Mark Williams

[williams73]

I have been impressed with the urgency of doing. Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Being willing is not enough; we must do
Learning never exhausts the mind.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.
He who loves practice without theory is like the sailor who boards ship without a rudder and compass and never knows where he may cast.

Leonardo da Vinci

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sometime......

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another time....
"this one time......

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latest venture

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what I have done the last two days

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well you might of saw that I incorporated this in sometime
but i thought a sketchbook isn't really a sketchbook unless you include at
least one self-portrait did this last month
I think later today I'm going to U/L some actual drawings

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so before we all fade away from swine flu I thought I might upload some of my doodles just for the sake of showing the world my inadequencies
so enjoy......

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I don't know probably spent no more than 30 minutes on each box
I don't have an egg timer on my desk and sometimes when I get in the zone I lose all track of time......
also a little thing I did that started as an Alchemy sketch

[Krato]

Very colorful stuff, suggest you work more with your anatomy it seems off. You should also work with your paintings with faces and characters.

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well here you go some good some not so good maybe even some ugly
Even though ugly is all in the eye of the beholder.....
so here it is ready or not...

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off the board and on to you so here it is ready or not.....

[Krato]

Hmm, well i like the variety of colors in your pictures, you need to work on you anatomy its quite off. However don't think im saying that only to you, i have said that to allot of people today. Like you.. and them, i need too work on anatomy as well.

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the day you stop learning is the day you stop living.......

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playing with some character designs and one portrait doodle

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really just couldn't get anything to click but I thought I would post so someday can look back and say yeah he was better back then.....
if at first you don't succeed try to fail again...

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Felt like doing some environments today so

then this

then I felt Arrakis

then I was working on this when I got some bad news and I tried working on it some more but my heart wasn't in it anymore
So as Leo said art is never finished just abandoned.......not that I am even sure this is art in the "High Art" sense but in the sense that I used my hands and made marks in a digital fashion. So is a tablet still mark making I know my hands never get dirty when I do digital art and if my computer starts to smell like linseed oil something is probably wrong....


and since this is a journal/sketchbook
let me say goodbye to someone who gave up and say to others life isn't always great, sometimes it is not even good but it is life and life is.....
So no matter what LIVE.......

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I sketched on Sunday and played with an idea today
so here it is.....

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little idea I had last night

[Puck]

I like the watercolour you did in May, and all the digital neon patterns with women in them are interesting too. I think if you'd like to keep improving you should work from reference more, to complement your imagination - maybe a whole lot more self portraits?

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did this today

did this the other day

some of you may of seen it in the critique section
but I want to include it in my
journey to no where
and lastly something I did based on a face I saw in my bathroom tile
now I'm only crazy if the faces talk to me right.....

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So I did some environments and I used Bob Ross as inspiration
I was surfing the internets and found a site selling Mr. Ross' DVD
and they had pictures of the covers each DVD has 13 paintings I think
anyways I looked at the cover images and did some environments based on them. So Mr Ross did all the work I use his color scheme(mostly) and his composition(mostly)
So this......

became this


and then I did some more


then this one became pretty abstract

and this one has a 50's Sci-Fi pulp fiction feel to it, at least to me


so thats what I've been up to I did some other stuff but I wouldn't even hang it on the refrigerator of my enemies.....

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so I have not done any work lately so I thought I would reminisce

some oil paintings from my college days

6'x4'

4'x6'

4'x4'

24"x18"

18"x24"

6'x4'

6'x4'
hope you enjoy.....

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So I have done nothing worthy of the great site that is concept art but since this is my sketchbook I thought I would u/l some recent sketches and some project starts that I have deemed as failures on some if not many levels

so if you stop by and enjoy good for you if not thats good too but whatever it is you do do it to be you.......

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well this is may latest endeavor so I now present it here so onward and upward we go marching to Zion.....

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Experimenting with graphite dissolved in alcohol. I did some post work to the one on the left in Photoshop but the one on the right I just adjusted the curves after the scan....

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a little concept for a neo-goth futuristic post apocalyptic vampire story

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been on this sc-fi kick lately some of the ideas that germinated...not the most awesome art ever but I had fun doing it and it got some ideas out of my head so enjoy.......or don't, just remember be you because your the only one that can.

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couple of the things I did recently


enjoy......

[element1988]

that last one is badass and you said you couldn't do hands XD

[williams73]

thanks element..those hands are pretty basic fists are easy it is when the fingers are in different positions rotating over the wrist it gets complicated...