Andrew Ley Sketches

**Crystalline_Blue** · June 17th, 2005, 10:12 PM

Wow, your thread is amazing. I love the knights you have done, really like the way the metal of their armour comes across so well. Can't wait to see more

**crazy3dman** · June 17th, 2005, 11:39 PM

Hey man, the Batman piece is cool. But especially the girls face in the upper right. Very nice.

**Fellah.** · June 18th, 2005, 04:53 AM

Yes an update!
Made my day dude! I dig the way you draw eyes with just a few clean lines and still they are full of life - very neat man. Good stuff! I know you are a busy dude, but please post some more - hehe. Even a coffe doodle would make us happy

Take care man

**AndrewLey** · June 18th, 2005, 12:13 PM

Crystalline_Blue - Cheers bud

crazy3dman - Thanks man - looking back I don't like that post - oh well

Fellah - Cheers man - I'm trying to loosen up my pencils - Here's some random unfinished doodles for you

**Fellah.** · June 18th, 2005, 12:25 PM

Damn you are good man! That topgirl is awesome! Thanks

**AndrewLey** · June 19th, 2005, 05:13 PM

Cheers dude!

Here's a quick portrait of my sister Joanne

**AndrewLey** · June 24th, 2005, 08:48 AM

Sorry for posting without a pic (been real busy) but I recieved my Uni results today...

I got a First!! yaaaaaaaay!!

Should have more time for sketching over the summer so stay tuned!

**Fellah.** · June 24th, 2005, 08:49 AM

Concrats dude!!!

**AndrewLey** · June 24th, 2005, 08:58 AM

Cheers bud

Sorry I can't go into detail about it, but here's a still from my 4 minute film that I produced for my final year.

**Sinix** · June 24th, 2005, 09:07 AM

Congrats on the results. I hope you do have more time for sketching, because your sketches have been great. Love how you do eyes.

**AndrewLey** · June 26th, 2005, 09:26 AM

Cheers Sinix - Here's some muscles studies

This was an attempt to quickly render muscles without any ref (something I've always struggled with). Each arm was done in about 15 minutes.

**dadu** · June 26th, 2005, 09:56 AM

holy shit man great stuff
what materials do you use?
it kind of looks you're using grey water color or ink, or done in photo?
but i'm stupid so...

**AndrewLey** · June 26th, 2005, 01:23 PM

Tired of studies so here's a bit of fun

**AndrewLey** · June 26th, 2005, 01:57 PM

@ dadu - for the pencils I use a hb tek - the rest is Painter 9

**Fellah.** · June 26th, 2005, 04:10 PM

damn, that last one is great. It looks like you just kick in some lines, then piece it together and wham you got a bot going crazy. Nice man!

**AndrewLey** · June 26th, 2005, 06:41 PM

Cheers Fellah

Here's another attempt at doing a face without any ref...

**Eytan** · June 29th, 2005, 03:18 PM

Damn. That's friggin awesome. I love your super-splash page, its got such great composition. Your heads are really nice, keep up the great work. Post more!

**Odds** · June 29th, 2005, 03:51 PM

holy shit this stuff is fresh! i love the portraits the most, and next come those sick mechs of yours. are you in college, or what? critwise; i'd like to see some more full figures in action from you. keep it up-

**Pesmerga** · June 29th, 2005, 05:26 PM

This guy's a freaking god if you ask me.

Your sister is very beautiful by the way

**AndrewLey** · June 29th, 2005, 07:15 PM

Quick Sketch - Thanks man!

Odds - Cheers dude - I just graduated

Pesmerga - Cheers bud - my sis say's thanks aswell

did this for a CGT DSG (Painter 1hour)

**Drumwhore** · June 29th, 2005, 07:33 PM

impressive sketchbook

I really enjoy your very unique style!

I am happy to see you've got this thread over here, gonna keep an eye on it for sure

**redehlert** · June 29th, 2005, 08:04 PM

Hey Andrew - airwolf is pretty slick, bro. Awesome for just an hour, IMO.
Peace.
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**AndrewLey** · June 30th, 2005, 06:16 AM

Drumwhore - Cheers bud!

Redehlert - Thanks man!

**vigostar** · June 30th, 2005, 09:09 AM

that last batman rocks... you deserve some stars!!!!!

**Flip** · June 30th, 2005, 09:19 AM

As far as your painter stuff goes your 4 armed mech is cool but the airwolf blows everything away. Fucking awesome! If you had used (more) colour I'd erect a sign right here saying "Prime piece of ass, ripe for kissing". Oh weel, maybe next time. Your pencils are also beautiful, I'm always envious of those who can render eyes so well. The funny thing is your organic stuff done in pencil is really lovely but it seems to fall down when you move to digital. Your airwolf, mech and the BMW stuff show your very capable at working on id stuff in digital, you just need to hammer away at your organic work.

Cool stuff! I hope we're going to see you entering IDM.

**the_allejo05** · June 30th, 2005, 11:37 AM

damn nice stuff man..i love your knights a lot..like piece of batman in pencil..i did a batman too..it sucked hehe..

**AndrewLey** · July 2nd, 2005, 05:08 PM

Vigostar - cheers man - stars would be nice

Flip - Thnkas for the crits bud - I agree my digital stuff needs work - I tend to use digital just to sketch. Organic stuff needs more time than mech stuff.

the_allejo05 - Cheers dude!

Started this guy yesterday. Its my first project in ZBrush. I built a 5000 poly in Maya then detailed in ZBrush. The model is now just under 4 million polys and is quite difficult to handle.

Next step is to build a low poly version and generate a normal map.

**Pesmerga** · July 2nd, 2005, 06:37 PM

Your last post is delicious! Looks like pudding

Air Wolf is freaking awesome. just an hour!? I bet it would take me days to get that kind of result...

**crazy3dman** · July 4th, 2005, 11:44 PM

Hey man, that z-brush creature is looking really good. I'm thinking about giving z-brush a try. I'd love to see what the low poly model looked like before you took it into z-brush.

**AndrewLey** · July 5th, 2005, 03:22 AM

Pesmerga - Thanks man

crazy3dman - Cheers bud - definatly give Zbrush a go - its a lot of fun. Here's the base mesh and the normal mapped low poly version...