Dr poPcoRN's sketchbook - 20.09.2010

[Dr poPcoRN]

Hello :)

i am ''Dr poPcoRN'' and i am 22! i am studying an illustration degree at lincoln university! there is a whole mix of disciplines in here, from editorial to conceptual; not in any particular order either ;) most recent work can be found on the later pages of my sketchbook! comments and critique are always more than welcome! i hope you like what i do :)

[retardedmonkey]

Welcome to the forums Dr. popcorn :D

You have a very interesting style. I like the twisted/distorted look all these sketches have, especially the last one there.

Looking forward to more!!

[Dr poPcoRN]

some pencil studies and a pen! to get it started! :)

[Peetaer]

Welcome to CA. Like retarded monkey was saying, very cool style. Show us more please.

The robot one is very striking. Lots of sharp edges and diagonals going on in that one.

[Dr poPcoRN]

Here are some pen sketchs of mine, some are more detailed than others but variation is healthy :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Just to exercise the fact that i am not a one trick pony here are some of my paintings as well ;) lots more stuff to come! comments are welcome! :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are some monoprints i did through print making of some hearts, the hearts are not accurate just a generalisation to suggest the form :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

hearts! :) just some prints and some pencil drawings, some are the negative side of the prints so you can see both sides :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Hearts! :)

[Verehin]

Very interesting and unusual

[Dr poPcoRN]

Thanks Verehin :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

a few more :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

more of the same thing :) comments are more than welcome!

[silent_k]

Really liking this. First batch of sketches was great, nice little surprises in there (like the spray nozzle on the robot looking one). Great energy. Also I appreciate you really exploring a form in those heart studies. I like where it ended up too. Kinda reminds me of a Chuck Palahniuk book cover. Cheers dude!

[pathos]

i love your pencil work

[Dr poPcoRN]

this is essentially the refined image, the heart has a skewer through it, it is an illustration that would accompany a particular poem that relates to the image :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

refined image :)

[wookiedabo]

great sketches man, I really like your pencil mark making on the chopped up faces. the heart stuff is great, nice subtle perversion of the basic forms, and the refined image looks great, nice graphic take on rather cliched imagery. whereabouts are you studying?

[Dr poPcoRN]

silent_k: Thanks :)

pathos: Thanks :)

wookiedabo: Thanks for you comments and I am currently studying at Lincoln University, England :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are some pen and pencil sketchs that i did around a year ago :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are some more studies, 2 of these are in pencil and the other 2 have been done in charcoal :) thanks!

[spark_zero]

Feeling all of the stuff posted, I like your style, it's quite original. Nice heart studies.. I'm not good at comments, anyway would love to see some more in future.

[Dr poPcoRN]

Thanks spark :)

[wild thing]

really digging your hatching especially, ill definitely be checking on this again in the future!

[Dr poPcoRN]

just a little bit of painting :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Thanks Choco :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

A study in ink and paint, about the size of a postcard if you can imagine that :) comments welcome!

[destinyapocalypse]

yeaah artistic stuff in here i love your jobs they are creative and expressionist

[Dr poPcoRN]

Thanks Destiny :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Here is some more stuff, i have lots of stuff that isn't up to the mark really, so i will try to put my better stuff in, it saves dissapointment! :) i hope everybody like little chickens, just to show i can do cute too! :)

[bouroune]

yo, really like your approach of form and volume, pretty unusual, and it reminds me of krossj in there, my favourite are the pen sketches, i would love to see some of them added with watercolors,
anyway good stuff, keep on sharing

[Dr poPcoRN]

Thanks bouroune! i would like to think my work was different :) here is a refined image that feature a little chick sitting on top of a big egg, it is a little confusing and the chick could be seen as a head instead, but i already know this haha! so sorry if it is confusing :) hope you like!

[Dr poPcoRN]

A painting i did not so long ago, not much to explain here really, i like the idea though that your eye would finish off the painting for me, just a couple of angles to look at, the image itself is acrylic on A2 cartridge paper :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

MEH! i just got my 2nd year result from university and it is poo :( i got a 2.2 and i was at least hoping for a high 2.2 and would have minded any kind of 2.1 :(

[hasunkhan]

your line work is incredible its so clean yet it has this really cool wonky look great inspiration 4 me! :rocker:

[hasunkhan]

im sorry man im a high school kid so i dont think i can give you much advice :\

[Dr poPcoRN]

thanks for your kind words hasunkhan :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Here is a mechanical hand i produced as a study work for a biotechnology project i got earlier on this year, i tried to scan but my scanner is only small :/ so it comes almost in halfs but you will see what i mean! i will try to get a full photo of it with my camera so you can see it all haha! :) pencil drawing on A2 cartridge paper, hope you guys like it!

[Dr poPcoRN]

smaller view :)

[nurraymjo]

Well, regardless of what your tutors say and all... I think that your work is pretty bad ass. Keep posting, you've got a really cool style going for you. /thumbs up

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are a couple of pencil studies that helped me create a refined visual for a project i did over a year ago, the refined visual is done on photoshop along with other pieces i did by hand like painting scanned in to help me create it, the piece itself is very flat and 2D, i feel there is not enough depth and contrast in the image but i guess i learned my lesson! :) comments are more than welcome!

[Dr poPcoRN]

sketch sketch sketch :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are some more, various times over the last 2 years i did these :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

again here is a painting i did to accompany the biotechnology project i did, there are a few viewpoints to show it, the first photo might seem that it is at an awkward angle and that is because it is :/ the bottom photo is basically straight on which is what you would view it like haha! nevermind! :) it was acrylic on A2 cartridge paper.

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a detail photo of a pen drawing i have already uploaded, i didn't realise how small the one i uploaded was though :) hope you enjoy!

[Dr poPcoRN]

baked beans and cowboys? :)

[Sirkenneth]

Creepy as fuck! But thats the point I guess! Well done-these are awesome. I really like the first set of drawings, and these funny character designs! Keepapostin!

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a little man i made for an animation! i will try upload the animation too, but everytime i try upload a video on here my connection times out :o

[Dr poPcoRN]

Animation! there is no sound as the brief stated that you could not use sound :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are a couple of freeze frames from within the animation :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are some more pencil studies :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

yet more pencil studies and 2 acid prints at the bottom :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

creativity in industry :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a photo collage of me and my girlfriend, this was for another project i did within the last year, all done on photoshop really :)

[wi2rd]

superb

[TheJackal]

They are simply awesome i love em all, id love to see how you draw those heads/faces they really are unique, very exciting stuff. id really like to give you someadvice but id be out of my depth

[skorpi]

great sketches, I like your stile

[Dr poPcoRN]

nurraymjo: thanks for you kind words :)

Sirkenneth: thanks! i like that you think it is creepy haha!

wi2rd: thanks :)

TheJackal: thanks for you input, i am out of my depth anyway haha!

skorpi: nice to hear you comment :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

this is an painting i produced as a refined visual for a project i did, it show a couple of steps how it progressed and then a massive leap in change as you can probably tell, i felt i had enough of a base layer to really feel the shape of the face, so i then started to paint the image on top of it :) it is acrylic on canvas paper, about A2 and also features another element to it which i will show you in my next post! :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

the purpose of the piece was to illustrate how peoples perception of people change when their appearence changes, so here is an image i already uploaded that accompanies this image and hope you can see how it changes the piece, it is pen on acetate and is overlayed on the painting you you can pull it away and replace it etc. hope you like it :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

just so you can compare the pieces easily :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

just did this minutes ago, just a quick rush on photoshop :)

[freakmod]

Love your lines and shading. The hearts especially. The faces are awesome! I love the one that looks smudged and twisted about. Can't wait to see more from you.

Oh, and the painting in #61 is looking pretty hot. Interesting colors.

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a quick portrait i did of my girlfriend :) almost a 2 hour study, still isn't 100% likeness either! need to keep practising :)

[blexano]

Whoa, great style.
I really like your strokes in these paintings and the ink stuff is sick, too. :D

And these chickens are so lovely!

I really want to see more of it!!!

Ah, just one thing maybe ^^ in the last portrait you separated the face from her hair with these dark shadows too much, so it almost looks like a wig. Otherwise it looks fine. ;)

[Dr poPcoRN]

freakmod: thanks for your comments :)

blexano: thanks also, yeh i noticed that, but i am too lazy to change it haha! but i will take note and make sure it doesnt happen again, the photo i was working from was over exposed so it was almost black and white with minimal amounts of mid tones so it made it harder, i guess that is why i smacked a fat outline round her head! but i should have seen it coming, not my favourite portrait to be honest, but one more under the belt :) thanks for the critique, they are always helpful :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are some more of my paintings :) these must be over a year old now, they are all acrylics and will probably be on A2 cartridge paper :D apologies for the quality of some the photo's :(

[sansan]

i like your style~~~

[Dr poPcoRN]

charcoal piece with some alterations in photoshop :)

[retardedmonkey]

Dude! You're on a roll!

The study of your girlfriend is really great! Your crazy style with painting and the pen are sweet as well. How long do those painting/charcoal/pen pieces take ya?

[Dr poPcoRN]

retardedmonkey: thanks :) charcoal would be no more than 5 minutes if that, painting is gonna take from 15 minutes to 3 hours depends when i am happy with it i guess haha, the more i want out of it the more i work into it i would say :) pen takes longer, err maybe 3-5 hours for something i might be content with, but if it is a simple one i guess it would take less time, but to be honest it differs between each piece :) thanks for your interest!

[Dr poPcoRN]

2 more portraits, one i has ace ventura hair haha! dont ask why because i dont know why i did it :) photo's are not the best but nevermind, the mouth and the nose on the first image dont relate very well but that was my fault for not really concentrating enough when i drew it :(

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are 2 digital paintings i did tonight :) i rarely do digital painting so i am learning, any tips and critiques would be more than welcome as they will most likely help me more! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

a photo i have ''edited'' :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is another pencil sketch, only part of a face but i didn't feel like finishing it :) commenst are more than welcome!

[Liquid Envy]

As i've looked at your work from page 1 to 3, i've noticed my jaw has dropped a good 5 meters. Mate your stuff is amazing, i love your style both your straight definitive lines and your wishy washy look on some of your other peices. Keep this sketchbook going man. And the best of luck with your BA.

x

[HugeHarHar]

Fantastic stuff! I'm really into pen and ink, and your stuff rocks! Have you tried doing ink washes along with your pen work?

[D.C.]

Quite uniqe stuff you got here. Your linequality is superb. Would love to see some figure/anatomy studies like THIS (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=719536&stc=1&d=1247162130), just because it looks awesome, but that's probably too plain for you :)

[blexano]

The paint portraits are sooo expressive! On some you really feel the pain! I love 'em! :D

Ahhhhh, and the first pencil portrait in #72 is really great.
I love the loose sketchy feel to it! =)

[Dr poPcoRN]

random paint and ink study :) it might be about A5 size :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Liquid Envy: thanks for your interest, it means alot! :)

HugeHarHar: again thanks or you comment, i should really try some washes with things, i will put some washes up soon enough, as this is not the first time someone has suggested it! thanks :)

D.C.: thanks for your input! i recently bought an anatomy book and it got delivered today, need to branch further out as most of my work is portraits haha! i should really do more things! :)

blexano: thanks again :) i am still confused about how i draw, sometimes i am rough and loose then other times i am really tight and more clinical i guess haha!

here are some paintings in acrylic, one or two i believe feature tear outs from a newspaper for a suggestive background to work on top :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

smaller versions, i wont upload small versions of them all just some which i think that suit it more :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is image i did tonight :) messing around at the moment filters, brushes, techniques, etc. comments and crits are welcome!

