Sketchbook Thread of Xvampire

#5

xvampire,

Welcome! :slight_smile: Great to see your Sketchbook here, your reel is fantastic, and I was really impressed with the 3D realization of the 2D concept art in the beginning - and the cave creatures and fish just made me laugh, really impressive stuff, so congrats! :slight_smile:

You have some strong 2D work as well here and it will be great to see how you develop it - I’d love to have your participation in our Workshops, which you can be notified about by subscribing here:

Notification of New Open Figure Drawing Workshops / + TUTORIALS - SUBSCRIBE HERE!
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?t=379951

With respect to crits, the Goonie drawing is great - the only minor crit I might have is to suggest defining his left forearm a bit more. I’m curious to see you really refine a 2d digital painting from one of your sketches. It would also be nice to know a bit about your background as an artist.

Cheers, :slight_smile:

-Rebeccak

#6

Hi All, thank you!
I respect all the comments here

first, I think that I still need a lot of improvement, thats why Im here, CGtalk sketch book, I ve seen a lot of great sketches , so I wish I could learn from all you guys and girls.

I think my bg is so confusing ^^

I grew up with comics, games, and movies.
I started to read disney comics, then early DC/marvel comic,
after that I read manga/anime which is influence my illustration style a lot.
I almost want to be a comic artist that create story and graphics on my own, but I know thats still not really possible in my country.

at the same time I studied life drawing/photo drawing and fine art painting (non college), which is luckily still help me to achieve the realism/color … sometimes I went to local traditional art gallery.

actually, I also started to love CG, at that time, and played a lot of games … so I tought that I already lost my interest to comics and paintings. and want to be a game/movie artist.
then I learn CG, and make my first CG, I tought that cg doesnt need traditional knowledge anymore as long as its look like in the movie and games, its already good. but I was wrong,
it always turn out like cg-ish lifeless artwork. then I realized that cg and fine-art must be together.
thats why I always keep drawing untill now.

which artist to admire? a lot!
random example : Akira Toriyama(DBZ) ,Herge(TinTin) , Derek Riggs (Illustrator of IronMaiden cover), Yoji Shinkawa (metal gear),
etc etc etc :stuck_out_tongue:

Im so sorry I only have few images to post now, I ll get/scan some more if I have a time …

#7

ok just found more scanned drawings in my external HD

#8

xvampire,

Thanks for your talking about your background - I think you are absolutely right about the fine arts really informing one’s 3D work - anangpg, Thomasphoenix, Intervain, and others are testaments to this. :slight_smile:

Below I’ve linked some Sketchbooks that I think you will enjoy checking out - there are so many great Sketchbooks around and I encourage you to check out as many as you can - but since there are so many, here is a good place to start: :slight_smile:

Sketchbook Thread of Icey
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=308208&highlight=razz

Anatomy Thread of razz - 2D/3D
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=352287&highlight=razz

Anatomy Thread of Anand - 2D/3D
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=409148&highlight=anandpg

Sketchbook Thread of zhuzhu
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=297847&highlight=anandpg

Anatomy Thread of Thomasphoenix
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=296477&highlight=thomasphoenix

Sketchbook Thread of bumskee
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=200&t=396907&highlight=bumskee

Also, we recently ran a Workshop on heads, I would encourage you to do Master Copies from the reference provided at the beginning of the Workshop thread:

Anatomy Lesson Series: Body Part 1 - The Head
http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=199&t=375031

I think all of your studies are solid, but I might suggest really working on injecting more boxy structure into some of them. Have you ever seen the books or DVDs of Glenn Vilppu? He’s a renowned figure drawing teacher for animators who really emphasizes structure above all else. I think that he’s definitely worth checking out. :slight_smile:

#9

hi Xvampire

great stuff here, hope to see more :slight_smile:

Mark

#10

hey arif!

think you got some nice looking sketches here. really like the beast and rider in your first post.
looking forward to see more.

-r

#11

Hey Arif! Nice to see your stuff in this section as well! Them random doodles are quite nice I have to say :smiley: I really like the goonie hehe! Made me laugh :slight_smile: Well keep’em coming, keep’em coming!

btw. would be nice to see that beastie and rider in 3d one day…

hope the job offers are flooding in as well :slight_smile:
Cheers!

#12

I forgot to update …

my final sketch for last dom war

ok

now the recent one …

start with basic shape

random stuff

thinking about monster

#13

I might develop some of these sketches

thanks for watching
critiques and comment to improve my stuff in the future are well appreciated

rif ^^

#14

I love the control you have with line. Almost every line seems very deliberate and fully in control. I would push the darker values a bit more in your sketches, but that’s about it.

#15

darker value?
yea I think its a very good Idea,
and also the mid values mostly I am quite lazy to do it

I think its gonna be a good practice

thx

#16

… I want to rock in the free world …

ps : and I want that shiny black Les Paul

#17

hi

cool , great work :slight_smile:

Mark

#18

I might develop some of these sketches

I hope you will :smiley:

great updates!

#19

hey arif!

-enjoying your creature sketches and that “dom” concept drawing was really great too…
keep em coming.

-r

#20




some animal drawing
I love the wild wolf

#21

Hi Xvampire, you’ve got a good imagination. i like that stuff. The wolf skeleton looks really good too. You should construct animals more to make them look more natural. Perspective studies are essential to do that. Keep going!

#22

nongkrong : cangkrukan : being idle …

oh well a term from my country …, just sitting down with friend, doing nothing useful …
sometimes smokin’, but its all good, and relaxing …

hmmm, kinda homesick a bit …

its not consider finished, … but this is all i got for now

#23

Beautiful speedy forest :slight_smile:

#24

lookin at toysss lifedrawing
, well I am not a big fan of hell boy, so cant really do the details due lack of knowledge about these character.

…

Im tried to put bigger figure on my forrest composition