Topcross' Sketchbook

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Thumbs and 'final' thumbnail for new school assigment.

For the assigment we had to go sketch the local mall, find an interesting composition, in which we'll have to design an environment set in an zombie-infested world.

[will123will]

like the stone spheres

[alizak]

OOOh zombie-infested world! Can't wait to see what you come up with!

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will123will Thanks.

alizak Don't expect areas crawling with zombies, we have to capture a hideout of a group of people, rather than just a bunch of zombies.

This weeks speedpainting off the speedpainting class. This time it was only like 35-40min because it took forever to agree on a subjectmatter. (I know, a stranded ship in the desert is kinda lame but I did not come up with it)

[WRappiii]

the textured spheres look like good practice.
cool speedpaint, too. where is the speedpainting class that you mentioned? Sounds like fun!

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WRappiii Thanks. The class is at the school I attend here in Belgium. :p

No time for drawing today Spend all day on this badboy for my 3D assigment, thought I'd post it up here aswell. (No materials on it yet, just grey). Probably going to make the stylus aswell before I turn it in.

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WRappiii Thanks. The class is at the school I attend here in Belgium. :p

Aww, too bad for me That DS is looking good!

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WRappiii Thanks. You could always check if there are art school around where you live.:p

Decided to continue working on that speedpaint I did a while back and push it to a finished painting. WIP:

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Another one, 1h20

[Urötskidoji]

Wow, the two newer ones shows a lot of improvement! I like the perspective in the "factory" one, nice foreground element and colors as well!
Keep working on your perspective, it´s getting better and better!

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Urötskidoji Thanks man.

Another quick one as warm-up before I start on my drawing assignment of this week:

[shockowaffel]

How about trying different brushes or brush sizes.
Your sketches seem to be dominated by one rather big round hard edged brush.
It looks better when your brush gets either bigger nd more blurry in the background or smaller (and maybe blurry).

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shockowaffel Thanks for the advice but for now I'll stick to using the one brush I like, I feel like I'm learing more this way than getting caught up in switching brushes all the time.
Also about the blurry brushes, alot of people, including my teachers at school, don't recommend using soft brushes because it usually ends up in undefined, blurry paintings.

Some progress on my school assigment, mainly the background still need alot of cleaning up and then more details ofcourse.

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Some more work on my school assigment, going to let this one rest for today because I'm bored with it.

[will123will]

nice work, like the ds

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will123will Thanks.

Another speedpaint, the reason I'm doing quite a few of these is because a bunch of my classmates and I created a facebook group where we try to post one speedpaint/ day to ensure we practise as much as possible.

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Progress on the school assigment:

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And finished with thumbnails:

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Some sketches from during class and first attempt to get a decent linedrawing in photoshop. Good thing about making lineart in photoshop for me is that I'm really forced to consider each line I make otherwise it becomes messy.:

[will123will]

First of all, really love the finished school assignment, definitely your best piece so far, now for some critique. I would say in some of your paintings the very darkest parts are maybe slightly to dark as they are almost going on black. Another thing would be that I think you should bring your enviro's to a more finished look as I can see you can with your school assigned piece. You should really knuckle down on the loomis book as I can see your already doing and I can see a lot of progress in all your work so far, keep it up.

[WRappiii]

That school assignment came out great. You're showing improvement!
Keep going the way you're going

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will123will Thanks man. Ye I have a tendancy to go too black, I just throw some adjustment layers on it at the end to fix it but I should try to avoid doing it in the first place. And I'm going to try push more enviro's to a more finished state now because I was quite supprised how far I already got the assigment at. Going to focus a bit more on studies again and in between just work on one longer piece rather than quick paint, just getting but bored with quick ones, and ofcourse they aren't as pretty.

WRappiii Thanks, much appreciated.

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Class assignment today, bit different than usual, pixelart, create game resources for a game we'll be programming in a couple of weeks (the background on spritesheets is usually magenta but I wont let you go through the horror of watching that :p) :

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Some changes in the lighting of the scene after feedback of my teacher:

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Some values studies, all from imagination

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Nice compositions on the last post.

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Will123Will Thanks

And another set:

[WRappiii]

cool value studies. those last two look eerie!

[Jaik]

Loving the work you've done recently. Hope you have fun programming your game. I love the feel you get from the colours in your enviros.. wish I was better at colour lol.

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WRappiii Thanks.

Jaik Thanks.


Speedpaint of my weekly class: