24/12/11: Is that ...? No, it isn't surely ...

[walnut]

Thanks man. Let's throw in some more:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/faces.jpg http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/hunterbeast.jpghttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/hawkwarrior.jpg http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/eagleguard.jpg http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/astronautchar.jpg

[cchuckry]

these are nice sketches. I like the quality of your line.

[walnut]

Thanks man. Let's throw in some more:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/faces.jpg http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/hunterbeast.jpghttp://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/hawkwarrior.jpg http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/eagleguard.jpg http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/astronautchar.jpg

[walnut]

Et hop!

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/mummy.jpg
Aborted CHOW project. For the Egyptian Lich Theme
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/wolfwarrior.jpg
Inspired by Michael Moorcock. Same for the hawk-guy in the previous post.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/princesse.jpg
Just some designs that've been hanging around a long time. I'm bad at letting go of old concepts, always keep reworking 'em.
http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/junglecavetn.jpg
Bunch of thumbnails and sketches for an illustration i'm planning on doing someday.

[poise]

Nice sketches, characters and thumbs. :)

[Bowlin]

I like the direction of the hefty mermaid, siren. Feels more naturalistic underwater.

[walnut]

Poise: Thank you very much. :D
Bowlin: You mean it feels like she's floating? Must be the arms i think.

SOme more random stuff (beware of the tits):


http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/posesall.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/sg01.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/spidergirls.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/waspman.jpg
This one's crap i know.

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/hands.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/alienheads.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/valkyrie2.jpg

[walnut]

Some more miscellany:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/astronaut.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/bikini_none.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/behemoth.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/birthday02.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/carnival-dress.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/cowboy.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/creature.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/donnie.jpg

[flatliner]

Great sketchbook, lovely loose lines. I really like the woman in the green cloak, great colour choices.

What can I say? I'd love to see more :teeth:.

[Zanconato]

Brilliant start to a SB, you got anymore superhero sketches? The sketches of the women were also really good. I'll keep my eyes open for updates!

[walnut]

Flatliner@ Thanks, here's some more for you.
Zanconato@ Not at the moment, but i just might revisit them.

Okay, as i said: here's some more old crap that's been festering on my hard disk:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/dragonprofile.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/sorceress.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/pinups.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/close2.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/liogoat.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/mermaid.jpg

[walnut]

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/riga.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/santa.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/terra.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/toadstool.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/wight.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/wisteria3.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/wherehego.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/vampyr.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/the-deal.jpg

That's about all the old (and slightly newer) crap from my harddisk. Now to make some more :)

[John T]

Some really cool stuff in here. I like the face in this one (http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/birthday02.jpg)

My Sketchbook (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=64254)

[Alexandr Pascenko]

wow there are some really good looking female bodies here. i like the black kind a vampire lady with the mask , really inspiring. the last one n0. 4 also really one of my favs, by the way do you like kinda castlevania?- i do´nt know but somehow i´ve get that feeling here...
ps: i´ll definitly visit this again , so keep up the good work and if you would do some more male studies liek that good ones with the womans it would be more interesting

[entdroid]

I like the girl with the green hair a lot, and that page with a bunch of female bodies (May 11th) is really great!

Good stuff overall :)

cheers!
entdroid

[Mitze]

Nice work like the women sketchs thats what i should be doing a lot more sketchs. Hmm Sketchs for my sketchbook it kinda makes sense when you think about it.

[walnut]

John T: Glad you like it. Now if i could only get the cloak right...
goblinshark: Yeah i should definitely do more male anatomy. Maybe if i do some spidermans stuff. Got inspired when i saw Marko's thread. I never played Castlevania, but i do like the artist who does most of the artwork for those games. Her (his?) name slips my mind right now..
entdroid: If you can guess the name of miss greenhair and the game she plays in i'll buy a beer!
Mitze: That does make a lot of sense.

Okay, here's some more. Kinda scraping the barrel here ...

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/armour2.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/carnival-dress-2-copy.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/devilhead.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/eve-full.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/fae03.jpg

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/lev2.jpg

[Frank Wade]

You have a real beautiful looseness to your lines, and your concepts (especially clothing) are inspiring! Maybe you could tighten your pieces up more without loosing the loose quality?

Thanks for the comments on my sketchbook too, btw. =)

[maxetormer]

MMM havent been here before Im really enjoying the ride, keep posting! :D

[Tigermilk]

hey walnut!!

can't belive I havn't commented on this one yet.
love the way you sketch and very nice digitals. the designs look amazing too, I've been studying some of them alot :)

very inspiring, plz post more!
tiger

oh, btw would love it if you would crit my sb :D

[walnut]

Thanks for the comments all. here are some pictures i've been reworking, ranging from slightly to very problematic. any pointers are always welcome. Or do i post them in the WIP section for that? Mostly halfnaked damsels, sorry about that, but i've got a dragon and a reject COW concept too. Enjooyyy!

[Jens]

hey walnut, nice figures and colors, really lovely stuff, i'll keep checking this for sure!

mayby some more definition and detail in the colored ones, but i do like the loose way of working!

[Simon.Rain]

Nice studies...

I think I m gonna dedicate my day to these kind of figure studies =)

[mull77]

Hi, you've got some really nice stuff going on here.

Love the last lot. You've got some good variation in colours and compostion going on.

[walnut]

A belated thanks for the comments. Sorry to keep people waiting *cough* but here's a bit more. The plant study is from life, the faerie is more a colour study than anatomy (painfully obvious) and the two sword elf isn't my idea. AAnd the faces were part done for CHOW#33. That should be sufficient clarification. Until next time.

[Ashrumm]

Nice sketches and thumbnails, I really like your sketches very energetic full of life.

[Moai]

Really nice women! Great variety of drawing styles and body types. I also like your reptilian quadrupeds, that painting with the girl and the green tendrilled monster, and your portal opener.

[Ben_Olson]

Your imagination is glorious. These character designs are amazing. The vulture guy and the Jackal guy are really cool. So is the Space man.
The energetic way that you paint the female form is true artistry! That expressiveness is what art is all about I think.

[Kan Muftić]

Lovely! Keep on!

[Spats]

Your line/brushwork is very nice. Good colors too.

Keep it up!

