Adam's book...update, April 28th...!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[yAdam]

NEW STUFF AT THE BOTTOM.....

Hey everyone, i'm new here so I thought i'd make a sketchbook to get me rolling. Hopefully I will be motivated to post new stuff often.

This first group of work is a collection of fairly recent sketches. Thanks for any comments!

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/cerb_hera.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/env3.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/quick_2.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/life2.1.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/char6.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/char2.2.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/cy1.2.jpg

http://images5.theimaehosting.com/cy3.1.jpg

[sly's hand]

It is good to see a fresh imagination on someones shoulders, I like the perspective piece. You'll have a blast here ill be back to see what else you got. Take it easy

Cheers,
Sly

[yAdam]

Thanks sly! Here's some studies I did this week from Giovanni Civardi's book, "Drawing Human Anatomy". Not really sure who this guy is, but his work is pretty good and its one of the only anatomy books I have. Need to buy some Hogarth and Loomis I think...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/gc_study4.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/gc_study3.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/gc_study2.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/gc_study1.jpg

[Fellah.]

NIce start here man - keep working hard dude! It wil pay off fast!
Hope to see a lot more!

[Mikko Voipio]

From the anatomical studies I can see that you really have potential. Really
nice. I'll be following you're progression.

[yAdam]

Fellah, Placeboast and TheFatKid, thanks for the kind words :} Here's some more stuff...

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/rubens_davidandgoliath_copy2_smalld.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/env2_new.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/characters_new.jpg

[yAdam]

A couple more things to post. I have a quite few sketches but I cant get access to a scanner/camera at the moment so these are all right now.

This is a quick DSG I did in the week....

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/entity_sucks_cowboysoul.jpg

...and this is my C.O.W entry.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/COW_arctic_carnivore2.jpg

[sly's hand]

Perspective still amazes me simle or not. Your Cow looks like he needs a nap :p Good to see more, the george bush lookin old man is rather nice as well.

sly

[seth1]

Really nice.. Your humans are lacking some areas of anatomy, it will come though! Allso work on those hands i can see some errors with them length wise and proportion wise...

[yAdam]

Thanks for the comments guys. I wasnt happy with my C.O.W entry, I started to get bogged down in details where i'm really aiming for paintings with more expression, its something I need to work on, alot... and i've done a hand especially for you seth :)

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/hand.21.jpg

A couple of ideas I had for the C.O.W entry

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/ac_1.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/ac_2.jpg

An oldish study from a life drawing class

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/life1.1.jpg

Some random

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/random_chara.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/random.11.jpg

and ideas for the E.O.W

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/t_ideas1.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/t_ideas2.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/t_ideas3.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/t_ideas4.jpg

[Farvus]

You have nice concepts. This second drawing with bridge caught my eye. The last ones are great too.
Keep it up.

[Flaskpost]

That COW is great!
Nice studies as well.
Keep it up!

[yAdam]

Some more stuff for this week....

CH.O.W stuff:

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/chow_1.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/chow_2.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/jen_rheesa.JPG

What was going to be my E.O.W (titan fortress), but got pissed off with the foreground :S :

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/speed1.jpg

A sketch for the massive black C.O.W, but never got around to doing it :S :

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/cowsketch.jpg

and a random

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/random_chara2.jpg

[[void]]

You enviromental/perspective studies have a real strength to them and a few rendering excercises could really beef up the pencil work.

[mir]

Nice environment sketches :^^: .Did you use references or they are from your head.Just curious

[sve]

Hello, yAdam. Thank you for sharing your art with us, I looked with a great interest, the most appealing to me are

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/life1.1.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/entity_sucks_cowboysoul.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/COW_arctic_carnivore2.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/rubens_davidandgoliath_copy2_smalld.jpg

I like the C.O.W entry very much. It's very unusual character and you painted it beautifully. I absolutely love the surrounding you put it in, the colors, the whole manner in which you did this peace. It's great!
Sveta Dudetta

[yAdam]

Asgauardian, cheers man! I hear what you are saying about rendering, its something I am looking at more closely now.

Heartbeat, Thanks! and they are all from my head

Sve, they are pretty interesting choices. Especially the arctic carnivore, I dont like it at all. :) But I suppose most or all artists end up not liking some of their work, especially old stuff.

