POWERLEVEL - Nick Low

[Nick Low]

Hi guys,

My name's Nick Low and I am from Melbourne, Australia and am a student undertaking the Bachelor of Industrial Design at RMIT.
With a couple of years more until I graduate, I wanted to use this opportunity to share my journey as I progress along the coming years.

I sincerely hope by regular practice, I can achieve my dreams and goals and hopefully land a career in the Entertainment Design industry like many of you folks here at CA.

I thank you for your time and I hope you will follow me on my journey over the years to come!

Feel free to post any critiques and feedback as they are highly encourage to aid my learning! Cheers!

All images arranged from Old to New

[Nick Low]

I wanna start my stuff in grayscale as I am not feeling confident enough to work in colour at this moment.
I want to focus on getting values and linework down pat first

[Nick Low]

Some landscape thumbnails

[Damien Levs]

Great start here. Really looking forward to seeing how this thread turns out. Keep going!

[Nick Low]

A landscape piece based on #13 thumbnail
Was rather tricky but I tried to remember from memory what Feng did in his videos lol

[Olooriel]

Awesome thumbnails, would love to see more of them developed into full paintings!

[Nick Low]

Hydra Illustration

[Nick Low]

Tweaked.

[Nick Low]

Valuessss

[Nick Low]

After coloured

[Nick Low]

Miranda Kerr Portrait

[Nick Low]

Yay for colour portrait >.<

[Icedearth15876]

Very nice i like your digital paintings can't wait to see more

[Nick Low]

Prometheus Eyeworm study? lols

[Freshfool]

Dude that eye worm study is siick! great stuff man, keep posting

[Nick Low]

Thanks guys for viewing my SB
Hope you'll stick around!

[Nick Low]

An hour digital marker sketcharoo of Ailee for achieving Best New Female Artist Award @ MAMA2012

Was rly fun to do. Sure kept the blood pumpin'

I think I'll do more of these in the future. Inspired by Artgerm hehe!

[Nick Low]

lazymanfailsketch lolol
I think I much prefer the marker approach

Experimentz.

[Nick Low]

IU

[Nick Low]

Fixed after critique

[Kjesta]

Really nice work. I especially like the thumbnails and that eye study! There's one thing that bugs me though about the guy fighting the dragpn (?). The bit of rock floating above him draws focus away from him because it has such strong contrast against the red backdrop - contrast always draws the eye and I'm guessing we should focus on the guy and the dragon, not the rock? I'd desaturate(tint it but not take it away, it gives a really nice sense of compression to the figure.

[Nick Low]

Cheers for the advice How's that?
I hope this is what you meant

[Kjesta]

Much better in my opinion

[Nick Low]

Aiming for painterly look

[Nick Low]

My Bloody Valentine
League of Legends style haha

[MeteorCat]

I personally liked it in black & white but it's great nonetheless. I definitely think this painterly style is more attractive but it's just my humble opinion.

[Nick Low]

Agreed The black and white in the painterly style was really fun to do. Much prefer it than aiming for photorealism. I was inspired by the artist Jeremy Mann and his gorgeous oil on canvas pieces. I hope to experiment more with different approaches to see what suits me best.

Thanks for viewing my sketchbook!

[Nick Low]

Started this one straight into colour. Defs tricky but was good since I learnt lots about how colour and values interact with one another.

[Nick Low]

Fixed. Final. Done.

[Jizu]

you got some really nice work going! keep them up!