Rocko's Sketchbook

[rocko]

Hey fellas,

I'm a 25y old illustration student from Berlin/Germany and i'm about to finish it in the next months.
I had a sketchbook here already but it makes more sense to start a new one, since I last updated it a couple of years ago :)

Before wasting too much time talking I throw in a few recent works and a few not so recent ones. A few personal ones and a few job ones.

Cheeeeeers

[rocko]

Seems to be working now, so here we go.

[John-Doe]

Hey Rocko,

(I know you from the DaF some years ago) REally nice finding you n your works here and of course to see your improvements! It's a joy looking through your pieces you showed so far. :D
Greetings from the southern part of germany - J.D

[rocko]

hey dude,

thanks a lot!

by the way i'm kinda bored of the daf forums that's why i'm trying to find a new home here. feels like a far more vivid place

greetings from the northern part of germany :overhere:

[ChaosTheory]

Hey man) Nice works) Especially i liked your landscape illustrations. I feel atmosphere of this sceneries looking at your works. I wanna see mooore of them)

[Mila]

What ChaosTheory said; more of those environment illustrations!

[lewiston]

Good stuff here - Glad I found you! Ride on

[rocko]

chaostheory: big thx. i had a pretty long travel recently and my impressions are very strong still. i guess you can see it in some of the works.

mila: affirmative

lewiston: i'm glad you found me as well because i found you now :)

just finished this sketch. was great fun. i never do things like robots n stuff. i guess i can do it because i'm sick at the moment. it might bring up all this weird stuff to the surface :harbl:

[rocko]

a little landscape painting inspired by a cloudy day in australia

[Sebastian Gromann]

really nice to see you in here aswell, man! good luck for climbing higher and higher on the improvement-leader :P
wiedermal klasse bilderchen :)

[Fetsch]

good stuff rocko, nice to see you starting a sketchbook here. Show some of your pencil stuff too, its great. :)

[Parya]

hey you have really some great stuff up here, one can definitely see that you are a very ambitious illustrator who works hard to get better... nice to see that! and you have very interesting scenes and creative settings, i enjoyed looking through all of them. curious to see your further improvement, so keep it up :)

[wooden mango]

wow! you have some really cool stuff. Really diging the robo-samurai

[rocko]

Thanks for your encouragement, means a lot. I decided to stop sucking at art and become better now :P
Hope this thread helps.

Ah yeah and some pencil stuff for fetsch which u know already I think.

[Mila]

Liking the new work!

[Brandon Pilcher]

The one with the jungle and the stone doorway in post #2 is my favorite.

[rocko]

thx guys!

just a stupid little something i finished last night

[vanaga]

Waaaaa, very very good peaces! :D
Love this painterly style. Keep posting!
I hope you don't mind me saving some of them in my inspiration folder. :hugsmile:

[John-Doe]

hm I like those dragondesigns (maybe they resemble me of my approaches) for their more realisticlooking shapes.. can't look at those overused typical D&D dragons anymore.
oh and jepp, I don't roam the threads of the DAf too for years now.. its too sad cause it was where it all started (for me using paintchat starting to paint with mouse)^^

[Vay]

I really love the first piece and all of the landscape pieces. Reminds me to start incorporating more landscapes because I mostly draw figures.

[rocko]

guys, thanks so much. sry for letting you wait so long. i'm an incredibly lazy son when it comes to painting/drawing after a day full of painting for jobs.

so heres a tiny little thingy i finished this morning. i think the weapon took me 5 years of my lifetime.

[Erick Willand]

Awesome, love the smug look on the space dudes face.

[rocko]

Hey dude, thanks a lot!

A little practicing of my render- and anatomyskills from head

[rocko]

a ping pong collaboration between me and my buddy Dario. we had a fun time painting this little thingy.
not sure if he uses this forum but go check out his blog:

http://dariocoelho.blogspot.com/

[walnut]

Good shit! I think i'm going to keep an eye on this sketchbook.

[rocko]

Big thx dude!

a cave!

[dan liimatta]

nice - like it all - & the last three, the first landscapes & then the mountain side and adenture party in 2nd post and the asian sword fighters/demons stood out.

I like your compositions and content and flow/feel as the eye wanders over your creations.

Thanks for posting these ~ & that you do manage to do anything after work says a bit about how lazy I was when I didn't (when I did work) :)

Looking forward to more.

[Kill byte]

great use of textures man. Like your paints allot

[rocko]

Thanks a lot you two!
I was such a lazy ass. Well not really. I was doing my bachelor thesis and some jobs beside that, but no energy to do personal stuff. Except that little dragon right here. Got inspiration from Berlin Tierpark today. Such a colorful world we're living in, very inspirational. Note to myself: "Go more crazy with color. Color is your friend!" :P

[Voodoo_Mama]

Pretty awesome stuff!
I love the environments. You have such a great use of values :O
The fat pirate is one of my favorites! hehe

[kidult]

great works - 5 stars from meee!

[rocko]

Thx dude, appreciate it :)

[in2eternity]

Great SB, very cool works)) Hope to see more!