[Jho]

Impressive. You really have come a long way from the first post, a big improvement, BIG I tell you!!!
Do you work in the arts business? Looks like you should :)

[Tigermilk]

hey were you at man? :)
post more!

[walnut]

Aaaaalright, back by popular demand :p Here's a few fairly recent sketchbook pages, i haven't been very active lately but i've got some things in the work. I'll try to keep 'em coming more regularly ok?

[vaisak]

i like the fact that you seem to be very confident when sketching :) also, you have a vivid imagination, and that makes every single sketch very inspiring.
i would suggest that you practice drawing faces a bit more.

[walnut]

Vaisak: Thanks for commenting, i'm happy to hear i have imagination :) I should get more into face studies i know.

From now on, i'm reeeally really going to try to post something new each week. It's taken a while, but i believe my groove is getting back after having been on vacation on Barbados or something. Some recent doodles:

[Andy P]

Hey nice ladies! Your lines are really nice, have a lot of energy. Stuff like this (http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/eve-full.jpg) and this (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=42435&stc=1&d=1162208042) really knocks me out. Your paints are comin along too, feels like most of em would really sing with just a bit more polish. Keep bangin, really good stuff in every one of these posts!

[walnut]

Thanks man, funny how you've picked out the doodlediest doodles out of the lot. Ironic how those tend to turn out more vibrant than the more polished stuff.

Ok, here's one more. Intended for last week's CHOW, but they didn't feel original enough, so i left it at that. Next time up's gonna be some model sketches.

[walnut]

Oh dear reader, you are in for a treat! Ten specimens of my finest life studies! If you love these, and i'm sure you will, there'll be more tomorrowish, so stay tuned!

(My apolgies for the quality of the photographed ones. I'm no expert in that area.)

[kevphil]

I like your sketches very much, and you seem to be a very hard (and prolific!) worker. Your color sketches are especially nice. Keep on posting...

[walnut]

@kevphil: I'm reall not that prolific: a lot off this stuff's pretty old. I'm not actually just picking up momentum again from a though lag. Still need to bring up the discipline to work harder. Still, thanks a bunch.

Ok, i've scanned and photographed five and twenty of my model stuff, and i'll be damned if i ain't showing all of it (yes, even the real crap ones). So here's the rest. Next up i'll try to do daily sketches. See what comes of that.

[walnut]

A few new doodles:

[walnut]

Hopla.

[Lot]

I like your seketches, you have a page where i can see finished art?

[Bartovan]

Great stuff to watch. Sometimes a bit too sketchy, but very energetic... I really like the model studies in #40. Keep on going!

[Lot]

I have to tell you that the color drawings looks very good in the sketch fase, its like they are finished in a kind of way.

[walnut]

Lot: There's a few things at epilogue. (http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/list.pl?gallery=6562) About the colour stuff, i kind of feel the same way. Like i'll stuff it up if i try more polish.

Bartovan: Thanks man!

I've started a new sketchbook this Newyear, and i told myself i'd draw in it at least once every day. So far i've kept my promise, and here's the results. Some of it is from a trip to London. There's also some work from the previous sketchbook.

[Sirio_Brozzi]

Oh wow Walnut, very sexy sb. The femmes are wonderful, the promises of nipples abound are fulfilled, the digital sketches are great. Really like what you have going so far, ill be watching!

[geldslaw]

I love it when somones art work makes me smile, its like reading a really enjoyable and interesting book. I like your studies and experimentation with colour. What you do works for me, you've an iteresting collection of characters adn I like that, seeing the mermaids brought back so many memories and I thank you for that.

I'll be watching out for more of your work definately

[walnut]

Geldslaw, Sirio_Brozzi: Thanks for the support! Here"s more ideas, stuf from the new SB and a tulip painting i'm doing today. (That's actually finished, but it's kind of crap, so i'm not posting the finished piece.)

[Achadobu]

Nice sketches here and cool concepts - post some more. The demon with the coat (nov 9)- that guy is badass.

[LateNiteHype]

Nice sketchbook title- you had my attention at 'nipple'. :)

Looks like you're having fun with your sketches. Even though it looks like women are your forte, I like the variation in subject matter and techniques.

Let's keep it poppin' in 2007.

By the way- what kind of sketchbook are you using- what's the size of it?

[walnut]

LateNiteHype: Thanks, glad the nipples got your attentiion. About the sketchbook, it's an A5 i think, don't know the brand. I'll let you know.

Achadobu: Thanks as well; if you're really patient there might come a good version of the demon guy, as well as a bunch of the other concepts.

These are from a jam with ink and charcoal i did a few weeks ago. They're studies, so something else should flow from them, but probably later than sooner. Hope you like them a bit.

[walnut]

Some random things.

[walnut]

Hello again.

[CarlaEspana]

There are definitely nipples in this thread :O You got great variety, a bit too much for me to see it all XD lol (ok that's laziness on my part) but I like your stuff

[walnut]

Thanks glad you like what you've seen.

Ok, here's more nudity:

[funfetus]

Nice drawings -- you certainly can draw women. :) I'd like to see a few dudes, too. On your digitals, I think you need to tighten them up a bit, and concentrate a little more on your planes, and reining in you values. Keep drawing!

[Sketch]

Your work is amazing! I love how you can approach different style and subjects in each piece. Your talent level is really scary! I think the first post has a few of my favs in it. And the thicker girls rock!

[AmontilladoAg]

*whistles approvingly* Your SB rocks. Just does. Your sketches are beautiful, man! <3

Can't wait to see more! :bounce:

[jedininjaman]

Hey thanks for posting on my SB thought I w0uld do the same for u!
looks good! It would be nice to see some more detail work though...
Very strong overall! but most piece's seems kind've rushed...

good job!

[ped454]

you've got a lot of good concepts...and you like boobies. with a mix like that you can't go wrong!

i like your tribal women :) and your digi colouring is very good too. props

[Niva.]

I love the stuff in post #40, it seems you do your best work when you're drawing from life. I think you should do more of it. I really like the fast and precise strokes/lines in those model studies, I wish I could do that.

[walnut]

Hey everybody, thanks for the comments! I don't have anything really new, but i've tampering with some things in my sketchbook map and here's the results. Crits are always warmly welcomed.

[walnut]

Some more things reworked. Thanks for viewing ...

[m0uS3r]

nice man ... like the chicks :D keep them coming cool stuff :D

stop at my Sb when you have time chears

[Krigbrann]

Wow sir, very nice sketchook, lots of imagination, and a fat mermaid.

Bravo!

[motives]

Looking better and better!
I must sa that I really admire your way of drawing. So loose but yet so accurate. Great skintones on the digital too.

//motives

[JEIK]

WOW!
Awesome stuff dude!
I really like your rendition of TERRA for FFVI!

Will check more of your works!

[AmontilladoAg]

Nice! :)

You know, I think the albino chick with the black gloves needs something; deep, dark black eyes, or a little vampirish line of blood from her mouth, or something. She's a little bit bland. Just a thought :bashful:

Cheers! :^^:

[walnut]

Thanks all for the comments!

Herr's a half-ass troll wip:

[Moftah]

good job,i think u need to do more patient studies,i kinda agree with jedininjaman here,show us more:)

[Krigbrann]

Agreed, finish something.

Amontillado has a good point.

[walnut]

Moftah, MaxotS:

I know, i should really finish more things. Unfortunately enough i tend to lose interest when it comes to rendering. Here's one pic where i tried to take more time though. Still need to ref the hands, they're a complete bitch:

[Krigbrann]

yeh, that right there! Finish that.

It would be really cool if you did something to make the eyes scream "suck yo blud!"

[walnut]

Max: I will finish it for sure, but right now it's in the fridge because i felt like working on this troll i have here. About the eye comment: i've given it some thought, but i've the feeling i should keep my hands off the face lest i fuck up, and i was going for this sneaky expression. Though i may still try it.

[LEvans]

Fantastic sketches!! So much motion and life! :)

[Krigbrann]

don't be afraid of faces and hands

Sure, sure...

As for the troll, the color and shape are coming along nicely although the right leg looks kind of off, what with it looking as dull as the other and being in a different position.

[MacTire]

Great imaginative sketches here!
A good array of character concepts.
The troll's right leg seems a little long to me in comparison to his left.

[walnut]

Hi guys,

About the leg: yup, you're right. It is glaringly wrong, looking at it now. Or maybe they're both wrong. Already had trouble with 'em in the initial sketch. See if i can so something about it ...

[spudstudios]

very very very cool book here. Loving. Your life drawings are stunning!

[Alex Baer]

sweet concepts here, i really love the egyptian characters and creatures on the first page. it would be awesome of you made more finished pieces or studies of them. also i think the troll in post 70 has much more of an interesting form than the one in post 75, which looks too stiff right now and his left leg seems short and ackward, but you did say you're still working on it. any ways good work man, keep it up!

[deadred]

impressive sketches, colors, form, especially costumes :D

[walnut]

I should work more ...

[walnut]

deadred: glad you like it.

Brief flare-up of sketchbook activity:

[RandAlThor]

Shading needs a bit of work, but the ideas are there. Keep it coming man :-)

[walnut]

This look ready?

[Miffle]

Now, I see you form a shape using colour, like painting with oils, it is all very nice

Skin tones is where you shine (GET IT?) I enjoy when you focus on faces but thats probably because portrait is my favourite

[walnut]

Miffle:
Heh, i get it! You say portraits are your favourites, well, this one's for you then.

[Miffle]

Oh my! You charmer, you

That is progressing nicely, I like how suggestive the hair is. I seem to go overboard when i'm doing a big painting and the hair takes about a week by itself

I can even see the highlights being a clean line

What are you going to do with the eye do you think?

[walnut]

The eye? I've no idea, I sort of called this one done. Though looking back at it still deserves more noodling. What do you think still needs done?

[Carbono]

Hey there walnut, thanks for your comment on my SB! I love your studies, some of them looks very nice and inspiring!
The 'finished' pieces looks nice too. The lady you asked if it was 'ready' jas a really nice body anatomy, i just think she needs some work on the face.
Amazing sketchbook man!

[Krigbrann]

Post #86 looks great but I don't like the head for some reason. Maybe the forehead looks too small. I'm not really sure to be honest but overall it really looks fantastic for a full body. Everything seems to fit.

The portrait looks nice as well, and I would really like to see more detail.

Still a great thread.

[walnut]

Krigbrann (to be honest i liked Max of the South a little better): I think i'll have a look at that head again, you could be right about that. I'm glad you still like this thread, we do till aim to please.

And here's some filler:

[Whitevillage]

Great and inspiring sketchbook you have there. Love your ladies. :teeth:

[walnut]

WhiteVillage: Thank you.

And now for something fresh from the presh. I'm calling it done, but ayone is free to differ of course, why on earth would i otherwise post it right?

[walnut]

Sort of done, this one.

[2kre8]

i like this last one, {the alien head} the cool blues in the shadow side compliments the hot greens on the light side, good work, keep at it

[walnut]

2kre8: Glad you like the colour scheme. Does still need a little passover doesn't it?

Here's some naked people:

[walnut]

Son of the night:

[walnut]

Some more things updated:

[Misara]

I absolutely love your art and style Walnut! I came across your stuff by accident and have had it bookmarked since early last year! Please don't ever stop sharing your works of art. I know it's "concept" art but your piece "posarama.jpg" reminds me of some artwork I saw at my mother's house last time I visited her. It was very much finished and yours looks it! I'd go so far as to say I'd probably buy it if you made prints of it *heart*

Where else do you post your work or is this everything? You are so very talented - what is your day job? *grin*

[walnut]

Hey Misara, glad you like my stuff! There's a little bit more over at epilogue.net, gallery is here (http://www.epilogue.net/cgi/database/art/list.pl?gallery=6562).
As for my day job, i guess you could call me a part time illustrator's assistent. Not as hot as it sounds, mainly comes down to screwing around in Photoshop. Hope you like these modelsketches (and maybe even the piece of crap painting i'm working atm). Sorry for the tardy reply, haven't been active for a while.

[AmontilladoAg]

Modelsketches = yummy! :teeth:

Keep up the good werk :D Let's see what else ya got!

