Chris Anderson's Sketches A Day

[Chris J. Anderson!]

This is my first time really checking out the daily sketch book section. There's a lot of inspiring work in here.

I decided to kick my own ass to better my art skills by forcing myself to do at least one quick sketch a day. I feel I've been slackin in some areas of art, so this way, even if I happen to not accomplish anything too important in a day, I at least do one sketch of something, and learn something.

I'd greatly appreicate all crits and comments that anyone can give me. Rip me apart, I need to learn as much as I can.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

I did this yesterday, it took me about 30 minutes. It took 15 to get down the composition and figure, and another 15 playing around with paint techniques to see what works. Kinda dorky, I know.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Blue_Shadow.jpg

[Chris J. Anderson!]

I did this one today. It took about an hour. I learned a lot more about how to approach faces quickly, I created his face in about 25 or 30 minutes. The reason I'm thinking about time is because I'm trying to get more acurate with my approach rather than spending weeks trying to figure out something.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Green-man3.jpg

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Green-man3a.jpg

[Chris J. Anderson!]

I got tired of this one and quit. But I thought the paint marks where interesting. Created a little movement. I got lost at the color stage.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/brown-woman.jpg

[Groover McNab]

Awesome! Another sketchbook thread that I'll be checking regularly. Glad you decided to join the fun.

[Eric UNSL]

Hey Chris,

I'm probably the last guy to rip apart speed paintings since I so rarely do any myself. As for the piece you did today. The rim lighting on his body would work better if the background were a few values darker than you have it now. What did you do to get that background texture on the first painting? Is that painter or PS?

May I should open up my own sketchbook thread.

[JoshuaTheJames]

RRRaaaahhh hah hah ahah ahah hah hawwwww!:firedevil -Pain!

[metalwinds]

hey chris, glad you decided to start a sketchbook. because you requested it.. i ll do my best to give you some areas to work on in your art. in the first painting, i see a couple of anatomical problems. ..one being the twist of the neck.. .its not possible to turn your head around that far, and also, his right arm seems out of place because of the angle of the body. ..i think it should hide behind the figure more. on the second piece, i dont get a strong sense of mass and form. .. it think the figure should be rendered out more and the light and dark areas established better. i know these are quick sketches, but breaking down your lights and darks to establish form is one of the first steps in painting. im not sure about the third one, but because you gave up on it, i ll leave it be.. . and i think its a little too early in the process to crit. anyway, i really dig your technique and style of painting, i just thought i would give my 2 cents.. ..even though your work owns mine.

i hope you keep this going.. . .too many people start sketchbooks and let them die

[obid619]

dude you got me interested. I've visited your website. I know you got the stuff. I think your trying to work on your weaknesses (if i'm correct). I'm guessing that digital art would be one of them? dont get mad if i'm wrong lol. keep posting. metalwind is right. too many people start a thread and let it die...<sigh> sucks:rolleyes:

[Dan Milligan]

Hey Chris

WOW! I love these... that first one is soooo.......you know.... like something I could never do. please keep these going for our sake

Peace
dan

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Groover - Yeah man thanks. I'm gonna try to keep this going. THis is pretty fun.

Eric - thanks, I agree about darkening the background a tad to make the rim lighting better. I was struggling with the armor in that one. I used Photoshop.

Josh - Haha.

Metal winds, your right, I exaggerated the anatomy a bit too much on that first one. I have to try and tone that down, I have a habit of doing that sometimes. Your correct about that second one. I struggled with that, I was tempted to trash it half way, but tried to salvage it. I kind of lost focused in some areas. Thanks for the crit.

Obid - Yeah, I'm trying to get better at the first stages of painting. When I sit down for a week on a painting, I feel it's easier to make it all work. But when it comes to getting things down precisely and quickly, sometimes I can do it, but sometimes it's difficult to focus. I'm trying to coreect my focus.

Dan the Man - Thanks for the compliments! And thanks for checking out my stuff. I saw you thread and I was like, well daaaang, he's already taken over. Great and insipiring work man. I'm forcing myself to keep this thread as long as possible to push myself. I figure I gotta learn something more about 'focus' for quick paintings doing this.

This is good to get these crits. With each sketch and crit, I'm gonna try ot let the info soak in my mind and use it in each new sketch. Usually when I'm focued.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

I didn't have the right focus today, I apologise. Here's a quick line sketch. I concentrated mostly on the drawing, and then simple color method.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Greeno.jpg

Here's something I did the other day for fun. I saw a new megaman anniversary game coming out, so I had to do it.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Megaman-is-back.jpg

[van]

Nice update...now keep em coming. Draw, draw...and when you are done with that...how about doing some drawing?

[Matt Dixon]

Wow. I love that girl in that last update, Chris. Looking forward to watching your thread develop..!

[elboy]

wow, you create the coolest marks and strokes. more reason for me to learn how to digi paint. I like the green girl. and I've always liked mega man's proportions (forearms and calves, anyone?). neat-o.

[cotron]

some really cool stuff... the girl in green/orange is my favorite-although i have a suggestion, if you don't mind- the backlit effect on her leg is really cool, but is that where you want the focus of the drawing? i would think it would be more on her face or upper torso, or if you wanted to keep it on her leg, then continue it up to guide the eye along the form and direct your audience. just my two cents

I really like how your style doesn't feel forced at all, just a flow of your personality....keep it up!

[Keepiru]

Your sketchbook is lookin very cool. Your last dump especially, the green girl is definately your strongest post so far. I like it becasue the pose is dynamic and the colors are simple, but I agree with cotron in the sense that I think a bit of that highglight on her upper half would really make her kick. But the drawing itself rocks, the lines are nice and loose.
And your Megaman brought back a whole flood of fond memories of the hours shared between me and my old SNES...*tear*

Keep em' comin!

[Retinal Haze]

very impressive, i like the simple coloring done with the girl line drawing. excellent!

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Wow, hey I really appreciate you guys checking out my sketches. It adds to my motivation to keep em going.

Van - Haha, still drawing.

Matt - Thanks man.

elboy - Thanks a lot. I'm trying not to over work and just let the paint marks happen. I'm glad you like the green chick. I wasn't sure what anyone would think of her.

Cotron - Hey thank dude. I see what your saying about the backlit effect. I agree, it probably would have worked better with the upper torso being backlit to add more focus in that area, etc. I think I was too afriad of messing up the face sketch. I'm glad you like the paint style, I'm trying to loosen up more.

Keepiru - Thanks. Haha, hey man, did you hear about the new Megaman Aniversary game coming out this summer? It's got all the megaman games all on one disk, can't wait ti buy it.

Retinal - Thanks.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Man, it's gonna be difficult beating out the green chick. It's actually 3 hours into Sunday so I'm a little late with this one. Took about 45 minutes. It's 3 in the morning now, I gotta go to bed. I need a different pose next time.

http://chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Guirl3.jpg


Here's one I did a 2 months ago.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Durinspire3.jpg

[WillSchnevel]

damn these are hot! the colors are great!

[lupicani]

an all sexinified wicked witch quite entertaining.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Ah. I missed Sunday. Here's mondays. Today I'll try something different, different style and technique from the last few.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Climb.jpg

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Scribbled monster. I'll try to do better as I go. I need to spend more time and accuracy on future sketches. More so in the more rended stages rather than so loose like these.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Monster2.jpg

[RETEP]

hey chris,
i really love your quick style, the megaman pic is awsome. i was wondering if you pick a color scheme and have an idea of what the picture is going to look like before you start? or do you just start sketching something.
-oh, that apple looks delicious;)

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Thanks Dingo - When doing quick sketches, sometimes I have an idea and color scheme of what type of picture I'm doing. But most of the time, I have no clue, and what ever happens as I draw or paint, happens. Which is my BIG problem with random quick sketches. I usually don't have a clear clue what I'm creating. I'm so used to thoroughly thinking about creating a time consuming piece that I'm still not very used to quick stuff. I try to do my best with quick sketches without any reference, very vague idea in mind, and usually within an hour. If I gave myself at least 5 hours, I'd have something more ot my liking. But So far, one hour quick sketches is my greatest weakness, I hope I get better.

I'm going to start working on a three week illustration this month. I want to see if I got any better with long term illustrations compared to one hour quick sketches.