[yAdam]

Got some more stuff, need to find some batteries so I can take some photos of my sketchbook. So just these at the moment.

A random green thing

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/speed3.jpg

E.O.W tavern in the trees

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/tav_in_trees.1.jpg

and this weeks Ch.O.W

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/trans_di_drag_hunter2.jpg

[yAdam]

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/dad.9.jpg

[darkchild]

I like your anatomy studies. I have that same book by Giovanni. The artist is amazing. You've done good job of with the Tavern in the Trees piece. I really like the mood. Keep them coming!

[mayshing]

Good start, the works give off a nice energy. Keep it going.

[blacky]

Last Ch.o.W; looks like he's sneaking on his toes.
Still great sketch thread.
Keep em coming.

[Badger]

nice work man, i especially like your EOW's. Careful with the glow on some of your lights, remember placement, cause some of them bring light where they shouldn't.
Good shit.
-B-

[yAdam]

Thanks for the replies blacky/badger/mayshing/darkchild, I really apreciate your comments...heres some more for this week!

A couple of ideas for last weeks E.O.W which I never got around to.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/new1.29.jpg

From life.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/new2.18.jpg

A random page.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/new3.13.jpg

A few ideas for an environment.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/new4.7.jpg

My E.O.W. A fairly quick one, I'm getting faster! But may work on it some more, need more fungally colour and a stronger light source I think.

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/fungtunnel.jpg

and some very quick ideas for this weeks ch.o.w...

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/ideas_mortimer.jpg

[yAdam]

More for this week...

IDW:
http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/2427/idwidea19sw.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/5141/idwidea20mx.jpg

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/5535/ark2el.jpg

COW:

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/4033/tripedidea19bk.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/9493/tripedidea25go.jpg

http://img400.imageshack.us/img400/4971/triped5ok.jpg

Random:

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7250/sw7idea27rk.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/200/sw7idea16zm.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/7814/random1c5fv.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/8949/random1a0ry.jpg

http://img257.imageshack.us/img257/3637/random1b1gn.jpg

[yAdam]

crappy chow ideas

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/6563/chowid6oh.jpg

More studies from the Giovanni Civardi book:

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/5792/gc15jk.jpg

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/4016/gc25mo.jpg

http://img381.imageshack.us/img381/4527/gc34cs.jpg

[yAdam]

A self portrait I got bored with a few minutes ago...*gonna work at it some more actually.... *still not quite happy with it, but i'm gonna stick it up anyway...

http://img409.imageshack.us/img409/6001/spor22pk.jpg

[yAdam]

I didnt update last week! So here's some stuff from the last 2 weeks...

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/church.31.jpg

http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/7854/35xp.jpg

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1889/riverblizzard23jv.jpg

A portrait (from an old photo) for a friends birthday:

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/ross.6.jpg

Still life, Oils on textured paper (a4):

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/stilllife1.jpg

and some random pages:

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/sp1.5.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/sp2.5.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/sp3.6.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/sp4.jpg

[Farvus]

Great enviroments. I especially like this one with fountain in the middle. It has nice atmosphere ( and such winter feeling )
Keep updating...

[yAdam]

Cheers Farvus...

A random environment:

Sorting it....Thanks for pointing it out Farvus... The only excuse I have is that it was late when i was doing it :)

[Farvus]

Nice enviroment. You might know this but try to draw achieve more contrast for closer objects and less for farther ones. In this kind of stuff giving much attention to depth is really important.
Hope to see more updates.

[yAdam]

Happy new year!

From the last post - revised, but only worked on it for about another few minutes, bringing the foreground foreward. I got bored with it after that:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/misc.jpg

Was inspired by the bruce parry series called tribe:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/tribeppl2.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/tribehuts2.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/tribeppl1.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/tribeppl3.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/tribehuts1.jpg

An illustration for the idea I started yesterday, but stepping away for a while, before I go into the rest of the mid and foreground, to make sure everything is ok with it..

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/2.jpg

A full size detail:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/detail_early.jpg

Quick environment:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/cliff1.jpg

another cliff:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/cliffs.jpg

A couple of random pages:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/hero.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/random1.jpg

and finish off with my foot, eye and hand:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/eyehandfoot.jpg

[yAdam]

Update on the tribal painting:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/2d.jpg

The view in front of me waiting in the car for 20 minutes:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/20mins.jpg

Some quick stuff:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/env1.jpg

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/skull.jpg

Portrait with oils wip, 2hours spent on it so far:

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/annab_s1.jpg

[yAdam]

A speed paint, took around 1 hour. I'm just starting to get a feel for these really (after many months of trying), so if anyone has any thoughts i'd be glad to hear them. cheers!

http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/speedy.jpg

[guggemmaneuver]

@d@m!
I am really liking what you've got goin on here. I've actually seen your work several times in the C.o.w., e.o.w. and i.d.o.w. threads... it's cool to see your bringing that level of participation. i need to stop being so lazy! anyways... here are the crits.

on the pencil / paper stuff: try to keep your pencil sharp... looks like it's getting a little dull and that your drawings are becoming a little muddy because of it. just try and do it every so often... maybe like every 2-5 minutes or something. it's very important. the bottom sketch here is my favorite: http://images5.theimagehosting.com/new4.7.jpg

on the digital paints: In this one http://img494.imageshack.us/img494/7854/35xp.jpg the levels are just about right....... seems like in some of the others they are kind of murky or muddly. don't be afraid to get into some insane detail in one or two areas of the composition. after the whole thing is done you should maybe play with variations or curves to try and get the entire color scheme a little more realistic.

[yAdam]

Thanks for the crits guggen! My aim with the digi paints is to start getting to a better level of detail as well as concentrating on quickly painting scenes, like mood paintings.

That pencil/paper picture that you said was your favourite is actually biro. But i'm interested in why you thought it was the best, I mean, to me I have improved quite a bit since then, even though it wasn't that long ago, and in my eyes the pencil work i posted this week is far better than that... Not saying that it can't be your favourite, just wondered why :^^: ..

The most recent stuff as well, has been done with a tech pen (0.5) so i dont need to sharpen that... and since the end of november i've had an electronic pencil sharpener...Interesting...

[guggemmaneuver]

That pencil/paper picture that you said was your favourite is actually biro. But i'm interested in why you thought it was the best, I mean, to me I have improved quite a bit since then, even though it wasn't that long ago, and in my eyes the pencil work i posted this week is far better than that... Not saying that it can't be your favourite, just wondered why :^^: ..

k..... i'll try to explain a little better:) http://myspace-710.vo.llnwd.net/00365/01/77/365167710_l.jpg is a different kind of drawing from the more recent ones you've been posting. when i look at it it seems that you were working in a fast kind of way. it seems like you could have drawn one or two of these little studies within maybe 15-25 minutes. It's really cool because they seem so imaginative and have such depth, but they're such quick studies. I really like the improvisation there... it's part of why your speedpaints have been improving i think. I see this kind of drawing ... which is basically a thumbnail, or even a gesture as a different kind of genre of drawing from something like this: http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/tribeppl3.jpg.

the tribe studies are of good quality, but the pencil work doesn't seem quite as confident somehow. I think that http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/tribeppl2.jpg is good in the in initial layout and in the anatomy, but that the halftones where you have basically cross hatching seems to have some shading just to be shading. how long did these take you to do??? this one : http://i3.photobucket.com/albums/y77/yAdam1/misc.jpg seems particularly good in it's spontaniety... but yet it's a finished drawing.

keep up the great work! hope this helps!

joel

[yAdam]

Thanks again! this has helped a lot. I assume the link you posted was supposed to be of that biro sketch you liked.. not of a woman dreaming of bob ross.. hehe! But I can see what you mean.

I can definately see, in the tribeppl2 page, what you are talking about (it took me about 45 minutes in total). I think it comes down to not fully understanding the form. I have been trying to improve my shading/rendering..I always did it in finished stuff, but I used to only do line sketches. I can see the way it look a bit jittery and haphazard, especially on the ones you posted, so I suppose the confidence will come with time...

[yAdam]

More for this week...

Some sketch pages, working on faces and quick construction of bodies as well as random crap:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/sketchb1_jan_week2.jpg

Loomis

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/sketchb2_jan_week2.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/sketchb3_jan_week2.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/sketchb5_jan_week2.jpg

and two i'm gonna turn into digi paints..

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/sketchb4_jan_week2.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/sketchb6_jan_week2.jpg

Been realising my colour theory and definately my colour picking (in painter) really sucks. So I worked on that for a while..

