Mhugo's Sketchbook

[NickyBeats]

ha sweet updates Mhugo! looking awesome! characters are looking great, especially in those lush verdant scenes! keep it up buddy!!

[Zauselbart]

i love your sketchbook
keep pushing
thansk for uploading!

[Lucarky]

A word only... STUNNING!

[Mhugo]

takashmen, thanks. Ya, you are right with the values and edges...edgecontrol is something i really should try to learn. And you are right with the B/W/colo thing, i often start in b/w and use different blending layers to add color, just trying to work more often in color directly

Untouched, thank you!!

Overtoom, thank you a lot!!

MeteorCat, thanks a lot once more, and yeah, i try too

Nicky, thanks man, means a lot to me, i really try to improve my characters

Zauselbart, thanks a lot mate=)

Lucarky, 2 words...Thank you


Some goblin sketches/ideas from tonight for this weeks chow, just to get a bit into the topic, not sure yet if i will go on with one of them.

[MeteorCat]

Awesome goblins! I think the right (our right) one is the best. He has a lot of personality in his expression and pose.

[Mhugo]

Thanks a lot MeteorCat, unfortunately i didnt have the time to finish one of these guys.

Two studies from last night...

[MeteorCat]

I'm not sure which one I like better they are both so superb. The woman's portrait is incredible. The strokes are so clean, the lighting so soft. We all have a lot to learn from it.

The snow on the mountains are a bit too blurry or too sharp towards the middle of the mountain I would just have it slowly fade into the ground of the mountain by putting together the subtle changes of colour and value. I personally am terrible at doing such things but just thought it might help. Everything else is just excellent.

[Mhugo]

MeteorCat, thank you a lot!! You are right about the snow, there was something bothering me too, but i did not figure out what it was and since it was just a colorpractice i did not care too much.
But maybe you are right, i ll give it a try

Another quick colostudy and some demonic speedsters for this weeks CoW.

[LeaderOfZombies]

Your landscape paintings are stunning! Very painterly but tight. How much have you worked with traditional media?

[ConnyNordlund]

Nice concepts!

[Wingal]

Like those beastlies! Specially the shapes you created with them. very nice!

[Mhugo]

@LeaderOfZombies, thanks a lot. Basicly i worked a lot with pencil and a little bit with acrylics, so in fact i dont have any experience with traditional media besides pecildrawings at all

@ConnyNordlund, thanks you!!

@Wingal, Thanks a lot =)


Just a tiny update, but more will come soon
Some ideas for the actual CHoW.

[NickyBeats]

those chow concepts... fuuuuuuuck. so sweet! how long for these? did you spend a lot of time studying armor first? or have you already, and just went off imagination? because these are intense. very cool ideas, especially that chain mase dude. damn. he would so keep anything out of heaven. even mother theresa.

[Mhugo]

Hey Nicky, thanks a lot man =) To be honest i have no idea how long they took. I did them during some breaks from my job on two days, but some hours for sure... Did not use any references this time, dont know why, its something i usually always do. Just played around with some shapes and forms until i had something i liked and ya, did lots of armorstudies in the past already

Some process on the chow piece...

[Mhugo]

Small update, something from the last days...

[Renart]

I love your sketchbook! It's really inspiring! I really like you final rendering. Really beautiful!

[Jordan_]

Hey Mhugo, stunning stuff man. Really love those creature pages, something wonderful about those silhouettes and textures standing out on that brown background. Keep it up.

[loengrin]

Thank you for commenting my sketchbook, I appreciate that very much! Impressive stuff, your enviroments are great and your King of Hell is absolutely amasing =)

[Mikael Eson]

Really inspiring, I love your style.

[Mhugo]

Renart, thank you a lot, thats very encouraging

Jordan, thanks a lot mate =)

loengrin, you are very welcome, you have some really nice stuff going on in your sb, and thanks for your kind words

Mikael, thanks a lot!!


something from the weekend...

[Mhugo]

Some more stuff from the last days

[Vulgar`]

Niice.

[Mhugo]

Thanks Vulgar =)

Some sketches, tried to do some linedrawings again, did not do any for ages, definitely need to practice this more often and concentrate better on lineweight and so on...the enviro is inspired by a sketch from jonas de ro, did not try to copy it, but to get a similar mood in a short amount of time. The last one is my start on the current chow, hope to finish it in time.

[Mhugo]

Something from today for the current chow
Guess i'll do some more of these sketches before i finish something, its just too much fun

[Heliux]

wow. sick stuff! very inspiring! :]

[Mila]

Inspiring linework Mhugo.

[ANtY93]

Great character and monster designs, really digging them

Keep it up!

[Mhugo]

Heliux, thanks a lot =)

Mila, thanks!!

ANtY93, thank you!!

One more chow sketch and a start for the current eow. These chow sketches are just too much fun, guess i'll do some more and dont get anything finished before the deadline =)

[Mhugo]

Little goodnight-sketch and yep...screwed up perspective, but i'm too tired now to fix it

[blazingdimensions]

wow... i really love your work, very inspiring!