Sketchbook Thread of Heozart

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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.

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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:

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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.

#230

Looking good there Wes. If you keep going the way you have, you’re going to be kicking ass and taking names not far into the future.

I have my prediction of a specific choice you’ll end up making down the line regarding your career and focus, and I guess we’ll have to wait and see if I’m accurate. :slight_smile:

#231

Hey Johan, I hope your new job is going well. I saw your blog, and you are making a good progress! I really liked the duracel train. :slight_smile: Keep painting!

Thanks Razz. Yeah I should practice coming up with simple backgrounds.

Hey Robert! What a nice surprise to find you here hehe. Now I am really curious what your prediction might be, but I guess I will have to wait a couple of years, which won’t be very long if time keeps flying by at this rate.

I thought I wanted to be a character modeler, but we started sculpting with Mudbox at school, and it’s been more frustrating than fun so far. I enjoy poly modeling more for now, but maybe I will learn to love sculpting once we start doing it more next semester.

What’s been far more intriguing to me is ICE in Softimage. I am still pretty much a beginner, but I would love to be able to do more with it. ICE is not part of the curriculum though, so I have to learn it on my own when I have free time.

There is only three weeks left in the first semester, and I need to come up with an idea for my final project by early next week. The scene I have in mind is a hair dresser with a crazy hairdryer almost blowing the hair off of his customer. The characters are going to have those big 80s hair, and one side of the wall will be covered with sketches of people from the 80s.



I’ve been doing rough sketches to flesh out the idea, and this is the best one so far. Still doesn’t look very interesting, and I am having a lot of trouble coming with a design for the hairdryer. I want the image to be comical and silly, so maybe i should work on stylizing the characters as well. I am not even sure if the instructor will approve the idea, but at least I am having fun drawing stuff for a change.

Alchemy sketches that I started with the intention of making a hairdryer: :smiley:


#232

Hey Wes, great stuff here. I looked through most of your stuff and can see some awesome improvement. Keep up the good work and keep posting. Keeps me motivated to get better.

#233

Hi Pacucho, thanks for the kind words and taking the time to look at my stuff! :slight_smile:

Almost done with my semester final project. I wish I had more time to add and refine little details, but I need to wrap it up and will be spending most of the time rendering out passes and playing around in comp.

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I really like the expressive sketches you did for this–both the more abstract ones and the more representational ones.

The 3D is good, but not as artistic/expressive when compared to the 2D you did. Imagine if you had painted this as an expressive 2D painting–it would’ve been much more exciting and expressive. (This is me being objective, BTW. I think 3D excels at certain things, but there are many instances where 2D kicks 3D’s ass in terms of artistic expressiveness.)

#235

Thanks for the comment, Robert! I thought about doing a 2d paintover on top of the 3d, but between visiting Korea for the break and work piling up in the new semester I never got around to it.

We worked on low res guns in the modeling class for the last three weeks, and I picked the Teleporter from the Art of District 9 book. It’s still missing little details like a screen, control buttons, and alien graphics, but I think I am moving on to other stuff.

11,806 triangles. Modeled in Softimage, textured in Photoshop, and screenshots from Marmoset game engine.

Wall-E pumpkin I carved for halloween: :smiley:

I need to make a decision which area (animation, environment modeling, character modeling, lighting, VFX, etc) I want to specialize for my demo reel very soon. I really hate to pick one thing, and I’ve been getting depressed just thinking about it. I guess I might have to go with environments because I’ve been doing well with poly modeling. My original choice when I started school was characters, but I am having a very hard time getting used to sculpting in Zbrush.

#236

Hey it’s been a while since I visited your thread :slight_smile:

I can’t comment on 3D (technically) but the face of the lady in the hairdresser chair
had me in stitches, so I’d love to see you take this further :thumbsup: Also really like your sketches (heads) and the cars too - especially looking over the steering wheel in the Merc (even though the steering wheel is on the left side ;))

Hope you’re well
cheers
a. :slight_smile:

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