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kabarsa
July 17th, 2009, 04:52 AM
Hello. I'm new to ConceptArt.org and SB. Just found this forum threads because of email received from CA.org :)

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kabarsa
July 17th, 2009, 07:11 AM
another paintings. I started to paint in photoshop in the end of feb 2009. Hope to get to reasonable results in about a year or two.

ImaGEEnation
July 17th, 2009, 07:15 AM
Nice start dude! Can't wait to see more! I hope you'll post some pencil works and studies also! :D Oh, I think you meant to write 2008 instead of 2009? :p

kabarsa
July 17th, 2009, 07:25 AM
Thank you soooo much! Sorry, I don't think that I can do studies, it's too cool for my limited skills, because every time I want to do something beautiful, but in the end it looks like studies :) No, I mean 2009. It started when my relatives made me a present graph tablet. For now it's just Genius G-Pen 560, but i used to it already ) I don't know, it's hard to make myself to use pencil now, when all i need to do is just open photoshop ;)

kabarsa
July 24th, 2009, 06:04 PM
Another sketch

kabarsa
July 27th, 2009, 03:06 PM
another one

kabarsa
July 27th, 2009, 04:38 PM
I like sketching creatures. This was a 1,5h speedpaint.

kabarsa
July 30th, 2009, 02:24 AM
Enviros is my weakest point of all. So I'll try to sketch enviros from now. Hope it'll help me to proceed in my painting.

Icedearth15876
July 30th, 2009, 02:43 AM
The pieces in this sketchbook only need one word: WOW! These are great man, keep up the good work!

kingkostas
July 30th, 2009, 02:54 AM
Hello mate and welcome to CA
Your works are telling that you have trained a lot of your artistic skills.Btw try using less black in shadows, because black makes it dull in the end.(if a warm light is hitting your object then its not that bad to use some black with low opacity or multiply,to make cold shadows,because black makes it a little colder)
Keep making them less rough with cleaner lines etc.
And i would like to see some pencil work as well :D

See ya

kabarsa
July 30th, 2009, 06:10 PM
Icedearth15876 - Thank you
kingkostas - Thank you for your reply. I tryed 1.5 h speedpaint after thought about your shading guide. It's helpful to have at least one reply as yours. I'll draw with that in mind and hope to bring it a few steps further from my current paintings. I'm really grateful :)

Khalo
July 30th, 2009, 06:33 PM
Your pieces are very creative and imaginative - something that I have found to be far more difficult to attain than simply being able to render something accurately. Your technical skills definitely need polishing and practice, but one day, you're going to be a fantastic artist. I'm absolutely sure of it.

kabarsa
July 31st, 2009, 04:10 AM
Khalo - thank you for your compliment. I allways thought my painting were not so creative at all, because of a boring angles and low dynamics :(. There are many examples that inspire to work, work and work and push yourself to get better results. It's a secret, but I was soooo inspired by DA gallery of Marek Okon )) And now I believe that everything is possible )

Some monster sketch, and old pen/pencil sketches. Don't know about drawing with graphite now, since having a universal drawing tool like photoshop makes it easier to forget about pencil ;(

kabarsa
July 31st, 2009, 06:00 PM
Another speedpaint. Wanted something dark.

kabarsa
August 2nd, 2009, 04:54 AM
Something strange. I need to use ref next time :(

kabarsa
August 2nd, 2009, 06:29 AM
1.5h speedpaint. Attempt to draw straight in color.

carboncillo
August 2nd, 2009, 07:02 AM
this dark paint ist very impressive! i like the lights and atmosphere.

kabarsa
August 3rd, 2009, 03:49 PM
carboncillo - thank you. I glad you liked it.
Another 1.5h speedpaint. Ended up almost monochrome in fact :(

kabarsa
August 10th, 2009, 06:57 PM
3h speedpaint. Epic fail :(

pauscorpi
August 10th, 2009, 07:18 PM
I agree with Khalo - you have a wonderful imagination , a good sense of story telling and good control over pencils. I think studies will definitely help you improve your skills ; study everything; the more , the better : perspective, anatomy , colour theory if you will , but I am sure that with studies you will be brilliant in no time :)

good luck :)

kabarsa
August 11th, 2009, 06:55 AM
pauscorpi - thank you! I'll try to focus on all that things.
Quick sketches

kabarsa
August 11th, 2009, 03:19 PM
2h speedpaint.

kabarsa
August 17th, 2009, 04:30 PM
More sketches. Used photo for the first one.

