Mushroom Festival in Hell

[Ferg]

welcome to ferg's sketchbook version 2.0. Watching charlie manson sing on tv. I need to do more anatomy studies.

I stole a couple poses from some random sketchbook threads while lurking... man there are some inspirational motherfckers on here

Enjoy... crits welcome


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook6.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook3.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook9.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook4.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook5.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook7.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook8.jpg

[Ferg]

here's a bunch of other random stuff from the time between my last sketchbook thread and this one... all older than the stuff in the previous post.

first seven pics are opencanvas sessions with me and Skrubbles... my stuff on the right, his on the left

http://skrubbles.net/oc_sessions/work1thumb.jpg

http://skrubbles.net/oc_sessions/work2thumb.jpg

http://skrubbles.net/oc_sessions/work3thumb.jpg

http://www.skrubbles.net/oc_sessions/work6thumb.jpg

http://www.skrubbles.net/oc_sessions/work7thumb.jpg

http://www.skrubbles.net/oc_sessions/work8thumb.jpg

http://www.skrubbles.net/oc_sessions/work16thumb.jpg


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newski1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newski2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newski3.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newski4.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newski5.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newski6.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newski7.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newski8.jpg

[Recursive_End]

Very good stuff going on here!
Nothing to crit, just a small request ^^: It'd be cool to see a scene or something, just to see how you handle your characters in an enviro.
But that's just me, do whatever you want :=)
Anwway, keep it up !

[Nostradamus]

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbook7.jpg
lol at bobo's demon ;D
very sexy

[blanquish]

some of this stuff here is kooky
all pretty sweet, some cool ideas
keep it coming

[[void]]

Dude some of this stuff is looking pretty cool, your developing a style very quickly. It would be cool to see some of the linework rendered out in pencil a bit more, to get more of a tab on values.

Keep posting!

[AvatarJimmy]

Cool stuff going on this SB. A few of the first posts feel a bit flat to me, but all of the later stuff is looking really nice. Good flowing line and solid characters. Looking forward to seeing more.

[Ferg]

late night wacom runoff... it's been forever since I've done anything besides paint textures... forgive the rust...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/latenight1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/latenight3.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/latenight4.jpg

[JörgenGiftmördaren]

i like zombie frylock... great sb

[nofingers]

Everything (noun): The amount of stuff in your sketchbook that I like. Awesome work

[Ferg]

thanks gdawgzzzzzz

stoney afternoon brain vomit...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/wacompoo1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/wacompoo2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/wacompoo3.jpg

[Ferg]

meh

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/wacompoo4.jpg


or


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/wacompoo5.jpg

[Ferg]

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/vroom1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/vroom2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/vroom3.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/vroom4.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/vroom5.jpg

[Ferg]

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/vroom5_color.jpg

[Conroy Matalia]

Interesting work!!! I had to check it out. I love your illustrations, because they're just so original and just plain cool.

[Ferg]

ty :)

new moleskine book...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/moleskin1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/moleskin2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/moleskin3.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/moleskin4.jpg

[Ferg]

ARRRRRR

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/moleskinner2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/moleskinner3.jpg

[SirGreenSock]

Got some great imaginative work going on. Really dig your pencil style man.
Beef up more on colour and structure, theyre the biggest weakpoints i can see.
Keep it up!

[Ferg]

I'll see what I can do... thanks for the comments :)


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/karkand1.jpg


and some life drawing...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/karkand2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/karkand3.jpg

[SirGreenSock]

Life drawings lack focus (especially compared to your imagination ones)
Work some richer darker lines in there as well to suggest mass and depth, as well as focal points.

[Ferg]

good suggestion, I'm going to try and get some more "from life" stuff down this week and I'll see if I can really push the depth with the lines more. Gracias.

Pooped this out during my lunch break today, ~20 mins in photoshop w/mirror for random ref checks

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/hairjoint.jpg

[oma]

keep posting. Realy love this one.

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/vroom4.jpg

she just look so sweet.

[Ferg]

thanks :)

beer + chili =

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/redhead.jpg

[Listing]

Nice concept work. Some really solid forms. You seem to be in a way with your portraits stylistically (the junction for the brow and the ascension of the nose seem warped generally) , you might want to do some life work to free it up. A small critique, actually. Just a note. Keep at it.

[Ferg]

thanks for the comment/crit. I decided to try some nude studies and get some more actual realistic anatomy going through my head... hopefully these will be the first of many.

Photoshop, with ref of course. First image took about 20 mins, second probably hour or so. I need to find a better way to paint gradients besides the smudge tool heh.

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/nude1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/nude2.jpg

[blanquish]

oh man, youve improved like crazy since the last time i visited
the last ones look really cool, seems like you spent a fair bit of time on them
keep it up ferg:)

[Ferg]

one more quick wip before I leave to see FUCKING WEEN

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/nude3.jpg

[Darktwin]

really nice progression here, I really like how your filling up the pages of the small sb. I also like how your working with the tablet. Your line quality is improving, can't wait to see more

[Chiko]

Oh Snap! Not only is your work amazing, but you managae to get the smooth look of skin in your two digital paintings. that's something I can't seem to get even close too :O great job!

[Ferg]

thanks for the replies dude[t]s

some poo I drew while in yosemite with the family... place is so amazing.

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/yosemite4.jpg

this one inspired by the great sequoia grove(picture belowwww)
http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/yosemite5.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/yosemite13.jpg

and some random pics taken while there....

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http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/yosemite6.jpg

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http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/yosemite7.jpg

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http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/yosemite9.jpg

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http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/yosemite16.jpg


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/yosemite10.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/yosemite11.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/yosemite12.jpg

[Ferg]

photoshop custom brushes... how did I ever get by without them....

so here's my newest offensive into photoshop painting territory...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/newbrushtest.jpg

[Ferg]

a higher ranking general soldier from the same dimension...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/pooshop.jpg

[entdroid]

you have a really cool sb!
The last digis look good, perhaps you need some harder edges there.
I like the pencil sketches the most, your characters and faces have lots of personality. Very interesting stuff!
Keep it up!

Cheers,
entdroid

[Ferg]

thanks. Yah, definitely gonna be working on tightening up my digital painting. It's fun to learn, cuz knowledge is power! :xpld:

here's some mediocre sketchbook poo

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/someshit1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/someshit2.jpg

[Oddmind]

great stuff as always. I love your style, and the more realistic stuff doesn't lack much as well.

People often delge so far into stylization that they never come back to realism, but I love how youve done all of it.

[Ferg]

thanks oddmind, I'm really trying to do just that... keep learning realistic anatomy and design, but also pushing my own style... then mixing the two.. or something

just did this one today... first image I've done where I selected the color scheme before hand... with a little bit of post processing via brightness/contrast tweaks :)

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/blarh.jpg

[Ferg]

grunt

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/grunt.jpg

[Ferg]

fcking photoshop just exploded and ate my LATEST WORKS

so here's one little piece of poop... was hoping to be able to post two... OH WELL

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/stew.jpg

[Ferg]

cryin wont help ya

(is this art or just masturbation?)

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/pastapaul.jpg

[Fishspawn]

Cool stuff. Messed up stuff. I enjoyed most of it at any rate. I don't really have anything to say, just keep doing it :)

[Ferg]

thanks, I think? Heh... assuming messed up in the good way.

I'm lookin for a sketchgroup or "SSG" or whatever to join. I need some real crits, and would be happy to give some to others.

lunch break anatomy study quickie ~20 mins...

getting there... slowly...
http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/tastygirl.jpg

[isair]

yeh, man, imagination rules! Great book.

[rblitz7]

woah! you got some wild and crazy stuff here, all really cool though! Keep it up!

[Quinster]

This is some pretty zany stuff...also kinda creepy.

[J.Peckham]

that first image, the one with the naked girl and the spaceghost lunch box...is that one of the ones that was copied. looks just like one of my old drawings where the lunch box was a head in a sack. If i can find it, i'll show you. it's uncanny.

[crazy3dman]

Nice sketchbook. Crazy imagination. I love it. Sorry no crits. Just enjoying looking.

[Ferg]

Thanks guys... heh. A lot of this stuff is inspired by dreams.

j.peckham: Nope, that one's all me. <3 spaceghost

crazy3dman: Thanks :)

Quinster: I'm the only person on concept art that hasn't drawn a penis monster

rblitz7: gracias

isair: HIGH FIVE FOR IMAGINATION! (danke)


Here's one more nude study tonight... ~20 mins
http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/tasygirl2.jpg


and a little life drawing...
http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/hippychicknudes1.jpg


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/hippychicknudes2.jpg


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/hippychicknudes3.jpg

[Andy P]

Man, solid sketchbook, good anatomy studies, nice quick studies, lotta wackyass shit goin on: you've covered all the bases! This (http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/blarh.jpg) and this (http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/tastygirl.jpg) are particularly rad. Keep at it man!