Actually, it makes me wonder...is speed and accuracy ultimately more important? Masters like Rockwell and Leonardo, Bougouerou, I'm sure they took time with their great illustrations and paintings. Some took weeks. Others took months depending on how massive and/or complex the peice. I know in the concept art world, speed is essential. But for big and complexed, beautifully finished peice of work...is it? Perhaps it all depends on the job and the purpose of the art.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Yep.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Girl_think.jpg

[TheUbermind]

just so you know- you're awesome- im not one to judge you but i will say one thing you need thing- be less good so i can judge you- hahah kiddin- sir you pretty much mastered youre own style and should be critiqing us highschool kids developing there own- thats my crappy advice for today- until later- WATCH OUT FOR SONIC DEATH MONKEYS

-theubermind:evilbat:

[insane visions]

I checked out your site and its fucking dopeness..your environment design is the shiznetttttttttt!!!!!!!!!!


btw:Ill river dance for you for free :O)

[van]

Freakin awesome stuff. Listen, dude. It doesnt matter how long it takes as long as you are happy with it. So, stop analyzing your skills and draw!

[Chris J. Anderson!]

insane visions - Hahahahha! Thanks a lot man I'm really glad you like my work.

TheUbermind - Thanks. Still trying to work the bugs out the style. It;s those damn strange monkeys, they keep stealing my wacom pen!

Van - Thanks dude. Your definitly right. Just enjoy doing the art and keep drawing.


In fact, here's another fun sketch.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Jane.jpg

[van]

LMAO! Thats awesome. :)

[pixelherder]

loads of great stuf here - i particularly like your colour work, being in mortal fear of the stuff myself :)

hope to see more of your stuff!

[nofingers]

awesome work....i love the smoking monster..and the wide eyed girl at the end.....great expression...keep em coming

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Hey thanks guys. Man, I'm glad you guys are liking this stuff.


ALRIGHT! break time with relying on line and graphic shapes is over for now. Time to get back to more rendering. I worked on this a little bit yesterday, and finished it today. I spent about 4 or 5 hours on this one. I wasn't suppose to but I'm not very fast with detailed rendering yet. Plus I forced Bouguereau to teach me a few painting techniques to learn a bit more with photoshop painting.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Kara.jpg

[JackalAnubis]

great color! I think my favs are the green skirt girl and the shocked blonde. the rendering is looking good as well. I'll be looking out for nu stuff from you, keep it up!

[insane visions]

THE LAST PAINTING REMINDS ME OF RYDER..VERY NICE AND COOL TECHNIQUE....CHEERS

[JoshuaTheJames]

Nice paint Chris. Now we have to match your "quick drawing" with your "quick painting". The beautiful paint out weights the structure and form in terms of anatomy and stylized anatomy. But I'm sure you can see more fault than even I could point out.

All in all. Great study.

I feel like a jackass talking all this Sh!t without having a display of my new work on the net yet. 'sigh' ...soon.

-Joshua

[artkitty]

It's late here, so I'll just say neat stuff! Keep it up! I'll come back looking for more ^_^

[bonedog]

great stuff mate. the last one is my favorite i think. nice colors.

-bonedog

[van]

That last one is beautiful, man. Excellent work.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

JackalAnubis - Thanks man, I'm grlad you like the way the colors are turning out.

insane visions - You talking about Winona? Heh I can see the resemblance. It's funny cuase your the 4th person who said she looks like a actress from the movies. ONe guy said she reminded him of the cute chick from Amelie.

Josh - Yep, this picture is nowhere near perfect. Just playing around with paint techniques with that one.

Artkitty - Thanks dude.

Bonedog - Thanks, I was suprised with the outcome for that last one.

Van - Thanks alot man.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Here's another made up character. Drawn and painted in PS. The drawing was working, but I didn't get exactly what I wanted for the color, but it's fine. I serously need to get back to sketching concept art, this is a concept art website after all.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Abel.jpg

[van]

Awesome! I love this style you have going. As for conceptart...hmm...well, I think this site has surpassed the 'concept' only stuff. Especially the sketchbooks...so dont worry about that. Do what you want!

[artkitty]

Really like the latest one!
I thought it was art marker at first.
Are these just some of the default PS brushes?