[Naga_Shesh]

Very nice ink work my friend,just wondering..do u do any pencil sketch b4 inking? thanks :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Naga_Shesh: thanks for you comment :) and i tend not to unless the ink is accompanied with the pencil, i.e. the pencil is part of the image as well but i dont map out before i use my pen etc. :) hope that helps!

[SEVANS]

Your ink pieces are stunning. Great 'mark making' but still with fairly recognisable planes and form etc.
Your paintings have great texture but many feel very flat and kind of muddy. With such a loose, graphic style the softer qualities of the paints aren't helping you as much. Perhaps you need to let some of the layers dry properly before applying the next (guessing here).

Perhaps using gouache (spelling?) may be helpful to. You can thin it and use it like a wash or apply it abit thicker like acrylic. Plus it works over alot of pencils, inks etc and dries quickly.

Anyway, overall a stunning SB. Love seeing someone with such a vastly different style than myself being loose and creative. The only thing that I would like to see more of is some 'tamer' more realistic pieces. Basically to know exactly what skills you have.

Look forward to seeing more.

[Dr poPcoRN]

a pencil sketch on A4 cartridge paper :)

[SEVANS]

Nice update.

[Dr poPcoRN]

SEVANS: Thanks for your comments :) i agree with everything you said, i have got a set of gouache but i am yet to even open it haha! i will have to find it i guess, i also think depth is something i should work on, alot of my pieces are just something floating in the middle of the page and i could really do with putting compositions together to help me find suitable depth etc. alot of my muddier pictures might have only taken 2 mins and i like more of an organic look in some paintings so sometimes i like it, but it isn't intentional most of the time haha! i should wash my brushes more often! thank again for the crit, i will address some more tamer subjects too! thanks! :D

[Lotet]

dude thats like, really awezome! love the style n creativity u got there, keep up the good work!

[luness]

Very interesting and cool studies man, but I must say that the cartoony stuff is simply awesome!! like the chickens and the beans. Quite fun :D

[marc_redd]

wow, this is amazing! the line work, Insain!

[Dr poPcoRN]

just some shoes i drew in pencil and scanned them in, played about with them in photoshop and this is what i got, done quite a while ago i think :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

this is a collage of alot of drawings i have done, with additional imagery to manufacture my subject, very simple greyscale pallete, there are 2 variations :) comments are more than welcome!

[Christoffer]

Very nice work! The top version in your last post is the best one because the white background makes it pop. The cropped picture takes that away, so that was completely pointless imo (sorry if that sounds harsh - not my intention :) ). I hope you fix the wire because it is a really nice picture.

[Dr poPcoRN]

Christoffer: thought that myself after posting it to be honest :) was planning on taking it down as it didn't work as a composition, thus it is now gone! but yeh i agree and thanks for you comment! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

some real quick and simple facial gestures :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

an image i have already upload with a minor edit :) comments and crits are welcome!

[Dr poPcoRN]

pen :)

[B-Man]

Nice and creepy :D!
Mahalo!

[Dr poPcoRN]

did this when i was 15/16 i cant remember when exactly, just saw it and thought i would put it up, not much colour to it, just a simple painting :) it is a self portrait of me when i was at that age ha!

[Dr poPcoRN]

some work in graphite bar and ink, 5 minute studie :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

whale :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

just expeimenting with line :)

[destinyapocalypse]

dude i love your recent posts u have too good jobss

[blexano]

Hey dr popcorn! =D
It's me again, I really like the whale. Don't let the missing messages let you down.
You're awesome. At least I think you are.

I guess you posted the older selfportrait twice. ;P

[Dr poPcoRN]

destinyapocalypse: thanks alot for your comments! :)

blexano: thanks for returning and making further compliments about my work! i had not seen that post so i guess it was fitting that i removed the double post when i saw it haha! thanks again! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

just a quick sketch of a hand :)

[Sirkenneth]

Sweet stuff man, keep it going! I love the bizarre crazy work. Gets my mindAgoin. Its good to see some life studies too- these will help more than anything!

[Jabo]

The faces in #97 … very cool! The rest is great as well.

[Dr poPcoRN]

1 painting, one in full colour and the other in greyscale, hope you like it! :)

[Bendragon]

Ooooo nice variety of drawing techniques in here! I especially like the collage of drawings. Looking mighty good!

[Dr poPcoRN]

Sirkenneth: thanks for your nice comments :)

Jabo: thanks for your compliments! :)

Bendragon: again thankyou for saying nice things about my work :)

[melissa_bianca]

Hey Dr
Really nice stuff in here!
Cant wait to see even more

[Dr poPcoRN]

melissa_bianca: thanks for your kind words! :)

an image i have already put up on here but this is a further edit of it so it doesn't look the same in respect, i hope that makes sense... haha :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

this an image i recently attached to the first post in my sketchbook thread but i will give it a run down here and show the other variants :) again as i mentioned in the first post, this photo is not mine so all credit to the photographer who took the photo, the image is only a study and part of experimenting, i thought it works quite quite well as it is so simple. hope you like it! :)

[rusko-berger]

Heya Doc P--

Nice set of work here!

