The7Sketchbook7 - TombRaider fanart+YouTube Monkey!

**Rob Powell** · November 9th, 2011, 01:58 AM

cool stuff man, love the cartoony/comic look to your stuff.
I want me some Awesome Sauce!!!XD

**The7Artist7** · November 13th, 2011, 01:52 PM

Hahaha thanks dude - yep looks like that Awesome sauce has a bit of a kick to it huh!

**The7Artist7** · November 19th, 2011, 02:38 PM

Yo peoples I'm still alive!

Quick vector boat I did the other day

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**The7Artist7** · November 26th, 2011, 08:42 PM

Couple of lil cartoons I've done to ease the pain of a good mate who just got YLOD with his PS3 - used the old hair dryer to fix the solder long enough to backup trick - lets hope his PS3 hangs in there long enough!

**The7Artist7** · November 28th, 2011, 05:01 PM

Hey guys - posting something to let ya'll know I'm still alive ... just lol - NEED WORK agh! Applying for quite a bit but keep not getting picked ... feeling pretty confused/down. Hmm well from a few months ago - here's a bit of 'spec work' I did against my better judgement as it was a great project ... still didn't get didn't get the gig though DOH!

Ho hum! may I present my version of 'Chloe the curly necked giraffe' (they wanted something a little like Disney style):

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**The7Artist7** · January 23rd, 2012, 04:50 PM

remember those vids of me scribbling in adobe illustrator? I've reworked them a little and reuploaded - behold new speedy HD versions with added original tunes by me!

Please give em a quick watch and let me know what you think

enjoy!

**BlightedArt** · January 28th, 2012, 01:11 AM

Chunky plane ftw.

You're good at dropping your lines down in a few swings, nice to see you mid-work.

**The7Artist7** · January 29th, 2012, 01:59 PM

Thanks Blighty! I remember that being the first thing I practiced way back when I was a little boy of 7-9 wanting to become a better cartoonist

hehe ok let me just scribble out a pic of my first character I designed... *sketch ..scribble.. scribble* oh hey why not fire up the screen recording app... here you go a vid of me drawing it! Hmm what on earth it seems to have been on 2 frames a second setting or something o.O; ..eeerrr it's stop motion!! honest! >.> *whistles* well enjoy me reminiscing (watch in HD for best detail!)

**The7Artist7** · February 3rd, 2012, 09:57 PM

More you tube action scribbling a few of my fave muscle cars!

**iven** · February 7th, 2012, 01:00 AM

WOWOWWOOOW, I loove your stuff bro. It's kinda hard to find people with comic
backround in here, but I am always very excited when I find folks like me kinda
version.

I looove your YOUTUBE channel so what kinda Illustrator version do you use,
I really could not be friends with Illustrator cause I do more animation so it is
inconvenient for me to take the AI file to FLASH

I am using a cintique21UX do you know which AI version will work fine
with that !?

But it would be good if I would know it cause it's such a powerful tool and I love
vectors.

Anyway hope to see you @ my SB

**Angel Intheuk** · February 7th, 2012, 11:52 AM

Great updates

I forgot I had subscribed to your youtube channel and got an email with the camero drawing, I was like "who's greg?" then it clicked when I saw the drawing

I always wondered how you get such great lines, I don't have illustrator but it looks like when you draw freehand lines it automatically adjusts them to make them smoother...if this is the case, I'm getting me some of that

Catch you laters

**The7Artist7** · February 11th, 2012, 12:54 PM

Hey thanks Iven an Angel!

I'm currently using Illustrator CS3 and can't see why any recent version wouldn't work on the Cintique - it's well worth the investment and from testing a demo of CS5 it's even better! With animation have you looked into Toon Boom Studio/Animate here: www.toonboom.com it has a more animation focused workflow and is compatible with Illustrator

As far as lines go - yes you can set it to smooth your lines and there are various adjustments. Personally I prefer to set it up for as minimal auto smoothing as possible without having too many anchor points along the line (more points = larger file & more difficult to tweak). Something you may have seen in the vids is the pixilated lines while I'm drawing and then they go all smooth and nice once I lift the pen - this is simply a performance feature (I think this can be turned off?)

