Unteachable Me.

[Zeitwolf]

Practise, Practise, Practise!! (I'm a sucker for British English)

Practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise, practise....



I'm working with scetchbooks. (and digital too) They are A5 and have thin paper. I ty to do all my drafts and ideas in it. At this time I'm at Greenbook # 8.

From GB#7
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/greenbook/panda.jpg

Friom GB#8
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/greenbook/gb8wellcome.jpg

thanks for viewing and critique.

Lew.

[Flaskpost]

Looking good! Don´t have much to crit, but anatomy studies are always good. ;)
Just keep posting!

[Zeitwolf]

some new found sketches from

Greenbook #8 (another sketch group topic: what do I might have in my hand?)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/greenbook/washabichinmeinerhand.jpg

GB#6 autumn mood
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/greenbook/herbstet.jpg

GB#8 no bravery (song draft, James Blunt; coloured in PS7)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/greenbook/gb8nobravery.jpg

thank you, flaskpost, for your kind comment :)

Lew.

[Treehugger]

hi lew ;)

i really like the first post with the panda. the second one reminds me a bit of that flame guy from planescape torment- doesnt remember his name =/

keep on posting =)

[purb36]

hey dude, willkomen to CA. :yayca:

i really like the panda and boy sketch; very nice. not much to say yet, just keep posting dude. :)

[Xaya]

Auch von mir n´servus!

Nice start, u captured some nice emotion on each page,
Especially the panda&co one.

Well, show us more!

-xaya

[Zeitwolf]

thanks for stopping by treehugger, purb, xaya!

small Update of some Open Canvas Sketches done for sketch groups (currently I'm active in three...)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/adstreppe.jpg
topic: "w/ stairway"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cgdsg505.jpg
topic: "the Blob"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads57atlantis.jpg
topic: "Atlantis"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cow27.jpg
conceptart activity Creature of the Week - Messenger of Death

[Zeitwolf]

from sketchgroups

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads59eslebt.jpg
topic: "it's alive!"

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads62patronus.jpg
topic: my Patronus

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads63zeitundraum.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/serren.jpg
ChoW topic Serren (I did'nt participate)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/swampbeast.jpg
COW topic swamp beast. I didn't participate here either. But maybe I develop the idea for the new task.

[Zeitwolf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/eow6.jpg
Unified Animal Market Building of Stedtfeld Systems.

A red moon is shining over market building 340-di, the oxygen heavy air is yellowish and dull, because an effective calmative is constantly blown into it by large ground installed ventilators; to control the often overzealous traders and sometimes savage ware.

Here the interest is directed towards diverse life-forms, floating in the heavy air, walking on the ground or swimming in the water, wherefore the markets are usually built waterside.
The livestock is mostly kept underground in the multistory cellars, partly overground on paddocks.

Normal trading takes place in the upper floors rented by wholesalers; the venue is held in a special area of the tower which is round on ground plan.
Important guests may land on the roof, while others must enque at the ground entrance.

...was my idea for EOW round 6... but I failed in submitting, because cA server times run ahead of real time...

[Hypronost]

I really dig the first two images.
MOWGLI !!! Yeh, the kid in the first image reminds me of JungleBook Mowgli.
And I really like that image, you can really feel hes love for the panda.

The second image I like cause it so loose and expressive.
Very nice, would love to see more.

[Zeitwolf]

for ca dsg topic 946
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cadsg946.jpg

for cgtalk dsg topic 546
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cgdsg546.jpg

[Farvus]

Nice sketchbook. My suggestion is to give more attention to composition in your digital paintings or drawings.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cadsg946.jpg - Here for example there is'nt much space around the main subject so there is no focus. Especially on the bottom of painting more ground would be useful.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads59eslebt.jpg - Here everything goes too much to the left side of the painting and those children would look better if they did't have their legs cut.

So far my favourite is "the blob" :).
Keep it up!

[Zeitwolf]

thanks for the crit, Farvus! I'm doing my best to get better.
the two images you picked are just about the idea, I didn't really care about composition and stuff.

some new ideas, though

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cadsg938.jpg
conceptart dsg: thick spinal torso

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads72isolation.jpg
animexx dsg: isolation

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/eow8.jpg
EOW 8 - Windy city (not submitted, not final)

[4Cutter]

Hey Zeitwolf!
Ich glaub, die halbe Welt postet hier..Mir gefallen die digital paintigs sehr gut!

[Janus]

hey Zeitwolf.
some very nice sketches you´ve got here.
Like ya style. keep going

[Zeitwolf]

Thanks a lot for your kind comments!!

Just some updates. I'm jobless and seem to have some more time to draw - but in fact I do not draw more than when I was in school... Where does the time go???

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/asgas1slogg.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/asgas1slogg2.jpg
all three for a german sketch group. topic. slogg is a hell creature with several heads, long tail and neck and brightly coloured.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads76.jpg
sketch group topic: scenario with zeppelin

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cadsg1024.jpg
cA.org sketch group topic: small kid finds even smaller dinosaur

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cgdsg622.jpg
sketch group topic: Can I keep it (,mommy)? Please! XD

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/mohotheforestspiritxx.jpg
Concept: Moho the forest spirit.

[PowerAnimal]

really love your work, keep it up

[Zeitwolf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cgdsg682.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads99kochbuch.jpg
cookbook

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/alterherr.jpg
drawn in the train

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/ads100.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cow45.jpg
COW 45 - the mover

[Zeitwolf]

Old stuff...

:up: Older
:down: Newer

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/nai-ra.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/farbperspektive.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cgdsg736.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/jun12-ra.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cow52.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/shaman-ra.jpg
Blown up scale for tiny avatar: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/avashaman.gif

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cadsg1095.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/generischeswildesvieh.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/skintones.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/flugzeug.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/harmara.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/hippowip-ra.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/gepunktetes.jpg

Newest
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/2008-1-3-3.jpg
15 min, Sai test (prog seems good for environment speedies)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/2008-1-2-2detail.jpg
100% from a recent painting.

Thank you.296580

[Zeitwolf]

Some more sketchbook stuff and my entry to POW1 on the bottom. It was really fun and I didn't draw panels in ages... no, not true >_<' there'll be a release of a short comic I did in Summer 2007. The anthology will be on sale first on the Leipzig Book Fair. Look out for the "Subway to Sally" Storybook. I drew a comic for the song "Auf Kiel" which is currently lifted a single. yay! :D
Anyway - my comic skills are so underground. Although I already received very helpful critique in the pow-thread, I'd love to read some more words about it. Thank you.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/gepunktetafrika-ra.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/verrueckt-ra.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/kissenengel-ra.jpg

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[Zeitwolf]

The semester is finally over. I had some really stressful and hard months. Almost no drawing, no painting...

So this is my upbeat (moah, I like the german Auftakt way more) for the coming weeks. A dismissed submission for COW 118... :/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cow118.jpg


I want to draw a lot! Maybe paint even. And I want to screen print... if you know any good tutorials I'm all ear!

[Jabo]

That (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/cadsg1024.jpg) is so funny. Love the way you put it in action!

keep it up!

[Zeitwolf]

Thanks Jabo! I'm glad you like it! <3

[Howie]

Nice stuff Zeitwolf, i really like a lot of your creature concepts... some very interesting designs. Keep up the great work

[garnetfenghuang]

Whoa, nice! I love your work, you have some great potential! Keep it up.

[Zeitwolf]

Thank you Howie, garnetfenghuang!




Since I have so much freetime and so few leisure to draw or photograph, I prepared an update on my sketchbooks for you :)

My eleven Sketchbooks amount to a weight of 3725 gram! :D 3,725 kilogram of sketches... sounds nice, doesn't it - I bet many of you have more... but I'm quite pround that draw in A5-sketchbooks since 2001, with more or less large pauses...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook000.jpg


I tried to find some pages from Greenbook#1 to show you, but they are embaressing ^^;... show you one, though. And a coloured sketch of Piccolo (with no reference) that I still love.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook019.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook018.jpg
Hard to guess, what series was my starter drug on anime, isn't it?


When I startet this thread I was busy with Greenbook#7, at this time I'm still sketching in #10 (the upmost from above), while an unnumbered book (one of the brown ones from above) is already full... the brown ones and the tyrian purple one are from IKEA, the paper is thicker, still they are cheap and you can draw on the cover fabric :)
The stickers on my scheduler were made for the Comicsalon Erlangen comic convention. They are real Panini size. I still regret that I didn't draw myself as soccer player (that was the task - portrait yourself for the sticker).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook020.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook022.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook021.jpg


Enough! Here are sketches:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook011.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook016.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook015.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook014.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook012.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook009.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook002.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook003.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook010.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook008.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook005.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitgreenbook006.jpg


I wonder, if photobucket will delete the nipple stuff again. I like photobucket, but sometimes they are too... american (no offense!)

I know, I know - I could as well use the attachment manager...

[Zeitwolf]

I need help and constructive critique on this drawing I startet yesterday. The eye - noseroot - eye part just doesn't seem right. What am I doing wrong? Text, reference or overpaint would be appreciated.

If anything else is wrong, please tell me, too.

Thank you!!

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Btw, she has no eyebrows. The animal is invented...

[Virg]

hello last one is looking great, the tones are nice, i think what is bugging you about the eye is that it doesnt feel like a sphere in a socket like it should be. I think the section between the eye and the nose should be deeper in. The lips seems a bit off perspective too on the left of her face, the left part of her lips should follow a curves that goes a bit higher, also her left eye seems a bit small.. Anyway nice sketchbook so far keep it up :)

[Zeitwolf]

thank you WhiteC, that helped a lot! I didn't ever think about the lip.

[sourgasm]

You were actually just barely off. Your main problem was more in the structure of the head, rather than the eyes.

I did a quick edit using liquify to adjust the eye on the left side of the canvas- pulling the right side of it towards center and moving the entire socket just a bit to the left. Then I lassoed the upper portion of her head and used edit>distort to resize it as needed (along with the ear as well). I painted a bit of a shadow on the nose. I added a little bit of highlight that would result from bounced light off of that panda fur. lastly, I simultaneously pulled the overall value down while pushing the highlights up to make the lighting more consistent (curves adjustment layer, new layer on top with a low opacity, low hardness brush set to pure white).

Maybe 2 minutes of work. This painting is really good. A real step forward for you. Congrats.

[Verehin]

good works...why 3 stars??!! this must be minimum 4

[Zeitwolf]

sourgasm - thank you very much - the proportions seem to make a lot more sense, now. Lets see how I can solve that in open canvas. thanks for the encouragement, too!

Verehin - thank you for the stars. I'm glad you like my stuff!!

[Zeitwolf]

Little update. Haven't been the very busy-bee this week. Too warm, too lazy...


Drew an apple... you don't notice that I have blending problems in PS, do you...
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Wanted to submit to this weeks COW "Unicorn Hunter" - all about speed... but I'm the worst renderer ever... and I loose interest too easy when I see those badass stuff of the others.
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And a rejected concept for "Unicorn Hunter"
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Drawing from reference... =fail... (Reference from this thread: http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=130637)
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And nine under-1-minute sketches in OC...
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And, well, I worked on it. Corrected the skull, the lip, tried to correct the eyes. there's too much light on her nose und upper lip, or too few on the forehead and cheek?

I'll do a simple curtain in the background... maybe slightly transparent, so we get light from behind, too...

and I wont render this to perfection, I want the brushstrokes to be seen.

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[Ryn]

Why haven't I seen this sketchbook before?! Great stuff you have going on here.
Little bit of inconsistency issues around.. like the quality of line between your nautical unicorn hunter and the page two down from it is pretty colossal.
I really think you're getting onto something great in the last piece. Lots of expression, gorgeous and interesting stylization. I find it super appealing both in rendering and style.
Great work, keep it up please!

[Kurjuus]

Cool stuff in here, and a great leap in quality from old to new.

The last piece is definitly going somewhere. You should consider adding a greater value range in the shadows. After it looks kinda odd if you compare the shadow under her chin and then that of the lips and also the hair, whcih is laking highlights currently. As to the highlights, the one on the nose is very confusing. It makes the light source inconsistent because it looks like it's lit from the viewers right, while the other highlights indicate something from in front of the figure. If that on the nose is supposed to be a reflection then you have to darken it as reflections from object are never as bright in value as actual highigts.
Oh, and blend most of the highlight with the darker values around them since they don't lie on such a hard edge.

Keep it on :)

[Autumnal Dream]

Hallo :D
Sauberes SB und tolle Ideen! Bewahr dir deine Vielseitigkeit.. deine Kreativität beeindruckt ziemlich :P. Die Umsetzung natürlich auch!

Weiter so!! Will mehr sehn ;)

[Zeitwolf]

Ryn, thank you. Yeah, I'm quite inconsistent... most times I do the absolute crap, then, suddenly, there's something neat I can be proud of... I think it's because I never think much before drawing. And it totally depends on the time spent with the unicorn-hunter-sketch and the quick-sketches above.

Kurjuus, thanks, I'm glad to hear that I may have developed. Thanks for your critique, too - I tried to spread values and darkened some areas on the woman.

Autumnal Dream, dankesehr! Next time, please, write in English - because I want everyone to be able to read what's written in this thread. ;-)


I consider the image finished. So much for values - now I should practise stuff, that I'm even worse at - colours, tints, depth, anatomy...

I know, there are still some flaws, but I can't be drawing on the same piece all time... it's not my Mona Lisa kind of lifepiece :-D

[firstblood]

Very nice creature designs. Keep posting!

[Trashy]

Woah...you knocked that ball not only out of the ballpark with that last piece but also out of the freaking city! Indeed, don't overwork the piece. It looks pretty good and I bet you learned quite alot from it. Nice sb and work. Keep it coming and coming:)

[Camara]

A lot of improvement here.Find your own style,now you are jumping from realistic to cartoon and a little bit of manga.
Good SB,but absolutely not a 4 stars SB.

[garnetfenghuang]

Wow, your newer pictures are even more amazing than before! Great job, you're improving a whole lot!

[Virg]

that drawing came out nicely, still some issues with one of her eye but the rendering is so nice that we barely notice. I really dig the sketch of the unicorn hunter looks like a dolphin mixed with some scarab hahaha
One thing that could help when drawing clouds, dont use hard edges brush too much.. the colors you did on your sky are nice, but they dont blend enough, they switch to fast from one tone to the other and hue to the other... you should try to smooth that up with a airbrush after, keeping some hard edges visible. You shoud also try a brush with one of its side being hard and crisp, and the other smooth.. some kind of a gradient brush if you know what i mean... this is really helpfull for rendering spherical stuff. keep it up !!!

[katinki]

your last peice has beautiful values! and i love the animal design, very cute but with a lot of character! the only thing that throws me off is the boob/arm area, somehow the single boob looks like a third arm? i know you aren't working on it anymore, just wanted to mention it.

keep it up!

[Zeitwolf]

firstblood, thank you!

Trashy, i really learned a lot, thank you :)

Camara, style is one thing, quality is the other - I sure have to practice a lot more! thank you

[Zeitwolf]

firstblood, thank you!

Trashy, i really learned a lot, thank you :)

Camara, style is one thing, quality is the other - I sure have to practice a lot more! thank you

garnetfenghuang, thankies! :)

WhiteC, thank you for the brush hints! I'll try more cloud paintings in ps or somewhere other than oc, so I can use different brushes. Good idea!

katinki, thank you for mentioning it! I didn't think much about the boob (or the arms) - anatomy is always my biggest problem.




Here are some COLORS sketches - wasn't very active with drawing this week. Took some photos instead and played with my brand new DS Lite...

Does anybody have a lead for me, how to choose the right colours, so they fit together well? Any tutorials or books? I seem to be unable to do it without reference...

[SaiVix]

I am lovin your creatures... but, alas, they have all disappeared recently... Have you been studying something else, or working with more portraits now?

[Zeitwolf]

SiiVix - hm, I love to do creatures - but only looking into cow-threads makes my creativity with them seem so small...

thank you though!

[Camara]

Camara, style is one thing, quality is the other - I sure have to practice a lot more! thank you

Yep,that´s why I said what I said!But it´s a great start,though!!
Cheers!!

[Farvus]

Hey. I dig those COLORS sketches. Especially this one - http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=434050&stc=1&d=1218392169
Keep doing these.

[Stefefef]

wow, you're practicing a lot! :D

About the colours, I thought as well that I only could do it with reference, but people tell me it comes with practice, so I suppose practicing is the solution, haha :D;

[algenpfleger]

^ What she said :) It comes with practice. Keep going!

