*paddyland*, kinda daily sketchbook, art, studies n tha' 135 of 420

[young paddy1]

Go down to the last page for the latest dumps
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[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/thumbies_4.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/thumbies.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/thumbies_2_.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/thumbies_3_.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/frankenstein.jpg

Frankensteins monster reffed from alice cooper, iggy pop and ben stiller corridor from the fifth element ref used but not stuck to. c+c wanted, needed, desired, required or what ever word you want to use to say I'd like some....

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyboy/environment.jpg




c+c that is

[young paddy1]

just watched cabin fever, mmm nice

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/brain_splat.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyboy/sharpe.jpg

finally got around to doing something with my sharpe refs

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyboy/cat_suit.jpg

ref of shannon elizabeth, jay and silent bob strike back

[young paddy1]

seeing what I could do in an hour came up with this from saving private ryan ref

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyboy/saving_private_ryan.jpg

[Matt Dixon]

Looks like an intersting thread to watch. I guess I'd need to see the movie to figure out your Cabin Fever pic - looks like Vindaloo fallout to me right now. ;)

Here's a question - when you're working to a time limit, do you consider what you're likely to acheive within that time and approach your pic accordingly, spending time only on important elements, or just take a run at it without much forethought and keep things fast and loose?

[young paddy1]

working to a time limit I try to go for blocking everything in first then detailing that's why the scopes not done and there's no netting on his helmet or workings of the rifle.

AndI just noticed I missed the background between his face and the stock, bugger.

edit: BTW cabin fever is about a disease that makes you vomit up your own liquified inards.

[jarvis2824]

Impressive stuff, my young padawan (sorry, couldn't help it). Nice designs and paintings. Don't have much to critique. Just keep posting stuff!

Sincerely,
Chris

[young paddy1]

Do you realise you are the first person on any message board, apart from someone who knows me personally that has actually said it like that, well of course you do I just bloody told you didn't I. Cheers for the comments.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dsg/masai.jpg

hour and a bit, some more painting practice done for dsg

[young paddy1]

new york 1937

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyboy/new_york_1937.jpg

50 minutes of fiddlin'

[young paddy1]

hour and a bit, I know it doesn't look like much

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyboy/meiji_tokyo1968.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/airman.jpg

attempt at a quicky ended up at a little under two hours

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/hovercraft.jpg

[S.C. Watson]

Hey YoungPaddy,

Some really great stuff here. Your images are coming along very nicely. Keep up the good work.

I really like your Masai. Great image.

~Oreg.

[young paddy1]

cheers for the comments Oregano, third reply from someone other than me and it's a compliment cool.

[S.C. Watson]

:D

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/magii.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/eyeye1.jpg

stuff I did this morning about 2am insomnia's a bitch.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/masks.jpg

very sketchy sketches 5-10 minutes for both

and acouple of rednex in a womping contest 'bout 30 minutes

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dsg/rednex_copy.jpg

the source is from MCM's sketchbook, I'm sorry I couldn't resist giving it a quick go, around 20 minutes

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/facey.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wave.jpg

20 minute tools experiment

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/sexyvenomgirl2.jpg

a picture of a fellow member

[young paddy1]

the prettiest car in the world, probably

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/dodge_viper_gtsr.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/digger.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/crane_head.jpghttp://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/crane.jpghttp://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/anglers.jpg

a couple of studies and a couple of land and air based anglers.

[young paddy1]

a WIP of part of a war scene with human sized and giant robots, "fallen comrade"

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fallen_comrade.jpg

BTW I know his hands look cack

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/stump_splitter.jpg

a study for 'hand' weapon on a battle robot

[steak-tron]

nice sketches dude, those sketch-paintings are getting on time. That bulldozer arm and african warrior character look really nice. Keep em' up.:D

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/electro_dreads.jpg

cheers for the reply steak-tron, I've had a litle time off work so, I'm just trying to improve.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/street1.jpg

completely unshaded chinese street

[insane visions]

i see some good stuff here

[young paddy1]

cheers and yes I can feel your visions as long as that isn't some sort of prison lingo

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fishing_on_the_river_yi.jpg

it's all I gt so far today and it's my dsg

[Robert.B]

nice


http://vermad.deviantart.com/

[young paddy1]

merci

like your stuff too, the thinh you put in the sexy ladies thread, gave me a good laugh.

[village idiot]

some dead good pics on here me fella.
really like the masai warrior and the li river one

[young paddy1]

i don't even need to look at your location tag to know your from Britain, ta for the compliment VI, lovin your stuff all the way.

[abyss]

hey there
that strange rabbit kinda reminds me of darko
seen the movie? you should. ...everyone should

nice digital work
not as near as enough sketches tho
one thing i notice is, how you ignore a bit the great human
figure (this adjective is, ofcourse ironic)
and it is a nice thing to see, since quite a bit artists
(and so called artists, as myself for that matter)
do human human human all the time. they are boring their own brain
and will never learn anything else
...
i got carried away, sorry.
love the iggy alice ben thingo! :)
love

[young paddy1]

Hvala, I have seen donny darko, i suppose subconciously it crawled into my head, don't worry about going on a bit your english makes more sense than my croatian.

wip from a magazine cover bout 1/2 an hour so far
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/elisha_cuthbert.jpg

[young paddy1]

A colour of steak-tron's amazing beast, hope this does it a reasonable justice

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/reptar.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/hopper.jpg

[steak-tron]

hot damn yougpaddy1!, that color-job is great.
I'm trying to come up with a color scheme now. I really like what you've done with the reddish/brown tones.

nice sketches elswhere bro. your headed in the right direction. My only suggestion -study- I've been studying creatures like never before and it does a whorld of good. No one can draw this stuff out of their head without research.

im flattered.

[young paddy1]

thx steak-tron that makes me feel all warm inside hehehe

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wings.jpg

a touch of research into the possibilities of wing based sails and gliders

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wrinkly_guy.jpg

[young paddy1]

mini guff

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/butterboy.jpghttp://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/tentacle_mush.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/classic_mon.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bugman.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/hangar.jpg

[young paddy1]

DSGs
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/lighthouse_at_the_end.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/jack.jpg


http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/coil_monkey.jpg

the vast majority of it is not my character, jost the gun and the helmet the rest is from SWAT

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/war_walkers.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dragons.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/pointy.jpg

some really really early morning stuff.

[Summer Pudding]

that Chinese fisherman with the cormorant is superb

[young paddy1]

short but sweet, cheers

[TheUbermind]

i like the paintings you did- :evilbat:

i wish too see more:evilbat:

[steak-tron]

cool bots man, make em' bigger tho.;)

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/robot_scout.jpg

here ya go peeps

[elboy]

you do some cool stuff on the computer (african warrior[people have been saying masai, I guess?], the 'messing w/ tools' wave, and this last robot, to name a few). I must admit that I like your digital stuff more than the pencil sketches, but you've got good stuff going on, and the more we draw, the better we get, right?
first I use brackets inside parentheses, then a run-on sentence. how ridiculous.
keep up the good work.

[young paddy1]

thanx for the reply elboy, I must admit my drawing style is sketchy as hell, but I've been drawing like this since I was about 5 so it's a pain in the arse trying to train myself out of it.


anyhoo another bot a 40 minute wip so far, including sketchy arse drawing.
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/boxbot1.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/knight_rider.jpg

i've posted it already but what ya gonna do?

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/headz.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/uplinks.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/headz2.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/headz3.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/thumper.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/standing_tall.jpg

heads, heads and more heads, and a kid in a duffle coat.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/waterboy.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sparky.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/weirdos.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/airwolf.jpg
airwolf if you couldn't guess

[hurricane]

funny stuff m8 !

great pics ! i love the droids and the knight playing horsie :P

keep on posting !!

cheers !

[chudzta]

i went from thinking you could use some more contrast on your first few graphite things.. and then i saw more and more of it as you progressed and as i got to the end, liking you airwolf, i'd say keep up what your doing and continue those photo refs.. piece - ry

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sparky2wip.jpg

really crap WIP of one of my sketches but what do you expect, I worked a 10 hour day and I've been up for 20.

thanx for the replys guys, I like hearing from other artists especially ones as talented as those on this forum.

By the way chudzta d'you mean peace? if not I'm lost.

cheers

[Yina]

hardworking! the lighting on the swat guy looks good :)

[carterartist]

some of the pieces look really professional and well designed, whereas others look almost like someone else did them. I do that too, but i thought i had to say something somewhat negative. now that's outta the way, you have same great skills.

[buzzz3d]

I like your pencil designs, original stuff.

[young paddy1]

power fruit
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/clockwork_orange.jpg
This orange looks annoyingly realistic, it didn't before I shrunk it a bit.

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/lemon.jpg

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/pear.jpg
the panels look quite crappy don't they

Yina: yeah get up at 5.00am get home at 18.00, the swat guy was a bit of an experiment with multiple light sources at which I'm terrible.

carterartist: I'm probably the most inconsistant arty person on here, I have no real style, no real ability, and not enough time to improve, but I'll keep on trying.

buzzz3d: cheers, but is anything truly origiinal anymore

(ooh that was deep):D

[dakoscwash]

My, how you have progressed. I've been watching this for a while and you've got some great stuff man. So that orange at the top isn't a picture? You could've stumped me. Keep up the good work.:chug:

[young paddy1]

dakoscwash: It's not a photo, but I did grid up the ref, got it from javajane.co.uk, no ref for the other two except for using the skin texture style from my orange ref. Cheers for the compliment by the way, I thought I was getting a bit better but you can't really crit your own stuff, you get too close.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/unknown_ww2_tech.jpg

dodgy paintover to try out an idea, just wondering when other people do a paintover do they leave the original behind it or do they do the whole thing, I go for the whole thing personally.

[van]

I really like a lot of your sketches. The only thing I notice throughout is that you have weak spots in anatomy. You might want to add some anatomy studies to your regimen.

Keep it up!

[young paddy1]

I know I have some problems with anatomy, but what makes you think I have a regimen, I get bored I draw, not bored no drawing. :D Anyway some quickies I knocked out today.

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/armies.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/leggy.jpg

[young paddy1]

painting of a resin skull I've got on my book shelf

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/skull1.jpg

EDIT: stupid brain

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/robo_guy.jpg

double post, oooh

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/head_and_shoulders.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/movie_people.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/crazy_daydream_creature.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/howlers.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/girl_with_headphones.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/girl_from_club.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/gas_masks.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/ribcage.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/spidermanish_shit.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/shania_princess.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/witch_king.jpg

bit of a dump most of it I aint happy with but hey what ya gonna do?

[softdrawer]

Hey young PAd,

Gotta love the fruits haha, i love them.

