Sketchbook Thread of Heozart

#101

Another study from the book:

I was going to do another one, but I couldn’t find the right color. I want to get familiar with color names, so I’ve been using the same colors they used in the book by double-clicking on the color palette to see the name. For this onion study I was going to do, one of the colors she used was opera, which isn’t one of the colors on the default palette. It is supposed to be a very bright pink, but I can’t find the RGB #'s anywhere. Guess I will just have to eyeball it when I work on it tomorrow. :hmm:

#102

More digital watercolor today. I think I am hooked!


Onion study from the book. This one looks too digital I think. :shrug:


I did this piece for the Feburary fanart battle on the City of Heroes forums. The theme was to infantize a signature hero or villain from the game, and I picked Ghost Widow and Wretch. It was inspired by one of the paintings in my watercolor book, but I think this is different enough to be considered my work and not a study/copy of an exisiting work. I am glad I was able to put what I’ve learned to test. Crit/comments welcome and appreciated. :slight_smile:

#103

Beautiful Paintings and Water Colours Specially the glass one! Just cant believe they are digital. and thanks for the link for Painter Brushes you ve sent.

#104

Hi Wes, great paintings! I like the results you achieved with the watercolors. I should try it myself one of these days. I’ll keep in mind the tips you gave. Keep going!

#105

Bhaskar and Bart, thank you for the feedback. I am having a lot of fun with these for sure. I am trying to think of any other tips, but it is 2:30 am after working on these new pieces, and my brain is asleep.


This one was from memory, trying to remember the wrinkles I saw on someone’s jeans in the bus today.


After how poorly I rendered metal in the Ghost Widow piece, it was obvious I needed a lesson. This is from my watercolor book. It looked simple enough, but it wasn’t easy at all! Actually turned out to be the toughest challenge yet, and I didn’t do a very good job compared to the original.

#106

Beautiful Paintings:cool:

#107

Karthik, thanks!

Practicing metal again:

Here’s the reference image, which is a pencil drawing by KChen from Conceptart.org.

Edit: I posted his drawing instead of linking to his thread, because it is no longer there.

#108

nice painting:cool:

#109

Thanks Karthik! :slight_smile:

I am working on the background story for the bunny workshop. Basically, the RAbbIT Corporation has taken over the world after WW3 by mobilizing their robotic “battle bunnies.” Here is the logo I came up with for the RAbbIT Corporation:

#110

Nice painting.Love the colours and the strokes you have used in the last one

#111

Cool idea for the bunny workshop Wes
Looking forward to see it developing

#112

Vikram, thank you. :slight_smile: About the strokes, I have something to add to what I’ve learned from the digital watercolor process, but I will have to organize my thoughts first. (I plan to learn how to record from Painter to make a little demo later next month.)

Johan, I am glad you like the idea. I haven’t written down the story yet because I have to finalize some details. Instead, I started doing robot studies from images off of google. I don’t feel very confident about designing my own bunny robot, but hopefully doing these studies will help.

I tried painting in GIMP for the first time for these as I don’t have access to photoshop now, and it felt pretty similar. I will just have to learn the hot keys and where everything is, lol. It may sound silly, but for this type of simple paintings with just a hard round and a soft round brushes, I don’t know which brushes to use if I were to do it in Painter. Does anyone know?

#113

I worked on the design of my bunny robot today. I think I will name them Double b’s (from the logo on them). I still need to refine it and work on the hands and the feet, but I am pretty happy with the general concept. While looking at rabbit skeletons, I noticed a big curve on their spine, more pronounced tham other animals. So I decided to somehow make it a design element, and it resulted in the crouch mode, which enables Double b’s to maneuver through tight spaces, and also travel at a high speed.

I have decided to make RABBIT a personal project for which the bunny workshop will be the first of many paintings, because I saw a lot of potential in the story for exploring various themes and styles, and practicing effective storytelling and composition. I am still working on the story, but it is now known that RABBIT stands for Robotic Alliance for Building a Better Industrial Tomorrow (credit goes to a friend from City of Heroes.)

#114

I have yet to finalize my robot design, but I’ve been working on the sort of look I want for the background.

Studies from photo references:

From imagination/memory(the third one fell apart as soon as I started placing figures :cry: ) Now that I compare these, it looks like the imaginary ones are missing middle values.

This time in Painter. Again from imagination:

DS painting from reference. I could have refined it a bit more, but it was starting to feel more like playing with pixels than painting.

#115

Hi Wes :slight_smile:

You were asking me about Z Brush, so is is a GREAT link that might interest you.

http://www.pixologic.com/zclassroom/homeroom/

The tutorial by Cesar Dacol Jr…Industry Insider is GREAT,…As are all the others.

ENJOY…:slight_smile:
Glenn

#116

Hi Glenn,

Thanks for the link! I would love to try Zbrush one day if I can find a good deal.

WIP from a new Painter book I bought yesterday:

This guy has an interesting way of painting, mostly done with a variant of New Simple Water and another brush for lighter colors, because you can only go darker with the other brush. I am just following the steps in the book, and amazed by the results you can get from a very simple method. I am not used to sketching precisely with a lot of detail, so the sketch took forever, though. I will post a bigger version when it is finished. The book is called Alien’s Painter X by the way, but it is in Korean.

#117

I really enjoy your painter studies - no patience for the program here ;). Really digging the colours on the Chen study in particular!

#118

I like those environment studies!
Damn I really ought to do some too scratches hair again

Keep going Wes, great stuff to be seen here :slight_smile:

#119

Magdalena, thank you! I just didn’t get Painter till I went through John Derry’s Painter tutorials. Now I love it as you can see. :slight_smile:

Johan, thanks! Enviro’s are very hard for me, especially in color. I am hoping to do more of these too.

DS doodles from this week, all from imagination:

The trial period is over on Painter X, so I am trying out Corel Sketch Pad to get me through next couple of weeks till I get home.

Head 008 from the head workshop:

Fencing studies from photo refs:

A study from Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers:

My impression of Sketch Pad:
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[li]I LOVE the tilt sensitivity in pencil and chalk brushes. It feels very natural.[/li][li]Marker brush doesn’t build up superfast when you overlap like in Painter X, but still faster than real markers I think.[/li][li]Transparent palettes are nice, but can slow down a low-end PC (512mb ram and 64mb video memory on this laptop.) But you can easily hide all palettes with the tab key.[/li][li]No custom brushes, no custom papers, and no customizable hot keys.[/li][li]Size, opacity, and grain are the only brush controls you can adjust.[/li][li]Pressure sensitivity doesn’t work very well on some brushes, even if you play around with wacom tablet properties.[/li][li]Very visible quality loss when you export as a jpg file even at full size at the highest quality setting. Luckily you can export as a PSD, and I was able to get much better jpgs using GIMP.[/li][li]I like it for simple sketching, but I think it is too simple for its own good, especially considering the $120 price tag.[/li][/ul]

#120

Hey Wes,

nice updates again!
I’m so slacking these days :argh:

If Sketchpad and Painter are too expensive, have you considered ArtRage? It’s really cheap and although I’ve not used it myself yet, I’ve not heard anything negative about it

http://www.ambientdesign.com/