★ TheDirtSyndicate ★

[TheDirtSyndicate]

fi want a fresh start.
i think its time for a new sketchbook.

[DanielC]

Hey man!
nice new sketchbook
The pencils are good, they have some good lines.
But that first enviro is blowing my mind away. The colours and mood are awesome.
Are you gonna some more like that one ?

[TheDirtSyndicate]

well, i dunno man... it was mainly a photo composite that i just painted over...
it felt to me like i was cheating. (i am rather proud of it tho, i did put a lot of work into it)
i did another one that wasn't as good, in fact it was pretty boring in comparison and it kinda depressed me because i realized that i NEEDED to do the photo composite first... im just not good enough yet to just DRAW what i want (with environments anyway)
and because i have to rely so heavily on photo composites for my environments, im extremely limited with what i can create. soooo, maybe some day i'll do some more, but in the mean time i'd like to try to get better at drawing environments without the photo composites.

i posted these t-shirt designs in the finally finished section, but that thread dropped off the face of the earth, so i'll go ahead and post em here just to consolidate.

btw, i may not update this thread that often, its not because i'm a lazy bastard that plays video games and watches tv all the time, its because im constantly doing art in all forms, graphic design, photography, collage, motion graphics, music (analog and digital) etc..
im going to try to post more of my OTHER art here too, not just sketches.
then maybe you guys will understand how fucking busy i am all the time.
haha

anyway, here are the t-shirt designs:

[TheDirtSyndicate]

hell, while im at it, here's a couple songs i've been working on in a completely different style than what i normally do, these are HEAVILY inspired by the black keys:
MUSIC LINKS:
http://www.thedirtsyndicate.org/musi...TheseWalls.mp3
http://www.thedirtsyndicate.org/music/SheLied.mp3
and just for shits and giggles i did a cd cover:

[AlexC]

the tshirt designs are radical! great execution
cd cover looks interesting
keep it up

[hurricane]

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1174382658
that's the best one!

i like the sketches and photo composit!

oh and cool songs

now bring more!

[tensai]

i actually thought this was the best one. nice and loose, with cool shapes.

[Bojee]

Luv it all!! Luv the variety! Looks like each new project feeds into the others. Are those T-shirts available?? You're one talented Mofo!

[asoir]

ive always liked your blocky sorta style, but you get curvy when you want. really great! peace

[enthombed]

nice start my friend.. cool concepts.. i really like this skulls designs.. i really like skulls bro.

Keep Posting

Cheers

[character]

awesome update man. that enviro piece = wow
you still going to tuesday's workshops?

[Jonas Heirwegh]

I love the first one, strong piece!

Keep going!

[SEVANS]

Love the environment, like the red Robot-01 pic and the skull T-shirts have great textures.
Nice mix of styles and topics.

[magnut]

It's one thing to have the requisite skills to push your pencil back and forth. It's another thing to have the collective skills and the general mindset of someone who must be creatively expressive, in order to feel as if he or she is properly living their lives.

complete2 is one of these people. If he goes for a period of time without doing something creative, he becomes cranky and ill.

There are other people who have considerable skills who wish to do great things, but are limited by their own sense of deficiency, or they simply don't have the emotional drive to explore their own potential. These kind of people generally comprise the very much-needed throngs of skilled 'worker bees', who do the kinds of graphics/art jobs that are serviceable to their clients, but do not rise to the level of someone whose life is literally all about the high-end creative endeavors that we all aspire to.

complete2, you have moments of brilliance, while constantly applying your considerable skills to various mediums. Where you say you fall short (in your environments and such), is where you obviously need to grab your balls and dive in head first. You need to get all those really crappy attempts out of your system before you end up taking command of that which previously messed with your head.

I've always encouraged you to take on a totally different kind of project, to get yourself 'out' of your own comfort zone. I'm trying to do that also. It's really so fucking difficult to do.

That's what these threads are all about. We look up to such iconic people... well, such accomplished people, such as the Mike Mignolas, Joe Quesadas, Hayao Miyazakis, and the Marko Djurdjevics, and we want to be like them. We wish we could be one-tenth as productive, as successful as them in our lives.

complete2's approach is a great example of how you can get on the road to doing that. complete2 is someone who actually lives this life, as opposed to someone who applies their skills as a hobby. You quite literally have to eat, breathe & shit this life every day.

Yeah that was gross analogy, but it appropriately fits.

complete2 does not suck.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

aww man, ya makin me blush...
but thankyou for the kind words... personally i dont feel like i deserve them, but i do appreciate it.
oh, and you are right, i often wonder why my turds aren't in a gallery somewhere...

seriously tho, thanks magnut.

alex c
thanks man

hurricane
thanks, and i intend to. haha

wasker (and everyone else who liked the first painting)
i think im going to focus on trying to DRAW my environments more and not rely so heavily on photo compositing, so it may be awhile before ya see another one of those. haha

tensai
thanks man, i do those little guys all the time, but i never save em... that one i just had to save.

bojee
not yet... we gotta figure out whos gonna print em and stuff first.
i'll let you all know when you can buy t-shirts i promise

asoir, enthombed
thanks

character
i have not been to the drawing group in a long time. i'd like to start going again, maybe next week...

epias, sevans
thanks


again, thankyou everyone who checked out my work.
it seems as tho the robot was rather popular, so i did a few more tonight when i got home.
tell me which one is the coolest and i'll take a stab at making it into a finished piece

[TheDirtSyndicate]

hehe, i was having fun with my bots

[Dose206]

hm, nice stuff. as far as the bots go, I'm partial to 1 and 6, but 3 has some promise too. keep it up!

[undergroundsean]

good job man !!
it's a good start ~~

[TheDirtSyndicate]

another

[DanielC]

Very nice bots !

[TheDirtSyndicate]

dose, under, daniel
thanks!

im going to florida for the weekend, so i wont be updating until next week. hopefully i have lots of sketches to post seeing as how its a 5hr flight and all.
smell ya later

[character]

complete2 does not suck.

he does for the right price $$
BOOYAH! haha


nice robots man. keep it up! fuck that wacom up!

[liam.c]

shit ya man when u run with that grapic flabor your on fire ! love the 2 envronments !!!!!!!!!!

[enthombed]

Nice robot designs bro, i like this last one...

Keep posting

Cheers

[TheDirtSyndicate]

thanks guys


i got back from my trip early monday morning, sick as a fucking dog.
i got some sort of respiratory infection making me hack up all kinds of brown shit...
so i haven't felt like drawing or doing anything productive in the past few days.
BUT, i did fuck around in fruity loops a bit and came up with a couple things:

this one i did tonight:
MUSIC LINKS:
http://www.thedirtsyndicate.org/music/sweet.mp3

and this one was a test of some new drum samples i downloaded:
http://www.thedirtsyndicate.org/music/piano_test.mp3

more drawings coming soon.
sorry i've been posting so much stuff that has nothing to do with this site, i'll get back on track soon.
i promise.

[TheDirtSyndicate]

meh... i dunno...

[hurricane]

robots are very cool!

cheers!

[Ryan K]

this one i did tonight:
http://www.thedirtsyndicate.org/music/sweet.mp3

and this one was a test of some new drum samples i downloaded:
http://www.thedirtsyndicate.org/music/piano_test.mp3

Those are some dope ass beats!

[TheDirtSyndicate]

quick doodle

[enthombed]

nice updates man, keep ponting,

Cheers