Maginnis ::*Update 10-07-05*

[Maginnis]

Here's my sketchbook, this thread is a mess because I move files all the time,so I'm just gonna throw it all up here and give it a bump if there's new stuff. These are pretty much chronilogical.

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/knives.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/pewpew.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/bigbandana.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/wormskul.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/seafight.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/floss.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/maraka.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/steve.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/wildgirl.JPG

*10/05*

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/munk.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/kabooki.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/antigrav.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/freestyle.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/freestyle2.JPG

*10/07*

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/flyboy.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/floot.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/archer.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/wounded.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/klown.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/soldner.jpg

[mentler]

You got some stuff going on here ~~~ I have locked you in the watch what happens ::: nice loose drawing style!!

[Maginnis]

couple more from sketchbook, not terribly satisfied by the old man, his legs need a little work but here he is to show what areas I'm exploring.
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/deathchair.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/meat.jpg

[Muttonhead]

Maginnis-

These visual musings of yours harken me back to the days when I was a cumquat salesman on the French Riviera in the 15th century. Ah, those were the days.

Good to see your thread up. See you at work!

[Maginnis]

hey thanks for the critiques muttonschmuk:)

[Maginnis]

did this one for muttonhead's and mine's..that sounds wierd..anyhow. did this for the pick two words from a hat and draw it in a night assignments. the words were "bottomless" and "experimental"...i didn't quite get to finish it cause i got carried away on the little bits..
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/bottomless.jpg

[ejwize]

Sweet marks, Kabong. I like the stuff where you push the anatomy the best. <3

[Maginnis]

here's some more random acts of pencil violence and mad scientist experiments. i tried out some gouache which some of these pages have rough thumbs and sketches of..but gouache is hard so that picture got dead...gouache is the devil :devil:

thanks to muttonhed and ejwize for their continued encouragement and critiques at the office

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook01.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook02.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook03.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook04.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook05.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook06.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook07.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook08.jpg :devil:

[Maginnis]

here's some color painter doodles, some older from this year some newer..thought i should throw them up as well to break up the monochronotany

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook09.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook10.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook11.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook12.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook13.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook14.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook15.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook16.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook17.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/pegwheel.jpg

[Maginnis]

here's a guy i did tonite..pretty much just spent thewhole night tinkerin on em..it's 4am now so it's beddy time. i was just gettin too damn inspired flippin through all the other sketchbooks so I thought I'd try and give myself a little bigger push this time.
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook18.JPG

[Muttonhead]

Kev-

Your color stuff is really strong, it is the strongest thing about your work. You have a nice "soft realism" to your color that pleases greatly. What would be great though would be to work in some of your hard-edge line work into those color pieces. Which is NOT to say outlines around everything, but rather, harder edges in the painting.

I also noticed you remain stalwart on the one-legged dwarf! I'm tellin you he looks like he would fall right over. But the color is very nice.

I would also like to see you experiment with depth of field. In other words, showing how thing recede as they go back into space. Most of your work is one main character up front with not much background. This is something I always have to work on too.

That last sketch is great. simply great.

-Sean

[Darkside]

I think Muttonhead pointed out the most important things. the absence of hard edges were the first thing that striked me.
your last sketch rocks, though a bit more contrast would really push things out.
keep up ;)

[Maginnis]

hey thanks for the feedback there darkside, I think you guys are right about that. i've been tossin around the idea of giving my characters some scenery interaction, not just a static pose..think i'll do that on my drawing tonite, and mess with the depth of field thing. as far as color goes i will get workin on that stuff this weekend, i spend enough time with the pencil stuff i'd never get to bed during the week!

[Maginnis]

here's one i started up tonite. wanted to finish tonite but all the pre christmas phone calls, flight tickets and present lists slowed things down..hope to finish it tomorrow havin too much fun with it!:)

sorry for the size but it's the size i'm workin with right now.

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook19.JPG

here's yer standard issue step by step of the girl so far tonite, took the classic route with her as far as skeleton, meat then details goes..i find using the skeleton helps me keep the poses loose in the beginning..ended up changing the position of the leg after the skeleton step to make her look a little more able to bust a kap and not leaning on the wall

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/sketch19prog.JPG

[Maginnis]

here's an update to the girl, only got a little time to work on it. also decided to leave my extra canvas swatch zone in. some friends have been wanting to see some process. yes i actually name the swatches while working, I'm not the young man I once was! unfortunately the other art i worked on this weekend was for work, so just buy my games and you can see it!:)

**edit: moving this one to a WIP thread she's kinda beyond a sketch now**
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook19_c.JPG

[Darkside]

coming along very cool, I like it :)

how do you decide which colors to put as swatches on the canvas?

[auden100]

sweet stuff. I really dig the last creature you posted. A little crit about the chick's anatomy: her left shoulder connection is a bit off. It looks too closely attached to her chest. I noticed this on a drawing you did earlier, the pirate bunny. In both cases you attached muscles from the chest too far down the arm. Essentially, I guess she just needs more armpit. Also the turtle on her teeshirt looks too far over to her left. You've got more of her right boob showing than her left. That doesn't make sense considering the perspective. Anyway, hope this helps. Stuff's looking good. Keep it up.

