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[DefiledVisions]

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I got my two sketchbooks merged into one, so if you're a bit confused about what happened, that's the reason why.

My 'second' sketchbook begins at page 12 -


read that ^

enjoy :)

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Hey everyone browsing CA.org!
I thought I'd make a sketchbook, for selfimprovement and feedback :D

I can't guarantee that I can keep it updated often, But I'll do my best

Here's some work done from around 2 years ago, I did when I was about 16 / 17 (I'm 21 now)

Please check the last page for something updated

[DefiledVisions]

Here's some work from last year. The armored bone is actually from 06.

More traditional stuff, plain pencil and paper, some watercolour :)

[The Curehead]

I like the octopus post some new stuff though

[DefiledVisions]

And here's some more recent stuff from this year, some traditional, some digital.

Please feel free to leave a comment!

The Pig and the Onelegged unicorn is a picture made in 06, but colored it recently.

Dark Ritual is my first digital picture, so the colouring is a bit exagerated :)
I've only been drawing lines all my life so these two months, a total new world of colour and values has been opened to me, and it's so fun and so challenging.

The picture with the cow was made for ImagineFX's weekly forum challenge, with the topic "the grass is greener on the other side"

The concepts with the lizardwarrior in armor, and different heads was thought to be a DWIII entry, but I havn't had time to finnish.

[DefiledVisions]

I like the octopus post some new stuff though

Done and done.
Just thought I'd post some old stuff since many of the sketchbooks here have stuff from 2006 and 2007.

[clanlord]

WOW man JUST INCREDIBLE STUFF! I love them! Keep going !

[DefiledVisions]

Updates -

Clanlord - Thanks man :)

Um.. just some random stuff in PS. Saw some cool black'n white concepts and got inspired to do this Godlike abberation, quick scribble.

Also started on the linework for my entry to the "Super Stylised Caveman" contest here on the forum.

'update' Done with the the linework.

Cheers // DV

[DefiledVisions]

Hey everyone, thought I'd put some sketches up. This monday I bought a sketchbook, and thought I'd try to improve seriously.

I kinda have been thinking over things, what I want to do etc. and I really want to work with concept / digital art. I almost regret playing WoW for 2 years, hardly drawing anything :P .. anyway.. To make up for the loss of 730 days, I thought I'd draw atleast around 4 pages a day in my sketchbook, focusing on anatomy studys etc. things I've never bothered doing seriously.

So what you see here from now on will mainly be that kind of stuff, but also some other works etc. Allthough I cant update everyday, due to scanner, I'll be doodling!

Also posting sketches of my idea for this weeks chow. enjoy.

[clanlord]

Good work! I see progress since my last look in your SB! I like your shades and the characters (very expressive) So my advice is KEEP GOING! Im looking forward to see some photoshop paintings! (want to see some human body studies, too :)

[DefiledVisions]

Clanlord Thanks! Body studies coming up shortly :P

for now, I'll share my COW115 sketches, and the progress of my caveman.

[DefiledVisions]

Ugh.. rushing things.. really want to finnish this COW. I have a bad habbit of not finnishing my chows and cows hehe..

"Note to self - don't start on a weekly activity 2 days before deadline"

anyway, updates!

[DefiledVisions]

Some sketches done yesterday ( 01.08 am at the moment )

The hand in the middle is a copy of one of mentlers hands in his ' Book of bones '
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=26748&page=25

[Dannelf]

Skitcoola teckningar! :D Inget att kritisera! Bara fortsätt rita!

[DefiledVisions]

Skitcoola teckningar! :D Inget att kritisera! Bara fortsätt rita!

Tack tack! Tittar förbi i din sketchbook när jag har tid =) // Thx thx! Gonna drop by your SB when I've got time.

Havn't had time to do much, lots of exams now.. and I actually studied math for once, and I't went pretty darn good :D

- DV

[DefiledVisions]

Quick doodle in photoshop that became something greater, 1 hours work. work in progress.

[DefiledVisions]

allright, pretty much done with composition, detailing about to begin :P but gonna save this project for later. Gonna put all my energy into the chow / cow tommorow!

[DefiledVisions]

updates! I am beginning to like this picture :)

[Enydimon]

Awesome work, dude! I really like how you tackle composition and design. I have trouble with that. Subscribing to this thread for sure!

Stop by my sketchbook sometime, I'd love to hear any advice.

[DefiledVisions]

Enydimon Thanks man! droped by and it was sweet. I like your warcraft stuff! Sure I'd love to help if you need it, allthough I'm still strugling with basic stuff myself :)


-Finnishing tonight

[DefiledVisions]

And here it is, the final render. I still suck at texturing so, there's not much of that. Hope you like it!
it's called Flamewielder

[The Curehead]

hey,great improvements since i was here last.
Keep going with the most recent one,add some shadow to the armour,it looks too flat,nice piece though.

[DefiledVisions]

The Curehead- Yea thanks for the tip. I agree it looks kinda flat, and I'll probably get working on it soon.

Oh and I'll start posting some deep sketches soon aswell.

[DefiledVisions]

Here are 7 creatures, and much more to come these coming days / weeks.
Some of the notes are in swedish cause I scribbled 'em down quickly. Never mind them, they'll all be defined in with the final renders.

Still thinking of how to make a great utopia..

[clanlord]

Great imrovement, best regard from Bulgaria! Second I want to add some critique about drawing the body forms, you have to study more the human anatomy and places of each muscle! Keep it up I vote EXCELLENT!

[Buckster]

nice improvement here mate, I think you should keep at it with the last piece, it needs more room to breath. Allow the fire from the birdie to be reflected in the armour, add shadows and polish it further.

Get some anatomy studies going as well.

It sounds like a lot of negative feedback but I think you are doing good man. Keep at it with the Deep stuff as well.

Cheers

[DefiledVisions]

Clanlord - Thanks, actually I just got 2 anatomy books :bounce: so now I can study :) I have just been very lazy..

Buckster - Thanks, I put my last piece aside because I didn't really know what to do with it, and was a bit tired with it. Thanks for your feedback. Anatomy studies coming up :)

Here's a wip of a personal project, a starwars inspired piece... I've been very inactive lateley, both here and with drawing in general. But I hope to change that now.. as yoda says.. "Do or do not, there is no try."

[DefiledVisions]

Updates.

Finnaly done some anatomy studies, and never realised how much help it is to do them. Especially the one where the male body is divided in 8 parts. Taught me alot about how the body is built up just by doing that one hehe

[clanlord]

Finally, body studies! Very good... do some quick sketches or poses... imagine them from every day life! Your shading is developing a lot... stick on it!

[DefiledVisions]

Clanord Thanks for the tip, trying to draw some from imagination. I also got one of these wooden guys on a stick. Funny funny :yum:

Some random sketches last couple of days.. several personal projects going on. Ballistic publishing are calling for entries to the 4th book in Exotique series. My aim is to get published ( yea right ). My mom allways said it's better to aim too high than not aiming at all... or something like that. Anyway, I just thought it would be fun to have that as a goal, who knows what might happen.

some different character sketches.. far far far from the ideal outcome.

[DefiledVisions]

Here's some more sketches, and I've been to lazy to scan the anatomy work but they exist ;)

enjoy :oneye:

I decided on having a forrest-moose-spirit thing in the background, it makes more sence and adds to the atmosphere. The moose is said to be king of the forrest, but we all know he's inferior to the troll.

[DefiledVisions]

And here's the finnished piece.. needs some small adjustments, so I post the final version later.

[Buckster]

hey man, you've got something nice going here, I like the last piece, great progress so far. Keep in mind the light-source and this will turn out great.

Keep this up man!

Cheers

[jedininjaman]

I love the concepts like the shoulder armor and creatures, very cool stuff
keep it up
-jedi

[DefiledVisions]

Buckster thanks, finnishing it soon, still needs pollishing, mainly on the arms, and the background.

Jedininjaman hey there, thanks for dropping by! :D


Some sketches done today.. I know, been slacking.. I tend to get stuck in bigger projects and skip the educational part of drawing :(

[DefiledVisions]

updated troll.. and some environment speedpaints :D I also found a site called posemaniacs. It's really great.. been doing 5 pages of 30 second sketches from there... but they all suck so hard I won't be posting them lol.

[Noire]

All I have to say is that I really liked the creature sketch on the last page, I think the name of it was creature 7, thats what it said when I put the arrow over it. It looked a bit like a stingray crossed with a fish with spikes and maybe eaven a shellish surface on top. Very nice.
The picture "Flamewielder" also struck me as well done. And this troll shaman you've just made is awsome. The lightning and brushstrokes on the antlers on the animal skull above the figure is fascinating. I think there is litle space in it though, it seems a bit flat, not the skull, but the front figure, and the picture as a whole. But that's all I can think of.

[SEVANS]

Since I can see a fair amount of improvement from the old images to the new, I'm not going to add any major crits.

Just keep drawing from life and reference when possible, and have fun.
Looking forward to seeing more improvements.

[DefiledVisions]

Thanks a bunch.

Noire glad you like them. Creature 7 is my favorite aswell, I had planned on doing more, but it just didn't happen ^^
I agree with you on the troll part. Lesson learnd for next pic :)

SEVANS thanks man! having fun is what it's all about... and hard work. combining both = priceless

Here are some thoughts on this week's c.o.w. "Unicorn hunter"

[Jaxsbudgie]

Really like your sketching style

[clanlord]

Really kickass thumb! The last one must be finished, try to give the best!

George!

[humanNature6115]

Keep pushing.

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http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761 (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761)

[DefiledVisions]

Jaxsbudgie thanks!

Clanlord thanks man! I did what I could to finnish it on time, allthough I didn't have time to add the unicorn I think it turned out better :D

HumanNature6115 thanks man, will do my best.


Progress of c.o.w 119. Unicorn Hunter... The reason why I don't have more wip's until final is because I forgot to save wip's.. was so focused on finnishing on time. Turns out I had enough time lol, anyway. Experimental progress, first time I play around with overlay and multiply layers.. (Aha! so that's how all the pro's get their images to look so cool! :P)

[gutss]

you have some crazy cool monster designs in here and I really love the lines in your sketches (and the face of the troll shaman looks amazing). it's really inspiring to see this level of improvement. hope to see more!

[DefiledVisions]

Gutss thanks a bunch!

I said to myself I'd keep this updated frequently, and yet I fail miserably. I draw everyday though :lifedrawing: .. yea..


here's some chow sketches, and DSG 1391 sketch.

