nim's sketchbook

[nim]

habrok: happy you like my sb! :))
Aryeh: <3 ;))))
so... making pottery, but sketching a bit too. cheers!

[Voodoo_Mama]

This last one is really good!
I particularly like their faces and the way you drew their hair.
The only crit I have is that their legs from the knees down seem a bit small, but that is all.

[monstertree]

Damn I love it when you update

[MrFrenik]

I love your scenes and linework. Subscribed.

[nim]

Voodoo_Mama: good call! they are short.. foreshortening with close distance perspective distortion is diffictult ;)
monstertree: right back at ya! :D thx!
MrFrenik: thank you!
EDIT2: ok done with the sketch.. now on to "inking" and then colours mucha style :3

[nim]

so here's the progress at the coloured piece, only just started out by fiddling with some paper texture and line colouration. now onto actual painting :3
EDIT: ok base colours :3 time to run...
EDIT: still need to block out base colours.. but haven't been happy with the face... closer now.
EDIT: blocked out. fiddled. next start painting.
EDIT: mucha:ish frame added.. started painting :U
EDIT: FINALLY picked this piece up again and finished it. could be a bit more polished but that last 10% and time... ugh need sleep. all-nighter.
stages:
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[PieMonster]

Awesome lines man, thanks for sharing.

[Voodoo_Mama]

O: the last one is so good!Love the composition with the birds.
I can't wait to see it finished

[raminafshari]

nice , its beautiful , i suggest work more with hot and cold colors .

[Axelga2112]

I must say your website is interesting ((:

[nim]

PieMonster: nonono, thank you!
Voodoo_Mama: gonna continue working on it today :)
raminafshari: good idea!
Axelga2112: cheers!
made a sculpt for learning plaster molds for ceramic casting. would've been more serious about it were the end material bronze ;)

http://www.youtube.com/embed/nUpTzU4dyPo
now back to working on that illustration above..

[monstertree]

Oh my, that is going to be spectacular when it's finished *starts waiting eagerly*

[nim]

monstertree: I won't dissapoint then! (darnit gotta run again, have to check your sb soon. so little internet lately)
I did some work on the muchalise piece, I like the frame, it needs some background pattern or some anchor like a blown up big bird at the bottom for colour composition me thinks... still painting.
in the meanwhile I had a lovely christmas with my niece who gave me a sketch pad of 70 pages and ever since the other christmas when I gave her that Tinker Bell and the Great Fairy Rescue dvd she's been crazy about fairies.. great film it was :U so project: one fairy in pencil a day for 70 days which is the number of pages and then give it back to her and see if I get another sketch pad
today's fairy:

[Shadow Stalker]

Beautiful lines, nim!

[Voodoo_Mama]

Looking great!
The fairy looks beautiful. It's an awesome project I think. I hope you'll post each fairy here

[Kuddlekins]

Hi nim! Great to see you updating.

I look forward to seeing more of your stuff!

[ArtemisDragon]

I like your line-oriented style!
Reminds me a lot of Mucha.
Look forward to more posts!

[Robert.B]

Looking great man keep it up!

[nim]

Shadow Stalker: thank you!
Voodoo_Mama: yes I will didn't get time to finish yesterdays, by time.. probably won't be everyday but more than every second atleast!
Kuddlekins: thanks!!
ArtemisDragon: that's great to hear
Robert.B: cheers, you too, man!

so yestertodays:

[monstertree]

Brilliant! I can't believe I haven't seen these updates - the last drawing in particular is just so good.

[sevarenge]

dina linjer alltså dom är helt galna jag vill börja måla och teckna i gen tur att det finns folk kvar som är av guld kör hårt!! men börja öva på rändrering när du har det så kommer detta bli från guld till diamanter!!

[tobzArt]

very beautiful stuff indeed =)

[nim]

phew! all-nighter at end! now sleep! just wanted to bump that I've updated the mucha piece further up and happy with it! x[) I now go slep
monstertree: cheers m8!
sevarenge: fanx! jag har nog en glaspärla nu iaf! skäms att erkänna att det är min första riktiga färdiga helbilds-illustration/målning. men nu ska det bli fler!
tobzArt: thankss! Ü
will have some sketches to scan aswell but they're in a spiral pad so... next time

[nim]

rahr. mental issues getting the best of me. always stressed... you just can't be creative when you're stressed out etc. did something today at least. new strategy. doing tshirt designs for organic tshirts promoting nature and cool ideas/thought-ponderers regarding the city and its relation and potentials with nature.

found a funny blending mode while upping the lines with a high-pass layer.. that'll have to be it. it attenuates the stuff at the lower part of the column that I find too busy and will strip out... needs to be clean and quick as a message.
tree. growing out of concrete pillar. period. me thinks.... bla bla bla.. will make more designs and start posting mroe freq.. etc hopefully, Ta! :]]

[Voodoo_Mama]

The painting turned out so pretty o:
I like this last design, the contrast between the inorganic and the organic, I would like to see how you color it
what happened to the fairies? (x

[nim]

Voodoo_Mama: thanks! you always encourage
another tshirt design.

previews on one of those design-your-own sites on a nature coloured bamboo tee:

I don't know after all that polishing and perfecting it all looks rather boring... like... how mere art becomes boring.. I think I need more concept and less pretty...

[a la bapsi]

the second t-shirt design looks like something i would buy

[nim]

a la bapsi: cuuooool
just a doodle today... see if you get the meaning...

[JakehC]

those are nice dude!

[sevarenge]

först vill jag säga att jag vill ha en sådan tröja! och sedan är det väl jing och jang? =) kip rocking!