Improving as i see, it's good man.

ill see you around.

alx

[young paddy1]

Fear my mighty idiot mittens of power
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mittens_of_power.jpg
v quick sketch I think I robbed the pose not sure from where, its in my head somewhere.

softdrawer: cheers for the comps, yeah I liked the fruit I think the two citrus' are probably my best digital stuff to date.

anybody, everybody please crit my shit.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sister_mary_jane.jpg
'bout 25 minutes
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/frisbee_girl.jpg
'bout an hour and a bit

both from ref, trying to get into just doing the tones not the actual colours.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/roller_girls.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/roller_cheerleader.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/alien_fart1.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/drahn_time_7_pencils.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/drahn_time_7.jpg
some more of my dodgy sketching

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/flying_donkey.jpg

1 piece update just did it 'bout an hour ish, I'm thinkin' of doing more along these lines don't know why.

[steak-tron]

good studies man, keep em coming, mo' experiment you should do sez i.

[young paddy1]

Cheers steak your like a crazy Georgian yoda. Just checked your site you have filled it with ultimate slickness. :D BTW I just realised I probably heard of your mum before I had heard of you, in a lecture at college about photographic mapping recognition systems being made AI. Assuming of course your mum is Dr. Marguerite Madden Remillard.

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/horny_nutter_with_blade.jpg
Paint job based on complete2's weirdo lines.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wormusa.jpg

I've kind of gone overpainting crazy but oh well my painting is atleast a little better.

Bumped for a crit basically.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/pustule1.jpg

back to the dodgy late night sketching

[steak-tron]

hey, thats the one! Small world we got here with this interweb or whatever you call it. Thats nuts. Would she know you (did you talk to her?) It's actually not surprising since she has lectured all over the world. She's in Istanbul right now. I'll have to tell her about this. (I could'nt really ask her if she knows a youngpaddy1 by name...)

Keep making those paintings. The second to last one is really bizzare (which is a good thing). Only advice is to paint from ref a little, it may not apply to those images directly but it will enhance your ability. The July 12th is looking good but the hand is a little weak because it looks like one mass. The biceps are also modeled a little too spherical.

Looking good man, I hope that crit helps.
Keep posting :chug:

[young paddy1]

All I can say is yay a reply, cheers Steak, I will always folow the advice of a man with such skills, unless of course t hat advice ends up with me at the bottom of a well or hanging by my fingernails on the edge of a cliff.

I didn't meet her but I believe my lecturer had , it was a kind of mixed lecture about all different parts of aircraft mapping and FOF recognition systems, her name came up, must have been about two years ago, can't even rememberthe guest speakers' names, but your Mum's is a little unusual so it kinda stuck.

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/tshirts_and_undies.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dreads_and_muscles1.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/misc_gubbins.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/heads.jpg
quick drawings of people and other stuff

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/tentacles.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/tits.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/asses.jpg

I told you, you'd be disappointed

[young paddy1]

http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/whale_bosher.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/smoking_biddy.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bear_wearer_and_birdy.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/ass.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/doc_ock_back.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fishman_thingy.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/heads2.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/helmets.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/doc_ock_animal_lover.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/caterpillar.jpg
http://img6.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cat_and_head.jpg

quick sketches, not so quick sketches and conceptish stuff

[jERiCHO DARQUA]

,,,,,,,,

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/magic1.jpg

little bit of magic, no filters as such just blur

[young paddy1]

do they look anything like them?
The last three are done from memory afte looking at photoref for about a minute.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/austin1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/austin2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/austin3.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/austin4.jpg

back in an LOTR vibey
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/trolls.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/venician.jpg

a wee inspired bit, due to cartoonfox
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/colour2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cartoonhomage.jpg

tram hand rail stuff from Manchester
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/handsonpole.jpg

C+C welcome and needed

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/jumpingcrazy.jpg

my seriously dodgy 20 minute update to the sounds of Tenacious D

[young paddy1]

drizzle dome ideas, haven't touched the tablet yet obviously
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/icehunter3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/icehunter2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/icehunter1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/icehunter4.jpg
annoying little girl
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/devilgirl.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/icehunter6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/icehunter5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/icehunter7.jpg

more wippage

please say something, if it's only goodbye

[tagHeuer]

I like the polar bear idea. This should be a good match. I've got to get back to work on my sketches, your way ahead of me! :happypatriot:

[jetpack42]

is that me in the upper right of the portrait pagE? i recognize blackhawk, whitaker, oblio, marko, coro and manley as well...nice work. some of the liknesses arent too strong, but some of them are pretty well carried off.

[young paddy1]

tagHeuer: I have to agree with you about this being a good match, after looking at your previous work.

jetpack42: yeah that's meant to be you there with Manley on my 1 minute page, trying to get loose, coro and marko took about 5 each and the others god knows.

[Rhaucan]

Encouraging work! I take it you are from manchester, from your tram experiences. Heh but should of just guessed from "the wettest place in manchester". I'm in Didsbury here, where abouts are you?

[young paddy1]

cheers for the compliment, I'm from the hills Buxton specifically http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyboy/sheep.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyboy/sheep.gif, formerly from Erith, Kent.

[spork891]

I like the special ops polar bear, he's cute, yet deadly.

[young paddy1]

It's the only thing I don't really like about it I'm tryin' to lose some of the cute and increase a bit of the deadly, any ideas?

Anybody.

k b-bye now

[S.C. Watson]

Hey paddy1,

Try giving it some harsher lighting and use more angular features instead of the roundness you are giving it currnetly. Sharper, harsher lines are associated with more predatory creatures, usually.

Hope that helps some.

Cheers,
~Oreg.

[young paddy1]

I'll give it a go I was thinking of a timberwolf polar bear mix earlier so I'll go and tweak that a bit. Cheers Oreg. :)

[spork891]

You could exaggerate his jawline a little in the profile, and make it look like he isn't smiling from the front. Maybe make him walk a little more hunched over like he is stalking something.

