The Aether Technician's Sketchbook

**Aether Technician** · October 10th, 2012, 10:18 PM

I'm relatively new here...but I've been posting a bit in Entertainment Design.

So...here's some previous sketch dumps:
[Monongahela]
[Granby]
[Ottawa]

and here's some stuff I doodled today:

I'm a beginner, so criticism is definitely appreciated.

**Aether Technician** · October 12th, 2012, 03:58 PM

**Lukeine** · October 12th, 2012, 05:30 PM

Oooh, liking your linework here, especially in your clouds and smoke. Always fun, turning scribbles into coherent shapes. It looks like you do something like what's being done in this video in regards to coming up with ideas, which is interesting. Be cool to see a fully rendered piece from you, see how that goes. I sometimes feel like my pieces get worse as rendering proceeds due to mistakes, or losing some of that "sketchy magic".

**Aether Technician** · October 13th, 2012, 04:59 PM

some glitch art...critiques are welcome

**Aether Technician** · October 13th, 2012, 11:23 PM

Here's a thing.
Critiques are appreciated.

**Aether Technician** · October 15th, 2012, 09:39 AM

Thanks for the feedback! I made some silhouettes with a pink hilighter and went over it in pen. You can find some rendered stuff here.
I see that you're new...not everything takes that long to post...I think that after a week, it doesn't need to be moderator approved and you can post instantly

**Aether Technician** · October 15th, 2012, 05:49 PM

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30 min sketch

**Aether Technician** · October 16th, 2012, 04:51 PM

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trying to upload some stuff from my phone...

**Joe777k7** · October 16th, 2012, 05:24 PM

Awesome sketches! Mechs are looking sweet! Rendering is getting pretty good as well with the digital paintings! Good start to your sketchbook! Cant wait to see more

**Aether Technician** · October 18th, 2012, 11:38 AM

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Here's some more. As always, critiques are apreciated.

**Aether Technician** · October 18th, 2012, 07:13 PM

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20 min speedpaint
critiques?

**Aether Technician** · October 19th, 2012, 04:26 PM

here's a turtle in a fedora. It was sort of a request from a friend
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**Aether Technician** · October 19th, 2012, 09:03 PM

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very speedy sketch. Like 5 minutes.

**Aether Technician** · October 22nd, 2012, 11:48 AM

**Aether Technician** · October 22nd, 2012, 10:10 PM

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quick sketch and possible halloween costume
loosely based on renaissance doctors

**Psychobuddy** · October 22nd, 2012, 10:20 PM

Good start, maybe throw in some studies, it really helps in sharpening your skills to tip top! Keep posting.

**Aether Technician** · October 22nd, 2012, 10:37 PM

Thanks for the feedback! I'll try to do some anatomy studies soon.
here's another speedpaint...because I'm bored tonight but I don't really want to start a finished piece.
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**Aether Technician** · October 23rd, 2012, 12:33 AM

Originally Posted by Burton679

calculate it from there.

Sorry...I'm not sure what you're talking about and the images 404ed. I would recommend using the image uploader here unless the pic is already somewhere stable.
Still...even meaningless posts are somewhat encouraging! so thanks.

**Jenny Jacobs** · October 23rd, 2012, 12:53 AM

Your mechanical designs are pretty well structured, human anatomy needs some work with proportions... but I'm sure you already knew that. Practice makes perfect, good start!

**Aether Technician** · October 23rd, 2012, 11:35 AM

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my anatomy is messed. it's messed bad.
doing some studies to try to correct it.
criticism is apreciated.

**Aether Technician** · October 25th, 2012, 11:36 AM

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not many sketches today...here a picture of my cat rolled up in cover as a bonus.

**Aether Technician** · October 26th, 2012, 11:28 AM

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more anatomy studies and some typeface stuff.
citiques are welcome.

**Aether Technician** · October 26th, 2012, 06:13 PM

speedpaint
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**Aether Technician** · October 26th, 2012, 07:18 PM

here's another one...I should work on my portraits...this isn't so good. critiques?
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**Aether Technician** · October 29th, 2012, 11:44 PM

I'm trying to develop a stylization that's not too influenced by manga...here's what I have so far...
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I'd really like some critiques on these... Stylization has always been pretty hard for me and I'd like to get better.

**Aether Technician** · November 1st, 2012, 11:20 PM

Yay! Self Portrait Day!
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This is my first time doing this...is it a faux pas to post your self portrait in this thread as well as your sketchbook?

**Aether Technician** · November 2nd, 2012, 05:03 PM

some flying machine thumbnails
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**Aether Technician** · November 4th, 2012, 12:01 AM

A few t-shirt design thumbnails for a friend
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**Aether Technician** · November 6th, 2012, 11:34 AM

horses! everyone likes horses!
I've been busy recently, so I haven't kept up with my studies...hopfully I'll be posting more often.
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