[Oddmind]

heya Ferg, nice stuff as per usual :]

The Women are looking much better! We can all benefit from that :D

Keep hittin it!

[Ferg]

thanks guys... and yes it's nice to not completely mutilate the anatomy on girlies like I used to heh... I've got a long ways to go but at least it feels like I'm getting somewhere. And the new tool album is fckin awesome to paint to.

Got some sketchbook pages to scan... no time now though...

here's something...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/chickenball.jpg

quote doesnt have anything to do with the pic really, just popped into my head right about the time I finished the thing. It's from aqua teen hunger force, if you're wondering.

[Virg]

i like your imagination man , love your paintings, i like the way you stretch the proportion in some drawings, im sure you have a lot of fun when you draw, keep on going !!

[J.Peckham]

great, crazy, minds think alike . apparently:)

[Spats]

Yeah! I love your sketchbook! Very original stuff. I'll be sure to pop by every now and then :D

[Ferg]

WhiteC: Thanks, I do love me some art... I can't wait to get my hands on some real paint.

J.Peckham: apparently :perv:

Spats: you're always welcome... careful of the zombies


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/rehash.jpg

[sabe2003]

Nice life drawing, great imagination!

[Ferg]

ozzle bozzle

thanks sabe, love your sketchbook... mucho inspirado


couldnt figure out which way was up on this one... so here ya go... decide for youself...
http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/sloom.jpg

[feeesh]

Hey cool stuff man. I love those ref women you painted. Great skin tones, even nice smoothness with the smudge too!

Hey, how was WEEN?!?!? I love them. And last time I saw them was the night before the singer was getting married and they playe dfor like 3 hours, crazy night. He kept bringing girls on stage with him too since it was like his bachelor party, heheh

[arttorney]

"I'm lookin for a sketchgroup or "SSG" or whatever to join. I need some real crits, and would be happy to give some to others."

I think your wackiness and willingness to stretch boundaries would play well on 3CH Random topic of the Week, in the Community Activities. The trash talking is just for play. We will help you to fill these sketches out with environments, color, or whatever. Check it out. Seriously. I think you can get some votes with your imagination.

[revender]

Hey man, thanks for dropping by and posting in my sketchbook. I'm really digging those digital figure paintings of yours. It's also great the way you flesh out your pages with design and figures from life and mind, not a bit of space wasted.

Anyway, keep up the good work and I'll see ya at QuakeCon 07!

[Ferg]

feesh - Thanks. The ween show was fucking spectacular. I passed out during Zoloft from a combination of intense moshing, dehydration and low blood sugar, but I was only out for 10 seconds or so and I had 2 good friends with me that kept me from falling over or hurting myself or anything. 4th time seeing ween live, they keep getting better each time.

arttorney - I'd love to get involved in that (especially since it seems like you guys are in need or more people), but I still am not really any good at drawing specific ideas. Most of what I draw is just stream-of-conciousness type pencilbation. I dunno. Maybe.

revender - thx, I think I picked up the "pack the page with drawings" habit from another sketchbook thread here. The interplay between all the tightly-packed stuff has added some neat shit I think.


Sorry for the slow updates, the game studio I've been working at just closed down and I've been regrouping for another project. Here's a little bit of... stuff.

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/mrman.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/coastal.jpg

[voraz]

Great sketchbook, lots of good stuff.
cheers

[kuroart]

Awesome works. the style is coming out great. your paintings are wicked as well.
cant wait to see more

[weggebrecht]

Oh shit.. nice stuff.. I love your heads and the sketchbook pages where all it is is heads and faces.. beautiful!! Keep those babys coming!

[Ferg]

voraz - thanks!

kuroart - thanks!

weggebrecht - thanks! Checked your sb, love that style. Feels like our styles may have some common ancestry.


some pages from tonight... ish. Doin some arm/hand studies. Figure with the boobies used photoref for the body... the rest are brain + mirror.

