cotron's visual buffet || 3.19 || procrastuhnation/mastuhbation

[blankslatejoe]

wow cody, you've got some kickbutt stuff going on here. I like the whofarted image the best... but the hawley is strong too, especially considering it's just an hour of work there..

here, this is for you;
http://www.medicineriver.com/clothing/frank.jpg

[flex mathews]

wow, those last couple are some of your best work. i really like that last one. really great stuff.

[jetpack42]

the added warms in that painting really helped alot man, that is lookin sharp! keep it up dude, you are doing awesome <3

[Burning Eyes]

Man... all I can say is you kick all sorts of ass! Keep it up!

[Slash]

If i squint heavily, and look at that girl from some distance, she looks like a photograph.

[eka]

more drawings of your girlfriend please.

[blankslatejoe]

that must be the etron... welcome to ca, eka!

[cotron]

wow thanks for all the replies everyone, it's really encouraging!

kemp- thanks a lot, I'm trying to do my thing... hopefully I'm not ripping anyone off :)
some_mike- yeah, its good to change your approach when you draw, sometimes drawing with your opposite hand is surprising. makes you analyze what youre doing. thanks man!
bojee- :bashful:
jackalanubis- thanks dude! keep up on your sketchbook! i like what I saw last time I was in there.
joe meatball- thanks a lot man...but no thanks for the giant pixellated image of putrescence!! :nohope:
flex-thanks man, hope to cheel with you sometime soon
jetpack- thanks, it was your good eye that helped me out
burningeyes- muchas gracias :perv:
slash- i guess thats a good thing, right?
eka- no problem, I'll post some more after I meet her up at the motel 6.. have to keep it on the DL though

pen stuff, got to watch a demo by sterling hundley (http://www.sterlinghundley.com) tonight... check out his stuff if you got a second-

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/110904/concentrate.jpg

thats metaphysiks on the far left:
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/110904/sterling.jpg

stupid shit from lunch... i'm feeling under the weather, it' was affecting my drawing ability
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/110904/lunch1109.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/110904/lunch1108.jpg

and a snake/dragon thing i drew on my last day of work at the caricature stand last saturday:

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/110904/snakething.jpg

[rollb82]

nice sketches, as always. i have to give you a lot of props for your drawing process. sometimes i sit down at lunch and wonder what is going on in the head of cody, and that is when you put your palm in you shirt and a loud poot pops out of your pit.

i have been looking at your color work lately and thinking about your comments on using saturation and working on the mood of a piece by thinking of colors being associated with temperatures. who knew so much info was in your armpit?

[blankslatejoe]

codys's armpits are greeaaaat. Even I started laughing at them around day 4 or 5 of austin... and you know me... I'm the antithesis of fart.

Nice stuff cody... sorry for the compulsive web littering... i just couldn't help myself... I'll try and keep it under check next time.

Of this batch, I like the monstery thing with not legs. It'd be nice to see some more stuff like that architectural/environment page a few posts back, that stuff was really a neat direction.

[cburt]

Your lighting in all of the paintings is loooking REALLY nice, creating some vivid exciting moments, and its also really helping to pop the volume of the characters. The line work of your sketchbook drawings is looking great too. its all very elegant and the line quality is really pushing it. i like your style and i'm curious to see some full blown and descriptive concepts.
nice work
-charlie

[cotron]

chris/joe- thanks guys... my armpit is my pride and joy, and is a testament to daily practice! haha joe, the antithesis of fart.
cburt- thanks bro, nice sketchbook you got goin too

more lunch sketches, seems all I've had time for lately:
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/111804/luncher.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/111804/lunchers2.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/111804/paper.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/111804/funnyhat.jpg

went to philly last weekend with my ladyfriend-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/111804/philly.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/111804/morephilly.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/111804/coffeeshop.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/111804/coffeeshop2.jpg

hopefully some paintings soon, my english class is gonna slow down sooner than later...thanks for lookin!

[Odds]

I like the stylized look to all of your drawings/paintings. The anatomy in most of them looks pretty accurate, except for some of the heads in your sketches. I'd like to see a little less saturated colors in those paintings, though (just because the less saturated colors tend to look a little more realistic). Other than that, great job. ;)

[cotron]

Odds-thanks man, anatomy's one of those things that's great to know, but I'm not too worried about everything being perfect...i think mood and gesture are just as important. but yeah, I gotta study more of dem body parts!

crap it's been almost a month since I updated!! aghhh

got a bunch of stuff to scan, but it'll have to wait til later this weekend... for now I just have this shirt I'm designing for my friend's band-

http://www.codymiles.com/images/sketches/121004/zombieshurt.jpg

got a couple more designs to do, i'll post em up.. thanks for looking!

[|NTeRN]

sweet inks yet again cody. im really liking your tshirt design too. see ya in SF

[cotron]

thanks matt, and yeah it'll be cool to hang out again.

couldnt leave well enough alone, changed up the pose a bit...
http://www.codymiles.com/images/sketches/121004/zombieshurt2.jpg

can't decide which one I like more...

[twoheaded]

I like the first one better.
really diggin your stuff man, expressive sketches.

[imglue]

i liked the first one too.


cody your ink drawings have really jumped to a new direction. im impressed.
ill have to see what else youve been coocking up. keep it up

[steak-tron]

way to page it up with pages of goods cody.

hmmm... I think the first version works better too. The second might if his hands were making the claw shape, like they're strained?

No ripping off of anyone that I know, I worry about that sometimes too but I think that when you actually worry about it it's never going to happen. Some folks do set out to mimic a style or technique, I think that's cool if your experimenting and using it as a point of departure, but don't make funds from it.

Anyways, none of that going on here. Very unique stuff - I like it!

[Bojee]

Cody- I'm here to join "I like the first one better band wagon" ;) you can't see as much of him and that's creepier to me, great style, alot with a little. ;)

[Groover McNab]

Sweet shirt designs dude. Very impressive. I'll toss my vote in for the first one also :)

[flex mathews]

great work dude, i have to say i like the first one better too. maybe even make the figure bigger to fill the space more... but it looks great the way it is.
i m looking forward to you next post.

[Sikkness]

yo. havent dropped by the forums in awhile. those hour long paintings are coming along. I like the shirt designs too. I don't know why, but the 2nd one does work better, as most people seem to be saying. I guess his implied pose is more dynamic. either way, it's pretty sweet.

San Fran is gonna be the hottness <3

peace

[Bojee]

cody- Ok, I might as well concede your going to kick my ass before it even happens but at least it'll make your piece look so much better by comparison. I've been pretty strapped for time because of my move and I might not have time to comment on it all if it doesn't get up pretty soon so thanks for competing with me, can't wait to see your piece. I hope we get to hang out some time when I get to Baltimore. -B ;)

[cotron]

Bojee- yar, here's the thunderdome entry you were talking about, it sucks to show work that I'm not happy with, but I feel like it's a good incentive to try harder next time. Don't worry, you're not alone in the "pressed for time" boat.

http://www.mlentz.com/USATD_cotron.jpg

I'm going to rework this one in the next few days, I like the concept and the original painting- that is, before I smudged the shit out of it and had to resort to photoshop trickery to make the deadline.

