Umbus -SketchBook-

#121

Thank you. :slight_smile:

Gotta just say here that places like tinypic are awesome. Usually I upload to one of those places when I post in here.
Gonna put the filename here, hence if they do get lost in the future I will be able to update from my own server.
The filenames to these pics go by date so nothing fancy :argh:

octoberseventh.jpg

#122

Hell yes, I love it. Usually with the best images I experience hearing sounds from the image - so happened with this one. Words are not enough here :slight_smile:

#123

Way to go mathew, these recent works are really nice, horseman leaping of castle is a winner!

#124

Thank you guys. :slight_smile:

Too much shit going on today, also became one of those days when you cannot paint no matter how hard you try. snif

#125

There’s a new theme over at Sijun (“circle of life”), got til the end of the month.
Playing with some ideas at the moment. :slight_smile:

#126

Hey, that is great Mattias, maybe I will participate :slight_smile:

#127

Yea that would be awesome, are you a member over at Sijun? :slight_smile:

#128

Not yet, but I hope it’s not a big obstacle, right? :slight_smile:

#129

lol siiilon :slight_smile:

(lol couldn’t reply with less than 10 characters so I added your name, crazy)

#130

The new works look great. I love the gladiator one the perspective on it is amazing! :thumbsup:

#131

Thanks for the support Mattu. :slight_smile:

Not entirely sure where I wanna take my work, hmm.

However this was success in the workflow as I mentioned in my blog aswell.
Result suffered but what the hell, it is what is.

btw this one comes with something I thought of when I created it, the king is saying:
-“what the hell do they want from me?”

#132

LOL!! I guess the shit has hit the fan between the King and his people, oh wait the King doesn’t own a fan!!! LOL Good looking piece. Maybe instead of the people just standing there complaining they should riot and start fires.:eek:

#133

Sweet! That last piece with the king presiding over his kingdom is gorgous, I love it, I love how your pics all suck me into their world, thats a real art in itself, keep up the great work!!

#134

Thanks guys you’re too kind. :slight_smile:

Something I have been messing with, workflow is -10 though cause I kept changing everything.
Thinking about to mess around with it some more during this week hence I will not post it on the blog yet:
Edit oh well I posted it anway on the blog haha

#135

Hey Mattias :slight_smile:
The drappery to the left of the king reminds me of your abstract piece from 2007 you sent recently. Gorgeous flow it has. And looking your last piece I feel urge to get back to perspective studies and work on my worflow much - like to quickly establish a scene in a certain camera view. And the composition could be easily analyzed in these two aswell. That’s very educational, thank you Mattias :slight_smile:
As for the circle of life, I hoped to post some first today, but I end up just gathering ideas and references and revising my brushes. We’ll see, maybe tommorow.

#136

Yea you’re right it is very similar to that piece actually, lol guess I have the comfort with half abstract still. :slight_smile:
Thank you. :slight_smile:

Huu workflow -20000000, **** it all became abstract. snif

#137

oh dear, I am going backwards

#138

It’s so funny in Hellboy 2 when he get’s punched in the face and drops his cigar, -“my cigar, it was Cuban” lol
Oh well, better not talk movies in here -haha god I must be bored!

#139

My word Mathew the light is wonderfull in the worked up version, you call that going backwards! Im inclined to disagree with that!

I dunno a small crit might be your figures tend to be a bit dark all over, i do the same. You might want to consider some skin tones and coloured clothing affected by the light in the closer up shots. Like the way yellow objects are green under water, i struggle with that stuff quite massively. All i know is subtractive mixing determins the reflected light colour, yellow local object + blue light = green local object colour (i think sighs)

If i may ask how do you change the colours when a working on a base?, do you use colour modes like overlay and multiply or just paint streight over the top, whenever i use modes or a hue/sat adjustment things like that the colour tempreture releationships get killed or the saturation gets messed up somehow, ive never really been able to colourize a grayscale and have it still feel natural but you seem to manage big colour changes really well.

Anyhow nice work man!

#140

Appreciate the crit. :slight_smile: However there’s a reason for it which usually is time constraint…
In a scene like that the humans in the scene would be the last to put focus on, guess I never get there though lol which probably is another whole discussion in itself.
Hence they only get shadow and form.

…the backwards comment is merely the workflow which is the only thing I have focused on lately and at the moment also feels like climbing Everest.

Color.
Focus on to set the right amount, if you overlay u might wanna put it down to 40%;

  • guess it all comes down to the amount. I usually paint over though.
    Made this sketch today to show a little how I work.
    First the quick greyscale, I almost always start with greyscale no matter what the motif.
    Then you keep glazing, overpaint and remove what you don’t need.
    In this case I added color on top of the sketch without any layers or anything.
    Most effective that because you stop to care about drawing and focus more on the color.
    ok enough rambling.
    Thanks again for feedback conbom. :slight_smile: