I hope this is ok, I wanted to start a sketchbook and I am trying to do my stuff daily.
Me, I am looking for a personaly style. Maybe it looks simplifed or just crap.
Feel free to comment.
I am doing this on my sparetime. 
One from today:
I will try to update daily.
Thanks
Matthew
OMG this is great, I love this kind of rough sketches. There’s everything : perspective, form, value, color, nicely readable. Simply great. It’s great you’re updating daily. I’ll be watching your thread with passion (and hopefully learn something from you)
yea but I need to get better though, I used to do alot of abtract so it’s difficult to get back to more portraying stuff.
Thanks for the comment siiilon.
todays scribble
Lovely!
I would like to ask you how do you mix your colors. Do you use lots of refferences or do you mix em in your head as you go? Because they look just so accurate, damn.
wow that was fast. Yea I mix in my head, keep refining
and adding different tonal and color. Fun to just experiment with what works.
thank you.
siiilon - Thought I could show you these, a quick tutorial I made for another forum I visit. Just to show you how I work.
Still though, I tend to change my paint approach.
Sometimes it goes really fast but sometimes I have to keep adding and detract color and and shape thus changing a lot to see where the piece could go.
The best speedpainters I have seen block out big abstract shapes.
Are you familiar with wasssup?
He used to post here in cgalk some years ago.
Here’s the quick stuff.
Thanks buddy, I really apreciate you share your knowlede
Yeah, big abstract shapes from start, but that needs a great deal of experience. Cause I see yet in your first image a good sense of what it’s going to be (vanishing point, color scheme, high key, composition. I need to do plenty of thumbnails to get myself into some idea.
I don’t know wasssup, but search for him.
Btw, I have pretty hectic time right now, so I don’t really update my SB, but I hope I could get back to it soon.
I love this style, but I find it the most difficult of styles. Grant it doesn’t take much detail to get what you want, but I find myself always trying to add more detail when I should just leave it alone. LOL!!! Awesome examples Matthew. I’ll be keeping an eye on you too. Keep up the good work.
Thanks guys, appreciate the comments.
Here’s wasssup I talked about earlier:
http://www.supalette.com
Thanks again.
todays
We have a contest over at Sijun forums, I posted this one over there. Guess my sketchbook will be focused on that for the next couple of weeks. Hope that is ok.
The theme is colossus.
I kept changing perspective with this one, still thinking about to bend it some more. Perhaps distort, we’ll see.
Will sketch some more tomorrow, maybe discard or see if this piece has potential.
Todays:
Awesome work Matthew. For a colossus piece I’m definitely seeing a “Trojan Horse” theme here. Keep up the good work.
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