Trying to improve, crit my work if you have the time :)

[CountBlackula]

Intense, brilliant use of colors. I'll be following this one.

[Ian Barker]

Thanks guys
I'll watch out for that Pixelwalker, thanks much

Here's a character design WIP:

[Riley Stark]

Looking pretty good, especially on this last piece. Nice job with the armor so far.

[Flaskpost]

this latest piece and the bus window portrait are killer!
beautiful lighting and rendering on both

[kevin_]

sick updates since i last checked in! really like this last guy!

[johnny24]

i dont play in your league... lol so my critic is just this... AWASOME!

[Ian Barker]

Thanks everybody! Sorry about the slow month!

Here's the bull thing:



Now to draw the back side!

[Nerferinn]

You're so diverse! I love the lighting on that piece up there ^ great rendering!

[Ian Barker]

thank ya!

here's a self portrait wip:


and a cat

[Ian Barker]

more progress:

[p sage]

Steady improvement, brah. Looking great.

[matcha]

Wow your renders are really well done!

[Ian Barker]

thanks sage & matcha! appreciate it

[Nemome]

Hey Ian!

Your stuff looks better and better from each post. Keep it up.
Even though your last self-portrait is still a WIP, I would suggest to change the background color.
Right now the black works like a completely white canvas, so you see the colors too saturated.
Try to change it to a low contrasted brown or so.

Anyways, I hope I could help.

[Ian Barker]

thanks! yeah still not sure what i'll do with the background but i'll play around

here is the start of a character layout:



I drew this character a while ago as the main character of a big story... I still like the story but I wanted to update him. This is from 2 years ago: http://i1062.photobucket.com/albums/...GideonChar.jpg Boy I hope I've progressed enough in that time :<

[Ian Barker]

Made this really crude test animation today:

[Ian Barker]

[0000]

Thanks everybody! Sorry about the slow month!

Here's the bull thing:





Now to draw the back side!

hey man, looks awesome and really clean, done in ps?

[Ian Barker]

Thanks Yup, Photoshop

Here's a WIP:

[Ian Barker]

This is only a test image and not part of any set:

[Tea of Doom]

Hey Ian,

Nice stuff you have here! Love the bug guy and the bull thing, your more graphic characters are also looking good. Question: did you use the lasso tool to make the armor on the bull thing piece?

[Hyunjae]

Hello Ian, you have got a very nice sketchbook here. nice study of self portrait on the bus, really captured the reflection and the light very well. The rendering on the bull thing looks very professional.

[PollyBoffin]

Love your style. Haven't checked through the entire thread, will do tomorrow. How does one subscribe to threads? I must check that tomorrow as well. Now it's time to go to bed.


HaHA! Thanks to another member I could subscribe.

[Ian Barker]

Tea: Thanks No, that was all just brushes. I usually over-paint with my brush and then use a hard eraser to cut away and leave it looking clean.
Hyunjae: thanks much!
Polly: It's up there in the thread tools, and you can go under Quick Links at the top to get to your threads. thank you a bunch! Hopefully will have lots of updates for you in the future

Made a few changes to that last thing:

[Alrap]

Amazing improvement man, keep working...

[Ludic]

Looking good man, i'd say buff the darkness in your crevice shadows even more to make them really read.

[necroidus]

Made this really crude test animation today:

This makes me want to try my hand at animating too! What did you use to make this?

[Flaskpost]

I agree with Ludic, it looks like you´re focusing more on hue and saturation, but if you really want the forms to read, value is the most important. ( Like you did on the bull thing!)
Also, on the self portrait, the eyes doesn´t line up in perspective with the center line, maybe some planar studies? The screen left eye is bigger and seems to be a bit big, and i think the nose ridge should cover more of the screen right eye.
Keep it up, man!

[Ian Barker]

Thanks Alrap
Ludic, Flaskpost, many thanks for the crits, I'll take them into account
necroidus that was made just in photoshop using 'timeline". was pretty fun!

Just wanted to post to let you all know that I'm going away for Christmas and there won't be any new posts for a few weeks but hopefully when I get back i'll have some sketches to show

[Ian Barker]

Back from Christmas break

1.5 hrs:


One hour sketch:


WIP, crit would be lovely :


I'll have some more once I have a chance to scan my sketchbooks