uhm.... YAY :D

[tja88]

cool man! i like that you pay attention to your brushstrokes! aint really got any crits except try to be a bit careful with all these sharpen filters and stuff, its easy to overdo! (been there, done that) also like your sketches, nice pencil shading!

[Gloominati]

looking good man. maybe you could have left out the black outline in some areas of the piece. The glowing hands for example really loose a lot of their effect because of these black lines.

[SamC]

man this is hawt

[Lateman]

krasse scheiße! man man man

[Morten]

great work i digg your landscapes nice colors and keen understanding of perspective - man i`ve got to study more perspective ...

keep it up

[Sebastian Gromann]

thanks for checking guys really means alot ! ::



tja88 uh yep ! filters are bad, its a nasty trap to fall into ! thank uuu


Gloominati yeah ! thank you brother


SamC haha ! cooookiies \/


Lateman \o_o/


Morten heyhey ! oouuhh, me too :{ thanks !





soooo ! i enjoyed the sunshine these days, it feels great to have the summer back... finally !



sketchii




one of my study -pages; please forgive me not too scan them




weird pose thing haha, ...no, it do not work :p




and a lame environment, without textures. actually learned new stuff though o_o

[fantasyartist]

That last environment is really working in terms of depth! I'm glad that you're making such fast progress. Keep it up mate!

[N E X T]

wow, i like the last environment!

[Sebastian Gromann]

fantasyartist hehe thankssssssssssir


N E X T Freut mich dasses' gefällt




i did some james paick studies lately, mostly his b/w thumbs, triying to figure out how his images are working. after that i did two of mine... blaah.. o_o more working...






n' a pageiiiiii

[Trashy]

Oh I like those environments quite a bit. Cool sketches also you got a nice sketchbook here.

[Gloominati]

cool cool stuff man! I'd really love to see something completely finished from you. Doing all these quick and loose enviros is all nice but actually finishing one piece is really something different. being able to finish a painting is a skill just like anything else. It needs to be learned. Do it!

[surus]

Thanks for sharing your pencil sketches! Great discipline! Keep on posting and sharing your ideas! I love the details (gloves, clothes ...).

[Sebastian Gromann]

Trashy thanks man !


Gloominati yeah, fuahck i'm trying to finished some these days actually, here's a wip of it. blaaa thanks homeboy


surus hehe ! thanks ! they need to become way better now, ... so i'm off drawing again, bye !!! :p






donno how i feel about ca.org i ever associate big names with ca and more important a big familiy ... but it seems to be gone now. bad thing !

hmm...



we should stop thinking 'bout and DRAW ! ... thats what i will be doing ! THANK you jason, ca.org and you guys for giving me the BEST 2 years i 've ever had donno if i'll post here again , or somewhere else , but lets keep the good memories ! ... :p cheers !





wip, blabla, very rough ... but..thoughts?





and sketches

[monotony]

I like where that environment is going, man. right now my eye is drawn to the very left vanishing point though which is a bit too far off center if you ask me. maybe extend the canvas on that side a bit. anywayyy finish one of you enviros!!
and good faces and figures with the sketches. you're kicking it.

oh and this is awesome http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/v...o/dsrhdfgf.jpg!!!
give it a bit more canvasspace and foreground floor/elements at the bottom maybe. awesome clouds!!

now stop thinking and get back here!!
stop lazing out in the sun and draw. or keep drawing in the sun as long as you update !

[Sebastian Gromann]

monotony hey thanks for your support my friend ! just got back from croatia


who said i will stop posting? :> hihihi

yewah i got problems with that left-sided thing too, but i hope i'll be able to balance it with some trees ..or soo ;D





here'r some of the sketches i did over there, again did alot more but most of them are studies or drawn while not beeing sober haha

a character



tried to do some fast orc sketches



and then did an orciii



blah



and a Link hahaha, a more realistic version... perhaps argh (edit: oh recognized that he has nearly the same pose as the orc -> ._. )

[Sebastian Gromann]

did these quick ones 3 seconds ago to feel the vibe again

[Brushcommander]

[Lyno]

ah cool man, I thought I would never see you posting here again .

[SamC]

HOT

[Yor]

Awesome man! love ur sketches and paintings! Would wanna see some more finished stuff

Great sketchbook bro!

[Sebastian Gromann]

Brushcommander love


Lyno D: thought wrong


SamC thanks man !


