Nibras' [Lilnebo] Sketchbook - Still wanting to work for Massive Black someday

[a la bapsi]

i give you one or two more years.
you'll kick all our asses so hard it'll be unbelievable

[Jaytea]

yayayay cg paintsss! they're sooo awesome man you make me wanna try some movie stills. moar moar moar! C:

[Nibras]

Thanks for the comments guys. I'll reply tomorrow.

Going to make the most of the summer free time now and start hitting the art a bit hardcore I like updating my sketchbook. It motivates me so I might as well try and do it daily or semi daily from today on.


To kick it off, here's a painting from mind I started today while waiting for other stuff to move on. Trying to get better backgrounds and just apply overall everything. 3 hours into it so far, planning for about another 4 or so at the very least. Crits are Welcome:




Thanks, more coming tomorrow. Time to hit the books and do some leveling up

[Eddieee]

Hey nebo! The new piece is looking nice. I think the mountains in the distance could be a bit softer as right now their edges are kinda hard. Anyway, I'm eager to see you take this illo further. Looking forward to the daily/semi-daily updates.

[Metal Fingers]

yeaaa! Eddiee said what I was going to, keep working this one, it looks promising.

[Nibras]

Surion: Thanks, that means a lot
Ryan: Totalllllllllly! I can't wait to do an alice in wonderland one, thanks
PNate: thank you, you have some really great work
bapsi: thats the aim hopefully , thanks Britney
Jaytea: thanks julia
Eddieee: Thanks for that, going to soften it up, thanks
Alex : thanks for dropping by


Gotta study harder! More useful stuff. I'll be doing more movie screens tomorrow.
Working more on the other painting and some other stuff
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Some quick studies: Horrible study of motion, going to do one or two everyday until I complete the motion


And an early WIP of a collab with the man who has metal fingers:

[Metal Fingers]

boom boom boom bang, space pirates will steal your gold.

[ryan mcshane]

rrrrrromnomnomnomnom (rolling the rrrrrrrrs)

[Twan]

on the last illu, the man has a orange light on him, why the stone don't have it to? another observation, the mountains behind et the sea are devided by a simple straight line , it makes the background flat. keep it up!

[Lael]

Your digital works are awesome

[Nibras]

Metal Fingers: Noo, boom boom bang, nibras and alex will own you
Ryan : haha, thanks
Twan: Thanks for the observation, those really helped a lot, I'll work on creating a more interesting break from middle ground to background. Cheers
Lael: Thank you Hopefully they'll get much better


Yeah, need to spend more time studying. I think I spend too much time thinking about WHAT to study. I am just doing whatever I'll enjoy and whatever is my weakness

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Study :


Piece continued, thanks for the advice. I was mainly working on the figure and introducing some of the red light magic stuff but I'll change up the horizon line and soften up the background. I am working wayyyyy too slowly on this, too much noodling so I am just focusing on blocking in a lot of big shapes. The middle ground is supposed to be a sea so I'll be doing some water studies:


I'll scan stuff later on tonight

[Nibras]

Hmm, Updates are being weird. Double post and not bumping :/

[kingkostas]

Nice.I am glad to see you doing more complicated stuff to train harder!!!
nice simplified blocking of colors.Now keep up training

[Danny_K]

Hey Lilnebo, nice concept with the guy and the background, As you will progress on this piece I thought maybe throw a little suggestion how you can push it further, remember that every thing on the ground should be affected by the sky color and dont forget about bouncing lights and stuff you can make some neat effects with that.
You are progressing for sure keep pushing!

[Yor]

getting better and better everytime i check this SB! This last piece is going well too, but like Danny K said, don't forget the bouncing lights and the total ambiance of the picture , everything element relates with another in terms of color.

your gonna get far in no time if you keep evolving at this pace!

