Oddo's mashed potatoes.

[Oddo]

Greetings folks.
I finnaly decided it was time to stop lurking and started posting. Until today I didn't post (except once or twice) for I thought I would just.. get in the way. A week ago though I met Jason Manly and Andrew Jones( who besides acomplished artists are very cool people. Hello if you're reading! ) (not at Amsterdam , I wish i had the money to get there). So here I am, encouraged to post and seek help.

Some scribbles of mine :
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/SKETCHOS.jpg

An afflicted zombie with Koreean executioner swords "gently" attached to his arms :) .

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/afflicted_zombie_small2.jpg


Some older heads, less realistic

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/heads_2.jpg


Some of the sketches are referenced, but most are not.

[Oddo]

Fooling around:
Ninja puffin :)
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/ninjapufin.jpg

Space food. Again fooling around :)

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/space_chef.jpg


I also know how to use Painter to some extent :)

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/femalehalfling_small.jpg



Anyway, since this is a sketch thread, I'll just offer links to other color stuff, in case you want to look.
Orc. (http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/halforcmale_small.jpg)
Fantasy concept. (http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/halfelf-woman_small.jpg)
Another fantasy concept. (http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/halfelfmale_small.jpg)

[Bretton]

get in the way! these are great! you have a nice sketch style and seem to know a good deal about color.

Keep postin... your not in my way.

[Oddo]

Bretton: Thank you kindly. :)

So, I decided that I am ready to forget all and re-learn it in a more proper way.
That is why i started by drawing the skull, and then I'll move on to the skeleton, the muscles and so on.

Here are some skulls I did with photo-reference.



http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/craniumwork.jpg


In the next one the skull on the left is done with reference, but it is supposed to be a mongoloid male. The others were causacian skulls if I am not mistaken. The skull on the right is a rather quick sketch that I did in the end, without reference to see what I have learned.
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/quicksketch.jpg


Thank you for your time. :)

[insane visions]

nice skull studies

[obid619]

these are great man. List your color stuff in here too. They look awesome. Great way to start on your thread :D

[brkofdon]

really good work! i particularly like your colored pieces! you definetly know how to play with color which is great! post more colored work plz. o and good studies of the skull.

[Groover McNab]

These are great! Glad you were encouraged to post.

[flex mathews]

great sketches, keep posting.

[Oddo]

insane visions : thank you. Hope they teach me something :). I visited your sketch thread too, and thought adding another "Wow, that's awesome, would be a bit redundant". You're way above any constructive advice I can make :). WAY! :)

obid619: Thank you though I have a long way to go before attaining drawing goodness :) .

brkofdon: Thank you. More color stuff can be found here (http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/loth/d/r/dragos/dragos.html) .


Groover McNab: Thank you kindly. I wouldn't say great, I'd say half decent.

flex mathews: Thank you. I'll wake up early tomorrow to get some drawing done before scooting to work :).

[xia]

Lovely painting of the Ranger girl! I dig I dig! Yeah, I just learn how to do stuff in PS and Painter not too long ago...now I am addicted. :chug: :chug:
More More!

[Oddo]

Thank you kindly . Here is another color one,( but it could have also been found via the links i posted earlier). Only pencils form now on.. though :). I know I have more problems with drawing then with color. :D


http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/halforcmale_small.jpg

[xia]

Yes!!! :chug:

[JackalAnubis]

oh man, I love your paintings! more!

[WillSchnevel]

I love your sketches, and your colors are great too!

[Oddo]

Xia: thank you :).


JackalAnubis : Many thanks. Though I am trying to improve the pencilwork right now as it laggs behind :). No more color till I'm satisfied with my lines.

WillSchnevel : Thank you :) .



I'm changing sleeping hours from 1:00 - 8:00 to 21:00- 5:00 so that I might get some hours of drawing before scooting to work.
So far it hasn't been working really well, reaaaaly sleepy in the morning so far. ( Well, this is the first day, so I hope things to get better later on).

These are some of the morning scribbles.
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/morningsketchos.jpg

[insane visions]

loving that goblin or orc looking thing....

