Hermchens sketchbook

[Hermchen]

I want my own sketchbook. So here I start...

C&C are are most welcome!

My first four pages...

Some with foto ref. some outa me mind.


[page 1]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page1.jpg


[page 2]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page2.jpg


[page 3]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page3.jpg


[page 4]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page4.jpg

[Hermchen]

page 5 to 7


[page 5]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page5.jpg


[page 6]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page6.jpg


[page 7]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page7.jpg

[Iiori]

These are great, I really can't see anything wrong with them. so Im sorry I can't give to much crit.

Sehr gut.

[sic1]

Nice figures,your shading is very effective! Post more :)

[jester]

Hi Hermchen, long time no see! :)

Good to have you filling your own sketchbook, too!

Great stuff BTW!

Jester

[Hermchen]

Thank you for the comments!

I was hoping you could give me some real criticism, too :)

@Jester It's true, I didn't attend Concepart.org for some time or not frequently enough. That is because of some new things in my life I am getting used to. I worked at a small design company as a trainee. In Sebtember I'll start studying design in Cologne at it's university of applied science. I'm really looking forward to that! But soon I'll have some holidays, all arranged for drawing :) BTW, what the heck is the Middle Class? How can I become a member?

Now here comes the next page. The woman on the left and the man on the top are drawn from real life within 5 minutes at a railway station. The athlete is drawn with fotoref.. Took about 13 minutes.
[page 8]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page8.jpg

[jester]

Hi Hermchen,

hmnmmn real criticism? Difficult! Your pics are really good IMO. Therefore you should try to get on to the next level and start "real pictures", i.e. with a topic/theme, fore- middle and background. You do the same as I in just putting on paper what interests your eye and mind but a concept artist should be able to create whole scenes, environments and so on.

You could also try color (oil, acrylics, watercolor...).

The middle class was brought to life by I.was.ink, MindCandyman and myself some time in January/February. We were annoyed that we were neither noobs nor pros and wanted to get assignments from the pros. Which we didn't get, naturally. So we decided to form a middle class and give the tasks and crits to ourselves.

Anybody who seriously wants to learn to draw is welcome. We only ask for persistency and giving constructive crits. Just check out the Middle Class sub-thread - it's all in there (Lots to read...)

My congrats to you being accepted by the FH Cologne! This was my dream 20 years ago... what the hell, I did something different, earned quite a lot of money and have my own one-woman-company now (why cry over spilled milk?) :D But I love drawing in my spare time and I am very happy that I really improved over the past 3 years - much because of CA!

Carry on!

Jester

[Hermchen]

@Jester Thank you Jester. Nice reply. I will certainly check the middle class thread. Perhaps I want to join you. We'll see. What kind of one-woman-company is that you have, if it's not too personal?

Here is page 9 - page 11, all from life



[page 9]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page9.jpg

[page 10]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page10.jpg

[page 11]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page11.jpg

[jester]

Hi Hermchen, no, it's not too personal. I'm a marketing consulter for small and medium enterprises (SME, in Germany called KMU). In case you are interested or know someone who needs professional external marketing services, go to Rat & Tat Marketing (http://www.rat-und-tat-marketing.de). This is shameless selfmarketing, too :D

Great life studies. I'll stop working in about half an hour and do some drawings, too!

Have a nice weekend.

Jester

[Hermchen]

no ref.

[page 12]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page12.JPG

[page 13]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page13.jpg

[page 14]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page14.jpg

[Hermchen]

This guy is an archer who lives near by the sea. Mainly on the shore. His armor is mostly out of shells. He can hide his head in the breast plate like a turtle, still able to fire arrows.

[page 15]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page15.jpg

[page 16]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page16.jpg

[Hermchen]

[page 17]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page17.jpg

[page 18]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page18.jpg

[Erik Hageman]

nice sketches. i have the hardest time sketching from photos. i would recommend 2 things.

use the side of your pencil to shade in value, not just a little of the tip or the point, use the whole thing and drag it around to create broader, richer vlaues. good value will carry a sketch farther than good line work.

also your line work is nice, interesting and varied. but i would suggest using it more to define form than to outline things, use it more sparingly to define where things overlap, change direction, etc not merely to contain the shading.

a teacher of mine had us draw only with value for a whole semester. no line. it was hard as shit but eventually it worked and much more convincingly and faster than starting with lots of lines.

i use lines to come up with concepts, but value for life drawing.

[jester]

Erik, Hermchen's Style of shading is similar to what is usually taught in Germany. I found that many teachers asked me not to do values with the side of the pencil as described by you. Don't ask me why, though, when I see Kevin Cheng's class demos I can't see what should be wrong with using that method. Probably it's just a very "academic" point of view. I like using that method, too, because it's fast and comes quite naturally. Hmm, I should stop ranting... ;)

Jester

[killing.people]

hermy:
you know you are insane. what are you sketching for? practice is for mortals. :p

[Hermchen]

@killing.people: Uh, ah. Thanks for the flattering! I'm not insane. I'm just trying to use the time sitting in a train or at a station for art. OK, I could imagine really brave concepts within this times, but that is something I have to work on: beeing brave. Sketching people or stones or whatever shows me, that everything is possible, and that there are millions of shapes that haven't been drawn at all. Once I thought, that it could be possible to know all the human architechture and from that, create every human I could imagine, then I found myself drawing stereotypes because I wasn't brave enough to imagine.

@Erik Hageman and Jester: I know about all this, and you can belive me when I say, I see in values and their forms, overlaps and I try to develope my sight for planes.
I mostly start laying down the values, but I know about my problem with outlines. I will practice using them more wisely.
Most of the sketches are done within 10 minutes or less, so I don't care if they are that rich of values. Look at Kevin Cheng's class demos and you will see, that 4 values can take a sketch far enough for it beeing a sketch.
Once someone on this board told me my style (he referred to a self portrait) was very german and I couldn't find out why. Now I think I know why -> because of the lines!?! It's true that my teachers said, use a sharp pencil's tip and don't smudge! They told me otherwise the drawing would look dirty. I don't smudge, but when I use the side of the pencil sometimes it becomes like smudging and the image does look dirty. So I think every kind of technique can be used, if it's used wisely and with the knowlegde of where it will lead you.

[TheBlasianOne]

i like the sea archer design. nice original idea:)

[Hermchen]

@killing.people: I thought again about what you wrote. You really made me wake up a bit. I mean on the one hand it could have been just flattering, but on the other hand why should you flatter me? It made me gain selfconfidence, really. And thats why I tried for a more finished kind of art at the Magic Cards Redesign (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=8584&perpage=20&pagenumber=7) thread.
Finally, I want to say thank you. I appreciate. :waves:

[Hermchen]

Another page. Hallelujah...

[page 19]
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page19.jpg

[endregan]

welcome to the daily sketch crew. you surpass me and i really like your imagination. any artist cant go without it !! :)

[endregan]

i like all of these and especially the first one its great :) gJ!

[buffaloe]

wow, very imaginative creatures there! I love the depth in the first piece... nice job!

[Hermchen]

Thanx guys.

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/anja_1.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/anja_2.jpg

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/wooddemon_1.jpg

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page20.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page21.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/girly.jpg

[jester]

Hermchen, that monster looks great! Righ-click-safe-to-disk ;)

Jester

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/Philox/Philox_6_white.jpg

[Robolus]

The last two monsters are REALLY GOOD! Wow!:thumb:

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/Cocoon/cocoon_1_lines.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/Cocoon/cocoon_2_guache.jpg

[Fipse]

The last one - the gnome with the sword - is really great. It shows you´re developing a unique style. Keep on with the good work!

Fipse

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/tomb.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/doodles/luckyone.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/skebo_page22.jpg

[onurbasaldi]

wow, nice job. I really like the horse/bug thing that you have their.
Keep it up:trippy:

[Coma]

Large improvments. Nice work!

[endregan]

nice man your style is pretty cool :)

[morbidhumor]

Nice stuff. Love the horse-thing. The colored face at the bottom is also very good.

[rubygenesis]

wow, great stuff. i luv that sep01 post with its rendered version very nice, strange plant life coool....

[steak-tron]

these are cool hermchen. Your fantasy designs are very unique, I especially like the humanoid bio-robot (both), and the worm creature, the rendering is very nice. I also like the style change for the guy with the backpack, good color and pattern. I assume it's digital. looks tight.

[Hermchen]

After months full of christmas and studies...new pic...

Thank you for your kind comments everyone.

