3 paintings. All done in Sketchbook Pro.

#17

wow digi_bob you sure know what you’re doing!

1st - awesome cute style of character… the lighting is done really well, and i love the ground texture. A++ **also as weasel.acuh5o
mentioned, he doesn’t look like an asian… i looked again - it’s called “BLACK Samurai” ;D

2nd - very sexy machine indeed, lovely mood and lighting w/ this one, only crit is it seems the texture of the car has a bit of a matte finish. maybe harsher highlights?

3rd - definately could tell who it once instantly, very nice. my crit is he does appear to be a bit plastic, as someone mentioned - also maybe desaturate his skin tone just a tad.

hope this helps - overall you’re doing juuuust fine!

#18

Hey thanks for all the feedback everyone!! Now for some individual replies

MonsterMangler - Thanks for the comment! I agree with you on all points. Sketchbook Pro is fantastic for sketching and cleaning up.

Being a tablet PC user I also love the fact that it doesn’t need a mouse or keyboard to run.

It’s fully functional with just the tablet pen. It’s also missing some functionality in my opinion but the good thing is I’m told the next version will have alot of new functions in there so I can’t wait to try it out.

Big Boi - Thanks man! My girlfriend told me that she thinks she knows you. Do you live in Oakville?

Alice - Thank you for the feedback! The “Clint” pic was done in a little under 3hrs and the background done in about 20 seconds… lol… so I’d definitely love to work on it a bit more. I put it on my “to do list.”

direndra - Thanks!

Phantomstranger - Thanks for the c&c. I appreciate it. The convertible was the first car that I’ve painted so I’ll definitely do much better on the next one. This one was a bit of a learning experience for me.

weasel.acuh5o - Thanks for the feedback! The samurai in the first pic looks black cuz he IS black… lol… hence the title of the piece “Black Samurai”

As for the car… I’m the same as you. I always liked painting characters more then vehicles. characters just seem more interesting to me but after painting my first vehicle painting, I’ve found a new respect for vehicles.

fizzgig/dgpilot/jack_sparrow - Thanks! the first one’s my fav too. I started my art education in 2d animation so I’ve always been a little partial to nice cartoony, designy stuff.

tomra - Thank you for the kind words. I actually drew out 3 samurais but only had time to paint one of them. I’ll definitely try to get to the other 2 as soon as I get some more free time.

iamintricate - Thanks for the c&c! I’ll try both the suggestions about the car and the Clint painting… as soon as i get a free moment :stuck_out_tongue:

Thanks again everyone for all the great feedback!

Cheers,
Bobby

Now I’ll leave you with this very quick 10minute doodle I did for the first “Sketch of the Day” thread. Topic: Freefall.

It won the sketch of the day. (Whoo hoo) So I thought I’d mention that this too was done 100% in Sketchbook Pro.

title: Farretdog freefall

#19

haha yeah, that pup was too cute.

gj.

:smiley:

#20

nice wrok

#21

hey thanks for the comments u 2!

#22

I kind of like them all. Great style. I guess if anything Id want you to finish the clint eastwood pic. I think finishing the hair with texture and what not would really give it even a more accurate look.

#23

I love what the program allows you to do, it looks very intuative, I just wish it were available for mac as well as PC.

#24

Sketchbook Pro is available for the Mac
They just released an upgrade version and new Mac version.

Great work Bobert! I love the look of the first one best. Nice character and brush work there. I’m not to thrilled about the car because it’s pink and stretched (extreme!), but that’s just personal preference. Clint = very good likeness and nicely illustrated. Needs some work on the hair, but very minor negative on the overall work.

I like Sketchbook Pro and I’m looking forward to downloading the update and checking out the fixes. I did a review of this software for CGNetworks (anyone see it?) so I’m not going to bore you with duplicated statements.

#25

Thanks Kirt! I’m just downloading the trial version now!

#26

Hey thanks Kirt!

I’ve downloaded the new version yesterday nite. The hot keys are a nicely needed touch.

#27

Hey Digital! man, just wanted to say you totally rock with Sketchbook. I downloaded and tried it out yesterday… I have no idea how the hell you painted like that in Sketchbook Pro. My stuff came no where close

#28

1: Great
2: Needs more contrast , maybe black instead of dark green?
And maybe you should try some reflections on the car.
3: Needs more contrast again.
And too much black around his head.
If he’s angry you can show it differently.

Good work anyway :wavey:

#29

Hey, good works…

what’s a sketch pro anyway?? sorry for being an idiot …I will go and google now…

  1. nice character, I think I really like this one. beautiful feel to it. well rendered too.

  2. cars are really hard to render and I think you did really good. Even though it was your first.

  3. Now this is awsome. I absoultely love this one. CLint eastwood with style… 10/10 for this one…and I VOTE THIS ONE!!

:thumbsup:

#30

Hey Bob, did you get your tablet PC and Cintiq yet? Just curious how much nicer it is to actually sketch direct to the screen. I’ve never really adapted to drawing on a tablet while looking at the screen. I guess I’m used to seeing that line created underneath my pencil/pen.

I just downloaded the latest update and the hotkeys are a major plus! Thanks to the Alias crew for adding the Alt select for color picking (my biggest gripe of the previous version).

bumskee - Here’s a link for you … Alias Sketchbook Pro

#31

Nice works :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

#32

Hey everyone!

Thanks so much for all the feedback!

Big Boi - Hey thanks for the comment. I try my best…:stuck_out_tongue: There’s so many mind-blowing, awesome artists on this site. Looking at everyone’s work pushes me to get better to try and keep up.

Aerion/bumskee/Stargo - Thanks for the feedback!

Kirt - Yep! gottem both a couple months ago:thumbsup:
I was really surprised at how much faster my work has gotten with my new found toys! It’s like drawing on magic paper!

Especially with the new version of Sketchbook Pro. The new hot keys - ‘Alt’ for color picking, and ‘space bar’ for the hand/zoom tool makes working in Sketchbook Pro insanely fast!

I painted the “Black Samurai” and “Convertible” with the Cintiq. I did the “Clint” on my tablet PC. The only gripe I have with the tablet PC is that it’s hard to paint in brightly lit places cuz of the glare you get from laptop monitors. However with my tablet PC, it’s allowed me the freedom to do some pretty cool stuff like digital sketching OUTDOORS or/and IN THE DARK. But my favorite new hobby is digital LIFEDRAWING. VERY COOOOL!

here’s a couple of digi lifedrawings…

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#33

yeah! great works! :bowdown:

#34

digital_bobert,
First, congrats for “freefalling weiner dog”. IMO the most original sketch for that topic. Also, I’ve always liked your avatar. Nora Jones? Dead on caricature.

Black Samurai – great figure, but I’m even more impressed by the dust cloud blur. Perfect!

Car – looks like a few different cars stretched out and stuck together. Corvette front and Cadilac in back, perhaps? Nice job.

Clint – fairly photoreal, but looks like an exaggerated squint and mop hair. Very nice. I think the original (from Rolling Stone Magazine) has a darker background at left of pic which explains the “missing ear”. Nice work.

#35

hey I was trying out the Sketchbook Pro 1.1. Do you make your own brushes? if so, what brushes do you use?

#36

ei-en - Thanks!

Ilikesoup - Thank you for the kind words.

Big Boi - I usually set one brush with low opacity (minimum & maxium around 0.5) and one with high opacity (minimum & maxium around 25 or higher).

Both brushes have brush sizes with the minimum dramatically lower than the maximum brush size (eg. min is set at 0.4, max set at 50) It gives me a lot more freedom with my brush strokes.

Then I keep the brush options window open and adjust my brushes accordingly as I go along.

Hope that helps.

Cheers,
Bobby