Shatterdome's Sketchy book...now featuring nudity, beware..

**Shatterdome** · April 3rd, 2005, 08:41 PM

Well I thought I had one of these going before, but I guess when I went on a hiatus the board deleted it....or it got pushed so far back that I can't find it...gonna try to not let that happen again...here we go...i'm trying to get a feel for a sword dude pic I want to draw, so thats what most of these are...done at work in pen + ink while talking on the phone...

thx for looking, more updates soon as i'm at work doodling now

**Shatterdome** · April 4th, 2005, 06:20 AM

Well here's abit more...

I did the "predator" today and think I may use it as a basis for a painting in photoshop...

You'll notice lot's of my sketches are really plain and that's because i'm really trying to get a hold on anatomy and making the body not seem "stiff"....I also know I need to work on faces alot... anyways...

**razuel** · April 4th, 2005, 12:52 PM

These are some good studies, but I'd take a closer look at the proportions. It seems like the heads are too big or something. It may just seem off because they're done in a cartoon style.

**Shatterdome** · April 5th, 2005, 04:40 AM

No, I think I do draw heads a tad too large....that's something i'll have to keep in mind...

Started to paint my predator pic... about 3 hrs into it

**Shatterdome** · April 6th, 2005, 04:18 AM

Here's my doodles from work...really still trying to cement alot of anatomy in my head...also trying to draw my heads a tad smaller...don't think I acheived that in many pics

some are ok I suppose...

Sorry for the messy pen lines, meant to be nothing more then studies on placement and simplefying some muscles groups ??

btw...how much bandwidth per month does photobucket give ya ?

thx for lookin

**Shatterdome** · April 9th, 2005, 08:04 PM

Some more...first one done in pencil, the rest in bb pen as usual...

Got a PSP so i've been playing with that too much....but it's great for reading anatomy books on the bus

later

**charcoalArtist** · April 9th, 2005, 08:23 PM

you are making progress, one thing that I noticed right away is that the neck on your figures are way too thick, almost as thick as the head, try to make them more cillyndrical and a tad smaller

keep it up

**Shatterdome** · April 11th, 2005, 03:39 AM

Yeah I really need to work on necks/heads...ill definately keep the size thing in mind...I also learned from this recent page that I need ALOT of practice drawing upview heads...damn, why must they be so tricky to draw properly...

here's my latest half-assed page I did while re-encoding mp3's to better fit a 32mb psp card

You'd be surprised how good it makes 1.5 meg, 48 kb, 32khz songs sound...

anyways...

**Shatterdome** · April 12th, 2005, 04:31 AM

more shitty upview heads

and some "actiony" stuff...

**Shatterdome** · April 14th, 2005, 03:33 AM

More faces because my faces are horrible...

:edit:

added a little 45min or so "speed" paint...kinda in the mood to do another

**Shatterdome** · April 14th, 2005, 07:25 AM

Well this is the 2nd thing...too tired to do anymore, must sleep now...

**Shatterdome** · April 16th, 2005, 08:40 PM

Referenced one of these and then tried to do the rest outta me head...kinda did the sockets big on some...

Kinda studying lips and other random stuff...

**Shatterdome** · April 18th, 2005, 05:43 PM

Well here are a few quick studies I did last night, I used reference on one of them...guess which one !!! (shouldn't be hard

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**Shatterdome** · April 18th, 2005, 09:40 PM

A Super speedo, bout 20 mins...mostly spent on the bg

trying to capture movement...

**Shatterdome** · April 21st, 2005, 12:08 AM

quick landscape...under 30 min

**Shatterdome** · April 30th, 2005, 06:46 AM

Well, HD crapped out on me, but I got a new one and got everything going again and am ready to be updating regularly again....for all it's worth...anyways

4 hour study done of the below model (is obviously a nudie so don't look if your a kid

)

http://www.deviantart.com/deviation/16424497/

sketches done while watching spiderman 2 on my psp @ work

and other random work doodles...

**Fellah.** · April 30th, 2005, 07:06 AM

Hey man. I like that girl a lot. Nice fleshtone and hair. First I thought that one of her boobs(?) were missing, but then I saw it. Maybe make a little more shadow under it, its disapering a little between the hair and the arm. The one boob(?) I can see is...well

Well done. Some work with the knee and hands would make her really hot dude! NIce to see

**Shatterdome** · April 30th, 2005, 06:11 PM

Boob works....The use of Titty would be appropriate as well I beleive

Yeah there are definately parts of that pictures that I "focused" on more then others

haha, but alas I didn't want to spend more then an afternoon on it as I really don't put much stock into life studies, not that they are not useful, I just don't feel like it's "my" picture....

Thx for the comment tho...

**Shatterdome** · August 15th, 2005, 11:01 PM

well it's been forever since i put anything in here, so here are a couple half assed things I never finished....

**Shatterdome** · September 3rd, 2005, 04:58 AM

Inked a picture that I did for this thread (which is very cool) --> http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...251#post577251

And then decided to fill the rest of the page with sketches.....damn one of these days I will understand how to draw low up view heads....ahh well...

**Shatterdome** · April 28th, 2010, 06:31 PM

Well it's only been 5 years since I posted here, damn time flies. I just graduated with my BFA and with looking for a job I have had lot's of spare time on my hands. I can finally get back into this community, troll the forums and post my "own" work again. The professors in Univ really looked down on any kind of concept or fantasy based art, it was a shame really.

I thought it would be fun to throw up the few pieces I did over the years in the little sparetime I had. The majority of these are from the last week though. I will try to put em in chronological order from oldest to newest. Thanks !

**Vatsel** · April 28th, 2010, 08:02 PM

it seems like you need to draw more from observation (from life)
some things look flat and i barely see any sharp edges.

abandon all fancy PS brushes for now and use the hard round (and maybe the soft round) for a week.

also the proportions and figures need work.

still lifes + gestures.
ready?
set
GO!

**Shatterdome** · April 29th, 2010, 04:36 AM

Thanks, I definitely need to do more figure studies, who doesn't ;P

I will take a stand and say no I will not abandon my fancy brushes. I do have to refine their usage but never abandon them. The academies said the same thing to Monet, Cezanne, Van Gogh.... ;D

**Shatterdome** · May 1st, 2010, 04:32 AM

Got my hands on zbrush for the last week or so, I had to it up....I am really torn between 2D and 3D at the moment....I love to wander too much, but how else to see all the world ? Def not a good strategy for getting a job anytime soon

**Shatterdome** · May 1st, 2010, 04:40 AM

oh also my attempt at a woman starting from a zball maquette to polymesh sculpting....still don't know my jargon

Must say men are much easier (got one I did b4 this one) Really, I spent too much time on the tits, prefer drawing em but i'll get the hang of it... process shot for that....also got a flesh chalice and some abstract that I did while playing around....