KN´s Sketchbook /// draw it up

[Kristo Novo]

///////////// as you might know - newer stuff on later pages /////////////

Hello everybody,

this is my first conceptart-post.
Very interesting stuff whole over the forum.
Maybe some of you can critisize my
environment-sketches down there. I´m not sure
how to come out of these sketchy thumbnails
to an amazing finished illustration :dur:

I think with these kind of sketches you should
check out composition and proportions of the entire
format you are sketching on - I´ve tried to
fix some nice compositions in my sketches but
look by yourself.

greetings
Kristo Novo

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http://www.kristonovo.de/conceptart/environment-01.jpg
http://www.kristonovo.de/conceptart/environment-02.jpg
http://www.kristonovo.de/conceptart/environment-03.jpg
http://www.kristonovo.de/conceptart/environment-04.jpg

[asoir]

stunning work, keep us updated man!

[softocean]

nice stuff here.
looks like the first and second imagres are your strongest. Good use of perspective.
in the other images, there seems to be a need for line weight (thickness) to help bring attention to certain parts of the image. If it is all the same weight, it is harder to perceive depth. (4th image)
Maybe select one of the thumbnails to add color/shading?

My sketchbook is here (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71080)

[Kristo Novo]

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I colorised the second sketch in a quick potoshop session.
I think it helps to get more depth into picture.

But keep on critisizing - thx for your attention :^^:


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[Blaz]

Nice perspective there!
I must agree first two were best in first post,in the third one i think those two columns look like they are little steep (erm dunno about my english)

Like the colored version too tought i sorta like the b/w one better...dont know why.

[softocean]

Good start on coloring. I recommend that you pay careful attention to value when depicting light and shadow. The building on the lower left is casting shadow well, but the other buildings are not? Also, you may want to accentuate lighting on the faces of the buildings in the upper right which are facing the sun. Also, experiment with brushes to let them do the work of detailing the textures for you. Well, thats my 2 cents.

My sketchbook is here (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=71080)

[Kristo Novo]

Hi,

thx for your comments @all
It makes me happy to get some feedback about my work

I´ve added three new line sketches.
These are my first graphic tablet results -
funny to work digital

well - I wish all of you happy holidays!

[softocean]

I like the second image a lot. The cracks and detailing really give believability to the scene. Perhaps work on the value range for it to develop the piece further I suggest that you use pure black and pure white sparingly as you develop it.

[Fishhead]

Welcome aboard!! You have awesome sense of perspective and compostion! Your artistic vision is strong.
Man I can't wait to see these as full color paintings. I usually add small fiqure shapes in the composition to help with the feeling of scale.
Beatiful work. Love to see more. Are you going to take any of the other sketches to paintings?

Fishhead

My sketchbook
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=84382

[Kristo Novo]

...here I come with my first digital colored sketch.
hmmm... what can I say... it´s just the beginning...

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[Kristo Novo]

Hello again,
long time since I´ve added some new stuff.
Here I painted digitaly a kind of outer space/planet scenery.
I think I could go on working on this picture to add more
detail but what do you say?


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[DennisCurrie]

Yes, could use a little more work. Otherwise, I have to say, it's good to see how you are mastering different points of perspective.

[Kristo Novo]

thank you all for your comments - i´m happy to get some feedback.
please dont stop that! :D

[Kristo Novo]

a little drawing session right now

[Kristo Novo]

i didn´t sleep long tonight... here is a weird figure

[Kristo Novo]

this is my girlfriend while reading a book
she wasnt looking as sad as in the drawing
but sadness came into it

[Kristo Novo]

i´m not sure where this is going
my motivation to start painting was to come up
with some robot technoid styles...

till now there are no characters - just environment
...have to be changed :)

[Kristo Novo]

so far.. it´s not what i hoped it could be.. hmpf

[Kristo Novo]

some stuff i did today and yesterday evening
rough sketches

[Ricardo Robles]

I love the post 17. for me, works better without spaceships, or with little ones. these environements are really good man. very technic eye you got, mixed with a great tecnique, with many fluency.

To crit, just can say.. work in your lacks.. as drawing figures.. just need a bit or more work, youre in the right way.

By the time, I guess some star will appear over there:^^:

[hunchback]

cool stuff here man

more please :)

[Kristo Novo]

Ricardo Robles: thanks for your critics - i´ve seen your sketchbook and it´s a honour for me to see you here :-)
i think you are right about pic nr17. smaller spaceship would change a lot for better

hunchbackmagee: thank you ;-) i try to post more output

so heres a new (rendered) sketch :-)

[Jamie Romoser]

nice start for your sketchbook keep it up!