[jordyskateboardy]

hmm I didn't feel like typing so i just did that paintover. Will probably make these words more lucid. I'll try and keep it as consice as possible. Basically your light is coming from everywhere. Define a clear lightsource. And draw cast shadows. Also your piece was lacking in contrast. Remember that the highest contrast is in the front and less in the bag. You handled the atmo persp allready very well. As for the skin tones in clear blue light your tones tend to go slightly colour instead as saturated as yours so use a 50% opacity sky colour brush on your tones and it'll look more interesting. Hope that helps. Oh and those sillhouettes in the foreground help the compo. Luvs

[teapo]

mmm.... can't wait to see the result of yours and metal finger's collab haha xD

[Vinicam]

Your sketchbook makes me smile every time I see it. Never stop studying, being so young and already focused on an objective is really impressive and you will certainly be the best.

Keep up the good work. : D

[ThabisoMhlaba]

We miss you in vent nebo!!!

[ColorExcursion]

AWEEEESOME IMPROVEMENT! Love the dedication

[Bombur]

Last piece looks good. Just fix up the skintones like jordy said and it'll be great.

[Kungfoowiz]

Hey, your characters are very good, was looking at your earlier work too. Keep going with them and you will be awesome before you know it. =)

[Beelow]

Okay, wanted to post this a couple of days ago, better late than never hehe. Bounce light and cast shadows have already been discussed with you so I won't hit up on those to much. Main thing is getting the illusion of visual depth with environments. Things should feel like they are going back in space. This is done with mainly perspective, and getting some rhythmic elements into your painting. There should be a definite foreground middle and background. I think your are missing elements that you can play with to really give the Illusion of depth. Composition is very important in this as well. You really did not create or put in enough interesting shapes to help suppliment the focus. Here is a little paintover that I did to visually communicate what I am saying. You can also communicate depth with shadows as I have demonstrated. Put in more rock formations. big to small. Same thing with the clouds and ocean, lake, river, whatever it is. Rock formations around the guy should read like they are going back into space. So, I move the rocks furthest to the front above the rocks behind since these rocks are above the horizon line. I also reworked the star thingy that is on the rock to read move like it is going into space. I think it was turned slightlytowards us, the viewers, a bit to much and was blowing the scale a bit. Rock formation around the center of attention, I lowered. I actually like that which helps give it an iconic feel to the focus, so keep that. Just gotta lower it; it also created a tangent and killed the Illusion of the rocks being raised above the ground. Don't forget to add bushes and patches of grass, rocks to give it a bit of detail. Another element that you could implement to help with the scale of things in the picture plane. Hope this helps you a bit with your painting. I am glad to see you are actually tackling an environment. Have fun!

[alexson]

Maybe add some orange and yellow into the reds to make it look warmer, if that is what you are after. Could be some nice cold and warm light contrast in this picture, great job!

[Jaytea]

yeaaaah liking this paint and haha all the advice here. wow @____@ nice anatomy and rendering~~

[Lang Oulk]

Gah, this sketchbook is beyond any describable words! Your dedication and motivation are outstanding. Motivates me to keep drawing and drawing, thank you! I would say to keep it up but I'm sure that will happen anyways !

[Metal Fingers]

Dang neebs, I just flipped first page to last page and the improvement is just like WHOAH! I hope mine is that staggering by the time I get to page 51 in my SB. Keep it up, I'm almost ready to send back zeh collabo.

[abijou]

I agree with what Metal Fingers said! I looked and the first two pages, and then the last two pages. The difference between those two is amazing! Keep drawing figures and gestures. Maybe bust out some paints while figure drawing to help your skin tone .

[Nettle_Mountain]

Hi ilnebo, i like the lates digital and painterly smooth quality of brushmarks you have. Something what would help in that digital would be opening up little more canvas on left and also right, but more on left. It would emphasize the feeling of cold desolate enviroment and give character space to breath.
keep on going forward

[MattGamer]

you didn't offend me or anything in my sb. don't worry! you're free to study my cloud pictures anytime!

beelow made some good points which i agree. for the ball study, were you trying to make a chrome ball? i like it, smooth it out.