Fin - 1 APR 11 - x1

**maxetormer** · April 24th, 2008, 10:30 AM

I keep telling to my self this same sentence every day

Originally Posted by iolarnula

Oh that's right I'm supposed to be practicing so I can be an illustrator for a living and stuff

Really diging the turtles on the previous post, and on this one the thing
that jumps the most is the total lack of soft edges, place a few on
some areas to make the form turn

**invinciblewombat** · May 2nd, 2008, 01:07 PM

Oh that's right I'm supposed to be practicing so I can be an illustrator for a living and stuff

^haha, the truth for sure

those turtle inks are looking great, especially for straight photoshop with no pre sketch. keep at it.

**AwesomCherryBlossom** · May 2nd, 2008, 06:49 PM

Holy crow, I love all your animals o.o They are beautiful.

**fionkell** · May 27th, 2008, 06:57 AM

Turtles finished (I'm not coloring them, my friend is). Getting a scanner in a few days' time so yay, since I've generally been drawing in my new sketchbook with good old pencils.

**Hive_minD** · May 27th, 2008, 07:13 AM

beautiful!

Chris

**invinciblewombat** · May 27th, 2008, 05:30 PM

the turtles came out really well, reminds me of biology textbook illustrations. waiting to see that pencilwork.

**fionkell** · May 29th, 2008, 04:05 AM

PENCILS. Yay, my scanner arrived today. So time to get out with the old...this is prob a quarter of the stuff in my sketchbook since I last scanned anything from it. Couldn't be arsed scanning everything from way back in November onwards, it's basically a mix of scribbles, Bridgman, studies and so on. Picked out a few the more recentish and slightly less cruddy ones to scan and stick here.

That sketchbook is now full and I've just started another one, more on the way

**maxetormer** · May 29th, 2008, 04:41 AM

JUJU this page is sooooo cool
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...book7/mp07.jpg
great gestures!!!

**HunterKiller_** · May 29th, 2008, 06:02 AM

Sweet update!

Yeah, I'm diggin' that werewolf and tiger, too. Very naice.

**Deodatus** · May 29th, 2008, 06:14 AM

Nice sketches and paintings. I like the dynamic line you use. Your graphical skills are nice too! Sketch on!

**fionkell** · May 29th, 2008, 10:44 PM

Cheersn'all, stuff from the new sketchbook. It has nice paper

**maxetormer** · June 4th, 2008, 06:37 AM

figures are getting much more fluent, keep them updates coming!

**fionkell** · June 12th, 2008, 02:03 AM

roughy headstuff, female soldier character, trying to not make her wear lame body suit/boob-armour variety etc

**fionkell** · June 18th, 2008, 12:21 AM

Daily Sketch from over at CGTalk, topic was "Anubis". Shabby, bout an hour...

**fionkell** · June 25th, 2008, 07:35 AM

Base sketch for an illustration I'm working on, got a fair few things to fix up; this is also in its own thread in the WIP forum:

Quick Photoshop sketch again.

Must get back to studies...bargh

**fionkell** · June 30th, 2008, 01:49 AM

Small update. Quickie between working on two illustrations...Bugbear:

**fionkell** · June 30th, 2008, 11:56 PM

In-progress stuff (I drew the bear up in the previous post to give myself a break from these heh):

**fionkell** · July 3rd, 2008, 08:17 PM

wish I had had more time to work on these, ah well

Back to pencils and such for a bit methinks...Also, does anyone here experience a lot of odd lag when using Photoshop CS2 on Windows Vista? It is annoying the hell out of me.

cw · July 4th, 2008, 04:26 AM

love the bridgmans, very lively and dynamic.

great were creatures, love the lighting on the bear - backlit/rimlit fur is tricky. Turtles came out lovely, all in all its all looking nice and going better and better!

That monster with feathery ears - I'm loving that, wanna see more of it! Looks fresh.

**fionkell** · August 21st, 2008, 08:03 AM

all there was

**HAJiME** · August 21st, 2008, 08:24 AM

Your pencil marks make me happy.

So do the anthros.

And the leathery dragons.

**Chate Noire** · August 21st, 2008, 11:44 AM

Nice, man! I like the ink work, and your dedication to studying is impressive. Keep it up!

**fionkell** · August 23rd, 2008, 10:39 AM

all there will be

in progress

**oalexis** · August 23rd, 2008, 09:15 PM

nice nebula

**fionkell** · August 27th, 2008, 05:03 AM

Figured I was trying too hard with it

**hurricane** · August 27th, 2008, 05:15 AM

lovely updates!

Keep on sharing, i always like to look at your sketches and doodles

MAybe try a longer painting to exersize that part as well?

cheers
Bjorn.

**fionkell** · September 16th, 2008, 05:01 AM

Thanks Hurri, congrats on your son by the way

Some charcoal life drawing, we had to do one drawing, then erase most of it, then another drawing on top (bad camera phone pics, sorry).

becomes...

and so on

**HunterKiller_** · September 16th, 2008, 05:06 AM

Nice life drawings. What's the purpose of erasing the drawings, though?

The nebula/aurora light painting is nice. I like the first version for it's smoothness, but the the brightness of the second version is more dynamic.