Sketchbook Thread of outsidethebox

[Kanga]

Welcome lee!
Lets see all the work you made since the first post.

Kowabunga:scream:
Chris

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spose i should post somerhing eh i'll start with some oldet traditional stuff & then ahh wateva .. lots of crits please. actually i'll juost post the new stuff

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some mo here we go

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theres theses too http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/brothers.jpg

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memessed upgettin mixed up herehttp://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/alienofdw08-1.jpg

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ssomething else 2008
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/Deselect-Layers-copy.jpg
hmmmm

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my wip or a paof it
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/Open.jpg

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need some tips on lightiting roo

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/christmaekid.jpg

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just sketching n stuff
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/bullrider.jpg

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guys new bike & family nip

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/guystoys-111.jpg

the tank

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/guystoys004.jpg

maddy

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/maddy.jpg

and so on


http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/guytnk33.jpg


yeah and well


http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/Maddness-2.jpg


ha crits all welcome

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christmas theme
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/snodome.jpg

do you think i should scale down tthe sizes

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/christmas208.jpg


any advice most welcome

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inspired by nox
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/tinnymanat25.jpg

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anatomy workshop sg sociery
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/OFDW-GG.jpg

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for the five minute sketchathon thread at cg... tok me 3 days

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/gma-mry-18-1-2009.jpg

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anatomy workshop hands

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/cgcandelartootofdws24.jpg

2

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/hansstuuycopy.jpg


3

http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/ironmanman.jpg

mmmm

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anatomy hands workshop
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/hands-workshop.jpg

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Losst thereference for this
http://i663.photobucket.com/albums/uu351/outsidethebox_album/maskksleeping.jpg

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drawing & such, my shadings suck

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No reference doodling

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colouring sb will do a greyscale after playing with colours,.

[vikramvr]

Nice work on the hands

[NR43]

Hi there!

Nice sketchbook start.

Something to think about:

Values:
try to expand your value range in your work... go from almost black to almost white.
Squint your eyes to get a better overall overview on your values. When everything looks equally dark, it means you need to widen your value range. (eg the arm studies, the robots, the alien,...)

Form:
Use values to define form, not color. When painting, think about the form you are painting, if you paint an arm, make your strokes go around the form of the arm... as Glenn Vilppu says in his gesture DVD: Feel the form

Use hard edged brushes instead of smudging, airbrushes and the likes.
Edges from forms in the distance will be less defined than edges from forms nearby = depth

Draw from life as much as you can... use a pencil, ballpen, markers, charcoal, pastels and any other medium you can think of. Any surface will do (even your desk or the walls if you don't have anything else :) )

Draw draw draw and when your arm falls off... tape it back onto your body and continue drawing!

Hopefully, these remarks are motivating you :)
Have fun creating!

[outsidethebox]

thanks for dropping by.

NR43 - hi ,yeah i try doing that yet i find myelf going too white or too black way too often, rhen i'll lose interest if its not happening & go work on another piece,. Thanks for the usefull advrce,." Feel the form" I'll lock itt in.

This next one has the refrenenxe. the swords looking like a stick.

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thought i'd go baxk to greyscale practice value etc....

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4 hands a ref' and A sphere http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hands22bw.jpg%5D%5Bimg=http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8644/hands22bw.th.jpg%5D%5B/url%5D

http://img4.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hannds04009.jpg%5D%5Bimg=http://img4.imageshack.us/img4/488/hannds04009.th.jpg%5D%5B/url%5Dhttp://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=colourtheorylee.jpg%5D%5Bimg=http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2344/colourtheorylee.th.jpg%5D%5B/url%5D%20%5Burl=http://img140.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hands22bw.jpg%5D%5Bimg=http://img140.imageshack.us/img140/8644/hands22bw.th.jpg%5D%5B/url%5D%20%5Burl=http://img2.imageshack.us/my.php?image=hannds04009.jpg%5D%5Bimg=http://img2.imageshack.us/img2/488/hannds04009.th.jpg%5D%5B/url%5D

http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=colourtheorylee.jpg%5D%5Bimg=http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2344/colourtheorylee.th.jpg%5D%5B/url%5D

