Alien Ape Star`s Sketchbook

[Alien Ape Star]

Hello! Here are a few older sketches..

[Piranha Clan]

Nice. I like the chick riding the dino. Reminds me of Aeon Flux style figures. You should finish it.

[Piranha Clan]

The baby is creepy...*shudders*...

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanx! :pirate: About the chick: i`ve seen aeon flux a few years after i drawn that but i admit the fact that manga and anime are a big influence on my work. About the alien child: goood, that was my intention!
Now, some more sketches...:zzz:

[Alien Ape Star]

some anatomy sketches and studiezzz:360_old: :yayca:

[vigostar]

this my friend is awesome

[Renier van der West]

Excellent! Love the studies and the rough handling of the inks, it really works
This sb rocks! ill be back!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanx Vigostar, that thing spawned out of my boredom.. We were supposed to draw still life in my first year of college and I thought why not make the composition evolve by adding something that looks accidental... something like a coffe spill and I thought of rendering and coloring only inside the splash. Of course my assistents and instructors were not so keen on this kind of experiment so they did not get it... :^^;:

Thanx Renier van der West, I promise I will post some new sketches soon. :yayca:

[Heather]

It' great to see you around here,Alien Ape star ;).......you've made a wise decision to start posting your stuff here rather than on visualart.ro , trust me :D.............I'm really impressed by the real life drawings you've made at the night drawing session in my university :confident: especially since I'm not even close to your level ......which reminds me I should start doin some anatomy studies .... >_<
I also wish you lots of good luck at the 75th chow.
kisses. elle :)

[Cup of Joe]

Great stuff, the one Vigostar pointed out is particularly fantastic.
You really seem to know your anatomy, but just so I don't post without really saying anything, In the anatomy studies, the palms of the hands seem a bit short, and the skulls facing us seem a little thin.
Keep up the great work!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanx for everything, Heather :^^: ..

Thanx, Cup of Joe, i`m really sorry that I did not continue those experiments, but who knows, maybe in the not so distant future you guys could see more of the same experimental craze :perv: Thanx for the critics. Yeah, come to think of it a fresh eye is really usefull when it comes to a critique view of your own work. You are right, especially the palmar surface, the study on the left, seems that the palm-fingers ratio is a bit out of place but let`s remember that when drawing an ecorche you are drawing without skin, so everithyng you are used to, when it comes to proportions it`s a bit different since the skin, and also, the fat layer under the skin in some places is missing, so almost everything you draw will seem actually skinnyer, shorter, longer , anyway just different..:^^;: And about the skull being "thin" , i bet you ment a bit tall, right? Well first of all I really like drawing tall people so that must be the case, but also, I did not have a real human skull as a reference, just an old plaster model of a skull that was used in the anatomy study classes, and besides the view is a little bit looking down on it so must be a bit of a perspective distort.. Anyway thanx a lot for the crits.. it really help me to understand more about what I need to improve in my art :^^: :zzz:

[Alien Ape Star]

Some old sketches I just scanned. They`re all made in 2007 except the manga chick.. (that`s made in november 2006 i guess) but a few months ago so they`re not that old..:confident

[SEVANS]

Very nice sketchbook. I would offer some advice or crits but really all I can say is keep drawing and posting.

Love the Dino rider and the robot giving the girl a flower images. Great poses and nice clean linework.

[Alien Ape Star]

Thank you Sevans, Ill do that, ill keep drawing and posting. Please don`t "puss out" of giving a crit. Onesty is the best policy in my book, so SHOOOT! :^^:

[SEVANS]

I would have given a crit, but there was no obvious area that I could see that needed working on.

Not saying it's perfect, just that you seem to have the basics down.

[Amazing Action Ape]

I see a huge contrast interms of quality. It appears that the majority of well drawn stuff you have done, you used other artists as reference or possibly you traced them? (Katsuya Terada, Ashley Wood, Skydoll artist, etc) If this is the case please label it as a study, and give the artists proper credit.

