studies and sketches and warmups, oh my.

**cosmicbeanbag** · July 11th, 2006, 11:48 AM

a new handle, a new outlook on life, and a new sketchbook. thanks for stopping by, ego strokes and critiques are always welcome.

salaam,

kurt

somewhat chronological

**Recursive_End** · July 11th, 2006, 12:10 PM

Looks awsome !!
Especially the last one.
More !!

**koroshiya001** · July 11th, 2006, 01:43 PM

Rock on, Kurt. The characters are lookin pretty good.

Nice name.
-wil

**knight shade** · July 11th, 2006, 05:31 PM

your characters are kinda twisted but still pretty cool
i mean just what is that thing with too many hands

**cosmicbeanbag** · July 12th, 2006, 10:28 AM

heres an enviro speedpaint, about an hour. inspired by the DSG topic 'a ship through a city canal' or something like that.

tried the speed paint techniques from the workshop, laying in abstract blocks and values and then pulling and cutting shapes. i'm not too sure about the palette, crit away.

**ewing** · July 12th, 2006, 09:07 PM

wow! man, your stuff is sick (in a good way). your characters are sick and twisted and your landscapes are really neat. oh...I appreciate stoping to see my sketch book too. Im definitly going back to this thred. You have some wicked awsome stuff cosmicbeanbag.

**anticonnor** · July 12th, 2006, 09:17 PM

I'm loving your pencil renders!

**cosmicbeanbag** · July 19th, 2006, 01:30 AM

thanks for stopping by.

some stuff from the weekend, sadly not much drawing but i had a lot of fun camping and playing. a tree at our campsite and a contour of some kind of halo chick who will be filled with details and other such things. this is sort of what i've seen other artists do, where they use one contour for multiple designs.

and a revisited cyborg headhunter lady

**venli** · July 19th, 2006, 07:02 AM

wow...I like your style a lot! Great work!!!

**cakeypigdog** · July 19th, 2006, 07:25 AM

nice start, look forward to more

**Tigermilk** · July 19th, 2006, 10:44 AM

really really cool I love the last one, both colored and in pencil.
post more, I'm 'onna keep an eye on this thread.

tiger

**Darktwin** · July 19th, 2006, 01:17 PM

nice start on your sb, I like your pencil work and your digi are really cool also, keep rocking em out man.

**cosmicbeanbag** · July 20th, 2006, 01:26 AM

trying to do at least one color piece a day, this is a semi-speed painting-about 1.5, started with a random shape and worked it until i got something that looked like something.

**Act.Appalled** · July 20th, 2006, 01:46 AM

Really like your linework and color palette, keep it up!

**wil.whalen** · July 20th, 2006, 04:28 PM

Your speed paints are getting better and better. I need to get my ass into gear and get photoshop (and preferably a tablet). I like the pencil one from a couple of updates ago a ton. The girl in the motorcycle helmet one, that is.

Rock on.

**cosmicbeanbag** · July 24th, 2006, 10:21 AM

another sketch, about .5, as i was looking through some reference photos a particular section of one caught my eye and inspired this. the values surrounding a light fixture looked so much like a belly button and distended belly...i borrowed the palette from the photo(didnt color pick) and played around, trying to describe form with value and picking a light source.

by using the palette from the photo, which i took of my hallway, i was able to move away from the muddiness that i sometimes get stuck in when painting on the fly.

thanks to all who stopped by, would like to take the time to respond personally but gotta bounce.

**Nallen** · July 24th, 2006, 03:07 PM

Wonderful pencils and color work,

I especially like your last post and the idea of taking a set of colors from a reference image and using them as a palette for a new pic.

Great work and ideas too!

Keep it going,

**cosmicbeanbag** · July 26th, 2006, 08:15 PM

nallen-thanks, i think i'll try more of that color reference technique since my on-the-fly stuff gets so muddy. this next piece really started to get on my nerves after awhile and so it got abandoned, i will eventually work up some pieces covering different fantasy 'races' but i think i'll have to try a different approach, i'll start with a scanned pencil rendering and go from there, much like the headhuntercyborg girl above.

i want to master digital freestyle painting and so i decided to go back to the basics and work from a reference photo that i took of the hostel that i stayed at in montreal for the workshop. decided to use a hard edged brush at 100%opacity for laying in value and color, started to work as i would with oils, laying in monchromatic values but then decided to lay in the colors as i saw them and worry about the values later. as i finished i set the pen to opacity jitter to blend some of values. about 1.5.

**Recursive_End** · July 26th, 2006, 08:24 PM

Your sb is someting !!
Love the lines in this one https://tiger.towson.edu/~kichik1/sk...Untitled-8.jpg

*subscribes*

**cosmicbeanbag** · August 2nd, 2006, 07:52 PM

sorry for the lack of updates, i've been intensely enjoying my summer break. a couple of sketches from the past week of some kind of creature, a rough layout for a series of paintings that i am starting, and a revisited line drawing of a halogirl that i applied some color to.

a hello and thanks to everyone who stopped by.

recursive-thanks for subscribing, i'll try to keep this sketchbook going strong.

**theBoognish** · August 2nd, 2006, 08:21 PM

Kick ass man, I really dig the second to last one in the first post, with the walker bot emerging from the fog. Do you do underdrawings for the PS paintings, or do you whip them out on the spot?

**cosmicbeanbag** · August 7th, 2006, 03:16 PM

boognish-that particular sketch was a freestyle, i rarely work that way since the results are usually atrocious-and that is no BS...i prefer to start with an idea of what and where i am going, that was a happy accident.

some gibberish envelope sketches and moleskin stuff. the moleskin is nice for scribbling and note taking, mine is about 50/50 words/drawings. these are thumbs for a couple of short stories that i am concepting for fun/portfolio.

**cosmicbeanbag** · August 10th, 2006, 09:08 PM

some more from the moleskin. concepts for illustrating and storyboarding a short story.

**cosmicbeanbag** · August 25th, 2006, 09:43 PM

some recent stuff, ive been preparing for my final semester where ill have complete control over subject matter. these are thumbs and sketches for projects.

**deadi** · August 25th, 2006, 09:59 PM

the charactor are awesome I like where your goin with the more organic charactors, I'd love to see more of them keep postin!

**cosmicbeanbag** · August 31st, 2006, 08:39 PM

lineart that will be taken to paint, looks kind of sparse at the moment, probably gonna add more flowers.

**cosmicbeanbag** · September 11th, 2006, 10:38 AM

some studies for senior project, ala 'the skillful huntsman'. a futuristic adaptation of the japanese tale momotaro.

**Tigermilk** · September 11th, 2006, 11:52 AM

really cool bud.
Awesome lines and designs

**cosmicbeanbag** · September 12th, 2006, 12:30 AM

more character thumbs of momotaro.

**cosmicbeanbag** · September 13th, 2006, 02:53 AM

some demon thumbs.

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