Fipses´ small world (Update 5.5.)

[Fipse]

Hi

and now you´re thinking "OMG another dilletant´s sketchbook". And I´ve got to confess: Yes it is! :D

Because I just can´t get my website done - due to work, lazyness and the usual lame excuses - I´ll post my stuff here. I hope it is an inspiration for me getting more regularly to sketching and drawing (and less computer games and sewing). Here´s the usual big DL for a couple of sketches I did in the last time to get back to drawing. Sorry, no mechs ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s002.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s003.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/hoplit-athen.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s004.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s005.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/eowen-painter.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s006.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s007.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/skythe.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s008.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s009.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/haendler_4c.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s010.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s011.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/avio.gif

Have fun with it and C&C if you like!

Fipse

[jester]

It's addictive, isn't it?! :D

Welcome aboard, fellow sketchbook drawer ;)

There are even some I haven't seen before, I especially like the archer and the couple in the chest.

Hope you enjoyed the McCalman's - I was ill over the weekend and glad that we decided not to go.

Birgit (aka Jester)

[Fipse]

Hi Jester,

I suppose it hasn´t got something to do with addiction but I need something to get my a$$ up and draw. I´m at the moment so consumed by a new sewing project for a Pentecost-Event that I easily forget to draw :( Hopefully afterwards it will be better again, I´ve got some ideas ...

Fipse

BTW The McCalmans were GREAT. We had a lot of fun and good music!

[StephenC]

Im always happy to see new sketchbook's drawings:D

[Fipse]

Here we are again ... the past few weeks I had so much to do with work and a costuming project that I didn´t found any time to draw.

This weekend I´ve been on a big 15th cent. reenactment event and took my sketchbook with me for some quick sketches. Most of them about 2 - 5 minutes.

I definitely have to work to get awy from linework to a more tonal approach. 10 years of Layoutdrawing leave their traces ;).

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s012.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s013.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s014.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s015.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s016.jpg
http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s017.jpg

Thanks Steven, I personally see all the sketchbooks here around as a constant inspiration even if I seldom can comment on the pictures.

Fipse

[sic1]

Fipse, great work, I love the cross-hatching :)

[jester]

Hi Fipse,

looks good, seems like the weekend had been fun. Can I phone you tonight? Got a question regarding Pedda's birthday.

Jester

[Fipse]

Thanks sic, I´m working on crosshatching - normally I´m just skribbling along without any system ;)

Hi Jester,

the weekend was fun with ca. 300 people running around in 15h cent. gear and definitely too hot (esp. for my woollen cloth :D)
You can reach me today evening - this week isn´t so much work - next week will be much worse.

CU l8er

Fipse

[Fipse]

Here´s my entry for today´s DSG "Mage or Sorcerer". I had somehow Jack Vances "Dying Earth" in mind.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/magergb.jpg

[Fipse]

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/tahili.jpg

I just wanted to try out the little graphire board at work and there I "just" have PS to work with ...

I´ve got an idea of an SF-series with an arabian influence, always liked 1001 nights. Mix this with Jack Vance and you´ve got the idea ;).

Fipse

[Fipse]

So here we are again. This time it´s a costume-study for a 15th century clothing I´m working on. Haven´t had much time for elaborate sketching in the last days hope it will be better now.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s018.jpg

[jester]

Love that x-hatching!

:)

Jester

[Fipse]

Got my colour-pencils out and started to doodle around. I was trying to experiment with the colours and found the results not too bad. Unfortunately the face is off - with all the layers I hadn´t had much of a chance to erase the problems ;).

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s019.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Today I found the time to do some sketches.

First are some head studies - I have to do more of this, they still look somewhat clumsy:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s021.jpg

The second is an idea for a scanner-unit for my ideas of "arabian" SF. Just put some colour on it in PS to test a colourscheme.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s020.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

My girlfriend is reading the new Harry Potter so I don´t have to care about my social life this evening.

I tried once again working with coloured pencils. I like this medium but have a lot to practise to get some decent results. One generic "Chick in flimsy clothes doing Kung Fu stance". I got some probs with the arms - especially the right one. Next time it will be better - I promise :D.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s022.jpg

[J.Peckham]

hey, i like that you tend to use more tones and scratchyness over lines and blackness. it'll help you in the long run for sure !

[Iiori]

I really like you sketch book. Great x Hatching. That last color pencil drawing is really making me want to go find mine.
Ill be watching you! (ooh Scary..Okay not really, but ..:P)

[Fipse]

Thanks guys for the comments!

Iiori,
look out for your sketchbook, it´s worth it .. I haven´t done much in my new one yet and even now I like to page around ;)
And regarding your "stalking" - after 20 years of martial arts I hope I can defend myself if someone gets to close :D. But I will "Stalk" you sketchbook, too, as I do with all of them here around. I just seldom find the time to comment on them ...

J.Peckham,
it´s quite hard for me to lose my lines - all I´ve been doing in the last years was lineart, where I often had no room for scratchiness and when I´m ready for starting some projects (esp. historic illustrations) I have in mind it will be again going for penible work ...

Fipse

[Fipse]

Started some sketches but haven´t finished anyone so instead here´s my entry for the last DSG "Fighting game Character".

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/clubber.jpg

Tried to work more "painterly" as i´m used to. Some anatomical issuses but alas it was a fast shot.

Fipse

[Fipse]

Found the second time in a few days time for the DSG. The them was "act of god". Couldn´t find something original and doodled this one in about an hour. Later on I could imagine what better things I could have done with the motif ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/surprise.jpg

But there will be more regular sketches later on ...

Fipse

[StephenC]

ahh another daily sketchbook..hopefully someday with our books we will conquer the world.

[Fipse]

Hi Stephen,

I prefer first to conquer a bigger income ... the world will come later :evilbat:.

Fipse

[Fipse]

So here we are again. I was lazy in the last days and seldom had time to draw. Anyway some sketchbookpages have been filled.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s023.jpg
http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s024.jpg
I tried some weapon designs a theme that´s normally quite far away from me.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s025.jpg
A small anatomical practise (yep, I know his right arm is off ...) I´ve got to do more of this.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s026.jpg
An again on try with colored pencils. I find it hard to get skintones right.

Fipse

[Fipse]

Having been quite annoyed by the way the last pictures worked out I´ve been going back to the roots and did some anatomy.

Here we are:
http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s027.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s028.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Fitting to the anatomy studies I thought a little about MCM Magiccard Redesign Thread

Here´s my undead warchief, I´m not sure if I colour it.