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/Pictoplasma/fish.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/vector/tentacle1.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/vector/milbeundco.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/vector/fish.jpg

[m0rph]

Originally posted by Hermchen
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sw/Philox/Philox_6_white.jpg

AMAZING, I love the movement and creativity there.

[Hermchen]

@morph: thank U

This one was ment for DSG but I had no chance to post it in time. Topic was: Balrog

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/doodles/Balrog.jpg

[Hermchen]

some sketchies

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/anneliese.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/boogle.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/demoep.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/dix.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/drox.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/eyk.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/feeble.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/froopey.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/narcey.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/smick.jpg

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/synthia.jpg

[HolyDude]

Wow, nice sketches. I like the versatility of your drawings. A sweet nanny on the one hand and the next picture is again a well-imagined monster with a variety of nice details...?

P.S.: I looove that flying horse!

[TheUbermind]

this last picture would look awesome in color. other than that this thread kicks ass:evilbat:

-theubermind

[TheUbermind]

i would like to say that i was looking at other pic a page back so don't think i meant these above

-theuberidoit

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/floating_man.jpg

[van]

Cool style, man! I cant believe I missed your sketchbook. :)

[elboy]

wow, stylistically you're all over the place. if you told me 5 different artists posted in this thread, I'd believe you. but it's a testament to your skill that you can produce good images in various styles. I've heard that clients look for illustrators w/ a set style, but I could be wrong. Anyway, one has to experiment to find a style, and this is a sketchbook anyway. no rules. just right. oh wait, now I'm thinking of something else... (American tv commercial. sorry.) Nice stuff. ^^

[Hermchen]

I really dig your replies guys. Thank you.

Though I am faaaaaar away from daily I'll continue to post here. I bought a new sketchbook. Taking this as occasion here is a new sketch. And maybe some older ones from my last sketchbook could follow.


http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/Gargoyles.jpg
gargoyles in pencil and fineliner

[Hermchen]

I decided to add my DSGs to create some overview.

Banshee:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/Banshee.jpg

Egypt God:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/349egyptgod.jpg

Hellboys new pet:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/524Hellboysnewpet.jpg

Necromancer:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/525necroman.jpg

Engineer:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/540engineer.jpg

DSG-Bot:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/DSG-bot.jpg

Abandoned Robot:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/abandonedrobot.jpg

Carnivorous Gardem
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/dsg370_carnivorous_garden.JPG

Pirate:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/pirate.jpg

Hounted Hotel In Dark Forest:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/hountedhotelindarkforest.JPG

[Rusty]

wow!!!...the most beautiful DSG`s eva.
Bashee one is my personal fave.

Jace

[t.m0]

Nice Painter work (or PS or whatever;)). Really love the lighting on some of those! Page 19's my fav. Keep it up!

cheers.t

[guggemmaneuver]

WHY!? am i abandoned?

great work Hermchen... My favorite is the carnivorous garden. Beautiful use of colors to build an environment. Your incredible mastery of tone results in some FLESHY friggin forms-:) Oh yeah! The ink studies are very very interesting. I like how you can switch gears from a realistic to a whimsical to even a cartoonish style!

ON a dime, baby, on a dime!

Regards,
the gugg.

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/559amberscape.jpg

This is the latest DSG.

Thank you guys! I apprechiate your comments.

@guggenmaneuver: Switching gears was once pointed out as my weakness, not having my own style. But I keep on switching. Thank you for pushing :bashful:

[Hermchen]

Another pencils work. Obviously done for todays DSG.

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/560hellknight.jpg

[Hermchen]

Another DSG: 576 God of Past

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/576GodOfPast.JPG

[Snotboebel]

Hermchen, I truly love your work ! :P

[jungsangchoe]

nice work man... keep them coming... i like ur ideas on fantasy...

[Hermchen]

Hi ESCUDERO,

I think you should first try to understand where you post before adding replies. If you have that much trouble understanding english, than ask someone else to help you.

I am sorry that you posted YOUR illustrations into MY sketchbook. Please repost them into the Finally Finished Forum, if you want to get feedback. And, please, delete your post here, would you?

Thank you.

[ESCUDERO]

Hi Hermchen

Sorry, I think that I have could deleted the post. I will to try post in other forum of this page. Sorry, and thank for the advise

[Hermchen]

http://kisd.de/~daniel.h/postingstuff/sketchbook/ikeastorm.JPG

Still life color studie of a lamp inside my room. I didn't paint for too long. Oh my.

[Waht67]

Dude your stuff is good... however... on the sketches u put its usually lots of shading and a few highlights or lots of highlights few shading

[Dictator Oz]

I love so many pics but one just blow me away god from the past. Continue your good work!

[Jeroenadmiraal]

Hi Hermchen.

Good work you got here man! From two of your pictures I would very much like to know how you made them. For instance the bug/horse creature and the dude with his sword sitting under the tree. What materials did you use and how did you work it out?

Jeroen

[corky13]

wow the color study blows me away...which medium did you use for this ? doesn`t look like oil or acrylics...digital or am i getting blind ? (well 7 dioptries...half way behind :D )

[Hermchen]

@Jeroenadmiraal:
Thanks:)
The bughorse and the swordsman are both pencils, inks and black and white guache mixed with water and used aquarell-like. For the bughorse I searched for some references on horses and wesps. The shading is made with black guache laying down one layer over another. The last step was to put down the highlights using white guache.

@corky13:
It's digital. Painter9 and I prefer the conté most time.

Thank you for response. :^^:

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/androidweb.jpg

This one is for today's DSG but I want to post here for comments, too. I'm not used to draw machines, hence the wide shapes:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/775medicflyer.jpg

[Hermchen]

I scanned in a few pages from my last sketchbook. Critique and comments are welcome.

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp40.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp41.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp42.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp43.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp44.gif
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http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp46.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp47.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp48.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp49.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp50.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp51.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp52.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp53.gif

[cotron]

nice variety of stuff, lots of fun stuff going on. i like the color stuff from page 1, hope to see more!

[Hermchen]

Inspirated trough this thread (http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=46489&page=1&pp=60) I drew Baraka from Mortal Kombat 2.

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp54.gif

No reference used, hence the anatomical issues.

[Hermchen]

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp56.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp57.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp58.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp59.gif
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/sbp60.gif

[ashemoto]

All good

Some very good

Some excellent

Some pure classic

I love your work and your creativity.



Ashemoto

[Hermchen]

Thank you for your truth ;D

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/greenbrown.jpg
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/Piratesisle.jpg

two speedpaintings, both an hour, both painter 9 artist oil

[Jaster]

Wow you have an extremely good sense for the use of colors. Especially the last one with the castle is very moody.

[Hermchen]

Thank you for visiting.

No refs. for these:
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/hottimes.jpg
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/blueportrait001.JPG
http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/sketchbook/greyportrait001_web.jpg

[omni1]

like the photoshop type stuff, should do more

[Hermchen]

I need better understanding of the human anatomy. So I bought a book called "Menschen zeichnen" ("Drawing Humans") by Gottfried Bammes. I'll try to draw and learn from that book. This is my first approach. (page 117)

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/Bammes/S117_Bein.jpg

[sve]

Hello, Hermchen. Well, first of all, thank you so much forthe joy looking at your work. I love it and very much impressed.
I personally didn't like pencils effect. Thought it's too monotone. But it's not the case with you. Your pencil work is dynamic and full of life. It actually looks very much like pen drawings. Wonderful!!
The Japanese girl with sword,a pen street sketches, the only still life you showed ( such a crystal pure feeling), Carnivorous Gardem, Enchanted Hotel, black painting of a guy with fire; a flying man a la Chagall, all this work is great, great, great!

http://home.arcor.de/hermchen/postingstuff/DSG/abandonedrobot.jpg http://www.books-about-california.com/Images/The_Jewel_City/The_Thinker.jpg

I'm laughing, you are so funny! >:D >:D >:D Thank you very much!
Sveta Dudetta

[Lingmerth]

You have an amazing understanding of colors and aren't affraid to play around with them. (This is something I need to learn). Wonderfull gallery and a nice site aswell

[ArcoNL]

Great sketchbook...

[ESCUDERO]

>***************
>You have an amazing understanding of colors and aren't affraid to play around with them. (This is something I need to learn). Wonderfull gallery and a nice site aswell
>***************


HI,
You had sended to my this e-mail (up)^. But, Had you seen my web page in: escudero.devianart.com, or where? I have several pages. Look this (http://escudero.deviantart.com/gallery/, it´s new)
I don´t know that you had seen. Because, I couldn´t understand this e-mail, sorry. Can you reply me? thanks.
a_c_escudero@Hotmail.com