The7Sketchbook7 - TombRaider fanart+YouTube Monkey!

**The7Artist7** · February 24th, 2008, 06:52 PM

Hey sure Sage!

here you go - hope this works uploading it to this sketchbook ...whoa that's kinda huge, should be high res enough lol! Look forward to seeing what you do with it - I'll have to do some more of that character and really develop it. Enjoy!

P.S. anyone else see this and would like to have a go at inking/ CGing whatever - no problem as long as you ask first

High rez image removed for now to help page loading times

**sageguy** · February 28th, 2008, 12:55 PM

Awesome. Thank you. I'll post it somewhere when it's done.

**The7Artist7** · March 1st, 2008, 11:04 AM

NEW! done totally in photoshop CS3 with my brand new intuos3 - about 30mins

**The7Artist7** · April 7th, 2008, 08:49 PM

Dude - gotta draw more post more - sorry guys and gals!

here's some more Spidey sketches I'm workin on - hope you like

**sageguy** · April 7th, 2008, 08:58 PM

HAH! It's like Venom is saying "Hey gorgeous, why don't you just climb into my mouth and all will be well." Peter is totally fallin' for it too.

**DAVEZILLA** · April 7th, 2008, 09:23 PM

Ahdude, I love the super skinny spider man!

**Matthew Forte** · April 7th, 2008, 09:29 PM

Oh man, this stuff is great. Your artwork oozes style and creativity, I really like it! I would recommend doing some abstract creature creations, see what you come up with.

**The7Artist7** · April 8th, 2008, 08:30 AM

Sage: hahaha cool - the story teller as always

you're half right - venom is certainly being cheeky but peter is supposed to be miffed lol - thanks dude

Davezilla & Matthew: Thanks guys! really appreciate the comments - have checked out your sketchbooks also - nice stuff and good progress both - keep up the good work and keep posting art

inked versions of the above to be added soon hopefully

**Arrowhead** · April 8th, 2008, 11:28 AM

Heyo The7Artist7 - Thanks for checking out my sketchbook.
Man I really gotta tell you, the perspective you captured in post #2 on the 2nd drawing is bad ass. I wanna see more crazy stuff like that.
Perspective distortion like that has always something I struggle with.
Hope you stay on and keep posting.

**The7Artist7** · April 8th, 2008, 11:53 AM

Heh Thanks dude - I've never had any training with perspective - just picked up a few basics ages ago and for some reason was one of those things that my brain could understand

Maybe I should do a mini tutorial / 'perspective guidelines according to me' lol

anyhoo - must work!

**Muzz 2k7** · April 9th, 2008, 12:37 PM

Quality stuff (Y)

Love the whole charicature/comic side of art. Keep it up

**The7Artist7** · May 3rd, 2008, 06:09 AM

Hello! - I am still around - life just is hectic ...still

Anyways - here is a start on inking one of those new spidey sketches in photoshop with the pen tool. This is a new experience for me and I must say so far photoshop inking via pen tool is very cool (I don't know why it feels better than inking via pen tool in Illustrator as that is my normal program but hey!)

Yes I know there are one or two things that need adjusting but please feel free to comment.

Thanks

**Grafguy** · May 14th, 2008, 08:47 AM

your spidey stuff real cool, i enjoyed watchin em

I guess u paint all your stuff, maybe u should vectorize it in illustrator.
it should give it a more cartoony look so the style comes out better

keep posting

**sageguy** · May 14th, 2008, 04:14 PM

oooOOOoooo! I'm likin' your inkin'. WONDERFUL! Hope to see you post more and more and more and more and more!!!

**The7Artist7** · May 19th, 2008, 06:12 AM

Hey Graf - thanks ...I don't know why I'm drawing so much spidey stuff when I get to do art for fun at the mo - I guess he just rules lol! funny you should say about Illustrator - that's actually my main program and I'm in fact attempting to get better at Photoshop. Will have to vectorize some stuff and post it on here

Thanks Sage! Appreciate the props dude - inking is an area I've shied away from so much I need to develop some skills and methods to keep that creativity flowing rather than bogging down and getting bored. Really hope I get some spare time to break out some more for you CA peeps.

