Mr. Corlan's Sketchbook

[Mr. Corlan]

weeeeeelll, alright. I'll come back. You can thank Fetsch for convincing me not to bugger off forever.

So! Here are all the images from my show that you haven't seen. If you want to see them all together and check I didn't miss any, go here: http://rossgrams.com/gallery_2012












And here are a couple drawings I did recently:




and a couple new digital WIPs:






. . . that's it.

[Ludic]

Just amazing, straight up fucking awesome.

[Mr. Corlan]

Replies to people:

@NickyBeats - Yeah, no worries man. I did wonder for a while, but figured you must have had a very good reason to not make it. Haha! And you can have mine as long as you're paying, haha!

@Shadow Stalker & phatbuddha - Thanks a lot!

[edit]@Ludic - darn it Ludic, you're too fast! Thanks!

[NickyBeats]

holy hell!! these are on another level Ross!!!! really dude. every one of the images in your last update are friggin amazing!! damn im pretty much speechless...

and yea man, i really really wanted to come up and see you, but school work has me so damn busy that i can barely make it to the occassional family meet up. took me 7 weeks to see them. but yea, once i graduate ill definately shoot up north and well have a good old fashioned traditional paint sesh! id love to kick it with you and just make stuff. anyways, hope everything is good!! and happy halloween!!!

[walnut]

Pretty unique sketchbook, i hope you keep it around here for a while. Those pics of creatures in the woods, i love the sense of reality in them, strange as that may sound.

[Mepainter]

Great sketchbook!! your sketches of anatomy, ballpen creatures, oil, digital... are all pure art!

very inspirational work, keep it up.

[Spellsword95]

I'm afraid that this update is too much awesome and our universe cannot handle it and is gonna explode or something. Helpfully restoring backup copy will be successful...

BTW, that digital red creature would look great with some cracked glass over it. Like it's gonna escape and murder everyone in it's eye sight.

[aks9]

these are indeed extremely awesome. i love the oil paintings, ive not seen any like those before Ç the tentacle lion picture is amazing!
as is the pencil drawing of the bat-like creature with the large flower/egg type things.
seriously amazing painting and work!!

[Velocity Kendall]

brother, thank fuck youre back.

[Lightship69]

Seconded !! and then some!

How did the show go them my mate, did you make money? and then blow it all on drink drugs and hookers like a traditional artist? lol

of all the new ones I think I like the winter scene the best, mybe because I did some enviro painting recently or because its getting cold here in the frozen wastes of Lancashire (England).

all the best mate and I am so glad you are back posting.

[Mr. Corlan]

@NickyBeats - Thanks Nick! Sweet! Yeah, absolutely, let me know if you ever get up here. And maybe one of these decades I'll leave my hermitude and come down south.

@walnut - Thanks alot, that's very good to hear!

@Mepainter - Haha, thanks!

@Spellsword95 - Haha, yeah right. Thanks! And yeah, thanks for the idea. I was debating which way to go with it - gentle and curious, or hostile.

@aks9 - Great, thanks! Yeah, oils are sweet. Haha, I thought that lion/tentacle painting would be so weird no one would like it. It was originally planned to have a figure and stuff. Who knows, maybe I'll revisit something like it sometime.

@Velocity Kendall - Wooo! Yeah! Thank you! Thank the heavens you're still here, haha! Hey, I started some paintover of your train, ages ago. I'm not sure why I'm mentioning/posting it, but yeah, sometime in the future we need to get together and do some serious collabs.

@Lightship69 - Ahoy Matey! Thanks! Yeah, the show went well, sold about half the stuff, made some cash . . . Yep, blew every last penny, mostly on hookers, but some pretty serious quantities of dangerous drugs as well. I had a good chat with the great frozen pajama wearing god of pink whelks, and battled some of the hedge wizards of poo.
. . . uhhh, yeah, I dunno, sorry. Haha. No. I spent a bit to enlarge my studio, but I'm hanging on to the rest of it like it's the last iceberg.


Here's some more stuff, mostly back log from the last little era, all the silly doodles and junk. In no order whatsoever.

[takashmen]

it's great to have you back!!

[Ludic]

Ace man! Love your crazy lines. Never stop posting regularly again

[Matthias Kinnigkeit]

Love your work! Your technique has a really nice effect! Really inspirering SB!

[llex_paul]

very inspiring images!

[Goremageddon]

All your art as a lot of flow. I love that. Inspiring.

[ja1307]

Your working is amazing mr. Checked out your website too. Love the way you use paint reminds me of Justin Sweet or Manchess Great illustrative style you have and a nice dark atmospheric feel to your pieces that feels very authentic. You definitely have an individual style keep it coming.

[Cameli]

DAmn awesome traditional stuff!Big fan!

[Mr. Corlan]

@takashmen - Thanks, it is good to be back.

@Ludic - Thanks! Yeah, I'll try. Been spending most of my time on NDA stuff unfortunately. :/

@Matelo - Thanks!

@Ilex_paul - Thanks!

Goremageddon - Thank you!

@ja1307 - Thanks! Yeah, I just vaguely smudge it around until it looks okay, I've had lots of practice at that.

@Cameli - Thank you sir!


Some new landscapes. Very small, first one is 8x10, second is 6x8.

[apa]

It's always good to find a superb sketchbook..bravo!

[MrFrenik]

You have a really great abstract, sketchy way of loosely putting in forms and coming up ideas, especially when working with pencils/pens (can't really tell which it is) that you nicely translate over to digital. The last image in post #481 is my favorite of yours that I've seen so far. If taken to a finished level, with your painting style and how dynamic the pose and composition are at the moment, it could have a "master's" quality to it.

[Velocity Kendall]

what is it about new england that makes it the perfect place to meet horrors from beyond spacetime?

[j.zhang]

the sketches with snow in them... god damn. I also really like your lighting choices, can't wait to see more

[Mr. Corlan]

@apa - Thank you!

@MrFrenik - Thank you Mr. Frenik. They are usually pencil. Great, yes I definitely plan on continuing that one. Thanks.

@Velocity Kendall - Haha, are you referring to me? Hah. Yeah, it's pretty neat over here sometimes.

@j.zhang - Thanks! I checked your website, you have some great stuff yourself!


Nothing much today, some progress on a collab with Fetsch that we started ages ago, some work on a sketchup model I am doing for an illustration commission, and a little demo I did for someone that was kinda fun. Thanks for the nice comments everyone, will have more stuff soon!

[Symson]

I enjoy you art. It's very good. Very imaginative. I like the use of color. You make very bold decisions.

[kingkostas]

Its nice to see you back mate!!! Your works are really interesting as usual. Keep sharing

[DennisH-Art]

Awesome artworks! Truly inspirational!

[NyeAlexandaFrayne]

soooooooo sick. subscribed.

[Mr. Corlan]

@Symson - Thank you sir. It's interesting you say that, haha. I consider myself a very cowardly painter.

@kingkostas - Ahhh, the King! Thanks a lot man! Love your stuff!

@DennisH-Art - Thank yo!

@NyeAlexandaFrayne - Thanks!


Some stuff . . . :/

[Ludic]

So great man, love em.