kabarsa
August 18th, 2009, 01:10 PM
sketches. need to do something finished finally

kabarsa
August 24th, 2009, 04:38 PM
aliens

adammelo
August 24th, 2009, 04:45 PM
I like the piece with the monk with the conical hat around the grassy area, that must have taken a long time to paint that grass like that :)


Sketch back if you'd like ....

kabarsa
September 1st, 2009, 03:08 AM
adammelo - it was a 1.5h speedpaint. I like this piece because of monk =)

couple of quick sketches. have no time at all =( Software development is a curse, but a good one =)

kabarsa
September 4th, 2009, 01:12 PM
evening speedie

kabarsa
September 8th, 2009, 05:36 PM
another speedpaint.

kabarsa
September 9th, 2009, 02:55 PM
1h speedpaint

kabarsa
September 10th, 2009, 04:34 PM
1.5h speedpaint with no ref. Wanted japanese style horror

kabarsa
September 11th, 2009, 04:09 PM
sketch

kabarsa
September 13th, 2009, 04:16 PM
Major Kusanagi

kabarsa
September 15th, 2009, 04:32 PM
Few evening sketches :( I need more time (((

kabarsa
September 16th, 2009, 04:56 PM
another quick one :(

kabarsa
September 17th, 2009, 04:30 PM
1.5h speedpaint fanart. My favourite beast :)

kabarsa
September 18th, 2009, 07:02 PM
another speedpaint

kabarsa
September 19th, 2009, 08:58 AM
another speedpaint

kabarsa
September 20th, 2009, 05:31 PM
another one

kabarsa
September 22nd, 2009, 11:07 PM
another one :(

kabarsa
September 24th, 2009, 03:07 PM
sketching straight in color for practice

kabarsa
September 24th, 2009, 05:38 PM
Another sketch. Straight in color practice. And I liked soooo much to draw that way. For a long time, all the 6 months that I do digipainting, I tryed to find the way to draw that will be of the most usefulness to me. Looked so many times at leventes works, and than Andree Wallin's works, and Randis, Dylan Cole and all the monster-guys on the net. Always was king of lost looking at all the variety of drawing styles. I think that in half a year from now I'll finally find the most consistent for me to use. Ah.. bla bla bla. Kind of talking to myself. Need to sleep.

kabarsa
September 25th, 2009, 05:22 PM
sketch. sleep

kabarsa
October 1st, 2009, 04:27 PM
another quick sketch

kabarsa
October 8th, 2009, 04:44 PM
practice. something I called "Razumnoe dobroe vechnoe"

kabarsa
October 9th, 2009, 07:15 PM
another straight in color painting practice. I like that drawing method.
2,5h speedpaint no ref. Russian Chort (daemon style)

kabarsa
October 13th, 2009, 05:52 PM
another practice

kabarsa
October 13th, 2009, 06:33 PM
another quick sketch

kabarsa
October 13th, 2009, 11:24 PM
another sketch

kabarsa
October 14th, 2009, 12:01 AM
another quick sketch

kabarsa
October 14th, 2009, 04:37 PM
quick sketch before going to sleep.

kabarsa
October 16th, 2009, 12:59 AM
1h speedpaint. straight in color painting practice

kabarsa
October 19th, 2009, 06:11 PM
fantasy stuff.

kabarsa
October 21st, 2009, 01:45 AM
Quick one before going to work

kabarsa
October 21st, 2009, 05:45 PM
another quick sketch

kabarsa
October 21st, 2009, 06:43 PM
Another sketch.

kabarsa
October 23rd, 2009, 04:27 PM
40 min sketch. Agent Vasya, zombie under cover

kabarsa
October 25th, 2009, 07:05 PM
Made a W40k fanart this evening

kabarsa
October 31st, 2009, 07:59 PM
Put it down

kabarsa
November 2nd, 2009, 05:19 PM
another piece

kabarsa
November 4th, 2009, 04:58 PM
learning to draw

kabarsa
November 11th, 2009, 03:03 PM
Had some spare time at work today to make a pencil sketch

kabarsa
November 18th, 2009, 07:45 AM
vampire lady

kabarsa
November 19th, 2009, 07:15 PM
I did this for my friend Olga. Used her photo to populate the suit Today I actually decided not to go to work because of some bad feelings , so had some time to render something. Spent a lot of time, about 6 hours maybe. This is my personal record for now. No refs used, but I think that I should use some references next time.

kabarsa
November 23rd, 2009, 03:48 PM
Training in attempt to get better. Another failure, but will keep training.

