sawa's~2nd |-----do i get more views by having a longer thread name?

[Sawa]

hi ca!
this is my 2nd sketchbook here, hope to get some feedback! :D
hope u all enjoy, c&c are most welcome :yayca:
http://www.maploco.com/vmap/1408343.png (http://www.maploco.com/view.php?id=1408343)
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here we go with the traditional stuff

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/hippocamus.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/monster001.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/apes.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/leopard.jpg

and some of the digital

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/dino-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/panda.jpg

[Sawa]

here's some more stuff... im trying to draw more from the mind right now. but everything that comes out is some crazy monster crap lol...
oh and i had partly ref for the figures

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/figures01.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/squidthing.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/monstersquirrel.jpg

[Sawa]

colored a quick sketch i did some days ago...
size at 100% :

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/hund.jpg

[goma14]

The canine painting looks to be coming out very nicely. I love the style of the dino and the detail of the ape faces. Hope to see more!

[oma]

that last one looked realy cool, my mom say it on the monitor and wanted that one as her wallpaper. so congratz :P.

i like that moster stuff of you, so keep drawing from mind :). the monster crap :D:D.

hope to see more!.

[Sawa]

goma14 thx man! :D
oma thx and greetings to your mom ;)
here are some more monsters

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/monstercrab.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/komischervogel.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/chtulluh-Oo.jpg

[aprat]

Your stuff's got a real storybook quality to it. Those pandas are especially nice.

[gigglepixie]

Love the pandas and I really like the side view porteait of the gorilla - I wonder what's going through his mind, definitely deep in thought.

I know what you mean about drawing from the mind and coming up with monsters - I can't ever sit down and imagine a nice normal person. Obviously insane :)

[entdroid]

Yeah the pandas are great! Not only because of their cuteness, but because your lines are so much looser and confident in that one.
Keep it up!
Cheers,
entdroid

[danica]

sweet sketches, especially the jaguar, nice...keep it up

[oma]

second one <3.

are you gonna work it out digitally. could be realy cool.
plz post more monsters. the rock!

[Sawa]

aprat, entdroit, danica thx a lot! :D
gigglepixie insane indeed, but still fun :) better draw monsters then nothin at all hehe
oma i think i'll do some digital monsters next time :) thx for the tip

k sorry for not postin for a while but other things were killing me...
but yesterday i took some time and money and went to the zoo for some hours. here are the sketches, will work some of them out digitally today i think :D


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo3.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo4.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo5.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo6.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo7.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo8.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/zoo9.jpg

[Sawa]

colored one of the apes...
and did sum other stuff

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/affe.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/ssssssss.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/heads-1.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/robo.jpg

[Sawa]

having fun with monsters & color :D

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/koerper.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/asityp.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/colomonster.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/puppe.jpg

[Gilead]

I like the animal sketches, they have lots of good movement.

On this monster face his left cheek is flat because you didn't let it overlap the edge of the mouth. From that angle it would pooch out a bit and overlap shapes next to it. Kinda' like this.
33221

[Banshax]

Lots of really fun animal drawings, you make them seem easy. I know better though, however you seem to get things right. My only crit would be a encouragement towards more personal drawings. I see some things from your imagination, keep at those. Or try and draw some character into your animals. think about its mood and specific traits. anyway keep going!

[Sawa]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/hogartharm.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/hogarthhand.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/eisbr.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/flaschenffner.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/nivea.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/erdbeer-lautsprecher.jpg

[Dreamworker]

Great stuff! I like your studies, in particular the pencils animal studies are very good!
Keep it up
ciao ;)

[Sawa]

Dreamworker thx man!
finally scanned some pages of my sketchbook
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule001.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule002.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule003.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule004.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule005.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule006.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule007.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule008.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule009.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schule010.jpg

[Chiko]

really nice shading and cool squids and dinosaurs :D

keep it up!

[Niels23]

Really love your rendering, you`re working good with different mediums! Great new sb, keep going!

[chr!z]

Rofl "ungezupfte augenbrauen"
Also hast ne verdammt gute strichführung und Farben scheinst du auch verstanden zu haben. Einizge Kritik von mir wären jetzt die Gesichter, die halten noch nicht ganz mit deinem anderen Level mit.
Ich zitiere mal Helge Schneider *räusper*:"Lernen, lernen popernen."

plz post more!!

[Sawa]

chiko thx man :D
ulver thx :) i like to experiment with diff mediums lately hehe its fun :D
chr!z danke... hab mich letzens mal daran gesetzt gesichter besser rüberzubringen... war ziemlich anstrengend aber ich glaub es hat mir etwas geholfen. sollte das jetz nur noch öfter machen...

so here's some stuff from my new sketchbook...
i had to photograph it because it doesnt fit into my scanner so sorry for the bad quality :heh:
the first page is from nov 20th, the last one from yesterday...
i should post more regulary lol :rolleyes:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb003.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb004.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb005.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb007.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb008.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb009.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb010.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb011.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb012.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb013.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb014.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb015.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb016.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb018.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb019.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb020.jpg

i also made an oil painting of this one later, yo can see it at the bottom:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb021.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb022.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb024.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb025.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb026.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb027.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb029.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb030.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb031.jpg

and here's the oil painting:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sb032.jpg

[Sawa]

little update for today, thought i dont have that much to post...
had loads to do for school lately but i'll post some of that stuff later hehe :D
hope u'll have fun with this so far...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild006.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild002.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild007.jpg

[Sawa]

here's some of that stuff i had to do for school... only sketches so far

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/skizze02.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Skizze03.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Skizze04.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Skizze10.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Skizze12.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Skizze15.jpg

[meloy]

wtf is that last pic supposed to mean? pile of rocks? :p
you know that sleeping panda on tree>all ,right?^^
BAM!
cya

[Sawa]

meloy lol yep thx dude... hey and yes its a rock :lineart: lol

k heres an update from this week...
not really much cuz most of the time i spent workin on this (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild007.jpg) pic... will update is as soon as i get my ass up to take photos :confident
so here's the other stuff so far...
first one's from life
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild012.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild015.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild017.jpg

Bargue drawing:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/drawing.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/kjklh.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/kjhk.jpg

and copied this one from VIEW magazine (3/07) cuz i kinda liked it
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild010.jpg

[mrpank]

My favorite sketch
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/kjklh.jpg
You are doing great
cheers

[Sawa]

mrpank thx man :)

only few sketches tihs week...
but i took a photo of the wip oil painting :D plus of another one thats not finished yet...

practicing cars for class...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild018.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild019.jpg

parts of my room
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild020.jpg

this one's from ref... lol that nose is... weird oO
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild021.jpg

and one from mind
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild023.jpg

heres the update of the painting i posted earlier
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild026.jpg

and another one
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild030.jpg

[Sawa]

again no update for ages lol... but im still not dead :devil: hehe
so here we go again :D sorry for the photos thought, i know the quality sucks but my sketchbook is too big for the scanner :\

some animals and stuff...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild040.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild043.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild044.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild045.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild046.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild047.jpg

dont like the next two, dunno what it is but they didnt turn out how i wanted them to...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild039.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild038.jpg

sketches for an oil painting im going to do for a friend
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild033.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild036.jpg

and sum digital scribbling, i kinda like how it turned out :)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/baum2.jpg

and for the fun of it: bam lee :D:D BAM!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild032.jpg
more to come tomorrow i guess :)

[Sawa]

k heres some more stuff :D

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild048.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild049.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild050.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild053.jpg

and smth digital i had to do for school

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/flaschesemfklein.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/baumsemfklein.jpg

[Sawa]

updaaaateeeeeeeeee :D

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild247.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild256.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild252.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild258.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild254.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild260.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild261.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild263.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild262.jpg
fun with colors hehe

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild279.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild264.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild268.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild273.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild275.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild278.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild281.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild287.jpg

uhm maybe i should update more regulary instead of such big bunches every half a year :/ lol whatever

[Sawa]

some more these were really fun hehe
sorry for the bad quality thought :/ i really need to find an alternative to my digicam since the scanner is somewhat too small...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild055.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild057.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild059.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild061.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild063.jpg

[RandAlThor]

cool sketches. I really like some of your more rendered pencil images. I also like your imagination pieces. and that monkey is just funny. keep it up i want more ;-)

[Sawa]

RandAlThor lol yes i had loads of fun with that monkey hehe :D i'll try to do more of that suff i really liked it :) anyways, thx for commenting :D

k heres a bunch of more stuff... mostly done for school and with reference though... :/ we're doin a lot of figure drawing stuff atm :D but still its fun hehe

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild066.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild065.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild070.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild074.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild072.jpg

[Sawa]

just another one, just finished it :D i guess i like this one bit more than the b/w one... :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild075.jpg

[Sawa]

some weird stuff from today...
last one's with ref, the others from out of my head ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild080.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild079.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild084.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild086.jpg

[Sawa]

finished my arts homework today :D
the task was to present an object in an interesting way... i chose an old rosted oil lamp which i think looked kinda interesting...
dunno what else to do on the piece so i called it a day and the piece finished...
though any suggestions for changes etc would be helpful ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild088.jpg

closeups
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild090.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild093.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild094.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild095.jpg

[Sawa]

some gangsta sketches lol

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild098.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild099.jpg

[Ex Nihilo]

Hey, thanks for checking out my sb.

Nice job on those oil lamps. They look a little distorted in places... I don't know if that was intentional, but it looks cool anyway. I like your trees as well. All in all, good stuff in here, keep it up.

[The Artist Fox]

wow great work, but I have a question...HOW DO I POST MY SKETCHBOOK?!:\

[Sawa]

Ex Nihilo thx mate :) actually the oil lamps looking weird in some areas wasn't intended at the beginning... i just didnt realise it until i rotated them digital... but maybe not being all straight and stiff makes them a bit more interesting to look at :)

The Artist Fox thx man ;) but what do u mean by how do i post my sketchbook? i took a look and your sb looks fine so far :D so just keep it coming

[Sawa]

sketches from today :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild103.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild104.jpg

[Dawood Marion]

Hey Sawa,
You have great sketchbook yourself. I like you pen/ink/Painting work. You seem more confident working with pen and painting. I would like to see you work with pen/ink for a while and let go of the pencils. Pen forces you to make a decision and stick with it. Pencils is too sketch/scratch/wishy washy if you don't have a strong foundation in line work. Draw from life (Reportage).
Find somewhere where people are in crowds and draw them. Draw 100 people in ink. Another think is - don't draw over a line once it is down - leave it and move on - mistakes only help your picture to portrait your honest signature (so let them help you). Don't worry about making things look perfect - just draw and don't crit you work until it is finished. Finish the drawing (fill the page)
Check out these links for reference (this is my mentor - training me to become a Jedi):

http://mahoneygalleryart.blogspot.com/

[Sawa]

Dawood Marion thx man i really appreciate you giving such a detailed advice :)
you really got a point there, i tried out drawing with a pen today and i see that there are loads of things i can advance. i took some pictures for reference and tried to draw them without drawing over the lines again and again. somes didnt turn out as bad as i thought but i distorted others. i'll try to work more with pen/ink now on to fix these mistakes i use to do :) thx again for the advice mate

heres the stuff from today
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild105.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild108.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild111.jpg

[Sawa]

man, i was trying to enter my thread for 2 days now lol... the forums are so slow these days :/
however, finally an update of the recent crap ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild112.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild113.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild114.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild115.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild116.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild117.jpg

[Shobunkin]

I like your style. Your paintings are very good. You have a good eye for color I think. I like your jelly fish too. Nice update and great Sketchbook!! Post more

[Sawa]

this is the 3rd time now i try to update! the forums really annoy me cuz they're so damn lazy...
however, thx for the kind words Shobunkin.

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild118.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild119.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild120.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild121.jpg

[chiodo]

i really like your animal sketches. they look very solid and accurate.
and that knowledge also shows in your creature sketches - good work.

there are also some ideas i really like, for example, the one with the legs
standing ,overpropotionally big, in the forest. nice colouring as well. i dig
the "infinite creativity" a lot. i would actually like that as a wallpaper ;)
there's a lot of good work going on in here, too much to mention them
individually. i say, just keep on rocking! :D


but since your drawing is pretty solid, i'd start with more dynamic stuff.
expressive poses, more extreme perspectives --> foreshortening.
mmm. and maybe some more structured concept design if you feel like
it. for example studying clothes, hair or what-have-you.

and one last thing.
es ist immer schön, leute aus deutschland hier zu sehen ;)

[Sawa]

chiodo thx a lot :D of course you can take the infinite creativity one as wallpaper if u want to ;)
i'll try to take your advice and try some new stuff. i already did some extreme perspectives on that oil lamp and its really hard to get it look right. i'll work on that :)

here's some stuff from today. i'm not really happy with it though... :/ both faces look somehow off imo. some crits or advices would be great :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild122.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild123.jpg

[Sawa]

digital one from today. reference -> link (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/5988099.jpg)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild124.jpg

[Sawa]

quick fun...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild125.jpg

[PinkMonkeee]

Die fallschirmspringer rulen derbst.....das erinnert mich an eine news Sendung, wo sie über Kriegsdienstabsolventen berichtet hatten, wo die Soldaten Tests zu bestehen hatten, damit sie Fallschirmspringer werden konnten....sie habs dann geschafft:}
Nee aber echt cool...

Oh ein japonaise boy<3! Erinnert mich jetzt an Letters from Iwo Jima heh:^^;: aber die Augen sehen noch nicht richtig japanisch aus; die haben diese obere Augenfalte so nach außen......als wenn du dir ans Ende deiner Augenbrauen Tesa kleben würdest XD! Daher.....müsste der Schatten überm Auge so....naja wie das Tesading aussehen XD Hier (http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/58162775/) kann man das glaube sehen.....

Aw ich mag das mit den HeadphonesO_O!
Für Lippenzeichnen.....ich merk, du neigst dazu, die Randlinien zu zeichnen...is besser du machst das nur mit den Schatten, also der Schatten von der Oberlippe und unten der Kinnhöhlenschatten(???XD) reichen sogar fast.

[Sawa]

PinkMonkee rofl ja die sendung mit den Fallschirmspringern hab ich auch gesehn ;) die idee hatte ich schon eher aba hab mich dann wieder dran erinnert ^^

k heres some stuff i did for school recently. i was able to take it at home so i can post some of it now... sry for bad quality though

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild127.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild128.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild130.jpg

and some monster doodles i did for fun lol... most of them started out with ref but i finished them from mind so some funny things came out in the end :D
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild132.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild133.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild134.jpg

and some digital doodles from yesterday night...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild136.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild135.jpg

[Sawa]

hands...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild137.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild138.jpg

[Sawa]

some sketches and ideas for a painting im going to do for a friend...
would really like to hear some opinions, so just go for it :D rip it apart!

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild139.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild140.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild141.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/1b.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/2b.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/3b.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/4b.jpg

[Sawa]

k final sketch for that painting. started painting it in oils today :)
and some sketches, partly from ref bla...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild144.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild142.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild143.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild145.jpg

[Sawa]

from ref & life :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild146.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild147.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild148.jpg

[monsi]

some great studies, and sketches :] I like how you're really exploring different mediums

[Sawa]

nethus thx man :D

one more from today :D apes are fun...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild149.jpg

[Sawa]

was busy with some painting the last few days (weeks? lol) since the last update. im neraly finished with it, will show it in next post ;)
so far, just some skeches from sketchbook

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild150.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild151.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild152.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild153.jpg

[Sawa]

more sb pages :D and the finished painting

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild154-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild156.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild155.jpg

[Sawa]

my first COW entry eva :lens: had some fun with it and was really motivated.
theres really some neat stuff going on in the activities section :) will try to participate from time to time now, its real fun hehe 8)
here we go... crits on it would be great :D

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/cow96.jpg

[Sawa]

2 more, both from ref :D

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild158.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild157.jpg

[roidvoid]

the faces are comming off a little smushy. the distortion is probbably because you jumped straight into rendering without much thought to constructing the face.
just take a moment to plan when doing a face. it will help a lot. you can work up your thoughts right on the page. nobody is going to care if your pencil rendering is clean if the construction isnt correct undernieth. arts about making a mess anyways.
the landscape is a little oversaturated and flat. use more layers to build up space and depth. using a soft brush set to opacity can be great for creating lighting

[Sawa]

roidvoid thx man :D especially with the enviro i wasnt happy at all but couldnt point the finger at what was wrong... i'll do more enviros in future, since i have to work more digital anyways.

here are more sketchy sketches of bikes and stuff... im going to do some big painting on a wall soon and im trying out diff motives... more to come ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/motoskizzen2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/motoskizzen1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/motocolo.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/1bandit1200Kopie.jpg

[Sawa]

another environment :)
i worked on more layers and tried to get the colors more likely... i think its better than the last one but im still not really happy...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild159.jpg

[stone.]

der buddhistische mönch, und die "affen serie" sind herrausragend.

viele von den anderen "fertigen" sachen sind etwas trist, da sie die dynamik nicht besitzen, die aber sonst in allen skizzen von dir zu finden ist. Versuche diesen, ich nenne es mal "skizzen schwung" in die aufwändig gestalteten werke einzubauen... ich glaube sie hätten dann eine viel größere wirkung und präsenz

stone.

