Kelsey improves 'n stuff

**KelsM** · September 28th, 2009, 01:44 PM

Hey guys, I'm always trying to improve. Please give crits and comments if you've got em. It's good karma!

Scroll down for newer things!

**jeremymoore** · September 28th, 2009, 02:33 PM

Nice environment! Its got a monochromatic palette goin on, which I love. Personally I just want to see a few strokes of color. Sometimes a bit more saturated yellow ochre or naples yellow in the highlights keeps them from becoming to cold, which just plain white will cause. Keep em comin'!

**KelsM** · September 28th, 2009, 09:32 PM

jeremymoore - thanks man, I'll definitely work on saturating my highlights.

Here's a character sketch I did today.
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**KelsM** · October 23rd, 2009, 05:35 PM

Here's a couple of 1 hour speedpaintings from the last couple of weeks.

Female alien head
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It was found in the attic...
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**KelsM** · October 29th, 2009, 02:20 PM

Posted this in finished works, wanted to add it to this thread as well. Crits if you got em please!

**KelsM** · November 4th, 2009, 12:34 AM

Started this the other day. Not sure if I'm going to finish it so I'm posting it here as is for feedback.
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**KelsM** · February 19th, 2010, 01:19 PM

Here's a couple of recent pieces. Feedback is goodness!!
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**KelsM** · March 10th, 2010, 03:34 PM

Here's a speedpainting from over the weekend.
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**KelsM** · March 11th, 2010, 09:09 PM

Speedpainting yesterday.
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**KelsM** · May 16th, 2010, 03:02 PM

A couple of recent things.
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**KelsM** · May 28th, 2010, 08:21 PM

Space Cowgirl, from a weekly activity at work.
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**KelsM** · June 4th, 2010, 02:21 PM

Here's some stuff from the last 2 weeks. Been trying to keep busy. The fire is in me!

studies

**KelsM** · June 5th, 2010, 08:40 PM

A figure study today, 1.5 hours in Photoshop using a photo from 3dsk.

**KelsM** · June 6th, 2010, 06:01 PM

Worked this one up more.

**The Pariano** · June 6th, 2010, 06:12 PM

The figure study in post 13 is really nice, you should do more! Your cowboyhat girl is nice as well, but the hips and legs are a bit wonky. You seem to have a very nice spread with what you're doing, tackling weak spots and such. If you want to get better at enviro's, perhaps do some more value based studies? Just working in greyscale and focusing on composition, value( obviously) and edges. Keep it up!

**KelsM** · June 10th, 2010, 01:19 PM

The Pariano - thanks for the feedback! I'm definitely going to do more value studies.

Here's a study from this week.

And a piece I am working on.

**KelsM** · June 11th, 2010, 07:37 PM

More work on this. Not sure I want to finish it or not now, too many problems with composition, perspective, pose, etc.

**KelsM** · October 1st, 2010, 02:42 PM

More stuff.

Ended up finishing this one up more, probably should have left it alone...

**KelsM** · October 4th, 2010, 01:44 PM

A ghoulie dude.

**maeshanne** · October 4th, 2010, 03:12 PM

your improving a lot
some of your works reminds me of daarken's art, he's got some cool tutorials. If you like his style you should check them out

**KelsM** · October 4th, 2010, 08:45 PM

maeshanne - Thanks a lot man! I'm a big fan of Daarken's work, I'm glad his influence is showing. I've been watching his tutorials recently actually, I was definitely trying for Daarken-esque on that last Ghoul piece.

Here's some progress on the Martian landscape. Just a paint-over of the last stage, I will refine it soon.
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**KelsM** · October 6th, 2010, 03:54 PM

Some recent sketchbook pages.

**Windmaker** · October 8th, 2010, 04:06 AM

Cool! It's great to see such progress in the span of one page! Well done!

The last painting is comming along nicely. Only thing that bothers me is the lighting on the arms. Try to light the general forms first and make them read correctly in 3D space and then render the individual muscles with the local values you've already established. Like you've done with the legs. There you can see them coming forward, closer to us and receding back into space, whereas the arms and chest look like they're all in one plane right now.
Hope that helps! And good luck!

**KelsM** · October 8th, 2010, 05:02 PM

Windmaker - thanks a bunch for the feedback. That critique is very helpful, I've been trying to figure out what's wrong with this piece. I tend to jump into details too early, thinking about the big forms and working my way down will help me a lot.