Training montage- Updated January 20th 2013

[Jovian M]

The face in this one is pretty tight. I really dig the still life, and the photo study of the rock, too. Good work, brah.

[Andrew Sonea]

Watch the trees in post #1462. They are standard "lollipop" trees, that is, they are not what they really look like. Trees have thinner trunks, less perfectly spherical shapes (more like lots of clumps of leaves in a vaguely spherical whole, but it varies species to species), SKYHOLES, series of smaller branches etc.

[*Rena*]

Sxxt!!! I don't belive that you are only 17 years old!!! You are so good!!!

[Nibras]

You really use lighting to it's advantages, very fun to look at. I think that's the major point of your work, light/colours and edges which is a big thing of course. I say exploit that strength even further and really make your images pop.
Don't beat yourself up, you're not lazy at all but I completely feel you about wanting to always do more work. Maybe the trick would be to make it more fun? On that note pump out more imagination work Sam! I think doing that will definitely make you more motivated to do studies and even more illustrations.

Really enjoyed looking through the updates, can't wait till I've got more time to get back in this game with you jordy, miles, ming and all the others. Hopefully there'll be some fun challenges to have. Like you said it's refreshing to see people around your own age working on this stuff

Keep burning it up, and I just felt like taking time out and posting this because I actually don't think I mention enough how great all this stuff you're doing is

[h.k]

me gusta your sketchbook

[xinranliu]

sweet updates lately, keep it up

[SamC]

Ven S: Thanks

Jovian M: Thanks deary

Andrew Sonea: Yeah I know man, was kinda going for a stylised pixar feel or something, maybe it didn't come off right. Thanks

*Rena*: Thanks

Nibras: Thanks Nibras

h.k: Haha! Thanks!

xinranliu: Thanks man

Pencils




A quick study of my bust


Photostudy


Some still life stuff with no pressure sensitivity




Two portraits I did in the early hours of the morning, probably 2-3 hours each




And the freelance thing I've been working on, all tied up now

[NinoCencini]

hey man very nice work.. i like those sketches from life with no pressure sensitivity.. it seems like a good practice and it gives a nice crisp look to it.. might try that later..

your selfportrait and the girl before that on pg49 are pretty cool too.. it doesn't have much to critique, just keep what you're doing! (:
cheers

[SamC]

NinoCencini: cheers

So I basically managed to bust the end of my right index finger by getting it slammed in a door, the nails all cracked and I can't move the end joint that well. So basically applying pressure to a pencil is too much strain on the nail and just hurts like hell so it looks like I'm going to be drawing like this for the next week or so. Its pretty loose compared to having a good grip and I don't know what digital will be like, but its the best I can do for the time being


I've got some fan art in the pipeline at the moment but I don't see all that much point posting it until its done

Here's some sketches I did tonight just trying to see whats comfortable with the finger, pretty shitty




And a digital still life of my webcam from the other day, before my finger got screwed

[SamC]

Okay so basically for some reason any img link from CGhub exclusively is blocked and only displays a broken image icon. I don't really know if its a bandwidth issue on cghub or if either CA and CGhub are trying to fuck each other over or something. Who cares anyway. But this means that everything I've posted here since December is gone That's quite a lot of work. All the images are still up on my CGhub sketchbook are still up, you can check them here. There's no real point in me only only posting on my blog and CGhub until this is fixed since I reckon most of my traffic comes from CA anyway. I'll probably lay off posting until this is fixed, the CA attachment manager is literally the stuff of nightmares. So yeah, see you all when ( more likely if) my pictures come back.

[himart]

the last pictures don't appears

[SamC]

So it kinda hit me that this isn't going to get fixed, if CA doesn't want cghub links then me saying so won't do anything. So thats half my sketchbook dead, you can find the that all on my cghub account. Time to fill this one up with better work anyway

Alright here's today's stuff
Loomis-ing






And a SP, 2 and a half hours


And heres a portrait from a week ago

[My57]

Oooo awesome improvement

Please just keep on going and impress me some more please ^_^

[SamC]

My57: Thanks man

Figures from photos, trying to apply some construction rather than focusing on rendering/line and just copying 2d shapes





still life warm up/ failure

And a still life of my beloved plant

[JakehC]

nice work man. your work with color is becoming quiet superb.