[Ragnar X]

Hey man- I love your quick sketches. They're great!

:)

I think your digital painting needs practice... here's a suggestion on how to very quickly add some color to those sketches- mainly with gradients.. dont muck up the clean fresh sketches with too much brushy junk- here's an example I painted over your pic

[Kristo Novo]

Ragnar X: realy thank you for taken your time to show me that coloring example.
i think i get the idea with this gradient like coloring... i´m realy overwhelmed about it... helps a lot
i have to try this for myself... fix dark and bright composition

by the way gw concept artwork for me is one of the best in gameindustry
i´m very thankful for your post!

[Kristo Novo]

marker revival - fast drawing session
little digital stuff for the backgrounds

[Φ]

god damn cool stuff here!!! last bazooka-man is GREAT!! love it
keep it coming
cheers

[wilkerson]

I like where this is going.
Good stuff.

[Kristo Novo]

@bigfooTrooper and wilkerson: thank you guys
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a little update today
quick sketches with fast digital finishing

i hope sooner or later i can try to play around with
gradient like coloring (Ragnar X posted above an example)
and show it to you guys

[Kristo Novo]

here comes some stuff i found in my deepest archives ...
except the last two - they are just a few weeks old

[Kristo Novo]

damn it´s late :)

[throtailer]

fuckin' good shit yo

[Kristo Novo]

again some older stuff

[Kristo Novo]

found someeee ^^

[Xaya]

Hi Kristo!

Love the architecture sketches on the first page. Work on lighting and its color system.(Color saturation etc.) Right now I miss some depth and sense of space. Do some ref. work for this case. Great sketchbook. Keep your studies!

Xaya

[Kristo Novo]

i realy dont know where this is going...
hate the anatomy of the guy :davi:

[Kristo Novo]

each about 15 min i think... should be faster ^^

[Kristo Novo]

what do u think?

[shumizu]

Hey, i really like your draw-style in the fist sketches. I think the illustration in post 37 could going very good. I already like it. The dynamic is cool but meaby he got a little bit all-too long arms. I think its too disproportionate... Nice - Keep it up.

grüsse nach Deutschland : )

[Kristo Novo]

@throtailer thank you !

@Xaya thank you - your absolutely right - i need more practise with all that
paint and lightvalue stuff - hope i can work out some nice stuff

@Schmitz dank dir :) nr 37 hat echt irgendwas aber die anatomie von dem kerl.....
es macht eben doch sinn solche dinge schon in der zeichnung zu klären ^^


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here is a storyboard from a shortmovie i´m working on

[Kristo Novo]

here i found an older project - just to learn some about character
modeling and animation i built this demon...
it´s not realy a game character neither a cinematic one

[selfu]

you work good with perspective- maybe do some small sketches from reference's in full color od landscapes..last time i've made e few..- ithink it could help..and of course some anathomy drawings! :)

creative new year 2009

[Newman101]

youve got some really great stuff going here man. I really like your drawing style. The only thing that Id really like to see you do is push your poses. You have some interesting poses going on some of the drawings but ive noticed that there are an aweful lot of them that are just kinda standing looking bad ass. I wanna see something a bit more dynamic and looking bad ass ya know? Either way, great stuff. Very inspirational. :)

[Kristo Novo]

@selfu good advice to work with references... maybe that helps a lot... need to study color and light through nature and references

@Newman101 yea your right... should pushin poses... i´m a lazy guy.. the most time i draw characters in the same pose


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[DaStreets]

Great values, and awsome prespective work. The concepts are great too. Keep posting, i like where ur ideas are going. Stop by my page and drop a comment if u can, thanks a lot

[Kristo Novo]

@DaStreets thank you :)


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here is a new coloraction with my first posted environment sketch
inspired by ragnar x ;) ...thanks for that advice

[crabbyclem]

holy crap.

Your sketchbook is looking awesome! Either you're working in the industry already or you're going to find a job eventually. Very good work. You're perspective and storyboarding is a little weak.....I'm just joking - it looks very professional. You obviously know what you're doing!

[CUBICcube]

kick ass stuff I see alot of improvment, I like the comic style and that last one is really cool with the chick squating down, nice anatomy stuff ;) keep it up

[Kristo Novo]

@crabbyclem thank you :) ...i´m nearly finished with study... time to get a job!!!

@CUBICcube thank you



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[Kristo Novo]

what u think about the values?

[PeNcIl ReBeLlIoN]

Nice sketchbook man, your use of shade really highlights your work :)

[Kristo Novo]

@PeNcIl ReBeLlIoN thank you... im working on shading to become better


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found an older environment sketch... but i hope i can come up with new stuff soon...

