Swen's sketchbook (updated may 18th)

[fantasyartist]

Hi, my name is Swendly and I'm currently studying Game Design&Development in The Netherlands. I'm working hard to improve my skills in concept design. I also had an education in industrial design for two years. I sketch everyday for a couple of hours and I'm starting to believe that I'm addicted to art:).
I've been posting on the forums for about a week now and the comments I've got from you people really helped me improve a lot. Now I diceded to start a sketchbook so I can get even more constructive crits and share my art with the rest of you. Enough talking lets look at some art.

Crits are always welcome:)

[TheGnoll]

nice starts, my fav are the first animal and human studies, very nice lines and dynamic shapes.Other figures are quite stiff.Try and work more on face anatomy and life drawing, i'm sure it could help.Keep this thread up, i wanna keep watching ;)

ciao

[Envisor]

Favorites are the horse studies, great pics, and concepts. keep up the good work.

My Sketchbook
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85772

[fantasyartist]

TheGnoll
Thanks man I love doing those animal studies too. What exactly didn't you like (or could be better) about the faces? Most faces I draw are very stylized so some proportions are exaggerated. I started doing some gesture drawings lately to make my characters more dynamic overal. I'll update soon so keep watching:).

Envisor
Glad you like my work I'll take a look at your sketchbook soon;)

[fantasyartist]

Some paintings I did a couple of months ago

[fantasyartist]

Quik sketch

[fantasyartist]

Long time since I updated. I've been very busy with school projects and practicing.

[fantasyartist]

Have been very busy lately. Here are some sketches.

[Envisor]

Been awhile since Ive been here. Great sudies and digitals you have going on. I love your last post, the painting looks really good, but you need to define the head a little more. I aslo love the pen piece. Very confident lines and great scenery, the tiger just looks awesome. Cant wait for more.

[fantasyartist]

For some reason my the rest of my attachments aren't showing :S

[Envisor]

How many more attachements did you have?

[fantasyartist]

I'll try posting in smaller portions

[fantasyartist]

The final ones :)

[fantasyartist]

Envisor
Thanks for stopping by man. Glad you like my new posts. The one with the tiger isn't a pen drawing I did it with a black faber castle pencil. I think it's like those prisma color pencils but for some reason they don't sell them here in the Netherlands.

[TheGnoll]

hey man everything has improved in here since the first post, its really looking good.Keep posting!

ciao

[fantasyartist]

The Gnoll
Thanks man I've been working really hard.

[DARAF]

Cool lookin stuff here man. Keep it up.

[fantasyartist]

This is a character design I did this week for a school project. The character had to fit in the game shadow of the colossus. I only had a few hours to pull this out.

[fantasyartist]

I didn't have time to scan all the new stuff but here are some quik sketches I did this week

[schlichte]

nice work man, really like the sketches, your lineweight in some of them is a little to heavy for me, keep it up, thx for the crit

[fantasyartist]

It's been more than a half year since I last updated my sketchbook. Shame on me! I've been working very hard and made some serious progress during this last months. I have a lot of stuff to show and since I don't have time to sort everything out it will be a mix of older and newer stuff, the less crappy stuff being the newest of course. So let's start with some concept art I did for school projects and assignments.Most of them had to be done very quick so they're not completely finished:

[fantasyartist]

More school stuff. The 3d model of the bar was done by Django den Boer. The character was also modelled. I'll have have to ask them for the final renders so I can post them.

[fantasyartist]

Some older and recent studies:

[fantasyartist]

And some recent character sketches to close off. I've tons of new things that I'm working on so stay tuned for more stuff.
Oh and comments and crits are highly aprecciated.

[knoxie]

hey hey hey!

my favs so far are the greyscale profiles in post #21 and the anatomy studies in post #23.. they really capture the contre-posto of the bodies well!... line weight is much more controlled and less cartoony which I like. Keep it up!!! more more more!

[Clochette]

Some really good stuff here! I like your assassin concept so much! You really work on anatomy, and it shows! http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=316893&stc=1&d=1204563461 This one is interesting too! :)

[enthombed]

wow man, nice improvement, you did a great work with this last pencils, keep working hard brother.

Cheers

[Trollfar]

the naked woman have really nice face. Really good details! Nice work!

[fantasyartist]

knoxie
thanks I have better control over my lines indeed. The problem that I had and still have a little bit is that I like to draw exaggerated curves so the thickness of let's say the arms and legs of my figures tend to get out of proportion, but I'm overcoming that right now. Come back for more soon because I have a whole sketchbook to scan.

Clochette
Glad you liked the assassin, but looking back I think I did a poor job on the anatomy, specially the abs. Actaully I didn't use any reference. I may redraw him some day. As for my anatomy studies, I'm putting a lot of work into my constructions building from simple volumes to more complex ones.

enthombed
Thanks!

Trollfar
Thanks!

[Maerrick]

WOW! for some reason after February 23rd your skilled just vastly improved =p Your figures have a much better quality and your style looks a lot more professional. I'm glad to see you've progressed a lot in such little time. Keep up the work and i'm looking forward to seeing more!

[fantasyartist]

Thanks man. That reason is lot of practice and sleepless nights:).

[fantasyartist]

Well as I promised I started scanning my sketchbook. Sorry for the muddyness of some of the drawings but they were really light and I had to adjust the levels. I forgot to metion that I'm working as an illustrator on a collectable cardgame for Orionsbell since a couple of moths ago with a great art director and a huge team of artists. I can't show anything yet but have a look at the link in my signature for a preview. Enjoy!

[fantasyartist]

Some warm up sketches before I took on the school stuff. I have to get out of the bad habit of rushing my shading.

[Talonzz]

Swen, my cousin teaches at Breda/NHTV in the Netherlands. Is this the school you are attending?

[teena_mom]

oh man .. that is like watching :) lovely movie
Esraa

[nyssa]

Wauw .... I really like your style and those monsters got no word for it! Yeah I love monsters and animals and of course the babes. I can stare at your sketchbook the whole day just imagining things about that. Sorry about that but it's really nice. I hope you think I'm not a pervert! Sorry again bye! love to see more of that stuff!

[fantasyartist]

Talonzz
No I'm attending the HKU in Utrecht. I heard a lot about the school in Breda but I never went around there to see what it is like. What is your cousin teaching there?

teena_mom
Thanks for the kind words

nyssa
Thanks I really should finish those babes someday. School is keeping me really busy but I'll do my best to upload more regularly.

[fantasyartist]

Here's more sketchbook stuff. Gesture drawings of my classmates, modelstudies to practice construction, studies from men wearing hats, some medieval costum study and I sketch of street fighter kinda guy I did today in the train. I definitely need to do more studies. Enjoy and crits are appreciated.

[fantasyartist]

New babe I'm working on

[kina]

I am really loving your work with musculature and form, especially the animal studies! Your painted works are really lively with colour, too. Very Nice! I'd like to see more coloured works :D

[Talonzz]

I believe he's teaching Character design for gaming, but he could be teaching just about any aspect of the gaming industry... or CGI for movies for that matter. He's worked in both. He's REALLY good... I hate him ;) No I don't... Maybe a little...

[fantasyartist]

Kina
Thanks. I really suck at colors. I need to practice with that more often. A lot of time goes into my line drawings because I really hate when my drawings look flat.

