Andrew Ley Sketches

[young paddy1]

your style is gorgeous, really love the thick loose lines and dynamism which comes from them, you also use a lot of texture which I'm really starting to appreciate in others' work

[Orcatraz]

Very inspirational stuff Andrew. I really dig these.

[Pixeldragoon]

This stuff is orgasmic... Incredible sense of motion, and the colors are stale but cool. Very nice!

[CoNTRoL]

your paintings are a little vague in design. meaning, i think your paintings are over impressionized and there's alot of excessive painting hiding any concrete design. i think you might be going for a sort of ryan church style..but for him the vehicle design (for example) does not suffer from his impressionistic style. just some thoughts.

[AndrewLey]

young paddy1 - Cheers bud
orcatraz - Cool - Thanks man
Pixeldragoon - Thankyou
CoNTRoL - I think you're missing the point. I'm trying to capture a sense of action and movement. I don't want to nail down a concrete design. I want the viewer to participate in the painting. I'm not going for a Ryan Church style.

Here's some more head doodles

[Fellah.]

Hehe good stuff dude!

[clogik]

awesome stuff man, this one caught my eye http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/7563/lost9qy.jpg
i have a quick question for you, wha tbrushes did you use for that painting?

cheers

[2000YearsOldMan]

waaah!
very nice cool concept pictures, I like the motocycle alot. very cool.

[Eytan]

Dude, you are crazy good. I could just stare at your stuff for hours...Oh wait! That's what I do. Anyway man, I'm loving your vehicle design sooo much, and your characters are phenomenal.

Im not sure if you've said before, are you currently employed somewhere?

[Sickbrush]

hey andy, been watchin ur work here so what can i say? good job..
keep workin on those tab tehniques, u got potential on tha' coloring part.
the pencil work looks great, damn great.. keep it up dudle

[AndrewLey]

Fellah - Cheers dude

clogik - thanks man - I used the camel hair and palette knife on that one.

2000YearsOldMan - Cheers bud!

Quick_Sketch - Thats great man - glad you enjoy them. I've been freelancing for the last few years. At the moment I'm being presented with lots of exciting opportunities.

_^SlayeR^_ - Cheers!!

For the CA DSG

Painter 2 hours

[Orcatraz]

I love your environments Andrew. I think the vehicles and buildings in the distance could be a tiny bit more visible though, at first I couldn't see them.

Great job, keep it up.

[Olof]

Man, your lines are so clean...

_beautiful work!
thanks for posting

[mentler]

Andrew :::: Very impressive variety :::: the way you handle the human form is a sensitive as your mechs and environs are dynamic :::: I for one greatly admire the visceral illusive quality of your works :::: I try to avoid the stilled sense of finish myself :::: I receive crits for this from time to time as well :::: finished to me is really a deadly word!

[ReAkshun]

"...stay fresh and original."

That's whassup, man. As long as you do THAT...you'll do just fine.
The fullthrottle picture did it for me....that was hot.

"...stay fresh and original."

[Diego]

Really impressive stuff dude, not only you're able to pull off some great designs but also a solid figurative work.
Keep it up.

Cheers

[Mr.Blonde]

The most recent one is HOT- especially for two hours! I enjoy the hints of a city far off in the distance. Wouldn't mind seeing that one expanded upon...

[Ferg]

this thread is stuffed with inspiration...

Thanks for posting your work. Been studying your stuff a lot lately and it's really helped. This imagination of yours is quite powerful... thank you for connecting it to the internet.

[Gloominati]

awsome new stuff goin on here. Simply amazing! nothing more to say! That's pure inspiration!

[Eytan]

wow that's really cool...

[stalsby]

once again u never seize to amaze me!



my scribbles

[AndrewLey]

orcatraz, MorteM - Cheers guys!

mentler - spot on. Your loosness is really appealing to me. While finished pieces can be very impressive, there's something special about a dynamic sketch. Other than that they are just way more fun to do and I think that comes though.

ReAkshun, Diego, Mr.Blonde, Ferg, Gloominati, Quick_Sketch and stalsby - thanks guys - I appreciate it!!

Just a muscle doodle for now

[AndrewLey]

More scribbles

[crazy3dman]

Oh Man. These last studies are really nice. So fluid. I love the hand. And the legs...I'm drooling.

[Erilaz]

Damn, Andrew, you just keep on dropping my jaw. Absolutely delightful. Such clean strong poses today!

[AndrewLey]

Cool - Thanks for dropping by guys

Just a couple more doodles. Damn, feet are hard to do from memory. Tried like 5 times and it still looks wrong...

[mentler]

You are doing a great job with hands and feet <><> I am getting ready to start an intensive mini hands and feet workshop and have gone back to review them to prepare about 6 hours of lecture and demo material.

They real key here of course is to understand the bony structures because there is so little flesh that covers hands and feet. The same thing is also true of heads.

I think you have everything well in hand <> one little tip at the ankle <> follow the tendons up the front of the tibia <> they form a little arrow shape that helps the look from the front view.

[Magic Man]

I love the vehicle designs, great stuff.

[Sickbrush]

and he calls that doodles
brb, suicide

[AndrewLey]

mentler - cool - thanks man

Magic Man - cheers bud

_^SlayeR^_

OK back to making things that kill people...

Spent a bit longer on this one - 5 or 6 hours

EDIT: see next page