Haven't posted new work in a year - Things have changed (6/2/08)

[PaulGanguly]

ALL THE NEW STUFF'S AT THE BOTTOM

Ok, here's some stuff I've done recently. All of it has to do with a comic idea I've had in mind for a few years.

Main Character (self portrait...kinda)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/Sketch_page_3.jpg

Random Crap:
http://img113.exs.cx/img113/8894/sketchpage16ow.jpg

More random crap, somewhat older:
http://img178.exs.cx/img178/8657/sketchpage24zz.jpg

Anyway, I'll be posting some of my life drawing someday soon, but in the meantime, I figured I ought to get one of these threads started.

Let me know what you think.

[Xaya]

Great renderings!!
How do you actually achieve it?

Like your metal heads, nice characters!

What i may critizise is the way you draw/shade muscles,
look at the muscleman with wings:
the transition among the muscles is extremely hard,
naturally it is all about curves, there aren´t really edges!

Hope this makes sense...

-Xaya

more please!!

[charcoalArtist]

nice rendering, I noticed that the ears in your face seems a bit misplaced, look at some references and note how they line up with the eyebrows and the nose

shading is cool, though

[PaulGanguly]

Still trying on some painting styles.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/GSP_Test.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/GSP_Test_2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/GSP_Test_3.jpg

Lemme know what you think.

[PaulGanguly]

And a new one at 5am

Then Jesus asked him, "What is your name?" And he answered, saying, "My name is Legion; for we are many." -- Mark 5:9

My take on Legion. This depiction really doesn't convey my whole idea, but I'm not done yet, so you'll see it later.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Legion.jpg

[PaulGanguly]

Ok, so I'm not at home right now, and probably won't be till late tonight. That being the case, I felt like it was time to dump off a whole bunch of random crap that I've been working on over the last couple days.

So...


Here goes:

My COW entry for this week: Cute But Deadly. It's based on my cat, Rocky. He's freaking mammoth. No seriously. Also, this one's not done yet
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/rocky.jpg

An MSPaint thread on Eatpoo prompted this:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/Devil_Paint.jpg
Yeah, I have no idea either.

2 potential Business cards:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/Ridiculous_card.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/card.jpg

And, a tattoo that I'm thinking of getting. I made it a couple nights ago, at like 4 in the morning.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/Cross_2.jpg

I want to get two. One like the one below, and the other unscathed. Each on my upper arm. I'll probably get the shot up one on my right side.

[codakromek]

If you do, how do you do that stuff? Is there any special way the drawing gets on the body before the tat?????

[Majofo]

I like that tattoo, it looks like something Frank Miller would do.
Good stuff!

[PaulGanguly]

Hey, sorry for not really replying when I post new stuff. I usually post a t like 4 in the morning, so I don't really end up feeling like responding. Either way though, thanks for the replies everyone.

Xaya - Thanks, I usually achieve tones with a blending stick (tortillion), and besides that I just use a mechanical pencil. Since those ones, I've been taking figure drawing courses, and I've developed a little more subtlety when rendering muscular forms.

charcoalArtist - Thanks, I'm trying to make my stuff more realistic, kinda. My figure drawing class should help out with that.

codakromek - Honestly, I have no idea about the tattoos, but I'm told that there's some kind of temporary ink that they can either rub onto from a sheet, or draw onto the person getting it.

Majofo - Thanks. I've been getting told about the frank miller likeness a lot lately.

ANYWAY, so that this isn't a completely shameless thread bump, here's some new ones:

This started out as an entry in the sin city weekly sketch thang over at eatpoo. I didn't really finish it though. It came out a little more Mignola than Miller though:
http://img216.echo.cx/img216/2630/test13dk.jpg

A random, reference-less portrait sketch. About a half hour, maybe 45 minutes:
http://img216.echo.cx/img216/4792/portrait3va.jpg

And, some kinda painting of some kinda thug that I made earlier tonight:
http://img197.echo.cx/img197/5897/thug4jv.jpg

*EDIT*

Fixed the links

[PaulGanguly]

Slight update, and well, a shameless bump:
http://img197.echo.cx/img197/4075/thug23ok.jpg

*EDIT*
link fixed

[Pixeldragoon]

At the top, your muscles sem a bit bland, as if they werent right. I think if you are going to define muscles that much, there has to be a heavy light source or they have to be chisled. Almost literally. Other than that, running smoothleh!

[JustinBeckett]

Very nice studies. And great drawings. I love the first ones..love how you render the shading. Almost the same way i do it :)

P.S im in your group :P

[Sara-San]

Very nice work. I would like to see you do other things though.. maybe some females? It seems you lean towards certain facial structures. It's my problem area too

I love the rendering on the fat guy, it's beautiful.

[Pixeldragoon]

I like teh refrenceless sketch but the nose is too far to the left. Need to move it out more. Other than that it's awesome!

[JustinBeckett]

keep em coming,

[Profil]

hey dude, its looking good.
Though the thugs head is of.
uhm, the mouth is a bit to big and the shape of the upper skull is wrong:
http://www.fotosearch.com/comp/ISI/ISI119/UNIOB014.JPG

But otherwise its looking good:) I like the 2:nd light source
oh btw, I think he´s maybe a bit to red at the stomach?

[PaulGanguly]

First draft of a character for the steampunk space kitten thunderdome. It ends friday, so more will follow.
http://img83.echo.cx/img83/9296/spsk3pa.jpg

[Sara-San]

hrm.. for character sketches, I'll be lenient. mine are generally of the same caliber. however, her foot is too small proportionally.

[PaulGanguly]

Yeah, that was pretty preliminary. But obviously, there was a lot there that I liked, so here's what I kept:
http://img206.echo.cx/img206/9674/spsk26uy.jpg

Gonna start coloring it now.

*EDIT*

Started coloring it. Might change some things still. Obviously, far from done.
http://img139.echo.cx/img139/4282/deselect2ag.gif

[Playmobil Pimp]

Your shading done when inking is very Hellboy'ish. I like that style alot. I also like your robot faces they are almost more like masks, but still suggest more of a robot. The monkey sort of looking robot/mask is really freaky looking in a good way. I can wait to see the comic start taking shape.

[Profil]

dont got nothing to say really cause its stylish, maybe that her left hand is wonky.

[thebluepuppy]

your thunderdome image is coming along.cant wait to see it finished.

[Sara-San]

Love to see more of it! ^_^ I like the kitty ears

[JustinBeckett]

Nice update! keep it comin :P

[Kaoki]

Great pencil rendering mate, and the fleshtones are looking good :D

[JustinBeckett]

post post posT!

[Sems]

I really like the tattoo you want to get :) looks good and the skin on the fat guy looks really good too! keep 'em coming

[Zram]

Hi,

I like your painting the style works and they all look good. On you steampunk girl I think it looks good, but pose looks a little stiff. You should check the anatomy a little but too, the hips look a little short. You've done some sketches with heads in 3/4 view; I don't think the girls head works well in profile; if you turn it 1/4 turn towards the view I think it would look much better. Right now I'm not sure what to focus on, she's looking to her right, smoking on her left and holding a gun down towards the left; If she wasn't smoking then she could be sneaking up to a corner on her right, but the cigarette confusses things, between how she's holding the gun and smoke. (don't take my comments to hard, but analyze what I said.)

thanks,
Marcelo

[dogfood]

Very nice stuff. The design elements are quite striking and there is a lot of good value work. It appears that, like me, you could profit from some more anatomy study. In this last one, her left arm (especially the shoulder) is off and her face looks far more cartoonish than a lot of your other stuff.

[PaulGanguly]

Hey everyone, I know I've been lax with the sketchbook support group thing. Seraph Sword PM'ed me about it, and I don't think I ever got back to him. Maybe the SSG-lite thing would be more my speed. Anyway, thanks everyone for the replies so far, and it seems that the concensus is that more anatomy study is in order. So here's a few figure drawings:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/back_study_1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/back_study_2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/back_study_3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/back_study_4.jpg

The First one is conte and charcoal, and the bottom three are probably 95% pencil, and 5% charcoal, for some of the darkest spots. And also, lots of tortillion action. Mine has so much lead ground into it, that I can draw with it now. Actually, in the third one, I did. everything but the outline was done with the tortillion, and only the darkest parts were pencilled in specifically.

Anyway, I'm going ot be scanning more figure drawings in the coming week, so there'll be more on the way.

Thanks for looking, everyone.

[PaulGanguly]

Worked on this for the last hour or so.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Munky_BW.gif

Lemme know what you think

[darkchild]

Love the sketches, you have good rendering. The earlier works are good, specifically the metals. Need more sketches.

[Pootle]

Anatomy is looking good.
Your torchon stuff is great, the skin texture you've got on the last couple is really something.

really liked the feel on the middle one of your painting style try outs

[glikster]

great anatomy studies!
And your rendering is incredible. I know I'm jealous.
PS I'm in your SSG(L) now.

[Profil]

the figure studies are beautiful:D

[Quinster]

Very nice rendering! The style is frightening, everything looks like its going to smash my head in with their bare hands. :dead:

[PaulGanguly]

Holy hell, I haven't updated in forever.

I'd say I've been busy, but that's just a damn lie. Anyway, here's some things you haven't seen yet: (they're in order from less recent, to most recent)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/weekly_1.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/new_thing.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/new_thing_2.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/figure_web.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/lucifer.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Mask.gif

And tonight:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/paint_sample.gif

I've mostly been trying to get a worthwhile painting style down. There have been more trials and errors that have probably ended up getting deleted, but these ones were online, so I posted them.

When school starts again, I'll post some figure drawings hopefully.

Let me know what you all think.

[bengonzalez]

There are so many good sketches in here that I can't find just one to comment on. But I will make one general observation. It looks to me that most of all the male characters are well done the slight weakness come in when there is a female figure drawing.

I will keep an eye out on your sketchbook, nice work.

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks for all the comments everyone. I'll try to respond to the ones I've missed.

darkchild, thanks. I really need to do more sketching. The only stuff I've been drawing on ACTUAL paper, are little scribbles to work out some sort of structural issues in my figures. Nothing particularly post-worthy. I'll be drawing more once school starts.

Pootle, thanks. I've been actually trying to incorporate proper anatomy into my other illustrations. I can't seem to find the connection yet between the more "fine art" type stuff I do, and the goofy illustrative stuff.

glikster, Profil, thanks. I hope to be posting some better anatomy studies in the upcoming months. Those ones aren't really too great compared to some other ones I've done, IMO.

Quinster, haha, thanks. How'd you know that was the look I was going for?

bengonzalez, I agree, I really need to do some more female figure studies. Guys are easy to draw, once you get the hang of it. It's OK usually to exagerrate some. With females, you have to be more subtle.

And now, A partial WIP of something that I've been working on for the last couple days. It's not really a tutorial, or anything. Just some in-progress images I saved whenever I had to walk away from the computer for a few minutes so my brain didn't explode.

Here they are:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/new_one.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/new_one_2.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/new_one_3.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/new_one_4.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/new_one_5.gif

Anyway, I hope it looks as simple as it is. So far it's all in Photosho. The b & w drawing is on it's own layer above the background. When I started coloring it, I made a new layer under the line layer, crudely scribbled in form in the color I wanted that part to be, then I lassoed in the area that I had colored, and adjusted the color of the black lines to a darker tone of the color that I had laid down underneath. I didn't want to shade just with black.

It's much more low tech than it sounds. Unless it sounds low tech as it is, in which case, uh...

Yeah.

As I get it more finished, I'll put a highlight layer on top, as usual, I guess.

I had intended to paint this in painter, to figure out the program, but...eh. I'm just really used to PS.

Anyway, lemme know what you all think.

-Paul

[rodrigo!]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches/new_one_3.gif

i love that one, i like it better than the colours..
but yeah, your pencil smudging rendering style is really cool, you pull it off really well man. id really like to see more ones like the one i posted the link to, that wud be cool.
cheers for sharing man.

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks, roderigo. I wouldn't mind doing some more monochromatic ones, but I kind of want to learn about coloring first. Once I have a better grasp of color, then I can get a better idea of what to omit.

Anyway,

I finally found the CD of most of my better figure drawings from last semester. Frankly, the class was a little disappointing not because of the instruction, as I believe there should be very little of it, but because there was no prerequisite, and thus more importance was placed on the learning of mediums than on the rendering of the figure. People came into the class not knowing how to draw, let alone knowing how to accurately depict something.

I might take it again this semester and just tell the instructor to shut the hell up, and just use a pencil, instead of damn ink wash. Jesus, we spent so much time on damn ink wash.

So, our poses were short, and the paper was huge. He wanted us to draw huge. therefore, the only pictures that were worth a damn are the ones that were done with either conte or charcoal.

Either way, here they are.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_1.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_2.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_3.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_4.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_5.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_6.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_7.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_8.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_9.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_10.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Figure%20Drawings/IMG_11.gif

They have that border around them because they were cleaned up for my portfolio, which I brought to the schools I interviewed at. I just figured that was the easiest way to include the media and dimension information on the piece. I resized them to put them up here.

I'm not particularly pleased with any of these, but eh, what's done is done.

