Unlink40's Sketchbook

[Unlink40]

Thanks again!
heres some of what ive been working on

[Unlink40]

Excellent studies man! Your watercolors are direct and have the look of effortlessness. Your color palate is exceptional too.

What colors are you putting on the palate?

Thanks for the response. I usually use prang or cotman watercolors. As far as hues, I tend to use Burnt umber, burnt sienna, cadmium red, crimson, cadmium orange, cadmium yellow pale. yellow ochre, permanent green light, pthalo green, cerulean, cobalt blue, ultramarine blue, prussian blue, dioxazine purple. and white

[Unlink40]

I've been doing mostly oil paintings lately

[Zorcron]

Lookin fine as hell. thanks for posting !

the last portrait is looking spot on. Cant tell from the photo but those are blues and purples not black right ? hope so


Break some comfort zones and keep fighting the good fight !

[Unlink40]

Thanks for the response. I don't have black on my palette, so I'm assuming the photo is to blame. Here's a later photo of it

[masterpug]

These are beautiful. The colors and values are great! Really stunning work.

[Unlink40]

thanks masterpug
=]

[p sage]

Good show so far Subscribed and learning from your drawings.

[Unlink40]

here's an oil portrait

[Unlink40]

update

[Marian Rowling]

Hey Unlink very nice updates and interesting your use of colour. Brings alot of vibrancy to your work.

[Unlink40]

Thank you Marian Rowling

heres an update. been doing watercolor mostly

[Yefim]

Wow, this stuff is awesome!

[Unlink40]

Thank you Yefim =]

[Chris Sanders]

I've been looking at far to much digital stuff lately. and your SB made me remember how much i love real materials. Great work.

[Unlink40]

dog-face: yeah thanks for the response. I plan on doing some digital work in the near future but traditional media is definitely what I'm using to build my "muscles"

[towy]

Really nice work man, keep it up : >

[Unlink40]

My first attempt at a photoshop portrait

feedback appreciated

[Unlink40]

Most of these are watercolor

[Unlink40]

This is a watercolor portrait I just finished and am pretty happy with

[Chris Sanders]

hey man - thanks for the words of encouragement. i totally get where your coming from with the muscles remark. and it shows in the digital - i mean its not a sharp as the graphite but the structure is still beautiful and am i right in saying that you didn't use any transform tools?
see i did like a year of art school then a year of games design and all through that i used traditional media - then i thought sod it im gunna need to learn PS soon so i put everything over the last year into learning that. so im a bit all over the place.

and i forgot to do this last time - *five star*

[berniebakari]

Great stuff going on mate, love what you do loving the Watercolours

[Unlink40]

The good news is its not too late to go back and practice traditional media, and you definitely look like you are on the right track. And yeah, that portrait was about a half hour in photoshop using the basic brush and an eraser on a gray page.

[Unlink40]

Thanks BernieBakari, my teacher is good in watercolor so I learned it from him

[Chris Sanders]

thanks man i hope so too. ive got a drawing board and some watercolours gathering dust beside me. one day when i have the balls i'll give it a go

Good job tho for half an hour - i think sometimes with digital im sloppy with my initial drawing and end up warping it for ever later on. something you dont seem to have lol.

[Marian Rowling]

This is a watercolor portrait I just finished and am pretty happy with

And rightly so Unlink, looks brilliant. Well done I imagine a lot of skill is required to paint portraits in watercolour.

[Unlink40]

You are too kind, Marian Rowling. Its just another media, just need to get along with gravity and not fear the bleed effects, they give it character =]

[p sage]

Well that last watercolor, and this traditional drawing kicks ass.

You asked for a critique on this digi
The eyes are a bit out of perspective on the skull... the far eye looks a bit too large and misplaced. Sometimes mirroring your canvas can help you catch stuff like that.

This is all moot if you were going for that look though.

Tones are nice.

[Jephyr X]

Hey man...thanks for commenting in my sb. AND because it allowed me to find yours.

You have some amazing, beautiful work here. As others have said you have such a subtle touch to all of your art no matter the medium.

Anyway...thanks again...and please keep posting your work here!

Oh...and are you going to school somewhere?

[Unlink40]

P-Sage: I appreciate the feedback for sure. As long as you don't have any issues with media usage then great

Jephyr X: coming from you thats quite a compliment. Currently I'm going to community college here in Florida called Polk State College. The schools not much but the drawing/painting program has a serious instructor. you can look up my teachers work at http://www.vilastonape.com