[young paddy1]

going for the more evil, less cute feel, caught it a bit, but his shoulders are too round
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wolfyheadandduffle.jpg
heads, damn heads.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wolfyheads.jpg
20 minutes pratting around with snow and stuff
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/blizzardwarrior.jpg
1 1/2 hours watching truman show again, need to work out how to do that wolf face in perspective (no chance), and a suitable mask for a canine face must be done.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/icehunter.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/icehunter-2.jpg

[van]

I really like the last one...but it could use some MORE tender loving care. Dont stop yet....its AWESOME!

Great imagination.

[van]

Woops! WIP. Ok. I will shut up and wait. :bashful:

[young paddy1]

Cheers for the compliment van, you're right even though realised late that it is a WIP, I've got 4 days, and barely any computer time to fiddle for the drizzledome.

Which would you go for? Any ideas? Anybody?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/icehunter-3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/icehunter-4.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/icehunterbigish.jpg

[corky13]

really nice work here :)

I like the last one...looks more useful with the Bag on the side..but i would change the color to light-brown instead of green..just my opinion ;)

[young paddy1]

cheers corky I agree with you about the bag but i just didn't have the time to change the colour, dinner comes first over everything :wink:

[Rhaucan]

Wow, its really great to see how this progressed from your first ideas. I reminds me of the wombles, or atleast if you pissed a womble off. I wouldnt even attempt it after seeing this pick. The last changes really have brought it to life and given it great contrast, epic white peaks.

[carterartist]

"carterartist: I'm probably the most inconsistant arty person on here, I have no real style, no real ability, and not enough time to improve, but I'll keep on trying."

I hope you didn't think I was trying to be negative. I really like the 3d stuff you added.

carterartist
c/o carterartist.com
and carterartist.blogspot.com
carterartist@yahoo.comcarterartist.com (http://www.carterartist.com) carterartist.blogspot.com (http://carterartist.blogspot.com)

[young paddy1]

cheers Rhaucan, sorry for the tardy reply, but it's over now we won yay. :D

carterartist what are you on about? What 3d stuff? Did you post in the wrong thread? If not thanx anyway.

[young paddy1]

It seems I've gone all dangley bits and pointy jobs, in the last couple of days.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/snufflebum.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/nojawalieninrobe.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/loonyalien.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/jjwalrus.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/eyetongue.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/creaturebw.jpg
5 minute colour it's crap but I needed to see something other than graphite
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/creaturecolour.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/armourednob.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/alienheads.jpg

Nothing here more than half an hour, and only then cause I couldn't stop fiddling.

[young paddy1]

There be Nazi stuff below

I ain't a nazi or a fan of nazi's it's just a thunderdome thing.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/naziastroladysketch.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/naziastrolady.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/naziastrolady2.jpg

my beef dome progression so far, didn't bother with the thumbs coz they were crap.

[Madoliane]

I love your v dallas entry. You're work is coming on leaps and bounds...keep it up. Watching others improve inspires me to keep at it.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/TD2_youngpaddy1.jpg
this is it the final piece dunno if I'll do anymore to it later, and all with a round brush and a hell of a lot of smudging.

cheers for the reply Madoliane good to know some people still look in here.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/naziastrolady3.jpg
half an hour of tinkering after the deadline, I think it's better anyone else
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/polartentacle.jpg
something from a sketch I did during the last tdome

[spork891]

That polar bear is very frightening. I like it a lot.

[young paddy1]

cheers spork, I hope atleast some of that was sarcasm, or you must shit when you have a bad nightmare. :)

[young paddy1]

idea for a logo
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/flyingbrain.jpg

inspired by a kevin j anderson story
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/ssscreatures.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/smokingfreak.jpg

dodgy profile shot of liono just for the shape of the face really
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/liono.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/droopyrobot.jpg

[niq3d]

Hi I've just looked through your sketchbook and it's really cool just how much progress you've made.

some of the images on the second page really are very good, whatever it is that you are doing, keep it up!

I especially like some of the little thumbnail random alien thingie type heads, and the final polar bear image is really nice.

you've inspired me to get a sketchbook together, someday, when I can work out how, or something.

anyhow, good stuff mate. I like.

[young paddy1]

cheers for that, good to see more you-kay involvement in the boards, get your stuff together and post it, I wanna see some.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/finalliono.jpg

liono in my small and ineffectual style.

[Madoliane]

Your work just gets better and better. Keep it coming !!!

[Pichuerca]

Great monsters and paintings. Keep it

Pich

[young paddy1]

thank you both for the compliments, it feels good to here from people in my sketchbook, dunno why.

But I really need help with this, better posing colour scheme and the like

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/finallionocol1.jpg

hheeeeeelllllllpp, I hate using this slow ass computer and only a goddamned round brush, you spend £3000 on a comp and it takes five soddin' weeks to get here.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sp1.jpg

me with my patented gormless, slightly unwell pillock expression

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/colliono3.jpg
after looking at the comments in the tdome discussion thread I fiddled with his legs a bit.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/posttdomelionopose.jpg
a pose I did this morning while looking at my original liono
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/girlinblack.jpg
from ref


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/glassgirlsplat.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monsterheadgorilla.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/faces.jpg
brain fart

scribbles on copier paper

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/2sp1.jpg

refiddle with the sp I did while I had food poisoning

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/noses.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/faceybits.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkeyjetpackthumbs.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/jetpackmonkey.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/newagemonk.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dunno.jpg

some general tat from the weekend

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cowboy1.gif

[young paddy1]

bloody absess in my jaw's givin me some serious shit, so this is what I've got
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/connery.jpg
from photo ref, 'bout an hour.

