Andrew Ley Sketches

[AndrewLey]

hurricane - thanks man - I like your stuff

crazy3dman - You're right man - no confidence at creature design.

redehlert - Cheers bud - yep, COW is a real challenge for me

codakromek - Thanks man - I really need to do some life studies but I do all these sketches in the early hours after midnight - daytime is for work.

Axman - cheers dude - just used an oilbrush in Painter

[AndrewLey]

Again no ref

Its 4am here now - so I'm off to bed

[dadamafia]

these are awesome. i especially dig those robots. love how it is rendered, and also love how things reflect.

[aan]

These are great and those knight paintings are probably my favorites....have you done any commercial work?

[AndrewLey]

dadamafia- Cheers

aan - Yes I've been working freelance the past two years to get through Uni.

[Fellah.]

That last face is very cool dude

[Oblio]

It's fuckin hard to post when i have no words left.
I love your stuff buddy... is just great. I would love to see somehting more then a speed paint... but you can keep at these too - it's lovely.
Keep em commin'

[AndrewLey]

Fellah. - Cheers bud

Oblio - Thanks man! Here's a painting I spent a bit longer on

[redehlert]

Is that Darth Vader in the cockpit of the beemer? Dope concept, dude...
Cheers,
D

[deez]

your style is the sickest
your brush strokes and textures are relaxing to stare at

[Gridur]

Damn! you got some super sweet stuff here, i really like how you can see the brush strokes in the robo/knight designs, and the colors all fit together prefectly, what can I say, love all the stuff you got here, the last one is really nice, how much time did you put into that?

[AndrewLey]

redehlert- yep

deez - Thanks man - the way I work is very relaxing actually, whenever I'm stressed with uni or work I just open up Painter and do a speedpaint.

Gridur - Cheers dude - that one took about 10hours I think - most of that was drawing paths in PS.

Here's another quick head sketch

[Insane14]

Hey man still lovin your stuff, thanks for the reply in my book On an average how long does it take you to do what you do?

[Farvus]

Wow. Great designs. Especially the mechanical stuff but armours are fantastic too. I will visit this thread from for inspiration.

[AndrewLey]

Insane14 - No prob dude - most of the stuff in here is done in about an hour - the faces take about 30 min

Farvus - Cheers!!

[AndrewLey]

A sketch of a painting Ian McCaig did of Padme. I know its lame redoing art but this was fun

[Fellah.]

Hehe just came in to return the favor m8 - im so tired - drawing all night and all day like a madman. 3 hours sleep...
And what do i see in here?
Omg, dude that girls face is truly beautiful! But i prefer your original stuff
And im not so sure it lame if you do it in such a nice way, its paying respect to art and artist you like. And great practice.

[AndrewLey]

ok so after looking at a few McCaig sketches I did this without any ref - the mouth took so long to get right ...so much still to learn *sigh*

[AndrewLey]

Gonna do a full render of this in PS later (like the BMW one)- maybe a tut if anyone's interested. The tail folds down as a landing strut.

[Ink_Monkey]

Wow...... this stuff is tuff. You've got a kick ass sketch book ... I was just wondering what pencils you used for those Padme sketches ... there great... and I'm a pen so I'm trying to get into pencils.... also were do you find McCaig pics they're hard to find.... Hes got a site going up but its not up yet just a front page saying coming soon.

Well anyway off to work on my pencil skillz .... great sketch book, once again.

Later.

[Bojee]

Lot of great stuff here andrew, look forward to the updates.

[AndrewLey]

Cheers Bojee

Ink_Monkey - I think that pencil was a HB, its a tech pencil, nothing special.

I have the two StarWars Art Books and they have loads of McCaig sketches and paintings. These books are a must buy for any artist.

[teyekanik]

awesome man, and you do 3D! your knocken em dead, man... excited to see more! Your mecha is really inspiring. I want to go try some right now!

I'll keep a lookout here mate, post more!

[Octothreat]

Hey AndrewLey! I loved seeing your sketches on cgtalk (and again here too!). Man those are some awesome knight concepts - that 3d rendering is gorgeous! Im definatley for any tuts you feel like doing

[dannE-B]

first off your work is stunning, secondly your from Manchester...woo im from Manchester...very rare to see someone even remotley close to where i live...never mind in the same City, if any, what College and Uni did u go, wud be interesting to know....

[AndrewLey]

teyekanik - Cheers bud - make sure to show us your mechs!

Octothreat - Ah another firendly face Cheers dude!

Prophet - Hey cool! You're right, you never see any Mancs on these forums. I didn't bother with an art college. I'm just finishing my animation course at UCLAN in Preston. Thanks for the post dude!

[buzzz3d]

A real joy to browse through your thread, love the subtle shading you put in those pencil sketches. I'm a big fan of Iain McCaig too.
This one, great motion in that one.

[Gridur]

Hey there, really nice faces i must say, even if it's redo art hehe, i really like the shading, only by doing nice shading on a peice makes it to art so it's suppurb, I would definatly want a tutorial on doing them wicked nice mech designs in ps, so i would'nt cry tears of blood if you did one

Keep it up!

[liam.c]

wow man exelent !!!! and that model is godamn awsum !

[B-Man]

Hey man, good stuff.
Did that monkey die? I meen... you sew the head back on right? right?