I really enjoy your line quality. My favorites are where it's controlled yet maintains its free & expressive qualities (as in the birds and hearts, etc). When you really sit on your marks and lock em up tight, they get less confident-looking. (And hey: 95% people have the opposite--and far less desireable "problem", so you're ahead of the game!)



I also like seeing your visual thought process (again with the hearts and birdies!).

Of the paintings, faces 2, 3, & 4 from July 3rdwere my favorites, but most of the others seem sort of flat and unrealized...sorta like you had less interest in them than you exhibit in much of your drawing work. I'd love to see what you do with more keenly observed portraits with a more varied, yet equally muscularly applied color palette in your other paintings. (And lay offa that chalky white paint, bro! ;)! Please let me know if you post some.

Keep up the good work!

best,
Nick

[Dr poPcoRN]

rusko-berger: thanks for your comments! i can't agree more with you on the tightening up, trying to get the balance is where i want to be, as most people say, they prefer their sketchbook work to their finals and that is cos they are more relaxed when doing it and for some reason alot of people tighten up on more 'important' images and i am trying to shake the habit :) again thanks for you comments and i looked at some of your work, very impressive to say the least :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a design for ''Lincoln University Snow Sports Team'' (LUSST) hoody, so if you see someone walking around with one you know who did it haha, i designed both images in pen and played around with them in photoshop, obviously the images needed simplifying for the printing process to actually work so i used some basic filters and other editing within photoshop, there are also some samples that they chose from. the drawing references were from the internet :) hope you enjoy!

[rusko-berger]

:D

You, sir, are a Gentleman and a scholar. I'm glad I made sense! Let's stay in touch, ok?

best,
Nick

p.s. I like that fleece-y blue stuff.

p.p.s Any insights you have on anything I've done, I'd welcome! BTW, did you say you were 21, somewhere? Regardless...rock on!


rusko-berger: thanks for your comments! i can't agree more with you on the tightening up, trying to get the balance is where i want to be, as most people say, they prefer their sketchbook work to their finals and that is cos they are more relaxed when doing it and for some reason alot of people tighten up on more 'important' images and i am trying to shake the habit :) again thanks for you comments and i looked at some of your work, very impressive to say the least :)

[paran0id]

Great style indeed! Post some of your less abstract works. The 15/16 year old self-portrait is great especially for that age.

[Randis]

very nice, you have some very graphical styles going on here

[DANKA]

A very nice original style, so fresh and "organic"
good!

[Dr poPcoRN]

rusko-berger: thanks again for the comment, yep 21 i am! and will be sure to keep checking what your doing, for inspiration more than anything else! :)

paran0id: thanks alot, yeh i am going to push some more literal studies! just started my third year so no doubt there will be more of that! :)

R a n d i s: thanks randis, i can't say anything apart from i love your work, so it is cool that you took the time to glance over mine! much appreciated :D

DANKA: thanks alot, i like the concept of having a more organic signiature so thanks for that comment :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

Here is an editorial illustration, hopefully it reflects the notion of trying to achieve silence, well at least peace and quiet, not my normal way of addressing things due to the way i have drawn it, think it is a little primitive but with that it has some sort of charm, i appreciate it doesn't show too much technical ability but playing in the sand is fun, and that is what i am trying to do more in my work... in a metophorical sense that is :) 2 versions here, done in pen and then played with in photoshop. :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Red can

note. ''Noise Repelen'' - i ran out of room but i didn't care haha!

[Jesus Food]

nice graphic work mista poppin corn. it totally depends on where u want to take this but i think u could benefit from drawing more people in real life, not to take away from any of this stuff

[Dr poPcoRN]

Jesus Food: thanks for your comments :) i always try to do more life studies so hopefully you might see more!

here is two studies from still, bit more of a reflection of literal depiction but i still put some energy into the chain as i like putting my mark on things haha! both are done in pencil, all the way from 2H through to 6B i tend to stick with the even numbered grades for some reason dont ask me why, i just do haha! hope you like! and as always crits are more than welcome and always helpful :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

smaller samples

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a visual about marriage and how you deal with it when kids leave home etc. etc. - i used a free texture off of flickr so credit goes to who ever that belongs too and thanks for putting up a free texture that i was able to use, non commercial use of course :) it was all shipped and shaped in photoshop, primarily so i could just put it all together really, hope you like it :) crits welcome as always!

[Dr poPcoRN]

playing around with an old image :) not much too it really just very basic, i need to be thinking more about depth and composition, everthing is flat at the moment :/

[Mane]

I really wish I could get create the lines you make throughout your work its fantastic. I think I prefer the chains separate but I do like the musty yellow of the overlay texture would be cool to see them printed onto canvas's.

[Dr poPcoRN]

mysocksrock: thanks for your kind words! besides you dont really want my lines haha :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

an almagamation of animals with infinite possiblities, the reason why there is not a large selection of animals and just a few is because of the brief i was given :) done in pen then scanned in and a quick 15 mins arranging and colouring it and that was it. crits welcome as always!

[Dr poPcoRN]

B&W version + ostrich head (approx. 30 second sketch) :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

not a very good update to be honest, but it is something and that is better than nothing!

[Dr poPcoRN]

some quick sketches from life and imagination. not the best at it at the moment, so i need more and more practise! i do realise the form and proportions are off abit and are not perfect :)

[blexano]

I love the FOOOOOT! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

blexano: thankyou very much! haha!

not a massive update, a study of my girlfriend in pencil and messing around with some shapes in photoshop, not planning on taking the image any further just messing around :) thanks peeps! :)

[Maunty]

Great sketchbook so far, Im a fan of the face studies with the hard lines and sharp angles. Which types of pens are you using? your style seems like it would look great with some nibs and ink.