As for your life drawings, keep doing them, but think more about landmarks, and interior lines. Looks like the majority of them are just outlines, with no real sense of form, or line quality. Think more about which lines should be darker and stronger, and which should be thinner and lighter.

[Smoke]

I have GOT to see more, this stuff is addictive.

Great work!

[Alien Ape Star]

It appears that the majority of well drawn stuff you have done, you used other artists as reference or possibly you traced them? (Katsuya Terada, Ashley Wood, Skydoll artist, etc) If this is the case please label it as a study, and give the artists proper credit.

Looks like the majority of them are just outlines, with no real sense of form, or line quality. Think more about which lines should be darker and stronger, and which should be thinner and lighter.

Well thanx for your quickie crit but if you would have been a bit more slower in processing my art you would have noticed that the well drawn stuff was labeld correctly. All you have to do is right click on the images and under file name you will see stuff like : "bilalian, Domu-katsuhiro otomo- fan art (metal engraving), Ludovique- style research Skydoll, Roy- style research Skydoll, style research Corneliu Baba, tank boy from Stand Alone Complex, clean_up style research-Ashley Wood, popbot_gun-style research-Ashley Wood, old_guy-style research-Ashley Wood, luis royo inspired "


About the other crit, the constructive one, about the line, and how should I have modulated it, thank you. I know that mostly because of my education (7 years of fashion design - 3 in high school, 4 in college) I tend to think my art in outlines and contours rather then volumes, and that my hatching technique should be improved following volumes and shapes. But I guess it was clear that in some cases I intended to use just contours or outlines, look it up, I guess it`s called line-drawing, and it`s not a sign of amateurism or kitsch, it`s just a drawing technique , nothing else.

About "tough chick", the one you think I traced it from a Katsuya Terada artbook, I admit that it was a mistake to not label it as an inspired work, because that`s just what it is, vaguely inspired. Not traced. I started to draw since I was 4 years old , and as I said before, I have artistic background so to trace another drawing, even my own, ould seem to me very amateur-ish and unacceptable. I will post the references later so everyone could see that i`m not bullshiting. :zzz:

It blows my mind to find out that someone could think that I could trace some very famous artist artworks, not giving them credit and get away with it :xpld:

[Alien Ape Star]

now, that the battle of the apes is over (hopfully :^^;: ) , thank you Smokey, but you give me too much credit..I still have a lot of basics to cover.. hatching, perspective, human proportions etc... anyway we are all students and study we shell, `till we die! :^^:

[Sealegs]

Ahoy there Alien Ape Star! Grrreat sketchbook! love some of theses studies, and these imagination drawings... keep posting!

[Amazing Action Ape]

My apologies for the "tracing comment", I am glad to see you've cleared it up and educated me promptly on your sources. But, not everyone (aka very very few) is going to take the time and right click an image to see its name. JUST to make things clearer, so OTHER people dont get the wrong impression like I did, please just label it in the picture or in your post! Simple as that! :D

Ahahaha I am fully aware of what a line drawing is, and my critique was not directed towards those, as I can see your well aware. However even in your line drawings, things look really flat. Try to have your lines curve around the figure, around the form, to really push that illusion of 3D. Alot of the times, your lines curve, but not nearly enough to make your drawings pop. Now that I know most of your education was spent in fashion design, If you want to draw more convincingly, use this advice. If you prefer not to, then dont. No one here is forcing you to listen to what I or anyone else says.

[Alien Ape Star]

Ahoy there Sealegs and thanx a lot!:D

Apologies accepted, Amazing Action Ape. Okay, point taken, it`s faster and better for everybody to leave a short text in the image, I`ll do that from now on. I totally accepted your advice concerning line drawing, don`t think you are the only one who has given me this advice :blahblah: ... I need to draw more often, a few hours a day at least...>:D But I already have a full time job from 9 in the morning till 18 in the afternoon so that means I can draw only in the morning between 3 a.m. and 8 a.m. and at work when I take a 10 -15 minute breather....:$

I`m glad we could reason ape to ape :^^:

now, here are some fashion stuff :inject:

[Kfeeras]

hooot!!!