[Cookiedough]

NIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICE!

now i wanna play with conté crayons tooo. Especially love the hand.

You have excellent results with models, but the stuff you make up is less impressive. Try working on that more.

[mentler]

Strong life lessons <> interesting choice of pieces of the pose and good composition <> drawing large has a lot of advantages <> things are much larger and much more easy to see where and what needs to be done to make better drawings <> small drawings make it to easy to hide problem areas <> it is not about making mistakes it is about making drawings.
The best book ever written on drawing in and empty sketch book or pad and the best instruction is getting one motivated to fill it.

[PaulGanguly]

This is just a post to test just how broken the forum is right now. I'll post work in it later, so it's not just a shameless thread bump, if it even works at all.

[metroeast]

Really good work. I can see the progression of your work. It is pretty dramatic. I love your paintings. You should post more

[Pootle]

yeh!

major progress (not that I'm jealous!)

Conte' stuff looking really nice.

Would love to see you work on that Legio idea some more, it kind of caught my imagination and I think you could take it a lot further.

[guggemmaneuver]

great work

i'd lke to see some characters placed in environments.... sans black bg.

i'm very impressed!

thanks for posting. keep drawing!

jkb :rendered:

[PaulGanguly]

An update? Hot damn!

First, some replies:

Metroeast, thanks I've been trying to do more colored work. I don't think those have made it online yet though.

Pootle, thanks. I really like conte, but it's only really effective in a pretty large format work, and kind of a mess, and well frankly, I'm just pretty lazy lately. I've been thinking a lot about that legion idea actually, and I want to make an update. That entire "project" (I think I can officially call it that) exists pretty exclusively in my sketchbook alone, so whenever I have enough of it to scan and show, I certainly will.

Guggenmaneuver, thanks I'd love to see me make more backgrounds too. Unfortunately, Ctrl+Del. (Fill, in photoshop) is just kind of a reflex. I HAVE, however been working on some backgrounds. It's not going very well, but I'm working on them.

And now, the new shit:

I don't know what happened here. It became superman, but I got bored with it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/superman_1.gif

This was mostly an exercise in fleshtones, but it came out too orangey, and again...got bored with it.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Archangel_2.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Archangel_2_2.gif

The other night, in IRC, we decided to do pictures of celebrities, and we'd guess who they were. I instead decided to do one of someone who no one would guess, unless you've seen the movie that made him *mildly* popular in the west. I'm talking of course about Min-Sik Choi, who played Oh Daesu, in Oldboy. The time limit was 1 hour, and here's what it looked like at that point:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/MSC.gif

I started adding some colors, and here's what it looked like shortly thereafter:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/MSC_2.gif

And a random refrenced image that came out a little too dark overall:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/SG_Paint.gif

I wish I still had my scanner, cuz then I'd be able to show off some pencil stuff that's been really coming along nicely, but I sold it for crack. You know how it is.

Anyway, thanks for looking everyone, and let me know what you think.
-Paul

[Olof]

Heya. I thought I'd comment some, just noticed we're in SSG Lite (though I got kicked out of ssg long time ago).

anyways, you got some nice stuff!

A crit could be the 'rectus abdomis', you seem to add about 6 pairs of them, which seem to be quite many. But you seem to know good amount of anatomy, really nice on the fleshtone study :]


I'll be back... peace

[bizarre]

nice man, very smooth! i love the lost and found edges on the, uh... guy in the suit...

and the stuff from the class is great! how much time did you put into those?

[WildSpruceMoose]

Good body of work and nice progression, Paul. Couple of the faces in 2/3rd seem to be lopsided but then the heads are dead on or sideways the features work nicely :) Really nice contrast in your paintings. Keep it up, man!

[PaulGanguly]

Hey everyone, thanks for the comments.

MorteM, I've got to put some more work into my anatomy studies. It's been a while since I did any figure drawing.

Biz, The figure drawing there took under a half hour each. They're ginormous too, so that kind of helps you fake some details when you shrink them down.

WSM, you're definitely right about the faces. I've got to work more on drawing figures in motion. It's easy to draw them flat, but a whole 'nother story to make them move.

This is a small addition but I figured I might as well post it. This is the first image I've made in painter that's worth showing at all. It's like a 20 minute scribble, but I figured I'd show it anyway:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Alien.gif

I'm definitely going to be working more in painter in the near future, so ther will be a lot more work to show.

[PaulGanguly]

And another quick one before bed:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Test_2.gif

[PaulGanguly]

and a new one:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/giant_golden_head.gif

I'm slowly starting to get the hang of the handful of tools I was advised to start with.