[Bojee]

Cody- Nice idea and composition bro, can't wait to see it finished. :teeth:

[Jokisalo]

those inks looks great and last piece ah love the colors

[cotron]

Bojee, Jokisalo- Thanks guys

I'm officially done with school, it's so great that I can hardly stand it. Just thinking of all the time I'll have to paint and draw now makes me giddy :) So, expect some new stuff soon.

Here's a lil dump of sketches from my trip out to texas for thanksgiving, layovers a plenty, I had lots of time to sketch the people hangin around.

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/airport.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/downsyndrome.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/gatedelay.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/planegirl.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/puke.jpg

Some drawings of my family, my little brothers didn't look up from their DS's the whole 3 days I was there :)

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/david_ds.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/dsplayaz.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/familyletterman.jpg

what is it? it is a MYSTERY

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/wtf.jpg

thanks for looking and the support everyone!

[cotron]

Thought I'd post the final version of that shirt... they went with the first one, so it seems that everyone on here was right :) thanks for the feedback everyone!

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121404/shirtfinal.jpg

resized the guy, thanks to flex's comment

if anyone wants a shirt, pm me and let me know, I'll see if I can't get a hold of one of them for you... they're probably going to be around 10-15 bucks

[blankslatejoe]

hey cody, im not sure how i became unsubscribed to your stuff... youve been kicking butt in here.

I too like the first of those ten33 designs, its a cooler pose.. I'm digging the sketches of your family, ...but what's with downsyndrome Erika?

[blankslatejoe]

oh, congrats on being done man! thats fantastic!

[Zebz]

Man, I love your pen drawings. I tried to do some recently and failed so badly. lol It frustrated the heck outta me. I can't get that economy of line that you seem to. Any pointers? Maybe I'll just try some more and poste 'em. Then you might be able to help me out a bit more.

But seriously. Lovin' the update. It's always cool when you can sort of document a trip or something that has happened by drawings in your sketchbook. It really is like a journal! :confident Sometimes I hate to show some of this stuff to certain people. I feel like there are some things in there where you're leavin' yourself open, y'know? I always find myself trying to explain the reasoning behind things, etc. when people are lookin' through my stuff. lol Welp, thanks again for the inspriation. And thanks for the post on my thread. I'll hit that up with a reply, hopefully tonight.

[cotron]

joe- haha the downsyndrome one was when we were in philly, i was all amped up on coffee... and the drawing went baaad, thus the quote... thanks for the sentiments man, I sure am glad to be done.

zebz- The trick to pen stuff, i've found, is to do a LOT of it, and to try not to correct yourself as you go. it's better to start drawing another person than noodling the same one, because you're only second guessing yourself when youre correcting. Tend to think about how things (like gesture/facial features etc.) relate to eachother before you put the pen down, you get more understanding that way. That's the beauty of indelible ink, you have to learn confidence and to commit to what you're doing. Try to be quick about your drawings, tends to make you looser and less concerned with getting it "right". Plus, if youre drawing people out and about, they tend to move real soon! All of the faces I drew today, for example, took maybe a minute or two, then I did the hatching stuff after I got the shapes down. Last thing- this helps too, is to have different size pen nibs, experiment and see what works best for you, put more than one size in a drawing, or use brush pen to get dynamic lines, I use brush for outlines and shadow a lot. just play around with it as much as you can. Shit man I just wrote a novel, hope that didn't bore you too much :) I love pen sketching, I could talk about it all day.

from lunch today:

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121504/lunchtime.gif

[ExeCute]

i definitely like your pen studies, and a nice sense of lighting in the paints. does ten33 have stickers? i could afford those..and slap them around the city

[cotron]

thanks for the kind words execute- and, don't know if they have stickers, I'll ask.. it wouldnt be my design though.

just a quickie OC w/ some_guy and light kirtar, program crapped out

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121604/frankenstein.jpg

[prostate sunrise]

very cool stuff dude. line drawings are wonderful, and that paint you did for USATD was great. dope t-shirt design too.


peace

[ExeCute]

wouldn't know the band (should i?)..it's the design here i like about it

[Zebz]

Another wonderful line drawing, man! Thanks a ton for the words. It's really helpful, the rambling made perfect sense and I definately appreciate it. ;) I'm gonna get out of the house hopefully sometime before this weekend is through and I'm gonna try this technique out. Wish me good luck! :bashful:

The paint is nice too but not very developed. I understand tho. OC never works correctly for me when networking it seems. It either crashes or the other people can't see me or some crazy thing.

Keep up the great work and thanks again! :confident

[cotron]

prostate- wow thanks for the niceties, I been admiring your stuff since you started posting it :P

.exe- they're local (virginia)- so yeah, you probably wouldn't know them. They are however, touring the states in a week or so, that's what the shirts are for

zebz- yeah there's probably only 15 minutes of painting time on that thing, i just liekd it and felt like posting...

from lunch today, ate at the hospital cafeteria:

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121604/faces.gif

code brown is for when people poo their beds.

[Zebz]

Nice, bro. So you work at a hospital? How many code browns have YOU had to deal with? lol

Sick. :nohope:

[cotron]

No, I work down the street from one, they have a decent food selection...and plenty of people to draw :)

and I know the lingo from my mom, who was a nurse. and yes, she had to deal with many a code brown. she's tough as nails!

the more you know.... dingggg

[cotron]

decided to use a couple hours of my night to get more comfortable with oils... limited palette to just get the warms/cool and value

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121704/paintsketch.jpg

sorry for the small pic, my camera doesnt take indoor shots too well, makes it blurry as all hell. the canvas is 11x14.

might work on this a little bit more, so crits are welcome!

edit- i know the neck and the shadowed side of the face need a bit of tinkering... :bashful:

[|NTeRN]

sweet stuff yet again Cody. how long was your oil session? looking pretty good. what was your palette you used?

[jetpack42]

pen drawings dope as always. lookin forward to hangin with you and your cat in SF.

[cotron]

intern- thanks bud, i spent about 2 hours on the painting so far... my palette was only 3 colors- burnt sienna, ultramarine blue, and permalba white. the idea behind this is to get a warm and cool, and one other to lighten them, and you can basically create the whole range of values and have a very simple play of warm and cool. I'm trying to not make such muddy messes with my oils, this seems to help. I learned it from George Pratt, who was taught this exercise by Jeffrey Jones.... pretty smart fellas.

JP- thanks bro, SF is coming close! I'll pull a Manley and smuggle my cat on the plane :P

[steak-tron]

word up, word down.
Nice head painting cody, too bad it looks like it's in a steamy shower :P

inks are slayin' hoes like always.
-k

[cotron]

lol, too true steakie boy... that last picture is crap

worked on the painting for another hour today, tightened it up and got a better picture-

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121704/painting.jpg

it's still not totally true to what it looks like in real life, but oh well.

[Rkhon]

Lookin' nice. Oils intimidate me, should try to practice at em.

Camera's never play nice with art do they? :P Second shot is alot better though.

[cotron]

Rkhon- thanks... and yeah, my camera especially. I want to get a new one :)

christmas gift for my moms, just trying to get mroe comfortable with oils and save money at the same time-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122104/landscape.jpg

obligatory pen sketches
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122104/roxy.gif

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122104/napoleon.gif

[auden100]

Nice bundle of sketches going on. Your pen stuff is great. They're a little off, but your right: the looseness in line, and the noticable brevity of each sketch make it all work. Now I'm fiending for some pen action myself. killer work, and thanks for the inspiration.

