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**bouroune** · April 6th, 2012, 05:29 AM

Yo, awesome drawings, i especially like the one with the plane, beautiful composition and good use of the white on this one, keep sharing!

**Kriss_Kringle** · April 6th, 2012, 08:14 AM

The nazi soldier looks very much like Mike Mignola's nazis.I can actually see some of his style in your sketches too and that's really cool.

**maolu** · April 6th, 2012, 10:19 PM

-> Velocity Kendall, Vritra, bouroune: thanks a lot everyone!

-> henri: I'll try to post more, for some bizarre reason my *real* job is keeping me away from the drawing board... weird isn't it?

-> shockowaffel: yep, I'm not a fan of nazis either of course, but there was something about their uniform design that really stood up for the period. Not to mention all those rockets, giant cannons, prototype planes...

-> Kriss_Kringle: thanks, I'm not trying to go in the same direction of Mignola (not consciously at least!

) but I really dig his stuff, so that's a pretty nice compliment.

**Frekkle** · April 6th, 2012, 10:23 PM

Your cross hatching transitions so smoothly! Sometimes I have to look closely to tell if a drawing was shaded with cross hatching :o

**maolu** · April 13th, 2012, 09:42 PM

Thanks everyone, I just noticed the stars now!
Here's a new one, as always click for hi-res...

“They were too busy to notice me, I think one of them was a girl”

**NickyBeats** · April 14th, 2012, 11:34 AM

great updates man! glad to see your rocking some stars now too! you certainly got my vote ha! anyways, just dropping by to share some love. keep posting man!!

**AustenFM** · April 14th, 2012, 11:50 AM

Hey amigo! Thanks for getting back to me on your tools of choice. Color me impressed! Did you study from Guptills 'Rendering in Pen & Ink' book by chance ? Love how you build the form with your layered hatching on this last shot, and the little things like the runic symbols give it a nice fantasy touch.

Anyway, high-five on those five stars, that was fast! (and well deserved

)Keep it up!

-edit- heres a link to the book on amazon, i would post again but i dont wanna fill your page with my ugly face more than i have to~ http://www.amazon.com/Rendering-Pen-...4452717&sr=8-1 It's a brilliant book written in 1930 with some of the most valuable,comprehensive information i've seen on the subject. I have a feeling you'd appreciate it~

**NakedZergling** · April 14th, 2012, 02:10 PM

Thanks for sharing. This is a great SB!

**maolu** · April 14th, 2012, 07:47 PM

-> NickyBeats, NakedZergling: thanks heaps!
-> AustenFM: thanks man. Sorry, I've never heard of 'Rendering in Pen & Ink', but I'm curious now. Next time I'll pass by a bookstore I'll give it a look.

**maolu** · April 19th, 2012, 10:05 AM

“and then we told him the other guy was dead”

**Sketch_Artist** · April 19th, 2012, 10:37 AM

Awesome work! I especially love the crosshatching technique you use on some of the portraits.

**conte** · April 19th, 2012, 03:09 PM

Such a cool motion and gesture in your lines and shapes, very expressive.

**pearblossom** · April 19th, 2012, 03:14 PM

beautiful stuff!!

**maolu** · August 15th, 2012, 08:29 AM

...just saying

**maolu** · October 4th, 2012, 06:14 AM

Well... it's been ages I haven't posted anything in here and I apologise about that.
Here's some faces, just boring faces...

http://zeroneg.tumblr.com/post/32864...s-boring-faces

**maolu** · October 9th, 2012, 06:31 AM

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**kevin_** · October 11th, 2012, 09:04 PM

like your style, definitely want to see more!

**maolu** · October 12th, 2012, 06:09 PM

Thanks kevin_, hopefully you WILL see more

**maolu** · October 12th, 2012, 06:10 PM

**maolu** · October 15th, 2012, 08:15 AM

He kept on wandering ‘till he reached the cliff

**maolu** · October 25th, 2012, 06:51 AM

Well, this is a considerable jump back in time.
The other day I was browsing around my backups and stumbled upon a couple of scribbles I did AGES ago.
I'm not really sure about the year, this was when I was studying anatomy and trying to understand why the skin keeps wanting to hide such incredible things underneath itself.

Enough chatting, I formally declare open the
[time capsule]

item#1: some dumb anatomy study were I tried and directly compare human walk and quadrupedal one. Everyone always asked me instead why that guy is transforming into different animals, there I understood I failed.
This was made so that the basic layer was pencil on paper, then there was several added layers of transparent tissue-paper each with its own contribution (bones, muscles, fat layers...). This was the "bones" one.
(yeah I know... crappy scan)

**ceddo** · October 25th, 2012, 09:06 AM

Such a beautiful aesthetic you have in your sketches Maolu. Your forest sketch is really nice, I love what you are doing. I wish you the best!

Kindly,
Cedric

**maolu** · October 25th, 2012, 05:14 PM

Thanks ceddo, much appreciated!

item#2: this is from when I was trying and grasp reality as it is... how naive! It's a portrait, oil on wooden table, of a good old friend of mine, more or less 10 years old (the portrait, not the friend!).
Even worst than crappy scan, if I recall correctly this was a bad film photo that then has been crappy-scanned©

**Flaskpost** · October 25th, 2012, 06:16 PM

super stylish work! love this last portrait, as well as the nazi on the first page

**NakedZergling** · October 25th, 2012, 08:12 PM

WOW! Great SB man! I love it. Keep up the awesome work!!

**maolu** · October 26th, 2012, 07:34 PM

Thanks people, you're really kind.

I'm going on with the time capsule, these are some sketches from a couple of years later, not sure where I was heading with those ones, looking at them now I feel like meh...

**Spellsword95** · October 26th, 2012, 08:20 PM

Great works, nice style. Waiting for more updates.

**maolu** · October 27th, 2012, 08:08 PM

More updates! More updates!
You people are always hungry, don't you think about me?

Thank dog, I've got a good stash in this time capsule to buy me enough time to produce some new stuff.

item#4 is probably from the same years of the previous one, I think I remember doing this in one of the earlier photoshop versions, on a horrible CRT monitor.
I thought about giving it some more decent color correction before posting it here, but that wouldn't have been historically correct.

**maolu** · November 1st, 2012, 06:43 PM

I found some more anatomy studies from the past, here is some hands:

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