[Hyver]

looks like you're having fun here... minor crit on the last one is i think the purple/pink is evil and should be banned form any palette! :D

oh and try to find a way to tighten some of those hard edges even more.. or maybe add some more contrast to put emphasis on them.

ktnxbye :)

[Mike Frank]

Hey paul, sweet stuff. I really like your rendering style. Keep it comin!

[Grooveholmes]

haha, i agree hyver. But it can have its uses... just too strong this time.

I'm digging your transition into painter Paul esp. the alien guy. Keep it up!

[character]

i really like the tonal variations you have going on in that last piece. the second light source is nice too. keep it up man =)

[PaulGanguly]

I got back the scanner that I sold to a buddy of mine a while back. I had intended to get a new one, but that didn't pan out, so I was without it for like, 3 months. But once again, it's on my desk .

Anyway, here's a couple things from the ginormous sketchdump I've got planned for tomorrow.

last week sometime. Nothing in particular, just working some more on tonal variation. I'll resize this tomorrow too.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/New_1.gif

2 or 3 weeks ago. Again, working on tonal variation moreso than anatomy.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/New_2.gif

Don't worry kids. More will follow.

[PaulGanguly]

Yes, more updates. All completely random scribblings.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/sketch_page_1.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/sketch_page_2.gif

Yes, there will be even more later.

[JonnyAwesome]

<Paul> everyone comment on my sketchbook
<Paul> now
<Paul> http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=654525#post654525

[Azeira]

love the Old Boy peice. you have a good handle on your progressing style, and i think that any flaws you had at the beginning are quickly ,with every peice, being rubbed out.

Woodruff

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks Aziera. Good to know I'm actually getting better. Sometimes it's hard to tell on your own. most of the time I don't feel like anything's changed.

Here's a new one I did yesterday. Trying to work on lighting and rendering a proper skintone.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/skintest.gif

[HEROIC]

Love ur stuff PaulGanguly, Ur cg works are really solid and good. makes me a feeling that they are goin to pop out of screan. GOod woRk on 3Dness.

i saw u did many life drawings too, wow thats great, as for me, makes me to doo moreeee and moreeee.
those cg works were really motiviting.

just suggesting, do a full sketch of ur character, finish it go crazy on it, make it more like a character designing style for ut portfolio. :)

cant wait to see more from u,

AMir

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks HEROIC. I really need to do more finished work. I'm slowly but surely disciplining myself in other areas of my life, so my artwork should follow accordingly in due time.

Here's a slight update. I haven't been drawing nearly as much as I should, or could be lately. Here's something I forced out tonight:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/astronaut.gif

Lemme know what you think.

Thanks
-Paul

[z3n]

Wonderful! I love 97.5% of it to death, so I don't really know how to give you any helpful crits ;)

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks z3n.

Here's some progressions from my ChOW entry for this week:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/BA_1.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/BA_2.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/BA_3.gif

Lemme know what you think.

-Paul

[Serpian]

Woah. Your "sketches" are awesome! That smooth rendering on what you call "random doodles" is one of the greatest things i've seen sp far. I'd say do more anatomy, seeing as you seem to have the tones in control...

[Tetsuo]

Jesus Paul! This new stuff is kicking ass man! Every time I see someone making jumps like this it just inspires and drives me all the more...man I have to upload my damn sketches haha.

Keep it up man and rock on. The fact that you can produce this stuff in an environment like Rochester (grey and more grey ;) is awesome.

-TeT-

[PaulGanguly]

Serpian: Thanks a ton dude. Yeah, I find myself getting really caught up on the rendering of surfaces moreso than the figure that those surfaces are a part of. I really need to bone up on my anatomy studies. It's hard to do when you're no longer actively taking a class in it. I'd love it if I could find a sketchgroup that had models. Maybe I should start one.

Tetsuo: Thanks man. Sounds like you've been here then, huh? Grayest place on the PLANET. Rochester can go heads up against london any time of the year for all-time grayest weather in the world. As for making "jumps" man, that really inspires me. It's hard to tell what I've really improved on, and what is still the same when there's no one around to compare your progress too. Rochester seems to have way too few non-shitty-anime artists around. I know there's some, but they live in hiding. Guess that's what CA's for then, huh?

