Chris Anderson's Sketches A Day

**JoshuaTheJames** · June 9th, 2004, 07:28 PM

Man! There are such cool things happening in this it makes me wish the drawing of the Face, foot and hand were more flushed out. Argg...cool!

-Joshua

hahahhahaha you used the "Art Button!" I mean leaf brush! hahah.

**Groover McNab** · June 9th, 2004, 07:57 PM

hehehe. don't knock the leaf brush! all photoshop users will use it at least once in their life :p

now if it were a leaf brush with a lens flare on it, it'd be a different story...

**Yina** · June 10th, 2004, 02:11 AM

the last one is cool, its too bad you didn't get around to finishing it but it looks good already

**lowpolymatt** · June 10th, 2004, 06:52 AM

The tutorial is superb. Really nice job done on showing the progress through your work.

Great stuff!

**van** · June 10th, 2004, 10:11 AM

Oh, man. Chris, dude, you should really finish that one. I can feel it.

**Chris J. Anderson!** · June 10th, 2004, 02:49 PM

**van** · June 10th, 2004, 02:53 PM

:chug: Yah! Another one! I love your painting style, dude. I love it! You make it look very easy.

**Yina** · June 10th, 2004, 02:56 PM

very stylish and nice, great vibrant colours and cool looking girl :chug:

**Groover McNab** · June 10th, 2004, 03:58 PM

Coolness. I love your style! You exaggerate things and they still look spot on. I have a question though, do you add noise to different parts of the pic, or are those just custom brushes creating the noise effect?

**Eric UNSL** · June 12th, 2004, 01:28 AM

I'm curious too. What are you doing to achieve that grainy look? Been trying to figure out a way of doing it with different layer settings and opacities but no luck so far. Got me stumped chris. Nice work by the way.

**Chris J. Anderson!** · June 12th, 2004, 01:57 AM

Thanks everyone.

Groover McNab & Eric UNSL - Yeah for that chick and other paintings with this more simplified color look, I used the noise filter to give me some grain, I played around with the filters option a little, and played around with it more on the painting after I applied it to make it look a little less computered. On other paintings, some times I don't use the noise and instead, modified brushes that give me different types of grain for a different surface texture/tool texture look. Sometimes don't us em at all, and try to create texture through paint opacities.

Yeah it took me a while to figure out why photoshop with default tools and a blank document looked so slick and waxy with no grain like you have in reality. Photoshop was pissing me off with it's slick, flat, no 'surface grain or texture' look I was getting when I first used it. Felt like I was painting with crisco oil.

**TARGETE** · June 12th, 2004, 03:41 AM

Damn Chris, you have a flowing style man, it really moves. pLEASE CONTINUE POSTING!

JP

**insane visions** · June 12th, 2004, 03:57 AM

love the one behind the tree.....complete dopeness

**Chris J. Anderson!** · June 25th, 2004, 12:20 PM

Been away from threads a bit. Here's a quick bat chick concept. Drawn and painted in PS. Loosening up more.

-C

**metaphysiks** · June 25th, 2004, 12:22 PM

last couple posts have been really fresh, fun and stylish. i have no complaints. would love to see more.
meta

**xia** · June 28th, 2004, 02:48 AM

Good lord!!! I really dig your style. The GirlBat is crazy awesome!

**van** · June 28th, 2004, 10:27 AM

:ep:

Awesome work.

**Chris J. Anderson!** · June 29th, 2004, 03:10 PM

Thanks guys.

I got inspired to see where my quick gesture out-of-my-head, figure drawing skills are now. The next few posts may be just figure drawing. Here's this one. This is all done in photoshop. I think I've finally created a technique that allows me to just do things entirely in photoshop. I guess I'll see how far I get with that.

**Chris J. Anderson!** · June 29th, 2004, 05:38 PM

A little sloppy in areas. I'm trying to kill the laziness, so I don't slip in areas.

**Chris J. Anderson!** · June 29th, 2004, 05:59 PM

Ah, I got three in a row done, but the inspiration ends here. This is the quickest one I did outta my head, took about 10 or 20 minutes. I love using graphic shapes.

**ShamrockSpecial** · June 29th, 2004, 06:08 PM

Dang.....!!! Your stuff is so awesome.

**Chris J. Anderson!** · July 1st, 2004, 06:18 PM

**jetpack42** · July 1st, 2004, 06:22 PM

You've got something really slick picking up speed here.

**emilpaun** · July 2nd, 2004, 04:45 AM

Okey, I'm posting here just to receive a notification when you update LOL
Really inspirational thread and very frustrating as well

I love it!

**van** · July 2nd, 2004, 11:41 AM

Keep it up, Chris! Im looking forward to more.

**Chris J. Anderson!** · July 7th, 2004, 06:59 PM

Thanks guys.

Here's a sneak preview of a character I finished up for a new project.

-C

**xia** · July 7th, 2004, 07:02 PM

Originally Posted by Chris J. Anderson!

I call this one brillient. Love it.

**Groover McNab** · July 7th, 2004, 07:03 PM

Haha. That anteater is great!

Well unless it's not supposed to be an anteater, then I apologize for the comment

**Chris J. Anderson!** · July 13th, 2004, 11:48 AM

Xia >> Haha! Thanks man. I was in a lucky groove with that one.

Groover McNab >> Yeah, thats an anteater, gettin ready to sip his ant tea. I'm glad you like.

Here's a figure drawing sketch. I know I could have when further with this. It took an hour all together. I may go in and really detail the hell out of the face or arm and hand, torso area, at some point.

Here's the messy, incomplete line drawing.