[dkounios]

your anatomy rocks man.
great sketchbook. the pencils on the elderly lady are amazing.
and that chick riding the dino way at the top. Amazing.
keep it up man.

[Alien Ape Star]

your anatomy rocks man.
great sketchbook. the pencils on the elderly lady are amazing.
and that chick riding the dino way at the top. Amazing.
keep it up man.

Thanx Dkounios but let`s not blow this out of proportion :^^;: I still have a lot to learn, for example I kinda suck at drawing hands or feet. :S The elderly lady (the one drawn in pencil not the other one in sepia) is my grandmother :^^: (from my mother side)

Thanx Kfeeras!

[Liam Harvey]

awsome stuff. you have my envy and admiration for such imaginative ideas and use of the human figure.

[SEVANS]

Great updates. Really love some of the 'wash' pics.

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=152789&stc=1&d=1181739671

[Chaotica]

Jeesus christ ...too fuckin gwed! ur figure art are top notch man! great sketch book!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanx everyone! :rendered:

[loveandasandwich]

In your second to last drawing you posted, I've totally drawn that hot asian lady too. It's such a lovely picture. You have a much different take on it, I like it. I was just trying to do portraits better.

Your stuff is really great. You have such a good grip on anatomy. D: I'm jealous. I struggle with it so bad.

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanx again, guyz.. I`ve made some sketches for the COW but did not had the time to do a finished work or post anything.. so I`ll do that here ... in a few dayz:confident

[chiodo]

nothing to say, except for i reeaaaly like your work.
the concepts, the lines, the watercolours. great stuff. keep it up!

[SEVANS]

Nice updates, missing the ink and pencil work though.

[Alien Ape Star]

thanx, Sevans. I`ll post some old style research marker sketchez, hope those will stop your thirst for ink and pencil. >:D I made those about 2 months ago.... maybe more :zzz:

[Glottis]

You´ve got a very nice collection of styles going on here... rather enjoyable looking at your book
subscribing to this one! :D

[Alien Ape Star]

this is a result of a tutorial i have done from the book "how to draw mecha", i made some lines thicker and added a reflection on the ground just for the fun of it ^______^

[(c)]

man I love what I see here!!! its nice that u can changes style like some people their underware ;)
keep on running man !!!

[Liam Harvey]

holy shit!!! i have that how to draw book!
i brought that thing AGES ago!

also i like your robot that you tend to illustrate a lot, it has so much character and the simpleness of its design is all kinds of awsome.

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanx a lot (c) an Gerbil! Well I found that how to book 3 years ago but still din not finish using it.. it-s a lot of help and fun :yayca:

[Alien Ape Star]

A style research based on a Katsuya Terada illustration. 50-60 minutes woking time in Artrage 2.0. The illustration with the two tatooed girls it`s actually a cd cover for the japanese band California Dolls.

[Alien Ape Star]

a couple of 20 `` wips :mod:

[Dan Valkar]

hey man, nice sb u have...very interesting and creative ideas...funny to see....nice pencils and inks lines...keep postin'!!!!!

[Alien Ape Star]

just thought of finishing that half portrait :perv:

[Alien Ape Star]

I finally bought Katsuya Terada`s "Monkey King" published from Dark Horse :steph: and I started to draw a few sketches based on it. Here is the reference scan and my pencils. And also I started doing some animal anatomy...:mittenbop: here`s a horse, not quite finished, but the basic shapes are there.. just need to find some time to render the muscles.:harbl:

[Alien Ape Star]

worked a little more on the horsie..

