Sketchbook Thread of Redehlert

#441

yep…here’s an award winner - doodlin’ fun in illustrator formed a fun shape that wanted to be patterned. go ahead…do your room up this gem. freak out your parents or loved one. :wink:

cheers,
d

#442

lol
it would certainly boost up the imagination instantly… creatures with tentacles coming out of the walls etc… :smiley:

#443

lol…totally, johan! i see tentacles and eggs… :wink:

here’s an update to my children database, now with feet! i know they look like ‘older’ feet, but sometimes it’s the best one can do with limited time. :wink:

cheers!
d

#444

…how come?

#445

it was time to move on, mate.
i was spending nearly 4 hours a day either working on conceptart ‘fun’ projects or checking the postings of friends and other artists are just surfing, admiring, longing, deflating myself, you name it. this means that while yes, i created some cool work, i turned my back on things that really mattered. it was a form of obsession or escapism.
i realized that this chapter needed to be over so as to get back those 4 hours a day and cultivate them back into my life, wife, family, friends and business. i’ve maintained some wonderful friendships that have come out of conceptart, but on the whole, i came to see the site as more of a butt pat or a who’s who and i didn’t need that in my life anymore.
as a result of moving on, i no longer wonder who is ‘outdoing’ me in the art world. i have more time for business - building my practice to garner more clients, more projects, and of course, more money. :slight_smile: i have more time to dedicate to my wife, someone that is committed to making me good and i am committed to making her good. also, i don’t fear art or the making of art anymore. i used to be a perfectionist, but that perfection is dissolving. paradoxically, perfectionism doesn’t result in creating better art - it keeps you from it out of fear. to quote Shawshank Redemption - “it’s time to get busy living, or get busy dying.” i’m going to chose to get busy living.
i opened my heart to the prospect of moving forward and the universe has responded by providing me with awesome new prospects that were seemingly impossible before. in short, or long…this seems to be a bit long-winded(!)…i’m in a better place calling cgsociety my main home to share art with a society that is beyond just concept, but is really an area for professionals to have a good community and grow as peers, not as competitors.
i hope that all makes sense. :wink:

cheers!
d

#446

actually what you just said does make allot off sense to me. Im sort of recognising my self in that sort of story. I had the privilage of starting my own company some 6 months ago, and I spent hours and hours infront of the computer just berowsing this forums, on one side it does help me to develope my skills, but on the other hand I actually have a sore but from all the sitting, backpains and elbowproblems etc. You write something “smart” in this forums or post something “nice” and you get all obsesive about logging on to read the replys etc. Its not really healthy, well some of it is kind of nice but like you say I think if I foccus on the work that pay my bills etc (im gonne be doing a comicstrip now for a while) it has little to do with what you spend ages at the forums doing…

Some of it is good and some of it is simply not healthy, and yeah it does get quite competative and stupid too in a way. I was browsing that Massive Black thread the other day and it sort of hit me that Im never gonne be that good (maybe) but then I dont need to… I might be the best lets say comicstrip creator or whatever I dont need to bust my ass working some 40h hours on some monster pic just to get some respect and replys. :wink:

Anyhow, I think your creature stuff came through as verry humerous and originall and I hope you pursue that childrenbook thing. I dont think its out of reach, your paint is allready on that level and beyond, you just need to show your stuff to the right people, get lucky or find a good story or make it all yourself. :wink:

#447

Heya Dave,

First that illustration is looking sweet, really nice job with that. :slight_smile:

Second it’s been really interesting to read your discussion with ikuru, and I am glad that you’re happy and healthy! I think sometimes people lose sight of the fact that concept art isn’t the be all, end all. There are simply tons of other art forms out there, and having a focus on concept art alone I think can be limiting unless you are completely sure that that is the art form for you. I think CA is a great place, but there are far more people who want to be concept artists than there are actual positions. Competition is good but not when it becomes more important than your enjoyment of the process. I know that obessive competitiveness is the fastest route to getting burnt out on art - I practically wanted to ‘quit’ art after undergrad, because the competitive nature of my school zapped the fun out of my biggest occupation. Fortunately art didn’t ‘quit’ me, but I think I have a much healthier outlook on things now. It took a lot of lessons to get there, though. :slight_smile:

Cheers!

#448

in an attempt to drive more journal/magazine editorial cover art my way, we’re doing a large format (96x44") billboard to showcase a recent accolade (yes, making the cover of nature is just that) and seein’ what comes of it. :slight_smile:
sorry it’s kinda small to view the fine print, but you hopefully can get the ‘grabber’ elements and the ‘call to action’ in a quick glance.

hope all is well!

cheers,
d

#449

Look at the pretty colors! :wink: Heya Dave, glad to see you back. I’ll be around a bit more now that I’m settling in - work it!!! :slight_smile:

#450

lol…pretty colors indeed! thanks rk. :slight_smile:
cheers!
d

#451

Here’s a sketch of what I worked up today for this enormous HIV Life Cycle project that will be done in flash with the help of another local medical illustrator.
This is a close up of a Host cell’s nuclear pore. It will be used as a step for the viral DNA to gain access to the Host’s nucleus for integration.
I’ve got a bunch of other images too, but I don’t think they’re as neat-o as this thing-a-ma-bob. :slight_smile:

Cheers!
Dave

#452

Hey how’s it going?

Pretty busy I suppose
Anything new you are allowed to show us perhaps?
Just curious :wink:

#453

howdy! it’s going. been busy around here for summer! i’m teaching and really enjoying the students, working my uw gig four days of the week, and then i’m hammering on projects left and right in the personal biz. i don’t have much to show, except this one quick paint job done in 4 hours for a medical legal case. hope that will satisfy for now. :slight_smile:

hope you’re doing well!

all the best!
d

#454

lovely!

don’t work too hard :wink:
enjoy yer summer

thanks for sharing and take care
:beer:

#455

Thanks mate!

Things have been crazy around here. I’m finally going to part time at the UW Creative Services as my wife will become lead designer at Lost Luggage which allows me to give the freelance a bit more effort. Teaching is going well right now and the projects I have goin’ on are most interesting.
I failed to put this one up a while ago - almost a month old now, but here you go anyway. :slight_smile:

Cheers,
D

#456

And here’s a refined look at a postcard mailer targeting more clients along this editorial format. Layout and body copy by your truly along with help from the missus. :slight_smile:
It’s 8.5 x 3.66" and will be printed on a durable glossy card stock. :slight_smile:

Cheers,
D

#457

wow, didn’t know there were such things as implants for eyes :-?
what does it do? it doesn’t seem to have anything to do with vision itself according to where it is located, or does it?

I bet you learn a lot working as a scientific illustrator :bounce:

It’s great to hear all is well!

#458

Howdy!
It’s called a Ganciclover implant and it delivers a drug (the tab) over a period of months, I do believe. That’s about all I know, truth be told. I don’t always have the luxury of getting to know my projects in depth. Just enough to tell the story and then move on. :slight_smile:
I learn quite a bit as a medical illustrator and scientific illustrator…no doubts there.

Okay…update time. I’m now 50% at the UW and 50% freelance. It’s going very well!
Here’s a jpeg of an illustration I’m doing via freelance. It hasn’t gotten final approval, but it’s tons better than the samples provided me. I used Painter, Illustrator, Photoshop and InDesign. Osirix was a big help in getting a good head shot - long live Osirix! The brain is from a physical model that I posed to get just right and the arterial anatomy was developed using Osirix as well as all of my anatomy books. Oy vey! Something so simple and yet so complicated. Diameters of the vessels had to be correct as well as the branches.
There you have it!

Cheers,
Dave

#459

first three creatures (of 100) for the centennial cow. was informed through the grapevine of this event and got the okay from my boss (the missus) to do this. spending about a half hour on each of these. doing them at approx. 2x final size at 150 dpi. you’re seeing these at the original size.
enjoy!
d

#460

Hi!

the centennial cow

what’s that? blushes

your brain illustration looks a lil bit scary to me, thinking about what happened to Glenn Angus recently, but ofcourse I cannot find anything to crit :slight_smile:

It’s great to hear that your career is on a roll.
Always looking forward to the next post here

Ciao