Rough Stuff

[chilijapones]

[chilijapones]

just did this tonight. an Idea I have for some dig paintings

[Craig Houghton]

I like the look of those cards. The knight is very solid looking with that square'ish form (well done) and the queen of diamonds is well-suited by her frills-included throne. I'm looking forward to seeing them progress.

-Craig

[MUNIZ]

Thata boy! The card ideas are great. It's nice to see something start to materialize itself. Keep the work coming brother, and get hot on the Avatar. I'm watching you

[chilijapones]

thanks for the post Craig. My plan is to do the whole deck, or at least all the face cards. it may be to big a commitment but we'll see how far I get. check back soon for updates. and I'm watching you too mark so make sure and post something this weekend or you're going to get it on monday.

[chilijapones]

here is the queen of spades. still having trouble with the foreshortening of the legs and arms a bit to make a believable sitting pose. I'm going to look around and see if I can find some reference photos of straight on sitting. any tips would be great! more soon.

[MUNIZ]

You better get Painting on that Queen of Spades ASAP. I'm jonesin to see that in color. Matt you don't give yourself enough credit. You've got a lot of raw ability. A few anatomy studies here and there and world domination is at your fingertips MEWWHAHAHAHAHA! See you at work!

[Yautja892]

Good start to your sketchbook, I really like the robot in the second post. Can't wait to see what you do with those cards. Post more

[chilijapones]

I was playing around with some color on the queen of spades. still need to work on teh dress folds and what not.

[Adam.Katsaros]

Some good cartoon sytle characters. Looks like your pretty comfortable drawing that way. Maybe push some more realistic proportions (8 heads tall instead of the 5 or 6 head tall ratio you are currently using), unless you really enjoy hand animating in which case really keep on in the direction your going even push a walk cycle if possible.

Great work overall, I really enjoyed the card theme drawings.

[chilijapones]

yeah, I cant seem to shake this sort of cartoony style. even my life drawings tend to take an element of it. I think a lot of it stems from that I dont draw from life nearly as much as I need to. once I get a little further with this card idea I think I'll start some life studies.

[Jove]

Nice start, keep practicing the anatomy and if you feel that you need to do more life drawings, then you probably do, so get to it and keep posting :] And welcome to SSG#39!

[MUNIZ]

The skin is really coming along nicely on the queen of Spades. It has a warm feeling to the lighting right now. Maybe a little high contrast with everything else might boost her skin glow out further. Looking really good so far! You have to finish this ONE!!!

"There's always more to be seen"

[4rt-r41d]

ops, i didnt realize we had a new member in our ssg, hehe sorry bout that.
looks cool, i really like the sketches, and the last digital paint looks great.
but i think you need some contrast in that image, and also use bigger brushes.
i think you should get rid of the white background, but thats just a personal thoguht.
keep at it!

[MUNIZ]

I'm still waiting!

[chilijapones]

here it is a gain with a little more work. getting a little bored with this, but I told Myslef I would finish it to some degree... but its going slow to say the least.

[Zombie_dla]

you got some nice stuff here (really like those cards). But is that queen of spades slowly falling to the side or is it just me?

[MUNIZ]

FINISH IT!!!!!!!!

[Jove]

Keep working man, don't slow down and don't be afraid of being more aggressive with the brush strokes, if something bothers you then paint over it and don't keep anything just because it's already done. I like the rendering of her right hand the best right now, it got the best feel of volume

[4rt-r41d]

Finish it mate, looking good!

[Adam.Katsaros]

I know what you mean by going slow, but keep at it get it to a level your happy with then move on. Trick is not to spend too long on it, but also to spend enough time to learn the most you can from it.

[chilijapones]

havent had much time at the computer, so here are some quick ones.

[Jove]

Nice studies, guy with rifle looks like he is about to fall forward though. Keep drawing and posting

[Adam.Katsaros]

really good studies Chilli. Your proportions are really looking good. With your really sketchy pieces take a ballpoint pen and tracing paper and try pick out the lines you want. If you pick the wrong line don't go over it again, just grab another piece of tracing paper and try again. This might help improve your line quality as well as get you comfortable with a more exact method of using line.

Sketchy stuff is great for exploring form your own mind, but from reference we all should be aiming at clean linework or sharp edges (if drawing via bulk). I personally struggle with cleanliness but its what makes a piece looked finished.

[MUNIZ]

The beast awakens! NOw tighten up those lines

[bakatron]

theres just a wee bit of inclination in your figure drawings. you might want to just draw a straight line first with a ruler (lightly and then make a break down on that.

after a while you see that line invisibly and it doesnt matter

you do have some really great concepts - i cant wait to see them evolve.

[bakatron]

also i would advice that you sort of incline your drawing board around 35-35 degrees up and then draw on it. it prevents slanted figures.

drawing flat ruins the perspective of the figure.

[MUNIZ]

Hey Brother, I did just a little Paint over. Just an idea on the Queen-O-Spades.

[chilijapones]

wow, I really like what you did with the cloth. I want to get back and try some of that on it. thanks for the paint over!

[chilijapones]