steak-tron's s'nort-kaets Nov 29strdth

[steak-tron]

here's my crap, tell me watcha' think.
I have to say that lukais and rusty have been big inspirations to me lately, there is much more talent on this board but I don't think i'm insulting anyone by saying that they have awe-inspiring skills.

[nor]

very nices, definetely keep it up!

[the good war]

excellent! i like the x-ray pics in particular

[steak-tron]

Hi guys
Thanks jnorish and good war, drawing the skeleton first definitley helps
herez some mo' fer whatever reason, i'll try to keep posting

[catterpillar]

man your knowledge of anatomy is so much better than mine!

[Rusty]

the very first page has some nice solid drawings on them streak-tron..,keep going m8
..Ive never really looked at a good anatomy book b4,but those anatomy ones youve drawn accually taught me something..lol

welldone
Rusty

[steak-tron]

Praise from Ceasar!
I'm glad I could help you rusty, your incredible drawings are a big inspiration.
lately I've been using a book called (guess what) "Anatomy for the artist" by a woman named Simblet, it's a great book with drawings and photos as well as transparent drawing overlays on photos. The arms were from Loomis on Anatomy.
It's really difficult for me to draw the figure from my imagination so I would try one, find a problem area and reference it, then try a non-ref figure agian. this really seemed to help
caterpillar: anatomy is hard.. it's alot of ad-lib
"back too da drawing, I smell something burnin'"
herez some mo'

[Jeff Gran]

wow kickass stuff man. You got great anatomy and I love how you exaggerate certain parts and stuff, like that one creature with the super high top lip, I've seen people that almost look like that. the pen stuff is awesome, I can definitely see the lukias and rusty influence in there.

[Robolus]

Good work and great sketches! Your Frog-Man is superb!:thumb:

[endregan]

yes like theyve already said great anatomy!

you dont stop posting !

[Rusty]

HAHA!!..that frogman`s pretty cool,your definatly getting a good hold of anatomy by the looks of those sketches..
cheers,ill look out for that book,my knowledge of anatomy bites..

keep postin.

Rusty

[steak-tron]

hi guys (n gals)
thanks fer the complements. I've been doing alot of anatomy studies but I'm ready to start drawing some creatures and such that make concept art so cool.
the frogman is part of a project for school, so I'll keep posting the sketches once I scanned em' up. I just looked at lung's thread (his stuff is amazing) and felt very lazy, but it made me draw more today and that's what this board is all about.
everyone - keep churning out the awesom stuff, it only gets better.
rusty - i don't know what the hell yer talking about, your anatomys great.
jeff- I'd like to see that guy on the street




:chainsaw:

[metalwinds]

these anatomy studies are looking good. some of the linework you have going here is looking really good. keep it up

peace

[steak-tron]

metalwinds: thanks for the compliment
I thought I'd post some of the sketches for my frog project. The assignment is to illustrate a wildflower name, mine is the "bastard toad flax". I'd like to have the finish be mo' detailed but we have to come up with something more like a symbol. I'll try to post agian sooner
sheeeeiiiitttt, heeelllllll....

maybe drunk...


or at a strip joint, I dunno...



this is where I am so far

old idea

:mrt:

[rubygenesis]

hey Steak-tron! welcome to the forum buddy, surfed your site, some very nice work...hmm that toad appears to have just a few issues no? the first batch posted is prime.
~K

[steak-tron]

Sup peoples, i been lazy with the not posting and what-not. Hopefully this will all change with my newly installed robot brain and body. the amazing work on this board makes me both very inspired and self-loathing (due to the laziness)

metalwinds: thanks for the props, having seen your work they mean alot, I really like the new color-uns. (I sucks at the colors).

Ruby: thanks for the warm welcome! you know art is the goodness so I'll refrain from the complements and resume with the right-clicking of your posts.

here are some sketches from a new series i'm putting up at the artschool in oct. the nervousness is kicking in too soon. Hopefully i can put up the frog once i get it graded.







here is a robot i did last winter, shows a bit-o-progression hopefully








keep artin' it up evareeboodeee.

[Rusty]

that last one is my fave,the mechanics on that suit look great because eveything on it looks practical ..i love the way the shapes flow/interlock into each other ,specially around the mid section and the arms...

welldone
Rusty

[rubygenesis]

yes! i enjoyed the many stages of your last post. the final product is sharp, i really like it. less see some moor.

[nor]

great updates!

the last set of drawings for the mech suit are very impressive, the design works so well!

[behemot5]

this last one is reaaly cool

[steak-tron]

Hi fellas, thanks fer all the positive feedback

Rusty, Ruby and Jnorish: It's great to hear from you guys (since you so damn good, awesome updates btw) I actually did the robot over last christmas. I Tried to make it look practical, but would you really need a gasmask filter in space? and a groin plate? thought those just looked cool. as always your props fill me with a warmth in my heart (and my loins!...)ha
Behemot5: thanks man, just checked out your thread and really like the work, very sharp.

I'll try to update more often now, but unfortunatley all you get is sketchbook drivel, the robot was more of a finished piece(I hope that passes for finished).

everyone's favorite eyeless monster....raymond!



sorry about the quality, my scanner is a crazy asshole


this is from a helmut newton photo, it's small but i likes it (notice the nub for a hand. makes her look "fashionable")

found some more x-rays from this summer

every now and then there is a chick in a mag and you have to draw her, you don't really have a choice in the matter.

this girl was real (no really) and kindly sat for me for 20min

thought youz guys might get a kick out of this school comp

[roger]

Great sketches steak-tron, I really like the x-ray drawings.

[steak-tron]

Thanks for the props roger, your stuff is mighty fine (i'm looking at it right now but the pics are taking forever to load- its worth the wait.)

I haven't posted in 1000 years, these are from a show i had at ye old artschool.





not sketches, but i been sketchin 'em

[steak-tron]

here's sum' i've been working on, need more coloring




lemme know what you think -krem

[steak-tron]

here's some mo'

done while watching the ken burns u.s. civil war documentary



trying to do back and forth between ref and non-ref anatomy studies, then labeling everything (and promptly forgetting it)





from life

[endregan]

you so crazay.. these are wicked

i especially like that bot suit...

mad skills!

[roger]

Niiice, I love those colored monster drawings! Keep it up!

[steak-tron]

thanks roger and endregan! (your persistance; and quality, on your boards inspire me to draw more) It's strange how that works. Alot of the time I will be intimidated by my sketchbook because i'll come up with crap if i'm out of practice (or just in general). But after you draw for a long period of time it becomes exciting because you start to see successes. This is amplified exponentially (like that nerd speak?) when you draw everyday. Almost everyone on this board gives themselves a hard time for making "crap" (not that it is, you get the idea) but have made huge bounds since the initial post. I've certianly been inspired to draw more since posting, and i'd like to think it's not a competitve thing. When I see some really kick-ass stuff it makes me think that the possibility for myself to do work of that caliber in the far future is there (with lots o work ofcourse).
now that my 2-cent has been deposited i'll get off my soapbox, but with that said here's some more shit. I've been drawing lots of little figure thumbs inspired by killing.people's thread., This really helps alot i would reccomend it





tablet werk, still no good

:wazzup:

[rubygenesis]

wow steak! luv that flight suit concept and the guy playing checkers with the goul lady roolz!! hahahaha Awesome! crisp lines and simple color. =)

[Sinix]

I'm really impressed with how well you seem to pull off any angle or pose. There's alot of dynamic stuff going on, and it's neat to see.

[Scrubbin Bubbles]

Pabst is the shit. its cheap, doesn't rip my bowels to shreds, nor does it taste like complete crap.

[Scrubbin Bubbles]

Oh yeah, your figure work is wicked. They look menacing, some of the faces are kinda flat looking though. I also like the fact that you really thought out how someone would fit in the suit. The Darth Comp made me chuckle.

[steak-tron]

thanks guys
ruby: glad you liked it, lemme know if any way i can improve my stuff
SAME APPLY TO ALL IN THE LAND.
mlessard: im glad you find my work inspiring
sinix: thanks dude
scrubbin bubbles: thanks for the crit, lemme know which faces your talking about. I get stuck in the front, profile, 3/4 view to easily. And yes pabst is the drink of choice, that pic is sort of an ode to the past 4years.
try to post more soon

[endregan]

wow these are inspiring!! how do you achieve such a great anatomy pages? are these from ref?

i have been having trouble with the figure lately... !

awesome sketchbooK!

[rubygenesis]

hmmm, steak your reply on my thread was something else thank you so much =) (i feels so special!) so i'm looking at your work closer than before and honestly you have it figured out the only thing that strikes me is how you shade, straight lines this way and that, try following the form ie the muscles which way the skin is being pulled. it will help to bring the form off the page and the lighting will feel real. do i make sence? ~_~ -peace

[steak-tron]

endregan: thanks man, some are ref and some are not. - like the back muscles, my suggestion is to jump back and forth, and look at the skeleton. I didd'nt pay that much attention before this summer and my figures were crap.

Ruby: thanks for the suggestion, my father told me to do that a long time ago and I shrugged him off. After seeing alot more artwork on the board and elswhere I realize that you (and him) are right about the lines being descriptive of the surface. With the crosshatching all I do is describe the changes in value, which keeps everything flat. I now realize my suggestion to you was exactlly what I get stuck doing too often. I tried to make the hatches flow with the cloth in the last thumb of officer farragut. but I caught myself slipping into hatch mode.
thanks again -k
p.s. this makes even more sense now that I'm trying to draw cloth.

[steak-tron]

herez some mo' from the long time since last post.
I've been looking at kchen's tutorials and lemme say they are incredible.
http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...&threadid=1432
(it's the only one I've looked at so far, so i need to check out the others). So some of these are copies, mostly where he is blocking in forms and showing them twisting in perspective, especially with the heads. In using his suggestions and trying to draw my own figures as shapes I feel like I have a tighter grasp on it (still needs lots of work). I would recommend trying this to anyone. Some are refs and some aint, but when I used a ref I tried to build it up in shapes and guide lines, something that needs to be done to get a solid form, this is probably why lots of my sketches look flat. enough blab, herez the draws. scans are bad too.




















ill try to post more soon.

[rubygenesis]

wow nice dump, excellent study work Steak! i luv that practice line work following the form.

[steak-tron]

thanks ruby!
I still have a looooooooooooooooong way to go on these figures and everything else for that matter. I've been trying to draw some caricatures and the monsters are from my portfolio class (I picked the topic).
Let me know what you think (they are kind of bland at the moment.)




scan and tablet, i really gotta spend more time with it.

LOL, those characitures are superb dude Good likeness and humour in such a small sketch, classy stuff

[Dan.v.D.]

very nice thread you´ve got here!

[Jeff Gran]

wow great stuff man. keep on posting please.

[Yiako]

I love your way to think in 3D. Very inspirational, man.
Also great caricatures. I knew that it was R.Scott before seeing the name.
And yes, the monster are a bit generic, but I have also that problem, so who I am to speak :cool:

[steak-tron]

thanks guys!, glad you liked it.

Yaiko: i gotta say that your thread was inspiration for that ciricature set, but I also had a chance at a job doing a ciricature, alas it fell through. wha wha (sound of a thousand tiny violins) I got that pic from the Alien Quadrilogy, which you probably have already. If you don't there is a ton of bonus footage that's pretty interesting. let me know what you think of this next batch of critters, still a little bla.

[metalwinds]

damn, nice work steak. havent seen your thread before, but i have to say that i am definitely impressed. some of the concepts you have goin are lookin good. my only advice at the moment is to draw as much as you can

[Marie]

wow I was trying to go through from the beginning and I kept either laughing or saying wow thats great!

For one, the way you draw from the inside out is great. Makes it a good point how learning to understand the structure first helps the drawing.

