Digital Funtime:Upd 11/1/2010

[meth]

man you're really starting to pull a lot of new things into your work
it's awesome
love the textures and colors on that last one

Second this, i like those water drips.

M

[SMILEFACE]

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[Eon]

Happy New Year Snootchy! Things have changed in my absence, you're still a super improvement workhorse but this...this is new! !!!!!!!! So much good work, especially the tutorials.
This piece reminds me of a collision between 70's anime and late 90's video games. Style potential there mixing slick toony figures and edgy textured 3D environments.

So, are you getting a paycheck for producing illustrations like this one? And if not... then why not? You're there my man!

[bharat]

good 1...!

[Flaskpost]

friggin sweet mate! i want to be inside you, homes!

i´d suggest getting rid of unnecessary detail and texture, that shows up from your brush strokes.
think about the brush strokes and maybe spend a few minutes cleaning up surfaces some more.
might be because i really prefer the super clean look. but it´s always good to not have too much detail in places you don´t want focus. :]
keep working hard mate!

[snootchy]

hala: thanks i hope u feeling better and get some meat on them cheeky bones of urs!!

MetjaPetkovic: hey thanks again, i've been diggin your latest portraits mucho lots dood!

Granny: haha thanks mate!

EON: hey happy new year dood, glad to see you back and ticking man; hope your new year has been great so far! yea decided to finally do some ref stuff on those two, they were from met art pic refs, gonna have to bite the bullet soon sometime and do some legit studies

bharat: thanks mate, really dig ur caricatures, u got some wicked linework!

flaskpost: ooh thanks big time for the crit, I think definitely that's something that will help greatly to clean up some of the business in the brushwork, big thanks coolest kid i know from swede!!!

sorry all been a bit busy with work, haha i wish i was drawing for a living Eon that be so rad but still dispensing them drugs...what a drag, but hey it pays the bills hehe! yea can't sketch as much lately got in trouble at work and back at work retraining hahaha!

some random speedpaints done and one that i pulled from my livestream and added a track by arcade fire, same process as before taking old paintings and using as a base to mash up



the last few were roughs for the latest team chow, not sure what direction our team is heading in but still thumbing along!

[SMILEFACE]

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[Jonas_J]

Really cool stuff snootchy.
Your improvement from the start of the SB to now is blowing me away

[lalu]

You have a great understanding of spaces and how objects fit into them, which is a really great talent. In your last post I particularly enjoy the image of the orange-brown towers in front of a pale blue sky. It's a really intriguing location, and great loose like that but also well worth working more on.

[jackpot_anjr90]

A lot more characters than usual and they're lookin pretty sick too! You should keep working on the values and lighting because they're a bit unclear here and there. For example, the chick you've got with the curly hair has light coming from behind her and yet she has no rim lighting at all, and you've got light on her chest. Just little things like that will help you to sell the mood. Keep it up man

[greyskill]

Very nice work, inspiring!

I love your paintings!

Thanks for your hard work, keep it up.

[SMILEFACE]

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[Jagged88]

Nice update, your characters have improved 10 fold, good job man.

[snootchy]

Granny: haha thanks, i want to as soon as I catch up to all you talented bastards on CA!

Braintree: hey thanks man, it's really good to hear that! Been 2 years now, but gonna need to step it up like you and make some kind of game plan to catch up to you hehe!

lalu: thanks, glad larissa got you to join the community!

jackpot_anjr90: thanks man, not too crazy about character sketching still but it's a start! thanks for the crit on the curly hair girl, wasn't really thinking about the lighting too much, it was a quick 1hr sketch.

greyskill: thanks dood, hope to see more of your sketches in the future!

jagged88: Thanks man, actually i think they suck badly but working on it!

sorry again for lack of updates, been still getting negative feedback at work and retraining is not going so well =( i guess i'll just keep working there till they say i can't work there no more haha!

finally got to sketch a bit today, some old and some new rough sketches, took one of old sketches roughly when i first started and just drew on top to see the difference till now based off of braintree's comment, bit stylised but like the sketch

also last 2 were ref'd tried to do these ref's as fast as i could so to only pick what was important to capture the image, almost like doing gesture sketches kind of...

[Peetaer]

dig the latest stuff man. you're really moving upwards man. you're really shaping up your ability to develop characters, i'm lovin the creative buzz its giving me...

however, when I glance back over your characters I feel as though something is just missing. i feel as though they lack distinction, which is interesting because there very clearly is physical distinctions between the characters. as i think about it more i feel like it might have something to do with your colour palette. maybe you mix too many colours or something because the colours on some of the characters have a muddiness to them, which sometimes work (like the more robotic forms...gives it a nice rusty feel). you seem to end up with a muddy palette a bit too often on your characters (i didn't notice this in enviro pieces). myabe you could just add some more contrasting colours in key spots throughout the composition.

also, how do you approach the construction of your characters? do you start with forms or do you have more of a "flatter" (if that makes any sense) approach, like sticking purely with line work and then adding form with colour? just curious.

all in all, like i mentioned before, you are moving onwards and upwards. there are no boundaries to our potential!!! keep rocking man!

[GoGoJojo]

You do such great textures. Seeing How much you have improved over the last 2 years really gives me hope for myself!

[SMILEFACE]

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[JailHouseRock2]

Mmmmmmmmm...so damn tasty

Keep feeding ma Mr Moon

[snootchy]

Peetaer: sup dood, happy new years hope all is well! Big thanks for pointing that out on the colors, yea i struggle still with colors especially on characters cause in an enviro you can get away with using a range of colors since there's so much bounce colors off one another but on character sketch it's prolly better to decide on a color scheme to keep the colors more pure.

As for starting off I usually don't have a set way of working if i feel line isn't working then i switch over to blocking out big shapes, but the initial thought for me at least is to get the big shapes as interesting as possible then work inwards if that makes any sense.

GoGoJojo: thanks a bunch, we'll all keep working harder to keep gettin bettah!!

Granny: haha thanks, the only heat that's rising is the hot steamy art dishes your cooking up in ur SB!!

Jailhouserock2: hey matty wat's up dood, how's the college prep going, excited?! shanks!

some quick enviro or watever u'd want to call them sketches, trying to get back into enviro sketching i guess

orighty goal tomorrow is to stop being a cheap arse and get a scanner, hopefully won't be lazy to scan the pencils!

[JailHouseRock2]

haha cheers man, yeah Its going alright I guess... Fucking Student loans//////Fucking student ID's/////////FuckingMotherFucking bus passe's!!!!!!!!!!

lol, but these last few paints are REALLY epic man, love the colours of the first one, and those clouds in the second are just wonderful!

Love the third as well... but I think the building to the left is a bit distracting. Also I think it would add a real nice sense of scale if the building they were fighting on was the tallest around... I really do love this image though, so cool!

Thanks Mike,
laters
matt

[SMILEFACE]

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[Aracid]

You do atmospheric perspective and color coordination so well, I love your painterly style quite much.

[meth]

cool updates, love them, you are kicking some asses!!

M

[hala]

you da man snootch--hope shit smooths out at work for ya, and im loving the latest posts, really see that voice/style coming through more now, and it's making the pieces much more exciting and unique,
keep it up brotha but don't sacrifice your work life--it sucks but man. needs that moneys
anyway

yes get a fucking scanner and enlighten us with your brilliant pencil work.
that was a demand not a choice.

[Flaskpost]

looking great, mate! keep up the hard work!
i think we paint in a pretty similar way, we both are very silhouette minded.
maybe some slightly less sharp edges on some places with less focus, on the figures?
also, always keep construction in mind when painting. construction/drawing > values > color

[lennon]

Great variety. You have a very clever speed painting technique, and you don't seem to repeat much your process, that's very good. Some of the brushwork that you manage to get is very cool. Thanks for showing the process for some.
I love the BG with the fat tree, the colors look terrific. Cheers.

[Peetaer]

I can't believe I didn't wish you a happy new years in my last post. Sorry for that. Happy New Years brother!!! I hope all is well with you as well my friend.

As for starting off I usually don't have a set way of working if i feel line isn't working then i switch over to blocking out big shapes, but the initial thought for me at least is to get the big shapes as interesting as possible then work inwards if that makes any sense.

Makes perfect sense. I work very much the same way myself, however I tend to construct with line more so than with block in big shapes. I'm gonna switch it up and focus more on shapes first and then adding in the lines.

That second one you have in your last post is strongest piece I'd say. It's also the perfect underdrawing. Don't forget about that one. That is one you'd want to come back to at some point.

[snootchy]

Jailhouserock2: sup matty, thanks dood! yea that building is out of perspective and also not enough spacing between the foreground building and the distracting one but thanks for pointing that out!

Granny: haha shanks dood!

Aracid: thanks mate! cool name!!

MetajaPetkovic: haha thanks, but i wish i was kicking crazy ass like you!

hala: right on sistah hala! shankies and will continue to work for the beacon, a mean to the end

flaskpost: thanks, tried to use a bit more of that hard edge in these latest roughs!

lennon: thanks dood, still trying to get better at colors like you!

Peetaer: haha thanks dood and no worries, looking forward to them updates! I feel that art is all about process and to experiment with different processes is what makes it refreshing or viewing things from a different perspective

sorry folks been crazy again at work, can't believe today it took 3hrs to drive 45miles to work today, snow is nice to look at but not fun to drive in, oy vey =(

not much in updates just a bunch of roughs, kind of discovering a new way to sketch and color. made a swatch of 8 colors, warm&cool of red yellow blue and black and white. start usually with a black and white sketch and will use a big soft brush, choose a color and add it like a glaze, if i want to get like a purplish color like that in the first sketch I'll just mix the red and blue (kind of like traditional approach). the reason for doing this is to keep the colors as pure as possible (not losing intensity) by choosing from the 8 colors in the swatch and mixing as needed.

[GoGoJojo]

Dood...awesome trees. And rocks. and everything.

[SMILEFACE]

haha NOT MUCH BUT SOME WICKED MAN YA HURT'N MY BRAIN WTF !!! THE LAST ONE IS MY MORE FAVORITE AN THE SECOND TO LAST ON IS JUST HOT