Fipse

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/undead-warchief-sketch.jpg

[Fipse]

So I finally decided to splash some colours on on this one to establish a colour-scheme. I still feel quite uncomfortable with colours beyond markers ... have got to buy me a Wacom ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/Undead-warchief.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

So here´s the next update, a little rendering practise. I´ve sketched so much I think I sometimes have to do a little rendering ;).

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s029.jpg

I´m at the moment a little in a rut. I don´t see any improvements in my works and haven´t got the time to really draw much to get a bit better ... Ramblings of an old man ...

Fipse

[jester]

Hi Fipse, I know that feeling. Check out MindCandy's recent posts where he explains how every time he can't see any improvement he makes the jump to the next level soon! So welcome that feeling.

Jester

[Fipse]

Here´s another one from the DSG - this time just 45 min. Had to do something and somehow it turned out crappy. Theme was a god´s daughter and I had Odins daughter in mind. Therefore the lost eye, the hood and the spear for those who are mythological interested.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/odins-daughter.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Here we are again ... nothing special just random doodles.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s030.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s031.jpg

And here´s todays DSG (Necromancer) - turned out quite messy and not the way I want it.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/nekromant.jpg

Fipse

[TARGETE]

Hey Fipse

Keep it up Fipse, practice..practice and more practice :)
only way we can all improve.

J.P.

[Fipse]

Thanks for your comment Targete. Yeah, I really have to practise. I´ve got twelve years of not-drawing to catch up ;).

Fipse
(scratching time together to practise)

[Fipse]

Here we are again. I´ve been doing costume-studies for a preoject of mine. This is the first panel of two showing 14th cent. men´s underwear. Normally I would have done it with a plain pendrawing with flat colours to exactly show how things have been done. This time I tried a bit with PS and Pencil.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/lingerie.jpg

Fipse

Edit: seems I made the figures quite cartoony because they all seem to have to big heads ...

[Fipse]

Here are the next ones ... I´ve had some time today to do some sketches

A little sketch I scanned and just coloured it a bit with PS. Some probs with the twist of the torso.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s032.jpg

As I told before I have some problems with anatomy and take whenever I can some time to memorize the stuff. In fact I never did study anatomy intentionally, quite time lately.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s033.jpg

A little study with colored pencil-

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s034.jpg

I liked the costume I put on the colored pencil drawing aboive so I did another one with pen and colored it in PS.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s035.jpg

I´m still in a rut - nothing I´m drawing when I finally find the time seems to work out the way I want it. I´m still wayting for a push that´s giving me some direction ...

Fipse

[endregan]

those eyes and muscle studies are great fipse. i like your experiments :). your poses are really good too

[Fipse]

Hi Endregan,

thanks for your kind words. Unfortunately this anatomy stuff is more or less just copied so it´s more or less a rendering practise and an aid for me to memorize.

You´re the first one I lnow who´s making a compliment of my poses - the ones I didn´t copy for me are mostly too static but maybeÌ´m a bit overcritical with my own stuff.

In the second update for today I put the latest sketch for the MagicCard Redesign thread "Serra Angel". In fact I´m not discontented it worked out. It´s the first time for a long time I took some time for the sketch and didn´t hurry it.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/serra.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Next Update. I just could do one more anatomic study for practise. Here we are ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s036.jpg

Fipse

[Iiori]

Hey there Fipse.

Glad I stopped by your book. Its quiet nice seeing that your doing the same as me, but at a much higher level. ^^

I really like the ones you have so far.

Maybe with the first one you posted today, erm..Blue backround one, I think it looks a little like your sperated her shoulder in back. I think we are seeing to much of her upper arm in the back. I could be wrong, but thats just what I see.

Good work. ^^ Ill be checking by often.

[endregan]

Latest is nice fipse. the upper body looks a bit small, or maybe the hips are a bit too wide, but it might just seem that way I mean all humans aren't the "perfect skinny models" right :). good work! like how youve done the muscles

[Fipse]

Hi Iori,

yeah, you´re right about the shoulder/arm but as it´s "just" a sketch I ddn´t had the nerve to correct it. I´m still reluctant about using an eraser, the curse of arteducation in Germany ;).

Hi Endregan,

as far as I remember the anatomy should be o.k. regarding the pic I´ve taken it from. Maybe the head is somewhat small. I´ve got a good anatomy of two hungarian artists where I´ve taken this one from (not with just human anatomy, but animal anatomy, too). In my experience the easteuropean anatomy books (I´m putting Bammes "Die Gestalt des Menschen" to this definition) tend more to show a realistic view of human anatomy. In contrast Loomis (who´s doing his stuff for advertisment drawings) and Hogarth tend more to an idealized anatomy and that´s what you see most often here on this forum.

Fipse

[jester]

Hey Fipse,

when looking at your sketches I always have the impression that you are very much in a hurry. Try to relax a bit and take your time to clean your lines to the "one" dynamic flowing line which has it all. Also your backgrounds are a bit sloopy.

All evenings are packed again this and next week, but getting busy with my biz is a good sign, isn't it?

Jester

[Fipse]

Hi Jester,

the stuff looks like made in a hurry may be because it is made in a hurry :). I´ve got so seldom time for drawing that I always want to make it fast. In contrast to my early pics (you´re old enough to remember them ;)) I developed a quite hasty style. DSG isn´t helping me with this why I think I will skip them for some time.

Maybe it has to do with me drawing in the ads where time is money and jut the concept counts. The only pic I took some time with has been the Serra-Angel. Because of this I suppose my background are sloppy - in fact I´m more interested in character and costume in the moment.

Seems we can´t find time for meeting iin the next days ... At least we´ll see us on Saturday for some heavy drinking :chug: .

Fipse

[jester]

Originally posted by Fipse
Hi Jester,

the stuff looks like made in a hurry may be because it is made in a hurry :).

:D

Seems we can´t find time for meeting iin the next days ... At least we´ll see us on Saturday for some heavy drinking :chug: [/QUOTE]

:D :chug: :beer: YEAH! Höööövelllss!!! :D

Jester

[Fipse]

Here we are again.

Still working on my anatomy (or at least at the one on my drawings) so it´s anatomy-study-time again:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s037.jpg

This started as a study for a pose and turned out as a longer sketch (and quite long arms ;))

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s038.jpg

Fipse

[endregan]

hehe that last sketch of yours is probably my fav from you, welldone. your anatomy sketches are really good too. I am currently doing studies myself and can appreciates all the hard work and hours put into anatomy studies. fine work!

