eatmonkeygood sketch sketch draw - comment?

[smrtbob]

check it out!! *New Stuff added to the back!! kinda makes sense don't it...

some sketches is scanned in and sloppily photoshopped up

some battle elves in a dungeon-

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battleelves05.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battleelves051.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battleelves052.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battleelves053.jpg

superhero guy v dark demon god and younger flashback

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/1strong1.jpghttp://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/1strong2.jpghttp://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/1strong3.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/2super1.jpg

and a stupid comic strip-

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/ricefields.jpg


tell me what you think, and yes I do know that there are weird outline lines that need to be erased in the images, just stuff i'm playing around with when i'm bored.

[smrtbob]

here's some more

rad gray robot coming at ya

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/greyrobotsmall.jpg

a mostly Obscure Marvel comics character known for beating Dr.Doom and telling Iron Man, "I don't need luck, I eat nuts."
a mutant with big front teeth, squirrel-like agility, the ability to communicate with squirrels and she eats nuts... and i like Marvel Zombies so... Zombie Squirrel Girl

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/squrrel girl.jpg

Linolium wood block Ink print of the Incredible Hulk based on a Joe Mad! drawing. not one of the better ones.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/prints/hulk mad.jpg

Infantry - Ethching with drypoint ink print. This is what happens when part of your plate dissolves.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/prints/infantry.jpg

contemporary arts museum houston, tx- digital photomontage

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/prints/contemptart.jpg

untitled monoprint

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/prints/untitled 01.jpg

random photoshopped image:

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/photos/tower2.jpg

[smrtbob]

-Battle Elves-
original 8x10" sketch

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/elvessketch.jpg

Battle Scars- Pencils and 1st two coloring attemps

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battleelves09.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battleelves091.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battleelves092.jpg

-SuperStrong-
original 8x10" sketch and some sloppy coloring attempts

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/supersketch.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/super6-4.jpg

that's all for now...

[smrtbob]

Ok more sketches, this samurai idea I had with ninjas and junk, epic battles etc.. did a bunch of sketches on some paper lying around one day, I'm not sure what some of the panels on the pages are though, oh well, c'est la vie and all that, here's some and a couple that I played with. I guess this would be roughly 38 comic/graphic novel pages. enjoi

-original 8x10" 's

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/samsketch1.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/samsketch2.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/samsketch3.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/samsketch4.jpg

-Pages I quickly colored awhile back

Sitting by the beach
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sscolor.jpg

Samurai vs croc in jellyfish lake
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/croclake.jpg

maybe one day i'll do a break down of what's going on in each page/panel and maybe that'll help me to remember what I drew storywise. ok cool, late.

[PHATandy]

Some good stuff here man, i like the penciled pages and stuff.. the action seems nice in a lot of them..
But whats apparent is u really are loosing lots of quality of your linework when u photoshop in it..
Try not to single out pencil lines into the thick black photosop lines.. it really kills it. Try just working with low opacity brushes to paint ontop, and maybe redrawing line, paint dont fill unless u clean up the lines and work vector. Id try to avoid using gradients aswell.. unless your vectorising them.
Id like to see more of the small pencil stuff, like this (http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/elvessketch.jpg).
Its good stuff.

Kee posting :)
Andy.

[smrtbob]

hey Andy, thanks for the comments man. Yup, need more practice working with scans of pencils and inks and colors, as well as digital paintings.

Just doin a quick post now... some scanned pages I just happen to have on the puter.

ninja inks and colored

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/1ninja1.jpghttp://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/1ninja.jpg


rasta man

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/rasta2.jpg


kid giving the alien the 'gun' finger and getting one back, sorta

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/alien.jpg


astros and baseball sketch

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/stros.jpg


Sketch of the Mandarin Spawn Action Figure

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mandarinspawn.jpg


Gunslinger

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/gunslinger.jpg


sketch of one of my character's(well his back)

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/backsketch.jpg


I'll try to scan in some more stuff to add later...
peace

~j.

[dymrus]

nice stuff smrtbob.

thanks for visiting my thread... i like the fact that you're exploring a lot of different elements of art. keep at it. and post more often.

[smrtbob]

Thanks for the comment Dymrus!

doing a quick post, haven't had too much free time, so just some quick pics I mess around with quickly. most of these didn't turn out very good, although some of the softer subdued colors like the gunslinger and the 3rd run away image.


-GunSlinger-

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/gunslingercolor.jpghttp://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/gunslingercolor1.jpg

-Battle Elves-

Battlin' Goblins and Ogres

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battle elves 04.jpghttp://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battle elves 04-1.jpg

Dwarf Smash Goblin in the head
pencils and 2 bad coloring attempts

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battle elves 10.jpg

Run Away!
pencils, dirty battlefield, watercolorish, red, bold

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battle elves 03.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battle elves 03-1.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battle elves 03-2.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battle elves 03-3.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/battle elves 03-4.jpg

ok night

[smrtbob]

quick post

sketched these while browsing the forums the other night...

bunny robot/cyborg/in a battle suit- using a bunch of pens i had lying around
the purple ink one is supposed to be a giant rabbit head battle mask coming off with the steam/whatever coming out

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/bunnyrobot.jpg

pirates vs. ninja

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/pvn.jpg

just that..

[smrtbob]

some quick coloring today and a quick sketch I did while stuck in traffic

-bunny from above post-

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/bunnyrobo.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/bunnyrobo2.jpg

-colors of a previous pic a few postings ago-

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/backsketch2.jpg

-character head sketches and cloaked back-
(sketched in traffic with Bic round stick pen)

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/heads.jpg

-back colored-

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/1back.jpg

.....

[smrtbob]

Drew this real quick... Cloud Strife(ff7) if he was Ghost Rider, I also thought it might be cool if the sword was connected by the chain... oh well...

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/cloudriderpen.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/cloudrider.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/cloudrider2.jpg

.... more later ....

[smrtbob]

been busy, so here's some stuff from my little notebook...

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/power 009.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/power 010.jpg
quick one I colored in and posterized for fun...
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/powercoat.jpg

then i made some panels and cut them into storyboards real fast... quick and sloppy...

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/powerstrip1.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/powerstrip3.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/powerstrip4.jpg

that's it for right now...

[silvestri99]

I enjoy the pencil work you are doing but it seems to loose feeling when you go to color. Follow phatandys advice and slow down on the coloring process. I wouls also suggest drawing from reference to improve your skills even more. Good work! (and thanks for stopping by my s.b.)

[smrtbob]

ok i wanna post more in my sketchbook, it's been awhile, so i'll start with some of the prints from printmaking 2, mmm linoleum and etching goodness

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/prints/doa72.jpg

'Dreaming of Rita'

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/prints/snowmanchimney.jpg

One of the Christmas cards I'm making this year

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/crutlin/smokinfield.jpghttp://www.eatmonkeygood.com/crutlin/crutlinsky.jpghttp://www.eatmonkeygood.com/crutlin/crutlinspace.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/crutlin/emgcrut.jpg

something for my site using an idea a friend and i are working on.


ok more later
peace!!

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/decks/rawrideas.jpghttp://www.eatmonkeygood.com/decks/rawrideas2.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/decks/eatburger.png

here's some of skateboard decks I made for my boardpusher shop
the first batch are ideas i made quickly in the rawr!! series.. the other is my burger board, and yes that's a mushroom at the bottom, so don't freak out..

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/powerbow.png

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/opiumfull.jpg

[smrtbob]

http://eatmonkeygood.com/images/weirdbutt16.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/decks/weirdskate.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/decks/skatebutt.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/weirdbutter.png

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/robofightblue.jpg

[smrtbob]

whoopsie, didn't realize most of those were still 250 dpi and came out freaking huge, ok so I'm gonna have to resize and repost though, and comments later... oh wells

[smrtbob]

drew these over the past few days, some colored with copics some with photoshop, more later... these should also be smaller than the last batch

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/blackspidey.png

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/ghostrider.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideydonut.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/wolverine.png

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/1spidey.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/2spidey.jpg

ok we got your:
spidey in black costume
ghost rider
spider-man eating a do-nut
wolverine
spidey(i like this sketch)
and spidey vs. venom (was thinking of doing a panel after where he unloads webs into venom's face)
ok that's it for now... maybe post the original pages later if the sizes look right

[smrtbob]

my girlfriends been pissed at me cause all I've been drawing lately is sketches of spider-man, so here's some of the better ones...
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketchx72.jpg

[smrtbob]

oh yeah, and I finally figured out I'd been drawing spidey's webs going the wrong direction for awhile... I think I've got it figured out now... just need to figure out his chest symbol

[smrtbob]

used the basic brick texturizer in photoshop, played with a bit, mostly bored... a few I came up with...



http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideywallmix.png

[smrtbob]

the scans from my sketchbook

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketch 00772.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketch 00672.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketch 00572.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketch 00372.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketch 00472.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketch 00272.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketch 00172.jpg


just started playing with this one

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideycollapse72.jpg

something i made last night, from a couple sketches earlier in the day, still thinking about what I want and moving things around, less, more, etc..

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/eatmonkeykid72.jpg

and that's it for now

[slooie]

i really like ur spidey sketches

[smrtbob]

sweet! thanks for the comment slooie!

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/lizardhead.png

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/vulture.png

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/hobgoblin.jpg

Lizard, vulture, and hobgoblin.. more later

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/hobgoblincolor1.png

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sinisterdemo3.jpg

[roidvoid]

i really like the energy in all of these but i think that you are missing some fundementals that are really holding you back.
take a step back from stylization and start from square one. draw a sphere and shade it. include reflected light and correct gradation of shadow and light. do some work with line shape and form. you have the drive obviously by the amount of work you have shown.
now think about how you can improve.
all of the best stylized artists have a firm grasp of line shape and form. they can distort the human face and body because they understand how it is supposed to look and how to draw it without stylization

[roidvoid]

oh and dont worry about photoshop for awhile. its keeping you from learning the basics of drawing.
get good at drawing then move into the basics of photoshop. then you can get really good at photoshop

then youll have all of us giving you five stars on your sketchbook!

[smrtbob]

hey roid void, thanks for the comments, and I'll try that. You're sketchbook is pretty good, and has some good adivce, thanks again!

here's some quick mysterio drawings I drew and played with a bit today

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mysterio1.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mysterio2.png

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mysterio3.png

I really hate mysterio's costume so I drew it a few ways.. i don't know I kind of like the first one but not really, maybe elements from each one.. whatever mysterio's costume sucks...

oh yeah, and I finally got to page 2, and I should have about 1000 views soon, yay!

[smrtbob]

used up the last pages in my sketchbook.
here's an older one I drew when I was watching Good Eats. Alton Brown, his Dungeon food processor guy, mario, and a bad drawing of my dog who kept moving.

A bunch of random sketches working with black areas I guess, just having fun.

An older sketch, and playing with photoshop and some of the panels I liked..

and lastly, the adventures of a moai..

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpies1.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpies2.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpies3.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpies4.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpies5.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/maus.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/moaiadv2.jpg

later

[smrtbob]

street signs and a guy jumping/flying up

superstrong in a lab with a scientist

the zombie that came to dinner

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/signs.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sslab.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/zombiedinner.jpg

[smrtbob]

another sharpie sketch

and stuff from an older sketchbook, some character drawings, playing with the copics, and designs for the christmas cards I was going to make in printmaking class

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpie007.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpie 01072.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpie 01172.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpie 01372.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpie 01472.jpg

rule #1 about snow fight club, don't talk about snow fight club

[smrtbob]

bored

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpie%20007color.jpg

[smrtbob]

some stuff from my recent sketchbook, I wanna color some it with the puter

some random superheros, most I made up like 15 years ago

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/super100.jpg

guy robbing a bank, I was trying to think of better angles

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/bankscene100.jpg

monster monster, so much action, it won't fit on the page

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mm100.jpg

that's the one I want to work on, or at least finish filling in

[smrtbob]

some of the monster monster sketch ideas I did from, played with some a bit, here's a few quick ones, and then some of the sketches with copic color on some at the bottom, more monster monster and some rasta looking guy

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mm1.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mm2c.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mm3.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mm2100.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/rasta100.jpg

and i'm kind of undecided on the monster monster look, I like his cowl, and the M monster logo with the arm sleeves, but boots and gloves are just too plain, i kind of don't like the thumb/wrist brace thing, but it's different, and foot wraps are just enf, I was thinking of just going black arms and legs but that might be too dark, also wasn't sure wether the lower jaw was too much on the chest piece... was thinkig the utility belt went with the boots and gloves kind of like a military/spec ops monster squad thing... I guess.. more later, I've got some more with like a monster gizmo radar and stuff... hmm ok i'm tired, later...

:mod:
thought that looked neat

[smrtbob]

sketches that started this from last week and some ones I did a few days ago, colored with the copics

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmsketch100.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmspid100.jpg

more to come

[smrtbob]

the monster monster page, highlights, shadows and stuff, colors, more colors and stuff.. and I accidently saved my psd file as 72 instead of 300 somewhere along the line... oopsie oh yeah scan of sharpie stuff from old sketchbook at the end
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmpage1100.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmpage2100.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mm3100.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/sharpie490.jpg

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmwords1.jpg

this is what i did for lunch, still needs more works, sound and color effects
but hopefully it gives an idea of where I was going. I don't know, it's so stupid it makes me laugh...

