Swen's sketchbook (updated august 17th)

**fantasyartist** · January 4th, 2007, 04:14 PM

Hi, my name is Swendly and I'm currently studying Game Design&Development in The Netherlands. I'm working hard to improve my skills in concept design. I also had an education in industrial design for two years. I sketch everyday for a couple of hours and I'm starting to believe that I'm addicted to art

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I've been posting on the forums for about a week now and the comments I've got from you people really helped me improve a lot. Now I diceded to start a sketchbook so I can get even more constructive crits and share my art with the rest of you. Enough talking lets look at some art.

Crits are always welcome

**TheGnoll** · January 4th, 2007, 04:48 PM

nice starts, my fav are the first animal and human studies, very nice lines and dynamic shapes.Other figures are quite stiff.Try and work more on face anatomy and life drawing, i'm sure it could help.Keep this thread up, i wanna keep watching

ciao

**Envisor** · January 4th, 2007, 05:16 PM

Favorites are the horse studies, great pics, and concepts. keep up the good work.

My Sketchbook
http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=85772

**fantasyartist** · January 4th, 2007, 05:31 PM

TheGnoll
Thanks man I love doing those animal studies too. What exactly didn't you like (or could be better) about the faces? Most faces I draw are very stylized so some proportions are exaggerated. I started doing some gesture drawings lately to make my characters more dynamic overal. I'll update soon so keep watching

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Envisor
Glad you like my work I'll take a look at your sketchbook soon

**fantasyartist** · January 6th, 2007, 02:36 AM

Some paintings I did a couple of months ago

**fantasyartist** · January 7th, 2007, 07:51 PM

Quik sketch

**fantasyartist** · February 4th, 2007, 03:40 AM

Long time since I updated. I've been very busy with school projects and practicing.

**fantasyartist** · February 23rd, 2007, 09:56 AM

Have been very busy lately. Here are some sketches.

**Envisor** · February 23rd, 2007, 10:05 AM

Been awhile since Ive been here. Great sudies and digitals you have going on. I love your last post, the painting looks really good, but you need to define the head a little more. I aslo love the pen piece. Very confident lines and great scenery, the tiger just looks awesome. Cant wait for more.

**fantasyartist** · February 23rd, 2007, 10:05 AM

For some reason my the rest of my attachments aren't showing

**Envisor** · February 23rd, 2007, 10:05 AM

How many more attachements did you have?

**fantasyartist** · February 23rd, 2007, 10:09 AM

I'll try posting in smaller portions

**fantasyartist** · February 23rd, 2007, 10:14 AM

The final ones

**fantasyartist** · February 23rd, 2007, 10:21 AM

Envisor
Thanks for stopping by man. Glad you like my new posts. The one with the tiger isn't a pen drawing I did it with a black faber castle pencil. I think it's like those prisma color pencils but for some reason they don't sell them here in the Netherlands.

**TheGnoll** · February 23rd, 2007, 10:48 AM

hey man everything has improved in here since the first post, its really looking good.Keep posting!

ciao

**fantasyartist** · February 23rd, 2007, 02:25 PM

The Gnoll
Thanks man I've been working really hard.

**DARAF** · February 23rd, 2007, 03:32 PM

Cool lookin stuff here man. Keep it up.

**fantasyartist** · February 24th, 2007, 08:16 AM

This is a character design I did this week for a school project. The character had to fit in the game shadow of the colossus. I only had a few hours to pull this out.

**fantasyartist** · March 15th, 2007, 09:56 PM

I didn't have time to scan all the new stuff but here are some quik sketches I did this week

**schlichte** · September 13th, 2007, 01:35 PM

nice work man, really like the sketches, your lineweight in some of them is a little to heavy for me, keep it up, thx for the crit

**fantasyartist** · March 3rd, 2008, 11:31 AM

It's been more than a half year since I last updated my sketchbook. Shame on me! I've been working very hard and made some serious progress during this last months. I have a lot of stuff to show and since I don't have time to sort everything out it will be a mix of older and newer stuff, the less crappy stuff being the newest of course. So let's start with some concept art I did for school projects and assignments.Most of them had to be done very quick so they're not completely finished:

**fantasyartist** · March 3rd, 2008, 11:49 AM

More school stuff. The 3d model of the bar was done by Django den Boer. The character was also modelled. I'll have have to ask them for the final renders so I can post them.

**fantasyartist** · March 3rd, 2008, 12:00 PM

Some older and recent studies:

**fantasyartist** · March 3rd, 2008, 12:16 PM

And some recent character sketches to close off. I've tons of new things that I'm working on so stay tuned for more stuff.
Oh and comments and crits are highly aprecciated.

**knoxie** · March 4th, 2008, 10:20 AM

hey hey hey!

my favs so far are the greyscale profiles in post #21 and the anatomy studies in post #23.. they really capture the contre-posto of the bodies well!... line weight is much more controlled and less cartoony which I like. Keep it up!!! more more more!

**Clochette** · March 4th, 2008, 10:24 AM

Some really good stuff here! I like your assassin concept so much! You really work on anatomy, and it shows! http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1204563461 This one is interesting too!

**enthombed** · March 4th, 2008, 10:49 AM

wow man, nice improvement, you did a great work with this last pencils, keep working hard brother.

Cheers

**Trollfar** · March 4th, 2008, 11:30 AM

the naked woman have really nice face. Really good details! Nice work!

**fantasyartist** · March 4th, 2008, 04:25 PM

knoxie
thanks I have better control over my lines indeed. The problem that I had and still have a little bit is that I like to draw exaggerated curves so the thickness of let's say the arms and legs of my figures tend to get out of proportion, but I'm overcoming that right now. Come back for more soon because I have a whole sketchbook to scan.

Clochette
Glad you liked the assassin, but looking back I think I did a poor job on the anatomy, specially the abs. Actaully I didn't use any reference. I may redraw him some day. As for my anatomy studies, I'm putting a lot of work into my constructions building from simple volumes to more complex ones.

enthombed
Thanks!

Trollfar
Thanks!

**Maerrick** · March 6th, 2008, 12:44 PM

WOW! for some reason after February 23rd your skilled just vastly improved =p Your figures have a much better quality and your style looks a lot more professional. I'm glad to see you've progressed a lot in such little time. Keep up the work and i'm looking forward to seeing more!