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[Konstruktion]

Edited and burned down to the ground.

Thanks for your comments.

Perhaps I will one day return, with the flame lit on fire once again!

[Ahim]

cool stuff so far dude! just don't stop, and do alot of studies of anatomy and all, even if it hurts :D you propably already did, because i notice it is awesome, but more is always good

high five!

[Orifice]

Hello there Johan! I prommiss I shall create my thread today, but my brotha is craving the computer right now... You shouldent feel that bad. Really like them guys on that first page, the 3 ones on the left are brilliant. and your second entry is REAL nice too. the gasmask-man and the whip-man are class A. the man whith the whip is really really incredible! cant find nothing wrong with thatone, i love it. Keep on drahwin and uploadin!!

[Quinster]

The anatomy seems a bit choppy but I do think the faces are really good. I'd like to see something a little more "dynamic" if you get what I mean? Keep posting! :}

By the way, I also like those cartoons.

[silvestri99]

You have some great facial work here...your characters all seem to have their own personality. Try grabing some reference material and doing some full body studies (just as i should) and it will boost your confidence a bunch!!!

[Orifice]

sweet updatin man. good thing that you draw! i dont get to it enough.. Some good stuff here man! good with them studies! like the faces alot, very nicely done, angles on faces can be a real bitch. so good work! must do some updatingwork now! seya!

[Orifice]

good studies mate lookin real nice! The eyes especially! Lets agree that we both continue this new set direction in our every day drawing! Hoorah!

[Alcian]

That perspective study looks really nice, I got a whole book on perspective - but Im too scared to look in it. So complicated.

Your studies are great, I think you could push them if you didn't use such a heavy line. I think that one of the most important aspects of a study is the values. Have a go at doing some serious value studies and use a greater range as well.

Thanks for the comment in my sketchbook. Most of my work is from ref, I use virtual pose a lot for the references.
:)

~al

[Alcian]

Yeah, I meant shade and shadow when I mentioned the value studies. Your work would really benifit from a greater range of values. Not only that, but when you put in the shade or shadow, think about its edge. Is it a well hard, well defined edge or a soft edge. The greater you understand values and the way they behave, the better you will understand the form.
Hope to see some new studies soon :).

[Sodbrenner]

you got a cool reduced style, keep it however you develope, i really respect getting along with a single line :teeth:

[ArtZealot]

just a crit on your sketchbook title. you need an apostrophe at the end of the title. right now it's "sarcophagus sketchbook" it should be "sarcophagus' sketchbook" it needs that little tick at the end of the "s" of sarcophagus. i know this cause my name ends in an S and for many years i left the little apostrophe out.

[silvestri99]

Nice studies...my only suggestion would to wtach your line weight in your ear studies. Try to pronounce the larger, more important ones (like outside and main lobe) and de-emphasize the smaller, supporting lines....keep it up!!

[nofingers]

Great stuff. Those studies are really good, especially the ears.....i usually have trouble with ears. Those inks you posted up there, that is some nice ink slingin'

[JoeHell]

really cool stuff.. I really like your inks.. keep this up and do some more stuff from life and you should have no trouble getting in to a nice art school nest autumn.. peace!

[Ive]

Nice studies! You're coming along pretty good. Work and stay kvlt :P

[Alexandr Pascenko]

he see u started to do hogarth! great lookin good but to beware you of mistakes wich took me years of recognizing them with hogarth ill give u an advice do NOT! start with the anatomy first by hogarth. better take first his drawing bodies in perspective( dunno exactly how its called) and after! u finished this better try to put anatomy on them. cya :)

[Orifice]

Sweet updatin Johan! Anatomy lookin good! I would like to se some more whole body or torso + head stuff! More finished stuff with people doin somethin. Action! Would be fun. It must be important to practis using the anatomy in scenes, with action n all that...? Doin great anyways, good stuff!

[TheGnoll]

good start.Nice studies, and very nice ideas.Keep 'em coming!

(not much to crit at this point, just remeber to keep it varied and regular ;))

ciao

[silvestri99]

Nice batch of figure studies! I'm sseing some nice improvement to the feel of your work!

[XhalE]

Ive: Thank you, I'll work as much as possible.

Here's some sketches. Some are drawn from Hogarth reference, some from photos, some not.
hey this is my first post on this site ever, as i'm saying
love your studies and i'm spottin some major progress
although some crits on your linework,etc.. i find your sketches kinda lacks some strong lines/ try to bring some life into your work with variation in the lines, it needs a strong line sometimes, which will give way more contrast and lifeness, bring some more light/dark values (clair obscur shit)
i discovered a new artist a couple of days ago: stefano ricci, you should check out an artbook of him, it will be really helpful for you, his art really lives man, beautiful shit. his lines are constructive really strong also cause of his use of different materials,
you do understand that it's not fun anymore to draw all the time with the
same ol' graphite:teeth: :dur:

you'll be really amazed by stefano ricci's work, and try to watch on your linework, and variation in light/dark

when i got sum' time i will post som of my work, come check it out then, till then, and don't forget to draw like never before, to increase skillz with a fast speed, :) :} but you're defenetly on the run, keep up the good work,
anyway: hope it's been a little helpfull for you

Greetz XhalE

[arttorney]

If you get stuck going forward on the pencils, go back through older pencils that you like, and ink them. I agree with others about your inking. The inking on the gas mask and suit guy and the whip guy looked great. I could see that when you ink it takes away any of the tentativeness and turns your drawing much more powerful. I don't think you should let that skill sleep too much. Keep working and believe in yourself.

[Orifice]

Hell yes! Good work on pose and all, I really like it! Hellboy's always a good thing. Hey I can se your shading skills improveing throughout the thread, so eventhough you might not notice it yourself that much you very much move forward! I guess its hard to se if you se all the steps of the evalving, all the pics ya do. keep on improving man!

[maxetormer]

Interesting stuff :D keep posting!

[arttorney]

As long as you're drawing.

[Alcian]

Haven't been in here for ages, nice updates - values are looking more defined. Don't neglect life drawing if you haven't tried it before, it will ground the anatomy you have learned from books.

[Orifice]

You do bring the goods Johan! Dig the first one the most, the dragons arms could be looked over... Though no big complaints, its really nice to see stuff from ya again, hope it lasts!:D Keep this rolling.

[arttorney]

Your inking remains hot. It's nice to see the perspective work too. I know it's hard to keep working, but I can see you're committed to doing so.

[Orifice]

Its somethin alright! I like the sopawn one Jossa. Good stuff. And most of the bottom one looks cool, just some areas look less cool. But mostly cool though! mostly cool. Hmm, apparently I did not comment the masterpiece that is the first page of your revolusionizing comic! It is lookin real rad my friend! Very very good! This book is gonna spank!

[iMaiM]

I hate to say it but, that dragon IS hot.

Really cool stuff! I love the lean/bony figures.

[Orifice]

Very cool stuff Johan, fo real! Big big improvement in shading I'd say... Good work. Really dig the "bakhuvudsträning" one and the evil horned helmut guy. Cool stuff my man! Keep posting

[Orifice]

Wow!!

[Orifice]

I'd say the colors are a bit strong in the bg on the first one, plus those colors for the sky are hard to pull of. I like the figure, looks cool! Good thing you covered up the naughty parts!:)
Dig the Selfportrait alot man, cool colors! the lips could be a bit lower down... I think it'll be alright. looks purdy sweet! Congrats on page 2!^________________^

[Zombie_dla]

Love you style. Nice digital renderings. I want more!

[Orifice]

Dude, so far totally awesome! This last one's lookin exellent! I'm 100% positive you will get real good at this digital painting. I mean look, already lookin sweet!

[kevin121685]

great stuff! i can see your really working on anatomy, which is helping your figures pop out, nice. but overall they seem a little stiff to me, itd be cool to see some more gesture! keep it up

[Chance.]

Hey, had a lot of fun in the sketcher. I was sorry you had to leave. You have a good sb going here, dispite how much you say to the contrary. I wish you would do more with inks, I liked the few that youve done. Keep practicing man you are on the right path. Oh, and updating tons is a great way to improve. It means you are drawing a lot and thats always a good thing.
Take it easy.

[Orifice]

good recents! I like your expression in the "yeah" one! And I agree with Caddlewick, you need to think higher of yourself man your good! Heh the first thing you did with the tablet was to do fabric... Its so damn hard! I've done alot of fabric for like a year and its still really really hard. Always the thing that takes the longest to do. Think you did good, but it looks a little like you used the smudge tool which aint good. It can make it look strange... I love the hand of the guy, looks really lifelike!
Keep workin and postin!

[iMaiM]

Thanks for stopping by my SB. I love the comic timeline on the last page. Keep it up, and for God's sake...

MORE SEXY DRAGON UPDATES.

[Sonaj]

Hey
Thanks for your visit; Like the stuff i see here,nice anatomy studies.
Concerning your digital artwork and coloring, don't bring yourself down man.
It can take ages to get good at this, i suppose you start doing more black and white value studies and slowly learn more about color theory. There are some good tutorials on this side here, too. Just a thought
keep posting

[Orifice]

Looking good man, looking good! cool pose in the last one, and the next last post is good too! The tableting in this last one is good, you're getting better fast.

[Orifice]

As I've said this is really impressive! Really cool man, the scissors one is especially cool! Damn man!

