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[_andreas_]

this SB wants to be deleted :)

[P.J.Irwin]

Great sketchbook. The vag monster is funny, the arms are really clever. Your cartoon style is also very good, I especially like the mario. The organic thing you have going compliments your linework(or is it the other way around?), I'd like to see what your style looks like inked with a brush. Have you see the jenny finn comic that Mignola and Troy Nixey made? Your style reminds me of Nixey. good work.


--MY SKETCHBOOK-- (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=91362)

[Blade-14]

Your stuff is very energetic and expressive, very good positive vibe here, throw some studies into the mix as well for u to gain a greater understanding of human anatomy, and figure gestures. Also try and train your lines so your strokes are more confident and clean this will compliment the appearance of your images even further. I'm trying the same thing myself, it is doing wonders for me.

But yeah keep the stuff coming and look fwd to seeing more. :D

[koppa]

cool man i dig ur stuff keep it coming

[bhanu]

DAMn good start to the sB man, this is soo cool.the lineowork is splendid.COol style too. SBubscribed. Would love to see more.

[ThomWell]

Crab People!
http://www.supervga.de/post5.jpg

Really nice, keep updating!

[bhanu]

sweet sketch updates brother. Great work. I love how this thread is turning out. Keep updating.

[myalias]

wow your stuff is very creative, like... i really mean that.
I love it

[minjarr]

thanks man, yer stuff is wonderful,

oh and if you live in Cali the store is in encinitas and it's called Rhino art

[Jens]

last page is really awesome, love the compostion and those creatures

i gave you 5 stars for the imagination and fun your stuff has..

there are some issues but i'm pretty sure you'll figure everything out
In some of your drawing it feels you're not using the full rendering capacity of your pencil.. like in the more rendered stuff (the "whine" one and the more rendered face above that).. Looks like you could go back in and make your darkest darks some darker.. key areas like eyesbrows, nose holes, hair, cast shadow underneath the chin, nose etc..

just my 2 cents and thanks for the inspiration!!

[bhanu]

oh man scanners, they are the bane of an artistslife.the updates are fuckinglicious, umm wanna see some. your sketches are crazy man, hm so when can we see the paintings.

[Gloominati]

hahah that's a cool sketchbook here! Your imagination is really great and the girl from your lifedrawingclass you drew looks hilarious (which means this drawing is SO cool :D) hehe.
There are some technical issues (like linework and rendering which tend to look a bit messy and rushed), but I'm sure that time and practice will wash em away. Keep goin mate!

[archipelago]

oh man this stuff is so cool... omg....


luff to u and your crazy imagination

[Call0ps]

great stuff, really creative works in this book :D plz show us more

[bhanu]

awesomus primus dude, the last updates are fun, so we are starting to see some color here. And man the colors are good. Post more colored stuff man.Hey tell are the phallic symbols intentional? just curious.
btw thanks for the support at my thread.

[bhanu]

ahh man I love when artists distort and make fun of batman. Oh and did I tell you, I got an andreas folder on my HDD.Its a subfolder of the inspiration folder. YOu get the drift , dont you?
Great stuff.

[Tigermilk]

Holy crap, I remember visiting this thread earlier, but I didn't comment unfortunately. Absolutely awesome work, love the sketches, the dude to the left is too cool - http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=142929&stc=1&d=1179951840 :)

You inspire me to pick up my moleskin again, thanks!
tiger

[bhanu]

Hey ya
ANdreas,
"2-days-without-drawing" pause or if i should work my way out of the mess.

Depends , what makes an artist a pro is the ability to draw even when you are in a funk moment.So it depends entirely on you at this point. FOr me , working my ass off when i am in a 'hole' helps. And yes Playing less starcraft might help too.

The latest updates are really nice, fluid.Its good to see you finally putting some colored stuff here. you still need to something fullfledged.The monster in the second pic sounds a lot like me when I am talking to girls.
Err what language is that, on the last page.Just curious.

[-sideshowbob-]

neat stuff :D u really start kicking <3

suggestion : do some learning to understand how to draw objects into space -> perspective -> foreshortening ! (most important) -> vanishing points

the more you understand about the draw volumes in space ... the easiererere it gets (any object is a volume and has the 3 x y z axis .. knowing about this should boost anyones skills and understanding .. get it ! )


keep up ! :wink: :xpld: :wink:

[hedwordup]

amazingly imaginative stuff and multiple genitalia good shit

[-K-]

Damn awesome sb bro, love your style. Particularily enjoyed the Vagina Monster, TV Head businessman, and "Old Batman" hahaha

Cheers, keep up the awesome!

[Windmaker]

Cool stuff:)
I like how imaginative your drawings are. Your works have a very graphic design-y feel to them:) And that floating tree sketch is awesome:)
Keep having fun!

[Zombie_dla]

Really love your style! I got no crits for you, sorry about that. Just wanted to let you know how awesome you are ;D Keep up the good work

[JARhead]

I dont got any crits either.
I like that whale thing and the mushroom eater thing... vary cool.
Man you got style, vary groovy SB man 100 times better then mine.

POST POST POST

[Piranha Clan]

Craziness. Cool SB.

[minjarr]

Thanks for the kind words,

Your stuff though is great, I love your sketchbook. There's a lot of great ideas and all of it seems to come from the heart.

keep it up man!

[bakatron]

what i love about your work is that youre always having fun. i really enjoy looking at all the doodles from your book.

[nonie]

Nice sketches, very stylish... Head studies are good :) Think about your light source before you shade, your shadows are spotty and a bit random.

[bhanu]

I thinking You shoud buy more cheap paper a make a mess of it, I learn a lot from the mess.your hatrchings are getting more confident.Nice brushwork too.

[Windmaker]

Hey:) I agree with bhanu. Messes are alot of fun:)
Also, nice update! The linework is really good and the graphic feeling keeps on being nice:)
If I were you I'd go a little easier with the hatching. Maybe try to use it only where needed, leaving more of the paper to show through. You loose some of the half-tones, but you gain more readabilty.

Keep having fun:)

[RETEP]

great SB !!

i have to see another animation, those were great!

[gunnarsson]

Good sketchbook i must say. I like it. You have a great style, a very good base and I think that when you get your "all must have'uhm" skills up high you will be invincible.
Your lines are beautiful and the imagination; I cant complain. The monsters and weird creatures are the most adorable. plus I shivered when I saw those hiragana tables...
Keep up the goodness now!

(oh btw, do you have swedish parents but live in australia?)

[ChromaticCodex]

very cool sketchbook, looks like your having alot of fun.. makes me want to dddraw!

[koppa]

these are great man :) duuno why i havnt looked here before very cool

[bhanu]

lovely development of the colors mate.
THe subtle tone shifts are very intriguing.

[gunnarsson]

hah, snappy snap-snap! I thought I'd baffle you with a spot on guess, but alas no luck there.
I just figured that Andreas is a name in sweden that I dont recognize in the english language. And people that do cool stuff in kind of this way ALWAYS live in Australia.
good update btw, good faces. the eyes are beautiful.

[Candra]

pretty pretty
I <3 the octopus creature thing
and lovely faces.

[Windmaker]

Hey:) Nice stuff again! There's something about the eyes you draw that I really like. And I like that city street sketch.
Keep having fun:)

[tensai]

this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=175064&stc=1&d=1185457048) looks dope. i wonder what ever came of it? like the your peeps and this (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=179347&stc=1&d=1186090753) as well.

do post some more.

[Tigermilk]

Hey Andreas,
some of these are so dreamy and awesome, I just wanna kiss 'em. ,)
I love the TVhead-dude and the girl from Düsseldorf. Great stuff

[wanimal]

u r my friend

[funfetus]

Man, very nice stuff. Very creative, and you're drawing is solid. I like the sense of design, as well. And the cartoony stuff is awesome. My only criticism is that your hatching tends to detract from the pictures, at least the way youre doing it now. It's kinda all over, and it doesn't really help show the form. If you really took the light source into consideration and hatched only in the shadows, I think it would make a huge difference.

Keep it up, you've got a good thing going!

[AmontilladoAg]

Weird SB :) I like your style...

Draw on! :teeth:

[bhanu]

ahh beautiful watercolos mate,
really a nice loose approach to them.I am tempted to use somemstyle close to this. Lets see. Anyways nice stuff dude.
Keep pushing.

[spudstudios]

very cool work. There is something deeper here than most books.

[Windmaker]

Wouldn't you know it, I've become a fan of your work... :)
Your linework is getting really nice.
Have fun now:)

[tensai]

nice load of weird and messed up stuff in here. love the variety. good luck with the hiragana, haha.

[Flaskpost]

That bag and the tree are both really really skitbra!
Keep up the fajjn work man!

[funfetus]

Well, when you post old stuff, it looks like you're regressing. :)

Not bad, anyway, and it does show that you've come quite a way.

I like those vectory characters. Nice style.

[tensai]

that's funny, cause i thought 'damn these (http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=183347&stc=1&d=1186740120) sketches are hot'...
might sound silly but i love that bag in the grass and the inked tree...

word.

[Windmaker]

Hello:)
I'm still waiting for new stuff, but the old stuff is cool too. This (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=183346&stc=1&d=1186740112) and that (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=183347&stc=1&d=1186740120) are my favourite old... stuffs... Anyway, I'm waiting for new stuff.
Have fun now:)

[Unedibleapple]

I'm really enjoying looking at your pictures, the girls face in the last one is nice with the subtle tones. Keep up the experimentation!

[bhanu]

awesome update man,
Now I would really like you to go bold with watercolors.try doing washes and stuff.your girls are really pretty.Thumbs up mate.

[Windmaker]

Hello again.
Wee! Update.
Anyway, I like the watercolur sketch. I mean the pencil sketch that's been coloured with watercolours. Or atleast looks like it has been. You know... that one (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=185046&stc=1&d=1187038660). The face is really nice.
And the painter doodle is... uhm... All that comes to mind is "person falling head first into giant field of black giant grass of doom". It is weird.
Have fun now:)

[Mitchell]

really like the sketch of the bag and the tree. Nice! Really digging your lines. keep it up.

[Wakkawa]

Yeah the wash of the girls face is really cool.

[bhanu]

hey andreas,
Nice WCS man.but I see tht you didnt explain the forms all that much. Hmm any reason for that?Any ways nice use of orange , but be careful about using them too much, they might be a little distracting.like on the forehead and beneath the nose.But I gotta say you have a great sense of color composition.

And yes those monsters are some of my favs Here at CA.
Thumbs up.

[Darkside]

very nice lines, as is already mentioned :D

"high five with a kid on the streets" ? well, this sure is a weird imagery haha

just a little crit, you tend to place the eyes not no a symmetric plane/line, all a bit shifted. not a big issue though, you just need to watch out for it.

[ped454]

I enjoy your inks. If you were to develop your technique a little more I think they would look fantastic. My fav. on this page is the portrait of the girl. lats

[Camara]

What a nice sb!Sweet pencils!Fun,imagination and inspiration through these pages!

[funfetus]

Good stuff, as usual! The drawings are great. I love all the faces, and the one monster with five eyes is really cool. I agree with what Bhanu said about the colors -- they don't seem to support the form much. It'd be awesome if you used the paint to give your stuff clearly defined light and shadow planes to make it really feel solid.

Keep it up!

[Windmaker]

Nice!
I like the five-eyed guy. Also, everything on the page with the cellphone-screaming guy is cool. He's the best though:)
And now, for something completely different: a suggestion on pencil drawing.
Maybe you could try "glazing" the drawing with light uniform pencil strokes after getting it to this level (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=187592&stc=1&d=1187427249) so that it gets a more finished look. That's a matter of taste though:)
Have fun now:)

[krakel]

what a pretty sketchbook :I .. The first of the 3 pics feels kinda picassoesque haha i like all three.. Maybe you could add some more texture.. add some color accents.. oor go in there with some rough "brush"strokes (oilish in artrage for example..)just some thoughts..

[DARAF]

Great imagination. Do some more.

[bhanu]

nice wierdities man,
Its good to start thinking form when coloring. What book have you actually got?All prima all you need to know about painting is a good book(although I havent tried it myslef ,but its highly recommended) , also do tonal studies in charcoal and pencil, cast/barque studies if you want too. Helps a ton.

take care.

[funfetus]

I like the new stuff -- you have a really distinct design style with your weird, amorphous creature orgies. Something about them kinda remind me of the first Angel you see in Evangelion. The woman's face in the first one is really good, too. You do great faces.

Bhanu's recommendation for Alla Prima: Everything I Know About Painting is a good one, but it's very focused on painting from life. It'll teach you some fundamentals about light and shadow that are very useful, though. It's also very expensive -- if you're gonna get it, make sure you get it from the author's site.

I'd recommend that you get a hold of Andrew Loomis' books (http://acid.noobgrinder.com/Loomis). They're all good, but Creative Illustration in particular has a lot of great information about form and value that should help you out a lot.

Keep it up!

[Sketch]

I love your blob/floating squid type monsters! Your work is full of energy... that I'm sucking on, really hard! yuk

[pomegranate]

your sketchbook is so much fun to look at. i love all the floating monsters like http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=115800&d=1180116191 so cool.

[AmontilladoAg]

Wow, that's quite a project you got goin' there :x Can't wait to see it finished :}

Your werk is always interesting...:)
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=185047&stc=1&d=1187038673 I really like this one.. seriously bold statement for the win :teeth:

Cheers :^^:

[bhanu]

YOu post those pics and youi call me me guy with great inks,pfff, your inking rules man.SO porfessional, the loving the blacks and the lines, whats the project about might I ask?
ANyways start reading the book and the post yer studies.
LAter.

[pomegranate]

(thanks man, i appreciate it)
that is going to look so freaking cool! your inking is so neat.
i think your drawings would look pretty sweet with some crazy psychedelic colours.

[pomegranate]

don't get discouraged!
have you tried watercolours? i think the transparency quality of watercolours would look neat with your blob monsters.
also check out Eleanor Yap's work, the way she uses colour in her drawings is very cool http://www.littlegalaxie.com/eyap/C.html

[bhanu]

Nice stuff dude. Like Pomegranate says , dont be discouraged. DO you know about using watercolor washes , the washes are the thing mainly responsible for the basic transparency in WCS.

Why dont you try Solon's tutorials, they are really helpful with WCs.

Portrait making in 45 minutes
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1234362&postcount=44

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1239054&postcount=67

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showpost.php?p=1244698&postcount=83

Solon as you can see is masterful with watercolors , I bet the links will be helpful.
Anyways keep having fun

[Sketch]

Your traditional work and sketchbook work is so good that I hate to see you waste your time with digital programs like zbrush, haha. Your stuff rocks!

[funfetus]

I think I missed an update there...

Very nice work. I like that we're seeing more people here. I like looking at people. Your figure drawing looks pretty good. I'd like to see a face close-up or two -- I wonder how the anatomy holds up under closer scrutiny. I also notice that most of your faces are very similar. I'd like to see a little more variety in the features and face shapes.

Also: Your stuff is still creepy as hell. Keep it up.

[Sean Vaul]

you have some really cool stuff!

[bhanu]

dude I missed an update....
So your in the painting a day group huh?I am interested as how you will adapt your style in color, now when are posting your first painting study???
ANyways nice sketches mate.Keep feeding the monstrocities.

[walnut]

Like the loose pencils, great way to to shading; you do tend to draw the same face all the time.

[Windmaker]

Hey:)
The last sketches are really nice! The linework on the boy here (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=201737&stc=1&d=1189685760) is great!
One thing that jumps out at me though, is that there are no accents in your drawings. Nothing darker to grab the viewers eye. This is OK to some degree when it's just linework, but you should try to restate some lines to strengthen their impact. In the aforementioned boy, for instance, I would go over the eyes, eyebrows, nose, mouth and chin again. Make them darker and the face will pop out.
Try doing this here too (http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=201734&stc=1&d=1189685716). Now the features get lost in the hatching which is of equal intensity as their lines.

Good luck! And keep having fun:)

[funfetus]

The first two are great, as usual. What's your inspiration for all that...stuff? What IS that stuff? It still looks awesome.

The master study is not so hot in my opinion -- your own drawings are much better. Maybe it's just the master you're studying...I dunno. It doesn't have the feeling of solidity and correct anatomy that your faces usually do.

The painting -- I dunno. There still doesn't seem to be a sense of form and mass coming through. I'm telling you -- check out that Loomis book, "Creative Illustration" if you have the time.

Keep it up!

[bhanu]

Hey man nice sketches.
The sketches are as good as always but the painting doesnt have much form , as it ahs been pointed out earlier.But keep practicing . IT will come. I can bet on it.

[funfetus]

Alright, guy, let's have some new art!

[Windmaker]

Nice!:)
I like the two running dudes the most:)
And the onion study. It looks a bit blurry though. What hardness are you using for your brushes? You should try either adding some sharper edges here and there or just increase the opacity of the brush. Also, try using an unsharp mask filter in Photoshop. It'll make your painting pop out.

Keep having fun now:))

[bhanu]

you said it man,
without walls thered be no breakthroughs. Nice color studies. YOu are getting better. GOt nuthing much to crit about . and yeah the last udpate was wierd.

[Windmaker]

Wooooo... ! That really is a weird update... I like the bluish version better. The blue colour kinda makes everything else look normal. I mean, if it's got blue skin to begin with it won't really bother me with a celery stalk between its legs. The other one is scary.
I agree on the walls. And breakthroughs. Let us be breaking walls now!

Break walls now:)

[pomegranate]

hahaha creepiest Prince in the history of the cosmos.

[Duckiller]

you have some kick ass stuff going on there, really like your free line and quick pencil rendering.

[bhanu]

hehe man your sketches rule.
And I like your wit too....NAked zombies ....that makes sense..wtf ....
hmm the name sounds like ash wood and ryalls comic , are they soemhow related.

Keep kicking ass, and thanks for comment at my comic thread.

[bhanu]

the last in my fav. of the bunch man. keep it up. and claws might just work wonders ......

[funfetus]

Hey man, sorry I haven't responded lately. Haven't been keeping up on CA for a few weeks. Anyway, great stuff, as usual! I love your cartoony stuff -- it looks so unique. I like the stylized word balloons (I think) that you throw around everywhere, too.

What I'd kinda like to see from you now is some serious academic stuff. Anatomy studies and the like. It might not be as fun, but it'll help push you to the next level.

[lildoggy]

Someone help! im new and i need to know how to post a sketchbook!

Plz help :nohope:

[funfetus]

Great stuff, man. I love the walk cycle on that crazy looking dude. Animation's something I never got into, but I always kinda wanted to. I can't really see taking the time to try to learn it right now, but maybe eventually... Your character designs are so cool. So much...character.

Great to see that you're doing some studies, too. It isn't fun, but it helps a lot.

I'm also wondering if you kinda look like your drawings (not the cartoony characters, of course). I heard someone say recently that most artists draw themselves, either consciously or unconsciously. I think it's true for me, and most of your faces bear a strong resemblance to each other. Eh.

Anyway, keep it up, man!

[Xaya]

Absolutely enjoying! Love that animated gif!!

Keep posting!!

[gunnarsson]

i'd like to know if you paint like you do cause you want to, or because you feel that rendering is hard... or is it something else? cause i would love to see you transferring your style in drawing to photoshop. it could be fantastical i think. You are obviously skilled in rendering and shading, so if you do have a hard time rendering in ps, just do what you are already doing with pencils. and talking about that, i gotta say that i admire those sketches/drawrings.:) i would like to be able to fill a page like that... ahhh... keep on doing this alot!:) see ya 'round!

[Tigermilk]

The alien with the love baloon is cute. :)
Great stuff

[bhanu]

nice stuff man,
the feet of the first girl arent that pretty, but I like your faces.... Nice game too.

[gunnarsson]

i'm truly impressed by that flash game! I think some sort of boss would be right up your alley, so if you would be able to do that with the programming and all, that would be fantastical. i bet you would do the best boss alive today. please please add some silly attack move for the dude, preferrably super-silly actually. maybe thats the entrance to using the backpack?

about the paintings, the new ones has what i was talking about, the face of the dude (?) looks sweet. Keep on going and use reference. if you do, you will see what you are doing wrong in places which you thought you did right. theres no shame in using refs! one other thing is that atleast from my experience, digital paintings often look like crap and you hate them in the beginning, but that it often gets alot better as you continue. so don't despair and keep on going! it might not work that way for you, but then, it might! hope i'm not lecturing here, its just that i dont know if you already know this stuff.:)

is that guy jellyfishing?!:D

[Kresh]

This is truely a wonderful sketchbook. All your human characters seem to have a sense of innocence about them...especially in their eyes, or perhaps its gentileness? Who knows but i like it.