[mentler]

Like the oils a bunch ____ especially the portrait work!

[Jokisalo]

holy s... more oils please!!!!
really loved them and inks too a lot!

[cotron]

auden100- thanks! always humbled when people say thanks for the inspiration.

mentler- thank ye kindly, means a lot.

jokisalo- thanks! and there's more oils to come... I'm fighting myself, because I'm intimidated by them :)

just some sketches on colored paper- pen, ink, gesso-

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122304/tomwaits.jpghttp://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122304/cowboy.jpghttp://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122304/goodevil.jpghttp://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122304/choir.jpg

happy holidaze

[auden100]

Nice update. That chick on the right in the third one has a wicked boner.

[flex mathews]

very nice, last few updates are rockin'. thanks for sharing dude.

[rollb82]

very nice stuff cody. i need to have whatever you are drinking. that or just start painting and experimenting more, but i would rather like to think that you are taking drawing supplements.

[arghmisfit]

awesome stuff cotron, love ur inks and that tree oil painting!

keep it up, and ill keep checking in :confident

btw who drew that framed picture in the background of this one http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/121704/painting.jpg

[cotron]

Wow thanks for the replies guys

auden- yeah I know it, those arrow boners are the worst too. you always get those when you have to stand up in front of the class.

flex- thanks bud, can't wait to chill and eat some rice a roni w/ you

chrisb82- haha only supplements I take are vitamins... but I do sacrifice a goat or two every once in a while

argh- thanks man, and the pastel drawing on my wall is done by none other than sterling hundley (http://www.sterlinghundley.com). You should check his stuff out sometime, he's hot shit in the illustration world right now, and just a very cool guy. :)

thought I'd respond to everyone's posts and toss up a sketch i just did while watching napoleon dynamite... I might not be able to update until after the workshop, so I'm throwing what i can up here. I hope to meet a ton of new art fiends out there!

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122304/pullfinger.jpg

[imglue]

nice stuff cody, your line work is really cool. id like to see you handeling rendering form with crosshatching or something. linework is good, but i have not seen much rendering from ya. great stuff though

[elboy]

hot damn, this stuff is H.O.T. that's right, I went there. I kind of disappeared from this site for awhile, and wow, you're stuff looks great. the shirt design looks super cool and these ink drawings are really nice. you totally got your own illustrative style going on. i kind of agree w/ what he'sglue wrote, but the kind of line drawing you do and tight rendering are different beasts. maybe be more conscious and intentional of the direction of your hatch lines, but you seem to be pretty conscious of it already. I saw you responding to someone about different nib pens and brush pens. I take it you don't mean the nib pens that you have to dip and change the nibs for? I've got a pen like that, but I've been wanting a nib pen that I don't have to dip. any suggestions for nib pens and brush pens too? man, I really like your stuff.

[nova]

hey cotron, just dropping in to say hai, those trip sketches are rad. really liked the tdome entry too, even though you went and won the match against my dear friend :dead: and keep going at those oils, guy.. looking foreward to seeing what you'll come up with :)

[cotron]

miguel- i suppose it all depends on what your idea of "rendering" is-to me it's really just showing light and shadow, and that's what I try to get across in my sketches... I don't want to overdo it, either. I usually let paint be my medium for the many different tones. I'm trying to find a happy medium of speed and line control, mainly- and to get cool shapes out of what I'm doing too. Cross hatching is fun, but I really don't like overdoing it. Thanks for the crit, it's always good to hear new avenues of thought.

elboy- what's up man! good to hear from you. i do dabble with different nibs occasionally, there's one called the "G Pen" nib, lots of manga artists use it apparently. It's real nice for pressure sensitive lines. I really like to use those and brushes with sumi ink. Hope you're doin well man, I wanna see some art!

nova- what's up! thanks for the kind words, it's much appreciated. I read you're not gonna be in SF :( your sketches have been lookin awesome lately. And, yeah, I'm surprised I beat Alan too... I'm sure if we face eachother again it'll be a different story, that guy's stuff is awesome!

random crap:

watching rotk:
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122604/rotk.jpg

lookin at some reference i shot a long time ago:
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122604/towel2.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122604/towelhead.jpg

anyway, hope everyone has a good new years, i'll be off in california in a few days!

[cotron]

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/122604/etron.jpg

forgot to upload this earlier, my lady with the octopus fingers

[liam.c]

damn exelent mate !!

[van]

Damn I love your style, cotron. I never get tired of browsing your sketchbook. What a treat!

[cotron]

hey van! good to see you posting again!

thanks liam!

just letting you guys know I'm headed to the airport for SF in 2 hours!! can't wait to hang out with everyone who's goin. woooooooooooooooooooooooooo!!

[steak-tron]

argh, you lucky bastard... see you in a week!

nice pages dude, those lines are like sweet cain.

Hope you had a cruncked-out newyear.

[Jokisalo]

Really love your inks.. you are my inspiration for me to play with inks, thanks for that :)
Post more please

[cotron]

jokisalo- thanks, it's very humbling to hear people say they're inspired by my shit... glad you like it.

steak- NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Alright! I just got back from SF this morning, had to goto traffic court literally an hour after I touched down... but now that all that shit's over with, it became time to scan! I got tons of shit to post-
I had such a great time out in Frisco that I cringed as I got back on the plane, I really fell in love with the city and had a fuckin blast hanging with everyone. I would send shoutouts to everyone, but shit! I have a ton! everyone was awesome, and it was great to put a face to all the awesome art on the boards- prostate and bojee especially. Really good to see people from the Austin workshop again, it was a grand ole time. The pros were great, I got really helpful feedback, and got to see the likes of Foster paint... GAHHHHHHHHH. I'm gushing i think, I better post some art.

starting off- bought this cool lil sketchbook when I first got to the city, tried to fill it as much as I could there

the cover-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/cover.jpg

bought a little watercolor set with everything-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/page1.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/nastee.jpg

my girl was with me for a few days before the workshop-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/muchatron.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/burntsiennatron.jpg

hung out at a place called canvas- cool place to draw, shitty band was playing though

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/suckfest.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/canvas.jpg

my friend andrea wicklund (http://www.andreawicklund.com) in the top right, who was gracious enough to put us up for a few days before the workshop-

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/frameup.jpg

when everyone got together, there was much sketching... including a 30 minute mini thunderdome of a "mechanical buddha"-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/hoverbuddha.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/babypoo.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/beerad.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/bloodarm.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/creature.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/grooooover.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/hussar.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/lobby.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/lobsterbot.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/lorisdiner.jpg

my buddy blankslatejoe wanting a pizzaroni-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/meatball.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/nosearrow.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/wes9000.jpg

the collabs were awesome, especially because you get to keep them if they're in your book!
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/collab.jpg

me and flex mathews traded books, this kid can draw fo real!-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/flex.jpg

stuff from the plane ride back-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/charlottesleepers.jpg

my flight was late, so I was worried about being late for court-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11105/lateflights.jpg

iI think that's all of the stuff I scanned... hope to see other people's stuff from the workshop! there were some talented bastards there.

[IanE]

Awesome update, cotron! I'm in love with your style and sense of humor, haha.

