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

[TheGnoll]

What are you doing here? this is all work from 2005!
SCREW THE FIRST 100 PAGES, CHECK OUT MY LATEST UPDATES!

HO HO HO OLD SHIT HO HO HO

















here, some colouring try outs with photoshop 7, i almost never colour my stuff




AND, some more crap















and a Gnoll





and, a colored version for an old DSG i never posted



so...
ENJOY!
TheGnoll

[Miau]

welcome aboard gnoll!
you have some really good pieces here! defenitely on the right way
my favourite is this one - really nice

keep posting!!

[Panda89]

woow, neat stuff man,
you are very creative
and i think, if you improve your knowledge about drawing/painting, your
very good working imagination can make you to one of the masters =)

[TheGnoll]

i'm gonna try and keep posting once in a while, and probably i'll post rought sketches instead of work like the on u see above

[armando]

Haha, carriage being attacked by monsters is pretty cool, I don't know why the guy by the giant hand is smiling though. Dig the Forest Gnoll too. Make sure you do some studies too, in addition to the imagination stuff.

[DrafonKin]

Great to see more people of my age group here. Great start here. I agree that you have a very creative imagination, so youre almost set for some truely awsome sketches. Some of the sketches could have looked more real though, my art teacher is a harse critic of my fantasty art being to cliche. So you may need to look at real things and change them into something fantastic rather than drawing straight from the imagination. Good work on the digital pics too!

[Hypronost]

My favourite is the same as Miau's, the avatar one.
Very nice works.

Shame you have to work with the thumbnails though.
What I love about CA is the "in your face" artwork posting.
I don't like thumbnails for these kind of forums, but mayby your host doesn't allow it.

Anyway, it shouldn't affect your work.

cheers

[TheGnoll]

you're right hypronost, it's just that i've got some problems on this PC and can't get to my imageshack account.So i just copied the links to thumbnail from another forum where i posted these, instead of uploading them all again thx everyone, i'll try to post some sketches soon

[Azeira]

These are amazing for sketches TheGnoll. The pirate got me the most,lol. Truley a great start to a sketchbook. I only recommend that you watch yourself with proportion and perspective. You have great potential in the fantasy genre, for sure. keep at it.

Woodruff

[blacky]

These are so sweet. (Should deskribe em as incredible considering your age).
Keep posting....

[Fal$eProfit]

You totally should have posted that DSG Claw posterior. You have alot of detail and live in your drawings. Keep up the good work.

[TheGnoll]

here's some new stuff.From now on i won't post the thumbnails but direct links to images

sketch of the face of a rakshasa, for a project i'm doing


another drawing for the same project


two crappy sketches i did while i was waiting for math test ^^



man, the last ones are real crap...oh well try to do better nect time (soon i'm gonna get my anatomy book)

bye
TheGnoll

[TheGnoll]

jeez competition is really strong around here, this freaking thread will disappear in no time, i just don't have the time to scan the damn stuff

[Kitsu]

There is some good stuff in here! You definitely need to do more studies, but right now your creativity is your strongest weapon. Your anatomy isn't terrible and the poses are stronger than what I usually come up with. There are two areas where I think you could improve fairly easily: Line, and composition.

Line:

The weight (thickness) and value (darkness) of your lines are the same all over. This makes your sketches look flat and less interesting. Try varying your weight and value as you work to see what effects they have. One technique you'll see a lot is to use darker/thicker lines to silhouette your subject, and use thiner/lighter lines inside that border. Also thiner lines can be used to show what is farther from the viewer. Also don't limit yourself to simple lines. Lines can be hard or soft, a line can be the boundry between areas of different color or value, you can even describe things by the absence of line.

Composition:

Composition is a harder problem. Basically it is the use of contrast to control where the viewers eye travels. Prometheus's magnum tutorial has a lot of useful ideas about how to acheve this: http://www.itchstudios.com/psg/art_tut.htm
Your more finished drawings seem to have a lot of small details all competing for focus. Also there isn't any difference in value or line between the forground and background. Even sketches can benefit from composition, to see a great example of this in action checkout Lungbugs SB:http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...ht=lung+sketch

Okay, that is as close as I can come to constructive criticism. Just keep working on the basics, expanding your knowledge, and most importantly don't give up your creativity. Creativity is the fire, all the rest of this is just fuel.

[TheGnoll]

thx for the constructive criticism Kitsu...well i'm looking at lung's SB now and...WHOA! dunno if I can do something like tha, but it war REALLY insipring...and THAT makes me wanna sketch (and THAT is good )...i'll especially work on the line next time...updade soon (hopefully^^)

[TheGnoll]

update!

k, some quite recent stuff, sorry for thumbnail, but i usually post them directly in another forum and i am so used to post thumbnail! but whatever!

[TheGnoll]

err...still waiting for C&C^^

[OleOlsen]

you gonna be really great if you continue like this

[Kitsu]

Your anatomy is getting pretty strong! I esp. like this one: your link. A few of your figures are looking a little stiff or awkward. For awkwardness try to think about how your figure is sitting on the ground, would they be able to stand like that or would they fall over? Think about where/how their weight is supported. For stiffness: your guess is as good as mine. Life drawing is supposed to help.

[TheGnoll]

another update, my last tryouts with the mouse with photoshop (gonna get a Wacom soon ), just some practice and stuff










the one above is still WIP


(geez this one sucks )

back to the usual doodles ^^





C&C is needed^^

[TheGnoll]

little piece of crap here



ARGH it's damn hard to get some replies here^^

[blacky]

Am too lazy to open and view these, but from what I can see,....you rock and should not have too much trouble getting replies (by the time you get to your second page, latest). Also, post your work sawewise as you already did on post #12. Leaving c&c at other peoples sb's might help you spread the word of your existance on ca.org.
You seem to be a very promising artist, so it would be sad, did you not get the credit you deserve.
So long...

[TheGnoll]

argh, indeed you are right about these damn thumbnails, it's just that i am soooo used to post thumbnails, i always end up doing it!
Anyway, what size can the pic be?

i'll try to just post those from the next one, i promise

thx anyway, i'll try to post around a little bit more^^

[TheGnoll]

ok, i promise, no more thumbnails, BUT POST HERE!

this is just some crappy stuff done with photoshop (still learning, be patient ) I'll try to post some interesting stuff, i just have to scan it.

[blacky]

Ahh, no more thumbnails....hmmmmm what a delight

thx for droping by at my sb.
I've never tried photoshop, but I know there are great tutorials to be found on this forum. So your approach on last one's the best I'd say. (There's also something of a peergroup activity or something round here, where they have assignments on how to apply basics in photoshop)
The first two are sort of naive and cheesy. Besides that, I like how you tried to get some lighsource thing going on. I would not advise you to use black or greish colours (first pic) unless it's supposed to be a B&W picture. You could use dark blue tones for example or colouredgrey. You also could add some perceptual depth to these enviros. By the use of sfumato or warm tones in foreground and bluish in background. The moon on second one does not look like a moon colourwise and lightsources on sclouds are confusing, although I like the way you did em.

Will try to check in some time again. Wish you the best on your progress with photoshop.
Salutos.

[TheGnoll]

thx again for the support blacky, i really appreciate it

The landscape look a bit cheesy cause they were for a school thing, i'll try to do something more interesting next time.Thanks a lot for the comments on the landscapes, ill keep what you said about lightsources, sfumato etc in mind

apart from that, i'm gonna slowly re-post all the pics and make the whole topic thumbnail free , then you all will have no excuses^^

[TheGnoll]

old sgs, never posted



stuff i draw at school instead of listening





head studies for a comic



One year old drawings, still remember those long WHFRPG sessions...



















ok...C&C awaited!

ciao
TheGnoll

[VirgL]

really nice job ! your pretty original in your mythic beasts designs
my only crit, some of your older drawings seem a little flat , out of perspective. practicing simple forms in perspective would really help you add more bulk to your figures
keep it up !

[TheGnoll]

thanks!

really some of the older drawings are originally based on Warhammer Fantasy's Beastmen, but just the general concept, not the pic itself

I'll keep what you said about perspective in mind, i am already practicing,at the moment i'm studing Figure Drawing For all'its worth , by A.Loomis (great stuff).

Anyway thx for the comments (more more more )

ciao
TheGnoll

[blacky]

Nice updates, miss background on last 3 though (or at least s.th. not to make em look like cut out from somewhere and pasted on blank sheet of paper)
Those pen lines give em nice contrast , so the're easier to read. (Great)
Salutos