My Toilet Paper Book of Crap...(Updated 7-22-2009)

**Thor's Hammer** · April 22nd, 2009, 04:20 PM

Decided to start my new sketchbook up today. Nothing extravagant, but here's my first entry in my new sketchbook.

My old sketchbook is in my Signature, and is from my old username.

**Mischeviouslittleelf** · April 22nd, 2009, 04:52 PM

No idea what that is, but it looks kinda cool. Do more¨^

-E

**Thor's Hammer** · May 12th, 2009, 05:43 PM

Back at it...Practice Dump...

**Thor's Hammer** · May 12th, 2009, 06:18 PM

Bored and played around with the Blur Filters in Photoshop...

**Thor's Hammer** · May 13th, 2009, 12:03 AM

Bleh....

**Thor's Hammer** · May 13th, 2009, 12:10 AM

Why is my thumbnail not appearing in the Sketchbooks forum next to my thread? I attached the image through Manage Attachments. I'm confused.

**Thor's Hammer** · May 20th, 2009, 01:35 AM

Practicing Color, Values, and lighting.

**Thor's Hammer** · May 20th, 2009, 05:08 PM

More Practice from imagination, which is seriously lacking. Do they have pills to help boost imagination? lol.

**Thor's Hammer** · May 20th, 2009, 06:41 PM

More practice. Eventually, I'll get more motivated and better at this.

**Thor's Hammer** · May 21st, 2009, 01:20 AM

Did this one in about 3 hours. Crits are always welcome.

**Reject-D** · May 21st, 2009, 01:24 AM

lookin good keep it up!

**Thor's Hammer** · May 21st, 2009, 04:54 PM

The Giant. More practice. Unfinished.

**Thor's Hammer** · May 30th, 2009, 07:14 PM

Took a break for a week, almost sold my cintiq like a numb nuts. Back at it. My Self Portrait. Crit me to death please.

**Meon** · May 30th, 2009, 07:17 PM

Hey man! Awesome Creatures and Colors

**Thor's Hammer** · May 31st, 2009, 02:22 AM

Semi-Quasi-Speedpaint practice. Took me 3 hours. This is Bobo. Bobo doesn't like children.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 1st, 2009, 05:19 PM

My niece is losing her teeth, so I told her the story about the Tooth Reaper. No Tooth Fairies here. Then I showed her the picture...One with Rain, one without. He's open for business, rain or shine. lol.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 2nd, 2009, 06:22 PM

Latest picture I'm working on. Not done by a longshot....

**Thor's Hammer** · June 3rd, 2009, 01:39 AM

Baby Metroid. It's not finished, and the background sucks. But it was fun to paint. 1 hour speed paint.

**ghoulio** · June 3rd, 2009, 01:52 AM

jowwww...

Thx for droppin by my sketchbook, can see you are also trying out the digtal painting realm haha, got cool stuff, like that egg sack thingie thing in your first post an diin some others.

Keep at it...

**Thor's Hammer** · June 3rd, 2009, 07:19 PM

Worked on this for 4 hours. Playing around with rendering techniques. Making it up as I go. Crits are most welcome. Criticism motivates me. Criticism keeps me going. Not much else does.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 5th, 2009, 12:03 AM

I've decided to start a project, that has an end goal in sight. I bought a book called The Element Encyclopedia of Magical Creatures. It's a 540 page book describing ALOT of monsters from legend and myth. There are no illustrations, only descriptions. I am starting from A and working my way to Z. This project is going to take me awhile, a long while. lol. My goal and hope is that by the end of the book, my skills we be improved enough that I might have enough talent to land a job making monsters concepts for the movie or gaming industry.That has always been my dream. And at 32 and nowhere in life, I am finally focused on realizing that dream.

So without further delay, we start in the A's with this work in progress. (I plan on finishing each one within my current abilities.):

A Bao A Qu

This strange creature originates on the Malay Peninsula.
Described as having many tentacles and a soft smooth skin, it waits for unwary pilgrims at the bottom of the Tower of Victory in Chitor. Pilgrims come to climb this tower, each level representing a further stage on the journey to enlightenment. As the pilgrim climbs, the creature grows stronger, changing color and shape, drawing the life force from the unsuspecting victim. Supposedly, the creature will only attain a final form, and be fully alive, when a pilgrim reaches the top of the tower.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 5th, 2009, 12:05 AM

Also, I plan on trying to do one of these daily, but will do other things in between occasionally, like figure studies in traditional media.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 8th, 2009, 03:47 PM

Updated the A Bao A Qu. Will be starting creature number 2.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 15th, 2009, 06:01 PM

Decided to stop on this before I mess it up anymore than it already is.

**L0rin** · June 15th, 2009, 06:10 PM

wow, some pretty weird creatures u've got there. wild imagination you have. i like the second last one ver much

**Thor's Hammer** · June 15th, 2009, 06:16 PM

Thank you L0rin very much.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 22nd, 2009, 08:08 PM

Shameless bump and obligatory self-pity moment...

I need crits and motivation to keep going. Is my artwork crappy? Semi-crappy? Craptastic? Somewhat decent? Good? Great? Childish? Crappy? Semi-crappy?
I need some direction, because I'm really struggling.
Working on this right now for a T-Shirt design for a friend.

**johanson** · June 22nd, 2009, 08:39 PM

No worries about the self pity. It happens. It's hard to stay motivated when progress can be slow. But hey, anybody that works hard on something is going to get better at it.

Right now I'd suggest working in sets. Rather than trying to pull everything from your imagination all at once, do a drawing completely from observation with elements you can use for an imagined piece. Once that's done jump right into what you wanted to make from your imagination. This will help build up a mental library of forms to use in all your later work. Let me know if that doesn't make sense.

Holy crap! I just saw that you have a cintiq. Now I'm all jealous.

Keep rockin.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 23rd, 2009, 07:56 AM

Thank you Johanson. That helps me out quite a bit. I will try that out today and see how it goes. Yep, I have a Cintiq. Bought it a few months ago, because I like feeling like I'm painting on a digital canvas with digital paint. I love the thing. I sold some things so I could afford it. I did have it up for sale for awhile, when I hit one of my depressions, but decided I should keep it and push myself, rather than give up.

**Thor's Hammer** · June 24th, 2009, 12:57 AM

Another update on my buddy's T-Shirt design. I'm finding myself changing this guy alot. I'm having trouble getting depth and 3-dimensionality going on.