[Sawa]

stone. danke für den tip :) ich glaube ich weiß, was du mit den skizzen meinst... meistens neige ich aber dazu besonders bei den skizzen in eine ziemlich unsaubere lienenführung zu verfallen, die ich dann, wenn ich das bild weiter bearbeite und in die details gehen will, meistens nochmal überarbeite damit alles ein bisschen sauberer aussieht... ich schätze mal da liegt das problem und ich nehme den bildern so den "schwung" ;) vielleicht muss ich einfach mehr an meiner lienenführung arbeiten, damit die von anfang an sauberer wird :D at all, thx for the post:)

another sb page and an enviro :) i think im gettin better at those, but the colors/light still isnt as in the ref i had...
btw, will post the ref as well next time, for better comparison ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild160.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild161.jpg

[Sawa]

another motorbike... hope i can start painting it on the wall soon :D some crits on it would be nice though... im not really comfortable with it but cant point the finger at what exactly is wrong :/

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild162.jpg

[Sawa]

more stuff...:blahblah:

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1097158_bild001.jpg

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1097159_bild002.jpg

http://www.imagehosting.com/out.php/i1097160_bild003.jpg

[hummdrumm]

nice book! the pandas on the first page make me happy :)

[Sawa]

hummdrumm thanks! :D

some more enviros... dont like them :/

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild004.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild005.jpg

[Sawa]

wored more on the motorbike sketch im going to do for some guy from the neighbourhood. he told me some things i should change, and so i did :D and added some color... imo it looks better now. but still, any crits?

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/jens3b.jpg

[Sawa]

another one from ref before going to bed :) like this one

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild006-1.jpg

[Sawa]

latest sketchbook crap :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild007-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild008.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild009.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild010-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild011.jpg

[Obscura]

I like your lemur and baboon drawings and your landscapes are really neat too. Nice animal drawings too :D koolbeans.

[meloy]

whoa loads of updates recently,no wonder u aint On at all,lol, those "enviros" looks pretty cool to me, that bike sux hard^^,
cya dude

[0shade0]

cool sketches here :).
I'm really diggin' the creature designs.

[Sawa]

obscura, 0shade0 thx alot :)
meloy i was on all day but busy with drawing ;) sry i didnt write u but i dont know whats happening around me when i draw. just write me when u see me online, nvm the n/a ;)

more monkeys from today. they were too big for scanner so sorry for bad quality :D

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild012-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild013.jpg

[Sawa]

stupid monster morning doodle...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild013-1.jpg

[Sawa]

colored that fucker :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild014.jpg

[Sawa]

:)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild016.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild017-1.jpg

[Sawa]

more :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild018-1.jpg

[mono2k5]

Her it comes!
great colors and motion (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/colomonster.jpg)
very simple, great linework, and good job on marking the shadows (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/skizze02.jpg)
VERY realistic, great rendering (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/drawing.jpg)
great realistic colors, nice postitioning (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild268.jpg)
great hands, very realistic (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild137.jpg)
and of course the baboon on the previous page is SUPERB!

Try to find the perfect line, instead of drawing 10, and let the viewer decide which you meant to be good. Further, keep rocking!

[Sawa]

mono thx!
maybe i should let the pencil rest for a while and dig out my ball point pen again? maybe that would help my linework lol

latest cow entry:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/cow982.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

You got some nice creature designs going on in here mate, they are very readable. Your coloring is very well done as well, very nice palettes, especially on post #82.

Besides of what mono2k5 suggest, I know that environments are hard to do, sometimes look boring, but it will help you to go all the way in one of them. Also if it gets too boring painting, add something yours to it, just a suggestion :) Keep it up!

[CouchPotato]

lol.....I want to critique something....but I can't haha! This sketchbook is really good man. I have a feeling I'm just going to be leaving pats on the backs on your sketchbooks guys, they all have a certain standard lol.

[Sawa]

Maestro thx mate :D you got a point there, i totally forgot about the environments... actually i wanted to do many more of them lol... will try to get back at it ;)
CouchPotato thx man :) dont be shy, just post anything thats on your mind. i gave u a comment on your latest update, looks great so far :)

heres's some stuff from today... maybe more will come later though i should better get my ass up and start packing my trunk lol...
will be gone to rome from monday to saturday so no updates while that :/

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild020-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild019-1.jpg

made a little step-by-step of the croc, if anybody's interested ;)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/crocstepbystep.jpg

[Sawa]

some sketches from a small sketchbook i bought when i was in the city... must be smth around a6 or so. kinda unusual to work that small lol but you can take it everywhere like this :)

most of these were done with ball point pen. you cant see it though cuz its all b/w... i will scan them in true color next time :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild021-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild022.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild023-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild024.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild025-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild026-2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild027.jpg

[Sawa]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild028.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild029.jpg

[themissinglink]

you have a really nice sketchbook, i am really enjoying the creature designs, though i think they can be pushed a little further. i think if you spent more time on you pencil work on the design and texturing it will help add more detail to the finished paintings.

[CouchPotato]

I really dig the crocodile head sawa, you really managed to bring out the texture! Hmm, I've been trying my hand at painting as well, but doesn't seem to have much success..You got any tips you might want to share? heheh

[Maestro Andres]

I am a fan of the crocodile head too :). The overall texture is nicely done, my only suggestion with that, is that the tongue looks to simple compare to the rest of the painting. You could add a humble texture to it to fit more with the rest of the painting. Thanks for showing the steps, very insightful!

Your last environment has some nice things going with it. Good job with the grass. The only that keeps bothering me is that you light source doesn't seem consistent. At first glance the light seems to come from the right of the pic, but your dark walls are way too dark for that if the light comes from the right. Plus with the shadow area, at least in my monitor it looks all the same black :S which kinda flattens that side. Some gradient of dark will change that. I imagine the wall near us lighter then the one farther in the shadow area.

Hopefully that makes sense and is not that harsh :P

[Pascallo]

Moinmoin!
Your Crocodile head just rocks man! Also your creatures and landscapes come really nicely. Keep up the good stuff!

[mono2k5]

The building is PHENOMENAL (if thats how you spell it)

[Sawa]

themissinglink thx man, im glad u like them :) youre right about the pencil work, ill try to draw more with ball point pen than with pencil, i guess i'll look more for the lines if i cant erase them ;)
CouchPotato thx dude :D are you talking about digital or traditional painting? just post some of your current ones, i'll post my advice in you sb if i have any ;)
Maestro hm you might be right about the tongue :) thx. hehe its nice sb found the step-by-step useful.
concerning the enviro, it cant be because of the light source though, i had a ref picture for it so i guess the walls really are too dark... they were lighter in the actual painting and i dakened them later on. maybe i overdid it ;)
Pascallo,mono thx :)

so heres the stuff i did when i was at rome last week... really great city :D
i didnt really have much time for drawing cuz we had full programm every day lol. so most of the sketches look kinda crappy... however, here we go

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild030-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild031.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild032-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild033-2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild034.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild035.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild036-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild037.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild038-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild039-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild040-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild041-1.jpg

[0shade0]

hi sawa, nice building. love the croc too :)
the sketches are good too,(love the bear) I can imagine the short period spent on them.I had the same prob when I went. :)
keep it up

[Sawa]

0shade thx :)

more digital stuff from ref... though actually i should do some line work lol :bashful: well... next time :P

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild042.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild043-1.jpg

[Smoke]

Great book, nice and stylised. Loads of awesome concepts and some are really thought provoking.

More!

[Maestro Andres]

That's the way, keep pushing those environments to get better at them! No crits for the last, just keep doing them :D

[CouchPotato]

Fun stuff for this update sawa! The head is pretty cool man.

