Lightpunk's new sketchbook

[Lightpunk]

@NickyBeats - no prob dude!
@Vulgar - thanks man!

Some more pencil creature sketches, trying to draw creatures like Neville Page and failing dismally!

[ANtY93]

Wow, very cool creature sketches! The one on the left looks like a mix of a mops and a frog. ;d

[Urötskidoji]

Thanks alot for the detailed steps man, really nice workflow!
I´ll be dropping in here from time to time again

[Lightpunk]

@Urotskidoji - no prob dude, hope it was of some use
@ANtY93 - Cheers! What's a mops?

Final for the EOW

[Lightpunk]

More creature sketching after watching Neville Page Gnomon DVD, trying out using colour pencil instead of graphite. Have been trying to find prismacolour pencils to get those lovely blacks but hard to get in the UK, this was with a caran d'ache black colour pencil instead.

[Lightpunk]

Practicing painting eyes and flesh, over pencil sketch. Made some custom brushes for the lizard skin, quite pleased with how they turned out

[Noun]

Incredible sketchbook, I've seen some of your work around here and it's always inspiring. Especially liked the bots in the 1st post and your recent EOWs, was really cool to see the process.

[Sammy Dee]

Oh my god! I am absolutely in love with your work! Cannot wait to see more!

[Joe777k7]

wow, very stunning works. I'm subscribing. Ill be sure to leave you some comments here and there, Keep it the good work!

[Lightpunk]

@Noun - thanks for the kind words, thats very motivating!
@Sammy Dee - thank you!
@Joe777k7 - thanks very much!

Thanks to everybody who's been leaving comments & crits, I will get round all your sketchbooks shortly and return the favour, appreciate it!

Here's another flesh/eyeball study from today, just working thru the techniques from the DVD mentioned above apologies in advance I know this looks horrible!

[carakhan]

nice translucency, ew really love the final EOW!

[Joe777k7]

Sweet study, cant wait to see some more!!! Loving how you do the glare or reflection in the eye. It kinda looks like you can see people looking at this this creature lol Keep up the good work!

[DaevidK]

great stuff!I love the pencil sketches, do more of them cheers

[Lightpunk]

Thanks @DavK

Another flesh study, over pencil sketch. Was supposed to be just a head but added some tendrils to make it look a bit more like a whole little creature

[Lightpunk]

Another one for today, working on current EOW (ruined temple...which I still need to add in!)

[Lightpunk]

Practicing old school industrial design sketching with pen/marker, need to work on vehicles!

[Joe777k7]

Wow amazing stuff! Cant realy comment on much because its amazing! I need to hit up some of those old school design type sketches as well. Your use of line weight is really nice as well. Im still working on knowing when and when not to use thick lines lol Cant wait to see when you add those ruins in on that enviroment painting

Thanks for stopping by my sketchbook!

[rumpenstiltzkin]

nice SB, love your pencil sketches, and that eyeball is cool!
also really like the colors of your enviros, very nice

[Lightpunk]

@Joe777k7 - thanks man! I'm no expert at this but generally you use the thicker line weight to give emphasis to certain parts or place it closer to the viewer/in front of other things, its a similar principle to comic book inking

@rumplestiltskin - thanks very much!

Some more random creature doodling...

[Vulgar`]

The EOW looks to be formulating into something solid. Your entry for last week was pretty fantastic, I have yet to comment on all the entries. Those oldschool industrial sketches are also very stellar - addictive looking.

Keep it up!

[Lightpunk]

Thanks Vulgar!

Think this will have to be final on the EOW

[dlincoln83]

holy crap man this stuff is looking great. keep pushing!

[Invalid User]

Really digging the industrial stuff! Those eye studies are awesome, expecially the reflection coming off the eye, top stuff, I don't have much to add other than "keep working hard" looking forward to future posts, i'll be back!

[Lightpunk]

@dlincoln83 - thanks Man!
@Invalid User - thanks very much, cheers!

Bit more work on this vehicle design - took the initial freehand sketch into SketchUp and modelled it out a bit...still needs some work

[Lightpunk]

Some random sketchbook doodling...

[isokarhu]

ohhh baby, I'm lovin this. I might just start to frequent your thread (as long as you continue to post regularly <---- motivation!! =D )

awesome stuff!

[:.Interloper.:]

- Some really inspiring stuff. Great Enviro's and character design and some very strong pencil work. Personal favorite are the mechs in the first post though.

I'll definitely be dropping by regularly to check up on how your doing.

-Inter-

[BlightedArt]

That's the cutest creepy eyeball I've ever seen. Your pencils look especially good, nice and fine, and crisp. It's easy to see every detail and nuance in your illustrations. Keep going.

[Lightpunk]

Thanks @BlightedArt, @Interloper, @isokarhu! I really appreciate the comments, they keep me going! I will pop over to your sketchbooks and return the favour.

This is a matte painting I have been doing for a online challenge over at cgtantra. The challenge was to create a 'Town Gate' based on this 3D render supplied by the judges:



Here's my DMP (digital matte painting) attempt, using lots of pieces of photo texture and some painted in dirt and details etc. I ran out of time on this a bit, so there's lots of stuff wrong with it, but hey this is a sketchbook!

[NickyBeats]

wow man that matte painting turned out really nicely! did you make it in time to submit it? i hope you did! looks great! also, your sketchup model up there looks pretty slick, that rover looking one. but why is the wireframe only turned on with certain pieces? its making some of your shapes become lost in the bg.