`rawr's sketchbook

[`rawr]

Hi, a little about myself first i guess. I'm a character texture artist at Bardel up in rainy Vancouver BC. Whenever i'm not in transit between home and work using pencil and paper, everything I do is on a cintiq with cs2 and painterX. I use a lot of maya at work so I get burned out on 3d and escape to painting to relax when i'm home.
I've been around these forums for a while just enjoying viewing all the talent but now I'm going to dive right into the community so hit me with your critiques and comments please and I'll do my best to reciprocate!

cheers,
Frank


-on with some of my latest paintings, most are no more than 2 hours, but I've lost track of time on a few






















I'm super excited about Revelations. hope I can meet some of the talent I see around here in person!

[dcproductions25]

Smooth style, big fan of large mobile Mechs

[MilesNoctis]

Some very interesting stuff but its hard to crit since there is not much anatomy studies and no sketches (only finished work) post some of them!

[`rawr]

dcproductions25: thanks, seems like very painter I admire has done one of those alien tripod paintings so I had to tip my hat... even though it's a quadrapod(?) because it looked really off balance with 3 legs.

MilesNoctis: thanks for the kind words, all of what I have right now is all digital and overworked in my opinion. My scanner died, the one at work is murder to operate and I lent out my camera, but when one of those problems solves itself I'll scan some of the stuff from my sketchbook!

here's a quick one from tonight that I ran through every dirty photoshop trick I had to make it 'finished' after laying down the values. I have a prelim sketch of it too.

[ped454]

You understand 3 dimensions . Good stuff haha

Your clouds have potential and you seem to know your colour too. Hope to see more. cheers

[towy]

beautiful realization here, I wait for continuation

[`rawr]

happy holidays Card I did for work.

[`rawr]

been reading through the enders shadow series again, I'm going to try to do a design for each of the characters. Here's achilles flandres.

[`rawr]

Hey, what a crazy 4 days!! I only got about an hour to get in sketching my own stuff. here's what i've got.





I'll be writing more about the incredible experience that revelations was later, I need to process it all first Had a great time, and it was awesome to meet some of you!

[MilesNoctis]

Wow the light in your last piece is very impressive, and so is the perspective

[Naastika]

wow, I really like the paintings. I like how everything is glowy. The girl is awesome.

[Hobo85]

these are really great! and I love spike!
these should be published in a book or something
keep it up

[`rawr]

MilesNoctis: Thanks it was a thumbnail that got out of hand, glad you dig it.
Naastika: I feel i use glow as a crutch sometimes, but glad you like it! thanks!
Hobo85: Did that after my yearly watching of the series, as for a book, maybe in a few years of hard work thanks!

Here's some stuff from the weekend.

A few thumbnails for paintings and studies.





just some value and light practice.


And some quick spaceship concepts.

[`rawr]

lot of stuff in progress, here's some stuff I can show...

Three half hour landscapes scribbles.. finding it's way easier to draw landscapes that are west coast. Maybe something to do with growing up here.







Sketch for a painting I've got in mind for a show.



Megan Fox?



scribbles..



speedpaint from a dvd.



Space colony building.. work in progress painted over a 3d block model (really blocky)



Work in progress landscape painting.



haven't been slacking!

-Frank

[black_nomad12]

wow you can make work faast!!!
and you look like you got no weakness in any one area
(thats awesome)

[`rawr]

black_nomad12: thanks for the kind words

today's speedie done during lunch at work this time. and yeah, Mathias is my hero!

[Té-Can]

Your environments look great. I love your latest speedie. Keep up the good work. :]

[Nyx702]

I love the hard, crisp edges! It's vaguely cartoony with an awesome-sauce feel. Keep it up! I can't wait to see how your style will develop further!

[van.bot]

good job, yo. nice to NOT Tell me you had a sketchbook on here lol.

[`rawr]

Té-Can, Thanks for stopping by! I definitely intend to
Nyx702, Was thinking about what you said and ran with it this time. thanks, do my best to keep this book well fed
van.bot, Hey bro, thanks for the visit! my bad.. this spark nonsense at work kills my msn most of the time. The real question is, where is yours?

Wednesday speed landscape - saw some cartooney elements so I pushed them a bit further.

[Danuh]

your landscapes are gorgeous.

[`rawr]

Danuh: Thanks, I looked through your book, very cool designs!

thumbed this on friday at work and finished it up sunday.

[`rawr]

self portrait ...I'm usually smiling, honest.

not quite finished, i'll go back in a few days with fresh eyes.

[`rawr]

a small advance military outpost concept.

[l0stinth0ughts]

hmm... some interesting landscapes, and some of the paintings are smooth but kinda lack the focus of the painting.

[`rawr]

l0stinth0ughts: yeah, i'm still working on the technical aspects of painting unfortunately, hopefully i can work in more attention to composition as I progress.

got a bit backlog of stuff to post but here's a pinup i did a couple days ago for/of my gf.

[Nyx702]

Great outpost concept...I like it a lot. My only critique is that it doesn't scream "military" and could be a generic sci-fi building. Maybe some "supply" creates or a turret or two for defense? Maybe have some guns lying against the wall? There is something similar to this in the MB portfolio and they have tons of arms and fortifications lying around. Just a thought! Great work though.

[`rawr]

Nyx702: thanks, good crit, i'll definitely add something to reinforce the buildings purpose.

todays speedie.

[`rawr]

put some polish on an older wip.

[`rawr]

I have a copy from an earlier stage on this one too.. cnc always welcome.