2 quick studies of outside my window: 1st one done at abouy 10:30am, the second done at about 2:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/cstudy3_outwin2.JPG

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/cstudy1_outwin.jpg

A bottle!:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/cstudy2_bottle.JPG

Portrait update...I'm pretty new to oils, and i'm still at a stage where I get pretty nervous about putting things down.. and also my colour mixing isnt all that great.. A few more things to do, repainted it twice already, so I hope I will be happy with this version... oils on 10"*14" canvas

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/annab_s3.jpg

and finally my C.O.W
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/bscarnage6.JPG

[yAdam]

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/daydream.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/1.jpg

[Jokisalo]

Good stuff here man.. dun get it why there aint much replys here on your sketchbook!!
Good stuff.. post more and draw more and youll be in stars!
keep it up man!

[yAdam]

Hey Jokisalo! Cheers for the reply...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/savethegirl4.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/savethegirl5.jpg

[yAdam]

More for today....

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/aliencanyon.JPG

[yAdam]

Got Hogarth's book, dynamic anatomy this morning, so I had to do some studies...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/hogarth_studies1.jpg

[Condottiere]

Your environments in particular are quite amazing.

As for sketches of people, I would recommend focusing on shadows more than details. For instance, don't draw any lines at all for eyes/noses, instead add shadows, to show the typography of the face. This not only makes sketches look a lot better, but it will help develop your lighting skills as well.

On another note, with oils, try what's called 'imprematura.' What you so is take a TON of turpentine/turpenoid, or whatever you do to make paints thin (do NOT use oil), and a little bit of brown, burnt sienna/umber, etc. Any earthy color will do.

Anyways, lightly and smoothly do a wash over your canvas, until it's all lightly brown. This will allow you to add white without messing things up.

After it's dried for 4 or so days (I prime a lot of canvases at a time) you begin to paint on it. But paint in brown/burnt sienna/umber only. This will be the base painting. You're using turpentine only with this. This is the most important stages, make sure that it's as detailed as the finished painting. When you use turpentine you're able to get extremely fine details, since it's much thinner than linseed oil. Also, if you make a mistake, you can dip a rag in turpentine and wipe away your errors. It's the ONLY way to paint, and it's what all of the old masters did. I read about this technique about a month ago, and it's made my oil paintings infinitely better.

Anyways, after you finish your base painting, allow a long time to dry, or else the painting will warp after a few years. Then you can either add more depth/detail using brown and turpentine, or you can start layering the paint on, using oil to mix with the paint. Do THIN coats, and I mean thin. Take your time, don't add too much color in one layer, or else it will look muddy and sloppy. Keep edges clean, and just keep building up layers, allowing 3-5 days of dry time in between each one. This way you can always fix your mistakes, and the painting will look very refined. The layering also gives it a REALLY cool effect.

If you do this, your oil paintings could look as good as your photoshop work.

Anyways, keep up the good work.

[yAdam]

Condottiere, thanks for the great tips! I really appreciate it... Trying to sort out a studio in feb (sort of anyway), so i'll be preparing some canvases soon..

Been a bit of a slacker the last few days.. Next update I hope i'll have something more worthwhile... gotta start thinking about my portfolio now...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/mountainmonas1.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/mountainmonas.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/entrance.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/hmm.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/hands.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/bang.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/hello.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/spacesuit.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/spacegirl.jpg

[yAdam]

Getting back into the flow again now...a random sketch and the E.O.W for this week...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/birdy.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/3_mm.jpg

[yAdam]

From life drawing class last week..first in ages,

warm up on A1
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/life_a1_combo.jpg

40 minutes A2
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/life_40_a2.jpg

40minutes A1..not used to charcoal at all...
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/life_a1_40.jpg

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selfportrait...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/self.jpg

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http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/space_helmet.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/spaceman.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/spacegirl2.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/hq.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/controller.jpg

[yAdam]

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/control.JPG

[yAdam]

Hogarth study.. then non ref practice:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/hog_stud2.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/practice.jpg

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Life class yesterday:

warm up 5 minutes each
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/life2_5_a1.jpg

10 minutes
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/life2_10_a1.jpg

20 minutes
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/life2_20_longa1.jpg

50 minutes
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/life2_50_a2.jpg

[lefran]

hey i really like your work, in particular your digi paintings, the one with the yeti creature and the environments are awesome! keep it up!

