Sketchbook of DOOOM... learning to draw.

[Maunty]

Hello, :mod:

Thanks for checking out my sketchbook. I appreciate all criticism, feedback, support, etc. I'm 23 and I've been drawing consistently for about 3 years now + the time I spent messing around as a kid drawing street sharks or any other scribble that could have a lazer gun strapped to it. My goal is to improve as much as I can and CA seems like a great place to foster that spirit.


Enjoy!

[Maunty]

Heres a few WIPs

[NickyBeats]

some really cool stuff here man, i like your designs, very gritty. keep it up!

[latigid]

Yep i second NickyBeats cool characters and some lovely inks too keep at it this time you have talent!!

[DisorientedArt]

You have plenty of talent. I love the guy with the shield and the chainsaw on his back. Looks like he's just having one hell of a day

[Maunty]

Thanks for the comments guys. I worked on it some more and stopped at this. I think I like how it came out but ill probably still mess with it a bit.

[karikaertan]

I love the last one.Keep it up man.

[andres333]

congratulations the last one is pretty good.

[Maunty]

@karikaertan: Thanks man, hopefully there will be more to come.

@andres333: Thanks for checking it out, I appreciate it.

Heres some life drawing practice I did over the past few days. I need to do this kind of thing more often, its great practice. There were some things I couldnt get right, but overall it was a good exercise and something to improve on.

[Maunty]

Hey, hows everyone doing?

I woke up this morning and did a few arm studies from Bridgman for the first time. I definitely need to do more of these cause its great practice and I've never really done it before... gotta improve!! :uzi:

[Maunty]

Hey, I've been making myself do some studies over the past few days and these are a few examples. I read a couple bridgman books as well as Successful Drawing by Loomis and I tried to incorporate some of their ideas into these... must improve! :uzi:

[Maunty]

Heres a WIP from tonight that started from a sketch I liked. The face will be redone and I still need to finish up his right arm and legs + enviro. Hopefully it comes out well, I like it so far. Please let me know if there are obvious things that need fixing other than what i've listed.

[Dr poPcoRN]

really positive start! defo want to see more :) i like your style!

[IronFistGoon]

great stuff man. I like your lines. You have a very graphic style that uses a great spotted blacks. I also really enjoy your concepts. I would continue to study anatomy. The few that you have are pretty good. Get out and draw from life, that will really build up your ability. Check out these links.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=839593#post839593
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=297229
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=199&t=298699
Keep it up. You are doing great.

[Maunty]

Dr poPcoRN: Thanks for checking it out and there will definitely be more :)

IronFistGoon: Thanks for those links, thats some really good info. I try to draw people when i get the chance and I'll have to get around to it more often now that I've been reading up on anatomy a lot. Thanks for the encouragement, I appreciate it.

Heres where I'm at on the WIP I posted last. I think I'm pretty much done for now although I know theres plenty of room for improvement. Feel free to tear it apart, I wont mind :)

[Izer]

Nice work, lots of good details in your work, keep up those studies.

[Sanskarans]

This man is a brilliant artist .

[Maunty]

Izer: Details are my favorite part and sometimes I feel like it gets carried away. I'm glad you like it though and I'll keep up the studies.

Sanskarans: Thank you, those are very kind words and I appreciate it :) I have a lot to learn before I can begin to compare to many of the people who post here, but heres to learning and progressing!

Here is a Panda wearing Qing dynasty armor done partly for a competition on the League of Legends forums and partly just for my own entertainment. I have multiple steps saved if anyone is interested in seeing the progression, but for now I'll just post the final :) . I was really stumped on what to put on his banners because I didnt want to make it overly ethnic since its for a cartoony videogame. When I get a good idea I'll probably go back and redo the banners because for now they arent as rendered as much as the rest. Photoshop start to finish.

[IronFistGoon]

I love the panda. Very nice. I really like the black and white nude study you have there. it is rendered amazingly. Can't wait to check in again.

[Maunty]

Hey everybody,

I finally finished something after a week or two of failed attempts. I guess it was just one of those off weeks, who knows haha.

Regardless, heres a b/w (obviously) drawing of a Hell's Angels rider. I got the reference from an online photo album (http://rideamoto.com/2009/11/23/the-glory-days-of-the-hells-angels-10999). The album has some awesome pictures in it and I'll probably use a few others for reference in the future. I believe the picture I chose for this drawing was one of Doctor Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson's pictures from the time he spent with the biker gang.

The problems I had with the drawing were that I made his torso a little too long and it was hard to make the biker vest stand out from the leather jacket. Its got its problems, but I still like it and I think its a move in the right direction.

Photoshop start to finish, wacom, etc.

@Ironfistgoon: Thanks for checking out my sketchbook again, I appreciate it always. The panda was fun to do, it was for a League of Legends character design contest.

[Mex]

cool works ! Especialy like the man with saw. Outstanding !

[Maunty]

Hey everyone, been in a bit of a drawing slump lately and havent been able to finish much. Heres something I did yesterday partly in anticipation for Diablo 3 and partly just for the hell of it.

Its a Witch Doctress :)

[Maunty]

Hello again, heres some stuff I've done in the past month.

[Metal Fingers]

Lovely start to the SB, the gothic person with the hammer has a real warhammer vibe to it, I dig it.

[Maunty]

Thanks for checking out. Warhammer is always a big influence for me cause the artwork is incredible. That guys based off the warrior priests of the Empire, so good call :)

Heres some additional really rough/loose sketches

[Maunty]

yoooo. The first one is a warmup I did on top of an older drawing and the second is something I started yesterday for a competition.

Looks like its going to rain today so I'm ready to buckle down for a long day of photoshop :)

[FightingSeraph]

I really like what you've posted here, especially the guy with the chainsaw on his back.

[Maunty]

Hello, just some late-night updates.

Thanks FightingSeraph, I'm glad you like it :)

[Maunty]

I've been practicing some enviros lately and this is my favorite so far... still needs a focal point of some sort but I'm not sure what to put in.

[Maunty]

Hey, I dont have anything new thats finished to post today so here is a quick sketch from this morning's warmup. Hopefully I'll be able to finish something up in the next day or two. must... get... better...

[Maunty]

I did this for a contest

[Maunty]

I finally picked up the wacom pen again after a month long slump. Felt good to finally draw something again and I've started working on another project. Thanks for looking.

[Maunty]

I did 31 sketches tonight off of the 30sec posemaniacs. I'd never done it before and I'm sold. The coolest thing was after I was done and looking back over the sketches and realizing that my approach from start to finish had totally changed. I know I need a lot of work on fast gesture drawing, but its also kinda nice knowing I've identified an area that I need a lot of work in.

If anybody is willing to offer any analysis on what I posted below that would be awesome. I'm going to try and do 20+ minutes of these a day for a while and see what happens. I just thought it was really cool from an observational standpoint seeing how the first ones were so different from the later attempts. cool stuff.

[PendoX]

What contest was that pirate for? :) Looks awesome :D

[Maunty]

PendoX: Glad you like it :) It was for a contest over at the game-art group on deviantart (http://game-art.deviantart.com/) I won the past two comps they held and I'm donating the prize points I won as part of the prize for whoever wins the next one... so people should enter!

I did a bunch more (73) 30 second posemaniacs today. I really like doing these and hopefully I'll get better at it. Not sure if it took longer to do the sketches or scan them... I think ill do the next set on the ol' wacom.

:cheerleader:

[PendoX]

I would enter if I was as skilled as you.. Since I started do some 3d I feel like my Intuos4 is going to waste :(

[Maunty]

Pendox: You're plenty skilled to enter and besides, I've found that doing things specifically for contests is a great way to improve cause it teaches you to be creative within the predetermined focus of the theme.

I've never tried 3d, personally. I've always wanted to though. Is it just easier to use a mouse than a wacom for 3d programs? Intuos4... I'm jealous :)

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Heres an update from today. 5-6 hours, ps:cs3, wacom3.

[PendoX]

I gotta tell you, 3d is reeeeeeally fun :D Though it's kinda hard at times and nonetheless is it frustrating.
But about the contest thingy, it feels like you kinda have to be on a certain level of drawing to enter :P That's why I never enter any contests whatsoever.
But you may be right, when I think about it, it may be a pretty great way to iprove :) I promise, next time I find a contest I can enter, I will ;)
Btw, great work on the latest update

[Maunty]

@pendox: good luck with the 3d, I'll get around to trying it out someday :) Good luck on contests too and thanks for stopping by its always appreciated!

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Heres a few posemaniacs from this evening. Not sure if I'm improving much yet, but its getting easier to pick out iconic parts of a figure than it used to be... just gotta translate that onto paper now :D

[Maunty]

Hey, just posting some studies from today/yesterday evening. Theres some bridgman arms, some posemaniacs anatomy stuff and a couple loomis frames.

The torsos came out kinda loppy and scribbled since I was paying more attention to memorizing the muscles. Oh well, I'll do cleaner ones later.


*** After posting I kept looking through other peoples sketchbooks and I got inspired to do a bunch more Loomis studies... so thats what im doing now. I like rediscovering tips that I once knew and took into account and for whatever reason they slipped out of my mind. Specifically when Loomis talks about grounding the weight of a figure on a single point to establish balance. I think I need to keep that in mind more often than I do. I think fundamentals like that slip my mind because a lot of times when I set out to draw I say "ok, im going to focus on improving X" and while focusing on improving X I forget about other things I've learned along the way. Someday I hope to have all these things firmly cemented in my brain and all working at once in unison :) Til then....

[Maunty]

I tried a study this morning of a photo of a cast. I like parts of it and dont like others, but had fun working on it. I'll probably keep updating this post throughout the day with new studies as I finish them. I think I'm going to move on to some Loomis for a while. Thanks for checking it out - any comments/criticism are welcome.

[Maunty]

Hey, heres some quick 45sec posemaniacs from tonight and a loomis leg study from earlier today. Quick update for now. I was working on some other stuff, but i after a while it just got stagnant and i didnt fee like finishing it. That rarely happens... so, hmmm maybe I'll come back to it eventually. More studies in the meantime :)

[seetsy]

i like that rhino, its looking good, keep pushing!

[Maunty]

seetsy: Thanks for checking it out. More to come :)

A photo ref study from earlier today.

**added some head construction studies from loomis and a sketch from this evening

[Maunty]

Hey, finished this guy up today from the sketch in the previous post from last night.

[Sanskarans]

Cool studies bro .You are really working hard.

[Onisan]

There is some good improvement, try to look out for too much pure black and white in your finished pieces. It is hard to read some of the shapes in space if you don't light them correctly. Try to apply what you do while studying photography or referencing pictures to you fantasy character art.

[cgaddict]

Nice work, your figures are very nicely constructed, and you have some cool looking character concepts to boot. Keep going!

[loper42]

Nice sketchbook. Your designs are really creative and awesome! Great job! The panda samarui is pretty cool. Good luck on your venture. CA really is a great place to improve. I've only been posting for a week or so and I feel like I've learned so much already.

[Maunty]

Hey, wow July flew by. I went on a few backpacking trips, a week long family reunion and lots of other stuff. I was able to do some sketching, but I couldnt really devote much time to any one project. Now I have to make up for lost time... Heres some sketches from the past few days. I'm trying to work on the whole torso/hips/legs thing... lots of interesting curves.

Sans: Thanks, I was working really hard and then had a really busy month with a lot of time spent away from home so i feel like i got behind. The past few days I've been putting some solid hours in though :)

Onisan: Thanks for looking and I'm glad you see improvement. Sometimes I see improvement too, but other times I feel stuck. I know what you're saying about the pure white/black. I think I use it as a crutch sometimes :( I'll try and break away from that.

CGaddict: Thanks, I've been trying to improve my character construction a lot the past few months. The more I study the more I find out that I dont know haha.

loper42: Thanks for looking through it. Its always appreciated. The panda was fun to do.. crazy to think its almost a year old already. Time flies! I hope you stick with CA and use all the resources. Its a great place and I like to think its helped me a lot. Good luck and have fun.

[NickTrip]

Your stuff is looking great! I'm lovin' all the studies you're doing. Try to use one line for one edge on your gestures though. Don't "pet" them as loomis says. (i think he said that) anyway keep it up!

[Hazart]

I love all your weirdest stuff! Really!!! :D

[Maunty]

Your stuff is looking great! I'm lovin' all the studies you're doing. Try to use one line for one edge on your gestures though. Don't "pet" them as loomis says. (i think he said that) anyway keep it up!

Haha... Oh man... thank you for that word. I'm certainly guilty of that. I've always known that I draw way too many lines when im sketching really quickly... and I think "pet" is the perfect word for it. When I read that it put it in a new perspective. I'll try and work on my line efficiency more. Thanks again :)

[Maunty]

Hey,

Heres what I've been working on the past few days. The final image is where I'm currently at. Any input I can get before I move forward will be greatly appreciated. Its still got a long way to go, but I think its starting to come together.

[AChipps]

I don't enter DA's contest. I have the kind of luck that would help a person not going by the rules win first place.
I draw with a mouse, and I created things in 3d, but there are two ways of creating an image, and that is to draw it, or create it in 3d. Drawing it is better, and faster, but once you get started with 3D you might do that just to give it a chance, and that can change things a lot. You can get out of practice drawing, and you always try to make better 3d images to equal your drawings or better. You can mix the two, but with drawing you don't have any limits to what you imagine, while 3D has limits to camera angles and what you really want. So you can stay with drawing what you want, there is a lot more you can do, unless you want to get into animation drawing a lot of images is a lot harder than with 3d. Maybe one day you might want to try it.
I think your art is fine. Keep up the good work or play which every it may be.

[Sanskarans]

Woohoooo Cool i like your new concept Evan .Looks like this really going to turn into one of your best.

Waiting for the fully finished picture.All the best bro

[Maunty]

just finished... finally

@Achipps: thanks for the advice on 3d, I'll keep it in mind :)

@Sanskarans: Thanks for checking it out and I hope it didnt disappoint.

[Sanskarans]

Seriously i have to say that your newest picture looks like a frame from an Cartoon series.I really like the colour pattern.Viewers are getting the feel of the environment you created here .

Great work my friend :android:

[Maunty]

Thanks for stopping by and checking out my sketchbook. I was out of town all last week and hurt my wrist boxing so drawing has been hard, but I did a couple pages of quick sketches from reference. The reference were random poses from my DA favorites gallery. The last one is an edit/closeup collage of the last finished drawing that I posted a couple weeks ago.

Thanks again for stopping by :)

[Maunty]

Just a funny alternate skin for a character named Teemo in League of Legends (Riot). This is T-Money :) I haven't done any fan related drawing in a while.

[Maunty]

Something ive been laying out over the past few weeks in my offtime. I've been really busy so I havent been able to work on it much, but hopefully I can finish it up in the next week.

[Sanskarans]

Wow the lighting is simply amazing.Picture is giving a 3d feel.Waiting to see this one fully finished .All the best

[Maunty]

Sanskarans: Thanks for checking it out and I hope you like the finished version. I'm not totally happy with how the lighting came out in the end.

[Maunty]

Here are some studies and sketch pages from this month.

#3 and #4 are very quick compositional studies from two really great paintings, one of which can be found here: http://wlop.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2l3lyt and I'm not sure where I found the second.

[Maunty]

A b&w study from reference of a Mark Newman sculpture of Gollum from Lord of the Rings. I tried painting this sculpture in color a few months back but it didn't work out so I went back to it again today in b&w.

Hes got a lot of cool sculptures here: [link]

took about 3 hours, thanks for checking it out. Let me know what you think :)

[Maunty]

Hey, just a few updates from stuff I've been working on.

The first one is a WIP that I've been messing with on and off for the past few days. The second is just a speedpaint from photo reference. The third is a random sketchpage and the fourth is just b&w practice.

[Sanskarans]

Cool studies my friend.I really liked your take on Gollum

You did a great job in lighting in that Dragon picture.

Waiting for more my friend

[Maunty]

Hey Sans, thanks a lot :)

Finished this up tonight:

[hücumkedi]

cool!

[Maunty]

Hey everyone, been busy with work and seeing family for the holidays. I managed to put this together over the past few days. I play a lot of League of Legends so I've taken a liking to coming up with alternate skin ideas for the characters. This one is an Akuma/Dark Hadou spin off of Udyr. The pose is referenced from one of Akuma's more famous images. Udyr shapeshifts to take on characteristics of various animals, including a Phoenix stance.

I tried some new brushes on this and I really like how it came out. i also tried to use more color and liven up my coloring. I think I had some success with that, but I know I can push it a lot further. Either way, I'll consider this one a victory for now.

[LastGen]

I really like the last life drawing of the nude you made - nice lighting and proportations...I like your sketchbook!

[Sanskarans]

Looks great Evan.You could work more on Akuma figure to bring out more realism for the character.Try working with painter software .You can mold it to give a 3d structure for the figure.

Try acrylics brush and scratch board tool .You can give a nice render for the image

[Maunty]

Hey, I'm starting to use Alchemy and I came up with this yesterday. I'm going to start painting it up in photoshop and see how it comes out.

Alchemy seems like a pretty cool program I just need to learn more about it.

[Sanskarans]

Cool design bro.Cant wait to see your new works

[Maunty]

Thanks for looking Lastgen and Sans, I appreciate it!

This is one of my sketches from today that I think I like enough to flesh out a bit.

[Maunty]

Hey,

Here is some progress from today on the sketch I posted a few days ago. Im trying to spend more time designing her from the start rather than design as i go like normal. I'm still not sure what to do with her upper half, but probably some sort of a jacket since shes an airship girl and it would probably be cold up there haha. The thing shes holding will be a big harpoon with big bird feathers on the end and I'm going to try and use feathers in some other parts of her design to tie it together.

Anyway, thats some of my thinking so far. If you have any ideas let me know :D


**Edit: added color update to this post... will post the completed version later when I'm done. I cant figure out do do with the rest of the harpoon yet :(

[Sanskarans]

Cool idea Evan .Move on with it .All the best

[ArghosRo]

You have some very interesting characters, I really like them, plus I see you got a great sense of values. Keep it up!!!!




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My SB!!!!!!!!
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=191864

[Maunty]

Hey,

This is the completed version of the sketch I posted a few days ago. I like how it came out and I used a process that I liked a lot and think I will use again in the future.

Let me know what you think!

And thank you ArghosRo for stopping by and checking out my sketchbook :)

[Maunty]

Hey, just a bw study from this morning. Its cold and raining today so I'll probably just keep working on it and finish it up :D

Thanks for stopping by

[Sanskarans]

Always good to see your new updates.I like the look of last one.Waiting for how this will turn it out .

[Maunty]

Pretty sure I'm done with this now. I wasn't sure if I would end up adding color or not... but I ended up adding a lot of color haha. Anyway, hope you like it. If not tell me why :)

Thanks for looking Sans!

[Sanskarans]

This came out fantastic my friend.You have improved the coloring to a great extend here.Keep on hardworking.:pump:

Waiting to see more character designs .Try more complex character designs and challenge your ability:muscle:

[Maunty]

Just continuing the theme it looks like haha. I've only worked on this one for about 2 hours so theres a lot more to do, but I wanted to post to show the progress.

Some more black and white study. I have a pet snake and looked at him for the basic shape, but all the scales and shading is from imagination.

I made the cat-thing have some qualities of a mask and I think I'm going to make the snake feel robotic.

I'm heading out of town for a few days so I need to finish this up by tomorrow or its going to be bothering me while im away.

Thanks for the feedback Sans, I tried to make this one a bit more complex to get some better practice out of it.

[Dope Fiend]

Lookin good, I'd say a few value studies could help define your forms a little more and make your characters "pop", add life, etc..

otherwise, keep em coming!

[Maunty]

Finished this guy up this afternoon. Aside from the basic shape of a snakes head I did all the scales, values, colors, etc from imagination.

Hope you like it.

Thanks for checking it out DF, I agree that I need to do more studies and I'll probably do a few over the next few weeks.

[Maunty]

Hey,

I've been going back and updating some of my older drawings. Below is an armored bear guy and I also forced myself to do some enviro painting practice.

[Sanskarans]

This one is a big jump Evan.Keep on practicing

[Maunty]

A spaceship warmup from this morning. I want to try and do a sci-fi enviro painting next :painting:

Thanks Sans, I want to keep working on environment concepts

[Maunty]

2hour warmup from this morning

[Sanskarans]

Awesome man

[Sean McClain]

cool stuff man, I like eastern mythologies.

[Maunty]

Thanks for checking it out guys.

Another 2h portrait practice

The Dr.

[Maunty]

Hello CA,

Heres my morning warm up. I'm going to refine this one a bit more, I think. I've been practicing values a lot this past week so I'm hoping that practice will come in handy in making a good composition.

hope you all have a good weekend

[Maunty]

More enviro practice from today.. no ref

[Maunty]

~35min practice sketch of a werewolf from reference

reference: http://coreyloving.deviantart.com/art/Wolf-Sketch-7-Hours-183773729

[Maunty]

Hey, worked on this for the past couple days and just finished it up.

I like how the mood turned out.

I used a waxy monkey tree frog as reference and created a monster from there.

Let me know what you think.

[Maunty]

Hey, sorry for disappearing.

Anyway, I started something new and I'm about 30min in. Its going to be an ice cave. Still lots to doooooooooooo.

I'm hoping to finish this up in the next day or two.

[Sanskarans]

Wow Evan you did a great job on your recent works.Love that Frog creature especially.Keep up the great work man.CHEERS!

[Maunty]

Hey, I disappeared for a few months cause I've been really busy with work. Heres a landscape from about 2 months ago and something I finished up a few hours ago. Wish this weekend would last a few more days :)

[Maunty]

quick update

[Sanskarans]

Great updates Evan.Last two is Killers

[Maunty]

Been super busy with work, but managed to draw this the other day

[Maunty]

woah its been a while... been busy with work and other stuff.

This is from the past two days. Hope you like it: