Artzealot's sketch sketch sketch sketch sketch sketch sketch sketch pile

[ArtZealot]

Check out my new stuff on the last pages... (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?p=2616879#post2616879)









(the below info is about 5 years out of date...)
I'm a game design student, currently working on a class project to build a videogame from scratch. i've been doing some concepts for the game.Some of this is old, some new, i'm moving my old thread from the "sketches" forum to the "sketchbooks" forum, so this is all in order from oldest to newest. Still a little new to conceptart.



this is approaching the canal leading to the actual swamp where you find the voodoo "crossroads"
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Muddycanal.jpg



The Village after the tsunami hit
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Env6.jpg



This is of one of the enemies, a zombie woman who appears after a tsunami hits the village
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/zombitch.jpg



A citizen of the village with a gun...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/pissedoff.jpg



Outskirts of town, a flooded house by the coast
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/WtW_Wk1_3.jpg




In the game you travel to the voodoo underworld which is being set in a mangrove swamp. This is a Birds eye view of the forest and a trail that descends into the swampland
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/WtW_Wk3_3.jpg



Establishing shot of the trail
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/WtW_wk3_2.jpg





Some gun ideas
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/guns.jpg>:D >:D



Front of the church
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Church1.jpg


Trying to map out how we're going to do the backside of the church
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Thebackofchurch.jpg


city street with bus tipped over...


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/tippedoverbusincity.jpg



An environment shot of the snake den. i dont like it at all but i am posting it anyway, so i can track my progress:


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Snakeden.jpg





This one is of the main characters house, when he comes home after fishing. I'm just posting these as they get done...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/insidemainshouse.jpg

Some more environment concepts of sorts, this one is pretty self explanitory:




http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/treehouseconcepts.jpg



Here's some detailed thumbnails of the insides of the giant snake that the player travels through.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/WtW_wk7_4.jpg


A step by step progress shot starting with the block out




http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/CopyofRedone-Tree.jpg



adding form to it




http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/asfafasd.jpg

Pretty much done with the tree, in this shot, i did an overlay, added more texture, fixed the stairs...did a lot of stuff to it. now all i need is to put a background in.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Redone-Tree2.jpg


Some figure sketches


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/fig001.jpg

And last, is a scary lookin upper half of a ninja turtle. Still workin on the lower half and the weapon, but heres what i got so far.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/ninjaturtle.jpg

[Sanest]

I'm liking the look of it, some really innovative designs. I'm also involved in a video game project, keep posting! I want to know of its progression.

[ArtZealot]

Probably more coming later today, heres a masked cat for now...



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/maskedkitty.jpg

[Coinpurse]

Whut up, definatly digging those environmental speed paintings. Id like to see more :)

[ArtZealot]

A prop sketch: Refrigerator

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Refrigerator.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Another prop: a waterdamaged, moldy church bench



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/ChurchBench.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Some random sketches i did today...todays topic: Guns!


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sadfasd.jpg

[ArtZealot]

More stuff, this time timed figure sketches (photo ref)
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/10minquicksketches.jpg

[ArtZealot]

that big gnarly tree, this time i added some background:


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/tree-finished.jpg

[LukeTores]

Oh man, I would love to shoot a zombie with a potato gun. Neat enviroments, I like your character sketches too. That's one ominous refrigerator.

[eazym]

Cool tree. There are some anatomy problems in other figures. But the tree is damn cool.

[ArtZealot]

An old man and his magic hat of companionship!



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/oldmanwskullfriend.jpg

[Celvin H]

if the mask on the cat was his face it would make a great zombie

[ArtZealot]

LukeTores, thanks for the compliments, yeah i did make the refrigerator look a bit ominous. Someone on my team is supposed to be modeling it, and it seemed like the best angle to display the reefer in all it's wonder. thx.

eazym, thx also for the compliment on the tree, yeah i like it too, i still want to do a few things to it, but it's reading alright for now. As far as my characters, yeah, i agree. I'm still trying to self-teach myself anatomy, i got a great anatomy book, and loomis' books, i think once i understand anatomy better my characters will start getting better, till then i just need to keep studin and keep drawin.

Celvin H, that's a pretty good idea to make a cat zombie with it's face falling off kinda like the bag is sagging off it's face in the sketch a few posts up.

thx again guys.

[ArtZealot]

Work in progress, started it in the coffee shop this morning. ideas, comments, suggestions much appreciated.
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/alienbaby.jpg

[P E N Ricklund]

Hi there, thanks for posting in my sb.
I like what I'm seeing here. The organical evironments are really strong, maybe the strongest in this book. I can see that you're working with the perspective and all.
What I think you can do is push the contrast on everyone of the pictures a tad bit. They are a bit blurry and soft right now.
Good luck with it.

Hugs!

[ArtZealot]

My first ever, official, speedpaint 15min (nothing up to this point has really been timed or anything like that):

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint1.jpg

[ArtZealot]

thx for the advice pencilator. yeah, now that i look back, a lot of my stuff does need just a little more contrast. sill trying to get better at drawing people. thx again. in other news, heres another speedpaint, 2nd speedpaint, 20 min
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint2.jpg

[Myxomatosis]

Nice speedpaint. I was looking over your things, and as far as your figures go I noticed they're all kinda stiff, sans the anatomical problems - that's just something you fix over time. However, if you draw more from life than from pictures, you'll get that natural movement. A picture is just a still - you're forced to replicate an action freeze-framed. If you draw someone from life they're always moving, even if they're attempting to remain still. In compensating for that, you generally produce some more fluid marks. Cool stuff man.

Keep on truckin'.

[HellTaxi]

Ambitious project with some nice sketches, very entertaining

[Simon.Rain]

that water damaged church bench looks really nice

[ArtZealot]

Another speedpaint, 15 min. i don't really like it, too much color, not enough detail, etc. i was experimenting with a new brush i learned how to make off of a gnomon video.i need to practice, practice, practice....

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaintttt3.jpg

[ArtZealot]

another speedpaint. i'm on vacation in southern Alaska right now, this is of the seward highway that goes south out of Anchorage. really scenic stuff around these parts. 10 min:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint4.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Another 10 minute of the seward highway in AK:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint5.jpg

[P E N Ricklund]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint2.jpg
I think you are onto something on this speedie. Hard vs. soft brushes. It can build contrast in itself. It's kewl to se how you dared to use the hard brushes on some points of it. I think the other speedies could need the same threatment.
Good luck.

Hugs!

[ArtZealot]

Another update,
Pencilator, thx for the advice on the need for contrast. It is true, a lot of my quick sketches do lack a lot of contrast, i think i just need to speed up to move from the block out process to actually refining shapes and stuff. Maybe i get too loose when i block stuff out at times.

Myxomatosis, my anatomy does need work i agree that more figure drawing would fix that, i'll be getting more next semester in school, lets hope it pays off.

Helltaxi, thanks.

Simon.Rain, thanks, any and all compliments are more than welcome.

Pencilator, hi again, yeah the hard brushes to do water was all out of laziness, i mean, i should have used soft brushes on the water but i think i was running out of time and wanted to get it in real quick.

Anyway, thx everyone for the advice and compliments, heres some stuff i did today. More Alaska stuff, i went clam digging at this inlet area below.


20min:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint6.jpg




1 hour later:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint690minfinishedjakalofbay.jpg

[ArtZealot]

I've been in Alaska for the last 3 weeks and have had a hard time getting around to internet or photoshop, but i'm back and have tons of reference photos and i plan on using them for speedpaints and other stuff. anyway, heres one i did on the flight back, 25 min:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/25minredmtn1.jpg

more to come...

[Myako]

Hi Artzealot ,
some nice speed paintings here , keep up the work for your game project, it sounds interesting!

[ArtZealot]

i was foolin around this morning, trying to learn painter... this was done using mostly "gouache" brushes:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/faces.jpg

[ArtZealot]

This one is classwork, we're supposed to come up with some sort of side scroller game and draw a "screenshot" of gameplay:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/executioner-game.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Another update. the head of a zombie
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/zombie1headfinished.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Nudity with a hockey mask:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/061506figdraw.jpg

[darkchild]

Hey thought I'd look cause of the nudity:) This is really cool stuff. I would be interested in seeing how the game progresses. I must say your enviros look wonderful! This is my favorite http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint2.jpg. Keep it coming!

[ArtZealot]

A page out of my sketchbook i did at comicon while listening to a speaker talk about the video games industry. (i listen better when i draw)
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchbookpage1.jpg

[ArtZealot]

A zombie with pieces of trash sticking out of it...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/trashzombie.jpg

[ArtZealot]

a splash screen for the zombie game i'm working on. this one is going to come in while the flooded town level is loading
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/insidehouse2.jpg

[ArtZealot]

another sketchbook page from the coffee shop...