[Yina]

love your colour schemes! very nicely done :chug:

[Groover McNab]

Yep. That last one is great. I dunno what you had in mind originally for the colors, but what you got here looks great. I'm loving this illustration style.

[xia]

Holy Freaking COW!!!
I must have been gone a long time.......:eek: How did I not see this thread!!!???
OMG Chris Love your color!!! I wanna be able to paint like U :D
Wouldn't mind show us WIP, would U? :chug:
Thanks for the inspiration...me love them.

[van]

Originally posted by xia

Wouldn't mind show us WIP, would U? :chug:
Thanks for the inspiration...me love them.

Now THAT is a great idea. :)

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Man, I'm very thankful that you all are liking these.

van - Thanks. And yeah, I think your right about the 'concept' thing. This is only a sketchbook, so it's all practice on whatever.

artkitty - Thanks, that last one was fun. I think I'll do an asian chick next. Some of these are defult PS brushes, and some are custom made. The default brushes, I manipulate the settings to get different effects.

Yina - thanks alot.

Groover McNab - Thanks, I'm glad you liked the way the color turned out. I was gonna do something more bright, but I decided to go this route somewhere in the stages. I'm glad it turned out okay.

xia - Thanks for the kind words. Haha, yeah, I started this thread two weeks ago I think. I'm trying to force myself to learn more stuff in PS.

Hey, if you guys think these are good enough for a work WIP, I'll wip one up.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Here's a WIP for Kara, the girl with the pink background.

First I started with a pink canvas. Then, in the second panel, I began using different Photoshop brushes to build a textured canvas look. The third one is the final canvas. I treated this as if I was working with Oils watered down and soaked with Turpentine, and wiped down with a scraggly brush.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Kara_step_1.jpg


From far away, some areas look like real brush textures. But if you look closely at this image below, it's just different noise brushes spitter spattered many times sparatically on different opacities and different sizes, along with other brushes. The key is to make it look as natural as possible, by painting naturally as if you would with oils, etc.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Kara_step_2.jpg


Here I scribbled in loosly the character. Again, I treated this as if I were using Oils watered down with Turentine to scribble in the lines. I created a brush to sort of (try to) simulate the randomness of line. Then in the other two, started glazing down some color.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Kara_step_3.jpg


After I glazed down enough ideas for the color and value, I started to use thicker brushes, and adrker colors, brushes with different textures, applying the medium down the same way I made the textured canvas. Painting with different textured brushes on different opacities.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Kara_step_4.jpg


Applied more details here, trying to keep focus with using the photoshop brushes as if they were real oil brushes on canvas to see how close I could make it look to traditional paint. Whether or not I did come close, not sure, but I was liking the effects happening. I then fixed the head on the last panel, I thought it was a bit jacked up and squashed before, which made me realize just how much I lacked in drawing in this one.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Kara_step_5.jpg



I learned a lot from this so be able to do much more with my current illustrations.

[Groover McNab]

Damn, that was quick. Thanks a lot Chris! This is really helpful, especially for newbies like me :D

[Hjelm]

Woa! that's crazy-go-nuts!

You have a good feel for color... and faces. Thanks you for the WIP! :D

[dakoscwash]

Nice! You have some amazing work here man. Thanks so much for that tutorial. That should help me tremendously when I start some color work. Keep the awesomeness comming.:chug:

[van]

Oh hell yah! Man, you are putting my WIP to shame! :p Excellent work, man. I truly love this piece.

[steak-tron]

excellent work and a warm welcome to the sketchbook thread. Your work rocks the house and now it rockin' this house. A little while back you said something about speed versus rendering. You concluded with how it depends on the job but I think both parts are equally important in everydrawing. Some of the best marks come from the spontaneity of quick drawing, you end up with forms that would never appear without having thrown them down. I can't think of a finer example than Jon Foster. On the other hand, you can then sit down and render a quick sketch and come up with something really unique, which is i suspect how Lukias comes up with his beautifull draws.

anyways it looks like your looking at it both ways. Being able to achieve a happy medium bettween the two is a great skill.
Thankyou for putting up the tutorial as my digipaint skills are nil.
please keep posting, -from another fan

----that scribbly beast is rad:thumbsup:

[xia]

Excellent! Yes, thank you so much for sharing...very inspiring to see how you work. I learn something new everyday...:chug: Thumbs way way up!!!