[Alien Ape Star]

kinda finished

[Alien Ape Star]

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[Alien Ape Star]

:anime:

[voraz]

Hi, just subscribed your sketchbook.
lots of work here, nice stuff too!
cheers

[Alien Ape Star]

Thank you, Dan Valkar & voraz. I really apreciate this. :bashful:

Another monkey king sketch. Copyright Katsuya Terada, this is just fan art! :lifedrawing:

[sony]

i have just started to look at your work and still looking it, very nice work really. your studies are to motivational and awesome, still diggin' your post and yes i would like to hear your comments on my studies and stuff,

[Alien Ape Star]

thanx, sony! :lounge:

[Alien Ape Star]

Merry X-maaaas!

[Liam Harvey]

cool stuff, are you at all going mad no one is replying to your posts i would be going insane!

please post more as it is nice to see such variaty by one person.

[Alien Ape Star]

:steph:

[Alien Ape Star]

:anime:

[Dan Valkar]

really nice horse!!!!

[destinyapocalypse]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=152789&stc=1&d=1181739671



i love this image it is fantastic

[erik-jan v/d schuur]

wow your sketchbook is amazing
very cool experiments

[sony]

Hey long time no post whats up!
Hey post 65 CUTE!!!

do look at my sketch book as well i had updated it in different dimension!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thank you everyone. I`m kinda back. Could not sleep tonight so I started working on a portrait. :mod:

[Alien Ape Star]

:steph: :mittenbop: :anime:

[Alien Ape Star]

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[Alien Ape Star]

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[RETEP]

all your studies do the sketchbook good!
i see you like ashley wood(me too :D ), i don't know if you know him but Kent Williams is great too (somewhat relatable style, err kinda).
keep it up!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanx.. here`s some more stuff..:oneye:

[bakadoodle]

So glad you decided to pop into Spartan Camp. Otherwise I might never have seen this outstanding sketchbook. Love Love Love. Can't wait for more.

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks, bakadoodle! Already posted somthin` there. :geekg:

[Alien Ape Star]

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[Alien Ape Star]

:mod: I recently bought my first moleskine sketchbook. Here are some sketches done on my way to work, most of them are 12- 20 mins long.

[Alien Ape Star]

new sketches.. :mittenbop:

[Mr.Alamo, C.]

rock'n'roll dude,lineflow kiling me;)

[Alien Ape Star]

I started learning environements. Photo ref.:yayca:

[Alien Ape Star]

Siiich dude. kool stuff here. what ink is this!!!

Hehe! You will not believe it, unnamed.device! :oneye:
In Romanian it is called "baitz" but I guess in English the term is.. "wood finish".
It is a water based darkening liquid used to make the wood reddish and darker.
Since it`s water based it behaves really cool on watercolor paper :-).
You can find it already dilluted (probably at home depot if you are from USA) but I prefer to buy powder and add not to much water, to make it thick. :lifedrawing:
If you do not have a brush for inking do not worry, I drew that sketch using a sharpened stick :-P. You can use a toothpick or a matchstick..

Anyway I made another junkyard wip. I`ll work on it more, tomorrow.
Cheers!

[Alien Ape Star]

Well, there is not too much experimenting, really. I did not discovered it. This technique is pretty well known in art schools. So it is not such a big deal..

[Alien Ape Star]

Check this drawing instead if you are interested in experimental stuff.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=153234&stc=1&d=1181794952

Your welcome, dude.
This drawing was made with technique discovered by me 10 years ago. I was using just a "tratto" liner and water. I noticed that the black lines dissolve nicely in purple and blue tints. Just by accident I discovered this when writing something with this liner some guys were snow fighting in class :geekg:...
This is the official site where you can find the tratto pen I used.
http://www.fila.it/i-marchi/tratto.aspx/

[Alien Ape Star]

:yayca: some traditional watercolor sketches. Life drawing is really usefull :steph:

[sony]

lovely!

[t i m]

Awesome work on the old man portrait, Art Rage?