[Dannelf]

Whoa! Underbara concept! man kan kolla på dina skisser i evigheter.
Du vet hur man ska fånga folks intresse! ;) En jävla fördel!
Tappa inte sugen!

[DefiledVisions]

Dannelf tack tack! :D

.. DSG 1393 - SLEEK WHITE PARAMEDIC HOVER-BOT
[It can get there faster than an ambulance, and can perform on-sight operations]

[WickedEdges]

Grrrreat stuff man, I love your style. Keep working!

[DefiledVisions]

WickedEdges thanks.

Hey there people! I've now realised how much anatomy studies pays off! These past weeks I've tried to do atleast 2 pages every day, and I really feel I know the body much better.

The following sketch is of the theme 'Divine Entities' and I didn't use any ref for it. I know the characters have a very long torso, and that's only to make them appear as something else than human, something more.

Also my CHOW piece which I didn't get to finnish. Though I'll try to work get it done some day soon :)

[hatface]

some awesome stuff in here man, and some major improvement with your color choices and schemes. it's nice to see some solid figure studies in there.... your creatures are very dynamic and full of energy, but your human and humanoid figures tend to get a little stiff. i have the same problem though, and get pinned for it in classes a lot.

keep up the great work, hope to see a lot more.

[prepsage]

Lookin good! Doing more gestures should help knock out character stiffness a bit more.

And don't use papyrus font. :P

[DefiledVisions]

Mr Blackbird - Thank you for your kind words! Yea.. I have a major problem with humans, faces and feet in particular. I think it's mainly because I spent all my childhood drawing from imagination, doing dragons and monsters (which can be seen in the beginning of my sb lol) .. only these past weeks/ months have I started focusing on humans... You reap what you sow :)

Prepsage - Thanks.. and man, why didn't you tell me using a windows font is kinda like havinga lens-flare in your piece? :P nah, kidding. It's just that I like the papyrus font.. and my handwriting is not even close to what I want it to be.

here's DSG 1394 Nightmaremonster with 2 heads from 1 head split verticaly. ~2 hours

I think I got lost halfway, cause I ended up with 2 heads without the split from 1 part.. anyhow.. Still realize how little I know about painting. Have a hard time with values and saturation... also added daily scribbles. I try to do two A3pages of poses a day. These are 30second poses


http://i71.photobucket.com/albums/i158/Alandir/dsg1394.jpg

[iansnyder]

Hey man, I saw your submission in the daily sketch thread and saw you didn't feel your colors are too great. I think you're doing really well, and you're doing the right thing. The best way to learn is just by practicing and making mistakes and finding out what looks good :) Find plenty of references, and don't be afraid to just do studies of boring stuff to try and get a better understanding of light and colors. You've got some really great designs, so just keep at it!

[Wings.of.wrath]

Very very nice stuff on your sketchbook man ... keep it practice ... i like the studies of bodies ...

[DefiledVisions]

iansnyder Thanks for the feedback. What I'm trying to do now when I paint a picture is, try to find other pictures with the same mood I'm after, and see how the colours interact with each other in those pics.

Wings.of.wrath thank you.

more wip.. and I'm no good at drawing faces. Sure, I know how to draw them. But I don't know how to give life to them.. Think I need a mirror.

[Zulombreon]

haha i'm here to distract you.
the green guy looked really good.
good you're still drawing (Y)

looking forward to see what the new picture will become.
peace

[DefiledVisions]

Zulombreon Domo arigato, you made my day :vodkamachine: .. :)

aaah, happy happy now! :D

DSG 1395 - Sci-Fi • SOLDIER'S STRENGTH-EXPANSION SUIT ALLOWS MINI-GUN ROOFTOP JUMPING ~1hour

.. inspired by an armadillo.

and we have.. DSG 1385 Herbicoric Dragon... I rendered it further after I made the sketch. Want to finnish this piece!

and lastly, C.O.W 121 - Arctic Dinosaur wip

[Gumish]

I try to do two A3pages of poses a day. These are 30second poses

Some time ago I found this posemaniac pages too. It's sometime quite difficult to draw poses from such strange angles of view. I liked to draw them a little bit better so I increase a time limit to 45sec. But maybe after 10 poses I'd like to check my sketch with that given poses and I'm missing this function here. BTW great sketchbook !!!

[Paul Kang]

i bow to the master

[Carbono]

I really love your Unicorn Hunter, it looks very powerfull and dynamic. Your studies are great too man, as your other pics.
Cool stuff, keep it up!

[DefiledVisions]

Wow.. thanks for all the feedback!

Carbono thanks.

Paul Kang I do not deserve your bow sir.

Gumish hey there, thanks. Yea Posemaniacs is a bit difficult sometimes. Especially the weird poses.

Here's more wip of cow. and DSG 1396 "Reptilian Tiger".. tried another way of painting.. more like traditional oil. And I'm not happy with the result at all.. ah well. Definitely trying this again though :)

[DefiledVisions]

More C.O.W updates... and I'm experimenting with textured brushes. Really cool, you get the grainy feeling..

School tommorow aswell. Ah the last year of Highschool, can't wait..... :grandpa:

*edit* holy cow! Page 3!:yayca:

[DefiledVisions]

More WIP.. a c.o.w progress and a DSG :)

Oh.. and.. got a friggin 240 page Moleskin today! instant love! I'll draw.. a lot.. but I can't guarantee I'll scan

DSG 1397 - Sci-Fantasy • CREEPY ROBOT'S EXTERIOR IS MADE UP OF ARTICULATED BONE MATTER... which I failed to interpret totaly.

[Buckster]

hey man, nice to be back here ^^The COW is looking good man, nice start!
Only crit I can give is that I think you should wait another iteration before going into the skin-tones and definitions with full control. Let the piece inspire you for a little longer o_O

The last piece is looking really interesting, keep at it ^^

Cheers

[DefiledVisions]

Thanks Buckster. Yea I actually followed your advice and re-did the entire thing. I still don't really know what I'm doing when I'm colouring.. heh.

More cow, I didnt have internet at the time the finals closed, so.. no submission for me that time...

and a dsg1398 - Magician whilst battling the monster, casts the wrong spell ~2 hours - proportions all wrong and stuff.. but heck, was fun

[Buckster]

hehe, I love the shadow on the groun in the COW piece man, gives the piece a sense of urgency ^^

Concerning the colouring, look at what you consider to be great artists and study them. What makes their art pop? how do they create focus?
Study the basics (can never get enough of that o_O)

Keep sharing man.

CHeers

[DefiledVisions]

Cheers Buckman, allways nice to see you check around. Thanks for the tip.

Here's some moleskin action and dsg 1399... the perspective in it is fail :(

[DefiledVisions]

The reason for not posting these until now is because of not wanting them to be stolen. Made this piece for a Diablo fan-art contest.
Anything goes aslong as there's a sword in the picture.. so I decided on making King Leoric, a boss from Diablo 1.
~ 12 hours over 3 days.

enjoy.

[lilou]

wow your sb really impressed me <3
you do a very good job on choosing the base colours and creating a dramatic atmosphere, though sometimes when you go on polishing some pieces loose a bit of their initial looseness... dunno if thats bad or something just realised it while looking at your stuff :)

however, I like your sb very very much and will watch your way from now on :heart:

[starf1sh]

Dude thanks for popping by over my sketchbook, I thought I'll check out yours in return. Firstly dude, your imagination is just F'ing astonishing seriously some of the characterisation and ideas here blew me away, I love it, your imagination is by miles your strongest skill at the moment. Secondly, you use of colours is pretty dope too. Only problems im seeing is anatomy, for instance theres some pieces which are great, but severely leveled by major anatomy issues, so all I can suggest is keep with the pencil studies, and you'll be ace!

Keep drawing bro!

[Yamino]

I love your use of color, it's something I've been trying to work on myself. I agree with the previous comment, a healthy imagination will take you far.

Also, maybe it's just me, but it seems like you like the initial stages of drawing more than finishing up. I actually prefer your sketchier stuff to the finals, it seems to have more energy.

[Dannelf]

Så jävla nice! :D Inga råd till en rookie som mig, på digipaint?
Har du fått reda på hur tävlingen gick? Det senaste är otroligt!
Kör hårt!

[lilou]

thanks for droping by my sb again :) *kiss* :heart:
I still wait for you to upload yours... till then I wish you fun on whatever you're doing right now!!! bye

[Lotet]

nice works here pal, diggin the last pencil one, pretty sweet!
keep em comming.

[DefiledVisions]

Lilou thank you for your kind words... and I agree with you on the looseness.. don't know why. Strange things tend to happen when I concentrate too much :[

Starf1sh Thanks a ton! very encouraging words.. and I'm going to do something about the anatomy. Going to take Croquis courses from this week forward.. Which I hope will be sweet :) (sweet because I get to learn.. not because.. you know..)

Yamino Thanks! I havn't really been thinking about it until you took it up. My conclusion is that, when I sketch I don't try to think. I just follow some invisible line. I like to work fast when I sketch and just really.. live the idea. And then.. when it comes down to rendering. I get stuck... :( Because then I have to start thinking, which colours, what kind of values. etc. Somedays it's just soo frustrating cause I can't seem to draw at all.. and other days, It's as easy as ever.. I hope practice will enable me to adapt the same loose flow to my rendering.

Lotet Thanks man!


phew.. As mentioned above, I'm gonna start taking Croquis courses each week. Basically it's nude lifedrawing with a model. But instead of having the model stand still for a long time in the same pose, it's more movement, many different poses, each one for only a short time... so expect some nudes every week from now on :yayca:

Also a bit frustrated about painting. I don't know what I'm doing.. and I see so many great pictures, and I can't figure out how they do it.. it's like.. damnit.

As for this weeks updates.. (A3 paper) Face studies.. world's crappiest self portraits that don't look like me at all.. C.O.W - which is giving me hell.. trying to re-figure out how I made my other c.o.w's... and Moleskine action -lot's of creature concept's.

[Man Made God]

Whoa, great concepts, especially the creature designs! Moar!

[AsaB]

That is one awesome SB :) Thanks for the comment back there in my own, I'm catching up now :D

Your digitals just about blow me away! It's so nice seeing so many WIPs, your method is really fun and helpful to follow through. I see creature design is your forte :) Something I'd like to strengthen myself, so seeing your awesome beasts is an inspiration. Keep up the great work, man, see you around!

[DefiledVisions]

Man Made God thanks man! Moar inc :D

AsaB thank you very much :) I like saving my process.. because I don't have any solid flow, and easily forget how I did :D .. so they're reminders to.. "this is how you have done it, now do it again loser!"

Sorry for not updating in ages.. have had some 'bad' days.. not really been in the mood (it sounds so lame - but it happens). Anyway.. I promised some nudes.. not so good - I'm learning :yayca: .. and some DSG's.. 1.5 ~2 hours each (sketch - 30-40 minutes). Finnished piece based on the topic 'Scarecrow' and a wip called "Savage Beast".

cheers.

[velkroboy]

Of a pig riding a sea horse now. Thank you.

[Maestro Andres]

Dude, really digging your concepts here. The creatures are looking great and those pencils are nice. Your painted pieces have a good textures to them but the colors can improve more. I will try avoiding pure blacks whenever you can and probably do some studies to improve in using colors. It is a tough subject but you will improve with those and bring your great creatures to life. Keep it up!

[lilou]

wow you have so much potential!!! I totally envy you!! your lines are so cool!!! specially on those creatures!! seems to be your favorite subject... you do them very well!!!!! the last digis were pretty neet, still I agree with MaestroAndres... the colors seem too.... hmmm... how do I say it right.... 'clean'? I mean they shine so bright and the saturation is very high.... though I think you chose them very well, nice complementary contrasts and such :)

I know exactly what you mean by saying you're not in the right mood... I mean it is lame but thats how the truth is!! some days I feel like my brain's totally empty even though the urge to draw is there... and then I think about the other things I should do instead of drawing, so I leave it and fell bad at the same time that I did it... geez!!! life suck sometimes!!! but now enough with the selfpittyness! let's go back to the table and work on our weeknesses :) I'm pretty sure you will reach one day the level you messure yourself with!!!

bye
diana

[Buckster]

hey man, I can see that you are experimenting quite a bit, very cool stuff, I like the looseness of the last couple of pieces.

Speaking of that, I loved the #67 sketch, the very rough ones. I think you added too much details too quick after step 4 or so but that is a great start man, mucho impressed.

Stay loose and stay focused.
Good work
Cheers

[algenpfleger]

Woot! Tons of great studies in here, which is always good to see. But what really cracked me up where the creature designs! Nice fucking work man! Do some more digital color studies from life and you'll be all set :D

[monotony]

great studies. you have some really nice lines with the pencil and awesome creature designs.
still like your arctic dinosaur. one thing to think about would probably be the head. I can't really imagine what it would look like with a closed mouth. of course it could have a very flat head but I'm not sure if that'd fit to the rest of the body.
last greyscale creature looks really promising!

[Nightblue]

Nice studies! Keep doing them because they will help you. Your colors and value look very good, and I love the looseness of your brushstrokes. I'm still trying to figure out how you manage to create the fresh, airy feel in your paintings. The pen sketches are delicious.

[DefiledVisions]

Velkroboy - haha sorry about that man... hehehe made my day.

Maestro Andres - Thanks a bunch! I'll have to start painting some bananas and apples.

lilou - thank you very much! yea too saturated, which is very often my problem :( hehe, hell yes, time to kick ass with our tablets.

Buckster Thanks a bunch man. Some how I have problem sketching up a piece, it just flows.. and then when I start working on it I loose ally my initial looseness. Will have to work on that. Will stay loose and focused, Cheers!

Algenpfleger - haha thanks :D also, thanks for giving me some tips about the books in your SB. Will probably order one now when I get money at the end of the month. Cheers.

Monotony - Thank you! still regret I failed to deliver the piece in time. Oh well. As for the new beast.. my limited colour knowledge ruined it halfway haha. I had to rush it so I made some last-minute-duplicate-layer textures ... It looks really crap now, but I will re-work it after week's chow.

Nightblue - thank you very much. I'm also trying to figure out how I do haha.. more delicious pen sketches coming in.

Wow.. never had to respond to so many comments before.. I must be popular :rocker: haha joke. Thank you all very much for your comments.. it's what keeps me going.

More nude studies from this week, aswell as chow wip, and continuation on the beast - which is kinda ruined. Will rework it later... also been slacking with my other studies, especially face / selfportraits.. damn.

[Lotet]

Dude what the fuck o.O!
serriusly, you just punched trough a big mental wall there, great update, love the pen n paper stuff, the anathomy is looking great, and I see ur getting the crosshatching down pretty well to.

you still have to work with how you transfer your lineflow and work out a better way to read your own lines when your going over to digital, cause I see a clash there.

[Man Made God]

Looking great! Lots of imagination, and some nice figure studies :muscle:

[lilou]

wow Murli (what a cute name)!
again all I can say is that you impress me very much! haha though you say you have no clue what you're doing :D hahahha
however, I see you are very good at what you're doing and I'm sure you'll go a far way!
oh, about your question... I use basic human anatomybook from Hogarth and random photographs from google as reference but I'll suggest you keep better go on drawing from life like you just started :) *good*

umm yeah... nothing more to say right now...hehe... k... so, bye then

[Buckster]

hey man, nice work on the life drawing!

the initial colouring on the "water chick" piece is looking awesome keep that up. I love the orange tones in the blues.
Please keep working on that.

Cheers mate

[EricElwell]

nice progress!

I would recommend changing the way you transition from grayscale to colors. You seem to hit the colors better when you start from color. I would recommend painting in color more often, and if you are going from a grascale image to color, be bolder in your application. Don't be afraid to lose some fine detail because you painted over it, and don't leave any black or white.

I look forward to see where you take things :)

[clanlord]

Keep the good work man! I see a huge improvement! Watch out for the proportions (they are deadly enemy for each of us)

P.S. - hope you have recieved my message!

[Lotet]

hey mate, whazap? updaaaateeee!!
lol, ermn, hur gammal är du btw? o var i svergie befinner du dej?

[DefiledVisions]

Lotet thanks man, appreciate it! I do have a hard time transfering my flow from sketching to actual rendering.. My teacher told me to think as if I was sketching with paint.. will have to try :) - p.s är 18 och bor i skåne. cheers.

ManMadeGod thanks!

Lilou thank you :bashful: thanks for the info - Hogarth is good, might buy one.

Buckster allways nice to see you around here, thanks. I've put the piece aside for the time being, since I suck at drawing girls, and faces in particular. I'm doing lots of studies atm, which all suck so wonät post any - yet. I'm definitely planning on finnishing it. cheers!

EricElwell thanks for the tip! I'll definitely try doing that from now on.

Clanlord hey man, thanks! yep got the message - however I don't know how to find your sb :P

Seriously.. didn't expect all of you here - great :) ... I'm sorry I don't have anything good to present.. some quick sketches will do. I'll compensate with stuff as soon as possible. Thanks everyone.
*edit* damnit page 4 ?! :yayca:

[lilou]

I like the skulls in the first page and the last page a lot!!!
You don't like drawing girls (specially faces)? hehe, thats funny cos thats exactly what I enjoy drawing most... and in return I suck at drawing creatures... strange world that is :)


sorry, again nothing constructive to say...next time, k?
bye bye

[DefiledVisions]

lilou thanks :) .. correction. I love drawing girls, there's nothing better than drawing a.. hrm.. hot chick. Problem is, I suck at it. But I'm doing many studies of how to draw them haha.. might post some life studies soon.

Thought I'd try to update a bit more often.. but that probably won't last. I can add that I'm starting to find a flow now.. :) Speedsketch here. kinda.. 40 minutes yesterday re-designing my old lizard-warrior, and another 40 minutes today doing armor - part of the Dark Side over at the Artcrusade :yayca:

*edit* adding the sketch of the final piece, the actual art crusade battle between my dark lizard and the elemental leviathan.

[Man Made God]

Oh mai! :D Your lizards and dragons are badass!

[lilou]

I really like the armor of your lizard-warrior, it looks extreamly cool!!! and the last skecth looks very dynamic, maybe you could work it out more?

may I ask you where you get your inspiration for your creatures? I might try to get into this subject too... out of my comfort zone, you know...

[RandAlThor]

Lots of good stuff here man. I like you loose sketchy style, and your 'tightened up' digi's are looking cool. Try some alternative lighting arrangements too, not just the red/blue thing i've noticed. keep posting ;-)

[thespianmonsalvo]

Your color work is very very strong. Keep it up.

[DefiledVisions]

Man Made God thanks!

lilou inspiration comes from everywhere. Kinda random. The leviathan came from a dream I had that same morning.. creatures, dunno - only tip would be don't think too much about it - just imagine.

RandAlThor thanks, I'll try more different lighting too.

thespianmonsalvo thanks!


I have a cold, a bad one. I tried to draw today but couldn't do anything.. it's gonna be dead here for a while so, til next time, bye.

[Man Made God]

A few days off won't hurt, just make sure you come back with lots more ideas. Get well soon...:assspank:

[Dannelf]

Tjoo DV! :)
First of all, amazing stuff! The digitals are mega-inspiring!
I would like to see more finished pieces (för faan)! ;)
When you draw on paper, try to render more. They all look super, but more depth wouldn't hurt.
Get better soon mate! :)

Cya!

[Lotet]

niiiiice som FAN! love the new styff, the "sketchin with paint" seems to work well for ya, i love it, serriusly, its looking great. o vafan gör du i skåne lol, gåru nån estet skola där btw?

[lilou]

awwww! thats bad news.... gonna miss ya Murli, but be sure to get well soon!!
no probs man! you will see, you'll have nice fresh ideas when you start again!

thanks for the tipp, I'll try to develop my imagination, still its hard for me to think out of the box and not relay on things I'm surrounded by... I'm still too much used to humanoid form so its kinda hard for me to compleatly ignore it when it comes to creatures... so I hope studying animals will help it a bit...

however, get well soon, and make me happy by creating some new stuff of yours :D *kiss kiss* bye

[DefiledVisions]

Man Made God not lots.... :( heh thanks.

Dannelf- thanks man! need to get myself something darker than HB then :P

Lotet - :D thanks, working more with this "sketch paint thingy" .. yup går estetiskt.. kan dock inte säga att det hjälper mig ett dugg. Det enda positiva med det är att vi har så lite vanlig skola, så jag hinner lägga mycket tid på att rita under fritiden.

Lilou - Thanks Diana, I hope I'll live up to your expectations these following days :)

Hey people.. I'm better now, created some art.
First off.. 2 daily sketches, "Electric" and "Vampire Goddesss blablabla rises from water"
Then some coloring of previous creature concepts.. some moleskine action.. "WTF" and
4 x-tremeley sexy self portraits that really look like me.. (Yes I am gray and really hot in real life!)

Hopefully more to come during this week.. I feel creative.

[algenpfleger]

Those pencils kick ass! Keep that shit up! And keep doing the selfportraits, they teach you tonnnnnnnnnnnnnnns.

[lilou]

I totally agree with algenpfleger!!! he knows what he is saying!! :D

high expectaions come from high levels, so no worries! just keep on doing what you do, and it'll be just fine :)

*and you look really cute in those selfportraits* *sorry I'm not being professional :P*

[Adrian Wilkins]

the first of the 105th post is great and your penicl skeches as well, keep it up!

[Buckster]

good going here man, I don't stop by here enough ^^
I really enjoy the pencils sketches, great and fluent lines.
I think that I will start with some portraits myself, maybe you could get my gear in action.

Keep it up with the studies mate, you are really improving.
Cheers

[Izu]

Tja! Crazy creatures man, you have a wild imagination and that is awesome. :yum:

[DefiledVisions]

Algenpfleger - thanks man! allways nice to hear from you, and especially about the elfportraits - I was inspired by you.. but I'm not as serious about it, yet.. damnit slacked off :(

Lilou - haha, made me smile :D here, a cookie for you.

Hygami - Thanks man!

Buckster allways nice to see you here :) means a lot. thanks!

Izu- tjena! thanks, I hear that a lot :D

some late updates.. sry. I still get very hard values when I work in gray - which sucks.

[Dannelf]

Holy crap dude! :O I've got alot to learn from you!
The digis are amazingly cool. The studies are also great! Used any book? :)
Any tutorials you have whatched, that you could share? :D

Kör hårt!

[Natzuur-JK]

I like your style, and your creatures are very unique. The anatomical studies look good too.:lifedrawing:

[localfatheaded]

nice man, great sketches, I cant wait to see were you go, it seems you're constantly improving, keep drawing and see ya around

[lilou]

wow I love the anatomy studies!!! and the last wip! you work so hard, I'm really impressed!

sorry, haven't been arround lately :( got a new joboffer for a daily job (8-9 hours a day)... and it kills me, its so timeconsuming, and there is still my master thesis I have to work on when I come home... at the end of all this I'm in off mode, all I want then is sleep and letting my brain rest while watching a movie... I'm not sure if it was right to take the job... haven't got time for nothing, not even a single sketch!!!! and all the time I'm feeling bad because of this...

today is my first day off and the first thing I do is commenting on your sb :)
sorry for all the self-pity, I'm not like this usually :) I just need to do some art and I'll be the old one again :)

till then, cheers Murli !!! *hug*

[Man Made God]

You've improved a lot, seriously! This is a great update, lots of nice studies and the last work is just sexy, good job!

[Buckster]

hey there again mate, I like seeing you doing more studies they are helping you a lot.
last piece is looking good, you've maintained parts of the spontaneous feeling of the original sketch, well done.
now make sure that you think your colours through and remain focused on what you want to achieve doing this piece.

Keep up the splendid work.

Cheers

[DefiledVisions]

Dannelf - thanks alot man. The studies are from real life actually :) once a week I go and do a 3hour course with nude model - it's great practice. As for tutorials.. I don't really know. What exactly is it you want to know? I'll try to help.

Natzuur-JR - thanks man :) glad to hear

Localfatheaded - thanks a bunch! great to hear, since I myself don't feel much improvement hehe. See ya around and thanks for the encouragement.

Lilou - Hi Diana, I can't really say I work hard.. more like.. slacking hard! That's good news I guess, about the job? I mean, you get a steady income and all.. but sad to hear about the art :( Best of luck with the new job.. and I'm honored - visiting me first thing :D yaey.. you can come and have some self-pity anytime.. but from now on I'll have to charge. I can't have you hanging on my shoulder for free ya know.. :P
hope to see some updates from you soon, til then.

Man Made God - thanks! Ill try to have some more sexy work with next update

Buckster - Thank you very much, and for giving some feedback - really needed. I think what I'm doing a bit wrong is that I don't think when I start a piece, I just start scribbling and painting. And then when I got something, I havn't given a thought to color and thats when I get stuck, like with this one. I got stuck with the colours, so I just gave it a warm tone and added some fire.. shame on me.
thanks mate, appreciate it.

Only paper-work today.. too tired to work - I should get a hold of myself. Missed half of this weeks life-drawing due to train delay.. really sucky.
I'm happy the weather was good enough for me to go out and draw some birds.. I suggest you try it once, I've not had so much fun and felt so relaxed in a long time. It really makes you think on how to depict it in an instant.. drawing moving geese isn't easy.

[Dannelf]

Thanks for sropping by and feeding me with fresh critts, man! :) You know I appreciate it!

3 hours a week with nude models? :O Estetlinjen låter inte så illa!
The studies looks real thight! And great that you're having fun drawing the birds. You've really caught it's character!

Kör på ffs! :D

About the tutorials; never mind! I find it a good way to gain motivation! :)

[DefiledVisions]

Dannelf - hehe det är en kurs utanför skolan, eget initiativ :) estet linjen är inte så illa.. jag har fria händer att göra vad jag vill ungefär. Det tråkiga är bara att alla inte är lika ambitiösa.
Thanks man, about the birds, try reading them as a manga, from right to left. I'm left handed so I drew the pages starting from right.

Couldn't fall asleep.. Havn't touched the pad in 2 days... just don't have it these days. Anyhow.. some speedies, spontanious.. 10-15 minutes each

[lilou]

wooow!!! the last one has some good potential! like... some underwater scene or something! I know these are very rough pieces, but may I suggest you try to create interesting moods and atmosphere, by using gradients, layer settings and stuff. the earlyer you do this in your works the sooner you will get a better feeling for the scene you're painting.

I know this motivation issues... but still, never let it keep you from paintig too long!
I had a good weekend and soon will be able to update some sketches again :)

[DefiledVisions]

Lilou - Thanks! yea I really gotta think of that.. it worked out for the dragon, so theres no reason why it won't work here :P I just get so frustrated though.. when I try to paint something special I get nowhere.. after I've been stuck for half an hour or so I just go random rage and doodle some crap.. and those 10-20 minute doodles I produce often turn out better than the piece I worked on for 1 hour.. haha.
Sorry, enough whine from me. Thanks! glad to see you back Diana :)

random crap (15-20 minutes/ piece) and Art crusade battle vs Nightblue... stuck on that piece.

*edit* page 5 ?!:yayca: my shortest page ever! ooh.. new goal, page 6 within 2 weeks.

[lilou]

oh my gosh!!! all these updates are fantastic!!! can't tell which one I like most!!!

I think you set yourself too much under pressure! I bet you think 'this sketch has great potential, I GOTTA make something out of it' !!! and this urge not to mess it up makes you loose the overview.
Try to relax, you don't have to prove anything!

I'm sure you'll be fine! *hugs*

gotta go to work now! bye bye

[Dannelf]

The last drawing is amazing! :) Love the way you're able to catch motion in a picture (even though I've possible already said it).

Kör hårt! :D

[DefiledVisions]

Lilou - thanks! With each visist you make, my dull day gets a little brighter. Yea I got all stuck in not messing it up.. couldn't work any more on it.. waiting for your updates :hugsmile:

Dannelf - Hey man! thanks :) .. du med!

A piece with the theme "Underwater city" .. in this case.. ruins. I'm happy on how it went until about stage 5.. then I kinda lost it :)

[Nightblue]

Love the underwater piece, the composition is really nice. I think the reason you don't like the last steps is all parts of the painting have similar level of details and sharpness. Have you tried using softer brushes or air brushes? While I've never been able to use airbrush as a rendering brush, I found it very useful to create atmosphere/luminosity/depth or do small adjustments to part of an image. The softness of airbrush would also make a lot of sense in an underwater scene.

I hope you don't mind me doing a paint-over with a few very quick blue, red, and black airbrush strokes: http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/dd214/lxc2000/randomstuff/DV_paintover.jpg

[Giorge]

Nice perspective on 122 man , really love to see how the finished piece looks like.

[lilou]

whoa Murli, that was so nice of you to say, made me really happy to read :) *BIG hug*
but you shouldn't let your day be dull :/ there are tons of cool things you can do, don't stress yourself so much, remember painting is something fun to you, you do it cos you like it, and you're in the very comfortable position where you don't have to prove anything, so just paint, try to learn and enjoy the mistakes :)
As for your under water scene I agree with Nightblue, its the same thing I mentioned before, like tryig to use some gradients ( or big soft airbrushes) and layer options to create more atmosphere in your pics. it helps a lot :)
but some of the orange tones are way too bright ( in the lower ground) they take my eyes away from the ship and keep me from moving into the far bg of the scene... I think you don't need so many 'highlights' in this one :)

I'll try to update my sb as soon as I get to a scanner... sorry for my lazyness... always so tired after work...

keep on rockin'
bye

[DefiledVisions]

Nihtblue - thanks for the insight. And a thousand thanks for paintover! you really shouldn't have.. using spare time on me :) thanks. I've been given so much good information and nice tips, I need to start taking them more into consideration... damn me.

Flamable thanks man. I'm sad to say I never really finnished it... just added some lame colour.. hehe

Lilou .. Diana, I'd kiss you if you were here :) thank you so much for the encouragement and feedback. There's nothing wrong with being lazy either.. take your time, enjoy what life has to offer - and an occasional don't give a shit about anything :P

thank you .. I borrowed a book from school about landscape painting for oil. In theory this also applies to digi painting, so.. here goes a sunset. More to come from this book.

[Grafguy]

nice sketchbook :)
the last piece looks good! lovely use of colors
though ,if the sun is hanging that low that the sky is glowing red/orange
then the 'world' wouldnt be that bright anymore :)
the rocks look as if the sun is at its brightest

cheers!

[ReviseTheMethod]

Hey mate! =D
Damn, that one in #125 was badass! ^^
I like your composition studies, keep working on those and inspire the rest of us :)

Keep it up!

[DefiledVisions]

Grafguy - thanks! and damn you for pointing that out :P I guess it's mid-day then. My book didn't say anything about the time of the day, but all the yellow made me think sunset - guess it's more late noon? hehe

ReviseTheMethod - Thank you man! good seeing you around here again ;)


Wheew.. In a good mood today. For some reason I have the song "I'm so horny" by Mousse-T echoing in my head.. that's a good thing right?

