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

[squal]

great artist once again, the blue is your color.
do you have magic pencils ? you should look after them, i m so far that Germany. lol.
ok take care, and thanks to show us great drawings like that.
bye.

[ericdee]

Thanx Squal,
here we go again, as I promised, scince today I start with sketches everyday, I try at least Not magic pencills dude, I think the paper is full of magic. Can´t resist starring at it without drawing some lines
Apocaliptic ladies, done half in Marker, with the help of some Photoshop.
Cya, Eric

[Gillespie]

Your concepts are more than effective and the work itself isn't just voluminous, but totally amazing. I'd like to see subtle coloring of a few of them, but other than that, there's nothing to ask for. I just hope you keep on drawing and sharing!

[ericdee]

Thank xou very much Gillespie, I´m glad to hear you like them. As I promise, here two rejected sketches from today. I hope, whenn I finish the project to put the final artworks in the Finished section.

Till tomorrow,
Cya, Eric

[OdDiTy]

hats off to you dude, how long must those pics take you?

*sigh* i've got a lot to learn before i come anywhere near your standard, anyway, look forward to seing more of your threads/sketches etc

cheers

[ericdee]

It is over a year since I made my last post in this thread, I dont even know if it is allowed to revitalize this sketchbook, but I try. After seven months of working at a movie project, almost without free spare time, I would like to post here more often, so kill me if I shouldn´t.

@Oddity, dont knoe exactly how much time I need, sometimes an hour, sometimes a couple hours, depend of the theme and the job, if there is a quick deadline or you can handle the concept over a couple days

have to check some of your drawings ...now!

[ericdee]

Here we go again...

[dariocoelho]

hab deine arbeiten ja schon länger nicht mehr gesehen...zuletzt im comicforum vor ungefähr...einem jahr? wie auch immer...wollte nur ein WOW loswerden. kann mich nach wie vor nicht an deinem lebendigen strich sattwundern. einfach nur meisterlich. jaja...die übliche honig ums maul schmiererei...tut mir leid, aber da kann man einfach nicht mehr dazu sagen. zumindest als "unwürdiger" wie meinesgleichen.

ich trau mich fast nicht fragen, aber ist beim dritten bild mit dem hubschrauber der hintergrund ein foto?

[ericdee]

Hola Dario,
yepp, ist schon ewig her das ich im Cf gepostet habe, ähnlich wie hier ja auch
Klar, im dritten ist ein Foto im Hintergrund, es war sozusagen ein test inwiefern es harmonisch aussieht, obwohl nur collagiert gee, vielen Dank für den honig aber warum ein "unwürdiger". habe mir gerade deine Seite angeschaut, sehr schöner düsterinteressanter Aufbau und schöne Arbeiten da drauf was machst du eingentlich in Brazilien??

Hier noch ein paar Skizzen.
Cya, Eric

[Theo]

great stuff. makes me wanna draw trees for some reason.

[Recursive_End]

Really nice work, i like your render: simple and effective
Keep posting

[Hiipi]

I want to vote for five stars. I like them characters of yours really much!!! Linework is working, poses are interesting and beautiful and their expressions lively. I likes. This is what I would like to learn also.

x5 if I may...

[mull77]

wooo, great lines. You've got some really dynamic looking poses in here. I'd like to see you go a bit freer with your painting though. Try to do some without overlaying lines...the one of the helicopter was really nice.

[Yina]

wow i love the b/w pieces, very strong form and contrast coming out at me!

[ericdee]

@Theo, treeeees?? well then, good luck let us see some tree sketches
@Recursive, thanx, the render depends often of the job, but indeed I like it as easier as possible.
@Hiipi, thanx, also for the stars.
@Hi Mull, whatyamean with "freer with the painting"?Sorry, got it, yepp, thats the next step I try to go further, but it takes me a little bit time(and courage to post). This small storyboards you have seen(with the helicopter) are the direction I like to try more often, have to take the time to exercise more for that.Thanx
@Yina, I just remark, that the ölast time I worked for an RPg with strong b/w lines is about 9 month ago, I really miss that style. Hope to come back soon.

What I really like working as a conceptartist/illustrators is the varierty of styles you have to apply to some projects, today is it more SciFi, tomorrow more "reality", soon more cartoony an so on.... It is never borring. Thoug, I envy comicbookartists developing on single style to perfection, for example Creg Capullo, Travis Charest, Benoit Springer, Mathieu Lauffray. Just awesome dudes. Claire Wendling, also to mention one of the best ever strongest drawers on earth, a fantastic woman

Return to sketches, on of them you see finished above:








Cya, Eric

[Mikko Voipio]

Hey there. You certainly did not get your stars for nothing. Great work here. I think I've seen your art somewhere before (on some site related to gnomon or something). Only crit here is that these posts are huge. Took a century to appear on my screen. Going to have to study your style quite carefully.

[Ive]

*Gasp* This is just what i was looking for, browsing through the sketchbooks....you just blasted me away with your art! The sense of perspective, emotions and great character concept...you're my idol
very very inspiring and helpful...

[digitalfly]

Amazing!!!
Thanks, Erikcdee!

[ericdee]

I dont even dare to come back after again a soo long tomeout. A lot of work during the past 6 month, different projects and of course a lot of sketches, a couple of hundreds again..... I hesitate to post some of the finished art in the Finished section, dont think its good enough for this fantastic forum, but one day....
@Icey
Good to see you man, hope you are still around here

@Placebost, sorry for the big images, I will try to keep them in future smaller, I promise

@Ive and digitalfrly, thanx you too

Working in Munich again, I will try to keep posting more often, not a promise, its a challenge
Cheers, Eric

[ericdee]

I try to update the head of the thread but it doesnt work...somebody knows why???

Thanx, Eric

[mentler]

Like your works <> strong skills

[chr!z]

yummi! So much inspiring :o

My favourite is the "piratboyone" !amazing shading!

[Arne S.]

nice to see your sketchbook updated! great inspiration, my friend! okay, it&#180;s bookmarked!

[flaptraps]

shit man! nice work! wish i had a book like this. love to see more.

[Demon3d]

oh!hi I'm very like your product!and it's very perfect!

[ericdee]

I&#180;m glad you like it guys
@mentler
Wonderfull studies you have in your sketchbook, so many pages, I have to find the time to check them out.

@ch!z
Yeap, piratboyone is still one of my favorite charas for the spacepirates series. Unfortunately, the project was not comleted, but though it was hell of fun

@Flaptraps/Demon, thanx guys Flaptraps why "whish I had one..."? Your sketches are great, just lurking around in your thread right now, in two hours after finishing the work, I will check the pages, now I am in hurry with some deadline on the desk.
As promised, I will post much more often from now on....
Cheers, Eric

[ericdee]

I still have no clue why I can not update the head of the thread, gizaas christ....
Till then, here more of those freaky charas I am working at the moment, for an italian game.

Cheers, Eric

[Goog]

Wow, nice stuff, all those poses...beautiful. Great sb here.

[ericdee]

Thanx Goog, I´m glad you like it. I hate posting every single sketch I done, so normally I wait to have a couple to post. A lot of work in the last two weeks, but not soo much work of sketches, more digital stuff to do. Here some sketches of the last week,
Cheers, Eric

[ericdee]

Ups, I almost forgotten this babe: