Monotony at its best ---- Oct 7th

[TheGnoll]

hey man, lovin the dog painting!

you asked for crits on the steampunk dude so i'll drop my 2 cents.

I do not have the skill (no idea at all) about how to help with the color/painting, but i'm digging the brush work here.

About the anatomy, as it has already been said i'm pretty sure there's something wrong in his right arm (still too short imho), his neck/collar bones areas is a bit "compressed".

The detail level is very good esp in the belts/pouches department, altho some extra research in costumes (from other steampunk art or actual victorian costume/work outfits, stuff like that) could add some more interest in the design.

I must admit i was quite confused by the background as well, esp with it beign so "cloudy", the ships in the BG beign little more than a bunch of greebles (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greeble) (again, as for the costume ore reasearch here could help) and the fact they are so "crowded" up around his head make it look a bit too explicitly a composition choice.

What confused me more tho, is the objective of this painting (apart from it beign a good painting) esp since its going to be a portfolio piece.
It is not descriptive as a concept should be (esp since for some reason you "cut" him at the knees) and not "narrative" as an illustration should (imho) be.
I would personally make it a character concept with a background, but as a full figure, and with some more "storytelling" in it (if you're not designing just a costume, you still wanna descripe a character with an attitude, a story and-well, character).That means placing (pushing) more the expression and body language (which should be readable by the viewer through verbs and nouns-standing/running/punching fiercely/proudly/cowardly etc).
I personally think having these things planned out in advance helps achieving a stronger end result.I know i'm talking drastic changes, but imho a not-well planned illustration/concept might look more like painting/rendering practice more that a concept/illustration

i hope i've been clear enought with what i wrote lol :D
much respect!

ciao

[Flaskpost]

turned out awesome, monotony! have to agree Gnoll also. his critique really applies to my stuff as well i think.
well, keep kickin´ ! moar beautiful life drawings too pls! merry x-mas!

[monotony]

Quike, I updated it! more christmassy now I think :) . It's always great to have you visit my thread.

Tigermilk, Good to see you here again, mate! Thanks. Should play around with color temperature when I get the time. Some complementary colors could indeed do the trick.

Gnoll! Can't thank you enough for your awesome critiques man. You're bringing up eye-opening points.
I'll recheck his anatomy and consider some references. Actually I'll follow all your advice :)-
I did way too short planning on this and changed my mind on what I wanted to achieve too often. It staterd out as a simple character design but through the process I was thinking about showing a whole scene then I went back and forth trying to achieve some more of a book-cover look. the figure went stiffer and stiffer throughout the process again and the second spaceship was more of a last minute add. But heya I think the whole thing is worth taking another stab on and change things. I'll hopefully lean more while I repaint it.

Flask, thaank you :) ! I can show you more lifedrawings once I took my school works home. got loads of quick poses actually And I went to a Dr.Sketchy evening/event.
didn't even know we had that in germany and then they even show up at my school. haha.
yeah anyway will get some of that stuff scanned after the christmas break.



Haven't had the time to work on the character but I promise myself to do so once I'm less busy.

Here's some Akira inspired fast sketching. I'm reading the comics again and I still love it to bits.
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Here's a peek at what's keeping me busy these days. I got a pretty satisfying drawing gig for school- and languagetraining-books.
Life seems to be making up for the past few months which have been filled with way too much personal and familytrouble.

Now at the end of 2009 I can say I achieved one of my goals which was making considerably more money of art than the year before.
And I already got one of my new years resolutions on it's best way. With this new freelance job I am busy drawing for at least the next three months and can actually make a living of it even next to studying at university.
I'll have to see how this works out after that, it's not my dreamjob yet but these steps definately keep me moving. Sorry for all this "I'm so happy"-talk but I just had to get it off me. :)

anyway here's what I have to do for them. It's all drawings of interacting people which I then go on to color digitally. Cannot show more but enough to give you an insight (and to excuse my ever so overdue updates... :) )
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a wip for uni. sorry for the blurry photo but I'll color this with watercolor for a change and show a better picture of it once I'm done.
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also updated this.
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and that's all. MERRY CHRISTMAS!!

[in2eternity]

You sketchbook is so beautiful, it always inspirates me! Keep doing so good :)

[Flaskpost]

love the Akira sketches mate, kickass! your line quality is ace. congrats on the educational drawing gig thingy too!

[Mr.Juicy]

Hi, Monotony,
Nice progress, god damn :)

Best wishes for you too.

[Giorge]

heheh ... nice stuff ... like the clown and the dog painting , maybe you could take that clown further then a sketch/thumbnail

cheers

[RBeek]

MR TONY!.. :) Happy holidays ( i know im late.. but better late than never )
And a happy newyear! I hope it will be a good year for you!

Congratz on the freelance job! And please do share ur happy talk!
Its good to know things are looking up for you.. career wise ;)

The line drawings you made here are alooking great
And the dog is really funny. im sorry im a little late with the comments!
Been busy holidays..
Havent touched a pencil in over a week :S Im a slacker!

Ohwell! Back to the drawing board!
Good luck!

[Sebastian Gromann]

Happy new year man :D hope u'll have a fucking great one, yes !
dign' the last sketches ! show my eyes some more of them hhihihihihi

[monotony]

in2eternity, aww thank you very much! :)

Flask, thanks buddy!!! That gig turned into quite a lot of work but I got it done now.

Mr.Juicy, thanks! great to have you here again.

Giorge, thank you. Don't think I' put any more time into him really. That character-lineup was supposed to be the cast of "It".
Can't really remember why I did them, I don't even like Steven Kings books... :)

Roger, Thank you mate. Hope you had a great christmas and new years as well! And I should feel like a slacker nect to you :D

Bastiii, heh I sure did :D . thanks!



Oh wow, that was a long update hiatus...
But I hope to get back to it now :)
Got the schoolbook work done and will have a lot more time for personal stuff now.

For now here's a few recent Dsg's I got around sqeezing in.
I will scan in traditional sketches and uni stuff the next few days.

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[RBeek]

woot tony!

Its good to have u back.. Please let this be permanent,, and u start becomming more active and post more stuff!!
As you know i havent been sitting still !!
So im like. F Yeah im gettin better.. then u dump these on us....

Ohwell!! Thank you i guess.. you showing ur stuff motivates me to work even harder!

I love every single one of them.. though if i'd have to pick 1 drawing.. it would be the big maffioso guy ;)

Keep it up and update more regular yes? :)
Pease !!

[Sebastian Gromann]

haha der fuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuchs :D:D:D:D:D ich kann nimmer \:D/ BAAAM


seeehr kewles update matttt ! besonders die tonwerte vom astronauten bildchen sind kroooasss !



hehe komm schnell zurück :)

[Quike Garcia]

Hahahahahahahahahaha, maaaaan the Pollo Enmascarado is brilliant!!!

Love these last two batches :), specially this http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=913473&d=1266945094 and the spacemen one :)

[Johann de Venecia]

Sup, man. Nice SB you have here. You're really good at enviros, I have yet to tackle that in digital :x I like the frigid landscape and the tropical one from a few pages back. Your scorpion king image is also good, specially the back light.

[monotony]

Roger! (ho fancy new name :) ) thanks for sticking with me man! means a lot. the mafioso sure was fun to paint :)

Sno0obs, hehe :D freut mich dass es dir gefällt. ne lange pause wie zwischen den letzten updates werd ich hoffentlich nicht mehr machen!