[Virg]

heyyy nice improvement there, for your colors yes it comes with practice , and those study are a great way to learn.. in my opinion the most important part of color to learn is how to dose your saturation. Knowing when to saturate a color and when to desaturate it. A great knowledge of color comes from a great knowledge of light, so make sure your master your black and white tones also =) keep it up !

[abiLity]

Hi Zeitwolf, some of your drawings have a really strong expressiveness (espacially the ones with the sad animals), thats pretty cool.
And thanks for visiting my SB btw, i keep an eye on you, also keep drawing! : D

MfG Micha

[jatherip]

Wow, like your sketchbook, zeitwolf!
exscpecially your solace-piece, so full of emotion!!

[Katanasoul]

Hi, didn´t know you were here. ;)
Like your colour studys a lot, too. I think you could ad a little more saturated colours though. Maybe it could help you to view that apple (or another one if you ate it ^^) with stronger light so that the drop shadow turns really dark. To me, practicing that way is much easier as it helps me to see the colours right.
Keep on working! :)

[Wu!]

whay, nochn deutscher zeichner hier : D
immer weiter so, ich finde auch, dass die schwarze bisher das beste ist.. aber wirklich..
der Gesichtsausdruck kommt richtig stimmig, auch der des kleines fellknäuls hmm.. *watch*

[Zeitwolf]

@all, thanks for commenting! It's been some time, hemhem...
Algenpfleger has shown, that practise and understanding of the matter can be everything!
So in the little sparetime I have, I still make sketches.

@WhiteC: yea, saturation seems to be a crucial point. But hue and brightness are equally important. One can draw a totally saturated image, still it can look great. Works with one hue, too. One brightness should be more difficult *drop*
Thanks for the tip, though! I'm currently working on the saturation part. The colour triangle (like the one in painter) helps a lot with that.

@Katanasoul: yea, my life drawing almost always lack contrast and lush colouring... it's very hard for me to see the actual colour of a thing...


Well, I herduliek conceptual animal.

Concept for a themed art challenge about "futuristic animals"

Concept: gririk (Griricus chlorophyllus minor), pronounce like "lyric" with "gr" in front

In the early 2120s science finally succeeded in creating a breed of animal with chlorophyllous fur, that could produce part of its nutritions by itself. It took the researchers another 40 years to breed a stable small animal for everyone to keep in their homes. Also, man in his infinite perversion, reared the appearance of the so called 'gririk' to be cute as a dog puppy always wearing a little smile on its face.

Open Canvas

[Zeitwolf]

Some sketches I did in odosketch (http://sketch.odopod.com/)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-odosketch0909.jpg



The thing, I am currently working on.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2009-9-27-1.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

I declare it finished.


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(Sai and Photoshop)

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Critique welcome!

[Zeitwolf]

Some MS Paint stuff, genre mix all over again.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-alice.png
for a themed art challenge (limited time)... topic: falling

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-onewithearth.png
another themed art challenge, topic: one with the earth

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-eisbar.png
ref used

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-frontal.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-grun.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-bart.png

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-grl.png


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-rejection.png


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf-msp-still.png

[Zeitwolf]

Finished and unfinished drawings on the DS Lite with COLORS

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitwolfjuni09-ds0.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitwolfjuni09-ds1.jpg

[serio]

Hi! Thx for dropping me a line. When I saw your nickname it feels to me very familiar but I wasn't sure.. After seeing na apple zombie from ds I know this was You. Great sketchbook you have here. Many exercisers are great and has potential to be finished works. I like black and white lady whith her white little monkey(?)-creature. Keep going whith that sketchbook. Awesome.

[Seyreene]

Ah, I have finally arrived at your thread. Nice solid colours pictures you have there. :)

Pelle frisch und Pelle Zombie sind auch echt cool. Hehe.

[Zeitwolf]

Thanks folks!

Here's some sketch stuff on good old paper:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitwolfjuni09-blau.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/postkarte-idadino.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitwolfskizzenmai091.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitwolfjuni09-hihi.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitwolfskizzenmai09.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketches/zeitwolfmai09-miezekatz.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

some more stuff from the nintendo ds lite with colors!

Had some nice hours today watching the giants of Royal de Luxe in Berlin of the 20th anniversary of the peaceful revolution and fall of the Berlin wall... it feels nice to live in this city... (i could have never lived in the gdr, where I was born...)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolfcolorsslot32.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolfcolorsslot36.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolfcolorsslot40.png http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolfcolorsslot41.png

[Zeitwolf]

recent stuff from my sketchbook (I love me my paper smooth)

Critique welcome!


30 sec poses with fountain pen | creature concept "double 666" | 45 sec poses | 1 min poses
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf09100703.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf09100704.jpg

from photo ref: toilet container in Berlin Tiergarten/ view from my kitchen window | life size iguanodon in the zoo Berlin / cute cat / landing in a lecture building at uni Potsdam
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf09100701.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf09100702.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

edit: why tf this got posted double??

[Zorcron]

beautiful work ! i think working on your colors from plein air and still life would be healthy

[AvisNocturna]

F5?
Nice stuff!
When doing those posemaniac poses (which I wouldn't recommend, as the poses are really stiff and have no gravitation) try to concentrate on the gesture lines rather than drawing each detail.
Ich mag den Container übrigens. Und das Kätzchen. Mauz. Weiter so :)

[toubab]

really nice work on the last one, great shading! :)

[Zeitwolf]

@Zorcron: thank you! for the pleinair tip either!

