drawdrawdraw ▌▌02/23 (pg. 76)

[MattGamer]

ryanoir: i just filled them in the way i saw fit. thanks!

Jeremy Swan: lol, i hope so too. thanks

teapo: yes, thanks

Tuesday: thanks, i am working hard

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hopefully doing studies everyday now. squeezing them in there somehow.
nafti in blood...
working with loomis too...

[MattGamer]

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[Berax0r]

Love the thread.

[wreck]

Yea! love your silhouettes dude! great work man!

[Odayga]

I like your hand studies! Lovely colors! keep it up! lets see some more creatures and imaginary worlds!

[Lyno]

A lot of good updates, MattGamer. The b&w piece from post #1893 looks cool !

[Metal Fingers]

nafti's head in blood is a good one. love it. On the last grayscale painting with the guy and the girl, watch the separation of space and your value range where here right leg crossees over his foot. Finish that one, it would look noice. Cheers.

[teapo]

whoa matt. where did all these sick updates come from!? dude-- love this piece. do you plan to bring it into color??

[MattGamer]

Aerendyl: thanksssssss

dernick: thanks man!

Odayga: rawrrr thanks

Lyno: thanks

Metal Fingers: you are so adorable, thank you lol

teapo: maybe thanks bro

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A MUST SEE documentary: Restrepo (2010).

i'm starting to hate loomis hands SO very MUCH!!!
although i am enjoying movie still studies from Lawrence of Arabia (1962).

.... oh, and another round of Beachbody Insanity started. let the endurance begin!!!

[~KJK~]

you never cease to impress me good job!

[Odayga]

Nice paintings! no critiques here.. just keep it up

[*Rena*]

Great sketchbook it's the only thing I can say!!

[TheJackal]

Loving the hard edges on the colours you've used, especially on the man riding a camel!

[walnut]

Since you've been doing all those hands, i'm going with a two thumbs up. Yes, i know how corny that sounds.

[MattGamer]

Parsakoira & Odayga & *Rena* & TheJackal: thanksssssssssss!

walnut: lol!!!! thanks for the thumbs now you can't draw hahahha

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since i do not have a PS3 i will watch all of this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smafspwt1eA

dusted off my PS2 and spent far too long beating The Boss in MGS3. once i figured how to counter (hold O right when Snake grunts) i could beat her easily.

before that i finished Shadow of the Colossus. these games i left unfinished for over 5 years! ha ha ha ha! feels so good to complete them even though i forgot what the first 20 hours of game play involved. lol

more hands. boooooooooooooo hoohooo!

[ryan mcshane]

dawwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
babies
i dig your painty painty
keep going mattgamerghgdshjglad
btw, wheres your sketchbook stuff? the blue and red pens, gahgh i miss them D:<

[MattGamer]

ryan: the sketches need to be scanned. there are many and still more with purple/red/orange/green/black pens that i found at a walmart. the pens only last about a couple pages before dying though. ugh! i need good reliable pens!

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jimme. still working on how to fully render her. lots to do and understand. the colors are much different than from the photograph.

[Odayga]

The painting of your lady friend is very well done

[teapo]

nice looking study so far matt :3 colors are always a challenge with certain photos. but so far it's a convincing study! and you just finally finished MGS3? i loved that last battle with The Boss! (especially when the Snake Eater song plays-- if you drag the fight out that long that is). never played shadow of the colossus but i really wanna get it when it's re-released on the PS3 before Last Guardian

keep up the studies dude!

[Luckers]

Hey matt, I know I havent been here for a while.. Meh! Just wanted to stop by to say that the neon pieces are kicking ass! The B&W as well, keep it up!

[Jeremy Swan]

dang, i better get my act together, look at you smashing out thoses studies. Very nice sir.

[MattGamer]

Odayga: gracias

teapo: yes!! i don't have a ps3 so i'll just watch the youtube videos like i did with hard rain. i want to get silent hill 2 and beat that since i played sh3 and said i'd never play a sh game again. haha

Luckers: you are awesome, thanks bro

Jeremy Swan: haha thanks yeah you better or else...
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study bump of Lawrence of Arabia (this is after his guide gets shot!).

[ryan mcshane]

holy shit its FRIIIIIIIDAAY
ill paintings bruther

[Cyberman]

impressive, most impressive. Lawrence of Arabia is one
of my favorites, great Idea for doing screen caps, I may try that. I
suggest working from life more, as photos are flat and don't have the eyes capability
to focus into space. awesome sketchbook! cheers.

[purb36]

I suggest working from life more, as photos are flat and don't have the eyes capability to focus into space. awesome sketchbook! cheers.

i agree somewhat, but, it's really just contrast and edgework (especially with that last portrait). you have a good base, now it just needs to be pushed a little bit further, not from the pic, but from knowledge of the effects you want to produce. it's looking good, now just needs a bit of polishing.

so...polish away.

[MattGamer]

ryanoir: haha thanks brotha

Sean McClain & purb36: thanks, i tend to shy from the polished look because i dislike it and i can't see the rhythm of the strokes after i cover them up with the smudge tool (must learn more on how to keep the beginning essence of my pieces). now when it's needed i will apply the time, but this is a study not a 50 hour piece. i will leave those to more dedicated concrete studies.

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GTA's humble beginnings! 16 years ago... lol!!

2 min figure studies (poop) a 15 min color study (superpoop) of Hard Rain scene and maybe a CHoW (diarrheal and can you spot the rubix cube?).
the figure studies were giving me a hard time. evil evil figures! i hates thee! blahhh got to do more to get back into the flow. i'm so out of the loop, but they help a lot. which includes those stupid loomis baby hand studies i hate so very much. they suck, but help so much at leveling up.

[MattGamer]

MattGamer: uhm your figures look rushed and like you weren't even concentrating. make sure to remember that. also your chow character has so many things wrong with it. from the color scheme to the skin color and more. maybe you should do longer figure studies or something.

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[teapo]

lol damn matt. these are sick updates. i'm enjoying the looseness in your work lately-- even though they're studies i agree with you on things looking too polished. i'm not one for too polished work but then again i sway between liking to see the artist's hand and then also being refined XD. anyway, really love this last digital (is it a study or imagination?)

i also agree with matt's advice.. LOL?

[ryan mcshane]

dude that chow kicks ass! the color sheme and the skin colors are great dude! O_O
ugughh i love it!
graet studies too!

[purb36]

you mistake my meaning, man. smudge tool skrudge tool. your foreground edges are too soft, which flattens out the picture. the contrast in the foreground is the same as the background, which flattens out the picture. i'm saying it needs to be MORE painterly, not more "photoshoppy". who CARES about going for the polished look...FORM, glorious form! you need more edge variety in places, more like the discowarrior (foreground vs background), not like the kitchen.

GREAT work with the hands.

matty, you know we love you.