Today I discovered something important - a new way of painting.. or actually, some, in my opinion, key principals behind painting:

Light and contrast
Control of colors, saturation especially.

It all came when I was checking out Dile_'s homepage and I saw a concept piece of a fishlike humanoid holding a spear.. And after looking at it a while, reflecting over how he had painted the piece, a eureka moment appeared.

The crocodile was made before I had my 'eureka' :) enjoy.

[ReviseTheMethod]

Ooooh! Killer stuff =)

Like with all your lizard-ish designs, the crocodile looks really cool =)
It would probably be good to try and push out the head a bit more, since it blends in a bit too much with the rest of the body.
Adding some well placed highlights would really make it pop =)

Sweet work on the new style! :) Nice sense of movement in the phoenix, and the colors are working well too.
From a more critique oriented viewpoint: I think that it needs another leg in the shot to really come across as an easily read phoenix =)
I had some trouble "seeing" the phoenix, although I knew that that's what it was :)

Keep up the great work! :>

[Dannelf]

Cool updates as usual, dude! :D
As ReviseTheMethod said, I hope you take the drawings to the next level. Especially the Phoenix! I like the attidue and the colours.
Maybe the smoke could use a little bit more softness (If you know what I mean).
I admire your way of drawing with such hard brushes. that's how You've managed to make the pheonix's head in center of the picture, with putting more details on it!:)

It's really inspiring whatching your works man! :D It's really instructive.

Kör hårt!
I'll be back!

~Dan

[Mokinzi]

Your beasts just rocks! :D Love the phoenix you are working on now, it looks really awesome and fierce.
And it is amazing to see how much you are improving at humans and portraits! Pretty stunning. Keep it up!
Remember me, by the way? Vilde from Elfwood?

[Giorge]

Oh god love those dragons , i was planing on doing some dragon shadows , ill see what i come up with , anyway . You can always finish it , that's the beauty of digital medium ^^. And one of those dragons sketches , could look nice rendered . You's on my must see list mate :D

[Jaytea]

O_O wow, so much good stuff in so little time. Respect, man. Keep it up!

[Lingmerth]

I think you should extend the phoenix picture further to the right and maybe even cropping it more on the left. The focus point (the head) is too far to the right and to close to the border of the picture, it leads the eye out of the frame.

And I would change the background color for the reactor creature, it competes to much with the creature, something more subdued would make the creature pop out more.

[lilou]

whoa O_O !!! your progress is impressing! your paintings are getting better and better, my fav is the second in post #132, great texture, super awesome smoke like, great movement and the desaturated colors fit quite well !!! the phoenix has great feel of movement too, and the fire is captured masterfully...

I'm glad you discovered new ways of painting, this is a great sign of your improovement! It's really not easy to look carefully at a painting you would like to learn from, and find out what it is that makes it so much better than your own works... I still find myself looking at loads of great pictures but I do not learn from them, maybe I just don't look carefully enough... dunno...

however, you're deffinetly on the right track!
Oh and thanks for the imaginary internet kiss, hahaha guess I should kiss you back then... and you don't have to thank me for anything, I'm just babbling on your sketchbook, don't even have constructive things to write...
uuuuuh, I should better go drawing now...

oh, and that Mousse-T song is alarming!! but I won't say why, whehee *evilgrin*

bye bye
Di

[Lotet]

great updates mate, ur pencils are getting really tight.

[DefiledVisions]

ReviseTheMethod - Thank you very much, great inputs. I havn't planned on polishing them any more than what they are since they're concepts. But I'll take your advice with me for later stuff!
thanks.

Dannelf- Thanks alot man! Yea I realise now the piece has the same amount of hardness over all.. and you're very right about the smoke :) thanks.

Mokinzi - Thanks alot! - ofcourse I remember you :asspat:

Flamable - haha thanks!.. I really should be doing more dragons :( now I want to do more dragons!

Shalite - Thanks! keep pushing it yourself :)

Lingmerth - THanks for the critique! very much appreciated. I did some different crops, and it looked a lot better when I cut a part of the left so the head got more centered. And you're very right about the background for Reactor.. didn't have a clue about what to do so just took a bright yellow (what the hell?) I just might give it a new background. thanks.

Lilou - THank you! I hope you keep babbling cause I like to read it :yum: .. and I also hope you update with some new art :D about watching other people's art .. I find it dificult with complete illustrations - I just find myself being lost in the awesomeness.. haha, however what really helps is to see the wip's behind the piece, or some tutorial - because I think the information given by the different steps is really good.

Lotet - thanks man!


many replies.. not much today - some weapons. More digital up during the weekend.

[DefiledVisions]

Some thoughts about this week's chow - Spike, the dragon dentist

[DARAF]

I like the weopon ideation you got going on here. Rock on.

[grenappels]

huh, i really like this book, you have really awesome spirally shapes going on, they are really effective (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=504078&stc=1&d=1225232125 and the one above it). and your weapon experimentation is a really good idea, you landed on a few really good designs there. cool beans

[DefiledVisions]

DARAF - thanks! I've got some more concepts going on so there will be more.

Grenapples - I'm not quite sure what you mena with spiral shapes. You mean the flames on the wing? thanks by the way :)

Color wip on the chow... I know the orange is too intense, working on that

[Mokinzi]

I liked the weapons! The hammer was really cool

And a dragon dentist?! Pretty genious ^^ Looking forward to see how it will turn out!

[grenappels]

yeah i guess i was vague, but that's what i meant. are you using photoshop? if so what brushes?

[DefiledVisions]

Mokinzi - thanks! yea me too :D

Grenapples - Yes, working in photoshop cs3 .. um currently I'm using basic round brush in different opacities / softnesses and some custom brushes I got from somewhere, can't remember really - but they give that textury brushy feeling.

Some Nov 1. selfportraits! and man.. I don't look this asian really.. I must be doing something right :P

somehow I turn out different every time I do a selfportrait.. guess I need to study more!

[towy]

very good progress here
i like really your line and now your speed paint are amazing, often when you work more your drawing i think it's less good, i supose you know that
you are in the good way

[Nightblue]

love the weapon designs! The energy and flow to the phoenix is awesome. Good to see you tackling self portraits too! keep rocking :)

[lilou]

whoa! great updates mate! I really enjoyed the weapons and the first WIP of the COW- character!!! you are doing very well lately!! guess hard work pays off, huh?

can't wait to see the WIP finished!!
bye

[strybjorn]

love watching your development man - its great to see someone really progress

with your weapon sheets, it might be worth, when your doing these concept sheets, to try out some really wierd shapes and designs, just to see if anything interesting comes out of them - at the moment they seem a little similar to each other with only slight variations... having said that tho, the second sheet of daggers do seem quite dynamic....i dunno, maybe that comment doesnt help too much :p

looking good man

your new chow looks like it could be something special, finish it up good!

[DefiledVisions]

Lilou - thanks, you've pushed my sketchbook further to page 6, and helping me realise my goal of a new page within 2 weeks.. 12 days.. new record! :) cheers

Strybjorn - thanks man! I totaly agree with you about the weapons, the thing is - the guy im doing them for wanted a specific look - so this is kinda the most I could get out of it design-wise and still stay true to his original idea.


aah page 6 :yayca: .. I cannot finnish my chow, sadly. I've realised my knowledge of anatomy and especially humans -faces and skintones- is too limited. I wont pick up the digital medium for some time now. Instead I'm off to the bookstore in search for a good anatomy book. I'll try to work on my pencil values and then get back to painting.

some quick scribbles.. couldn't sleep last night.

[Man Made God]

I was really enjoying your digitals too, the environments and creatures show a lot of imagination. Always good to work on the weak points though, keep pushing!

[Ricardo Robles]

wow there are lots of quality. Your concepts got a really amazing movement sense.. brave colors..
just need to practice more anathomy or take people references, this is my lack too..
my favourite without doubt is the one who shows your avatar, MAGIC! but last things you´re doing are fantastic.
greetings, keep it up

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

fantastic sketches here! Love the dragons!

-E

[ReviseTheMethod]

Looking forward to seeing your pencilstudies =)

Noterade just att även du var svensk :)
Jobba med values, men se till att behålla din dynamiska stil =) Du vill inte tappa den rörelse du har ^^

Keep it up!

[lilou]

yeaaaah!!! did I win something? huh? huh? no? ooooow, ok but you owe me one bro! thats for sure :D
DAMN YOU!!! those dragons look terrific!! your line work on the pencils are truly one of your strenghts!!! oh you couldn't sleep? why's that?
sad to hear about the Chow... looked very prommissing! but I think I know where you're comming from... best idea does not count if you don't have the skill to realise it properly...sooooo, good to go some steps back and tackle the basics ! *thumbsup*

keep on going and give me the boogie!!
bye!

[DefiledVisions]

Man Made God - thanks man, digitals won't be gone completeley.. I will do some of those landscapes and stuff.

Ricardo Robles - thanks for the kind words!

MischeviousLittleElf - Thank you!

ReviseTheMethod - Me too :D haha, tack - har du glömt mig?.. :asspat: har ju din msn och allt.. lirade på chrom. med dig back in the days.

Lilou - Hey Diana, thank you very much... you win.. .. the.. grand prize of page sixness.. joke :) look out for a prize haha. I reserve my right to give it to you when ever (probably next year - I'm a lazy bum).
boogie! .. you summed it up pretty well - One step forward, and now, two steps backwards.

Sorry, no updates of value. Just COW scribbles. Will update with some more info and thoughts behind the concept when I've got some more work done.. Oh and ordered a Bridgman book - hopefully arriving by the end of this week :yayca:

[Dannelf]

Holy crap dude! :D The pencils are great!
How's the phoenix getting along?
And how do you keep motivation up, beeing so productive? The most recent drawings are inspiring. I want to doodle for days now! :D Thankyou!

Smell ya around!

Dan

[gkrit]

you got some really nice stuff and got good expression within ur concepts.

but every time i saw one of ur images where some sort of light or flame was involved it seemed a little too dull, especially in the earlier concepts. that could even be the style in itself, i could be wrong. but i think u should add a white or a really light tone of wateva color u using at the core of the light source or glow or flame etc. just to emphasize that aspect of the image.

but you r definately more developed than me lol.

keep posting coz i like.

the weapons were awesome also

[Chate Noire]

Great sketches. Your lines are so loose and wild, creating interesting shapes and creatures, and the way you refine your ideas is cool to watch. I also liked that fiery phoenix-type monster in the previous page. Cool stuff.