@Avis: Thanks. I'm not sure about posemaniacs either - I don't know if I'm picking up something when I'm doing those poses. Maybe, that I will be faster, when doing life studies... and maybe erase some proportion issues I have (too large heads ;-))...

@toubab: thanks! :)


Here's some recent stuff from the DS with COLORS. I even tried to draw from life again (the usb reader)... but fail that.
The rest ist done from photographs (that I, of course, took all myself). Essentially trying to pick the colours and compositions. I like the apple ... <3
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf09100901.jpg


Here is what I began drawing tonight, no greyscales this time... having problems with contrast and... anatomy obviously (shoulders, neck, hair and underground (foliage) is only drawn in for orientation though, I concentrated on the face)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/frostbitten3.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

I fell victim to the perversely soft "water" tool in Sai:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/frostbitten5.jpg

[mariusz]

pelle zombie rocks! I like it ^^

all the best,
mariusz

[Zeitwolf]

Thanks, mariusz!

Here is some scary selfportrait (from photo, my hair has grown out again since then)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf09101301.jpg


a colour study from a screenshot (damn much colours for one face, ack)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf09101302.jpg


and a.... thing-newt I drew in one hour this morning on chiustream (theme "fat and scary"). It got 5 votes
You asked for creature
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zeitwolf09101303.jpg

[KromNz]

Great sb man! you seem to be improving very well and your pencils are really good too.
Keep at it!

[jatherip]

wow, first post in 2005 :D thats what we call stamina :), just keep at it, zeitwolf!

[mike butkus]

Good portrait studies and character design.

[Zeitwolf]

@KromNz: thanks!

@jetherip: stamina with yearlong pauses ^^; - this sb could have dozens of pages if I was really consistent. But thanks man! :)

@mike: thank you! I do my best!

:)

newest concept painting "frostbitten", with walkthrough (because I love to walk through)
804070 804075


And another drawing form chiustream, theme was "angry and prickly"
804068

And some greenery:
804059
804060
804061
804062
804065

[My57]

KIM POSSIBLE!!! i didn't really catch on to that show >.>

I like the white haired guy and your self portraits! nice painting going on.

[daveneale]

Some cute stuff in here-love that big grub thing!

[Zeitwolf]

@daveneale: thanks! ^________^ (aw, cute anime emoticon)

@My57: Kim Possible is one of the better Disney shows, at least I like the german version of it (the language the characters are using is awesome! nobody's really speaking like that in germany)
Shego is wasted in that series though
thanks too

Here's stuff, because stuff is awesum:
807179 acrylics

807181 ink on brush and copics

807186 watercolour

807190 aceo sized outlines

807194 807195
2000 dots on aceo card / some aweinspiring fall stuff (aceo)

[Zeitwolf]

forgot this one
807949

[Zeitwolf]

Had a painting session today. First a friend and I went to boesner art supplies and then we made a huge mess of colours, paper and canvas on the floor... damn, some hours are missing in my "study for organic chemistry exam"-schedule now, but it was fuuuun!
822742


and some more fun:
822739

[iven]

I LIKE your animal stuff, the macro and snail drawings, I love insects,.....

Ps.: Find Balin voll geil wa, besonders det DDR Museum hats druf !

[Zeitwolf]

thanks iven!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/avatar-baby.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/blues-500.jpg

daily sketch group topics
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/cadsg1546.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/cadsg1544.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/cadsg1543.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

More stuff from Harmony (http://mrdoob.com/projects/harmony/)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony1copy.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony2copy.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony3copy.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony4copy.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony5copy.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony6copy.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony7copy.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony8copy.png

[Zeitwolf]

Open Canvas 1.1

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-3-22-3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-3-22-3-raute.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-3-23-7wip.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/Na__vi_Avatar_on_Pandora_by_enonea.jpg
startet in COLORS! on NDSlite (http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/details/31475-Na%27vi_Avatar_on_Pandora_by_Zeitwolf.php)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/navilianescan.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/sexynavi.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/cadsg1545.jpg DSG 1545
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/cadsg1547.jpg DSG 1547
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony11copy.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/harmony9copy.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/koeppemaerz.jpg

houses with no pencils
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/roteshaus1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/roteshaus2.jpg

[smuli]

Some great paintings here, I love this one (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=427392&stc=1&d=1217706635) and http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=804060&d=1255678241 especially, they have lots of 'mood' and a pleasing, original style. Nice creature and head sketches lately and that Harmony is sure an interesting program. Don't forget to study anatomy though, apart from heads it seems to fall behind.

Keep them coming!

[Zeitwolf]

Thank you smuli! You're right, anatomy is one of my greatest lacks. It was one of my new years resolutions to get better at drawing the human body. I fear, I have no idea where to start. My plan was 1. draw from drawings 2. draw from paintings 3. draw from photographs 4. draw from life...


Here are some examples from my autobiographic comic. For procrastinating practise:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zil352.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zil355.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zil342.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zil332.png
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zil318.png

[aimeemcfarlane]

I love love love these comics! The concepts are both fuuny and mysterious and the style is adorable. I want to see more.

Everything that's been mentioned about your art thus far can be applied to the comics, but I tend to think that comics are more aout story telling then about beautifully rendered art (XKCD for example is fantastic, but freaking stick figures). As your over all art abilities improve so will your cartooning skills. However, I think you should keep the spontaneity of these comics and not over think them.

