Eric´s Sketchbook (BigDL)(update: asap -56kuseless)

[Landmate]

your sense of composition is really really really really good. The camera angles and arrangements all add up perfectly.

as far as drawing, you really need to work on faces more.

:beer:

[Main Loop]

wowX300.... breathtaking stuff.. only crit i have is that you should really take the time to study and practice facial expressions, and faces in general.. they hardly ever seem to sit right within a cranium.. it works in the more cartoony style you have, but when you go for more realistic faces, its not nearly as strong..

[spok]

they should give this thread a sixth star!!! didi you use a pen or pencil???

[Aidan]

These life drawings of your friend made my day.

Very cool.

[ericdee]

Thanx guy´s, I´m in a horrible stress of work, and its great to see your postings. I will put some updates in about three hours, after finishing some work.

@siskol
It´s mostly of the time, a blue Sanfordpencil

@Iiori
Animals, yepp, I made some animal live sketches in the zoo, i will search for them tp post them. But animals I draw not so often, unfortunately. I have to change that, as soon as possible.

@Landmate,
actually I´m working on the faces, but you´re right, I have to do it much more often, with more concentration. Good point!

@MainLoop
I will post soon also some more realistic stuff, from my work.

@Spok,
Thanx a lot, it´s a pencil. Have you see the sketchbook of Foster, Landmate, Marko etc.... These are 6 star sketchbook, really great inspirative stuff. Check it out!

@Aidan
I´m glad you like them, I post in three hours more of them.
Cya, eric

[roger]

Now I'll have to be awake past 12 pm to see the new stuff, thank you very much! :p


Great stuff, I don't really have a crit to add though, sorry.

[ericdee]

Sorry Roger,
I hope you are still a little bit fit??

Here some quick scans. Last week it was not my best day in quick sketching, I was quite tired and almost ill. But the efort is worth, trying even on a bad day, to do some sketches. A day without one is a very very bad day.
Here some results:







This was a interesting one, "the drunken friend!":


Some sketchbookscans:




Cheers, eric

[Mutley]

ENRICOOO Here is one of the most SMECHEROSO artist i know, i love his style. 5 star thread !!! :chug:

[akyra]

zupaaaaaaaa ...very cool sketch man..you rule...i like your line very much

[ericdee]

Jesus, I just gorgot about this thread, I´m sorry about that! My romanian mates, Akyra and Mutley, thanx a lot! Here some new sketches done in the last weeks!
Cya, eric

[Yina]

woah.. really good stuff there! very distinctive and interesting style and characters

[Calle_]

shit, why havent I seen this thread before, just awesome man. insane!

Calle.

[spok]

i did check there's out, i really do like landmate's...

[obid619]

wow this is great stuff. I congragulate you on showing your stuff at this thread

[ericdee]

I apologize for being late with postings, too much work in the kast months. I unfortunately I´m not so often online, but at least I try to update temporarily.

Thanx a lot for your comments, here some diferent sketches from diferent projects.
Cya, Eric

[Robolus]

ES LEBT! Cool that you are still around. Great sketches, especially "adione.jpg".

Grüßle,
Rob

[MrFrost]

------>fanfuckintastic....

[ericdee]

Vielen lieben Dank, Roberto! Thanx guys.

New sketch:




Cya, eric

[ericdee]

Again some new worksketches and funwork.
Cya folks, Eric

[guggemmaneuver]

ERic!
Wowsers---those battle scenes are BRUTAL... What type of technique are you using to produce these? is it some kind of colored pencil, or another medium? I did see the Pelikan paper in your procedural pictures, but I guess I'm not sure how it works? is (for instance) the sexy cowgirl done with this process? do you work these up from pencil sketches, or is the blue tool what you sketch with?

Sorry for all of the procedural questions; the technique is exceptional. I especially like the page where the blue-pencil stuff overlaps with the brown ink. That sketchbook page is priceless.

Please tell me you are doing this professionally... This stuff is killer! and do post more MoRe MORE

regards,
the gugg.

[ericdee]

Hello guggenmaneuver,

the blue sketches you have seen are done with a blue pencil, from animation, a "Sanford col-erase 20044 Blue", in fact nothing special.I use this pencil mostly for the work.The Pelikan paper is just usefull for paintings, to transfer the drawing on the painting board(of course, also by overdrawing). Sometimes I use also another colour, to see some difference in detail, or to get some new ideas, like the brown sketch.

Thanx a lot dude, I hope I could help you a little bit. I will post very soon more(hope I still have some freespace on my server)

Cya, Eric

[Hanuka]

stunning, i havent seen figurative linework as good as this since marko's last update
as jon said before, its amazing how you are able manage very complex scenes with apparent ease. every line fits and all the proportions work, even though they might not always be perfect in anatomy or realism. excellent job on gesture, design and perspective. adorable.

do we maybe know some of your "commercial" work? (ich meine deine offiziellen projekte )

[squal]

WOW ERIC
I hate you, lol, really amazing, any concept is just wonderful.
in the blue ones, did you use only mechanical pencil with blue leads?

just wonderful.
take care.
in fact I really hate you, LOL
post moreeeeeeeeeee.
bye.

[sone_one]

lovely! especially like the storyboard with the bike and the car... great chracters too... and... and... well 5 stars from here.

keep this updated please, very inspiring.

[JackalAnubis]

wow, its weird how I haven't seen this one before, I was missing out. I esp like that police bike design, that painting, and the turquoise colored drawings (lol) yes I agree 5 all the way, ( btw those last posts came up x for me )

[JadeDragon]

Hi Eric,

Really cool comicbook style there! Reminds me of early Marshall Rogers maybe mixed with some Rick Leonardi, with a dash of J Scott Campbell line finesse. That's a compliment!

I like your storytelling a lot. Great use of camera angles and sense of movement. Your style is really shaping up nicely, very unique and detailed. I hope you will keep posting, it's great to see other comic styles around here.

Great work, man!~~~JadeDragon (Nice painting technique too!)

[ericdee]

Hello guys,
I´m really sorry for not responding at once, I was busy doing almost 80 storyboard frames during the past three days. Unfortunately I was juts able to check quick the thread, but I wanted to respond with patience and also posting some new sketches. I try to answer to all of ya:
@Hanuka
Thank you very much, for your kind words. I really love to do complex scene, full of details. Sometimes I lost myself in details, a crazy tick of mine. My commercial work is background work, storyboards, layouts, concepts, stuff like that. Unfortunately, Germany has a lack of conceptwork in the entertainment industrie, thats the reason why my work is mainly concentrated in advertising. As I said, unfortunately, my love belongs to conceptart and comics.
@Squal
Shit, don´t hate me man, I promise to sketch also with normal pencilsThanx dude!
@sone_one
Thanx for the stars, I wil post more often, I´ll promise.
@JackalAnubis
Oh, sorry for the "X", sometimes the server goes down, pretty weird "freenet" servers!
@JadeDragon
Thank you very much for the compliment dude, its a honor for me to hear that. I just ckecked your sketch and I was impressed, but this I will write it there. Its obviously that I love comics!

Thanx again to all for your kind words, here some working sketches for some in fact two illustrations, not finished yet, still scratching the ideas. The "amazon"g(a)uy with the sword in the hand was not my idea, it is a 70´s ScifiHero, wanted by the producers. Jesus, he´s style is a little bit....
Cya, Eric

[squal]

I m joking with you, Eric, and yes you are an amazing artist, and I really know that the pencil as never made someone an artist, i was just courious to know what kind of media it was, look like a blu pencil lol maybe prisma, u bought it 125 days ago, lol, ok.

Really amazing, ur work is just an example.
great job.

[ericdee]

Thanx squal, I was joking too

I start on next tuesday a new project, a small one, I will have to do some "PostapocalipticMadMax" concepts, but I could´t resist to start today with a small sketch. Next week I will try to post almost everyday a sketch from the work, if I do not bother ya.

Cya, eric

[ericdee]

Hello Mike,
I´m glad you like it. Two new sketches from the apocaliptic project.
Cya on Monday, Eric