Incredible works here. I've always liked your style since I first saw your pirate monkey when I joined in November. Always great to see you update, man.

Keep em coming!

[t.m0]

wtf... amazing update... what would have given to be in SF and meet up with you guys. This is going to be one hell of a sketchbook once you've filled it ;)

cheers.t

[maxetormer]

Dude I am so jealous that you have a page
drawed by flex :S he he :


me and flex mathews traded books, this kid can draw fo real!-


I like this last bach, youv got really unique way to lay down your
lines for construccion, that is somethig I really adimre, so keep it UP!
(maybe you could draw in my SKB in the next WSHP) see ya :D

[mentler]

You sketched you ass off :::: I just watched :::: mostly the traditional painting stuff :::: thought Steven Asseal was pretty incredible :::: Foster was great as well :::: and Targete was amazing!!
Everybody is going to dump great stuff from SF but me!

[cotron]

IanE- thanks a lot! I'll try to keep updating this thing

t.m0- yeah the workshop was pretty rad... hopefully you can make another if they have one in the future

maxetormer- hah flex is a cool guy, it's pretty cool to have his drawing in my book. and definitely, I'll drawl something up in your book if we meet! thanks!

mentler- aw man! I wish I ran into you there! I would have loved to see your sketchbook in person! it was all pretty incredible, wasn't it?

just a couple of drawings, one from lunch, another from watching "shogun" on dvd-

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11205/lunch.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11205/shogun.jpg

thanks for lookin!

[Mike Frank]

Yo cody! Great stuff man was good hanging out and getting to know you VA cats better, flex told me about sketchgroup so somebody hit me up whenever you guys are getting together. Digging the lighting in your pics man, real sweet.

[Groover McNab]

Awww, man you had to post that drawing where you perfectly captured my awesomely bad facial hair. :zzz:

[fukifino]

Haha, Groover. He really did, didn't he?

Good talking with you again, Cot-man. Keep up the kick ass drawings. :D

[Sinix]

Cotron's a bastard, just sits on the balcony throwing stuff at me. :nohope:

Nah, but seriously, any sketchbook that starts off with some sergio leone, man with no name sketch is just badass. Yea, I love following this because it's such a continual improvement.. always busting out something more awesome. :cheerleader:

[emily g]

CODY HAS THE BEST SMILE EVER :P

It was so great to meet you Cody--thanks for letting me come and sketch with the guys.
I've looked through your thread before, but I've never commented, and I just have to say that your thunderdome lady/tiger thing turned out really great. It was one of my favorites from that thunderdome.

Keep it up and I'll keep checking back!
emily

[van]

Cotron, I love it when you update. Those SF sketches are awesome. Wish I could have caught up with you all there.

[blankslatejoe]

cody, that book is pretty dang impressive.... you filled that whole thing during your stay out west, didn't you?

[flex mathews]

yeah dude, awesome stuff. thanks for the dope sketch in my book. i loved looking through your book. everyday you had like 5 more pages filled. after seeing your watercolor stuff, i had to buy a koi watercolor set. plaza carries them which is cool (they also have those watercolor brushes that are like the one that came with the set but they're bigger.)

i m going to try to make it down to richmond in the next couple of weeks. i'll give you a call and let you know whats up. (also give me a pm if you need any supplies for cheap).

[cotron]

some_guy- yeah I'll keep you updated on the sketchgroup thing.. hopefully we can get it rolling soon.
groover- sorry bro, I just draw whats I sees... :perv:
fuk- thanks man, hope to hang again
sinix- I drew some stuff from the movie again tonight, after reading your comment.. such great stuff to sit and sketch from
emily- thanks, can't take credit for it though, a couple years of metal face did it for me... :teeth: good luck w/ your rowdy students, post more drawings!
van- yeah man, hopefully we can meet at another workshop or something sometime. thanks for the ego boost!
joe- I almost finished the book out there, goin through the last few pages of it now.
flex- thanks bro, I had a great time hangin... definitely hit me up when you come down.

I been sick from the plague that everyone contracted from the workshop, so I havent been very productive... just sleepin and drinkin nyquill like it's sodie pop. been watching dvd's and drawing from them when I'm concious, though...

from work, the day i realized i was sick...-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11705/time2getill.jpg

the good, bad, and ugly again-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/11705/goodbadugly.jpg

[Rathbone]

Hey Cody,
Good lord you drew alot at the workshop. Good to see the old Austin gang again... was tons of fun. I had the plague a few days ago and now I'm all better... so there's hope. Good news was that it got me to sit down for a long time and draw. I ate lots of oranges. Keep up those drawings.
-BEE-RAD

[hurricane]

sweet stuff dude !

you have a very stylized ..style.. hehe

a thing i noticed, you tend to have dead spaces on your clothes...

sweet stuff, i'll defenatly drop by again !


cheers man and keep on keeping on

[Bojee]

Cody- Good thing your sick so everyone can catch up to you. ;) Great stuff, I love toned paper work, it just takes it to another level for me. Great to finally meet you, hopefully we'll be able to hang out some more. Let me know if Pratt starts up his drawing session. Get well soon. :dur: :teeth:

[IanE]

Awesome update with the Shogun sketches, Cotron. Looks just like the film, man! Great job... I feel like watching it now, haha.

Really cool update man, keep 'em coming!

Ian

[Kambei]

Rock man.. I really like the variety of faces, poses, color.. man its like a visual buffet.. Now you got me wanting to go home and try some new colors and washes with my sketchbook.. Thanks man.. Keep the buffet goin.

[cburt]

tron, tron, TRON!, your page is lookin f'n sick. i like it all a lot. your style is super consistent and its working well. i especially like this last image you posted, 'the good, the bad and ugly again', the portraits really nice, those slight hints of color are just poppin right out and i think the toned paper is a great thing for you. do some more inkwashes man, thye're working for you, they're super moody and its given a lot of tone to your work. nice updates
-cburt

[Abra]

Great skethbook! I love being able to see the progression as i look through
the pages... Keep it up! :dead:

-Abra

[strych9ine]

Nice pages lately dude, you've got some nice work in here. I wish I could have met up with you in SF for some more secret cuddling, so make sure that you have your eye open for me at the next one. Secret, secret cuddling. Maybe even some canoodleing if you're feeling adventurous.

[cotron]

rathbone- sucks that you got sick too, it took me a bit to get better... startin to feel good now... now I gotta get a new excuse for not drawing enough :P
hurricane- good point, my clothes could use a bit of decoration... a lot of it's from life so I don't add as much as I could to the figures. thanks man!
Bojee- haha, thanks man. I love toned paper too...I'll be in touch about gittin to drawin.
IanE- thanks man, it's a pretty good dvd set to draw from...tons of costumes and stuff. I got it for xmas, loved the book.
Kambei- haha now all I need is a sneeze guard :P thanks
cburt- thanks man, i love doin inkwashes
abra- thank you
strych- haha covert cuddling... thanks for stoppin in bro, missed seein you in SF...wasn't the same without the multiple cody's.

just some crap recently...
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/12105/lunch.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/12105/trunk.jpg

gettin a little nuts with some white ink and sumi-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/12105/huh.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/12105/oldmancrap.jpg

more sometime soon... thanks for lookin

[Mike Frank]

gettin a little nuts with some white ink and sumi-


Yo thats got a great style to it man! Real expressive.

[Zebz]

Mmmmm Mmmmmm Good! :P As always things are looking really nice. I love your ink style and how fluid and beautiful it all looks but I'm gonna dare to say it... maybe you could try something else for a bit? Don't hit me! :$ lol I'm just saying that I'd like to see some more variety out of you. Don't stop doin' what you're doing but maybe do a little something different on the side. Pencil maybe? Or maybe I'm just missing the point or another thread or something. Great stuff regadless, just a note to help push you in another direction. Take care, bro.

[cotron]

some_mike- thanks bro

zebz- most of the shit in this sketchbook's from life... and a lot of the sketching I do when I'm out is in pen cause it's so fast and to the point. got some other stuff workin right now... thanks for the feedback

just trying to get different face shapes-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/12205/faces.jpg

[steak-tron]

great job on the mustachioed and bearded guys. Yer getting nice effects with these aqueous media - keep em' up!

As I've said before keep going down this path you're carving out. All that work you did at the WS is killer. + these new posts. Don't sweat the indecisiveness at this point. At the rate you're going you'll have tons of options for post-school.

[jetpack42]

sweet sketches cody. really digging the ink as before. haha, man it was fun hangin out at the workshop. you are one funny dood. i wish meta could have been there watching JP with me...

[hito]

sweetness.

I keep thinking I should say more. But your updates are so sweet and sexey I get tongue tied.

[cotron]

steak- thanks you sir, i like them things you can mix with the wet stuff.. is fun. and thanks for the encouragement, it's good to hear. <3

jetpack!- yes the workshop was a grand ole time, I hope we can hang out again sooner than later. and I'll make sure to bring some of JP's hair and tissue samples back to Meta so he can add it to his voodoo-shrine... keep up the work, your head studies have improved ten fold in the past few weeks. <3

hito- thanks, sugarlips <3

ok gang, the last two pages of the San Fran sketchbook... too bad it's so anti-climactic-

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/12205/penismonster.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/12205/lastpage.jpg

Got some paint working, so I'll be posting those and the process soon. thanks for lookin!

[metaphysiks]

ah. cody, the latest stuff is a lot of fun to look at. keep up the good/hard work. it is paying off for ya. and the test results are in from the smaples of j.p. that you brought me. and the results are: J.P. is positively awesome. dam, who would have thunk it.
meta

[maldrin]

coooooo-trooooooon!

word up, dude.

you're blowin my mind - your style is really jumping out as time goes by - you're getting bringing up the technical without squashing the creative - i'm really glad to see that the freshness seal hasn't been busted on your artwork dude..

i'm loving it. your medium tone work kicks but - i love the free nature of the highlights even when the inkwork is relatively precise.

great stuff - you have good vision.

oh, and i want to BUY me one of them hoverbuddha thingies!

keep it up, bro!

maldrin

[ExeCute]

sup cody :) hope you're doin well

i just had to say, that monster's got me all hot and bothered

[cotron]

metachris- thanks buddy, hope to hang out with ye soon. hope you're saving your brown cyclops for me.

maldrin- yo man what's up!! good to hear from you! hope all is well, I was lookin for you at the SF workshop :dead: don't be a stranger!

execute!- what's up! you posted right when I did, had to edit to put in a reply :P Thanks for stopping in, it was nice to meet you and put a face to the sketches. And yeah, I think that monster's single... but he has a promiscuous past.

obligatory pen sketches, will get around to posting the other stuff i've got werkin... gettin down on myself for my lack of motivation lately :^^;: -

lunchtime in the land of beauroh-crats:
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/13005/lunchheads.gif

just a stupid drawring out of me noggin:
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/13005/fawted.gif

mix of a lunchtime session and while watching a movie:
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/13005/wethot.gif

drew dis tonight while watching Ali-G at a friend's... top two are from life, ali-g is from the show... rest are from my head:
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/13005/alig.gif

thanks for looking, i'll have more junk soon

[fukifino]

All I can do is drool. I am rabid Cody fan-boy. He is some seksi man-ass. <3

[ExeCute]

Respek!

you need to come back, the city misses you...and is feeling kind of cheap and used after that workshop

[CITIZEN EX]

Nice skills Cotron.I see the graff influence here too,You put a nice spin on it though.its cool when its subtle but still there,u get me? Maybe ill post some b-boy characters.....

[Jokisalo]

lotsa new good stuff, i really enjoy your inks :)
keep it up

[I.was.ink]

Cotron my man. These are looking damn saweeta! You get the official I.was.ink Badge of COOLNESS!!!

OH YEAH! :pirate:
-ink

[Zebz]

Nice update, big dawg. lol :dur: Do you have any "finished" work sittin anywhere on this site? I just would love to see your other side. I know I mentioned it before but I'm just begging for more than just pen. :^^: Very interested to see how you work in other mediums, etc. Keep up the work regardless.

Ryan

[artkitty]

Love the inky portrait groups. You should color some of these! Even some vector flats would look pretty stylish.

[mentler]

Keep composing ::::: in the end it is all about composition!

[cotron]

fuk- thanks bud, you are some seven feet tall man ass
execute- I plan on returning to SF sometime in 2005, if not to move there, to check out where to live... it rules out there
citizen ex- thanks man, I've dabbled in graff... it's one of those things that never really leaves once you get it in your system, you know? i recommend it to all the art students out there, teaches a lot about life and gives you a lot of stories :P
jokisalo-thanks man!
Zebz- there's more shit in this thread, some digital paintings and stuff... do a search for "threads started by..." but be careful, I'm pretty sure there's some crap in there. gonna post more finished stuff soon. thanks man
artkitty- thanks, and that's a good idea to color some of these... I'll git on it
mentler- totally, composition is king.. I gotta do more thumbnail studies, they're really helpful.

not much, just got a bug in my system to do some design-y stuff w/ text, just photoshop and an old drawing-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/1-31/lyrics.gif

and lunchtime drawling-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/1-31/lunchscan.jpg

thanks for lookin everyone

[dadamafia]

im diggin this last update man. cool beans.

[corky13]

woha...inks ...ink everywhere >:D
Love the stile of your pics...

[Xiomari]

Nice style cotron,what kind of pens do you use?

[IanE]

Really great to see your style, Cotron. I like it quite a lot, actually! ;)

Shogun DVD... didn't know that existed!

I'll be sure to get the movies and keep checking back on your works, man!

Ian

[cotron]

dadamafia- thanks, and thanks for stoppin in
wierdotron- aha! finally i have a weirdotron reply... yes!!
xiomari- thanks, I use a variety of pens... pilot hi-tec's, uniball visions, sharpies.. and random brushpens, I have the expensive kaimei one, and some cheap ones too. when i find one i like, i stick with it for a bit.
IanE- yeah, it's a miniseries, I love the book, so it's cool to see how they handled the characters. it's not as good as the book, but it's worth a rental. thanks for stoppin in!

start off with some lunchtime pen drawlings-

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-05/lunch.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-05/lunch2.jpg

and a quickie oil, probably spent an hour on it (it shows :x )-

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-05/nanners.jpg

and my usa vs the world tdome entry- sposed to do the cover of a book we like, i chose the gunslinger by stephen king... it's gouache and acrylic, not super great, but I kinda like it.