Quike, thanks so much dude! pollo enmascerado sounds so cool :).

Johann, Thank you, man. It means a lot to have you here. it smetimes feels like I'm trying to many different things at the same time. haven't done an enviro in so long.



here's quick bump.
I decided to jump in on the newest COW for a change (and finish this time!).
first colorful mess and sillouhettes plus the start on rendering.
give me any comments you have on it :)

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[TheGnoll]

you're back!

great to see what you've been up to, love the DGS!

don't go disappearing again.

ciao!

[monotony]

thanks so much theGnoll. It's always a pleasure!

here are 2 personal drawings. traditional for a change.

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and wip of the CoW. I'm not sure about the head-design yet, the big bright eyes might be too distracting. But I have to do some more research.

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[RBeek]

Wow dude Stuff is looking awsome again..
And ur updating so much.. where does that come from? :)
those first two painting u did look interesting,, im not sure whats going on though..
Sorry? :$

That creature is comming out so nice!
the first head design is whole new to me.. it looks cool, the second one is more familiar and maybe TO standard.. the third one is also very cool.. But maybe to heavy to fly?.. i got no idea... i do know that the overal image is gonna look awsome!

SO keep it up mr tony! :)
I hope ur gonna win this one!

[SMILEFACE]

haha sooo much AWESOME!!!! I COULD GET LOST IN HERE FER DAYS come on dun lie you know you RRRRROOOOCCCKKKKKKKK!:D:D:D

[monotony]

Roger, thanks dude. In the end I went with the third design. tried to make it a bit brighter and look less heavy though. :)

Grandmassa, :D haha thank you!


I finished my CoW entry. :) here it is and also the voting thread. check out everyones work, lots of cool creatures.
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=182596
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[Brushcommander]

Geile Scheiße, man :D

[Quike Garcia]

Man, I love how the CoW came out.. and your personal pieces look nice, but I think that the figures could use a bit darker tones as they're surrounded by so dark environment

[RBeek]

damn dude.. this stuff is rediculous...
<3

[dannE-B]

hahaha some of your ideas and the way they are painted is fantastic, its nice to see someone who seems to Enjoy what he does, or atleast having fun. Love it.

[artozi]

haha:) cool design! Contrast between sweet, colourful and ugly. I like the idea very much! Maybe his ass looks a bit unattached to the main body - it has different lighting sources. Like head for example has no cyan reflection on its bottom. Overall the idea sells it very well!

[monotony]

Brushcommander, :)

Quike, thanks man. yeah the shading is a bit light. But the goldpaint looks completely different with different light. sometimes it's even brighter than the shading.

Roger, hah thanks!!

dannE-B, thank you. I really do enjoy it :)

artozi, thanks dude! totally didn't see that and forgot the cyan light there.



here's a painting I finished recently.
It's for the short story "the landlady" by Roald Dahl.
If anyone is interested I had a wipthread about this in the wip-critique-area. :)

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[Krato]

last one looks like it toook a looooong time

[Sebastian Gromann]

yeaah man \:D/ looking awesome ! :) feeling good to see something that big finished right?! :)

[phizpietl]

hey thats a really cool bug design. Really nice drawings as well. Keep pluggin away, your doing well.

Phil L.
www.phillietz.com
www.phillietz.blogspot.com

[Samantha]

mark my name here,because this is a really nice thread.

[HolyBovine]

Loving that bug. Prefer the glowy eyes personally but I guess its a matter of personal choice.

Love the mood in the Land Lady painting as well.

[Quike Garcia]

The mood in this painting is impressive :)

[RBeek]

the last one is very cool mr Tony! :) i miss the sketches though :(
Cant rly crit this last one.. its a certain style and i think its cool :)

Good luck man!
Greetz Roger

[GriNGo]

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This is bad ass man!!! Incredible! Love your lines (and the fact that it's an Akira tribute, it's even better!!) keep it up bro.

[monotony]

Krato, it did :). thanks for stopping by!

Sno0obs, thaanks!! it is satisfying for a moment. But after a few days I see way too many issues. Ah, well that keeps us busy, right ? :)

phizpietl, thank you man, I'm glad you like it. congrats on the scholarship btw.

Samantha, aw thanks :).

HolyBovine, thank you! I was tempted to do it with the big eyes as well. but in the end the were a bit too distracting and didn't look organic enough I think.

Quike, gracias :)

Roger, thanks dude, glad you like it. You're right about the sketches though. should show more of them. But right now they're mostly just very rough scribblings for more finished works or actual work work.
will try and show some more again within a week or so.

Gringo, Thanks man!! Akira rocks :)




Don't feel good doing another one of those one picture updates.
But I will try and show more this week.

This is a pen drawing done in ink and then colored in photoshop. Not completely done just yet. but almost.

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[andres333]

some madly GREAT ideas going on here. Loving your paintings

[Flaskpost]

holy crap dude. i love where you´re going with this style. UPDATE goddamnit. :]

[ninety9]

great stuff in here, love the diversity of different styles & techniques u are incorporating into your sketches and artworks.

sehr inspirierend :>

[Virg]

hey man, been a while since i visited, good stuff going on here really !
cheers.

[monotony]

andres, thanks so much :)

Flask, thank you. for your nice compliment and kicking my butt. I'm a lazy turd.

99, thank you, buddy. you got some nifty creature designs in those COWs!

WhiteC, thanks! and its really good to see you here.



I know it's been ages since I updated again but I'm just really busy at the moment. trying to finance all my studying with freelancing right now, and it's pretty hectic.
but I do enjoy most of it :) and shouldn't complain.
maybe I get to scan some of the very few sketches I do on the side soon. or show some older work work. but eh, I see how I break all my promises here so I won't go any further :)

thanks to anyone who stops by here and takes a look!!

here's a creature I did and still do for COW. I tried to finish early because I won't get to work a lot on it on the weekend but I'm still open for critique.

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[RBeek]

Oh dear lord..!!

Why do you smack me in the face with this man..
Just when i think im getting better and maybe a little closer to awsomeoness..

And then you post this?.. XD it looks really good man..
Fudging awsomeness!!! :)

Hope you start updatin a bit more.. also with studies you do!
I miss my weekly amount of tony! ;)

Spread the love!

[Parsakoira]

thank you so much for the kind comment on my sketchbook! Ive seen your stuff here on CA before, now its a damn time to make a comment haha! Really adore your brushwork, simple, still effective. And the colors are stunning!

cheers!

[jskotte]

wow, such a cool sketchbook. I love that cow entry on page 26, great colors. Also really like this latest image, you have such a great way of integrating your characters in the background and really get a complete feeling, something I'm really struggling with, so thanks for all the inspiration.

[smokenmirrors]

slick piece, i think your foreground creature could move up in the frame to kill some of that somewhat dead negative space above, which consequently would create a stronger diagonal between the two creatures and likewise would more accurately follow the focal creatures eyeline. Very cool in either case. :)

[Metal Fingers]

I really liked your COW entry but I thought the first version where it was really screaming was a little more fitting, none the less the rendering and motion effects are coooooool.

[Ricardo Robles]

You have a great style man.. yours is one of my favourite entries in this COW.
Great colors, lighting and compo!

[monotony]

Roger, haha way too much praise :D.
But I admit it feels good. thanks so much being around so often!!
and you Are getting better. like serious business!

Parsakoira, thank you! :) I like my colors saturated and glowing, please. Too much sometimes though.

jskotte, thanks! I felt that the connection was working this time, too. So the picture was successful in that respect which is cool.
It's something I struggle with alot though.

smokenmirrors, ah good critic, man. I still have to practice good composition and leading the viewers eye a lot. thank you!

Metal Fingers, cheers buddy. yeh maybe the first version had some more agression and energy. But I think the critique was right and it wasn't howling in that sense.

Ricardo, Thanks, man. that's great to hear.. 'cos there's lots of great competition once again. :)


I thought I should share the two color comps I did for the chow.
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and here's a few hummingbirds doing what hummingbirds do.
selling ancient, long-lost Inka-gold on the blackmarket. aww... you just can't be mad at these little fellers.
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[Quike Garcia]

Man, I have to say that the last COW entry is brilliant.. love how you used the focus.

[RBeek]

Cool stuff again!

I can see why you went for the greenish one.. the composistion makes more sense to me and is more spectacular..
Having these 2 beasts kinda like intimidating eachother gives a certain power to the whole. So yeah! Awsome :D

Those hummingbirds look kinda cool to XD Was it made for something?
I like the roughyness/paintery look on them.. its something thats been going on in ur work lately am i right?
I think its a good thing :D Ur stuff is gettin mroe awsome!

keep it up dewd!

[TheGnoll]

dude! this page is full of so much goodness!
the COW is especially impressive! the way you handled the ground and the creature in focus really blew my socks off! that pen drawing too was really really good.
Sorry man, i got no crits at all this time, just asspats, you've kept yourself busy man, and it shows!

[jskotte]

These bird concepts are really cool, really great way of adding character to birds. Great colors as well.

[monotony]

Quike, thanks a lot, mylord!

Rogerr, thanks man. I guess it was the right choice then :)
I really do enjoy working with basicly just one brush in photoshop, feels very natural this way. and it's just a slightly altered custom ps-chalk-brush I think.
Oh and the birds were just for fun, although one will have a guest appearence in this new one I'm planning to finish :). not selling gold this time tho.

TheGnoll, thanks so much. I really appreciate that :)

jskotte, thanks, dear. a few new little fellers this time.



here's two half-assed/rendered rabbits.
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and a wip. I'm still in colorful, cute mode and enjoying it :). I want to finish within this week. any comments and crits are very welcome!!
So far a few hours in and I'm about to jump into further rendering now.
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[Sebastian Gromann]

awww man, how are you?! you'r doing great ! just look at the birds colors, or the rabits face expression or the last illustration ! oh boy oh boy

give me more cuteness. damn

[RBeek]

woooot ;D wonder how this one is gonna turn out :o

Im pretty sure youll render the crap out of it and so it will become awsome once more ;)
I dont rly have anything to crit so far.

So just continue on it man :D

Good luck! :D

[jskotte]

Looks good. Really like the bottom one, funny and cute.

[Hive_minD]

I have clearly been working to much... missed so many updates. That's it, subscribed. Thanks for the comments you have left in my sketchbook, means a lot. I'll be back soon, but now have to continue here at work!

Chris

[monotony]

Snobbbyy, yay! I'm good man, thanks for checking in on me :) . cute feels like it's the right way to go for me at the moment.

Roger, haha thanks man. I think right now I tend to bein danger to over-render sometimes. I should stop here and see what you people have to say.

jskotte, :> thank you. hope you still like it.

Hive mind, good to have you stop by again, always a pleasure. and subscribing, dang I really need to keep updating then.



here's the illustration finished for now.
took me the last few nights :) I'd happily hear your comments and critique.

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[Metal Fingers]

those hummingbirds are so silly! they've got a lot of character too, keep it up man.

[RBeek]

TONY!! freakin hell man! Delicious stuff once again :D
We should chat sometimes or something? XD
And tell me how you work and where you pay special attention and stuff :D

This last one is rly awsome man :o
I love it! This would be some awsome illustration for a childbook cover :O

Now i wanna see you do a portrait/face thing?
Id love to see you apply ur skills to that.. or do you do that whole day long?

anyway! Keep it up dude!
Hope to see more!

[xxPurple Nugxx]

this stuff is awesome.

[Sebastian Gromann]

yay this one turned out like a big jump forward, homeboy :D
i totally dig the light and colors, and liitle things you mentioned like the rocki stones or the grass.
BUTTTTT why the hell did you steal the mouse's eyeglasses ?! >: haha :p

[Hive_minD]

Last one is so cute! Love it to bits, though I would prefer if the one mouse/rat/animal holding the rope at the top, had some colour in its eyes. Looks weird compared to the rest of them. Other than that... WOW

[Ricardo Robles]

I liked the guys floating in post#767...
you apply color with dedication and knowledge, it achieves a very rich and vivid result man. lovely to see.

[monstertree]

Haha, the last one is great! What are they all so eager to retrieve? Maybe try loosening up and simplifying the foliage in the background? It's competing for attention a little bit for me. Great stuff, look forward to more.

[HunterKiller_]

I could swear I made a comment about the Akira drawings before... Anyway I dig them, haha.

You've been drawing a lot of furry animals, hehe, they look nice.
The final painting turn out great!

[Cameli]

I thought i left a message here before....Well awesome sb and Lovely creatures!Keep it up

[DefiledVisions]

Hey, it's been a long time since I visited your sketchbook Monotony! I have to say, the illustration you have a page back with the rescue team is so pure and strong. It's fantastic. The characters feel genuine and the colours are great!
you should do children's books :D

take care

[monotony]

Metalfingers, haha.. yeah hummingbirds..tsss :) thank you.

Roger, :D thank you! I do figure and portrait drawing/painting on a weekly basis. from life that is. I don't have them here at home though except for these few old ones. I tend to crumble or loose them so I keep 'em in my locker.
will send you a pm as well :).

xxPurple Nugxx, thanks a lot!!

Snobbyy, haha these weren't supposed to be glasses xD. sloppy sketching. But thanks a lot :D

Hive mind, oh I see what you mean. Must've missed that after staring at this for quite some time. I will correct that and a few other small issues and just edit it in sometime. thanks,man!

Ricardo Robles, thank you. I'm not sure about the knowledge part but I'm sure working on it :)

monstertree, good point on the background, mate. it's a bit distracting. Thanks for checking in!

Hunterkiller, thank you :). It seems to be some kind of phase I'm in. really enjoying cute stuff at the moment. We'll see where this is going.

Cameli, thanks a lot sir! I'll try to show some more.

DefiledVisions, wow thank you!This really means a lot to me. Work on childrens books would be absolutely awesome.



Been a while again... I'm sorry if I disappointed people by not updating. If there were any :)
anyway I've been way busy with lots of stuff again. I'll be able to show freelance around end of summer.

these are for you roger :) just a few actual acrylic paintings I have with me right now. not the newest though-
I'm really NOT happy with the results of my traditional paintings but it feels like they help improve digital painting and even drawing. just gotta keep working.
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also filled 2 sketchbooks with random sketches. At the moment I treat these sketches a lot less precious than I used to and it is fun! here's an excerpt of thrown together sketches.
Trying out lots of things without overthinking or loosing time with rendering too much. I still do that with finished illustrations and longer poses at lifedrawing.
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and some of the sketches were done for this little project I finished:
it's a comic :). (wow I really am all over the place focussing on nothing.)
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anyway it's a wordless 32page story done with most panels in thumbnail-size.

fun fun! maybe I'll show more of it another time.


and portraits. I used an old loose sketch I did of a friend for the third one. had to redraw it on the tablet because I don't have a scanner and then colored in ps.
trying not to go as bright and saturated I usually do. Not too easy for me, I have to admit.
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:) thanks for taking a look!

[monotony]

for some reason the last update didn't show up in the sketchbook section.
trying again in two.

here are sketches for the newest COW that I probably wont have time to finish.
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[Yor]

great stuff man, it's a real pleasure browsing your sb , keep it up!

[RBeek]

dude thats a seriously kick ass update! :)

Those cow sketched and the portraits are really impressive :O
I hope you keep updating a bit more often though ;)
Im sorry for not having any good comments or crits..

I just gotta get myself moving to do more i think :P
And better like the quality your popping out! :)

Keep it up man! Good luck with the freelance stuffs ! :D

[jskotte]

All the portraits and looking fantastic and I love the flower inspired creatures.

[monotony]

Yor thank you very much! :)

Roger thanks buddy! freelance is pretty much done now. I need to find more!! anyway it's great to have you here, now do more :dad:. same goes to me....

jskotte :) thanks a lot!



here's two quick color sketches for a possible EOW
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and something more creepy for a change :) will go back to cute stuff as well though.
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[chris_kaw]

awesome DIY stuff. :rocker:

[kidult]

the chow stuffs looking hot!

[HunterKiller_]

Moar creepy pleaaaazze. :D

[Sebastian Gromann]

ahh, didn't recognized that you updated again ! wayyyy toooo late >: haha
i love the new cows aswell as the creppy humanoid :P also your analog sketches are niiice mate :)
your environment thumbs got very dramatic, vibrant colors, but maybe try to use the soft brush sometimes to give it more atmosphere ;)

wünsche dir viiiiiel sonne :)

[ThomasM]

Wow I've never checked out this SB before but its awesome. Really like your traditional stuff that has been done above, and also those creatures you have designed as a hybrid of both plant and animal are great! Keep up the good work. Subscribed!

[aks9]

these are all very inspiring, especially the animals
nice looking "project" thing there too!

[TheJester]

Amazing stuff monotony!!! Your ideas are allways crazy fun, and you're making leaps in your technique! especially the way you render skin! your last portraits are perfect!

Still my favourites are your ink outlines. soooo crisp!!!

[monstertree]

Great updates since my last visit - really like the tintin-esque guy in the sketchbook pages, and the bamboo hedgehog is a great idea. Good work on the portraits too, the chunkyness of the brushstrokes is working well in those ;)

[RBeek]

cool stuff once more man! i rly like that creepy dude :P
what kind of weird skull does he have... hard to drink coffe with i think XD

anyway i think you should render those enviro;s out a bit more man :D
the colors in them look rly cool :D
i like the first one the most :o
but i think the composition is more exciting to look at with the second one..

So its just gnna be up to you to chose what to render out ;)

And dewd... turn on ur skype sometime XD pffff !! :D

Btw what i forgot to say.. those painting in the update before..
the acrylics are real cool :O Im jeleous of ur loosiness and tidyness... ? thats madness!
its sparta.. just so u know >.<

talk to you soon man!
peace!

[Jakers]

Long time no see! (thats for either of us....so shame on both of us!). Liking just about everything, great mix of nice line drawing and effective looking paints. The two EOW thumbnails feel so confident.

I really like the infusion of plants into your creatures - I'm getting deeper into creature design right now and it makes me want to go digital and play with the colors, as well as pushing the designs even further into fantasy for a change....interesting :) I'd love more feedback on my creature stuff so lets help each other out

[monotony]

chris kaw thanks a lot :)

kidult thanks man. I didn't manage to finish anything though... :S

Hunterkiller haha alright. next time!

Snobby hehe thanks man, never too late. those eow sketches feel very rough indeed. I will make sure to spice up the atmosphere some more on the next more finished environment.

ThomasM thank you very much :) !

aks cheers! that comic was lots of fun to work on and at least made me proud to have finished a bigger project for a change.

TheJester thanks man, I'm very happy to read this! And to be honest even if I show more digital stuff at the moment I enjoy working in ink and mainly linework most. I might show more of the comic soon, it's entirely done that way-

monstertree thank you :) ! he's the main character in the little comic you can see on those pictures.

Roger haha, yea that creepy guy is a mess. anatomically. no wonder he's hiding in the shadow. I don't think I'll get to finish one of the eow's before deadline but I might do a finished one soon. rock on, buddy!

Jakers ah yeah true... and thanks for the compliments :). We sure should help each other out some more. Even though I feel far from being any good with ceatures I'll be sure to try ;) keep it up, man!


Since I've been asked to show steps on this piece I thought I could share it here as well.
I don't know if this is any help to you guys but it might as well give you new stuff to critique and help improve my methods since I don't have a set workflow yet. Sometimes I work from a rough sketch like in this case, sometimes from clean linework or even with just big colored shapes in the very beginning.
feel free to ask questions and critique!

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sorry for the recycled post. I'll have new stuff next time!

[TheGnoll]

oh man, those plant-inspired critters are really cool.Really nice design on those.
Really curious to see more of your comic too, and man, that looks like a really fun sketchbook to browse thru.
Nice to see your progress in your last post, that was an impressive illustration.Keep up the great work man!

[monotony]

thanks a lot TheGnoll!
I might put up some more of the comic another time. don't know how I feel about posting it here on the internet yet.


Anyway as you guys seemed to have liked the creatures, and as jakers got me motivated here's a few more sketches.
the photos where for inspiration and as a starting point. tried to combine some of the features- sometimes more sometimes less. to get the creativity going.

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[ThomasM]

Just looked back quite far on this sketchbook and I have to say you've inspired me to do a COW piece this week for sure! The Akira sketches are sweet and plenty of these posts made me laugh (I like the hummingbirds selling gold!) Thanks for stopping by my SB dude, I appreciate the encouragement. Sometimes it feels like you are struggling against overwhelming "crapness" when you are starting out!

[Teundeboer]

These creatures look awesome, impressed by their originality.

[monotony]

Thomas I think we all go through moments like these. but working your way out is even more rewarding. thanks a lot for stopping by again and your nice words!

Teundeboer thanks a lot, man! I should go a lot more crazy in their designs though.


tiny update... more of a color sketch that probably won't go further.
they're two fellers that are very likely to make a guest appearence in my next finished piece just like one of the hummingbirds recently.
working on a few right now.
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[Sebastian Gromann]

haha haha :D


awesome my friend, nicely done !

[Fetsch]

realy nice creatures and portraits monotony. Looking like cooler versions of pokemon haha, keep it up man. :)

[Yor]

greaat work man! love it!

[Dipz108]

your work is quite amazing, love the stuff on animals/flowers+bamboo etc.. :)

[FAST ART]

post 819 and 836 are absolut awsome.. realy great ideas :)

[monotony]

Snoohoobs, :D danke. freut mich immer wieder.

Fetsch, hah wow thanks. that's cool

Yor, thank you!

Dipz, thanks a lot! :)!

FAST ART, merci :)


Here's one I did for a contest.
I started way too late and had to do the whole thing this weekend. been staring at it the last two days straight and would love to hear some of your thoughts.
I hope the image is not too big to view.
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[RBeek]

Hello again dewd!


