27/02/09 My environments, portraits and stuff

**HebanO** · February 7th, 2009, 10:59 PM

Hello CA! I'm glad to be here, and a little bit nervous too...
It's my first post and i start with 3 environments. Hope you'll like it

**FourTonMantis** · February 7th, 2009, 11:44 PM

Wow. Absolutely no reason to be nervous. Those environments are awesome. Such great composition especially the second one. The brightness of the blue in the waterfall really contrasts with the dark surroundings.

**Merlkir** · February 8th, 2009, 04:44 AM

great enviros. I especially like the mountain one, you captured the calm mood and lighting perfectly.

**David-david** · February 8th, 2009, 05:13 AM

Hey! I'm getting addicted! Give us another dose. Those have a very professional aspect. Do you work as a conceptartist? If not you should.

I really like the way you stylized the shapes of the trees and rocks, that makes them not so vague as other concepts from other people.
And the values are very real, not too much effects here, which is something to be grateful.

Keep it up and don't be shy to show more!

**Wasker** · February 8th, 2009, 06:45 AM

Neat!

**spoonbender** · February 8th, 2009, 06:56 AM

Loving the lighting, really nice refractive glow, and the age you've got into the enviros is fantastic. The only thing I see that tweaks a little is the blueness of the waterfall in the second.

keep posting

cheers

**areve** · February 8th, 2009, 10:09 AM

good good!

**HebanO** · February 8th, 2009, 03:52 PM

Ahah! Thank you very much my friends ^_^

-FourTonMantis: i'm quiet now

Thanx!

-Merlkir: Thank you very much

-David-David: Unfortunatly, i'm not a concept artist. I'm a colorist for french comic books. I hope one of these days i'll become a concept artist. I love doing environment . Thanx for your comment

-Wasker: Thank you mate

-Spoonbender: Thanks for your comment

-Areve: eheh, i like to read that; thanx!

Ok, now, some portraits i did. I'm not very good in non-ref portraits, so i try to pratice myself from photos and real life models. Enjoy!

**Space dust** · February 8th, 2009, 04:00 PM

your works great. i love the mountain enviro the light makes the snow realistic, love the portraits and would love to see a colour version of the first sketched one, keep em coming

**Meaisín** · February 8th, 2009, 04:12 PM

Wow, your stuff is really impressive. Seriously attractive first page to your sketchbook

. I'm liking your portraits as well as the environments. I feel that the first background really captures a sense of life and movement, the mist is tangible. Would love to see mediums or timescales posted alongside your stuff, just out of curiousity. Man... I wish/hope I could/can get into Photoshop/digital painting...
Keep it up ^_^!

**Deon** · February 8th, 2009, 04:28 PM

Very nice stuff! - I want to see some of the comic coloring work you do!

**HebanO** · February 19th, 2009, 03:59 PM

Space dust: Thank you friend

I'd like to post a color version of the first sketch but unfortunatly, i draw it from a b&w photo

I must ask to the model to send me the colored version

Francisck: Thank you very much

And... i'm not very good in english: what do you mean by timescales?? Sorry for that.

Deon: Thanks!! I'll post later a few pages from my current project. Editor allows me to paint over the drawing of the author because it's not so good, and i really enjoy it. Just waiting for the authorization.

Ok, i don't have a lot of time to work for me actualy. I just did these fast portraits for the main charactersof my personnal project.

More soon (ahem, i hope

)

**maeshanne** · February 19th, 2009, 04:02 PM

nice portraits, the landscapes are great

**HebanO** · February 19th, 2009, 05:20 PM

maeshanne: Thanks a lot!!

And because my day (and my work... no reason for that btw) is awfully boring, i just add few colors on my last character.
Thanks for viewing.
And, somebody knows how i can change the thumbnail on my post? Thanks.

**Platonist** · February 19th, 2009, 06:36 PM

Love the characters, and jealous of the landscapes! Wish I could think of something helpful to say but I cant. More! more! More!

**HebanO** · February 19th, 2009, 07:46 PM

Thank you, Platonist, for your kind words

So you want more? Here it is my friend: a fast colored version of my previous character. Hope you like it!

**LisandroG** · February 19th, 2009, 08:26 PM

nice environments

for your portraits, try working out of a color tone background, you may find it will give you new ideas about using color

**HebanO** · February 21st, 2009, 09:46 AM

LSeraph: thanx man

You're absolutly right for the portraits, and i'll try on my next pieces

Another little update, with a fast character design for my personnal project. Hope you'll like it!

**HebanO** · February 27th, 2009, 01:07 PM

A fast experience i did few days ago. Thanks for viewing!!

**Kasper_P** · February 27th, 2009, 01:22 PM

Great book so far! This last piece, as far as composition goes, I feel it leans a bit to the left.. Don't know if you want to work it more, but a suggestion would be to make the foreground more open and the center piece more straight up, so as to resemble gothic architecture? That's just my suggestion.. Keep it up

**Meaisín** · February 28th, 2009, 08:14 PM

Liking your characters and the colouring... makes me even more desperate to learn some digital colouring techniques/programs

. Very illustrative characters; the colour tones and expressions/poses lean towards suggesting a narrative, which is nice.

And before - by timescales - I just meant how long you had spent on your pieces ^_^

Keep it up! Looking forward to more