Talonzz
That sounds good. Maybe I should go have a look around there. Where I am right now they give very little attention to 2d art wich really dissapoints me considering all the courses on programming that we get. I'm having a hard time right now combining school with my own studies.

[Mister Lister]

i like your ideas mang, they are really innovatively unique... pure! golden, and i RLY love the detailed work on the schematic woman sketches! ... good learned. :asspat: i want to see some of your gesture poses work, you have a good eye for making the character stable. good understanding of muscles and good job making the contact with the character and the ground even though they might not be standing or kneeling on anything., maybe add some patches of grass or stone brick, that would be nice, but then again, maybe i should do that. >.> hmm. anyways awesome stuff!

[fantasyartist]

Mister Lister
Thanks for the kind words. My eye for construction and balance is because of my industrial design background I think. As for muscles my anatomy needs A LOT of work before I can call them anything near good. I'm glad you like my ideas because I think the stuff out of my imagination really sucks. I have to draw more from observation to fill my head with new things. Here are a study from reference and some gestures from last year, some from posemaniacs and some from imagination.

[mouner]

Thanks for your comment on my sketchbook. Good studies i especially like the animals, i think you've got a good eye for facial expressions as well, something i really struggle with.

[fantasyartist]

mouner
Facial expressions are not that difficult once you realize that they are just mechanical principals. Just learn the muscles of the face and study wich are responsable for what expression. Good luck!

[Quinn Simoes]

Hi Swendly

You have a great SB! Your pencil drawings and anatomy studies are looking really good. I especially like your animal studies, really nice.

Quinn

[aussiedeza]

Hey mate thought i would pop in and have look at your stuff. My fave is your second last gestural studies you did a great job concentrated on the simple action keep it up. I'm no expert but i noticed in your color study that it is all warm tones with not much cold tones you should research about Color Temperature or maybe check out this DVD " Workshop - Practical Light and Color" it has a great explanation about it.

[fantasyartist]

Quinn Simoes
Thanks for the kind words I'll have a look at your stuff soon.

aussiedeza
Thanks for the crit on the colors. I didn't really see any cool tones in my reference yet. Maybe because I put A LOT of work into her face. In the next session I'll pay more attention to that. Oh and I already got that DVD it's really great.

[teena_mom]

realy like UR study , like UR scratch >>>>>>>>>>>>> wow :)
can't wait to see more

Esraa

[fantasyartist]

Thanks teena, I'll post more very soon.

[Jorge Gecov]

Great stuff! Love the vehicle / ship in the post #32 - first image.

Cheers,

[fantasyartist]

Thanks. It was for a school assignment. We had to design a vehicle that could ride, fly and sail. It has been long since I did a technical drawing. I'll have to do more studies on that area and improve the design of the vehicle.

[Sebastian Gromann]

Hey dude :] im so happy about ur post, thanx alot :D ill get this books soon, i guess. hope u keep watching :hugsmile:
btt: u've awesome pencil drawings, i like them alot. plz, never give ur pencil out of ur hand ;]

best wishes made

[fantasyartist]

Good to see you got something out of it. Pencil drawings is my strenght I think. I'll keep an eye on your sb.

[Tom van der Linden]

Dude, like i said, awesome stuff. I love your studies and your pencil handling is great. The only thing I've got to say that sometimes your figures need to loosen up a little. Just like in the seminar, you try to build things up a little bit too much with geometrical figures. But then again... awesome stuff. And yes, I'm gonna watch Vilppu! :)

[fantasyartist]

Tom
Thanks for the crits. It all depends on what I'm doing. When I'm analyzing my subject I use simple forms to build it up. That way when I need to do a looser drawing I can remember the structure better and don't need to use many cunstruction lines. Sometimes I get to carried away with the construction indeed and my design suffers a little bit. That's why I'm doing a lot of gesture drawing lately.

[fantasyartist]

Here's a main character I'm working on for a game at school. I still need some information from the game designer in order to finish this chick. First I did some studies from Vilppu's manual and the net to get more familiar with bird anatomy, then I proceded to the thumbnails and after that I combined 3 of them into the final design. Right now I'm working on the wings because those are going to be her main weapon.

[Vritra]

Wicked improvement Swen. Loving the way you handle perspective. What I'm dying to see is some of those human figure studies in perspective. Overall, massive improvement and :eyecandy:

[aussiedeza]

oo oo go bird 6 on this page he looks like a uptight swanky snob awesome!! .http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=324154&stc=1&d=1205378016

good stuff man i cant wait till i get over the form learning stage and into designing.Keep posting!!!.

[fantasyartist]

Vritra
Thanks! Most of the reference I do my studies from don't use extreme perspective angles, but I'll see what I can find.

aussiedeza
Designing is giving me a pretty hard time. Mostly because I'm never satisfied with the quality of my designs.

[luness]

Very nice sketchbook, Swen!
I particularly like your late gesture drawings. They remind me the quick gesture poses at the life drawing class...so hard to do; but you're doing a great job.

Keep posting!

[fantasyartist]

luness
Thanks for the kind words. I really miss doing those gestural drawings.I'll have to squeeze them in me schedule this week.

It's been a few days but here I am again. This is the final concept for the chick I posted before. My team was pretty happy with the result and so am I. Some minor errors here and there but I really don't have time to refine it right now. I still have to do lot of concept deisgns for another game we're making. I will be posting those soon. Crits are appreciated as always.

[shrikant]

hey thanks for your comments
i m not an art student, anatomy study is my passion.
u are a very good digital artist, I want to know what type of wacom u r using for digital painting , can u help me to find best wacom in market,
thanks
shrikant

[fantasyartist]

shrikant
thanks but I don't consider myself anywhere near a good digital artist. I can draw decently but painting is still my weakpoint. I have to work a lot on that. As for my wacom, I use a pretty small one, the wacom volito but I plan to buy a new one soon because it isn't that sensitive. I think the intuos is one of the best but I don't really know for sure. For me as long as I have some good basic skills it doesn't matter that much which tablet I'm using.

[Sebastian Gromann]

Hey Swen (:
Everyhings' good? Hope so. Nice to see u posting/working too.
Thanks for your comment, i guess i'll do some perspektives' that evening.
Take care and best wishes,man. :asspat:

e/ i love these chickens :D

[fantasyartist]

Thanks I'm liking the chicken too. I still have to do the environments and the enemies so expect those to be posted soon.

[Snake-Woman]

Thank you for the comments on my sketchbook!

I am just stunned by the incredible improvements you've made in human anatomy since the first sketches you've made and I really like your style. I also love the colors that you use in the beach scene, it is very beautiful. Your concept designs are very unique and interesting.

[fantasyartist]

Snake-Woman
I'm glad you like my designs. As for my improvements, Glenn Vilppu's simple approach for describing form is what really got me on the road.

[aussiedeza]

cool the chiky is looking sleek had a suggestion for the eyes but instead of saying it i just did a little paint over hope u don't mind?

post more dammit =).

[fantasyartist]

Thanks for the suggestion. I would have to consult with my team before making a change like that but maybe the eyes should be a little lighter indeed. We'll see where it will be taken later on. After reading the enemy descriptions in the game design document tommorow I'll start producing more concepts so stay tuned!

