Sollid wants to learn! please crit me :)

[Sollid]

hi ca, i've been lurking here for a long time and been wanting to start a SB..
so here we go

and now zombies ;9

oh, and i am here to learn, cc welcome
i just need to figure out where i want to go with this,
ca, animation, comics... i dunno

[Hamms]

Yo, welcome!

I like what I see so far. It looks like you have a decent understanding of anatomy, at least in the facial area. The hand in the second sketch looks good as well. With that said, I want to see more, and make sure to include some full figures too.

Keep posting, I want to see what else you have!

[Sollid]

bumping with something different, some aquarell paintings, also inked,
and one monster squid.. scanning and stuff takes me forever, so i dont think i'll ever take time for those scribble kinda pages, maybe some later, this is all old... i have 100's of SB's just lying around..
btw those first drawings are really teeny tiny so i dont like them that well enlarged on the 'puter, but anyway:

[Sollid]

please cc this, i suck at rendering and making finished pieces... i would love to get some tips.. i've seen so many people evolve their sb here and i would love to improve myself aswell...
so please, help me ;D

second one is a wip i did today, couldnt sleep... i'd love crits on this, i might finish it

third is a really old wip i never finished for a chow, evil female genie or sumthin :p i just blotted in the pose and gave up i think

[Sollid]

some photoshop studies, i feel like color and lighting are my weak points...
if anyone has some good tips for picking palettes or stuff like that, please share ^^

ink and powergyro btw :p these are from my desk, not photos

[Pretty_Angel]

Nice sketchbook you have here! Love the studies - keep 'em up!
Sadly I cannot help much for the colour problem since I'm struggling with it myself. Should I find something useful I'll let you know. Until then it's just practice, practice and practise.

[dykand]

Love your style keep it up

[Sollid]

so i made some custom brushes today, and made some beetles to test them on as i experimented x)
didnt really try to paint them well, but rather it was motivation to try and get the right type of texture and shapes..
(and learning the brush maker) ref: living jewels

[BlackDelphin]

Nice bugs
And i like your characters too~your hand anatomy is pretty cool too

Keep it up man!

[t i m]

Pencil work and watercolors are solid, nice. As for a crit, maybe tone down the saturation on the digital stuff.

[Skechbook90]

nice work I like it a lot

[PsiBug]

You have great intuition for fluid and dynamic poses. Especially like the creepy zombie stuff and the specular highlights on the red bug.

[Pretty_Angel]

Nice Bugs! Which program is it? I suppose Photoshop?

[Sollid]

thanks to everyone for your supportive comments, i use photoshop 7.0 for everything digital but i prefer traditional media like inks, and aquarel.. 'puter gives headaches :p this is just a quick update, didnt even bother to scan, had them uploaded from cell, will add more later

pix are too large but /care, dont have patience to rescale now that im done with the attachment manager... mebbe later