#131 reminds me a lot of Banksy, its got that same feel to it. Keep it up!

[Dr poPcoRN]

Maunty: thankyou very much for your kind words - i use a sheaffer fountain pen, i also use faber castel fineliners, and a couple of artline fineliners too if i use really small point size, hope that explains it :D

here is something i had some fun with even though i am not going to finish it :) just a one off, inspired by an awesome illustrator i know on my degree course! so i owe him one! cheers jake :D

[HugeHarHar]

Fantastic line work!!! The last sketches, and the bird/rabbit/bird are awesome. You have some very unusual stuff on here, which is refreshing-love the variety.

[Dr poPcoRN]

HugeHarHar: thanks you! :)

Meh! Reh! Peh!

[Axel.s]

hmmmm !! lot of interesting things here, good sketch and very good designs !

[Dr poPcoRN]

Axel.s: Thanks for your kind words!

here is a work in progress for a t-shirt design, related to a snow sports holiday to tignes in france, unfinished of course. the t-shirt will be white, and i will have to incorporate the logo and a little strap line identifing the social group but that is yet to come, done in black ink with a sheaffer fountain pen. :)

[Lapada]

really awsome faces

[Channin]

Cool stuff man.

[Royzy]

Really amazing sketchbook man, I like it a lot. Very unique style, particularly in the face work you do.

Favourited :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

Lapada: thanks alot matey :) i took the liberty of looking through your sketchbook and it is very impressive!

Channin: Thanking you!! :D

Royzy: Thanks! always nice to know someone likes something you do! :)

some flower study i did a little while back in pen :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

woo woo!

[LieutenantHanz]

Fuck dude, you are so amazingly versatile! You have great rendering skills, while at the same time you can loosen up really graphically and beautifully! You can a really unique look too, I look forward to seeing more from you!

[jedininjaman]

Great work man
Your line confidence is pretty nice

[Dr poPcoRN]

LieutenantHanz: thankyou very much for your comment, i still have a very long way to go though! especially if i want to be playing with the big boys! but i am still learning and and trying to improve :)

jedininjaman: thanks for your kind words! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

just some fun for now, i will do a bigger update soon, i am quite busy with university! cheers! :)

[Scribble King]

I love the way you explore different techniques and aren't afraid to just go nutz sometimes... should come in really handy if you end up in the illustration field. Great stuff!!!

Btw, thanks for stopping by my SB. :teeth:

[Mane]

seroiusly great work man, im loving it that your looking into new directions, looking forward to some more of those faces

[Dr poPcoRN]

Scribble King: thankyou very much for your comment! :)

mysocksrock: thanks alot for your interest! :D

here is something to keep your lips wet, just a cut/crop from a work in progress! done digitally on photoshop :) hope you guys like clowns ;)

[NickyBeats]

hell yea man! great sketchbook! i love the pen work, im a sucker for ink stuff, specially with this amount of nutty hatching involved. also, i realised that im not the only one who is obsessed with giving people intricately detailed wrinkles under their eyes. i dont know why but i love how that looks. or maybe its just fun to get carried away with it. anyways, keep on scribbling dude!

[Lav]

wow, very cool SB and lots of variaty, i'm loving it! :D keep up the great work :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

just one piece i have been working on recently, has not turned out how i wanted it really but never mind. a little bit of a mix of styles that dont feel comfortable but practice will sort that out. all done on photoshop apart from a draft sketch, a couple of details as well! comments and critique welcome! :)

[My-Name-Is-Mark]

I love all this. Especially the paint work.

[Dr poPcoRN]

NickyBeats: thankyou for you comment! :)

Lav: thanks for you kind words :)

My-Name-Is-Mark: Thankyou! :D

[derss]

damn nice painting, will go through rest of your sketchbook just because of it :)
keep it up!

edit: gone through your sketchbook now, love your style! its rly unique and original.
cant wait to see more stuff.

[Dr poPcoRN]

derss: Thanks for your comments! :)

just some quick sketch, busy with writing at the moment :( not as much time for drawing as i would like! cheers! :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

just some quick stuff, not updating much here, sorry! :) i should really be doing more work :/

[Dr poPcoRN]

a couple more from some work i am still working on! critique and comments are more than welcome :)

[Lav]

i really love your line quality, cant wait for more updates :P
the paint in post 160 remind me a lot of an entrance to the whereabouts of the joker. Sometimes, you give a bit a feel of traditional paint work in your digital paints, like the clown's mouth, i really like it

[seagulls]

wow so twisted.had a quick look through. woah. hehehe. :)

#160 totally spooky.

[Broewer]

That's some cool stuff you've got there ;).

[Lhune]

Hey there, thanks a lot for dropping by in my sketchbook! :) I love your style and how you try all kinds of new and different things! Keep it up!

[Dr poPcoRN]

Lav: Thank you very much for your comments, and dont worry i will keep updating :D

seagulls: Thanks for your kind words :)

Broewer: Thank you! :D

Lhune: Thanks for having a look! :)

[TheButterBunny]

was going to leave a comment saying how much I'd enjoyed looking through your sketchbook and then I got to this last pasge and spilt my tea all down myself when I saw that clown! I may sue! ;)

seriously though I do love your stuff - it's nice to see someone painting tradditionally as there isnt so much of it on here, and I LOVE the pen/hatchy portraits near the start - and seeing how you converted one into a painting thats so different!

Amazing versatility dude, I am muchos inspired!

Katie

[Dr poPcoRN]

TheButterBunny: thank you very much for all your kind words! :D

a raven from reference, which is an element pulled from a piece i am working on at the moment, she aint finished yeet though... because she doesn't have any legs :O

[sketchibo]

Awesome. That clownface death machine is superfreaky.