[Alien Ape Star]

Thnks. Yep, Artrage. :lounge:

[Alien Ape Star]

:steph: marker sketch

[Alien Ape Star]

wet:asspat:

[Alien Ape Star]

This weekend I went to the museum :steph:

[Alien Ape Star]

:anime: Mutant creature head concept :lounge:

[kidult]

Lovely brushmarks!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks kidult! U seem to be the type that likes urban toys so check out my toyz portofolio: ---> http://www.behance.net/gallery/Plushies/110155

Anywayz.. new sketch done today! :mod:

[Alien Ape Star]

:mittenbop:

[Alien Ape Star]

:yayca:

[surus]

Thanks for sharing your pencil sketches! Keep on posting!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks, surus.
I remembered I have some older works I forgot to put in this sketchbook. It`s kind of a editorial fan art project..
This was done as a tutorial for the Romanian on line anime-manga magazine Project Sakura in partnership with Wacom (http://wacom.com/index.html) and MGT (http://mgt.ro/web/index.php). For the mecha I used as reference an Evanghelion figurine I bought from Budapest but the gun is my first weapon concept. :lifedrawing: . You can read about it on my BLOG. (http://alienapestarart.blogspot.com/2008/07/8-iz-out.html)

[Alien Ape Star]

Some new and old sketches and caricatures.. The pencil study is a lighting study and my girlfriend helped me with the pose. Te others are caricatures done for a friend from my former workplace, American Greetings. The line drawings are gesture and posing studies done for spartan camp a while ago.

[bharat]

great ....smart art....!

[tobzArt]

so much awesome stuff! just keep doing what youre doing, cyaaaa

[keigo]

great artworks! Love the expression of you characters, so alive :)

[llex_paul]

hellou;) imi place linia la thumbsúrile alea cu tipu ce sare;) la caricaturi as mai fi diversificat linia putintel.

[Loathsome]

I really like the poses at the end! Especially the second last.

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks, everyone!

Loathsome, thanks, I had photo ref from tokyo fashion book.
llex_paul, multumesc, la caricaturi eram un pic presat de deadline fooarte nerespectat asa ca...
keigo, thanks. Still need some practice on stuff drawn from imagination..
exi, thanks, same here!
bharat, haha, thanks, nobody told me that before :)

I recently started working on a character I call "Larry, The Ghost of Easter Past". Color sketch after lunch :)

[kidult]

Nice silhouette on that last guy

[Alien Ape Star]

:mod: Back with the color sketch!

@kidult --> thanks :)

[Genesisa]

wow i feel like i have to go back to basics after seeing this. . shit =p and i do need to go back to basics! i really enjoied watching your sketchs man! you are really really talented. there are some things that got me inspired. i will try something because of it. you are great! =)

[Alien Ape Star]

Head update! I thought I`d try a different take on the head ideea.. This one works better me thinkz :assspank:

@Genesia Hehe, thanks, but I am at that level too, I have a major 'back to basic' obsession these days. Doing studies, sketches from life, color studies and stuff. I need to get back in the game.. :lifedrawing: I kinda got rusty.. :zzz:

[Wilko]

Some great work here! Love your pencil and watercolour studies.

[Alien Ape Star]

Started ruffing in the background too..:mod:

[SageTso]

Great colors! The figure drawings are nice as well.

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks SageTso :)

I worked some more on the sky and trees. Also added detail on the egg. Now I maxed the file at 300 dpi. The egg detail is at full size. :anime:

[Alien Ape Star]

I was in the mood for a sketch on my way home on the bus last night. The inking was done this morning on my way to work. I guess Spawn is just so cool I had to do a pose wip with chains dangling out :steph:

[Alien Ape Star]

Yesterday I worked some more on the wall piece for Bogdan! It`s starting to shape up..

Video here ----> http://www.vimeo.com/12939469

[Fumble]

that sketch you made on the bus looks really cool. What medium did you use for the initial sketch, watercolor?

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks, Fumble. It`s wood finishing, kinda similar to watercolour but a bit fattier. Please see post #75. :oneye:

[SixPrism]

Love those inks!

[DANKA]

...some really nice drawing and watercolors!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks, everyone!
2 more sketches I have done recently!:mod:

[Alien Ape Star]

new sketch..