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-05/worldtd_cotron.jpg

thankee sai

[Main Loop]

i wouldnt wanna eat those bananas.. they always say, paint food like you were gonna eat it

[Zebz]

Ah, fresh paints. :^^: Nice to see some other types of stuff, man. The inks are always tasty too. I'm just getting into painting, in my first class, it's a blast but I have no idea what I'm doing. lol But like I said, lots of fun! I think I could start to like this more than drawing! Eh, I shouldn't say that just yet. lol Keep up the great work. Hope you're doin' well.

[brads3d]

wai- i aint finish; 999999999999999999999999999999999
I like the two color stuff and the robot on page 2. alot. >:|

[cotron]

main loop- yeah, thats true... thanks for the crit. still lifes are tricky mistresses.

zebz- thanks bro- i'm doin good. I've talked to a bunch of painters who feel like they're starting over each time they paint, so youre not alone. I know I dont know what the fuck i'm doin :P

brads3d- hah, thanks man.

hung out with flex mathews, poopinmymouth, and my girl last night- rode the metro into town and got a chance to draw some people on the train

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-08/skull.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-08/metro1.jpg

http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-08/metro2.jpg

lil collab between us- SF style (bad scan, sorry)
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-08/flexandpoop.jpg

took artkitty's advice and colored one of my pen pages-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-08/aligpagecolor.jpg

tanks 4 lOoKinG

[Mike Frank]

Yo cody nice work, wish I didnt have to work yesterday. That colored pen page looks great man adds a whole new dimension to those sketches. Its funny you wrote "Hard to Draw in Metro" with such great line quality :P The Gunslinger piece looks nice too man I like the style quite a bit.

[rollb82]

you said that the gunslinger piece isn't super great, but it is. i think it is one of my favorite pieces you have done so far.

[-sideshowbob-]

w0w.. what a nice eyecandy buffet O_o yummy yummy tasty :D

can i have the salt pls ?


nice stuff with the bigger black outlines.. c00l looking nice style :D




yaaa m0000re (pls)


:blahblah: :yayca: :blahblah:

[Shylone_Breath]

i didn't see this thread , whoua what a fantastic stuff !:)
i love your study from life:)
you're painting are awesome!
sorry not critiques .. :zzz:

[cotron]

some_guy- thanks... lol the metro is a bitch to draw in tho, very bouncy.
rollb82- thanks man!
sideshowbob- haha, thanks. watch the sneeze guard
shylone- thank you!

thanks for the replies everyone, I haven't updated in a bit because I've been working on re-doing my website-

http://www.codymiles.com

Let me know what you think... and here's the standard pen drawling-
http://codymiles.com/images/sketches/2005/2-13/liverspots.jpg

[jetpack42]

these drawings would really be awesome if you had some tattoos.

[Tigermilk]

Man, I love your work. Ezpecially your colord ones. Your lines are so solid.
I should try doing som ink sketching too.

Thanks fer da inspiration.
T

[maldrin]

diggin the website redesign, dude. the cockroach mural is freakin badassssss. also love the scull icon that firefox now knows your site as. ;)

the stuff you did for ten33 is awesome...i LOVE zombies... checking out blood and ink records now..

as usual, your inks are nice, but up until the last one your colored one was my fave. this last b&w bit really grabs me, though. nice flow around the page, bold but economic lines, and nice use of little bubble-like circles. rock, dude.

have you worked on any full-sized finished works recently? I don't make it to the finally finished forum that much, so i mighta missed something. wasn't sure how new the stuff on the site was.

i'd love to know how you're realizing final pieces these days.

keep it up dude.

maldrin

[emily g]

Hey, I think your colored pen page turned out great. You have a good color sense and I like the way you handled the background.
If I were to crit anything, I would say to watch your highlights. You can really lead the eye around your piece by the way you place them. Right now, I miss a connection from the top heads in the upper right corner to the heads on the bottom. Maybe just a slight highlight along the arm of the guy on the top would do it. It would lead my eye down to the other heads.
Anyhow, just something to think about.

keep it up!
emily

[cotron]

jetpack- haha, I know i know, I'm workin on it
tigermilk- thanks!
maldrin- the latest thing i've "finished" was the t-dome piece.. I've been workin on my site for the past week or so, and doing a lil job hunting too. I'll hopefully be able to get some stuff done soon. good to hear from you man!
emily- thanks for stoppin by, and thanks for the crit... that's a good point, I didn't really think of unifying the piece as i did it. hope you're doin well!

more of the same:
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-16/count_my_rings.jpg

[rollb82]

nice post cody. i liked it when you were drawing it and i definitely like it with the new commentary you put into it. this post was delicious. can i have some more postage?

it was also great working with you. you are one of the coolest people i know in richmond. thanks for letting me borrow the dvd too. i will return it as soon as possible. i can't wait to get away from people who sing and tap dance (without any regards for others) while they are at work. people who do annoying things like that should be sterilized because we don't need their children knocking on our front doors and singing for tricks or treats in the future.

[blankslatejoe]

hey cody, rechecked your website... i liked the old look too, but it was nice to see a change. Looks solid man, i liked how you treat the thumbs on the mainpage... makes me think about how to rework my own site.

[metalwinds]

cody, your sketches are great, but its about time to see some more finished work from you. within a week i want to see something completed. get on it son... . .choose an article or book or something and illustrate it. its a simple assignment, but its something youre going to need to get really good at. .based on the direction you are going in.

ps - chris isnt working on sunday and im free all day so we re all ready to get out and get crankin on some painting and ish.

peace buddy

[cotron]

thanks joe and chris, you're both some great friends to have.

danny- you've found my one weakness.. i sketch and sketch and never finish anything. so i'm trying to assign myself weekly projects, last week was my website, this week's gonna be gettin a finished piece together. thanks for the heads up, I need a kick in the ass every once in a while.

[cotron]

I did this last night for a zombie themed skateboard art show... everyone paints on a skateboard, it's pretty cool. I broke one of my no-no rules, I used black out of the tube on it... it's not the best painting I've ever done, but it was fun nonetheless.

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-18/zombiedeckcrop.jpg

edit- man, thats a bad photo, I'll try to get a better one

[Nike]

Hi cotron -
I really enjoyed looking at your sketches, your ink work is amazing and I also love your t-dome entry - nice textures and colors! I love that book, too, and I think the illu would really fit to it :)

I also like the skateboard!

Looking forwards to seeing more :)

[Sinix]

That skateboard rocks.... now I wanna learn traditional painting just so I can paint boards.

[klinesmoker]

Man, these are sweet. A true stylist at work here. Head my way sometime, I could use your help!

And yes, that's a skull on my monkey face, thanks.

Hooah!

-KS

[cotron]

nike- I'm in the fifth book of the series right now... it's pretty cool, and I get a bunch of great images in my head from reading it. thanks for the props, holmes
sinix- thanks bud, traditional (oils especially) can be a pain, but man it's rewarding to actually be able to hold your artwork in your hands. and skateboards are super fun to paint on.
kline- gracias, I'll peep your thread

It's been a lil while since I updated, I've been goin to job interviews and fun stuff like that... I'm getting some ideas together for paintings/illustrations too, so I haven't done as many presentable sketches as normal.

guess what? pen stuff! a lot of these are out of my head, i'm trying to get beter at imaginative drawling.