[buzzz3d]

Very inspiring. Thanks for sharing.

[Yina]

thanks for the wip! very cool work

[Chris J. Anderson!]

did this a while ago. never finished it.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Escaped_girl.jpg

[JoshuaTheJames]

Man! There are such cool things happening in this it makes me wish the drawing of the Face, foot and hand were more flushed out. Argg...cool!

-Joshua


hahahhahaha you used the "Art Button!" I mean leaf brush! hahah.

[Groover McNab]

hehehe. don't knock the leaf brush! all photoshop users will use it at least once in their life :p

now if it were a leaf brush with a lens flare on it, it'd be a different story...

[Yina]

the last one is cool, its too bad you didn't get around to finishing it but it looks good already :)

[lowpolymatt]

The tutorial is superb. Really nice job done on showing the progress through your work.

Great stuff!

[van]

Oh, man. Chris, dude, you should really finish that one. I can feel it.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Va.jpg

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Va1.jpg

[van]

:chug: Yah! Another one! I love your painting style, dude. I love it! You make it look very easy. :)

[Yina]

very stylish and nice, great vibrant colours and cool looking girl :chug:

[Groover McNab]

Coolness. I love your style! You exaggerate things and they still look spot on. I have a question though, do you add noise to different parts of the pic, or are those just custom brushes creating the noise effect?

[Eric UNSL]

I'm curious too. What are you doing to achieve that grainy look? Been trying to figure out a way of doing it with different layer settings and opacities but no luck so far. Got me stumped chris. Nice work by the way.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Thanks everyone.

Groover McNab & Eric UNSL - Yeah for that chick and other paintings with this more simplified color look, I used the noise filter to give me some grain, I played around with the filters option a little, and played around with it more on the painting after I applied it to make it look a little less computered. On other paintings, some times I don't use the noise and instead, modified brushes that give me different types of grain for a different surface texture/tool texture look. Sometimes don't us em at all, and try to create texture through paint opacities.

Yeah it took me a while to figure out why photoshop with default tools and a blank document looked so slick and waxy with no grain like you have in reality. Photoshop was pissing me off with it's slick, flat, no 'surface grain or texture' look I was getting when I first used it. Felt like I was painting with crisco oil.

[TARGETE]

Damn Chris, you have a flowing style man, it really moves. pLEASE CONTINUE POSTING!

JP

[insane visions]

love the one behind the tree.....complete dopeness

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Been away from threads a bit. Here's a quick bat chick concept. Drawn and painted in PS. Loosening up more.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/LM.jpg

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/LMC.jpg

-C

[metaphysiks]

last couple posts have been really fresh, fun and stylish. i have no complaints. would love to see more.
meta

[xia]

Good lord!!! I really dig your style. The GirlBat is crazy awesome!

[van]

:ep:

Awesome work. :)

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Thanks guys.

I got inspired to see where my quick gesture out-of-my-head, figure drawing skills are now. The next few posts may be just figure drawing. Here's this one. This is all done in photoshop. I think I've finally created a technique that allows me to just do things entirely in photoshop. I guess I'll see how far I get with that.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/figures2.jpg

[Chris J. Anderson!]

A little sloppy in areas. I'm trying to kill the laziness, so I don't slip in areas.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/figures2aa.jpg

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Ah, I got three in a row done, but the inspiration ends here. This is the quickest one I did outta my head, took about 10 or 20 minutes. I love using graphic shapes.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/figures2b.jpg

[ShamrockSpecial]

Dang.....!!! Your stuff is so awesome.

[Chris J. Anderson!]

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/faces2a.jpg

[jetpack42]

You've got something really slick picking up speed here.

[emilpaun]

Okey, I'm posting here just to receive a notification when you update LOL
Really inspirational thread and very frustrating as well :) I love it!

[van]

Keep it up, Chris! Im looking forward to more. :)

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Thanks guys.

Here's a sneak preview of a character I finished up for a new project.


http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/N.jpg

-C

[xia]

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/figures2b.jpg

I call this one brillient. Love it.