Cheers :^^:

[walnut]

Hey, Amontillado, thanks for the smilies! :)

Dumparama: A few old and moldy Ps files i'm trying to reboot, in more or less progressed fashion. Plus a few rotten sketches. Maybe i'll update faster next time, just need to stop being a lazy hound and make some pictures. Anyway, hints and comments are welcome as always,

Steven

[Ex Nihilo]

I figure I lurk here often enough, the least I can do is comment:)
Awesome update. Great work on everything; I really dig those ogres. The only nitpick I have is in regards to the fairy. Her left leg bothers me... it seems to be protruding directly from the vine/root on which she is seated.
I'd love to see more.

[coldrum]

sweet life studies.. nice and quick : )

[frog and *BAM*]

you have a really rich sketchbook, and you do a better job than most with translating your life drawings to your more creative works. nevertheless don't let those intricacies you capture in your life sketches to get lost, it's the little surfaces and specifics that really make something look alive.

[kidult]

Great stuffs here. Lovin the ladies too and some sketcherly stuff too.
Thanks for the comments on my sketchbook!

Might I suggest some value and colour studies? Your work is great but lacks some depth in the colour. Looking again perhaps some more contrast in value and saturation?
The top left image in post 104 is super spot on though!

[walnut]

Hello everyone, thanks for the replies and crits, they always help me advance a little. Here's some new stuff, just pottering around with faces.

[walnut]

Boink!

[walnut]

How about some model stuff?

[Krigbrann]

Well Walnut, you are spending A LOT of time on figure drawing, and thats admirable. Truly. I can't wait till I'm in Figure drawing next year. Well done. ^^

I suppose post number 104 is awesome. Love the picture with Cthulu, and would love to see it a little more developed if its original. All of your pencil sketches are delightful. The troll sketches are really coming along but they look a tad bland occasionally. I'm not sure why. The color seems flat in the one with the two long lower teeth. Theres alot of cool blue and some ocher yellow... cadmium-ish red might help a bit.

Sorry if I'm being picky...>.>

[walnut]

Krigbrann: Thanks man, i'm glad you're liking the model stuff. I really pour my sweat and blood into those. I was putting in some 9 hours into it, so i guess you could say a lot of time went into it. There's some bigger 1 hour+ drawings too, but they're trickier to photograph, so i'm letting those lie on the shelf. As for #104, a lot of it's subconsciously stolen from 30's pulp covers, so i'm not sure where the line of originality lies in that one. Been hung up on the format and compositon too. It will take a while to get it right.

[Dorkthrone]

Nice sketchbook. I like the figure drawing sketches a lot.

[walnut]

Late night update. Last one's for my sisters birthday, the rest is small sketches i'm trying to turn into something worthwile. Fingers crossed!

[walnut]

In progress. Sooner or later all the sketches'll i've scanned so far will share the same sad pixelpainted-to-the-death fate. I already pity them. Anyways, comments are always appreciated.

[walnut]

Another wip, till i find out where i'm gonna go with it.

[walnut]

Waening: troll nudity!

[jenzi]

Awesome robo-suits man! Love the shapes quite a lot!!

[Hendrix Coyote]

Thank you for the visit to my sb.
Ok. I love your sketches and studies, your style is sexy! Girls studies are top notch imo. About painting, I'm a little angry with you because I think you should dare more than that, seeing how you can draw. I don't know...try to treat color and light as you treat lines in your sketches..dare more!

[Mydrim]

I like very much!

[walnut]

Hey'all!

jenzi: thanks, i'll be revisiting those designs som time, so keep an eye out.

agostinuke: Thanks for getting angry at me, i need that sometimes to get me out of my comfort zone. Most of my colour stuff is digital, and i haven't found the knack yet to make as free marks as in the figure studies yet. Need a different mind set for that or something.

mydrim: I like that you like!

And just to keep this thread rolling, i finished with these two the last two days.

[walnut]

Yesterday's and thi morning's sketches. The skull are from the skull museum. I'm definitely going back one time. Last one's a selfportrait.

[Brun]

Last sketches have been great, keep them coming

[walnut]

Brun: Well, i'm gonna try for faily updates, so stay tuned.

[walnut]

Is that Carla Bruni?

[walnut]

Old thing i'm trying to brush up. Still not the shape of head it should be.

[zenichi]

i adore the skull sketches, (edit: the museum) seems like a great place to hang out!!!
i also adore the character sketches a lot, they seems to come alive with vigor with your every strokes!
i've also notice somehow rather, your zoomed in portraits looses that vigor and they are less interesting than the full character sketches?

please share more sketches, i'm subscribing!

[walnut]

As you requested. These two are a little older though, they served as digital studies for a painting job. The first one got th okay in the end. Maybe i could take a picture ...

[walnut]

Some people'll just throw anything in their sketchbook won't they? My word.

[Verehin]

very nice works...keep it up)

[algenpfleger]

Great girls you got there! Very nice proportions and everything, I'm still struggling so hard with that D: Loving all the creatures too, and the skulls.

[jedininjaman]

aha the girls at the end are special nice job
-jedi

[walnut]

Mr. (Ms.?) Verehin: I will)

Mr. Alpenplfleger: Glad you like all of it.

Mr. Jedi: Well, i like the female form, i guess maybe that shows.

Now, for some hands and a sad little selfportrait. And some junk sketch pages.

[inkR]

Your pencils rock my friend.

[kelly x]

walnut = nice book! #130 post looks really great!! the gray tones and light great! Your sketches are amazing. the fairey's are so fun and if you could crisp up the paint work as you did in #130 you have a total hit.

[Sketch]

Your sketch book pages are awesome. I think the best one is the one with the orge poses. I think it'd help your paintings if you used the same kind of looseness you use in your sketchbook.

[wilkerson]

i like the hand studies.

[Freddy Lierman]

Hey walnut, your animal skull studies are really nice.
I think your pencils are a bit messy sometimes, but those skulls are very tight, good job. Keep on goin !

[walnut]

Hey all, thanks for the comments. Now let's get down to business:

[ruuhkis]

thanks for the comment in my book, made me feel all warm inside!
I'm really liking those skull studies from the museum. keepitup, you :)

[walnut]

ruuhkis= You make me feel all fuzzy too man.

Anyways, here's one completed piece and two figures with (i think) potential. Next up'll be some modelsketches, have to scan those first.