[Call0ps]

top class work! love the it! moar plz

[Ricardo Robles]

Nice work dude, I specially like your use of color and strokes in environments, cool stuff.

Such a colorful world we're living in, very inspirational. Note to myself: "Go more crazy with color. Color is your friend!" :P
totally agree with that :)

[rocko]

Thanks a lot guys. Glad you like the stuffzz!

I recommend to put on your shades when looking at the next one :P

[Mark Tarrisse]

You've got some really nice works, more please :)

[rocko]

Thank you Mark. Vice versa man! I love your work for Alderac. Is that L5R stuff?

Heres a picture inspired by Berlin summer ;)

[rocko]

Moar Drägooonz!

[Mark Tarrisse]

These last two are really nice too man, just a little crit on the last one though, I think you could have found a better pose for the horse, made him look more frightened maybe.
And well for my work for alderac, those cards where for the thunderstone game :)

[NickyBeats]

really great stuff man!! love everything, but to be specific, the value work is awesome! and your colors are very nice, vibrant!

[rocko]

Nicky: Really appreciate it. My use of values is pretty random sometimes but glad u like it.

Mark: Thanks for your advice! I'm not so happy with the pose of the horse as well. It's kinda boring. I just don't know shit about horses :D

even more!

[rocko]

A quicky.

[rocko]

Another one

[VirgL]

wow great stuff dude, I really dig the pencil sketch of the driking dragon with the black head on page 1. You got a great sense of scenery as the other said.. no crits except that you should post more pencils !
Cheers

[SuperSwank1]

awesome stuff in here. Dig all your composition and command of value. Subscribed

[moxieking]

teach me how to color please...:(

[Jeff Bartzis]

Love your work, you are able to capture so much with each image.

[NickyBeats]

phew! banging em out eh?? damn man, your cranking these things out! and great work too! loving the colors!

[Mark Tarrisse]

The last one is really great man, maybe you could have done the dragon on the right a little darker just to add contrast, but anyway it looks great, keep up posting man ! :)

[rocko]

Virg: Thanks mate. More pencils as you command!

Superswank: Thanks a lot. I try to put not a lot of thinking or planning into my compositions but a lot of playing around with visual weight and light and shadow. Just so much until it pleases me. That can sometimes take a while tho. Thanks for mentioning it.

moxieking: Man, I really suck at color theory. All my decisions in color and everything else are impulsive and feelingdriven. Can't explain to myself most of the time.
Just try to stay lose and have fun using color. A basic understanding helps tho.

Jeff Bartzis: Thanks! I try adding depth to my images. Most of the time there pretty senseless tho :D

Nicky Beats: Thanks a lot! I'm really enjoying painting and drawing a lot more since I finished my study. It was just draining energy out of me. Now I'm kinda free and I gues it shows in my images.

Mark Tarisse: Thanks mate. Yeah the last dragon thingy is kinda messed up with the values.

Some pages of my sketchbook:

[JRumpff]

Awesome stuff.
Nice colors and characters.

[prsnsweeney]

really cool stuff i love those paintings and your dragons are awsome you can never go worng with dragons

[rocko]

Hehe, NOONE can ever go wrong with dragons!

[rocko]

'nother schpeedy

messin around with the smudgetool a lot lately

[ThomasM]

hey man nice start to a new sketchbook. I like a lot of the stuff you have in here and your pencils have a nice clean feeling to them. Very jealous of your illustration course, but anyway keep on doing what you're doing!

[rocko]

Yeah, thx a lot mate. Don't be jealous about my illustration course. I didn't feel I learned anything there. I'm definetely more psyched about painting since my study finished. I guess the school was just not the right one for me. But what can you do eh? ;)

[rocko]

Whatup, long time no see. Got a lot of work to do.

[Fetsch]

nice nice nice! last batch of pics is great, especialy the ones with the smudge experiments.

[theUNKNOWNsketcher]

Supreme work!!!!

[- nat -]

I love your environments! Do you paint them directly in the color? or do you start with grayscale?

[surus]

some cool concept ideas! Thanks for sharing! Keep on posting pencil pages, please!

[rocko]

Fetsch: Thanks dude. Too bad we didn't get to speak on the digitalartforum convention :(

theunknownsketcher: Thanks!

e-Nat: Usually I start in color directly. But in the early stage the whole colorschemes change a lot most of the time. My approach ist more of an experimental one and I don't know what my picture is gonna look like in the end. At least to a certain stage.
i'm trying to improve my workflow tho- It's very unefficient.

Surus: Thanks man! u say something there. I should definetely do more pencils.

[GEB]

Very, very cool. Can't wait to see your next update!

[f1x]

I love #39 , the vigor of the strokes and the richness of the blues,
also diggin the approach you mention, experimenting, thats visible in the freshness, also because you are not doing much shading its like you work most of the time with high brush opacity is it?
at least for those drake pieces

[Nemome]

hey rocko!

It's me, Xeno from from digitalartforum!
Perhaps you know my name ;)
Really nice digitals.

Keep going!

[Fetsch]

Dooont worry rocko, since i am living in Berlin we can still do something. You can show me some cool partylocation here. ;) Just hit me up when you are up for something or wanna kill some vodka bottles. :)