[a la bapsi]

strong drawing skills! :D

[sony]

like the movements in skteechas
its been a while u updated like me :)

[Alien Ape Star]

Pa'nar Syndrome is a disease that only some Vulcans catch when they engage in mind melts. This concept shows a Vulcan in final stages of the disease.
I got the idea watching an episode form Star Trek Enterprise :).

[Alien Ape Star]

some Lord of the Rings movie studies :steph:

[Alien Ape Star]

some paintover speedies working on a challenge on visualart.ro

http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=97981&stc=1&d=1297048522

http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=98037&stc=1&d=1297254440

the thread with the 3d stuff is located HERE (http://www.visualart.ro/forum/showthread.php?t=22481&page=2).

[Alien Ape Star]

A few centaurs fight studies done on my way to work 15-20 mins each, watercolor and wood finishing.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/alienapestar/DSC_0334.jpg

http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=97414&stc=1&d=1294417770

http://www.visualart.ro/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=97415&stc=1&d=1294418091

and also another drawing of a centzelle (half gazelle half woman) based on a 3d render for the pose :). I used also watercolor, wood finishing and ball point pen for details and some shading.

[Exon-Ion]

very interesting gazelle and centaur studies, especially like the last image of the post 112, looks like an exoskeleton suit of some some..... :)

[The_Flying_Dutchman]

Hey, some very good stuff you've got going on here. Post more!

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks guys. I`ll try to post more often :).
A speedie I`ve been working on today.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/alienapestar/alienheadsketch4sml.jpg

[sony]

hey where have you been? good to see you back again

[Alien Ape Star]

Thanks, Sony :). Well, I`ve been kinda busy these last few months, but I`m kinda back. I hope I can post something daily.
Shaman warrior sketch, started in alchemy then brought in photoshop.

[Alien Ape Star]

Also done on my way to work some while ago.. Markers and balpoint pen

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:)

[Alien Ape Star]

Anorexic Batboy and Alien Pirate.

markers and ballpoint pen for Batboy and markers with liners and waterbrush for pirate.



http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/alienapestar/Anorexic_Bat_Boy.jpg


http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/alienapestar/alienpirate.jpg

[dan liimatta]

I really like many of the characters you have on page one, the mutant head concept and the gazelle woman ~ overall very nice and creative stuff and good studies from a nice variation of sources ~ I'm a bit surprised over how much you change your style over time but that's just a pleasant thing.

[silentinjections]

Really amazing work! I love everything you do.

[Jephyr X]

Hi, There's a good mix of techniques and styles here. I really like the caricatures on the previous page and the painting of the old face a couple back.

[Rain Walker]

ur work is soooo neat and clean... i loved the centuars the most.. lovely strokes and amazing art.. :)

[Tawnos]

Amaaaazing stuff, man!
How come on your first page there's something german?

I think I know the coolest thing about your pictures is: the cool way your warriors hold their weapons! Very slick and sleezy, soo cool! :D
Love it!

[Alien Ape Star]

Amazon warrior concept for a test at Namco Bandai Romania.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p55/alienapestar/CostinBenescu_concept-amazoana.jpg

Hey, Tawnos. Oh you meant that quote in German on that spiky concept sketch? I means something like: "As a cripple I became deaf, blind and mute to not live with the bastards of power, writing and lust " Nietzsche

Well my warriors are holding their weapons so slick and sleezy because I mostly draw a lot of studies from life (when I have the time/chance). Of course I am still learning a lot when it comes to hands. If you can`t have access to a model, then take pictures of yourself holding a toy gun or a stick to study the hands position when they grip stuff. For example this concept is not to strong, but the position and grip is pretty believable because I had a model pose for me (my girlfriend). Of course the final goal is to suck in so much studies and anatomy understanding that you can draw from imagination pretty much anything alive and do it beautifully and with credibility.

@Rain Walker: thanks, mostly were watercolor studies done on my way to work looking on photo reference on my phone :)) (10-15 mins each).