Anyone got any tips about leather, in digital media? That is fuckin' solid.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/blufro.gif

[Badger]

SWEEET, the last one is great!
Loving your serious work load here, there's loads and u obviously like to experiment in different media.
Il keep lurking
-Badger-

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/creamdress.jpg

done with a photo ref 35 minutes ish

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/blufro.gif

cheers badger, you keep lurking, this place is filling up with UK - ites, ain't it cool?

[niq3d]

mate, the jacket on the connery pic is looking pretty bleedin' good to me.

nicely done sir.

[young paddy1]

thanx niq, it doesn't look bad at this scale but at twice the res, it looks pretty tatty close up.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/blufro.gif

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/redbren.jpg

thing for a thing, photo refs needed, I suppose that's why she looks like a he.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/blufro.gif

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/redridinghood.jpg

didn't seem much point posting it in the challenge thread, everyones busy
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/blufro.gif

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/castleonthehill.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/tower2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/spaceshipatsea.jpg

hour and a bit each, trying to get used to thi program is driving me crazy

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/turbodeer.jpg

number 5, you aint seeing number 4 I wouldn't wipe my arse with it.

[young paddy1]

ooh naughty double post

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cityshamen.jpg

getting better I think, possibly

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/falls.jpg
yet another painter pic from me
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/jetpack50s.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/falls2.jpg

finished at three this morning

[steak-tron]

powering up young paddy, u r getting better.

Is that a greaser JetPack? :tihi:

you've got good modeling now but the colors are flattening everything out, take a look at prometheus' site for some useful color techniques.
-peace

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/waterfall.jpg

cheers steak, good to hear from you again, thank for the tip about Prom's site, went over found I had to do logic problems at gone three in the morning, god that was difficult, it was indeed meant to be a greaser jetpack, looking at him now, he looks like he likes the sun A LOT.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/coralcaves.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/longhouse.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/citystoneage.jpg

some more little fiddles from today and a coupl'a days ago.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dodgypainterlady.jpg

I'm getting better I think but this is still seriously shoddy. Having some difficulties with painter (too many options not enough brain power). ;)

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/stuff.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/stuffish.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/stuffff0004.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/stuffff0002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/priestessish.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cross.jpg

proper sketchbook stuff, as you can tell by the shitness :)

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/goodbrushredhead.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/goodbrushcopy2.jpg

couple of studies of craig mullins work, (cheated a bit, used painters guides) trying to get a good quick painter sketching style down.

[hurricane]

interesting last update !

try smoothing or using the colors as a surface (or the way you look at the colors)

hehe, keep up the good work !

cheers !

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mountains.jpg

cheers for the tip hurricane, always have admired your stuff BTW

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/spacelift.jpg

painting of the day


merry christmas to y'all

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bigtats.jpg

trying to catch up to my quota of one a day

merry xmas again

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/minitats2.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/arniehead.jpg

sorry for the dodgy profile views just tryig to sort out facial markings in my head.

[van]

Wow. Havent been here in a while. Not just your sketchbook, but CA in general. Looking fantastic...your progress is really showing. Need to switch up and out of profile mode though so you dont get stuck. :)

[young paddy1]

alicia keyes speed paint, about 1 1/2 hours

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/ak.jpg

the cheek's rubbish and I just cant get the volume right.

taking you advice (well sorta) cheers for the reply van

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/eyeeye.jpg

how bored am I considerring I should probably be pissed right now

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cb.jpg

I'm dropping behind on my aims so just a quick slap up of claudia black. I like the way this painter pencil's workinig though.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/charley.jpg

I think it's king charles II not sure but oh well, 'bout an hour, makes me realise that it's colour that slows me down.

[van]

Looking good, YP. :) The skin tones you got in the keyes speedy are wonderful, but the skin itself looks stretched and sinewy...kind of like Freddie Kreuger. ;)

[IanE]

Great paintings. My favorite is the one of Sean Connery (spelling...?). Looks just like him. Very good sketchbook.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/asianlady.jpg

cheers van; I see what you mean about the skin, alicia kruger, victim of a terrible piano fire :)

thanks IanE, personally I think it's one of the best things I've posted in here, even though it's a copy of a photo, it seems I do better stuff if I leave my brain out of it and just go for it.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mehead.jpg
getting back on track

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/gnarkill.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/hothead.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/redbackhead.jpg

[hurricane]

wow, very cool stuff !

try using a larger soft brush, and you soflty spray the saheds on it to blend your hard edges alittle.. use the pipett alot.


cheers man, dont stop posting !

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/angryman.jpg
just thought of doing some angry fat bloke fantasy pics, dunno why.

[warlock1234]

nice update man...im liking how your getting that really good painter-like feeling in your sketches...keep it up...1 crit...just add some more facial details if you could...other than that...nice.... :^^;:

[young paddy1]

hurricane: cheers for the tip, I'll give it a go when I get the chance

warlock1234: thanks just couldn't be bothered with much in the way of detail on the last few.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/frenchmaster1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/frenchmaster2.jpg

some five minuters from french masters, no time no inclination lately

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/maskcollector2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/meta22.jpg

pieces deposited at meta's place

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mayfinishthislater.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/godamnIneedahaircut.jpg

doble posted on the finished thread but oh well

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cityhut.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/shadowmaster.jpg

this is it so far today

[-j-]

the girl with the pink hair and the last one you posted really stand out to me. interestingly, though, the looser things you do seem to look way nicer than the others.

[young paddy1]

cheers -j- sorry didn't reply early I don't expect replies, I kinda prefer doing the loose stuff that's probably why it looks better I start to get impatient with the tight stuff because I think it's taking too long and begin rushing bits and they look crap.

updated tdomehttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/paddybettererer.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/flyingguy.jpg

just fiddling with the tdome guy

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/whitedress.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/exodux.jpg

bit duneish I suppose, exodus from the sietch

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/thinktank2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/thinktank3.jpg

done while watching uni challenge, think tank ideas bit rubbishy but not bad for half an hour.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/singinbirdie.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/brainlicker.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/suckbird.jpg

just bashing out some more creatures, got to get better at this it's as fun as a marmalade filled bed.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/redheadgoggles.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cyclopean.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/angler.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/nuclearsurvivor.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/angelofchernobyl.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/intheash.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bbknight.jpg
few sketches for an idea about a nuclear summer

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dodgyonepiece.jpg
done at about three in the mornning after the onepiece rerun
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/spikeyheads.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/minkeys.jpg
no ref just pissing about
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/lastnight.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/boarmeister.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dragrhino.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bigedicklebod.jpg

that's all for today

[spork891]

I like the "soft/cute yet vile" look your last creature seems to have.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/asian.jpg

just a quicky 1 hr 1/2 ish

thanks for the reply spork891, i like his cuteness, and of course his ability to bite people in two.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/pinkshirt2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fatbloke2.jpg

just a couple more for today

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sunning.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fatbloke3.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/hiroprotagonist_001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/thunderbird.jpg

just done today, the blokes kimono went a bit crappy, meant to look leathery, hour and a bit each

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/monkess.jpg
more later

[Darolan]

Hi paddy,

Do you trace your portraits before painting them. If so how do you feel about this technique? I did it a few times and it just didn't seem to feel right.

[young paddy1]

nah just use the rulers in painter to line all the major bits up then draw the rest in free hand, or I have the original as a blanked out underlayer and keep flicking back and forth between them. Tracing feels a bit too much like cheating.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/kkitty.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/luna.jpg

completely freehand no ruler no nuffink

[young paddy1]

double post

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dawn.jpg

I'd like a lack of krugeresque skin please

[mentler]

You have been moving briskly up the food chain ~~~ your art will soon eat you alive and you will be reborn into the world of the hopelessly addicted creative souls!! It ain't as bad as it sounds!!

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/girletmontre.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/poityheadyjob.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/stompovirus2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/hilltopracin2.jpg

bit of a wipeout fan, just found the game again

[hurricane]

wipeout rocks!

great images, as mentler said, you've been moving up the foodchain man!

great stuff!!

cheers!

[young paddy1]

cheers mentler I hope what you say will indeed happen, I need another addiction to get me off the brown icky*


thanx for the compliment hurricane, and yes indeed it does rock

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/lavaworld.jpg

just a little update for now, I've really gotta see episode 3

*that's chocolate BTW

[young paddy1]

cheers for the crit Mike I see what you mean about the lava, really shoud have noticed it before.

p.s. updated the original slightly

[young paddy1]

my two tdome peeps

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/squire1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/rageon.jpg

no blood no photomanip.

short fur is easy as long as no one wants too close a look, start with big darkish blobs then select a brush set the squeeze all the way down and the jitter all the way up, make it angle to direction and away you go. I used a motion blur to smooth it and a quick warp to shape the fur around body parts. For the tail I just increased the size of the brush and used a palette knife to curl it round.

[Pesmerga]

Man, this is great stuff. Keep 'em coming. I wish I could paint like that...

Your squirrel is funny :)

[young paddy1]

Cheers Pesmerga, funny haha or funny weird?

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/battleofthebands.jpg

my Tdome with all bits not wholly painted by me removed and some tinkering. That's the ruins btw.

[aesir]

Im really liking a lot of your digital paintings. Great job with brushstrokes and the colors in some of em are really vibrant. Love it :)

[young paddy1]

cheers for the comments aesir, I'm trying to get better, mostly at tricks to speed up my process.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/red.jpg
was going to be part of a gang in one of my many T dome ideas.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/paddysmackdown.jpg
pose from the mcfarlane skifell model on my bookshelf, rest of it's from a previous tdome.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/gunface.jpg
a little go at a gunfaced man after going through fellah's sketchbook, hope he doesn't mind the obvious rip.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wormybirdy.jpg
ear infection induced crazyness.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/demonbod5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/demonbod1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/demonbod2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/demonbod3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/demonbod4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/demonheads1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/demonheads2.jpg

fiddlings for my TDome, nothing like the final really

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/piratebooty.jpg

a pirate I guess

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/whitewitch.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/summerevening.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mehead3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mehead2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/ladypozes.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/ladyhedz.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/geisha.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/windwalker1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/windfarm1.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sticky.jpg
something for lord of la quinta, kinda got kicked into touch by the Tdome

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mehead4.jpg
why's it so bloody hard to draw laying down,
face up on bed, small mirror, tria markers, little touch up 15-20 minutes look like a fat woman with shortish hair.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mehead5.jpg
pencil 15-20 minutes

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mehead7.jpg
got a whole homealone, hearing noises, slightly freaked, thing going on at the mo, this is what I get from that. This ain't a paintover although the moment I finished it I thought it looked like one, can't be arsed with'em really you don't gain a lot from'em.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mehead6.jpg

couple sps today

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/alexandermcqueen1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/alexandermcqueen3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/alexandermcqueen2.jpg

just some refs from a runway shoot

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/skullboy1.jpg

painted from a resin skull I bought in manchestershire (now I have a pair, although this one has more detail, it has no mandible) changed the shape and added my continually broken nose and weird feeling skull creases.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sketches/angryman.jpg

dug this out of the archives, thought I'd spend another 10 minutes on it.