[Mokinzi]

Love the dragon sketches in the lasts posts! Your lines are so beautiful and loose there, as Chate Noire says :)

[Buckster]

hey there mate, I am really impressed by your latest sketches, they are a huge step forward for you in both design and technical aspects. I was sad to see you not being able to finish the Chow, next time maybe? ^^

I actually have nothing to crit this time mate, you spoiled me with the last update, keep at it!

Cheers

[DefiledVisions]

Dannelf - Hey man! nice to see ya. Phoenix isn't geting anywhere at the moment... but I have great plans for it! :D will re-work it, and put a lot of energy into it.. and then give it as a christmas present to my sister as a huge poster. It's a great symbol, especially after she got over her 3 year depression and survived a suicide attempt... it was a rough period for me. But all is good :sungod:
motivation.. you guys are my motivation.
Cheers!

gkrit - Thanks alot! I havn't given it a thought until you mentioned it.. it's not a style though.
Cheers!


Chate Noir - Thanks for the kind words!

Mokinzi - Hi, thanks alot :) more dragons coming up I think.

Buckster - Wow, you're too kind man! it's an honor to recieve such words :hugsmile:
big cheers!

Here's some life studies from earlier today (yesterday)

[ReviseTheMethod]

Gryyyymma gesture-studies, och den sista skissen i #159 är helt vild =D
Show us more! =)

( Skickade ett PM till dig btw ;P )

[James Wolf]

nice dragonesk sketches :) would love to see some taken further.

[Dannelf]

Yeah, Perfect symbolism! :) Great things got worked out then.
To draw is always encouraging when stuff like that is going on! Get out some anger and desperation on the paper.
Just promise to show it when it's done, mate! ;)

Oh, btw the studies look supeeeer!:D
Smell ya around!

Dan

[DefiledVisions]

ReviseTheMethod - tackar! .. yup fick dit pm :) will try to deliver more these coming days..

James Wolf - Thanks! I'll definitely try to bring bring up one more level.. havn't done dragons in months, so still trying to figure out how I used to do them.

Dannelf - thanks man! more studies coming up :D cheers!


Bridgman studies from 'Contstructive Anatomy' E-Book.. thanks CA for the book.. where has he been all my life? I love the way he draws, and it feels very natural for me.. also some random dragons / monster - not as cool as the earlier ones :( Heads are too big, will try to change that for later pics.

An hour and a half of studies, an hour of randomness.

[Lakka]

Very nice studies and dragons

[Lotet]

great work dude, looking good, i can definitly see improvement here, ur getting better then me^^

[ReviseTheMethod]

Great sketches! =)
Just keep working your rhythm - which I'm already liking - and anatomy :)

Gooo!

[lilou]

I LOOOOOVE anatomy!!!!! It's such a cool thing to practice!!! (not like perspective and such!! yuck) and you do very well my friend!!

I have nothing to critizise, so this time it's just asspatting from me! hmmm... :P
cant wait for the cool halfnaked women besides your awesome dragons and creatures!! 'hehehe'

soooo, Murli, 'encouraging hug' keep on, this is deffinetly the right thing to do!!
bye diana

[Jasper_]

Hey man good work with the Bridgman studies, I'm really impressed with those figures from life as well. keep it up!

[DefiledVisions]

Lakka - thanks!

Lotet - haha thanks man! the only one I'm geting better than is myself ;)

Lilou - I agreee.. anatomy is funny! haha halfnaked woman ? .. why not. Thanks for the encouragement! :) bye.

Pyroclasm00 - Thank you!

Hey people, sorry for not updating in a while - have had a really tough week. I'm now employed at a sales company.. and until I learn my schedule I won't be able to update frequently... this is all for now :(:( chose the thumbnail up in the right corner.. and yea.. they're really messy. I can't tell what they are supposed to be anymore..

me and lingmerth's challenge number 5 - naval battle.

[DefiledVisions]

some bridgman's

[Nettle_Mountain]

Looking good with those studies, do you recommend bridgman? i have hogart but i feel i need another approach and requral practise timetable... to get brigman or not?

[ReviseTheMethod]

Daaamn! You're working hard, man! =D
Keep those studies up, they're looking splendid!

About the naval battle I would say that the water was starting to look great during step 3 in the painting process, but after that I think that the huge contrast made it look a bit wonky.
Did you use refs? =) Good stuff though!

Keep it up!

[DefiledVisions]

Nettle_Mountain - thanks! sent you a pm regarding the books.

ReviseTheMethod - thank you! I can agree with you on the water.. need to lower the contrast a bit.. nope, no ref.

some random stuff.. me and my brother had vikinghead battle, what ever that is. Also some cow sketches.. deadline closing in fast as hell.

[DefiledVisions]

I have a cold .. no school or work = some art. hehe, not much though.. been slacking in the sofa all day.

Some concept sketches for the CGsociety challenge: Steampunk - Myths and Legends. (http://features.cgsociety.org/challenge/steampunk/)

I've chosen to take on a nordic myth regarding a giant dragon called Nidhög living in the underworld. It's constantly gnawing on the roots of Yggdrasil - the tree of life.

[lilou]

holy crap!! the last ones rock very bad my friend!!! you totally left me speechless!! if you manage to color those AMAZING lines on the last one I'll marry you!! :)

really, you are the only one I keep on watching in here... (yeah I know there are some really pros, but you motivate me somehow... ) the cold sucks but I hope thats not too hard, I mean the new job and stuff! after I read your comment I thought you will have the same problems as I do since I have the new job...

keep motivating me Murli :) ! I thank you so much!! now I'll go to work, but tonight I'll come back look at your progress and try to catch up with ya! *huuuug*
bye

[Clochette]

Love the dragons! They have majesty. Can't wait to see one in a finished piece!

[DefiledVisions]

Diana - No, I'm thanking you for all the encouragement you give. Thank you very much Diana! ... too much compliment :hugsmile: I'm touched by your words.. really, my random stuff motivating you? :D my job is only part-time, so I have free time for this aswell.. which is a great relief... see you around :sungod:

Clochette - thank thank thanks! Dragons coming up when I have time.. I'm planning on making 4 dragons that I can print and give away as christmas presents.. but it's a secret so don't tell anyone :P

more cow.. 2 days left to finnish this. final sketch done.. now just some tweaks, make the creatures more integrated and make composition more pleasant - planning on making this a christmas present print aswell - so I'll be finnishing it no matter what.

[meganite]

Wow, your sketches are as messy as mine! Well, maybe not... but you've got some really great work here =) Some really great anatomy studies. I especially like the hands. I can't draw hands to save my life, unless I constantly look at ref.

[lilou]

hey mate :D

yes those horses look good but still I do not really see the differences between the seasons... however, maybe this comes with some color, huh?

hehe, you're very welcome :D It's just that you do the stuff I desperatly want to do as well, like creatures and environments...hum... and your lines... oh so fearless... mine always look so .... I dunno... academic...


ah well well... lets go to work :) and please give me some color again... *hug hug*
bye

[Dannelf]

Your working hard buddy! :) Like all the drawings as usual!
About the latest update, do you draw blocks first, or do you just draw lines?
I like how you fill up the whole picture with lines which creates a great atmosphere!

Thanks for stopping by and kicking my ass by the way! Iv'e been sketching some, but you know... School's a bitch so no serious stuff done!
I'll post some as soon as possible, mate! :D

Keep this asskicking work up man!

Dan

[ReviseTheMethod]

Hey man! =D

Cool stuff!
Great and varied poses in those season-creatures, but the designs aren't delivering their specific season clearly enough yet.
What makes the summer-one the summer-one etc? ;)

I bet that you'll solve that as soon as you get into colouring though :)

Keep it up!

[Kian]

Cool movement in those sketches :)

[DefiledVisions]

Meganite - Thank you! hands are tricky.. I love hands.. a fetish maybe? lol.

Diana - thanks.. no color for you, yet. Soon enough :)

Dannelf - Hey man! For this COW, and the earlier work posted about Yggdrasil I've only worked from lines. I most often tend to do so.. start with a detail like the head.. and then build everything around that.. allthough for the creatures I started doing blocks to get the stuff right, or right enough.

Yea school's a big bitch :( and so is winter.. all this crappy rain and stuff.. and my new job is pain in the ass.. might end up quiting and start freelancing instead. Do something I enjoy :)
will drop by soon.

ReviseTheMethod - Thanks man! tried to go into coloring first.. didn't go good. Starting out in grays now.. cause I realised i cant finnish it in time, so might aswell take my time :) if this doesnt work out I have a third way of trying this out lol.
cheers!

Kian - Thank you :)

what I got so far.. weird stuff. quality's too loose
might dropthe whole thing and focus on each individual first.. then bind then together with hair and roots and god knows what

[lilou]

yeah, I think you should do them seperatly.... this whole composition is too (sorry) boring.... and the execution does not justice to your wonderfull lines of the sketch...

hmmm... waiting for colorstuff :P hehehe

ok mate, keep on going, I'll update my sb soon!! finally got something to show :)

bye bye
Diana

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Uh this last one is fantastic. It gives me goosebumps how the equine creatures move so naturaly and fluently, keep at this shit:D

-E

[ReviseTheMethod]

I must say that I disagree with Lilou's suggestion to do them separately :)
I like the current composition very much because it feels very dynamic to me ^^
Great job so far, keep pushing it :)
It'll be interesting to see how you work your colors into it!

[DefiledVisions]

Diana - Allways a pleasure to have you around :) I chose this layout because I felt it would be the best way to combine them... uh..can't describe it... Each of the creatures works alone aswell, so might make them one by one, and then make some kind of collage with all 4 together, morphing into each other with this composition.

You'll have to wait a bit longer for colour stuff though.. I'm a lazy sucker :P
xoxo

MischevousLittleElf - Awh man! thank you very much. I'm happy it works.. cause I couldn't find so many good horse references, had to make up half of it haha :D
cheers.

ReviseTheMethod - Thanks, thats what I was hoping to achieve :) each creature represents a season, and each season rapidly going into another.

Sorry for not posting in such a long time.. been lazy and tired. Winter really wears me out. Big time.
Good news is I decided to quit my job.. not worth the time I put into it.. Want to start a freelance career as an artist instead.. soon enough.

Dragons = christmas presents
Making 4 dragon posters, with the 4 elements. Air is ready to be rendered, and just sketched out fire. More to come these following days.

