xberts sketchbook :::last update Feb12th:::

[smuli]

Nice improvement on those acrylics! By the way, at least with oils a common way to paint is to go from dark to light and I don't see why it wouldn't work as well with acrylics. I think you started the pillar painting the right way but adding a more focused lighting could have looked more interesting... Like lighting just the top of the pillar or something. Just an opinion. But the still life and the red twisted thing look great, keep at it!

[Joe777k7]

Were are some new posts!
Its been 6 days man come on!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Dude i took another stroll through your sketchbook and saw some amazing things i overlooked last time. How did you make all that game stuff. Were you using like maya,zbrush or something?
I wish i was in making games like you.
I feel so far behind


Yo! Check out this! http://www.myspace.com/pansyk7

These were made almost two years ago. Ive gotten much better since but i dont have a mp3 decoder so i cant post. I keep forgetting to buy one. The first is with ezdrummer when i first got it and the others were with a drumachine that i had to track each part of the drum by hand. So its off real bad with the drums. Fast forward SPAGYRIC for this cool guitar solo with spanish stuff too lol

[RaphaelLuebke]

@smuli:
yes ure right have to work on focussing things all of my images totally lack of any focus

@joe:
hehe yesyes im late - game stuff was made with cinema4d/ps nice myspace-tracks first one is my fave nice drum sounds - have to try them good guitar playin aswell keep me informed for updates!

so heres something new just some loose sketches

[RaphaelLuebke]

3 new doodles


and a wip:



edit:
playin around...

[RaphaelLuebke]

[RaphaelLuebke]

3 new ( i feel like gettin better a little bit...)



edit: two more for tonight

[Joe777k7]

Are these drawn from the top of your head?
Great job.
I need to try doing some figure drawings with using photoshop. Looks really cool how you did it here.
Keep em coming...............or else..

[RaphaelLuebke]

some are from head some are from ref - a very good ref-source for poses is www.posemaniacs.com !

[prsnsweeney]

hey really like your work here wasnt sure what to expect reading your first post sounded kinda negative but your work looks great i love your sketches the ink one on the first page with all the guys wearin turbins is one of my favorites and i love how you handle environments and landscapes and the way you draw trees pretty awsome keep workin on the figure sketches its lookin solid

[RaphaelLuebke]

@prsnsweeney:
thank you! givin my best

so no f*cking studies for today just some fun-sketching-creature-stuff (testing some brushes)



and some more wip stuff that ill never finish

[RaphaelLuebke]

cow wips

[RaphaelLuebke]

little update:

[RaphaelLuebke]

final cow 175

[Ivan Turcin]

very cool work. so much variation which makes it even better. and the way you menage to pull the texture on COW is excellent. Keep it up!

[Joe777k7]

Burning villages and eating the children, thats how brutal this is. Amazing digital picture! YOu got to give me some more tips. Loving the update.

[smuli]

I like that COW entry! Good colors and texture and leading the eye to the front end. Keep them coming!

[RaphaelLuebke]

@Ivan Turcin:
Thank you!

@Joe777k7:
thanks man im glad about your constant support - im gonna drop some words to your sketchbook as soon as i am good enough to give some good crits

@smuli:
thank you - but just one vote - have to work harder on next weekly activities

heres just a little update - much to do with physics and stuff last days ... :/

quick psd sketch (ref)


wip pencil sketch


started to design a new webpage for my band just colors and some arrangement for now... (WIP!) have to finish this in the next two weeks

[Joe777k7]

Dude,
the picture of the pencil sketch looks bad. Either the scanner was messed up or the lighting was off when you took the picture, but that might also be the effect you created with smearing the pencil. But besides that, great sketch! YOur cross hatching shreds for hours down to the 24th fret than all the way back to f on the e string. Im also digging the colors for the band page, seems stll and mysterious right now at this stage. Keep the posts coming man!!

[RaphaelLuebke]

@joe:
uh yes your right - although i never smear the pencil its just a crappy photograph

[Max Power]

Thanks for the comment in my sketchbook! Even though it's a crappy photo, I still like that pencil sketch.

[RaphaelLuebke]

@maxpower:
thank you!

didnt post for a long time simply because i sadly didnt draw much for a long time..

heres what ive done today for a friend of mine, a d&d fan, for their next pen&paper session

hero (cleric of helm)

his schield

[Joe777k7]

See that man, we both been slacking. BUt i been drawing unlike yourself even though i didnt post. Dude i am still amazed by the works you have in your sketchbook as i look throughout the pages again. It just blows my mind. I really cant wait till i get to the same level as you. I have trouble with shading alot, i been using some of those smear sticks and its been helping. I really want to do crosshatching like how you do. I odered Autodesk software so hopefully i can start to train with that. I got it at a discount. Dude your band makes me want to play in a band again. I shall move over to where you are and be your third guitarist lol
Sick music though man, i might start recording some music myself(havent done it in a year or so). Loving your bass player too, amazing at what he does. I play bass to, can do some slaps lol just not like him. Stop slacking and get to work, your alot better than you think!

[Sublimus]

Nice updates in here, man!

[Vritra]

That COW looks... well... hmm.

Anyway, love your brush test, with the red streaks/strips running through.

[RaphaelLuebke]

@sublimus:
thank you!

@Vrita:
... like a penis?! yeah i know

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small update:

wip game art stuff for personal 2d game-project with fully ps-painted levels - isometric-like view its gonna be a fallout-like rpg with action rpg-controls, gonna finish the first level soon (gonna post it here ):



some photos:

[RaphaelLuebke]

some more game art wip from this evening
btw the project is called "Stellar Encounter: Pantheon" ill post more information about this project soon (if anybody is interested or not )



and some quick acrylic

[MattGamer]

awesome photos! can't wait to see more of that 2d game project! ;]

and that last acrylics is reallll nice! love it!! moar moar!!

[Scale]

You have an excellent sense of color, that shows a lot in the latest posts but also in the traditional studies before.
Kudos for focusing on believable/real body builds too!

[RaphaelLuebke]

@mattgamer:
thank you for your kind words - will make some new acrylics soon!
and even more 2d ga stuff

@scale:
what to say but thank you - always great to read that my work doesnt suck completely

heres some more stuff from today
its strange to me but i find it alot harder to draw from life then to paint from live - dont know why but i think i should DRAW more from life to fix some mayor weaknesses in my lineart and perpektive skills

[Joe777k7]

Yeah i been slacking these past few days. I did two anaimations though lol. Look on my sketchbook for the links i will post them now. They are on youtube.

Dude look on at the end of page two of my sketchbook for the pictures i drew the past month. You should see the paintings i did. There pretty cool, not great but cool.

Two life pictures?! Come on man up the dose of awsomeness. Your pencil is jealous, it knows your having an affair with a guitar. Sweet works though man. Im going to try some more arylics as well. I been doing some oils alot