Splendid River's Sketchbook

[splendidriver]

So this is where I'm gonna post all of my recent artwork, even if it's finished or sketch. Since I found it's pretty harsh to survive in the high level environment of the It's Finished section, especially with skills like mine.

For more of my work, please take time and look at my deviantart site http://splendidriver.deviantart.com


Master Monkey - Kungfu Panda http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...nkey-213705506

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Wonder Girl/Cassandra Sandsmark - DC Comics http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3ipo18
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Zatanna - DC Comics http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3i1haq
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Spider-man - Marvel Comics http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3hcfah
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Iron Man - Marvel Comics http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3gvci7
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Vua Hùng - "Sơn Tinh vs Thuỷ Tinh" - Splendid River http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d3ed9ag
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Tangled - Disney Animation Studio http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d39aoe6
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Surf's up http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d363uzk
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Woot - Splendid River http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d35usal
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Punisher - Marvel Comics http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d30vikj
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Sơn Tinh - "Sơn Tinh vs Thuỷ Tinh" - Splendid River http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d30040r
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Răng Xấu Poster - HTK Film http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2z6x1m
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The Avengers vs Hulk - Marvel Comics http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2rgh2x
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Thạch Đổng Sơn Gióng vs Mãng Xà - Splendid River http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2pxgl6
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Dragon http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2nbyhr
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Teen Titans - DC Comics http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d2mws8o
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[rumpenstiltzkin]

this is some cool stuff, love the style!

[splendidriver]

Sketch Dump

[Henrique Ventura]

Nice sketchbook! The last pages are really great.

I also liked the Răng Xấu Poster, the typography the colors and all, pretty well done!

[splendidriver]

Well the idea is pretty simple: What happens if the Monkey King finds out there's no Heaven above, but the Universe instead?

Like I said before, I was in a "chimp" mood, so I drew a lot of monkeys lately, and this one is one of them - the most famous monkey of them all - The Monkey King from "Journey to the West". It's a shame that he's Chinese - ancestor of the guys who's invading Vietnamese sea and islands. But oh well, art is art, politics only polute it.

Alright, so hope you guys like this, will be back with a lot more art to come. See ya.

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...pace-215081568

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...tans-216106673

This is exactly what I had in my mind when I went out of the cinema after watching Megamind.


I totally dig Metroman so much that I want him to have a fight with Mr. Incredible so bad. It'll be one damn awesome fight. One represents the "Oscar" guys from Pixar, the other one fight for the guys who never get the Oscar. Right? Who else want to see a fight like this happens?

Yeah, and Megamind's gonna enjoy this fight too. Totally.

[splendidriver]

This summer, there are 4 different superhero movies: X-men: First Class, Green Lantern, Thor and Captain America. What if you don't have enough money to go to the cinema and see all of them? What if you think 4 superhero movies are too much for one summer?

Don't worry, that's why I'm bringing you all 4 of the mentioned superhero above into only ONE MOVIE, with only ONE SUPERHERO.

Ladies and Gentlemen, I'd like to introduce to you the CAPTAIN THOR LANTERN - PROTECTOR OF EARTH.

"Erik Rogers is a 25-year-old guy, was born when humanity is evolved to the stage that everybody is big and tall and strong. But by a strange mutation, he is only 1.45 meter tall. When the war began, Erik tried multiple times to enlist into the army and failed because of his small and weak body. Disappointed of himself, he drived to the forrest and found a dying blonde and big man. He said he came from a planet called Oasgard and gave Erik a strange ring “You’re chosen to be one of the Gods of the Universe, who are called the Thor Lantern, and your task is to protect the Earth”. He put on the ring and recognized himself becoming taller, bigger and a lot stronger, and with the lightning power of the ring, he can turn his thoughts into reality, a lightning hammer for example. But, right when he still didn’t figure out what was happening, he was kidnapped by a division of the government and recruited to the frontline and fight against the Red Loki, stopping him from taking over the world. And that’s how Captain Thor Lantern was born."

Yes, I'm in quite a mash-up mood, and it's so much fun doing stuffs like this. I'm sure gonna do more mash-up.

That's why I'll need you guys to give me some suggestions. I'll even do mash-up between manga and comic. So please, spread your ideas around. Thanks so much.

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...tern-217509565

[rumpenstiltzkin]

hehe cool idea , i like it

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...lass-234199434

Michael Fassbender and James McAvoy as Magneto/Erik Lensherr and Professor X/Charles Xavier from X-men: First Class.