I plan to do a few tips n tricks videos explaining how I set things up for a more natural feel.

**The7Artist7** · February 13th, 2012, 11:07 PM

New YouTube Car-Toon Scribble

**BlightedArt** · February 15th, 2012, 03:01 AM

Haha, I love how its stubby wheels are sending it cascading over the bump.

**iven** · February 20th, 2012, 03:34 AM

Thanks man I will try to get Illustrator again, I have one question !

- Do you draw those cars in you videos out of your mind, or did you
prepared a sketch !?

I would love to see the sketch, that's in my wish list so far keep doing
what you are doing it's very inspiring, would love to see some more
sketches thou !

I did that for children if you need to update your stick figure skills !?

**The7Artist7** · February 21st, 2012, 09:02 PM

Hehe Thanks Blighty!

Iven - hey you're welcome dude

All the cars are drawn without ref or any prep sketching - just making it up as I go!

When you say seeing the sketch is on your wish list - which sketch do you mean?

Oh and yeah I checked out your site the other day - love the tutorials section! Really nicely set out to help anyone starting as an animator or artist - teaching how to put character into your artwork is a really important skill in my eyes!

Quick cartoon self portrait

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Hmm for some reason nobody I ask thinks my cartoon/caricatures of myself look like me... lol

**poetry man** · March 25th, 2012, 08:53 AM

Hey man, that's a rad car on your youtube channel (rad music too lol).
I hope you keep pushin forward with those life struggles!

I know what you mean with those abstract art lines. Nothing but scribbles right? yep, lol- when you really love art- you feel like drawing but nothing comes out lol! you say "oh well"- then you scribble the heck outta that page!
it's kinda depressin, but you gotta elevate to doing strategic daily exercises man! I quit that phase cause it was too depressing. Couldn't stay there lol- and I pray I never go back!

I also noticed that you mentioned about the bible in here somewhere. I assumed you're a believer?

if so, then awesome! another one lol. (you know, cuz it's kinda hard to find em in the art world)

well. IF I sound strange, then my apologies buddy!

peace.

**The7Artist7** · July 5th, 2012, 10:33 PM

Hey wow it's been ages - no excuses but life has been tough ... very ... so just not felt up to creating other than what I need to for work. still getting to have a bit of fun though as I did with a recent cartoon commission piece.

Big fat gorilla

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**Angel Intheuk** · August 6th, 2012, 05:11 AM

Hiya Greg - sorry you've been having a tough time lately, hope it's getting better for you

Really nice work on the gorilla commission

great linework

**The7Artist7** · October 7th, 2012, 10:57 AM

Thanks Angel

Goodness the forums are all new and 'different' looking ... hmm *looks around with slightly perplexed expression*

Well mr 'Gorilla guy' has asked me to do 3 more illustrations he liked the last one so much! Chimps in a box and an Orangutan sorting nanas! Also a work in progress of a larger piece

So yeah I'm still alive - wow seems weird not to be active on CA that much any more ... Really hoping I can find my 'oomph' again ... oh and YouTube approached me about monetizing my videos! I had no idea I had enough views for that yet... but just wish I felt inspired enough to make something from it!

Keep rocking on my friends

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**The7Artist7** · October 29th, 2012, 11:23 PM

New youtube vid! Please share if you like them, comment, subscribe and all that goodness

need as many views as possible! Maybe at some point it will help pay the bills if I get enough interest and encouragement to do more... hey I can hope!

Enjoy!

**Angel Intheuk** · November 8th, 2012, 07:25 AM

Damn! Nice work!

I'm not surprised he came back for more, and monkeys look like fun to draw. Good luck finding your oomph, did you look under the couch cushions? I found my oomph recently revisiting some old fairy sketches I did years ago because I can't paint in photoshop (stupid incompatibility problems with my wacom) anyway enough about me there, I shall check out your video now

keep it up!