Definately should work on the hands more, thats the only thing that fizzes out in your drawings. They're just as important as that face!

Fun stuff!

[funfetus]

I like the style of that game, but I died and I couldn't figure out why. :(

Nice digipaints -- keep goin'.

[Tigermilk]

haha, your flash game was awesome. Well at least I thought it was pretty alright until I found the waterbooster, or whatever you want to call it, and it became superdynamite. :D
Great stuff, we want an update!

[pomegranate]

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=223204&stc=1&d=1193081879
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=223206&stc=1&d=1193081901
loving these two a lot, i really like how everything looks joined together in you sketchbook and not just doodles floating around. the speech bubbles are awesome.
the game was a lot of fun too, the character is very cool.

[TheJester]

hey man, I love your work!!!! especially the creatures and the faces.

But I have to say, I think tyhe doodl-y stuff around your characters, are the most genius things in your sb!!!! keep up, really looking forward to see more!!

[marioucci]

five pointy ones from me.

Fantastic madness

[funfetus]

Man, you have such a weird visual vocabulary. Really cool. I'd like to see you trying new different stuff too, though. I guess that applies to everyone, me included.

[krossj]

Very nice drawings in the last post andreas, I really like the second and the last two images, cool ideas with well executed line and rendering. Would like to see more like them!

Cheers

[Clodioz]

:D your sb is cool!
I like your creatures, ideas concepts,,, and so on..
and speacially your pencil! I really like your shading"!

[Brendan N]

agree with krossj on this last one - much better and more interesting shapes than the others and the linework is looking good. As an overall crit I'd say clean up some of you linework and rendering and work some more on shapes and rhythm.

cool though, like your attitude :)
keep it up!

[Sketch]

Damn meng, you're killing it! Lovin everything thing on these latest posts!

[purb36]

andreas - thx for stopping by my book. nice work you got here. great characters and giving them life. hands and feet need much practice though. remember you can express a lot with the hands. flash game was fun; hobos fo' life! take care man, and g'luck with the studys. japanese? gambatte! :cheerleader:

[Carbono]

I like your style! I just believe you should draw more meat and bones, they are always fun and always good!
I love the studies too!
Keep it up man!

[Flipnastywebby]

if you havent already check out keith thompson
http://www.keiththompsonart.com/gallery.html

you will learn a lot from what hes done.

Slainte!

[funfetus]

Nice update, man. I love all that solid color stuff. Good work on putting some variety into the faces, too.

You know what I'd like to see from you? A real, solid scene.

[Kaoki]

super cool stuff!!!!
you have a new fan :D haha
i love your imagination

[algenpfleger]

totally digging the looseness of your lines man, and your style is really cool.

[funfetus]

You draw a very distinctive nose.

Looking forward to that flash game!

[pomegranate]

i'm loving this http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=286279&d=1200951054
your last few updates are great, your are improving a lot. and i really like what you have been doing with the faces.
i agree, 2008 is going to be so awesome.

[Merlin]

Nice book! your pencil sketches are very cool, I like the lines.

[funfetus]

A page full of hands is always a worthwhile investment.

Nice trees, too. I need to do some of that.

[bhanu]

Hey man ........good start to the new page...but I wanna see you push more in your own direction........

Hmm hows the syndrome?????
I know its fucking bad not being able to do things that you love.
Much love brother..
Take care and keep grinding

[Diego]

nice pencils man, very effective line work. Really like the hatching in the tree.

[gabrieljosh]

Try this easy exercise to stretch the tendons and ease the symptoms of carpal tunnel syndrome. (http://www.ergonomic-resources.com)

1. Extend your wrists and fingers outward, ahead of your body, positioning your hands and fingers toward the ceiling, like you are signaling someone to "stop".

2. Wait five seconds in this position, then relax and straighten both wrists in front of the torso.

3. Keeping the arms straight out front, clench both hands in a fist.

4. Rotate the wrists down to the floor while maintaining a fist and then hold for five seconds.

5. Relax and straighten both wrists and hands into their normal position and repeat the above steps for as many as five to seven more times.