I rarely do black and white art (actually, almost never), but when I do,.... I do it for fun. Haha sorry for the bad joke. But yes, the 2 amazing actors were incredibly at portraying 2 legendary comic characters. I really enjoy the movie so much and hope that the next X-movies will be as good as this one, especially The Wolverine.

And of course for the fan girls, there were a lot of hints about a "bromance" between Charles and Erik. Hope you'll enjoy this. Thank you.

[sin eater]

haha you got an awesome style. i like your pencils.. do more of those ...
btw captain thor lantern is awesome..... may be witchblade + silver surfer + hulk LMAO.. keep it coming man..

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...ruto-244211956

this picture is something I've always wanted to do. It's been a while since the last time I've ever did a manga fan art. And Naruto used to be one of the most favourite ones of mine. I dropped the manga right after Jiraya died, it started to be boring at that point.

Oh well, I don't know what more to say than I hope you'll enjoy this. Will be back with more mash-up art next week. Happy weekends, guys

[FightingSeraph]

That's a nice style you have there, and I would like for you to do some underused subject when available. Plus, I liked how you mixed the original Titans with Marv Wolfman's own.

[splendidriver]

Thank you very much, my friend .

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...nger-245470955

I've always wonder, what the hell are they "avenging" for? Who is it needs to get "avenge". It really gave the translator in my place a hard time translating that word. Oh well.

So, this is a picture I did around 3 weeks ago, and now it's being hanged on the wall at the Platinum Cinema Complex, The Garden Mall, Hanoi, Vietnam, you can see it right before you go into Cinema 4.

I have seen the movie, it was wicked awesome!!! The action, the humor, the actors and actresses, and the visual effects are all amazing and entertaining. Hugo Weaving and Chris Evans did their job justice, now I don't really know how to view the 2 characters differently. Especially Evans, he was AWESOME!!! The shield throws are badass!

What I can say is you guys should go see it right now, and don't forget to stay until the ending credit ends, you'll get to see one of the most badass things on the world - the Teaser Trailer for The Avengers 2012!

So, hope you guys like this, thank you very much

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...Hulk-251510316

Yes, you didn't read it wrong, it really IS Super Bat Hulk. Another freaking crazy Mash-up art I came up with last week. You all can recognize what these came from.

Here's the story for ya:

"Bruce El was born on planet Kryptopolis into a honorable scientists family. His parents discovered a terrible treason scheme against the whole planet, which was planned by the military based robot - Abranimation. Unfortunately, just before they had a chance to alert the planet's leaders, they were assasinated in a small alley, right in front of 10-year-old Bruce. Kryptopolis was annihilated right away by Abranimation with his terrifying power.

Yet Bruce El was saved by his auto-activated protecting device planted on his clothes by his parents to provide against any bad situation may come, then landed on Earth. Radioa-active effectivity from the explosion of Kryptopolis gave Bruce El special power when on Earth. Everytime his heart beat reaches above 200 beats per minutes, he'll become a giant creature with incredible physical power, the ability to fly, invunerable, heat vision, freezing breathe and super hearing.

He was adopted by Thomas Kent and Martha Banner - a billionaire couple on Earth. Changing his name into Bruce Kent, he's spent the rest of his life on Earth to study and research, continue his biological parents' incompleted project, and find Abrainimation.

Thanks to his amazing intelligence, plus the huge legacy inherited from his adopted parents, Bruce successed to finish the project, and found out the next target of Abrainimation: Earth.

With the help from the female housekeeper and lover - Betty Pennyross, could Bruce El aka Super Bat Hulk, stop this annihilation from Abrainimation, and protect his second home planet - Earth?"

[rumpenstiltzkin]

ah man love your mash ups, crazy fun stuff

[PeteWhite]

I love your style man!

[splendidriver]

@rumpenstiltzkin: Thank you very much, my friend ^^. It's always a fun thing to do rather than just doing fan arts.

@Petewhite: Really, thank you, I appreciate this a lot.

[splendidriver]

This was intended for a Spidey redesign contest from Project: Rooftop, but I missed the deadline badly since I was busy like crazy back then. Until now I have time and inspiration to finish this.

The idea is to give Peter a more realistic costume than the original one from the comics. I think this is the only way that a teenager can come up as his disguise when fighting for justice at midnight. I mean, how the hell a geek like Peter Parker can think of a tight suit? Seriously? And how can he climb walls with his fingers and feet covered by shoes and gloves? And a Jason-ish mask, in my opinion makes more sense.

All right, sorry for a long delay, I've been kept up by a lot of document work for the trip to the US. I'll be there this January, any one of you expecting to see me? I'll be in San Francisco for a course at the Academy of Art University.


http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...sign-269013621

[gunsbins]

love your style dude, the spiderman re-design looks cool too ! I'm glad to see another vietnamese sketchbook here, keep it up man !!!

[splendidriver]

http://fav.me/d4rpvj5

This was drawn in isometric for practice.

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...ment-291044291

A black and white practice on one-point perspective.

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...eler-293207467

This is the pencil sketch for my 2 point perspective assignment at the AAU. I was somehow inspired by the Avatar: The Last Airbender World.

I'm not gonna post the finished version with light and shadow, instead, I'm gonna put it into my next artbook/sketchbook, as long as many of my art and sketches that you're not gonna see online.

So if you're interested, wait for when I put together the book and publish it.

And in the mean time, check out these links for information on my 2011 artbook that I'm publishing on blurb.com.

If you find it too expensive and not gonna purchase it, please take a little time and tell your friends about it, I'll appreciate that a lot. (It's in printed price, I don't get any profit from it)

http://www.deviantart.com/users/outg...tbook-preview/

http://www.deviantart.com/users/outg...3129110&type=3

[splendidriver]

Continuing the long journey of The Traveler - the character that you met in my last deviation, this time, in a long fall to the great labyrinth of the fat monk statue (I just made that up).

Yes, I'm developing the character along with the world he's living and traveling too, through these perspective assignment I'm doing at school (AAU, you know).

And yes, again, if you're interested in sketches like these from me, wait till I put together an artbook contains tons of pencil sketches and black and white drawing I've been working on. It'll be around June or July, no later than that.

But in the mean time, you can purchase my 2011 artbook right now on blurb.com, just follow the link ---> http://www.blurb.com/bookstore/detail/3029119

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/#/d4vun5l

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...mith-296381350



I've been sucked into the amazing and mind-blowing universe of Doctor Who (2005 version) and now addicted to it. Just finished watching 6 seasons in only 1 week.

Matt isn't my favorite Doctor, he has a lot of interesting expression and personality to capture into a caricature.

Hope you guys dig it.

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...MBLE-300963646



The movie was freaking wonderful, off the hook, amazing, awesome and whatnot...

I WILL WATCH IT AGAIN!

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...ls-1-303014457



First half of the 10 DC girls drawings that I did in 2011 intended for the artbook, but it's kinda unlikely that anyone would spend their money on such an expensive thing by someone who's not achieved anything in the professional world.

But oh well. Hope you guys like it, the other half will be posted shortly.

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...ls-2-304600559



2nd half of the 10 DCU female characters that I did last year for the artbook.

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...-Air-306416891

One of the best TV Shows I've ever seen in my life. And of course, I'm gonna watch the hell out of Korra.

This is one of the stuffs I put into my 2011 artbook and a submissions to AAU 2012 Spring Show but wasn't chosen.

Hope you enjoy it

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...nger-321327339



"SPIDER BAT AVENGER"

Guess you guys already know what this is about. Of course, this is a crazy-ass combination between the 3 superheroes blockbuster this summer: The Amazing Spider-man, The Dark Knight Rises, and The Avengers.

"Peter Wayne was born into a billionaire family, but he lost his parents in an tragic and mysterious murder, their family business was broke, and he's spent his entire life with his Uncle Ben Wayne and Aunt May Wayne.

Since he was a boy, Peter showed that he's a genius in engineering, and he built his own business on that. One day, his company was commissioned some weapons for the government in the wars. When he was showing his weapons on the battlefield, he was ambushed and abducted by some terrorists and was severely wounded in his heart. In order to save himself, Peter designed an armor with the shape of a bat, the kind of animal that inhabitted in the cave he was held up.

When he came back home, he stopped making weapons, volunteered into a super-soldier project in order to develop his armor. He then upgraded his armor some new features like: flying, shoot spider-webs, lightning hammer, high-accracy arrows. Aside from all of that, the nuclear reactor in his chest changed his DNA, gave him a green skin, a 6th sense and increase his physical strength.

With these powers, he fought against Loki Skull, Joker Goblin, Lizard Bane,... and saved the world several times."

[splendidriver]

http://splendidriver.deviantart.com/...Maul-323228160

The idea is to draw a mash-up between Red Lantern and Darth Maul. Totally had fun with this.