Sketchbook Thread of Heozart

#121

Hey Johan, I already have Painter X at home on my desktop, but I’ve been away for last couple of months. I’ve heard good things about ArtRage, too, but never tried it. They have a free version (full version is only $25), so maybe I will try it one of these days.

#122

A couple more heads from today.

082 in GIMP. It turned out to be more of a smudge exercise than anything else. Does it look over-smudged?

047 in Sketch Pad. I didn’t bother blending this one other than using a white chalk brush for light areas. I will probably redo this one because I failed to capture the emotion and likeness.

#123

Nice portraits, the first one doesn’t look over smudged to me, and the second chalk portrait…I haven’t had a look at the original, so the expression looks right to me.

#124

The 047 looks great to me.

#125

Hi heozart i liked how 047 came out…the shadows and the highlights and the grainy colors…that looks awesome

#126

Vikram, Sycen and Vinay, thanks for the feedback guys. :slight_smile: 047 looks ok on its own, but when I look at the original sculpture, I think he looks a lot more sad.

I should do more heads, and I am going to, but I started doing studies of other people’s characters from City of Heroes.

Lil Miss Goth Girl:

This was done in Sketch Pad.

Cybernautica:

I started this on the DS and finished it in GIMP. I didn’t know just playing with values could be so much fun. I guess I kinda got in the mood when I started doing the heads.

Also did this on the DS last night:

#127

After Bernini’s Angel with the crown of thorns. I wanted to see how far I could go with it in an hour, but this took around 80 minutes.

Techno Viking from City of Heroes and a seagull from Finding Nemo. I need to work on water obviously.

#128

Another CoH(City of Heroes) character from a few days ago:

I am back home, so I can finally use Painter again. Finished this copy I started a couple of weeks ago:

#129

Cool armor and very nice rendering. :slight_smile:

#130

Hey Wes! Nice work on the armored dude! :thumbsup:

#131

Sycen, thanks! :slight_smile:

Hi Anand, thank you too! :smiley:

Here’s what I did for the March fanart battle on the City of Heroes forums. People get eliminated each month till there is only one person left in December. I am not holding my breath, but hopefully I will advance a few more months. This month’s theme was to zombify a character.

Mostly done in Painter and overlayed textures in Photoshop. Used my little mannequin to get the pose in perspective, and also my hand as reference.

#132

Good stuff Wes - I really like the gold armour! Turned out great!

#133

Thanks Magdalena! :slight_smile:

Thanks Johan for the Alchemy link. I love it! I know it is intended for wild conceptualization, but I wanted to better understand how it works. So after I played around with it for a while, I decided to see if I could creat something that resembles the source material. I just got the extended edition of Gladiator (so much inspiration and many studies to do! :D) and used the picture on the cover as reference. Around 10 minutes.

#134

Cool Alchemy sketch Wes.
Pretty amazing how fast it is, don’t you agree?
There’s a thousand different forms and “images” triggered in my head when using it…
bit like a drug really :scream:

#135

Hey Johan, I totally agree! I especially like the displace effect. I feel like a little child watching clouds in the sky, except it is 100 times faster!

I started a couple of paintings in Alchemy today. I love the excitement of not knowing what you will end up with.

This is someone’s character from City of Heroes:

Exported to Painter:

With this one, I started seeing someone in a dress, and I named it Lady With A Gun:

Painter:

Color Balance in Photoshop:

#136

My monitor died last week, and it will probably take a few weeks to get it fixed. :cry: Instead of drawing on my ancient laptop, I decided to work only with traditional mediums till I have it fixed, since I have plenty of art supplies but rarely use them.

I bought some markers in December, and these are my first marker sketches. Mixer studies from ‘Sketching: Drawing Techniques for Product Designers’:

The first one turned out really crappy, but I kinda started getting the hang of it after. I think part of the problem with the first one was that the initial sketch was too big. There was a lot of area to cover with markers and I was very sloppy.

Some vehicles from references:

Working with markers is making me think a lot about value, because of the way colored markers interact with grey markers. It seems that color markers work best with grey markers with values that are close to their own value.

I started playing around with acrylic too, but I will post when I have done more. All I have so far is a very tiny interior study.

I think I am going to a life drawing session on Saturday. :smiley: I haven’t done that in a long time.

#137

Hey wow!
You should use these markers more often :slight_smile:
Love how you depict the metallic surfaces in these vehicles! Aside from the perspective issues (perhaps make a quick perspective guide in pencil first?)

Great stuff with this medium Wes!
I’ve used some warm grey markers before and it’s not easy, that’s for sure!
Looking forward to see more!

#138

Hi Wes, great work with those markers. I think these sketches would look even better if you accentuate the linework after you’re done wirh the markers. Have you seen the vidoes of Scott Robertson? They are a great help on drawing cars and other objects) in perspective.

#139

Those are done with markers??Wonderful stuff…Get your monitor fixed soon :slight_smile:

#140

Hey Wes!! Great job with the markers! :thumbsup: