Nick's Sketchbox - Art RPG!!!

**NickTrip** · February 1st, 2009, 01:23 AM

All my super cool stuffins.

**astrocrud** · February 1st, 2009, 02:27 AM

Cool imaginative stuff, the pencil rendering reminds me of RAY HARRYHAUSEN's sketches...I'd like to see more

**AlsomVintir** · February 1st, 2009, 02:43 AM

Wow; your art is fine, making you seem like a very good conversationalist.

I sense strong emotion, what subtle tact and how neat you are. I enjoy the titles. The first piece is spectacular for reason of the material of the subject.

Where are you from? Do you know many other artists personally?

**Uli** · February 1st, 2009, 04:57 AM

Very Very Very nice! :-) I like the traditional technique, it leaves room for the imagination. Show us more!

**NickTrip** · February 2nd, 2009, 01:44 AM

**NickTrip** · February 2nd, 2009, 01:47 AM

Here's another one.

**George Abraham** · February 2nd, 2009, 09:08 AM

Strong stuff dude.

Some of those are so rich you feel there is a story to them.

**Kalim** · February 2nd, 2009, 09:09 AM

Hey Hey dude! So cool stuff! so soft, so originall. Nice art you are making. really

**NickTrip** · February 3rd, 2009, 03:40 PM

These are pages from my actual sketchbook, rather than just a compilation of images from here and there.

Feel free to crit the drawings and point out the things that aren't working.

**NickTrip** · February 5th, 2009, 10:26 PM

Here's a quickie. Kind of labored.

**Kraky** · February 5th, 2009, 11:16 PM

amazing stuff man!
love the attention to detail and depth of feeling in each drawing

**NickTrip** · February 6th, 2009, 11:45 AM

Thanks, Kraky.

**NickTrip** · February 6th, 2009, 11:48 AM

Here's a new one; not quite as strong as some of the others. Feel free to crit the crap out of this, especially the pov and the anatomy.

**towy** · February 6th, 2009, 12:17 PM

impressive work :], i like your style

**Janos** · February 7th, 2009, 07:08 AM

Hi
First of all I must say I'm impressed at your skill to achieve so much richness and depth without colour. Your style is very nice and unique. Are these works done completely in pencil?
My favourites are the First, second, third and teh man falling in the sky. On the last one it is clear that you (like me) have not mastered human anatomy completely. The head seems too large and the body somehow wrong in regards to the perspective. Also, if the house behind him is burning and its the only light source, shouldn't there be stronger shadows in his face?

**NickTrip** · February 10th, 2009, 12:02 AM

Thank you for the compliments. And you're right, I have a lot of work to do with anatomy and perspective. Once my paper comes in the mail I'll make a zombie book just for studying anatomy in paticular.

The house is not actually on fire. This image is inspired by Lovecraft's Crawling Chaos. It's really supposed to be a giant black wave.

Oh yeah, these are all done in charcoal on printmaking paper - Arches Cover. I dust the page with powdered charcoal, then use vine charcoal to sketch, erasers to lighten, and render everything out using charcoal pencils. Highlights and detail are added with white charcoal pencil.

**NickTrip** · February 10th, 2009, 06:17 PM

Just finished this one up.

**NickTrip** · February 17th, 2009, 08:41 PM

Ok the thing about using reference is that it doesn't do a whole lot of good when you don't know what you're looking at.

**maryem** · February 17th, 2009, 08:50 PM

Where do you get your ideas and inspiration from? Does this stuff come right from your head, do you start drawing and see what comes up? Or do you get it from outside sources like movies or books? By the way it's amazing!

**NickTrip** · February 17th, 2009, 09:01 PM

most of these images are just from imagination, some of them are inspired from short stories by Lovecraft. Thank you for the compliment!

**Darktwin** · February 17th, 2009, 09:02 PM

I really love the mood in your pieces, a lot of drama shining through your work. I would try to think more in terms of composition through shape relationship and value to make these even stronger. Thanks for sharing and keep working hard.

**NickTrip** · February 17th, 2009, 09:51 PM

Thanks for the compliments and advice. Is there anything you can tell me about shape relationships?

**NickTrip** · February 20th, 2009, 03:34 PM

Here's a new one from today.

**Quike Garcia** · February 24th, 2009, 11:59 AM

Your levels work is really good

quite nice sb

**NickTrip** · April 1st, 2009, 02:44 PM

Some recent thumbnails.

**Bill** · April 2nd, 2009, 11:26 PM

Some of these are very intersting, and that floating girl in front of the trees has a really great quality to it. I wonder if you look at Chris Van Allsburg at all?

**NickTrip** · April 3rd, 2009, 12:07 AM

I've seen some of his work but I haven't really followed it. Although I should say that I really do like it a lot.

**NickTrip** · May 20th, 2009, 02:44 PM

I'm just trying out the image hosting. Looks like its working.

**Jesus Food** · May 20th, 2009, 02:53 PM

i envy ur commitment, theyre all finished with rich shading. my favorite is your first sketch, it reminds me of the darkness that comes right before a big thunderstorm. keep it up good sir

**NickTrip** · September 1st, 2009, 11:08 PM

I'm going to put up some more images, most of them will be old, but the goal is to get this thread up to date.

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