Cold - Christian Fell

[Buckster]

wow, your creative mind is going crazy here^^I love that B&W sketch with the brute. Your anatomy has improved alot over the last month, nice to see that. Those location overviews looks great. Hmm, not much crit this time, just keep doing those sihouetts!

cheers

[lennon]

Hey great stuff, I like your concepts in vehicles and your poses. You handle also pretty well the digital stuff. The only think that I could say to make this critique almost useful, is that sometime the faces are not good, and sometimes the torso is longer than it should, and stuff like that, in other words, you're not completely consistent all the time.
Anyway, very inspiring.

[themissinglink]

wow, awsome sketchbook. your drawings are badass, they have a really awsome line quality, I would love to see the line elements of your dawings incorporated into your color work.

[Pascallo]

What did you wanna say, I get no Christmas present from you and can stop stopping by your book?
hehe. that building interiors look exciting, are there coming more?

[Cold]

Elo christmas is over, and the new year is coming, this will be my last post this year lol

the sketch


Base colour


More


Detail


Touch up finishings

[Buckster]

happy new year man and DAMN! This is really good. There might be a little too much separation between the muscles but this is a more cartoony kind of character so it does not really bother me. It has been nice to see your art in 2007, keep sharing 2008.

Cheers

[Matsign]

Man thats jawesome, thanks for the progress shots too. That mask and the gloves are great, nice madness in the hands, love it. Happy new year son! Peace!

[le augor]

feelin the radioactive wrestler

[chrishly]

some of the pencils are awesome!
nice designs too.

[Abee]

Wow! Gimme some more tutorials man!! I like the overall feeling of alot of your pictures, you have the ability to surge a thought through a whole picture instead of just getting it in the character itself.
Well, I'm amased.

Possible crit is that... I would like to see you experiment a bit more, pushing values etc

Cheers! abee.

[Mex]

Awesome wrestler dude !!! Greate Sketchbook !

[Frank Gressie]

i really enjoyed flipping through this sketchbook,
love the comics and great anatomy!
im a sucker for this kind of drawings: http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...7&d=1194147686
keep it going! 5*

[Seage]

Hey prostar! Im pretty new to this site, and my art is....uh....not to great yet, but this, THIS is gold! I love your stuff and im working hard to get to your level! I read like 13 pages back that you werent working in art. H?as that changed? I skipped some pages because i got excited and wanted to comment, haha.
Well, just wanted to ask that, gonna get back to browsing your book

[Cold]

Thanks guys. I will probably draw less in the presence, due to devoting some effort to 3d art. I will of course improve on 2d still, since everything relates to it - knowledge is skill.

anyway i quick sketch of an purply beast with horns

[ACRO]

sick man sick

[Chermilla]

Hi there,

Haven't visited ya sketchbook in aaaaaages, think I made a comment about an arse last time hahaha. I see you still like to draw the girlies! I must say, since I last came by your work has improved immensely! You have a better sense of composition and colour, and your poses are starting to be much more dynamic. The images are feeling more finished compared to before too. The last posts of the beast and wrestler are great! You're becoming pretty good at the whole foreshortening thing I see. It's an area that I struggle with quite a lot!

I'll be sure to drop by again some time and check out ya updates! Keep posting!

Safe!

Cx

[Seage]

Im just trying to wrap my head around how u do ur concepts...but it aint working.

[Cold]

Thanks guys, I am going to try do a 3d modelin maya on ryu, might do some more sketches to feel the character more.

[young paddy1]

Love the radioactive wrestler, really great caricaturing of his body. Is he from the Chernobyl luchadore league?

The Ryus look good in general, but the bottom one has a bit of a chunky shoulder muscle, I know it's for 3D but I don't think it should be so exaggerated as to throw off the anatomy. His cheek bone also looks a bit smashed in (too far back on his head.)

[Muscari]

i'm amazed by the work in here, i specially like your anatomy work

i'll just take a thread subscription and be done with it

[thesadpencil]

your radioactive wrestler is great, i love the lighting on it. i'm really digging the ryu as well i definitely wanna see the 3d model of it when its done

[Buckster]

nice man, you are really getting some depth into your art. It is nice to see you evolve like this. Keep up the good work

[Cold]

thanks guys- heres a drawing i did of a design i made in 3D

[phiq]

Using your work as inspiration; just letting ye know...

[monotony]

wow you've come a long way seeing the whole progress throughout your sb.
I'm nowhere near even criticising your digital drawingskills. totally loved the last purple horned beast and radioactive wrestler. thanks for the processshots as well. just wanted to know if you already knew what you were going to do with the sketch or just let it guide you.
your pencil drawings seem to lack behind a bit though. you should put the same effort into them I'd say. I'm sure they'll turn out great.
keep it up.

[Cold]

Thanks guys.

I wanted to try drawing a pic using one brush only, see how far I get.

This is default brush with thickness toggled to pen pressure only, also keeping the opacity on 100% at all times, so when blending, I would have to manually pick the right tone and colour.(Sometimes unsing Eyedropper with ALT Key)


Just to answer monotony, I always start a picture with a plan, without one my pics look rather crap anyway I started the line art on a default rezolution 1024x768


then blocked out colour and mood(I did cheat on this bit, toggling opacity to pen pressure)


then started the detail


more detail


even though I worked on 1024 so I wouldn't have to shrink it, keeping in its true size, I did shrink it 800x600 for this sketchbook.

If you see anything worth improving, let us know, tata.

[Lotet]

wow, nice stuff, its nice to see the process too^^really like the last one

one thing on the last pic though, why make things more complicated then they need to be? (just wondering what the reason is)

[MattGamer]

Your art is looking better than ever, Chris!

[Cold]

Thanks matt

Lotet, to answer your question, I intended to learn gradient and blending properly, by forcing myself to doit thoroughly, undertanding more out of it, is the result.

In philosofical terms, drawing is like a trick, an illusion you perform, to execute the trick well you need to learn the "steps" that lie behind it thoroughly.
Even behind a soft brush with 50% opacity lie so many steps you might miss out valuable information that might confuse or even hinder to perform greater tricks in future.

[Flutic]

Nice sb you've got here, I'm scared of the nuclear wrestler and those robot soldier concepts are so sick!

Greets,Tom