Hawkswift's Sketchbook

[Hawkswift]

Fixed the armor and added more detail. Also made the energy blast bigger but now I'm not sure if it's heading in quit the right direction.

[Hawkswift]

Quick Solomon Kane sketch.

If I'm going to do fire in this style I need to practice more...

[Abelizmo]

Hey on the painting I think you should bump up the contrast in the middleground rock values so that there is more separation between that and the background. It seems like the midground is your focal point because of the intensity of light on those figures. If so, I think darkening the lines in the rocks there will complement that. Also, the hands and head of the bottom left figure are tangent to the edge of your composition. That creates a sort of tension in the viewer, but is easy to fix by expanding the drawing there or scooting the dude over.
Other than that, good job! I like the consideration you put into different color schemes. keep painting!

[Hawkswift]

I'll keep the suggestions in mind next time I update that piece - especially the midground contrast stuff.

Friday's piece:


Vlad the impaler from what reference I could find and the count with one! One victim! Ah ah ah!

and the Halloween piece:

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Another shot at the style I used yesterday... I need to work on my figures some more.

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Another one for that speed group - about 15 minutes:

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Just a quick little sequence and some studies:

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Another version of Solomon Kane:



I think I have a better idea of the character now that I've devoured some of the Howard short stories...

[Incinerated]

hey man good stuff here. I think you should try with less transperancy, try keeping your opacity above 60-70%

[Hawkswift]

Probably not precisely what you meant (I'm betting you were thinking more paint-type stuff) but I went to a variable brush size and fixed (100%) opacity for this one.



Was fun. I need to change up my tools more often.

[Hawkswift]

a speed sketch (~15 minutes) with the same brush settings as last time.

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Ape Shaman vs. The Harpies



I gotta work on my ape faces...

[Janos]

The composition is very interesting in that last one. The poses look a little stiff though, so try changing that up. Also,draw more attention to teh ape shaman, otherwise you stare at the frint harpie first, and the shaman is actually the main focus.

Cheers

[Hawkswift]

Some orangutan studies:


and the finished cliff fight piece:


I'll write up what I learned from doing the cliff fight soon.

[Hawkswift]

Janos: Sorry I didn't respond earlier - I was real tired last night... That piece was a composition exercise mostly. I agree with all the stuff you pointed out - I didn't have a good idea of what the poses should be when I started and that shows. Probably not going to go back to it (but you never know...) because it was just an exercise though.

Some stuff I learned from working on the cliff fight for so long:

Okay, maybe not the orangutans...

One of the main things is that when I use thumbnails to figure out a layout I have to get to the point where I understand it, work out all the poses, the layout, focal points, etc. THEN and only then proceed to doing the piece. Another big one was using depth to pull attention in - and how to do that.

All stuff I've got to work on, of course.

[Hawkswift]

Another 15 minute speed painting from reference:

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a couple muscled dudes from reference, a couple orangutans from reference, and a couple poses from imagination:

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Working out a comic page...

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Full size workup of the page I did thumbs for yesterday:

[RainShinobi]

Hello there !

You have a very nice sketchbook friend !
My only crit is - try to work more on the position of the hands/arms
But you have a very nice lines that i dig.. and i like your use of colors.
Keep at it ! dont give up !
Cheers

[Hawkswift]

I'll work on that - Thanks!

Trying to figure out how to show fights - and a quick character design:

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A couple portraits

one from imagination:


and one from reference:

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Quick character turnaround

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a couple quick character sketches - trying to do the same character with different clothes, expressions, and hair.

I think I forgot my proportions at some point... Time to go back to studying.

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Working on proportions...

... and realizing that I need to work on character design. These are kind of boring.

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Another shot at character design:

I like this version better.

Next for the other two characters...

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Working out poses and bears:


And putting stuff together some more:


I should have done more in the thumbnail stage...

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Those thumbnails that I didn't do yesterday:

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Chose one of the thumbnails and started working on it.

I need to fix some colors - the snow needs a bunch more yellow.

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A bunch of faces from photo reference I found online