Concepts and Sketches by Cole Eastburn

[Colepoopface]

Hey everyone. I havent been on for a while and wanted to start adding some daily sketches again now that my schedule is a little less hectic. Any thoughts and crits are welcome, most of these are only just quick concepts i did cause i felt like painting though. Until I actually get good, i consider most of these studies and practice pieces. I have also included some steps in case anyone wants to see.

Any crits and comments are most welcome and appreciated.

Cheers

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[Colepoopface]

Oh, and the baby thing was for my sis. She just had her first child. Her name is Rebecca. Welcome to the suck Rebecca!

[DanielC]

Boom, 5 stars for you man. AWesome stuff.
Can't wait to see more !

[Colepoopface]

Why thank you very much Daniel. I appreciate the compliment.

[Giorge]

Very nice work, your sb is short but consistent in great stuff , and the concept of the last one , the condor is fabulous ... keep it up.

[yoitisi]

Great start indeed I really dig the 2nd image of the critter, the colors are great. The first one could use some more definition and work on the arms I think, especially the upper arm and joint seem a bit rushed.

[D@niel]

AWSOME! 5 shiny ones from me. Dig the painterly feel your pieces have.

[HunterKiller_]

Hot stuff. Subscribed.

[Colepoopface]

I totally agree with you Yoit. And thank you for the critique. Yeah, I basically was only doing the first one just cause I felt like painting something, and usually when i do that, design and sense go out the window lol. I'm just like..."yeah...light swords are cool...clunk clunk. Hey, how about some fucking aliens on the ground....that kind of works." I like it better when i have a story for a character and an actual feeling to go on, rather than when I just feel like moving paint around. Thanks again for the crit Yoitsi.

Cheers

[DANKA]

Very good work! Love the horned beast! :-)

[kidult]

Instant 5 stars man!!!!!

[Jorge Gecov]

Really nice stuff.
Hope to see more soon.

Cheers,

[Oblio]

Sweeet!!!! Subscribing.... &5* from me too!

[Mydrim]

That bot is awesome!

[MeTaL-Mike]

Ohh dude. this sb rocks!! love your painting style man.

[enthombed]

hey man, nice concepts, i think see somethign from you in one magazine.. do you worked in any Imagine FX Edition?

Cheers

[Eric Young]

great stuff! cant wait to see more

[Coinpurse]

all I gotta say here basically is...

...If those are what you consider practice pieces, I want to see your finished quality pieces. That'll be the day all ducks on earth die

Incredible start! adding on to those 5 starts

[dsg]

i been lookin at your website for the past 2 hours.... you. are. unbelievable. I love your style, your painting palettes, everything! Your work is so inspiring, keep at it!

[Sir.Harlock]

Great!!!! some of your work is.. is... impressive! I am amazed!

[Colepoopface]

Thank you very much for the compliments everyone! I really appreciate all the kind words.

To answer some of your questions yeah, I did a couple things for Imagine FX Magazine. And currently I am working on magic cards for Wizards of the Coast. Which I cant show for like another 8 months till they are released...so im kind of bummed about that.

Right now im pretty much focusing on trying to get trained though. I am self taught and that can be incredibly frustrating some times. Its great I guess for developing your own style, but I really would like to attend a school with a group of artists where we can learn and grow together and pump out bad ass shit all day.

Anyhoot, thanks for the crits and I will have more up shortly.

Cheers

[Coinpurse]

Cripes man, I just visited your website and i'm shocked!
Amazing work bud, purely. I noticed you live in davie? Shit man thats right up my alley.

[Rabid]

I love the small silouette studies, that is a great exercise! Superb Stuff!

[Colepoopface]

lol, yeah man, i just moved actually. I live in orlando now. But I will be coming back down later in the week so a close friend of mine Karla Ortiz, can film herself kicking me in the nuts as hard as she can. I cant say anymore on the subject...but trust me, its for a good cause.


And thanks for the compliments on the silouttes. That was actually for an art director I met this weekend at Gearbox Studios. She told me thats the way she likes to work, have like a sheet of 30 sills and then pick the one she likes and the artist cranks on it. So after I flew back I did that exercise to see if thats what she was talking about. Hopefully she likes it.

Anyhoot, heres a sketch i started today. I might take this to an concept illustration, but I dont know. Any crits are most welcome and appreciated.

[Coinpurse]

Orlando huh? I've too many long time no see buds up there. Nothing better then a kick in the nuts on film, make sure you put that on youtube or something hehe. As for this last one;

Go all the way man. I digg it way to much for you to just let it sit around collecting pixel dust! One thing i'd like to mention though, is to keep exploring the characters form. I think you can come up with something a little more dynamic, expressions rule. Btw, I had a question about your rendering technique if you don't mind. Do you usually start off with a gray scale before you slap on colours?

~Cheers

[MarkBehm]

Extremely cool stuff. Nice design sense on the, keeping it loose but structured. 5. Subscribed.

[Mark Bot]

man. really sweet stuff.
specially digging on the silhouette >> finished development process shots
cool style. keep on rockin it.

[Samuel Gray]

Great concepts. Something just freshened my day up

[JFierce]

All around awesomeness
Even the little silhouettes above the second pic are badass

[Diego]

wow, really nice book, love the silhouttes.
very cool dude, keep postin'