Chate Noire's Sketchbook (4/14)

[marioucci]

beautiful painting, moods, dynamic lines and a happy vibe allover your work.

Maybe it needs a bit more of identity as in, a particular uniqueness of style.
You have got a great technique and it seems you could now focus on the expression too.

Love it all.

Cheers

Mario

[Interceptor]

sooo muccchh awesome.

[D@niel]

Fantastic!! Love it all

[Chate Noire]

forgeman - thanks a lot.
agelaos - thank you! I've never done any animation...always been fascinated by it, buy I don't think I'd have the patience...
The Whistler - thank you very much.
kidult - thanks
marioucci - thank you. Not sure what you mean by "focus on expression"...do you mean characters' experssions, or like "express myself in my painting" sort of thing?
Interceptor - thank you! I really like your avatar
D@niel - thanks man. Always a pleasure having you here!

Some ideas for "Intergalactic Mobster" for the challenge in my blog. Apparently it's pretty hard to convey "mobster" without an expression and a pose and without leaning on the usual cliche outfits.

[VirgL]

your sketches are so nice, you seem to never neglect to give them personalities like if you knew what your drawing are thinking. Keep updating please miss black cat

[Chate Noire]

Thanks very much WhiteC =)

Here's the made guy. Maybe I'll finish him more properly at some point, right now I just had to make the deadline.

[Dan Valkar]

nice mobster, and interesting thumbs...i liked number 4 too hehe...keep it up!

[roidvoid]

i really like the way you do thumbnails!
very cool stylization and painting technique/.

[Giorge]

nice, nice , nice , nice , dude love watching your stuff, your the spice of chow ^^ , cheers

[Locus]

Great sketchbook! My favorite is probably the cats of the apocalypse from the last page. And the apple-themed superheroine! No crits for now.

[Chate Noire]

Dan Valkar - thanks!
roidvoid - thank you. I don't usually do thumbs, but this was a fun and interesting experience.
flamable - thank you very much man.
Locus - thanks for dropping by!

Just a couple of beginnings for stuff:

[Gerre]

I really like ur style. More pls !

[Quinn Simoes]

Always a treat to look at your latest updates! Love the Intergalactic Mobster and your thumbnail research you did for him.

Quinn

[Hive_minD]

Always a pleasure entering your domain.
How is life treating you?

Chris

[chuck18mp]

These last updates are pretty nice!
Your style's fresh!

[kikindaface]

Your last creature design is really great ! Maybe with colors, it could be better !! your drawings are nice too. Keep it up man

[Chate Noire]

Gerre - thank you!
Quinn Simoes - thanks. Always a treat having you here
Hive_Mind - the pleasure is mine =)
chuck18mp - thank you!
Walid D - thanks! Here it is with color. I kind of abandoned it towards the end and started working on a new one.

[Man Made God]

Wow, nice! Love your creatures, but the last one in particular just looks amazing. How do you get your paintings from greyscale to colour?

[Ricardo Robles]

You got a really great imagination. You could work on animation movies, your style is ideal for this...
You characters are awesome, and when you try to do more "serious" and savage things they´re working perfectly too. greetings for your flexible style.

[algenpfleger]

Your characters and creatures are so much fun! Cute and wicked at the same time.

[young paddy1]

great work on the intergalactic mobster, really nice colour scheme and graphic detailing.

Maybe a hint of your geezer rubbing off on you? your style has changed slightly

beautiful stuff

cheerio

p.s. *****

[Chate Noire]

Man Made God - thank you very much. In this piece in particular I followed Matt Dixon's tutorial from 3DTotal's website. In short, I set the black-and-white sketch to Multiply, lowered the opacity a little and just blocked in color in a layer underneath. when I had my basic darks I flattened it and started rendering, going from dark to light, from big strokes to small details. Check out the tutorial, it's excellent reading.
Ricardo Robles - thanks man, that's really great to hear. I do hope to work in the talkies business one day =)
algenpfleger - thank you very much!
young paddy1 - you mean Pat? Definitely possible, I learned and still learning a hell of a lot from him. Thank you!

My Nov1 portrait and another D&D type illustration.

[Clochette]

Nice! The green creature with beard is so nice!

[Hive_minD]

beautiful!

[DefiledVisions]

Those latest creature pieces are awesome! I like the colours a lot.
cheers

[AsaB]

Been a while since I dropped by, loads of juicy bits floating around here! Honestly, your style has becomes so refined and confident, you're a true pro. Not just technically, but all your designs are so unique and full of personality. A real pleasure browsing through your SB!

[chuck18mp]

Awesome!!!

[fish_cakes]

the astronaut monkey is hilarious.i wonder how he got in his suit backwards.

[refleximage]

gorgeous sketchbook. I love that monster in the forest. It's got a really well defined characteristic about it. Awesome! Very inspiring.

[whitepython]

My entry for a challenge in my blog. The challenge title: "A Missing Link"...

i love this one! this is a sketchbook i MUST watch! thanks for sharing this with all of us!