Anyway, here's the new stuff. I'm trying a new way of posting images, to show them in a larger format. Hope it works:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Wide%20Format/12_21/SEC_1.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Wide%20Format/12_21/SEC_2.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Wide%20Format/12_21/SEC_3.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Wide%20Format/12_21/SEC_4.gif

It should show up as one big, wide image. Maybe only if you have a crazy uber wide display. Unlike mine.

Here's another one I did tonight in about an hour and a half or so. It started out at a leaf texture, and I just kinda went ridiculous on it.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Random/texture.gif

Anyway, you get the idea. Lemme know what you all think.

Thanks,
-Paul

[young paddy1]

All your anatomy studies and life drawings are great, good volume control, really like the creases on the stomach of the woman in the suit very realistic, the lighting on that pice overall in fact is very good.

Not keen on this huge pic thingy, you've ended up with the tooth of the paper showing through your pencil work, so it's lost its definition, by making the image smaller the white dots will be smaller than pixels and they will be averaged out by the surrounding grey.

edit: damnit you edited behind my back, like the leafy jobb a lot, kinda like a piece of a spaceship thats been blown off, and has been slowly acruing holes from tiny meteoric rocks.

[chr!z]

Kewl thread! :teeth:

Your progress is really inspiring! Your shading were awesome since the first post, but your anatomyskills and faces have progressed very much!

(The leaf texture looks great!!)

[Bloodsbane]

Hey man, you've got some very nice values going on. Totally digging the space chick from last week.

[rabidmonkey]

I love the tattoo Idea on the first page. Did you ever get it? If so, give us some pictures. If not, I might have to steal the idea.
(sorry if this has been answered already, I didnt read most of the posts)

[PaulGanguly]

young paddy1, thanks for the reply. Good to know my shit actually looks how it's supposed to. Sometimes you really need an objective eye to let you know that something actually works on paper. Also, the "wide format" thing I was going for didn't work. They show up kinda small on my screen, but for people out there who have resolutions around 1024x768 they'll probably be humongous.

chr!z, Bloodsbane, thanks guys. Hell, I might even finish that spacewoman somday.

rabidmonkey, thanks. No, I didn't get the tattoo, but I'd still like to. I guess you could get it if you really want it, but if it starts a trend, I want some credit.

As for some updates, I've been kinda busy lately with christmas and stuff. I would always bring my bag to family events and shit, intending to draw when there was nothing to do, but it rarely actually happened.

Here's what I've got recently:

Two of my three nephews (gift for my mom)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/zachary.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/truman.gif

They're fairly accurate, but I don't really like the pictures I referenced them from. Probably going to redo them.

Scribbling last night:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/quakerwtf.gif

Random doodle with blob in mind:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/blob.gif

Clearly I haven't been particularly busy lately, but that'll be changing soon.

Really.

I promise.

-Paul

[fooxoo]

Neat expression studies :teeth:

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks fooxoo.

Here's a lil' environment thing. Kinda a speedpaint, I guess:

First iteration, about a half hour in:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/env_1.gif

Second, after about 2 hours:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/env_2.gif

Lemme know what you all think.

-Paul

[waronmars]

I reckon you should do some studies to help with your general art, especially cloth, nudge nudge wink wink.

[PaulGanguly]

Beginning stages of the Tdome between me, Ion, ElvisMcVegas, and mr_pickleyum.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/tdome_1.gif


You can read about it here (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=58938).

[worxe]

Paul, I reckon you should shorten the forearm holding the pistol a bit on the chick, seems pretty long.

Otherwise it looks like she's coming along well, and good luck in the Tdome with it.

[Pixeldragoon]

I dont think it's that, I think the elbow just needs to be lower. Good work man!

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks guys. You're both right, the arm looks off. I may have scrapped that one anyway. Not too sure yet.

Here's something I scurbbled tonight, whilst watching Constantine. Damn, I like that movie.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/sinewey_demon_guy.gif

Are we noticing a trend here with the shitty profiles?

[Zord]

Impressive things going on here Mr. Ganguly! And Quaker freaking oats is right! The texture you did of the leaf reminds me more of what a person's inside would resemble. Like after they'd been rotting for a couple of days. Gross. But I just wanted to give props dude. Keep up the hard work!

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks Zord. BTW, your nick rocks. The power rangers will come back one day, when the world needs them.

Here's some new crap:

Something I started for the ChOW which ended monday:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/LGHF_1.gif

And here's one for the next ChOW:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Lich_1.gif
The Topic is "the Egyptian Lich".