@Jephyr X: Thanks, yeah, portraits are some of my favorite thing to draw. The old man was my first serious attempt to paint in Artrage and the caricatures are of some former colleagues I had at American Greetings. you can see some of my work at AG in walpapers HERE: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Halloween-content-for-AG-Interactive/122642
and the animations here: http://www.behance.net/gallery/Animations-American-Greetings-Interactive/442602

@silentinjections: thanks, man :)

@dan liimatta: I guess my flexible style or lack of one is sometimes a blessing and other times a curse. This happens mostly because I have little time to draw continuously..

[dan liimatta]

Could be - my guess would have been more in line with experimentation as you seem to be doing that - but yeah - had the same when I was texturing mostly for a year and hardly painted anything during the time - changed some things, or surfaces got better but forgot other things.

Like most about the latest piece - but not sure about the facial expression ~ nor the idea that a fighter would close her eyes when trying to hit anything ~ ~

[RedOwl]

Alien Ape Star, this is a great sketchbook! I really enjoyed both the studies and the imaginative work. It seems to me that your extensive realistic studies have greatly contributed to the quality of your imaginative works. But there is also a lot of uniqueness and creativity thrown in which makes the imaginative stuff really delightful.

I agree with dan liimatta on the closed eyes on the amazon warrior - that doesn't make a ton of sense. Plus, I want to see the fierce look in her eyes! :) Speaking of that piece, I really love the rendering you've done and the sense of volume. She really pops right off the page! Nice! One thing I noticed though (and maybe it's just me not seeing this right) but, does her sword seem out of perspective? The line made by the blade and handle seems good, but you might want to check the angle of the cross-piece just above the handle...

Anyways, keep up the good work! :)

[Conniekat8]

Amazing body of work! I love your drawing style!

[raminafshari]

interesting and nice style , keep them coming .

[Alien Ape Star]

Hey, guys :mod:
I just fealt like testing the symmetry function in SketchBook pro and this is wut came out of it. Speedy of 40-50 minutes.:mittenbop:

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raminafshari - thanks :)
Conniekat8 - thank you :)
RedOwl - Thanks. Yeah, you are right, maybe the croasshandle piece should be parallel to the forearm.
dan liimatta - heehe, thanks, baybe she is blinded with rage and she has a lot of opponents, so precision is not a factor (think the crazy 88 battle in kill bill 2 :P)

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Anyway, less talk more art :). Something old and something new.

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Sketches from a workshop @ Casa Lupu in Bucharest. I used Zen Brush app on iPad2 and for a drawing tool I have chosen the Nomad Brush.

[LA-Fairy]

Nice sketchbook! I love your colors and that you use watercolors for sketches. Must tryyyyyy myself!

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Thanks LA_Fairy, it`s important to use the right kind of paper too. Example :

[sony]

The thing i like about water color medium is it really pushes
the artist to get to know the brush stroke work to get the
shape and proportion right at the same time, so keep doing your
studies in water color!

[Lav]

cool sketchbook! I love the mix of watercolour/markers and ballpoint pen. Do you use the watercolour first and fill in with the pen later? I usually do it the other way around but i think i'm gonna try doing the watercolour first.
Anyways, keep up the good work :D

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@Lav Thanks, yeah I use watercolor first most of the time.
@sony I completely agree, plus, it`s such a beautiful medium, isn`t it? :)

Anyway here`s some new subway sketches done in Sketchbook Express from Autodesk on my iPad2 using Nomad Brush.

[p sage]

Good stuff in here, especially early on... very imaginative. Looking forward to more from you :lifedrawing:

[Alien Ape Star]

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morning halloween vibe sketch

got inspired watching this video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fr0So8erVio&feature=mfu_in_order&list=UL a troll hound video from DesignLab :).

also, I post some subway sketches.

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sketch started on my iPad2, finished on PC in photoshop

[Dark_Eyes]

5 stars! Merry christmas! *****