Sketchbook Thread of Heozart

#181

Some 30 minute studies…ok I lied, more like 31 or 32 minute studies. :smiley:

#182

Really nice works, I like the color scheme in the last one, keep it in!

#183

Thank you David. :slight_smile:

I’ve been lazy for a few days, but I am finally back on track. Here’s a character concept I am going to use for the Secret Agent challenge:

#184

very stylish, i really like the concept. i’ll search for your entry to keep an eye on it

#185

Brilliant concept…speechless :eek:

#186

Gabriel, thanks! I have a link to my entry in my sig, but it hasn’t been updated since that concept.

Alexander, thank you very much. :slight_smile:

I need to work on the vehicle for Time Killer, but I have worked on some other stuff.
My entry for July CoH fan art battle:

The theme was “Transformation”, either a hero turning into a villain or vice versa.

This is the final piece to the Gray Huntress story I was working on a while ago:

The Art of Cars cover study:

#187

Happy New Year!

My new years resolution is to have fun drawing/painting.

Figure skating studies to kick off the new year:

#188

Hi Wes, great update! The skaters look really dynamic. Happy New Year!

#189

Hey Bart, it is good to see you! :slight_smile: How are you doing?

There are so many things I want to work on: portraits, landscapes, architecture, vehicles, speedpaintings, polished works with lots of details, and the list goes on. Most times I end up not getting anything done because I don’t know where to start.

So I decided that I will create a new file and just fill the image with whatever I feel like working on that day. Kinda like when you fill a page in your sketchbook because there’s lots of white space and you don’t want to waste paper.

This is what I did today. Hopefully it will turn into a daily sketch sort of thing, or at least close to that.

#190

From last couple of days:

#191

Started doing some lighting studies. I had done more in photoshop, but it crashed before I remembered to save. So I started over in painter.

#192

I think the bottom skater has pretty much the look I will use for my project.

Smoke study:

Watchmen study:

#193

great to see you working this hard Wes…
I must do that too!

#194

squees it’s Wall-E and Eve-ah!! :wink: The smoke study is awesome, and all your figure studies are too. The style of the bottom figure skater will make for a great project.

I know what you mean with the having so many things you want to do that you end up not getting anything done. I always struggle with where to start, or what to continue. Looks like you’re getting plenty done at the moment though. :slight_smile:

#195

Johan, I am kinda embarrassed to say this, but I’ve been working on stuff at least a couple of hours everyday for the last two weeks or so, and that’s a first for me. It can still take me a while to get started, but it is gradually becoming a habit. I’ve been happy to find myself more inclined to reach out for my tablet pen over the tv remote lately. I know you have inspired me time and time again in the past, so I will do my best to keep working and playing hard if that’s what it will take to motivate you. :slight_smile:

Aviva, thanks! :slight_smile: I ought to do more Wall-E studies, but again, there are so many other things I need to be working on. I will try to sneak one in when I do movie studies again.

I got started on my figure skating project. It’s titled ‘Dance of the Nightshade’. I split it to post here, but it is going to be one continuous image. I think I am about 1/2-2/3 way through, so it is going to be a very tall painting. This is a rough version, and I am going to wait till it is finished before upsizing and getting into the details.


The sequences that follow will be a long spin, after which she will turn into a smoke and disappear. I stopped tonight because I wasn’t sure how I was going to pull off the spin, but I guess I will just have to try tomorrow. The last scene will be the same landscape as the opening, except it will be in the middle of the night with all the nightshades bloomed, and she won’t be there.

I want this to be my work so far, so any critique and suggestions are welcome and appreciated. :slight_smile:

#196

Wow
I really like how you make every scene flow into the next one.
Maybe in the last transition, the 3 dancers are a bit too horizontally?
Not sure though. It looks really nice already.

#197

I second Johan’s “Wow”. This looks epic. When I read your description of the end sequences I visualised a spin that snaked towards us, with the closest figure turning into smoke. Can’t wait to see the full thing!

#198

Thanks Johan. I wanted to do a graphic novel sort of thing, but I decided from the beginning that I would do without borders. I knew I was going for a strong lighting so I thought I would divide things with light and dark. Thanks for pointing out that jump. I moved up and rotated the middle one and brought down the third a little. If you want to see what inspired me for this, by the way, go to http://jamsan.com/ver2/index.htm, click on gallery, project, and the Nike icons. Some pretty amazing art there.

Hey Tessa, that’s exactly how I ended up doing the spin! :smiley: What I wasn’t sure about was how I was going to turn her into smoke and also the transition from there to the ending. She was still going to be fully human at the end of the spin, but what you said gave me the direction I needed. I only have silhouettes now, but she will be half figure/half smoke at the end of the spin, and fully smoke rising from the flowers in the last scene. It should have better contrast with some city lights and glow-in-the-dark flowers. :slight_smile:



#199

Yay! Nice spin! I really like the shapes of the overlapping figures. The smoke bit sounds tricky. Maybe the smoke can start at her trailing limbs? I’m sure you’ll figure it out. :slight_smile:

#200

Thanks Tessa.

Here is the finished version. It could be polished more, but I kinda got tired of working on it. It doesn’t look too much like smoke at the end, but I guess it doesn’t have to. I am just happy that the piece as a whole turned out to be something close to what I had envisioned. Special thanks to Tessa and Johan for the feedback!