[Fipse]

Haven´t had much time for drawing in the last days. Our firm has been burglared and I had to organize new computers and install them. Furthermore it´s at the moment so unusual hot in Germany that my brain is quite baked (even more than the rest of the time :))

So here are two doodles in my sketchbook and yesterdays´ DSG that I did mostly traditionally because I haven´t had the nerve for sitting too long ast a computer.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s039.jpg
http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s040.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/sirene.jpg

Fipse

[jester]

I like the burglar, he looks a bit like you :D

Jester

[Fipse]

Hi Jester,

you haven´t really looked ... there´s a big difference, He´s got HAIR :D.

Fipse

[jester]

Hi Fipse,

:rofl: true, but look at his face!!!

Jester

[Fipse]

Some more fast sketches ... the unusual heat here in Germany is baking my brain so far I´m not able to hold a pencil for a longer time.

Caught my girlfriend, when she was sleeping for a moment before the TV:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s041.jpg

And some doodling that just happened to be an amphibian creature

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s042.jpg

The weather forecast says it will be a bit better in the next time, maybe I even happen to get to colours again ...

Fipse

[Iiori]

Ohhh I like the new sketches. :D

ya know hair is quiet overrated. Bald is sexay.:cool:

[Fipse]

Hi Iori,

that´s what I´m trying to tell all the people :D

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/mantel-black.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

It´s colder and it´s late in the night. A little bit time for some quick sketches.

Here I was just ´thinking about Martial arts - quite generic but I should do more martial arts stuff. Draw what you know ;).

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s044.jpg

And a quick study of my hand - a thing that I should practise much more.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s043.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Found some time beside working on my girlfriend´s computer to draw again. I´m still thinking if I should colour or render it.

Dunno why I was thinking about vikings lately ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/feast.jpg

Some problems with the hands and I´m not sure if I like the head of the woman - the neck is a bit long.

Fipse

[Fipse]

Here´s a DSG one again. Seems to me the new format is working better for me even if I miss the chat around the given time. This time it was the theme betrayal and I tried out a bit valueworking.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/betrayal.jpg

Fipse

[endregan]

wow man lots of great work happening!

i study martial arts as well. I assume you study japanese martial art or ? I study BaguaZhang it is pretty neat. would like to hear what you study!!

Your dsg is a lot diff from your sketches which is good, shows you have unique style and can perform concentrated on that piece as well.

[Fipse]

Hi Endregan,

thanks for your reply. With the new pic I´ve been working as I would have done with markers in my old days of analog layout ;).

I don´t know BaguaZhang - sounds chinese to me and there are so many Wushu-styles it´s difficult to know just a few. I myself practise martial arts since I was twelve, doing in the meantime in chronological order Judo, Hwarang-Do, Iai-Do, Ju-Jutsu, Tai Chi and want to start with Modern Arnis as soon as I´ve been doing some rehabilitation because of damaged discs. In between I´ve been practising different weaponstyles, did some Shotokan-Karate, collected some belts in Nunchaku-Do and Tonfa ... whatever.

And now - 25 years later - I´m a kind of wreck. In german there´s a saying "Sport ist Mord", meaning "sport is murder" ... :D

Fipse

[endregan]

thats what happens with all those years of external japanese martial arts !! I did karate when I was younger but I do baguazhang which is pretty unique. its an internal martial art.

i suggest you look into it, its much different from any martial art ive ever seen or done!!! Hey I hope your discs get better soon just take it easy!

[Fipse]

Hi Endregan,

just read about it - seems to be a mixture between Tai Chi and Aikido. Interesting but not available in my near. My problems with my back result from my own faults and haven´t got much to do with the martial arts I practised. But I´ve got to confess I need sometimes a little contact-fighting to let out agressivities (done some fighting on open Kickboxing-tourneys during my Hwarang-Do times). But beside this I´m contemplating about doing Tai Chi (I think in the US it´s spelled Taijiquan) again - the styles seem to be not far from each other.

Fipse

BTW Hwarang-Do is korean and Iai-Do is imo an inner art, too

[endregan]

hey good to hear!!

The tai chi is common and is growing here in north america and canada where I live.

The baguazhang program is really about years of practice of basically circle walking and trains you to strike fast and efficiently enough to take on more than 8 people perhaps. Martial arts are very good to practice and is very healthy!!

and about being taichi and aikido yes it does have similar attributes but is an art of its own to be related :).

Keep at it !! :)

[Fipse]

And again a DSG - this time "temptation". I stayed with the style I tried out the last time. I´m aiming for a bit darker, grittier style for some pictures.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/temptation.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

I don´t get much time to draw at the moment. At least I find sometimes time for the occasional DSG. My lady and I are looking for a house and beside my work this costs me much time ... I´m not content with the lack of advance I have at the moment, I definitely have to take some lifedrawing classes again-

Here´s todays DSG "sloth":

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/sloth.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

So here we are again with some anatomy, didn´t had much more time today (this took me about 45 min.) and in the next time I think I won´t find much time for sketching. I want to work through Painter (got a book now) and try to learn the techniques. Furthermore I have to program my webpage - I´m buying a house and need more money - maybe with another job.
[rant over]

http://kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s045.jpg

Fipse

[Robolus]

Good studies!:thumb:

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Oh Mann, da hast du dir ja einiges vorgenommen!
Ich hoffe dennoch das du genügend Zeit und Muße findest zu zeichnen und zu üben.

Viel Erfolg beim "Häuslebaue" und bei deiner Webpage.

[Fipse]

Jo, Robolus,

ich werde auf meine alten Tage noch seriös - glücklicherweise kaufen wir ein altes Zechenhaus. Mehr können wir uns auch nicht leisten ... Aber ich habe zu lange pausiert, als daß ich so einfach wieder mit dem Zeichnen aufhören möchte ;)

BTW Super Sketchbook-Thread von Dir!

[Iiori]

I really like that temptation one, The colors are really effective.

Your sketches are quite fun to look at. Glad you started the DSG. ^^

[Robolus]

Ein Zechenhaus, klasse, wird bestimmt total gemütlich!
Hut ab das du dennoch dir die Zeit nimmst und findest zu zeichnen. Auch ich habe viele Jahre "verloren" und nicht, bzw. kaum gezeichnet und möchte es jetzt nicht mehr missen.

Viele Grüße,
Robolus

[Fipse]

Hi Iori,

maybe I was writing indistinctly (yes, english isn´t my native laguage ;)). I´m doing DSG for some time now, but with the new format it´s a bit easier for me to find time for it. I like the idea of the DSG because the projects I have in my head are quite time-consuming and this way I always have a theme to draw about ;-)

Hi Robolus,

schaun wer mal, morgen entscheidet sich alles. Bist Du eigentlich auch im Oktober auf der Spiel? Du hast doch irgendwas mit Marko zu tun. Anyway, dafür, daß Du lange pausiert hast, bist Du wirklich gut dabei.