[Nostradamus]

Wow...the thing that struck me the most is that for well done your faces are...they just express so much personallity!
great stuff

/me hugs the scetches :)

[emilpaun]

Gotta love your stuff and humour :)

Keep it up

[-The Swift-]

nice stuff dude, your paintings are solid. i like the funny sketches too! keep it up:)

[Oddo]

insanevivions: thank you
Nostradamus: Thank yee :)D.
KR33P: many thanks.
The swift. Thanks . I'm trying to. :D


A few sketches yanked from my sketchbook.

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/fatzuca.jpg

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/rangerroguechar2_wip_sk.jpg

I did a digital sketch for this previous one. Will finish it later :D.
http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/rangerroguechar2_wip.jpg


On the next one in the lower left corner you can see that even if you are a witch doctor, cursing the voodoo spirits can result in.. umm well let's just say he wishes he had preparation H :D.

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/sketchpage.jpg



http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/spacemarine_10minute.jpg

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/twowizards_small.jpg

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/DragosFlorin1978/stageone.jpg

[SeraphSword]

These are slick, I especially like the big guy with the gun.

[Nadim]

Dig the skull studies and your last post
Keep it up Oddo .

[mog]

You're so modest!!
I love your sketches, your lines are very dynamic, it just feels right.

[brkofdon]

good characters! good job on the drapery of the clothes. i personally like the line drawing you started coloring. i like the movement going on in there!

cool!:cool:

[Oddo]

Okay... I allowed work to keep me from drawing . Almost six months have passed since my last post ( ack! ). ... enough.. never again. Once again, too long have I laid silent .. I don't seek excuses only your forgiveness :).
I'm back though. And thank you for your encouragement..

Thenk you Seraph, Nadim, mog and breakofdon :).

Here is some stuff that i did this past week getting back in gear :).

Archer sketch :

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/oddotheweird2/ca_arcasask.jpg

And then I did some color. But occured to me that she would be best facing the other way so I painter her back over a sketch with her in front. :). Strange stuff :).

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http://mywebpage.netscape.com/oddotheweird2/ca_arcasa.jpg

[Oddo]

If for any reason you don't see the pics even after a reload.. please let me know. I think netscape webpages might have gotten some more restrictions for allowing direct links.

Anyway here is the color for a riot scene thing. Not really too happy about it, I don;t like how faces turned out except the one closest to the viewer. It is done for a card game ( like the archer before and like the next few ones i'll be posting) so the final will be 9/6 centimeters... That is about 3.8 i/2.5 inches I think. Small. So that is why i didn;t put too much detail/texture into them :).

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http://mywebpage.netscape.com/oddotheweird2/ca_revolta.jpg

[Oddo]

A fort. Done for the cards mentioned earlier :).
Picture should load here-> ( hitting refresh should "cure" it if it does not :).)

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/oddotheweird2/ca_fort.jpg

[Oddo]

How infantry armor should look like for the card game.
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http://mywebpage.netscape.com/oddotheweird2/ca_infanteristul_avatar.jpg

[Oddo]

And the infantry shot.
this one I am rather content with :).

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http://mywebpage.netscape.com/oddotheweird2/ca_infanteria.jpg

[O D T]

very nice painter skills, your sense for fitting colour schemes is very good!! I, however, prefer you sketches, which have very nice line-quality. maybe even too clean! very original. your faces are very nice indeed...

its a shame these last ones will be shrunk to like 2 by one centimetres, stuck on a card, and look like any other fantasy art there ever was, though!! :[ :nohope:

[Oddo]

ODT :
Thank you for the kind words mate. In the end it was even worse. Colors got totally messed up by the print. They turned out dark and weird on the cards. Eh. Next time I'm sending them brighter :).

And now the next buch of odd stuff from my sketchbook. Don;t worry wou won't see nothing polished here:). Just click and open they are all jpegs.

Thought not to force you to load them all at once though :).

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=147305

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=143802

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=147283

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=147917

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=148504

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153184

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153186

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153187

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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153191


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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153685


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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153686


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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153694


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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=153696


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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=154571


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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=154592


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http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?s=&postid=154633

[IanE]

You did and excellent job capturing the facial features of different ethnicities in our sketches. Your original work is awesome, you have a ton of talent. And on top of all that, you really know your way around Painter.

Everything looks great!

[hurricane]

great stuff !!

draw more and post more !

you already have what it takes, now its just refine refine refine ! dont stand still, push it !


cheers !