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[Seaport]

Cool sketchbook will be dropping by again

[b-dawg]

You have some really useful job done! That's really great that you're doing those without colorpicker, it'll pump up your coloring skills like mad. Don't forget about old masters' copies

[Jaro]

Wow, great stuff here GEB!

I hope you will finish that environment sketch you are working on, the hint of warm sunlight in the upper right is just beautiful. If you include a guy in the foreground, maybe you can make him quite small and really create the sense that the structure and mountains are epic in scale.

I noticed that you seem to use fairly basic brushes for most of your work, even for creating texture like the moonlight reflecting from your dragon's scales. In my experience it's very difficult to do this and get the random brush marks required for really realistic looking texture, unless you zoom right in and spend ages working away using a tiny brush. You might like to try combining a few custom texture brushes to get some really random marks - erasing away where the texture is too heavy and picking out areas to enhance with a small basic brush. Even simply using a basic brush that is just a little irregular and changing up the size a bit more often will really help you to achieve more interesting marks. Let me know if you need some custom brushes, I might have some you would like.

I need to get stuck into some studies and improve my colour relations too, I feel way too comfortable working in b&w and it's not good. Let's both make this new year a productive one!

[cloudcan]

Omg omg love your monsters, and amazing how much you got done in those one-hour photo studies

[MartellArts]

#28 is a beastly drawing. hidden rogue on the predator countdown hammer... awesome concept.

[GEB]

Seaport: Thanks dude that means a lot after checking out your SB tiz wicked!

b-dawg: Why thankyou good lady, I appreciate that. Let's both properly nail it this year!

Jaro: You're absolutely right, I need to sort out my brush work especially after seening the affect on your work! My God that Merlin familiar looks epic!

cloudcan: You're way too kind but thankyou!

[GEB]

Quicky to get warmed up. Bit of a kotaki rip off but hey gimme a break

[midknight523]

Can't wait to see it finished

[warburton]

hey man, its been a while since i last took a look through your sketchbook, great to see your still killin it! The dragon piece on the previous page is great! Lovin the mood and colours running through it. Thanks for sharing your stuff with us dude, and keep up the awesome work.

[b-dawg]

Like your new update, it's so sketchy sketchy but your mind can follow the scribbly lines and get the picture finished hope you'll post next update on this pic.

That technique reminds me Justin Sweet's video on painting centaur which I saw a while ago, I like how ppl can get a concept from scribbling. I definitely need to check this out but I'm afraid at the moment

Let's both properly nail it this year!

And hell yeah! Let's rock!

[GEB]

midknight523: Thanks dude! I push the giant back a little to show a little more of him. Plan to have a pained expression on his big stupid face

logistic puppet: Cheers! Just checked out your SB and you're coming on great guns!

logistic puppet: Always good to hear from you. You have a great style but let go sometimes and let the scribble take control!

[cloudcan]

Love the energy in that last "doodle" of yours! (And I don't know what kotaki is.. )

[Ricardo Robles]

cool stuff man.. but what´s happening you lazy ass? are you overwhelmed of commissions or what?? need to see more stuff!

[GEB]

One hour quicky to try some new brushes I made. Hmmm

[GEB]

Quick and crappy colour job. Think I'm pooped for the day...

[4tonmantis]

That's revolutionary, you might start a movement!

[Wheeljack18]

Hey Man thanks for stopping by my SB! I like that lat creature and also the image from post #300. I'm a sucker for anything related to classical myth.
5 stars for you!

[b-dawg]

Hi there, GEB!You're doing awesome work with that creature but I have some remarks for it. First of all, its emotion isn't reading very well. I couldn't decide whether it's anger or fear, because of widely open eyes this guy looks a bit scared. If you're trying to depict anger, I'd recommend you to shut his eyes a bit. Try snarling yourself, compressed cheek muscles raise lower eyelids and your eyes won't be so open. To open them like the guy from your picture you'll need to use eyebrow and forehead muscles and the upper eyelid will raise. Lower eyelid will remain raised because of cheek muscles.

I did a little overpaint as a suggestion for you. Creature's skull form isn't reading very well, I'd suggest you to enhance its cheekbones. There's also something strange happening with its lower jaw but I can't help because I'm not that good at animal paintings. It looks for me like the you should do something with soft tissue on guy's chin, where it goes too far from gums and bones. Try looking at some references like this one --> http://images.nationalgeographic.com...58_600x450.jpg I thought that the bigcat-skull-form is the closest to this guy's one.

Also I moved his eye a bit because his closest eye is placed further from the nose than his distant one. As I understand, you're trying to make this guy's face quite wide at cheekbones but his distant part of the muzzle is not wide enough to match the closest one. And the distant ear is too high.

Sorry for so many words and my crappy English, for a guy from London my grammar and vocabulary might be a real eterning facepalm And of course my overpaint is real crap and hope you'll understand what I wanted to say it all could be placed in 3 words - watch the form but... whatever that's me, I cant talk less. Cheers! ^__^

[GEB]

one for CHOW

[GEB]

Quick colour pass

[GEB]

Why can't I upload damn it!?

[Fléo]

This bird is really scary ! Love the design ! I would like to kill it in a video game :3

[Izene]

Wow!Amazing textures man!

[GEB]

CA was being a c*nt yesterday and wouldn't let me upload this. Made a few proportional and colour changes. I'm gunna call it done as I gust wanted it to be a speedy

[Ricardo Robles]

Nice bird dude, really scary. insane rendering in the head area.

[krypt]

VERY awesome! I really love how you show your process shots, amazing!
Your imagination is really crazy.. Please leap doing more GEB!!!!

[GEB]

Fléo: I take it as a compliment that you want to kill my bird

Izene: Thankyou I'm just ftarting down that texture road. Wish me luck!

Ricardo Robles: Thanks my friend, you are the boss!

krypt: Again thanks mate, your work is awesome! Loved looking through your SB

b-dawg: Cheers, good comments taken on board

[Kvenh]

Hey mate! Loving the ChoW bird, really nice.

[Teundeboer]

the rhino rooster t-rex reads well, nice use of saturation vs desaturation

[asa]

love both the creature and the bird