Lakai's sketchbook

**LtPlissken** · December 29th, 2012, 06:35 AM

I know what you mean about getting distracted by the holidays, I think all of us are
influenced by some Christmas Santa feasting spirit. But I am glad that you pulled of some
nice concepts, even when it’s party time. Excellent sword design, I think that you have
the great ability to design unique weapons and armors. All the best in the future, have
a lot of things that you want and what you love.

**Lakai** · December 29th, 2012, 07:12 PM

Syle thx alot, k heres more

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LtPlissken oh thx, i'm trying to do more personal work, concepts and stuff. Have to break some bad habbits first

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gestures, some quick design chellanges we do with the skype study group and some stuff i do to improve my drawingskills...

**Yemi775** · December 29th, 2012, 10:41 PM

Nicely drawn figures man, good work. sexy gestures too, keep 'em coming.

**Lakai** · December 30th, 2012, 10:19 PM

Yemi

thank you mate.

small update
I try to get more into expressions, thx for the ref material wing

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**Lakai** · January 2nd, 2013, 11:12 PM

played around with brush settings etc.

**Cyberman** · January 2nd, 2013, 11:31 PM

Truly great Sketchbook man! love all the studies I enjoyed seeing your pencils too. Thanks for posting

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**will123will** · January 3rd, 2013, 02:51 AM

Haha, so those were the expressions you were doing the other night when we were on skype, they look great

, Also love the illustration on the last page and the creature head in the last post, would love to see how you go about constructing heads, gonna have to spam you with questions haha

**Izzual** · January 3rd, 2013, 05:15 AM

Those last heads are very cool ! Keep it up !

**maXmood** · January 3rd, 2013, 05:21 AM

Love your work! keep it up!

**Matthias Kinnigkeit** · January 11th, 2013, 09:26 AM

Hey Lakai! Nice SB! If your searching some more reference material for facial expressions I can recommend you "Facial Expressions" A visual Reference for Artists by Mark Simon. It containes hundrets of images and also shows the various expressions from a few diffrent angles. Furthermore the models are of various age and ethnic groups.

**Lakai** · January 11th, 2013, 02:00 PM

Matelo hi thx mate, already have it

its a great book. But i think the exaggerated once help me the most atm.
maxmood thx
Izzual thank you
will123will your welcome to ask questions .. dont know if I'm that helpful tho
Sean McClain thx for the kind words.

still struggle with my linequality. Any ideas how to improve on that besides drawing like a maniac?
Haven't too much to show, I experimented alot lately dont gonna show that stuff I think it would be rather boring to look at random forms and stuff

**Cerasela** · January 11th, 2013, 02:09 PM

great stuff lakai ,i dont know where you see the problems with hands O.o ,go go

**Matthias Kinnigkeit** · January 11th, 2013, 06:29 PM

Hey again Lakai! I gave a look at your homepage. The pice that shows this guy in profile, who has that glowing things on the back is in my opinion your best pice and the lava spitting bug is also pretty nice, but you may want to fix the perspective of that right food of the rocket guy because it looks very awkward. I also think that you could exchange some of your portfolio pices with some of more recent work in your SB cos I think some of those are better. Some of the once from post 95 for example. Thanks for stopping by my SB by the way

**limsh** · January 11th, 2013, 10:37 PM

good stuff

nice, clean paintings and drawings. keep it up!!

**Hyunjae** · January 12th, 2013, 12:04 AM

Like what you are doing with the expressions, hope to see more soon. those hand studies are great as well

**LtPlissken** · January 12th, 2013, 07:40 AM

Those greyscale monster faces, awwwww, I am fascinated, top notch,
top notch high standard destructive things. Motivation and high power all
around. Those stitches on the fellows head, gave me fantastic ideas.
You are a king and you know that.
Keep on smudging up the mushrooms
with wet brushes from below.

**Wingal** · January 12th, 2013, 02:02 PM

Originally Posted by Lakai

still struggle with my linequality. Any ideas how to improve on that besides drawing like a maniac?
Haven't too much to show, I experimented alot lately dont gonna show that stuff I think it would be rather boring to look at random forms and stuff

CTRL Z redraw CTRL Z repeat. Also warm ups like drawing straight lines on top of one another.

**JayZii** · January 12th, 2013, 02:06 PM

Great hand, head and figure studies. Nice, succinct line quality.

**Lakai** · January 12th, 2013, 08:25 PM

Cera its not the forms i have problems with, i mean I definitly have to improve on that as well but what I'm not glad with is the line quality.
Matelo hi thanks for the advice. Yea i def. have to update the stuff on my website. I'm working on my new portfolio I gonna do that when im finished with it.
Limsh thank you
Hyunjae have some more for u

. I'll try to do them on a daily basis from now on.
Plissken I'm glad u can get something out of it for ur own work. Thx for all ur effort.
Wing haha yea thx for ur help.
JayZii thx!

Btw. sry if i missed to answer on some sketchbooks :/

Some more starcraft2 portraits, those were really fun to do. Also some expressions but pretty rough...

**Yemi775** · January 12th, 2013, 10:20 PM

i take every and most advice thanks for stopping by Lakai. Your recent updates are great, i enjoy the value stuff. keep 'em coming!

**MrFrenik** · January 13th, 2013, 09:18 PM

Great stuff, Lakai; your lines and values are very strong.

**Cerasela** · January 13th, 2013, 10:03 PM

ah oki lakai , great update though like the expressions ! now use them on the starcraft characters ;P

**Lakai** · January 13th, 2013, 10:28 PM

Cera thank you
MrFrenik Thx

Yemi775 good idea

, gonna do more of the starcraft portraits really like to do them

Hands and feet studys, expressions, gestures and the last one is for mental libary thats why i kept it so rough.

**sytrex** · January 13th, 2013, 10:31 PM

Great faces! You have a good touch with your lines.

**Care** · January 14th, 2013, 08:14 AM

Man AWESOME expressions, great hands and gestures, and those faces are great! keep it up, loving the different head structures, maybe start on female heads?
also what about environments

**ConnyNordlund** · January 14th, 2013, 08:32 AM

Strong progress, I feel that the studies you do really gets applied to your work. Keep it up!

**Stephane Perez** · January 14th, 2013, 10:50 AM

Oh lakai, how do you get yo lines so fresh.

**Geist02** · January 14th, 2013, 12:47 PM

Great work Lakai, I really like your face, hands and feet studies. Your lines are so clean! Are they all 1 take or do you clean up the lines after you do like a rough sketch to get the shapes?

**fersteger2** · January 14th, 2013, 12:53 PM

Very nice hands and feet and expression studies. Your linework is getting very tight and clean, keep it up!!

**Lakai** · January 15th, 2013, 05:34 PM

fersteger2 thx

nice to hear that
Geist02 i often block in the basic shapes, sometimes not depends on my mood

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Stephane i try to loosen up its pretty hard for me but i think it will pay off
ConnyNordlund thx alot
Care thx alex. Yea environments ... I think I have to confront myself with them soon
Sytrex thank you

More mental libary stuff and gestures. I know it's boring to look at this stuff :/.

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