PieMonster's sketchbook - 5 year sketchbook anniversary update! - 020513

**SaiVix** · February 10th, 2012, 04:52 PM

wow... love your stuff!

**DefiledVisions** · February 10th, 2012, 05:45 PM

Goddamn dude, your characters are so refreshing. Good to see your artwork still kickin'

motivates me like hell to see all those thumbs and characterexplorations. You're doing it good.

**alexson** · February 10th, 2012, 06:48 PM

Nice work, man! Great job on the bloodsport! Keep it up

**PieMonster** · February 11th, 2012, 08:36 PM

SaiVix: Thanks!
DefiledVisions: Thanks dude, had a lot of fun with those thumbnails.

alexson: Thanks man, I will!

Some slight progress on the White Wizard for ArtOrder.

**Fetsch** · February 12th, 2012, 09:25 AM

Yo Mike here's the op hope it helps.

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**midknight523** · February 12th, 2012, 11:10 AM

cool piece

**PieMonster** · February 13th, 2012, 01:21 AM

Fetsch: Thanks, that helped a lot!

midknight523: Thanks!

Finished up the White Wizard, quite happy with it. And I'm just gonna throw in a sci fi soldier guy whose design makes no sense, haha.

**Feil Magnus** · February 13th, 2012, 01:54 AM

Totally love your thumbnails, a lot of those have a wonderfull potential as finished pieces.
Your color work is solid as well, all your hard work makes me realize what a slacking bum i am.

**Icecold** · February 14th, 2012, 04:42 PM

Thank you for a visit in my sketchbook, aprecieted.

I'm totally digging that wizard, she's captured in a momentum.
I saw many illustrations of thats or which felt extremely posed and studio like.
Your is great, but i have a strong feeling that some kind of foreground element would help to build the depth a bit. Maybe some part/strand of her's with some motion blur for dynamism? You decide

Oh yes, 5 stars, definitely.

**jedininjaman** · February 14th, 2012, 06:19 PM

Not totally sold on how the white wizards legs connect to her torso, and the right side of her back seems to extend too far, making the armpit quite large. The flesh tones and reflections are pretty nice looking. Keep up the work

**PieMonster** · February 19th, 2012, 05:19 PM

Feil Magnus: Thanks a lot, I had a lot of fun doing those thumbnails!
Icecold: Thanks a lot man! Yeah, you're right about the depth thing. I think the part of her cape thing that is in the lower right corner could overlap more and take up a little more space on the canvas. Glad you liked the piece!
jedininjaman: You're totally right about the leg, didn't put a lot of research into that. You could be right about the ribcage as well, I'm not sure if it's too broad, or if the armpit area just looks wonky though. Thanks for the crits!

Here's some Bridgeman arm studies and some random nude studies, before I go off on an army camping trip into the frozen hell that is Norway's forests.

**LastGen** · February 19th, 2012, 05:28 PM

Oh man, awesome, incredible and superb!

The female wizard came out great. Besides the sexy high heels the lighting there is really nice and atmospheric. Thank you, you're a great inspiration.

And keep your hands warm, my friend. You'll need them!

**Sebastian Gromann** · February 26th, 2012, 03:46 PM

your figures are looking so effortless, dude! great proportions aswell!

**PieMonster** · February 28th, 2012, 07:40 AM

LastGen: Thanks man, appreciate the support!
Sebastian Gromann: Thanks a lot man, had fun doing them!

A quick doodle done while watching SamC's stream.

**S Ciaffaglione** · February 28th, 2012, 09:54 AM

Wow man amazing progress from page 1 to now. Well done!

**Mikko Voipio** · February 29th, 2012, 05:35 AM

yeah, I have to agree with Ciaffaglione there about the remarkable improvement from 2008. The skeleton dude looks really awesome and should be made into a more refined illustration.

**Monsieur-Beefy** · February 29th, 2012, 03:48 PM

Such sick lines! those nudes are amazing!

**sourgasm** · February 29th, 2012, 05:09 PM

ha, nice posture on that last guy. i like his corset mouth

artorder entry came out sweeeet. some areas have a definite traditional media feel in the way the value changes are handled- particularly the legs and clothing. good stuff, mang.

**DStraX** · March 1st, 2012, 09:42 PM

hei hei. kul ide på han siste karen der, litt lav kontrast men det er jo en effekt så om det var meningen er det greit

ho dama her ser dritbra ut. om jeg må finne en crit så syntes jeg foten hennes tangerer for mye med den tøy remse tingen under foten hennes. så det ommerådet tar litt mer oppmerksomhet en det burde

**Alexanderjr** · March 2nd, 2012, 12:22 AM

Nice studies and great progress coming along in here! i really enjoy looking through your drawings and paintings man.

**Wetterschneider** · March 2nd, 2012, 07:44 PM

Love the landscape studies, the Howl portrait, and laughing about the transition from the Bridgeman studies to the nudie doodles. There's only so much focus one can give to Bridgeman before the mind starts to wander back to the ladies.

**ChuanMing** · March 4th, 2012, 05:35 PM

Hey man. Totally digged the white wizard chick. Lookin good, lookin good.

btw O_O ur in the army now?

**-Marin-** · March 4th, 2012, 06:14 PM

Mr. Skullman needs to be an enemy in Dark Souls *__* very cool design~

**PieMonster** · March 4th, 2012, 06:26 PM

S Ciaffaglione: Thanks!
Mikko Voipio: Thanks, yeah I'm liking that one too, might work on it some more.
Monsieur-Beefy: Thanks man!
sourgasm: Thanks, glad you like it!
DStraX: Haha, takk for critten på han skjelettduden, den er jo helt utvasket. Enig med at det området på White Wizard-illustrasjonen ikke ser så bra ut, hadde en del problemer med å få det til å se bra ut.
Alexanderjr: Thanks, I'm really enjoying your sketchbook as well!
Wetterschneider: Haha, totally.

Thanks!
ChuanMing: Thanks. Yeah, I'm currently serving my obligatory year in the army, got about 4 months left of my service. Not too bad though, seeing as I usually have every other week off.

Here's just a sketch-preview. And a contrast boost on the skeleton piece, since it was waaaay too washed out.

Sorry for the lousy update, but I'll be going into the frozen wastes of Norway next week. Going to do a more proper update next week though, most probably with a decent-ish amount of ballpoint/pencil sketches.

**wasabi89** · March 4th, 2012, 07:59 PM

Hey man! Nice update, i looked thru ur entirely sketchbook and its awesome too see the progress you made from page 1 to now, I hope that someday i could reach your level man! keep well
bye for now =)

**FUSHANDCHUPS** · March 5th, 2012, 01:30 AM

Nice Bridgemans man

**zelda_geek** · March 6th, 2012, 03:41 PM

Cool stuff man.
I'm looking forward to the next update.

**walnut** · March 10th, 2012, 02:55 PM

There's something a little skinny about that skeletonnor-guy (no pun intended). What i mean is it could some more texture and more edges bleeding into eachother. But apart from that observation, you're doing pretty damn well i should say!

**PieMonster** · March 13th, 2012, 05:29 AM

wasabi89: Thanks man, that means a lot!

FUSHANDCHUPS: Cheers man!
zelda_geek: Thanks, here it is!
walnut: Yeah, it could certainly do with some more refining. All I did since sketching it out was use the levels tool, due to its washed-out-ness. Thanks!

Here are the sketchpages, some really wonky stuff in there.