robots eat metal! (resurrected!)

[Quinn Simoes]

Hey Mark,

Nice life drawings, I see some hands and feet in there! Thanks for the advice on light sources and highlighting, I never really thought about that way.

Quinn

[Mark Bot]

Quinn Simoes thanks man. i like the progress your making. as for life drawing... it's commin along, i feel like it never ends. HA.

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spaceship update. still rather rough.
it's not looking as epic as i want it. I'll probably add more little ships in here too so that i really get the scale i'm going for more visible.

[Mark Bot]

so ... like... yeah

[DeJakhalz]

Good stuff man! Maybe experiment some more with PS. cheeeerz

[Mark Bot]

DeJakhalz Thanks. Yeah, i'm still workin up my digital skills. Probably havn't been spending enough time in it as i should be.

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what's that? an update?
spaceships and stuffeerrrer
.... ... i really need to rethink some of these designs... they're a little... uh... yeah sorry about that.

[Maidith]

even tough robots aren't my kind of stuff - you're drawing them really well!
Keep up the great work.

[Mark Bot]

Maidith thank you very much. i appreciate the compliments greatly!

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er. some figures from today. ..
my drawings don't do her justice.

[Mark Bot]

heyooo! sketesssss!

Wrokin on designing a spaceship fleet. Not really sure what that's gonna entail...
BUT here's some thumbnails and such!!

[cout<mecha]

I think you are getting the right idea with your latest technical sketches. They just need a bit more depth. Nice figure studies also...

[Mattinian]

Heya :] the figure studies are great keep `em coming. Your spacecraft remind me of those from that game homeworld? remember it? i think there`s some concept art from it on the net you should google it for sure.

[Mark Bot]

cout<mecha thanks for the imput. really just workin out shapes right now. i'm going to add volume to the ones i like. probably gonna hit that up after a couple more pages of doodles

Mattinian yeah i think i've seen some of the stuff from homeworld, i'm really trying to keep the designs uninfluenced right now so i'm limiting the amount of space stuff i look at... which is kinda hard considering i'm kinda a sci-fi nut. Taking inspirations from armor, guns, etc. I guess that's probably what a lot of people do with ship design, oh well.

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more ships
mini project i been mulling over. did some color then decided i needed to rework the grayscale, so that's what you get.
more figures tomorrow.... hopefully

[Lake]

these ships are the best batch yet. I suggest trying some new things; some more organic or curved forms. Obviously you have to keep a lot of things uniform to push the "tech" aspect but to have one or two fluid elements would make these really strong.

[Mark Bot]

Lake yeah i see what you're getting at. i'll throw that into the next batch for sure.

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shitty figure drawings.
not having the best day.
so...yeah cut off some heads here and there
it was a struggle just to get some lines on the page today.

[Lotet]

the pencil stuff is really great, keep posting^^

[Mark Bot]

Lotet thanks man. really appreciate it.

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moar spaceships. ran my pen dead on the last page ... whoops.
almost to the end of this sketchbook too.

[Lotet]

cool spaceship desings, the first 3 to the left are awezome, they look like gloves.

[Lake]

the third page of ships has the best balance of these three - and they're the most versatile. More like that plz.

[Mark Bot]

Lotet haha. thanks. yeah those ones were fun, i got more drunk as i got down the page so the lines really did whatever they wanted. ... maybe i should do a glove project next. MAYBE?? actually that's not a half bad idea. sweet!

Lake i agree with you on that one. definitely going to have to explore that shape language more.

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what was that about shape language?
here's a page. expect more tomorrow? i think yes

[Mark Bot]

zing! ...
yup here's another page. lookin more like police craft
guess i'm designing for some future military state. overdone idea... bleh
still need to do more, but i'm starting to like some of the forms overall

expect figure drawings tomorrow. wooo~
also workin on getting my blog together. still needs some design elements

[Mark Bot]

blegh couple figures from tonight.
uh. i think 10 and 20's...?
got distracted by details and screwed the proportions. heh...
really need to figure out how knees work. they is confusin man

[Mark Bot]

this is what i do when i don't feel like studying anatomy.
whee VOTL police craft of the not so realistic future!

i'll have something more legitimate tomorrow i'm sure....

[Mark Bot]

some junk. gonna work on it more later
need to work on getting my lighting more consistant

[Lake]

now these ships are looking AWESOME.

The sketch on the right is good but it's getting overpowered by the background - use something a little less busy so we can concentrate on the design!

[Mark Bot]

Lake glad you like them! And yes, i agree with you 100% on that background. I went a little over the top on it for no reason.

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fixed bg added some detail, still trying to keep them rough
doodle @ work while brainstorming. brush pens is fun

[Draniel]

nice sketchbook! your machines looks great and i especially love your figure drawings!

[Lake]

bg needs to be darker; the midtone is matching up pretty heavily with the ship. Either that or plain white but then you wouldn't get the engine glow.

[Mark Bot]

Lake yeah i see what you're talking about. thanks for the suggestions it really helps. eventually i'll have something worth talking about. ha!

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here's one last one for the night. probably have some more later this week.

[Mark Bot]

so. i just launched a blog last night if you want to take a gander.
there's nothing much up there right now tho, hopefully more later.



in other news here's some airplanes and shit
perspective is a little iffy, just kinda doodling.

[Mark Bot]

quick little enviro before bed. only used ref for the magma

have fun everyone. keep up with the arts.
even if you're not commenting i appreciate you stopping by. thanks tons.

[Mark Bot]

random thought doodlies. just lettin the pen do the talking.
definitely was trying to think as little as possible.

i'm liking these little dorky, stubby, short, fighter jet things. they're just stupid looking enough to merit developing
that guy, on the second page. yeah might develop him a bit further