[yAdam]

Thanks Fran!

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/1.68d.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/2.8de.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/3.90f.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/4.7af.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/5.327.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/6.a72.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/7.e04.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/8.046.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/9.77d.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/10.ca2.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/11.a54.jpg

The pirate I did in Nandos at the london meet, was supposed to be a 5minute sketch, but when I got back I found a reference for the clothes and spent another 15 minutes on it!!
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/12.060.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/13.f9a.jpg

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/14.e14.jpg

[yAdam]

Sketchbook page:
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/15.e28.jpg

and a wip:
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/wip.f7d.JPG

[yAdam]

update:

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/wip2.8bd.JPG

[yAdam]

Some scribbles:
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/5325/163gh.jpg

Couple of hogarth studies:
http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/2488/174im.jpg

http://img49.imageshack.us/img49/8782/184hl.jpg

This is pretty much finished i think...
http://img380.imageshack.us/img380/2046/mining36xv.jpg

[Andy P]

Wow these landscapes really are pretty spectacular. The penicl ones feel kinda like Alan Lee's! Keep up with the model sessions, it seems I used to make the biggest strides when I could go to them regularly. For the quicker poses, try and get the whole gesture down as quickly as possible, then go in and pop detail/tone. Course that's easier saud than done I know. George Pratt used to have us do 5 second gestures! All about connecting the eye and hand as well as possible. Lookin forward to more!

[yAdam]

Cheers Andy, I'll definately have a go at doing 5 second gestures..(and quicker gestures in general)

A 30 or 40 minute speed paint..I realise I dont do much in the way of vehicles or transport designs, so I think i'm gonna get into that some more...sometime..

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/speed1.28f.JPG

and I think this is finished now...

http://images5.theimagehosting.com/mining5.JPG

[Shinryu]

hey man, last few updates have been great, that environment looks real good, keep it up

[yAdam]

Shinryu, thanks!

Got a quite a few wips on the go that aren't worth posting, I don't know why I started so many...Finally got around to finishing the portrait thats somwhere up the page a bit...Well, i'm sure I could go on with it, but my confidence with oils isnt that great still, so I'd probably end up going too far and destroying it.... Not the greatest photo either..

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/p1.jpg

[yAdam]

I've started a new A5 sketchbook solely for pen work, and also for taking down the pub!

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/1_1.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/2.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/3.jpg

Some ideas for the cohesion:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/4.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/5.jpg

This was gonna be my entry for the ID cohesion, but my computer crashed and time went..I'll finish it sometime soon I hope...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/vn_mothermachine2.JPG

+ a speed paint. trying to reduce the amount of strokes and get faster..

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/speed01.jpg
cheers!

[yAdam]

A couple of speed paints...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/speedo3.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/speedo4c.JPG

Started a self portrait, did an underpainting first...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/selfp_step1.jpg

and my EOW cohesion.. I may carry on a bit in the foreground, but i'm happy enough with it for now..

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/pronatura_f.JPG

[Alcian]

Great environemts, I think when you add in the detail they really come together. Yes, a5 sketchbooks are great, I have one that O take every where with me and usually draw init during lunch breaks and stuff. Would like to see more figure concepts and studies :).

[Kei-th]

Great SB!
I love your environemts! Also I like your thumbnail environemts!
Your drawing skill is great!

[P E N Ricklund]

Hi there.
Damn me if I can't see progress here.
Looking really good. Really like the portraits you've done.
You seem to have a very good hand with colors.

Hugs!

[yAdam]

Cheers everyone!

A step by step of the EOW:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/stepbystep.jpg

Some sketches / doodles including a couple of ideas for the ChOW..

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/6.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/7.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/8.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/9.jpg

and a super quick speed paint, I think it was 15 or 20 minutes before I went out yesteday..

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/speedo6.jpg

[Sepulverture]

Hey there, man. I was just dwelling on how pitiful my sketchbook is still, and realized I've yet to thank you for commenting in it, and returning the favor. So here goes. On your non-colored sketches, try pushing to increase your value range. As an excersize, take a piece of paper, grid paper, or plain white paper and draw a grid, maybe 10x10, and in the first (verticle) row, make a value range of 10, and in each verticle row increase the range by one, try to end with a scale of 20 distinct values from near white to black/as near to black as you can get. It will be tough, I still can't quite get that far, but it's good practice nonetheless, eh? anyway, keep it up man! Great stuff. One more thing you may want to try is to minimize the amount of outlining you do your hand drawings, try to imply the lines through shading if you can.