kabarsa
November 25th, 2009, 04:15 PM
struggle continues

kabarsa
November 27th, 2009, 05:58 PM
fanart. practice

kabarsa
November 28th, 2009, 05:11 PM
Few sketches

kabarsa
November 29th, 2009, 06:13 PM
Another painting

kabarsa
December 1st, 2009, 04:50 PM
another sketch

kabarsa
December 2nd, 2009, 07:25 PM
It was a good evening. I spent 5 hours just drawing and listening music. You can call it my fanart on Andree Wallin's works. I totally like his gallery on DA.

kabarsa
December 6th, 2009, 10:21 AM
30 min ambassador sketch. sleeeeep.

kabarsa
December 11th, 2009, 05:53 PM
Some guy speedpaint. 1,5h.

north pole
December 11th, 2009, 06:10 PM
nice colours.. i like the piece at #64... try to work on ur pieces with little more time.. keep up .. (:

kabarsa
December 24th, 2009, 01:57 AM
north pole - thank you! Maybe it sounds silly, but you feedback will keep me motivated for another 6 months =)

This is Goh-Goh portrait. Still simple, but I'll try to do something more dynamic next time.

kabarsa
December 29th, 2009, 02:53 AM
Giftart for http://shwann.deviantart.com/

kabarsa
January 2nd, 2010, 05:17 PM
Slightly more than 3h speedpaint. Need to practice more and more

kabarsa
January 7th, 2010, 03:31 PM
hijacking

Janos
January 7th, 2010, 03:48 PM
The things you need to work at foremost are anatomy, and I would start loosing some colour for the beginning. Later on when you have anatomy and value pretty mcuh down colour will be important. For now more basics. It's nice to see so much stuff though.

kabarsa
January 7th, 2010, 05:13 PM
Janos thanks. I'll try to push farther.

Some quick sketch of something.

kabarsa
January 8th, 2010, 07:35 PM
Some giftart I made this evening

jama
January 9th, 2010, 02:45 AM
Я смотрю, тут кто-то под шумок СА скетчбук себе завел))

отлично!
не останавливайся!

kabarsa
January 9th, 2010, 04:07 AM
Спасибо большое! Твоя оценка безумно вдохновляет =) Постараюсь двигаться по возможности к светлому будущему =) *побежал рисовать*

kabarsa
January 9th, 2010, 08:18 PM
Damn, I screwed up again, since started with one painting in mind, and finished with another, so it all look bad. Lighting completely out of synch with light sources, and all the damn stuff is bad. Next one will be better. Oh well =(

kabarsa
January 10th, 2010, 04:12 PM
My mind blew up again after watching Andree Wallin. I was literally forced by the voices in my head to draw something, so it's like fanart.

kabarsa
January 16th, 2010, 05:14 PM
One of my fav characters. He's looking not like the original, but I don't like to use refs so he ended up a little different.
Of course all you see belong to Blizzard.

kabarsa
January 18th, 2010, 02:19 PM
few quick sketches

kabarsa
January 18th, 2010, 03:19 PM
Some quick sketch of ultimate warrior. WAAAAGH!!!!

kabarsa
January 19th, 2010, 05:53 PM
Developed a little last sketch. I loved these cuties =)

kabarsa
January 20th, 2010, 06:30 PM
Bunny again =)

kabarsa
January 24th, 2010, 06:45 PM
Giftart for DA. Tryed to do this in anime style. Damn, I want huge aircrafts and cyborgs next time.

kabarsa
January 28th, 2010, 04:50 PM
Started some robot painting. And improved it a little today.

kabarsa
February 3rd, 2010, 05:57 PM
another minor progress. still don't have enough time.

kabarsa
February 5th, 2010, 05:34 PM
friday at last! couldn't finish this, 'cause want to do something different =(

kabarsa
February 5th, 2010, 06:22 PM
sketch of Captain Ochevidnost (in my life his name's Dima) =)

kabarsa
February 6th, 2010, 05:49 PM
another sketch

kabarsa
February 7th, 2010, 03:19 PM
"Tentacle avenger" minor progress and another quick sketch ;)

kabarsa
February 11th, 2010, 03:07 PM
Friday is almost here =)

Sweron
February 11th, 2010, 03:15 PM
You have some pretty amazing and twisted art here :)
I like it very much.

