::Chris's Sketchbook::Daft Punk Fanart. 30/8/2012

[p sage]

Love the squatting troll dudes and anatomical studies. Feels like I'm learning something looking at those dwarf/gnomes. Gonna put those in my inspiration file. Cheers!

[JSpayde]

Reedux, your sketchbook has inspired me to keep drawing/painting. It's great to see the quick progress you made from page 1 to now. I read your statement about motivation (or lack thereof) and felt even better about art. Thanks for everything, honestly!

[alexson]

Dude, your drawings are freaking awesome man. Dom tre bajsnödiga snubbarna ser asbra ut!

[tobzArt]

looks frikkin awesome!
developed a lot since i last saw your stuff (about a yea ago)

Jag läste din blog post om frilans och att bli egen företagare.
Kan man inte köra svart ett tag? Få lite soc samtidigt ..
Och om man arbetar för säg ett större spelföretag. Då tänker jag mig att man kanske behöver vara företagare. Så att dom kan betala in pengar på ens konto, och dom har väl vissa avgifter dom måste betala till staten när dom anställer folk..

til next time

[Reedux]

p sage - I'm glad if you did learn something, try them yourself. I wanted to see if I could distort the muscles and make it look accurate without using reference.
Spent several hours that day just drawing muscles and memorizing them.

JSpayde - I'm glad you found it useful, I've got tons I could say about motivation but the thing is, it's stuff you already know. You just keep forgetting it and some of it doesnt make sense until you have an "Aha" moment.
Anyway, just keep seeing yourself where you want to be. I visualize on a daily basis and it makes me super pumped, because I know without a doubt that I'll get there!

alexson - Hehe, tack! sattsade mer på "sneaky" men whatev

tobzart - Klart du kan köra svart om du vill det, bara ingen vet om det
Och nej, det är endast projekt anställningar i sverige då företaget måste betala staten. Projekt anställning kräver heller ingen F-skattsedel för det räknas som en vanlig anställning. Frilans är en helt annan grej

Jobb från utlandet betalas med check eller in på ditt konto och du får själv lägga undan pengar för att betala skatt den månaden.

Tack för komplimangen!

Small update today, been doing some reading as a break from art. Been so productive lately I felt I needed a break from drawing
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Today I read up on composition and storytelling for animation and decided to do a little study afterwards.

Till next time, be golden!

[LA-Fairy]

I love the crispness of your final images and the flow of your sketches.

[Reedux]

Thanks, I appreciate that

Been busy with commissions and real life lately hence the lack of updates
Finally got time to work on my own stuff so here's a WIP I'm working on :>

[alexson]

Looking good! Hope the artsy work is going well for you. Update moar

[Reedux]

Artsy work is going alright, could obviously be better but I'm getting there.
Trying to paint faster, so here is the finished piece.

A water totem didn't make any sense so I opted for a more obvious subject.
Namely, the sword.

Trying to do more Trading Card Game type illustrations, hopefully I'll get snagged up by Wizards or Blizzard :> *wishfulthinking*

[strangedawn]

Awesome sb!love your renderings and colors are good i need to watch you.=)

[Reedux]

Thank you strangedawn, you're too kind :')

Sketch for my next drawing.
Yeah yeah, I get it, lots of elves and Warcraft stuff, let me have my guilty pleasures
I'll hopefully be doing more DnD universe stuff after this

[Reedux]

Update!

[Fallenangel]

Great work though i'm not a big fan of WOW but your art looks pretty cool, i especially like the more realistic works, i mean the landscape and the girl in the cave.

Keep up with the awesome work!

[tobbA]

It kinda pisses me off that we went to the same school once and you're this much better than me now. Hehe. But good stuff anyway

[Jasper_]

Hey man! I hear ya about trying to get some work for wizards or blizzard, would be awesome! In your last piece, I think I liked some things a little better in the initial sketch, but it's still a WIP of course. Looking forward to seeing it progress! Good luck!

[Marlo]

i really dig the league of legends stuff and the girl in cave

[Danny_K]

nice works in here, hope you get noticed soon!(crossing fingers)

[Reedux]

@Fallenangel - Thanks a lot man, I actually quite like some of the Warcraft art but a lot could be better. As for the game, it was fun
Looking for a balance between realism and taking some artistic freedom.
And how do we get better at drawing kids? By studying reality!

@tobbA - Tack! 80 studies per second! Gäller att ha motivationen och ta eget ansvar för vartenda aspekt av ditt liv! Och rita en jävla massa studier från foton och riktiga livet, tagit mig flera månader att gå från bara studier till att rita sånt jag tycker om, svårare att komma på än vad man tror. (Tack och lov så är man ingen jäkla estet längre häller, posers hela högen! )

@Jasper_ - Yeah, it would be such an awesome start to a career wouldn't it? That and book covers! :> In a few years I'd totally wanna work on animation and film as well! Thanks, hope I don't disappoint!

@Marlo - Cheers man! Trying to get work from Riot as well!

@Danny_K - Oooh, me too! *touch wood* Thanks.

Thanks for all the nice comments guys, really appreciate it
I've painted some more and decided to do a quick paintover to sort of show a thumbnail? of what the finished image will look like but prettier :X
I've been commission to do a book cover too, super pumped! I'll be able to show it when it's done next month :>

[Reedux]

Finished! Hope you like it

[Joe777k7]

Im loving your works! Keep up the great job! Cant wait to see more!!!

[Reedux]

Glad you like it Joe777k7

Been a bit under the weather lately, managed to whip up some thumbs that I may turn into paintings.

[wreck]

Your workin hard man! keep it up, lookin real good!

[Jasper_]

Nice thumbs man! I'm digging the middle one! Would love to see that one turned into an illustration

[Seage]

Oh hells yes! Those thumbs are epic!! Do them all please! I can't pick which I like best. They're all dynamic in thier own way. But if I WERE to break what i just said, then I would say the left one, because that angle just says so much! Theres a lot going on, I really feel it, and the composition is gold

[JakehC]

very nice

[p sage]

Those thumbs beat my finished pieces

[Reedux]

wreck - Thanks

Jasper_ - Thanks, we'll see if I do all of them depends on if I get better ideas or not :>

Seage - Then this post will make you happy Glad you like my thumbs so much, they really help me when I draw!

Aryeh - Cheers

p sage - Hah, hang in there man


Right, so.
Work in progress, first thumb. I wasn't sure if I wanted to make him evil or good, after a few scribbles he looked more good than evil so whatever

[Jessibelle]

that's looking good man, great composition and i love the control of sharpness between the background and foreground

[Nele Klumpe]

Looking good! The other two thumbs also seem to be worth painting Nice flow and composition!

[jdem]

Awesome sketchbook dude, it all looks great...Love the figure sketches!