[smuli]

1. draw from drawings 2. draw from paintings 3. draw from photographs 4. draw from life...
Probably a good idea to do all of those but not necessarily in a strict order... Just do what you think is most beneficial at the time, if you want to learn how shadings/lines are handled style wise, draw from drawings, if you want to study skintones, copy paintings and if you get to draw/paint from life, by all means do that. But to learn the structure well, you need to study anatomy from books or DVDs alongside. I don't know if you know all this already but the authors people tend to recommend most are Loomis, Bridgman, Hogarth and Vilppu. Loomis' Figure drawing for all it's worth is IMO the best kickoff because he starts with the really simple things and covers widely things like perspective, lighting, inventing poses etc. Hogarth teaches better the anatomical structure: how the muscles work, where they are attached etc. Other ones I'm not so familiar with. Though I hear Vilppu's DVDs are great. It's well worth taking a look at some Loomis books here (http://fineart.sk/index.php?cat=1) if you haven't already.

[Zeitwolf]

@aimeemcfarlane: thank you. I love XKCD, too! <3 it shows me that everyone can make a webcomic. and it's so nerdy, too :D
My little autobiographic comic is published in my blog: Zeitgleich (http://zeitgleich.blogspot.com/) (German), En Jikan (http://enjikan.blogspot.com/) (English, not updated so regularly). Most of them are with text, but I was too lazy to translate them/not satisfied with the ugly font I used on those I already translated.

@smuli: those are some pretty nice tips! Loomis is great (and it's free, too). I'm in awe with Gottfried Bammes, who focuses on function of anatomy features. I'll try out the others, too. Vilppu looks quite modern, I like it.


Ah, here are some one-pagers I did

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/klinikcomic1.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/klinikcomic2.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/klinikcomic3.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/klinikcomic4.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

I took your advice to heart and started to practise anatomy.

First I made some sketches to find out, where I lack the most. I found I know pretty much about anatomy (knowledge), but I have no feeling of how the different parts are connected to each other and proportions are totally off... also I found I like to draw butts.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/anat02.jpg


Then I went to bed with my Bammes (Gestalt des Menschen http://www.amazon.com/Die-Gestalt-Menschen-Gottfried-Bammes/dp/3332016539/) and drew from his drawings
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/anat03.jpg


And this thing I doodled in Sai (to get used to the tool again):
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/anat01.jpg


I know it's only a small start, but I'm doing it.

[Zeitwolf]

Pulled an allnighter and finished these:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/ideadogdragon.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/raincoatfoursleeves.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/cstarsfinal.jpg

ref'ed from self portrait photographs
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/faceapril1.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/faceapril2.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/faceapril4.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

Trying to draw from life in the public...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/moleskineme/mol3-001.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/moleskineme/mol3-002.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/moleskineme/mol3-003.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/moleskineme/mol3-004.jpg

and a doodle (5min) trying out the brushes I got from http://maciejkuciara.blogspot.com/ (I guess)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/brushapril1.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/moleskineme/mol2-14.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/moleskineme/mol2-15.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/moleskineme/mol2-016.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/papierstifttests.jpg
these last ones were to test out some papers and pens (bleeding test)

[cgaddict]

Nice work, lots of studies here. Keep them coming!

[William b. Hand]

Nice eyes and (•Y•)'s on the red-haired girl. :)

Your assessment of the dragon cuteness has made me want to go and see that, now.

[Zeitwolf]

thanks, both of you!

William, did you yet watch the movie? I don't want to be the one who quasi sent you to watch the movie and then you are spoiled of it :D

Here's some stuff.

with COLORS! on the DSlite. The live studies are hard. but damn, i learn with every stroke!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100415colors.jpg


I practised to draw from ref, started with dogs (my great dane) so it is just practise without me being too disappointed of me, because it just wont "look right"
For a funny mathmatical reason noone will ever know, photoshop makes every page look different with the same "auto levels" algorithm. amazing
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100415skizzen2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100415skizzen3.jpg

And because then I tried to draw humans from ref, and I failed, I drew some comic stuff. hit me
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100415skizzen1.jpg

And lastly two short sketches I made with my new brilliant shortcut to the photoshop palette - it feels like 10000 years of evolution to access the palette with a keyboard shortcut instead of clicking the fucking colour squares (whatever they are called)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100414pscs2.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

curse you Double Post!!

[Trudy]

yay sharks! I really like th animal sketches you made. From the DS lite ones the ladybird is still my favorite. With the humans ... maybe I have just lost my ability to look clearly after trying to correct my latest sketch for too long but with most of them shoulders look a litle bit off too.

I like the shades the older man (in the last row) has in his face. Just hs head seems floating over his jacket to me because of the red shadow that seperates the two.

Bye ^^
Trudy

[Zeitwolf]

thanks trudy!
all my anatomy sucks, including shoulders...
thanks for pointing out the "floating" head. He wears a black turtleneck. But so I noticed his neck is waaay to long ^^°

[Zeitwolf]

awful enviro I 'forgot' to post...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100412evnviro.jpg

from photo ref, effing up proportions and being not able to pick colours
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/vomphoto01.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/vomphoto04.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/vomphoto02.jpghttp://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/vomphoto03.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/vomphoto05.jpg

beasty I just drew, I liek it
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/vieh105.jpg

and a comic I did a few weeks ago on the NDSlite
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/colors_slot54ff.jpg
well, not realy 'comic', rather tragic...

[Galgenvogel]

i like the snow photostudy ... nice texture! Mach weiter so :D

[cgaddict]

Great studies! The photo studies in particular are very impressive. Keep it up!

[rex-craft7]

I really like the snow one too; you really nailed the "feel" of it I think. Where did you get the brushes to make those textures though??

[Cyprinus]

I really like your photo studies too :) Keep up the hard work, it surely will pay off. And hey I share the pain with picking colors...I never get them right. Seems I am a little color blind or something XD I also have no idea of how colors look next to each other...this always brings surprises.