[Lyno]

Hi, some very dynamic poses on the first and second page! It's strange you haven't got any stars yet, so I'm adding some :)

Keep up the good work, I'll try to check back later.

[fantasyartist]

Lyno
Thanks for the stars:). I think I'll get them when I deserve them. I have a lot more to practice. I'll have a look at your sb soon.

Here's some stuff to keep the pace up. Some hand and neck studies from hogarth and Kchen and a background painting for a submarine game I did last month at school. It was actually the first time I painted an environment from scratch in photoshop. Guess you don't know what you're capable of until you're forced to do it.

[iamgale]

you were forced to do that? waw. my results would be nowhere near that good if I was just forced to do something.

can i suggest that you make the wings sharp (like the 5th pic in post 58) and make them into layers or something. like 3 blades that form a fan....or maybe not. I'm confusing myself. hehe

[fantasyartist]

iamgale
I noticed that it's just about knowing what you want to achieve and coming with a good plan to achieve it. Here's where a good basic knowledge of composition, lighting etc. comes into play. The more you rely on luck and guessing the harder it becomes. At least for me. Are you refering to the wings of the chicken? That could be very cool but considering it has to be modeled and the time that we have I kept it as simple as possible.

[Shos]

Hey man,
you have some really impressive work here. Rather inspirational, to be honest.
You mentioned at the beginning of this thread that you study game design in The Netherlands. HKU, by any chance?
Altijd leuk om talentvolle Nederlanders te vinden :)

[Crrristian]

Really cool environment you did there. I doubt my first all-digital environment would turn out that well. I like the colour choices you made for it, the blues make it feel very eerie and quiet. I would normally suggest adding fish or sealife, but I think little Nemo's swimming around would ruin the mood of this.

I'm gonna check out the rest of your SB now.

[fantasyartist]

Shos
You're right I'm studying at the HKU right now. Thanks for the kind words.

CrissCross
Glad you like it. I didn't add to much because it was a background and it shouldn't distract to much for the game. Also having fishes would make it look very static during the game since the fishes aren't moving.

[AsaB]

Hi Swen, thanks for dropping by and commenting :)

Your pencils immediately caught my eye, you seem very confident in that area! Lovely shading and yes, your perspective is quite excellent. Same goes for proportions. Looks like your production design education really paid off! I really can't pick any special thing to crit. Just keep doing what you're doing, I'll check by again soon. :)

[p sage]

The faces/heads in your latest post are a big improvement over the first few faces you posted in this thread. kudos!

[amordecosmos]

Sweet bar man!

[aussiedeza]

Hey mate glad to see your still at it, can i suggest for your neck studies that you factor in the hyoid bone and the thyroid gland they help explain what the sternomastiod is hugging on the neck, i am probably spelling them wrong but i am sure you will figure it out also maybe swing the clavicles in a a lil bit more.

Keep up the good work.

[fantasyartist]

Asab
Thanks. Pencil drawings are my strenght I think. I have to start doing more technical drawings. I'm to addicted to anatomy right now. Be sure to check out again soon.

p_sage
Thanks. I still have a hard time with heads because I don't draw them enough from observation, but I'll work on that.

amordecosmos
Thanks! wanna have a drink?

aussiedeza
Thanks for the crits. The neck area still gives a lot of trouble because I didn't study the anatomy enough. I'll be looking up those bones you mentioned. As for the clavicles I was just copying what Kchen did so normally I wouldn't draw them like that. Thanks for the comment anyway.

[Quinn Simoes]

Nice updates Swendly, those head and neck studies look great, nice underwater scene too!

Quinn

[fantasyartist]

Quinn
Thanks. The neck gives me a hard time so I need to do a lot more of those.

Here's some stuff from the past days. The painting of the indian guy was done at school on one of those big ass cintiqs. Our coordinator bought two specially for us. Man those things are really sweet. Over ten years I may have enough money to buy one. The other ones are studies from reference and KChen. Comments are highly appreciated .

[Flutic]

Awsome, anatomy over here!
Can't believe your pulling that king of digital painting with a volito.

Little question what references are you using for learning anatomy?

Greets,Tom

[fantasyartist]

Flutic
Thanks! the volito is not that sensitive so I wanna get another one asap. As for my references, bridgman, vilppu and loomis are the ones I look at most of the time. Lately I've been studying Kevin Chen's drawings a lot they are really great.

[aussiedeza]

yur indian dude is looking cool, it might make difference with color but his clothing tone is very close to his skin tone? just something i noticed, i also like those simplified anatomy studies any chance you can hint a bloke on a direction on where to find kchens stuff to study from? something i have found really useful lately is pecks anatomy book he explains the mechanics and architecture of the body in a really understandable way with bridge it seemed like there was allot of information left out like you where assumed to already know it anyway just a suggestion keep up the progress i hate to have to get better than you some day!!.

[fantasyartist]

assiedeza
You're right about the skintone and the clothing the values are nearly the same that was my intention. The difference would be in the color stage as you said. I never checked out pecks anatomy so I'll have to flip trough that book when I have a chance. KChen's stuff is here on the forums as well as on characterdesign.com in the tutorials section. As for you getting better than me, you are taking life drawing classes right? That's already an advantage!

[nyssa]

Wow that's so nice thanks for the inspiration fantasyartist. I really like tha palm trees and the bar!

[fantasyartist]

nyssa
Thanks I'm glad I can inspire someone.

I finally had the chance to continue with the concepts of our chick game project, starting with the first enemy. The game is a fighting game set in a poultry factory in wich you (the chick) will have to fight your way to the office of the CEO. The first opponent is a fat guy who works at the sorting section of the factory. This was the description in the game design doc:

Fat guy
Sloppy dressed, looks dumb, blue jeans a dirty t-shirt and if possible a red cap. Run towards you and tries to trample you. He is actually really slow.

Look:
Height: 160cm.
Damage: see appendix 2
AI: see appendix 3
Speed: see appendix 4
Special weapon: belly

I started with a couple of thumbnails as usual. Then I picked one out and refined it. Since the models are going to be very low poly I kept my forms very simple. I don't think there will be time for turnarounds because I have A LOT of stuff to design in just a couple of days. And to close it of some dog anatomy studies I did yesterday. Comments are welcome as always.

[aussiedeza]

Wow nice work you can see you put allot of effort into that.One question and i know he is a stylized character but where is his ass? and the dog heads are looking great, i want draw animals but i set myself a goal to learn humans first. do you draw in perspective guidelines for example eye sockets or do you just use points? just wondering. laterz

[fantasyartist]

Well he's got a very flat ass! I was thinking about adding it but such a subtle form would dissapear in the final model I think and it would take away from the overall gesture. I'll take his lack of ass into account if the final model looks weird. For the dog drawings I used points to get decent proportions and the rest was just going with the flow and the form and trying to feel the surface. My rendering really sucks I have to work more on that.

[AsaB]

Wow, your anatomy studies are hugely inspiring! :D Indeed your pencils are amazing. The character concepts on this page are great fun as well, I like how you explore his design and make sublte nuances. I'll check back soon, your sb is such fun to look at :)

Hey, I noticed in this pic (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=335878&stc=1&d=1206890152) that we've used the same reference! The woman to the left, I drew her as well from characterdesigns.com (http://www.characterdesigns.com) Yours looks so much better :D Anyway, again, I'll check back soon, keep at it!

[fantasyartist]

AsaB
Thank for the kind words. The woman looks decent but I screwed up the proportions. I'll have to be more carefull with that the next time. Maybe block in the pose with straight lines first like in this old study from one of Anthony Ryder's paintings. It's been a long time since I used this approach to start a drawing.

[fantasyartist]

Since this was looking pretty decent I decided to put some more work into it. I wish I could get into a life drawing class to learn this stuff.

[KelsM]

Wow, you are improving quickly. In particular, your anatomy is noticeably improving. Keep going!

[fantasyartist]

KelsM
thanks for dropping in man!

It's been a while again since I posted. I'm overwhelmed by schoolwork and my freelance project, which is also a good thing because it gives me a lot of stuff to post. I bought a little sketchbook specially for drawing from observation and I set a goal for myself to fill one a month so I'll start with that. Sorry for the crappy scans but I was in a hurry.

[fantasyartist]

These are concept sketches I made for an onrail shooter game project. I thought the concepts for the houses were really crappy until I saw the 3d models (by Django den Boer by the way). After finishing the props I did a qiuck sketch for the first level. He then used it as a guide for his 3d level layout. Then I did a quick paintover in photoshop to see if the colors I chose were working wel together. There's still a lot of work to be put into this project before it's finished.

[fantasyartist]

These are more concepts for our chick game project. Mostly props for the first level of the game, the sorting section of the poultry factory. After the models were made I made a crappy setup in max to get an accurate scale using my thumbnail sketches as a guide and then I did a paintover in photoshop. The result is pretty decent and it's a pretty fast way to work when you are under tight deadlines so I'll have to use this approach more often. Enjoy and please leave your comments!

[aussiedeza]

Wow big post, good job on that conveyor belt machine (where is the conveyor belt thou??). i love the observation people sketch's there so good i know because i try myself and it is crazy crazy hard. Keep it up man good look with ya projects.

[fantasyartist]

Aussiedeza
The conveyor belt is where the chickens are hanging upside down. Those observation sketches are really paying off when I nead to draw people from imagination. I'll drop in your sketchbook soon to see if you are doing your homework.

[Tom van der Linden]

Hey dude, nice stuff you got going on here! I like how you don't limit yourself to only characters, for which I'm guilty for :-(. I like your life studies in trains, but you focus in my opinion on too much stuff that don't matter. Sometimes they're a bit hard to read. After school's over, we should get together and sketch! But keep 'em coming!

I've got an update on the way with lots of studies (again haha). Good luck with school.

[fantasyartist]

Tom
Haven't seen you around for a while. I like designing environments and props to get away from all the anatomy stuff when I get too frustrated. Most of the time I discover weak points in my perspective knowledge which are responsible for making my figures look crappy. I hope to see you draw more tech stuff too. As for the train stuff, I'll keep that in mind next time.

[Sebastian Gromann]

hey sweni (: how things going ? nice updates, my friend. ur thumbnails are kinda sweet;D (e/) the lifedrawings too, for sure. plz keep posting, dude.

[joaKimArt]

Cool figures and stuff. There is a good feel to it. Keep it up!

[fantasyartist]

It's been a while again. I've been very busy with my school projects and finishing my last card for the Oz collectable card game. The site has been updated so check out the link in my signature.
Now for the art. First ones are 3d models I did for the prototype of our chick game. It has been months since I last modeled something, so I messed up the geometry of the chick in the detailing stage a little bit, but it looked decent enough for the prototype. I ended up using aussiedeza's idea for the eyes, so thanks for the tip mate. The fat guy went way better except for the arms. The textures will probably get a second pass since they are still a little flat. It was really fun and I learned a lot doing these. I will defenitely model more of my concepts in the future. I also made a new render from the monkey island style canon I posted earlier because it was very dark. Then we have some hand and basic volumes studies, animal gestures, a vehicle concept and some pages from my new sketchbook. Enjoy and please leave your comments.

[aussiedeza]

Dude you will have to help me with draw through perspective because that heavy transport is ace, i will be posting up some cars over the next week so if you could stop by tell me what i am doing wrong that would be awesome, Nice job on the 3d models i have done a bit of modeling before and one thing those models needs is eye sockets and eyeballs, just cut out a section edge loop and deform it and add a couple of spheres. that page of animal studies is dope as well keep it up mate, later.

[fantasyartist]

ausiedeza
Thanks for dropping in my friend. I don't know why everyone seems to like that vehicle because I don't thinks it that great, but thanks for the compliments. As for drawing the tech stuff, it all comes down to drawing simple volumes, like the ones I posted above. Really put a lot of time into those. Then when drawing vehicles(or aircraft or anything) start with the big volumes and keep it simple. Doublecheck if the perspective and construction are working (something I wasn't carefull enough with on that vehicle) before you break down the big shapes in smaller ones. And of course make sure you have good reference pictures. I will drop in for sure to check those vehicles when you post them. As for the 3d models, I kept them simple because of time and what the game designer wanted. It can be frustrating to hold yourself back during projects, but we learned our lesson from being too ambitious with previous projects. Thanks for the tip anyway mate.

[humanNature6115]

Hey man you got a good handle on 3d space.
You need to push that to the limit.

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:mittenbop: :mittenbop: :mittenbop: Sketchbook:mittenbop: :mittenbop: :mittenbop:
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761 (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761)

[fantasyartist]

humanNature6115
Thanks for the compliment. Yes I put a lot of time into construction in 3d space. I hope to come near scott robertson's level someday or who knows, maybe even better:).

[brather]

Great things you've done.. But mostly I like the sketches more than the coloured versions.. They seem to have more intensity and be more pure, strong..

[fantasyartist]

Thanks brather. Sketches always have that special something that is hard to keep al the way to the end.

[MeTaL-Mike]

of course i remember you man, how are yoiu doing??? Me, i'm ok, a bit too busy lately and unfortunately not with drawing :( it's getting busy at my work lately where i did most of my drawing and so do not have time for that anymore (for a while), thanks for the nice tips man, you always have good advice, i'll be sure to work on those points you mentioned.

you sb is looking really awesome dude, i'm really loving those environments and other designs, very good work. speak to you later man. cheers.

[Quinn Simoes]

Hey, nice updates!

Really like your heavy armored transport vehicle design, only thing I see is the perspective on that front wheel looks a little off to me. Nice hand studies as well

Keep sharing,

Quinn

[fantasyartist]

Mike
I'm glad you still remember me. Just try to squeeze some time in your schedule to draw more my friend!

Quinn
Now that you mention it the axis of the ellipses don't line up correctly with the perspective of the vehicle indeed. I just wasn't carefull enough. It was meant as a really quick sketch from a thumbnail in my other sketchbook but I ended up polishing it this far. I'll need to practice more with this kinda stuff.

[fantasyartist]

Here are some sketches I did today during game design class and a study I'm working on.

[Max Challie]

Wow, there's good looking stuff in here, your line work has come improved a lot. Can you give the models higher polygon counts though?

[fantasyartist]

Max Challie
Thank you! The models were meant to be low poly for the project, but I'll probably make some of my own later on because I really enjoy this 3d stuff.

[aussiedeza]

nice work on the study man, try and get some of those cast shadows edges harder and soften up the core shadows think contrast the softer you make say the fur on the trunk feel the the more hard the form on say the legs would feel with a sharp cast shadow, also try and bring in some more desaturated warm hues into the goat just before the form turns to shadow. hope that understandable and thanks for stopping by my sketchbook your advice is always helpful. keep rocking mate.

[fantasyartist]

Thanks for the advice aussie. I forgot completely about this study. Why do I have to add the desaturated warm hues if I may ask?

[Aexys]

youve got there some realy .... realy great designs!
i like moste the Cg shaded samurai ninja....(the guy with the sword)
Theres a lot of talent working on the canvas....
Keep up the work!
greetings aexys

[Hybrid_75]

This sketchbook is great, you can see alot of your improvement since the start. very good.

[aussiedeza]

Ahhh i just read what i typed and can understand how i confused you by desaturated i meant more saturated then your current hues in the side facing the sun but still very unsaturated compared to the rest of the painting. ahh crap its hard to put into words.


This might help i found your reference. and although the shadows on the reference are quite warm i would probably make them cool for contrast reasons.Your study is more saturated at the highlight and the drops in saturation or Chroma towards the shadow side which is the reverse of what it should do in reality and it is also made up of all warm hues.


eek i hope i made a little bit of sense this time.

[fantasyartist]

Aussiedeza
Oh I understand your point. I remember reading that in one of the Loomis books a while back. I'll have to double check the saturation of the light and shadow because it's supposed to be the reversed like you said. Thanks for pointing that out.

Hybrid_75 and Aexys
Thanks! I'll have a look at your stuff soon.

[fantasyartist]

Hey aussie I went back to check that saturation thing and I realized that the shadow is more saturated because of the brown color reflected from underneath it. So I think I was on the right track:).

[aussiedeza]

yea dude i wasn't talking about the saturation of the shadow side just the lit side the shadow side is most definetley more saturated. I will try to be more specific with the advice i give in the future because otherwise i will probably do more harm then good . sorry mate.

[fantasyartist]

Aussiedeza
Don't worry man I get your point.

I finally have time to work on some personal stuff. Here are some studies/sketches I did this week, some paintings to test my new tablet and a illustration for the poster of the final presentation of our chick game. Leave your comments please.

[aussiedeza]

Nice one its great you finally got tablet now i expect shiploads of paintings!!!!.Great job on the Dag in your last pencil good gradiation of values pushing the posterior section further back,I love the blocky bridgeman figure above it too. your page of small sketches is exactly what i have to do myself i tend to go way too big, Something i would like see you do is the opposite of what you want me to do, try some loose sketching with the side of your pencil mate i think you might like it and be surprised with some of the results, all your sketches even thou they are studies feel very tight and need some life brought into them, just an idea as you probably prefer it tighter for modeling anyway later keep up effort as usual..

PS.. that chicken is nutz!!! heh you cant help but look back and forth between that chickens eyes and the guys eyes with physco music playing over in your head.

[fantasyartist]

Thanks man I'm glad you like them. I did do sketches with the side of the pencil in the past but I dropped that a while ago. Now I'm using a 2b pencil which is harder to get very dark tones with in comparison to the wax pencils I usually use. I think using the side would make that even harder. I just prefer a tighter shading over a soft one. I'll just have to start doing a lot of gesture drawings again to give more life to my drawigns and sketches. Thanks for pointing that out. I put a lot of effort into the interaction of the chick with the guy. My colors ended up a little muddy, but I still learned a lot doing this painting.

[aussiedeza]

crap i just realized haven't given you any stars yet, my bad here you go YAY STARZZZZ ..

[fantasyartist]

Thanks man!

[Nintendo_zombie]

Wow, amazing sketches.
I really dig your robotic warrior type work.
I also find the Shadow of Colossus concept to be fresh too, love that game.

[beastathon]

Really nice stuff. Your latest dump is just fantastic.

More!

[fantasyartist]

Nintendo_zombie and beastathon: Thanks I'm glad you like my work

Here are some sketches and studies from this week. The vehicle is a refined version of the previous one. It's damn hard to avoid making errors in these constructions, but I think it looks decent. Maybe I pushed the 3 point too much but it was to late when I noticed that. Anyway, I'll continue working on it digitally and then maybe do a back view. Enjoy and leave your comments.

[jdeegz]

awesome awesome awesome perspectives, and forms, all really great.
start workin on your painting! =D

[fantasyartist]

jdeegz
Thanks for the encouragement! You're right my painting is lacking compared to my drawings. I'm feeling kinda lost when it comes to painting. Just have to work harder I guess.

[Okki]

hey! your works are really great, especially the diversity of styles you use. sometimes cartoonish, sometimes video gamish and sometimes realistic. I'm quite envoious I must say ;)

[fantasyartist]

Thanks Okki. I try to study a variety of styles and in the end I hope to combine them into something cool. Don't you have a sketchbook?

[aussiedeza]

cool i would love to see you do some good old battle mech's with those perspective skills you got, i look into all those folds myself a while ago i and i will have to do it again but there something about the way Hogarth draw folds that just make its feel really fake, maybe try to take more of a plane approach rather then those strange cylindrical tubes curving around the form good too see more of you pencils your general head proportions could use some review too.
I see you have a similar problem as me when drawing cars, i cant get the depth/width of the car to look correct its around 3 wheels wide but its a matter of experience i guess when it comes too judging how much foreshortening to use depending on the perspective.. O and the heavy armored vehicle is killer really clean lines and 3 point perspective! someone was feeling like a challenge aye!?? you should pop it into photoshop and render the hell out of it =). keep up the work mate.laterz.

[fantasyartist]

Aussiedeza
Thanks for the tips. The fold studies are from vilppu not from hogarth. I emphasized the cylinders to remind myself to see them as forms not as lines. Normally I prefer the planar approach too but vilppu's cylindrical approach looks very realistic so I decided to study that more. It will require a couple off passes to get it right so go give it a second pass.
As for the cars, they are 3 wheels wide if you look closer you can see the construction. Maybe they look crappy because I never actually study cars. Let's see what I can do with the vehicle in photoshop. Thanks for the crits friend!

[aussiedeza]

Ahh i can see the construction now, my bad the degree looks good actually maybe its just the rest of the proportions that are off, theres some rules with cars that you just can't stuff around with too much or it wont be a car anymore. Have a flick through this link next time you go to attack a car and will get some better results. http://www.style4cars.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=51&Itemid=66

[fantasyartist]

Very handy link thanks man!

[fantasyartist]

Some sketches from today.

[aussiedeza]

Hell yea thats more like it, those sketches feel allot less rigid and i enjoyed the dude with the strange tooth or beak, its so funny how a little silhouetted dude makes him appear massive and yet when your new its the last thing you would think of doing when your try make something feel big. Any good to see you loosen up for a change and yet not loose any sense of form.

[Odayga]

I like your conceptual art and your figures :) keep it up with the good work!

[Hybrid_75]

awesome sketches!

[daveskogstad]

really great pencils

[fantasyartist]

Thank you for the positive feedback guys! After months of experimenting and frustrations I finally managed to come up with an approach that allows me to stay loose while still having solid forms my drawings. So I spent the whole day on those sketches to see if it was bulletproof. The funny thing is that it occurred to me when I was drawing that last vehicle.