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-25/head_stack.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-25/hat_trees.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-25/andy_p.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-25/etron_galaxy.jpg

thanks for lookin

[Groover McNab]

Sweet dude. The line direction on that guy drawing under the tree is awesome.

[cotron]

groover-thanks bruddahhhhh.. i think i just got a new job, so vegas looks more plausible.

coupla sketches, one from life at dinner tonight w/ my lady-
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-26/tara_thai.jpg

page out of my head while listening to a combo of del, slayer, and the flaming lips... what a weird shuffle.
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-26/w_tee_f.jpg

[cburt]

wow man, you're rippin it up with the hitec's...it all flows off and looks really natural, i especially like the way you rendered that tree in your first post today and the drawing of the guy with glasses and facial hair from this most recent one. your hatching is really fluid and cohesive and the style is all there.
keep em comin and dont stop heh
later
-cburt

[cotron]

thanks cburt, i'm really enjoying pen lately, glad you like it too

colored for the hell of it
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-26/wtfcolor.jpg

[Mike Frank]

Damn Cody, I love those colored ink pages.

[Odds]

:D
"Cut me open and count my rings." Funny stuff, man. That little collab "SF style" is pretty impressive, also. Your inking looks fun, but I'd also like to see some stuff using a pencil. With your linework skills you've gained by using a pen, you'd be able to do nice linework with the pencil, and also render! Keep it up.

[Jack Frost]

man I feel like crap ...for the most part I just lurk in these sections just admiring everybodys great art and never posting....all because I was on a slow connection, well now with cable internet I have no excuse so I shall leave my first mark upon...

cotrons....great output, your sketchbook really ozooes your personal style....and great pieces from first to last post....hope to hang out with you again whenever the virginia groupies get together again

Jack

[cotron]

some_mike: thanks my friend
odds: pencil is for suckers :perv: haha, I enjoy sketching in pen due to it's deliberate and blunt nature... I may do a lil pencil sketching for the hell of it, though.
jack frost: thanks evren, glad to see you posting in this section. start up a book! and yes, there will be some virginian drawing, and hopefully soon. I got off track with the sketchgroup stuff because I was getting stuff together for job interviews.

just a drawing for another tshirt design, I'm not sticking with this... just a prelim I guess. for my friend's band, the song's called "smash your stereo". I'm gonna do a better one in the next couple o' days.

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-28/stereo.jpg

as always, thanks for looking!

[Jack Frost]

nice concept....I always wondered about simple the image needs to be for t-shirt design.....because if it is a silk screen process wouldn't a piece with a lot of line work be harder to read then a more graphic representation of the idea...

just curious

[IanE]

So it's been exactly 1 month since my last visit... my bad :\

Really intrigued by your pen sketches... they're really simple, quick, and loose yet detailed and rendered... but it isn't... haha, they're just really cool. I think you should continue to take artkitty's advice and color more of them!

Your quick pen sketches have inspired me to hunt people in public and draw them more often!

I'm going to subscribe now! Keep posting!

Ian

[cotron]

Evren- Well, as far as technical issues go with small lines, it's usually not a big problem, the screens can be burned pretty accurately. But, you're right, on tshirts, you want the image to be readable from a distance.... so boldness and simplistity is more of an aesthetic decision than a technical one.
IanE- thanks for the kind words, makes me feel good to inspire people to go out and draw in public. post what you come up with!

just doodlin tonight... i drew a bunch of thumbnaily stuff that isn't worth scanning, but here's some stuff-

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-01/washie.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-01/etronsleep.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-01/fallen_angel.jpg

[arghmisfit]

killer sketches dood! that skateboard is dope, did u put anything on it b4 painting it??? i wanna paint my old ones now :p

[IanE]

COTRON!!

I've finally got it! I've been trying to think of this movie's name that your ink sketches reminds me of sooo much! Waking Life! Rent it and enjoy if you haven't seen it yet, totally a Cotron feel to it. Man, finally glad I figured it out or I might have had an aneurism... Cool update as usual, and I'll post some of the people hunting sketches in my sketchbook once there's enough of them to scan!

Thanks again for the inspiration and for saving my life from the anuerism... even though it would have indirectly been your fault! :P

Laters dude

Ian

[cotron]

argh- thanks bro, I put a couple coats of gesso on the board before painting it... then I put an acrylic underpainting, finished it in oils.
ian-yeah waking life is pretty cool, I sometimes can see my drawings moving like the people in that movie. i'm all for intelligent and artistic animation.

lunchtime pencil ( :dead: ) doodle

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-02/pencil.jpg

[Odds]

Finally some pencil! :D
The increased amount of values looks cool. Keep posting man, and let's OC again sometimes soon.

[metalwinds]

im gonna sound like a broken record, but where are the finished pieces? i wrote a whole lot more than this, but then i read that you are working on ideas for some illustrations and such, so there wasnt any need for anything that i had written. anyway, i wanna see a piece. .. or at least a progress pic, in the next week. right now im waiting for the weather to get nice so we can go out and landscape paint.. . .the weather is pretty poopy at the moment.

peace buddy

[Jack Frost]

thanks cody....I am trying to learn silk screen printing

[elboy]

haha, I come here so rarely now I still think of your older, austin workshop stuff. your stuff now kicks much more ass. i like the inks and the colored ink page is nice.

[prostate sunrise]

cool beans buddy, always did like your pen work bro. nice way to capture people.

funny story bro, poopinmymouth recently visited up here in sea-town, and he showed me a collab piece he did with a bunch of you virginia hillbillys(i keed, only because i love) and he basically showed it to me and then asked "guess who drew all the cocks?"

needless to say i busted my ass laughing, keep up the work bro and peace out!

[steak-tron]

Nice bounty of draws dude. You've got a lot more stuff in here since I last looked - assthawaytobe :teeth:

I really like how your pushing your inks. I don't want to repeat what I've said before but they're hot.

I checked out your site, that mural kicks ass! I must have missed it when you posted. Nice way to handle the sketchbook section too.

Keep it real you stupid avatar-having asshole :wink:

[cotron]

danny-thanks for keepin me true, I'll have something to show soon, me promise
jack frost- i don't know much about doing it yourself, I got friends with screenprinting presses. I just know how to separate the screens :P
elboy!- hey man! thanks for stoppin by. hope you're doin good.
prostate- dude, don't believe a word out of poop's mouth. it's full of poop. your sketchbook is killing, man.
kemptron- thanks buddy, the mural got painted over like a month after I finished it :( enjoying SF? i miss that town.

crapload of stuff, I went to texas to visit my folks, played around with pencil for a change... trying to do more "concepty" stuff-
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/witch.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/airport.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/crapface.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/demo.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/helmetgirl.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/jaybob.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/userpics/10001/oh_bee.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/oldguy.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/randomshiz.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-03/sonofbish.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/spacemop.jpg
the wish I was wes drawing:
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-15/wish_i_were_wes.jpg

[IanE]

Howdy Cody!

How was Texas, where'd you go? I see we traded tools tonight haha... I drew with ink for the first time and you did pencil work, pretty cool!

Really like your last two images... the mop guy makes me think of the Toxic Avenger haha... anyway, great stuff man and thanks for the inspiration you've given lately!

Ian

[Jack Frost]

I think you gots some eyes for mr. gregor and his fancy light saber..:)

[cotron]

ian- thanks... my family moved outside of Houston over the summer. it was nice to be in tshirt weather again :) . I used to live in San Antonio for a year or so when I was a kid, I have a soft-spot for the state.

evren- haha yeah I know man... I was drawing from ep.III pictures, I totally didn't notice it looked like he was fondling hisself til i finished drawing :P

[cartoonfox]

hey cotron, dont think i've replied here yet. awesome stuff, i love your ink drawings, your lines are so fluid and gestural, yet controlled. scrumptious!! ^-^
and your great at capturing the moment in your observational drawings, good stuff.

keep at it



peace man :7up:

[Dictator Oz]

I love your drawing skill. The way your try to look inside the mind of your sudject. Continue your nice work.

:android:

[dadamafia]

dude i really love the complex simplicity of your pen sketches. i know it sounds kinda retarded but i really do... i swear.

[maxetormer]

Good work!!! this one is pure genious
hat_trees (http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/2-25/hat_trees.jpg)
the economy of lines, and sence of deep by changeing
the direction of the strokes is spot on.
In another matter I think you could improve the way
you handle your eyes, some times they look a bit wonky,
perhaps it would be good for you to make sum skull studies
just to refine you features placement.

Overall Im loving the work, KEEP IT UP
and keep the updates coming!!! :painting: :painting:

[cotron]

cartoonfox- :7up: :7up: :7up: :left: for you bro, thanks!
dictator oz- thanks
dadamafia- haha I'll take the compliment, even if I dont get it :P
maxetormer- thanks for the crit, I'll take that into mind when I'm drawing... I drew caricatures for 2 summers, it's hard to break the habit of exaggeration :)

sketchies-
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-16/lunch.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-19/lunchie.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-19/heads.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-19/lunchie2.jpg

[Odds]

how's it goin cotron?
pretty cool stuff lately... really diggin' those pure-white eyes, huh? :}
anyways, to the crits. i like the stylized shading; it works well for a lot of things.. but i think one should branch off things he/her is good at and try something new. it's hard to break off, i know.. it sucks. but in the end it just makes you a better artist. i know it's just quickhand for shading in those dramatic shadows, but it'd be sweet if you did more pencilling... like you have been doing. also, do some full figures... that'd be sweet. i've seen em before from you. keep up the good work!
-matt

[Groover McNab]

Dude, you're a damn updating machine! Nice inky inks as always, but I like that you mixed it up with some pencils too. You start the new job yet?

[brkofdon]

your ideas are good. keep pushing it further!

[cotron]

wow, been a while since i updated... things got busy. thanks for the replies everyone, it means a lot.

life drawings, 30 seconds to a couple minutes-
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/tinydancer.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/front.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/recline.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/back.jpg

other sketches-
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/sticky_rice.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/soldier.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/andyshouse.jpg

http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/gessoguy.jpg

mike skinner of the streets:
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/mikeskinner.jpg

my girlfriend sat still for a couple minutes for this-
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/erikahead.jpg

hopefully it won't be another month before i update again, thanks for lookin

edit- anyone know why I can't change the title of my thread? never used to have any trouble with it...

[Lauren Short]

cool stuff man, i like the use of toned paper


figure drawings are looking nice, pretty expressive

as always i admire your use of pen, prety dang cool

take it easy man, nice stuff as always :teeth:

[blankslatejoe]

nice cody, those life drawings are pretty rad, i particularly like the first onee, really neat perspective/foreshortening on the arms. The second one has a nice fluidity to it too.

cool pic of the e, too bad she didn't sit still fer longer! I like the painting mostly with the whiteout/whitepaint and using the toned paper completely for the shadows... always has a cool effect.

[cotron]

wow, thanks for the quick responses guys- and joe, you my italian stallion!

forgot to post this, for my friend's band tshirts
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-27/clayton_shirt.jpg

[charcoalArtist]

I Love those gestures, they are very fluid, and your other stuff is awesome, keep it up

[Odds]

nice update... i really like this one: http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-10/mikeskinner.jpg
cuz it has sort of a blue/cool feeling to it. also, i bet that band will be pleased with their t-shirt design. :) keep workin' it!

[cotron]

hmm, for some reason I can't change the title of my thread anymore... so now it's stuck as updated on 3.19... anyone know what's up?

thanks odds and charcoal for the niceties!

just a quick composition/value study for more Ten33 stuff, this time their new cd..
http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/4-13/ten33sketch.jpg

[IanE]

Aweosme work, Cody. I see you have an interest in The Streets as well! Got some great original pirate material here, haha. Awesome stuff, always great to see.

Ian

[blankslatejoe]

im digging that color comp.. i think the layout works well and I'm looking forward to the finished piece. Though, itd be cool to see you doing some more color stuff professionally/freelance... you seem to hold back alot of these cd covers and such to greyscale (might be a printing issue?)... I feel you really have been pushing some cool stuff colorwise and itd be neat to see some of that...

actually.. hey! where IS the color stuff lately?!?

[cartoonfox]

hey man, your inks are too fucking cool, i allways respect a guy who can use inks ^-^ (i cant use them for shit)

but you know what? your pencils (like this one here (http://www.codymiles.com/newsite/coppermine/albums/sketches/2005/3-19/heads.jpg)) are just too damn yummy man, i need more, you have to do more in pencil, even if its just for me ^-^


keep up the kick ass stuff, you going to prague?




peace man :7up:

[willpaxton]

Looking good. some of the figures are really well proportioned but some others aren't so great keep at it!

[MarkTeare]

Whoa, you got a ton of stuff up here. I like a lot of it. Your ink style is nice and a few of the painted sketches looked really sharp. Haven't been to the VA thread yet going now...

[Pupil]

These are some cool drawings. The boldness of the lines of the life drawings makes them standout from some of the other sketches. The ink drawings have a lot of life in them because of the confidence of the strokes and the simple hatching. I really like your style, and you've inspired me to be a little less 'tight' in my own pen work. The illustration for the t-shirt is great. The perfect circles and specs of white in the shadows really elevate it from the quicker sketches on this thread. As for crit: The head of the sledgehammer is at a slightly odd angle and the legs don't quite look right. They are drawn well but the front foot looks a little too close to the viewer and it’s hard to see the direction the back leg is pointing in. Is that a brushpen you used around and on the text? If you can it would be great to see a picture of the finished shirts when they are printed.

[cotron]

iane- you betcha, ya geezer!
joeyjoejoe- thanks meatball...i been focusing on getting better with value, but I agree, i need more color. I also need more of everything, i'm gettin complacent. me love you
cartoonfox- thanks my friend, I unfortunately won't make prague, I'm tryin to save my $$ for a move out to SF within the year. have a 7-up for me :).
willpaxton- proportions are for suckers. :P
markteare- thanks man, hope you can hang sometime.
pupil- thanks! i'll try to post the shirts when i can. i used a brush and sumi ink for all the brushy stuff.

Well, now that I've replied to all of my generous comments, I'ma post a link to my new thread! time to start anew.
CLICK HERE (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?goto=lastpost&t=42921)