That new images is awsome!! :D
Creature design is rly cool again! And the whole composition works well.
rly make me wanna go there! and being excited for it!

So great job on that :o

If im being nitpicky id say to much dragons...
But thats just a small tiny thing :/

Not sure if there are any other things to point out.. sorry! :)

Greetings!

[monstertree]

Holy crap, I think you've majorly levelled up lately - the only crit I can think of is maybe a little warm or greeny bounce light on the underside of the purple creatures, they pop out a little too much atm. The face of the central pig/tapir/kangaroo guy in the last pic is really well captured, congrats ;)

[PieMonster]

Really cool painting man, love it! The sense of motion is really good. Looking forward to seeing new stuff! :D

[jskotte]

Wow, looks really great, just awesome :)

[monotony]

Rogerrr, thankss honey. and absolutely right about them dragons. I got a bit carried away. one would have been enough. or maybe two with different color and design.

Monstertree, thank you! could work those in some more for sure. good to have you here.

Piemonster, thanks man. I'm glad you like it.

jskotte, thank you. almost didn't recognize you with the new creepy avatar :)



just a one picture update again.
I painted a car and I would like to share it with you. or is it called a trike?
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Bug/Crustacean shapes
I hardly paint any technology and a self designed car for the first time actually.
Would love to hear your thoughts on this!

[Quike Garcia]

Man, I'd drive that trike any time (Do you have it in red? :P).. is really sweet

The giant peach one also looks really cool :)

[jskotte]

Cool, well "Trike" then, the texture is really good and very nice engine detail.
Yeah, i felt it was time for a change :)

[kischi]

Wow dude great detail on the trike! The portraits you did on the last page are really cool. Like the way you render and color your digital creatures and stuff.
Und danke dass du bei mir vorbeigeschaut hat, werde auf jedenfall öfter hier rein schauen super gute Sachen!
Cheers

[RBeek]

dude that trike got some mad details O.o!!
Awsome rendering and again.. awsome detail!! :P

Lookin forward to some more sketches from ur side :O
Cuz im hungry for more! RAWWRR !

See u soon to finish our collab ;)

PIESSS

[Mark Tarrisse]

Dammmmnnnn maaaa !! You progressed like hell man ! Just admired those last pages.
5 stars from me.
Keep up the great work!

[AbelSammy]

got it
thank you
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[monotony]

Quike, thanks a lot man. nope, only blue. it's either this or walking :)

jskotte, :) thank you!

kischi, thank you! detailing that thing took quite a while..
und ich werd bei dir auch noch nen paar mal reinschauen und mir was zum industrial design abgucken :)

Rogerino, yeehaw thanks man. we will finish it! someday... :) also: urgh I made it. tired now :)

Mark Tarrisse, thanks so much man, that's really good to hear. ;) and thanks for the stars as well, i'll try hard to live up to it!

AbelSammy, hah thanks as well. I guess :)



new "finished" paint. It's a contest piece again.
I found out about it at about 7 last evening and then worked with little breaks until the deadline just now at 6am..
wish I had found about it earlier :) .. gosh I'm tired now

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Got to go to bed now. I'll check sketchbooks soon.

[(lark]

wow this sketchbook is full of awesome! that alien D&D piece is a fucking great idea. so creative!

[RBeek]

haha!!! u fuckin did it!! :D
And it came out great man!! .. imagine if u had another day! :O
I sure do hope ur gonna win this one man!!

I rly like the gameboard man :O
And the expressions on the aliens are awsome!!

Im proud of you man ;)
Now sleep!!! :D See u today/tomorrow!!

[Sebastian Gromann]

aaaaaaaah maaaaaaaate ! you make me go crazy \o_____o/

[Fetsch]

sehr geil monotony!

[smokenmirrors]

wow. that last piece is KILLER! great job and even more so given the quick turn around. :D

[monotony]

Clark, thanks a lot man. I'm glad you like it.

Roger, hah yea, long night. thanks :) and talk to you laterss.

Snoobyoohoo, hahah. allright :D

Fetsch, :F danke!

Smokenmirrors, thanks, man! I still wish I could have started earlier :). But I'm happy that you guys like it!

Booh, I'm boring myself with this text but again it's time for a one picture update. no sketches :(

Anyway I joined this weeks IDW because I liked painting the last vehicle.
its a car...
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[dhilipsomesh]

great works keep up,Like to see more

my sketch book (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=72098&page=11)

[jskotte]

Great updates, love that alien D&D image, also great car.

[RBeek]

hello thar miester flapjack..

as u mightve noticed the world is round ?... pancake!

that last car is sick dude.. it like it alot! :O rly sick amount of detail in there!!
U shouldve put in some progress picture for the fun of it..
Cuz this think is a shit load of work :O And it has paid off so far man :D
It looks great! its a certain style u have with these things that make them look real classy..
I tbh like this one more than the other one.. The design is 'on both' feel really original..

Now next time u put in some damn sketches! GRRRR !

< 3 icecreame

[Sebastian Gromann]

bro !!! are you drawing these from life at your garage?! if thats true we should defintely make a race, ... / without items :D

take care :)

[monotony]

dhilipsomesh, thank you very much!

jskotte, thanks!! :D

Roger, Thanks, man! I'm planning on buying a scanner this week so I'll hopefully update with some sketches soon :).
and another vehicle is on my to-do-list as well. so I might show wip-steps of that new one!

Snobbyy, haha :D. actually I'm glad I don't have one of those, I would race you into the ground. Also I'd be updating even less next to all the driving :)



here's quick sketches for the gardener IDW that didn't go anywhere.
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and jellyfishies.
I don't know how much sense these make. I paint them to get an idea how much custombrushes might be neccessary to get some different believable materials without overworking the image and cluttering it. using a reasonable amount of custom brushes can definately improve ones effectivity I think.
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[monstertree]

Niiiice, I like the jellyfish, the colour touches in the first one are particularly nice. I want one of the crustacean tricycles too, fantastic rendering + concept.

[Stylor]

I love those funky vehicles. Very imaginative and well rendered.

[RBeek]

dude them jellys are jummy! !

The first one i like the most.. but im kinda surprised ( not rly ) that the red one came out kinda good to :O :)

So great job there.. did the custum brush experiment work for you or do u wanna do more of this stuff? .. it looks kinda good.. and aslong as you got good control of them .. it might speed up your work process.. cuz... ur a slowpoke!! XD jk <3

Hope to see you online again soon man! :D

Peace of bread - out!

[monotony]

monstertree, thanks a lot. :) !

Stylor, thank you! glad you like them.

Roger, thanks man. and yes I was a bit quicker than usual :P... a liittle bit.


Here's some new creatures.
3 were done with the new CoW in mind.

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[LAL]

woooooo!great works!I love your style, the post 845 and 857 ,863,they are swesome, you have a great idea!I need study you bro!keep the great works up ,I can not waiting for the next!

[RBeek]

Mister tony.. those look great :D and im lookin forward to see a finished product of those sketches :D

i like that lower right one alot :D and the turtle-ish one to.. :D
Anyway! Like i said.. hoep to see a whole finished product of one of those :P

Good luck man! :)
See you soon!

[Loathsome]

Oh god.. why are you doing this to me :(
I'm not worttthyyy

[monotony]

LAL, thanksa lot man! so many compliments haha, I hope I can live up to that.

