Doug Hoppes (SketchBook)

[Doug Hoppes]

A bit of randomness. Melding a creature with rock formation.

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My first dragon.

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My variation of the Thanksgiving turkey.

[ja1307]

Hey man you have some excellent work in here and on yoiur sketchbook. As a big fan of landscape painting your work really grabs me love the intimate feel in your landscape painting it really draws you into that particular space. Keep up the good work buddy its looking great already.

[Doug Hoppes]

Thanks Ja! Those landscapes are the ones that I sell. The creature designs are used to help expand my imagination and help me work on form and volume.

[Doug Hoppes]

Creature design 1 for the Creature of the Week challenge (Pynok Angels)

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Creature design 2 for the Creature of the Week challenge (Pynok Angels)

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Here's the first oil painting of one of my creatures. Lots of work still to learn (Eventually, want to make them more realistic), but, here's the first attempt.

[Doug Hoppes]

Based on a tick and a beetle.

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First variation concept piece for C.O.W 282: demonic speedster.

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Updated the quick sketch of the demonic speedster.

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Another bug-like demon creature.

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Lovers

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Another Creature Design

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Playing with rock textures.

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Worked from a concept idea of mixing a tadpole and a snake.

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Worked from an idea of a crab-like creature.

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Some traditional work: 16 x 20 oil on canvas. "Source of Light"

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Another Creature Design

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Another creature design

[Wingal]

Nice ink work. I think doing some animal studys, especially the anatomy will greatly help your designs. Your oils are also a joy to look at ^^. I hope you post more!

[Doug Hoppes]

Thanks! Yeah, just started doing creature designs. It's really a lot of fun. The hardest part is trying to translate the pen/ink drawings into oils. Since I do standard impressionistic landscapes, need to work more on getting the detail in there.

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Based on the head of a whale

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Got a little weird tonight.

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Initial study of animal hooves.

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Creature study based on lizard head.

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Creature study based on fish head.

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Creature study based on crab body

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Creature idea based on a rhino.

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Painting based on rhino-creature study.