[Kristo Novo]

i dont have time to draw ... that sux ...
so this is a fast one ... would like to make tons of them

[Kristo Novo]

always wanted to make shape style creature stuff...

[sourgasm]

I'm really digging your environments. Loose but solid, you know? Keep it up!

[Kristo Novo]

@sourgasm thanks buddy - i like to keep some loosiness in nearly everything i´m doing

[Kristo Novo]

shame on me... ref work ;)

[Kristo Novo]

i was diggin around at youtube - found some clips from comic
artists who where drawing for fans at comic con
ive seen humberto ramos (one of my favorite comic artists)
drawing dr doom in this classical pose - the next day ive decided
to come up with such a dr doom style and did my best :)

[Smarty]

wicked simplified forms in some of these, you should check out sean galloways work, you could be headed that way if you work at it. that man is sick. my favorite are the figure studies about half a page up.

cheers,

[sourgasm]

Shame on you? PFFFT. Those ninjas are completely bad ass, and perfect for gathering inspiration and fold refs.

[kevinwueste]

dig those figures as well.. keep up the drawing !!! cheers - kevin

[astrocrud]

I like those environment sketches, reminds me of Ken Adam's prod designs for Dr. Strangelove ...

[bharat]

cool art....!

[sketchy Joel]

Wow, I have to agree those ninjas are badass. Your style rocks.

[Adrian Wilkins]

man there's really a good amount of talented people here in germany and definately belong to one of them... really great stuff keep posting man!

[Everlastingboost]

I like your style very much, I can definitely see the comic book influence! great work all around! What tools do you use when doing background, t-square, triangles, etc?

[Kristo Novo]

@Smarty thx for this name: sean galloways.. realy cool stuff he make... let´s see where i´m going

@sourgasm your right - i´m still thinking when i´m using reference i´m not an artist but that´s completely wrong!

@kevinwueste thank you

@astrocrud thank you - ken adams´ set design is great

@bharat thx

@sketchy Joel yea thank you buddy

@Hygami wow thx - yes there are a lot of cool german artists in here... i´m a little bit afraid of this

@Everlastingboost thx buddy - a few backgrounds are digital built with lasso and/or circle/square selection tool

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critiques are welcome

[jedininjaman]

yeaaahhhhhh i am so going to go draw some ninjas right now
thankyou for the inspiration
-jedi

[dchung]

nice style you have ...i like the graphic elements you incorporate into some of your stuff ..very cool !

[Risata]

wirklich schöne arbeiten u_u für die perspektiven würde dich mein prof vergöttern und auf händen tragen xD
schää machste das ;__;

[Kristo Novo]

@jedininjaman hehe ;)

@dchung thank you!

@Risata dank dir


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long time since i´ve added some stuff...
storyboard is for a documentation

[Ricardo Robles]

Your B/W linework is awesome, is noticed that you like it a lot. Great sb, cheers

[Kristo Novo]

hi Ricardo :) thank you buddy. yes it´s true - i love b/w stuff a lot. but i´m working on that coloring challenge :)

[Kristo Novo]

updating some older stuff

[botho81]

Hey chris,
I didn't know that you had a sketchbook running the last time.
Sweet stuff you got here. But I wanna see more of your freaky characters!
See you in the next months buddy.
greetz

[Jussi Tarvainen]

Hey Kristo thanks for dropping by my sketchbook. I absolutely love your perspective studies! Are you in school for industrial design? These are very impressive.

Now let's see some more life studies?!

Great stuff, I see you have already created a style for yourself:)

[Kristo Novo]

hi felix nice to see you passing by :DDDDDDDD ...let´s see if i can come up with some character stuff. when i´ll come to frankfurt we can dig some concept art stuff
cya


@YuZa thx too for coming over :) for now i´m graduating bachelor of arts - but the most input i got from feng zhu (http://www.artbyfeng.com/) and his environment dvds so check these out :D
sooner or later i´ll put some more life drawings in here.

Great stuff, I see you have already created a style for yourself
i´m not sure if i´m handy with my style :D

[Kristo Novo]

wip portrait - how can i push it?
what i don´t like for the moment is that brushy junk specialy at her hair and maybe i should add some darker+lighter values all over - i think the chin could be more separated from background - critiques are welcome

[Kristo Novo]

good and bad

[bouroune]

yo! awesome sketches man, really like your lines, very angulous things, your works on perspective and storyboards are really great too, would like to see more of these, hope to see "more polished" work from you and thx for the words, keep on sharing

[Janos]

YOur colouring and drawing style is nice, but I see you need to tighten the pics up a bit. Finish or polish some of them up, I think you can only benefit from it.
Some proportions, eg the girls face look a little off, so some more studies maybe?