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the sphere is a tonal lesson fr0m the peer project @ CA.ORG

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=76955&page=1

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narnia sketch and an old sb page where i'm playin with almost monochrome no refrence again,



http://img218.imageshack.us/my.php?image=narniasb042009.jpg%5D%5Bimg=http://img218.imageshack.us/img218/6480/narniasb042009.th.jpg%5D%5B/url%5D

[lessthanhumanz]

I like your studies of the guy holding the sword. :beer: :beer:

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gregory peck i think

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some old dude, i know its way off

[NR43]

Hi

nice work.

All of your studies lack dark values. The darkest value they have is usually a darkish midtone.
Go darker for the core shadows ;)

You said (in answer to my previous post here, also about values) that you catch yourself going too dark or too light in value.
This is not the case, on the contrary.
Take the last portrait for example. Open both your study and the original in PS or Painter and then with the eyedropper (make sure you have your color sliders to HSV and not RGB) and go to the darkest spots in both images and read the "value" value.
You can go much further than you think you can... try it!

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thanks foe the critique both h s sliders are full on, the b can be pushed a little more still i''ll play with it some more thanks again.

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trying to to go dark here cause it def; helps layed in a solid almost black then erased the mid to light areas ..added another layer for high lights the grainy bits are my overlayed lrne work.

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statues of dudes & canderlas alien

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Emm.. this is an old oil painting i'v painted over

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hello. took ages to get this far as i had great difficulty trying to capture her character , i left it alone for a couple months & played with it yesterday......and a 3.00am sketch from imagination

[mister3d]

Good you work so hard, the results will appear. There are two things I would suggest: try to keep the eyelines more in volume, i.e. making the line to follow the 3d form and not to "slide": you can't usually have eyes on different levels, it's really rare. The second thing is lighting: watch how lighting in your references models form and makes it look 3d, try to follow lighting more closely.

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Thank you for the advice... yeah i do tend have uneven eyes i will keep that in mind

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odws fr0m refrence & a doddle

[Intervain]

nice studies! Keep them coming... practice makes perfect :) remember to flip your image horizontally from time to time to check for distortions, because it seems to get a bit scewed at the moment :)

[outsidethebox]

Appreciates intervain cheers, How would you go about fixing it..with the skew tool?

[NR43]

copy the parts you see that need repositioning on a new layer, then merge the new layers and paint over the forms until everything looks right.
If you're unsure or you want to be able to undo your changes at all times, wait with merging the new layer with your base layer and paint the corrections on the new layer.

When using this copy/paste/relocate technique, it is imperative that you have a good edge control. You must paint the surroundings of the area as if you are painting it for the first time, to absolutely avoid that copy/paste look I often see.
There is no cutback for that. Repainting the moved form so it fits into it's surrounding forms takes time, but it's still faster than having to start all over again...

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Thanks for the info -

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Playing with lights & shadows ..

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value studies.

can somebody please explain why i can view only thumbnails in the forums.

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some alien characters experimenting witth layers & lighting & values thr green might be a bit too bright.

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more charachters & ref

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boxing
http://img237.imageshack.us/img237/5107/ali56.jpg

thanks for the help i was copy/pasting the wrong code
http://yfrog.com/emanatorso201009bj

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A Portait of liv & the refrence

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Somethings not quite right about that right eye it seems a bit off

http://img99.imageshack.us/img99/4083/liv6s.jpg

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2 value studies from a ofdws refrence
http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/8365/0fdwsstudy.jpg

[vincent1]

you need to upload your image to a free photo host like www.imageshack.us (http://www.imageshack.us/) and when it is finished uploading, you will get html codes to paste into your message.

As for your protraiture, it is a problem of angle and proportional distortion. All artists suffer from this. To initially train your eyes and hand, drop a square grid on your ref photo and copy and use that correct your distortions. Better still start all over with the grid.

After a period of these grid copies, you will find that without the grid, your perception powers will have improved.

The technique is to be able to mentally (or physical measuring devices) superimpose vertical and horizontal lines to help you judge angles and proportional distances more accurately.

All classically trained artists will do this; using pencils, measuring sticks, a plumbline, a mentally projected lines/grid, etc. whatever works for you.

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-thanks vincent
heres my latest doodle
http://img682.imageshack.us/img682/5898/gagorlle.jpg

http://img268.imageshack.us/img268/1198/gagle2.jpg

http://img693.imageshack.us/img693/8609/gagle3.jpg

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working the values in the background ..with the charachter im trying to get a metal shine look to it but its looking more like wax.
http://img192.imageshack.us/img192/7752/gagle9z.jpg

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Playing with various colour combos & anatomy
http://img694.imageshack.us/img694/7605/garggle.jpg

http://img412.imageshack.us/img412/5817/gagle10.jpg

http://img23.imageshack.us/img23/6327/gagle8.jpg



http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/813/gagle18.jpg
Move on

& this is a recent oil painting where i've cleaned up the edges in photoshop

http://img30.imageshack.us/img30/1868/hokeypokey2008.jpg

I'll be in the deep end come Feb 1, i enrolled in the game charachter design today.

[NR43]

Regarding your latest piece, play with the composition a bit.
At first I thought it was a gargoile on the edge of a building but then I noticed it's supposed to be the main character in the scene. Maybe you can relocate it or flip the canvas horizontally and see what gives. Also, I would make it look more towards the viewer rather than away from him/her.

I suggest to make some studies of metallic objects to get rid of the wax appearance.

The background looks rather flat as well.
If you bring perspective into play, you'll get a far more interesting painting.

Looking forward to see your update.

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Playin with perspective in the background but I forgot to fli;p it at i'll do it in the morning.

http://img85.imageshack.us/img85/9030/g10o.jpg

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heres my progress so far with jonathan rush' game charachter design workshop & well i think i blew a head gasket in that class its very enjoyable informative & I highly recomended it. i havent got to uv unwrap yet as i'm still in the modelling process learning both zbrush & 3dsmax together gave me alot more confidence with photoshop I havent got my head round the scaling issue yet, so if anyone has any clues about those matters.

http://img62.imageshack.us/img62/9871/gunbeltwip.jpg

http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/7296/everytingwek9.jpg

http://img143.imageshack.us/img143/4769/2bigboots.jpg

Had a few problems with 3ds max2010 not importing until i uninstalled sp1update its going now.

http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/2504/week12wip.jpg

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Im wondering if uninstalling sp1 for 3ds max 2010 had a hand in blowing up the mobo..??

Anyway Robert Chang class is pretty amazing, i highly recommend it for anybody starting out in PS or just traditional painting. Here is a before and after pics of what ive learned so far in the workshop.


http://a.imageshack.us/img833/6636/christmas208.jpg
..& after

http://a.imageshack.us/img265/4516/snodome260810.jpg

Some refining to do still its an improvement.

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Tedious stuff working it out alone lol getting there tho', I got a little overwhelmed at zbrush 4 update so i got stuck into max again. Missed out on a seat to sze jones workshop.
http://img51.imageshack.us/img51/3677/711m.jpg

must fix those pants leggs

http://img97.imageshack.us/img97/3658/911122.jpg

[KarthikAL]

Nice works, try to sculpt body parts then go for the full character which will more control in zb,keep practicing:)

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Thanks Karth' http://img402.imageshack.us/img402/4036/maxheadip.jpg

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Where Im at WIP so far in Katon Calloways "High End Fantasy Game Art Creation" 3d Course .Liking zbrush alot,& the license ran out in Autodeskk.

http://img812.imageshack.us/img812/5371/week8.jpg

front
http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/3213/2862011wip.jpg

top
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/4950/wip23609.jpg

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just an update keen to colourise;

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/5953/21augdetail.jpg

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Bugh UVW' Are'nt much fun

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Armour detail
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/1108/wip02012012.jpghttp://img268.imageshack.us/img268/5034/wip020112.jpg