Secondly, I love your comedic drawings, that darth vador thing made me laugh for quite a bit

Your creatures are great that you've been doing recently, I especially like the way you've done the one on the off color paper with the white highlights.

[heiesuke]

lovely sketches u have

[Yiako]

WOW. Way, way better!
Don´t take me wrong, that first creature was great -I would kill to draw muscles as you-, but basically was a boxer body with a funny jaw. This last row of creatures is 100 times more imaginative. Wicked!
I suppose the key is in your 3 steps method, that can sum up in: Look For Reference; it adds a whole new level of believability. However, I would add a 4th step: "Mix with talent"

[steak-tron]

metalwinds: thanks dude, glad to hear form you, your threads have been kickin ass for ages

Marie:I'm glad you liked em' and i'm glad you thought they were funny too, that was the intention (especially with vader), but when you iron out a concept like that you can never tell if anyone else is gonna laugh besides yourself. thanks.

thanks Heisuke!

Yiako: your exactlly right about the boxer, coming up with original ideas for creatures is turning out to be one of the toughest things i've done (not that i've done it yet). but damn, thanks for the props man, your words are makin me blush. Just don't fall into the "I don't have talent" mindset, cuz that would be a damn lie.

this last one is something i did while procrastinating, i'm doing a color over that i'll post soon.

[Valcon Jet]

Steak, I don't have any crits for you at all, you have a truly beautiful learning process. You have a superb understanding of the face and head, and I can see your understanding of the body growing and starting to take shape. I envy your skills my friend!

One thing I think would be super cool to see from you would be some more of the quick gesture sketches or contour things ... some more expressive figures as opposed to the great realism you've got ... which is excellent by the way Anyway, i'm rambling, I love your stuff, teach me lips!!!

peace-val

[steak-tron]

you got it jet, lips it is. I have'nt tried to set up a teaching page like Lung, but I'll try, and I think i've got some gestures buried somewhere.

all that face stuff came form kchen's tutorial page [in turtorial section] I tried ref'ing drawings, then coming up with my own.

thanks dude! -steak

[steak-tron]

I just remembered that i had these laying around, they're all from around christmas to recent. Sorta gestural, I'll try to scan some stuff from fig drawing class soon


not the best, need more consistent working habits [quit being a lazy asshole steak]

these are from the french mag PHOTO. it has excellent photos and it's a great source of reference (around $8 u.s.)


i still struggle with facial features (and everything els)

i thought this would be funny, not a whole lotta logo sketches on this forum. =}


i need to fill my page - fill the page dammit

[steak-tron]

here goes the lip pages, I don't know that i'm saying anything here that is'nt elsewhere in various turtorials and how-to books, it's just shit I keep in mind when drawing them, hope they help valcon jet.

oh, and i scanned some older (last year) gestural things, very messy and "chicken scratch-y" [pencil back and forth making a jagged edge - very bad habit]


the quality on these really sucks, guess i need to save as bigger files. this is from an older sketch 2-3 yrs. ago, but its good to break the figure into shapes.


figs from last year



these are over a year old, but more gestural

[van]

I love your style. Cant wait to see more!

[steak-tron]

thanks van!
I realize i'm optomizing my images way more than they need to be, (trying to be sympathetic to dial-up users). But they're coming out shitty, so here is another critter, i'm going to try and flesh this one out.

[van]

Originally posted by steak-tron
so here is another critter, i'm going to try and flesh this one out.

Excellent! Cant wait to see the results!

[steak-tron]

here is the color version, i'm working on a sculpt right now, but I ran out of clay in the process. try to post more soon

[van]

Excellent study work, my friend! By the way...I have a question over in my sketchbook for ya.

Cant wait to see the sculpture work. Rock on.

[Cocofuppa]

Thats some great steak u got there, i mean sketches, . Anatomy is a mystery to me atm, so this sketchbook is a gr8 motivation to me, cheers, keep rockin

[steak-tron]

thanks van and coccofuppa!

heres some mo sketches, my figures still need work but i've got a fig-drawing class now that helps alot (its been a semester since my last), still trying to come up with monsters too.