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**John T** · January 9th, 2013, 02:17 PM

@TNiznet: Thanks!

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**John T** · January 10th, 2013, 01:25 PM

Castle

**Overtoom** · January 10th, 2013, 02:29 PM

Amazing landscapes and thanks for putting those useful tips in here too!

**Elias Leonard** · January 10th, 2013, 03:25 PM

sweet environments and characters as well

**John T** · January 11th, 2013, 04:50 PM

I appreciate the visits/comments as always!

I polished up an older one-

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**lionheartGFX** · January 12th, 2013, 05:02 AM

god i love it, i love all of it specially the vistas you make, AMAZING! keep them coming sir!

**John T** · January 14th, 2013, 02:12 PM

@lionheartGFX: Thanks for stopping by as always, I very much appreciate the support and am glad to hear when people are getting something out of this thread.

Some rendering practice. Did this super fast so the perspective is a bit off...

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**Wholewheat_keyboard** · January 14th, 2013, 05:02 PM

Your art is delicious

I really like the painting at the top, very pretty colors. All your work is very high level. You have a very good eye.

I never would believe that last one is "super-fast", please tell me it took you 5 days, which is about what it would take me. Is it partially 3d?

you did that "snow sniper" concept - it had been in my inspiration folder for at least a year, now I know who is responsible.

Subscribed. Thanks for sharing.

**John T** · January 16th, 2013, 04:34 PM

@Wholewheat_keyboard: Thank you for the compliments

The hallway picture took about 2-3 hours on and off, I was doing it between other things. There is no 3d base, it was all done with the lasso tool and keeping layers separate so I could use various brushes within those hard shapes. Using the lasso tool is very helpful for quickly creating certain types of images, especially geometric based things.

A spaceship- also about 3 hours-

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**LePush** · January 16th, 2013, 06:41 PM

I freakin love this stuff man, awesome awesome awesome!

**John T** · January 18th, 2013, 02:56 PM

@LePush: Thanks friend, I am more than happy to share

Western sketch-

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**John T** · January 20th, 2013, 08:01 PM

Girl-

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**John T** · January 21st, 2013, 03:20 PM

Another rendering experiment-

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**cfhd** · January 21st, 2013, 03:29 PM

Wow! Amazing work throughout this sketchbook! Great job.

**John T** · January 22nd, 2013, 11:55 PM

@ cfhd: Thanks for stopping by!

Soft brush!

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**RyanRyan** · January 23rd, 2013, 12:38 AM

Dang.

**kiichi** · January 23rd, 2013, 01:00 AM

I wish I could say something more than "looks awesome dude!" but that's all I can think of. Keep up the good work

**Xcarbon** · January 23rd, 2013, 04:41 AM

nice sb man .... i love the girl on #702 and also love that ship on #699
keep up the good work!!

**jhonshadow** · January 23rd, 2013, 04:44 AM

very nice ^^ the indoor scene on the last page, is that combination textures and normal painting? like the wall and carpet especially. Otherwise very nice sketchbook

**Setherial** · January 23rd, 2013, 05:27 AM

jaw dropping stuff!!!! love your linework, such lovely character designs and so well drawn. awesomeness!!!

**Overtoom** · January 23rd, 2013, 07:22 AM

Love the little girls portrait! Great use of soft edges and a really nice matching palette of colors.
Those other portraits are lovely too!

**jakubvavrik** · January 23rd, 2013, 09:19 AM

Wow that little girl is superb! And #672.... what a rendering O.o Excellent brushwork.

**n1frit** · January 23rd, 2013, 11:32 AM

Very awesome stuff!

**John T** · January 24th, 2013, 02:25 PM

@RyanRyan:

@kiichi: It's okay, I already know about all sorts of things I need to step up my game on!

@Xcarbon: Thanks!

@jhonshadow: Yes, I used photo textures from Mayang for parts of that. I sketched it out with the lasso tool and fills, roughed in the lighting, and added textures to those shapes, using layer selection to easily cut them to fit. Actually, if you look at the wall you can see two giant drywall screws... haha

@Setherial: Thanks for the kind words!

@Overtoom: Yeah, I was mostly messing with edges and textures on that one. I thought it was pretty useful; I feel like I learned something. A few "lost" edges, some sharp lasso-matted edges, some regular brushwork, some smudge brush "pushed paint" brushwork, some fine texture brushes, and a little sharpening filter on some areas to make them have more finish contrast against some other parts.

@jakubvavrik: Thanks, I am trying...

@n1frit: Thanks for stopping by!

**TomSeas** · January 24th, 2013, 02:49 PM

Man pretty cool stuff you got here, you enviros especially are very impressive. Most of them carry a peaceful feel to them.
The few technical sketches you did before are slightly less good tho. I'd use perspective grids more and use the ellipse tools in PS to fix some of them like the car wheels.
Keep on putting stuff out for us to see!