[walnut]

Ok i lied about the model drawings, didn't have any good ones plus i've been too lazy to scan (or draw for that matter). Maybe next. In the meantime i've been fidgeting with these:

[walnut]

From my head.

[walnut]

Some sketches, both from sketchbook and loose pages. Kind of dry, don't you think? I partially blame my scanner.

[DMK]

great Stuff! Keep it up!

[diablo7]

some really cool character designs, i really like the sub mariner..much cooler looking than a guy with a flattop, pointy ears in a speedo

[walnut]

Dmk: I sure will. Thanks!

diablo7:Hmm, i'm not sure if i want to go in the ring against one of Marvel classic antiheroes but still, thanks for the compliment.

[walnut]

Some character thumbnails i should really do something with.

[GetiX]

they may look nicer in your head but on paper its really cool keep updating :)

[ManArtee]

Thanks for the kind words on my thread man!
yeah i'm a newbie to concept art.org but i've looked at it from afar
though it would be a cool place to post doodles.

if you want to see some of my colored, more finished stuff you can go to my blog: http://peteryongart.blogspot.com/
Colour and painting is by far my weakness but i'm learning


Some really nice designs here! I love how there is allot of variation to you stuff
The armoured guys are great!!

Again thank you for being the first person to reply on my thread. WOO!

[walnut]

getix, ManArtee: Thanks for the input!

Goofed around on this this afternoon. Finishing'll be for another day, i like to let my pictures ripen a little before i fuck 'em up completely.

[Nettle_Mountain]

I really, really enjoyed designs and characters and ideas and style and crazyess and basically, everything!

Great progress from the beginning, you just really inspired me to draw more sketches (i will do so immediately after i finish this writing)

It is a really shame that you don't yet have your stars, i think it is because people usually look more into rendering than style and overall cohersion of work, i gave you 4

Stuff you need to do is little speedpaint-rendering practises, your drawing skills are better than your painting so if you got your painting in order you really start to rock

ps: How did you learn your anatomy, what are your practise methods?

EDIT: hmm it seems you had you stars after all, wonder why it didn't show up before...

[walnut]

Nettle Mountain (great name btw): I try not to care too much about the stars, so don't sweat it. I like getting lots of comments lots more anyway. :)
About anatomy, i guess what skill i have in it is the results of lots and lots of model classes. Studying the bones and muscles is pretty vital too. And i really love drawing naked people too, that helps enormously as well. Try doing short thumbnails poses, always a good exercise. I'll have to take you up on the painting advice, it's something i've been too lazy about lately.

And while i'm at it, here's two more things in the clogged and overful pipeline:

[Slechtvalk]

You most certainly are showing great improvement and skill!!!

You've come along way since the first couple of post.

Keep it up :teeth:!

:scribble:

[walnut]

Slechtvalk: Thanks, i hope i can still keep on improving my skill.

Here's two landscapes. I was going to do five by today, but i've spent the time on model classes, long autumn walks and alcohol. So the the sun has set up by now and my gusto seems to have done so too. Well, maybe ...

[walnut]

Three more landscapes. All of them from ref.

[Φ]

wow! neat enviros!!!! yeah! all of em are great!!
overall, very impressive SB! keep it coming
cheers

[BlightedArt]

You're definitely starting to come into your own now. May we see the referenced photos for your enviros (if they were from photos that is)? We'd be better equipped to critique your work then. :D

Try doing some referenced life studies from people with more dynamic poses and also try drawing more animals. When working with more dynamic poses, really take the single flow of motion into consideration (usually a Line of Action that represents the spine in many cases). Keep practicing those types of poses and you'll start to "loosen up" your drawing style, which'll help your drawing greatly overall. :)

You're improving pretty substantially, keep up the good work... and by the way: Working hard at art is all well and good, but don't be ashamed about the alcohol and walks that you said you were taking before. :P If you work too much on something that you love doing, you'll eventually become unenthusiastic about it. Make sure you don't kill your own enjoyment from over-exhaustion.

[Nettle_Mountain]

good work on landscapes! Like really the first and second one

If a critique maybe a slightest bit soft at some parts, sharper edges could do the trick there and there.

[walnut]

Blightedart: I'll keep your advice in mind, my thanks for it. As for people studies, i'm doing that on a regular basis. I'm putting some sketches in this post. Plus, i'm putting up the originals from the enviros.

Netlle: Hey man, this was a fun thing to do! Let's do it again! I'll watch my edges next time ...

So, like i said, some figure studies. Originally A3 (first five are roughly A4), pencil on Canson sketchpad.

[walnut]

One more character to draw, and all three to paint up. The two portraits were just for fun.

[Kagemusha22]

The lifedrawings are wonderful, especially the inked piece, you get a feel for the line in there. I also like the sketchy ideas you uploaded earlier. Might do that myself, when I have abit more confidence in what I do.

[Φ]

hi! thanks for motivating me in SB! appreciated!

I´m already a big fan of the monster!! looking forward to seeing him done=)

cheers

[Nettle_Mountain]

Damned nice sketches, that woman expecially! i have to start trying to draw clothes and stuff for my character sketches, seeing your pictures i feel this is something i really lack

Finish them soon, wanna see! :yayca:

[walnut]

Hey Nettle! I really ought to finish one of my sketches, but it helps to have people begging for that to happen. :p

Here's a mixed bag for you people:

[Φ]

yeah! , you´re back again! with some stunning stuff!! the gestures are amazing!" did you use ref? I really love them!!
wondering what you´re cooking up for wednesday!
see you around!!
cheers

[enthombed]

nice sketchbook man, nice concepts some good rough drawings.


keep posting

cheers

[walnut]

Trooper: That's all from my head. Can't wait to see what i'll come up with on wednesday either! An' i'll be watching your thread too, an' don'cha know it!

enthombed: Thanks man.

Here's for some more slightly rampant nudity:

[walnut]

For a challenge, five rendered sketches by today. I'm on time!

[Φ]

hey man! great sketches! and I LOVE that enviro! man you really rock!
I´m impressed! but that is normal when lurking around here( I mean your SB)!!
so keep em coming… I´ll be looking at it!

cheers

[Nettle_Mountain]

Sick stuff mister, i would have sweared those poses were life studies... i really have to take real life drawing classes as well when i get to finland, my characters are so stiff still...