Roger, thanks homie. But as I said I'm afraid these will stay finished sketches :P.
but I did sneak in a ChoW for a change.

Loathsome, haha man. thanks so much for stopping by. :)


here's a ChoW entry. I was late and had to stop for deadline's sake but might give it another spin sometime.

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[Sebastian Gromann]

woaaa jasdfjskf <3

[Jager]

brilliant stuff! very insperational

[Aveh]

Really liked the mood you got with that latest chow. hopefully you go back and finish that.

[Edward B]

Hey Monotony. What an absolute treat this sketchbook is, that piece with the aliens playing a boardgame is too good!
Really like the Jellyfish experiments on the previous page, good stuff!

[raminafshari]

your drawings have strange feelings .

[RBeek]

you sexy little canarie.. you paint to awsome yes? :)))) <3

[monotony]

Snobby, :D

Jager, thanks so much!

Aveh, thanks I might just do that. hopefully soon...

Edward B, thanks a lot! :D

raminafshari, it's better than none I guess.. :) thanks for checking in.

Roger, haha :x thank youu.


here's a new set of creatures. smaller ones this time, inspired by insects/crabs.
I like the third one an might make it into another illustration.
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and a speedpaint for DSG.
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[insanelight]

You have some great stuff here.
Your creatures are nice and inspiring and your paintings are just amazing!
Thank you.

[in2eternity]

Beautiful stuff, as always :) I like those funny creatures on #845 and your CoW entry #876
Keep it up :)

[Koto]

Awesome work, dude, would love to see the chow entry taken further.

[HunterKiller_]

Been doing some great work, dude!

[Nettle_Mountain]

You are seriously getting better, i really like motorised vehicles, animal riding children and and painterly quality of latest digitals, just keep at this up definitely

clap clap clap

[monotony]

insanelight, thank you! I'm really happy to read this.

in2eternity, :) thanks so much. I'm glad you like them!

Koto, thanks! I should really do that and paint some more on it.

Hunterkiller, :D cool thanks!

NettleMountain, thank you, this really means a lot to me. and I started working on a third vehicle, to have a series of three. I'll hopefully finish it soon.


Here's just random scraps I didn't show yet, I think.
sketches, speedpaints, wips.
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and the new IDW entry.
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[Aveh]

That first piece i like alot. It's really moody, I think you should warm up his shirt and the background so the shield's blue really pops against all those warm orange and reds.

I also like the explanatory sketches for that IDW. always shows some next step up of thinking about an object.

[monotony]

Aveh, thanks a lot for the ideas! and I'm glad you liked the IDW entry.

just random bogus:
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and a wip for the new ChoW:
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Not in a rush like last time, I got till sunday to fiddle with the details.
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[hücumkedi]

sweet colors man!

[Sebastian Gromann]

wow dude, you seem to be made to do chows haha :D
others' great aswell - that fox illu is my wallpaper from now on, if you dont mind :P

take care :)

[monotony]

hücumkedi, thanks so much!

Snobby, hah, thank you! glad you like it :)


finished my entry:
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[Sebastian Gromann]

*Snobby presses the 'LIKE' -button a thousand times* :D


/edit. after looking at it at home i realized that it seems to be a bit dark, so i was so harsh to make a quick mmmoooverpaint (http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/vv227/SnobbyOo/CHOW221_monotony_overpaint.jpg) to make it pop out more. but might be my monitor problem though ;)

[Mr.Thorne]

Fantastic work

Love the creature concepts

[CrazedIvan]

gah really dig your detail. I really like how your showing your process. I gotta start doing that.

[LAL]

Great design and concept! I like you works so much!more...please!

[Vulgar`]

Crazy sketchbook, I was hoping you'd keep working on your dark coven EOW entry! There's still time.

[Loathsome]

I really like your linework for the concepts

[in2eternity]

Wow, last work is simply amazing ! :)

[monotony]

Snobby, thanks a lot! I see what you mean about the darkness, it's not just your screen. its a bit bright here and there now, but I should go for something inbetween our versions :)-

Mr.Thorne, thank you! I'm glad you do.

CrazedIvan, thanks :). I got into the habit of saving steps on the bigger pieces or when trying out really new techniques. And I'm really happy that people seem to appreciate them.

LAL, thank you!! I'll hopefully have more up soon.

Vulgar, thanks a lot for stopping by. also for the encouragment. now I feel bad for not giving it some more love in time, but I'll be back for another competition!

Loathsome, glad you do! digital linework has never been my strength. but it's starting to smoothen out now. :) slowly.

in2eternity, thanks so much! :)


I don't have a lot of time for updates these days.
Right now I'm tied into a few big, timeconsuming uniprojects.
So there wont be anything more then quick sketches soon. But I did some more studies at the museum again, just really quick and bold pencilsketching.
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[Tigermilk]

Amazing, some stuff is really way up there. Like the alien-roleplaying game painting along with the latest.
Inspiring to say the least. Hope everything is good!
/t

[Ricardo Robles]

love what I see here, lots of great ideas!
You use really nice palettes, maybe i´d try to go for some more exaggerated or strident tones sometimes, just to go out of the realistic palette. Just an idea to try, cause i really love what you´re doing.

[hücumkedi]

sweet animals :)

[RBeek]

again freakin lovely..

Its almost as cool as a pencil that is sharpened on 2 ends... can u imagine how cool those are, and then compare it with your pencil works.. its like evenly spread coolness all over..

U get it? .. ! ! o.O

[monotony]

Tigermilk, thanks, man. it's good to have you stop by again! And I'm just as good as always.

Ricardo Rovbles, thank you! Definately something I should try out more.

Hücumkedi, thanks a lot! :)

Roger, whoa whoa. THAT cool. thanks :D


Here's a quick one for the DSG forum I made yesterday.
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[RBeek]

what brand is that.. looks cool :o does it come to you when u call it? :)

[Sebastian Gromann]

thats' my ipod D: dign' your color choices for that !
the animals are also built with effective brushstrokes - niiiiiiiiiice :)

[Dana_T]

: O
Thank you so much for your comment. I really appreciate it considering I've been secretly lurking around your sketchbook for quite some time. Love all your paintings and concepts, thanks for sharing them :D

[hücumkedi]

cool!

[~FPudiU~]

Your design are really something! thumbup..

[monotony]

thanks for the comments! I hope all of you had a great christmastime!

Roger, hehe it does all the tricks in the book. all of them.

Snobbyy, thankss! :) glad you like the sketches! I'll draw some more over there this week and next.

Dana, thanks so much for stopping by and the nice comment! :)

hücumkedi, thank you!

~FPudiU~, thanks a lot!


got back from my christmasbreak yesterday.
for now here are a few creature concepts and sketches.
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[Ricardo Robles]

strong creature design:)

[RBeek]

dude those creature freakin rock! :D

That swimming one looks so cool :D
maybe a larger backfin or ontop of his head would make him even more freaky :P

And that goldsuckin bat/gargoyle like creature is freakin awsome :P
Please finish that last pic.. looks really cool :)

Keep it up santa monatana

[Vulgar`]

Awwww.. those creatures are looking tasty.

[Fetsch]

the animal studies are great, love the strokes and also great creature designs, especialy the last one. :)

[HunterKiller_]

Diggin' those animal sketches, bra.
Creatures designs are looking real nice, the flat colours are working nicely.

