UnidColors Environments 5th March

**Morgado** · September 25th, 2009, 06:44 PM

Heya

It's good to see you trying to go a bit out of your confort zone. Your environments are astonishing as they are, so now it's time to bring the characters to the same level

**mariusz** · September 25th, 2009, 07:23 PM

Great SB, keep it up!

**VirgL** · September 25th, 2009, 11:03 PM

lovely edge control and colors !

**Rustveld** · September 25th, 2009, 11:19 PM

Sweet updates man! Your environments amaze me every time.

**theories** · September 30th, 2009, 07:48 PM

Still amazing! < : I love how everything looks painted, and liquid-y

**Ricardo Robles** · September 30th, 2009, 09:19 PM

very good atmospheres you got here, I specially like "volcano " of your last works, is awesome.
keep it up man!

**UnidColor** · October 1st, 2009, 07:09 AM

Ricardo Robles Oh thanks alot, Thanks for checking out my stuff! will do!.
theories Heh thanks alot!, yeh Im trying to be abit more "traditional" with my art, or atleast work more towards it, im not there yet, but I think its one of my goals

Rustveld Thanks alot, im happy you like my environments

WhiteC Ah cheers, glad u dig it!.
mariusz Thanks alot, will do!

I hope.
Morgado Thanks alot!, yeh im definitly trying out new stuff, its just fun to do something different. but I still feel like my environments need alot of work=).
Mark Tarrisse Yeh thats a good idea

, I will have to try to apply that more often

derbz Thanks alot!, glad u like the stuff!, yeh lasso is useful at times, tho I tend to work into those edges cuz they can get abit too sharp and flat, but lasso tool can be good to make more organic shapes or rocks and stuff.
Diverse Ah thanks alot!, I will have to try to make them better!

Pixie Trick Heh yeh indeed

Bendragon Thanks alot!, heh yeh slowly

Pixie Trick Cheers, yeh I will try to do some architectures, im just trying to do some landscapes and get better at those at the moment.

The jungle and a few of those environments and drawings are some months old, I didnt use alot of reference back than so alot of stuff had alot of similarities, in trees and rock shapes, but its something im working on, I have done alot of quick tree studies lately

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Todays update: images I have done over a few days

Some pencil drawings of various trees and plants, but mostly trees, they are all from reference images.
I tried change and simplify all of them (the part of the exercise), and improve the "gesture" of the trees to make it just abit more extreme than the real life version, abit like a comic artist would do to a character, I also tried to feel what type of person and personality each tree had, kinda hard to do, but it helps I think that way, atleast its kinda fun sometimes and you can give them more personality.
I tried to build up each tree like a character, starting with the gesture , than the big shape of the leafs and slowly work toward the details, practicing looking for negative shapes and all those stuff.

And also get some good drawing practice with pencil, they were all done with a 6b pencil.

**Jabo** · October 1st, 2009, 08:07 AM

I think I fainted there for a second. Great update, I love the vegetation stuff. Great colors as well!

**cdejong** · October 1st, 2009, 12:48 PM

Holy Jesus you're good. Your environments are of course amazing, and the portrait of the old man is off the wall... but those pages of trees... I agree with Jabo I think I fainted for a second. Lovely work.

**Cacodaemonia** · October 2nd, 2009, 12:26 PM

Awesome tree studies! That makes me want to do some too.

**llex_paul** · October 2nd, 2009, 01:44 PM

you kind of like that plants drawing! cool!

**Pixie Trick** · October 5th, 2009, 07:00 AM

OOooooooooo, pretty, pretty trees!!!!!! Nice work!

**jatherip** · October 5th, 2009, 08:29 AM

these enviros and trees kick butt! as already mentioned more characters though....

keep rockin!

**Ravenseye** · October 5th, 2009, 03:40 PM

hell ya on all the tree sketchs.

**Randis** · October 5th, 2009, 03:43 PM

Very good! Love the colors

**mariusz** · October 5th, 2009, 04:14 PM

Hi!

Great work! Love tree sketches!

all the best,
Mariusz

**Jalc** · October 5th, 2009, 04:31 PM

I love your enviroments they are so full of rich tones and textures very pleasing to look at keep it up!

**Seraph Fawkes** · October 5th, 2009, 05:26 PM

Fucking great enviro's and studies!

**Jorge Gecov** · October 27th, 2009, 10:21 PM

Awesome stuff!