[dan liimatta]

some really good pencils, and designs - though you should look at the colour wheel, and do some colour studies - as you seem to drop the value, and not change the huge for shadows etc.

& you seem to have a good work ethic, and it will win the day! :P

thanks for stepping by.

[Orifice]

Your're on to something really good with these bw ones! I'd love to see the second half of your comic pages in this style!

[aph]

Nice stuff, keep up the studies, seems to be helping your work a lot.

The cutout effect you have going is quite interesting too, but don't let it make you lazy ;).

Keep it up! See ya soon.

[Alexandr Pascenko]

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=105889&stc=1&d=1173564529

you talented little cunt! damn you ! hogarth is really paying of n i see big potential in your talent 4 sure .

i couldn´t answer your question last time cuz . didn´t got what you meant . but you can always pm me . keep it up my friend . really like your progress!

[Orifice]

You are doing very well meng, keep these treats coming, I demand more portraits, and also more comic stuff. GO WORK! and you get a new page when you reach a certain number of posts. 60. so you have 13 posts left on this page...

[Alexandr Pascenko]

yes you seem to post much more now wich is good! , just watch your proportions when you do lifedrawings , don´t forget to see it as a whole thing , not only like going from mouth to nose then eye. take a look sometimes at the whole head to be sure you do the proportions right . so feed your talent with practice. oh and do you got a lighttable btw, especially when you do comic stuff.?

keep it postin!

[dmitri]

Don't know if you've seen this, but just in case you haven't, I'm linking you"Wally Wood's 22 panels that always work" (http://joeljohnson.com/archives/2006/08/wally_woods_22.html)... some of these solutions might have helped you to bring more interest and variance into the comic you did.

[MayaSan]

I was gonna write something nice about your great progress until I read the titles of your updates - what the hell IS that kind of childish stuff??
How old are you?

Be sincere and honest with your work and your talent - don't put such crap in your work, have some selfrespect!

[Orifice]

you are great! Its a real nice look through. As for the update-titles, I guess MayaSan has a point in having self respect. But seing how you are serious in the content except for those titles, I find it very very funny.
But yes, as I'm sure you know, don't do this in the FF section or in proffessional situations.

oh and yes, congrats on the STARS! I'm so proud of you!:)

[Spats]

The b&w:s are cool - keep working on the digi stuff :] nice job!

[GriNGo]

that last comic graphic you posted is looking great :) keep it up! and those studies too!

[Orifice]

great studies, and the comic page looks real nice! very good! nice choise of font too, I like it. I'd recommend more panels per page though, it gets sligtly empty. but thats just tadytad-tad. show us more!

[mentalSherpa]

Hey, lots of progress on the work, great job!!
If you look back at some of your pieces and studies, i think you'll find that the more successful ones, especially the digital paintings(where strokes tend to be much more evident), are the ones where you are using slower more thought out strokes. Dont get me wrong, I'm all for going crazy every now and again and just letting go and letting it fly away, but you'll notice that when people who use it, do it successfully, they always have more controlled elements that reel it back in, and add focus to different parts of the piece. When you do a piece that is more sketchy and free, try to not put it down, but instead take a step back and look at it, and make some decisions about when might be more defined and go back in and refine a part here or there. Keep up good work!

[DeKal]

thanks man....yea that one is an oil painting..you have some nice stuff too...are all those anatomy and face studies done without a reference?

[Hurley]

Thanks for dropping by my sketchbook.

I realy enjoyed looking at your anatomy studies, the uper body ones are very good. Keep up at anatomy studies!

[Spats]

I enjoy your pencil work but I think you could push the values just a bit further(just a personal preference really) - cool sp's & studies.

ps. (now playing: Nile - Sarcophagus :])

[Orifice]

Gött mos Jossa! Gillar självporträttet däruppe mest, den rinniga/texturiga bakgrunden är bra! Prellen ser snopen ut! Men han är fin ändå.

[Sunny]

thats one thing i need to do more of, study drawings and paintings. keep it up man! nice stuff

[arttorney]

I like that you're updating a lot these days. Awesome!

[Addiso]

Flipped through your sketchbook and there is a great sence of improvement along the way. Lovely studies but I like your really loose sketches the best.

Some of them feel rigid or rushed at times, but when I see really fresh stuff like this (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=99891&stc=1&d=1172581840) and this (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=115801&stc=1&d=1175286204) I think you have great talent. Your comics could benefit greatly form this kind of fresh and loose linework.

Be loose and be bold with your sketches, and experiment with color too.
Keep em coming!

PS.:
Many thx for your comment im my SB. Feel free to honestly crit me, I'm here to improve.

[thedestroyer]

Cool stuff sarcophagus,
I like your studies... Keep drawing.

thedestroyer

[Boky]

Hi:)

I like the dark woods here..really spooky!:)

[Zombie_dla]

Looking through your sketchbook really gets me motivated :) Awesome studies and comics. Keep it up!

[Chromosome]

Nice sketchbook. I like the figure studies and master copies you have, especially that Michelangelo torso on the top. There's a real sense of weight and twisting there. I just wish you went a little darker in some areas, just to really push that form and make it jump off the page. Never the less, sweet work.

[Looped_Warrior]

Hey thanks for stopping by my sketchbook!

You have a nice sketchbook of your own going on... keep it up Love the pencil work... going to go ahead and do some of my own...

[Addiso]

Keep it coming !

Your style is really starting to come through.
This (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=105045&stc=1&d=1173383918) page is great !

[rmore]

Very nice studies.

keep up the digital work it was coming along nicely.

[arttorney]

That bad guy looks cool. Good to see you inking again.

[Goog]

Omy goodness, those bridgeman studies are so incredibly yummy, I salute you!
As for the painting, use a bigger brush. And that shadow turns reeeeealy black reeeeeeal quick. But seriously, I can't get over those studies.

[gunnarsson]

sweet! diggin the digis! do more please. Maybe some rendered figures... bears in dipers... santas... uummm... anal lollipops... radioctive apes.... you know, the good stuff. I say with practise you will be very good at this. looks fine so far. keepz it up!

[dierat]

Hey duder, thanks for coming by my sketchbook!

Wow, your faces and sense of anatomy are amazing! If you learned to draw like that from Burne Hogarth's books, then maybe I will pick one up ;D

Oh, and I really liked the final panel of the city from post #120. Is your comic up for public viewing?

Kudos!

[throtailer]

Thanks for comment on my SB. You have great colours. Really awesome. I'd love to see more shading on pencil works.

[ForScience]

You are really improving rapidly, I love your high contrast work, I think it takes a really keen understanding of structure to pull it off as well as you have.

[Aardvarkphil]

Thanks for the visit and I will keep practicing. The guitar will have to wait for a bit, but i'm sure I will get round to it soon. Some nice stuff here. After seeing your digital stuff I want to have a play myself. Will drop by again soon. Cheers Phil

[Unedibleapple]

Nice hand studies, lets see more! Maybe try a digital study of your hand?

[Aardvarkphil]

Nice hand studys Mr. S keep up the good work!

[gunnarsson]

nooo! we want updates! maybe some weekend ones? yes? anywho, I just wanna to say that you are awesome. The studies and line drawings especially, they're fantastical. You do the best hands. seya at munka allköp!

[Alexandr Pascenko]

WOW! http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=175447&stc=1&d=1185544130

amazing ! only asspats this time for this beautiful studies! till next time;)

[Goog]

Wow,very yummy lines and figures. You've improved bunches since last I saw this book in july. Keep on jammin broseph.

[Blaz]

Hey man! Very nice sketchbook. :D

Progressed alot within these 6 pages. Really loving the studies and the style!
Just keep updating ;)

[HellTaxi]

alot of improvement since the first page, good job, those last figure studies are cool.
Btw is that a band on your shirt? I thought it said Bathory at first
\m/ metal \m/

[Ulver]

Nice studies man! Also I like your black& white pieces. Keep up the good work, you`re making a great progress!

[MeTaL-Mike]

Cool sb man. i like your progress. Maybe the spartan thread would be something interesting for you. Check it out. it's a weekly thing.

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=108443

[Dan Valkar]

nice studies man ...nice pencil..i really like ur faces...keep it up!

[Krigbrann]

I really love the dark mood of everything in here, Especially the random hand studies, the guy in the noose on the first page, and the photo with you as a skeleton. That is really interesting.

Skulls are really beautiful aren't they...

Plus, the Zombie Slaughter image is br00tal.

[Reika]

Its good to see your progress :D youre loosening up and its turning out great. so keep at it :}

[Eric Cartman]

cooollll dude....i like all about gesture!!

[4ntimatter]

Hey Sarco mate. You've really improved tons. I would love to see that zombie project yous have in mind, me being a zombie fan and all.

Anyway you made some great characters some great anatomy and a cool Sketchbook all round. well done.

[AsaB]

Your anatomy sketches are very impressive! Loads of motion and fluidity in them, pleasure to look at. Inspiring stuff, keep at it!

[destinyapocalypse]

i like yours anatomical dravings &yours stripes are relax i like this

[ghostdj]

I see you have been doing a lot of anatomy studies, you can never do too much of that. Thanks for dropping by my sketchbook, continue to come by.

[Ash888]

Great work with the drawings, you have a good handle on form. Post again soon.