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[Aragah]

your experiments are so nice! great potential.im a fan. keep going man!

[Psychobuddy]

ERG! Why do you kick my ass at every turn, cool stuff man, the new experiment is neat. How's the angel coming?

[Chompi'n]

You'r pencil works r beautiful!!

The last work some weird anatomy going there, like u said
(Like she is twisting from her waist instead of where the ribs)
but she is intresting

[kevin_]

ainuwolf-thanks and i don't think i have a special technique with rendering just get your values down and the rest is all you! and i think i know what you mean :b ill try!
jir-thanks and haha ill make sure to include some next time!
marlu- you're too kind :b
theapprentice- thanks!
jfierce-thanks and i know it bugged me too but i already scanned it so whatever :b
keeptime-thanks, hope you check out the new stuff too!
aragah-thanks and yeah i have been wanting to do this sort of thing so this last one and the one i posted last week were good kick starters. maybe ill try some finished pieces in this style?
psychobuddy-thanks and i haven't worked on the angel in a while -_- it isnt really a priority right now but ill get to it soon!
chompin-thanks and yeah i still see something wrong with the anatomy, not sure if its what you mentioned or something else, but i cant seem to fix it :b it was more of a sketch/experiment anyways

some characters. all the characters i post in gray are obviously just concepts so if you think some of these are bland it cuz they are :b usually go through variations before doing a final if i choose to.

[Pete Hidalgo]

The characters look pretty sweet man. The one on the left looks creepy ha ha. At least to me it does.

[Little-Maiden]

You flatter me by stopping by my crappy SB :p. How long have you been drawing man? cause your progress through 6 pages is fantastic. Wish I had the knack at values you do, or the cleanliness for that matter. All my work is tremendously rough. got to be more careful I guess. -.-

[pixel cheetah]

Nice pencils, I love your bird studies. Moaaar birds! ;-) Keep it up!

[Pundt]

Hey man, thanks for dropping by my SB. Really like seeing you form up character concepts. The latest dude has this Grey Fox vibe to him. Look forward to seeing more!

[Mindinart]

You've got a cool style. I'd love to see couple of paintings with backgrounds and also more environmental sketches from you.

[Gpozzo]

Nice updates man!

the originals are coming out very nice, that style on the chick on post #155 is interesting and so are your weird sketches haha i think they are quite nice, keep at it, i'd like to see more

[Merē.Jorg]

Thank you for visiting my sketch book. You have some fantastic art coming along. Would love to see more of yours too.

[kevin_]

petehidalgo-thanks man!
littlemaiden- haha you being flattered flatters me :b im glad you like the stuff in here!pixelcheetah-thanks a lot!
pundt-thanks and yeah i can see that vibe as well :b
mindinart-thanks and yeah me too, unfortunately both those fields are tough for me -_- but ill make sure to practice with it and post!
gpozzo-thanks!
Merē.Jorg-thanks!
tharindhu018-not sure if you have bad English or if you are a spammer? dont be offended if you are not a spammer just not sure :b thanks though?

guys im so happy to see my sb got 5 stars!!!! im not even here for 2 months yet and i get stars, thank you guys very much! i member searching this site as a kid and thinking it would be awesome to have an sb with some stars, really cool to see it happen :b

anyways some more character, going for a royalty/church vibe. had the character coupled with another but thought this looked better on its own?

[Shahan]

oooohh i loveee the stuff on this page, very neat, nice and pleasing to the eye!!! very cool.

and the birds and creatures on the last page are also friggin sweet! I could've sworn i'd been to this SB before... i guess not... really great stuff man!! You're very creative and I can not wait to see more.
Google more about filters and crap if you like that kind of thing, you can do some awesome stuff with gradient maps: http://www.ctrlpaint.com/gradient-map/

and many other filters. and check these head drawing videos out, by Proko.

can't wait to come back here again and see what you've made. I'm an idiot for not checking this SB out sooner X.x

[LordLouis]

Hey kevin, thank you so much for your reply in my sb!
I thought I'd return the favor, but what is there to say other than "wow"?

Absolutely LOVE your pencil stuff!!!!!! The rendering is so smooth; does it cost you a lot of time? Really really nice stuff. So solid, I like it. I also adore your handling of light and shade, always very strong and present- thanks for sharing!

[kevin_]

shahan-thanks and hope you took a look at the other pages, massive dump on the first page :b
lodlouis-thanks! and depends on the siz of the drawing, the bigger the more it takes. most of the stuff in here is like 30 minutes to an hour.

so first ones are sketches. and the second one are some environment thumbs since i suck to much to even attempt a developed environmental piece -_- and the third one is another update on a character i have been working on

[Blackbridge]

I like where you are going with the creatures.

[F-inked]

You got a really strong and solid style. Great work, I cant wait to see more!

[will123will]

Really like the design of the guy in post 150, plus the girl is good too, keep it up .

[Kambei Shimada]

Awesome sketchbook man, your colour rendering is awesome.

The bird studies in particular are rad. If you can get your pencil/linework to the same level as your rendering you will be a true badass.

[FAST ART]

Solid drawingskillz. Keep working on that

And thanks for stopping by my sketchbook

[flurry]

Cool sketchbook. I like your pencils, mainly because they have more gesture/rhythm. Maybe try scanning em and painting over them. Thanks

[midknight523]

wow great sb. can't wait to see where you are a year from now

[kevin_]

blackbridge-thanks, really lacking creatures in my sb so ima draw up some more!
finked-thanks!
will123will-uhh i think post 150 is a comment but i think i know what you are talking about :b thanks though!
kambeishimada-wow usually its backwards, people will like my pencil work and think digitals need more help? thanks though, real complement for you to think my digitals are good since i dont have much experience with it!
fastart-thank you!
flurry-thanks and thats usually how i start digitals :b
midknight523-thanks, me too!

some quick 20 min crap i did when i was bored today :b

[Tofa]

damn dude, great stuff. liking your character design a lot

[Cabbage Caterpillar]

20 min? damn... nice studies man.

[reborn-gp]

Duuuuude i loved your SB! Nice anatomy

[FalconessN]

The forms are... *Waves hands around excitedly* So coooool... O.O

[Cabbage Caterpillar]

Nice job on the knees!! They always look strange when I do them... @@

[ninaren]

wow nice sketchbook u have and thank you for your comment Really like your characters

[kevin_]

tofa-thanks a lot!
cabbagecaterpilar-yeah 20-30 min give or take, tried doing it as quickly as possible :b
reborngp-thanks a lot, finally someone thinks my anatomy looks right :b
falconessn-thanks!
cabbagecaterpillar-thanks!
ninaren-thanks a bunch!

btw want to tell you guys its been one full year that i have been practicing with digital colors! i feel i have learned so much but am still so far from were i want to be :b

anyways these first four are sketches






these first four are old, the three full body characters were actually some of my first color designs i did but they had some horrid proportion problems so i tried to fix that. the last one is something new im bringing up