Ville's Sketchbook: C&C greatly apreciated

[n1frit]

Inspire a lot !

[NickyBeats]

great work lately man! really digging the subtle texture in your works! gives it another dimension of realism, but with the looser works it comes off really well.

[Ville_S]

n1frit: Thanks!

NickyBeats: Thankyou.

Study. Collector from ME 2

[Ville_S]

thumbs/sketches/tests

[Izzual]

I just love your Mass Effect 2 fanart and study !

Be careful about ME 3... I was disapointed by this one ME2 is the best ^^ !!

You should make some Krogan you know

[Joona]

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook. Your rendering skills are phenomenal.

I have to agree about everthing with Izzual about Mass Effect.
Mass Effect 1 and 2 are spot on games. I liked 3 too but not as much.

Hope to see more stuff from you soon.

And you're from Finland! - cool, high five!

[chevy28360]

Love the recent environment stuff. They have a great mood and feel. Nice compositions as well.

[Ville_S]

Joona: High five! Np, I liked my stay. I hope see more dude.

Yeah, Have heard some things about ME 3. Still eager to play it so please guys, no spoilers.

Chevy: Thanks!

Quick evening doodles.
Mind wants to go on but neck and back says hell no.

[Ville_S]

more thumbs/sketches.
Furiusly trying to come up something cool but failing miserably.

edit: added two quick studies.

[Ville_S]

Portrait practice. Went too loose for this one and suffered for it.

[Ville_S]

Lovely seaside appartment with great view of the city.

Also, streaming again http://www.livestream.com/DerivedApe
Come and hang out, chat or just lurk around...it's all good bro

[Ville_S]

Study of Anthony Jones's methods and QIP Boba study.

[Ville_S]

Had such fun time yesterday that I'm going to livestream again: http://www.livestream.com/DerivedApe

Going to start with that Boba and then move on into other stuff, environments (perhaps current EOW), studies and all that good jazz. Going to be there all god damn day...cos that's how I roll! See ya there!

[Flaskpost]

great job on the studies man, killin em!

[Ville_S]

Thanks flask

livestream stuff. Still going strong at the livestream. Joine us! one of us one of us!

[Ville_S]

Two more sketches

[Vablo]

So cool stuff man! Love the simplicity and use of big shapes, really helps you out when thinking about the whole piece. You can always spend infinite time with details if needed.
I dwell in Tampere, where are you located in Finland?

[Ville_S]

Vablo: Thanks dude! I reside currently at Kerava, Though hopefully i'm soon moving back to Helsinki.

sigh...one gladiator study. Just one. I wish I had time for more.

[lionheartGFX]

oh my goooood man i love your brush econome and stroke-work its delicious, tho your palette when working from head feels really limited, try to have a reference of a real world thing and copy that palette it will bring a bit more life into your colours, also your figures look a biit static, and i dont see alot of action recently, you should practice that, it gets really fun when you get it down and insted of struggling with it you start using it to your advantage, its all about practice keep it up!

[n1frit]

Cool sketchbook!

[witek]

I love great diversity in your work. Tons of influences, i see Jama, Robotpencil, some reminds me of Cole Eastburn. Thet makes me want to see more dude
Looking forward to see your further development

[Ville_S]

LionheartGFX: thans for the compliments and specially big thanks for thr crits! Will definately look into it.
Thanks again!

N1frit: Cheers. Glad you liked what you saw.

Witek: thanks! Yeah, Jama, AJ, JJ, Eastburn all particular favourites of mine. All of them are such masters of values that it blows my mind.



Speed paint study. Ref was a NatGeo photo of a venetian dancer I believe.
edit: now with random sketches

[Ville_S]

few sketches and one photo study (the one in color).

[Ville_S]

stuffs

[kingkostas]

Great shapework!!!! and in that bluish mountainenviro, i see some awesome edge in the depth, really adds an eyecandy!!! you are doing great!!!!!

[Ville_S]

Kingkostas: Thanks man! Good shapes is something that remains abit ellusive to me. I occasionally clearly strike on shapes that seem more pleasing than others but I don't really know what is a good shape.



Study os a study. The original is an academic study by unknown (atleast for me as I couldn't find the artists name) russian artist.

[Izzual]

Loving this last study! Your brush strokes are so impressing ! Keep it up !!!!

PS: Oh... wait... Something is missing here... Where is the KROGAN mate?! ;P

[NickyBeats]

really killing it lately man!!! keep bangin!!

[jakubvavrik]

Wow man you are beast! Do you have any tip how to train imagination?

[kingkostas]

we want the krogannn !!! Hahah awesome mate, well a good shape is a shape that is harmonious in the composition and works well in it. Also a good shape helps us recognize better some things. For example a good sillouete of a hand is the first important thing we see, and then we see the forms in it. But its in the "how we feel it" so by working more and more with shapes, we get better taste . Beautiful study!!!