Visit my sketchbook sometimes, it's not quality near yours, but I'd like you to visit it :)

kabarsa
February 12th, 2010, 07:33 PM
Thank you very much! I'll visit your sketchbook and I hope to be able to generate some useful notes based on my own struggling =)

kabarsa
February 16th, 2010, 07:57 AM
sketch. don't know what to do with this.

kabarsa
February 16th, 2010, 05:40 PM
another mock up. this one I'll finish maybe. it doesn't feel so wrong to me as some of previous sketches.

kabarsa
February 17th, 2010, 05:56 PM
crap =(

kabarsa
February 18th, 2010, 05:12 PM
another one =(

kabarsa
February 19th, 2010, 06:11 PM
My all-in-all 2,5h speedpaint. Damn, I feel angry and really motivated to beat myself next time >:E

kabarsa
February 20th, 2010, 06:59 PM
Some 1,5h speedpaint. I think that I need to finish this one, maybe it'll look good in the end.

kabarsa
February 20th, 2010, 07:33 PM
another quick sketch I'd like to improve

kabarsa
February 20th, 2010, 08:14 PM
minor progress.

kabarsa
February 22nd, 2010, 05:21 PM
It's like "OMG, Alice?!"

kabarsa
February 23rd, 2010, 05:53 PM
Spent a few hours tonight improving this one. If I only had more time =( Will spend some time on it tomorrow.

kabarsa
February 24th, 2010, 02:31 PM
finished, kind of. 7 hours in total. Now I want a mecha or some female char.

kabarsa
February 26th, 2010, 07:32 PM
another sketch

QueenWorm
February 26th, 2010, 08:07 PM
Wow!! You improve so fast!! I love the texture on the worm!! Hope you can give me some advices though I don't have much picture (harmful to eyes) on my new sketch book,,,

kabarsa
March 2nd, 2010, 05:04 PM
QueenWorm thank you! I'll visit you for sure ^_^ But I think that improve rate is too slow =( It could be better, I believe.
Another sketch. Hope to finish something someday 0_o

kabarsa
March 2nd, 2010, 05:48 PM
Some minor progress. It's time to sleep.

kabarsa
March 3rd, 2010, 05:22 PM
another wip

kabarsa
March 8th, 2010, 06:50 PM
Finished Batman Arkham Asylum yesterday and finally I can continue with my painting =) BTW, the game is just sooo cool, game designers, artists, modelers, animators and all other guys made this UE3 driven (and it looks good great and runs ridiculously fast at 1920x1200) stuff very cinematic and fun. Just have to share my excitement with someone or something ^_^

kabarsa
March 10th, 2010, 06:19 PM
My second W40k fan art (I suppose 0_o). About 10 hrs in total. I made this with help of good music ^_^

DEATH TO THE FALSE EMPEROR!!!

kabarsa
March 11th, 2010, 04:15 PM
Again 0_o

kabarsa
March 12th, 2010, 06:12 PM
Initial sketch

kabarsa
March 16th, 2010, 04:27 AM
Another failure of mine. After getting DD on DA this weekend it's kind of bad to be so lazy. I'll try hard to polish my next painting.

kabarsa
March 16th, 2010, 06:58 PM
another sketch

kabarsa
March 17th, 2010, 07:02 PM
Another contribution. 0_0 #@#$@$*&%$& !!!

kabarsa
March 18th, 2010, 06:32 PM
damn. I need to work harder. fell myself such a dummy. painting morphing :/

kabarsa
March 19th, 2010, 06:47 PM
Suddenly I found myself participating in w40k art fight. This is my daemon prince sketch.

kabarsa
March 20th, 2010, 08:50 AM
w40k contest will wait. I'll try to draw something for Dylan Cole contest =) This is quick sketch. Now I'll try to spend about 20+ hours on this, at least I believe in this :D Damn, I need to improve my artistic stamina =))))

kabarsa
March 20th, 2010, 02:24 PM
Some minor progress. Just finished watching FF7 AC Complete, and it's not that really motivating in case of cityscapes =)

kabarsa
March 20th, 2010, 07:35 PM
Cool! Adopted few little sisters and killed the big one =) And some minor progress again.

Asterisks
March 20th, 2010, 08:05 PM
Sweet work you've got going on here!
Some pretty imaginative stuff. Keep this going, you're improving wicked fast!

kabarsa
March 22nd, 2010, 05:50 PM
Asterisks, thank you very much!

