klortho's sketchbook

[klortho]

Start off with some Painter trickery. This dark inky approach produces my best-looking stuff at the moment, but I definitely need to overhaul my fundamental drawing and painting skills.

[klortho]

Last week's Character of the Week- a Where the Wild Things Are monster re-design. Done in Photoshop over a pencil sketch. Took a long time to do this one, maybe I'll try a somewhat rougher treatment on my next PS painting.


Also a pencil sketch of a knight being hypnotized by a witch near a waterfall.

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Environment of the Week #115-Den of Thieves
Done in Photoshop. My first real environmental painting. Still trying to figure out Photoshop painting.

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Environment of the week #116. Photoshop. Learned a bit about painting with this one. A real killer.

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Chow #170- A naval hero.

[Demon Lizardman]

Can't find anything wrong here, really digging the pirate and the monster, reminds me of those treasure island comic books.

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Environmental painting # 3.

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[witcrack]

I like the smoking guy with weird glow from his hand, the Ogre and your EOW stuffs. I wonder how long did you make your sketches in average? And the naval hero one? I'm still struggling to achieve the more refined sketches as your stuffs here.

Nice SB! Keep posting

[klortho]

Thanks for the feedback.
For photoshop paintings like I have here, it takes me 4-5 days, or 20-30 hours of work. I have found that I've improved somewhat in quality and speed by churning out a bunch of work one piece after the another. When I don't have time to work on this stuff consistently, I can't get into enough of a rhythm to improve.

[witcrack]

Thanks for the feedback.
I have found that I've improved somewhat in quality and speed by churning out a bunch of work one piece after the another

That's the improvement i want to make right now. But i don't completely understand what you mean by "churning out a bunch of work". Did you mean doing some works simultaneously bits after bits or queuing some works and finish them one by one? Sorry to have you answer a lot of question, I'm new in painting.

[klortho]

Yes, queueing up paintings one at a time is what I mean.
My advice would be this: If you spend a week on a painting and finish it on Saturday, start your next one Sunday, rather than ten days later or whatever.
That's the kind of schedule I've kept for most of the images in this sketchbook, and I have found it helpful for improving basic art skills.

[witcrack]

Got that. I think i'll do that. Thanks very much and i'll look forward for your SB updates

[klortho]

Chow #172. Three designs off the same character base.

[klortho]

Chow# 173-1930's/1940's Superhero or Supervillain

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A pencil sketch for Chow #174-The Black River Crew.

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Character sketch of a Persian deity.

[SymbioticFusion]

Nice works, but there is something really wrong with the hands of your last sketch.

[klortho]

More drawing practice.

[klortho]

Cowboy character design.

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Egyptologist/Explorer. Done in a Mad magazine style I feel rather comfortable in.

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Cabaret singer.

[klortho]

Wizard/warlock character. Somewhere between straight drawing and cartoon style.

[klortho]

Shootout. Pencil practice.

[klortho]

Kaya and her Crazy Dinosaur- a daily sketch group topic.

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A Day at the Monster Fair -daily sketch group.

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Alien camel design - a DSG topic.

[tuchten]

Try to take this as a compliment.
Your work is reeally bizarre.

[witcrack]

I enjoy your progress. I like how your character-drawings evolves.

[klortho]

Another DSG topic. I would like to make the switch from markers to pens eventually with this style.