I would like to pick up both traditional and digital (I'm greedy I know :p ). I have been trying some oil paints on my own, but without much success lol. As for digital, I have 1/5th of one hahahahaha. I started it but it took me days just to get to that 1/5th, and I stopped lol. I'll take some photos and find that stupid digital piece, then I'll upload them in my sb.

Thanks man!

[MeTaL-Mike]

nice sb man. keep it up

[Sawa]

smokes186, Maestro, mike thx dudes :)
Potato dont give up on it man! just post some stuff ;)

only have time for a quick sketchy update from small sb. nothing special actually...

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild044-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild045-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild046-1.jpg

[CouchPotato]

I feel so lazy looking at you guys lol....ummm. I need to find a way to digitize my painting, because the canvas is too big for my scanner. As soon as I got it all up I'll post it Sawa!

[Maestro Andres]

Your animals are always nice to see. You achieve to put them that comedic character into them. I was going to suggest you to try some of these activities around CA, like the stylized animal of the month or go hardcore with the #100 C.O.W! :D Sometimes those activities motivates you that much to be productive and help you learn a thing or two.

[Sawa]

Maestro ye the COW 100 was in my head too :) i'll definitely give it a try, hope i'll manage to work steadily enough to get them all done. are you in as well?

heres some sketchbook fun and a work i did for school. topic was "vision". have been working on it cuz its kinda big, about 1,50m high lol :) was really fun to do though i had no time for anythin else lol

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild051.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild052.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild056.jpg
forgot to do some closeup shots lol... will do them later if i remember ;)

[Maestro Andres]

Nice update! Always like your creatures, and this one really crack me up :).
Like your "vision" piece, it really stretches out the idea and great use of warm/colors to provide the visual flow. The eagle women look interesting too. I would like to know a little bit of the story behind the piece to understand what the eagle women and ghost represent. Oh yeah, which medium is this?

In any case, look forward for the close ups and congrats for completing such a big piece.

P.D: I doubt about the COW, senior year is going to become hell in the next weeks :P Best of luck to you!

[AmontilladoAg]

wow, you got some gorgeous animalz here... and your digital skillz, your use of color! :teeth:

stars from me :star:

Cheers :D

[loveandasandwich]

your colored stuff is just wonderful. i especially love the savannah one.

i gotta say though, definitely my favorite thing is the seahorses on the very first page. I'd love to see more wonderful compositional animals like that, with your lovely colors!

[mono2k5]

great colors, and lots of movement, keep sketchin!

[Sawa]

damn... 4 stars! didnt expect that! im kinda.. speachless lol
thanks for everyone who voted and commented here :) you guys are a great motivation! :D

Maestro that eagle women are supposed to be harpys, some death-spirits from greek mythology. the guy on the top gets older along the pic goes more to the bottom.. kinda like a time-line. tried to symbolize all the death stuff etc a bit with the ghosts and harpys ;) i guess i'll have to make this up a bit more detailed for the teacher though :/ oh and the medium is everything that was lying around! i started with pencil and watercolors, then ink, colored pencils and some acrylic ;)

AmontilladoAg, 28, mono thx guys :) nice to c u like all the animals and creature stuff, theyr really fun :D

i guess i wont update that much the next time since the COW will keep me busy and i'll have loads of examinations and other stuff at school :/
however, here are some creatures and stuff, they're not for COW though ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild047-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild048-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild049-2.jpg

[CouchPotato]

lol, some wacky thumbnails you got there sawa. Hope you win the COW man!

[Sawa]

Potato thx man :)
the COW is really eatin up my time now ... got 21 done already and some sketches :) yay
so yesterday i took some time to do smth else... not much but better than nothin

hehe oh yes and i ordered that character ideation DVD today :) yay cant wait to hold it in my hands lol :D (just want to show off ;))

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild053-1.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

Sawa, nice description of your big piece, now EVERYTHING finally makes sense! hehehe j/k. That sound very original and hardcore about using everything that was around, it will be awesome if that included some crayons :D

Like the armor design in that last piece. Not sure about the anatomy, can't tell if there is anything wrong. Nevertheless, I see somebody is afraid of painting hands ;) (and I have been spending an hour drawing some while writing this). I think that they would make the piece feel more complete. Also because of what I learned with figures, people first look at the face and then at the hands, something that is intuitive I guess. Well, just keep in mind for the next ones.

And good job with the COW progress, only 5 days and you are almost 25% done. Can't wait to see your finished work!

[Sawa]

Maestro yea actually using everything that is within my reach is hell of a fun lol :) you can go totally mad with the medium then!
youve got a point on the hands btw. i really should do more studies, especially on hands and faces :/

well i took some time off the COW today (32 done, yay!) and did some hands and fun stuff :) here we go

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild056-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild054.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild055-1.jpg

[CouchPotato]

I don't know how you find the time to do all that COW stuff and still do your own things lol. I can barely find the time to do Dimagyan's assignments! What's the secret you guys??!! Lots of RedBull??? Or you just decided to give up sleep? :p

Keep up the good work!

[enthombed]

nice4, keep posting

[Maestro Andres]

Nice going at it! That's the spirit. Like the composition and colors in those last hands. Very dynamic. I am trying hard to give a critique on them, but can't find anything now :(. Just keep at it!

[Sawa]

Potato i didnt give up sleep yet but things like school or homework seem to have been erased from my life lately lolz... yesterday i realized that i didnt even think about doing homework over the whole weekend oO
maybe skipping sleep would be an opportunity to keep track with them :D

enthombed, Maestro thx mates :)

here are more hands! actually if u throw around with colors, doing hand studies really is fun :D sry for bad photo quality btw, paper was too big ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild057-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild058-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild059-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild061-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild062.jpg

[mono2k5]

wow, great hand studies!! please post more!

[Sawa]

mono thx :)

heres some stuff from the last days...
dont have really much to show since im still working on cow most of the time... 52 done yet :D yay!
im also trying to participate in that stylized animal challenge! thx maestro for the hint :) made a step by step of the piece as well, for those who are interesed: click me! (http://s21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/?action=view&current=doedicurusstepbystep.jpg)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild064.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild063-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild065-1.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

Like your pencil rendering as always. The stylized animal is looking good. That texture you are using for the shell is working well. The only thing that is kinda confusing me right now is that when I look at his face and at the pose, I get the sense he is swinging his tail toward us, but the tail looks very straight and firm right now. You could add a little bit of bend to it to suggest a curve or modify the expression. That's my impression so far, sorry if it sounds picky :P

Thanks for posting the steps for it as well, and keep it up with the COW, you are having a good progress so far :D

[CouchPotato]

My god, is that a super nintendo controller I see???????? Wow, talk about nostalgia man lol!

Thanks for the step-by-step dude, it helped me focus some on how I should be painting stuff lol.

[Sawa]

maestro thx for the crit on the dinosaur thingie :) i'll change that as soon as i get back to work in it! glad you liked the step by step hehe

potato ohh yea snes just fucking rocks!!! hehe
that controller was lying around as i took the photo so i thought why not have some fun with it ;)
glad to hear u liked the step by step as well :) when will u upload some more paintings? they looked good so far and you can really push them further ;)

heres some stuff from past few days... didnt have that much time since were doing class tests and all that stuff at school atm :/

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild066-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild067.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild068.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild070-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild069.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

Great update. Always like how you give your animals that comedic and live feeling to them :D

The last two are of my liking. Did you use ref? Life drawing maybe? The muscles of the back of the male one are nicely depicted. I think that even if the right buttock is contracted, is looks way smaller than the left. On the women, I get the impression that the legs looks kinda short or it doesn't have the righ head/body proportion, I am really doubtful about that though...

The colors work well in them. I think I see some blue in the shadows, is that right? Because it gives a nice contrast with that nice orange you are using. The white highlights gives a metallic feeling which I am really enjoying.

Other than that, keep updating. It has been fun so far. :D

[Sawa]

maestro hey man :) i used ref for the figure drawings, one is from hogarth and the other i dont remember lol. about the woman ive got the same feeling, the porportions are somehow off, but i didnt figure out whats wrong yet...
oh and theres actually no blue in the shadows, that must happened while i increased the contrast or whatever cuz the photos were even worse before i edited them digitally lols... however, thx for commenting again :)

i gave that stylized animal dinosaur another try today cuz the first one actually wasnt a dinosaur at all oO hope i got it right this time :D
heres a little step by step of it again

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras01.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras02.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras03.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras04.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras05.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras06.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras07.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras08.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras09.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras10-1.jpg

[Howie]

You have a lot of nice stuff in here, I love those hands on the previous page. I like the design of this last creature, but i think you would be much better off without the outline; it really flattens it out. Also there is tangent where his back leg meets his tail. By just making the leg overlap the tail a little it will help a lot. Keep up the anatomy studies. :teeth:

[CouchPotato]

Hmmmm, would I be correct in saying that you draw your base drawing in paper, and scanned it in to color in photoshop sawa? It also seems as if you don't care if you brush out of the drawing. You erase the color bits that are outside the drawing later?