BTW I think the ladybug from your previous post is REALLY impressive. Also like the ideas you have for your pics :D

[Zeitwolf]

Thanks Galgenvogel!
Thanks cgaddict!
Thanks rex-craft7!

:D sorry for my uncreative thanks. I'm surprised you like the snow pic!

Thanks Cyprinus. I have superior colour view (clinically proofed), but that still doesn't help... :/ I think it's indeed a problem of getting tricked by the colours next to the colour you need to pick.

Here are some lame sketches of the past few days. The third page and some sharks are from ref. Reffing is REALLY hard for me, equal if colours or shapes...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100419skizzen1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100419skizzen3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100419skizzen2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100419skizzen4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100419skizzen5.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

some digital stuff

old sketches with Peter Blaskovic's "Flame" (http://www.escapemotions.com/experiments/flame)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/flame1klein.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/flame2klein.jpg

A failed attempt on another colouring method...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/filis-farbklein.jpg

something I doodled just now. For earth day *drop*
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/earthday2.jpg

[Jamie Romoser]

cool updates I wana try out a comic page seems fun
your doing all the right stuff keep at it
have a good one
-Jamie

[Trudy]

hey :)
with the colors the girl looks scary now - like she wants to beat someone up. I believe it's because of her bright eyes. did you use the greyscale first - and then colors way on her? I can´t remember ^^"

I like the colors in her dress but her left arm (the one in the front) looks flat because the shadows are so hard, and the midtone doesn´t change.

[Zeitwolf]

@omerta, thanks for stopping by! Yeah, make some comics, they sure are fun. And they give you so much more room to tell something than a single image. they are great to make conceptional notes

@trudy, I painted in the base colours fist, than added a shade layer and a lighting layer. and failed. thanks for your off-cA help with it. sorry for giving up ^^;


Here is some stuff I scanned.
These first drawings are from 2005 or 2006, on A3 O_o all from photo ref
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2006-bleistift1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2006-bleistift2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2006-bleistift3.jpg


Them crooked faces were done while on the telephone. the half face belongs to the sketch dump above
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100428und2006skizzen.jpg


These are from February and March, the middle stuff from ref was done a few days ago from photo ref. I like the Axolotl.
The comic page, the colour test drawing and the red houses are from March.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100428skizzenundaeltere.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/klinikcomic5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/rauteskizzecopictest.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/gebaeudeinrot.jpg


And here is what I did today: I opened imdb and randomly picked names from the starmeter. Five celebritiy women. And I tried to sketch them in a caricature way, with ballpen. I don't think you'll recognize them, because they pretty much suck.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100428celebrities.jpg

[jskotte]

Hi, really like your sketchbook, some really great studies and your design are so good, very clever. I'll be back for more :)

[Zeitwolf]

thanks, jskotte!

Here's what I'm currently painting. It's very simple, but more than a study. Some things need to be fixed badly. The shoulders, the folds, the arms... every crit (even overpaint) is welcome!!!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/rauteagain3.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/rauteagain2-1.jpg
not much progress and not much drawing at all at my side...

just some scraps


first some stuff done in COLORS! (http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/author.php?id=3616)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/colorsskymonbijouprawn.png


This is an old character (rpg-like) of mine, Filis
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/filisdarkcopy.jpg

I want to draw her in armour in one epic pose, but I can't even decide on the colour composition... any good tutorials out there?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/thumbs.jpg


A rendering-test... fail
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010alienplusrender.jpg


last but not least a fire beast named Thane (pronounce Taah-neh), only a test until now
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/thane-test1.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

Haven't been working with my tablets for weeks...

here are some warmup sketches I did yesterday (I'm very shaky O_ò)
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/gestures10071.jpg

And some Eyes I always cannot help but stare back on my desk:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/holzaugen0.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/holzaugen1.jpg

[alexson]

Very nice stuff, I like your characters. That first eye on the desk I first tought was a deers butt hole, with the ear as the tail. But I was apparently wrong.
Keep up the good work!

[k2mountain]

I like the smoking girl on #59. The girl must be on a planet of different star system.

[Zeitwolf]

@alexson: thanks. what's a deers butt hole? :B
@k2mountain: she's actually on a ship in a different system, yes. Thank you! :)

Here are some useless sketches, oldest to newest. The heat killed my mojo in advance (yes, weeks before it broke out)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/seifenblasen.jpg live
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100421skizzefil2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/conta32.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/conta5.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/conta21.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/conta22.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/conta3-1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/conta4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/skizze10062.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010drachen.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010fischich.jpg
Any tipps/tutorials to draw wet hair?
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010fettvieh.jpg

these last ones in Open Canvas 1

[Zeitwolf]

sketches:

cheezycat (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2273755) was here for some day and we went to the Aquarium.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100715skiz1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100715skiz4.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100715skiz2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100715skiz3.jpg

from mind sketches, tests for wet hair, no idea how it works
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100715skiz6.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100715skiz7.jpg

And two taking-turns-collabs, I love the guy's grin XB
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/collab1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/collab2.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/rautewasserwuermch.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/rautewasserwuermcd.jpg
unnecessary detail is unnecessary - but those drops are fun and don't take much time...