[maestro_612]

What I appreciate about your work is that you work on different subjects. I've seen creatures, characters, and a couple of environments, whereas some artists just work on one specialty. :confident As much as I love Mr. Mullins' work, I don't see enough creatures outta that guy!

[Magic Man]

YoungPaddy, some realy nice stuff here - but there are things which I see as paint overs. I implore you not to do them because I think that they really are a waste of time, the skill that is used to create an image: values, color, structure, composition and anatomical knowledge, are all nullified.

I think you have a wonderful imagination, and it would be a great thing for you to start training your databank right now to store visual and foundational information through studies of foundation work, such as anatomy, lighting, rendering and such.

With your imagination paint pics I see a lot of potential in them, but there are a few things I'll point out:

- large areas: large brush, small details, small brush.

- learning to blend properly is also a good thing to learn - looks like you are working in photoshop, there are a number of ways to blend in photoshop, using textures, using the heal tool, using the smudge tool. Pick up a book on the subject of digital imagineering, since traditional work ca be emulated in ps but only by full understanding of the software itself, I rcommend Don Seegmiller.

- color theory: drill this much more, understand what makes a picture pop, how to direct the viewer's eye more, what are complimentary colors, how to use dessaturation, etc, Don's digital painting books go through this.

With your traditional pencil renderings:

- do not feather the lines, always use long smooth flowing lines, feathering makes things look very amatuerish, long smooth lines always, use a few well placed strokes to harden a line.

- try holding your rendering tool - pencil, whatever - like a pallette knife, and build up, never try to hit the value you want immediately, always layer it on so that if you make a mistake, its not a problem.

- composite the location + reference grids always before starting on the details, throw in the lines for the eyes, nose, mouth, centreline, ear line, etc, before actually roughing them out, will help you out immensely.

- increase your value range, it will make a figure pop, behind something you want to pop, throw down darker values, want something to meld, make sure th values are similar to whatever you want it to blend with.

Have fun and work hard.

m

[young paddy1]

cheers for the replies both of you.

maestro_612: thanks I like to diversify, you've gotta push yourself otherwise whats the point.

Magic Man: That's one hell of a post, read through it a couple of times now, thanx for the advice, I'll keep it in mind and try to put it to use, BTW I'm using Painter, and you haven't seen any paint overs, unless I've marked it on there. I use the painter grid quite a bit though, and it still seems like cheating. Thanx again for coming by I really love your thread.


k b bye now

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/markerspeedies.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/nikegirl1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/nikegirl2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/workshoplady.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wotw.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dresswearingswordswinger.jpg

stuff I've done today I still seem to be completely ignoring good advice though.

[codakromek]

HI,,,

Thanks for the stop-by in my SB...

Just finished looking through your pages,,,whew,,, Really looks like you are working on a bunch of different interests....that is a great thing,,, I really think there is a lo to be said of folks who do that.

A couple different crits on a couple different things..

1.. The painter studies from life where you are toggling back and forth between the refference and the painting.....This is a good excercise,,I really think so,,,,,,,here is the thing though,,,,the finished piece will always look better than what you could do on your own,,so remember that it is a kind of assisted artmaking process......One really beneficial part of it is that you are internalizing a lot of info by "copying" as it were..... A really good thing to do after you are done with one of those is to take and do the whole thing over again, from memory,, with out the assistance of the original reff as a guide,,,,,Otherwise you have only learned so much,,,If you remember everything,, it is a good indicator of just how much you really have learned and not just translated into a different medium....just some advice,,,But it really worked for me in college when I would go to figure drawing,,,,,I would draw the model as they sat,,and then during the break, I would try to draw it again, from memory,,,,,,to really set it in my brain so I could use it for imaginative drawings as well....

2.. The drawings you are executing with the prismacolor and then embelishing with pen....... You could use the first step with the marker to lay down more of a ground and not just a rough of what you will later be outlining with pen,,,,,A good way to do it is to make a very light pencil drawing before the marker phase so when you do the marker it can be more of a blocking in kind of feeling than a construction feeling.......

3..The leads done from refference and from imagnation,,,,,,You could really stand to take your time more and lay things like construction shapes and that kind of shit down with a lot lighter hand,,,,,more shading and tone around the figures helps to establish more grounded feelings and mass with a higher degree of beleivability,,,,,The main thing though,,is to really take your time and not rush parts of the drawing that are just really detailed,,,,,A really good graphite is going to take a lot of time to lay out, work up the masses and hatching ( all before you even get into details ) and then work on the more finicky bits until you are completely satisfied with it...That is just the way it is hoo hummmm


Well I blabbed my little mouth off and typed my fingers down to nubs,,so I will cut it out now,,hehe...

Great work ethic and work,,,keep it up!!

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/suitypeops1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/suitypeops2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/suitypeops3.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/randomcreatures.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/armouredejuts1.jpg

cheers for the reply codakromek, I have to agree with everything you said pretty much, and I'll try to put it into practice. I've never been able to spend a lot of time on pencil drawings, none of the pages in this post took more than about ten minutes.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/princeofhell3.jpg

fiddling with my TDLMS dunno if it's better or worse :\

[van]

Long time, no post. One good thing about going away from here for a bit is being able to see the advancements folks are making right away.

Just keep going.

The last one...if you want a crit. The painting lacks cohesiveness in the broad spectrum of things. Your skills are improving, but you need to look more into color theory.

Yp...keep rocking.