Cheers

[Kristo Novo]

@bouroune thank you. yes this damn polishing thing... i´m working on it but i´m not sure if i´m on the right way...
@Janos i´m on it :D

so here is another rough sketch. maybe i should add some details in rough mode before polishing things up.

[Kristo Novo]

heading for daily life studies :D

[Kristo Novo]

another life study. little crap

[Kristo Novo]

for this little session i used a 4b pencil instead my usual 2b one - i think i should try this again :)

[Janos]

Interesting style. I really like teh bottem left character. The many short lines describe the face nicely. I might try that out sometime. Also teh digital colouring and postprocessing make it a nice page.

Cheers

[Kristo Novo]

@Janos thanks buddy - i´d be happy to see your finished greek poster :D

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didn´t master a daily life study - therefore a wip -.-

[pantless_wanderer]

Nice stuff! I specially like these last two updates... nice lines.

[Kristo Novo]

@pantless_wanderer thank you

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two speedies - tried some new brush settings

[Kristo Novo]

things more cleared - the attack begins!

[Kristo Novo]

that tasted good

[young paddy1]

ooh shexy textures

cheerio

[h2rra]

Keep it up man, I like what's going on in the post 85 and 87!

[MacKs]

i really like your style, and your environments are excellent :D

[corza334]

I really like your comic-like characters in Posts 85 and 87, look brilliant

[Josef K.]

hey nice work man!
dein comic-stil ist sehr cool! bin auf mehr gespannt!
keep rockin!

[Kristo Novo]

young paddy1, h2rra, MacKs, corza334, Josef K.
thank you guys - such feedback keeps me going :D

for the moment I´m a little bit busy but I will look to your
sketchbooks and drop some lines soon

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all of the following are wip

nr 1
http://www.kristonovo.de/conceptart/char_sheet_04_char_01.jpg


nr 2
http://www.kristonovo.de/conceptart/char_sheet_04_char_02.jpg


This guy down here was realy great fun to draw although I think
I could´ve pushed him more precisely

nr 3
http://www.kristonovo.de/conceptart/char_sheet_04_char_03.jpg


nr 4
http://www.kristonovo.de/conceptart/char_sheet_04_char_04.jpg

[Kristo Novo]

fast one :D

[seetsy]

hey cool! dig the line work in that last batch, nice and loose, look forward to see more :)

[Kristo Novo]

@seets_ thx buddy :)

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little paint over on this one - first time that i improved a b/w speedy to a basecolored one...
realy interesting thing with layer modes in ps - now this one could be painted more precisely -
but the composition is crap so i think i´m stopping here :D carrying knowledge to the next piece

[botho81]

hey ho chris,

you're doing a great job with your colorized pencil sketches. looks very cool with those graphic design elements and gradients. I'm really impressed!
and there are almost daily updates!

maybe you can work out one or two characters more detailed in a rough digital painting manner like you showed in the WIP.
keep it up!

[Kristo Novo]

hey felix :-) I´m happy to see you again dropin some lines. Thanks for that buddy.
I will coming up with a more painted like char soon - I still have a concept in mind... time to realise it :D

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[Kristo Novo]

combined 4b+hb pencil for this one - my scanner sux but hb shading is definitely far cleaner :D

wip

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[Kristo Novo]

studying monkeys :D

[Joce]

nice monkeys lol

[Tofa]

i'm totally mclovin' all your shit right now.
brilliant monkey sketches. i think i'll do some myself haha

[Fumble]

Those monkey-studies are great! Are they from life, photo or imagination?

[hyure]

so cool~

[eparts]

nice sketches here. you use an interesting palette.
I love your studies of the chimp :)

[Josef K.]

great updates buddy! monkey-power!

[Teundeboer]

What is it about monkeys that makes me love them so much? Great stuff, keep it up.