[yAdam]

Thanks for the tips Sepulverture, i'll give that a go...
ChOW entry.

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/h3.JPG

and a life drawing, A1 2hrs.. May get a chance to carry on the same pose next week.

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/life.jpg

[[void]]

hey man i really like some of those character concepts for the chow. one crit on your paintings though, the colours that you are using are really intense and are very rare in real life, just try desaturating them a bit and your on the money whilst keeping in mind diffusion.

The grass isnt always greener on the other side it can look blue at night time.

[yAdam]

Cheers Adam, I have been seeing that about my paintings too. Been doing a lot of looking and studying lately so hopefully i'll be improving on that in the coming weeks...

Couple of sketch pages:

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/10.jpg

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/11.jpg

A concept for the cg challenge:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/concept1b.JPG

and the next step on the self portrait, starting to bring more colour into it, but going to have to do the rest from a photo I think, painting in the dark is pretty hard....

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/selfp_step2.jpg

[yAdam]

Trying to relax and clear my mind with a still life, done digitally. I realised its much more relaxing to paint stuff like this with proper paints. I got really annoyed with this after about 5 hours, so I just left it like this...

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/stilllife.jpg

[Alcian]

The latest still life is looking so vibrant, for a moment there I thought it was done with paints, lol . The pot in the middle is definately the strongest point, the bit to the left looks a bit neglected, but I think that probably this isnt entirely finished. The folds in the blue cloth could probably be portrayed a little better, but overal its looking really good.

[yAdam]

Cheers Alcian.. No it wasn't fully finished, should have spent a while longer, but my concentration went :)

http://img470.imageshack.us/img470/274/127hg.jpg

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/3410/137dt.jpg

http://img395.imageshack.us/img395/6351/143bz.jpg

[[void]]

WOAH dude that still life is rocking, keep up the life stuff and the non-ref stuff will follow.

[james]

your stuff is awesome. loving the environments, speshally the last EOW. proper amazing.
J

[yAdam]

Asguardian, Jaykizi: Thanks guys!!

Digital and sketchbook sketches (and a pigs heart!)

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/speedo2.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/speedo5.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/speedo7.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/1w5w.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/16.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/17.jpg

Drunken pub sketches:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/18.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/19.jpg

+ a WIP...
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/g.JPG

[Cold]

HEY HO! ,im consumed by your colouring, i get a good understanding through looking at it. I deffo need the training aswell

[yAdam]

Thanks cold, I definately feel like i have improved with colouring, still got a lot to learn though!

Sketchbook pages:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/20.jpg
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/21.jpg

WIP...Wasn't going too well so I left it for a few days then went back:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/backstreets.jpg

My 3CH thunderdome entry....edit:was just about to post this in the td section, but it turns out it closes next sunday...so i'll probably work on this and hopefully turn it into something more than a speed paint..I hope I will anyway.
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/insanetpod.jpg

An idea for the cg challenge that led me to the final idea underneath this one:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/speedo8.jpg

My colouring WIP for the CG challenge:
http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/c3b.jpg

[Midnight]

Looking good! I especially like the lighting you've chosen for your self-portrait.

In your digital sketches, maybe you could break up some of the surfaces in a sublte way by introducing more texture, rather than just round brush strokes?

Mid.

[Quicksilver]

You've a really good SB going - the enviros are looking more and more promising. :) All I can say is continue with the anatomy studies and keep that imagination alive!

Your self portrait is coming along nicely too. It looks like you!

[Grom]

I agree, your enviros are definitly improving, good imagination and color. I too would say to add some more texture. I like your self-port, working on one myself as well... but it'll be a while before I post it.

[Badger]

Hey adam, nice work. Like your variety. Cool sense of armour design.
I'm gonna crit on the only thing i really have knowledge.
On your enviros keep an eye on your saturation. Either saturate in the light, or in the dark. Not both. Also saturation lessens the furthur away an object is. This is due to the amount of atmosphere you are looking through being greater... Kim will probably ramble to about this for about 2 paragraphs. But anyway, this graduation will add a lot more depth.
Otherwise the values are pretty solid.
BIGGER HANDS.
Safe, hopefully see you in Londonium.
-B-

[yAdam]

Thanks for the replies!

Thanks for the comments about my environments, need to do more interiors though.
I will definately try to get more texture into my paintings. The 2 most recent wips dont have much in just 'cause I only really started them, but in the speedpaints I generally forget about it, or its the last thing I think about. So thats gotta change.. I think it's part of my work flow more than anything, and my obsession with using the round oil pastel brush....Need more experimenting..

Thanks badger, I usually keep that in mind when doing stuff (now at least). Also over the last month things like that have sort of been clicking a lot more, as in, i'm now starting to understand whats supposed to happen with light and colour properly....

Slightly dodgy pic, and legs on the woman are a bit too out of proportion.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/2334/231pt.jpg

Nearly there with this now. That last photo was pretty horrible... it was taken at night so my crap yellowy light in my room mucked it up..which meant I tried to play around with curves...Here's the latest progress. just finished about an hour ago.. One eye is slightly lower than the other, so I better sort that out.. other than that I quite like it.
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/627/step47tg.jpg

[[void]]

Hey man, nice progress.

i really like the 3ch paint, the grass is a *bit* green for night time but i love the mech, reminds me of the ones on half life 2 (which i bought off ebay today, YES! distraction from art here we go).

You guys are such great pacesetters, i keep feeling like as soon as ive made a leap everyone else has, so i cant rest on my lorals, its a great drive.

[yAdam]

Cheers dude! Hehe, it was pretty much a complete rip off of the striders, only because I couldn't think of another type of tripod.. or make something up myself..

Some character sketches:
http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/4796/240ef.jpg
http://img334.imageshack.us/img334/8927/chara1b0iv.jpg

Value/colour study..
http://img309.imageshack.us/img309/1145/skinvalstud2ea.jpg

[yAdam]

Sketchbook pages:

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/1252/281wu.jpg
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/5108/273gk.jpg
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/5650/266sd.jpg
http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/9886/259az.jpg

A last minute EOW. I should finish it, but i'll probably just leave it like this.

http://www.filelodge.com/files/hdd6/138549/t1b.JPG

[yAdam]

Just a mini update... some thumbs for the next eow...

http://img78.imageshack.us/img78/9487/masassemblineid9kp.jpg

[yAdam]

File lodge are asking me to text them (which costs £5) to secure my account.. so I am gonna have to re host most of my images..I won't bother with a lot of the stuff on the first page though. They load really slowly anyway...

At the UK meet on monday, in the day:
http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3221/29b7an.jpg

On the train home:
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/32.cf7.jpg


Some thumbnails from yesterday:
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/30.b88.jpg
http://images5.theimagehosting.com/31.1c3.jpg

[Flaskpost]

looking really good here, man!
love your enviroment thumbs!

keep up the fine work!

[ArcoNL]

great sketchbook which shows much improvement. I like the last batch of environment thumbs very much...reminds me to start doing those myself....

Cheers,
Arco

[yAdam]

Flaskpost, ArcoNL, thanks!

EOW:
http://img511.imageshack.us/img511/453/masassembline16rx.jpg

Couple of sketches for the COW:
http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/6171/338zc.jpg

[yAdam]

COW
http://img20.imageshack.us/img20/2324/blindhunter48sg.jpg

[yAdam]

My 3ch of the week entry
http://img111.imageshack.us/img111/4743/3ch3b9rt.jpg

Thumbs and a wip for the EOW
http://img236.imageshack.us/img236/1125/breedgroundthumbs2rm.jpg
http://img86.imageshack.us/img86/1585/breedground6wi.jpg

and some sketches
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/2747/cdev12zr.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9/354at.jpg
http://img90.imageshack.us/img90/9789/366ds.jpg

[yAdam]

http://img352.imageshack.us/img352/4626/breedground61nf.jpg

[DannySketch]

nice stuff yadam, i really liked your creature design for 'blind hunter' one of the best creatures that i've seen of yours, enviroments look to me to be your strongest area, keep working on characters, there starting to look 'hot'

[yAdam]

Danny, thanks man....

http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4949/379eh.jpg
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/943/381oy.jpg
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/2208/392zl.jpg
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/316/405np.jpg
http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/7046/410fd.jpg
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/4208/422nt.jpg
http://img83.imageshack.us/img83/8727/439os.jpg