I really want to upload more paintings, but I haven't quite had the time to do much lately. I have to travel a really long distance to work everyday lol, about 4 hours or so, back and forth. Too many things crowding on my schedule lol (daily drawing, dimagyan's assignments, 3D modelling, painting).

Anyhow, the contract's almost over (4 or 5 more months) and after that I'll really be looking forward to taking maybe 3 or 4 months off just to work on all that good art stuff lol.

[Maestro Andres]

Sawa, your new dinosaur turn out nicely. What's the name of this species? I find the head shape very interesting, like a helmet hehe

My only suggestion, and this might sound picky is that with the tail, it's end reads kinda flat in comparison to the area next to the body. Like now, I can't tell if the end of the tail is lifted up or recedes further in the BG.

Nice colors and textures by the way :D

[Sawa]

Howie thx man! i'll get back to work on the dino soon and will keep that in mind :)
Couch thats exactly what i did lol :) i got used to it while coloring all the cows, but im not sure yet if its the best way to color stuffs... will have to define my technique a bit more :D
wow you really seem to be a busy guy atm lol so thx for finding the time to post here :) im looking forward for you to post some more stuffs when youve got the time
Maestro uh the name of the species.... *looks up again*... stegoceras :) with that big horny helmet thing on its head i thought it would be easy to exaggerate a bit and let it look more caricature-like
thx for the info on the tail, sounds right to me so i'll work on that as well as i get back to it :)

so as i browsed through ca i saw some really nice stuff in chuck,mates sketchbook. he used some 3d models as base for lightning/shape and painted on top of the models. i really liked how it came out and it incited me to try that as well :)
so i grabbed zbrush and after i accomplished the program i came up with this lol

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild071.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild072-1.jpg

[Sawa]

some sketchbook pages from the last couple of days :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild076.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild075-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild074-2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild073-1.jpg


and a lil update on the stegoceras thingie...
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stegoceras2.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

Probably will sound old, but your sketches are so fresh everytime. Hope that your COW has the same freshness as well :P

The Zbrush one is interesting, did you paintover that in Photoshop or Painter? Or do you paint it directly in Zbrush? Just wondering, because FYI you can do that in ZBrush, it is a nice thing though is not like photoshop. Don't want to sound like a parent, but don't abuse too much those methods since it is nice to do get work done quick, you won't get too much out of paintovers. Don't fall into the darkside......... ;)

If you have questions abou that program, let me know, I have been using it some on the last weeks.

[Sawa]

maestro hey mate! thx for the info on zbrush ;) i know you can paint the models in it as well.... just wanted to try how it would come out with photoshop. but i think youre right, it would probably work better and quicker if i'd color it directly in zbrush...
will try that definitely on the next model ;) ill come back on you if ive got any questions hehe thanks!

did some portrait for fun today (still wip) had nothing to do cuz im FINISHED with the COW!! yes hehe :D and here it is as well [portal]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild077.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/COW100rahmen3.jpg

for bigger version of the COW click here (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/COW100rahmen2.jpg)

[Maestro Andres]

Hey, your CHOW piece is just amazing!!! Really like your shapes and designs. So proud of you buddy!!! And you finish it days before the deadline. I swear I could stare at this for hours, hope you do well on the contest :)

About the Zbrush thing, I was painting yesterday on it and a funny thing is that in Zbrush you are painting individual polygons, so the more high res the better. But for my works, I have prefer painting textures on photoshop, just letting you know.

The portrait looks very funny. My two suggestions about it is that the muscle of the thumb finger seems too fat and shouldn't come out that much.

[purplerose]

Very nice COW. Love the golden lantern beetles and the purple tentacle creatures.

[Sawa]

maestro thx buddy :) wanted to do some zbrush things, but found no time for it :/ will post some stuff in the next post hehe
purplerose thx :)

got my ass up today and took photos of the stuff i did at drawing class:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild078.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild080-1.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild079-1.jpg


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild082.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild083.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild085.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild088-1.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild089.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild090-1.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild091.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild092.jpg



http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild093-1.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild096a.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild095a.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild081.jpg

[CouchPotato]

Hey sawa, really sorry I haven't been able to drop by as often as I would like! There's always cool stuff going on here. Congrats on finishing the cow man! Are you going to be at the Seattle workshop? I'm going to be there, if everything works out. If you or Maestro is going as well, man, that would be great, we could hang out together or something! Hehe.

Well, also I asked about your painting method, because I always have the problem of painting out of my boundaries in photoshop lol hahah.

Nice figure drawings by the way. I should make it a habit to draw using simple shapes like you haha. But the perspective for the house is weird. It looks as if it's a photo taken using a super telephoto zoom lens, and you get that sort of perspective distortion effect.

I'm just making a guess, but I would think probably your vanishing points on the horizon line is fairly close to each other, probably both are within the paper itself. That's probably why it looks like that.

Also, the house pic is not level, but I'm guessing that is the camera rather than your drawing lol.

[Sawa]

couch i dont recommend my painting method lol... there are some problems that i found out to occur with it... lately i usually start with putting the outlines on the top layer and starting to paint in a layer underneath so i can still see the outlines. later on i put everything on one layer, makes it kinda easier if i want to put some other layers for lightning and stuffs on top... ;)
if you have any specific questions, just go ahead. hope i can give you some support ;)
with the house perspective youre right :) i put the vanshing points too close to each other, thats y the perspective is so weird... oh yes and its because of the camera why its not on level lol... was too lazy to switch it around ;)
i wont be able to go to the workshop though :( i'd love to but even if i would find some tickets lying on the street i guess i might not be able to travel that far, since i'll also have final exams next year :( but you guys just have fun there and take some pictures hehe :)

today's selfportrait for selfportrait-day :D dont really like it... but was fun to do :)

edit: wow, smiley-spam! :cheerleader:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/sawa_sp1nov07.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

Wow, so finally we got to meet the girl behind the critiques,:bashful: Those eyes, that stare, that's probably the cold look you have when critiquing others work, so cold!! Nah, I am just kidding :P
Nice work with the colors though, the eyes somehow feel out of place in comparison with the rest of the texture, still good job buddy.

In overall with your last update, for the perspective drawing I suggest to use a ruler, there is nothing wrong in using one and you will get better perspective drawings that way. Two point perspective is a tough one, but once you get the hang out of it, is not that bad. The life drawing are looking good, keep it up with those, is just takes practice, practice, practice!

Man, if CouchPotato is coming too to Seattle, you will be missing out for some SB group combo. Oh well, if we get the chance, we will make a toast to you and if we get too drunk, I'll blame the girl in that self portrait for it!:D j/k

[Sawa]

lol... my eyes arent that scary in real... as far as i know ;) he but i guess i should've added some textures to them as u said, they wouldnt pop out that bad then lol
my teacher said the same about using a ruler for that perspective stuffs :) but i think it wasnt that important for the exercise he gave with the house since he just wanted to see if we got the basics
lol yeah u have to drink one or five beers for me when youre in seattle!! i'll take some booze and draw crappy pictures at home at the same time then lols

some sketchbook stuffs:


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild097a.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild098a.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild099a.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild100a.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild101a.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild102a.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild103a.jpg

[Sawa]

update :) fresh from the sketchbook...
the first one kinda frightens me :/

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild104-2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild105-2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild106.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

I wanted to come early to comment, but I feel is more useful to give you say something useful than the usual "good stuff, keep it up" (which it is still is :P)
I like how you have been using color so far. You have a nice combination in the wolf and horse pic, or in the drunk monster. The devil one really looks like a nightmare creature coming out from a Dr. Zeus book lol

I just wanted to suggest something, and you are free to take it or not, it is up to you what you want to do, but looking at these pieces, I will suggest for the future to focus a bit more in modeling the shapes with value. I see lights and darks in your pieces, but they lack some modeling of the form. I know it might be part of the style you are aiming for, but by using colors to create believable values that model the form, you will learn some as well as expand your horizons. I am saying this in good faith, and no intend to offend you at all. Just something you might want to focus on.

On another note,
i'll take some booze and draw crappy pictures at home at the same time then lols
LOL, no excuses, they better not be crappy, get all the booze you want, but at the time we get back, show us something that will be so good and hard to critique!!! You been warned lol, j/k

[CouchPotato]

huh, I need to get out more often or something. I didn't even realise sawa's a she. I always thought sawa was just some internet person I know from ConceptArt that's in my sketch group where we exchange critiques and encouragements from time to time.

Wait a minute. Isn't that who sawa is anyway...?

:p

Anyhow, yeah, those eyes look like they can shoot polar rays. Who needs a refrigerator when you got those eyes man. lol, just kidding :p

I need to get my ass off and start doing a self portrait. Seems like everybody's doing one lol.

Anyhow, with my paintings at the moment (yes, I'm still doing lol, just that oils take forever to dry haha) I've been told I should work on my brush strokes technique. Currently my brush strokes are like, wall painting you know? Too even and uni directional, haha. I'm studying Cezanne to see how he use his brush strokes, but I'm having real difficulty at the moment trying to understand the whole concept lol. I'm not even sure if I'm explaining the problem correctly heh. If you know anything about this sawa, let me know please! haha.

[Pascallo]

wow, your self portrait looks creepy with that eyes - looks pretty cool! The dino is awesome, the tail gets pretty dark and lost somehow, a great effect is to have it lit from behind by another light source, just a thin stripe of light around the outer shape of the body, maybe you would like to try. nice nice, keep it up!

[Sawa]

hey everybody! sorry for not posting so much the last days! school started this week and now im kinda in the middle of exam stress :(

Maestro no problem buddy just take your time for commenting :) i guess i wont comment that much either the next few weeks since during the week theres not much time left beneath school, so i'll have to concentrate on the weekend!
thx for the suggestion on the values and stuff! i'll definitely give it a try, its always good to try out new things :)

couch rofl! dont worry, i guess even since i'm outed as a girl now i'll continue to give crits and encouragements as much as i can ;)
concerning your paintings that stuff about your brush stroke really makes sense to me. your strokes look kinda the same everywhere on the painting. giving them some variation in size and form might really add some dynamic to the paintings :)
also, studying from masters is a great idea! i should definitely do that more often as well since it gives you a new view on things and you always find new ways to accomplish things like getting a nicer brush stroke etc :)
if you have any difficulties or questions just go ahead and ask me! i dont know if im that much helpful by now but ill give my best hehe :)

pascallo hey thanks for stopping by! glad you like my stuff :) also thanks for the tip with the 2nd lightsource, i really have to remember that while painting. i always see how a 2nd lightsource really adds vitality to a painting!

ok here we go with a little update... had not so much time this week for painting :(
i did some sketch for the next stylised animal challenge. topic is carnivore dinosaur. its not really where i want it to be yet so any crits on it would be great!

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild111-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild112-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild109.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild110.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild107-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild108-1.jpg

[CouchPotato]

Sawa, you could always help me chill my beer.....

:dodges flying daggers:

lol, well, I'm glad what I said makes sense to somebody because I can't make sense of it. It would help me lots, and I won't ever ask you to chill my beer again :dodges more flying daggers: (hehe, sorry couldn't resist :p )

Anyhow, it'll help me lots if you could show me a bit of what you mean. Like some example of that variation in size and form thing giving dynamism to the paintings lol.

Also, I just want to say that my network is dead. I think it's going to take a while to get it fixed, so in the meantime I'll be having a somewhat diminished presence in CA.

Btw, if you guys don't mind, maybe we can all add each other to msn or something. Mine is cereals@hotmail.com

[Maestro Andres]

Hey Sawa, adding to what Couch Potato said, can you chill out my beer too?? PLEASE :D (***unplugs the computer and runs away*** ok, that was lame):uzi2:

In a more related note, been very busy lately with my senior project so finally I took the time to update stuff and stop by some SBs.

From your last stuff, the variation and colors of the monkey zombie are looking good. You sure know how to handle your media, colored pencils, right?

I feel relieved that you didn't took my last comment in a bad way. Your controller's drawing turned out well and I see you are focusing on value now. When you work on stuff like these, remember to define your shapes with differences in value than with contour lines at all. That will make it look more realistic while with the contour lines it will look a bit cartoonish, which in the end there is nothing bad in those two things it is just a matter of what style you are going for.

I agree with CouchPotato about sharing contact info, if you use hotmail messenger at all :P. Here is mine: *******. Though a funny thing is that if you think about we all three are living in three different sides of the globe with at least 6 or 7 hours in time difference :S

[Sawa]

couch ive post a comment in your thread ;) and i added you on msn, mine is krabbelndes-reh@hotmail.de
maestro take a look at couchpotatos sb, i tried to chill his beer there ;) if theres still smth on your mind just go ahead and ask anything hehe

heres some stuff from portfolio course or how its called... the task was to draw apples in ink... lots of apples :D in different styles... there are also some in which i didnt use any contour lines at all :) works fine so far though i should work on them more lol...
i also decided to start that stylized animal dino for next month in a slightly different style since the outlines of the last one really didnt help it a lot.
so thx maestro for the tip on that one :) oh and sorry for the bad quality :/

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild113-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild114-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild115-2.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild117-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild116-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild119-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild123-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild118-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild120-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild122-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild121-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/carnivore5kleian.jpg

[CouchPotato]

I'm baaaaaack!

Thanks for your post sawa! Well, I can see that my lines really need more work lol.

And that dino looks like he's just swallowed something bad haha

And I got your hello msg the other day, but I was asleep when you messaged me lol, and by the time I woke up, YOU were offline haha.

[Maestro Andres]

Hey seeing those different style exercises looks very refreshing. Seems you had fun with the cross hatching. In regards on being tonal, just working with values, you may try to use charcoal. Don't know if you have use it before, but it is really fun, especially because you can applied by smudging with your fingers. It's dirty, cheap and fun! (alright, no dirty thoughts, ok?) j/k ;)

The new dinosaur is coming along well. Not very sure about this, but by the way the face is turned and plus the flow of the tail, kinda guides the eye outside of the page. Not sure about what are your intentions behind the piece, but maybe if you have the tail on the ground aiming towards the poor dead animal, you will give it more emphasis. Just a suggestion :D

[Sawa]

couch hehe welcome back dude :) hope we manage to meet on msn one day lol im quite busy last time so i wasnt online that much :/
maestro thx for the tip on the tail! i changed that, the composition is really better now :)
actually that style exercises look like more fun than they actually were lol... hard to keep your hand away from shaking while working in ink... didnt manage it quite that well :/ will have to practise some more lol :D

heres just some quick fresh stuff... the portraits were all done from ref or from life ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/carnivore11klein.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild125-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild126.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/blid124.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild127-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild128-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild129.jpg

[PinkMonkeee]

this is good: http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild127-1.jpg

poste mal deinen super nes controller:D

[Maestro Andres]

That dinosaur piece just got a lot of improvement! Hope you got to finished on time. Now seeing all the goriness on the rat and all that blood, I found it funny that you are complaining about my beautiful leg piece hehehehe j/k

The portraits are nice, glad you can get someone to pose for you. Keep doing those and you will improve a lot. Faces are that rewarding. Also, I don't know why I found this one (http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild126.jpg) so charming but it looks like one that deserves to be colored :)

[Sawa]

anna lol hab das ganz vergessen :D ich mach gleich n foto von ;)

maestro lol i still think that victim of my dino isnt half as disgusting as your leg *shivers in disgust*
actually i didnt got anyone to pose for me lol... mostly the people are friends or from reference, also that one guy was just sitting in the train sleeping and i drew him lol

heres more stuff from my sb. i sat down and did some anatomy/figure studies from ref and went through seedlings perspective 101 :) really great stuff! oh and i had some fun coloring iorek for you maestro :D

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild131-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild132-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild137-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild136-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild134-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild135-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild139-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild138-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild130-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild133-1.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

Hey thanks Sawa, that's what I was talking about :p. Like how it turned out.

Those perspective things are crazy, now I feel like trying out those as well, way to many vanishing points. What I notice in the figures lacking is the head to body proportion. This may sound funny, but what you suggest me one time about that the head fist 8 times in the whole figure is an effective way to check proportions. Of course that's an ideal case and it depends from female to male, normally an average male is 7.5 heads tall. So keep those in mind, it surely had help me a lot in my life drawings.