Another minor update. Too bad, but Bioshock 2 consumed me =( I just can't stop playing it after work.

kabarsa
March 25th, 2010, 07:37 PM
I completed Bioshock 2, but didn't make it in time for Dylan Cole contest because started to polish it this evening, so it's still pretty underdeveloped image, that's why I decided to make it misty ;) Btw, the game is just awesome :D

kabarsa
March 27th, 2010, 04:27 PM
Robin Hood walking around

kabarsa
March 29th, 2010, 05:52 AM
Minor modification. decided not to submit in finals. Will try to complete next painting.

kabarsa
March 29th, 2010, 05:58 PM
It's always fun to draw some monsters =)

kabarsa
March 30th, 2010, 03:10 PM
I tried to draw and previous picture in about 20 minutes turned into this one. Oh well.

kabarsa
March 30th, 2010, 04:20 PM
It's total fun )))

kabarsa
March 30th, 2010, 04:47 PM
Having fun =) Maybe it'll become my next w40k fan art )

kabarsa
March 30th, 2010, 05:28 PM
AAAAAAAAA!!!!

kabarsa
March 31st, 2010, 04:46 PM
All in all 1,5h speedpaint. Don't want to proceed with it further. I want to draw something beautiful. Maybe that's how brutal death metal made: guys dream of classical music like Vivaldi, but every time in the end it sounds like Suffocation and they say "Meh! Damn, how it happened?" ^__^
944573

kabarsa
March 31st, 2010, 06:27 PM
Sketching again, so if suddenly Force will decide to make an artist from me it'll be easier to maintain balance =) Actually, I feel disturbance in the Force for a long time already 0_o I used to speak to myself in this thread and it really helps me to understand better my goals and find self motivation source =)

kabarsa
March 31st, 2010, 06:59 PM
Sketchbooooook

kabarsa
April 2nd, 2010, 07:32 PM
Two sketches.

kabarsa
April 4th, 2010, 07:52 PM
Decided to work on this one. This is wip.

aimeemcfarlane
April 4th, 2010, 07:56 PM
I really enjoy seeing your process. Some of your values are a little flat but I think that's because they're still in the primary stages.

ketoprak
April 4th, 2010, 11:58 PM
good works, keep it up.
just a suggestion, you should draw human anatomy more, full body. sketches would be alright, no need to color. Go to public places, sit down and draw from observation, so your human drawings wouldn't look stiff. put he the tablet down for a week.

I think reading a few books about landscape drawing would be nice too.

kabarsa
April 6th, 2010, 05:59 PM
I really enjoy seeing your process. Some of your values are a little flat but I think that's because they're still in the primary stages.

Thank you very much ^_^

good works, keep it up.
just a suggestion, you should draw human anatomy more, full body. sketches would be alright, no need to color. Go to public places, sit down and draw from observation, so your human drawings wouldn't look stiff. put he the tablet down for a week.

I think reading a few books about landscape drawing would be nice too.

Thank you. I'll try to get better ^__^

And another wip

BlackDelphin
April 6th, 2010, 07:59 PM
You're good, especially with your environments and creature stuff. Mech stuff too.
I like the mood and the shiny bits in this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=939736&stc=1&d=1269560180).
But when i look at this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=944655&stc=1&d=1270074342), i just have to say, do some more anatomy studies!! Birdgman, real life, posemanian even! Just do some!! :cheerleader:

Perhaps a bit of a value study wouldn't hurt either. :meow:

Good luck onwards. You have a great start!

kabarsa
April 9th, 2010, 06:07 PM
You're good, especially with your environments and creature stuff. Mech stuff too.
I like the mood and the shiny bits in this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=939736&stc=1&d=1269560180).
But when i look at this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=944655&stc=1&d=1270074342), i just have to say, do some more anatomy studies!! Birdgman, real life, posemanian even! Just do some!! :cheerleader:

Perhaps a bit of a value study wouldn't hurt either. :meow:

Good luck onwards. You have a great start!

Thank you very much. You're right. I need to force myself to do some studies.

Another foggy painting

kabarsa
April 11th, 2010, 06:21 PM
Another sketch for now to draw something before going to sleep. But after all decided to make some studies, because I don't like what is going on my canvas. Will try to do few of them next week.

kabarsa
April 12th, 2010, 03:21 PM
Want to sleep very much, and I still need to come up with something for w40k community art fight =( But today I finally made my part work really fast on MacOS X =)

Quick sketch again ~20 min. Want to do a lot of sketches and speedies, and studies as good people told me to do, but only after w40k art fight =(

kabarsa
April 13th, 2010, 03:57 PM
Improved a little my daemon prince sketch. Deadline is 17th of april, so I still have all the time I need ^__^

kabarsa
April 13th, 2010, 06:09 PM
minor update

kabarsa
April 14th, 2010, 05:54 PM
Another update

kabarsa
April 16th, 2010, 03:41 PM
Some pen sketch I made today at work when no one was looking at me (I found a hideout at kitchen).

kabarsa
April 16th, 2010, 06:29 PM
Another update =)

kabarsa
April 18th, 2010, 05:19 PM
again 0_o

kabarsa
April 19th, 2010, 06:33 PM
Finally finished that monster. The bkg is white because of art fight rules. I don't quite happy, but at least it's finally "finished" and I can sleep, eat, play Mass Effect to prepare proper saves for Mass Effect 2 and to start making robot painting =)

kabarsa
April 20th, 2010, 05:35 PM
Another sketch. I need to do a painting for online card game. It's not a real job, if I can call it like this, but I need a practice anyway =)

kabarsa
April 21st, 2010, 04:16 PM
minor update of previous sketch (Yes, I'm the master of self evident stuff). now I need to sleep for sure.

