The Chamber Of The Gods - update 12/12

**Ferg** · August 13th, 2005, 02:09 AM

Helloooo conceptart sketchbook community. I've been a long time lurker here, never posted anything. This forum has kind of been my tutor the past few months as I've really started to get serious about drawing. I ordered an Intuos3 6x8 last night, should be here next week... can't wait to dig into it. I draw every day and will try to update as often, but will definately update at least a couple times a week.

I've studied a lot of the sketches here, and imitated lots to try and understand the thought processes that went into making it. You may very well see a drawing in my book that looks kinda like something you posted.... and it very well could be. If that's the case, that means I thought you did a masterful job in creating it and simply had to try it myself. Good ol' concept art artist studies.

Anyway, you guys are awsome and I wouldn't be where I am today (artistically) if it werent for the amazing artists that post here. I can only hope someone out there is helped or inspired by something I post, at some point

Anyway... pictures. Crits are very welcome. The sketchbook I just finished was mainly focused on faces/heads. Just started a new one, trying to expand to full character design. And the whiteboard stuff at the bottom is crap I've drawn on the sides of cubicles at work this past week.

Oldest stuff on top, newest at bottom.

/\ used ref from google for face /\

**asoir** · August 13th, 2005, 11:53 AM

Incredible! You have a wild imagination, and your anatomy's pretty good from what I can see, maybe some real life figures could give us a clearer view? But this stuff is great, keep it up

**Fellah.** · August 13th, 2005, 12:14 PM

Good start dude - now kick in a zillion drawings!

**Mr_S_14** · August 13th, 2005, 04:17 PM

I like how certain features on the dihfferent drawings are exagerated, decent, keep it up.

**Ferg** · August 15th, 2005, 01:14 AM

Asoir - Thanks

I'm hoping to start doin more actual life drawing soon. If I cant find some good places nearby I may have to resort to drawing from photos *shutter*

Fellah - Yes Massa
Mr_S_14 - TY... and here ya go

MOOOORE

**Bubstar** · August 15th, 2005, 08:59 AM

Some good stuff ferg I like the amount emotion displayed particularly like the white board stuff, by the way you are a twisted mental freak draw more wholesome things jk.

**Ferg** · August 18th, 2005, 02:50 AM

just got my new intuos3 6x8

my first production! huzzah! (need to learn how to paint)

done in photoshop

also I have more sketchbook pages that I will scan tomorrow

**Ferg** · August 18th, 2005, 09:31 PM

**melvin** · August 18th, 2005, 09:46 PM

really like that last page with the heads. real character showing thru.

**darkchild** · August 18th, 2005, 09:58 PM

Congrats on your first WACOM painting! That last post with the character heads is cool. You have great creativity... keep them coming!

**Pixeldragoon** · August 18th, 2005, 10:31 PM

I like that third head on the top.. It looks very characterish, very cool. Keep it up!

**Zebz** · August 18th, 2005, 11:05 PM

Nice sketches! I really think the cartoony-er ones work really well. A couple of crits though... I'd like to see you more fully render some of this stuff. Work on some textures and really pulling the object into the 3D realm. Another would be to kick up some studies from life, anatomy, etc. The more you draw from life/studies the better you'll become. Trust me. It helps. Keep up the great work. You've got some really fun stuff in here. I'd like to see some of these creations with some color!

**Ferg** · August 19th, 2005, 02:38 AM

zebz - Thanks, and yes, I definately need to start learning the digital painting ropes, and generally polishing some of my sketches a bit more. About a year and a half ago I painted this red guy with my mouse and the smudge tool:

But that's as close as I've ever gotten to digital painting. A friend of mine has a bunch of the gnomon dvd's so I'm gonna try to break into those soon and post whatever I can come up with

Thanks for the comments and crits!

in the mean time....more un-colored digital sketch poo

**Ferg** · August 25th, 2005, 02:24 PM

blerg

**Ferg** · August 27th, 2005, 09:19 PM

my first official attempt at painting with my wacom... *flinches*

**Ferg** · August 31st, 2005, 01:32 AM

\/ gonna model this guy \/

**Ferg** · September 1st, 2005, 01:49 PM

MORE FOR YOUR EYES TO TOUCH

**Azeira** · September 1st, 2005, 02:34 PM

wow, a wild imagination. comic books is whats screaming in my ear. i must see comic books! reminds me of old heavy metal work from the early-mid 80's.

**Magic Man** · September 1st, 2005, 03:00 PM

some cool stuff, but you need to work on those digital painting skills stat!

good luck, m

**Ferg** · September 3rd, 2005, 02:53 AM

Azeira - ty

Magic Man - jesus god I know... dont worry, I'll be Mullins in a couple days, right?

I need to start drawing "different" things

**omni1** · September 3rd, 2005, 03:25 AM

your style is so loose and your so creative with your lines, much admiration

goes out --booyakasha! bit wierd tho--.. only kidding its awsome.

i agree with magic-- more digital stuf!

Go you!

**van** · September 4th, 2005, 03:29 AM

Well, dude...I am in love with your pencil sketches.

Great characters! Keep working on the digital painting. Its not that hard to pick it up.

**Flaskpost** · September 4th, 2005, 12:27 PM

Really great stuff here! I love that whiteboard drawing of the dude who doesn´t know math.

Can´t wait to see more from you!

**Ferg** · September 5th, 2005, 05:00 PM

Omni 1 - Thanks

I was inspired by a friend of mine who used to post here and I'm trying to convince to start again (smiling chunder, or just chunder, I dont remember)

Van - thanks... I'm tryin man. Startin at the bottom and workin my way up. Gonna borrow my friend's gnomon dvds soon, hopefully those will help.

Flask - Thanks to you as well, heh. I love drawing on the whiteboards because they force me to use my whole arm when I draw and it's a lot easier to be real loose, plus the uber dark lines make for a style I dont usually get to use in my sketchbook.

Here's my feeble attempt at some greyscale shading on a crappy wacom sketch.. I think I need to start using shades with higher contrast.

**Ferg** · September 7th, 2005, 11:03 PM

left a blank document open in photoshop for a couple days... slowly filled it up... blarg

**Ferg** · September 13th, 2005, 11:03 PM

5 min quickie

**Ferg** · September 23rd, 2005, 01:17 AM

**Teigrob** · September 23rd, 2005, 02:12 AM

Wow, quite the funky stuff you got going on here...reminds me a lot of Dorian! Look forward to seeing some from life stuff when you can, and the digital. Cheers!

**van** · September 23rd, 2005, 12:06 PM

Excellent, man. Let me tell ya...I own quite a few gnomon dvd's and I wont deny I learned quite a bit. But, you learn the most by drawing and painting....AS MUCH AS HUMANLY POSSIBLE...and then a bit more.

Keep rockin.

**Ferg** · September 24th, 2005, 05:40 AM

Thanks

Yah, up next is digital painting + life drawing. I'm done with these heads. Time to start drawing real people. I skipped through a couple of the gnomons tonight and I can already see they're gonna help a TON.

Here's the model I'm workin on for the concept I posted a bit ago:

And of course... more sketching...