Gnoll's Stuff *UPDATE 01/04* hippo rider, creepy mama, spaceships and more!

[bradley]

i can only applaud your improvment, those little pen sketches are great, you getting hyped for Fantastic four

[smuli]

post 1367: I really like the power in those figures. The anatomy is extreme, alright but it's in perfect harmony with the strong confidence the poses convey. Awesome work with those in my opinion.

On the newest post, great to see some sequentials. Looks linear and the views vary nicely. The horizon pretty much stays at the same height but I think it brings a sort of calm and dignified feel to the slow scene. I think this warrior would lean forward if he was trying to grab something while doing the strike. Now the pose looks like he's just trying to take balance with the hand while the seem to fingers say otherwise. I think this kind of poses are a thing that a background story, like in a sequential, can easily help with but it doesn't seem to me that usual a problem to you anyway.

Great doodles, keep them coming.

[Alexandr Pascenko]

really like the storyboard

keep it up

[Dreamworker]

not bad sir ! From this couple of sketches I love in particular this warrior
Keep it up, ciao

[Discoskull]

That Captain America is nice and in-yo-face-but-calm-about-it.
But your warriors are, as always, super-sweet. Especially the cat guy with wings.
I shall return...

[kischi]

he the last few sketches are just great!!! I really like the Cpt America and the Power Rangers bad guy dude . I think you did a really good job with their pose.
Good work my friend, keep it up this way you rock!

[Chris Noeth]

Your stuff is getting better and better.

Keept it up!

Best,

Chris

[maxetormer]

LOVE the sequential art!! very easy on the eyes and
the pacing is great, I'm still gonna kick ya in the nuts for
not give us some tits, but thats a different story.
I really like how you posse your characters,
now pick one of em and render it for a more than a
few hours or minutes, challenge your self at doing
a complete illustration... thats what I fear the most
but when I do one is when I learn the most

KEEP IT UP!!!

[TheGnoll]

@BOOM!: thanks man!

@Carnifex: lol yeah, guess you're right don't worry about the design, just keep on rollin'

@painedadj: thank you very much man, really appreciate all the saliva lol

@VanDog: will do man, thanks

@bradley: thank you very much man yeah, can't wait to see that movie...strange, 300 was GREAT, ghost rider sucked ASS, spiderman 3 was visually spectacular but hated the rest...lets see how this turns out...i kinda enjoyed the first one...meanwhile, next week i'll see Grindhouse!

@smuli: thanks man, as usual, THANKS for sharing your thoughts, i really appreciate it

@GOBLINSHARK: thanks AleXXX, will do

@Dreamworker: grazie Paolo!

@Discoskull: "in-yo-face-but-calm-about-it" lol yeah...thanks dude, hope you stop by again soon

@kischi: thanks very much for the kind words man

@Chris Noeth: thanks a lot, i dig your comic book work

@maxetormer: thank hermano, will do work more on the chara's as soon as i'm outta school will work on chicks too, i promise!

oki, not a big update, but some emssing aroung with inks.
We all gotta start SOMEWHERE!

ciao!

[painedadj]

Nice new sketch didnt see that the other day, you do come up with some cool stuff I must admit.

[TheGnoll]

@painedadj: thanks man

ok, looks like no one liked those

just some doodle from today

ciao

[Carnifex]

ha! interesting how you turned it into a near-traditional in the end. nice trick

[Camara]

Great update,Gnoll!!The spider thing is impresive!

[Lee W]

that spider thingie looks great now just need some colors

[Nutter]

The spider dude is pretty cool, It could do with a bit of cleaning up though as it is a little hard to read in the middle. If you decided to take it further that is.

cheers.

[monstertree]

Hey Gnoll, cheers for stopping by the SB!
Your pen strokes look so fluid and fast, combines the energy and line quality of a quick doodle with the control and execution of a planned out piece. Needless to say i'm diggin' all the stuff in here, but that spider guy and the wolf/fox guy stand out for me

[Fellah.]

Cool spider, dude!

[spudstudios]

cool confident work.. that spider is wicked!

[Chermilla]

Hey Mr.G!!!!

How's tricks? Long time no post! Haha. I would say I like the man-spider but I hate big spiders, they give me the creeps! :p But it is cool...

Nice updates since I last visited, great to see that you're still sketching like a trooper anyway. I know I haven't posted in ages but I've just booked a week of work in July that I'm going to dedicate to just doing lots of art, I can't wait!!

Ciao!

Cx

[Call0ps]

nice to see how u keep polishing your skills the spider looks great, if u got time try to clean a bit more and who knows some colors, i miss so much your color work keep it up

[DanielC]

Cool inks ryan !
The spider is pretty nice too.
Keep it up !!

[TheGnoll]

@Carnifex: hehe thanks to Targete and ImagineFX.Check it out guys, really an interesting mag

@Camara: thanks Camara!

@OldNoobie: Thanks Lee...i'll see what i can do

@Nutter: cool to see you here man, i will work on it some more

@monstertree: thank you very much! btw, its a hyena guy anyway

@Fellah.:thanks Simon, always cool when you stop by

@spudstudios: thanks man!

@Chermilla: hey Chermi! i was wondering where you had disappeared! hope to see something from ya soon, thx for stoppin' by

@Call0ps: hey, long time no see! thanks for stopping by

@DanielC: hey Dan sorry man, missed your reply thanks for stoppin, as usual

hey guys, i WILL work more on the spider as soon as i can, i promise

meanwhile, some random doodles

YES, those are some crappy attempts at drawing females.We all gotta start somewhere, i guess

ciao!

[Kronos]

hey man, you know what i think. but just thought i would say again that i really like the poses, they are all pretty natural and convincing. NICE!

[Alexandr Pascenko]

as i told ya .
i really like this one! http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1181659772
now it only needs some ...markers??!!

u already know my crits

keep it up

[Listing]

Nice flow in the lines and some good gestures too. The masses seem flat and a little segmented, though.

[Lee W]

Females are hard to draw in my opinion since you got to show muscle, form, shape, light and shadow without losing the femininity, of course it doesn't apply when drawing a really really ugly female They have to be soft yet well defined.

okay, enough of my blabbering just watch the shape of the thighs and keep the width from shoulder to shoulder smaller than the width of the hips.

you need to do more colors too ...

[kischi]

you are doing great!! and with the girls- I think you are on the right track!

[sanoma]

Nice studies!...Makes me want to practice more ( hence the number of heads on my sketch book site!)

About Halftones in PS...there are two ways of doing it:
1. Make a copy of you image>flatten it>Filters>Pixelate>color Halftone...when the box appears I prefer to change the size radius to 4 and then set all the other boxes to the same value (ie 45)...this will give you a pretty good start to play with as an overlay/screen/multiply,etc on your image. (One other thing you can do is then to go to Filters>Other>maximum/minimum...this will make the dots larger or smaller, depending on what you desire).

2. Copy and flatten your image...choose two colours that you want to use on your image, go to Filters>Sketch>HalftonePattern...choose dots or lines or circle ( whatever you fancy) then I push the contrast up quite high, as this gives you more of a sharper/printed look. You image will now be dots, but using the colours you chose. From here you can then copy the layer back into you original, and play around with the layer modes.

One final way of doing shading in a halfton/Ashley Wood type of way, is to make a new layer and draw the shapes of your shadows, fill them with a mid ( 128,128,128 ) grey, then use the first method I mentioned to change the layer to dots.

Another way ( just remembered!!!) is to make new image ( 4pixels by 3 pixels ) and, using the pencil tool, draw black dots every other pixel, flatten this and go to edit>Define Pattern..this makes your image into a pattern. On your original artwork, draw the shapes of the ares you wish to 'halftone', then go to Edit>Fill>Contents box>Pattern>in the little drop down box find your halftone patter, and hey presto....instant halftone. You can then set it to what ever layer mode you want.

All my secrets revealed!!!!! Hope this has helped.

Mack.

[purb36]

pronto!

hey man, thx for stopping by my sb thread. you have some good stuff here. your works are dynamic, you usually show good knowledge of form, and i love your expressions. if there's something i can crit, i would say take another look at the insertion of the thigh into the knee and of the general elbow area. the thigh starts out fat by the hip and groin area and slims down as it reaches the knee. i know comics usually do this the other way around, but it tends to look kinda weird. anyway, keep up with what you're doing, and i would definitely recommend working with values as much as you can. im trying to go back and learn things with value as opposed to line, and its much harder that way. anyway, g'luck man, and again, thx for stopping by my place. ill be around.

[maxetormer]

Yeap thats the kinda of lines I like, dynamic and with character,
thanks for posting the goods, I'm all kinds of inspired now
and the ladies aren't that bad, I mean you have the basic shapes
well established, just need to slow down, overall its nice
update, ill come back with better critic on the following days!