Here´s my newest entry for the DSG. This time it was female robot. Hey, in fact it´s the first robot I´ve been drawing in my life :D. Like I said in the DSG I´m not sure what a humanoid robot is good for, except for geeks dreams, so I made it a bit like a "fetish-bot" - kinda cliché, I know.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/fembot.jpg

Fipse

[jester]

Hi guys, it's not very polite to post in German (there are PMs for this), even if it's not relating to art. BTW, I like your "sloth" DSG contribution.

:)

Jester

[Robolus]

jester: You´re right! Sorry! But the problem is that my english is not very good. :(

fipse: You´re first robot? Very good! Where can I buy here? ;)
Yes, I will visit the "Spiel", we have to drink a beer there together.:chug:
I started to draw "seriously" and daily three years ago. I was designer for more than 10 years and during this time I´d had a lot of jobs where I had the opportunity to draw. But during this 10 years I didn´t make a pencilstroke for myself ore did practice. What a waste of time!

[Fipse]

Yep, jester, mea culpa, mea maxima culpa!
Hi Robolus

That´s good news - we can see if there are some other CAdians around. At least some are from this region. Let´s see if we can organize an Artdrinking!

I see you´ve had a similar way to myself ... I started in the Mid-80´s in the Ads as a graphic (Druckvorlagenhersteller), doing much drawing and marker-layout but after my civilian-service in the beginning of the 90´s I specialized in computerlayout and stopped drawing (just some historical illustrations from time to time). At the end of last year I started again and don´t want to stop it now ...

Fipse

[Fipse]

Here we are again ...

First the last DSG "Thor"

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/thor.jpg

Should have desaturated it a bit - I always tend to work with too strong coulours. Not to speak about the crappy sky ...

and a quick concept for a spaceship:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/spaceship.jpg

Fipse

[jester]

Hi Fipse,

artdrinking sounds good! I'm in! :D

Jester

[Fipse]

Next update, just some doodles:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s046.jpg
A try in aliens ... never thought much about creatures, humans are more interesting.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s047.jpg
some kind of Space-Captain for my new ideas ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s048.jpg
Just saw som photos of a friend doing napoleonic reenactment. Fits perfect in my little world ;).

Fipse

[Fipse]

I took my last sketch, enlarged it and made clean artwork. Maybe I´ll colour it later on, I like the idea.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/049.jpg

Fipse

[endregan]

nice work fipse i like your ideas :)

last one is cool. has a mic?

[Fipse]

Yep Endregan,

battlefield communication is imho immanent important - I sometimes wished when I was in my SCA-armour we had the chance to communicate on the field :D.

Don´t know when I find time for drawing and updates in the next days/weeks ...

Fipse

[Fipse]

New Update ... first at all some fast facestudies. My faces all look quite the same so I have to practise from time to time.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s051.jpg

Today I had some time at work (and a Graphire board) and tried out a bit. I rty to get a bit away from my linework and tried out an approach based on Hawkpreys tutorial (what´s quite popular at the moment ;))

The first sketch:
http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s050a.jpg

Some work added
http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s050.jpg

I found the results interesting maybe I´ll try a bit more in this direction.

Fipse

[Fipse]

One more to ignore ... Quick doodle at work, typical scribbly style ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s052.jpg

Fipse

[scumble fish]

Looking at your pages I see strengths in the faster gesture drawings....where you say less but commit more. Less gesture in the digi painting work. Perhaps because color is not defining volume so much as just added to the existing line work. Although the Hawkprey studies hint at a nice mark. One can really absorb a approach by looking at work like KChen's when it comes to the figure.
As you mention above, there really is nothing that can replace drawing from a model when it comes down to studying anatomy. I wish life drawing classes were not so expensive here in the states so I could attend. Keep up the good work.

[Fipse]

Hi scumble fish,

thanks for your comment! You´re right I think my linework and sketches are much more lifely (sp?) than my worked out and coloured stuff. I still don´t feel completely comfy with the graphic tablets (maybe it´s because I just have a cheap one at home, that doesn´t work too well - I´m saving for a Wacom ;)). In fact I don´t feel to comfy with colour at all - I have sometimes to force myself to work with them.

Kevin Chens work is great, whenever I find time I´m looking at his sketches. Wish I had the chance to get a teacher like him. According to your comment about lifedrawing classes. If they are too expensive try to get some friends together who are drawing like yourself and pose for each other. Or ask someone - I think for a fair amount of money you will always find a model (Maybe get together with other artists and share the expenses). I will start this with colleagues of mine and did so with some friend and my girlfriend. If you don´t want to go naked, there´s always the bathing suit ;). On the other hand I like to draw clothed models for you seldom have the chance to study drapery.

Fipse

[Fipse]

As I told before I coloured the napoleonic influenced sketch I made some times before.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/linemand.jpg

Some issues with the face - I´m not content with it but i haven´t got the nerve to put more work in this piece.

Fipse

[Fipse]

Haven´t had much time in the last week. At least some sketchbook doodle I´ve done this evening:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/053.jpg

Fipse

[endregan]

hey man long time no see.

i see your still at the character drawings :). I appreciate your art man, youre always here and i can learn something new from you each time you post :)

[Robolus]

Hi Fipse, I can see good improvments! I like your sketches. I had (and still have) problems to color with the tablet too. What helped me a lot was painting pictures after ref (old masters) just in black and white, concentrating to find the right tones. The next step to the colour will be much smaller and easier then. You shoud try it!

[Fipse]

Hi Endregan,

yes, characters are the things I like to draw most. But I really have to get "enviromental" because I really suck at it - especially when working with colours. Nice to hear that you can learn something from me - in fact I learn from people like you staying with the art and focussing on learning :).

Hi Robolus,

I´ve thought about working in monochromatic values, too, to lose my "fear of colours". I suppose there´s a scientific name for it ;). Yeah I should do more copywork to improve, I´ll see if I can find some Rembrandt stuff in my "library" - one of my alltime Favourites. Thanks for the tip!

Fipse

[Fipse]

Just before Robolus gave me the idea to work more in monochromatic values I began with this one. Definitely no mastercopy but i learned a few things with it ... At least that I´ve got to learn to get away from lines sometimes and that`I´m suffering from the blurry picture syndrom ;-) Thanks to Lungbug who gave me some hints to some of the problems but I haven´t got the nerve to work more on it.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/dieb.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

I haven´t drawn much in the last time. There was a lot going on in my private life so yesterday night I found at least an hour to sketch a bit. As I told before I´ve got to learn working with values so this is a try getting rid of my linework.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s054.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Somehow I should complain more often about my time - than I mostly find some to draw ;). Here´s a new try in values and the first piece I did completely digitally in PS.

If someone could comment about use of colour and brushes I would be glad - here lie in my opinion my biggest deficits.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/gunman.jpg

Fipse

[Robolus]

Very good, fipse!

Maybe you should use some hard edges (etwas klarere Konturen)on your works too, keep on sketching! :thumb:

[Fipse]

Finally I found some time to do DSG again. Here´s my approach to an alien princess.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/alien-princess.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

When browsing through my artworkd esperately getting stuff together for a preventive portfolio I just found this a little bit older (March) portrait sketch of my friend Jester. Just wanted to share.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s055.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

As I´m reworking a kind of portfolio mý valueworking and colour-stuff has to step back for a time for simple concept stuff. As I told somwhere I´ve got some ideas about arabian influenced SF. So I decided for concept´s sake I will try to draw the different members of a typical Norad´ib Squad.

All drawings I´m doing at the moment are based around quite strict rules that I made for this virtual future. You won´t find any Space-marine like battlesuits because in this world the enery-weapons are to strong for sensible armour.

Here´s the first concept. Norad´ib lineman - the core troups of the army of the united Emirates.

Preliminary sketches:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s057.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s056.jpg

A first concept - a Norad´ib lineman preparing for bayonet-attack:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/norad-lineman.jpg

Fipse

[jester]

Hey, what a surprise! After returning after a few days being offline I see my mug turning up on this page! Yes, I remember that session and I would like to have time to start this private draw club again. Alas, most of my networking meetings are in the evenings.

Weird, I like the prelim sketches better than the final concept. It's a bit too stiff imo.

Cu

Jester

[Fipse]

Yeah, you´re right Jester. I tend to give away some of the liveliness of my sketches when translating them into a more worked out version. Maybe I´m thinking too much when I´m drawing in worked out way - most of my sketches happen to be designed on the paper and not in my head.

BTW if someone has some C&C to concept-quality during the development of this troups I would be glad. But I think this will better be put in another subforum...

Fipse

[xia]

Your figure has come a long way. The color are really nice too. Keep it up!

[Fipse]

Hi Xia,

thanks for the nice words! I will try to keep sketching ;).

ABout the update:

No time yaddayadda, too many computergames blabla, [insert the usual lame excuses].

This time here´s the development for a Norad´ib Scanner. There´s normally one per 10-man squad, who´s doing exact scanning and leading fire. Furthermore the scanner is responsible for human-robot communication.


Sketches again in my usual messy style. As I told before I´m thinking und developing on paper and seldom visualize before.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s058.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s059.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s060.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/norad-scanner.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Long time, no see ...

Being busy in my "real" life there wasn´t much time for sketching. And playing Computergames doesn´t help much either ;).

This small sketch I did yesterday evening with fever and a cold. I´m trying to use the blending stump to get my sketches more value oriented. Markos and Rubygenesis work did give me the idea to try this out, too.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s061.jpg

Fipse

[|SaRcAsM|]

I believe ur getting better man. And, developing your concept straight on the paper isnt always a bad thing, sometimes you get pleasently surprised! I think your characters are gaining a new sense of pose and balance that they didnt have before. I notice that you love doing medieval related work but seem to have trouble when drawing, for example, chainmail. Your faces also lack a certain definition, try using longer lines instead of your usually messy short ones as it often helps to clarify the image and give you new directions. Hope u dont take this the wrong way:bash: .Just trying to give some advice.

Always a fan of your work (kinda of a medieval warfare maniac myself)...

Sarc

Cheers:chug:

[Fipse]

Hi Sarcasm,

yes, you´re right I think the contact with the art of all the people around here helped me getting away from the stiff poses I used to do the past few years when doiung costume studies. My linework is something I have to improve - I´m used to scribble on layoutpaper and trace the "good" lines - so I didn´t have to bother about a clear pencilwork.

I just flipped through my pages here and didn´t found any mail I drew - maybe you confused me with Erik? I wrote a lot in his "medieval" thread esp. about mail.

And yes again I´m very interested in medieval history (got some meters of books about this theme ;)). It´s going so far I´m doing medieval reenactment ...

Thnx again for your comment

Fipse

[|SaRcAsM|]

Terribly sorry!!!! lol i guess i confused u two cause u were in the same thread!no excuse...... :(

I accidently put that in, but was just one of my points. what i was trying to say was that........dunno how to explain it but ur shapes, maybe ur feet, cant really point out what it is, but makes the figure less believable. that is especially clear in the bayonet guy but not so in the norad girl(?) which clearly has a more dynamic pose. You lack feeling of moviment in some of ur pieces. dunno if that makes sense.

2nd Try ;) :the way u design fabric or the way it interacts with the character and the enviroment give it a stiff looking.

On the good side, love ur creativity! that periscope/scanner thingy just amazed me! :) would definetly like to hear some background on this universe ur creating! i am pationate about everything remotely connected with warfare. i collect books on warfare from pre-history and well into the 21st century, so i guess that is why ur creations appeal to me so much, they are a wonderfull blend of old and new.

As for ur reenactments, i would definatly like to have details on that! such activities are, sadly, forgotten here in my country and i think we have so much to remember.

I would like to talk much more about this with you if u let me....i should warn u, im kinda of a pain the ass on a subject interests me. My favorite periods are the Classical (peloponnesian wars, helenic-persian wars), Roman (punic wars), the crusades and all medieval period, the Portuguese expansion and finally WW2.

Looking forward for ur answer

Sarc:chug:

[ericdee]

Hello Fipse,
your portrait from 5.10 is one of the best sketches in your book. It doesn´t look cramped, it is beautiful sketchy-loose, great sketching work. Try to do more like that, drawing more from the wrist, if you know what I mean(german - mehr aus dem Handgelenk, locker!).

Cool stuff here,
cheers, Eric

[Fipse]

Hi Sarcasm,

thanks for your tips - I´m working on them. I defintely have to take some lifedrawing again. I´ve got the feeling if I put some special effort in feet and hand it will help me a lot. Unfortunately I suppose i won´t find time until January for it (I just bought a house ...).

I always like to centre my drawings around a sound concept. Realism sometimes hinders me - I´m feeling strange giving people in my drawings weapons that I know that don´t work. I´ve been doing martial arts and medieval fighting for a long time now and simply can´t stand things like swords worn on the back, poses that are not possible and weapons that are unwieldy.