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/arms1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/arms2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/arms3.jpg

[nineself]

Hey Ferg, thanks for dropping a note in my sb!
I'm loving the expressions of your characters, they have such an awesome strange personality to them. Your hands as well, man I gotta draw some hands!
Keep at it!

[archipelago]

nice stuff here man, dont be afraid to give your sketches some tighter rendering once in a while though! making things look more finished is a great skill to have!

cheers!

[Ferg]

and after a long break from updating, here's a quick rough character concept for a mod I'm trying to get started...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/priestpc.jpg

will scan and post more sketchbook stuff soon... I promise...

[Andy P]

Nice pages, you always rock the moleskin damn hard.
Cool new character, I think the concept and anatomy are workin for you, if you bring it to finish you'll need more interest in the BG and maybe need to unify your palette a bit more.
Good to see more postin!

[Ferg]

thanks man. The moleskin that I do love to rock so much, has been pretty vacant recently. I'm trying to get back into the habit. Here's some random page grabs... I wish more of what I have was worth posting heh. I'm not too proud of this batch but it's all I got right now.

Next on my list of "things to focus on" is my rendering. Gotta tighten that shit up and get some subtle shading.

Thanks for watchin'

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/blahblah1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/blahblah2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/blahblah3.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/blahblah4.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/blahblah5.jpg

[Ferg]

does this look better than the colored version? It's missing the glowy-soul part but it feels more solid somehow

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/priest_desat.jpg

also, here's some random defense turret concept brain farts for the same game...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/turret_misc.jpg

[elisa]

Hey, great stuff! really cool imagination characters. more please!

[Ferg]

station!

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/station1.jpg


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/station2.jpg


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/station3.jpg

[Ferg]

this update is so boring I feel like I should apologize.

but I wont.

get off my back.

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/blue.jpg

[Newbs]

lots of fun stuff in here. really like the zaniness!!!

[frixon]

awesome cool stuff. love the sketches on yellow bg.
keep it up!

[Ferg]

thanks guys.

in anticipation of the coming snow season...

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/orientation.jpg

[Flaskpost]

I agree with the rest of the fellas. Great sb!
Really imaginative stuff. And your pencils are pretty damn fine.
But i agree with greensock! work more on structure and color!

[Clayman]

awesome stuff... i love the Aqua Teen drawings.

[Ferg]

thanks dudes... workin on my rendering a lot more lately... gonna switch over to form soon for a while... get some volume out of them lines

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/ofcourse.jpg

and yah... photoref for the chick

[RedTiger]

Very good! Your wok has something that i like a lot and you have good pencilling skill.

[Ferg]

thanks redtiger :)

here's some more of the same... workin on my hizzands

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/skeet1.jpg

[oma]

nice hands!

hmm, will do some hands to soon!

[Unbreakable]

Fergalicious!!!!

sorry

stuff is pretty good, keep it coming!

[Ferg]

thank you, thank you :)

here's some more for you to SKEETSKEET at

SKEETSKEETSKEETSKEET

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/skeet2.jpg


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/skeet3.jpg

[Ferg]

eh.... my colors need work

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/whatarrow.jpg

[Ferg]

doodly doo

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/zombo.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/zombo3d2.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/bloodcut1.jpg

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/bloodcut2.jpg

[shidoken]

wow! nice ideas. the figure drawings and the graphic stuff at the end are awesome! can you color some of your other drawings like those nude figures?

[Ferg]

I CAN COLOR EVERYTHING

also... here's that zombie as he stands now (very WIP)... he's 830 tris. Cant wait to get a spec map on him.

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/zombo3d4.jpg

[Ferg]

sorry for being lazy and not updating... here's some poop from last night


http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/sniffyoujerkslater.jpg

wanted to paint this one... lost interest

http://www.olypen.com/advent/Smiley/temp/sketches/chickface.jpg

[Mandragor]

I like your style....cool characters, great imagination


http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=89466

[Jansi]

Hello!

I really like some of your stuff; the photoshop technique is amazing!
Good going, continue!


Best wishes,
A

[marc_redd]

Im pretty much in love with the way you illistrate the female body.

[DaStreets]

Wow, just beautiful work. i love all the crazyness in ur drawing. But then you do something simple and nice. Wide range is always good. The concepts to your sketchs are also awsome, just great stuff. Come by my page if u ever find time, thanks

[abr7man]

good stuff man...what happened to the laying nude girl WIP ?
it really looks good,hope you finish it