrawn eyes work perfectly well without rendering the lower eyelid too much and without rendering the contour of the lips (check this (http://reiq.deviantart.com/art/Alex-JapanEx-Sketch-62742154) for example) Lines are something that doesn't exist in real - and you have to be verrrry careful of how and where to use them. ;)

And one more thing: Do as little imaginary stuff as possible. You are not there yet. Take references and try to copy them. It's not as easy as it sounds - and you can learn a lot form it.

[LtPlissken]

Novbert, thank you very much for visiting my SB, i really appreciate it and I am thankful for the knowledge and advices you shared with me here.


And one more thing: Do as little imaginary stuff as possible. You are not there yet. Take references and try to copy them. It's not as easy as it sounds - and you can learn a lot form it.

At this point this is what helped me mostly out, cause I was just asking myself , should I draw imaginary stuff or use more references. I had the feeling that I am not there yet, to do some of my own stuff and it looks like I was right. Thank you again.

Here is some more of my work:

[LtPlissken]

More and more and more,
just from some references:

[LtPlissken]

and more:

[LtPlissken]

More work, they are all from references:

[LtPlissken]

I did something more, all from reference images, unfortunately not my concepts:

[ohnojenny]

I see you've done some Loomis studies. I think drilling that will help you attain your own style once you have your foundations down. There's nothing wrong learning from observation, (someone earlier said drawing real people and figures -- I second that!) so long as you develop a style of your own later. :) Keep up the good work!

[LtPlissken]

I was watching RoboCop again recently and played Prince of Persia in the same time so I got inspired:

[matejkovacic]

Hey, thanks for stopping by at my sketchbook! I like this Prince of Persia
inspired picture. Keep up studying anatomy! You'll improve in no time.
Na srpskom baš nisam majstor ali mogu nešto kao na srpskom da ti kažem :)
Samo crtaj uz pomoč fotografije, u živo - svoje ruke, lice, gde god čekaš
i imaš vreme uzmi skicirku i crtaj ljude koje vidiš. Inače vidim, da ti ide. Samo tako!

[LtPlissken]

Drawings from some photo references and a few from life:

[LtPlissken]

This is one more drawing from Prince of Persia "Warrior Within". I am so deeply influenced by this game, even if I played it a few years ago. I did this with a permanent marker, it was too big for the scanner that is why I captured it with a photo cam, so it seems a little blurry.

Shahdee is a scantily-dressed woman with a black, short haircut. A subordinate of the Empress of Time, she is tasked with preventing the Prince from reaching the Island of Time, under penalty of death.

[m.j.]

Po meni ti je najbolje odlučiti šta želiš crtati i fokusirati se na to.Nemoj gubiti vrijeme na crtanje pejzaža ako te zanimaju portreti,ljudi.Anatomija i stalno skiciranje i to po mogućnosti uživo.I sam imam taj problem.Ali kod tebe se vidi
napredak od početka do kraja posta,velika je razlika.Kako ti je Matej rekao,blok za skiciranje i rad daju najboje rezultate.POzdrav-keep it up,cheers!

[BlackDelphin]

Loomis!! Great!! That will really help you improve! Just do some more, and repeat! :D
I also think you should do some pose maniac poses for tightening up those skills!! http://www.posemaniacs.com/blog/

[Elz]

Was gonna suggest posemaniacs but BlackDelphin beat me to it :P
Looking good so far, just keep going :)

[LtPlissken]

Miro
BlackDelphin
Elz
thank you for visiting my SB and posting.
Yes I already did some of posemaniac 30 sec exercises, I just need to scan the drawings and post them some day.

Here are some more of my everyday sketches:

[LtPlissken]

More and more and more and more.....
Never give up.

[RoboMonkey]

Hey there !
There are some nice drawings standing out. I especially liked the prince of persia one ! Really nice !
Keep doing studies because they are very helpful.

[LtPlissken]

Drawings that I did from some references:

[S.Elena]

Hey, thanks for checking my sketchbook. I am so glad you decided to start from the beginning with older drawings. I started like that as well, well anyway yours are 10 years older and mine were only 6 months :D.
And woah because you are self taught and you got so much things going on here.
Keep practicing and do a lot of studies and you will improve a lot. I can understand you perfectly with the works from imagination; I have hard time with those too.
Just keep working and never stop!

[Lord Dubu]

Those two Prince of Persia sketches indicate you've got a lot of potential. I think you need to do a lot more sketching from reference though.

[LtPlissken]

Hey Elena, thank you , I am watching your sketchbook regularly,
Lord Dubu, I would like to aim some of your drawing styles, thank you for visiting my SB, i am delighted. Two words from you all and my motivation just groves.
I am working hard on my drawing skills the last few months, I truly believe that the results will manifest.
Here is some of Greg Loudon's drawing, I do not know what is the title, but I call it the "Burial Witch"
I spent about 5 or 8 hours on this one.

[LtPlissken]

Continuing to practice from some references. The Welder is my idea. Wow. Finally something from my imagination. There are some drawings here inspired with BiteFight online internet game and there is Snipes as Blade.

[zouzhili]

Great imagination！You can exercises to strengthen lines，Somewhat arbitrary lines.

[LtPlissken]

Thank you zouzhili!

Here are my first digital attempts, so pls brace yourself!
First of all this is a tablet that I got myself and the rest is my art :shrug:

[LtPlissken]

More of my artwork, mostly from references:

[LtPlissken]

I used a reference drawing from some artist who's name I cannot remember right now. I just like this one so hard.

[LtPlissken]

I accidentally deleted the firstly posted drawings of mine when I was experimenting with my sketchbook avatar, so I will mix them back in here as I post from time to time.
Here are some more of my daily exercises:

[LtPlissken]

Some more of my tries. Two from references; one from my imagination.

[LtPlissken]

Digital painting. Can be real fun or it can be real frustrating. In this case it was frustrating.

[LtPlissken]

Here are some exercises from some comic book, then some Quake II and Doom inspired concepts and some portrait. I hope that I am advancing well. :sungod:

[Irishdrunk]

Hey LtPlissken, cool stuff.

I play a lot those games you were inspired by. I like fan-art :D

Keep up the practice.

[LtPlissken]

Some really old drawings, then I have edited and experimented with the witch in Photoshop, colored the background and put some texture on it.
Fallout 3 Power Armor from the game , a game that inspired me greatly, I just have no words about it. Then there is Sub-Zero, a reference was someones digital art, some wallpaper and there is a self portrait at the end.

[LtPlissken]

I do not know is this a good idea, I started coloring the witch drawing, cause I am not experienced at all in digital art, so I am a little stuck now cause I do not know how to continue this one:

[nance]

I appreciate your comments, thanks for dropping by....
I see the growth in your work, man. Keep it up and dont forget to challenge yourself outside of your comfort zone (advice i need to take myself) Good work

[LtPlissken]

Thank you nance.
Here goes some Fallout 3 inspired drawing, a Japan Pilot drawn from some reference, some girl, a wolf drawn from some reference, and some Quake II inspired concepts.

[LtPlissken]

Some digital work again. I am getting the hang of it and starting to like it. Yeah!

[LtPlissken]

Some new sketches. On the firs page we can see sketches inspired by the PC game Quake II, that game just rocked my life and imagination.
The second page is some girl, drawn from her photo references. She looks much more sexier on those photo's.
On the third page I used the references from some comic book learning pages, and I did two sketches of the Fallout 3 Power Armor. That stuff is just so awesome.
4th page is a Doom 3 inspired concepts and Fallout 3 Super Mutant, drawn from a reference image.