**UnidColor** · November 8th, 2009, 02:33 PM

Jorge Gecov Thanks alot!
Seraph Fawkes happy you liked them

Jalc Cheers thanks!.
mariusz Thanks alot!
R a n d i s Thanks alot, im happy u liked them.
Ravenseye Thanks alot!
jatherip Heh yeh thanks, will try:7
Pixie Trick Thanks alot

llex_paul Thanks alot!
Cacodaemonia Thanks alot, yeh they are fun to do!
cdejong Hehe thanks, yeh they were very tedious to draw after doing so many pages

Jabo Thanks alot, glad u liked it

Anyway im making this post because this weeks live portfolio reviews here on CA has been supergreat! they were talking for over 10 hours! at times, it was crazy, alot of good points to think about was mention great for learning.

Also the new "live stream" program was awsome compared to the old one, which was painfully hard to follow at times since they had to keep restarting all the time. But the new one works mutch better and alot more functions, more of a school class type of stream.

Anyway im concerned my environments are getting too "painterly", I know its not even close to craig mullins in terms of that.

But I have been studying old master landscapes paintings and I try to apply it to my art,
thinking about edges, color vibrations and all those stuff, im worried that my environments would lean more into illustrations or fineart.

but in conceptart you would be more concerned with surface,textures, how shiny something is, industrial design, the rendering and describing as mutch as u can for a 3d artist, so maybe having a painterly style would leave "too mutch" stuff in the painting too lose and suggestive.

But anyway I think it very good to do both,there is so mutch u can learn from masterstudies and traditional which applies to both ofcourse!
But maybe I should paint more like a video game

Anyways it was long time ago since last update here, I hope this update makes up for it

tho there is very little buildings and characters in it! in still gotta practice those, the art are sort of varied, some not completely finished some are.

edit: sharpend the pictures abit

**brubaker** · November 8th, 2009, 02:46 PM

This is my first time seeing your stuff. I am not really a painting sort of guy but I really enjoy looking at yours. The colors are really nice and that painting of the Planet floating in the hole with people staring at it is such a cool and different idea. I love it!

Thanks for sharing all this stuff.

**Sebastian Gromann** · November 8th, 2009, 03:39 PM

wow, your were'nt busy , ehhh ?! :o

beautiful work mate ! nothing to add !

just that u might sharpen some areas again, seems a bit too blurry to me sometimes, but might be personal taste or ma old monitors fault haha

keep at it yeahh !

**Arne Meyer** · November 8th, 2009, 03:45 PM

OMG!
killer update!
it´s scary how much you have progressed...

edit: Sorry, I mixed up the threads.. .anyways awesome sketchbook and update.
I really like the depth and crispness of your paintings.

**kyubisharingan** · November 8th, 2009, 03:55 PM

talk about awsome-ness!!!! You should really do livestream. It would b awsome seeing you work LIVE! Even if its just speedpaints IMO

Just curious...what are master studies? How can I learn from them?

**Shadow Stalker** · November 8th, 2009, 03:59 PM

I love your enviros. Absolutely incredible works.

**Jamie Romoser** · November 8th, 2009, 04:25 PM

The color and atmosphere of all your paintings are mind blowing!
Thanks for the inspiration
till next time -Jamie

**jeremygordon89** · November 8th, 2009, 04:35 PM

The atmosphere, texture, color, lighting, and everything is amazing in your environments. Very pleasing to the eye; keep it up!

**Pixie Trick** · November 8th, 2009, 05:21 PM

Noooo... I hear all these great things about the latest post but I can't see a thing!?!?!?

Anyhow, it's great to hear your thoughts! Each circumstance does requires a different approach.

Edit: I can them now!! You have been busy haven't you! Now that you bring it up, I can see that there could be a great deal of improvement in the rendering of materials. Generally the lack of bright hilights or maybe the lack of different levels of contrast in different materials. For example, Just adding some brighter areas on the metal roof of the one image would add some dimension.

My fave is the red trees with the waterfall-ish thing. Very very nice work!

**Creusa** · November 8th, 2009, 07:05 PM

Aaah, your art is just great. You inspire me a lot *Q*

**Rushlord** · November 9th, 2009, 03:11 AM

Your creating the most awesome enviroments around here. Just great. I really like this painterly style, but you are right in what you said. Can'T wait for the next update.