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmwords2.jpg

ok I think I'm done with this, there's not much more I want to play with

[smrtbob]

more monster monster sketches.
law and order the comic for my wife, heh.
spider-man drawings, with copic colors(meh). the one of spider-man kicking - i was looking at a pic from chris bachalo's upcoming spider-man run as reference. the colors didn't scan too well

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmsketchc100.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/lando.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideys100.jpg

:devil::devil::devil::devil::devil::devil:

[smrtbob]

tried playing with the color style of the monster monster page, did that a few days ago
and some coloring on the Law and Order page I did in photoshop today

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmmeh1.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/landocolor100.jpg

Jack McCoy needs some new work, I think i got the new DA down, and my lenny brisco needs some help to

[smrtbob]

here's another monster monster page sketch I did, the big ink mark on the second panel just ignore. I kind of got tired of this cause I didn't like how it was turning out and it felt kind of forced so I just gave up and came back on occasion to add some penils here and there, but I ran out of pages in my sketchbook so I came back and inked it in a little to see if i could save it any. Here's what I ended up with about an hour of coloring in photoshop. It's kind of enh. Monster Monster vs Giant Dracula, in a village.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/22mmsketch100.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/2mmpage100a.jpg

I still want to work on it some more, there's parts I like, but a lot that I really wish I did differently. More later.

have a good one

[smrtbob]

worked on it a little during lunch
enh... I don't like the colors of the houses so that'll change along with a bunch of other things, and I found some fire brushes that I was playing with, they don't really fit in, but it looks neat

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/2mmpage100b.jpg

[smrtbob]

add more, with and without fire
then decided to start wrapping it up, sure there's a bunch more I could do/add, but I wanna just slap words on it and see how it looks, maybe more tomorrow

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/2mmpage100c.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/2mmpage100d.jpg

[Jazz]

Heyo, smrtbob!

I looked all through your sketchbook and WOW!! You have so much stuff you've worked on! I commend you for that! :D Envy you even. :3 Hee hee!

I'd be repeating what others have said about your colouring and using refs and whatnot, so I just agree with them. Take your time practicing on those areas. It's never bad to have fun with the drawings! I hope to see you working on the basics too, though! :)

I did see improvement in your colouring lately, so keep it up. There are some awesome Photoshop tutorials on colouring too, if you find yourself at a loss!

Keep it up! ^_^

[smrtbob]

looks like the sun's about to go down... maybe I'll dream tonight

[smrtbob]

thanks JazzW
yeah I need to work on still lifes and drawing from reference more often, also i need to find my other pencils and stuff to work with. Usually I just sketch things and have fun, drawing from my head or just making marks instead of having a complete idea to go with.
and I occasionally go through the tutorials but I'm working with PS elements 5 or older I believe, so I'm a bit limited, but I make do.
I went through some of your sketchbook but not all of it, I'll have to check out the rest later.
thanks again

[GundamX67]

Hey, I love you style, and your coloring certainly has improved since the very first image you posted. The shading is very nicely done.

I just have one question. What do you use to color? It looks like markers, but I'm not entirely sure.

[smrtbob]

hey thanks Gundamx67,
When I do color on the paper(the last spiderman sketches, the red on the monster monster, most of the first monster monster,and a few assorted other things) I mostly use copic markers(mostly the oval ones, I have a few of the squares, I just prefer the felt tip), but I also have a few Chartpak and Prismacolor markers(these have really well designed tips), but the later 2 bleed really heavy so you have to be careful, and one or both contain xylene(or an equivelent) which is used in photo transfer pens(you bleed the ink from a xerox onto another sheet of paper basically) and smell pretty heavy(my wife's pregnant and her mommy senses increased her sense of smell, so it's kind of noxious to her, same with the sharpies). Oh yeah, I keep an extra sheet of paper under my page cause of bleed, but that doesn't always help and cause of the transfer stuff sometimes my bleed page marks get sucked through.
For inking I just use assorted sharpies(fine, ultra, extra, chisel, super). A staedler pigment liner .3, a micron for my little lines 000 I think, techniclick 2 mechanical pencil .5, and a lead holder with probably the lightest lead I have... I have a bunch of different ones and blue ones, but I can never find them... buried under old art supplies and crayons.
all the rest of the coloring I do in photoshop elements 5 or something and I have a wacom tablet, graphire 3 the 4x6 I think.
probably more than you wanted but there you go, i was thinking of adding pics, but maybe later as I'm tired and lazy

added some stuff I'd fix/ change/ add to the 2nd monster monster page

[smrtbob]

heh not too stupid? and then I adjusted the levels a bit

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/2mmwordsb.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/2mmwordsa.jpg

[smrtbob]

scanned a bunch of stuff from my last sketchbook before I bury it
mostly monster monster stuff, more later...

edit:
and we got-
monster monster sketch
" " w/the fiery fish-man, and cyborg zombie
" " vs giant dracula
" " fiery fishman, and maracas
" " getting hit by a missle and being monsterish maybe? holding guns, and skull eyes
" " knocking giant dracula's tooth out,punching cyborg zombie, vampire yeti, and the jackelope a taxidermist's nightmare
" " impaled giant dracula, drac head ,werewolf, and dude with snakes for armsorsomething
" " giant dracula getting missle shot at while throwing a tank at jets... jeep in foreground, monster monster jumping to the mountain? i dunno, inked it over when i ran out of pages, waste of paper, i like the jeep though
" " in giant dracula's mouth, squid face/ head?
" " kicking an ogre thing in the nuts, and some monsterish ideas
random sketches, mostly malcom in the middle and just random stuff, brian cranston turned out the best
more random doodles, old copper stuff, I like the overweight dude and the wood rasta guy
werewolf cyborg robot?
2 old characters from the team sketch toward the middle of the page, Shaddo's like a shadow ninja, and Dyna-Matt has exploding dynamite punches he needs giant gauntlets to control
Hepburn battle- Audrey vs Kat comic idea for my wife,with like nazis, frankenstein, and trucks full of ninjas,this was from my head, so it's not very good and doesn't look anything like they really

and I'm done with sharpie stuff til I pick up another sketchbook, more later

[smrtbob]

more sketchbook scans

ok we got...

unnamed guy and friend
" "
" " and friends
" " space action
" " vs thor in a coffee shop
random doodles and a guy who I just call Assault
Assault or the Big Kill, he wear skull makeup,I guess like the punisher or deathblow
random doodles, i like the skull guy in the hat and the party logos
super bleak! (unfinished)
more doodles, brian cranston(?), soda can, dracula guy..
Astro-Blade 9000!!!
more random doodles
Star Shrek, the first one sucked, the sketches at the bottom get better, and the figure of him to the right is about right on, and athf eye along the right
doodles and doodles, some family guy lois eyes, and i like the super strong half head towards the right
guy in fiery coat, koala, and panda, boar/pig
guy in coat again, and just fun weird crazy sketches
Ghost Spider/Spider Ghost and Lion's Mane from the super team picture way above
spider ghost vs mr. punchy(he punches things), spider ghost has ghost powers and spiderish powers
some demon things i worked on then'd trace through to the page above
the colors didn't scan too well,i like the red and orange guy, the blue doesn't quite fit in... never finished this
super strong, monster monster scuffed up, koala, and figure
thunderwolf from the side of the bank robbery page way above
random character sketches, my dog indy as indian jones(i did more but that page wasn't so good), kid unicorn
kid unicorn, and paralyzer- he paralyzes stuff and is host to a bunch of those brood/alien monster things that bit into and feed off him


late

[The7Artist7]

Hehehe - dude your stuff is cool! that lil cartoon superhero jumpin off the roof with big open mouth made me laugh out loud XD .. he's totally like 'ya-daaaa check me out!' please learn photoshop asap as you're killing most of your art when used on it - but having said that, the pure energy and cheerfulness with which you attack stuff almost makes it ok (almost ;P) one big tip that may help is set your lineart layer to multiply and colour underneath and stay away from soft blurry brushes for now - just fill areas.

One thing that confuses me is your random swinging from total awesomeness to sketchy cringe and back to total awesomeness again! (edit: sorry not meant as an insult - you must just be posting everything - keep it up!)

And is it possible to draw too much spidey? ;)

anyways gotta go - keep rockin on dude - subscribed!

[smrtbob]

heh thanks The7Artist7

yeah, I mostly post the better stuff from my sketchbook, sometimes random junk, or if anything's process related... and yeah my ability jumps as I draw. so sometimes I can keep good consistency for a few weeks, then I crap out or I take a break and my style changes a little. So I spend a lot of time just doing random sketch stuff and seeing where that takes me.

And yes, I still need to spend more time in photoshop, but I only have an old version of elements so I kind of just play with it, and nothing here is really meant to be a finished product(cept the stuff I've made into products, but I update those too on occasion)

I also keep a little lined notebook, I go through one of those every few months, and a few pages made it in awhile ago. I've got some good stuff in there mixed with a bunch of idea sketches and other crap. I was halfway done scanning in the better stuff, but I still got 5 more books to go and then some.

I Just got a new computer and need to hunt down my old PS Elements cd, I'll scan more stuff in soon. Been awhile since I updated. Maybe I'll dig up my old high school sketchbooks as a comparison.

[smrtbob]

ok so I found my old elements 2.0 cd that came with my wacom pad, and today i went to scan stuff, and the drivers didn't load. new vista 64 and a 7+ year old Umax scanner which was never that great to begin with. Having trouble getting the drivers for vista, and it looks long and complex, Would xp drivers work? probably not huh? oh well so I ended up taking a couple of pics.

I saw 7artist7 had a link to a spidey challenge, and I checked it out like 30 minutes before it was over, but since I was up anyway I decided to just doodle something out. did some real loose pencil, then just went over it with a bic pen. Spidey vs green goblin over the streets during a parade. You got a Spidey balloon and a garfield, and I guess barney would be back there too. Band members, balloon wranglers, crowds, etc. You can see that I rushed in a lot of it, and there's a bunch I'd like to change/ finish, but this was meant more as a sketch.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideyblimp2.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideyblimppage2.jpg

and I don't know, added a stupid joke, with no response, even though goblin's laughing(i figure it's a laugh track like jack nicholson's joker at the end)

[The7Artist7]

Hey dude - I think the pic was really cool - just didn't get the joke at all - ...'man, do I look like a blimp? (struggling to grasp the reasoning behind it already lol!) then ...'nothing? too obvious?' (what the.. huh? now I'm really confused!)

Sorry man - maybe my humor understanding chip needs an update!

keep up the cool stuff - see ya at the next challenge! (there's a hulk one going down at the moment if your interested? http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=131168 )

[smrtbob]

yeah, it wasn't really funny. Spider-man looking at the blimp of himself saying he looks like a blimp(the blimp's all fat). And then saying Nothing? as in no response, and was the joke too obvious(apparently not)
heh heh, yeah lame...
and I looked at the hulk challenge, maybe I'll give it a shot
I don't know all I can think up at the moment is Hulk vs Alcoholism(not really a superhero) Hulk Smashed!! and Hulk vs Gestault Decepticon Devastator to see who the strongest really is.

debating to go back and grab an epson printer/scanner that had cables, the manual, and disc, only thing is that it's sitting by the dumpsters...

[smrtbob]

so I ended up doing a bunch of hulk vs sketches, and a few sketches since I've never drawn the hulk- but I'll have to scan that all when I get a compatible scanner. Until then you get what I crammed out in under an hour. Totally sucks, I even skewed it a bit to make it look better. Oh wells, I had a Hulk vs Carnage(not a hero though) where he was ripping carnage in half kind of like the Sentry did, but more down the middle in half. But for the quick one I went with Hulk Vs. Angel(of the xmen) where he would be shadowed except his glowing eyes and blood coming out of his mouth and around his hand, which held angel- headless(hulk bit it off like ozzy would) and broken bloody wings with limp hands... obviously I took the crap route and just mashed this out, I should've done a better position like my sketches and maybe added a little of light to the edges, as well as redrawing it, learning photoshop, etc...
>:{ >:| :xpld: :zzz:
so here it is... crapola

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/hulk.jpg

and the one I posted

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/hulk2.jpg

I'll have to try/try harder in the future

man that blood really looks like crap... I really did an eighth-assed job

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(edit) : I figured I'd edit this in instead of making another post


I got bored the other day and broke out my tablet to get used to it again, and I colored in my spidey challenge sketch a little just to see if that helped.
Then I adjusted stuff a tad just for the hell of it.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideyblimpcolor.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideyblimpcolor2.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideyblimpbw.jpg

oh yeah forgot to mention I got to page 3, kind nifty

Late

[smrtbob]

still having scanner issues, so I took some pictures and cropped it... I was doing some sketching for the spider challenge 2 w/black cat, again a character I've never drawn. Same as MJ, so I gave her a shot too. I like how the MJ's came out, and some of the Black Cat sketches, I wish I could've scanned it. Oh well, maybe I'll work on finishing one of them for the challenge or just turn in something that's meh.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spidersketch1a.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spidersketch1b.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spidersketch2.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spidersketch3.jpg

later

[GetiX]

hey smrtbob you are f***ing awesome :) you really need more replys in your sketchbook. i love the way you draw your characters, i wish i could draw like that lol. great pics keep posting

[smrtbob]

thanks GetiX!

ha ha, so i took the half assed approach and just photoshopped one of the pictures. Could be a bit better, and I noticed a few spots I meant to color better(almost looks like you can see black cat's nipple cause of it, that's supposed to be her suit) and maybe spidey should be have anime sweat drops in the air or something, and maybe more little hearts? or lots of "mine!" 's

anywho here's my Spidey-challenge 2 w/ black cat entry...

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideyblackcat.jpg

ha ha eat it suckers :mod:

no not really

~L8

[The7Artist7]

Hehe - nice one - XD

Seriously you should do more of this style with other characters! (and plenty more Spidey of course!) Just keep having fun dude and try not to beat yourself up :)

All the best!

[smrtbob]

So I finally got a new used new scanner, it's a lot faster than my old one, but the software I'm still getting, seems to run better through my old elements, and there's a few different options, some of the quality is meh, but I'm still adjusting.

Was going to scan most of my sketchbook in, but I decided to try a few pages to check out the scanner, so here's what you get from a few months ago.

Anywho here's a spiderman sketch that didn't scan so great so i had to do a bit of tweaking. Something about pencils and pens pissing it off with the contrast. And yes, that's spider-man pooting on juggernaut's head.

Then a couple of monster monster stuff I did and colored in to figure out what kind of style I wanted to go with. Pencil, pens, sharpie, marker.


http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideysketchnew72.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmsketchcolor172.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmsketchcolor272.jpg

]http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmsketchcolor1detail.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/mmsketchcolor2detail.jpg

hopefully more later.

[DIMAGYAN]

nice characters! i like the spiderman character's page.

keep it up

[The7Artist7]

Hey dude - hello :) - anything new?

[smrtbob]

just got power back after 2 weeks, stupid hurricane.

[smrtbob]

some stuff for now, still trying to figure out my new scanner and software. pencils still aren't showing too well.

here's a daredevil page I did around the spidey contest.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/daredevil.jpg

drew this a week or so ago, the Rampaging Rhino, travels the earth with his rucksack, chest plate armor, and cans of spray on concrete to fix his hide.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spideyrhino90.jpg

carnage and other spidey stuff I did a few months ago before the hulk vs. competition. some spider-hulk, scarlet spider, and would his impact webbing balls go *thwhop*?

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/carnagepage72.jpg

For some reason i had this weird image of joker in robin's costume, rather disturbing. Did a little sketch so I wouldn't forget, never got back to doing it. I figured he's have long skinny legs, maybe like an old man? manbat, two-face, golden age catwoman, and batman and robin

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/batman100.jpg

I was watching venture brothers when I did this, so there's a lot of inspired looks. When they open the Jonas Venture Museum on Skull Island I think.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/venture90.jpg

~late

[mytarious]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/powerbow.png great work you have the ability to convey allot of action but your work looks rough slow down and draw over you pices slower and i think you will get a bosst in the appeal of your work also visit the concept art tutorial and diglett has alot of work.peace

[smrtbob]

ok here's some.

Wolverine sketches, did them in pencil, went over in BIC pen, meh.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/wolverinesketch90.jpg


For the Thor Challenge, I came up with a few idea, Thor vs. a bong, vs various Thors, vs the ocean, vs Hulk, vs Sutar, and vs a bunch of Giants(which would've been cool and in a different style, but too much work, you know how lazy I am.) So I went with a Venture bros. inspired Thor theme. I couldn't decide if Loki should be Dr. Venture or Monarch(since they're both kind of evil), this was the first sketch I did, Thor was gonna be next to him about to smash him with his hammer.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/lokiventure.jpg


The bulk of the sketches, I really should've look at this, or used it as reference, that or my puter, but the baby kept screaming at me.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/venturethor.jpg


This was what I was gonna do originally(well what I did, but more in a venture style) I put thor helm on Brock Samson, and I was gonna have the words on the hammer, and Loki's helmet twisting about. I think it's Brock punching some Plug-headed guy. Cut and paste baby.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/thordemo2.png


What I'm up to so far, did a quick sketch without looking at anything, so it looks like poo, colored it in with copics for the hell of it, a little photoshop here and there. Meh. Brock "THOR" Samson vs. The "Loki" Monarch.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/thorchallengescan.jpg


I wanted to do it as a moving GIF with the rain seeming to fall, and maybe like lightning flashes.

Post the rest later today

[smrtbob]

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/thorchallengealmostdone.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/thorchallengealmostdone2.jpg

I'm stopping at this one.
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/thordone.jpg

just for fun.
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/gthortest1.gif

[smrtbob]

whoops been awhile, meant to post stuff, even for the superhero challenges but I never did.. so here's some of the stuff.

some monster monster sketches I did the other night, mostly I like the lower right corner one, playing with costume still.
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/monstermonsteridea90.jpg

one of a couple of pages of captain america sketches
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/capam90.jpg

My initial sketch/drawing for the Avengers vs. Challenge, like this the best of what I drew, some of my undraw ideas were better though(plus included the whole VS aspect of the challenge)
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/avengers190.jpg

Was even thinking of doing multiple pages, and adding them together like a poster, feature most of the avengers...
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/avengers290.jpg

The only Avengers VS sketch that fell into the VS category I actually tried to work on. Vs. the X-men. I was gonna reverse nightcrawler(so he's using cap's shield to block iron man's blast) and use PS for the energy effects/blasts
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/avengerxmen90.jpg

Wolverine Dynamic Challenge Sketches-
wolverine healing a bullet out of his head, sniktsnikt pop the claws, weapon x fierce jab, short wolverine's upper jab to the face/throat, ripping something apart berserker style, fastball special(probably gonna do this one, crouching in shadows/shadowed, being held back and screaming while someone near him gets shot, running/leaping, kneeling in a circle of cars with headlights beamed on him, hack slash slice
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/dynamicwolverine90.jpg

Guess that'll have to do for now, hopefully more sooner than later.
~L8

[FightingSeraph]

Damn dude, I like your comic stuff. It kind of reminds me of the comics I drew in high school, only these are drawn better. Not enough people use markers for colors here, though.

[smrtbob]

couple of more sketch pages for the wolverine dynamic contest, and I guess my review/critique sketch page for part one of it.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/wolviesketch190.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/wolviesketch290.jpg

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/wolviesketch390.jpg

[smrtbob]

Wolvine contest, I really liked the dark one though. Just did a quick color over the sketch. Not too shabby. Should be better.
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/fastballspecial.jpg
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/fastballdemo.png
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/dynamicwolverinedone.png

[smrtbob]

stuff from my last sketch book, spider-man related pages--

poser-
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spmsk172.jpg

carnage got teeth-
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spmsketch372.jpg

venom says it all-
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spmsketch472.jpg

color me scarlet-
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spmsketch572.jpg

spidey sense tingling, face distorting..-
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spmsketch672.jpg

venomous-
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spmsketch772.jpg

spider-scrub
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spmsketch872.jpg

thwipity
http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/images/spmsketch972.jpg

so there were a few sketches I liked, mostly of venom, and 2 parts i wanna zoom out, the face distorting page, the spidey head at the bottom left'ish that's sketchy, and the grey wash looking one at the top of the last page. My daughter put the sketchbook in her mouth, creating a neat wash tone...

[The7Artist7]

hey been a while dude - nice to see some of your cool scribbles again!

Man I love you're style! excellent character, movement and story-telling :painting:

You should try finishing off a few in a vector program like Illustrator to get a real comic book style. :D

Keep rocking!

[smrtbob]

a year and a half without an update... man I'm slacking, ok, I'll try and fire up the scanner this weekend.

[The7Artist7]

Hmm your scanner is taking a while...

hope you're well dude!

[smrtbob]

scarlet spider riding a bull at the houston rodeo- pretty dumb, 15 minute sketch with some quick coloring and a thrown in photo... boom

[smrtbob]

need to shrink some sketches before i post them...

15 minute sketch of scarlet spider vs venom, based on an amazing spider-man cover by todd mcfarlane. slapped 15 minutes of quick color on it.
it turned out okay, the colors and shapes are weird, and it needs some foreshortening. Also todd draws weird clawy hands, and I think fists would come across better for Kaine "Scarlet Spider" Parker anyway.


http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/sketch/img_1145.jpg


demon ninja battle panel idea, with notes and junk.


http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/sketch/img_1389.jpg


is that terribly hard to follow? I was thinking about cutting up and rearranging things, or zooming in on certain sections.

the ninja in the home-made looking costume is pulling some throwing spikes and chunks them into the armored ninja just as he slashes him.
I was trying to get the zoom of the spikes digging into 'something,' and I guess maybe move the slash so it's more noticable that he cut the guy across the chest before being spiked.
rather than making it appear he dropped his sword cause of the spikes, and then is about to cut him with his left sword and all we hear is the slice and left wondering.

[smrtbob]

15 minute sketch for scarlet spider at the rodeo

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/sketch/scarspidrodeoscan.jpg

scarlet spider punch, assume I quit before I drew anything else terribly..

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/sketch/scarspidpow.jpg

Threre's not enough sun's wearing sunglasses in comic books these days.
Also I like how the angle on the street view with the cigarette butts and litter came out, even though Kaine's position's all wrong swinging through it.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/sketch/scarspidsketch.jpg

original 15 minute scarlet spider vs venom sketch - based on a Todd McFarlane Amazing Spider-Man cover

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/sketch/scarspidvenomscan.jpg

2nd 15 minute scarlet spider vs venom sketch, when I decided fists would come out better.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/sketch/scarspidvenomscan2.jpg

one of my initial scarlet spider sketches, trying to get a feel for the character's design.

http://www.eatmonkeygood.com/sketch/scarspidback.jpg

In case you haven't noticed, I've been nerding out about Houston getting it's very own Spider-Clone. He's everything teenage me would've wanted in a Spider-Man.