[Hazamataz]

Wow, you've come some way since I saw this SB, amazing, keep it up. You painter skills are clearly developing fast!

Your latest TD, Very cool pose, very cool demon.


Maybe some ANGRIER eyes. Not sure about the sword though. If the rings are decoration you need to show that more, the green colouring looks a little soft for metal.

As someone said ealier, more time in the drawing stage would smooth these things out. Redrawing particularly. I'm often suprised at how many imporvments seem to just happen by themselves when I redraw/ rethink my designs. It REALLY REALLY works!!




Also while there are lots of good points, all the black space is a glaring gap. With all this Lighting around, like the blue mage girl. some of the enviroment is going to show up. It really would bring the painting to life.
It could be really simple stuff, enviroments easy because it can never anatomically incorrect really.

Oh and this rules!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/demonbod5.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/braineating.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/zengarden2.jpg

coupla digis

cow for the week and a zen floating gardeny thing

[young paddy1]

naughty purple jobby

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/sidehorse2.jpg

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/youngpaddy1_vs_pickleyum.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cittybattl13.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/cittybattl12.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/streetfightstart2.jpg

just a few of my Tdome sketches and my final piece at the top

TTFN

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/tower.jpg

quickish one today and a few sketches

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/facey2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/body1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/facey3.jpg

no real energy for drawing lately

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/massiveblack2.jpg

todays sketch thinking about the C.O.W.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/joannajumper.jpg

got the pose off some bloke jumping over a railing

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/urbancorsair3.jpg

based on a drawing I did from a comic cover I printed off the net, Daughters of something or other can't remember the title.

[hurricane]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/skullboy1.jpg <--- AWESOME !!

some red x's though...

killer stuff and killer progress

cheers

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fashionfeather.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fashiongoggles.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fashionshades.jpg

'bout an hours worth of sketches I suppose nothing flash just from really tiny pictures in a magazine

hurricane: thanx for the reply and the compliment, haven't seen any red Xs around though, could someone point me in the right direction, cheers.

[young paddy1]

missed two O.Ws bugger :[
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/messengerofdeath.jpg
Four winged messenger of death, waits 'til you're asleep cuts a hole in your window with it's razor sharp claws then shouts through it, if the fright doesn't kill you then you will now know that someone close to you (that's distance not relation) is going to die that night.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/darkshark.jpg bit poo but not bad


more to follow hopefully.

[van]

Yp, your work is growing leaps and bounds. I would suggest that you hit the books in between working from your imagination. I know you know this...but hey...I am just RE-suggesting. :) Nice work, my friend.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/dragonhunter2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/pumardi2.jpg


nice to hear from you again van cheers for re-suggesting that i do some studies, it's just that I look at the huge stack of books that I've got and it just puts me off, it looks so much like hard work rather than the fun I get from releasing my imagination.

might have a go at some da vinci tonight. :\

edit: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bots4.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bots3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bots2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/bots1.jpg during my lunch break (half hour) 'bout a week ago

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/harpoony.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/swampthingy.jpg

some little sketchy mono jobs, dunno what else to say?

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/tentiduckthingcol.jpg

tentacley ducky thingy

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mortimermk1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/fungitunnel.jpg


more O.W.s the Ch.O.W. and the E.O.W.


transmission end

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/flyingwings.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/flyingwing0001.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/alien1.jpg

had a look at a coupla tuts today this is what i got out of them,

half hour alien sketch and a coupl'a hours worth of experimental WW2 flying wing :teeth:

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mystic.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/flyingwing3.jpg

another flying wing and a v quick ChOW

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/flyingislands.jpg

some very cliche flying islands, and why not?

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/derelict.jpg

found a pic on photo.net decided to have a go at painting it, this is what I got in an hour and a bit.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/window.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/window1.jpg
another room from ref, last one for tonight, too tired and me hand's aching.


nighty night.:P

p.s. whip out your crits if you have any cheerio.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/waterytrench.jpg

trying for some more enviromenty stuff from ref, not as much detail as I'd like but it got a bit boring.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/lesanimeaux.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/mouthofsauron.jpg

coupl'a little monochrome jobbies

[Yina]

dude the lighting looks really sweet on the piece with the window, i like it! your last few doodles could look much better if you put in some strong contrast i feel.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/whitehairedsworddude.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/axeman.jpg

couple more doodleydoes before beddybyes

Cheers Yina Upped the contrast a bit and I think you're right they do look better, a little stronger definitely.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/romecolourpractice.jpg

A lovely sketch by Mr. Jonny Duddle, with an attempt at getting back into colouring by me.

[Burning Eyes]

i really like them chatacters in that last one, the cars coloring is iffy i think, but its a good idea overall... dont u hate not having stars? no one looks at non-stared threads, heh... keep it up i wanna see more! MORE I SAID! haha jk but really i do wanna see more!

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/aliencrew.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/chargingsuity.jpg

cheers again for the reply and crit B.E.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/wacdonalds.jpg

elvis and bigfoot working hard

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/kingofthecarnival.jpg

copied from my national geographic 100 best pictures, trying to get as loose as possible and not worry about shading, but just getting the form down as near as possible.

[young paddy1]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/headcount1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/headcount2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/headcount3.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/headcount4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v19/youngpaddy1/headcount5.jpg
5 SPs (well 4 and a sort of amalgamation thingy) all from the same photo ref, crit away I've got a fairly thick skin (I took it off the last person to crit me)

[dCepT]

The room and the enviro on the top of this page rocks, man! More of those, please!

The figures you've got seem to have some anatomical issues.. like the relationship between their thighs and their shins...

Good lookin out!

peace

d-C