Liam conversations outside Innsmouth >uneasy interaction...

[Fellah.]

Whenever i feel a little tired after drawing for a couple of hours, i just need to go here to realize what a lazy bugger i really am. Nice work my friend!

[Jokisalo]

great penciles man, lotsa movement in there. i wish i could be as good as you. maby in future..
man havent heard of you any, have you looked up your private messages?
keep shoving us your crazynes

[liam.c]

fellah haha awsum .. fun =great stamina !lol

Jokisalo !!!hay man i sent you message .. i dont have irc though (


this was pretty fun much diffrent approch this time lota ps stuff .. i rand across thease old deadside comics and got really fired up to try it out in this way . theres a bit of painter in there also . i trye dofr libral use of textrue and patterns and even made a couple burshes

[Mr.Blonde]

the most recent batches of pencils are Pro level. VERY sweet. I caught myself staring at



for like 20 minutes, or so it seemed. sweetness..

what size paper is this? if you don't mind my asking

[mentler]

Super new paint :::: like the direction :::: colors are sweet :::: can tell you are having fun with the textures and brushes

[Chingo]

nice paint!!
love that subtle change of light and shadow.
they are great man.

[Groover McNab]

The last digital piece is nuts. Great job man! I especially like the way you handled the hands of the guy in blue.

[liam.c]

mrblond !thanks mate!oh its jsut crapy 8.5 by 11 printer paper .sketch book paper dosent lay flat has a ton of tooth and the surface will break if useing an hb and try to bring it to black in a few strokes ,also godamn prices are insaine. so ive switched to printer paper usuly try and get the brightest white i can and then bind them after i have a stack of 300 pages for sketch book for archive reasons . id like to buy a book binding macheen so i can do some nice hard cover binds ,maby some day lol

mentler ! much fun lol i tryed all kind of diffrent things i hadent tryed befor some ill keep in mind some ill ditch

chingo !!! thanks man awsum stuff man you been doing especialy i really liek the joints and articulation of your macheens !

grover !!!!! you been kiking the good paints too man !!!!lota tricks on that last one

coffie sketches agean
talkin about edges a cha sketch for my candyland file <some day maby it will be a full story >and i wanted to do a left to right insted of up and down compisition but didnt get to far with it

[liam.c]

man check this out !http://forums2.warcry.com/read.phtml?f=53&id=743150

[Pesmerga]

Check what out??

[nicrad]

Liam, you're pencil's are so damn sharp. Cut the eyeballs sharp. It's a wonderful thing. Really good stuff, expressive no matter what your sketching. Occassionally I'm craving some tighter areas on the paints, like a head or a hand that emerges from the loose lines and fill out completely.. but what's my deal because this is your sketchbook. Anyway keep them coming. Five stars!

Nic*Rad

[Jokisalo]

Looking very good man, especially this ONE
Man i didnt get any messages from you :/ dunno, where did you send it? to my email? Try out now, i changed it so it should wor now. Hopefully..

[clogik]

i like that last crazy digi sketch. it digs.

[maxetormer]

Duuudeee!!!! thanks a whole bunch for the encouragment your post
really boosted up my entusiam in doing more experiments and in
not allowin the downs in my work to stop me form keeping on
trying to get better, your idea about seeing only the feet while
walking on the stairs of learing its rigth on the money, I must not
focus on my clumsy feet and instead I should be looking up towards
my goals

Well aside that your doing sum really cool work aroud here, Im really
diging the textures on the bear in the first page, and the fellow smoking
feels really natural in his stance, last page figures could use some more
loving on the knees they look a bit bone less, nothing mayor tho.

This one has sum photo realistic qualities that mixed with you
paintery style that truly rocked my socks:
july6th25xg.jpg

So does this one:
june28th26gc.jpg

Your dedication and experimenting is a huge inspiration dont
ever stop man, killer stuff your doing lately
(not that you werent doing killer stuff before but hell your getting
even better now a days )

[rodrigo!]

awesome work man!!!
your dedication is really showing and shining though,
thanks for sharing!!

[REAU]

your pencil work is getting really tight

-reau-

[liam.c]

Pesmerga that link theres a story about in china thay opend a clinic for people addicted to online games lol ..not really all that funny though ....i had a friend that was playign so much he lost his biznuss his wife and kids and his house ... then he moved in with his friend so he could keep playing :/ big suq

nicrad haha well your not supposed to rub your eyes on the screen man ! thanks alot mate !
agree about the crit too mate itl come i think painting and more so digital painting is years behind pen pencil and marker for me

clogik thanks man !!! you rockin over there man !


rodrigo! !!!! hay man how ya been !!!! good to see ya !!!! thanks for stopin in !


REAU !!! missing your updates man ! hehe this update will make ya rethink that lol

maxe man thanks alot for stopin in and encorageing me mate ! allways witht he good crits too ! keep shreding man !!!!!!

ok heres a gagle of sketch and shit while drinking coffie verrry unfocuased lota people around distractions and stuff .some are verry quick and upside down sketches some are side ways attempts .one page the torso one is jsut hiting diffrent angles and twisting some are just macheenguning thumbs and minis nothing too exciting

[liam.c]

http://www.1up.com/do/feature?cId=3141815 :/ sad sad

[codakromek]

Thought it would be prudent to state just how impressive your pages are... Love the direction your digital has taken over the last couple of pages....How much is PS and how much is painter??? Any tips on cross pollenation????

Some standard fare as far as crits and advice are concerned,,but what the hey,,,,,,

I think you could benefit from some sort of pre-peice thumbnail study on a lot of the digital.......maybe not the more crowded,,,atmospheric scenes,,,but when there is just one figure and a bit of chiroscuro,,,it is helpful to know the tonal layout beforehand so you can "design" the way you lay it down more in terms of directional strokes and being more prescient through complex areas like knees and shit in the actual painting.....


In a lot of the pencils that are more finished and character oriented,,,I could see you establishing some more volume and punch by working some of the shading out of the confines of the figure itself...By this I mean plopping a bit of a shadow under some and definitly adding some darks around and behind some of the forms...An example would be to draw the core shadow of say, an arm....and then instead of drawing a line to define the outline of the arm, shade outward from where that line would be, you know? It gives a drawing more interactivity w/ the ground (surface, not firmament) It is a good way to get a lot of work out of your reflected highlights and forms that are only a tiny peek out of complete shadow......

You already do it real well in the paints,, but it seems like you do because you are cutting things out more with tonal shifts toward white in that context, leaving more passages of shadow from inside the figure directly to the bg and ground you are working on... In order to bring that into your analog pencils, you have to selectively darken areas w/out the benefit of a new layer option,,, so the process is different. Since you eastablish a lightsource so well,, for you it could be as simple as just laying the pencil on more of a slant and getting more out of your marks, a less recognizable "line" if you will.

okayyyyy,,,guess it just takes me a while to explain simple shit, hehe.

bye now

[liam.c]

coda sounds good man good suggestions mate!

ok not much for now thease done after not sleeping for liek 30 hours and working all day in the sun lol mna i just cant stay up like i used to lol

[liam.c]

oops coda on the painter/ps thing just switch as either the whim or for the tools some things are done better/easyer in each <well for me it seems >

well its been a year since i started this thing gnna take a brake i think from posting for a bit wanna thank all you guys for your support and suggestions !!!!!! CA

[mentler]

We don't get no stinkin' breaks >>>>>> hey, seriously I will miss you <<<<<<<

[Mrdes]

This great sketchbook is gonna sink to the bottom now! Hehe someone's gonna have to bump it every now and then. Later dude.

[hurricane]

a break !!!!!????

damn mna, im gonna miss your stuff man!
even if i dont reply so much i always watch it!

some killer stuff man ! impressive


cheers man !!!

[maxetormer]

Damet man! it sucks that your gonna stop posting
but if ya fell like you need to focus on diferent things
thats cool, your will be missed, I hope ya come back
around to post on some time, just to see the new
goods you will be cooking at home, thanks for the posts
on my thread as well bro.

Best of Luck dude, keep on studing and experimenting!!!!
we ought to do a drawing maraton some day if we ever
ecounter our paths.




6 stars cause you earn the extra one

[Fellah.]

Hope its a small break dude. For every fricking drawing i see here you go a level up - pretty amazing man! Just hoping you will keep the good stuff coming out of your hand anyway.

[liam.c]

!!!!!! damn dident meen to give the wrong impression .. hehe not quiting or leaveing ... posting and scaning and all that just takes alot of time so need to scale back on it a bit . and i promise that im not slackin theres a good 20 pages here since the other day and 3 paintings lol .ill jsut do a big dump every once and a while probably .
you guys kik ass thanks alot for giveing support guys !!!!!
i might not have a choice on posting shortly unless i find a job or some thing lol so if i dissapear for a bit no worries ill be back !!!

ok soory not indivdual replys but im real damn sleepy
heres some thing i did tonight some one had this like china marker .. or a grease pencil or some thing was pretty cool did a couple sketchs with it . its verry cool but impossable to hit small spots so hit it with a couple in ps . going for maby an andrew wyeth feel i guess <soo godamn hot here had too cool it down a bit with some snow >

[heri]

nice!!

love the forms and figures.

-heri

[liam.c]

heri ! thanks mate!


menter maxe mrdes bjorn fellah agean mates thanks soo much !!!

woke up and did this i still got a ton to post but most require scanin ... oh speaking of scanning !!! scannerdarkly looks soo fukin great !!!!!!!!itl be real nice if thay do pkd some justice finly <well since bladerunner anyway>

[Syrogen]

jesus dude, i remember when you started this thread.. its amazing how much youve improved in 1 year. this totally inspires me to get my ass in gear