Sketchbook o' Wasker -13/06- Photoshop sketches and such!! -

[Wasker]

metal mike: thank you

snasitra: thanks, glad you like it :)



here's a jungle bug, somewhat inspired by a Living rope bug.

[zweiDee]

very nice!

[xinranliu]

man love the texture
great stuff

[Bushido]

Great Great Stuff!

Love your SB

[Samuel Gray]

Awesomeness. cool brush work

[zelda_geek]

Very nice. I like the green.

[darkos]

really nice work!

[haiku]

intersting works good job

[retardedmonkey]

Dude, that space ship docking launch platform painting is amazing! The perspective is very believable, my brain keeps buggin out and my neck feels like it should hurt from looking up that high :P

[Trashy]

Wasker this is some real awesome stuff here man! I'm loving all the studies your doing and your brush strokes are really good. I see tons of confidence in your mark making. Honestly man this is really good. Love that landing pad with the spaceship!

I saw what Dile said and agree...I'm in the same boat also. I think what I would like to see from you is to really fully push some of your illustrations and pieces. Take for instance some of those still-lifes on the human figure studies on the previous page. Take one of those that catches your eye and give it that extra push.

Keep it up with your work, these studies are really seriously coming along. Oh hey thanks for the add also on facebook;)

[Cacodaemonia]

Cacodaemonia: thanks , cool seeing you at the colour theory class!

Likewise. :) I was pretty bummed that I couldn't stick around for all of it, but I can watch it on demand now that I'm back from visiting relatives. I've been hearing great things about the class, and the couple hours I attended were awesome, so I'm really looking forward to more!

The launch pad painting you posted is really great. Only thing I noticed is that it seems like the ship is tilted slightly more toward and to the right of the viewer than the scaffolding and buildings.

The jungle bug is very cool. Picking up some tricks from the color theory class? ;)

[t i m]

This sketchbook is bananas.

[theories]

oh man your work is absolutely gorgeous and stupendous

i love all your colours, and atmospheres, and just everything. and you grip on human anatomy is absolutely amazing

[multadroit]

your use of texture in the digital work is freaking sweet!

[Dorkthrone]

The mountain monster is inspiring.

[dU5K]

nice updates.. coming back to this sketchbook was definitely worth my time

[Lyno]

Nice updates again Wasker :)!

[Helltroll]

Dude. DUDE. INTENSE.

Love the brushwork!
Really love that ice mountain colossus!

[eparts]

what a kick ass jungle bug :) it has a great glow from the leaves above ;)

[Wasker]

Eparts: thanks! I tried some different stuff when I did that. trying to keep temperature in mind. Retrospectively there are alot of stuff I would do differently.

Helltroll: Hehe :) thank you.

Lyno: Thanks Lyno, I like that scottish dude you did in your SB!

dU5K: Thanks man :)

ninjacat11: Thanks !

multadroit: thanks man, I like texturing but sometimes I feel that I use it without purpose. I should probably smudge and use a softedged bursh abit more than i do. thanks again

theories: Oh hehe, you give me too much credit. there's still lots to be learned. thanks for the appreciation though.

t i m: Yeah! Go go bananas !

Cacodaemonia: Cool to see you in here Caco ! Honestly, Jason just blew my mind with his colour theory class. I mean, yeah i've done a 1001 studies but his stuff was just mind candy. Now I feel like I'm trippin, seeing greens and violets all over the place! :rocker: Trying to implement some more colour variation and tempertature aswell. I hadnt really thought about those two before the Class but now I sure do!

I know about the space ship, hehe its' perspective super skewed. I should've drawn some guidelines or put down some cubes in Sketchup before i started.


Trashy: I hear you man, I think alot of artist fall in the 'speed paint' trap. It's a thin line to walk indeed between polished and suggestion. I want to retain the looseness if I can and let the values and temperature do the talking. Alot of form can be suggested if you just control the eye of the viewer. I hope I can do that one day.

Personally I think stuff I spend more than a day on eventually will look like crap. I reach a point where I'm somewhat satisfied but beyond that it's like polishing a dog turd.

It's something I need to get better on, I know. Because even dog turds need love..

thanks for the crits and visit :)

retardedmonkey: hahaha, don't crank yer neck boy!

haiku: It's amazing how
a friend I have not yet met
can brighten my day



darkos: thanks Darkos!

zelda_geek: Green is a under rated colour! Thanks

Samuel Gray: Thank you,

Bushido: Thanks again, Bushido hehe :) no oils for ya this time!

ronaldliu: Thanks

zweiDee: Thank you !


I've been trying to do some 3d lately to get a better understanding of what production artists are doing (and because its fun!!)
The models shown are low poly and shown in a real time render engine (meaning it would look like that ingame aswell.)

The dwarf statue thing is 500 polygons with a 256x256pixel normalmap diffuse and spec, which is abit over the top but hey,

The log is 38 polygons with a 256x128 normal, spec and diffuse. All textures except the normal map are hand painted in PS. It's really wierd just painting a texture on a flat surface but I guess its a good exercise!
I also included a screen grab of 3 high poly logs done in Zbrush. I'm thinking of putting together some fantasy props out of it!

