Draw or Die

**Eric Young** · September 17th, 2009, 11:34 PM

Painting WIP

**p sage** · September 18th, 2009, 02:23 AM

Whoa... you're doing a lot of work. Good precision pencilwork. Your proportions and accuracy seem to be getting better.

**Eric Young** · September 18th, 2009, 04:16 AM

P Sage - Thanks for the comment, Yeah I've been doing a lot of drawing lately, it's the one plus side to being unemployed, I get to draw and paint all day.

Some more sketches~

**Eric Young** · September 18th, 2009, 07:45 AM

big jaw warrior guy speed painting

**Eric Young** · September 19th, 2009, 06:52 AM

I did my self portrait. I rarely ever draw myself and I'm actually happy how this speed painting came out. I really like how the charcoal brush in PS works. I think it gives a more painterly look.

**Eric Young** · September 19th, 2009, 09:28 PM

More anatomy sketches and some self portrait sketches.

**p sage** · September 19th, 2009, 10:16 PM

Nice work. I like the personality in the SPs. And the pencils look good.

Some inaccuracies around the eyes (perspective wise) but good at any rate.

**Morgado** · September 21st, 2009, 04:10 PM

Originally Posted by The Original [E]

I'm not sure I'm sure about what you mean by "the big picture." Can you explain that a little more please?

Sure thingy. By the big picture I mean how the image is "designed" so to speak. For instance, in the case of characters, the "design is the pose, apparel etc. Also of course there's the other basic but nonetheless important things like light, color, form etc. That's the important stuff.
Having all the surfaces completely rendered in a poor "base" won't make the image better.
So I'd suggest you start trying to make a good base, and only that, and not worrying about having visible brush strokes. Look at Craig Mullins' work for instance, most of them have those "visceral" brushstrokes visible, but they look damn good, because he is worryied about the big picture, the base.

Its hard to talk about these things, but I hope that helps

Also, keep up the figure practices, just try to not be so stiff on some lines, like for instance those outlines you have going, which look too "mechanic" and are actually unnecessary

**Eric Young** · September 25th, 2009, 03:28 AM

Hey thanks for the comments and the feedback! Here is a crappy speed painting I did real quick. I wanted to do more but my computer is being slow as hell so I gave up. I have a ton of figure sketches and master copies to post once I get them scanned!

**Eric Young** · September 27th, 2009, 08:34 PM

Finally got around to scanning some sketches. More to come soon. Critique and comments always welcome!

**Eric Young** · September 28th, 2009, 05:34 AM

Another quick speed painting. Nothing great...

**jatherip** · September 28th, 2009, 06:47 AM

your pencils look really nice and 3D, but your colors and lighting need some work! do photo studies, still lifes of metallic objects in order to understand all this stuff

keep goin!

**Eric Young** · September 28th, 2009, 04:15 PM

jatherip - Thanks for the comment, I'll defiantly give that a try.

More sketches.

**Eric Young** · September 28th, 2009, 07:51 PM

Character sketch, going to paint this later

**Eric Young** · September 30th, 2009, 01:12 AM

Character Design WIP

**adammelo** · September 30th, 2009, 01:18 AM

Pritty good start on those digitals, keep it up! Might use some of your sketches as pose references XD

**Eric Young** · September 30th, 2009, 03:26 AM

Adammelo - Thanks for the comment, feel free to use my sketches if it helps you learn.

Further work on this character design.

**Eric Young** · September 30th, 2009, 08:34 AM

playing with the animation tools in photoshop, hopefully this worked...

**Eric Young** · October 1st, 2009, 12:29 AM

Little more process, I'll probably be working on this all night so in a few hours I should have another update.

**Eric Young** · October 1st, 2009, 02:07 AM

More work

**Eric Young** · October 4th, 2009, 06:40 PM

Faced with the idea of spirituality, I find the best medium for me to express my ideas and views of this extensive topic is through art. So for the last few hours I've been painting this quick little painting. It basically represents my realization that I and all humans have a longing for some kind of spiritual connection and we are constantly looking for that answer. Something to give our lives meaning and a realization that we are here for a reason. This was the feeling I had behind this painting as I was painting it.
Feel free to leave a comment or critique on the painting. What do you think it represents? Do you think I conveyed the message I was aiming for? Does it mean something different to you? Please post a whatever you want ~

**p sage** · October 5th, 2009, 02:08 AM

Wild colors in this latest one.
Also am digging the futuristic knight you've got going, as well as the studies.

Someone from one of my life drawing sessions said something similar to this... the spiritual connection thing. He said that some of us (as artists) search too much for that perfect line, or that perfect value, or whatever... and he likened that to some sort of inner search for meaning.

I told him I thought he was weird

but it's thought provoking.

**Eric Young** · October 6th, 2009, 05:04 PM

Thanks for the comment P sage!

Slow process on this character design... I've been sick lately so I haven't got much done...

**Eric Young** · October 6th, 2009, 08:08 PM

I took a bunch of pills to make me feel better, it's starting to work. So I got some more work done. Just about done with this.

**Eric Young** · October 7th, 2009, 09:13 PM

I think I'm done with this, unless anyone has any critiques for change.

**Eric Young** · October 8th, 2009, 12:28 AM

A sketch for the next illustration I'm going to be starting. Please leave any comments you want!

**Eric Young** · October 8th, 2009, 03:59 AM

laying in the big shapes. Thinking about my color palette I wanna use.

**Eric Young** · October 8th, 2009, 11:00 PM

not getting much done tonight... small tweaks to both of these.

**Eric Young** · October 10th, 2009, 12:21 AM

small updates, better then no updates i guess

**Eric Young** · October 12th, 2009, 09:52 PM

Some sketches, more coming soon.

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