Sketchbook Thread of Heozart

#210

Hey Wes, long time indeed, but so great to hear you’re having a ball at Rob’s WS.
You know that is really a great exercise, start with sketches from life and continue painting at the studio. It’s really good to train the visual memory. A lot of the old masters used to work this way too…

#211

Love the last few paintings that you have posted, and also the black and white studies. Great colours in the dancer turning into a cloud painting.

#212

Hi Vikram, thanks so much! :slight_smile:

Hey Johan, it is definitely great to see you. Are you going to be able to take Robert’s class when it is offered again? I really hope so. Pretty much every week has been an eyeopener for me one way or another.

One way it’s challenged me is using creative and expressive brushwork to render different types of surfaces. I used to be very intimidated by things like foliage, water, fur, etc., but I am starting to realize that I don’t need to be.

Here is a lion study I did a couple of days ago from the cover of the book The Soul of the Savanna:

#213

Amazing studies, Heozart! There really is nothing that should intimidate you about those things, you’ve shown it quite well with this last study. And a nice change after a bunch of girl paintings :smiley: Very well done. I also really like the black and white ones done after Elvgren. How about some real paints? :slight_smile:

#214

Cool work. I loved your pin up study. That was cool. But the lion… WOW. It looks so soft!

#215

Hi Wes, awesome textures in the lion study! What brushes did you use for it? Textured brushes intimidate me, but they sure look useful. It’s great to hear you’re getting a lot out of the workshop. I can’t wait to see what else you’ve learnt! :slight_smile:

#216

wow…the last one is simply awesome…:beer:

#217

That brushwork section was pretty challenging. Beautiful fur on those lions! Hope to see more work soon.

#218

Hi guys,

Tessa, I made a set of foliage brushes during Robert Chang workshop, and found one of them worked well on the lion. I don’t know how to share Painter brushes, but I can attach the Photoshop version if you want to try them.

I’ve been more productive lately, so I will try to update my sketchbook often. First, messing around with a drawing tool called Harmony from references. I found Harmony to run best on Google Chrome.

Some heads from references:

My July City of Heroes fanart:

Sister Psyche is really old but looks young supposedly because she doesn’t age while occupying someone else’s body. I think it is because she injects this secret serum every night.

I started studying anatomy, but don’t really have anything worth showing yet.

I figured learning 3D might help visualizing the forms, so I got Blender a couple of days ago. I’ve been going through the video tutorials and assignments here: http://www.gryllus.net/Blender/3D.html

I was hoping Blender would be like a poor man’s Zbrush with the sculpt mode, but so far I haven’t been able to get it to work like I want it to. But after watching the third set of videos at that site, I learned that you can quickly make organic shapes from a simple form like a cube by pulling and stretching some planes. Here’s my humble first bust:

After I played around in the sculpt mode:

Unfortunately I accidently closed Blender (and it doesn’t ask you to save) so I couldn’t capture different views.

#219

Ok, I’m addicted to Blender. I wish I had started sooner.

Made the teddy bear following this tutorial.

http://vimeo.com/4622616

I can’t wait to learn to rig and animate characters.

#220

Oh man I remember the last version I used blender for modeling was 2.37. I had been learning to model with 3dsmax before that and I wanted to continue with blender because it was open source (3dsmax licences are insanely expensive). I was having a blast creating models but I also wanted to make amazing 3D scenes and I even started to dream that one day I wanted to make a 3D shortfilm. That is actually how I got into 2D…
Now, 6 or 7 years later I wouldn’t remember how to use Blender3D, but one day I will again, that’s for sure.

Since you’re getting on with it so quickly, I assume it is still as intuitive as it used to be?

#221

Here’s an update to prevent my thread from being locked. I haven’t really made much progress with 3d since my last post, but the big news is I will be going to a 3d animation school called Think Tank Training Centre starting next month. I still love 2d, but my plan is to set my foot in the movie/game industry with 3d.

Some recent stuff:


Leyendecker study


Trying out a free painting program called MyPaint


Studies from books Alien Race and Art of District 9.


Study from a photo I took in Korea in the winter.


April fanart for City of Heroes.


Reference from a Canucks hockey game.


Study from the movie Bad Lieutenant.




Pygmy seahorse studies from google search. I love these little things! I plan to do more studies of pygmy seahorses, then try to come up with my own species.

#222

Wrecked Porsche studies from Mega Breakdown on National Geographic channel. I guess crumpled metal is like folds in drapery, but I am having a lot of trouble.

#223

Great to see you posting again Wes.

Hope to do the same in a couple of weeks o.O

#224

Hey Johan! How are you doing? Having fun painting?

Stuff from the past week:


I have a hard time capturing likeness or the essence of a person so I felt like I needed to practice with the same head a bit. These were from Balls of Fury. A couple at the bottom were from memory/imagination and it sucked.




This is my May fanart for CoH. The theme was “anonymous” so I thought I’d try something totally different from what I normally do. I started using selection tools in the recent weeks, and this was a good practice to go all out with those. I also got more comfortable with gradients and masks.

Anyone going to Siggraph this year? I didn’t know it was going to be in Vancouver until today. My school is going to be there, so I get to go for free. :slight_smile:

#225

I’m great, thx.
Hope you are too :smiley:
Can’t paint much apart from the 2 evenings at the academy since november 26th… too busy with family stuff.
But 2 more weeks and I will be full time at home for a while (I’m hoping 3 months).
I should be able to paint then :slight_smile:

Have fun at Siggraph!

#226

Hey Johan, how’s your break going?

I can’t believe it’s already been almost a month since school started. I spend most of the time learning 3d, but I also have life drawing and classical animation classes which I enjoy. From last few weeks:


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Some 10-minute caricatures of my classmates and life drawing. Mercedes 300 SL I modeled. Ref for the 2nd image: http://www.netcarshow.com/mercedes-benz/1954-300_sl_gullwing/800x600/wallpaper_04.htm

#228

Painting daily, Wes!
But I found a new job and I’m starting next tuesday, so I’m bound to have to drop the painting time, but I will try to keep painting daily. It would be a waste to lose my rithm now :smiley:
(I’m posting mostly just on my blog these days)

That Mercedes is AWESOME! This one and the 1959 190 SL Roadster are my all time favs
I really dig that Mercedes decided to go back to that front grill design for there latest models.

Nice figure work too!

#229

Cool stuff, man! The mercedes is asking for some mafia dude near it. I like the wrecked porsche studies also but the blank BGs aren’t helping those.