Sketchbook Thread of Heozart

#201

Heozart vey nice colours! I really like the idea of the dancer turning into a little “cloud” of smoke. Also like the several studies you did before the main paint

#202

Wow, I love the colours! And it looks like she turned into a spirit in the end. :slight_smile:

#203

Yay, this place is starting to look more alive! Had to fetch my thread from page 2. :smiley:

Cisc0 and Aviva, thanks! :slight_smile:

Experiment with patterns:

I meant to do more with patterns, but it got pushed back, as studying Elvgren’s style became my goal for the month, although I got distracted in a good way and started reading Loomis books.

Elvgren Studies:

#204

very nice sense of movement…lovely works…

#205

Wow, those Gil Elvgren studies are amazing…

#206

Hi Heozart, great updates: the work with the patterns is very interesting. The Elvgren studies look good, especially the colored ones. Keep going!

#207

Thanks guys. :slight_smile:

Some more Elvgren studies:

I am aiming for an Elvgren style pin up piece for my February City of Heroes fanart. Here are some tonal sketches from imagination. I usually can do very little from imagination, and I kinda surprised myself a little, even though these aren’t much. I guess having read some Loomis and doing tonal studies really helped. I also went to the Lost Lagoon at Stanley Park to observe the lake environment the other day.

I went with the third plan, and here’s the WIP:

The lake creature in the background is named Sally in the game. I thought it would be funny to have the character fumble with the camera while the chance for the shot of her life slips away. I am not sure whether she is even aware of Sally’s presence.

#208

Here’s the finished painting. It’s lacking refinement in some areas, but I stopped when I wasn’t having fun anymore. I have so much to learn about color and edge control.

#209

Hey guys,

I’ve been working harder than ever on my art, but all my effort went into the Robert Chang workshop (which is amazing btw) so I didn’t have anything to post here until now.

This is a store display study from yesterday which I started at the mall on my Nintendo DS then refined at home in Painter from memory and imagination. Now that I have a pair of Skechers Shape-ups, I want to explore the city and do more sketches from life. :slight_smile:

#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?