[Wilbur]

Very inspiring stuff. You have a great sense of form, and your attention to detail is really quite amazing.

I think what makes your work most successful, however, is your radical eye for composition.

I don't know what to criticize. That stuff is gorgeous.

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

look ast you pumping out these amazing sketches as if you were a fucking vending machine:P Put on a quarter, wait 30 seconds and you have a handfull of excellence! Hehe, well anyhoot, I like the dragons, as I pointed out earlier, they are a delight to the eyes, your life studies too, are very impressive and very well done. You PS stuff could use some more work, but that is a harder field to get good at entirely, so just keep doing that stuff and you will see improvement quite quickly.

When it comes to using acrylics, there is a very easy way of getting much more interesting results, and even get it to behave more or less like cheap oils. Not like the good kind of oils, the kind of oils you would actually spend lots of moolah on, oh god no, but still they can become quite decent for studies, i guess. What you do is you go to any art supply (depot, hehe), and you get a few things to blend into the acrylics, and there are about four things you need. One, you need retarder, this is a substance that keeps the paint from drying, and it also makes it thicker, which is great, for some rough pencil work, and it gives it a very nice feel to work with. Secondly you need some acrylic medium, if I remember correctly, this is in fact mostly acryl, and something else, and you use that, like you would use painter medium with your beloved oils, or like you would usually abuse water with acrylics:P Thirldy you need something called airbrush smoothener or something, it is what you blend into paint to make it able to go through an airbrush without clogging it, and it is great for keeping the paint from lagging on the canvas. Lastly I would advice to get some thickner, just to add to the paint, if you need to add to it, and also some glaze, to put some nice touch on your painting at the end.

Now when you are going to paint your masterpiece, I would first test out the results of grounding the canvas, plate or paper, with a mix of the different things you have bought, so that you see what works best for you. I use an even mix of retarder, airbrushwhatnot and medium, this gives a nice smooth surface on paper.

Oh, and you should also get hold of some really good titanium white, and make sure it is titanium, not zink, seeing as that is a generaly better and more covering paint.

There, I really hope that helped out a bit!

Oh and another thing, might be even cooler to to Midgardsormen, or the Wyrm of Midgard, the great wyrm that lay at the edge of the world, going the entire way around it, and biting it's own tail. That could be awesome I think:)

-E

[lilou]

wooow!! you really know how to amaze me :D those sketches look fabulous!!!

about the composition.... I'm sure its just a matter of taste, first time I saw it, it remindet me of the old bible illustrations, with the four evangelists. I know these have nothing to do with your pic, but the composition is kind of similar and I always found it, dunno, boring and too constructed.... maybe it would be an opition to really do them seperatly (each with its own frame) and put them together in to one pic...

yeah, winter sucks... !!!
oh you quit your job? hmmm thats what I'd like to do, but still I don't think I could earn enough money with freelance work to pay my bills, so I keep on going to work. but you have my full respect and I wish you all the luck and sucsess :)

oh btw, did you get my private massage? and thanks for dropping by my sb (hug hug)
bye
Diana

[DefiledVisions]

Wilbur - thank you very much!

MischeviousLittleElf - Thanks for filling me in on the details! lol :D School has all the paint and stuff I need, thought I've never heard of thickeners. Will have to ask my teacher.
When I paint I just put out some colours on a pallette and start laying down colours.. thats where I used to get stuck, but thanks to some art books and from learning the hard way digital painting I found out it's much easier to lay down some underpainting first hehe.

I've been thinking about Midgårds ormen.. it's definitely something.. there's a myth where Thor goes fishing and accidently catches the serpent. That could be really cool :) will have to sketch up some more.
cheers.

Diana - Thank you! and thanks for digging up this pic.. never seen it before. And what a boring picture haha. There's no interaction inbetween them, and it's like frozen in time - which is oposite to what I'm aiming for :) don't worry, I'll do everything I can to not make it into anything like this.

I don't have any bills to pay.. yet :D so I'm in no trouble..


Second dragon (fire) done. Sketched earth on paper, scan tommorow - then got water left :)

[Mokinzi]

Love your last creatures and dragons. I really love seeing you draw dragons, because it shows that you really enjoy it! Love how your lines are getting free, it looks great.

And I love those studies! Do you recommend that book, 'Constructive Anatomy'? I looked it up, and it looks awesome.

[Oden]

I like your imagination a lot, dude.
awesome rendering on your sketches, too!
Do more finished stuff, yer avatar is dope...

[Buckster]

awesome stuffs man, I am pleased to see that you are evolving at such a rapid pace, great work! Your latest colour pieces has some very nice colours and depth.
Your pencils are getting much stronger as well. You have achieved a very clean look to your lines, dont spoil it by adding too many scribbles or darkening the background.

Keep up the good work mate, cheers!

[DefiledVisions]

Mokinzi - thank you :) sent you a PM about the book

Oden - Thanks man! working on this, will have a huge amount of finnished stuff during holidays.. have eyes open these coming weeks.

Buckster - Hey man, Thanks for the feedback! Yea i feel much more confident with lines now. It's rendering, and colouring where I get stuck these days. Sometimes I get lucky, as with the creatures I made.. but otherwise I usually get stuck when I combine colours and stuff... crap :)

Third dragon, Earth/Nature ... I'm happy with the wing design.. The design is technically not capable of flying.. but hey, atleast it looks cool.

[Man Made God]

Those lines look great! Looks like you're seriously getting your process down in terms of line weights, and the poses are very dynamic too.

[ReviseTheMethod]

Looking sharp, mate =)
Keep it up!

[DefiledVisions]

Man Made God - Thanks man!

ReviseTheMethod - Thank you :)


Hiatus.. just no idea what to do. Forced myself to some studies yesterday and some sketching.

also started this weeks chow just cause there's a dinosaur in it :D Time to get rid of the hiatus.

[lilou]

aaaaahhhhhwwwww.... this makes me wanna cry out loud....*sniff*
bye see ya on msn...

[DefiledVisions]

Diana - Be strong.. don't fight it.. :P thanks. Cya


More chow, the symbols are in order: Death - Dragon - Strength .. google is your friend.

[DefiledVisions]

Studies.

[DefiledVisions]

started working on the dragons.. at last Oo....

[DefiledVisions]

its x-mas :O

did some sketchies with my cousins wacom... man it's so great. It's not an intuos.. but it's so much smoother than my intuos 2... total line control :)


anyway-- have a nice holiday people.

[Mokinzi]

The red dragon up there is looking more and more awesome... Looking forward to see it finished ^^ And yeah, those studies are getting great too! Would like to see you be more playful with experimenting on different body types eventually ^^ That is something I find really exciting.

What wacom tablet is it your cousin have? Cool sketches!

[Man Made God]

What is it, a graphire or bamboo or something? Liking the new works, but I hope we see more of the red one! Oh yeah, have a good xmas man!

[DefiledVisions]

Thanks for the tip mokinzi .. I havn't really tried experimenting before. I prefer the stereotypical sexy body.. :P

Hey man. I can't work on my stuff at the moment since I'm at family. When I get home though :) ..

to answer both your questions - It's a Wacom Volito2 .. never heard of it actually. It's really tiny. The drawing surface is as big as my hand and I guess it's not as good as I think it is. It's just that my intuos 2 is old.. and doesn't have the technology all newer wacoms have :D

It's great for laptops though.. just place it on your lap and chill in the sofa haha.

[Man Made God]

I had a Volito 2 before i bought my intuos. Gave it to my cousin, but it was a great first tablet. Really cheap and surprisingly accurate. The only real issue I had was with the surface, it's just hard plastic and it's more slippery than the rubbery sheet on the intous. I'm pretty sure they don't make them any more though.

[clanlord]

Hey brother how are the things?

Looks like you're another victim of school, i hate it honestly... but i see you are pushing forward, I see imrpovement and new ideas bring them some shadows :) I wanted to wish you happy holidays and stay alive!

George

[Lotet]

hay mate, god jul på dej också, lite sent ute kanske, så gott nytt år iställe.
well, I just dont feel like updating anymomre, im not gettin anything I like down on paper anymore, I hope the tide will turn soon and il start posting again, well see. looking good here though, really good.

[Reject-D]

great job dude keep it up!!

[DefiledVisions]

ManMadeGod - Yea I agree.. the surface was the only thing bugging me. It was fun to draw with though :)

Clanlord - Hey man, things are geting better and better! Thanks. By shadows, do you mean adding depth to the pictures by rendering everything and not just the lines?

Mery Xmas to you too!

Lotet - Gott nytt år :D hehe. Thanks man.. been there. Just outlive it.. I havn't been able to really lift the pen since november. Just these past days have really sprouted my creativity and imagination. Sometimes it's just really good to get away from the whole drawing too.

Reject-D - Thank you!



Allright, back from a great christmas with family in denmark. I enjoyed it alot, and it was really good to leave my home for a while.. let the senses rest and just relax.. which easier said than done with my fighting cousins :P
Anyway.. here's a moleskine dump.. these days have been kind to me.

My favorite's the Chimera and my semi-self portrait with some lyrics from a Katatonia song called In The White.. really like em. Great melancholic melodic band, sounds a bit like Opeth. Check em out ;)
sorry for the blurr... to lazy to fix it now. And the lyrics are miss-heard... still a good song :P

[ReviseTheMethod]

LINK (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=548991&stc=1&d=1230327143) <-- Yes, yes, yes! =D

Great stuff as usual, mate =) Lot's of nice movement, both subtle and obvious.
Keep working on your rendering, and push the values a bit more.
The dynamic part of your work needs to be complemented by strong values to deliver that bitchin' impact that we began to see in this (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=539222&stc=1&d=1229087864)! :)
Keep it up!

[DefiledVisions]

ReviseTheMethod - Thanks man!yea I'll keep that in mind for future stuff :)


Started working on a christmas card.. a bit late but what ever

[donalfall]

There's always next years card. :) Great sketchbook pages.

[Mokinzi]

Loved the Denmark-sketches(or whatever I should call them), especially the chimera and the wizard-like guy with the butterfly(it was cute :3), but many of the others was great as well!

And that Christmas card looks cute, too, will be exciting to see how it turns out!

[DefiledVisions]

Donalfall - thanks man! yea.. nad newyear's aswell :P .. but what the heck hehe

Mokinzi - Thank you! .. the wizard (actually a satyr :assspank: ) is one of my favorite's too.

I'm like.. halfway done or one third.. started detailing from left to right now.. done with kitty :D:D .. lightsource from the candles needs to be added. Lightong on santa aswell.. he stands out too much.. need to push him back with shadows.. the presents on top needs work. And the whole blue sheet needs paterns, stars and stuff.
More to come..

[Buckster]

hey man, it is nice to see that you keep on working amd doing what you love. I am a tad drunk now so I will skip the critique for this time. I respect your hard work mate.

Keep it up and happy new year!
Cheers

[clanlord]

Hiiiiii..... i want more body studies!!! Start copying from www.posemaniacs.com each pose... and remember patiance is a virtue!

George

[DefiledVisions]

Hello, I am not dead.

Buckster - That is one of the best comments I have had so far :) happy new year man!

Clanlord - Thanks.. I havn't been doing posemancias for many months. Picked it up again last week :D cheers!


I only half dead.. joke. I feel like painting again so thats what I've been doing.. it's good being back :)

Some more on the christmascard, which is turning into something more mystic.. going to replace the small doll with another cat. Also finished a chow, and started working on a cow.

[Man Made God]

Good to see another update! Man (or mate:wink:), you draw some freaky shit, the COW process screens are pure inspiration! How did your creature stuff improve so fast, you got any resources you want to share?

[DefiledVisions]

Man Made God - Mate! :D about the creature stuff.. hmm, no Idea really. I've been a bit inspired by Linda Bergkvist's (http://www.furiae.com/) tutorials. The way she blends airbrush and hard brushes.. gives a kinda photographic touch to it.
Other inspirations.. looking at other peoples stuff, and drawing. To be honest I don't know, cause I hadn't been drawing in a month until I started on the cow and chow.
Painting traditionally has given me lots of insight about contrast and light vs dark tones.. I've allways had trouble grasping it in painting.. until I did some still-life's with oil and it's like .."aha.. so thats how" - how that helps creature creation though.. I don't know :P
hope it gives some clarification.

Did a dreamhouse.. speedie kinda. And made a sketch for the next chow.. not at all what I had in mind, but I still like it - gonna be interesting to see where this leads.

[Oden]

Hey dude, nice updates. The pencil sketches from christmas are awesome, and I like the COW rough a lot as well, the hard edges look nice.
Keep it up! :rendered:

[DefiledVisions]

Oden - Hey!long time no see, thanks :) glad you dropped by :D

More cow updates.. finishing tonight

[Christoffer]

Kickass compositions in your digitals, man! A lot of cinematic shots with dynamic poses. My favorit has to be the lizard warrior vs the leviathan. It's also good to see you're working hard on your pencils. You're making some really good progress with that. The best part about it is that it will also show in your digis. Rock n Roll!

Tack o hej, leverpastej!

[DefiledVisions]

Christoffer - Thanks man! Yea I've been working a lot with linework. Now I've started working more with traditional oils, it's really given me a lot of insight how to control contrast and give volume to a 2d surface.. every image is a challenge :)
ha det gött!

Final.. fed up with it.. rushed the enviro when I realised the more I worked it, the worse it got.

[Oden]

Oden - Hey!long time no see, thanks :) glad you dropped by :D


yeah no kidding man, school has been keeping me busy busy, not much time for art! I'm gonna go crazy this summer though. :sungod:


Keep working on that monster, I really think it would be worth it, even if the comp is over...it's a great piece. Sometimes the difference between a piece of crap (to your eyes) and being on the road to making an awesome painting is just a few more hours of getting through the tough stuff.
Paint over the background with something simple, a flat dark colour just to give yourself a new slate...then just stare for a while at it or sketch on a diff layer to see if anything works.

The monster itself is awesome so far, the skin really has luminance. Maybe give that head a cast shadow or something on its body, and start using a hard brush to define the fur as one big mass, give it some edges.

hahah, sorry, I just hate seeing awesome stuff like this get tossed aside. I know the frustration though. :D

[Mokinzi]

Love your last piece, that creature is so cool! The colour scheme is awesome too. I agree with Oden, don't give up on it! He said like all the important things too, I guess. I'd like to see you give some more depth and life to that little eye, though! It can really make a big difference.


And that dreamhouse... So adorable :) I want to live there!

[DefiledVisions]

Oden - Sweet to hear! yes this summer is gonna be art-tastic! :D
Thanks a ton for the tips! I didn't intend on working more on it.. but you've made me change my mind - gonna finish some other stuff and then get to work. Thanks for pushing me!

Mokinzi - You know what they say, the eye is the mirror of the soul .. I'll put some extra thought into the eye, thanks :)


I hate my computer, it can't handle pictures over 2500 pixels.. trying a new workflow with this piece. Basically it's what caravaggio did.. a medium background colour, then flesh out highlights in white, and shadows in a darker colour.. then refine, and add hues. Just been fooling around :D ... or I should just stick to how I did the sound creature.

[Giorge]

Can't wait to see the finished piece of the last one , your green ones always comes out nice.

[FrozZT]

Hey man, I thought i had posted in your thread, but apparently i havent :/.. Anyway..

Awesome developement and progress man. You've really developed since i last saw your work. Your drawings are looking very nice, and your paints are starting to get better also. I would like to see you let loose a bit more with your paints and not just draw it and then color it. I see alot of creative designs too.

Keep it up, your doing great.

Kör hårt!

-Niklas

[DefiledVisions]

flamable - Thanks! I'm trying hard to finish it asap.

FrozZT - Man! Long time no see :D thanks for the tip. I'm slowly learning to loosen my painting more, and not just follow the lines so to say..
How did the the challenge over at CGSociety go? .. I never finished.. didn't feel like painting all winter =/
ha det bra!

More wip.. I've got a vague idea of which direction to go now.. next update'll be interesting.

[Man Made God]

Nice colours! Your process is working itself out, looks like you're really getting into the swing of things. The rendering on the last monster was really impressive too, the scales and skin folds are really convincing.

Maybe some crits next time. You have to make some more mistakes soon lol.

[DefiledVisions]

Man Made God - thanks man! hehe.. mistakes you say.. :P sorry. I'll try to.


Put the dragon to rest for the moment.. started working on chow.

[Dannelf]

Hey man! :) Long time no see. Really sorry for that. Rough times you know! They're just jumping all over you when least expected! ;)

Anyway, thanks for stopping by and kicking my ass!
Hope you've been good!

I notice some marvelious improvement! The pencils are stunning and I think you're way to good for me to criticize! :) Haha!
Just wanted to drop by!

Cya around mate!

Dan

[ReviseTheMethod]

Hey there mate! =) Cool stuff lately!
I have high hopes for the last two, they're looking great so far!
I've put up some new stuff, and I'd appreciate your feedback =)
Keep up the great work!

[DefiledVisions]

Dannelf - Nice to have you back man! hope winter has been kind to you :)
Blev nyligen av med min vinterdepression.. känt mig som en fisk under hela vintern haha - not anymore!

ReviseTheMethod - Hey mate! also nice to have you back in action again! :sungod: thanks! will drop by asap.


More wip - started detailing.

[Mokinzi]

Love the concept of the last wip. Creepy, pretty nordic, and a bit Froudian :)

[Nibras]

Awesome
I love sb's like this
You wanna know why?
All the work from imagination is crazy
Looks like your really enjoying yourself and having fun
thats why I love it so much
Keep at it man!
Wild

[Buckster]

hey there mate, really interesting updates as of late. I think it is great that you are experimenting with more intense colours and variations.
Only thing this time is that I want you to think about your focus points, I find the latest piece a bit too bright all over.

Keep up the godness!

Cheers

[clanlord]

Hei hei, very good job! Looks like you got talent creating creatures! They are really interesting. If you are up to study the animal anatomy the designs may become very professional... I am really looking forward to some finished stuff and more body studies. Take care my friend - g

[DefiledVisions]

Mokinzi - hey there :) thanks.

lilnebo - I love comments like this cause they make me wanna work a lot harder! :yayca:
cheers!

Buckster - Hey man! thanks for the crit, I'll see what I can do.. havn't worked the piece for a while.
cheers!

Clanlord - Thanks man! Creatures are what I enjoy creating the most.. humans are my weakness. I'll do more body studies, thanks for pushing me :D!
take care.

Did a valentine's day card yesterday, took the christmas card and re-made it.. Rushed it a bit, I know there's supposed to be a shadow beneath the flowers, covering the blue - but heck :P ..

[DefiledVisions]

Allright.. I kinda missed this weeks chow.. but heck - wasn't pleased with my piece at all anyway :)

Starting on a personal project for fun. Those of you familiar with Blizzard's Diablo franchise might recognise these characters.
I am going to illustrate each character class with their personal set.

I'm currently working on the necromancer and druid, which are my favorite characters..
The necromancer set is called Trang-Ouls Avatar, and by lore we learn that Trang-Oul is the dragon upon which the world lies. He is worshiped by the necromancers, and in return grants them wisdom and magic enchantations.
In the game, if you have the complete set - your character turns into a monster-class called vampire, which looks more like a tall wraith-like creature. I will try to incorporate some dragon in the piece aswell :P
More to come these days!

[DefiledVisions]

The druid sketch..

In the game, the druid is a hybrid character, with a setup of different types of playstyles: melee-type spells and abilities in form of shapeshifting; defensive and offensive summoning spells and range-type nature spells.

I've chosen to depict him in with parts of the summoning-spell tree and shapeshifting-tree.
To the left you can see a summoned creature called carrion vine. It morphs into the shapeshift ability known as werewolf, which in turn, morphs into the werebear, which morphs back into the most powerful of summons - grizzleybear.
They're all interlaced to show that they're a part of the druids abilities.

[DefiledVisions]

More work on the druid, and started working on the Sorceress.

Her set is called Tal-Rashas wrappings, and in the game, Tal-Rasha is the head of the Horadrim brethren, a brotherhood who hunts down the three prime evils to seal them away from the mortal world.
Though they fail to seal away the last of the brothers, Baal. Tal-Rasha then voluntarily seals Baal within himself, and is imprissoned within a tomb forever.

The sorceress is a pure spellcaster, with fire ice and lightning. So I'm going to depict all three elements, and try to give the piece the feeling of her being possesed by some twisted presence.
How that's going to be done I don't know yet.. :P
I'm also going to change the druid piece, by having him moving towards the viewer as in the necromancer piece. As it reads at the moment, there's no interaction - I want him to look away, being occupied by his summoning, but still have him interact with us by walking our way.

Oh and.. today it's 1 year ago I got my wacom tablet... time goes fast!