[Capital G]

Ohh I really like your work, the pen and ink stuff especially :D

[Kambei Shimada]

Interesting style you have there sir,

Nice to see something a little bit different!

[Jalc]

Your sketches are beautiful i love your ink sketches seriously inspired keep it up!

[Lotet]

love the new uptades!

[Dr poPcoRN]

sketchibo: thanks! i hope it come across a little sinister as that is what i was trying to achieve :D

Capital G: thank you very much for the positive comment! :)

Kambei Shimada: thanks for you kind words! :)

Jalc: thank you very much! glad you like! :)

Lotet: thanks again Lotet! :D

[derss]

great updates again! :) im coming back for more! ;)

[AustenFM]

Hey hombre, thanks for dropping my my sketchbook lately, I really appreciate it!
You've got some great illustrations in here, and I love your expressive lines, they have a great energy to them. Your rendering skills are also really nice, I would like to see more studies from you though, when your not working from reference things get a bit stiff.

Anyhoo, keep it up man, i'll be back for more!

[Dr poPcoRN]

not entirely finished yet, still a work in progress and i need to patch some holes of course :) some parts i have posted already as you might be able to tell, but will post it when it is finished as well, sorry about the quality i took it with my camera as i dont have a scanner big enough :)

A2 pencil study, HB, 2B, 4B on cartridge paper :)

[Mane]

digging where this collage is going! would be cool to bring out those construction lines abit more.

[Dr poPcoRN]

derss: thanks again! i appreciate your comment! :)

AustenFM: thanks alot for your comment! i dont normally use reference for much unless i am really unfamiliar with it, i could do with working more on things i am uncomfortable with to make me more loose when i am drawing them! sometimes i draw quite tight and with more lines than shading if you get what i mean. so it makes the images look quite rigid. as well as all this i need to work hard on more dynamic angles, poses and better lighting of subjects! all of which would help loose a certain stiffness some of my images have, and ultimately make them more convincing! i appreciate you crit and i agree with it :) thanks for dropping by too! :D

mysocksrock: thanks again! i agree i need some more construction lines, i have afew on the branch the raven is sat on and it looks nicer with em than it would without em! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is the final version pretty much, i wont be doing anymore on it i dont think as i have gone off it! the quality is not that great as again it was taken with a camera, i am currently waiting to scan it in at the university and use their A2 scanner as that will be big enough :) until then this will have to do, i added the building on the left of the raven, not too sure whether that was a good idea now but i am still learning so that is something i can take frorom this, plus reworked the grils hair in the centre as it needed a little retouching :) i will start something different soon as i am not too happy with this one :/ crits are more than welcome! thanks :)

EDIT: the secong image is the updated one :)

finally got the beggar copied and scanned at staples, alot clearer than the photo i believe. note to self - dont go bigger than A3 next time :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

WHERE'S WHALEY!?

just for fun :) what is the point if we dont enjoy it sometimes!? enjoy! :D

[HTML rulez d00d]

love the girl at the top of the collage. sexy!

lol @ your latest post, whatever it is. waldo fish? hehe

[Savo]

Hello, Dr poPcoRN. A wide variety of styles :) I like the paintings of faces on page one, as well as the digital clown, among other stuff. And whaley! is frickin' great. All in all, great sketchbook. Thanks for stoppin' by mine, too.

[Royzy]

Wow that last one is an awesome piece! Would make a great desktop wallpaper. Got a version at 1060 pixel wide? ;) haha

Keep it up Dr!

[Dr poPcoRN]

HTML rulez d00d: Thanks! yea it would be waldo or wally depending on where your from i guess! so Whalley or Whaledo haha! :)

Savo: Thank you for your kind words! glad you like! :)

Royzy: Thanks again matey! that image is only 60 pixels shy of 1060 ;)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a quick pencil study, didn't take very long at all :) not much to it just thought i would put something up! if anyone knows any tips on taking the shine off of pencil/graphite drawings with regards to scanning that would be real helpful! i can press a little too hard when rendering sometimes, which makes it even more shiny so any ideas to help me out would be awesome! cheers guys and sorry about the small update :)

here is a before and after of editing the levels in photoshop to try and remove the shine, but is there is anything i can do other than in photoshop? thankyou! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

just started this one on photoshop, no reference :) will update its progress!

5 minutes in so far :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a study from photographic reference courtesy of Marcus Ranum

here is his link (http://www.ranum.com/index.html/) :)

i used some view guides/gridlines for proportion, i focused on the values and form rather than the details. hope you like, comments and crits welcome as always!

[Dr poPcoRN]

Here is an illustrated product i made for one of the briefs i got given on my course, it was to design a package for the 'wright's soap' soap bar! nothing complex going on here just a simple net with simple illustrations :)

the first is an image of the net and the second are photos of the finished package :) crits welcome! thanks! :D

[sleepykit]

your stuf and style is so very cool, i love it, your squiggle people on those boxes are so adorable, i can imagin them made out of soot

[Lav]

great updates! i really like what you did for the soap, the simplicity really works. I was wondering, when you make a collage, do you make seperate sketches first or do you just draw it on like that?