[Kristo Novo]

@Joce thx :D

@chriis.zed thanks - yea everybody should draw monkeys ;)

@Fumble thx - the studies are made with photo ref

@hyure thank you :)

@eparts thx - I´m not sure if my palette isn´t too limited

@Josef K. thx man :D

@Teundeboer monkeys are fascinating :D

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so for all the monkey lovers here we go

[Kristo Novo]

some tankstuff for an indepedent game project

[Frank Gressie]

hey thanks for visting my sb!
damn, the difference between page 1 and now is very noticeable !
I especially like post 97, great pencils! keep this going dude

frank

[Hideyoshi]

hey cooles Zeug hier! Der art monkey rult! :)

[Kristo Novo]

@Frank Gressie thanks for your comment! some of the drawings from post 97 I´ll push further - or let´s say I´ll try to :D

@Hideyoshi Dank dir - hoffe man "sieht" sich hier mal öfter - dein sb hier und dein portfolio sind der wahnsinn


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simple, fast and little contrast :D life drawing

[mike butkus]

Your skills, in regards to perspective are very good. The key to great drawings
is draw from life, take anatomy courses and draw,draw,draw.You are the right path and you have a lot of very successful sketches.

[Josef K.]

yeah! great updates man love the thumbnails! the surfing monkey's great! freue mich auf mehr :)

[Kristo Novo]

@mike butkus thx a lot for passing by! Your comment is motivating and I hope I can improve my skills

@Josef K. thank you buddy :-)

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so, to learn more about form and proportion I started a life drawing session -
I hope I can manage to get more routine in this field -
the drawings down there are not that what I thaught they would be...

[Kristo Novo]

no comment

[Kristo Novo]

it took hours till the colors worked at least a bit...

[AustenFM]

I love her face on the last one, but lumpy hand is really distracting! Hands haven't seemed to be a problem for you though so i dunno. I'd love to see some nice hands on it to finish it up.

[santal]

like all your staff,
love your style , peace

[Tofa]

great update man

like the latest one but i agree with AustenFM her right hand could do with a little definition, and maybe a tiny tiny bit of shading on the face to make it pop out a bit more.

Apart form that, the colouring style is perfect for ur pencils and imo really works.

[Kristo Novo]

@AustenFM and @chriis.zed thx guys for critiques - had to fix this ugly hand!!!
@santal thank you :-)

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so here we go with some correction

[Cacodaemonia]

I love the look of this girl. :) She seems tough!

Your chimp studies on the previous page are really great - they have a lot of character.

[MacTire]

Really liking the recent creature and character work!
Keep up the good work!

[kelly x]

Hi and some nice work here!! I like this girl, I feel the hard shadow on her arm//boob area is a little distracting Right side and the zipper area kind of looks like a bulge. this piece is really strong work and I agree I love her expression, she is bad ass!!!! Cool.

[zalxemptyx]

great improvement from the first page to the last piece, great to know ya keeping it going, keep some pieces of ur enviroment sketches

good stuff , keep it up

[Flashback]

That girl looks awesome!
I love the colors.

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia thx a lot :-)

@MacTire I´m on it - thank you

@kelly x you´re right with the arm/boob area - I have to fix it - thx a lot ;-)

@zalxemptyx uh yeah... environments are not out of my mind... thx for passing by

@Flashback thank you :-)

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just dropping down various stuff

[Josef K.]

yeha! girlpower!
die gute gefällt mir sehr gut! die kleinen figuren sind auch cool!
keep rockin' mate!

[mike butkus]

Great job! I love that first illustration and good thumbnails.

[Kristo Novo]

@Josef K. dank dir :-) bin gespannt auf deine he-man redesigns

@mike butkus thanks a lot - it´s not common that such a professional passing by two times
realy a great honour that you´ve droped some lines :-)

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here´s a kind of finished work of the angry girl

[Teundeboer]

hiya, I think the different print on her shirt really helps lead our eye to what's important in the picture. But after a couple of seconds, when your eye lands on the shirt, I think the last version worked better. Not sure what I'm saying, but thought I'd share my thoughts.
Excellent use of colors.
Cya

[Hazart]

I really like your style! Thank you for sharing.

[Kristo Novo]

@Teundeboer thx for passing by and sharing your thoughts :-)
I was feeling the same but then I decided to let the shirt step back into the
background so that her face might come a bit more to the foreground.

@Hazart thank you! sharing helps

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here is a wip - I think I learned a lot when making it

[comixnut]

i to am enjoyed seeing a style come through in the last 2 pages! cool stuff! :D

[jatherip]

cool sketchbook, exspecially the last one is sweet, but isnt the samurais lip a bit too dark?
looks like if he had used lipstick^^

[Kristo Novo]

@comixnut thanks man

@jatherip holy moly - you´re right - need to be fixed! thanks for passing by :-)

...so here we go

[Kristo Novo]

some misc stuff for today

[Teundeboer]

I like the attitude of the last creature. He's like: "bring it".

[kelly x]

nice baby!!! so sick and cute at the same time...
Kristo, when you said lines, did you mean on the tattoo's??? I think that's what you were speaking of? or the lines on the girls form, really impressed with your line work and it would be great if you could tell me which lines if you've got a moment. Thanks, Kellyx

[kelly x]

Kristo, thank you!! I completely agree on this and will try to do this!! THX, Kelly

[Cacodaemonia]

Love this recent creature. The spiral face rocks. :)

The samurai baby is definitely creepy, lol! For the man, maybe try adding some pinks to his skin? He looks sickly now.

[Kristo Novo]

@Teundeboer hehe thx

@kelly x keep going

@Cacodaemonia thx for your comment - don´t know when I´ll come back to the samurai wip

[princessbunny99]

Your environment sketches are really neat, they're the thing I need to work on most :o

[Kristo Novo]

@princessbunny99 same as me :-)

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wip

[AustenFM]

Wicked updates sir! I dig how the angry chick turned out, that new hand makes everything so much better. The Samurai and baby piece is really good too. Keep it up!

[Jacfat]

You sketches and the character in your faces is quite inspiring. Thanks for sharing mate :)

[Cacodaemonia]

What a great character! His left hand, especially - awesome lines there. :) I love how his nose really feels like it's coming forward in space, heh. What's up with his walking stick? It's not quite reaching the ground...

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia thank you mate (I tried to let him lift his stick up)

I realy don´t like the anatomy of his left arm with the amulet in his bad formed hands

[Kristo Novo]

still trying to reach a painting style

[Cacodaemonia]

Aw, I like the 'badly formed hand'. ;P

I like the roughness of the brush strokes in this last one. The hooves seem unfinished, though.

[Bill]

Your monster seems to have a Plaid background. There is something pretty cool about that.

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia thx for your kind words - let´s see if I´ll push the demon further
@Bill thanks for passing by - the background is realy very simple but in one way it works

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[bbwolf]

saugeiler Style. Mir gefällt besonders wie Du Deine Skizzen colorierst und mit der Frabe trotzdem einen relative "dreckigen" Eindruck bekommst. Coole Sache.

Cheers

[Kristo Novo]

@bbwolf dank dir!

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I´m on a kind of viking scheme - these are very early roughs

[Kristo Novo]

this is realy great fun to paint... I hope I can push the piece as far as I like to

[bbwolf]

Well, there´s no one to stop ya, is there?

[Kristo Novo]

can be stopped by myself :-D

[Kristo Novo]

a fast doodle for tonight - I think it works better for me to start with dark colors

[bbwolf]

HEy new avatar


that´s a nice color page. The little grren guy in the lower left is freaky and the little creature with the wings. The guy in lower middle looks creepy with just that little eery light. Good one.

[Kristo Novo]

@bbwolf thank you :teeth:

(sorry for this kind of double post)

[Kristo Novo]

I´m sick of my scanner... some shades are missing
and maybe I should try smoother paper
and some darker values could be nice

[Kristo Novo]

the shading works definitly better for me - it´s more what I hoped
the previous drawing could look like - for the new one I used same paper
but another pencil (black faber castell polychromos)

[Josef K.]

nice updates man! would like to see this guy (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=640432&stc=1&d=1239142263) smash a wall or something - great design. keep us updated!

[Kristo Novo]

@Josef K. thx buddy

longt time since passing by - little speedy

[Kristo Novo]

speedy

[Kristo Novo]

small tank thumbnails (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2174567&postcount=113) a few pages before are the base for this:

[walnut]

You've got a fluid way of sketching, i like that. Those viking sketches were pretty neat, saying a lot with just a little.

[Kristo Novo]

quick 3d paint over

[Kristo Novo]

pushing this piece a bit

[Cacodaemonia]

Nice. The forms are looking good so far, but don't be afraid to push the shadows and highlights. :) Looking forward to seeing more of this.

[eparts]

nice sketches here :) your big horned bully here is coming along nice

[Kristo Novo]

thx for passing by buddies

here comes some graffiti stuff - long time since i´ve done something like that...
(sorry for the bad picture quality - they are made with my mobile)

[Cacodaemonia]

Heh, I can't imagine doing that with a spray can. Looking forward to seeing this finished. :)

[botho81]

woohoo, niiiice thingy with your spray cans!
great updates, and the big gladiator guy is really workin' out.
just a small thing to mention. maybe he's a little too symmetrical.
but this of course can be some finishing touches.
greetz

[Kristo Novo]

thx for droping some lines guys - passing by in your sb soon

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quick goblin doodle

[comixnut]

A really good variety of styles in these last few posts! loving it! :)

[Kristo Novo]

@comixnut thank you :-)

hellboy speedy

[Kristo Novo]

more output

[Kristo Novo]

tune in

[Kristo Novo]

quick one

[Kristo Novo]

took some time to work on ears and other details

[Cacodaemonia]

Nice sketches recently. For this last guy - his left jaw (on our right) seems like it doesn't have enough shape to it. It just goes straight up to the ear. Let's see some more definition. :) Also, since he's facing slightly to the left, that ear would be angled more away from the viewer.