And latest challenge, I really love that man with a sword, the desing is complete whole as a sum of it parts, interesting and different. Only critique is the light is little too much daylight, like on the day with clouds front of the sun , i am allways a sucker for clear & strong light shadow contrast and a clear direction of light

impressed again

[walnut]

bigfooTrooper: Thanks man. I'll keep trying my best!

Nettle: The big model drawings are from a live model, obviously. The little ones, well it helps if you look at a lot of p.. er nude references. About the warrior, i'll keep your comment in mind in case i'm going to colour him someday.

One for today. Slaved away over it friday afternoon, i don't think i ever put so much time into a pencil drawing before.

[Nettle_Mountain]

i really like the clean lines, expression on th face and concept here, to nitpick: her right leg seems to be little weird, like she is not having her weight on it but floats and shadows are right from the up so it makes her look little flat

I wonder what you will do when you got your shadow-light direction together with the eye for details you make :D

[monotony]

the "underatree" scene is beautiful!
would love to see a painting of that.

[wookiedabo]

ditto about 'underatree,' tis gorgeous. your pencils are great, as are your life drawings further up, which I really really like.

[adammelo]

Some more miscellany:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a117/walberg/astronaut.jpg



Thats my favorite, love the composition.

[walnut]

Nettle: You're right about the foot, i know i had some trouble with that. Maybe if i added a hint of heel?

monotony & wookie: I have been thinking of painting up that sketch, but i'd like to keep penciling for a while to get a real good grip of my values. I'm proud of how i did the tree in that one btw.

adammelo: I never got round to doing anything with that one on account of the comp being so boringly frontal and symmetric. But i still like it for some reason and i'm glad you do too. (Even though it's ancient)

Here's some invertebrae:

[Φ]

my favorite is the spider…well beetle…since it got only 4 legs it must be a very new species :) the thing i like about it is that it has an almost metallic appearance! cool! the second looks fluffy, but it somehow works! I like the concept.

so lets see whats next, shall we?

[Nettle_Mountain]

That bluish tint on crab is really neat, like that one and solidity of spider one. I also like the use of air perspective in limbs of crab, it is good thing in opencanvas when trying to separate overlapping forms. (i use it everywhere)
I first was little hmmm with middle picture but it actually did grow one me after little looking, i quess the thing what bugges me is that colours of tail, tube and lover "tail" doesnt connect into body too well. Maybe because colour values are lighter in those parts than in middle body?

Do you use tools for colour adjusting? I would recommend trying: selective colour and colour balance, you can deepend and mix colours together in painting with these tools. I tried to make a fast example (bad one) about use of these tools by using your picture here, Experiment will tell if this is for you, idiot apathy uses these as well when making his enviroments, i think you can find example about use of these in his highquality videodemo here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...=56810&page=39
hope this helps even little bit:
536689

[walnut]

Hey Nettle, that does look better. I do tend to use those colour adjusters though.

Trooper: What's next? this is next:

[Nadiamoon]

Hey walnut, thanks for swinging by my sketchbook! Yeah, my style is still swinging. Hopefully it will get more stabilized in the nearest future.

[walnut]

Hey nadia, thank you too.

Here's one that's been in progress since right about forever. Any thoughts?

[Φ]

it wouldn`t hurt to post a little better quality img of that last one! since its only 40 KB… now, I miss the sharp lines…you know, it looks a bit soft!
otherwise, stunning work man! as always!!
keepup
cheers

[walnut]

Just posted a better version of the last one, and some various enviro crud. Have a happy Christmas everybody!

[mariusz]

I like this fastsketches enevn if they are simple colored:
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=546475&stc=1&d=1229978031

They tell me more about place and mood that your digital painting enviroments.

[bharat]

very fine stuff.....

[kikindaface]

Hey dude ! I really find your enviros really great ! The last girl painting looks awesome ! You have a really good knowledge about colors and anatomy ! Keep it up !

[Katzenminze]

Hey walnut thanks fo stopping at my finally finished post.
i have to agree that girl looks great, her hands are very nice!
you could try to use darker darks though, put inmore contrast this will ad a lot of depth! keep posting please

[darkos]

you've got some really nice images!
Thanks for the input.

[bharat]

nice to visit n coment on me thanks...

[walnut]

Thanks everybody for your input. Now i could use some crits for the stuff i'm posting now, could use some fresh eyes on 'em. Apart from the lady with the flowers then perhaps, don't think i'll tinker with her anymore.

[Φ]

hellish_beast_huh ! haha, I love that you can read how people name their jpg !
looks creepy-!
cool that you used my "advice" on the lady :D, looks FreaKn amazing now! (It did before…but looks even better now)
can`t give you input on the other ones…they look really nice btw…!
cool to have you online again! :)
cheers

[P]

Awesome sketchbook, wicked environs. Dign it! :)

[walnut]

Trooper: Of course i listen to what you're saying man! Got some sense in you some of the time at least for sure. ;)

Pijus: Thanks a lot!

Some tinkering and slaving on stuff, focusing on render quality.

[D@niel]

Hey hey! Nice work man,that last one looks like it will be awesome!:)

[monotony]

cool updates, dude!
hope you'll finish the flying beast, looking really good already.

[selfu]

really cool stuff, i like your sketch-piece's

creative new year 2009 ;)

[walnut]

monotony: That hellbeast is about 4th in line in the finishing pipeline, but i've been trying to step it up a little so it won't be too long, i think.

selfu: And a happy Newyear to you as well!

Here's something that i doodled with on and off, think it's sort of about done considering there's no real purpose in it.

[Φ]

cool man, me likes.

alright, I decided to bother you with my personal tase :) : me likes more wide-screen stuff :D I dunno, makes it some how more interesting…just personal taste……

best luck in 09

cheers

[Krigbrann]

Hey man, you been busy I see...

Some of your females are just awesome. They drawings have that zing to them that makes them look seductive or innocent.

The quick sketches are also very nice.

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Good stuff here, but you need to do more practise, so all I say is more more MOAR!!

