Tyler's Sketchbook,17th December

[diva_angel]

hey impressive work buddy!!

[diva_angel]

just started....on the quest for knowledge!!

[Barts]

Hey thanks guys, heres some shit for uni, and a pic of my GF

[ditchman]

nice portrait, i like the look of the brushwork - what brush/pressure settings are you using?

[Barts]

hey ditch, i pretty much just use a hard round with opacity and flow set to pen pressure and a custom smudge tool, not anything to special hehe.

Here are some life paintings, go easy they are my first real oil paintings

[Jaytea]

First real oil paintings? *spazz* That's amazinggggg, nice use of color on the people. :]

[Barts]

thanks man

heres the SP for the 1st of Nov.

[Barts]

Man the workshop was fucking nuts
here's some uni stuff, a select couple
of panels from the narrative project
and an ortho, will get around to scanning
the moleskin pages from the workshop sometime.

TB

[Barts]

Took whit, dirty c's and james kei's advice and started some enviros, these are really quick.

[kidult]

Nice sense of atmosphere and love the brushmarks! the 2nd and 4th ones have a nice sense of depth to them
keep up the good work!

[Bigtayter]

wow...i went through your sketchbook,and i have seen such a dramatic change from your beginning to now.You have really developed,my only criticism is that it seems alot of your images seem kinda murky.Or its more like some of your tones are either a tad bit to bright or to dark.

[Cohen]

do more oil paintings! those are awesome. you have a really unique style there.

[Barts]

Thanks guys! , still trying to work out colours
that's why they may seem a bit weird but yeah
Here's two more.

[renew]

These environment studies have nice colours, but they could use some sharper lines, it only takes a little bit extra work to do this, just grab a hard brush with full opacity and pick the sky colour (or other colour around the thing you want to sharpen) and outline it while constantly picking the right colour out of the background. Or, you can just make a few layers while you paint, one for the sky and one for the landmass. or you can do fore, mid and background depending on what suits the painting the most, as few as possible layers, can save you alot of work.

Or you can just switch to a harder brush and smooth out a bit at the end. I used to paint similiar to you with mainly a soft brush, for me it was a confidence thing, where I thought that if I used a soft brush I wouldnt make as many mistakes hehe...

The blurryiness makes my eyes water a bit because they have nothing to focus on.

keep up the good work though

[Barts]

Thanks for the words Renew, definitely will apply them
throughout my work
Here's a lil Eva study

[Peetaer]

Way cool shit you've got here man. Loads of improvement. I love the Alien on the previous page. Very very cool. Love the Alien Quadrilogy.

Anyways, keep going dude. Don't stop!

[Barts]

hey thanks man, i freaking love aliens and predator too man, great movies
heres some more shit, just enviros from reference, one inspired by guild wars picture and some brainfarts

TB

[Barts]

Some black and white value studies, trying to get better
at this concepty stuff

[Barts]

More stuff

TB

[Max Challie]

Hey Tyler

I like your Evangelion one, and those envionments have great mood to them. Excellent use of colour.

[walnut]

Nice-looking SB. Your sketches have a good combination of energy and precision, technique needs a little more honing but it's on the right way. Keep it rollin'.

[Mpol]

Man I was looking at your earlier posts and the improvement factor has been out of sight!

[Barts]

thanks for the comments guys
stuff ive been doing

[Barts]

Clouds from my head

TB

[Barts]

Some more stuffs

TB

[Barts]

Moar, looking at whits paintings helps me with colours

TB

[Barts]

More stuff

[Barts]

More.

[fionkell]

Wow, you weren't lying when you said you'd been doing a tonne of environments. There is a noticeable progression in your handling of them Sweeet

[BludHund]

Heya Tyler, its David from Marama...sorry I took so long to catch up with you. Seen any more Koalas in your back yard?

You've got a really good instinctive grasp of value composition (a good mix of high, low, and middle tones). Your line quality is also pretty good, but sometimes it slips a bit, especially when you're working from imagination. A few pages of gesture drawing (while working on keeping the overlapping and insertion of forms tight) every day might help with that.

Sargent study looks really good, Bouguereau is nice too, good colors, but it could use a lot more detail and rendering (Bouguereau has a lot to teach in those areas, as well as in the use of light and color).

Oil paints look pretty good...a bit sharper than your digital stuff.

Those sniper rifle thumbs are unforgiveable, man...gunmetal isn't playdough! In fact, that whole 'Misha the Sniper' concept is way too vague. It seriously deserves a re-work, just on general principles...you should be able to find plenty of source material to help you out.

In general you need to bear down much more on the details. These enviro thumbs and master studies are showing that you have a great grasp of color and composition, and a fine touch. I don't know what size you're working at on these paintings, but you might need to refine your brush technique. The bottom line is, tighten it up, bring the details into focus, introduce some hard lines and deeper contrast to direct the viewer's attention.

If you want to take a more impressionistic approach like Craig Mullins or even Greg Manchess or Sparth, all well and good, but remember that as a concept artist you need to be communicating, not just suggesting. Its really easy to get caught up in a pretty composition and be afraid to dig any deeper. Commit to pushing a painting much further, really spend some time on it.

Your getting really good man, don't stop now