[S.Elena]

You are improving both in drawing and digital;
It’s really great that you use so many creative references (I should start doing that too); You can try to focus on more anatomy study as well, proportions, form;

[Steffler]

Hey thanks for the comment in my SB. You have some real strong pieces. I like your armored soldiers values. It looks like your studying from life. You will benifit from watching as many digital artists as possible.

Check out Idrawgirls.com
Xia has hundred of short videos and even some great downloadable tutorials. He is very good at teaching you photoshop right beside anatomy and composition etc.

[mehdi80]

hello LtPlissken ,thanks for commenting my sketchbook, i am student like you and i tray to work hardly to improve my level in drawing just like evryone and i have a remark your drawing are not bad prince of percia are a exellent drawing keep on warking

[LtPlissken]

S.Elena, Steffler, mahdi80; thank you for supporting me, thank you from my heart.
Here are some more of my stuff, from some photo and from some comic book references. Oh, and there is my concept, the girl with the gun, that is all mine, except I used posemaniac.com for the pose. I am so satisfied with that one:

[zou]

good work

the tutorial of don seegmiller is very good. don't stop tutorials and studies, they will make you improve quickely.
this last one, the tall hat is awesome, it pops out.

keep it

[AlstonInk]

Hey LtPlissken, I didn't want a drunk Mel Gibson beating up on me so.... haha! Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook and taking the time to check it out. Good to see you getting in so much practice, keep it up. All the hard work will pay off eventually. I don't know if it's been mentioned but another way to get in some good anatomy practice is to attend life drawing classes.

[LtPlissken]

AstonInkg Mel Gibson would come to your house if you would not visited my SB, indeed. hahahahaha
trust me. Thank you for your advices.

You zou, thank you for your support and for looking my SB. Because of your encouragement, I am doing one more tutorial here from Seegmiller's book. Cheers mait. I know that I did not finished it, cause I did not have the nerves and i screwed up the proportions but I was more focusing on coloring. Hope you like it:

[Irishdrunk]

Hey thank you for checking out my SB.

Oh man, I have Seegmiller's E-Book. I've seen the tut, and you did a great job.

Proportions aren't identical. But no one wants to be a human copy-machine. Definitely got the colors down.

Personal favorite is the Prince of Persia. Such an awesome game >.<

[coreanseoul]

Hey there, thanks for popping by at my SB. :) Your stuff is looking good and a lot of nice improvement is clear, both in drawing and digital. Loving the fanart and great imagination. Keep doing those studies and tutorials!

[LtPlissken]

Irishdrunk thank you. Yes, Seegmiller's book is just great. I will do more of his tutorials. The next will be the long hair tutorial I guess.
coreanseoul thank you for visiting my SB. Glad that you like my work.

Here are some portraits mostly, all from photographic references. Zuluf is my designed character:

[zanna92]

i dont fear mel gibson! not even if he's drunk!:D nice studies here i like your style

[LtPlissken]

zanna92 you should fear Gibson because he is drunk and mad and insane, and he conquered half of Scotland.
Thank you for visiting my SB.

Not a big update, just a little digital painting exercise.
Ghunkhar from the online game Bitefight:

[LtPlissken]

Digital painting exercise from photograph. The skull is my concept. Ahh
Blah; Blaaaaaah; aaaaaaaaaargggh; Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarhg!!!!

[LtPlissken]

Old Man. Pencils HB,B,2B-8B.
Took me about 8 hours to finish it.

[FightingSeraph]

Two things I would like to say:
A: You have improved quite a bit.
B: Your referenced drawings look much better than your non-referenced stuff although that is changing by all the progress that you have made.

[coreanseoul]

Hey, things are lookin good in here. I like the rendering you did on that old man especially. For the digital portrait above, it looks like you're learning to use blocks of colour to shade/give dimension and that is good. Only crit I can give is to watch the direction of your brush strokes and try to make them flow more with the natural contours of the face. The black and red scheme for the skull concept goes together well. Really liking the contrast. :)

Keep it up and thank you for your pointers in my sketchbook. :)

[LtPlissken]

FightingSeraph thank you very much. Yes, I am still not at the level where I can draw successfully from my imagination.

coreanseoul thank you for your feed back. I am still a starter with digital art. Will work on improving. I will follow your SB.

Some more sketches and doodles:

[LtPlissken]

...and now let's continue this sketchbook:
here you can see more of my daily drawing exercises, mostly from references but I have to say now that there are more and more of my own ideas mixed in my work as we advance:

[ninyanernel]

i recommend studying bridgman, if you haven't already, for figure drawings. there are links for the books posted in some forum here.. :D

thanks for visiting my sb, btw. keep on drawing!

[quackart]

hellou,

it has been told - refferenced works are better than non-refferenced... but thats totally normal... so what you need are studies (and it has been probably told too) especially figure drawings... than you can study details... i know it because im drowning in figure drawing too :) but it worths...

anyway i like that old man from nb 63 (i think its 63) ... good job... hard working is appreciated :)

so draw draw draw... you have a good start...

[LtPlissken]

People, thank you for viewing and for your support.
This next few drawings and sketches are drawn from references from this forum from various user's sketchbooks. I did not wrote down their names, I honestly hope that they will not mind if I use their great work to my daily exercise reference.

[Irishdrunk]

Hey, it's great to see lots of sketches. And i'm sure people would feel honored if you used their pieces for sketches. But don't make it plagiarism :p

My only critique are your figures. People have already suggested studying anatomy & figures. But to be more precise; some segments of your bodies just don't connect correctly. Just something to think about during your next sketches.

Keep it up! (Oh, btw. What happened to your digital stuff ;D )

[LtPlissken]

Thank you Irishdrunk.
I have to admit that I am a little off with digital art right now. I will make it up later. I am pencil oriented now.

[jatherip]

cooool amount of sketches, but how about some studies on faces? would help to improve you characters for sure!!

[LtPlissken]

jatherip thank you for visiting, I will study faces more.
I was reading Ron Tiner's book so I did one of his drawing, Fagin and tried to color it. I hope it looks relatively ok:

[LtPlissken]

Plissken is back with some badass sketches. Yeas baby!

[engelhardt]

Hi LtPlissken, your inprovement can be seen trough the sketchbook, but I think you should start doing some coloured stuff. Best is to start wigh reference.

[LtPlissken]

engelhardt thank you for following my SB,
Here is something colored, some digital art:

[LtPlissken]

I never stop practicing:

[LtPlissken]

The story goes on:

[LtPlissken]

Some photo manipulations:

[LtPlissken]

Started drawing from posemaniacs.com and did some digital figure training today.

[LtPlissken]

Some daily sketches, this time with a black pen, then there is good old Jesus and in the end Chuck Liddell of course.

[CavyWolfe]

Thanks for the visit. :D

I really like the studies you've got going, and the digital practices are nice. Keep at it!

[LtPlissken]

Thank you CavyWolfe.
This is an Elite Force Trooper concept, no reference used, done with 2B and mechanical pencil, after colored in PS:

[LtPlissken]

More daily sketches:

[LtPlissken]

A female portrait with 2B,3B and mechanical pencil and a color pencil study.