I got wood. :)

[kingkostas]

i like them very much :D, please more

[Mayday]

cool stuff. i really like all of your speed paintings. i especially like the perspective of the spaceship painting looking up.

[Eeric]

Har du en blogg? Så mkt lättare att följa :)

[Cacodaemonia]

Now I feel like I'm trippin, seeing greens and violets all over the place! :rocker: Trying to implement some more colour variation and tempertature aswell. I hadnt really thought about those two before the Class but now I sure do!


Haha, that is one thing I need to get better at - actually seeing those colors in things. D:

Love all those little thumbnails on the last page you posted. :)

[Farvus]

That's cool. I really like the dwarf statue model. Maybe the rock texture has a bit too much black noise in it but I the shape is good.

[D@niel]

Fantastic work man!

[JParrilla]

its great to see a balance of fun imaginative painting and studies. Itll all pay off.. great great work

[MatejaPetkovic]

Hey man some rally cool work, love them.

M

[Lyno]

Hi Waskers, I'm glad you liked the scot :confident.
It's very cool to see you're starting with 3d. The first picture of the log, was it made in Zbrush?

[theUNKNOWNsketcher]

Lovely SB! Thank you!

[corza334]

Awesome stuff as always. I think that shit paint would look awesome if you have something in it, to validate the tile. Maybe a platform snapping away at the top? Something that amps the suspense - I think it could work swimmingly ;} haha.

Everything in here is incredible, keep posting

[badass]

i love your stuff. what kinds of pens/markers are you using in your moleskine/journal? im guessing prismacolor and a blue ballpoint or something.

im going to be traveling for a month or so and need some quality coloring supplies.

[davekang]

Always inspiring Wasker! You never seize to amaze me.
Keep up your greatness and we shall rejoyce more!!

[Jonathan W. Rodegher]

Very inspirational sketchbook. I liked a lot most of the women poses, very natural ones. I have to agree about some proportional problems with some chars though. Still, checking this one regularly for some inspiration! cheers!

[Wasker]

kingkostas: hey again kostas :) thanks for the encouragement!

Mayday: thank you! its abit off but i'm too lazy to revisit it i think.

Eeric: hey, nope, I dont have a blog :/ I should get one though, If I do I'll add it to my sig! Tack för besöket dock :D

Farvus: yeah I agree man, i'll give some more attention. You've progressed alot lately man. I like what you've posted on sijun and in you sb . keep at it dood.

D@niel: thankx, daniel, like your characters man!

JParrilla: hopefully :) thanks for the visit

MatejaPetkovic: thank you

Lyno: Hey! yeah its made in zbrush. around 500k if i remember correctly. then i built a lowpoly in maya and baked it in xnormal (freeware!) textures are painted in PS.

theUNKNOWNsketcher: and thank you!

corza334_ yeah , which painting are you talking about? I guess the space ship. I put some people in there on teh platform but they are kinda lost in the mess. gotta work harder on it :)

Snow Lion: its an ordinary ballpoint I found lying around, I use various markers; copic, prisma colour and some brand I cant remember but its also kinda big, white board marker pens and whatnot!:)

davekang: Rejoycing is awesome. thanks for the visit Dave!

Jonathan W. Rodegher: thanks jonathan :) yeah , characters are a bitch. I should look on more refs and work more on those. Luckily I took Whit class on references today and it was pretty sweee-heeet.

here's some doodles I did while listening to mr Brachna. He said he would kiss me on the mouth on the Berlin workshop. what the f.. :drinkup:

[Hideyoshi]

The spaceport piece with the rocket is effin' WIN!

[conte]

dig it all y.
edit: ha i remember you, polycount buddy.

[Jason Snair]

Heyyyy nice work. Really dig the scanned in spread from Aug 13th. That house and ogre/beast guy is really cool. I like all the blue sketches lined up too.

I'll have to make sure to come on back soon.

[LisandroG]

You have a great sketchbook going here, I really enjoyed looking through it.

Great studies, and you really seem to have no limits as far as subject matter goes

nice work!

[Flaskpost]

AHRG you´re getting too good goddamnit!

[Darktwin]

I'm really feeling the traditional look in your work. Keep up the awesome work my friend.

[Ashrumm]

Nice variety of pencil work and digital stuff!! Man you are on your way!! Keep doing what you are doing!

I really like the spacecraft piece and the snow creature piece those are freaking awesome!! Keep it up!!

[Cacodaemonia]

Nice stuff! Really digging the head on that dragon. :)

[SamsonsReaper]

bara att fortsatta sa!

[DefiledVisions]

Shit, riktigt grymma grejer du har här! Gillar alltihopa, blyertsen och det digitala. Kickass stuff! :)

[nickmarshallvfx]

Awesome stuff man, always inspiring.

Nick

[mike butkus]

Terrific drawings and paintings!

[Randis]

i really like the scanns! Great job man!

[kaktuzlime]

Hey Wasker! =)

Cool meeting up today, we´ll have to do that more often =). A real pleasure browsing through your sketchbook here, tons and tons of great stuff. Very diverse, and I in particular liked your environments overall. Perhaps you could spend some more time on getting more character into the poses of your characters, and maybe make them feel a little more natural. Kickass work all around though!

Looking forward to next week yo ;)

[Wasker]

Hideyoshi: Thanks Hideyoshi, I love your industrial stuff. So clean!

conte: yeaaahaw go PC :)

Jason Snair: Thanks Jason, I find making alot of small thumbs helps alot when coming up with ideas for environments, characters and patterns. itz fun

LisandroG: Oh thanks :) I should do more studies of stuff I draw later on. for example I guess looking at some industrial stuff could probably have helped me a bunch before doing the bot in this post.

Flaskpost: Tack flaskan !

Darktwin: Thanks man,

Ashrumm: hehe thank you

Cacodaemonia: thanks caco, I was going for a dumb and crude creature-look for the dragon, as if it's just a mount and the rider is doing the thinking. I think too many dragons are too smart for their own good in modern fantasy. I'd be more terrified of a winged monster than a talking lizard to be honest.

SamsonsReaper: Thanks mate, how are things in the states?

DefiledVisions: Tacka tackar :)

space-sprayer: Thanks Nick !

mike butkus: Thank you,

R a n d i s: Awesome! I like you too Randis. <3

kaktuzlime: ey man, yeah it was fun meeting up and you're totally right about the characters. I still need to learn a load to be cool like the real artists! See you on tuesday mate!

[sevarenge]

really cool stuff dude really licke the last piss its really nice in the cooloring=)

sorry fore my bad englich seck my sb too if you hw the time=)

är du svensk?=)

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=149972&page=6

[bouroune]

wow man, such improvement since the first page! the last one is very good, love those colors and the design! you don't even have to finish it, it's already a great peace as it is, keep on sharing!

[Cacodaemonia]

Cacodaemonia: thanks caco, I was going for a dumb and crude creature-look for the dragon, as if it's just a mount and the rider is doing the thinking.

I definitely think that comes across in the sketch. The dragon seems more like a big, nasty ox than an ancient being of wisdom. ;)

Love the lighting on the mech.

[Flaskpost]

oh snap. senaste är galen.
way to step it up!

[MatejaPetkovic]

Very good ma man :)

M

[mike butkus]

Wonderful design and good value control.

[Jorge Gecov]

Really great stuff man!

Cheers,

[mariusz]

outstanding SB! keep posting

[Wasker]

sevarenge: tackar, jag ska kolla in din Sb om du vill. kul med så mycket svenskar här på ca :D

bouroune: thank you :) looking back at it there's alot of stuff I would have done differently. Its too loose in some areas and the colours are abit spotty. Unifying them abit in terms of value corresponding to the correct planes of the bot would make the image better. But as I'm a bit lazy when it comes to revisiting pictures as it is. I'll draw a new bot instead ! :drinkup:

Cacodaemonia: hehe, exactly what I aimed for then :) I think I got some inspiration from the LotR movies. Those Weta studio designs are sick! thanks for the visit man :)

Flaskpost: heheh, thanks flask!!

MatejaPetkovic: thanks bro'

mike butkus: thank you, lots to be learned though. Values are tricky

Jorge Gecov: Thanks Jorge, and thanks for the add on FB :)

mariusz: thank you mister!


here's a 3d lighthouse/guard tower I've been trying to get optimized for a game engine.

I'm aiming at ~8k polygons and a 1024 map. I'll be bringing this beast into zbrush this weekend.

[Kuidf^!]

that robot sort of looks like one of the transformers ha ! massive improvement keep it up :)

[Cacodaemonia]

Gorgeous tower design. :) I'd like to explore that in a video game.

[Wasker]

Kuidf^!: hehe, yeah you're right mate. it kinda does. :)

Cacodaemonia: that's cool :)


I gave this guy from the Mummy another round w charcoal because he's awesome and ol' school.

[truenorth]

cool mech and nice zbrush stuff! keep it up!

[Wasker]

Thank you Trunorth :D


This pic wad done starting from grayscale, . I didnt really want to start throwing down overlays n' shit so I just left most of it grey. I think I lost my value hierachy somewhere around halftime :p

anyway, lots of love
w

[Rushlord]

Great concept but his legs are a bit short. But it looks nice :D

[Cacodaemonia]

I recognize that guy from The Mummy - nice job. :)

Would you mind explaining what you mean by "value hierarchy"? I've heard the term once or twice, but I honestly don't know what it means. The mech/robot is rather cute because it's so stout. :3

[theories]

great stuff! i love your mech's they're pretty badass

[Jabo]

Hey Wasker!

This (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=497339&stc=1&d=1224599676) and this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=503842&stc=1&d=1225208052) and the whole south american tattoed jungle tribe stuff from late last year made me grin … everything after that made me grind my teeth in pure envy :P And joy of course, because it's all fabulous! Too many favorites in this thread! Mindblowing progress, I'm in awe!

That last painting of the robot on the bus is hilarious. I love it!

[monotony]

your robots are awesome, mate!
love their bulky and haevy look. you can really feel their weight. :)
always a pleasure to see your updates.

[Flaskpost]

kickass bot, dude!
inte mycket att klaga på, ska göra mitt bästa dock. =)
lurig komposition kanske, hur båda benen försvinner sådär bakom bussen, ser avhugget ut på någe vis.
jag undrar lite ifall han har väldigt korta ben och står på bussen.
tror det har att göra med perspektivet, och det faktum att man inte ser något av ovansidan på bussen.
om man såg bussen lite lätt ovanifrån kanske det skulle förtydliga.
aja, småsaker. grym målning!

