my sketchbook (update feb 18)

**melmann** · January 9th, 2003, 01:42 AM

Welp here goes the first post. Was playin around tonite and finally got enough nerve to post here.

and another one that Im workin on:

added Heres one I was playin with tonite just a "for fun":

added :and emperor's got a brand new bag:

and a nother work in progress that I thought id add here as well since Im makin this my art place (my first total painter piece:

and the final:

and playing tonite (jan 30):

and a piece(second in painter) Ive done for my girl from one of her calendars: (feb 12)

crawler(added feb 18)

Peece,
Mel

**ODIN SIX** · January 9th, 2003, 02:07 AM

Awesome ,,, Your Pencil work is tight!!!!!!

After the first one it gets easier

**I.was.ink** · January 9th, 2003, 02:21 AM

i love the attention u gave to detail in them. The first one reminds me of a zombie from resident evil. Have u ever colored any of these before? if u have post some of those!

**melmann** · January 9th, 2003, 02:30 AM

Thanks ODIN SIX,
I appreciate the comment and you takin the time to look it over. I hope it does (gulp)

Thanks for being my first response:chug:

iwasink,
Yeah I did the zombie for a friend of mine and were both big resident evil fans! I havent colored the zombie. The warrior is a work in progress. I start dinkin with colors but I'll probably make some changes before I get to it. heres the color sample I did on it so far..

Thanks agin for chekin it out:chug:

Peece,
mel

**I.was.ink** · January 9th, 2003, 02:43 AM

that looks really good! i want to see that piece finished. what program r u using to paint it?

**melmann** · January 9th, 2003, 03:03 AM

It was done in painter. I havent done much in painter so I thought Id give it a shot...most of the coloring I do is in photoshop and Ive always wanted to learn painter so that why I made this character...
Thanks again!

**ODIN SIX** · January 9th, 2003, 03:37 AM

:chug: :beer: :chug:

Looking even better!!!
Keep your color pallet limited and it will turn out really Good...

**ELEK** · January 9th, 2003, 01:17 PM

What took you so long to get the nerve to post!?? Looks good. Nice work!

**melmann** · January 9th, 2003, 03:31 PM

ODIN SIX,
Yeah I liked the feeling of the color and feel like Im goin to go in that direction with it, but need to fix some things on him.

ELEK,
Thanks for the comment I really appreciate the compliment! Makes it easier for me to not be so nervous!:chug:

Peece,
Mel

**melmann** · January 14th, 2003, 01:46 AM

Added one to the top (3rd one in the first post)

**MindCandyMan** · January 14th, 2003, 10:32 AM

These are fantastic...very inspiring man...great stuff!

**cos** · January 14th, 2003, 03:25 PM

Lookin good Mellman! Very nice and tight, caracaturish style. My favourite is the dude holding the skull.

**melmann** · January 14th, 2003, 06:53 PM

Thanks mindcandyman and cos I appreciate the kind words.
I added one more: emperors got a brand new bag. and the dark crystal one ( wip )

**MindCandyMan** · January 14th, 2003, 07:41 PM

Dude...you brought back so many childhood memories with the painting of that skeksis guy...totally awesome man...looks just like them! Great work. That is great! hehe.

**TJ Verhagen** · January 15th, 2003, 08:46 AM

Very nice work there! That volture creature reminds me of the Dark Crystal creature design.. if anyone can remember that

**morphine** · January 16th, 2003, 05:48 PM

Dark Crystal!!! =D

TJ... it IS one of them....

**melmann** · January 29th, 2003, 01:09 PM

Added the final of the dark crystal char.

**melmann** · January 31st, 2003, 12:23 AM

Added dragon girl.

**TARGETE** · January 31st, 2003, 03:06 AM

Hey Melmann,

Nice work there your rendering is great and your style is unique. You could work on a little more anatomy even if your doing caricatures its always good to look at the source, I myself need some practice dont we all?. Please keep posting I want to see how you progress.

J.P.

**jester** · January 31st, 2003, 03:43 AM

Originally posted by morphine
Dark Crystal!!! =D

TJ... it IS one of them....

morphine - psssst! sometimes I'm a bit dumb... you mean he's one of the concept artists for this wondeful film?!

melman - wow! my fav is the "poor Yorick" ork. LOL

Jester

**PzYcHe** · February 9th, 2003, 02:52 PM

Wow... these are amazing! How could you of been nervous to post these? Man, all mine are crap compared to these drawings... Great work dude!

**empty** · February 10th, 2003, 05:37 PM

nice characters.

i agree with targete about the anatomy, particularly the arms on the emporer and the guy holding the skull. the guy holding the skull has an arm that looks like it's dislocated at the elbow. the rest of it is nice, but my eye kept coming back to that elbow cuz it bothered me.

also, the cropping on the demon girl bothers me too. i can't tell if she's supposed to be kneeling or just has no lower legs. even if you want to end a drawing there, somehow describe that leg being there, maybe with just a slight outline the extends a little further and then fades out as it goes down.

keep it up. peace

**melmann** · February 11th, 2003, 12:38 PM

Thanks guys for the wonderful remarks and tips. I am currently tryin to hone my anatomy. I just got back into drawing and I know I have a lonnnng ways to go.

TARGETE
big fan of your work! Thanks for the comments, really appreciated!

jester
hopefully I can get back to workin on it soon. Thanks alot!

PzYcHe
Thanks alot for the wonderful comment. It makes it easier to keep posting.

empty
Thanks for the detailed critique. I really appreciate you takin the time to look em over. Those pieces I may go back and clean up a bit now and throw them in painter for color practice. I'll make sure I work on those things if I continue with them.