And oh yeah, that Snes thing is so TRIPPING, what media was that made with? It's so OLD school BTW, good old times...

[Sawa]

maestro heh that snes is made with noddles and spray paint ;)
thx for the tip on the figures ;) will go and practise some more now, since i really didnt paint/draw much lately cuz of school :(

well, heres some tiny update at least

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild141-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild140-1.jpg

ink again:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild142-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild143-2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild144-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild145-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild148-1.jpg

[Sawa]

some stuff from today :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild151-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild152-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild153-1.jpg http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild154-2.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild150-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild149-1.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

The style experiments are coming along nicely. Maybe you can try some of that with your animal sketches, could give some interesting results you know :)

The hands one is very interesting. Like how you can express a lot with them. Somehow I feel that the thumb of the right hand is kinda short. Also, that robot sketch is a huge change from your previous work, that's how it is, try experimenting new things, expand your horizons :P

[CouchPotato]

Wow, man, I've really been out of this world lately....you have been doing quite a bit sawa! I really like that pod machine thing lol. The figures, I think some of them are maybe out of proportions. Unless...you're deliberately drawing midgets :/

Anyhow...thanks for your comments. I'll try to texture the boat, but seems like most of my texturings so far look pretty bad haha.

Anyhow, I've got another problem before I can texture lol. The scene file is too heavy for my computer to run smoothly, so towards the end, things get a little bit mixed up...the file's in a mess, I have to clean it up somehow first haha.

[Sawa]

maestro thx mate :) that hand studies etc were very fun so i'll surely do more of them, though im not sure about the robot... it was nice to try out stuff like that but i think drawing hands and stuffs is more fun to me lol ;)

potato hehe ye im really lacking proportions lately lol... maybe i should fix that before giving you and maestro porportion advices the next time :^^;:
take your time with the ship though :) i hope your comp. will handle it somehow though lol

happy new year everyone :D

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild160-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild156-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild155-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild163.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild162-1.jpg

this months stylized animal: swimming dinosaur :)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/final.jpg

[CouchPotato]

Happy New Year to you Sawa! Well, it'll be new year in about 2 or 3 hours time in my part of the world haha. About the proportion thing, sometimes, I get so caught up with what I'm doing, and I missed out on my mistakes, it's always great to have another fresh pair of eyes to point you back in the same directions, so please, please, if I make a mistake, don't hesitate to bring it up lol.

It's in that spirit that I mentioned the proportions thing. God knows, I make plenty of awful proportion mistakes myself without realizing it lol, so help me out when I let one slip :D

Also, I just noticed, is that bear from the Golden Compass??!!

[Maestro Andres]

Hey Sawa, happy new year!
You have been doing a good job with the faces. Most of the proportions are looking fine. Are these from life or from pictures? I found that it is harder to do portraits from life than from pics. Anyways, keep doing those since the face is a good exercise to do. On a related note, the bearded guy reminds me to a model that they have at the CA atelier. I have seen him on Coro's paintings and on some of the CA atelier students hehehe.

I like how you create a sense of depth on the dinosaur painting. Only thing that bothers me a bit is that the perspective of the torso looks awkward. By looking at the fins, it looks like a top view but by looking at the main body it looks on a perspective view. I think the problem is that the large fin that is farther from us looks bigger than the one near us. No big deal with those things, hope you have time for it :)

[Slav]

nice controllers there. :D

[cinnamon_girl]

you had me at the pandas on the first page! :D love your swimming dinosaur too, he would make an adorable plushie!

[PinkMonkeee]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild148-1.jpg <--extrem toll:D poste dein storyboard xD

[Sawa]

couch hehe np i was just joking ;) i think the same as you do about giving crits, getting opinions from other people is always the best!
oh yes and the bear is supposed to be iorek, though i drew it before the movie was out ;)
maestro thx dude. i took reference for the faces, mostly from somewhere on ca. the portrait paintings in the fine arts section were really inspiring hehe :)
thx for the tip on the dino :) i changed that and made the top fins smaller. i think the perspective is better now ;)
slav, cinnamon_girl thx a lot both of you :)
anna wollte gestern schon posten als du geschrieben hast aber musste dann weg :lol: also storyboard kommt hier ;)

here are some more portaits. all from ref as well though they're pretty small and i just took crappy photos of them :bashful:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild167.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild166.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild168.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild171.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild172.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild170.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild173.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild169.jpg


next one is a storyboard i had to do for school. dont mind the story its really stupid lol
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/storyboardseite1klein.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/storyboardseite2klein.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/storyboardseite3klein.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/storyboardseite4klein.jpg
(vader: luke, im your driver! luke: its too late!)


http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild165.jpg


sketch for a comission painting
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild164.jpg


and the final for the stylized animal swimming dinosaur challenge :)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/pleisoraurus.jpg

[PinkMonkeee]

lols kay....boah du hast ja Kamerabewegungen miteinbezogen...na toll, meins ist ne Bildergeschichte O_O. Deine story ist echt lol xD und man versteht was passiert *sich in Ecke verkriech*

Der sketch für commission ist toll ^_^.
Und zu den Portraits...kommt mir das so vor oder machst du den Mund immer ziemlich groß?

[Maestro Andres]

Dude, don't know how I missed your update. I know you need someone to put down your work once in a while, right?? Nah, I am just kidding, don't hit me!! lol

Those last changes made to the dinosaur, really fix a lot of stuff in it. You are getting better at the portraits, proportions are looking nice but maybe you can play more with the values. It will serve as a good practice.

Don't know about storyboards that much, but it is really funny hahaha. Good colouring though.

Schlafen for now ;)

P.D: Oh yeah, finally got to meet XJ (CouchPotato) at the workshop, very great guy. Would have been great to have met you as well, maybe some other time when there is a workshop on Europe hehehe

[CouchPotato]

Yeah, I'm a great guy! Uhhhhhh >_> <_<

lol, it was a shame you weren't at the workshop sawa, you could have helped me make fun of Andres eating fried fish. Well, you could make fun of me too eating fried fish lol (No more fried fish for me for like, 10 years lol)

And it's really kind of interesting and funny that you made a comic strip with Darth Vader and Luke Skywalker haha.

[Sawa]

maestro lol ye actually i need some kicks into my ass to finally update my sb ;) im just a lazy bum...
dont know anything about storyboards either, so im not sure about the first one... i had to do a second one as homework and i think its gettin better (and more fun hehe)
hehe oh yeah having a workshop in europe sounds great :) well i hope one day i'll make it to one :) some guys are planning a CA meeting over here in germany in april, but i wont manage to go there either lol because i'll be having some important exams there :( school sucks!
couch damn yes i'd have loved to meet you guys as well! could be so much fun hehe though its also funny to imagine you both eating fried fish in weird ways lol

ok so here's some new crap... mostly sketches and stuff

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild166-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild165-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild167-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild168-1.jpg

sketch for the stylized animal dragons challenge... ne head needs to be smaller i think
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild164-1.jpg

and the other storyboard homework... kinda sketchy though
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild169-1.jpg
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild170-1.jpg

[Sawa]

here's some more stuff
i'll post some oil paintings etc as soon as i find the digicam ;)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild171-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild172-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild173-1.jpg

[Pascallo]

Moinsen!
Cool updates, good poses and clear figure drawings. Sometimes the head seems to be a little too big.
The polar bear kicks ass!

[CouchPotato]

Hey sawa, really looking forward to seeing that rembrandt copy man, quick quick, find the digicam! haha

[Maestro Andres]

Great updates dude, always enjoy your sense of color in your pics. The one with the tentacles has a nice composition on it but I wish it didn't have the horrible ring division of the SB, it would look great. Also, it will help you if you push further the values, introduce darkers so that way you give more volume to the tentacles.
Other than that, you have to include your new styled animal challenge, it looked good in that thread. Also, your king lion sketch remind me that I was this closed to watch it the other day but the dvd was so badly scratched to play it :S

[Sawa]

Pascallo danke :D
Couch lol sry i didnt update in time :/ btw i just saw u updated your thread... somehow this subscribtion getting-an-email-thingie isnt working for me i think lol
Maestro thx for the feedback dude :) totally forgot about the stylized dino one, i'll post it right away! :yayca: btw you just reminded me on buying that tekkon kinkreet movie :x i need to see that hehe

so finally i found the digicam and took some pictures hehe... the color study in oil sucks very badly, though i also tried it in ps which worked much better even without color picking lol! learned a lot from that so i hope i can fix the oil painting when i'll get back to work on it :)

this is the oil one:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild181.jpg

and ps:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/rembrandtstudy1.jpg

also oils
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild176.jpg

and other stuff :)
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild183.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild175.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/bild174-1.jpg

oh... and the dino lol!
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/stylizeddragoncopy.jpg

[CouchPotato]

So, how do you say Lady Sawa in german anyway? lol

Cool on getting that Rembrandt copy up! You're right, the oil one needs more work. As in, quite a lot lol, but don't worry, so does mine (and actually, the ps one needs work as well, but then Andres needs to work more on his ps one too lol), and the important thing is, we started on it, so the next steps are to do more and more, and get it righter and righter bit by bit everytime!