Yor nice to hear that ! thanks for stopping by mate




um, yeah...


pencil studies are nice to wake up with hehe







quick digitals











not that quick haha ;p



should have used animal refs, but you'r always smarter afterwards D:








still working on and off here :/ dono how to make it 'amazing', if you know what i mean






thanks for checking

[monotony]

great update, man! you're going places!

this very last character is amazing. your best so far for my taste! I especially like the headdesign. the surfaces look just a tad too similar. try and give his armor a bit more metal look, maybe just by having it jump to the stronger highlights with less smooth transitions than skin, or more contrast in itself. only nitpicking here though .

oh, and this is exceptional: http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/v...mountKopie.jpg
YESS to colors, energy and bold brushstrokes!

I give you some thoughts on the last piece as well if that's fine: love where you went since the sketch. The rendering on this painting itself is really good and works together nicely. what's bothering me is mainly compositional points.

First I think the left bright vanishing point is still distracting. it's pulling my eye away from everything important to the story of the picture like the monster and the two dudes eating the tentacle . the bridge leads the eye nicely to the monster, but at the same time takes away a lot with the very prominent diagonal through the center (and almost the whole picture) and with its (very well) rendered rocks.
the creature and action hotspot is cramped in the corner and not as detailed.
upping the contrast around the two front figures by placing them on bright sunlit grass is pretty good, I'd just give it a bit more space at the bottom to move them up in the composition. Also you could rearange the tentacle up front to curl back in the picture to not lead the eye to the bottom corner.
The scene you are depicting itself is really cool!! I like the idea of the two knights in front sharing meat of the creature that is still alive in the background.
To give it a more amazing feel you are talking about as I said move the creature a bit and make it still fight other figures. the third man in front of it and maybe a few more could be fighting the thing to get their own slice for the picnic. also that would make the front figures look a lot more bad-ass. they got their food first and just enjoy the show, while the others have to fight the monster that's more furious than ever.
would make a cool combination of big action scene and calmness as well.
Pretty long post,

hope you don't mind, I made a snooverpaint because I don't know how much sense all this made.
http://img718.imageshack.us/img718/4...ooverpaint.jpg

and of course my advise is always to be handled with care. I probably don't follow it myself very often. I'm no expert at anything and people might not agree with all I've written but maybe you take one or two ideas from it.

cheers, buddy!

[Sebastian Gromann]

monotony ohoooohh DAMN bud ! did i ever told you how much i love you hahaha snooverpaintrocks!

thanks for your advice ! i totally see what you are talking'bout !
i'm off to attack that piece again





here's a luchtimereflessthing

[PieMonster]

Dude, what have you been eating lately? This new stuff rocks! Really loving what you're doing with the latest environents, especially this one, and that last one looks really promising as well. Oh by the way, your characters are coming along really well too, damn dude. Keep this pace up and you'll be super awesome in no time!

[Sebastian Gromann]

PieMonster oh dude, you dont know how happy i am while reading this




update ...my arm hurts, gonna be careful D:


pencil, theres alot more again, but just studies... art is so much fun atm


study


monstas


little jerk




a wip from work


and a spider bad scary thing

[Jakers]

man your quick enviro stuff is STILL my fave part...maybe I just have a weakness for landscapes and how you are approaching them naw, they are great.

I really like the exploration of scale and depth in this one http://i686.photobucket.com/albums/v...o/Steppe-1.jpg

seriously got a good feeling when I saw it. the statue and rock on the right really pop. Perhaps you could inject even more color variations in some of the shadows, however that can be style choice.

[P]

the latest environment looks nice

[Sebastian Gromann]

Jakers hey dude, nice to see you stopping by yeah it's good to see them pop haha
about the thing i meant in your sb; i found this oneon your fine new site as a good example. i'm neither as good as you in drawing creatures nor in giving objects space, but maybe its a point haha what i was trying to say was, that if you compare birdi 1 and 2 my eye sees two different methods of showing a bird. in 1 you described the planes which go in space and give them form. but in 2 its hard to read for me how the form of the bird is. perhaps it is cartoony or a thumbnail, but from my point of view its better to do more strokes to describe the form then too less
hopefully you understand my blabla cheers bro !


P oh, welcome back man i'm glad you like it !




maybe i'll give him some color tomorrow




tried to model my monster1 in sculpties -hard \o_o/




chack - wakeup dumb

[Lyno]

Female figure from yesterday is nice .

[Mirre]

This is such a nice sketchbook. And awesome development since you started it! I really like your environments and creature concepts, very inspiring. Keep up the good work!