I want to be an illustrator

[Farquad]

That last piece is shaping up quite nicely. Can't wait to see it finished.^^ Keep it up.

[carakhan]

beautiful! Love the colors

[kennygeeze]

Thanks Farquad and Carakahn.



More progress on my painting:

[kennygeeze]

Sketch for new piece I'm working on

[kennygeeze]

Here's more progress:


Little sculptures I made to help get the lighting right on the characters

[kennygeeze]

Drawing for new piece

[kennygeeze]

Latest sketchbook page. I'm going through 2B pencils like crazy.

[zane_dura]

HI your art is EPIC ... i was wondering if you want to be an illustrator you have yo go off someone else's ideas ... can you illustrate one of mine (i suck at drawing right now...)

[Mörtn]

nice idea using those sculptures for rendering. you also have adorable skillz, especially your compositions! are all of those works personal? or did you become an illustrator allready - i would be really surprised if not.

[kennygeeze]

Thanks Zane I might not have time to do more collaboration projects at the moment. I've already promised a bunch of friends I'd help them with their stuff and I'm struggling with time management... sorry

Hi Mortn, thanks Most of the work in the thread is personal. I didn't get around to being an illustrator yet..I have a day-job as a production artist for movies right now, but there's nothing in the thread with work from that -- all the recent stuff in this thread is what I work on during the evenings or on the weekends

Latest progress on the storm painting

[kennygeeze]

More progress:

[kennygeeze]

Filling the other side of the sketchbook spread..

[no87]

you got some really nice compositions going on in your work man!

[kennygeeze]

Thanks No87

Here is my latest illustration. It's a theater poster for "An Ideal Husband" by Oscar Wilde.

[p sage]

Very interesting style and nice ideas. I think this piece is pretty strong... though a general crit/comment would be "darker shadows".

[Natalia Soleil]

very cool sketchbook pages

[kennygeeze]

Thanks P Sage could you elaborate more on darker shadows? Sometimes when I view it on certain monitors the whole thing looks almost too dark. Do you mean more contrast? Thanks for the input.

Thanks Natalia

[p sage]

I think I overdid the levels because the girl gets a bit too "graphic" but hope it communicates what I was talking about.

First image is your original image desaturated (slightly shrunk).


Basically a levels adjust. We may not agree, so take it with a hill of salt.

[kennygeeze]

Thanks P sage for going to all that trouble of adjusting it for me. I'll see about re-creating it that in the painting. Thanks


and ...

Drawing for my Dresden Files piece:

[kennygeeze]

Macbeth:

[TFsean]

I really like your rendering and the way you think about faces. Your designs for smoke and folds and such are really great too. very nice illustrative work :3

[Pixie Trick]

I really, really like your stuff! Very dynamic and lot of story all in one pile of goodiness. You do seem to lose a lot of the great value balance and life in your sketches when you start adding colour though which is a shame. Do you mind if I try my hand at colour this? I just got a completely different sense of lighting situation from the sketch and I thought it might be interesting to see what would happen if I fiddled with it.

[kennygeeze]

Hi Pixie Trick Yeah... you can totally color that drawing. Thanks for taking an interest I would love to see what you do with it... and yes, I completely agree. The issues you bring up have been something I've been struggling with for a while.
I'm really looking forward to seeing what you do with it

TFsean, thanks very much Folds are a lot of fun for me. I'm hoping to practice with more fantasy stuff since there's lots of drapery in that genre. Thanks for the comment

[zryanart]

Great stuff man! Excellent drawings and paintings. Your attention to detail and form is astounding and your composition is splendid! Keep up the awesomeness!

[kennygeeze]

Thanks zryanart I'll try


Dresden files piece: Dresden vs. Ursiel

[kennygeeze]

The Breakup -- new illustration I'm working on.

[kennygeeze]

Newest revision to the break-up illustration.

[kennygeeze]

Another piece I'm working on -- Tin Man

[WoeStimius]

Awesome, I enjoy your art style very much so. Love the Kenny vs Spenny sketches, my favorite show!

[kennygeeze]

New revisions on breakup illustration