Lemme know what you think.
-Paul

[PaulGanguly]

Update w/ colors:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Lich_2.gif

[HEROIC]

LONG TIME NO SEE man,
woh woh wohhh.. u are goin too far good. >_______>
nice updates, since i was gine, studying my ass off for skool. well, and bein lazy to come and check CA.

i love this one (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/sinewey_demon_guy.gif)
ur character designing is really great.
i really like ur style, i always love to do characters like this.
Again like last time, i notcied, u are just drawing from the head to abdomin, and thigh. do a complete one, from the top to the buttom, ur works are good, uve got the skills, uve got the creaticity. ur lines are great.. just do acouple more lines, and do long poses.. AWESOME DRAWINGS. THAT'LL CUT MY THROAT.
O___O

THe customes (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/LGHF_1.gif)u use are great.
ive seen ur life drawings, but do more of that. i think its better to build up ur library more, and make it much bigger, and along, drawing ur style, ur creatures the way u want them to be, CG or paper, doesnt matter.
get out and draw some real people, moving, drinking coffe, waiting, in the buss, in the subway which is the best. In a coffe shop. in the church.

im really not in stance to tell u whats wrong or right, im just giving u some stuff,, thinking it might make the range of ur drawing wider. :)
AMi
EDIT: ur new upadate is well rendered, specialy the face :)
MORE PLZ ;D

[Serpian]

Hey! This is good!
On that last CHOW guy, as cool as he may seem, I think his left arm is just a teensy bit to short? And his abs are unaligned. Othar than that, neat colors!
And the previous CHOW guy, the cowboy one, boy does he have cool shadows!

[Tetsuo]

paul you still cracking away at work ? I am waiting to see some good shizzle come out of you. And are you going to the montreal workshop? I havent seen you around for a while on the forums :(

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks all for the replies. I know it's been a while, but I've got a few new things. I've been in kind of a funk lately. There's untold hundreds of crappy scribbles littering my sketchbook that aren't worth showing. These were some of the highlights:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/gorilla.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/batman.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/diety.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Shiva.gif

Let me know what you all think.

-Paul

[Slash]

you do not update often enough. DRAW MORE, UPDATE MORE.


Your latest post shows promise, i especially like the values of mr. batface there.

[PaulGanguly]

Let's start things off with a little Marv:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/marv.gif

Then some Thing:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/thing.gif

Watchmen:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/watchmen.gif

And something from my own storyline, which may never see completion:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/legion-1.gif



And now here's the stuff I've been into lately. Based loosely on the idea of Miller's Batman Year 1 and Batman Year 2, set in a somewhat Watchmen-esque future, in which the era of superheroes has past.

A scribble I made with the idea of "Justice League: Year One"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/superman_batman_yr_1.gif

This is kind of the connecting image between the two concepts:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/superman_clips.gif


And now here's the JL: Yr.2 idea:

The below was my idea for a future in which Batman had established a pseudo police force of Bat-Men, of which his son (or grandson, I think) who I envision as a Gotham Politician of some kind is the leader.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/batman_jr_yr2.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/batman_yr_2.gif

This is my idea for the future Superman. I have a cool backstory for him, but I'll save that for later.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/superman_yr_2.gif

Slight redesign:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/superman_yr_2_1.gif

Another redesign still:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/superman_yr_2_2.gif

And here's just a random Superman image of him levitating unimpressively:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/superman_the_comeback.gif

And another, when I started toying with the future Superman idea:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/kal_el.gif



And here's some kind of random dude in a big coat, with glowing eyes.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/big_coat.gif

Some more randomness:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Pangaea_character.gif

Goku for a "Pimp My Elfwood" weekly on eatpoo:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/goku.gif

A couple random environment-ish things:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Cathedral.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/ice-cave.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/ENV.gif

and something I scribbled last night:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/ranger.gif

[PaulGanguly]

New one, from last night kinda:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/Superman.gif

[Tigermilk]

Great work, nice values and your colored work is even more nice. :)

-T

[minjarr]

man your tonal and lighting skills are impressive. I love the skin tone colors of the "chow" guy with the fire and the staff. man your stuff makes me wanna draw draw draw!

[character]

gettin some nice control with those values. keep it up man. good to see you postin again =)

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks guys. I think I've officially come out of retirement. Here's a new one from last night. Approx 30 minute speedpaint:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/sanctum.gif

Let me know what you think.

-Paul

[Christian223]

Hi, i really like your pencil work and your characters, i have been looking at them with this eyes :$ heheh, nice speedpaint, it seems to be like a room with reflective floor, keep posting please :) (you owe me a reply on my sketchbook by the way heheh, not really, but that would be nice :) )

[ElvisMcVegas]

oh paulie paul paul, why don't you get in irc anymore? Any, you got some pretty sweet shat going on in here, those kingdom come ones are pretty awesome

[bunny]

Hey man. Your work has evolved nicely over your last few posts. I was going to suggest more environment studies but you've accomplished that in your last speedpaint...

All I have to suggest is that maybe you try experimenting with textures in your digital pieces. It mght just be my personal taste, but honestly? Textures are a whole new world of awsome.

Keep it up!

[Christian223]

Hey, dont forget to post more of you very nice sketches, i personally would like more :)
Can i ask you something since i am an ignorant?, what kind of excersize do you recommend me to do to get better with values or what kind of excersizes you did to get better with them?, ok keep working man, i really like your work.

[PaulGanguly]

Elvis, someday we have to battle to the death.

Bunny, you're right. I need to to a little more focus on rendering different surfaces, both in my digital and analog work. I tend to render things kind of generically shiny.

Christian - I would suggest trying out some value studies. I mean learning how to control your pencil and govern the shades you put down. Also, life drawing and/or still life exercises will all help.

More - some Marvel Bidness:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/venom.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/juggernaut.gif

And now back to the DC extravaganza:


Failed Flash redesigns:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/flash_1.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/flash_2.gif

Allusion to an update of supergirl/woman/something or other and hobo-superman in flight:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/superpage.gif

And more Batman Update somefing:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Sketches_/batman_yr_2-1.gif

Lemme know what you think

[Stark]

I went back a couple of pages to get a grasp on how much ass kickin you did and how much you're doing now...I'm scared. :P But really man, the shading on these are top notch and you're going to teach me how to do it!

The last piece, the batman, his right bicep is a tad short and that left elbow is looking rather sharp...Might go back and smooth that sucker out! Looking good though!

KUDOS

[Christian223]

Thanks for the suggestions, ill see what i can do with them :)
Can i ask you something else?, how much time do these take?, for example the batman or the first flash redesign?, thanks.

That batman is awesome, but the back of his skull looks really weird, maybe its intentional, but im not sure.
Keep postinggggg! i really like to look at your works.

[Jho]

Awesome work. Can't think of anything to criticize, just wanted to tell you that you seriously rock, if you didn't already know that :)

[minjarr]

again your lighting makes me jealous, and I think I'm going to have to go back to my good oll 8 by 11 sketchbook again.

great work

?)

[Unbreakable]

Good use of light.

[PaulGanguly]

Thanks all for the kind comments. I'm still in a state of shaking off the cobwebs. I moved and now have a dedicated workspace. I met a writer who's got an absolutely ballstacular storyline he'd like to submit to DC, and he'd like me to do the artwork. Unfortunately, none of the following work is from said storyline.

These are all from my moleskine format sketchbook. They're roughly 3' X 5'.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_1.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_2.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_3.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_4.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_5.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_6.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_7.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_8.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_9.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_10.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_11.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/ms_pg_12.gif

I'll be sure to do a proper dump this week with some larger format stuff.

[PaulGanguly]

Lord, it's been way too long since I've posted.

Here's a couple new moleskine ones. Small, 3x5 approx.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/superman.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/inside.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/dragon.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/alien.gif

[peter_john]

Hey Paul!
Nice work on those pencil values... what sort of pencil are you using for those? I'd like to work more value into my paper sketching.

I like that future Superman idea. He seems a little hobo-crusted. I wonder what sort of world would cause the "man of steel" to live on the streets? Interesting.

See you around town sir! Peace.

[Jofx]

nice pencil stuff! like it all. good sketchbook

[PaulGanguly]

It's been over a year since I last posted in this thread. Let's hope some things have changed.

Random stuff, including some tattoo flash:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Open.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/joel.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/promo_flash.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/terminator_hand.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/dagger.gif

And now, Marvels:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/spider.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/Iron.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/grey.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/cain_2.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/cain.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/torch_colored.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/torch.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/logan_done.gifhttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/logan.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/lensherr.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/rogers.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/eddie.gif
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v292/paulganguly/kurt.gif

Let me know what you think.

[Slash]

Nightcrawler is my favorite. Dynamic pose, and neater rendering than the rest.

[RandAlThor]

Welcome back Paul g, I hoping you keep updating regularly this time, lol. Im looking forward to seeing as much progression in the the next four pages as there was in the last... keep it up dude :-)