creo ergo sum

[Zeitwolf]

I'm really working with scetchbooks. 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...

[WhiteC]

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!

[WhiteC]

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!

[WhiteC]

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