bye-bye bump

**GunTrouver** · October 6th, 2005, 04:41 PM

Can you show us some of your old comic work and maye some more opencil scribbles? That would be great!

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**chris ocampo** · October 6th, 2005, 05:07 PM

man you have incredible figurative skills. i think i like your blue lining more than your inking. but you still can't deny that they are bad ass drawings.

**salaryman** · October 7th, 2005, 09:05 AM

thanks all, another crappy enviro image for a new page:

worthless: usually, yep

GunTrouver: now that's asking... not sure to be honest, it was very different back then... we'll see

chris ocampo: really? they lack style to me, but there you go...

csteingart, Rusty:thanks chaps! One day I'll get the hang of those slick pro lines you two do so well...

I'm out of here, I got LOD's to make (grumble)

**Arri.** · October 7th, 2005, 09:42 AM

Nooooo salary, I can not belive that you think they lack style.You can not imagine how I will love have your style.And the best is not your style is your skill to make us belive that your worlds with this characters exist and this is for me the most important those characters you draw they have a life.

**KhenU** · October 12th, 2005, 06:48 AM

dear mister godly concept artist!

when and where can i buy ur conceptart-book ?
i think ur illustrations/conceptart has a high potential to get sold
and used as merchandise in all kinds.
i would by a t-shirt with ur "i gun NY"-guys !

plz give us more,
a fan

**mr. Point** · October 12th, 2005, 06:56 AM

my my. that police/swat/whatever character is off the hook! coolest thing ever. geez... and the other characters kick ass too. Love those robots. BIG RESPECT!!!! updateupdateupdateupdateupdateupdateupdateupdateup dateupdateupdateupdateupdateupdateupdate!!!!

**tensai** · October 19th, 2005, 03:19 AM

updateupdateupdateupdateupdateupdateUPDATEUPDATEUPDATE!

but seriously man, hook me up with some of those delicious lines again. you know how much i love m...

**shyamshriram** · October 19th, 2005, 04:58 AM

UPDATES PLEASE !!

**camilografix** · October 19th, 2005, 05:21 AM

Can I get an UPDATE

**evidence** · October 19th, 2005, 09:35 AM

amazing linework. it has probably already been talked about, but what kind of pens do you use when you ink these figures? do you ink them right from the blueline, or do they go through another stage of tracing first?

**Qxzi** · October 19th, 2005, 10:27 AM

good stuff here, your faces look very good!! like everyone keeps on saying, UPDATE!

**salaryman** · October 19th, 2005, 10:29 AM

it's coming, it's coming....

I was wanting to get something finished together, but that's not going to happen any time shortly, so a few more sketches (you know, dragoneers and heads and speech balloons etc) sooooon....

alas, for now, no. 2 in an occasional series.....

evidence : here you go (sorry about the scan) tools
I'll normally go straight from the blue line to the tracing. On a personal note, I rub the tracing paper down with my palm a few times, the pen line comes out even finer (yeah, yeah, greasy salaryman hands...).

KhenU : who knows, that's be great, but I'm not sure there'd be enough interest. Cheers for the support sir!

camilografix, shyamshriram, tensai, mr. Point, you're all crazy! but soon!

Arri, thanks, that means a great deal. I'd like to think there's a whole background to these characters that people can see, or even add their own.

here's a heads up for CA.org-er rsly75, he's put together a blog catering for info on character design, in a moment of madness he included me on there. Sketches and interviews galore, ignore my contribution and check out some fantastic character work: characterdesign.blogspot

cheers

**Shinryu** · October 19th, 2005, 11:07 AM

Hot Shit man, good interview, we want more!

**vigostar** · October 19th, 2005, 11:22 AM

Awesome umm.. Calum??? really great interview... and all this time I thought you staright out drew those black lines... I knew they were too perfect god I feel better now!!!!

**Badger** · October 19th, 2005, 12:23 PM

Aaw Brighton!! I thought you were somewhere miles away!! like continental distance.
Well if you get bored drop by the Uk thread in the local artist groups.
here: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...734#post625734
Though it'll prob be pretty silent while half of us bugger off to prague. We'll prob do some meets again once we are back, usually life drawing then the pub.
I'm still subscribed too your scrumptious updates!
Great interview, makes me happier about the art industry, less nervous about my chosen degree.
Take care.
Have a cream tea on me!
-B-

**bwkeough** · October 19th, 2005, 02:15 PM

pentel makes blue lead? I've been using their red 0.5mm but the blessing and curse is how brittle it is. I'm forced to keep my hand lighter, which gives more graceful lines at the expense of energy.

**MikeMakesMonkeys** · October 19th, 2005, 03:41 PM

This is the first time I've checked out this thread...

...The hat has been taken off...

...I took it down to the bottom of the garden and left it there...

...amazing work

**Bomba** · October 19th, 2005, 04:05 PM

Wow!!! I'm always running across gems within this SketchBook threads. Glad that I was able to find yours! Very inspiring and humbling works you have,
-J-

**neoknocker** · October 21st, 2005, 12:23 PM

great work, as always.

**Icey** · October 21st, 2005, 01:11 PM

salary - u're cool!!!

**Dirty C** · October 30th, 2005, 09:20 AM

*me snaps wacom pen in half, turns gas oven on full, does not light, inserts head, awaits god-given reason to continue drawing*

**morbidhumor** · October 30th, 2005, 04:06 PM

Man I love your stuff. Always amazing and humbling.

**Cyberotter** · October 30th, 2005, 05:13 PM

I love clean linework. I couldn't belive my eyes when I found this sketchbook. Amazing work. There was this guy in once in Heavy Metal ( Metal Hurlant ) that did super line work with a gazillion details. I haven't seen his equal until now. I'll go and scrap my sketchbook now. I need to work on my lines... for a long, long time...

**salaryman** · October 31st, 2005, 12:46 PM

thanks all for the support, the line work updates are coming, I've just been otherwise (very) pre-occupied of late.

I'll comment more with those updates, but for now, here's an old one which is sort of relevant for today, La Valse des Monstres, inspired by Yann Tiersen's album of the same name.

Till next time...

**Arctis** · October 31st, 2005, 01:34 PM

Cool pig !

Are you french ?
i would be curious to know your age, and the kind of job you got thanks to these very cool drawings.

Bye

**Atmospheria** · November 1st, 2005, 05:50 AM

very inspirational stuff. you need a website by the way.

**jtheanswer** · November 1st, 2005, 08:36 AM

Man, your thread sure rocks!! Keep it up!

**neoknocker** · November 1st, 2005, 12:21 PM

Smoked pork! Great one. To bad I'm a veggie, not! I would not eat pork even If I was threathened.

Other than that Great work. Nicely colored and detailed. Cant wait to get there! And sureley cant wait to see more.

later!

**davi** · November 1st, 2005, 02:22 PM

fantastic work, your art made my entire day.

**salaryman** · November 3rd, 2005, 09:11 AM

turns out this is all for now. I know, I know, a let down for me too. Got a whole lot of other life stuff going on right now so updates are going to be fewer and further apart (and god only knows about quality levels...).

vigostar, yeah, sorry to disappoint!

Badger, I know, I wish it were more exotic too, but.....

bwkeough, energy and grace are certainly lacking in my stuff... but I wish I could blame it on the lead....

Cyberotter, Heavy Metal is where I first found European comic art, I guess it had a profound influence!

Arctis, no, I'm at the other end of the tunnel....too old to get any better... doing games...

thanks everyone, you're all crazy though! The support means the world to me, thank you.

anyway...

the usual suspects:

due to the lack of time right now, I think I'm going to set some goals. Some finished pieces or at least some proper full figure designs. I think the heads and heads and heads are getting a little tired and not really pushing me enough.

We shall see...