[Rotor]

I really like what you've got here and you can definately see improvement.
When making characters, try to put them in perspective and/or work on the values to give the characters mass and form. The ideas you've got here are really good but some of the characters have a certain flatness. Value studies with boxes, spheres and other simple forms will help you with this.
You also seem to have taken digital art pretty well, you've progressed quickly. I'd say push your values on digital art to give further emphasis to the pieces.
Keep on rocking, you'll be a champ one day. :)

[Rotor]

I really like what you've got here and you can definately see improvement.
When making characters, try to put them in perspective and/or work on the values to give the characters mass and form. The ideas you've got here are really good but some of the characters have a certain flatness. Value studies with boxes, spheres and other simple forms will help you with this.
You also seem to have taken digital art pretty well, you've progressed quickly. I'd say push your values on digital art to give further emphasis to the pieces.
Keep on rocking, you'll be a champ one day. :)

[SymbioticFusion]

Looks like you really working hard, I see lots of figure drawings, keep practicing anatomy but also perspective, understanding perspective is the base to draw everything, including figures. Keep the good work. :)

[LtPlissken]

Rotor & SymbioticFusion thank you very much for visiting and giving me advices. Unfortunately not many people visits my sketchbook lately and I get not much advices. I am so happy now that you left a comment :rocker:
I will definitely work next on perspective and will work on values.

I will post now two comic book attempts that I did with ink about 10 years ago:

[LtPlissken]

...................................

[LtPlissken]

This is Hershey. Hershey is fighting against criminal.

[m.j.]

Sve si bolji... Bravo! Uporan jesi tako da je samo pitanje vremena kad ćeš početi dobivati 5 zvijezdica... Keep it up,cheers!

[LtPlissken]

m.j., hvala ti najlepse na recima ohrabrenja i sto si mi posetio SB :steph::rocker::steph:
Priznajem, uporan sam, ako nista drugo makar sam to :)

Near future; the earth was evacuated, new settlements and colonies was founded and established on Pluto's moon Charon. Anarchy and riot was part of the regular evacuation process and settling stadium. New police enforcers was available for training and employment. The first class deployed, was the Charon Elite Force Trooper, heavily armored, ready for battle and to restore order.

A special female assault team was assembled from former imprisoned prostitutes. Chosen one of the best, the fittest with a deadly killing instinct, Sharon was one of the team members.
Sharon was well known amongst the criminals, cause of her high kill ratio and the brutal way of finishing her victims. The luckiest are disemboweled while alive with broken limbs watching their own slow death and the much worse scenarios are the castrated skinned ones also kept alive while she watches them bleed away for hours in great agonizing pain.

[LtPlissken]

Hershey & Sharon

[LtPlissken]

Charon Elite Force Trooper:

[FightingSeraph]

Your gore effects have improved rather quickly; Kinda like an ultra-violent horror film. However, you should study organ anatomy if you want to up the scare value.

[m.j.]

Nemoj zahvaljivati,pratim ja kako napreduješ,samo zapeo sam sa radovima u stanu-sad crtam,dizajniram namještaj za stan i ne napišem komentar svaki put kad pogledam tvoje radove,u stanu je sad hladno :) ... Dobar si,sviđa mi se ta tvoja volja i upornost! To je nužno da bi postao dobar crtač. Nadam se da ću i ja tako kao i ti u skoro vrijeme.

[LtPlissken]

FightingSeraph, thank you for visiting/posting, actually I already started to study internal organs, but I still have a lot to catch up with that.

m.j. hvala prijatelju jos jednom na lepim recima, i jako mi je drago da si tu i da pratis SB, to mi daje motivacije da radim jos napornije. Update sledi na redovnoj bazi :)





Thyra; formerly an extremely endurable prostitute, now trained to be a Charon Elite Force Field Medic.
She was picked to be a field surgeon cause of her frozen personality and insensitivity toward human beings. Her highlight story cruising in St.Thor's 3rd hospital was when she was amputating Lieutenant Carrie's legs without any painkillers and sedatives while eating a large Plasmaburger with Grayonnaise, on the battlefield , using the excuse that she did not had any time for breakfast and she forgot her medpack cause of the red alert, which has hit her on her only day off in this year.

[LtPlissken]

Hershey VS. Big Battle Armored B.E.A.S.T.

[Nintendo_zombie]

Wow.. some of your latest stuff is a bit.. well.. disturbing, haha.
I can see you've improved, but keep working with anatomy. Like in the rape scene
her arm looks jerked out of socket, perhaps intentional, but it looks off.

Also work with the woman's breasts more, they don't look natural at times.

Either way, keep up the good work. I look forward to your improvements. :)

[andres333]

Ok.....so......I think you need to improve a firm structure before putting on the details, or rendering, that way you¡ll stop committing proportion mistakes.

[LtPlissken]

Yes crazy things come to my mind lately. Nintendo_zombie & andres333 thank you for visiting and for your advices.
I have problems with shapes I admit, I have to improve that and I will try to train almost every other day.

I want to improve my digital art also. This is someone elses work I just did it with pencils and then tried to color it in Photoshop:

[LtPlissken]

Hello every1. I am posting one more of my digital tryouts. I have turned these days to digital painting, I want to develop my skills on that field also. I know that this ain't something really shiny, but I am satisfied with this piece and I surprised myself when I got done with it :) If anyone will pass by or be willing to post and give me advices, what to improve I would be more than thankful.

[Novbert]

Tons of sketches here, but still the same issues.
All of them are kinda unstructured with little to no definite light source.
I guess you should check Ron Lemen's tutorial on drawing heads (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=84105). Pay attention to the method he defines structure and planes of the head and how he uses it to draw shadows.
Also refine your process! Typical problem is that you jump into rendering details very early. Fix proportions and composition first! like Chuckmate does here (http://conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=834300&postcount=40)
And last but not least: Do more anatomy studies, less imaginary stuff. You simply can't draw solid images from imagination till you don't have solid knowledge of the human anatomy

[m.j.]

Hey Novbert-big thanks for Ron Lemens tutorial!!! I agree with everything you say about Plissken´s digital tryouts! Anatomy is essential for good drawing... Prijatelju nedaj se smesti-samo hrabro!

[Novbert]

Okay, I rechecked your works - obviously I missed some of your drawings for the first time. The last face study in this post (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2332392&postcount=36), the eye study here (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2343111&postcount=41), this portrait study here (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2367857&postcount=56) and this sketch (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2379326&postcount=63) are all really good and show lots of potetial. Apparently while you were drawing these you constantly adjusted and corrected the mistakes of the initial sketch. And that's the point.
As far as I can see you don't push it hard enough in your pencilworks. I mean you make initial sketches with some mistakes and wrong decisions and you don't correct them. Okay, I know that you can't phisically erase and redraw every pencil lines as many times as you wish... but you should ;) (and somehow you managed to do it with that old man portrait)
And it's also a problem with your digitally colored pencils. While at full digital works you don't stick to the initial work too much, you do it when you work from scanned pencils like this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2486934&postcount=103). In my opinion the mistakes of the initial sketch are pretty obvious (anatomy problems at breast and chest area, some rendering and perspective issues with the nose, too little chin, etc.), but you sticked to them while you were workin on it digitally (though you could also use the ref)
Long story short I suggest that you should do more digital (referenced) works and/or do traditional stuff, but try to apply what you learned drawing that old guy ;)

[LtPlissken]

Novbert, first of all, a big thanks for the tutorials that you shared with us. You got the nail right on the head, everything what you wrote is 90 or 100 percent true and I am really happy that you pointed out those things. Maybe those things, those mistakes was in the back of my head and I was half aware that I am doing them, but there is a moment when someone have to say them to you, to scatter some light on them.
The light source; I have big problems with that, I never dedicated any time studying light sources and I was almost all the time neglecting that part of my painting or drawing which of course is now a huge issue, especially visible on my digital art.
I do mess up the structure and the proportions and I am trying to do details cause I am kinda eager to finish the work and to see the end results. That Ron Lemen's tutorial helps much, thank you one more time for sharing that.
About the "Old Man" pencil drawing; I invested pretty much time in that one, maybe 8 or 10 hours of active work and I was paying attention to the tiny details and shadows. I should learn from that drawing, you are right.
If I would get every day a good criticism and help as I got now I would be improving double time.
What should I say? I am still learning, lots of unrevealed territory around me, sometimes I am afraid to go in the unknown, but seems that it is the only way, the only way to improve.
I am following almost everyday other sketchbooks, I am trying to learn and to improve but I think, that is the story of us all here. So I raise my sword and shield and go into the battle once again...
Thank you for visiting and supporting me.


Hello m.j. Ne dam se i nikad ne odustajem :) Hvala sto posecujes.




Happy Halloween to every1

[LtPlissken]

Decided to paint this Space Marine pencil drawing in photoshop and to put him into some spaceship environment:

[LtPlissken]

A deck of Cards that I have created:

[clanlord]

You sick boy! Do not stop doing such comics! - G

[donalfall]

Those cards are awesome.

[LtPlissken]

Thank you friends. Thank you for visiting my sketchbook.



Halloween set of cards:

[LtPlissken]

Female portrait

[Novbert]

I dig those card designs, but that last portrait is creepy (hopefully on purpose).

[LtPlissken]

hahaha, thank you. Actually I have tried to do that portrait as real as I could, I found this reference photo on the net, it is a girl who looks pretty same on this painting like on her original photo, she has put herself in some dark green ambient and turned out this spooky and her painting serves good now as a zombie art. Ok maybe I overdid a little with the face wrinkles, unfortunately I cannot find now the reference.


This next one is made as a fan art for the online game BiteFight.
Come and join me:
http://s1.bitefight.org/c.php?uid=164417

[donalfall]

That picture for "BiteFight" is great. The front figure needs a bit of work for "perfection" but those silhouettes of the guys she killed look just great. The follow-on cards are killer too. I think you have a great design sense - when things are shapes & colours you make them really good. Stuff like placement and layout is really good too. You just need to work on your line work somewhat, but you're getting there. Don't be afraid to use a lighter hand sometimes. Here and there in your comics the repetitive heavy line makes mistakes very obvious.

I think the concepts in those comics are a lot of fun too. Sometimes it's good to have some really twisted stuff! Keep on working!

[LtPlissken]

donalfall, I am so glad that you replied, your help is like rain to the desert, I appreciate it maximally. Every fragment of someones thoughts and opinion about my work is a corner stone in my art castle that I am trying to build. In these moments I really got the feeling that I am improving. Thank you all for your support.



:muscle:Statham?:muscle:

[LtPlissken]

Hi every1.
I was always being fascinated with this Greg Loudon's drawing, so I had to do it my self a few years ago with pencils and now I finally finished the painted version. I started this somewhere in July, so I abandoned the project cause of the lack of idea and knowledge how to finish it but finally it is done now. Anyway I was planning this to be over till Halloween but I have missed that date.

[LtPlissken]

Hi Every1

Crusader in a digital phase:

[Irishdrunk]

Whoa dude, those are some very awesome twisted imaginative pieces.

Alright, it's great you posted the posemaniac reference, so you can see what i'm saying. Compare the outline of the posemaniacs picture to your crusader. See how the body parts 'flow' together in the reference? They don't begin, end, begin, end. Even in stiff poses, the body will have a rhythm. Try longer strokes, encompass the entire leg in one stroke. Instead of drawing a line for the thigh, then another for knee, etc.

Keep it up!

[LtPlissken]

Thank you Irishdrunk

[Clockwork Bunny]

Thanks for stopping by :)

Loving the progress you're making - you can really see the learning curve! I agree with a lot of whats being said, work on the anatomy and portraits. I'm not sure what else can be said to be helpful.

Keep it up its all coming together nicely and improving with each post! x

[LtPlissken]

I am calling this one finished:

[Rotor]

Good progress!
A few nitpicks: It feels her anatomy is a bit distorted, for example her gun holding arm is much longer than the other. Try flipping the picture a few times when doing digital stuff, it helps point out some mistakes. I also think the values on this one are rather flat, darker values in the right places could really bring out her form better. The mask you used on the backround seems a bit too strong as the objects don't have such dark values in them. I hope I'm not too harsh, you are definately on the right track and making good progress. You seem to be very creative too and you got some wild ideas, Keep on drawing!

Oh and I had a good laugh with the twisted comic bits on the last page, brilliant!

[LtPlissken]

Thank you Rotor.
Critics like yours are making me progress.
It feels her anatomy is a bit distorted : totally true; the pose was from posemaniacs and I was aware of the longer arm till the last moment but I was honestly lazy to change anything about it.

Try flipping the picture a few times when doing digital stuff : I was flipping it

I also think the values on this one are rather flat, darker values in the right places could really bring out her form better : totally true; I was thinking the same thing when I finished this painting; this is too DAMN flat , but I did not know what to change about it.

The mask you used on the backround seems a bit too strong as the objects don't have such dark values in them ; totally true; I did not noticed that till you said it.

I hope I'm not too harsh ; of course you are not, as I said you are helping me to improve. Thank you for following and for posting, please stand by there will be some new updates pretty soon, and as you said "help me to become a man"

[Irishdrunk]

Uh oh, Mel Gibson was knocking on my door, so I figure I should check your progress :D

Value depth on your characters will follow after understanding anatomy.

But the biggest dagger stabbing my eye, is your color palette. I fucking hate picking colors out of PS color picker (fingers crossed for a color wheel in PS5). So open up a 500x500 psd, set opacity jitter on, lay a little spot of each color you can imagine, and go to town mixing stuff! It won't blend like painter or real paints, but you'll definitely get more colors.

I admire the detail you've put on your character and her environment, but the back ground needs detail tooooooo! Best way to approach this; find a really big crazy shape, turn it into a brush, go to your brush settings and turn 'scatter' on. And this will really fill in your background faster and more appeasing to the eye.

Keep it up! Here's hoping to see another comic ;D

[LtPlissken]

Uh oh, Mel Gibson was knocking on my door,

haha, that was good!


I am a duplication
Innocently
I was conceived
So violently
There was no love
There was no love for me
There was only hatred


I am rape
I am hate
I am rape
I am hate


Every day I feel anonymous hate
Forever in the shadow of disgrace


851431


Stuck in my seat, can't move, no way
The other guys knows the game to play
I'm watchin' her, I'm watchin' me, I'm gettin' brave
Oh, take him apart, say listen to me

851442

[Novbert]

Okay, this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2523936&postcount=120) is the best example of why you should draw the underlying structure first VERY carefully before rendering any details. The ref is a bit tricky though (it's always harder to draw a human figure from front view) but there are some obvious flaws in your rendering. For example:
- the spine is bent backwards. It means that we see the hip from a slightly upper point of view and the ribcage from a slightly lower one.
- the torso is slightly twisted towards the raised arm. That distorts the middle line of the torso and make it S-shaped. It can clearly be seen on the ref.
- This twist also puts the breasts in a different point of view. If you check the ref you can see that they don't look symmetrical - because we only have front view of the right one. The left one can be seen from a three quarter view.
- The hanging arm is slightly raised. That makes the upper part of the arm shaded
- The thighs are much thicker, the shins are much thinner than they should be. As other parts of the figure aren't exaggerated at all, it looks weird.
- The gun doesn't look like a gun at all. Drawing guns is like drawing human figures, there are some rules you must obey. Check some refs (http://openclipart.org/people/Clue/Clue_Guns_Pack.png)next time!

:yayca:

[sutapa]

pretty cool stuffs. keep going..

[LtPlissken]

Okay, this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2523936&postcount=120) is the best example of why you should draw the underlying structure first VERY carefully before rendering any details. The ref is a bit tricky though (it's always harder to draw a human figure from front view) but there are some obvious flaws in your rendering. For example:
- the spine is bent backwards. It means that we see the hip from a slightly upper point of view and the ribcage from a slightly lower one.
- the torso is slightly twisted towards the raised arm. That distorts the middle line of the torso and make it S-shaped. It can clearly be seen on the ref.
- This twist also puts the breasts in a different point of view. If you check the ref you can see that they don't look symmetrical - because we only have front view of the right one. The left one can be seen from a three quarter view.
- The hanging arm is slightly raised. That makes the upper part of the arm shaded
- The thighs are much thicker, the shins are much thinner than they should be. As other parts of the figure aren't exaggerated at all, it looks weird.
- The gun doesn't look like a gun at all. Drawing guns is like drawing human figures, there are some rules you must obey. Check some refs (http://openclipart.org/people/Clue/Clue_Guns_Pack.png)next time!

:yayca:

This is a total eye-opener about my Crusader drawing/painting. You are absolutely right and I got nothing to say in my protection. Yes, I made all those mistakes and now I can see them all. I have to work on the planning and first step constructing stage of my drawings, I do them too sketchy and I move right away to the details. I got one of my many weak spots in front of me and I will work on them to get rid of the bad habits. Thank you for your time, for making such detailed analysis of my painting, it definitely helps enormously. I honestly appreciate your presence here and I would like you to stay further with my sketchbook and give me more help and tips. Right now I cannot describe how thankful I am through simple words.


sutapa Thank you for viewing and posting, I am following your SB.

[LtPlissken]

Since it is Friday evening I thought I would hack up the air with some Blade spirit.

[Irishdrunk]

I love the darkness of your illustrations!

Keep practicing gestures and don't stop studying anatomy :)

[LtPlissken]

I love the darkness of your illustrations!

Darkness is my middle name :D
Thank you for viewing my drawings and helping me on the way to get better.

So, what's up people? What's new in a great big ugly world?

[m.j.]

Wow man! It´s always nice to see your sketchbook,it´s so inspiring (hope I wrote this right!)! Practice makes perfection,so I can see that especially in your digital stuff! Great start there,mate! Keep on,I´ll be watchin´!
Cheers!

[LtPlissken]

Thank you m.j. for your encouragement. I appreciate your presence.


Yasmine character from the movie
Frontière(s) (2007) finished:

[Rotor]

Hey man, thanks for dropping by my SB.
I love these comics, crazy stuff.
I also like the bust in 128. Are you going to colour it?
Getting used to digital painting can be easier when you work from scanned drawings first, atleast that's how I got used to it. Just a thought.
Keep at it dude!

[Skysong]

Hey! Good dark fantasy. Want more stories from you man ^)

[MatejaPetkovic]

he he, very interesting. I like them.

M

[LtPlissken]

Hello every1!
I am so happy that you visited my sketchbook.

Rotor: Thank you for being here and for viewing my art. The bust in 128 is actually kind of a self portrait mixed with some fantasy elements, I did not thought of coloring it, yet.

Skysong: Thank you, I much appreciate it.

MatejaPetkovic: Thank you very much, I feel encouraged after a few words from such a great artist as you are.






Goetz [Samuel Le Bihan]'s portrait from the movie Frontière(s) is coming up, will be finished pretty soon:

[LtPlissken]

Goetz is finished:

[clanlord]

Whea buddy!

Great to see such an improvement from you. You have been updating a lot. See, post each drawing here so we can give you advice and feedbacks. Every drawing is a proof of your improvement and your mistakes, the master - even they do mistakes. It is very good that you started to draw from reference and photos but it is different from still life drawings which is better. Change the angle of the things do not use one technique all the time. Looking at some sketches of Renaissance masters will improve your eye catching skills and you will remember how do they make object to look volumetric. Even though your are still very young you should start doing these thing and the most important is that every drawing of yours has to have meaning. A symbolism behind it - it is your task to give it such one.
I made a terrible mistake. A seroius amount of time I've been drawing with graphite only. That made me narrow-minded artist. In a certain level of development you will feel the unbridled need to use colors. That's why I am happy about you boy because you are using photoshop. Keep doing digital work and experiment with more colors to not limit yourself in one tonality like the last piece. Also (thank you for the compliment about the digi painting I showed to you long time ago) using such technique in photoshop like color balance also will help you in the final choice of color. Look - do not think that the initial variant in the beginning will be the last one. Probably all of the artists including me have faced such changes in our understanding of a certain drawing that we are doing and oftenly it happens when we are on the line of finish. That's not a problem. The progress is in the drawing itself.

To sum up. Ir is crucial for you to start drawing from life but do not exclude drawing from imagination. Put your initial ideas like thumbnails (little drawings which will help you to work faster than you think and it will be easy to make changes in the overall look, in other words drawings in small sizes on a separate sheet of paper), working with colors and last but not in small importance - create a mind library full of images and characters and interesting things by trying to gather more and more cool stuff from the big bosses (MB) or other MARVEL artists which have proved in this craft. Gather inspiration from them and here are some resources:
http://www.paulbonner.net/
www.massiveblack.com
http://soulsart.org/gallery.php?cat=1
http://www.jonfoster.com/

[sutapa]

Hi LtPlissken,
I like yasmine a lot.black & white drawings are really cool.nice sketches......keep rocking!!

[phoenicorn]

great work. Love the funny sex sketch you done. Your latest piece is extreamly polished. keep up the great work

[m.j.]

Spremaš nešto veliko?
Cheers mate!

[S.Elena]

Woah! So much improvement since my last visit here. The last one is just amazing! Great job and keep up the good work, i'll drop by as often as possible.

[LtPlissken]

Hello people, wish you all a happy new year and all the best in the future,
I would like to thank with this occasion all the people who visits my sketchbook and who supports my work. Greatly appreciate it.

clanlord I am really thankful for your advices, and I respect that you spent time explaining things, cause they help me big time here. I see that you have founded a new team here on conceptart.org, I think that it is an awesome thing and I will follow your work.
Oh, and thank you for the links, I appreciate it.

sutapa thank you for viewing my Sketchbook.

phoenicorn thank, you. Yes he looks polished :)

Hi m.j., hvala sto posecujes, ne spremam nista specialno, jednostavno ne umem da krenem dalje jer sam zaglavio na nekim osnovnim stvarima :(

S.Elena : Thank you, you are always welcome here....


I changed my monitor just today and all the old works looks different on this new monitor and they look surprisingly awful, arrrgh, I do not know how to change the color settings, the gamma the contrast and my brain is melting and my eyes are falling our from their socket, sometimes I hate to be in my body !

I was doing nothing useful lately, just going back to drawing board and realizing how much I did wasted my time in my youth and it is firing back on me now, I am stuck with some basic things and I cannot express myself through art. Sucks!

I just wanted to do this guy, Rampage Jackson to hold a machine gun, and then there would be a savage girl beside him, pulling out the fuse from the hand grenade, which is stucked in the mouth of some female victim. I am just not able right now to put this all together. I hate disappointments!

[TheButterBunny]

hey there,

I think the detail that you put into your characters' costumes is amazing, very time consuming and well thought out.

However I would reccomend some anatomy studies, and general figure studies to boost the believabiltiy of your characters themselves to match the level of the costumes.

Katie

[LtPlissken]

Thank youTheButterBunny, I am trying to pay more attention to anatomy on this one and trying to put the characters in the correct ambient that will suit the happening:

[sutapa]

nice progress...keep them coming

[sutapa]

Hi LtPlissken,
goetz is really cool. wonderful lighting,skin texture.
it's really awesome..
one doubt......I find a bit face distortion in goetz. Was it for the demand of character?

[LtPlissken]

Hi Sutapa.
Thank you for your comment, encouragement and thank you for being here. :)
That Goetz guy kinda has a distorted face in the original :D here is the reference:

[LtPlissken]

A step forward with the Rampage story. This is going much slower than I thought:

[LtPlissken]

KIPjaTOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOK!!!!

[MatejaPetkovic]

Define more ground where they are standing, and background, because i can't feel where they are.
M

[LtPlissken]

Hola Mateja. Thank you for the aDvice.
I worked around the ambient and the ground.
They will me massacring people anytime now.

[sutapa]

Hi LtPlissken,
your last wip is really nice. Can't wait to see the finished one.
I too agree that Goetz has distorted face, but I think there is a small scaling/measurement dissimilarity in your painting.It's very minor.....you can ignore it,over all your job is quite appreciable. Please don't mind, it's completely my opinion.
keep rocking

[LtPlissken]

sutapa, here is the finished version finally of the Rampage work. Thank you for being here.




Like the nuclear war was not enough to wipe out most of Earth population, a great cataclysm strucked the face of the terran reign, the clymate has changed and the planet’s gravity has been distorted.
The survivors that did not had the opportunity to evacuate to the far moon of Charon, has been left in natures cruel hands. The few of the leftover government Elite Force Troopers could not , nor they was interested to do anything about the ravaging gangs brutally destructing everything coming in their way. Knowing that Earth’s destruction is near and that their final hour are horribly close, the lunatic packs of maniacs was fighting savagely for the last natural life meaning resources, releasing their sick and animal desires over their victims, through the floating isles above the planet’s irradiated and pulverized surface.

[LtPlissken]

Acrylic paint on canvas, done in October 2009.
Field Fairy:

[LtPlissken]

Pencil sketches:

[LtPlissken]

...............................

[Pixie Trick]

Thanks for stopping by! I was sure I'd posted here already, but I guess not. :) I think my favourite thing in this sb so far is the deck of cards you make a while back. The costume/character design on them is wonderful! I'd love to play a game with those.

Absolutely ditto everything clanlord said. 100% x a gazillion. And don't just do studies from photos: life is the key!!!!!

Keep it up! :sungod:

[LtPlissken]

Thank you Pixie Trick for viewing my drawings and paintings.

[S.Elena]

Heya,

Rampage turned out so nice, great work.

In case you haven't fixed the monitor colors issue, here is something that might help, it fixed my problem:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=112720

[LtPlissken]

Thank you Elena.
I have read those posts about the monitor calibration, but I just cannot figure out what should I do to make it right. I guess I am just not educated enough. Sorry :(
Thank you anyway, I really appreciate your help.

[S.Elena]

Heh, I had to read them carefully to fully understand the problem as well. Basically my fix was found in only one of those threads:
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=87274
Scroll down to ceddo’s post and try those settings. It worked for me, maybe it will work for you too.

On the update, I like those expression faces a lot, a great deal of improvement can be seen from those.

[LtPlissken]

Hi Elena. I am happy that you highlighted me the most important part from those threads. I did followed the instructions and I have set my Photoshop settings by it, however I miss a few options in the settings menus, most probably cause I have an older version of the software. Hope that everything will turn out good now, when I save files in jpegs. Thank you very much, I owe you :)

[LtPlissken]

I want your psycho
Your vertical stick
Want you in my room
When your baby is sick
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love
Love-love-love
I want your love

[LtPlissken]

............

[Pixie Trick]

O wow! Those studies are a whole level above anything you've ever done!

[Peetaer]

Just keep going dude!

[sutapa]

Hi LtPlissken,
all your pencil stuffs are cool.I just loved the green lady and the girl,in search of love.
keep rockig

[Rotor]

Thank you for your kind words in my SB.
Your stuff has improved tremendously. I really like the post-apoc piece and the story behind it, you went all in with the details, very nice work.
You got a great imagination and lots of ideas behind your pictures, keep practicing to really bring your thoughts to life. If I may give a word of advice, focus on form. The simple shapes stuff consists of, (balls, cubes, cylinders...) and try to figure them out in a 3D environment and how they distort to perspective and how light behaves on the objects surface. Doing a bit of 3D work helped me get a better idea of this.

Cheers mate and good luck!

[GoGoJojo]

You're really getting the perspective down with that feet pic. It's really good!

[LtPlissken]

Pixie Trick
Peetaer
sutapa
Rotor
GoGoJojo

...thank you all for visiting, and viewing my art. I really appreciate your advices. Trying to improve real hard.

I want to create some characters now and maybe to put them in some ambient later. Will see, how the situation develop. I will do this time the painting in grayscale and later will try to paint them with the overlay layer, as many others suggested.

[m.j.]

Cheers mate!
:wtf: Awesome progress here!!! These faces in last two or three posts are your personal best I think! Keep it up! :sungod:

[LtPlissken]

Hi m.j.. Nice to see you here. Glad that you like those pencil face studies. Will do more of them pretty soon. Thank you for the feedback and for being with me all the time.

I was watching the movie "Red Sonja" recently and I got inspired by it and I created 1 more character. Will put them in some ambient soon.
2nd chararacter:

[justinkhuong]

Mannnnnnn you are getting much better! Love the green lady one!
Drawing and painting is so god damn hard but never give up dude!
Let's kick some big asses some day, huh?

Cheers!

[Matejko77]

Hey Man! It is getting better and better here!
You are making a huge progress!
The green lady and the last character studiea are cool!

By the way, i just have answered your questions in my SB,
take a look if you want.

Cheers!

[LtPlissken]

justinkhuong thank you very much. We will be great some day, that is exactly what I am thinking too.

Matejko77, so glad to see you here. Thank yo very much for visiting and for answering my questions.


As I said, I will put these dudes in some ambient. As time passed, my ill mind has come to a wonderful conclusion that these dudes in knight armored suits will be standing in front of a store as they are drinking beer. In wintertime...

[Matejko77]

Hey man! I think the idea with these three dudes is great,haha.I look forward to it.
By the way i have a question,do you know how i can make a signature and a link to my sketchbook at the bottom of all my posts?
I just tried everything with User Control Panel under (Edit Signature)but it did not worked.Maybe you have a idea,Thanks!

[LtPlissken]

Hello every1.
Matejko, I sent you a PM. I hope that will help you.

I have started coloring the Store Story.
This one goes slow just the same as the Rampage Story was going.

[LtPlissken]

Hello fellows.
A step forward....

[Pixie Trick]

You have to watch your light sources my dear, expecially if you start characters separately from the whole image. In this image you have 2 : the window and the torch. Both are slightly behind the characters. The window will cause a backlight and basicly a light outline, while the torch will only light the sides of the characters. Here's a very quick paintover. On a side note, the values you did put in were very nice for the lighting you had earlier.

912919

[LtPlissken]

hahaha, that is correct Pixie. I will have to cheat on this one now. Let's say that those who are not into art and those who will not think about the light sources, will think that the torch is a little more sticked far out from the wall, hihihi
like this:

[Peetaer]

Nice work on that light source my far away friend! However, I think you could make the figures darker (it's dark in that environment...look how dark the floors and that one section of the wall is). Making the figures darker will make it seem more like they are actually standing there. This is not to say that they don't look like they are standing there at all. I'm just saying you could make it a bit darker. Also, I think you could also add more light and add them in specific places to make the figures look more 3D (parts of the face and the chest area, for example). Think of the light source as a sphere of light. How would those figures be lit from a sphere of light? Know what I mean?

Rock on dude!!!!

[ploepp]

wow, that last digital is great.
lots of insane stuff in here, and it really gets better and better :)

[Clockwork Bunny]

thanks for popping by again :)
Liking the progress being made - keep it up, I'd be more constructive but I'm a noob myself ;)

[LtPlissken]

Hello every1

Clockwork Bunny, thanks for viewing and visiting.
ploepp, thank you for your reply. Insane stuff indeed haha.

Peetaer thanks, I get you totally, I will make the characters darker and make them suit more in the ambient. Thank your for the advices. Please stand by.


I had a hernia surgery in last Friday at both sides, it was the 26th February. Still do not feel right, so the art ain't going as it should go.

I elongated the ambient and I gave a cigarette to one of the dudes. Let the fucker smoke...

[LtPlissken]

H1 every1
I was thinking a lot about the thing or person which or who will be entering this stage toward the beer drinkers, and I thought that this warrior-soul keeper will be a good thing to mix in. He will go toward the store all pumped up with pale skin and with a few padlocks on his back, which indicates that he keeps souls inprisoned somewhere.
Now he will be approaching these warriors who are on their evening rest and the viewer will not be sure about the soulkeeper's attention. He could come in peace or there could be a nasty battle just within a few seconds and a huge soul sucking all around the place. Nasty, nasty ideas, I think I should make a movie about this.

Soulkeeper:

[m.j.]

Cheers mate!
Thanks for the kind words,I appriciate it! Didn`t know about your surgery,hope it all went ok and that you are better now...
This summer you could come over,I still owe you a beer... :)
Brutality goes on!!!
Take care man,
Cheers!

[LtPlissken]

Thank you m.j..
I hope everything will be better now, and of course the brutality continues. We will see for the summer and for the beer...

This is how I imagined the scenery. The only thing that I will do here is to do some details on the soulkeeper, I mean this guy in the closeup.

[matejkovacic]

Hey, this beer drinking painting is coming together quite nicely ... Keep it up!

[LtPlissken]

Thank you Matej.

Amen to this one:

[LtPlissken]

Here is my freshly, newly baked character. With an axe!

[Pixie Trick]

I like the colours of the axe character! You chose a nice mix of complimentary colours. You miaght want to watcht hat your character don't all start to get the same pose. The last couple have been standing slightly hunched over, with a very balanced pose. Some variety bring some excitement into things.

The beer knights looks a lot better too. The glowing beers are a nice touch! :) hehehe...

[LtPlissken]

Pixie, welcome to my sKetcbOOk of pAin, I am happy that your spirit is present here in the dusty ashy mountains between my pages.
I take my inspiration mostly out from various movies, and it looks like all the last characters was in the same poses,,haha, you are right, but it is just a pure coincidence. I will look the next one to be in a crouching pose or something like that. Thank you once more for the advices.

Gosh, I hope that they will change this main greenish color of the forum pages, cause it is destroying my aura and motivation every time I focus on it.
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Now, picture this:
You are having a party home on your best Friday. You have lots of beer in your shack. Your parents, brothers , sisters are all far away, and your best friends will be there to make you company, and then... your zombie nazi grandmother rose up from her grave to ruin all your plans with a fire axe:

[Donna]

But what if my dead nazi grandmother likes beers and Friday night parties? Thos butterflies would go nicely with my disco ball.

Her axe is a bit hard to see, btw.

[sutapa]

Hi LtPlissken,
oooooo my gosh!!! It's been a long time I've checked ur sketch book. the beer drinker gang I liked a lotttt. I liked mostly the person standing at extreme right corner.the color combination is so very perfect!! even the zombie granny is also wonderfully visualized.It really makes me feel frightened.

I saw u had a hernia surgery recently. I feel bad for that. Hope u r completely fine now,and ready to rock with ur sketches.take care,friend......

[a_mckeown]

Just had a quick look over your sketchbook pages (your badass kurt russell avatar drew my attention :))

I think your pencil sketches are MUCH more successful than your digital work. Your pencil sketches where improving, and your anatomy was getting better, however, your digital work seems to loose those fundamentals. Just try to remember the basics of shapes/tone etc when working digitally.

Also, your digital colour studies are highly saturated. Look at some old paintings, look at colour theory, and copy paintings directly. Try to duplicate their palette. Whether you do it digitally or traditionally it doesnt matter. Doing copies of other work will help you understand colour and value.

Overall, nice progress. Keep at it.

[Sweron]

Ej, nisam primjetio da si iz ovih područja sve dok nisam pročitao komentare na ovom topicu, tek onda sam pogledao gore i vidio "Location: Serbia" :)

Sviđaju mi se radovi, dosta dobro se razvijaš jer vidim radiš jako puno, imaš zanimljivu maštu i ako dobro slutim, puno vremena si inspiriran pa ti nije teško raditi.
Sasvim dobro ti ide digitalno slikanje, i to je nešto čeg se ja moram malo ozbiljnije prihvatiti...al raspored je gust, osim ovog, educiram se još i web dizajn , grafički dizajn ( počet ću uskoro - banneri, logo i sl) te se još upoznavam sa Photoshopom preko tutoriala.

Posjeti malo moj sketchbook dok možeš, i volio bih više znat o tebi, koliko si star, što studiraš (ako studiraš), što radiš i dali uspjevaš zarađivati / živjeti od ovog što najviše voliš - umjetnosti :)

Pozdrav!

[S.Elena]

You are improving so fast. Amazing! I really love your last pieces, the beer drinking guys rock! :)
Oh, and I hope you feel better after that surgery.
Keep it up!

[justinkhuong]

;) You're becoming so good man. Slow down so I can catch up with you :))

[n00dles]

Hey there, shameless selfpromotion dude :P

You are well on your way in my opinion, just continue the studies :) I'd try doing more colour studies from photos and watch how reflections and colour work together. Now everything seems too saturated.

Continue your works :)

[Metal Fingers]

you're lighting and rendering is definitely getting better man! Just keep up more studies, drawing from life as much as possible. But other then that keep pushing all these imaginative pieces, they really help with me at least, to point out what I really need to work on. Cheers.

[LtPlissken]

Donna thank you for visiting my sketchbook, I am honored. You see, there are plenty of story variations going through my head, since I finished the Zombified Nazi Grandmother, like for example as she is massacring young kids around the house or even good old rotten grandpa will come back and blows someone brains out with a shotgun, or similar ideas to that. If I will be in a mood, then I will do some more quick paintings about the grandma's party around the house.

sutapa, I am very glad that you like the last pieces, and the guy on the corner on the Store Story painting was an instant idea, he just flow in there without any sweat of thinking how or what should stand there in one of the corners of the image. And I kinda liked that, my goal is maybe to throw out characters and things from out my sleeves without any great effort or brainstorming. That would be soooo great. The Nazi grandma supposed to be scary, as a matter of fact, she came out more scarier than even I expected. I like about that painting that I have tried out many new brushes that I downloaded from the net lately and I tackled with them a lot around the background, and I am pretty satisfied with it. Of course far from outstanding but not bad, I think that I have worked on the background like 70 percent of the total painting time and around 30 percent time I painted the character. That is something new for me cause till now I mostly did not spent on backgrounds any time at all, or at least not that much as I did here. I think that the magic key for doing good backgrounds is mostly the idea, that you should have the scenery in forth in your head, and the second thing is that you have to have some great brushes to do the job well.

a_mckeown, that is not Kurt Russell! That is Lieutenant Plissken on the image :)
Thank you very much for your advices and for viewing my sketchbook. Well, I have a Big Problem ant that is with a capital P. I already mentioned it in some of my threads I have bought a new TFT monitor (BENQ) and it is driving me crazy. I do not say that this display is bad, this display is great, but is meant for playing games and watching movies, and the colors are just too bright, too crazy and too saturated, and I just cannot get things right.
The situation is that I finish some of my paintings, save it to a flash drive and after a few hours of work, I go to the other computer and I open my work there, and I scream : "WHAT DA FUUUUU*K!!!!" cause the colors just ain't the same. No man, the colors are not even close, they are screaming as HELL. I was losing hours and hours with various software found on the net and with various guides and walkthroughs, how to set your monitor color, but I have never succeeded. So that is my story, that is why the colors are mostly so crazy on my paintings, and they look different as I see them on my screen. Sorry about that. I feel incomplete because of that but what the hell, I cannot stop doing art because of this factor. I will change my monitor somewhere around Christmas.
I was studying other paintings and I know I lack of color combination knowledge and basic form principles, but I am hoping that after lots and lots of practice and around my hundredth digital painting I will be much better than I am now. The mileage must pay off! I think that I did my 19th digital painting just a few days earlier.

Sweron thank you friend for being here, and you definitely encouraged me with your words. I am really thankful. I have visited your sketchbook and I have to say that you are on the right track. Will be following your work from now on.

S.Elena, thank you for your kind words, I am happy that you are following my work and I appreciate your support here. It is totally a cool feeling when you know that someone will view your art, or hell, even give a comment on it. It is just a great shining feeling and relieving thing that I did not used to it yet. I am trying real hard lately, I mean "real hard" according to my measures. I hope you will stay and follow further, cause I think that until I feel your presence, my art will surely rose and my success is guaranteed.

justinkhuong. Hi. Thank you for visiting.
Now I have a month of free, no work at all, cause of my surgery, and all I do is hang around on conceptart.org on the net, and I have to say it is totally amazing what people can do, what people can paint with their tablets. I am amazed. Sometimes it just ain't right to spend many hours looking someone's perfect work cause then I see how much I have to do to catch up with today's standards. The price of redemption is real high. This month I had much more time for art, but it will not be the case for the rest of the year and the rest of my life, which is of course , very very sad :(

n00dles, thank you for the advices and for visiting.
Yea, I know about the saturation problem, but I am just not wise enough right now to solve it. Maybe, when I finish all my paintings I just need to go to saturation settings and lower the level for a 10 notch.
I will surely do more photo studies, thanks again.

Metal Fingers thank you for visiting and I really appreciate your advice.

The thing I mostly hate is to draw from life, I have to admit now, but looks like sooner or later I will have to do that also. I mean the idea, that I should draw a bottle on the table or a pencil or a hand paper, maaaaan that is so fu*kin intolerable. I will not do that s*it now. That s*it is fu*kin boring. Maybe sometimes later in my life, when I will have around 50-60 and when I will not have a computer by my side.

I was watching the movie 300 a few days ago. Again. I do not know why I did that, but it came so naturally to me. The end was totally boring and I had to cut it, again. The effects are great and a lots of great reference frames there. Would be a good idea to do steal some ideas from there.
Then I was watching Charlie Murphy-es show, haha and I got to the point when he was talking about the hunch-back and how the guy pissed him off "he was fucked up from the inside and from the outside" and he talked about the hump licking. "What a strange kind of sh*t is that ?!?!?"
hahahah
"We have all bean seeing lots of porn, but no hump licking!!!"
hahahaha
that sh*t made my day, that is totally the highlight of this month. I do not know why did I mentioned this all, and it is totally not related with the painting that I will post next, but this crazy stuff just stormed through my brain and it was an euphoric feeling to write it down.

I would like to say thanks to all of you,once more, who follows my work, my sketchbook and who supports me.


This next one is a work in progress of course, the idea is that, cause all of my poses was lately standing in a static position, now will be a few of them crouching in a static position :D
Anyway, this girl is a character from my earlier story from my post #94, she is also a member of the Elite Force Special Female Assault team, and she is crouching on a defeated war battle beast. The story details will follow up later:

[LtPlissken]

...trying to come up with a suitable bra for her, to get her right size, you know what I mean.......
and making face details:

[Sweron]

tough warrior female, love her character, she's not some pretty skinny fighter girl :)

In your last try her boobs ended up pretty much oversized, don't you think so ? :D
But hehe.. that's why there are three versions of her, so a little fun with sizes won't harm anyone ;)

Love the atmospere in the pic, could be pretty good art if you polish it some more :)

[LtPlissken]

... thank you Sweron.
No, I do not think that those boobs are over-sized. They are never oversized enough if you ask me \w/
I was thinking make them even bigger, but now, I will stay at this size :(

Hey, if anyone knows how to make in photoshop a heat distortion effect coming from a fire, I would really appreciate it for explaining me or giving me some tutorial link.

[FraserMcT]

Hey. Keep at it. You have some cool ideas and some nice skills. I think you should do some more studies, especially focusing on colour, as right now a few of your pieces seem to be in parts instead of unified due to the light sources. More studies, and you will see your imagination pieces improving, so keep at it!
More work and more updates please :)

[LordVenom]

Really great sketchbook mate. You made some awesome progress from your 1st pages.

Nagyon szertem az a 3 alakos kompoziciot az nagyon jol nez ki. Es az utolso holgydnek is nagyon jok a szinei es feny eses.

[Novbert]

Hey man, long time no see, huh?
That soulkeeper pic turned out to be pretty good though the creation process was a bit weird for me. Fully detailing one part of the image first (the first guy) and then adding other elements (even light sources!) is not the way composition should be created and consistant look can be achieved imho. Other than that nothing wrong with that pic. I like the way you rendered almost each and every part of that image - what I want to say is that it doesn't work as a whole.

I dig the colors of that last girl, though you should polish that face a bit more. Right now it looks a bit ... old? ugly? maybe it's the eyes... I don't really know. Check the ref (or get one).
:yayca:

[S.Elena]

I totally like this last girl, she has so much personality. It will be great to keep her features as they are now, even if you’ll work more on details. I think she inspires confidence and victory in such a subtle way.
I’m so glad you feel the support even through a sketchbook post. This is the intention :). And don’t worry, unless I die or have no access to Internet, you’ll have my full support, as I have yours :).

[m.j.]

For photoshop I would try to select main subject with magnetic lasso tool (third one from top to bottom) then select inverse with the right click on the mouse so you could work on the backgroud after that you could play with distort - wave filter...
Hope you understood this,he,he...

[m.j.]

...or with blur filter like I did here!
Cheers mate!