[CocaTertoka]

Those sketches are awesome man, i love the crow especially. cool stuff for sure

[Dr poPcoRN]

sleepykit: Thanks for your nice words, glad you like the little fluff people! :D

Lav: Thank you! with regards to the collage question, it depends most of the time some of those little people were drawn together but others were moved in closer on their own. this was by using the 'multiply' option on the layers 'blending options' essentially it takes the white out of the layer so i can move them around without worrying about white areas that come with some layers if you dont remove it :) so it depends on the nature of the image really! :D

CocaTertoka: Thank you very much for the compliments :D

here is some rubbish, i did for a project for my course. the character is a little confusing, and looks inconsistent itself (for example, the legs are rendered in a wildly different manner to that of the jumper). his face is rather basic aswell! with perspective in the image, he would have to be alot smaller than the word 'EDGE', especially if it were to work as a composition based on perspective, unless he was a giant which he isn't. i realise this piece is not great but thought i would put it up anyways just to show some more of my work, crits and comments are more than welcome! as always! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

It is my birthday today, dont seem like it though so i thought i better do something different!

here is a quick speedpaint environment on photoshop, i dont do enough environments so i guess this could be just 1 of many! :)

no reference :)

[xbert]

super cool sketchbook!

happy birthday btw!!! ;)

[blexano]

Wow, long time no visit. ^^

Haaaappy birthday my friend. =)
You know I love your stuff and it just keeps getting better and better! =D

I'd love to hang out with you and just draw. ^__^

Hairy soap-guys! :D

[Lav]

happy birthday! and thanks for the answer
I'd like to see more environments from you as well :D

[Cameronator]

All kinds of creative things running through this! Thanks for sharing.

[heroesnvillains]

your stuff is great! your style is so unique. i took my time on each page keep it up! its all inspiring!

[Dr poPcoRN]

xbert: Thanks for the comment :)

blexano: Thanks for your kind words! and yes to hairy soap fluffs! :D

Lav: Thanks! I will get you more environments dont worry :)

Cameronator: Thank you for the comment :)

heroesnvillains: glad you like! :D

[mike butkus]

Great SKETCH BOOK! Love the editorial feel of your work.

[Dr poPcoRN]

mike butkus: Thanks for comment! i am honoured! :D

here is a work in progress so it is only just the start of it, not much there but i am trying to get these daily updates down :) crits welcome as always!

[The_Flying_Dutchman]

Dig the last pencil sketch! But good work overall, keep it up!

[Inishmore]

I think your stuff is outstanding. It's insoiring and so different, but in a good way. *subscribes to thread*

[rupeshtalaskar]

great updates! i really like your stuff ,it's outstanding.keep it up!

[Dr poPcoRN]

The_Flying_Dutchman: Thank you very much! :)

Inishmore: Glad you like! :)

rupeshtalaskar: Thanks for you comment! :)

[ROCKNROLLA]

Excellent SB!! Love your pencil work :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

ROCKNROLLA: Thank you! :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Here is a really quick study on photoshop :) a little ref was used :D crits welcome!

[Inishmore]

I love her face and hair but her arms look somehow...offg to me. Like they're a little too short?

[Dr poPcoRN]

Inishmore: Thanks for pointing that out! :) I had not noticed until you mentioned it, but it is sorted out now i hope :) my eyes are getting old you see ;)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a piece of work for a brief about working together and supporting each other :) I dont normally do much stuff like this as it is not my kettle of fish to be honest! the shading is intentionally naive so dont bang me out for it :)

I began by choosing something that goes back through history and everyone can understand and relate to, which was fishing. I decided to use a team of divers working together to catch fish with nets to illustrate teamwork and support. I chose to illustrate it in a playful manner and try to give the divers and fish different personalities, something that is often found in teams. Considering there is a team of divers and there is also a team of fish, I would hope it puts further emphasis on teamwork and working together. I hope it communicates the concept of the brief well enough!

Crits welcome as always! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

Here is something real quick study, just some lighting practise, not much to update with at the moment as i am real busy with written assignments :(

[Dr poPcoRN]

meh! here are some weapons done really quickly, just a basic brush and lifting with the eraser! i am trying to squeeze drawing inbetween wrting at the moment! :) back to work! :)

[mike butkus]

Keep up the good work!

[Dr poPcoRN]

here is a pen drawing, done in less than an hour :) I need to do more work! crits and comments are more than welcome :)

[Inishmore]

Oh, really like the pen sketch! Though the muzzle seems a bit off, I think it may be slightly too long and too wide.

[Dr poPcoRN]

mike butkus: Thanks again mike! I appreciate you stopping by :)

Inishmore: Thanks for the comment :) I totally agree about the muzzle! it is due to my shading on the right hand side of the nose, it was one of those times when i was drawing and i just wasn't concentrating on the form at that point cos i had the tv on; so ended up hatching it completely wrong but it was only a very quick sketch so not worth my time revisiting. thanks for the crit though! much appreciated!

[ZhouPeng]

your lines is really good, straight, but can make the shape more clearly~ i love the way you do it~
but i don't really understand those faces which are not normal...
hope to see more~
keep the way~~~~~~

[Dr poPcoRN]

ZhouPeng: Thank you for your kind words! :) i checked some of your work out, very impressive :)

[Jephyr X]

Hi Dr. P!

Just took a stroll though the last 3 pages. Love your pencils...and the clown gate thngy.

You have a stong sense of life and movement in your work.

Ciao

[Dr poPcoRN]

Jephyr X: Thanks for your kind words! :)

Here is some more recent work; still working hard to improve! critique and comments are more than welcome :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Hey peeps! been a little while since my last update due to the volume of work i have on at the moment! so sorry for that :)

here is a digital character painting i created; not much to say really, it is what it is :)

the real size image is 600 dpi and approx 7000 x 5000 pixels, so he is pretty darn big! i guess probably quite close to life size in actual fact.

The first image is approx 15% of actual size and the second image is even smaller so it is easier to see on screen. the other images are detail cuts from the original; the last detail cut of the gun is also about 50% of actual size.

crits and comments are more than welcome, i know there are problems with some aspects of him but thought better to learn and leave, rather than endlessly repairing the image til it was ultimately fixed; every image is a learning curve so i know i wont make some of the mistakes i made in this one on the next! :)

done entirely on photoshop apart from the pencil sketch to map out his form.

no reference used at all apart from for the MG42 - everything else is out of my head.

comments are more than welcome and hope you like :)

[Lav]

nice updates, and cool character concept, i love how you did the pants, details on the gun, value on the grenades and the collar. Just 2 small observations if i can be nitpicking, the gun has a value less contrast than some of the other items in your paint (for example grenades), and the hair a bit undefined to me, is it a hat is it an afro, is it a dead skunk? it's a mystery! But like i said, it's just nitpicking, other than that i think it's very bad ass! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

Lav: Thank you very much for your comment! I agree with both of your crits :) I honestly forgot to revisit his hair (it is an afro) an the gun could do with being a touch darker on the right hand side :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

here are two more character concepts! only quick ones, done in two different styles :)

[crown]

Your pen and ink work is phenomenal! I'm digging your style, and the motion you've got going through everything, especially those charcoal pieces. Amazing!

[Quinn Simoes]

Really enjoyed looking through your SB, love your pen and pencils sketches.

I also like the way your not afraid to explore different techniques and ideas, that's really refreshing!

Keep up the great work, and I look forward to seeing future updates.

Cheers,
Quinn

[Dr poPcoRN]

crown: Thank you for such kind words :)

Quinn Simoes: Thank you very much for you comment :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Just 1 today! a real quick speed paint enviro; I may overlay some colours at some point, but who knows! :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Another quick environment :) i will probably do a few more; then revisit and rework some colour into them i think! :D

[Dr poPcoRN]

another quick one! very basic, so sorry about that! but the more i do the better! i will lay colour over all of these black and white enviro's at some point; but just banging out the grayscale at the moment :)

apologies for the staggered updates but i start something new as soon as i have updated and sometimes it doesn't take too long :)

[mike butkus]

#228 brilliant sketch, it has a tremendous senses of energy, a moment caught in time, and has the same dramatic effect as sketch #237. Great job!

[Lav]

really digging the environments, did you use costum brushes for it?

[Dr poPcoRN]

mike butkus: Thank you so much mike, always honoured by your comments :)

Lav: hey lav! thank you for comment! :) the brushes i use are a real mix to be honest, some default, some custom, and some have been picked up along the way too from other artists! i always change the brush presets as i am painting though, if i see a nice area in my painting that could be used as a brush, i tend to just define a brush from it :) i really tend to just play around alot with the brushes, the best ones are the ones you don't expect :) i occasionally drop some patterns in as well but not too often and sometimes i might lift some texture from a photo i have taken. mixed bag of nuts really!

Another quick study, the top half of him is too static compared to the legs and perspective is abit shot too, should have seen it coming! i will remember for next time :) a pretty generic mech design to be honest but all practise! :)

[soros]

Thanks for the great structured sketches. :eyecandy: I was inspired to try lines on photographs. Might be a faster understanding of the form.

[Dr poPcoRN]

soros: Thank you very much for your comment :) glad i inspired!

[Dr poPcoRN]

just a side on view of a mech :) not much to it! comments and critique are always welcome :)

[sketchibo]

The environments from the last page look sweet.
The mech is cool too. My only thoughts would be that maybe it could use some harder edges to give it a more definite shape.
Always excited to see more.

[PHATandy]

Shape and texture is good man, but they could use a little more form.
Look for some shapes that might add that little bit of '3D' to the design and they will look they have a place more.
I think the mech at the bottom of the last page works more because it has a sense of form more. Its alot more 3d feeling.

Awesome work though, love you unique approach to everything. Keep it up :)

[Bendragon]

Cool textures and drawings. I think you can go easy on the darks... theyre looking too black which can flatten things. Maybe try discipline yourself to do some paints in the mid tones and try resist going too dark from the get go

[p sage]

Thank you for visiting my stuff.

I'm not sure what to say about your work, as it's digi and I'm not familiar with digital painting techniques. However, I am familiar with value and so forth... much of what you're doing is landscapes from quite a distance away, so there's not much opportunity for me to give you much useful advice. For now, anyway. I'll keep coming back to look, though.

Maybe do some figure studies... drawing from nature is the greatest teacher.

[Dr poPcoRN]

sketchibo: Thanks for your comment! i have to agree with you about the edges, especially with regards to the first of the two mech studies; it is really quite soft edged in some places :)

PHATandy: Thank you very much for the comment! the 2nd of the 2 mech studies is very flat, partly because it is a side on projection rather than a dynamic pose. I totally agree about the shapes as well, the shapes i have used in it are pretty predictable and bland, something more interesting like cylinders and sockets etc might have spiced him up a bit too! I would have worked into it more to suggest a much more 3 dimensional feel but liked some of the accidental lines in it so left it really quite early on rather than develop it :)

Bendragon: Thanks for the comment ben! you are spot on too, it is always a better idea to work the darker areas in at a later point. I am starting to sketch using mid tones now instead of the heavy black lines, then worker the darker areas in later. Just like on that caharacter on the previous page there is a heavily shadowed area all over the right side of his body which just doesn't work, it make it very flat as well; some thing that wont happen again hopefully, got to learn the hard way sometimes :) thanks for your crit, i really appreciate it :)

p sage: Thank for your kind words! i alway try to draw from life whenever i can, trying to find some life drawing classes too :)

[Dr poPcoRN]

Just a random ink study I did last night, whilst playing battlefield bad company 2 with my friend :)

[Sycra]

Whoa, love that last ink study! There's so much energy and intensity in it!