Kabarsa's sketchbook

[kabarsa]

Thank you very much, Steve! I wanted to draw a little crazier character than in the movie, because I really enjoyed Tim Burton's Alice, but nothing can beat grim, dark, crazy American McGee's Alice. Too bad we'll probably never see such a movie =(

And another quick sketch

[I Nide]

cool characters , i like !

[kabarsa]

I Nide, thank you! Glad that you liked it =)

another sketch. about 20 min.

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another wip

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and another sketch

[kabarsa]

space is out there and he's stunningly beautiful and scary. Just looked at some Hubble telescope shots, and it's just unthinkable.

[kabarsa]

all in all 3h speedpaint. I'm kind of slow, but anyway it's ok for me. This one was made for contest here http://shwann.deviantart.com/

[kabarsa]

another w40k fanart. 3,5h speedpaint of Jaghatai Khan. Now I need to rest from w40k for sure.

[kabarsa]

finished goblin

[Ricardo Robles]

Amazing improvement from the first pages, there are really good pieces here.
I like the way you render the surfaces, undoubtedly you are achieving good results with the speedpaints and this practices are helping you to get better in the more advanced images.
As a crit, maybe a little more anatomy and composition study could help. In example, sometimes the reading lines of your characters in the foreground are confused by the shapes in the background.

keep doing great!

[kabarsa]

Ricardo, thank you very much! Your comment motivate me to work harder. Thank you for the crit, since I feel that my composition is very weak, now I have a direct confirmation of this. Will try to work on it more to finally got some results.

And few sketches again. Struggle continues.

[kabarsa]

mmmm.... >:E

[kabarsa]

need to finish this before detailing warmachine battle scene

[kabarsa]

When they want to go fishing, no one can stop them.

[kabarsa]

minor update

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another wip

[kabarsa]

This is guys from Iron Knights space marines chapter for art fight in russian w40k community

[kabarsa]

now i need to recall what is color and how it looks

[kabarsa]

Hello there, my lifeless sketchbook! =) Few improved sketches and wip's and monster 15 min doodle.

[kabarsa]

20 min sketch
"Isaac, we'll burn in hell for what we've done to you"

[kabarsa]

20 min sketches. Welcome to USG ISHIMURA (and hopefully new "Welcome to Mars, marine" on this year's quakecon)

[kabarsa]

Yoda 3.5h speedpaint. And I'm very angry, because everyone seem like want to tell me how shitty my paintings are, and how it's normal to submit tons of crappy anime doodles claiming it's art. I'm a C++ programmer, and started to paint 1,5 years ago, and can do it only about 2hrs per day, but I'll f#$king overwhelm those biting my legs >:E Oh damn how angry I am >:E

[kabarsa]

Hey, it's really cool to have a pretty silent sketchbook, because I can post here wip's for art fights and no one will see them =) This is Marneus Augustus Calgar sketch =) I need to stop drawing warhammer stuff =)))

[kingkostas]

well one thing i can say mate.I show you once when you started this sketchbook and now i see you again on a totally multi-awesome-upgraded level!!!
thats a totally amazing improvement.
Keep up the great work!!!

[kabarsa]

kingkostas, thank you very much! You gave me motivation to push myself more =) It's really inspiring

And few 15 min sketches again. "Damn shame" (c) Tychus (T___T)

[Swooshbuckler]

i like to look at the fist page of people's sketchbooks, and then jump to the last ones. Just to see how far they have gotten. And yeah you've improved quite a bit. You got the imagination, and you're quite good with values.
But your colors are at times dull, in that sense that the shadows are perhaps too desaturated? Depending on the lighting, shadows tend to be more saturated then the highlights. And keep some variation in color. Like that goblin picture, great anatomy and value, but the colors are too dull. Too little variation in hue. Like when you look at your hand, it's not just brown or redish with different value. A little bit greenish, a little bit yellowish, with spots more saturated then other places.
Perhaps you should try some color studies? Use color reference while you work?

Don't know if I'm being too harsh here, i think you'd be able to handle it rather quickly. Since you're already well on your way.

[kabarsa]

Swooshbuckler, thanks for the crits! I try to work on my colors and other stuff like composition, but it's hard for me for now to grab the right color, but I'll try to overcome this for sure. Thank again

And some doodle-shmoodle stuff again

[kabarsa]

"Welcome to Mars, marine..."

[Klaus Reinbach III]

"Hey, it's really cool to have a pretty silent sketchbook, because I can post here wip's for art fights and no one will see them =) This is Marneus Augustus Calgar sketch =) I need to stop drawing warhammer stuff =)))"

Hahaha, I looked at your pictures and thaught" oh cool it's quit good", but then "Wtf, why nobody writes here?" XD

Sometimes the colors are a lil too dull like Swooshbuckler said, maybe cause you mostly draw just the colors of the object and a bit of the surounding light. But nearly never the colors(light) from the other objects or enviroment, which is naturaly mixing in. Some objects are not hard(you draw a lot of metal XD), like skin and clothes are a bit of transparency and let light through it, this change the colors too.
A other thing I notice is that your poses are a bit to stiff, probably cause you use one and the same pose over and over again or a bit changed and rarly other. =) You should try to vary it more. You can surely do it cause you are improving good! Keep up the good work!

Have fun =).
KR3

[kabarsa]

Klaus Reinbach III, thank you! I'll concentrate on improving color, poses and composition. Hope to have some results in a year or two

Few doodles. Almost no time to draw =((