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[salaryman]

Some pages probably from around the end of last year. Recently I've been doing some specific work, whereas this is exercise, keeping fit between ideas!

Not sure if it sheds any light or is in any way instructive of my process, but it all starts out as a blue line sketch, which I trace off with onto standard tracing paper with a Staedtler pigment liner. I use the 005 nib, so drawing straight over the sketch would destroy the line when erasing- hence the tracing paper. I bin the blue lines though; the inked stuff is where I learn most.

Anyway, for Mrs. Salaryman they look like the crazy doodles of a mad man, for me they're stuck down in an A4 sketchbook as ref for future ideas and finished pieces.

Hope you guys find them of interest!

[Nike]

hi
wow, great stuff, I'm looking forwards to seeing more!

[dadamafia]

love the way you fill the page.

[dCepT]

Great stuff! Very solid linework!
Lots of great characters in there!
You keep posting!

d-C

[Ink_Monkey]

Awsome line work.... really. Whats your wepons of choice on the battle field of white paper? pen, pencil ... other?

Your sb has ripped of to a wicked start. I can't wait to see more of your stuff. Thanks for posting.

[cburt]

these are some really really nice line drawings...so clean yet so fluid and precise...really impressive...how long do these pages typically take you to finish/fill? i want to see more and soon. thanks for posting your work, refreshing concepts and style.

=cburt=

[jkior]

Wow. Is your whole sketchbook filled with pages like this? That would be mind-boggling. . .Love how every little item on the page is a finished drawing. I assume you're doing these primarily from photo ref; the only crit I might offer would be to develop a little stronger expressions - a bunch of them have a little expression, in different ways, but it seems almost a . . . "leftover" from the original photo. I realize you're really doing these to increase your own "vocabulary," but it might help. . .Awesome work!

[galenb]

Excilent!! I love it.

[Dstudio]

Hi! - Don't suppose you have the roughs? I would quite like to see your thought process.

Cheers

[salaryman]

thanks for the encouraging words guys!

materials: as mentioned, blue lead pencil, then traced off using a Staedter 005 pigment liner onto standard tracing paper.

Next stuff I do I'll keep hold of the roughs and show the process...

Probably 10-15% of my book is stuff like this, the rest is my concept work, 90% of which I can't show just yet: in production, pitch-work ( or unfortunately locked down because of court proceedings). Publishers are pretty strict when it comes to their 'property'.

I guess I should try out more expressive stuff, though professionally I'm called on to do straight ups, maybe a full front and occasionally a back view, where too much expression can alter how the character is read, at least in my experience...

[Tack]

saw the pic you did in the heavy armor thread and had to come looking to see if you had a sketchbook. really killer stuff youre doing.
You have a really keen sense of mass and anatomy which, combined with your linework style, is as cool as the underside of a pillow on a hot summer day

[steak-tron]

Damn those pages rule Mr.Salary

cool technique Imagonnahafta try that.

[Odds]

awesome stuff, Salaryman. I also dig the way you fill your pages. ^^
damn.. i don't have any crits (how pathetic of me). well, keep it up!

[salaryman]

bit of a work through I guess, normally I'd be doing full figures, but this was just done to show the process for here....

[emilpaun]

Beautiful lines.
Love the colors on the last one

[Arri.]

Salaryman this style its so expressive... I love all of this!!!! thanks for posting.

Register me in your fan list

[salaryman]

Thanks all!

I always worry about my work not being painterly enough... people love that stuff!

Here's another rough to finished!

this is part of a more complete image, but we don't need to get into that right now...but yes, the 'mass' of limbs is intentional. It's called The Hand...

[Arri.]

WOW!!! you kill me.

Incredible mood...this reminds me jim jarmush "Ghost dog".

[salaryman]

thanks Arri, your words are appreciated!

Yeah, these guys form a part of a series of characters who's titles reference card games, The King, The Queen, The Bank and The Hand (as opposed to the Hand in Elektra, for example). I've called the series Den of Thieves, I'll post the rest some time..

Meanwhile, here's one just for you Arri....

[Arri.]

Ha ha ha thanks Salary!!!

More more mooooooooooooooooore!!!

[cthomp]

very clean work. i like your stuff.

[salaryman]

More from Den of Thieves. I wanted them to look like old airport/trash novel covers:

I work at high res so I guess this would be the working res:

That's all for now, too too busy with normal maps and that kind of crap for proper stuff like drawing this week!

[killing.people]

i love it! thanks for showing your process. i love the i *gun* ny gang pic. love your style. the voice bubbles are dope.

[krakel]

i love it all!

ps.: what program do you use? are those vectors?

[Kaoki]

THIS is utterly bitchin, i love it. seriously awesome stuff.

[zao75231]

awesome stuff, i love your coloring well as your sketches.

-Rob

[Badger]

Man your work is amazing! I love your lines! this one makes me dribble.
Your renders are so solid! Great poses, not static at all.
I look forward to more!! *subscribes*
-Badger-

[liam.c]

mna !!! super cool!!

[brkofdon]

AMAZING... i gotta look at your stuff a little bit longer before i try and find anything to crit!

[oishiiniku]

Dayum! Another day, another amazing artist to worship. Your line work is beautiful and you've got such great variety in your faces. That page of animals is choice too. Is any of this stuff ref work or is it all from your imagination. Post more now dammit!!!

Oh yeah, where do you work, if you don't mind me asking?

Ta, Nick.