The Norad´ib are an idea I have now for quite some time - I always liked arabian/persian/turkish weaponry and costume and I´ve seen some movies (e.g. Gettysburgh, The patriot etc.) that used massed infantry with a high share of hand-to-hand fighting that I really liked. So I thought what could be a reason in the future to get back to this style of fighting and this elegant, long weapons. "Dune" gave me the idea with the special shield-technology they are using. It would be too far in this circumstances to fully explain everything. Maybe I will do so when I somehow complete the concepts for a Squad of Norad´ib. But this will be in the finally finished section ;).

Because my reenactment activities are not so interersting for most people here - as I suppose - I PM´ed you so we can talk about it without boring people :D. I´m a medieval PITA, too ...

Now to the Update:
Inspired by the actual thunderdome theme I thought about drawing some historical badasses. This is a fighter of the "sea people" harassing the coasts of the mediterranean sea about 1200 B.C. and destroying the empire of the Hethites. I drew this sketch after two egyptian frescoes and reliefs. Unfortunately I´m completely not content with it - the swordhand is off (I wanted to show the type of sword) and there are some probs with the torso ... but I have to move on.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/historisch/seevolk.jpg

Fipse

[Robolus]

Hi Fipse,

good updates my friend.
One thing that I learned from the mastercopies is that your pencil and ink-stroke should ALWAYS follow the direction and movement of the body, hairs, clothes etc..
One example: Look at the torso of your "norad-lineman.jpg". In this pic you don´t follow the movement of the clothes and the direction of the underlying bodyparts, so the torso looks "2D-ish" and without depth.

Hope that helps you.

Gute Besserung,

Rob

PS: Arrrk, mein Englisch ist so kacke, ich brech mir jedesmal einen ab! :D

[Fipse]

Thanks Eric,

nice to see another german around! I had a look a your great sketchbook but didn´t find the time to write something witty. Most sketches I made in this kind I didn´t post here because they are to big for my scanner. I love to do lifedrawing on A3, A2 or even bigger working with the wrist or the complete arm. Maybe when I start lifedrawing workshops again I will take some photos of them.

Hi Robolus,

I didn´t thought about following the body - I just wanted to put down a flat tone but I now realize how this could have helped me without much more effort.

Thanks to you both for your helpful comments!

Fipse
(who can name nearly every part on an medieval armour in english but has probs with art-terms, too :D)

[Fipse]

So here are some more pics Thunderdome inspired. first two pages of sketches to show how I´m doing research - this is just small research, normally I´ve got dozens of books around when doing historical illustratio.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s062.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s063.jpg

And here a mycanean warrior ca. 1500 - 1200 BC

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/historisch/mykene.jpg

Fipse

[|SaRcAsM|]

Hey!

guess robulos pointed out the same thing i did. i wasnt very articulate that day :D .

major improvement! i like it! *saves*.that reed shield is very good looking and so is his torso.

one or two things i can point out is that his right side of the vest doesnt seem to follow the legs, dunno if u get me. also dont get lazy on the hands!.... i guess i do that too all the time so nevermind....;) also the end of the spear looks too rough, maybe a little rubbering is in order? :p

guess thats all! keep up the good work...hope to hear from you!

cheers m8 :chug:

Sarc

[Fipse]

Hi Sarcasm,

yep, you´re right. I again got lazy with the hands - I always tend to rush things. I suppose I worked too long in the ads to get away from this bad habit :D. Sometimes it´s strange that you just need a little hint to get some thinking process starting. When working with pen and ink I always follow the form but somehow I forgot it with my pencil-stuff ...

Fipse

P.S.: I´ll pm you this evening after work

[Fipse]

Here´s my update for today. It´s my (unfinished) entry for the Thunderdome contest. Unfortunately I didn´t have the time to finish it properly.

This is a roman warrior of the 6th - 5th cent. BC. The designs ar from different period sources.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/historisch/romani.jpg

I will be on holiday with my roleplaying group for a week tomorrow, so more updates after my return.

Fipse

[Fipse]

Not really an update - more of an explanation why I didn´t post in the past days. I suppose with me renovating my new house and preparing my wedding there won´t be much time for me to pick up a pencil until the end of the year ...

Anyway, here´s a small cartoon of me and my girlfriend for our weddingcard:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/paar.jpg

Hope to find some time to draw later on ...

Fipse

[endregan]

awesome glad to hear that. congrats and good luck.

:)

[Fipse]

Thanks Endregan, I really appreciate it. I hope everything will work out well.

Here´s a small update to show that I´m not completely away. I suppose the next updates until the end of the year will be just of this sketchy kind ... hope there will be more,

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s064.jpg

Fipse

[roger]

Nice sketches, although you should draw the feet, this time even more considering it's sort of a fetish drawing ;).

Congratulations for your wedding!

[Fipse]

Hi Roger,

The usual problem - I just was trying out the corset-thingy and added hips and legs and suddenly the page ended :D. Thanks for the congrats!

Fipse

[stormeffex]

hey fipse, it looks like you did a lot of research on those characters. i'm not much of a researcher so most of my stuff is inaccurate. much props to you for that. well, i'm off to research now....

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[OLSEN]

Great stuff Fipse. The portrait of Jester is good, i recogniced him the second i saw it, even though i only know him by his avatar.

I prefer your historical sketches before the fetish ones, but theyre all good. I´ll keep an eye on you from now on. Btw, is there a reason we never get to enjoy your art at the DSG anymore?

[Fipse]

Hi Olsen, thanks for the reply!

I´ve been mostly working historically for the past few years (and have some projects next year that I´m practising for) so i hope it will work out. But I´m trying to expand my range of themes and have to confess that I´ve got a faible for this fetish-stuff. Even if my scribbly sketching style doesn´t match the sujet very good imo.

Yes, I will be with the DSG again but I simply haven´t got the time at the moment (you may recognize the few updates I made in the last time ;)). With me buying a house, renovating it, moving, having a demanding job and trying to get married - all in this year until end of December - I´m in the evening simply too tired to pick up a pen or the tablet. But I´ve missed some great themes in the DSG and don´t want to miss much more ;)

Fipse

BTW Jester is female - I have to work on my likeness :D.

[Fipse]

It didn´t seem possible but finally I managed to draw again. After two month spend with renovation, moving and the occasional marriage my studio is set up, I know where my pencils are and I really find in between some time to draw :D.

Here are the first things I cranked out - I realize I´ve been getting out of practise and started first with simple pencil stuff to get things going. So here are some studies of mine and I hope you can see more stuff in the next time.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s065.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s066.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s067.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s068.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s069.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s070.jpg

Fipse

[endregan]

yay fipse is back. ive been away a bit myself, school is a large factor right now :P

good to have ya back

hey i want you to clean your line up a bit mister, no more drinks for you :)

[Fipse]

Hi Endregan,

thanks for the welcome back ;). Live has the strange tendency to get in the way a lot, doesn´t it?

Yeah you´re right, I´ve got to get a more concentrated linework - I´m still scribbling like mad, doing everything in a hurry and rush. Maybe I simply have to cool down a bit - and drink less beer :D.

Fipse

[jester]

Alive and kicking, eh? :D Good to see that you are back in real life!

Birgit -aka Jester-

[Fipse]

O.k. once again a humble update of my stuff. I´m trying to work a bit more with a pen to get a better linecontrol but I think I can easily reproduce my scribbly sketching into ink :rolleyes: . FIrst one is a doodle I made while waiting for some CD´s to burn, the other two are studies of indian women costume of the 18th century.

Fipse

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s071.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s072.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s073.jpg

[Fipse]

Here we are with another update. As you may see I have got to work on my linequalities. In this spirit I did the next two sketches.

Fipse

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s074.jpg
http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s075.jpg

[endregan]

awesome i can read the last two really well! i like your cleaned up linework, using ink is hard too.

good work

[Yiako]

Those last drawings -esp. the samurai- are really clean. Did you draw first a pencil sketch and inked over it?
A suggestion: try to find-draw figures with foreshortening. I think that you have a tendency to draw body parts from a "safe" viewpoint (front-side...), and I think that even if your first attempts were horrible, you should learn a lot about their structure if you slowly could "see them" from a different angle.


Uff... If all this incoherent babbling don´t makes any sense: I'm not in drugs, It is just that I don´t know enough english (it's frustrating) :)

[Fipse]

Thanks for your comments!

Yiako, normally I use a pencilsketch and erase it later when I inked it. Most are inked with copic-inkmarkers, the girl with the wide skirt is done by crowquill. For the last drawings I just made a rough pencil-sketch to lay out the proportions and filled in the Details later. Only the first Indian Lady I did without a preliminary sketch.

Regarding to the viewpoints I´ve got to say that I often stay in my wornout "historical" shoes ;). For historical illustration a pose where you can see everything of a costume is often more important than being original - but you´re right this is definitely something I really have to work with.

And as you see in my writing you´re not the only one around who sometimes got problems with the english language :D.

Fipse

[van]

Keep it up, Fipse! You can see a good progression from the front to the back of this sketchbook.

[Fipse]

No, I´m not dead ... but somehoiw life´s coming all the time between me and my drawings. Anyway here´s a DSG I managed to do today. This is the first digital painting I did for quite a long time. Not content with it at all but at least I´m starting to work again ;).

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/cowboy.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Again a DSG. I sticked with my old pencil and colour it in PS technique ...

Anat, an ancient egypt goddess of Sex, War and Fertility:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/anat.jpg

Fipse

[endregan]

Fipse is back at it.

Sweet deal :)

Good paintings. Thats what I like to see!

[Fipse]

Work, no time, overhours yaddayaddayadda ...

Anyway here´s todays DSG:

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/anbeterin.jpg

Hope to get more drawn but I fear I won´t ...

Fipse

[TARGETE]

The inks are an improvement Fipse, you have a nice elegant line going with the indian women. I really miss my sketchbook but havent had the time ;sigh:.

keep pushing man keep pushing

JP

[Fipse]

Hi Targete,

thnanks for your kind words. I enjoy working with ink even if I haven´t done it much in the last time.

I know it´s sometimes a pain to pick up the sketchbook when there´s so much else to do. Do us a favor and draw some sketchbook pages again - you know that I really like them :)!

Here´s a small update, two sketches I made somewhere between work and sleeping ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/076.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/077.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Not very content how the last drawings went. This isn´t helping me either. A small colour study on an old thumbnail I made for the DSG riverguard

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/watcher.jpg

Have to practise landscape and colours a lot more ... somehow I´ve been getting caught in the process.

Fipse

[xia]

Good progression Flipse! Rock on...keep them coming.
Paint over old thumbnails or old painting is always good. Mullan told us that he always does that too. It's refleshing.

[Fipse]

Thanks Xia for your encouraging comments ... I´m always looking at your "sketchbook" but seldom have time to comment ...

Here´s my first try with Gouache, bought some yesterday. A nice medium for fast work as I realized. When I feel more confident I´ll try out a less monochromatic approach.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/078.jpg


Fipse

[Robolus]

Hi Fipse, my friend,

I like your Gouache study. It´s very good for the first time.

viele Grüße,

Robby:chug:

[endregan]

hey more recent updates.

keep drawing fipse!

for colours - block in the colours first. 3 values will give u form! keep going

[Fipse]

Felt too tired to do colour stuff so I tried out the new pen I bought, a Pentel Hybrid Gel. I have to say that I love the smooth working with it, could be getting one of my favourites. Because I jsut helped someone reenacting a 12th cent. soldier I drew some small studies of one.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s079.jpg

Hi Endregan,

I worked with the Gouache somewhat like with watercolours so I went from light to dark ... shouldn´t do thi so much on my slightly coloured paper ;)

Fipse

[Fipse]

Tried another one in Gouache. When I feel more technically confident I will try some referenced work - this are more of colour doodles to see what the medium (and I) are capable of.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s080.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

So here´s another Gouache sketch. I like the stuff a lot but I realize I´ve got to learn a lot of basics of painting in the next time. Anyway here´s my next study, should have lost the cheesy light.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s081.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Just a fast sketch for the actual DSG - still haven´t nearly no time to sketch and draw ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/dsg/paper.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

O.k some fast sketches to show me I´m still living - feeling quite burned out at the moment but I try to do the best out of it. One Doodle with my new love the Pentel :D and two fast face studies.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/082.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/083.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

This is yesterday´s DSG - a onehanded missile-launcher ... I´ve been a bit carried away, could write a complete handbook how to handle the launcher.

Here´s the concept, fitting in my personal project I´m working on at the moment. A multipurpose, personal missile launcher.

It´s easily possible for a normal soldier to carry the singleshot version with some ammo with him, for the magazine version he has to take an approbiate bag.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/diverses/launchertext.jpg

Here it is in use. The soldier is holding an energyshield in his left hand, putting the barrel through the field to be able to fire.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/diverses/anwendung2.jpg

And here are some graphics to show the use with the four different ammo-types (have I told that I like this easy manual type illustrations where everything seems completely clear :D)

Ammo 1 is a parachute grenade to slow the fall of the grenades enough to get through the enemies shields

Ammo 2 is a standard grenade against not fully shielded enemies

Ammo 3 are mines to hinder an advancing or assaulting enemy. When hitting the ground they throw out a liquid in one meter diameter that reacts when an enemy is stepping on it. I suppose explosives in the future are powerful enough to be even in this small sizes effective.

Ammo 4 is a classical armour- and bunkerpiercing Krak-missile

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/diverses/anwendung.jpg

As I said I got carried away :D.

Fipse

[endregan]

hey man youve been busy!

i love your gouache and dsg!

the strokes are a bit too detailed perhaps? maybe go from larger shapes to smaller. i am no master but the less strokes sometimes is best?

The soldier is perfect :)

[Jeff Jaws]

Your hand on the DSG pic is very well done, same for the pencil.. It's my favourite pic on this page!
Well, meeting soon, huh? Looking forward to it!:chug:

Jj.

[Fipse]

Hi Endregan and Jeff,

thanks for the replies. If I´m sometimes slow in replying it´s mostly because I´m posting here usually late in the evening.

As I said regarding painting and colour I still have masses to learn. Unfortunately I so seldom have the possibility to paint undisturbed so I stay with b/w and the comp ...

Anyway I´ll try to get again more into drawing.

And Jeff, I suppose there will be enough chance to empty a glass of beer :chug:

Fipse

[Fipse]

Whoa, is it been so long again? Anyway my firms actual big project just ended and I found some time for sketching again. I just bought Bridgmans "Complete guide to Drawign from life" and am really enthusiastic about it.

In this state of mind I made the following sketches. I didn´t look for exact anatomy but getting a kind of rythm into the figures and getting rid of my stiff poses.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s084.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s085.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s086.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s087.jpg

Fipse

[sixBlade]

hey there! :)

Got some crit for you.. Ive only looked at this page so ill start at the top and point out anything I see thats wrong.

Reclining Indian woman - eye is too high up on the head and the nose seems a bit big.

Nice drawing of the person sitting with cup I like! :)

insect with breasts - erm? *runs*

nose on the brown gouache girl looks too small, especially at the bottom

Nice drawing of your own hand drawing very escher style and well done too! :chug:

lmao at the missle launcher :D

The top left of the four girls sketches right arm looks very awkward.. the triceps look wrong to me somehow.. you were probably going to fix that when you sharpened the image up though ;o

Overall good work from what I've seen! Far better than me :evilbat:

[jester]

Hey Fipse, I extremely like your one-handed missile launcher concepts - true, you got a bit carried away for a dsg but that's real concept art imo - all very clear to give me an idea what this weapon is like.

Got to check some recipes today for the brunch at your place on Sunday - how many people do you expect to come btw?

Jester

[Fipse]

Hi sixblade and Jester,

first thanks for the crits. A lot of the stuff in this sketchbook isn´t refined - I seldom have time to go over a sketch later on. Especially the girls I did for other reasons than anatomical correctness ... Anyway I´m always glad that someone points out what problems I have (and there are a LOT ;)). You often don´t see in you own stuff what you´ve done wrong.

Regarding the missile launcher I sometimes think that in the forum "real" concepts are a bit underrepresented. Most people just show their drawings and illustrations without the underlying concepts ... maybe this would be interesting for one of the next TD´s - doing a given concept with approbiate background.

Jester, I send you a PM for Sunday brunch!

Fipse

[Fipse]

I just coloured one of the pics I drew this night. Can´t do much more because I´m ill atm - can´t sit for a long time in a chair because of my back.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s088.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

O.k., here´s what I did on the workshop. I didn´t find time to really draw much. I much enjoyed listening and socializing too much ;).

Anyway here are some of the sketches I did:

Portrait sketches from Andrew and Coro on the first day

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws01.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws02.jpg

Fast sketch from a plaster head to get down the values.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws03.jpg

A sketch of Kevin when he was doing his forst portrait on the workshop.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws04.jpg

Gesture sketches

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws05.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws07.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws08.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws08_b.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws08_c.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws08_d.jpg

[Fipse]

Portrait study of one of the models

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws09.jpg

Some lifedrawing sketches

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws09_a.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws09_b.jpg

On the second day my car didn´t want to start (we were in a bungalow park in the near of Amsterdam). This sketch I drew while waiting for the car service.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws10.jpg

I didn´t make it to the morning meeting in the "bittertoet", so I met some guys in a café and drew this sketch there.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws11.jpg

Gesture drawings again. We had a great, expressive model - a dancer - for this.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws12_a.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws12_b.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws12_c.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws12_d.jpg http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws12_e.jpg

Longer poses of her

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws12_f.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws12_g.jpg

My only try in colour on this event ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws12.jpg

Portrait studies. Jason helped me with the first one, gave me some ideas to creatively use an eraser, the second I didn´t found the time to finish ... a pity cause the likeliness wasn´t bad.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws13.jpg

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/adam/ws14.jpg

Anyway I had a great time in Amsterdam and came back inspired. Hopefully I don´t get in the old treadmills again ...

Fipse

[Fipse]

Just a little update to show I´m still living. Unfortunately after the workshop I had more to do with sorting my private life out than use the stuff I learned.

I practised today a little bit with the new Intuos, Painter and it´s Airbrush-Tools. This means I immediately start getting blurry ;). Furthermore I always got the probs of to few contrasts when painting on a computer ... anyway for good or bad here´s todays result.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/webpics/paintertest01.jpg

Fipse

[endregan]

sweet dude that amsterdam did you well.

[Fipse]

Hi Endregan,

yes Amsterdam was an inspiration but unfortunately I´m getting in the old treadmills again. But at least I´m thinking more about how to include art more in my life as I did until now.

Here´s another small update. I think I will do some "classical" Fantasy stuff again. Haven´t done it for a while and it´s good to flex old muscles again.

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s089.jpg

Fipse

[jester]

Hi Fipse, cool sketch, I like it because here you managed to tell a story instead of showing costumes. ;)

You have to tell me about Amsterdam! Unfortunately I'm pretty busy right now (I managed to convince some customers to let me work for them! :) ).

:chug:

Jester

[Fipse]

No time, rut, blah ....

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s090.jpg

Fipse

[Fipse]

Doing a shaman-like guy for the drawing-jam thread. Maybe I had read too much Castaneda. Can´t keep my patience for more refined work ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s091.jpg

Fipse

[endregan]

keep going buddy :)

your characters are getting better :)

[Fipse]

Thanks Endregan! Here´s another entry for the drawing jam. Not time for anything else ...

http://www.kriegsherren-von-og.de/sketches/s092.jpg

I think it´s time for a new sketchbook, this is a year old now ...

Fipse