First off, well, I'm not really in a position to say this because I did it myself, but it's one mistake we got to correct, which is that the face in our portrait copies look nothing like Tidus lol. I really think we need to spend the effort to get the shape as right as we can first....This is something I've really been noticing in myself whenever I do life studies nowadays, and it's that I'm not as diligent as I once was in trying to get the shape exactly right (not that I was very good before lol, but I remember spending more effort on it).

Is this like the first layer (the oil) or something Sawa? The paint looks like you put too much turpentine in it lol. It's really washed out and powdery kinda looking. Values need to be pushed a little more, but you know that I'm sure. And the color saturation I feel is stronger in the face area? At least from what I can remember from the source material....

Let's just keep at it until we get better! (we should probably spend a couple more weeks on it before moving on to another piece maybe?)

[Maestro Andres]

Yeah, that's the dino I was talking about! Really funny indeed without looking too gory.

I agree with what CouchPotato said about the rembrandt copy, we really need to work on getting those proportions right especially for the face. Comparing the oils one and PS one, the PS one looks a lot better while the oil one has a bigger smile hehehe. Maybe, you should give up on oils...***Sawa :uzi: Andres*** j/k

Actually the lion is a very good piece. One of your best so far. Like how you create that motion with the hair and combination of different colors in it, very harmonious. Only thing, that kinda detracts is the nose that blends with the background, would have been nice to see it more refined and some detail on it. Not sure about lions, but I know for dogs, their nose is wet and have this nice texture in them, which is somewhat beautiful. Well just suggesting.

[Sawa]

couch thx dude! ur right with the terpenine thing, i tend to use waay to much of it in the beginning and too few in the end of the painting progress i think lol... will fix that when i get back on the painting :)
maestro thx for the tip on the lion! i changed the nose afterwards and it looked less flat etc... though i dont have a new picture of it anymore :/

here's some new stuff.... mostly sketches

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild184.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild185.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild186-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild187.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild188.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild189.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild190.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild193.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild194.jpg

another oil painting and some digital sketches:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild191.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild196.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild195.jpg

[OleOlsen]

hey...nen paar cool ezeichnungen...die zeichnung von der hand in post 176 is recht schmackhaft :) mehr davon! yeah!

[Maestro Andres]

Holla!
Betrunken!! Schlafen! Well, ok, I admit my german sucks big time... will try harder next time.
Well it's nice seeing you updating. I still like that style you have for animals, that pirate bird (?), looks so badass! Good job on that one, and I like the others animal stylizations too. What I see in your figures, which I don't know if it is due to lack of time, is that the hands are missing, don't forget about them since they show as much expression as the face.
About the color drawings, they are very good but after working on that rembrandt master study, I learn that having more color variations adds a lot. When only using one hue, the figures look kinda monochromatic, like the face for example. In the rembrandt portrait you will notice that oranges, red even blues and green are used, which add a lot of life. Especially for faces, there are areas that look redish such as the cheeks and nose because that's where the blood arteries (I believe?) are closer to the skin. Just a thought, keep em coming!

[Sawa]

ole, maestro danke hehe :D

so here is an update finally...
not much to say, just some sketches and the rembrandt study (a bit late lol) + a little step by step though the quality is really crappy since i took the pics with my mobile phone :bashful:
here we go :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild205-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/rembrandtsbs.jpg

somore oils:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild197.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild198.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild199.jpg

and random sketches
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild200.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild206.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild207.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild208-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild209-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild210.jpg

and the executioner for tihs month's stylized challenge
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/executionerrgb.jpg

[Maestro Andres]

Hey buddy, yep we are so late with these master studies stuff, but at least we got them done somewhat :}
With the master study, it turn out pretty good. If we keep doing more, they will get better but at this rate.... jejeje, j/k. One thing I noticed when I did mine was that there were some very subtle cold tones around the chin and lower cheek area, like subtle greens and blues. I found them missing on yours, so just letting you know for next time.
With the hands, I dunno, maybe my fingers are longer than normal (which can be true), but I feel that the main fingers in comparison to the thumb are looking a bit short. Still good to see you tackling them, I should do some as well.
The executioner has great pose and attitude to him. Only thing I can suggest for next time would be to push more the exaggeration and designs to make it look less generic but I guess this is more based on my opinion. Hopefully this month I can join you on that challenge as well. Good luck with the exams.

[PinkMonkeee]

wow rembrandt study.....oO *glotz* urrrrr, das war aber auch shcon april....wo ist mai?

[Sawa]

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild211.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild212-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild213.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/AndyO-unserHeroBLAklein.jpghttp://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/blaa.jpg

[PinkMonkeee]

die zwiebel sieht krass aus O_O

[0shade0]

great :)
totaly love the guitar hand

[Sawa]

Anna, 0shade0 thx mates :)

big update :)

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild222.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild221.jpg

these 2 are from life:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild220.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild219.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild218.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild217.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild216.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild215.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild214.jpg

and a cover for a lokal band, did it quite some time ago
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/coverberarbeitet.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/hinten-2.jpg

[0shade0]

girl one word.

ACE !

kebab is the best though i order durum more

EDIT: is that kirby in a hat?

[Maestro Andres]

Like a lot the last updates mate. I am start to wonder what mediums are you using, I see from inks to pencils being used. I will ask you later what you are using. But for sure you are getting a good grasp of how making your drawings very colorful and lively.

I find the butterfly one, great! That touch of the black ink adds a lot to it. Nice to see you experimenting. Can't add anything for now, keep it up!

[PinkMonkeee]

das mit dem schmetterling find ich auch sehr cool......c:

[Sawa]

0shade, Anna thx mates :)
maestro thanks dude! i used mostly watercolors and colored pencils in the last update. also ink in some of them ;)

heres some more

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild229-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/arrr-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild224copy.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild223.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild225.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild226.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild227.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild228.jpg

[PinkMonkeee]

.....du wirst definitiv besser mit den portraits^^ die letzten beiden find ich toll.

[Maestro Andres]

Hey buddy, forgot to pass around here earlier.
Like you mentioned before, you surely seem to be having fun with these portraits and drawings. With the portraits, seems you are going to some stylization product which is working nicely. The only thing I can suggest is to pay more attention to the structure of the face: position/size of the eyes, middle line, etc.

For example in this one
(http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/Bild227.jpg) Some features look a bit distorted. His left eye seems a bit smaller than the right, and the mouth is not right on the middle of the face. Not wanting to be harsh or anything, just pointing some stuff you might want to focus more in your future pieces.

Hope you are having fun at art school!

[CouchPotato]

HELLLLLLOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

Wow, been a long time Sawa, looks like you have been working hard! I've been buried in some hole somewhere for the past 6 months (you know why) haha.

So I did a quickie glance through your new stuff.....AND IS THAT A REMBRANDT SELF PORTRAIT COPY I SEE AT THE END???????

Nice! Keep up the good work! Remember to chill the beer before you drink it! :p

[Sawa]

hey everybody!
dont have much time for updating atm, stuying is really keeping me busy lol
still i found some time to do something not study-relating :)

some buttons:

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/phelinabutton2-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/phelinabutton1-1.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/phelinabutton3-1.jpg

and some illustrations. im going to do some more of them
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/hutmacher.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/alice.jpg

http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b260/sawart/schlafmaus.jpg

[Sawa]

update!! :x:x:x:tihi:
after 1 year of intense lounge-lurking and not gettin my ass up to scan anything ill try to get this running again :)

well heres some stuff from the past few months or so

[FAST ART]

paar super sachen dabei.. bist auf nem guten weg.. weiter so.. ;)

[Maestro Andres]

Cool Sawa! Nice to see you posting again buddy! Digging a lot the life drawings, looking forward to what you have been cooking up at art school ;)