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**Coinpurse** · October 21st, 2007

CLICK IT,

Fellas,

~Mick out

**zweiDee** · October 21st, 2007

hey, very cool new start. amazing rendering on your b/w sketches. also like the little silouettes in the corner. we will see more!!! cheerz

**PelleTM** · October 21st, 2007

Great stuff

**MonkeYoakum** · October 21st, 2007

I hope to see a lot more from you, this stuff is great.

**mybutterflyiris** · October 21st, 2007

I love the organic quality of your designs. Your execution and textures are also very maticulously handled...very beautiful.

**Coinpurse** · October 21st, 2007

Hey guys, thanks for the kind words

Heres another

**Lone Wolf** · October 21st, 2007

Great work Mickey, Great ideas and great execution!

**Coinpurse** · October 21st, 2007

Heya Mack, thanks for the comment!

Two earlier designs that were scratched.
(Painting+Pencil)

**Twiggy** · October 21st, 2007

whoa

i leik

**DanielC** · October 21st, 2007

nice work monsieur !
The pencils are looking good, even though they tend to be a bit too dark.
Cool to see something new

**Brendan N** · October 21st, 2007

hahahahaha! "Coinpurse"!!!!! whooo, only you brother, only you! hahaha

Man dude wow, you've really stepped up shitloads. I mean, huge leaps forward for you. Kudos dude. I'm liking all of these concepts on here, loving the subtle use of texture, though you can use it more to distinguish different elements.

My biggest crit right now for you (yeah I have one) is to watch your value structures. Looks like the one in post #7 had too much of the dodge tool, and many of your drawing lose form and are too confusing because your local values are too similar and there is too little grey to mould the form. Keep your highlights strategic, it's always fun to go overboard there but it just ends up hurting.

Other than crit, I'm deeply impressed man, forreal. Hoping to see shitload more soon! Keep it coming man, ima keep my eye on here!

**Coinpurse** · October 21st, 2007

Brendan!!!!!!!

DanielC and I were talking on messenger earlier today, I asked him about you. Great to see you posting here, really appreciate it!

Your crit makes so much sense, something was bothering me with the values and general dynamics of these characters. About the dodging, I really only used that tool a couple times before, but man that was yearrrrssss ago. It does look very bright though, some parts are exhadurated for sure (Possibly the overuse of layer settings and tones. Thanks man, we need to catch up on alot huh?

Thanks again for the comments guys, appreciate it.
*figured i'd post this pretty OC session I had with Hurricane some time ago. Just for laughing purposes, 4-5:00am wondering what we were trying to accomplish here heh

**hurricane** · October 21st, 2007

hey buddy!
way to go to kick ass

if you want some critique i'd say that you don't define different areas enough in your designs, they all kinda melt together. you need to think about the rythm of the design more. chop it up more. Maybe add more colors in your designs to destinguish areas?

cheers

**Brendan N** · October 21st, 2007

what hurri said. and we totally need to do some oc-ing, you ana me an ol DanC. I'll probably out of the loop for the next couple a weeks, end year portfolios stuff, but then ima free for about 2 months or so, so hang on i'm coming!

oh yeah, and have 5 brothar.
cheers!

**Camara** · October 21st, 2007

Great SB,man!!!

**AMess** · October 21st, 2007

great stuff, I love the detailed character-concepts! I'm looking foward to see more

**Mark Bot** · October 21st, 2007

cripes man those character designs are insane. save some talent for the rest of the world to use. hah.

the mushroom guy is fun. it almost feels like a stylized mini cthulhu with a mushroom hat.

**daveneale** · October 21st, 2007

awsome shroom, the lighting is very cool, also love the skin textures on the characters, very good stuff

**The Whistler** · October 22nd, 2007

Man! I already have some of your work saved on my computer and I didn't even know it was you, I just dug them out somewhere on the internet...

I love the mushroom king, awesome work!

**Mr.Delicious** · October 22nd, 2007

bahaha! you finally started a sketchbook you shithead! you told me you were gonna make one like... how long ago? anyways, sweeet helm stuff. You went a little too metzen on the 2 characters for me though. puttin details in everything like the cape, too many wrinkles. I hope you keep updating instead of being so lazy and tossin all my motivation talkin in the trash.

jerk.

**Coinpurse** · October 22nd, 2007

Everyone: Thanks for the comments guys!
Dave: Haha, you got me. Yeah I see what your saying though, little less on the detail.
Brendan: Looking forward to it man!
Hurri: Yeah totally, I'll experiment more. Thanks for the tips bro

**Fayt** · October 22nd, 2007

you´re incredeble, do you have an old sketchbook? oder somewhere other work i could look at????

**joaKimArt** · October 22nd, 2007

You got some pretty things here! Keep up smashing butts, Yay! HAha

**Mr.Delicious** · October 23rd, 2007

did you call me dan you asshole? grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr.... You better finish that chef. I'm gettin pissed.

**justinmia** · October 23rd, 2007

I need you for some art. Hit me back asap

**November87** · October 23rd, 2007

holy shizzle sticks! killer detail man. where do you come up with these concepts? lol love the art man keep up the art

**JAIR428** · October 23rd, 2007

noice! creature concepts love the pencils love the textures!!! let us see more

**KidApe** · October 23rd, 2007

Wonderful creature designs Coinpurse, I especially enjoy the size comparisons you added to each creature and that little simplified human icon=D I also like you how contrasted the rendered areas with the white areas contoured by your crisp linework. That special attention you gave to the texture on your mushroom image really paid off.