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia - thanks for your crits - that helps! let´s see what i can do with this last guy

[Cacodaemonia]

Heh, this is a rather comical critter. :D I think it would help if you had black lines around the whole figure, and not just the front tentacles. Or got rid of all the black lines entirely.

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia thx for your comments - this tentacle thing could realy need some work out^^

here comes a new piece I´ve done for a concept-art contest

[Cacodaemonia]

Very nice color combo! :)

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia thank you mate

[botho81]

Hey Kristo,
it's good to have you back again. Nice artwork for the contest!

[Kristo Novo]

thank you botho ;-)

[Kristo Novo]

this was fun to draw

[Kristo Novo]

damn it´s late. time to go to sleep.
let´s see where i can get this enviro these days.

[p sage]

You do very very nice work out of your imagination. I really liked just about everything on this page (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=641423&stc=1&d=1239238271). Very inspiring.

Will be coming back to look for more!

[Kristo Novo]

@p sage thx - I´d be glad to see you here again :-)

[brubaker]

Love #187! Great stuff here. Thanks for stopping by my sb too!

[Kristo Novo]

@ brubaker thank you - good luck with your graphic novel.

[feeesh]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=457399&stc=1&d=1220786739

Man that is a badass style. WOuld love to see more of it. Sorta reminds me of Seinkiewicz a little bit.

[Holland]

Great sketchbook! Really like your environment work :)

[Kristo Novo]

@feeesh thanks alot - this pic was more a kind of an accident then an intended one.. sooner or later this could happen again xD

@Holland thank you :teeth:


holy moly my first chow entry... i´m so nervous...

[Kristo Novo]

quick photo ref study. i think coloring it could be fun.
but not today :zzz:

[Hellfire]

Wow!!!!!!!
Awesome style bro!!! Looks very confident. great designs.

[Monika Gruszka]

thx for voting my chow entry :-)
no problem - i just love your design:) And you've got great sketchbook here too!

[Kristo Novo]

@Hellfire thanks for your comment. realy keeps me going

@Monika thanks :-)

here we go with a fast paint over

[Cacodaemonia]

Awesome stuff you've been posting! With this last one, don't forget about the dark shadows. Right now, the girl doesn't feel like she's sitting on the cushion because there's not dark, shaded areas to indicate that. Also, it looks like the light is a bit cool, right? In which case you'll want to have warm shadows. :)

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia your right. need some shadows in the picture .
will update it as soon as possible . thanks for your c&c !

chow #180 study

[Strassenpenner08]

nice update :D i would really like to see it finished ^^

[Kristo Novo]

@Strassenpenner08 yes me2 .. thanks for passing by :-)

chow update

[Lateman]

hey alter danke fürs vorbeischaun. weißt du guck hier durchs SB und ärgere mich ... und weißt du warum? weil du einfach keine studien machst, man sieht es einfach direkt. aber das ärgert mich weil ich denke dass du mit gepaukter anathomie 10 mal sogut wärst. du behinderst dich da selber. ich ärgere mich auch, weil mich das an meine wenigkeit erinnert. immer haufenweise artwokscheiße malen ohne plan wie. ich bin ehrlch zu dir du hast seeeeehr gute ansätze wie das letzde wip in grayscales und verkackstst es dann beim rendern weil dir einfach die basics fehlen. das wip war porn, ich dacht nur so: "wow alterrr..." dann scroll ich weiter runter und denk nurnoch "ochne!". aber ey ich will mir hier nicht rausnehmen großartig rumzumeckern, ich finds nur schade weil da soooviel mehr kommen könnte wenn du dich aufn arsch setzen würdest ... verspreche ich dir sogar. also denk mal drüber nach ;) overall aber gute arbeit ... nur immer arschkriechen tut auch net gut ^^

cheers lateman

[Kristo Novo]

@Lateman wow, das nenn ich mal konstruktive kritik. danke dafür! und recht hast du auch noch^^
fange gerade erst an eine gewisse routine und ernsthaftigkeit in die arbeit einzubringen.

bin zwar schon über einige jahre hinweg am wurschdeln aber eben nicht kontinuierlich.
wird mal zeit noch mehr "hausaufgaben" zu machen und die basics zu pauken..

dank dir nochmal für den kommentar - feedback ist ein geschenk^^

[Mikko Voipio]

Hey man. Thanks for visiting my thread. You have a good thing going on here and the last chow looks great. It could use some more muscle and bone definition and some study of pelvis region and some color blending especially on the breasts. Will be back for sure.

