kikindaface is learning to draw !

[jordyskateboardy]

Lol didn't expect those nude pics especially not when my mom was behind me lol.
Anyway cool stuff you got in here. Some interesting thumbnails up above and good to see you really trying to nail your fundamentals. LEarning how to render the basics shapes and such. I think you're definately improving on that area. Last ones look really good. Love how you used the cast shadow and great value range. Awesome stuff.

[Twan]

very goods stuff. I especially liked the industrial design because values and light seem to be well rendered
keep it up!

[Zorcron]

hey man ive been following your sketchbook for a while but never got around to posting much (not quite sure why )

anyways i love how confident you are getting with your digital work i would love to see you work hard with some more water colors and acrylics then take what you learn back to digital as apposed to the other way around

hope to see more soon. keep up the wonderfull work !

[snootchy]

nice to see you sketching different subjects and thinking about the form! c'mon mang keep them updates coming, renderings nice but it's just eye candy it's the ideas that my my brain work overtime, keep the goodies coming!

[poetry man]

Hey great studies man! it's really good that your putting big values before the details. Speedpaintings are coming along quite nicely.

[FraserMcT]

Updates needed! Come on man! I miss your stuff, and I need my fix.

[amianna]

Hey Walid! Post new stuff! I wanna see how the ladies turned out. I've been struggling with values too so I think I'm going to take some advice people posted here and do cast studies as well. Great to see you exploring different mediums too! One piece of advice I can give with regards to water color is to be very patient with them. Only do one layer at a time when you're first starting out and go from light to dark waiting for each layer to dry first. I took a watercolor course one summer but I haven't been keeping up with my practice of it

[oren90]

I'll have to agree with walnut on the life drawing classes, it will improve your skills a lot more than those playboy photos , and I think that little thing on top of the robot is off in terms of perspective.

[Krato]

the robots on your last page are a little flat, they dont have any dark parts, its all light and midtone values :p hope that helps

[Vatsel]

update *cough* update *cough*

[Dilated]

Shit man your getting a lot better, makes me want to work a lot harder ahaha . Just popping by to show I still have love, I would offer a crit but it seems everyone else has pointed out everything.

[cgaddict]

Nice updates here. I really like how you're really stressing form in your studies with simple cubes - it's a very important exercise that's not as easy as it seems, and is also very beneficial for rendering the more 'serious' pieces. Good job, keep it going!

[kikindaface]

Hey, i'm finally back, after months of inactivity on ca !!! A lot of things changed since my last post : new city, new friends, and an art school, called the emile cohl art school , which is just awesome, with guys who are also into concept art and illustration !! Well, i wanna take a new way for my sketchbook . Like i'm trying to develop my creativity, which is for sure my weakest point, i'll only post my sketches and illustration, but i'll keep studying the foundations ( well, i still might show some good studies ^^ ) Anyway, i'm glad to be back, and i hope to get good critics and to improve as fast as i can ^^ !So for these 3 sketches, i took a bit less than 1 hour for each one ! I'll try to update as much as i can, but there might be some dead periods due to intensive class ^^

Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy my art ^^

[My57]

I demand for the name of that playboy model !!!

and I like what you're doing and such and you should keep going with what you're doing however (oh here is the harsh crit that you would like to see) i find that some of your digital paintings aren't very solid looking and you should try and use 100 opacity with it set to pen pressure or something.

I would also say do more facial structure stuff. More Loomis sort of head studies.

Alright then! Hope that helps a bit

[JakehC]

Walid Dala, is that you! ?

[kikindaface]

My57 : thanks for your comment ! yeah, i'm really weak at faces, thanks for pointing it out ! will focus my studies on heads and hands for a while ^^

lolbbq : damn, i've been discovered ^^

here is a still life i did yesterday, about 2 hours, and a character design sketch, about 2 hours too !

i'm also pretty busy with holidays' homeworks, gotta finish an illustration and an animation before school starts next monday ^^

[JakehC]

wow you are coming back hard lol. its good to see so much improvement.

[surfandsnow]

cool updates, Ive lurked a few times at all your hard work and I was afraid you disappeared when you stopped updating, good to see your back. more updates!

[ezekrialase]

you've improved quite a lot, kudos to you!

[zou]

hello hello

bravo cousin, tu fais aussi des progrès !

la petite nature morte semble avoir de très bonnes valeurs et couleurs, et le mec sans tête est super ! (un peu plus de variations dans les lignes serait pas mal)

[kikindaface]

lolbbq : thanks bro !!
surfandsnow : i'm really glad to hear that thanks !!
ezekrialase : thanks man
zou : merci beaucoup ! Ok la prochaine fois jvais tacher de travailler sur le trait ^^

here are some studies i did today : hands, faces and color ! didn't have time to work on creativity today, had to work on the animation for school ^^ anyway, crits are welcome !!

[Ricardo Robles]

hello! still life is your strongest point no doubt, amazing work! i´d go for a darker value tones the most of times though...
Great SB!

[Emil_]

Love that last still life, great brush economy and really nice colors. Do more of them.

[kikindaface]

Ricardo Robles : thanks man ! i really like what you do,and i'm happy to see you in my sb !

Emil_ : thanks man, yeah, i'm planing to do more of still lifes and selfportraits on photoshop ! need to get better ^^

Well, here are some work from today : hands, faces, and creative sketches ! sorry for the bad quality of pics, right now i'm not at home, i don't have acees to a scanner !

[JakehC]

Adriana lima is the most beautiful woman in the world.

[kikindaface]

lolbbq : yeah bro, she's the most beautiful woman for sure, but i also studied a pic from jessica alba where she's really fine too ^^

Well, stuff from today, didn't do much, i've seen my family a last time before coming back to lyon !

My color study is pretty shitty, the likeness and colors are pretty wrong, and like ricardo robles said, i'm using too lighter values ! so next time i'll go darker, and will use more saturated ( warmer ) tones !!!

Anyway, wanna wish a happy new year to all the conceptart.org team, who's making a great thing, and i hope for them that 2011 will be a great year for the community, and a great year for gaining more skills for all the hard workers here who wanna work in the industry ! Good luck everyone !

[Bengiskhan]

Nice SketchBook, good progress since the first page.

Continue comme ça

[dessinateurimpulsif]

Walid le retour ! le dernier portrait me botte, je trouve le trait fluide, il va bien avec le modele, je dirais que le dessin est aussi "miam" que l'original.

[kikindaface]

bengishkan : merci beaucoup !!

dessinateurimpulsif : ouai ouai, le retour après 1 an d'absence, ca fait du bien d'etre de retour encore plus motivé ^^

Well, didn't have time to update because of school, but here are a few bodies from mind, trying to apply what i'm learning from anatomy class and my personnal studies, and an unfinished selfportrait in values ! Crits are welcome ^^

[kikindaface]

some digital paintings i did today ! a quick value study, about half an hour, and a still life, done, in 1 hour ! Crits are welcome ! I still have some difficulties with values ! i can hardly feel the light on what i'm painting ! for me it just looks like values i puted here and there, but it's not harmonious, but maybe i'm thinking the issue isn't about values, but edges !