[Zeitwolf]

Update again! yay!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100430rendpractd.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/100717skiz1d.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/camp001-a.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-7-18-0d.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/20100718skiz1d.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/20100718skiz2d.jpg

[Jamie Romoser]

hey cool sketchbook you have going
i really dig that zombie pregnat girl on post 121
keep it up your doing all the right stuff
have a good one
-Jamie

[Zeitwolf]

Thanks omerta!!

what is all the right stuff? ;-D

does this belong in the right stuff category? XD
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/aikoyuki2010-2.jpg
done for a contest, and it was fun! (wip)

[Zeitwolf]

this time in high res

testing brushes in PS and Sai

Sai:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/meetmeunderwater.jpg

PS:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/rautethaneaction4.jpg

[Cyprinus]

I really dig the first one <3 I like how they look at each other XD

[Devin Busha]

Really nice sketchbook you have here Zeitwolf! I really like the works from your autobiographic comic. The "kickass physics" one gave me a good chuckle. Keep at it! :)

[Zeitwolf]

Cyprinus thanks! I'm glad you like it ^^

Devin thank you! if you like to see more of my autobio-comics you can go over to http://enjikan.blogspot.com/ :)

Here's stuff.
A from-mind enviro. I SUCK at choosing colours T_T tomorrow I'll try something different... I have an idea.... but maybe I'm just incapable of choosing colours
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/camp5.jpg



AND here! The first time I drew myself from my reflection in the mirror. I got that mirror months ago, since forgotten it stood turned around behind my monitor screen. But this time I dared to try and draw my reflection. I did half-assed tries in the past... but this time I started without thinking in advance: this is not gonna work
And I was fucking surprised how quick it resembled me. Gonna try that again!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-07-21-0.jpg


This thing is for this weeks chow, due tomorrow... trying to do the values first...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/chow2066.jpg

Uhm, btw. This thread is almost 5 years old, now. What do you think, should I start a new thread?

[Zeitwolf]

finished Father Time (Chow) and Detail
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/chow206-da.jpg


some old watercolour test sketches, I'm so bad with colour of any kind
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/aquarelltests.jpg


Memory of a recent trip... the colours at sunset were surreal
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-07-25-1.jpg


Three new self portraits from my reflection in the mirror
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-07-21-1self.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-07-25-0self.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-01selfd.jpg
last one from today


two value sketches
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-07-20-2.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-01conehea.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

sketches as of late

too unconcentrated

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/camp002.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-02-skiz2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-02skiz1.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/slowlori2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/steristripswip.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/rautepelleapfelwip.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/niedlicheviecherwip.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-05skiz1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/julyflamewip.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/therealtrudy.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-06skiz11.jpg

and my mother two new pets Wolke the cat and Purzel the labrador, his real name is Arco, but I like Purzel more...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zilwolke.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/zilarco.jpg

[zzyzx]

wow, you are very good with color and value! i am really enjoying the illustrations on this last page. the chow post up there could really have used a stronger pose/lighting, but otherwise your rendering is looking great. keep up the good work :)

oh but heyyyy i see you skimping on those feet. study study study.

[Zeitwolf]

zzyzx
thanks! yeah, I love feet <3 I just have too much respect to try and learn how they work properly, you're right ^^;

nothing new but this little sketch of my new cat Yellow sleeping on my desk
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-11yellow.jpg

I'm a little depressed at the moment. Can't quite find the mojo to draw, daydreams of space fairy tales instead... and browsing these super awesome sketchbooks over and over again...

[Zeitwolf]

A tomato, an empty ink bottle on black, a full in bottle on green, all in PS, a self portrait in sai (since my PS wouldn't start anymore)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-11tomate.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-11tuschefass.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-12tinte.jpg http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-15sp.jpg

[Loathsome]

You seem to work hard, that's good. Keep pushing hard and avoid comfortzones and you'll turn out glowing with awesome.

[Zeitwolf]

Loathsome: but it's so cuddly and comfy in my comfort zones *draws a hundred eyes for every toe*

Here's what I have done these days... not much, nothing great... :/

A watercolour sketch to test some different techniques... have to try more with these, because real paint is awesome!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08aquarelltests.jpg

These mountains (reffed from photo) look cool as a thumbnail! :D
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-16berge.jpg

bah, rendering faces... bah... how is body anatomy working? I don't know... so I stick with faces for now... noooo
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-18gesicht.jpg


And my entry to this week's ChoW: Yuki Onna, the snow woman
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/chow210_zeitwolf.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/chow210_zeitwolf_wip.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-23skiz1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-23skiz2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-23skiz3.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-23skiz4.jpg

[queenmob]

I really love the more cartoony style drawings the most. And I agree, rendering digitally is a pain in the butt ;-) That is why I personally chose the clean comic style for my stuff. :-)

[Zeitwolf]

queenmob, unfortunatly I can't decide what I want ... cartoony or realistic? fantasy or reality? illustration or concept art?


my kitteh blasts you with her extremomatic beauty
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-22026.jpg

to shock you in the other extreme - a self portrait from mirror
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-23sp.jpg

and from-life sketches of a half-sphere and of my friend Caro in Volkspark Friedrichshain in Berlin, and sphere studies... seems I can't even draw spheres...
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-24kugelundfuss.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-24kugeln1.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-24kugeln2.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-24caro.jpg

[Zeitwolf]

Today's SP. This times with lenses (not glasses) and different light setting (additional bulb).
And I got a fresh haircut.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v320/odinsregen/sketchez/2010-08-29sp.jpg

[Crahzz]

Wow, I see a lot of different styles fly by here browsing through your SB haha, it's amazing really. However, the topics you've chosen for yourself are pretty hard to paint, all of them, because they share no similarities with real world situations making it hard to paint them correctly. Usually when trying to paint really heavy fantasy or personal stuff it's good to have a solid foundation - only when we know all the basics is it when we can create worlds of our own (that look really proper) so starting out with animal drawings (like you are doing your self portraits) might be helpful. I do see some observational drawings going on in your sb which is good, quite like those.