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

**TheDonut** · June 26th, 2007, 07:14 AM

Absolutely beautiful work, I love it all

**dannE-B** · June 26th, 2007, 07:35 AM

hey. Theres so many...so so many good ideas going on in this sketchbook...your style is fantastic too...i love the Cowboy type stuff..Bye

**ericdee** · June 29th, 2007, 11:03 AM

Thanx alot guys, I reallay appreciate your comments and kind words. Hope to post soon more stuff, as soon I get the permission to do.
Here a small charasketch, for a small project. Space Pirates, always love that theme

Cheers, Eric

**Taiylz** · July 3rd, 2007, 11:39 AM

Haha, Space Pirate? Never heard of that before. Awesome drawing, Although the hat doesn't look very piratey lol

**ericdee** · July 5th, 2007, 09:27 AM

Hey Taiylz, thanx a lot, really, never heard of Space Pirates before? A small example: Disneys Treasure Planet, almost a space pirate story

Here a small update to the space pirate, the first sketch of the idea(the background and the other characters will be done by two friends of mine

) and another sketch done while being in bed with headchae and fever, will never do that again, really, in case you are ill, you should rest, and not draw.

Cheers,
Eric

**ericdee** · July 6th, 2007, 08:15 AM

Some illustration stuff, first sketches to "youandme - Booze!" and "truelove".
Cheers, Eric

**aedman** · July 6th, 2007, 10:09 PM

Great stuff, such clean and expressive lines. I really enjoy looking at the enviros or even the hints of such in some of the character drawings, helps ground them and give just enough context. Keep it coming.

**Chris Noeth** · September 6th, 2007, 07:25 PM

Hey Eric,

how's it going? It's a long time

Good to see your new works here.

Best wishes,

Chris

**ped454** · September 6th, 2007, 07:47 PM

Indeed a very long time. It's good to see you post more stellar work in blue

**ericdee** · September 7th, 2007, 07:30 AM

Hey Chris,
how its going man

Still working on AlphaB:

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Thanx Aedman, I´m glad you like them.

Ped, I am trying to post more work, as soon I got more free spare time.

Here some steps to a small illustration, some random sketches and nude quick drawings...

Cheers, Eric

**BurntUmber** · September 7th, 2007, 07:36 AM

I cant believe I'm only just finding this sketchbook now. I made an "oooooo" noise on 4 seperate occasions. Kudos to you

**jMarkus** · September 7th, 2007, 07:58 AM

hmmm really like ur lines in ur drawings, and that last paintings not turning out bad... love it ... here some stars!

**Chris Noeth** · September 7th, 2007, 08:04 AM

Originally Posted by ericdee

Hey Chris,
how its going man

Still working on AlphaB:

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Everything is fine here on my end. I quit my job as a lead artist to work as a freelancer in comics and illustration fulltime.
Alpha Bettie is in the hands of the author who is looking for the right publisher right now.
I'm working on many other cool projects but I'm sure there will be some AB news soon.

Best,

Chris

PS: Great updates in the last post!

**Arne S.** · September 7th, 2007, 10:27 AM

hey eric,
great to see you updating your sketchbook again! can never get enough of your characters! awsome detail and gesture.

**Mikko Voipio** · September 7th, 2007, 10:55 AM

the four stars or your thread is a joke. absolutely five star material.

**ericdee** · September 28th, 2007, 04:15 AM

Back again with nude 1 to 3 minutes studies. Hope to refresh soon the sketchbook also with some illustrations(I am not keen to post stuff in the Finished section, would never try to post my stuff next to a John Foster - amazing guy, my all respects to him )

Cheers, Eric

**ericdee** · October 3rd, 2007, 01:32 PM

Coming back with a WIP for an illustration, still not finished, hope to finish it at the weekend. You can see th single steps, from the scratch and playing around with the background. I extended the background before I combine and integrate the character in the background and coulors.

The second one WIP is a sketch to Black Adam, a Marvel Chara. Its a private commision, last time I draw a Superhero must been couple years ago. Gizaaaaaaaas, too many musclesssssss........

**iman121** · October 3rd, 2007, 02:57 PM

Wowwww great

**TheGnoll** · October 3rd, 2007, 03:30 PM

very nice work, those lines are so lively and confident it hurts...beautiful style, hope to see much more

ciao

**TheKastOne** · October 3rd, 2007, 03:41 PM

Hey i enjoyed looking at your art..its inspiring...i need to draw more...hehe

**kischi** · October 3rd, 2007, 08:23 PM

Wow this rendering is killing me!!

**Recluse** · October 3rd, 2007, 08:53 PM

Geez man TONS of awesome work in here. Do you use a lot of refrence for your costume designs or just kinda pull it all from your massive imagination? Love the detail you put into that stuff.

Great work man.

**ericdee** · October 3rd, 2007, 09:13 PM

Hi guys, thanx a lot for your kind words.

"TheKastOne", yeahh, sometimes I got also the feeling that I need to draw more

Unfortunatley the day has just 24 hours, damn

"Recluse", for sure, sometimes you need to use reference for costumes, especially when they are historical ones. I studied fashion and grafical design, so I already had a small library of costumes in head, and you simply combine a lot of ideas. But in case you need to work more realistical, then you need to have a closer look at reference material.
Cheers, Eric

**Bushido** · October 4th, 2007, 01:10 AM

Wow this sketches are super duper greate! Love it all!

**mrpank** · October 5th, 2007, 08:28 AM

OMG
this is really freaking awesome
http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/1...h03copyhg7.gif
thanks for posting

**tensai** · October 5th, 2007, 09:12 AM

lovely lines with the pencil and great lighting and anatomy on the figure work. thanks for sharing.

**ericdee** · November 8th, 2007, 11:42 AM

Back again,
and again with quick lifedrawings

What else, since I work in Frankfurt I do not have too much time to draw in my free spare time. Bellow some of free time work.
Cheers,
Eric

Oh, and yes, I managed to almost finish the illustration started above:

**ericdee** · January 18th, 2008, 05:19 AM

Hey guys, happy new year for 2008. Finally, slowly I got the chance to show some of the work from 2005, 2006 and 2007. Starting with some storyboards I did for Crysis, about one year ago. I put them on the sketchbook, cause they are done in a pretty sketchy style, so they fit much better here, then in the finally finished section of the forum.
Cheers, Eric

**Chris Noeth** · January 18th, 2008, 05:27 AM

Your Crysis storyboard looks really good.

I've played the game but I didn't like it very much because of the bad ending. As I bought the game I thought it is a complete game with an ending and not part 1 of a trilogy. I haven't heard this before just read about it in an interview which came out after the release of the game.
I was so curious to see the ending and now I feel 'left hanging'. It is somekind like going to an action movie and just when things are start rolling the curtain clothes and you have to figure out there will be another part of the movie without having heard of this before.

Bad gaming experience but great artwork

Best,

Chris

**ericdee** · January 18th, 2008, 03:19 PM

Hey Chris, how´going? I cant say too much about the game itself, personal I liked it but I also known from the beginning, that it is just the first part of a trilogy

Here more of those storyboards,
cheers,
Eric