Twan
April 21st, 2010, 05:09 PM
awesome man , the daemon is really great! I love the warm colours
I like less this last one, try to make your robot look more like a human
keep it up!

Twan
April 21st, 2010, 05:09 PM
awesome man , the daemon is really great! I love the warm colours
I like less this last one, try to make your robot look more like a human
keep it up!

kabarsa
April 22nd, 2010, 05:03 PM
awesome man , the daemon is really great! I love the warm colours
I like less this last one, try to make your robot look more like a human
keep it up!

Twan, thank you very much!

And another minor progress. Still need to figure out how it'll look.

kabarsa
April 25th, 2010, 05:46 PM
another wip.

kabarsa
April 26th, 2010, 05:14 PM
It's probably finished :rendered:

Steve G.
April 26th, 2010, 05:38 PM
Hey there, when you go through the first pictures to the last ones you have posted here, you can impressively see how much you have improved.
I don't know anything about this digital stuff, but I honestly believe that you sir, are heading in the right direction.

браво! (took me ages to find in cyrillic)

kabarsa
April 28th, 2010, 06:11 PM
another wip

JustinBeckett
April 28th, 2010, 06:38 PM
Cool stuff, lots of detail! :)

kabarsa
April 30th, 2010, 07:13 PM
Cool stuff, lots of detail! :)
Thank you very much!

and another sketch

kabarsa
May 1st, 2010, 04:29 AM
another wip

kabarsa
May 1st, 2010, 05:10 AM
Don't worry, It's safe. I used it myself few times

Steve G.
May 2nd, 2010, 03:23 PM
Hey Kabarsa, I definitely can see, from your first post to the last, that you have improved.
I have no clue about that digital stuff, but it seems you are heading the right way, never the last I would like to see more pencil stuff like the soldier/mercenary you did recently, that one was great.

Cheers :)

kabarsa
May 3rd, 2010, 05:59 PM
Hey Kabarsa, I definitely can see, from your first post to the last, that you have improved.
I have no clue about that digital stuff, but it seems you are heading the right way, never the last I would like to see more pencil stuff like the soldier/mercenary you did recently, that one was great.

Cheers :)

Thank you very much! I'll do some pencil stuff for sure =)

and another wip

kabarsa
May 4th, 2010, 06:42 AM
quick sketch.

kabarsa
May 4th, 2010, 04:40 PM
another update

kabarsa
May 8th, 2010, 02:44 PM
And here is a quick sketch, about 15-20 min. I like to sketch characters like this. He's Rupert, very kind and good person. He works at supermarket, and he's one of the best workers there, and people love him =)

kabarsa
May 10th, 2010, 06:39 PM
another wip

kabarsa
May 16th, 2010, 06:06 PM
another wip's.

kabarsa
May 17th, 2010, 05:50 PM
madness??? This is WONDERLAAAAND!!!

kabarsa
May 18th, 2010, 05:09 PM
Maybe I can call it finished. I listen to some good music and feel very sad =(

Steve G.
May 18th, 2010, 05:38 PM
I bet if you put the craziest characters from Alice in Wonderland in an mixer, this would come out.
The whole setting comes good, especially the dish in the foreground, it's like sitting in front of this wacko :D

kabarsa
May 20th, 2010, 04:40 PM
Thank you very much, Steve! I wanted to draw a little crazier character than in the movie, because I really enjoyed Tim Burton's Alice, but nothing can beat grim, dark, crazy American McGee's Alice. Too bad we'll probably never see such a movie =(

And another quick sketch

I Nide
May 20th, 2010, 04:49 PM
cool characters , i like !

kabarsa
May 21st, 2010, 06:19 PM
I Nide, thank you! Glad that you liked it =)

another sketch. about 20 min.

kabarsa
May 27th, 2010, 05:49 AM
another wip

kabarsa
May 30th, 2010, 04:28 PM
and another sketch

kabarsa
May 31st, 2010, 05:33 PM
space is out there and he's stunningly beautiful and scary. Just looked at some Hubble telescope shots, and it's just unthinkable.

kabarsa
June 1st, 2010, 03:18 PM
all in all 3h speedpaint. I'm kind of slow, but anyway it's ok for me. This one was made for contest here http://shwann.deviantart.com/

kabarsa
June 2nd, 2010, 05:43 PM
another w40k fanart. 3,5h speedpaint of Jaghatai Khan. Now I need to rest from w40k for sure.

kabarsa
June 11th, 2010, 04:17 AM
finished goblin

Ricardo Robles
June 11th, 2010, 06:02 AM
Amazing improvement from the first pages, there are really good pieces here.
I like the way you render the surfaces, undoubtedly you are achieving good results with the speedpaints and this practices are helping you to get better in the more advanced images.
As a crit, maybe a little more anatomy and composition study could help. In example, sometimes the reading lines of your characters in the foreground are confused by the shapes in the background.

keep doing great!

kabarsa
June 15th, 2010, 03:21 AM
Ricardo, thank you very much! Your comment motivate me to work harder. Thank you for the crit, since I feel that my composition is very weak, now I have a direct confirmation of this. Will try to work on it more to finally got some results.

And few sketches again. Struggle continues.

kabarsa
June 15th, 2010, 05:11 PM
mmmm.... >:E

kabarsa
June 17th, 2010, 05:19 PM
need to finish this before detailing warmachine battle scene

kabarsa
June 19th, 2010, 01:53 AM
When they want to go fishing, no one can stop them.

kabarsa
June 21st, 2010, 04:30 AM
minor update

kabarsa
June 24th, 2010, 03:15 AM
another wip

kabarsa
June 27th, 2010, 01:59 PM
This is guys from Iron Knights space marines chapter for art fight in russian w40k community

kabarsa
June 27th, 2010, 06:28 PM
now i need to recall what is color and how it looks

kabarsa
July 16th, 2010, 04:45 AM
Hello there, my lifeless sketchbook! =) Few improved sketches and wip's and monster 15 min doodle.

kabarsa
July 18th, 2010, 04:51 AM
20 min sketch
"Isaac, we'll burn in hell for what we've done to you"

kabarsa
July 18th, 2010, 06:07 AM
20 min sketches. Welcome to USG ISHIMURA (and hopefully new "Welcome to Mars, marine" on this year's quakecon)

kabarsa
July 22nd, 2010, 08:23 AM
Yoda 3.5h speedpaint. And I'm very angry, because everyone seem like want to tell me how shitty my paintings are, and how it's normal to submit tons of crappy anime doodles claiming it's art. I'm a C++ programmer, and started to paint 1,5 years ago, and can do it only about 2hrs per day, but I'll f#$king overwhelm those biting my legs >:E Oh damn how angry I am >:E

kabarsa
July 29th, 2010, 04:41 PM
Hey, it's really cool to have a pretty silent sketchbook, because I can post here wip's for art fights and no one will see them =) This is Marneus Augustus Calgar sketch =) I need to stop drawing warhammer stuff =)))

kingkostas
July 29th, 2010, 05:33 PM
well one thing i can say mate.I show you once when you started this sketchbook and now i see you again on a totally multi-awesome-upgraded level!!!
thats a totally amazing improvement.
Keep up the great work!!!

kabarsa
August 5th, 2010, 04:03 AM
kingkostas, thank you very much! You gave me motivation to push myself more =) It's really inspiring :yayca:

And few 15 min sketches again. "Damn shame" (c) Tychus (T___T)

Swooshbuckler
August 5th, 2010, 05:25 AM
i like to look at the fist page of people's sketchbooks, and then jump to the last ones. Just to see how far they have gotten. And yeah you've improved quite a bit. You got the imagination, and you're quite good with values.
But your colors are at times dull, in that sense that the shadows are perhaps too desaturated? Depending on the lighting, shadows tend to be more saturated then the highlights. And keep some variation in color. Like that goblin picture, great anatomy and value, but the colors are too dull. Too little variation in hue. Like when you look at your hand, it's not just brown or redish with different value. A little bit greenish, a little bit yellowish, with spots more saturated then other places.
Perhaps you should try some color studies? Use color reference while you work?

Don't know if I'm being too harsh here, i think you'd be able to handle it rather quickly. Since you're already well on your way.

kabarsa
August 18th, 2010, 07:14 AM
Swooshbuckler, thanks for the crits! I try to work on my colors and other stuff like composition, but it's hard for me for now to grab the right color, but I'll try to overcome this for sure. Thank again :yayca:

And some doodle-shmoodle stuff again

kabarsa
August 24th, 2010, 05:49 PM
"Welcome to Mars, marine..."

Klaus Reinbach III
August 24th, 2010, 06:08 PM
"Hey, it's really cool to have a pretty silent sketchbook, because I can post here wip's for art fights and no one will see them =) This is Marneus Augustus Calgar sketch =) I need to stop drawing warhammer stuff =)))"

Hahaha, I looked at your pictures and thaught" oh cool it's quit good", but then "Wtf, why nobody writes here?" XD

Sometimes the colors are a lil too dull like Swooshbuckler said, maybe cause you mostly draw just the colors of the object and a bit of the surounding light. But nearly never the colors(light) from the other objects or enviroment, which is naturaly mixing in. Some objects are not hard(you draw a lot of metal XD), like skin and clothes are a bit of transparency and let light through it, this change the colors too.
A other thing I notice is that your poses are a bit to stiff, probably cause you use one and the same pose over and over again or a bit changed and rarly other. =) You should try to vary it more. You can surely do it cause you are improving good! Keep up the good work!

Have fun =).
KR3

kabarsa
September 7th, 2010, 03:39 AM
Klaus Reinbach III, thank you! I'll concentrate on improving color, poses and composition. Hope to have some results in a year or two :frustrated:

Few doodles. Almost no time to draw =((

kabarsa
September 13th, 2010, 03:50 AM
Few wip's

kabarsa
September 28th, 2010, 02:40 AM
few sketches again

kabarsa
September 29th, 2010, 05:47 AM
20 min sketch

kabarsa
October 1st, 2010, 02:28 AM
few doodles

Jonathan C
October 1st, 2010, 02:51 AM
hey kaba, your values look good. I think some anatomy studies could help produce more convincing characters. keep it up!

kabarsa
October 11th, 2010, 04:24 AM
Thank you Jonathan! I plan to make few more serious character paintings, hope it'll help :yayca:

It's an aircraft 2h speedpaint. I can finally start drawing again. For the last few months I was very constrained at work because of deadline in development for Symbian platform. It was like hell 0_o

kabarsa
October 11th, 2010, 05:49 PM
sketch. drawing for relaxation

kabarsa
November 8th, 2010, 04:06 AM
another wip

kabarsa
November 21st, 2010, 12:25 PM
another mindless doodle to distract myself from painting previous battle scene

kabarsa
December 12th, 2010, 01:03 AM
just a few bad mood doodles

kabarsa
December 26th, 2010, 11:32 PM
Another demon 2,5h speedpaint. I just need to draw something before finishing Warmachine battle scene.

kabarsa
December 29th, 2010, 03:42 AM
Some minor update

kabarsa
January 3rd, 2011, 09:12 AM
Warmachine fan art

kabarsa
January 3rd, 2011, 02:13 PM
few sketches. Santa 40000 and young orc

kiwigarbage
January 3rd, 2011, 02:36 PM
Wow, #223 is of a caliber i am not seeing in your other works. I think it is the confident shapes and color use.

Let's see that in everything!

kabarsa
January 6th, 2011, 03:38 PM
Wow, #223 is of a caliber i am not seeing in your other works. I think it is the confident shapes and color use.

Let's see that in everything!

Thank you! I try to switch from speedpaints and doodles to finished paintings sometimes =) Will try to achieve better results )

Evening speedy

kabarsa
January 7th, 2011, 06:05 PM
Another simple portrait this evening. Need to start something bigger

kabarsa
January 9th, 2011, 02:57 AM
another wip

kabarsa
January 10th, 2011, 07:03 AM
again wip

kabarsa
January 17th, 2011, 02:47 AM
sketch

kabarsa
January 23rd, 2011, 09:32 AM
so yeah, that's how it is

kabarsa
February 1st, 2011, 11:30 PM
sketch

kabarsa
February 2nd, 2011, 11:25 PM
chaaaaaosss! consuuume us! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDOmS2Jzj6U&feature=player_embedded#

kabarsa
February 9th, 2011, 04:50 AM
hello there my precious sketchbook. here's another wip for you.

kabarsa
February 14th, 2011, 06:06 AM
quick doodles. DS2 is awesome.

kabarsa
February 26th, 2011, 01:57 AM
few images. I try to make something with lines =)

kabarsa
March 13th, 2011, 09:47 AM
finished previous one

raminafshari
March 13th, 2011, 04:08 PM
wow this last piece is so amazing .

kabarsa
April 27th, 2011, 02:42 PM
raminafshari, thank you!

Some random character, but I like it. He looks like those veeeery serious people at my work.

kabarsa
May 24th, 2011, 02:02 AM
got some time to draw. quick color and value study. random sketch