I found some old character designs the other day - I'll try to get them scanned and upload them today.

**The7Artist7** · May 26th, 2008, 04:07 PM

Ok peeps - here follows a Large upload of old sketches I dug out and scanned in just for you guys - ain't I nice

Well here goes - hope you enjoy 'em!....

The portrait is of my younger bro who drew the wolverine pic - we always enjoy sketchin together - must get him to get a scanner and join CA

till next time - keep rocking everyone!

Forgot to mention - all was done without ref apart from the sketch of my bro

**The7Artist7** · June 6th, 2008, 07:39 AM

Hey all - Just tried out Livetrace in illustrator - with a little tweaking the results are not too bad considering the original! Little tricky to work with the result but interesting

See ya around all

**The7Artist7** · June 12th, 2008, 06:26 AM

Took a little time out to draw this morning

- feels good to be doing something for fun again (not that my commission work isn't fun but y'know

)

Really starting to feel excited about this style I'm starting to develop - feels 'me' - I do loadsa kiddy cartoony 'me' stuff for my commission work but also always wanted to have a slightly more comicy 'me' ... it's like any artist should be able to learn hogarth or loomis and get good at it, even awesome - but nothing is like saying 'hey - this is MY style and MY expression of artyness and emotions and etc blah, blah, blah lol!

Now I don't think this new style is anywhere near sorted yet but just feeling comfortable with it and happy to develop it as mine

Maybe I'm just feeling weird today

hehe

anyways - hope y'all doing well and lemme know what you think

it's 100% created in Adobe Illustrator - very happy with the way I set up the brush for sketching

**The7Artist7** · June 12th, 2008, 07:42 PM

A little fun - lets see if I matched the CA background by eye

...ah, a little light, nevermind

**FearSelf** · June 12th, 2008, 09:34 PM

Nice self portrait. XD
You have really cool perspective and energy in your art. You should do more of Stickman. He looks awesome.
I also want to see more messy stuff from you. Like http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1203680589 Except not just a blob of scribbles. If that makes any sense.

**Santon** · June 16th, 2008, 02:19 AM

I like the lines in your colored works.

Spiderman eh?

**The7Artist7** · June 16th, 2008, 08:53 AM

Hey FearSelf thanks man - Yeah - go stickmen! I love em as you can get so much energy and character (actually a great tool for developing flow and pose) Hehe messy art

I think I get it - stuff that is just pure expression without paying much attention to exact detailing as you create - you inspired me to do this tribute to the Boston Celtics comeback in game 4 of the NBA finals (and one of my all time most respected players Mr Ray Allen

)

Thanks Santon - appreciated

**The7Artist7** · June 20th, 2008, 09:19 PM

Ok as of now I'm startin my Unofficial 'So where's your Spidey' campaign!

Everyone draw Spidey! yay!

**The7Artist7** · June 20th, 2008, 09:44 PM

More Spidey!

**FearSelf** · June 20th, 2008, 10:32 PM

Originally Posted by The7Artist7

Hey FearSelf thanks man - Yeah - go stickmen! I love em as you can get so much energy and character (actually a great tool for developing flow and pose) Hehe messy art

I think I get it - stuff that is just pure expression without paying much attention to exact detailing as you create - you inspired me to do this tribute to the Boston Celtics comeback in game 4 of the NBA finals (and one of my all time most respected players Mr Ray Allen

)

Yea that stick man that Ray Allen is stepping on is expressing a lot of pain.
Wooo I inspired something! That's a first for me.

Keep up the messy art!

What happened to spidey's head? O.o

**The7Artist7** · June 20th, 2008, 10:37 PM

Lol hehe - Spidey went chibi!

**The7Artist7** · June 24th, 2008, 03:40 PM

Ooop - seems Spidey having problems with an attack of the 'chibi'...

**anticasper** · June 24th, 2008, 03:54 PM

wow! =) cool spiderman dude!

**The7Artist7** · June 24th, 2008, 04:17 PM

hey thanks anticasper - here's another!

I'm limbering up for a planned 100 spideys in a day! - I'll let all know when I plan to do it and will post the results!