McLean's Sketchery*(New Sketchesszzss!!!)

**McLean** · April 10th, 2009, 02:24 AM

Haha, hopefully April's post will make up for it!

I posted all this in Finally Finished, but I alwyas like to have all my work together in this thread too. Here is a Hellboy and a bunch of concept art i did for Big Huge Games.

**Bill** · April 10th, 2009, 03:02 AM

Beautifull stuff. Love the colors in the Hellboy piece.

**McLean** · May 30th, 2009, 07:54 AM

Here are some new things. Kind of venturing into children's book territory here, but that's ok. I enjoyed it a lot, and its got me brainstorming on an extended children's book project of my own. That would be fantastic to publish it one day.

**wookiedabo** · May 30th, 2009, 08:13 AM

nice clean colour work man, confident stuff. I like the animation stills too, especially the stopping one.

**Sebastian Gromann** · May 30th, 2009, 09:03 AM

dont know why this thread got just **** \o.o/ should be ***** for sure.

realy strong work in here ! i like aaaaall of it

hehe

**Bill** · May 30th, 2009, 10:47 AM

Originally Posted by SnobbyOo

dont know why this thread got just **** \o.o/ should be ***** for sure.

realy strong work in here ! i like aaaaall of it

hehe

Word.

**McLean** · May 31st, 2009, 10:37 AM

wookiedabo - thankee sir. The motion studies are a fun change of pace sometimes.

SnobbyOo - Thanks man, the rating thing comes up every now and then, I just like to think of it as a reminder to work harder.

Bill - word indeed yo

**Jackwhat** · May 31st, 2009, 11:54 AM

Musta missed your sketchbook over on here! But man I do like your concepts and what not, definately does a good job of illustrating what im in dire need of!

**McLean** · June 22nd, 2009, 02:29 AM

Jackwhat - yeah, I hear ya man, I should probably be doing more concept-specific stuff in my down time.

So here I have a piece that I did at the Illustration Master Class, it was way fun! I apologize if you've already seen this in the "Finally Finished" forum. Anyway, I've included my process as well, and if you'd like to read more about the experience, you can do so at my blog: http://mcleannews.blogspot.com

Thanks for checking in.

**Mr.Delicious** · July 12th, 2009, 07:03 PM

awesome man! Keep being beautiful, keep riding on the wings of destiny... god I hope you take it all

**Texahol** · July 12th, 2009, 10:10 PM

really ace work, man!

you should....post more often

**JailHouseRock2** · July 12th, 2009, 11:56 PM

Wonderful work man, love your illustrations!

5* easy!

Cheers,
matt

**Suira** · July 13th, 2009, 01:26 AM

mindblowing.

**McLean** · July 13th, 2009, 05:17 AM

Dawwwww, you guys are too nice.

Wings of Destiny here I come!

Took some time tonight to do 15-minute paints from movie stills. I'll admit that I'm wayyyy uncomfortable with doing this kind of thing, but I need to do it more! I'm gonna try and pledge at least 2 hours a day to doing something for myself, to just practice and get better.

I know these will probably knock the thread back down to 4 stars, BUT HERE GOES ANYWAY!!!!

**DanielC** · July 13th, 2009, 04:01 PM

Keep em coming !

**Mr.Delicious** · July 13th, 2009, 04:24 PM

goood good man! More studies!

! You'll be bustin out the best soon

**McLean** · July 14th, 2009, 12:20 AM

Dan - You betcha man

Delicious - I will hope for the best!

Alrighty, here's another 2 hours worth of speedpainting from King Kong. 15 minutes each. If anyone has any pro-tips on this stuff, lay 'em on me! I'm sure the bulk of what I need to know just comes with practice, but I'm always open to suggestions!

**Mr.Delicious** · July 14th, 2009, 01:19 AM

awesome man, youre gonna be the most beautiful flower. Wow look at those pedals

**dU5K** · July 14th, 2009, 01:31 AM

great work. im totally likin the more recent stuff and i love how posted the different color studies of your pieces.. OH! and the animated posts are pretty neat too. ok. "nuff brown nosing. haha. keep up the good work

**McLean** · July 14th, 2009, 10:06 PM

Woo!!! My fist illustration gig with Wizards of the Coast! The illustration is online now, so I guess I'm good to post it here too. This was an illustration accompanying an article in the online version of Dragon Magazine, issue 377. I worked with Jon Schindehette on this one, it was quite a privilege.

I will post more King Kong studies soon!

http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x...rcact/2009July

**Marth** · July 14th, 2009, 10:26 PM

This sketch book is fantastic, it makes me want to grab my sketchbook and sit at the ol draftin table for hours on end. To behonest, I may just go spend an hour or two there now because of this. Top notch work. I'll be checking in and out by the way.

**McLean** · July 14th, 2009, 11:46 PM

Thanks man, lately its been all about getting my motivation back! I'm glad to hear its infecting others!

Here are some more King Kong speedies, 15 minutes per image, as usual.

**vcoleman** · July 15th, 2009, 12:33 AM

The stills are a really great exercise, I think your value has improved. Grats on your wizards work too.

**JParrilla** · July 15th, 2009, 12:37 AM

awesome job man! congrats on the wizards job!

**tokotewhero** · July 15th, 2009, 01:10 AM

radness

**Mr.Delicious** · July 15th, 2009, 11:11 AM

great work ! Just gotta keep moving forward, KEEP MOVING FORWARD D:

!

**McLean** · July 16th, 2009, 03:33 AM

Thanks guys!

Here is tonight's session of King Kong.

I think maybe I might switch it up tomorrow, with some anatomy studies or something. Won't know until tomorrow though!

**The_Flying_Dutchman** · July 16th, 2009, 09:02 AM

Brilliant work!

**griffinfly** · July 16th, 2009, 09:44 AM

really nice work, I dig those quickies.. your colour work is mad, I'd like to learn that too

**McLean** · July 20th, 2009, 07:57 AM

Thanks guys!

Here's another batch of 15 minute speedies. Its only an hour's
worth, I used it as a warm-up before I get started on other
projects today.

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