-E

[TheGnoll]

envious, you must be kidding me

you're doing some excellent studies and dedication shows, its all about doing it and thats it.
I really like some of your pencils a lot, like the one in post 173 (the design on the cloth ain't 100%, you should make up a figure and dress it up with a costume from ref with different pose (you might already know http://www.hel-looks.com ) and the "underatree" one from post 170 (really really promising pencil...instead of just laying down gray as fast as you can to render, try and do somethign like you did on the bark of the tree and develop a shading techinque, be it hatching, crosshatching, make the hatching follow the form or not, this kind of stuff, that whats missing a bit imho, because the lines are really good and fluent once you're warmed up imho)
another one i found really interestign was the naga piece in post 166, love the idea, that would deserve some more love imho.
And just in case you wanted to try something different, experiment a bit with your work, not to find a new style, but to enrich your own.Try doing rendered characters on toned paper, try traditional painting, try mech vehicle design...dunno.

May i ask what ref you used for those female gesture studies in post 166 and 169? cause i'd need to do a ton of those as well asap, they look fun and useful.
keep sharing!

ciao

[walnut]

Trooper: You know, i was thinking just the same thing. So i'm planning to add some space to the right part of the canvas.

Krigbrann: thanks man, that's a great comment.

elf: Yes, i will!

Thegnoll: Thanks for the indepth critique. I know i can be a bit lazy with the pencil rendering and clothing folds, i'll have to watch out for that. Nice link btw. As for those gesture studies, i try to do those from my head. I find i often repeat myself that way though.

And now for some beastmen:

[walnut]

BALLS! I gots 'em!

[SamC]

Nice balls :) haha maybe use soft and hard edges so the balls don't pop from the photo so much. Also do you know any way round my proportion problem (small heads, short feet) other than to just think about loomis proportions more? Keep it up.

[gutss]

really cool stuff here! your colour choices look brill, and I'm pretty fond of your rendering (and the redhaired, blue eyed lady a bit up the page. that's really striking). practice, practice, practice and just keep at it :)

[Krigbrann]

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=556697&stc=1&d=1231196072

:harbl:

[walnut]

SamC: Good call on the edges.

Gutss: Thanks, glad you like the redheads, even though they're not really finished.

Kriggbran: Balls to you too man, i mean, eh what?


Here's a horrible stil life, which when i look upon it makes me realize that the path to the mountain is still a long and arduous. Pray i can once make it there:

[Hive_minD]

haha, those ball which you paint into live environments are funny as hell! But they seem interesting. Might try it myself

[Φ]

man, I love #204 ! truth speaking work of you! more! haha, I like this place more and more, every time I go here! keep at it!
cheers

[walnut]

Hive Mind: I knew you would love my balls.

trooper: Thanks for the kind words my friend.

Ahem, i'm at a crossroads in designing this pick and i would like you people to give me some input. Do i go with version 1, 2 or somewhere inbetween. Don't be shy now, i know you guys have an opinion. Let's hear it!

[kikindaface]

Hey dude, it's been a while that i didn't come here ! Lol, i think that n1 looks better, but on this one, legs looks a bit small ! Anyway, keep your stuff up! You're getting better and better !

[walnut]

Walid D: Thanks for the input, i guess i was right not to dump that version.

And now for some dirrty pichers. Last three are from today, the rest's several months older.

[Φ]

sexy! man you´re really into the figure. rock on Id say!
bout the concept from above, I also prefer no. 1 because of the detail, but I think I like the pose of the 2nd one better = mix em…
hope you´re doing fine

cheers

[Gokoi]

great studies on your lady's, I like the opaque brush work.

I think that version 2 reads better at the moment, but the pose looks a little bit stiff and it looks like he's falling backwards (...about to jump in vers. 1 ?). Design wise I prefer version 1 tough...

ps, I love your high key landscape painting on page 5 :D <1

[walnut]

Thanks for the input fellas, i decided to go with a mix of the two. Still lots of finetuning to it which i'm not in the mood for, but this is largely going to be the pic. I also have a few old designs i've been redrawing which are also far from where they should be. Any remarks on those? Yucky pose or something?

[SamC]

Just awesome stuff really. Those nude paintings look like a sweet exercise of picking up lighting skin. Which sites do you use for reference? Keep it up.

[walnut]

SamC: Um, it's fairly easy to find that kind of reference if you dig around the net, but at kindgirls.com and some of the sites it links to you can occasionally find stuff that's a little, er, classier than most.

Here's a SP for weekly challenge and another, er, referenced pic.

[zou]

hi
nice referenced painting, keep posting

i think you should make studies (anatomy and life drawing) Bridgman,loomis,vanderpoel,bammes ....

keep the good things

[Nettle_Mountain]

Hello there for a while

Your digitals are getting more solid, so are the characters, the way they contain different shades in clothes. Stronger contrast make them more interesting.

Beautiful as ever

[Φ]

nice SP, really good man! is it acrylic? love how it works with the green,(which actually should give it a disturbing look…but it works!)

keep at it, second Nettle_Mountain your digitals are getting better

[walnut]

zoe: i've done some Bridgman studies before, but i agree that i could do more.

Nettle: Glad to see you back, i'm glad you can see improvement. Must be doing something right eh?

Trooper: Acrylics yes. I'd rather use oils, but i've no separate room for painting and they stink up the house so. I do have some oil SPs from a portrait course i've been following. (Learned the trick with the green there, you should try it) I'll post them when have them here at home.

And this is pretty much all i did for myself. Goofed off for a while there, too tired and too lazy. This is pretty much as far as it goes for this pic, it's almost gotten too stale already.

[kikindaface]

Hey dude, nice studies ! Lol i still have to do my SP with traditionnal media :P Anyway, you're designs are getting better, i find that you've a good sense of unity/variety ! I think you can study some design principles, it's really cool ( if you didn't do it yet :p : http://char.txa.cornell.edu/language/principl/principl.htm or http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=110809 ! Hope it helps ! keep it up buddy :D

[Quike Garcia]

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=507856&stc=1&d=1225630788

You really should do something with this :P

I really enjoy your SB, thanks!

[maxetormer]

Seconded! good armor designs!

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=507856&stc=1&d=1225630788

You really should do something with this :P

I really enjoy your SB, thanks!

I Also liked this one a lot!

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=507856&stc=1&d=1225630788

Great character designs! refine some more this ones man!