[Giorge]

nice stuff , is the lighthouse model for something , like a game or animation or is just personal stuff ?

[Dile_]

the smoke clouds are amazing! =D and to me its obvious that he is standing ON the bus.. but correct me if i'm wrong.. : )

[Wasker]

Rushlord_ haha its funny you mentioned them because I've been getting alot of mixed comments about those legs. its like some of my friends think they fit him and others dont. :> thanks for dropping by!

Cacodaemonia_ I just made it up on the spot to sound smart, (one of those days) :) but in short it's deciding what value range you want to keep in your image (high key, lo key, mid) and then in which value range you want most of your details (shadow /light /mid). Just as Jason Manley stressed the importance of colour variation and re-cycling colours all over the place I think it's important to keep your values recycled in a similar manner.
In other words, keep your values as large block of general value throughout the image. for example; the background and unimportant stuff should be limited to a few values (with exceptions ofcourse) while the important stuff is peaked by values that arent used all over. These values might be your extreme darks or extreme whites placed right next to each other but they do not have to be. Think of value hierarchy as a pyramid (as a hierachy, haha!) the values on the bottom are used most frequently while the ones near the top are used to high light important things in your image.. in other words value hierachy is closely tied to the composition of the picture.

I hope that gave you a better idea what I meant :)
I might be totally wrong what the word value hierachy actually means. I think it could be a corporate term for the moral 'values' and standards a company wishes to express to the outside world and the customers. Must've snapped it up when I did some graphic design job a while back. But the word got a nice ring and I think it could applied to art in a similar fashion as the word colour theory (ie. a fuzzy term).

Thanks for the visit Caco :)

-goes back to sb stalker mode-


Jabo_ jabo ! :) glad to see that you're back on track with your SB .

monotony_Thanks lately I've really been trying to nail the feel of the concept, i think it could probably be important for a concept artist to capture not just the texture or colour but also how much something weighs or moves or sounds or breathes. well, atleast i want to :) dunno how well i communicate it. love your stuff btw, bro

Flaskpost_ tack för kritsen Flaskan :) Ja jag håller med. lite lurigt med perspektiv när allt är ihopklumpat så nära viewern. Får tänka på det till nästa Bot!

Giorge_ hey Giorge! yeah it's a 3d piece for my folio sometime in the future. its not supposed to be animated just a sitting piece of environmental geometry. Im thinking of brining it down to a optimized size so a game like Oblivion or Crysis something could manage it and maybe try out my hand painting skills on the texture. 3d is a whole lot of fun it's like making 2d but with a whole other dimesion to play with! lol

Dile_ heyo Dennis tack :) Maybe we'll meet up on the next GCC in karlshamn? (if they'll make one for 2010, sofe's going down the drain and all that)
and nope, you got it right! he's standing on the bus :D





I tried out water colours for like the first time since I was in kindergarten. it's pretty fun but tricky as fuck to stop it from flooding your page. this is me, 3am,in mah head gear listening to some funky tunes. being lit by my monitor and a lamp in the window and riding the coffee wave. it's displayed at roughly the same size it was painted. and no, I don't normally look this emo.

[blexano]

I love the robots, dude! :D

[Killer Napkins]

wow i obviously dont visit here enough...

super work Wasker.. I am really enjoying the bots on page 19 and the sketches on 18..

the recent watercolor is nice as well... love the brush strokes in it.. as well in the other speed paintings.. haha where is your headphone cord at?

[Spaggen]

Lovely lovely sketchbook. So inspirational and amazing! The robots are out of this world! :)

[Gloominati]

hey man! The way you handle edges is gettin cooler and cooler. actually everything about your digital work is gettin better all the way :) Good work !

[Flaskpost]

sköna vattenfärger dude! riding the coffee waves to funky tunes. bra jävla skit.

[Jeff Lai]

my gosh you've improved lots since your first post
great range of work!
I love that (self?) portrait on page 16!

[mariusz]

nice study of color in last post. Keep it up man!

all the best,
Mariusz

[Wasker]

blexano: Thank you :) in that case, I'll hope you'll enjoy the dump in the next few days !
Killer Napkins: Thanks mr Napkins, hehe yeah I left out the cord. It was hanging across my cheek and down my chest. Half the time I didnt notice it and the other half it was freaking me out. It's made by some wierd plastic/rubber material and every time it touches my skin it felt as if spiders were crawling all over my skin. Might've been some oil paint fumes left in the room that made me feel that way though.
Spaggen: thanks Spaggen :)
Gloominati: Thanks for the visit Gloom, I like your Sb, and thanks for the love !
Flaskpost: Yeah keep ridin the waaaaaves! I don thave any coffee home tonight so I'm suffering bad from the caffeine crash. :davi:
thanks for the visit flask!
Jeff Lai: yup, that's me on p16. I should do some more of those oil sps.
mariusz: Thanks, the colours in real life are probably abit more towards violet and purple. Having your monitor as a primary lightsource is pretty funky.

Here are some lame thumbnails for a 3dmodel I've made. I wanted the robot to feel 'square' in its general silhouette, have one arm replaced by a huge ass gun, communicate scale really well, be a biped bot and feel somewhat retro futuristic.

[Jabo]

http://www.desert-rain.de/smilies/wank.gif Ohhh yeah, more sqaurebots! I love how they look somewhat fat and clumsy, but also extremely heavy and vigorous. Regarding retro, number 3 is probably the candidate. The round forms in number two make him more post-2000-ish, while 3 is very edgy. I still like number 2s overall appearance more, he looks like he's got character. The head area in number 1 is unreadable.

[Randis]

love the fat mechas :D good job all over

[zweiDee]

yeah, the fat mechas are rly great...

[Flaskpost]

koffein-abstinens och du kickar fortfarande ur dig grymt feta thumbs. reeeeespect!

[Wasker]

Jabo; I hear you man, I'll hope my shapes are more retro futuristic in this post. great crits, thanks Jabo :)
R a n d i s: thanks Randis, you know I love you <3
zweiDee: thank you!
Flaskpost: haha, tackar :)

[zweiDee]

cool! for me the first would look better with a little head. mechas lookz more massive and big when the the head is rly small to the body. like your two first mecha thumbs on post 381, who are still my fav of this six mechas.

[cakeypigdog]

I havent been by here in some time. Well done on so much improvement mate, some of this stuff is just splendid!

[Morgado]

Very cool work Wasker! Thumbs up on it :)

Keep at it

[Wasker]

Zweidee: yeah, i agree. trying to consolidate some of the designs in this post. thanks,

cakeypigdog: Thanks man :) I really like your stuff and it means alot to me coming from you,

Morgado: thank you !


... and some more thumbs before doing a larger scale concept

[Mark Tarrisse]

Man you rock ! Love those last thumbnails, make me want to try, but I know I'll get shit :D

[Giorge]

haha , i know what you mean , i tried some time ago 3d two , i kinda know the basics , but until i am satisfied with my drawing and painting skills probably i will continue with the 3d stuff, till then i have to focus on this

The robot thumbnails look good , heavy , drop some detail and maybe some color for some of them ... but the watercolor sp ... wooh ... it's a no no ^^ ,study more watercolor tehnique , try to keep the color and water clear

take care

[duckfukker]

hello my man. is that you getting a bluescreen up there on the waterpainting? considiring giving the monitor a danish head? alltid soft att se dina updates!:asskisser:

[sketcheth]

Inspiring as ever! The thumbs especially are really communicative. Strong stuff! Thanks for this!

[TheGnoll]

man i missed too many updates in here!
loving all the fat bot work and can't wait to see what you'll be kicking out after these thumbnails.Also, great to see you keep it varieid, very cool 3d work as well.
Great work!

ciao

[FrozZT]

Sweeet stuff mate! Got some character in those bots man.. I'd love to see more of your full compositions though, like those much. Keep it up, your kicking ass!

-Niklas

[Wasker]

Mark Tarrisse: lol thanks :) go for it man! Do botty thumbs! No matter the result do it do it do it do it!

Giorge: yeah I hear ya, thanks for the crits, Giorge. I'm a total beginner when it comes to watercolour as you can tell, it's a really tricky medium. I keep lookin at zorn and john singer saggy's watercolorurs and I'm just blown away by their skills. I'll see if I can do some studies of their stuff.


duckfukker: Oh hiho mr duckfucka, thanks for the love and see you on tomorrow :)

sketcheth: Thank you, Sketcheth

TheGnoll: Hey gnoll long time no seen in here, :) you've been cranking out goodies lately. Thanks for the visit bro.

FrozZT: Hej Niklas, ska försöka ge mig på lite mer landskap och sånt snart. Känner att jag undvikit dem ett tag nu. Tack för besöket här I sketchboken! Vore coolt om du joinade vår Malmö sketchgroup nån gång! Vi träffas på Stortorget i Malmö 18.30 varje tisdag! Be there or be square!



Here's the thumbnails consolidated into something abit more final.


..and below are some mini sketches in my supersmall moleskine ( like 4" x 3") of women I've found on the webz, in my apartment or just stuff from the top of my head. Done with markers, goache, acrylics and graphite and fineliners ,ie pretty much the closest thing I can get my hands on at the moment.

displayed at ~130% actual size.

[DoubleThink]

Awesome sketchbook you've got here

I'm definately a fan :P

[Cacodaemonia]

Very interesting robot/mech. It looks really top heavy and in danger of toppling over, though.

[Mag-Neo]

---Wonderful....... I have nothing to say more............. Keep posting..... Good luck....... :yayca:

[rakuda]

Great stuff. Love the pink and yellow mixed media stuff. Love it all actually...

[B-Man]

KICKASS!!!!!! Fan du! Vackra färger och häftig dynamik. Post #550 och #564 är ju så sköna att jag bara sitter här och gapar. Jag fatter heller inte hur jag kan ha missat din skissbok under alla dessa år!
Hare gött! Tack för att du delar med dig av dina fina bilder!

[Flaskpost]

B-Man: jag har inte missat denna skissboken, jag har undvikit den! mitt ego får en käftsmäll varje gång jag kollar in Waskers grejor. :)

Wasker, boten ser ruggigt nice ut! tycker dock att den förlorat lite karaktär som thumbnailsen har, tror det beror på att du gett den så mycket detaljer. känns lite plottrig liksom.

[Trashy]

O_o Daaaaaaaaaaammn those robots are seriously cool man! Like those updates Wasker!

[eparts]

nice temperature in the last robot sketch. those robo-thumbnails looks awesome, really solid and clean :)

keep it up!

[Arn J.]

Wow, dude you have improved a great deal! Not sure if you remember me from the WoT forums, I'm Gyph.

[Ian Barker]

Wow... truly a badass sb you have going here! I love all the variety. :)

[Wasker]

DoubleThink: Thank you sir! :) Keep those bridgman studies flowin'!

Cacodaemonia: It's got abit wierd proportions, yeah, I was thinking of a classic painting (Bougerau?) of a woman carrying a bucket of water when I picked the final design. You could really tell she was compensating for the weight of the load by the way her torso and pelvis was tilting. I think was aiming for something like that (not in terms of quality but feeling of mass and weight). You know, as if the robot wasnt quite designed for carrying such a bulky armor and weapons but it's been fitted with it anyway to tip the balance of the war or something :)

thanks for the crits though, daemonia .

Mag-Neo: thank you

rakuda: hehe, it was fun doing them. I just scribbled and recorded what people around me where doing in my tiny tiny moleskine and then finger painted the colours in with the two acrylic paitn tubes I happened to have in my pocket. Not giving a crap about values or established rules just playing :) very liberating to do from time to time.
thanks :)

B-Man: lol :D tack gillar dina grejor Bman :) tack för besöket! säg till om du kommer till Malmö nån gång, vi är ett gäng som brukar gå ut och teckna på tisdagar!

Flaskpost: yup, details is always something you have to give and take of. I think I ending up dissing the more instresting parts of the silhouettes/thumbs i posted earlier and thus making the final design a tad bland.

Trashy: thankz trazhy

eparts: thank you!

Arn J.: Ah! another old WoTer! Awesome :D Back where it all started. Yup I remember you and Oín, Dozzie and all the other dudes from back then. Cool to see you here Gyph!

Liffey: Thanks liff!


So anyway, I finished this ages ago but I havent got around uploading it here till now. As some of you know I've been doing some 3d lately (diversity!) and here's the concept I did but in three dimensions! I tried making it like a big battle ship kind of thing. With bunkers sitting in his torso and shoulders to cover any dead zones that the guns on the head and the big un on the arm can't pick off. Intended for a fps kind of shooter where you have to topple these giants from within while they're wrecking a city.

[Verehin]

Wow! O________O

[Bushido]

Amaiiiiiiiiiiziiiiiiing!!!!

Like Verehin sez Wow!

I feel like crap

Too good man!

[DanielC]

Looks cool man !

[CHARLES CARVALHO]

very good man! :0

[Cacodaemonia]

You know, as if the robot wasnt quite designed for carrying such a bulky armor and weapons but it's been fitted with it anyway to tip the balance of the war or something

Ah, yeah, I can understand that. The 3D images you posted are just insane!! There's so much detail, and I can imagine people moving around on the different levels of the structure. :)

[Teundeboer]

That 3d model is mindblowing, I love all the little stairs and doors on it. Looks very well thought through. Amazing

[Mark Tarrisse]

Maaannnn !! are you human ?!?!

[Tigermilk]

Thanks for sharing Wasker. Dynamite work! :)

[Sebastian Gromann]

wow man, ma mouths' stilll open \:D/

[Wasker]

Verehin: lolor :)

Bushido. hah, you're not crap man, you're good. thanks though :)

DanielC_ thanks dc!

CHARLES CARVALHO: thank you!

Cacodaemonia: :)

Teundeboer: thanks tenderboer. I wanted to give a touch of realism so Ilooked alot at steam shovels and how other existing machinery worked, especially for when I designed the hips and arms.

Mark Tarrisse: sadly no :/ I got three faces as you can see in my sp below. You could say that I'm a blend between the three stooges and a toaster. A coffee drinking toaster that is.

Tigermilk: thanks tiger!

SnobbyOo: hah thank you :)



heres a sp I did for sp day.

[Senira]

Your self portrait came out great; I like how the smoke spewing from the set of eyes in the forehead suggest horns. It's not quite devilish, but it definitely adds to the warped, otherwordly feel of the whole piece. Very nice. :)

[zweiDee]

yeah, great work!

[Gloominati]

Holy shit, that mechas are so fucking cool it's not even funny anymore!! BAD ASS!!

[Mark Tarrisse]

Well then I could do what you do if I had this face... pfff... you're not cool to my eyes anymore, you mutant alien thing ! :P :D Hehehe great job Mr !

[Wasker]

Senira: thanks! I added the smoke as a compositional counter weight to the nose(s) and eyes. I tried to get some diagonals going there.

zweiDee: Thanks Zwei!

Gloominati: hah :) cool!

Mark Tarrisse: lolol thanks!

I'll stop by your threads later, thanks fellas.


here's something I did in charcoal this evening (or night I should say. its 2:26 here). some minor ps touch ups and I flipped it aswell. I didnt quite like the way she was lying before.

[Cacodaemonia]

Oh man,m your sp is awesome and trippy! :)

I like the details in the hair and blanket. The piled up blanket on the left looks almost like a photo.

[jokerrabit]

WOW!!! that bot is massively impressive!!! if you ever 3d print this I want one! going to look at the rest tomorrow but so far I am very impressed, it's dinner time so laters

[Wasker]

caco: thanks ! The blanket is pretty much just the base colour of the paper + a rather sucky photo making it abit too white. I've got to get myslef a scanner... some day.

jokerrabit: thanks :) yeah it would be awesome to get it printed, I've had a few guys on another forum wanting prints of it aswell but too be honest I think he's got too many tubes and undercuts that wouldnt translate well in the print. But I'll look into it anyway :)


here's another selfportrait. I fucked up the hair pretty bad. Pen on Paper. again, the photo made the values abit too dark in the bottom of the image. They're fairly accurate in the center of the face but they bloom or fade to black abit towards the edges.

[Holland]

That 3d work is insssaaaannnneeeee!! Great sketches too :) the portrait is really nice

[smokenmirrors]

slick portrait(s), and that 3d mech is extra BEEFY! I bow to its girth! :bow:

[Bushido]

Man i have to say that this last one is flawelles!

[zulu]

excellent stuff here, congrats, keep working ;)

[Aryeh]

i really derive much inspiration from your work!

[*ViRuS*]

you got some great stuff goin on here, lots of fun to look through =)

[Cos Koniotis]

Great work! I really love this last portrait.

[kingkostas]

really awesome self portrait, and the 3d is amazing
Keep up the good work mate :)

[Wasker]

smokenmirrors: Thank you <3 haha hail the bot!

zulu : thank you and yes, yes I will.

lolbbq: glad to hear it! Ive been getting alooot of inspiration from CA throughout the years, so I'm glad if I can repay atleast a fracture of that debt by inspiring others :)


Virus; thanks !

Coz_K: thank you, it was fun drawing it and I learned loads about value changes, textures and the importance of not drawing 5 aclock in the morning unless you've got alot of coffee running through your veins. It didnt take that long to do, might do another one soon.

kingkostas: thanks Kostas dood :)



So here are some paper plane concepts for a game, its a space shooter kind of game but instead of space ships you control a paper plane and kill other stuff made of paper. Abit more cartoony than I usually do ( I think) but fun nontheless!

Learned one or two things about the importance of texture and material in concepts while making these, further proving that there are lessons to be learnt from the most odd jobs and experiments.

[dU5K]

very awesome updates.. the last self portrait was awesome. i dont know if i looks like u but it sure as hell is a good portrait. but i sure am glad i revisited this sketchbook. keep up the work

[Sopor+Aeternus]

haha, niice those 2 last paper planes concept, it looks very .. makeble

[Teundeboer]

These airplane designs are awesome, only thing I'm not sold on is the bomb plane I like the idea but this construction just doesn't convince me that it would actually fly.
I really love the last 2 especially just because of their childlike appearance yet awesomeness.

[walnut]

That 3D tank mecha thing on the previous page is just monstrously cool! And the rest of your work ain't half bad either :)

[Wasker]

dU5K: Thank you :) You'll just have to trust the image I guess because I'm not very keen on posting photos of myself! ( I really look like the 3 faced mutant posted a while ago >:) this is just a cover up to fool lil' humies)

Sopor+Aeternus: thank you, I learned alot when doing them. I tried keeping folds and stuff in mind aswell when designing them.

Teundeboer: You're right. The rice lanterns propably wouldnt be able to carry the weight. I don't know how big a deal it is because the game is rather cartoony to start with, but I get your point. Gotta keep the suspension of belief goin'!
I'm glad you find them childlike because that was one of the keywords I got when tasked to design them. Thanks for the crits, love and comment !

walnut: haha thank you :)


here's a 3d planet I did for the same game (concept, also by me, on the left) wires in the middle and textured and lit ingame engine on the right. It's rather unoptimized in terms of polygon count but since there's only ever 3 planets on the screen that's not really and issue.

It's quite fun making cartoon stuff but I'll think I'd rather stick to making more realistic stuff for future games.


I'll see if I can get a picture for an assains creed 2 competition up in the next few days.

[Jabo]

Umm, Wasker man … I think you're on fire.

The 3D-mecha, the self portrait, the sketchbook ladies, the flying stuff. So much awesome \o/

[Wasker]

thanks jabo! :)


here's some concepts for a fantasy RTS I'm working on. lame dump

[Mark Tarrisse]

Hey wasker, you seriously are awesome ! I'm really in admiration when I see your stuff, there is quality, originality, and the most important of all diversity ! (you do robots, fantasy, or even more cartony things, and thats an awesome thing my friend !)
Wanted to ask you something, do you plan to do a RTS by your self ? cause if so if you are looking for a nice game engine, you can try "unity" game engine, its pretty cool.
Anyway keep up posting and inspiring us man ! :yayca:

[dU5K]

cool updates. im so diggin the environments.. those 2 cottages are awesome. u did a good job of portraying a gloomy atmospehere. landscapes and enviros are definitely something i need to get into. good job. keep it up

[Kan Muftić]

lovely updates, buddy!

[MatejaPetkovic]

thanks jabo! :)


here's some concepts for a fantasy RTS I'm working on. lame dump

I was wandering, can you show these works, does NDA allows you too?

M

[GweNdZ]

your sketchbook is awesome! I love that little planet and those paper plane concepts look really cute :D
I love your stuff!

[Flaskpost]

argh, the char concept for the RTS is kickass. pro shiz my man!

[kingkostas]

thnx for production art mate.I always enjoy these things :).
Love the head gear of the RTS character :)
see ya

[Wasker]

Mark Tarrisse: hey Mark. I'm working on it along with some graphic guys and coders. I think it would be too hardcore to make it alone, hehe
I've heard of the Unity engine and the pros and cons of it (you can run it directly in the browser for example!) but the engine we are using is an inhouse engine made by our awesome coders. but ye, the Unity engine is pretty slick aswell. Thanks for the tips and comment , mark :)

dU5K: Thanks Dusk :) one of the teams are undead/cultists and are supposed to be a bit spooky. The battle rages over commandpoints (villages) that change appearance depending on which team owns them. I'm glad the eerie feel reads as intended.

Chupacabra: thanks Khan man. Love your 100 hands update <3

MatejaPetkovic: yup yup. it's a private non commercial project. No NDAs to be broken :) I've got a million images from other smaller or larger project that you'll probably never get to see due to NDAs though :P

GweNdZ: thank you Miss!

Flaskpost: haha thanks Flask!

kingkostas: Thanks Kostas :)


Here's a base unit, weapon variations and some house concepts for the bad guys.

[Wasker]

here are some textures I tried painting for a 3d scene. All of them are painted from scratch. The scene is a screen grab from the Maya viewport (meaning it's realtime as games are! no fancy renderz!). I tried going abit for a blizzard art style and I hope it reads as such.


anyway here's a texture sample and the scene. merry xmas CA :drinkup:

[Luckers]

Dude, i love your stuff! i wont waste too much words on it, it's just awesome! :D

I'm subscribing to your SB ;)

[Mark Tarrisse]

You seriously make me want to draw, paint, create ! thanks for the motivation man ;)

[Wasker]

Luckers n' Mark tarisse :) thanks


here's a concept for a though guy and some pants I sculpted afterwards.

[DanielC]

?? :c...images not showing up for me.

[Wasker]

Hmm, it showed up alright when I posted it but I cant see it either. Oh well, nothing a re-attachment wont fix :) thanks for the headups Daniel!

[JustinBeckett]

You are so so good.

[smokenmirrors]

very nice! I like the color/brushwork that you infused in the guys face, well done. :)

[Emil_]

Awesome stuff, love your mech paintings and models.

[Wasker]

JustinBeckett: thank you!

smokenmirrors: thanks fir that, I used a ref for the face but the body is 100% from teh mind

Emil_: thanks emil :)


here's an update on the handpainted environment I posted a few post back. I brought it into the unreal editor and took a screen shot. so.. here it is :)

some specs if you are intrested ;
Diffuse map+ spec map in UE. 4x256 1x512 and 2 64x64 textures. ~5k tris.

It's been really fun to do :)

[Wasker]

JustinBeckett: thank you!

smokenmirrors: thanks fir that, I used a ref for the face but the body is 100% from teh mind

Emil_: thanks emil :)


here's an update on the handpainted environment I posted a few post back. I brought it into the unreal editor and took a screen shot. so.. here it is :)

some specs if you are intrested ;
Diffuse map+ spec map in UE. 4x256 1x512 and 2 64x64 textures. ~5k tris.

It's been really fun to do :) I'm thinking of adding some glowing specks coming of the lanterns.

[RickyS]

Wow your rendering skills are badass! I like the concepts from post #642. I don't see how they are lame! The mood is great. :O same with the 3D environment, sick lighting! The way it's rendered makes it look like a painting, good work!

[Wasker]

Thanks RickyS :)

some sketches I did while playing around with cs5. The new brushes in ps have alot of potential . Cant wait to see what people with skillz can do with them :)
I did a lowpoly of the 3d guy i started a page back too1 It's ~9500 triangles in total with a 2048 texture map for the body and a single 1024 for the head.

[Vorace]

killer sketchbook!!!

[Sublimus]

That first one is badass!!

(I didn't even know cs5 was out, haha!)

[Mark Tarrisse]

Man your stuff is soo badass !

[Morgado]

Very cool stuff Wasker, nothing to crit really!

I'm especially digging the forest image

[conte]

you're damn ass kicker!

[Flaskpost]

update, bish!

[Rollingman]

sweet stuff man, lots of variety in yeh work. Can I ask how long you have been modelling? Again great stuff man

[Benjie]

forest pic is ace dude! need some more!

[aLDoDarK]

wow I really like your environment design, and your rendering is so awesome!

[GweNdZ]

envrionment is looking epic and that black guy in the armor suit just looks really awesome! keep it up :)

[insane lemur]

always loved your work wasker-realize its been about a year since you posted in here, you still alive?!

[Pigeonkill]

Those forest textures are really sweet.

[weashell]

omg you stop posting!!!!