Eightball's Sketchbook (updated May 20)

[Eightball_]

update: i'm 20 now!

Hey guys, I’m 18, been digi-painting for about a year and a half now. Still tons of shit to figure out/learn/suck less at…

I used to frequent these boards a while back but I recently graduated high school so I thought it was as good a time as any for a fresh start
and a new sketchbook. I also post under eightball at sijun.

Here’s some concepts and speedies:









No ref, no 3d:

[NickyBeats]

whoa nice work! for being so young, and only painting for a short time, these look great! keep it up! i see lots of potential coming from here!

[Eightball_]

NickyBeats: Thanks man!

Just a coupla things.







And a 10 minute speedy thing

[skMOP]

Your sketches and speedies are really solid, I'd say this is the beginning of something great

[VengePool]

Absolutely beautiful work. Keep it up! Love the different concepts.

[Mussy]

Totally agree, u have a lot of potential. If u continue working ur understanding, u'll turn into a butterfly pretty soon!
U have good sense of value, one thing i could say is maybe work on perspective. Two of ur pieces which have perspective in them seem to be a little shaky.

[Eightball_]

skMOP: Thanks, glad you like it

VengePool: Thanks VengePool!

Mussy: Yeah I need to keep working on perspective. I guess too much. I really need sit my ass down and be more precise and accurate when it comes to perspective (plot out correct vps, drawthrough, etc). That's why I'm still a caterpillar . Anyway, thanks for the crit!

Another set of concepts. Inspired by Khang Le and John Park.





Civilian vehicle:



And a haterbot (Ashley Wood fanart lol)

[Eightball_]

Wanted to try my hand at a couple Mullins-ish biker girls:





And a speedy

[RickyRubyo]

only 18 and already pumping out quality work. nice lighting and concepts. lots of confidence in your strokes. keep it up.

5 bones man!

[Eightball_]

RickyRubyo: wow, thanks man!

Some pencils (obvious influence is obvious)

[Velocity Kendall]

yep, good work. looking solid.
time to play with it; draw things youve seen in your minds eye whilst daydreaming or reading; use whatever reference you need and push yourself hard. youre the director of a movie with infinite budget. what do you do?

[Eightball_]

Velocity Kendall: Thanks man, I like that analogy!

A few quickies and tests:







40 min greyscale sketch:



And an acrylic painting...I'm not really good at this stuff

[PHATandy]

It would be good to do some slightly longer paintings. Work on removing the 'looseness' and tighten it up, will help you define a focus too and work out some kinks. Also where your clearly thinking about perspective it looks a lot better, so maybe keep that in mind for every painting you do.
Keep up the hard work!

[Forrest_I]

Your environments are very well done, I'd love to see more detail go in to those. But you should really work more on your anatomy, most of your characters have a few flaws in them. Keep drawin

[Eightball_]

PHATandy: Thanks man, yeah I really need to sit my ass down and finish something. As for the perspective I'm trying to check things more, and now that I look at some older paintings I kinda wanna go back and correct the shitty structure. Which goes hand in hand with the sitting my ass down and finishing something ordeal so that's a win-win I think.

Forrest_I: Thanks Forrest! Yeah there's this thing called sucking and I need to do less of it...

Trying my hand at more cinematic compositions.

[palladium]

Damn, those speedies are hot dude. Nice color and value, looks like you are on your way up. Great sketchbook Ed. Will definitely drop by again soon

[Metal Fingers]

Lookin good man, putting in a lot of work. Some photostudies to expand the visual library would be cool, cheers!

[angriufos]

Awesome work! Keep it up!

[Eightball_]

palladium: Thanks man, glad you like it

Metal Fingers: Thanks man! I do photo studies now and then, but they're just quick color studies so I didn't think they were worth posting.

angriufos: Thanks !

Been playing a lot of Bulletstorm lately so I was inspired by all those destroyed, yet still lush environments:



Might refine this one further:



And another "cinematic" speedy:

[GoGoJojo]

Hey, you've got a cow boy too! but instead of on a tiny horse, he's just plain tiny XD. Really like your stuff, the pinks and greens on that one cinematic comp really catch my eye. And I definitely think that you should refine that one in the last post

[prsnsweeney]

dude really nice paintings man it would be cool to see u take one of these and try and polish it up and give it a more finished feel

[a la bapsi]

sup eddie, thanks for dropping a comment in my sketchbook. :]
it's a pleasure to see your works on your blog and around here ! I would love to see a much more rendered version of any of your concepts--throw in a few extra hours in one of your paintings and see what happens ! o_o

[Npc Rebellion]

Hey man, you have some really great stuff going here! As an artist of 16 and a bit myself I think it's safe to say I really admire your work Your environments particularly have a real strength, depth, and often wonder to them! A real skill.
Whilst I don't really feel able to judge, one thing I'd like to suggest is to put some extra time into your characters/anatomy, I feel they just need a bit more "umph" to support their surroundings fully.

But as I say, I don't feel able to judge, all I can really do is hope to be as good as this when I hit 18 I hope I could be of some help. You have a real talent, and a great wod of potential to go with it! I hope to see more from you soon! Keep posting! ^^

[Eightball_]

GoGoJojo: Thanks, glad you like it. Did some refining, just not that one hehe

prsnsweeney: Thanks man!

a la bapsi: Aww thanks. And uh...here you go!

Npc Rebellion: Thanks man. Don't ever feel like you shouldn't judge/critique. you don't have to be a director to know a movie sucks, know what I mean? and 2 years is a lot of time to improve. just keep haulin ass!

Refined this one a bit more:



And some more paintz:









hah and another shit acrylic painting. Kind of had Tom Scholes on the back of my mind. doesn't really compare though:

[Eightball_]

just an experiment:

[neonndreams]

i love your work! feels like it's straight out of a video game (: your stuff looks awesome. i like third picture in your first post a lot.

[Eightball_]

neondreams: thanks, glad you like it! and yeah video games are cool...too cool, if you ask me. i waste too much time playing them.

wip for EOW (Shanghai 2112):



might post some steps later...

[Stantz]

Amazing environments, last one reminds me of Bladerunner, so atmospheric.
Keep it up, looking forward to more!

[RickyRubyo]

Saw your wip in the EOW thread. sweet concept, lighting and composition. Lookin good!

[CountBlackula]

Fantastic job, dude.