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpageuno.jpg

[RichKid]

thats wierd that we have never known that other has a sketch thread on here. good stuff man, your texture that you get into your pieces is gritty as all hell. ok, time to start some crits.
in your enviroment scenes, you usually toss in a scaly, but it is often hard to see. when you put a scaly in a scene it should be a place that the player is going to be walking or trying to get to, so light that area up a bit more, i noticed in some jungle shots up top. another thing to make them seem a little more like they are part of the pic and not just an overlay is put a little cast shadow so they are grounded in there, right now they are just kinda levitating.
on your architectural stuffs, all of the edges of the buildings and corners are perfectly straight lines, everything else has this wonderful texture to it, why not the edges. chip away at them a little so they are not so sharp.
your speed paintings are awesome, keep it up. someone you should look at on here is m@, he is bomb with that shit.
i think thats all i can remember now off of the top of my head, so keep it up man, you are well on your way.

gavin

[ArtZealot]

And another piece for the game. this time it's another zombie that was the result of dying in the tsunami, this one got tangled up in a bunch of garbage bags before coming back to life; and yes, the zombies have guns in this game.


100% digital
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/saranwrapzombie.jpg

[ArtZealot]

today i practiced a little bit in the art of tentacles:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage3.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Tentacles from last night, except, tonight they are colored :}


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage3-colored.jpg

[ArtZealot]

A few more fresh pages from the sketchbook:



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage4.jpg



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http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage5.jpg





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http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage6.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Another few more pages in the sketchbook. i made a trip to the zoo today and drew a few bugs and reptiles. the giant insects are sweet.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage7.jpg


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http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage8.jpg

[Myako]

Hey artzealot
great character, creature sketches looking good
post more you are doing well , like to see some of them coloured ;DD

[Chiko]

wow your bg and concept sketches are really nice! keep up the great life drwaings too! Something about pen drawings shaded with markers does it for me :3

[ArtZealot]

Another sketchbook page:


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage9.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Different day, new sketchbook page:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage10.jpg

[Myako]

your fast ^^
again nice collection of characters ,great variety , want some coloured again ;P,
do you also have some character studies in back,front and sideview? May it`s important for the 3d process of your team

keep up want too see more ;D

[ArtZealot]

Another sketchbook page, i went to the zoo today and chequed out the bugz. i'm not into this sketchbook page, i think it's weak, but it's goin up...



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage12.jpg

[ArtZealot]

thx myako. yeah i should color more stuff,i've been into the sketchbook lately, this sketchbook i have has really sweet paper i dunno why. maybe it's cuz it cost 4 times as much as all the other sketchbooks, but yeah, i'll get diggin back into photoshop and painter soon enough, now i must sleep and model (3d model) all day tomorrow. hopefully i'll crank out another full sketchbook page or two tomorrow.

[ArtZealot]

it seems like lately everyone's been telling me to do more environments. in response to everyone telling me that, i'm going to start doing more environments. 25 min on this sucka:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint7-25min.jpg

[ArtZealot]

another one; same kind of setting as the last.


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint8.jpg

[Kicek]

haha.. magic hat of companionship?? I so need one! You got some very sick shit going on here (in the most positive way). + youre pencils are hot!! imo those last enviros could use some more contrast, but i like the desaturated look too. just a thought. btw. the rabbit in #45 looks so satisfied an all, i admit i had to smile... good stuff.
C

[M_abbazabba]

cool sketchbook, i'm lovin the environments.

[Virg]

great pencil skills man, really great, dig the tentacles. keep it up

[ArtZealot]

Kicek: I agree with u that i need to push more contrast in my enviros, u said that and i looked back at them and nodded. Also, thanks for the compliments, yeah that magic hat of companionship idea came after i finished the piece, i think i had played diablo2 recently when i came up with that name.

M_Abbazabba: thanks :)

WhiteC: i was waiting for someone to mention the tentacles, those were a fun project from pencil to photoshop. thx dude.



i think the two environment sketches and the zoo was a caused all the peacefullness to self destruct, here's one last sketch for the night; the guy in this one didn't see the sign...:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/randomsketch1.jpg

[ArtZealot]

another speedpaint, this time; the ocean!

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint11.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Another one; last sketch of the night, photoshop...


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/randomsketch2.jpg


i'm on page 2!! finally! i'm bringin this sucker to 40 at least...

[Magic Man]

Thanks for stopping by my sb

Some great concepts in here, although I'd work on your digital rendering technique a little. Try to practice the restrained stokes constantly, or else an extremely sketchy technique will confuse and tire the viewer's eyes on trenuous detail.

The pencil sketches look wonderful.

[Bartovan]

Lots of good stuff man. I like the big rabbit in post #45.

[ArtZealot]

I was lookin at someone else's thread and saw some thumbnails of theirs and got inspired to do some of my own. maybe i'll come back to them and turn some of them into finished pieces, i dunno. or maybe i'll just do more thumbnails.


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/thumbnailguys1.jpg

[Meatsworthy]

Oh, you people that draw so well, I'm envious! :).

Try playing with edge contrasts in your speeds. Set hard edges against soft to imply material quality (ie, metal = hard edge, flesh = soft edge). The one with the-guy-that-didn't-read-the-sign has this going for it.

[ArtZealot]

They had a free figure drawing workshop at our school today. Here's some of what i did today:


1
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figurepaint2.jpg


2
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Longposefigure.jpg

[ArtZealot]

I went to the zoo again today and got a few more sketchbook pages...i'm lovin that bug exhibit. the bugs hold nice and still for us artists.


1
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage14.jpg


2
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage13.jpg


3
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage15.jpg

[Meatsworthy]

Ooh, More nice drawings!

For these (http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figurepaint2.jpg) , maybe try a really big brush for values and reserve the short scribbly strokes for building up texture.

[van]

Very nice stuff, my friend. Enjoyed going through it all. Keep rocking.

[GriNGo]

Woah man, those zoo drawings are killer. I wish I was the skillful with the pencil.. kinda hard medium for me but anyway, I just love how you use all the different variations of strokes, in a CORRECT way.

greetings!
GriNGoLoCo

[Myako]

Hey Artzealot ,
so many updates passed :nohope:
some really great sketches i like your zoo study great way to practice i wish i had one near ;D,
I also agree with the tip from Magic Man,
so keep up working on it ;D

Mya

[ArtZealot]

Magicman: thankyou for the advice, after reading what you wrote, i started looking at my digital stuff, then my pencil and i realised that i am a lot sketchier in general with my digital. I guess having that ctrl-z button there makes me just go buck wild painting stuff and makes me think less when i put stuff on the digital canvas. i'll try pay more attention to that now. thx.

Bartovan: thanks for the compliment, i always love to hear those :teeth:

Meatsworthy: i'm really going to try and use the bits of advice you gave me, both were good, sound advice. i never thought of using hard brushes/soft brushes for the silhouettes. I usually just use hardness and softness solely for shading the cast and form shadows, when i do the silhouette i've never really gave any thought to whether the silhouette deserved a hard or soft edge, i've always just went for it.
Also, what you said about my figure painting i'll use too. i was sort of lost as to which kinds of brushes to use or how best to approach it. it was my first time digitally painting from a live model and i was going back and fourth between brushes and jumping all around between brush types and didn't feel like i knew the best way to approach it but yeah, using a big brush for the big shapes and saving my lines unless i really need them for texture is something i'll definately try. thanks. :confident

In other news, heres the last sketch of the day. it's what i consider my first real, honest attempt at designing a vehicle. it's pretty self explanitory what this vehicle does, i got the idea for it from my page of thumbnails a few posts up:



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/HopperVehiclefinished.jpg

[Nallen]

Thanks for stopping by my SB,

Crazy stuff you got going here. I dig the pencil sketches the most.
Great work, and zombies too!

I'll keep checking back,

[ArtZealot]

Somethin from a workshop at my school. it's actually a few weeks old but i figured i might as well upload it:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/fugly1.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Thanks for the compliments Nallen. Yeah, i'm still workin on my digital, i've only had my wacom for about 3 or 4 months i'm a little more comfortable with pencil at the moment, but i'm lovin the possibilities that digital has.

And heres yet another sketchbook page:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Sketchpage16.jpg

[j a k e]

Keep it rolling dude. I like your pencil stuff, and those sillhouettes are great.

[ArtZealot]

I did a little figure drawing today:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage17.jpg

[JoeHell]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sadfasd.jpg

looking real good..
really like some of the later things aswell.. the tentacles and some of the enviros are looking very good..
I'm really bad at giving crits unless I'm asked on some specific area so I'll just leave you with a keep pushing!

[ArtZealot]

One last sketchbook page before i crash. (before i go to bed)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage18.jpg

[Andy P]

Ha, this new page is yucky-gross, nicely done! Your landscapes, textures, and environments are all friggity solid, just keep bangin at the anatomy! More life drawing, that newest one was really nice.

[ArtZealot]

More Sketchbook pages from today...i'm determined to get better at anatomy. i've never really gotten into an anatomy book until recently, i picked up bridgman's, his "constructive anatomy" book is brilliant.

1

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage19.jpg




2

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage20.jpg

[ArtZealot]

This is something i am working on for a class, not sure really what to do with it. i'm sort of struggling trying to work out the colors at night. i know that during the day, things get lighter and less saturated as they get farther away, i'm guessing the same happens at night except for the "getting lighter" part. i don't know. here's what i have so far, any feedback would really help.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/artofwar21.jpg

[sabe2003]

Some freaking awesome concepts in here!

[ArtZealot]

More thumbnails. None of them are really supposed to be anything, they are mostly for practice or to drill in my head the idea of silhouette.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/thumbnailguys2.jpg

[Chiko]

Wow that snow/ winter building scene is very nice! I love your thumbnails too, that's something I should start up..

[ArcoNL]

Great sketchbook dude, and a great imagination......

Cheers,
Arco

[ArtZealot]

another digi-sketch. this one is for the creature of the week over... in... that other forum...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/chakalungs2.jpg

[elisa]

hi! sweet sweet stuff! really like those painted enviroments, and the thumbnails - I got inspired to try some too:) Oh, and the figure studies from august 12´th is really great, do some more life-studies! Keep it up:)

[Myako]

Hey Artzealot
great new updates man O.o , and your enviros rocks their are much better than from the beginning, like your progress , keep on it ^^

[Pawlack]

I really like the castle by night :) I think it looks grat so far. Maby you can make bigger influence of artificial light sources to make it lighter.
Last creature concept is awesome :)

[ArtZealot]

Elisa: thankyou for the compliments. Yeah, i highly reccomend doing the thumbnails, whenever i can't think of anything to draw, i've been referencing back to those, and they are a great way to inspire yourself.

Myako: thanks, yeah i've been trying to get more into enviros lately. i have found that i do a lot of nature scenes...i need to practice with cities and industrial stuff...so yeah, i'll keep on that.

Pawlack: I used your advice on the castle, i tried to punch up a few of the lights, let me know what u think.

I worked a little more on the tower scene a few posts up. It was a project for one of my classes where I had to design a loading screen.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/WheelerWes_Artofwar2.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Small update, more most likely coming later on tonight. This one is a few studies i did out of bridgeman's figure drawing book.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/bridgemanstudies1.jpg

[darkchild]

You have most certainly been busy! I saw the sketches you did from the zoo, very cool. I really like the insects and the hippo skull. Very nice line work done on those. Keep on drawin!

[walnut]

I'm definitely seeing some improvement here. Best thing so far for me are the pencils. Figures can use more attention, but i believe that's just practise practise practise. Like those last figure studies, they're getting there. Watch the balance on them. With the colored ones, i don't get why you often have such such a gray, dark BG. More contrast man, more colour. Ah well, i've ranted enough, not like i'm an expert. Keep on knockin'!

[trevor]

hey art
keep up with the enviros
mot posted job listing ive seen in the industry
your close..... now lets get closer
you can do it

[Spade]

hey man, diggin the variety of stuff here its all very cool to look through! your thumbnails great and i really enjoyed your take on that secrets of the bermuda triangle! keep sharing!

[Uziel]

You gotta love those cartoony figures.

Nice sketchbook you got here, lots of great stuff and potential.

As walnut said practice practice.
some of the studies you did out of the bridgeman's figure drawing book don't look as good as the rest. try a couple more.

cheers

[guitarjames]

thanks for the coment ..
looking good ,really like the thumbnails , would be cool if you brang them forward. Youve improved alot from your first post:)
so keep on going..
james.

[ArtZealot]

Darkchild - Thx for the comments. The hippo skull was fun to do, i drew it right after i was about 4 inches away from a live hippo. it was pressed against the glass and i could see every crack in it's skin. Those things are incredible, their skulls are a sight to behold too.

Walnut - I agree, my figures do need some work. As you can see i am practice, practice, practicing. i drew figures for about 5 hours today...i could do it about 10 hours a day, i need that practice so bad. I'll try pushing the contrast too, it's something i've been working on, it's been awhile since i really got into the figure, i think once i get more confident drawing it, the contrast will come.

Trevor - Your comment made me really want to practice enviros. I think i might be able to land an enviro job if i just practiced a little more, and exercised a little more variety from the usual landscape scene and did some urban or futuristic stuff. thx for the comment.

Spade - Thanks for stoppin by. Seriously, i recommend everyone try a page of thumbnails, they are indespensible. If you're ever out of ideas, put together a page of thumbnails and use them for inspiration when your at a block.

Uziel - U and Walnut couldn't be more right about me needin figure practice, i got a little today as you can see in the pictures attached to this message. Some of them turned out alright, better than yesterday's bridgeman studies, i still need more practice tho...

Guitarjames - I really appreciate the comment about me improving since the first post. I havent really noticed but since you said that i looked back and i have improved a little. thanks for stoppin by.

In other news; Due to popular recommendation by my peers here at conceptart, i did some figure studies today:


1

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figuresketch01.jpg


2

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figuresketch02.jpg


3

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figuresketch03.jpg


4

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figuresketch04.jpg


5

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figuresketch05.jpg


6

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figuresketch06.jpg


7

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figuresketch07.jpg

[ArtZealot]

I just realised that i missed some people from about a week ago that i never replied to in the flurry of inspiration i had.
Van: thanks for stoppin by, i looked at your stuff, you have a killer sketchbook, i'm lovin your portraits.

Gringoloco: the variation of strokes i use is probaly just my scattered nature coming out in my drawing, my idea of "just keep the pencil moving on the paper" i'm glad u like that variation though, i never really noticed it.

Nallen: thx man, yeah i've been doing pencils a little bit longer than i've been doing digital. i like my pencils more too. sometimes. sometimes i hate my pencils...

Jake: Thx man, i saw a gnomon video with feng zhu who was saying that your drawing is only as good as your silhouette. I'm new to the idea, but after hearing that i'm a firm believer that silhouette is something to be aware of.

JoeHell: Thx for pointing that sketchpage out, that one is one of my favorites. especially the baby with the old man head. The gun in his hand is jacked up but i like everything else about it. By the way, you have a badass sketchbook, thanks for checkin mine out.

Andy-P- thx for all the love. i'm workin on that anatomy and figure, that's my next big project is to study hardcore in anatomy and the figure. keep truckin'

Sabe - i like compliments like a fat kid likes cake. or rather i like compliments like anyone likes cake. thx for stoppin by.

Chiko - thanks, the thumbs were fun to do, u should try some.

ArcoNL: thanks for stoppin by. You have some absolutely killer anatomy studies in your sketchbook by the way.

[dragon4lunch]

I think you should widen your themes. It seems you only like grossed out deformed bodies and decay. Your tentacles are by far the best piece, imo. With your limited subjects here you sort of only fit into a Doom universe, so you'd have limited options of companies where to apply, should you for example want to work as a concept artist. Then again, maybe you already work as one, then what I just wrote is a little silly, but it's meant as a suggestion. Great work on those tentacles!

[ArtZealot]

I've went through this artist's block all week, finally came out of it today and got a little inspired. here's what i got from today in class:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage21.jpg

[isair]

Wow man, awesome thread. especially the digital ones. You have a firm grip on the perspective. The figure drawings are nice but you just need to relax a bit on the contour lines. Feel the flow and mind the form more.
And Thanks for popping my sketchbook. :)

[ArtZealot]

a silly little environment out of my head...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/screwinaround.jpg

[j a k e]

Great little island hut/mountain there mate. The water is looking good. I dont know if you want to flesh it out any more, maybe some more variation in the sky and along the water horizon would make it a little more interesting. Great progress mate.

[Meatsworthy]

Nice life drawings, great to hear you're out of that art slump. It is no fun.

Edges are coming along nicely, the art of war loading screen certainly feels solid. For that, perhaps the torches and campfire could be brighter and warmer.

I haven't done much night paintings, but my guess would be to fade saturation and contrast in the distance, and consider the amount of ambient light (from the moon). Pushing the darks towards the color of the horizon shouldn't be far off for creating that effect... since the horizon band should technically be the band of atmospheric haze being lit by ambient light - the same thing that causes fading and things looking blue in the distance during the day. Well, that is my theory anyway :thinking:

Along with j a k e's crits on the enviroment, I'll add fog up the horizon to add a little depth as well.

[Fishspawn]

Awesome stuff. I really like your character design and enviros. And the thumbnails... and the studies. I'm a fan, keep up the cool stuff.

[Myako]

hey man , omg nice update O.o
your environments are getting even better now ,really great done , yeah variation on the sky is something which i miss too , draw also a bit more humans , the faces need work ^^
Keep it up

[ArtZealot]

Isair: thx for the props. Yeah, i'm actually not satisfied with my knowledge of perspective; i was just looking at a few other sketchbooks with nice vehicles and urban landscapes and realised i need to nosedive into perspective so i can maybe get half as good as them. Also, i looked back at my figure sketches and, yeah, they are a little bit contoury, i'll keep in mind what you said next figure drawing class i go to. thx for the advice.

j a k e: your comment made me go back to the piece and fix it up. thx for the crit. i love them crits.

Meatsworthy: same as jake, your advice made me want to go back to that "silly little environment" as i called it. I tried adding more depth to it, added a little bit of background, a few clouds. I'm planning on fixing up the art of war one some time this week; i'll probably fool around with the background, and maybe add fog like you said; i also might do an overlay and add some texture to the buildings in the foreground. thanks for the crit.

Fishspawn: Thx for all the kudos.

Myako: Thx for the crit, check out the updated sky (below).
Tell me what ya think. Thx for stoppin by.

And due to popular suggestion, i went back to this one and fixed it up a little bit. thx again for the suggestions.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/screwin-around2.jpg

[ArtZealot]

I'm suffering through lack of inspiration. i'm fighting it...here's some quick sketches from the coffee shop.


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/figsketch1.jpg

[ArtZealot]

More sketchbook pages:

1
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage22.jpg

2
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage23.jpg

[Spade]

cool stuff man, i like the ink work and that last enviro is looking awesome:) keep it up, inspiration will come!

[maxetormer]

Four stars I just gave ya :D
great ideas, ill be around!

[ArtZealot]

had to pull off more sketchbook page out before i go to bed...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage24.jpg

[dfacto]

I agree with Magic Man. You've got some great concepts and your environments are well lit and the choice of colors is good, but your strokes are way too rough, and kill the effect. Try looking at stuff by sparth or Craig Mullins to see how you can stay rough but still have a tight render.

[ArtZealot]

figure sketched from bookstore:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/aaaa.jpg

[Mr.Delicious]

I dig your little b&w concepts/your environments the most, keep on rollin this sheeit out!

[orionterron99]

Love the enviro's, lol, though i'm sure you've heard that enough. Fav is the tree on the first page. you capture a fantastic darkness with it. also the sketches. great stuff man. you have an almost H.P. lovecraft style... though infinately more entertaining.

[ArtZealot]

Spade: thanks for stoppin by. yep, you were right, it came back. i was just in an inspiration slump. too much 3d modeling work needing done.

Maxetormer: Thanks! and thanks.

Dfacto: I'm glad you said something, i'm going to do my damndest to do what you and magicman have reccomended. i've heard of sparth, and have always loved his stuff. i did some intense study of his stuff today, so see what you meant. i think justin sweet might be another example of what u might mean, if i'm not mistaken. thankyou very much for the crit, i freakin love crits.

mr.delicious: thx dude, got another environment attached to this message, let me know what you think. thanks for checkin my sketchbook out.

And...another environment. I was playin around with custom photoshop brushes today...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/anotherenviro.jpg

[Banshax]

like what you`re doing animal wise and design wise.
Also those little thumbnail researches are way cool! Theyve got character.

[orionterron99]

my fav part of your most recent enviro is the clouds... The color scheme all around is wonderful, but for some reason the clouds set it all off. Love the dark. keep it up!

[ArtZealot]

Here's my creature of the week entry, far from done, but what i have so far, i'll keep updating my progress on it. I still need to fix the anatomy, composition...well a bunch of stuff, but yeah this is my first comp.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/COW-river-dweller1.jpg

I can't seem to pull myself away from this thing...i have a ton of homework too. just another progress shot, fixed up the arm a little, and the head, it's supposed to be a "river crawler" according to the creature of the week topic...i still need to make it more "crawlery" it looks like more of a river titan than a river crawler.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/COW-river-dweller2.jpg

[Cobi]

hellllllooooo! I like pretty much everything in here!! I love the last environment one you put up. This crawler thing, what are you using to make that? i like it so far. i'll be back!!

[orionterron99]

The proportions for the second look much better, though the first has a more interesting feel. More human/sub human, whereas the second is more hippo-y (the birds don't help, lol). to go with more of a crawler style, you might try a two part pic, one with it out of the water (like the post), and one with it IN the water. problem is, again, it would resemble a hippo. unless of course that is what you wanted...

[stimpack]

Hell yea man! you have made vast improvements since i first saw your work! Keep pluggin away at it. You got potential.

Ill come back and do a crit a bit later on when i have time to stare and analyze some of your pieces =)

[crazyace31]

the forground arm is nicely planted, but the weight of the overall creature looks like he is falling foreward, or off to the side. Also try extending your torso down inbetween the back legs.(it may help with the weight). when rendering the forground hoof keep it in perspective, and try pointing it a little outward( just see how it looks).

[sith]

whoa man- your eniviros are solllliiiidddd- like 'em a lot. that's something i need to work on. anyway, lifedrawings are looking mighty fine as well- just need some work on the faces. but i guess that's something that needs a bit more time sometimes. great book man- i'll be sure to stop by again

[ArtZealot]

Wow, i've gotten a lot of visitors since i last replied...

Banshax: thanks. Yeah i like doin animals. i've been hitting up the zoo lately, and i'm realising theres some cool animals out there...i especially like the bugs.

Orionterron99: I almost forgot to put the clouds in, then i remembered the last environment i did, the one of the house on the hill, i forgot to put clouds in and everyone told me "it needs atmosphere". the clouds are a photoshop brush by the way.

Cobi: The crawler thing...my idea i guess came from a bunch of water creatures melded into one. i was lookin at a hippo, then water buffalo, then none of them were muscular enough so i looked at a belgian blue bull (pretty cool genetic deformity man has made out of a bull) and yeah, that's about how i came up with it. thanks for stoppin by. Oh, and stay away from that new-metallica by the way (load, re-loaded, and st.anger) those albums will de-evolve you.

Orionterron99: i took your advice, i swapped out the heads (though i still feel i need to tweek it a little more) It did look too much like a hippo. thx for the crit, artzealot loves crits. tear my stuff apart.

Stimpack: thanks for the props. you need to get back into conceptart dude, no one from our school concept arts it up, it would be a sweet way for us all to keep in contacts and track our improvement after we all graduate. I'm sure no one will give a bull-shoot if you post a 3d render here and there in your thread either. keep on truckin'

Crazyace: I took your advice on extending the torso, i'll mess with the hooves too, this thing isn't done

Sith: Thx a lot for the compliment, i'll work on them faces, i guess i need to stop with the cartoony stuff, or ditch the mechanical pencil i love so very very much. thx for the advice.

And....continued work in progress on this weeks creature of the week. it still needs a few more tweeks, i'm always open to crits. by the way...i know the background on it sucks, i did it in about 6.4 seconds

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/COW-river-dweller3.jpg

[orionterron99]

FRIGGIN A! LOVE the changes man! especially the monocular vision! personally it resembles a sick fusion of man, beast (i can see the bull/buffalo in some of the muscle structures) and monster:) and the b/g helps it immensely. one last nit-picky thing, nix the knuckle walking... actually no... keep the digits, but i would suggest adding hoof-like growths on the knuckle joints, it would add a bit of consistancy with the back feet, but by keeping the hands still have the eerie 'this thing might have been human' factor. just sumpin to think about.

[Shinryu]

looking good, keep going with it

your figure stuff is looking nice, but maybe do a few exercises taking more time with it

cheers

[crazyace31]

NIce. it is coming along well! you seem to know where you putting those muscles. REFRENCE the back leg, it seems to look extremly vertical.
check this pic out, see how the animals back leg is leaning forward and not staight up.
http://www.wildlife-pictures-online.com/image-files/xbuffbull4.jpg
the rendering is looking awsome!and i like the extended torso, it is looking sexy, keep going!

[Moai]

Nice sketchbook! Your pencil skills are very strong, and your knowledge of form as also good. As far as crits go, the word that jumps into my mind is color! I think you need to take on giant leap out of your comfort zone and apply some big, bold, sometimes ugly colors to your canvas. For inspiration on vivid, striking, experimental color work, I like to go to Idiot Apathy's sketchbook: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=56810. Though, obviously, color is something I need to work on as well.:rendered:
I liked seeing you put the knowledge you gained from your bug sketches to work in designing that hopper vehicle. I also liked your thumbnails, the "Art of War" environment, and that one sketch of a dog in a hazmat suit or something.
Nice work! Just constantly push your boundaries.

[ArtZealot]

ok, all he needs now is an environment...i fixed up the arm, added some core shadowing, refined the head a little....among other things.
(replies are comin soon, i must sleep now.)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/COW-river-dweller4.jpg

[orionterron99]

I like the core shadowing you added... but i can't decide which of those necks i like better. (cuz, you know, your existance is based off of my validation ;) ) There's also something.... off with the hand and the hoof, both on the left side. I'd say turn them both out a little more (what would that be, counter-clockwise?) dunno if thats just nit picking or anyone else see's that... otherwise it's quite nice.

[Cam Sykes]

THe Ideas and Imagination put into your work blows my mind.
I especially like the old man with the magic hat.
Only crit I can give is that your female figures look a little mascualine in some of their features. Mainly in the Face. A good thing to remember is that a smaller chin is an indicator of oestrogen, whilst testosterone levels are indicated by a larger chin/jaw.

[ArtZealot]

Orionterron99, thx for stoppin by and thanks for tha props. i tried doing that thing with the knuckles, but it made the human arms look out of place. it made them look funky, so i just stuck with normal hands, but i gave it a shot.

Shinryu: thanks, yeah most of my figures move after about 5 minutes. some of the ones i've posted are long poses, maybe i need to stop figure drawing with a mechanical pencil, i've been meaning to get some conte crayon.

Crazyace-thx for the crit dude. i used that reference and fixed it up a little, let me know what ya think

Moai - thanks for stoppin by. yeah, i think your absolutely right about me needing to be more experimental with my color. i just started working with color this year, i've always just done the whole pencil, charcoal gig. i'll give some crazy color a shot...it might not come today, or tomorrow. i have to find the right piece to go crazy on.

Orionterron99, thx, yeah the core shadowing was a suggestion of a buddy of mine, so he takes part credit on them core shadows. i left the hand how it was, i've messed with that hand so much, i'm seeing hands when i close my eyes. i did however add background, let me know what ya think

Camsyko - i never noticed that about women's faces. i guess on average they do have a little smaller chins, cause women with big broad chins look like dudes sometimes now that i think of it. i need to do some hardcore face study, that's one of my weaknesses. i'm tryin to get overall anatomy down first though. thx for the crit.

And...i did a few figure sketches at the bookstore today

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/fig07.jpg

and i added background to the creature of the week entry. i might delete all th previous posts with this thing and put it in to one post so it's like a progress thing i dunno...but here it is, I promise i wont post anymore progress shots of this :} ...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/COW-river-dweller6.jpg

[sabe2003]

Hey, Nice updates, of coarse you know what I'm going to say. I want to see more figures drawing like the above ^.

[orionterron99]

actually man, with the addition of the b/g the hand/hoof don't look too bad:) all in all, it's friggn great. (some day i will be able to do that!)

[ArtZealot]

A few thumbnail sketches before a long school week full of 3d homework...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/thumbnailguys3.jpg

[camilografix]

wow, that last purple creature is amazing. looks a little washed out and blury. but with a little bit more detail it will look really cool.

[crazyace31]

nice usage of refrence, the creekcrawler lo0ks 100 times better than when you started. all it needs is some spots/freckles just something to break up the skin pigmant. (try this out) make a new blank layer, and put some spots on the monster, then just turn the layer to multiply, or lower the opacity.
good work.

[Kian]

The thumbnails are great. Really nice expression in em

[Banshax]

I always like your quick silhouette studies and the ones from the bookstore are cool! Keep drawin from life It`ll help lots (both in speed and skill)

[Meatsworthy]

Nice figure stuff, and thumbnails... I guess I should start doing those too!

The recent COW seems to me to sit awkwardly on the BG. It might be because the creature looks strongly lit while the BG is overcast... but I'm not sure, it could just be the difference in rendering style throwing me off.

[Johann de Venecia]

Hi, Artzealot! Had fun browsing through your SB. Youve got a lot of cool stuff. My favourite is the update from august 12 (woman in green with her back to us). Very nice. The Cow is good, he looks like a cross between a hppo and a cow with a touch of cyclops, but something about the very human front paws bothers me, it doesn't seem to fit the picture as a whole. The body structure seems to indicate that he walks on all fours, in which case, he would have evolved hoof like his two hind legs. Now if he was walking upright like a gorilla... Yeah, nitpick, nitpick. :) Keep up the great work. Insect bug locomotive rocks btw.

[ArtZealot]

Sabe2003, couldn't agree with u more. i wish i had figure drawing 6 hours every day.

Orionterron99, thx, the hoof hand thing is still a good idea, maybe next week's creature, if i do it.

Camilografix, i didn't notice till you said, but your right, it does need a little work on the outline of it, it needs sharpened up a little. thx for the crit.

Crazyace31, i'm gonna try that. i'm going to maybe play around with some overlays and see if i can get some cool effects. he is a bit smooth skinned. Being the size he is, he probably would have a bit rougher skin

Kian, thx, yeah the thumbnails are my inkblot tests i use for inspiration when i can't think of anything.

Banshax, i agree man, i need to get hardcore into that life drawing, i wanna be pro, and life drawing is the answer.

Meatsworthy, i knew he didn't fit, but i couldn't put a finger on what it was till you said that. i think i do need to change the lighting. i will probably change the background to something a little more dramatic to match that of the creature. maybe make it early sunrise or dusk or something.

Lukavi, thx for stopping by. you arent nitpicking, i like it when people nitpick my stuff, nitpick it to death, i learn alot that way. I think i may redesign the creature of the week sometime but not right away. i wanted to give him the ability to pick things up with his hands and inspect them, maybe i should try some articulated pincier hooves or somethin or perhaps i will try your idea of making him able to walk upright also, like a gorilla. thx for stoppin by, come again and nitpick all you want, nitpicking is more than welcome here.

-In my art history class we've been learning about modernism and abstraction, and i decided to create a sort of abstract of my own. i was also halfway practicing drawing without "scratching" my lines in (a bad habit i have) i'll probably color this and repost it sometime. i can think of a bunch of ways i'm thinking color might really bring it to life.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/abstract.jpg

[j a k e]

Hey man. Digis are really improving. Good job on trying to eliminate the scratchy lines too. But before you colour that last piece, maybe the hand at the very top looks a little off?

Thanks for popping by my SB man!

[fooxoo]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/thumbnailguys3.jpg - this page s great!

As regards digi, very nice, but try to use more COLOUR into them, it s all a bit grayish atm. Good stuff, keep them coming!

[Myako]

Hey artzealot some great new updates , the clouds were really good ;DD ,
on this monster pic
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/COW-river-dweller6.jpg
try to put more depth in the fog looks a bit flat to me but otherwise the details are awesome on this ^.^ cool life studys too
Keep working ^^

[ArtZealot]

another speedpaint.tryin to get good at those environments...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint12.jpg

[Zynic]

Hey mate, and thanks for stopping by :D
I really like your stuff, you've got a sweet style! :)
That last speedpainting looks awesome! :)
I don't know about the clouds though, you should probably use a little more time on those, even though it is a speed painting :P
Keep it up!

[Vorace]

Cool environnements !;

I like a lot the tentacles on page 1, I would suggest maybe juste a little bit more highlights to make them really sticky.

Keep going,

[ArtZealot]

some figure sketches in charcoal and conte crayon:


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/newsprint06.jpg


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/newsprint05.jpg


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/newsprint03.jpg


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/newsprint02.jpg


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/newspring01.jpg

[Orifice]

Cool sketchybook! That COW creature's awesome! Cracs me up for some reason. good stuff. I like the musselyness of it, n the phlem from the mouth is a really good detail. I really like those thumbnail gesture and pose guys. Keep up the good drawing mate!

[ArtZealot]

practically 30 second sketch i'm putting in the creature of the week forum as a joke. this week's topic is "etherial stalker" heh. here's my big mean etherial stalker...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/ghost-dog.jpg

[blanquish]

hey there.
Those 2 last monsters, the abstract one and the one with the enviro behind it are looking good.
I think the values and conntrast on it are near perfect, its a great balance.
ANd those thumbnail sketches look radical!
Nothing constructive to say, but keep going at this rate, and youll be doing pro like work in no time!

[ArtZealot]

Playin around with brushes, messin around wit stuff...came out a little bit gothic.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/darkertimes.jpg

[Ubar_303]

Hey dude man, great pages. :D Your environment sketches are pretty nice. Have you watched the Gnomon series videos on Environment rendering? I was wondering if you had because your stuff looks similiar to what they teach. My favorite work of yours that I've seen so far is definitely the old man in the magic hat. keep up the good work-:blahblah:
-thumbs up

[orionterron99]

if you look away then look back real quick, it seems like the tendril thingies on the far left figure are moving... creepy.

[ArtZealot]

holy crap your right...i think i just leveled up in my photoshop skills with that.

[ArtZealot]

I havent really posted in awhile cause school's kept me busy. This is my homework for my interface design class, we were supposed to design an 2 interface screens for a strategy game.

A trade screen
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/screenshot1.jpg

Concentrating more on information seen during gameplay...
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/screenshot2.jpg

[ArtZealot]

J a k e: thx dude. yeah i guess my digital sketches are improving a bit. I'm growing to like digital the more i do it. oh, and i fixed the hand; i knew it was there but didn't think anyone would notice...

Fooxoo: thanks. yeah i have issues with color now and then. through the critiques i've been getting on here, i've been paying more attention to my color use. I'm still getting a feel for the transition from strictly graphite to color. thx for the crit.

Myako - Thanks. yeah in that one i was trying to fade the background out and draw more attention to the creature. i'll keep workin, dont worry.

Zynic - i fixed them clouds in that speedpaint. i still want to tweak them a little more...thanks for stoppin in.

Vorace - I'm thinking of maybe doing another page of slimy things. i'll make sure and make them nice and sticky. thanks for stoppin in. By the way, i'm lovin your sketchbook, u have some sweet digitals

Orifice- thanks for all the props man, i'll keep up with those thumbnails, they're pretty fun to do.

Blanquish - Thanks a lot for all the compliments dude. I'm glad to be getting approval on the level of contrast in my stuff. I've been struggling to find the right amount of contrast in my digitals lately. thanks for stoppin in.

Ubar_303 - Yeah, i have been watching quite a few gnomon videos lately. I think my favorite style of putting together the environments is how ryan church does it, he's badass. Thanks for checkin out my stuff.

Orionterron99 - that is a trip...

And...
A sketchbook page...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sdfasdf.jpg

[dindon]

Good stuff overall. Your concept drawings are neat. My crit is for your digital paintings. In some of your paintings, the edges get a bit blurry and messy looking, but that might just be the fact that these are sketches. Another one with your paintings is that they look like they're hanging too much in the midtones, try to create more contrast. That's the annoying thing about computers though, monitor settings make everything look different compared to another... so on your comp it probably looks different.

[Fishspawn]

Yo, thanks for dropping by my book. I see improvement since i last came in here. Your enviros are looking much better. Heh, i chuckled at the ethereal stalker. Keep working on those faces, theyre the only thing detracting from quality figures. I look forward to more.

[ArtZealot]

Dindon, i'll pay more attention to the stuff you mentioned, i do see what u mean in a few of my digitals. thx for the crit.
Fishspawn, yeah, i'm never satisfied with my faces i draw. i think i sometimes overwork them. i need to draw more faces from life, usually in my figure drawing classes i concentrate on the anatomy and stuff and save the head for last.

and...

another sketchbook page.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage25.jpg

[Darktwin]

nice sb, really like your enviornments, your characters are improving also. can't wait to see more. will crit soon, have to run to class.

[Spats]

Wicked stuff! Awesome characters and environments.

Keep it up!

[Fishspawn]

Self portraits is a great way to draw faces from life ;) Btw, that flying slug is genius, keep it up.

[Meatsworthy]

Emperor McLips totally cracks me up, lol!

With that mountainside speed, the mountain is well done. My feeling is the shadow and light values are too close together. Clouds are pretty hard to paint on their own, and so is foilage... for those, some reffed speeds should help.

[Izi]

Your concepts are amazing and very creative. Your sketchwork is real nice too...I noticed you use crosshatching quite a bit, do you find that to be the best/quickest way to add value shading?

I'm not familiar with crosshatching or hatching, as I don't use it and prefer long, tedious scumbling and tortellione sticks for finished pieces. I think with new classes coming up soon, the assignments are going to start calling for shading and I am going to have to try hatching.

I like the tentacles alot, the meat gun was amazing. The silhouettes I am just being introduced too in school, that is a really neat technique.

I notice you use a lot of grey in your work, which, when used with color, tends to pull down a piece. Maybe you could try using high chroma dark color and work out of it using linear dodge...that's what I usually do for quick pieces, but they don't have us doing digital in school yet.

[lord_rabboon]

you do mean stuff in a short amount of time. good job

[Darktwin]

I really like your pencil sketches, I have to agree with the magic man about your line quality with the tablet. Keep it up the good work. I'll be around

cheers

[Cup of Joe]

Sweet stuff! Thanks for dropping by my SB. You ended up as the last person in my respond rounds, so sorry if I got nothing to say, but I'm drained. Maybe tomorrow.
Anyway, keep it up!

[crazyace31]

yo! thanks for swinnging by and i will update that fatmonster thing asap!
one thing to remeber when doing your speed paintings, is the 1,2,3 read rule. 1.forground high detail and contrast
2.less detail but still some sharp edges and more medium gray value w/highlights and shadows
3. hazzy/fuzzy less focus rare accented edges
(your doing awsome on the last 2, and even thought it is a speed paint try to capture the 123read) you capture this very effectivly "June 24th, 2006, 08:42 PM " its on the 1st page. i think that is why it is so succesful.
keep you pencil up!

check out my sketchbook and give a crit!http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76333

[draw]

You know what your doing, good stuff keep going!

[ArtZealot]

Darktwin- thanks for stoppin by, and thanks for the compliments, still waitin on that crit.

Spats - thanks, i definately will keep it up.

Fishspawn - Yeah i've thought about doing selfportraits to help improve on my faces. only mirror i have is the bathroom mirror, so i'll have to get some kind of portable mirror or something and start bustin out the self portraits.

Meatsworthy - yeah, i'm strugglin with those clouds. i tried making a cloud brush, and still am not really satisfied with them. i'll have to google some cloud images and fix that one up one of these days.

Ladyhydralisk - I actually tried that linear burn thing on this piece i'm posting right now. i think i need to get the hang of it, but it's a cool little technique. Also, u asked about crosshatching, yeah the main reason why i am all about crosshatching is because i mainly use mechanical pencils, and in my opinion it's the best way to lay in value with a mechanical pencil. i feel that i need to start using "artists pencils" but havent gotten around to it yet. i hate having to sharpen my pencil.

Lord Rabboon - thanks.

Darktwin - I've been keeping that in mind lately when i draw. Still workin on them wacom skills.

Cup of Joe- Thanks dude, i'll keep at it.

Crazyace31- i never really thought of it as a 1-2-3 kind of thing. I'll give it a shot.

Draw - Thanks for stoppin by.

And in other news, i had injurys in both of my arms over the weekend (tried a new excercise in the gym and had muscle cramps from hell) and I couldn't really draw or do anything, but after some R&R i'm all healed now and decided to color one of the creatures from a sketchbook page a few posts up:


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage25colored.jpg

[RichKid]

would it be wrong of me to ask if i can have your love child, cause, you can just toss it back if it is un wanted.

the shadow on that last update isn't matching your light, i know its nit picking but i heard you and james arguing about it in class, it should be more behind him than to the right.

check you around school... maybe zoo day to celebrate finals being over

[Izi]

lol that is really, really disgusting.

[sith]

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/abstract.jpg

holy shit. no seriously. that's really awesome.

[Pawlack]

Fantastic anatomy studies and figures. And that abstract anatomy ones are amazing :)

[Fishspawn]

That stinks about the injuries, muscle cramps are nasty :( I like the creature design. Looking forward to those SPs when you get that mirror ;)

[ArtZealot]

Richkid - the zoo sounds cool for thursday. i suppose i could just call you up...i feel like i'm typing up a myspace comment...yeah, about that shadow, your right, the light does look more like it's hitting it from the front than from the creatures right side, which is what the shadow is currently indicating. it was supposed to be from the right side, but that didn't really give it enough contrast and i had to remedy that, and i dont think i fixed the shadow. i'll fix it and re-upload it to the same file. probably by the time you see this message it'll be fixed.

Ladyhydralisk - i love it when people say that about my work "that is disgusting", i always take it as a compliment. thx.:wink:

Sith - thx dude. yeah i'm thinking that, that abstract is going to be the next one I color. I'm just going to make it a mess of beautiful multicolored glistening flesh.

Pawlack - thanks. yeah I want to do more anatomy studies, i am of the belief that you can never study anatomy too much. well i guess there is a point where if you get too obsessed you reach the point of where you're overly scientific and not creative, but i'm pretty sure i dont have to worry about that. anyway, thanks for stoppin by.

Fishspawn - I did actually remedy the "no mirror for self portraits" thing. i've just been taking pictures of myself with my digital camera, and drawing in my sketchbook from those. i still have to scan those pages. i just moved into my new place and havent set up my scanner yet, but they're on the way.

And...another speedpaint. today's topic: Venice

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/venice2.jpg

[crazyace31]

keep shootin em out. there is rumor going round that a digital sketchbook contest is going on next quater, you should go for it.

[Spade]

heya, digi stuff is looking good, im enjoying some of those enviros- interesting technique :) keep up the good work

[Jason Snair]

You've got some pretty good sketchwork here. I really like your figure stuff up above and the paint job on that bodybandit dude is very nice too.

keep it up.
j.

[ArtZealot]

Crazyace - i'll keep shootin em out. also, theres no question about me joining in on the digital sketchbook contest. i'm totally in.

Spade - thanks for the compliments spade, i feed off compliments, thanks for stoppin in.

Jason Snair - thanks, u have a good sketchbook too. yeah, the bodybandit was a fun one to paint. thx for checkin my SB out.

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Another new digi. This one isn't one of my particular favorites, but i'm posting it anyway. i was trying a new technique using quickmasks and gradients to do the armor on this dude. i guess you could say it's new subject matter for me too, since i never really do medieval armor/swords kind of stuff.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/crazyarmor.jpg

[ArtZealot]

another speedpaint. damn near the same jagged crazy brush used throughout the whole thing, just in different sizes and degrees of scatter.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint13.jpg

[crazyace31]

this speed painting intrigues me, how do you go about it. and how long do you take on each, on average?

ow yeah come check out my new stuff.
sketchbook http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76333

[orionterron99]

too long gone. I love the body bandit, if for nothing else than the concept. you have a great deal of clive barker/H.P. lovecraft-esque images. The image itself, however, is quite nice. (yeah, it was a bit ago you posted, i just haven't checked anything other than the DSG in a while) The digi isn't bad, particularly for a new medium. and i must give serious props on your last few environmentals, particularly the speedpaints. they're all fantastic.

[Listing]

Nice last environment, a little high key but well thought out.

[ArtZealot]

I'm back! Went out out town and was doomed to dialup for 2 weeks and just gave up on uploading, heres a few sketchbook pages.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage26.jpg


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage27.jpg


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage28.jpg


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sketchpage29.jpg

[Myako]

Hey artzealot
the last sketches looks really pretty good , they have a nice 3d feeling really like to see more of them, may be some clouds in the speed paint would have been nice since the sky looks too empty for me ;P , but like the general design

so good working keep up ^^

[Fishspawn]

Hey, nice updates. Your faces are looking much better. Keep in mind that self portraits from a mirror are generally better for you than from photos. I actually like that digi, especially the pure black sword and the shadow. Update a little more often! Looking forward to more.

(I LOVE the 2nd page in your last post, especially the guy with the thumb on his head :))

[Helzon]

Hey man, thanks so much for the kindness over at my
sb. You've got some really sweet designs (the thumbnail silhouettes and Hopper were outstanding).

With this last enviro, I think the value structure can be increased(ala your Venice scene). The lighter tones in the back can be even lighter, while the tree up front here can be really super dark. It'll pop it more and give that greater sense of depth. Also, perhaps a more definitive and less ambient light would help.
Keep up the great work man.
Cheers!

[Lee W]

nice sketchbook .. especially the environments :)

[dkounios]

your sketchbook is sweet dude (thx for stoppin by mine btw)

first thing that stood out to me was your fat zombie lady. haha...goood stuff.
your tentacles are sweet and im infatuated with your tree house thumbs (3rd bottom row is my fav...altho it looks like a giant creature like thing walkin)

keep it up man. il be comin back. great work

[ArtZealot]

Orionterron99 - yeah i was gone for awhile. pretty sure i'm back now, and should be comin up with something new daily. i guess my stuff does look a little like clive barker. i have seen most of his movies, but i wouldn't really say i'm influenced by him, unless maybe subconciously or somethin. thanks for stoppin by, new speedpaints are on the way, they're gonna come slowly cause now i'm tryin to hone my perspective skills and it's slow goin on that.

Listing - Thanks, yeah it is a bit high key.

Myako - thanks. i might add clouds to that one, i was more into tryin to get the enviro out quick and seem to have forgotten an atmosphere.

Fishspawn - thanks, glad u like the sword and shield guy, he's totally new subject matter for me. As for the thumb fish creature thing, i think i might color that one...

Helzon - I really did listen to what you said about pushing the darks in front darker and lights in the foreground lighter. I was workin on that piece you mentioned and photoshop crashed when i was almost done, so i'll have to go back and try again, but thx for the advice.

OldNoobie - thanks noobie.

Dkounios - thanks alot. Yeah the tree and the tentacles area few of my favorites too. The zombie lady a little less so, being one of my earlier digital drawing, but anyway, thx for stoppin in.


And, i'm back to work (school) this time i'm sorta doing concepts with a sinbad-esque theme to them. this one is a work in progress, it's a roc (a giant bird that sinbad finds when shipwrecked on an island. He ties himself to the birds leg using his turban to try and hitch a ride on the bird, off the island but finds himself in worse trouble than before) Anyway, i plan on coloring him. Might work on some environments before i do that tho.

-http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/roc.jpg

[ArtZealot]

I know..this is a lame update. There is a reason for drawing coffee shop lamps... They will appear again, but incognito.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/coffeeshoplamps.jpg

[Fishspawn]

Pfft they aren't lame, they're great coffee shop lamps. Simple things like that can be great for helping design characters/enviros. Good study. Hope to see daily updates from you from now on!

[Listing]

Always improving. Don't give yourself over to concept design because there are still some fairly outstanding structural misunderstandings in your figures and portraits. Good work.

[ArtZealot]

Fishspawn - yeah, i'm hoping to do daily updates again. i have a ton of stuff to do, so if i'm not doing daily updates it means i'm slacking off. Also, the exact reason why i drew the coffee shop lamps was to put them in the library in my head so i got an idea of what some manmade lightsources look like when i do enviros. thx for stoppin by.

Listing - i don't know how to say this; i didn't really understand your comment about concept design and the part about outstanding structural misunderstandings.

In other news, some thumbnail sketches...


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sinbadthumbnails2.jpg



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/sinbadthumbnails1.jpg

[MrBobMarley]

Makes me want to take a swing at some thumbnails. Like the sketches and really diggin the digitals. Keep em coming.

[ArtZealot]

Thanks for stoppin by mr.bobmarley. i'm a big fan of your music by the way.

more thumbs...(for a school project, i need to do 16 a day for the next few days)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/thumbnails4.jpg



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/thumbnails3.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Another environment concept for a school project, this one is for a story somewhat based around the world of sinbad, but with a few things different.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/renderedthumb1.jpg

[hurricane]

hey, there's some kickass thumbs there !
cool!

makes me wanna go and do some environment thumbs :P

on the last one, is that a photo in the back? (left and right side)
it looks very good but shows lack of tech. habit... looks like you faded the background with a small airbrush and didnt go all the way to the edge to the right... (as an example)

bah i'm just rambling (and not even succeding at that haha)

cheers dude and keep on fighting !

[MattiasA]

Your material shows great promise, like your sketches. Keep up th e good work

[EKU_11]

Nice environments and like that giant fish throwing up that weird finger thing.

[Gryphon]

I really like the pencil sketches from a few posts back... they show a great knowledge of forms in space. You might want to incorporate more of that hatched/rendered feeling into your digital work, as a lot of it seems more planar.

Keep on rocking!

[fedezz]

Sweet thumbs! Your digis improved a lot since page one. And I love your pencils. Man, that rabbit from page one is wicked. Also diggin the chicken with power outlets from p1 as well.
Keep it up!

[Meatsworthy]

Some of these thumbnails are good value studies...

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/thumbnails4.jpg

Especially column 2, row 2 and column 1, row 3. The values are working really well, keeping the elements seperate and readable... they create a lot of depth too. Try not to lose these "big value" relationships when doing the full painting.

If it helps, try to go up and down about 5% - 10% in brightness to turn forms within the each big value. Highlights and accents come last, taking care not to break the big value relationships by overdoing them.

[ArtZealot]

i'm in a don seigmiller workshop at the moment, trying out a new technique here. Comments coming soon, i promise:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/segworkshop2.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Hurricane: do you mean is it a photo in the foreground or background? The way i put that last environment together, was i blocked out the foreground and background colors, then did an cut out an overlay of a photo in the foreground for colors and went into it with custom brushes/freeze transparent pixels/more brushes to get the texture in the foreground. the background is all hand painted though. You are right about the edge of the foreground though, i was using a quickmask and brushes and did loose a bit of the transition from foreground to background, i'll have to fix that. Anyway, thanks for stoppin by my SB

MattiasA - thanks dude, i always like gettin props.

EKU_11 - thanks dude, yeah i'm tryin to improve on my environments. also, i think i may color that fish thing, it seems to be a hit.

Gryphon - That's a really good idea u had, i'll have to try that in my digitals.

Fedezz - thanks a ton, glad u like it all. i guess my digis have improved a little, i give all credit to the wacom3 tablet.

Meatsworthy - Thanks for the advice. I see what you mean about the big value relationships, i wasn't thinking it when i painted it, but now that you point it out, that is what those two have going for them. I'll try and keep in mind the thing you said about keeping values within 5-10% of what they were in the thumbnail. When i painted the last enviro from the thumb i feel like it did loose a bit of the value range i had in the thumbnail toward the edges of the foreground, i wasn't thinking of keeping it within 5-10 percent, i was just happily painting away. thanks for stoppin in my SB and thanks for the advice, i value it much.

And...i've been playing around in painter a little bit, still feelin a bit stiff compared to photoshop. heres what i got:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/messingaround1.jpg

[ArtZealot]

a few speedy faces

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/faces2.jpg

[Lee W]

these are looking good ..

[Zarett]

Hey, thanks for the comment on my sketchbook!

I like your sketches and ideas (especially that monster guy with the electrical outlet on his butt), and I'd really like to see what you can do with just lines and less rendering...
And that may just be my animator-background talking, since I, shamefully, get completely lost when I have to render a form instead of just describe it with lines. Just something to mix it up!

[Cup of Joe]

Really nice stuff here.
On the recent enviro, I assume it's based off of the thumb in Meatsworthy's post, column 1 row 3. It's looking nice, although I like the cropping in the thumb better.
Keep posting!

[ArtZealot]

Oldnoobie - thanks.
Zarett - I actually have been attempting to do what u suggested in my hand drawn sketchbook. I've have to get 8 pages of props drawn in my sketchbook for one of my classes and i have been trying to do what you say and just use lines and it's been actually savin me some time. I've been tryin to really nail the silhouette of the form instead of rendering into it since u suggested that. anyway, thanks.
Cup of Joe - yeah i might go back to that one and mess with it a little, it's still hanging at 90% finished. thx for stoppin by.



Heres some more speed painted faces using the technique i learned from don seegmiller.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/faces3.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Bigger update than usual. This has been a work in progress over the past week for class. 10 pages of prop sketches for a 3d scene i might model out.


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[fionkell]

You have a very diverse range of studies which is great to see :D I really the like your enviro thumbnails. Keep practicing your anatomy and stuff. I'll be checkin back more often!

[ArtZealot]

Iolarnula - thanks, yeah i like to mix it up a little every now and then. Still workin on that anatomy, tryin to nail perspective at the moment. thx for stoppin by


a prop sketch, colored:


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/coloredvase.jpg

[Lee W]

very nice sketches and a nice coloring job on the last one, however, the perspective is a little off which I'm sure you are aware of. A suggestion (not sure if I am correct or not), draw each plane as a square in perspective, sketch the oval within the squares, then sketch in the outline of the object. hmmm ... I'm confusing myself :(

[Onion]

You got some amazing stuff here dude. This is Joe from School-- I like how you are tackling your enviroments and the alike, Now you gotta bust out the 3d stuff! I'm compling some of my stuff on this and see where it goes, you better come and check it out!

[Meatsworthy]

Keep going with the studies! :)

I wanted to correct what I suggested earlier. What I meant to say was go up and down in 5-10% steps so that you can be careful not to stray too far from the base value, not keeping the values within 5-10 from base. They may end up having a large difference... step back often and evaluate if you have to go up or down some more.

[gizmodus]

Hey, these enviro thumbs rock!! And yeah, keep going with the studies. I see some nice progress.
Keep it up, man!

[ArtZealot]

OldNoobie: Thx for the tip. i didn't realise how jacked up the perspective was till u pointed it out. i'm in the process of fixing it, i'll update the image in a few days.

Onion: Whats up joe? yeah about that 3d stuff, uh...crap internet just went dead, gotta go!

Meatsworthy - oh ok, that makes a little more sense. I kinda thought that's what u meant but wasn't sure. Thx again for the advice, it's always welcome.

Gizmodus - Thx bro

Updates:

A bat creature lookin thing i made by doing a scribble, then flipping it on top of itself. In my opinion,things turn out a bit too symmetrical when i do this, but they're still fun to do:



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/batcreature.jpg



Spectre King:



http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Spectreking.jpg

[Lee W]

nice stuff :) but where is the self portrait?

[ArtZealot]

Oldnoobie: thanks for reminding me. I'm going to do a self portrait, i was going to do it last week but midterms hit, hopefully i'll get to it this weekend.

In other news, heres a speedpainting, one of what will probably be several updates taking place here today.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedpaint14.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Another update as promised, this one is a mole-rat-monarch-worm-wyrm:


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Moleratmonarchwormwyrm.jpg

UPDATE: 2/1/07

I sharpened up some of the lines a bit more, punched the contrast in a few places:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/CharacterConceptB2.jpg

[Lee W]

interesting concept and nice rendering, however, somehow the colorful wings of the monarch butterfly just doesn't look quite right for the creature. I can imagine it having wings of a bat.

[Dreamworker]

Hi man! This last one study is very good http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Moleratmonarchwormwyrm.jpg
I love the concept and the color scheme, very cool creature :)
Ciao

[ArtZealot]

I know it's technically not a "sketch" but if anyone is wondering what i'm doing when i havent been posting much, it's doing stuff like this. This is a 3d room i textured for my digital mapping class. (note: i'd rather be doing 2d):

p.s: for you 3d guys, theres no bump maps, or special effects in this, it's all painted.

Before:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/before.jpg


After:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Wes1440x900.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Another update. these are for one of my classes, thumbnail sketch/character concepts for the sinbad character:
http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Sinbad.jpg

[DARAF]

Great stuff. I am currently taking Game design at Art Institute. Haven't gotten to the fun classes yet.

[oma]

WOW that 3d painted thing looks awesome. :D.

just amazing. :). put one of your awesome creatures in it :D.

:D. awesome update's from last time i posted here :D.

[Pesmerga]

Wow, major improvement here.


http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/Wes1440x900.jpg
that's just beautiful dude.

[jcaffoe]

I like everything I see in here, the sketch pages are really imaginitive but you can tell you're doing some studies as well. nice.

as far as the painting goes keep in mind what people responded well to when you posted your thumbs up about halfway through this page. High contrast stuff works really really well, and I can see a few of your pieces getting caught in a lot of midtones.

the 3d paintover is gorgeous, btw.

[Ryan DeMita]

wow bro you have improved so much from page one! thats almost cliche to say on these forums (props to the idea of CA.org!!) but seriously you have. its great to see your newest round of concepts. very cool work bro! the spectre king concept is really cool and that paint over is amazing! my only suggestion is maybe drop the background on your king. i dont think it does anything for the image and is a bit distracting. on you're paint over, i think just a TAD bit more work on the lighting will really make that thing shine like hell, the textures and everything else are great though. the tech drawings are pretty good, just keep ref'in stuff and at some point you'll be a mechanical drawing machine once you put enough bells and whisles in your vocab!

keep working hard!
-ryan

[ArtZealot]

oldnoobie: yeah, i'm pretty happy with the monarch butterfly creature. i opted not to go with batwings for the sake of originality.

Dreamworker: thanks for the props. they're always appreciated :)

Daraf: Yeah, once you start doing stuff in the game design degree where you're actually using your creativity to make stuff creatures and worlds and stuff; that's when it starts getting fun, just stick with it.

Pesmerga: thanks.

Easy Tiger! : your very right about those thumbnails sticking in the midtones. i didn't even really notice till u mentioned it, but yeah, i'll remember that next time i'm doin thumbs. thanks for pointin that out. by the way, nice sketchbook :hatsoff:

Ryan DeMita: thanks, i love hearin stuff like that. sometimes i get so caught up in what's new that i'm workin on i don't look back at old stuff to monitor my improvement. Yeah, i think your right about that background. it's a little distracting. i might go back and fix it, but i probably wont try doin something like it again. someone else over on the creature of the week forum said the same thing about the textury background, that i shouldn't do it again. i don't think i will. :) thanks for stoppin by.

Another speedpaint:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedy2.jpg

[Lee W]

nice speedpaint :) gonna take it into further refinement?

[madhatter106]

My faves are the Sinbad roughs - two thumbs up!

[ArtZealot]

i see you are scoping out your digital sketchbook competition, crazyace... :) i caught u.

[ArtZealot]

Oldnoobie: i might take it to further refinement. not right away though, but expect it to show up again in this sketchbook.

Madhatter106: u just reminded me, i was going to take one of those thumbs and refine it. :)

and another speedpaint (playin around with brushes)

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedy3.jpg

[ArtZealot]

another speedy usin a new method i learned and have been messin with:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedy4.jpg

[ArtZealot]

another speedie:

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedy5.jpg

[ArtZealot]

Yet another speedy, playin around with urban environments

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/speedy6.jpg

[armando]

I like the clarity and readability of these speedpaints. You mentioned several times on the last page of trying different techniques learned from different people, I'm curious as to what these techniques are.

[Brendan N]

Hey Art Zealot

Many thanx for replying to my book.

I'm really liking these speedpaints, though something about them is bothering me and I don't know what.... I think do a few life studies from photos or so to get the feel for how light works against a surface, especially exterior surface. Try to stay away from black as far as you can. This is easy with landscapes, because there is always some king of fog or haze. Just fill in the shadows with the various shades of the colour of the fog.

Else than that there are looking fine and your making really good progress. have some stars mate.

ciao!

- d.

[Lee W]

post #242 is nice, your envirs are really coming together

[Roell]

really nice ideas ;)
i like ur artwork

[Chris Noeth]

You have some nice works here man.

Keep it up!

CU at the C.O.W. thread... ;)

Best,

Chris

[ArtZealot]

armando - thanks. yeah the techniques i was talking about was actually some i learned on a gnomon video. it's the newest one on "speedpaint to conceptart". i've seen a lot of gnomon videos and i think it's one of the most usefull i've seen so far. u should check it out.

Brendan N - yeah i'm lookin back and i think on some of those last speedpaints i posted, i did use a little bit too much black. I know better than to do that, but sometimes i forget and need reminded :)
thx for stoppin by

Oldnoobie: thanks a lot. i've been workin hard on em, that's good to hear.

Roell: thanks dude.

Chris Noeth: thx a lot. you've got some nice stuff in your SB too. I'm going to try and make it back to the C.O.W thread when i get time, school's been crazy, but yeah, c-u there when i get time.:perv:

And another school project. We're supposed to texture a room and i thought i'd do a concept piece before the 3d, so heres that concept piece.

http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b337/TheDingusOfSanDiego/paintover.jpg

[Brendan N]

Hey dude, pretty decent concept piece! Reinforce the effect of lighting and it'll be as good stand alone. Post some still of the 3d too, interested to see how it'll look. I'm a sucker for the PoP type settings lol

ciao!

- d.

[RichKid]

yo wes, lookin good. you have been progressing with leaps and bounds over the last couple of months, and with a fast progression there are always some things that get over looked. you have a strong grasp on speed painting and rendering, but there are some fundamentals that are being sacrificed. slow down and down some anatomy studies for your characters. it looks like every time you go to do a person you decide half way through to make it a monster. monsters are cool but lets see some people. with your enviros, do some lighting studies. put in some cast shadows, the way they wrap over forms will bring depth and life to your peice.


looking good, just go back to the things that should be your foundation.