Nikola's sketchbook

[Nikola]

Well, haven't really been on much but Im starting my own beginner sketchbook anyways. Most of my stuff is digital, and ill try to post as often as I can.

For starters ill post some past stuff that I have done.

Earlier stuff is first, later stuff is last















I have a deviantart page, but I dont post much stuff on it anymore.

www.nikoladun.deviantart.com

[Nikola]

Painted the horsehead nebula yesterday



Is there a way to use spoiler tags or thumbs for larger images? I have some other pictures that look best at a bigger resolution, but I dont want to page stretch the thread.

[kevin_]

cool stuff, the space paintings are great!

[Nikola]

Thanks! I have some photomanipulations too that are on my DA but that I didnt post here.

[Nikola]

Another nebula in the same kind of style



I need to start focusing more on content to go in these scenes instead of the scenes themselves. Any pointers on drawing mechanical objects, such as space ships?

[Nikola]

ship of some sort.

[Hobitt]

Love the space paintings! I could recomend trying out traditional mediums always fun to have some variation! anyways keep it up !

[Nikola]

Really simple ship doodles



Painting of NGC 281

[keeptime]

Love those nebulas! I hope this doesn't sound rude, but do you have a custom brush for those stars or do you do them by hand? They look very precise.

[Nikola]

Well not really a custom brush, and more just a lot of duplication. I make like 2 or 3 base stars from scratch using photoshop and then I copy the stars a lot, varying the size and opacity and sometimes the color. If its from a reference, then I usually try to get the stars fairly accurate to the reference. For some reason they look more... right that way.