[The Red Skull]

I followed this sketchbook since it began and you have truly made a lot of progress during your time posting. This has become a favorite of mine. Good job developing your skills. I can't wait to see what comes from you in the future. You keep getting better and better. :D

[TOOLED!]

great work man, good job keepin busy. your imagination is really shining through. your vehicles are looking really well thought out, try applying that to you figures and creatures. i think taking some time and slowing down some of your sketches you could have some very nice pieces here. keep er up man.

[fantasyartist]

The Red Skull
Thanks for the kind words. I think the next step would be focusing more on developing my painting skills because they're not so developed as my drawings. Do you have a sketchbook?

TOOLED!
Thanks man I'm trying to slow down on my characters lately so let's see what I can come up with.

[fantasyartist]

Some shoulder studies and a sketch to practice what I've learned. The shoulder and neck area still give me a lot of trouble. I'll have to work harder on that.

[fantasyartist]

More studies of the back.

[Hybrid_75]

they're great studies, such a complicated joint. those diferent coloured pencils make things clearer too. cool.

[aussiedeza]

nice good to see your posting more often, school taking it easier on you?
A the good old tripple titties and single vagina eye monster classic!!.


on serious note, i think you would benefit a ton from doing some life studies or maybe just some referenced photo studies, as i find you need a good balance of life / construction imaginative stuff to start kicking ass and so far your lacking in the second department just a suggestion as usual keep kicking ass dude, later.

[fantasyartist]

Hybrid
Thanks mate. I used to work with orange and blue back at industrial design. Maybe it's time to start doing that again in those anatomy studies.

Aussie
Thanks for the tip. Your right about the life studying aspect I'm feeling guilty for it. The thing is that I went back to study the muscles and overall structure of the body in greater detail so I can understand the model better when I draw from life/reference. I'm planning to do some master studies maybe starting simple by copying some Loomis heads and work my way up from there.

[fantasyartist]

I was going trough my old sketchbook and I decided to put more work in this study. It's damn hard to keep the tones constant.

[destinyapocalypse]

cool designs

[aussiedeza]

good work dude theres like a cool motion going on from the line work,

[Untouched24]

Hey, great sketchbook. Some very cool stuff in here. You have a interesting style. Nice progress as well.

[fantasyartist]

Thanks Untouched24. I'll have a look at your stuff soon.

Some studies to practice using straight lines to start with. It's really fun. Now I have to practice more with my values. Comments are welcome.

[The Red Skull]

Real life stuff has been cutting into may valuable sketchbook browsing time.>:{

You sir are like me, a draftsman at heart. I think in terms of lines instead of color/values. I have a difficult time painting as well because it is the exact opposite of what I usually do.

I don't have a sketchbook because I don't have a scanner, I'm not very good with digital art, and i'm terribly intimidated. :/

The side profile is very nice, as is the nude. As you have already pointed out yourself, I would like to see some deepening of the values maybe. I think they could both benefit from some heaver shadows.

Do you go to school for art or is it a hobby of yours? I'm always interested to hear about people get started.

Talk to you later!

[SanXavier]

Nice concepts and studies of anatomy!

[fantasyartist]

SanXavier
Thanks mate!

Red Skull
Thanks for dropping in again! I had two years of technical drawing when I was studying industrial design. In the figure drawing and painting area I'm completely self taught. Don't be intimidated friend just post your stuff. You're holding yourself back right now by not sharing your work and get feedback from all the great artist around here. Take pictures of your drawings and start a sketchbook. I'm looking forward to it!!

[The Red Skull]

Alright. I may just do that. I'll try to take a decent picture of some of them and maybe email some to you. No time like the present!

[ditchman]

man, i think you've improved a lot since the first page. I hope my sketchbook shows your kind of progress when I look back though it at some point in the future.

[aussiedeza]

great job on the model study from a photograph?, it looks like you didn't spend much time sorting out the values but i state a it any way some forms are reading a little too strong for example the pubic fat looks really blown up because your values are so extreme there otherwise great block in mate i want to see more of those studies.

[fantasyartist]

Red Skull
I'm looking forward to see your work!

ditchman
Thanks for the kind words man I'll have a look at your stuff soon. Just keep working hard.

aussiedeza
Yeah man it was a model study from a photo. You're right I didn't spend much time on it I'm just trying to get more comfortable with that blocking in using straight lines stuff since it's different from how I normally start a drawing. I will definitely do more of those studies.

[Erik]

Nice improvement rate in your sketchbook! I like the pencils on this last page. Looking forward to more updates!

[comixnut]

really sorry that i came in so late on this sb! awesome stuff and great inspiration! subscribed! :)

[Lyno]

Nice pencils and studies fantasyartist. :)
Keep it up!

[luness]

Awesome sketches and studies! Thanks for sharing the concepts of your project. Quite neat and informative. I like the last posts with all those sketches and studies, so much good stuff to see.

Keep up the good work!!!

[jedininjaman]

Nice pencil work, I do mostly pencil as well, you might want to work on having your rendering blend from lights to darks try to avoid having an obvious line were the shading stops. On the last one her lips curve down when they should curve up, Im not saying its an impossible face just that it looks unnatural, but nice work keep it up and stop by sometime
-jedininja

[gmc9987]

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook the other day. Nice work here, I like the improvement throughout. May I ask what kind of pencil you are using in your last few studies? I like the combination of blacks and grays, and you seem to have very fine lines in the shading.

[Sebastian Gromann]

where are u? :o post some awesome stuff my friend :)

[fantasyartist]

Thanks for the kind words everyone! I will drop by in your sketchbooks and answer your questions soon. It has been a long time since I updated. There were some personal stuff going on this last months that kept me really busy, but that doesn't mean I haven't been drawing. I'm too lazy to scan right now so let's start with some older stuff that I didn't show yet.
First images are from a concept art seminar at the beginning of this year. The final assignment was to create a character or scene based on the theme "political refugee". After coming up with a short story for what we were creating we made A LOT of thumbnails. The ones posted here were done digitally on the last day before moving to the final sketch. I didn't manage to finish the final concept, but I sure did learn a lot.
Last two are illustrations I did for the oz collectible card game from Orionsbell last year. Lots of things I would do completely different right now, but you have to start somewhere right? More info about the game can be found here:
http://www.orionsbell.com
Now crit the hell out of my work. I will be posting more stuff soon.

[fantasyartist]

Some studies trying to think in terms of values instead of lines. Some are just quick warm ups and others I spent more time on like the Sargent study.

[Diego]

Hey man, really great studies you have going on. Also nice anatomy studies. Keep it up the hard work.

[fantasyartist]

More studies.

[kikindaface]

Man, your studies are awesome !!!Just one ting I have to say : maybe you can put more contrast , especially on you digital studies.Keep up that good work ;)

[fantasyartist]

Ok thanks for the tip man!

[Khakibin]

Hey, thanks for stopping at my SB!

You´ve got some serious pencil studies, I really dig them...I wish I could post some useful crits, but you´re far more skilled than me, so I´ll just say -- keep up the great work!

Cheers--

[gmc9987]

Excellent work. I really like the milkmaid especially. I will give more constructive feedback tomorrow when I'm not so tired and more able to type complete sentences.

[Sebastian Gromann]

hey mr. friend. welcome back on the tram :) your up is awesome, realy dig the thumbs and studies ! wanna see MOARRRrr

[fantasyartist]

A quick study and some character ideas. I will probably develop the clown further later on. What kind of story goes on in you guys mind when you look at him? Enjoy and crit!

[fantasyartist]

Some studies.

[Nightblue]

great studies! Watch out and make sure the eyes line up correctly. I have trouble with this exact issue.
Loving your pencil drawings. The pose of the gun-handed guy is great too! Keep posting!

[Mischeviouslittleelf]

Propper good pencils here mate. I like the faces and the gun on that dood...erhm...holding a gun I guess. I think you could need some anatomy studies:)

-E

[fantasyartist]

Nightblue
Thanks for the advice. I've been giving people the exact same advice lately. The things is when I get a very tight construction the head lose character and vice versa. Hopefully I can find the correct balance later on.

Mischeviouslittleelf
Thanks mate. The figures look a little crappy I know. Just need to do more of those studies.

[wilkerson]

nice book. I like the vehicle designs and portraits. Nice pencilwork, good presentation.

[JellevdVegt]

thanks for the post, you're from holland too right? lovely sketches, great job, you deserve the stars. those studies from characterdesign are topnotch. what school do you do by the way?

cya

[Ricardo Robles]

Very good work man.Your evolution is fantastic. cheers

[fantasyartist]

wilkerson
Thanks! It's a long time since I did technical drawings. I'll have to produce another vehicle soon so I don't get too sloppy. I'm glad you like them.

Teh Gosu
Thanks mate! Yeah I'm living in the Netherlands right now. First I did ID for two years at Haagse Hogeschool, Then I went to do game design and development at the HKU in Hilversum.

Ricardo Robles
Thanks for the kind words. Still have a long way to go. I'll drop by your sb soon.

[Ricardo Robles]

Hey! you talk spanish? ¡Bueno! Txs for stop by..:teeth:
Now I got a little more time to give my opinion. Of your fist works, "furion" and "swordsman" are great. You got really cool ideas for characters, they look strongly done. There are some failures of anatomy, but they are minimal. There is an enormous change from your first posts to the last ones, it shows that you have been working hard. I will be looking over here.
Regards!

[Imaginary]

The potraits look great! Hopefully i'll be able to draw like that someday in the future. How much time did spend on each of them?

The guy with the P90 type gun looks cool too, his gestures look natural and loose.:D

Update more! >.<'

[fantasyartist]

I realized that I didn't do any imagination stuff for quite some time. So I decided to do a redesign of the assassin I posted earlier in this thread. It was
hard to think of the anatomy in terms of light and dark masses instead of lines which I'm more comfortable with. It also reminded me that I need to start doing anatomy studies again, specially the back! There's still a lot to be done, but here it is. Crits please!

[shamandalie]

Your pencil works are seriously amaaazing. Keep on going dude! :)

[cgaddict]

Great sketchbook. Your anatomy is spot on, and your use of values is superb. Keep it going :D

[kidult]

Lovely pencil work! Dig your faces! on the assasin guy, the arm that is further back looks very funky, almos like it facing the wrong way, I think what is happening is that the lighter values are pushing it in front of the back, it should maybe be darker to fit in with the shadow of the back.

[fantasyartist]

Thanks for the kind works everyone.

Kidult
I can see what you mean about the values. Thanks for pointing that out.

[Iddi]

I really like your character designs, they could've been real, I love it. Great lines, too, so keep this up :D

[fantasyartist]

I put a little more work in this one, trying to push the right arm back and adjusting the folds.

[Nettle_Mountain]

Clean lines and skillful eye to details in characters, more to wish would be cleare shadow-light direction in sketches

[Foolsauce]

I love your pencils and I envy your perspective skills! You've really made a ton of progress over this sketchbook (almost two years).

In the assassin pic, the right arm is still fighting for the foreground when I look at it...I don't know if there's a little bit of an anatomy issue along with the tonal problems. It looks like the shoulder might be a bit low. Something happens between progress pics 4 and 5 in post #197 that makes it look odd. I like the shoulder more in pic #4, before you lower and emphasize the deltoid. Still, great WIP!

Keep up the awesome! :D

[fantasyartist]

Thanks for the feedback guys. I tried to make more adjustments today. I think this is as far as I will take it for now. Maybe I'll give it another pass later on.

[brentos8]

That last one is looking better, almost there, but i think one more last push will make it even better!! My suggestion would be to tighten up the anatomy just a bit more, and try to avoid using straight black for your shadows on the figure especially. It can flatten the picture out too much, also some more work on the legs and youve got a very nice painting here, ... that just needs color, ha ha , you can do it.

By the way, I did some work for the Oz card game too.

sketchbook :
[/COLOR][/B]http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=128243

[hitnrun]

wow, your style is pretty close to that of one of my friends. Your stuff looks pretty solid. The anatomy is a little wonky in some parts, but that can be attributed to style. You have a bunch of pages here, so I won't give you the token "keep posting" but instead I'll just browse your work. It's a pleasure to view it.

[Sebastian Gromann]

they are right ! your clean pencils are a benefaction !
POST ! :) pliiiiiiiiiiiiiiiizzz

[fantasyartist]

Brentos8
Thanks for the tips! The darkest value in that painting is about 90% grey so I'm still in the safe zone. I did put some more work into him but I'm still not satisfied with the concept so maybe I'll give it another try later on.

hitnrun
Thanks for the kind words mate. Does this friend of yours have a sketchbook here? I would like to see his work.

SnobbyOo
Ok because you asked so many times here's an update:

[SamC]

You seem to have a wonderful sense of feeling the objects in 3d masses instead of just lines, it's great to look at. No crits so just keep it up I guess :)

[fantasyartist]

And some more...

[fantasyartist]

SamC
Thanks mate! Since I (really) learned to draw back at ID I'm always thinking
in basic forms and sections. I'm glad you like it.

[Sebastian Gromann]

yaaaaeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah man finaly, hahaha :D GREAT . btw thanx so much for stopping by again :) feel huged huged hugend man !
i can see immmmprovemennnt ! the latest chardisgn is wicked, i realy like it ! the portaits are looking tight too, as the lifepointing for sure. keep on doing these :) aahh, and awesome studies. so much awesomeness <(o.o)> dont stop ma friend !

[Imaginary]

Man have i missed stuff. O_O Looking at your sketchbook kinda makes me see the importance of being able to properly contruct objects and people.

The characters are looking awesome btw! And the studies, woah! :D

[TheGnoll]

whoa

wish my studies were so clean, clear and good lookin.
I really really like anatomy studies and characters.If you wanna improve your looseness and overall "swooshiness" in lines, just try and study that aspect, as you study the rest! just pick some really good loose artist and study, copy, try and have fun following the flow of the lines.Disney people or some good comic artists will do.Check out claire wendling, she's really really good at that.

keep 'em coming, i love what i zee :)

ciao!

[fantasyartist]

Snobby
Thanks for passing by and for the motivation mah friend. That character was actually the 3rd attempt. I still see place for a lot of improvement. The face lacks character and the legs aren't looking right for my taste so I'll probably do another version.

Imaginary
Thanks mate! I still struggle a lot with construction, specially when drawing heads. Just keep practicing!

TheGnoll
Thanks for the tip! Too much cleanness can end up looking stiff sometimes. When I draw too loose I tend to mess up my proportions. So I guess you just have to find the balance in between.

This is a portrait/study I did for a friend after a photo he gave me. Scanning it really messed up the values. And then playing around with the levels to get rid of some smudge messed it up even more. Anyway I hope you like it.

[fantasyartist]

Two speedies from photo ref found on google.

[MeTaL-Mike]

Hey Thanks for the visit. Nice stuff in your sb man. very good work, keep doing what you're doing :D

[Imaginary]

Aww cute portraits, i usually do the same thing.. my scanner doesn't scan the right values at all and then i "fix" them with levels...

[sandeepbarot]

just amazing!!

[JellevdVegt]

your photostudies are just great quality.. keep it up man y'll be going far

[fantasyartist]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. These are some sketches I did to explore a style for a 2d game for a schoolproject. Not everyone in the team was familiar with the game design process so I tried to explain what I was doing.

[Imaginary]

Hey cool little presentation. I like how the dummy turned out. By dummy do you mean you'll change him completely? Or keep him and mess around with him until he looks like u want him too (keeping him recognizable from the dummy)?

[fantasyartist]

Thanks mate. I meant that it was just a random character to explore the style on and it wouldn't necessary appear in the game.

[Wolfentir]

Damn, dude your pencils are awesome, what kind of pencil do you use?

[fantasyartist]

Wolfentir
thanks dude! I switch between a 2b pencil and faber castle pencils.

[fantasyartist]

It's about time for an update. Some studies, thumbnails and background for a fighting game prototype, crappy animation experiments and some personal sketches. Enjoy and leave your comments!

[fantasyartist]

We finally started with our last game project for this year. These are some rough thumbnails I did to explore the feeling of the game. Still a lot of work ahead.

[Imaginary]

Cool stuff, can i take a wild guess and say that the game will be about a ladybug? ;) I'd love to see some more stuff from it.

[fantasyartist]

You're right:). I'll post more stuff soon.

[luness]

Sweet updates! I particularly like the thumbnails. I was doing some plants' thumbnails just few days ago and although they turned out horrible (I was using gray markers for the first time in years) I had fun. You know how much I like playing with organic shapes.

Keep up the good work!

[destinyapocalypse]

i love animation jobs especially boxer too good :D:D:DD:D

[Nettle_Mountain]

Those skulls are really long on vertical line, intentional? studies are good, maybe too soft brushes there and there

[fantasyartist]

Luness
Thanks for dropping in mate. Now that you're talking about it, I would like to see you try some technical stuff. Who knows what you might come up with.

destinyapocalypse
Glad you like them! Just crappy experiments though. Now I'm busy doing the real work.

Nettle mountain
That's how they looked on the reference. Maybe they were distorted or something.

Here's a little sketch, just to get away from drawing ladybugs and plants all day.
Inspired by a drawing did two years ago. I will put more work into it later on. Crits are always welcome.

[TheGnoll]

looking really good man!
you've been busy with some intersting work, working on animation looks like a blast!
i really like that last character you posted, very good pencils and has definately lost a lot of stiffness.I'd make sure i work with contrast even more, see how "explicit" that thing he's got on his forehad is, just cause its a bit darker.Putting that kind of contrast with patterns coulp puh it even further imho.
When working on characters like this one or the knight i'd really check out some good reference for the pose, cause imho it makes half of the personality or a sketch.Pose yourself, look out how other artist handled it, look for ref.

Really good job :)
ciao!

[fantasyartist]

Thanks for dropping by bro! I need to check out reference more often indeed. However for that last character I did walk around the room trying to get the right feeling for his pose. I had a class in 3d animation the last 3 weeks and they taught us to act out the scenes before you sit down to animate them. It makes your life a lot easier.

[fantasyartist]

Here's some more stuff for my school project. It's going to be a 2d exploration game for the iphone. I did various experiments trying to decide on the narrative and the feeling of the world along with the game designers and then I started to work on the main character. The project is a little chaotic due to some problems that occurred along the way, but hopefully I'll be able to pull of something decent in the end. Crits and comments are highly aprreciated.

[Imaginary]

I think it looks interesting, kinda makes me wish i had an Iphone so i could try it out when you'r done. Like the green colours better than the purple/pink btw, don't really know why but it seems more fitting somehow. :D

[fantasyartist]

Two studies before sleeping:)

[Shadow Stalker]

Wow... you have progressed a lot since your first page or so. Nice work friend.

[fantasyartist]

Thanks shadow stalker! There's still a long way ahead.

[George Abraham]

Lot's of hard work in here, inspirational.

[humanNature6115]

Hey man love the updates
Keep pushing.

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http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761 (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120761)

[Imaginary]

I'm liking the colour studies dude, hows the Iphone project going btw? Wanna see more from that. :P

[DavidSmit]

Just looking through your sketchbook here Swendly.. wow! You are growing fast my friend. Those studies are awesome, make me feel guilty that I don't do them any more. I should!
It's great to do studies, and then not leave it at that but apply the knowledge to an imaginative creation. This forces you to think and not just copy. Your doing great on that one, you can really tell the difference.

One pointer I might give: don't get caught up in color. I would even say it's a bit to early to start with it. Focus on Black and white, get your values correct.
I understand that sometimes, for school for example, you have to use color.
Then try this to start:
-First get the values correct in Black and White.
-Than use one color, that is one Hue. Try an orange.
-And the only thing that you change is the saturation.

Look at old masters how they mastered the art of saturation. Copy a work of an old master into photoshop, put a orange layer over it and set the layer to HUE. Now see how little color difference has to do with anything. It's all in the values and saturation.

I'm trying to find an old document I once made with a lot of things Craig Mullins said when he used to be over at the Sijun forums. Great stuff to study. I'll post it here when I find it!

Anyhow, say hi to the rest of the class and HKU for me and keep going!

Edit:
Here we go:
http://www.davidsmit.com/craig.doc
Don't share this link with to many people or my site will go down :)

[Tom van der Linden]

Hey Swend, how are things going? Yes, I started posting again, mainly because I felt that there was lacking something. Schoolyear's coming tot a close so I got more time on my hands now.

Still a great sketchbook you got here, I should do more studies too (next to the gestures I make almost every day).

[fantasyartist]

Thanks for the kind words everyone. I've got a lot of new stuff to post but I don't have internet at my house at the moment. Next week is the deadline for the project so we're in super crunchtime right now.

David
Thanks for the feedback and specially the link friend! I've got a lot of questions but no one to turn to for answers so I have to figure things out by trial and error. You're right about the color thing. The school stuff is forcing me to use color when I know I haven't mastered values yet. I'll try the method you told me and see what will come out.

Tom
Hey man I'll look at your sketchbook soon when I have more time. Glad to here you started updating again.

[fantasyartist]

It´s time to post the rest of the stuff I did for our iPhone game because it´s getting old and I´m starting to hate it. So let´s start with some concept art.

[fantasyartist]

These are some of the animations I did. This was the first time I animated something and I had a lot of fun with these.