[Maginnis]

yeah, fixin that chest armpit thing as i type this..well between l (scribble) e (scribble) t ters. bad one..anyhow yeah thanks for the crit there. i see what you mean. this pic is being moved to the main sketches/wip section btw. thanks again guys

darkside- well there's some basic aproaches i use for skin tones, so those were easy with a little experimentation as well. the shirt was pretty direct since i was just gonna do a white and green shirt, but once i figure out the base color i try and shift values from that as far as brightness and saturation go. i'm not as technically mature in this technique as I'd like to be but i'm gettin there. alot of times when using painter specifically with the smeary round type brush, alot of nice accidental colors can happen and if you catch them then it works good, like last night i stumbled into just the right color for areas like the cheeks ans what not.guess that's kind of the way i go to it, planning for accidents. knowing what colors to keep an eye out for while painting, which is pretty dependant on the background color i paint onto. hope that helps:)

[Maginnis]

well here's another dump..i gotta get better at actual daily uploads! i do draw every day i swear! well anyhow here's some jive for my freshocity....yep.

the penguin things and bad robo samurai thing were mindless doodles during a meeting at work..and the girl with the bandana and umbrella was an idea i was tossin around yesterday tryin to do a pic of her riding some kind of desert creature through the dessert, hah another bad joke! i'm spewin gold my friends!

the words on the bottom of the bottom image are some of my notes about what feedback i've been gettin just to help it sink in.

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook20.JPG
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook21.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook22.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook23.jpg

[ejwize]

I'm really liking some of the sketchy stuff you've got going on. The deltoid/arm on that first critter of the last upload and the desert creature riding girl are tip top. (love the hand gesture)

I think if you approached the eye of that top creature in the same sketchy exploratory manner, it would work much better... as it is, it looks a little shorthanded. j00 know?

:right: stop drawing in meetings :left: :wink:

[Maginnis]

couple of doodles before i hit the sack last night. the sack will pay!
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook24.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook25.jpg

[Maginnis]

i threw this in the finished section as well but it technically took as long to color as it did to draw..so i thought it'd be good to keep a record of it in my sketch thread. sorry for bump.

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook18.JPGhttp://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook18color.JPG

[Zebz]

What a nice thread! You're already showing some progression in here. I really like your work in Painter. You really create some cool stuff with that tablet! That chick with the gun looks awesome! Makes me wanna go buy a new Wacom and get down with it! I'm seein' some J. Scott Campbell influences up in here too. But it's nice to see you don't always stick with 'em. Keep experimenting. Anatomy studies and life drawings would be great to see. ;)

[Maginnis]

thanks zebz. yeah i'm kinda posting my garbage as well as more finished stuff so i have a good visual library of my progress. i've really been hittin the books lately as far as anatomy and techniques go so it's nice for that to get noticed. i tend to do my anatomy studies while doint my pictures lately..kind of a 2 birds with 1 stone attack. i draw out all the anatomy right on my characters before i ever put the armor or anything on so i don't feel like i'm cutting any corners. thanks again for the feedback..hope to get this painter style more refined as i go along.

[Maginnis]

couple more sketches. the second one is an idea that's always been floatin around in my head. I thought of this hermit in the jungle/woods and he'd basically built his shack on and into the tail end of a crashed airplane. I wanted to find ways of showing how he utilized the parts and structure for his uses. like using the plane's windows as his own, putting pipes with "catchers" up high on the tail end to get his fresh water supply. and using the broken tail fin to perhaps feed rain into a storage container for his long term uses within the plane. also I thought he'd probably build some kind of graveyard for the passengers so I figured he could use their suitcases, ski's, plane seats, etc. as head stones since those are more personal with their names already on most of it. and he can't really throw that stuff away. under the bridge he's using one of the landing gear to support it. at the bottom is an older version but more close up of the shack's possible look.

I drew the shack middle picture pretty small, the shack is about the size of a quarter in my sketchbook, the entire picture is a little bigger than the ugly bike thing above it. go go .3!

http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook27.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/sketchbook26.jpg
http://www.fiddlegarden.com/illustration/photos/concept_shack.jpg

[simonsherry]

Bloody nice stuff you've got here mate - the big guy a couple of posts up looks fantastic (nice application of comments form others re: your painting style - shows a real progression from the earlier pics). Digging the environments you've just posted too - nice use of 'internal logic' - be interesting to see it in colour.

Cheers,
Simon

[Maginnis]

..wow haven't posted here in forever. anyhow! here's a few of the things I've been messing around with this past week, thought I'd toss them up here. I've been experimenting alot with a new way to brainstorm out ideas and just get past all that pre-work that I have a habit of doing. Basically just cutting right to the idea instead of building it on top of some tediously drawn pose that gets lost once the costume is put on it anyhow. Some of the very first silhouette experiments are the airbrushy ones towards the bottom, but I went a little more solid as I progressed. anyhow blah blah blah, here they be.

[Maginnis]

another update, been doing a bunch of drawing lately, still just quick stuff. trying to keep tabs on my progress and approach. thanks for takin a look.



and for looking at these you get a free home made texture reference from something very gross I discovered in my orange juice jug. they're big files but nice and gooey.

Angel's Fur 1 (http://www.fiddlegarden.com/angelfur.JPG)

Angel's Fur 2 (http://www.fiddlegarden.com/angelfur2.JPG)