[Mitze]

Seen your stuff on DSG but totally missed all the great stuff you have in your Skbook. Sweet Skbook. Keep them coming.

[Flaskpost]

oh my fucking gosh. you´ve gotten soo good! damn you! (nope, thanks for the inspiration, dude)
sick creature design, and that gorilla chow was amazing. keep it up!!

[Sebastian Gromann]

haha- just laughed so hard bout the 'flying -vermin -catchers' :D
very cool ideas matt :)

[monotony]

Ricardo Robles, thanks a lot man!

Roger, thank you! :) hope you went nuts on new years! i worked some more on that last one but that might be all now..

Vulgar, thank you!! :)

Fetsch, awesome thanks. I will do more animal studies this week.

Hunterkiller, thanks a lot! glad you like them.

Mitze, thank you and I'm really happy you stopped by here. you post awesome work on the DSG forum!

Flaskpost, Yay, cool to see you again, mate. How've you been? and I'm stoked that you see improvement. :) will work on everything even more!

snobbyohoo, haha thanks! doing weird concepts and scribbling them is one of the funnest parts of painting creatures.

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I will try and submit a painting for the upcoming megaman tribute book.
They encourage not to show the pieces before the book's out, but here's some excerps of what it looks like now. the whole thing is gonna be pretty busy and detailed.
Hope I can get in :)
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happy new year everyone!

[RBeek]

Great updates dude :) Lookin forward to see that final piece of megaman art ;)

That gold sucker is awsome XD

im not being constructive again.. blame the horses of the southwest regions down by the railroad.. flapjack!

[Parsakoira]

truly skilled artwork, one of my favorite sketchbooks here, definitely :) keep up and good luck!

[monstertree]

You're entering the megaman competition too! Looks like it's shaping up nicely, can't wait to see the finished thing!

[hücumkedi]

man...awesome... finally i ve just finished to look your sb from first to last..nothing to say...just wow :) respect! :D

[Mitze]

Fantastic work, great imagination and execution. Really like this speedy.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=1091835&d=1288445389

[Kendall]

You have such a unique style of rendering, it looks awesome. Turtles rock!

[Velocity Kendall]

I like turtles!
Stunning inspiring work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMNry4PE93Y

[monotony]

Roger, thanks, hun. glad you like it. 3rd megaman is looking less and less likely but I hope you started something :). cowboys dont need to be constructive btw.

Parsakoira, wow thanks!! this means so much to me!

monstertree, yea it's been fun to work on for sure! thanks for stopping by again :)

hücumkedi, awesome that you took the time to do so, man. I really appreciate that :D and I'm even happier that you like it.

Mitze, thanks again man. :)

Kendall, thank you! Turtles!!

Velocity, haha. wait what? hah. thanks man! :) I like turtles.


a few quick things from inbetween.
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I've never enjoyed painting traditionally for myself really. but I'm starting to discover that it's actually pretty fun. I kept them easy and quick though :)

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and another peek at yet another megaman wip.
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[Teundeboer]

those pencil animal studies are freakin sexy

[wilkerson]

The thing about monotony is that this stuff is not monotonous. Some of my crap might be...but not this.

[surus]

I like the USB-Port-Brain! Keep on posting!

[RBeek]

im glad u didnt judge me on the non constructive critisisizisim :O
just wanted to let you know it rocks.. but u come all swearing calling me a cowboy..
That just makes me a sad panda, if you know what i mean? U diggin this sugaballs?

ANyway , its to bad megaman 3 went down the drain..
Im having a hard time finding time to do it to..
Im way to busy running my pimp mansion and cleaning fishtanks with a spoon..
Just imagine that for a second.

Peace!
Love love! <3

[in2eternity]

Great designs! Good luck with the book, hope they'll choose you!

[RBeek]

where is that update..

[monstertree]

Hahaha, the anteater with the vest on is quality! I'm itching to see your megaman entry in full too ;)

[Yor]

great sketchbook! really enjoying those tradi pieces

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[Aryeh]

Love the traditional illustration/paintings. they are really strong pieces on their own. good job dude.

[monotony]

Teundeboer, thank you! :) I should definately go to the museum again sometime and add more.

wilkerson, ow shut up :). just checked you sb again and you're environmenting it up in there! but thanks so much for stopping by and i'm glad you like it ;)

surus, haha thanks a lot!

Roger, I'm imagining that.. and I'm drifting off... dude, I need to draw. :)
and thanks for really pushing me here. you make me feel worst about not updating. and that's how I should feel!
You the man!

in2eternity, thanks a lot! :) I'll know by the end of this month.

Yor, thanks so much! :)

lolbbq, thank you man. this is really motivating me to keep working on that front too :)

monstertree, hehe, not that I'm too happy with any of my traditional painting endeavours but the antewater is my personal favourite too. :)
The vest/shirt idea started when I realized that the paterns small anteaters have actually resemble cloths most of the time. :) And looking at them when thinking about that makes them look so much funnier.

here's a few sheets of sketches compiled. I fill a few of these very quick pencil pages before I paint one in acrylics. from museum/photo/imagination.
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there's more paintings that I made too, but they're too big for my scanner.. I will try to get proper photographs sometime.

I was part of a group exhibition of dry-point etchings a few weeks ago.
here's 2 of ~8. don't have more at home at the moment.
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and kind of a close-up because it's actually pretty big.
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and in comparison two versions of one I did at slightly over postcard-size.
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this shows how much the print can and will change when you push it through the press for 6-7 times.
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and a flyer. pen, ink and photoshop.
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I have a few more elaborate digital paintings in the works as well that I'll hopefully not take that long to finish now.
thanks for stopping by!

[Yor]

man awesome update, loving those owl sketches and the drypoint etches really impressive!

[squidmonk3j]

Looked through the last three pages of you sb, and there's a lot of really good stuff here! Great all round skills, and it shows in both the way you're able to move between various media and topics!

Gotta check out the rest of the pages now:)

[RBeek]

Finally!! It has been updated!..

Good job there mr Tony!
lovely stuff aswell.. Are those animal sketches for that kids book u was working on! ? :)

That flyer is a little strange.. but rly artsy .. I guess we should give eachother a high five on that :D

Lookin forward to the next one! luv luv! <3

[Farvus]

I dig your latest stuff. Lots of focus on idea and exploration on different subjects.
Keep going :)

[whisper_wm]

What a great diversity on subjects! Styles as well! Monotony...where?

Honestly, very nice sketchbook! I really dig those animal works! :)

[Giorge]

the dry-points came out really nice, how did the exhibition come out eventually?

[ThomasM]

Love that flyer. This is a sketchbook I should definitely check out more often! Great work going on in here.

I like the way you handled the fur on that anteater - I'm gonnna go to a museum and get some sketches done like that, thanks for the motivation!

[Velocity Kendall]

super animal sketches/
i really like that etching too, very Mydrim
your birds really popped out too

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=778529&d=1253009698

great work

[MartinC]

Brutal skill development through the sketchbook. :O

[monotony]

Yor, thank you very much! I'm glad you like them. :)

squidmonk3j, thanks a lot, man! hope you browsed through a few more pages :)

Rouger, thanks bro! :x artsy hehe. and the sketches were just for fun and preparation before painting some of it in acrylics.
childrens book is gonna look completely different once again... heh.

Farvus, thanks man! great to see you here again as well!

whistper wm, haha thank you! I definately can't settle on anything close to a "style" yet or a medium. I'm just gonna enjoy it all :)

Giorge, thanks man. It was lots of fun. Only on for a few days but definately worth all the time put into.

ThomasM, thank you! :) and great to get you motivated, too. you should definately go and do that!

Velocity Kendall, awesome! glad you like them! :)

MartinC, great to read that man. It's been on a few years now but still this makes me really happy!



here's a pet dragon dressed up like a sailor.
dressing up pets makes them look stupid.
it's not his face!
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[Ricardo Robles]

haha this pet is amazing... seems like it ia about to burp after a good lunch (a little fireball??)
Very cool work!

[RBeek]

seems like ur a secret agent man.. that dragon ended up amazingly cool!... and its his costume notthe dumb look on his face :D

[Teundeboer]

I think they prefer the term "special"

[Tigermilk]

Now that's a pet I would take for a walk!

[Fetsch]

turned out very cool, love it monotony! :D

[Sebastian Gromann]

sweeeet <3 i call him popeye !

- nice work bud! the design, expression and color matches each so well !

[lennon]

BRILLIANT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[LM.]

High quality work !

[lennon]

WTF!!? Someone seems to have given you 4 stars??
Let's see if we can fix that again.
Edit: Didn't have much effect. Who was the idiot anyway?

[monotony]

Ricardo, haha. don't we all pull that face when we're about to? :) thanks!

Roger, exactly xD. he's so smart. he went through potty training in less then a year..

Teundeboer, hahaha :D. right, let's stay politicly correct.

Tigermilk, awesome! :D

Fetsch, thanks so much!

Snobby, i call you honeyfingers. thank you! :)

LM, thanks a lot!

lennon, thank you, man! really appreciate that.
I don't think one should worry too much about stars. I remember being down to three stars halfway though this sb and now it's at least a save 4 so I'm happy :).
When you pointed me to it though I saw it drop down quite a notch which must've been a 1star rating ;(. A comment with that would be helpful...

anyway there's lots of amazing artist that i don't feel remotely adequate of so I don't feel I need the same rating as they have.


this is another dry point i printed. It was done on sight and is quite big again but the scan is not satisfying really.
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I will upload actually new stuff this week :) thanks!!

[tehmeh]

damn the pencils are so tight, really make me wanna go study some animals! I love your paintings though, especially the megaman interpretations and that alien D&D piece. Very motivating, keep it up! :D

[Yor]

so cute that little creature, loving the rendering and colors!
keep on posting man!

[monstertree]

That last print is awesome. If you coloured it digitally in a flat style, it would remind me of that movie 'Tekkonkinkreet'. Love this SB!

[Sebastian Gromann]

yummy, yummy, mate :D gimme more of these tasty sugar-things

[monotony]

tehmeh, thanks so much. your paintings are a great inspiration to me! and here finally is one of the megaman paintings.

Yor, thanks a lot! really enjoyed working on that one. :)

monstertree, wow thanks, man! I love that movie by the way!

Snobby00ster, thanks maan! :D sorry for being such a lazy turd...



Wow, took me a while to update... I won't even try to make excuses, they'll just sound lame anyway..sorry :)

Here's a Megaman painting I did a few months ago.
This will NOT be in the Megaman Tribute book.
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[RBeek]

hey man :O does this mean the other one DID get in the tribute? :P

[ThomasM]

sweet megaman piece there buddy - the rendering on those rocks from imagintion is great. More please

[Sebastian Gromann]

yeah! :)
i know...it might be annoying...but... show us some more work you did with your honeyhands \:D/

how are things btw ?

[monotony]

Roger, Thomas, Basti!
thanks so much for stopping by and the encouraging words! This really means a lot to me!

In the past few months some unforeseen problems in my family got in the way of making any art for myself.
And next to uni and work there was hardly any time to even think about posting something new up here.
But now what's left of the semester is just the big exhibition for the next 4 days. And I'm really looking forward to that.

Anyway to ease back into posting more over the break I can start with another painting I did earlier this year. More MegaMan .. :).

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[Virg]

its so creepy to see megaman with a face like that hahaha I like it

[Velocity Kendall]

wow im loving the powersword.
epic rendering quality goes without saying.
mega-shmeegal is frightening.

[RBeek]

ur such a sexy treehugging beardgrowing horsebackriding whalecuddling german! ,, i still love that painting man! u did awsome! <3

[monstertree]

The last Megaman piece is so good! Did it get in?

[Flaskpost]

shizaym. megaman paintings. goddamn they look good! that one better be in the book, or the guys handling the selection of images needs some whoopin´

[Metal Fingers]

haha those are the creepiest megaman paintings I've seen, dope though. Cheers!

[Reika]

Haha, fun stuff!

[HunterKiller_]

Hmm, I could've sworn I made a comment after the etchings.
Well anyway, the etchings are sick, dude.

The rendering of the rocks in the first megaman painting is damn good, really solid.
I think the pose of megaman could've been pushed further, push the contrast of angles between body parts e.g. shoulders, hips, head.

The rendering of the second painting is gnarly, reminds me of Mad magazine.
Again, I think the pose of Zero could be stronger. In that sort of pose, I think you want to lift the backside of the body and really arch the torso.

[monotony]

Virg, thanks a lot, man! good to see you here again.

Velocity, haha mega shmeegar fits him perfectly :D. thank you!

Roger, thank you so much. It wouldn't have ended up this way without you :) . thank you!! but I said that before :)

monstertree, thanks man. And yes it did. I got my copy about a month ago. I'm really disappointed that they didn't choose you, loved your entry.

Flaskpost, heh, this one is printed, yes. still stoked to see it amongst lots of artists I admire.

Metal Fingers, yea I didn't go the very classical and manga way :). glad you like it!

Reika, thank you :)

Hunterkiller, wow thanks man. I'm really happy to read you crits. And I totally get them. Maybe I should try and reenact the poses a bit more and see how to push that movement or stylize it for even more energy.



Not much time recently to do conceptarty stuff.. (again)
but here are some concepts I did for the forum activities.
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[Ricardo Robles]

the last creature designs are dope. Very nice as always.
with the environments, the color variation is great but i feel they need a bit more brush work or maybe a texture support to get more realistic (with the terrain, i.e)

[RBeek]

no wayyy you updated.. i thought u where on a rocket to mars or something..
good to see ur still alive m8! <3

[HunterKiller_]

Glad the crits were helpful.
Nice creature designs again. The cell shading returns! Good stuff.

Doing the pose yourself will definitely help, this is something we always do at the animation studio. Get someone to take a photo of you would be even better, you may feel a bit stupid, heh, but it's well worth it.

[monstertree]

Nice update, the jumping creature with the reddish horns is fantastic, love the brushwork too ;)

[Flaskpost]

fuck man, back with a bang. love that jumping creature, great design!
please update more often :P

[Sebastian Gromann]

haha, totally agree! that jumping dude is too cute! :^^: i'm impatient to see what you will come up next bro!

[Vritra]

Your art is incredible. It's a crime to have you stuck at 4 stars. I'm voting you up, you really deserve at least five stars.

Just keep updating this sketchbook. It was a real pleasure going through your sb.

[Baconstrap]

Damn..you're stuff is so awesome. The alien D&D piece and the veocles on P29 is hatcoe.
Keep up the good work and stay bacon.

[Sebastian Gromann]

dude?! :(