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=528464&stc=1&d=1227734556

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=518855&stc=1&d=1226682583

Loved the faces and the variety!

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=511796&stc=1&d=1225981252

SOOOO GOOOOD
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=283670&stc=1&d=1200669681

I like this mecha
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=415275&stc=1&d=1216334512

Now go make more finished work, you have such great amount of awesome ideas, just refine your
painting systems and you will be entirely and absolutely awesome!

[walnut]

Walid: Thanks for the link, i think i'll check that out. Most of the time i just tend to wing it when it comes to composition.

Quikenobi: thanks man, i really want to do something with that one, just never seem to get eound to it.


Maxetormer: Glad you like 'em! Now if only i were in a painting mood more often ...

Anyway, we had this challenge were we were going to focus on sketching and this is some of the result:

[Φ]

these are some excellent sketches, liking this one (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=615380&stc=1&d=1236711467)

big respect for these! I dont really got good crit ready for you, you just keep doing such stuff and Ill love you for a long time :D

keep em coming

[Nettle_Mountain]

Big R-R-Respect for the amount and quality of sketches here, i really liked the dogfaced guy with gun and jumping girl!

All i can really critique is two things, the left leg of the dogman is little flat, should it be more foreshortened? dunno

Second thing is that then and then you do legs of your characters little airy, what i mean by this is that they stand on the ball of their foot (is this the correct word?) instead of keeping the foot completely on the ground.

Where to use this and where not is yours to choose, just observation

[Quike Garcia]

The girl with the ray gun is great, totally frazzetta like.. the dogfaced guy reminded me of El Incal...

but what i really like is the jumping massive fat guy n the bottom of the last page xD

[Virg]

greaaaatttt lines, get some stars for their marvelous look !!

[walnut]

Trooper: Thanks man, you know I love you too :)

Nettle: The feet thing was conscious, but i'm in two minds about it myself. about the dogman, i think there need to be more folds there, where the knee pushes against the cloth. Good call.

Quikenobi: Damn! Here i was thinking i could swipe from Jodorowsky and have nobody notice. Bad thinking there. And yeah, that girl is a hat off to ole' Frank and the whole pulp fiction thing.

WhiteC: thank you, the lines are that impressive? They could fool me.

And here's some more harvest from the challenge. The inking was done yesterday though, so that doesn't really count. Sorry about all the boobies people, it's the lecher in me making me do it.

[walnut]

More of the same:

[walnut]

And here's the last of the bunch, ere you all get sick of these.

[Nettle_Mountain]

You know, i really, really wait for you to master your digital rendering because what you have now is phenomenal core drawing skills developing there. I don't mean completely accurate and lifelike rendering of every detail but style, dynamism and imagination, the stuff that really counts.

I honestly think you should force yourself into reqular digital painting exercises, like doing little 20 minute paintings 3-7 times a week. reqular work no matter how little every day is key to success here... i cant really explain it why but it is really more effective than using 3 hours into one painting only one day a week.

you have it easy in a way, like coro said it once the drawing stuff underneath is the hard part and once yo get into it you will see that rendering is actually, really easy.

Ha, right now we are opposite mirrors, i struggle with bettering my core drawing skills while you have some work to be done with digital :)

well, end of rambling, sorry if i feel edgy with my suggestions but im just so taken by what you have done here that i feel i must say this to you. I feel that once you get seriously into digital we have to witness really interesting paintings here. over and out

[walnut]

Nettle: Well, to show i've taken your advice to heart, here's a start on digital exercise, feuturing two charming cabaret girls. I'll try to make this a daily thing, or at least as daily as i can muster.

[Φ]

O_____O

ok, what happened? kryptonite? This is really awesome man!
I kinda second Nettle above, but certainly dont stop doing these sketches (ill never get sick of these;)

keep at it!

[merl1n]

quite a nice sketchbook you have got here...

you are getting to be confident with lines which is useful.. :)

cheers

[walnut]

Trooper: No kryptonite, just my regular morning cereal. :D And i'll be sure to keep doing those.

merl1n: Thanks! I try to be as confident as i can.

And now for two starts and one near finish (which i could always use some crit on) :

[walnut]

Told you i'd try updating daily. Just some fast exercises from ref, but it's something right?

[Quike Garcia]

The tiger skull looks great :)

and the red headed guy has a lot of attitude ;)

[TheGnoll]

daaaamn do you do those gesture from you frickin' HEAD?!
hope you don't mind if i do studies from them?
i really really love them, and some of those character thumbnails look great, lizardmen and golem/elemental (?) included.
Much respect for the hard work you're putting in painting

thanks for sharing :)

ciao!

[Frank Gressie]

I don't have time to go through the whole thread, i'll do that later, but that last batch of ink?/pencils with the figures is freakin' inspiring! Gotta do that myself these days. Seems like you have a good grasp of anatomy going on.
you're doing great man! keep this going!

frank

[walnut]

Quike: Yeah, tiger skulls are the coolest aren't they?

Gnoll: Don't mind at all, but it ain't Bridgman you know. And thanks for the kind words. :)

Frank Gressie: You should, it can be really fun just focussing on something like that for a few days. It sharpens the mind's pencil if you know what i mean.

And this is all i think i'll be doing today. Should have finished, but i always gets all cross-eyed at this stage.

[walnut]

You didn't think i'd let a day go by without an update would ya? Hey, ey? Though i ought to actually just finish one of these.

[walnut]

Boink!

[Quigleyer]

Nice renderings. You want to keep that up, but make sure you check your anatomy every so often. Looks like you're doing that and you're good.

Keep drawing!

[Nettle_Mountain]

Color balance, selective color, curves - noticed that some of your images are little pale, (or is it your screen?) using these more could help with that (too much red here, noticed it after mixing)

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I will delete this post later to take space from your thread, i can send you the .psd file if you want to see whats there is underneath if you send me your mail

great stuff you are making, keep this up!

[Φ]

you are cracking it! lovely! *happy*

what Nettle is saying makes sense though, second that

cheers

[AmontilladoAg]

Dude, Walnut! Lookit you, gettin' all crazy w/the digi-paintz and the purty ladies :D Keep it up, man; let's see what you got! :uzi: