Sketchbook Thread of Cris Palomino

#21

oooh - the dancing woman is indeed great! :thumbsup:

#22

OPB Cris: Once upon a time there was a little girl named RebeccaK and she had a dream. She wanted everyone to have their own Anatomy Thread. Sometimes she asked nicely, sometimes she cajoled and sometimes she brought out the sharp implements…but she always got her way. Thus I am here (they say I won’t have any scars). :wink:

I heard that! :scream:

I took Beck’s workshop, Figuratively Speaking. Loved it. Recommend it.

I am going to share some of what I accomplished in the class as well as add new things I am planning on working on.

Thanks Cris! :slight_smile: It’s great to see you finally have an Anatomy Thread up! I guess my threats, I mean, incentives :smiley: finally paid off! Can’t wait to see what you do here! :thumbsup:

Cheers, :slight_smile:

~RK

#23

its a very beautiful picture. but i noticed somethings that were off…that might skew the look of the image. the creasing under her nose/above her lip. I forgot the name of it but the right one is skewed off. which makes it looks like its off the axis. when all the features are right on target. unless your trying to make it look like she pursing her lips off the side.

her neck area… doesnt really look like she has a neck, maybe u can use shadows and highlights to show where her neck is.
but i know its a working in progress. so u probably added more detail and fixed it up.
anywho. This peice is looking lovely

good luck to u

#24

Thanks, Becks! You drive a HARD bargain and close a MEAN deal. :wink:

Lute, yep, you caught several things that need to be worked out. Philtrum, neck…sometimes I find working this was is like working in clay where your adding, taking away, finding the form. I like to work a number of ways…they’re all fun. Thanks for the crits…always great to have other eyes on your work…it really helps.

Cris

#25

Sometimes, using the smooshy tools can smoosh the heck out of everything. I never really worry (especially when it’s just for the fun of trying something for myself) because I know what I do is go back in and put a “virtual” tissue over my work and correct myself. We used to do this at Disney all the time…do an image, overlay, correct it, do it again, overlay…as many times as it took to work it out. It’s a lot easier to do it digitally…I can just do a new layer and paint my correction. Sometimes, we would also take our analog drawings and scan them and correct them.

I would sometimes clone the paper and mimic the pencil from the original sketch and it was hard to know if they were looking at a color xerox made from an original paper sketch or a digital correction I had made. :wink:

Cris

#26

Waiting for the hundreth render I’ve done testing some textures…started to sketch an idea.

#27

:)Cris…
Great to see your work here:thumbsup: It was fun knowing you…from Figuratively speaking wrkshp:)
All the best to the instructor for the Painter workshop:love:

#28

Richa! How lovely to see you! :slight_smile:

I was going through some work while archiving and ran across some watercolor sketches I had done. I love working with the watercolors in Painter for things like this.

Cris

#29

too damn cute for me, but very nicely done ; )

#30

Thanks, se7en!

Been busy trying to get things ready for class…this is an example of a paper created in Painter and then drawn on with Artist’s Pastel.

Cris

#31

The Winnie bits are almost aggressively cute, if thats possible ;). I like the action Winnie is in, very rollie pollie, and the walk you’d expect out of him. The jar that piglet is in looks a little odd to me, it seems like a ‘looking down’ perspective on the jar, and then it’s a straight profile on piglet.

I really appreciate seeing the rough work / self corrected pieces. I’ve not developed the type of eye you’ve displayed in the self corrections, but it’s encouraging to see it in action. The sketch of the warrior with the lantern is great. That is the type of sketch is what I’d love to be able to do myself. It very much communicates the idea, and seems to be doing it with fairly minimal time involved (other then the thousands of hours of practice to be able to do it out of course). Oddly the first day that I saw it I had strained the arch in my left foot, and her pose seemed a bit unnatural. A few weeks later, with an uncomplaining foot, it seems natural.

#32

Thanks, Kary. Yeah, the Pooh stuff was for funky little icons and when we do that type of work, we sometimes do weird perspectives…take liberties with things…these weren’t pushed very far, but they liked the style.

As far as self-correction…that is something that is constantly done at Disney…whether we do it on our own work to perfect it…or on other’s work to help get a point across on composition or anatomy or whatever. No one was sacred, so you got used to it and, if you remained open, could learn a lot.

These are sketches as they’re being created for the demos and tutorials for my Painter Class…the first on making papers within Painter; the second is their class assignment and my demo of what they will be doing.

Cris

#33

Hi Chris :slight_smile:

you have some lovely work here :slight_smile: good to see, and like Mark says… a few scars just add character :slight_smile: It would be interesting to hear a bit more about the work you do (did?) at Disney… and my apologies if you’ve already talked about that elsewhere. I’m always curious and fascinated by artists’ backgrounds and working environments - the variety and versatility of professions that takes us in so many directions :slight_smile:

I really like your quick studies and the head and eye study :thumbsup:

take care and cheers
a. :slight_smile:

#34

I’m really impressed with your work! Always loved the Disney style! Although your characters kind of look like Miyazaki’s. :slight_smile:

#35

Thank you, Annette and Nathan.

Annette, I am now a freelancer, though I still count Disney among my clients. I worked there for 13 years as a character artist for the better part.

I started working with a small group who started republishing long-standing Disney comics titles, such as their longest published title, Walt Disney’s Comics and Stories. We also premiered new titles. We often wore many hats, but I was in charge of Production on the books, though I began to hand color and code the comics for publication. We worked very closely with a company in Copenhagan called GPS, Topolino Magazine in Italy and Gladstone in the US.

I moved into the Licensing Division and was on the original team that developed the new global release of Winnie the Pooh in the early 90s. My specialty was Pooh and all the Milne characters in both the Disney Featurette and the illustrative style of E. B. Shepard from the Milne books. I also drew many of the Classic characters plus the Princesses and some of the newer characters. My work, along with the other artists in our division, was put into portfolios that went to our licensees to develop product lines.

I worked very closely with licensees, often developing drawings in 3-dimensional views of many, many products that were then manufactured in a variety of materials. There were also a number of textiles, toys, apparel…too many to number. It was a great training ground…I worked with so many incredible artists.

It’s also very fun to walk into stores across the country, from department to grocery to pharmacy chains and much more and be able to see things I had a hand in…it’s truly a kick. I often have friends and acquaintances who show me pictures of their children with some item bearing a drawing which became a design that became a product the child was wearing or using. Very fun.

Thanks for your interest.
Cris

#36

Hi Cris,

just came back from your portfolio and really like how you can give everything that authentic traditional media look. Not to mention the anatomical bliss in here…:bowdown:

btw, I totally love winnie… I actually have more fun reading it to my daughter than her when I take her to bed…:scream:

What I also liked on the first pages is how you mentioned the variants you used to create an image. That was really interesting to follow.

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#37

:slight_smile: Wow Chris!

Thank you for sharing all that, so interesting to hear about, and can imagine how you would relate to these characters like your “babies” out and about in the big world :slight_smile:

Exciting :thumbsup:

cheers a. :slight_smile:

#38

Hello, Mu, Annette.

Thanks.

Glad you like my little offerings and stories.

Mu, I’ll try to relate more about any brushes I use as put things up.

Cris

#39

Idea for a painting.

#40

Cris - I think that would make a great painting :)! One suggestion (not really a crit) is that maybe the fae’s wings could be open a little more, which could let you show off some really cool design. Although that might distract a little from the relationship between her and the bird? Hmm. Hope you go for it anyway, look forward to seeing it ^___^