[Kristo Novo]

@Placeboast thanks for your crit. will keep this in mind but will transfer it into next pieces ^^
have to stop with the harem chow.. overkill xD

chow#181 wip of Cú Chulainn

[Monika Gruszka]

very nice colours on that last wip!:)

[gmc9987]

Is he swinging that axe or just carrying it? His closest hand doesn't seem to be in a very comfortable position for either. I'd think the top of his hand would be wrapped around the handle more, to help support the weight of the axe head. But like Monika Gruszka said, the colors are really nice, especially the highlights on his shoulder pads.

[Cacodaemonia]

The WIP is looking good, but I feel like the colors are a bit isolated. Try spreading the yellow and blue around to other parts of the image besides just the highlights. :)

[Kristo Novo]

@Monika Gruszka thanks alot - that realy keeps me going
@Tiki God thanks and let´s see where this is going ;-)
@Chelsea good to see you here again :-) thanks for your helpful crits.

after reading the infos about Cú Chulainn again I recognised that the first time i read them
I didn´t understand so much about him. so here comes a new translation...

[Kristo Novo]

I think I´m getting closer

[Kristo Novo]

sketching

[Kristo Novo]

chow update

[Kristo Novo]

maybe this will be a part of EOW#126

[Kristo Novo]

kind of finished ?!

[Cacodaemonia]

Awesome stuff, man! I really love the lines and design in post 222.

The skull things in the CHOW piece are very cool - nice, loose rendering. :)

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia thanks alot dude

[Kristo Novo]

client sketch

[Kristo Novo]

chow#182 wip

[Kristo Novo]

chow#182 wip

[Kristo Novo]

chow#182 wip

[Kristo Novo]

good night sketch

[Cacodaemonia]

Hey dude, I like how the CHOW concepts are going. I don't know much about the Morrigan character, but I think the last one of her has more relevance, somehow. Like she is a particular person, and not just some hot babe.

One thing that's bugging me with all three sketches, though, is how high up and spread apart her boobs are. Makes them look like fake boobs, rather than something affected by gravity. ;)

[Kristo Novo]

@Cacodaemonia thanks alot for your comment. pretty cool to have you here on ca ^^

[botho81]

hey bro,
those CHOW sketches are coming out really well. but I can see that you're doing much better when you draw creatures. The rhino, the good night sketch and the armoured skeleton are pretty cool. As Lateman said, it would be good to do some anatomy studies and 'really' translate it into imagined drawings. But nevertheless the first chow#182 wip has a cool pose and fisheye perspective. great! It's good that you're sooo active in the last time. Every visit in your thread is a pleasure.
cheers
Felix

[Kristo Novo]

@botho81 thanks for your crits - that realy helps
looking forward to use some refs for coloring the enviro down here

[Kristo Novo]

need to fix some of the vanishing point lines of the buildings on the left + right.
then maybe do some refinements before setting the color mood...

[north pole]

good studies... i like ur colour choices..

[comixnut]

like people are saying your colours rock.

[Kristo Novo]

@ north pole, comixnut
thanks alot !!! :D:D:D

good night speedy

[Kristo Novo]

christmas speedy

[Hellfire]

Dude!!!! Your work is looking amazing!
I really liked your drawings. Very confindent and bold linework.
But I think you kick ass on the poses. Real nice ones.
Great stuff man, way to go.
Cheers.

[Kristo Novo]

@Hellfire
such a pleasure to have you here on conecptart.org -
thanks for coming over and digging my stuff.

[Kristo Novo]

another night - another sketch

[Kristo Novo]

x-D
for all the bird lovers

[AustenFM]

It's been a while since i've been through here, Looking great man! I've got to run to class now, but i'll be back to leave a more in depth comment.

Keep it up!

[Kristo Novo]

@AustenFM
thanks a lot for your support

[Jesus Food]

first time viewer to ur sketchbook man, very nice stylish work. very flowing and isnt stiff or boring. keep it up kristo

[NickyBeats]

great work man!! love it all! -but that batman up top there is so sick, badass. keep it up man!

[Kristo Novo]

@Jesus Food
thanks - i´ll do keep it up!

@NickyBeats
thank you - maybe some more batman stuff will be coming ;-)


what a cheesy lady! speedpainting styles

[Kristo Novo]

throwing this in

[Kristo Novo]

funky time