[Miles_]

That plant is quite the looker!

[SamC]

Aryeh: Ah more like shitty D: I have a lot to learn!

Miles_: Thanks man, can't wait till he's big and strong

Today's work
Hands and stuff from a mirror, mainly warming up

Loomis






Blade study


And a piece I've been working on since sunday, not so great but at least I know what to study on now




And some steps for whoever cares

[NickyBeats]

hot DAMN! this is awesome stuff man!!!! those self portraits are aces, and that blade study just rocked my socks off. literally i geeked out and shook them off of my feet, and they collided with the wall so hard that the guy in the next room stared in at me, and was like "what the hell?!" and i was like "DUDE!-get the fuck over here and CHECK THIS SHIT OUT!!" and he just looked at me weird, but i still love this! so fuck him!!

[surus]

Unfortunately many of your attached images weren't shown, even if I refresh the thread.

Anyway keep on posting pencil pages, please! The few I saw made me wanna draw.

[failstar]

Wow great job, I just recently stumbled on your sketchbook. I must say the leaps in bounds in understanding in here is amazing! Your hard work and progression is inspiring to say the least. I am really like your latest hand/arm studies as well as your understanding of lighting. What would you say are 3 things that you keep in mind when you setup your lighting from imagination, like on the latest elf piece. Is it just things that you have remembered from movie/life studies, and if so could you identify those? (it'sa weird question I know )

[Fetsch]

very cool sam, the lighting on the elfdude is nice and great studies as well.

[Fallenangel]

Great to see your work, as always... keep up with those color and anatomy studies.

Alex.

[Dile_]

love your improvement man!

[kikindaface]

great improvment man ! Just check out the features proportions ( nose's loking short, small eyebrows ) . Also, you should use more hard edges for the face, to make him more viril, adding a bit more cheeks, and defining the jawsa bit better . Also, for the sparkles at the left, the one that are blurred are fitting well into the scene, but theones in the foreground aren't se well . You used the same color, the same hardness for all of the sparkles, so it looks a bit like a fake, not real . Well, keep it up man ! I'm glad to see you're working hard !

[MoKhi]

Good work on that last face. You've really got commitment! I wish i worked as hard as you do. Keep it up.

[SamC]

NickyBeats: Haha fuck that guy Thanks

surus: The images from May 4th should appear, I'm using the attachment manager and my blog links so it should work. Thanks!

failstar: I don't know if I could sum it up into 3 things, its pretty huge. I'd say having enough light to make the form of your subject read well is important. For instance, the picture of the elf would still read correctly if I didn't have the orange light, but it reads a lot better with it there to show the forms. Then there's remembering that light is reflecting off of everything we see, and you need to take that into account in terms of bounce light. For example, if that elf dude was wearing a fluorescent yellow jacket, that would need to be taken into account and yellow bounce light would be all over the face etc. And lastly I'd just say colour overall is really important to setting up a lighting situation, as they work hand in hand. I still don't really know much at all, but I'd say just reading books (currently find Creative Illustration by Andrew Loomis helpful on just about everything) doing studies from life to see how light works and checking out how other artists/films use light in a way that you think is cool. Hope you found this useful in some way Thanks!

Fetsch: Thanks man

Fallenangel: Cheers

Dile_: Cheers bro

kikindaface: I had quite a lot before but decided I wanted him more feminine/boyish to have a girly elf look Thanks

MoKhi: Thanks

Studiesss







Doodles

[Yor]

awesome work on the elf! glad to see those studies too, makes me wanna do some too! but first a cup of coffee...

wanna see more man!

[Kvenh]

Good stuff!

Especially liking the SP and few last portraits! Might be just me but getting the feeling theres something off on the elf guys eyes. Might be that the right eye (in the red light) is a tad too far from the nose.

Crazy good colours, you really managed to grab the light in the latest still-life.

Keep up rocking! I'll be sure to check in

[shambok]

SamC your work rocks! Love the studies and the amazing lighting you achieve in your images is farking amazing!!!!!!

[Fallenangel]

Great muscle studies, keep it up man.

Alex.