new sketches *updated 2.16.4*

[daarken]

hey. i havent posted in forever. this is just some stuff i have been messing around with.

color comp for a painting im doing
http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/concept/eccentric.jpg

http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/concept/sailors.jpg

http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/concept/womanknight.jpg

http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/concept/warriors.jpg

http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/concept/thefightingmachines.jpg

playing around in the sketchbook
http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/concept/orangewarrior.jpg

http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/life/12.11b.jpg

http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/life/feet.jpg

http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/life/2.5.4.jpg

http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/life/2.10.4.jpg

[alex_86]

Well I like them! Two different styles of sketching, both are great!

I have just a couple of crits:

Most of the colored drawings are really good, but the one with the explosion in the bg and the sailors in the foreground...the shading on the people looks a bit here and there you know? I mean if you were going to silhouette them then maybe a solid color would have been better. If you wanted to add depth to them, then why stop at just one guy's face? How you have it, it sorta looks messy (in a not so good way). As well, for this same image, I really think you should have given layers to the foreground (and maybe a tiny bit of highlight on the edges of things).

On the 7th image, and this is just totally my opinion, but I would have liked to see that guy on the top left done fully with straight down strokes, cause I see how you were going for that with the hair and bg, but you lost it a bit in the face.

On the image after that one, (8th), th but on the bottom sketch just don't look right. I think it's the shading on the "crack", pardon my french :D

Anyways, that looks like a lot of criticism but its just a few small things. Overall I love all of the pages you've put up.

[INFERNOmunky]

wow i love the colors in 2 and 6...coolness

[daarken]

medraw: maybe your gamma isnt right because i didnt just stop at the face. plus its just a quick sketch, i wasnt out to create a master piece...which is why it isnt in the finished works section. as for the 7th image the point i was going for in the face was to be flat and graphic, which is why i did the shading all in one direction.

[I.was.ink]

I like your skeches! :)

[Main Loop]

i caught a glimpse of when you were drawing the fighting machines hehe

i like what you did with the the orange in page #6.. its pretty effective.. 1st one has a bit of Foster in it..

[alex_86]

Daarken: I getcha, I still like them, keep in mind. The idea of the inferno is great.
:)

[U2DeathBear]

Very nice!! your sketches are great...and i hope to see your final piece from your comp.

[gekitsu]

nice to have you back, daarken.

and very nice work. i love your pencil sketches.
that first color comp is sweet - it looks so voodoo. :)

[daarken]

ink: thanks!

gekitsu: heh, thanks. its good to be back. hopefully i will have some more new stuff on the way.

mainloop: u did?? where? oh yeah...who are you at the academy? hahaha...

u2deathbear: thank you! i cant wait to see how yours turns out too. all your sketches were awesome. you are gonna have to let me look at your sketchbook on wednesday!! oh yeah, check your private messages

some stuff i did yesterday from different reference material.
http://www.daarken.com/flash2003/concept/soldiers.jpg