Concept Stuff updated 12-9-08

[Dhraug]

Really nice sketches. You're talented.
Hehe, I will check back again. =)

[damdischink]

Rob - I disagree only a POrtion of his feedback. He sure did give me a really good feedback overall. Thanks for sharing ur comments man,, and u do keep them nice concept coming too.

Brian - there's nothing wrong with using pure black, or make the painting very shadowy, it matter how u use it though. U use it RIght on the feed back but a lil bit over,, I think. It's a good one anyhow. Caravaggio is a great source u show, he uses shadow right where it's needed. Alright bro,, u gotta critique some more art coming.

RaistlinTheDark - thanks for encouragement man.

Dhraug - my drawing are ok for now,,,, it should be better later.... man, i'm starting to not think my painting is not all that anymore,,, which is good,,, I think.


anyways,, here's the edited version.

[OBX]

awsome digital paintings! you have nice confindence and rendering in ur digi's. And nice texture too... not to loud and not to quiet. good stuff!

[rodrigo orellana]

hey!!!
what program is that ???
Plz email me, plz let me now what program is that

[Glottis]

woah!

[damdischink]

obx - it's ok,,,,, it could be better,, i think i over texture it a bit

redrigo - the good o Photoshop

Glottis - Choah!

[An-G-eL]

i like ur first drawings alot...like ur concept of hair..those where good.... u should make more of them .

[damdischink]

It's been a year since I post anything,, been kinda lzay,,,,,,bad me...here's some recent stuff. Been doing bunch of studies lately, including the chick with the gun, and Sparth Tutorial. Life drawing on the females,, which is pretty bad,, need to do it more often.
And finally, went back and touch up one of my old creatures = fat dude (adding up what I learned in the past year) I'm not satisfy with him yet,, I'll give it another go tonight.

[damdischink]

Fat dude finished.... yay, finally!. I've been eager to finish this up for days now.\

[damdischink]

new concept,,, female worrior,,,

dress and female study

[damdischink]

feel so lonely,, nobody's checking out my sb,,,,,
did couple thumbnail,,, ended up liking the top right one. Continue on that, and showing progress

Recently,, I started to go through Colepoopface sketch book,

http://conceptart.org/forums/showthr...=118736&page=2


and it has really inspired me. Try some of his style,,, trying to stay loose and go crazy, and keep in mind that it's for study only, 1-3 layers only.

I usually paint shape first, then value or color. This time, I do them simultaneously back and forth.

[damdischink]

continue on,, color and background added,,,, rotate canvas and change here and there to have a nicer composition.

[damdischink]

study of an old man.......

[Evxyza92]

I like that study, the wrinkles, and crack along his facedone really well, if you don't mind would happen to have arefernce for that or was it from the top o' your head? Anyway it looks good, especially the smaller details, such as the ear being raised a bit on the same side his eyebrow his up, you know small things like work out well.

[damdischink]

thanks, I wish i could draw that right on top of my head. here's the ref i use


One more study before I head out for the night,,, portrait of my mom.

[xobgob]

"A master of the art u are, and fantasy a lot u have"

amazing work

[damdischink]

thanks xobgob, appreciate ur up lifting words..

some sketches

[Blue]

Well i don't usually comment on sketchbooks, but since you insist.

I think you're moving in a great direction. Your figure studies are really very good and your creatures are for the most part fairly interesting, but at the moment the two realms don't meet anywhere in the middle. See with your studies you are reviewing working anatomy, but when you transition over to one of these hellish creatures, there is no working anatomy at all. Its curious how you leave so much learned from one and don't apply it to the other.

So if I could be so bold, but I would like you to try an exercise to help you correct this. You already have examples of the muscle structure for a human arm, try and add an extra join to that arm. This exercise prevents you from being a copy machine and gets you thinking about how/why those muscle groups are there and what they do together. You can make the extra join bend anyway you want, just make it work with all of the muscles / tendons / bones.

What I hope you'll learn from it is how to assemble anatomy for your brutes. Although i don't expect these guys to look perfectly probable (because they aren't by concept) but they need to look a little more probable then what you have now.

There are two other things which I notice you are consistently doing. One, you are pushing too many primary colors into each other's faces and not mixing with any cream colors. Take any existing drawing you have, grey scale it and change the colors around. I attached a few pictures of some ice cream. They are a good example of creamy colors. They have a fair amount of white in them, and they are generally soft colors. Pay close attention to how the shadows fall and how the colors change based on highlights and shadows. You need to avoid perfect red/green/blue/yellow as they make your images look over saturated and multiplied.

Why the colors of ice cream though? Well to be blunt, they look delicious. Think about your girls for a second, if you color the skin in a tone of vanilla, then the hair in a flavor of grape, you already have colors which are pleasant to the eye. Obviously you're just using color, not texture (you don't want them to actually be made of ice cream... unless that is your idea. which might be kind of fun to be honest)

The last problem you're having is your intensity of light. You need to avoid BLACK shadows. I know Caravaggio is famous for such chiaroscuro, but that is something you need to evolve into, not learn from. Take a peak at this link, it explains how and why shadows are colored the way they are. Click the light bulbs to change their colors and move them and the box around. It is fairly fun to play with, but brings up a very good point. Shadows are not black, they are the color of the secondary light source.

Over all, you're doing really well. You have a few areas to work on but that is normal. Now, I'm going to buy myself some ice-cream.

[alicelefay]

Oh cool understanding of colour and use of texture in your works...I love them!
Particularly, I liked the old man in the latest posts...that wrinkles in his face are simply amazing
Subscribed! And waiting for inspiration!
(and thank you for the help! )

[Hive_minD]

The portrait of the old man is a great style! Hope you learned tons from it!