[Groover McNab]

Haha. That anteater is great!

Well unless it's not supposed to be an anteater, then I apologize for the comment :D

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Xia >> Haha! Thanks man. I was in a lucky groove with that one.

Groover McNab >> Yeah, thats an anteater, gettin ready to sip his ant tea. I'm glad you like.

Here's a figure drawing sketch. I know I could have when further with this. It took an hour all together. I may go in and really detail the hell out of the face or arm and hand, torso area, at some point.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Female_1d.jpg


Here's the messy, incomplete line drawing.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Female_1cline.jpg

[Chris J. Anderson!]

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Toad.jpg

[Chris J. Anderson!]

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Toadsketch.jpg

[artkitty]

These have so much texture and personality. It's hard to believe it's all photoshop! I gotta play around with the brushes more...

[gaboartpage]

Yo Chris i was not wanting
to post here because i had to
talk about every piesce of you
cause you have amazing creativity
ll do my best

May 27th, 2004, 01:05 PM
I dont know but maybe this
is my all thread FAV just the
way you handle different brushstrokes
the color choice and the lighting dude
the freaking lighting saturated edges and stuff
amazingg, those saturated point of colors
are just brillant sure this is not dorky dude

May 27th, 2004, 01:10 PM
is on the same line ... well continue this
approach cause its great you can do a
landmark here i love this style im jelaous ;)

May 30th, 2004, 03:49 AM
RGB !!!!!!! look at those shoes dude
sure this are speedy but they are stylish !!!

June 2nd, 2004, 05:06 PM
here where you started to do those
amazing sexy females great expression on faces
the exagerated and styled approach is very good
i like this rendering a lot

June 4th, 2004, 04:37 PM
cant get enough of those eye treatment
and those lips i can sense you got the knowledge
and you take it to the next approach or level
and the use of thiose brushes damn it , very cool

June 7th, 2004, 05:56 PM
great demo... thanks i have to come back
and read it carefully :)

June 10th, 2004, 01:49 PM
this is sooo sexy !!!! love the legs
love the overall silhouette and rythim

July 1st, 2004, 05:18 PM
Great face man i love the straight lines
that radial pencil work that follows from cheek
to jaw is a nice touch very subtle mouth feature
and good asymetrical eye drawing just great !!!

These last toads are mischiveous and great shape
i like them .... well and for ending i saw a quick tour
at your website amazing work dude amazing

keep on posting here Felicitaciones

Buena Suerte

----------Gabriel

[xia]

Holy Shit!!! The Frog is freaking super awesome...especially the top one...love the way you color him. :patriot:

[Chris J. Anderson!]

Thanks for the complements everyone. And Gaboartpage >> Wow, thanks for the big response. Very much appreciated.

I'm really thankful for all the responses and crits I've gotten. Thank you for liking my work. However, I don't feel that I have really progressed at all since my first post. Compared to other artists that I've compared my work to, my skills in art are rather mediocre, quit limited, and I feel foolish for not being as good as I should be at this point. I've learned a few PS techniques here, but not much else, which really doesn't do much for actual skill level. So I see no more reason to continue these sketches here, time to go back to my cave. But with all that said, still, it was fun. Good luck to the rest of you, keep up the hardcore works.

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/Forumimages/Cheers.jpg

[liam.c]

Hhahaha Toad ! :d Awsum )

[JoshuaTheJames]

What about these...heh. Seem pretty Hardcore to me!

Chris's Work....
http://www.chrisjanderson.com/RecentArtwork3/Recent3artpages/Gardregon/Warrior_Orc_Gardregon.jpg

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/RecentArtwork3/Recent3artpages/Berserker%20Orcs/Berserker_Orcs.jpg

http://www.chrisjanderson.com/RecentArtwork3/Recent3artpages/Lyzoria/Orc_Female_Lyzoria.jpg

[SamBrown36]

I was checking out your sketchbook and remembered I've seen your site before, Always thought your style was very cool. Stylized and unique. From the stuff on your site to what you're showing here, your digital stuff is looking better and better. Keep on killing it and thanks for showing the demo steps.

[Bojee]

Cool stuff, you need to be on the first page, i love the women, everything else is cool too. More updates please. :)