Llothcat's Llayers of Llucidity updated 05/25ish/07

**llothcat** · November 26th, 2005, 10:52 PM

i think i'll be doing enviroments for a while..it's embarassing just how bad my backgrounds turn out.

**Azeira** · November 26th, 2005, 10:57 PM

lol, well, practice makes perfect llothcat. the more you work, the better you will become. dont be afraid of the critiques of others. were here to help.

nice new work by the way. a bit along the same roughness, but atleast your starting to intigrate your characters with various forms of environment. gives them a good sense of personality and mood.

Woodruff

**llothcat** · November 26th, 2005, 11:06 PM

thanks

**llothcat** · November 27th, 2005, 10:19 PM

**llothcat** · December 4th, 2005, 02:35 AM

**Azeira** · December 4th, 2005, 02:45 AM

getting better. glad to see youvce smoothed out your strokesa bit. though, there are some perspective issues with this latest peice. one in particular is the bridge(?) standing over the lower bridges/street/walkway. though at first it seems alright, it looks as if its right side is facing the opposite direction from where it should be, which is towards us. keep it up.

Woodruff

**llothcat** · December 4th, 2005, 03:56 AM

as stuggested by dogfood..doing daily studies of random pictures from the web...

i think i better invest in a ruler..that bridge bugs me, too. Better yet, a t-square.

**llothcat** · December 5th, 2005, 02:06 AM

**llothcat** · December 5th, 2005, 10:33 PM

ok fine..a pencil sketch

**BAKI** · December 5th, 2005, 10:40 PM

hey love the bug collection
lets see some more freestyle sketches

**SirGreenSock** · December 5th, 2005, 10:51 PM

Jeez man do you ever slow down? :p
No, but seriously, you work fast and work a lot. Like the work you're producing.
Really like your environment work, wanna see more traditional stuff like earlier in the thread.
Keep it up!

**llothcat** · December 6th, 2005, 02:18 AM

Thanks for the comments

I think this was inspired in part because of tonight's failed taffy experiment. I was defeated by sugar, and almost caught my kitchen on fire

**llothcat** · December 6th, 2005, 07:49 PM

inspired by the william b hand..man I wish I could airbrush that good....

**llothcat** · December 8th, 2005, 01:16 AM

this is what the scratch tool does when you play with the opacity. I think I'm onto something here....

**llothcat** · December 10th, 2005, 03:17 AM

didn't post anything for a while because I had to redo my website. I kinda hit the delete button on my index page when I was aiming for one of my earlier, terrible painter experiments....oops. The redo looks better than the original, imo. First time I did a flash based menu combined with a bit o php trickery.

And, the pages actually match!

**llothcat** · December 12th, 2005, 08:12 PM

aw heck..some creatures

all to protect myself from the dreaded brainfart....

**lemur** · December 16th, 2005, 01:35 AM

Ahoy there! Ilothcat when I looked through your skecthbook I felt smthng similar to my own progress. (Although you are much too better than me, both in terms of color and line) You keep drawing from mind and so all your characters have that idealized cartoonish look you like. I also have that very same problem(?). Even when I work from referances it turns out to be similar to my cartoonish chars because I drew them for such a long time. My advice is that; while working always speak to your self. Do not draw from your memory always ask, questions like; Hımm I put one eye here and the other should be one eye lenght apart from this one. Use your mind not memory while drawing. Anyway who am I to give advice, I still suffer from the same problems. (Maybe they are not problems anyway)

**llothcat** · December 16th, 2005, 02:17 AM

um..ok...thanks.
When I work from references, I tend to not like the picture as much. I get bored and inevitablly begin doodling anyway.

anyhow..my new composition..to be painted when I have the time..maybe tomorrow.

I will master painter dammit!

**llothcat** · December 16th, 2005, 02:18 AM

i really have got to use rulers

**llothcat** · December 16th, 2005, 05:31 PM

A quickie using the gouche brush...i think it came out ok.

**llothcat** · December 19th, 2005, 07:03 PM

smooth out colors....

well sorta...

**llothcat** · December 23rd, 2005, 03:44 AM

update of the last few days of doodling

and all this does not protect me from having brainfarts...thusly:

**Hyver** · December 23rd, 2005, 05:05 AM

Good show, i'm amazed by the progress you're making here. no crits right now, you seem to be on the right track. remember that contrast is the key

**llothcat** · December 24th, 2005, 05:14 AM

the c.o.w. for this week..i was lasy...

actual picture looks more like this:

**llothcat** · December 24th, 2005, 05:48 AM

old sketch when i was bored..the live sketch group already sawit..i call it the hamster camel:

**Kronos** · December 24th, 2005, 06:08 AM

hey, thanks for the post in my sketchbook!, you're the first!!!

WOW, i'm really REALLY impressed by your improvment of this sketchbook, its amazing, i was going to say you could work on the clarity of your line and blending....but you seen to have addresed that issue about two thirds through!

your environments (i'm pathetic at environments, but if you ceep working on them, they'll be a really good compliment to your characters) are coming along very well and i love you characters, especially your buggs....

one thing i have noticed is that you haven't used too many interesting perpectives, try a high or low angle to create a more dynamic picture, your c.o.w is close to a "low angle" (that is looking up from the ground).....

anywayz, hope this helps, and i'm looking forward to the whole SSG thing!

**llothcat** · December 24th, 2005, 06:20 AM

one thing at a time...i had to re-teach myself perspective like 5 times to far. I want to make sure I got it down this time so I don't have to go back at it again....

**llothcat** · December 24th, 2005, 06:46 AM

I also have to gear up for upcoming art shows in the comicbook/sci fi/fantasy convention circuit...so i will be churning out junk, and filtering out the best for those shows. wish me luck.....

**SillyLing** · December 25th, 2005, 01:09 PM

Krono basically addressed to what I was going to say.

The last painting bothers me. In your paintings (not just that) it would be sort nice if you bounced the colors around alittle bit. Like the red from the tentcancles into the walls. =/ Where is the light source in the room? The shadows are It should show. In some places, there are either none or the shadows are just randomly put there. WHERE IS THE BLUE COMING FROM? If it's another light source on the out side, you should put some blue in the walls.

Contrast is the key. Don't worry about putting darker colors in the painting. ^_^ black, dark brown and etc. =/ It'll help with the dramatic-ness.

I'm outtie. xP

**Hanuka** · December 25th, 2005, 01:26 PM

hey there,
i think your creatures and especially your bugs are very, very good. i also like your use of perspective in the first and last enviro (idw-roof and christmas-tentacles).

on to the cons:
i don't like your use of custom brushes and/or textures in some of these (for example the first two of Nov25th and the second enviro of Nov 27th). it can lead to an incoherent and random look (especially when you use textured highlights as on your "mortimer" - who is well done besides that). also textures like those often flatten the image. i find it hard to apply textures and custom brushes myself in an effective manner, that actually improves my image - definitely one of the reasons i don't work with painter... it seduces me to use 'em