Lost in a sea of creativity (NSFW/56k) - - updated Aug 10 2009

[Amazing Action Ape]

Actually i work as a cook.

Heres the start of a brand spankin new fuckin sketchbook! team america FUCK YEAH, here it is, lemme know what you guys think of the dump, i tried to the clean the place up, but what can ya do.

If i was to critique my own work, id have to say i still need to FINISH hands and feet, and study more textures and surfaces.

Random heads and figures and what not, no refs used except for wolvies costume.













my latest digital w-i-p,



Life drawings.









thats all for now! i work in a large sketchbook, so please excuse the cropping.

Ill update more as more pages get filled up.

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[cburt]

hey, nice start. you've got good variety. the rendering is descriptive yet quick and to the point which is bringing a lot of life to the drawings. i think you're right that some more hands and feet could be shown, but the ones that are there look good, especially the guy doin the like, inverted peace symbol. anyway, keep posting more of what you're doin.

-cburt

[Amazing Action Ape]

hey man thanks for the comments and critiques!

i plan to throw some more stuff up once i get it scanned, hopefully some more of my pages with thumbnails of landscapes and what not, and more hands and feet.

[loomer]

Lookin good man...Definetly have a style that lends itself to comics...which is a good thing. Keep doing those life drawings and postin more....

peace

[Amazing Action Ape]

Loomer: Thanks man, I actually do do comics a lot, im working on my own graphic novel right now (WHO ISNT THOUGH? COME ON!), but plan on sending some pages to marvel and other bigshots soon, as i look forward to rejection.

Small update, tomorrow is life drawing, so hopefully ill have some new stuff scanned in on thursday to update with.

the girl with the big breasts is teh only thing worth looking at on the page, everything else on it is shittay. I've recently come down with a brokencow fetish, i love his shorthaired girls, so i decided to take a stab at drawing my own.

ive just noticed that the hands were cropped! DAMNIT! oh well :@



Peace

[mentler]

Good thread ~ well done figurative works ~ come to the asylum

[tgfx]

I like it.

[Amazing Action Ape]

Yo CA!

Mentler: Thank you, I may pop by the asylum! I assume the link is in your sig?

TGFX: Thanks!

NEW STUFF!!

CHECK CHECK CHECK IT!



this one has the left handed marker sketch BEHIND IT! i was an idiot and wasnt thinking.





Done ENTIRELY with my left hand ( I draw with my right) so it looks extremely shitty! but this is the first time i have ever done this! so yeah, 13 minutes. Colour looks splotchy but it was my left hand man!



90 second gestures, most were cut off though :@ :@






Enjoy!

[endregan]

Hey great thing going on here. Your pretty close to me! Represent

Ill be by to check you out

[Amazing Action Ape]

New stuff here! A wolvie fanart on illustration board (looks decent in person)
and some life drawing!





Endregan: thanks again! hope you like the new stuff!

[Amazing Action Ape]

wow its been almost a year since my last update! hahaha

well im uploading the majority of my animation portfolio for sheridans animation program. I did this entire thing in 6 hours, In retrospect I probably should have spent a liittttle more time on it.

Anyways here it is! Tell me what you all think please Dont hold punches!

Here are the mandatory drawings.




































here are 2 of the 5 works of my own choosing I submitted.




I'm sure you can all tell which pieces had the most amount of time spent on them...

[Cold]

nice room design, your visualisation is increasin drastically

[Lewis]

wow... a year!? You could have made a whole new thread lol.
But i guess u wanted to show us your improvement. And u definately made much improvement Great stuff, and this time keep updating

[amarryth]

hey hey! of the stuff i haven't seen already, the animals are my fave. i went to the zoo once and just ended up taking pictures, great job on those, especially staying away from making them stylized and keeping them realistic. oh, and guido.. haha... great 360 of him, i figured he'd have a forward hunch, what with being top heavy and all that...

ciao!

[TheGnoll]

really cool stuff...may i ask if there is a reason for sketching with a blue pencil? (i see you aren't the first one so i was wondering why)

anyway, cool stuff (quite strange staring right into somebody's asshole, but whatever, guess that's anatomy too )

don't have any crits really, just keep posting (got any finished stuff? i'm curious)

[Atazure]

I'm totally in love with his expressions, esspecially that smiles that makes him so rawr-worthy the 360 turn is really cool too, when i look at the front and the front-side it feels as if i could really touch him, and FEEL the 3D (if that makes any sense :' )

And i'm loving the hand and them life drawings, figures. Great portfolio and congrats once again on getting in :]

[Amazing Action Ape]

hey! thanks for the replies everyone

Cold: Thank you, I know I still have a long way to go before I can render and draw really convincing interiors and environments though!

Lewis: Yeah a whole freakin year! hahaha just goes to show how caught up I can get in everyday life and neglect the important things like updating my CA sketchbook. Thank you for your kind words and I'll do my best to keep this thing current.

Amarryth: Thank you, I sketched those out from photos, I never had time to go to a Zoo! I really want to make the trip someday. Actually I thought my animals were really stylized, just in my style. Hahaha yeah, I wish the front and back poses showed the hunch more though...

TheGnoll: I sketch in blue pencil because its erasable, I can get a wide variety of tones through it, and its a nice change from the greys. Yeah it was a quite a riot to draw that one out, I always stay in the same spot when I life draw, and the model usually rotates, and that pose was one of them, and well, I had to do what I had to do. Ive got some finished stuff, but from years ago, recently I've been working on this comic I want to release, of which i show a small preview in this post The first 2 pages are inked, but i want to redraw them, as my inking skills need SEVERE practice.

Atazure: Thank you! hahaha Im glad you like the expressions, I had fun making them! Thanks, I tried to flesh him out as much as I could, showing the weight is really important in creating a convincing character IMO. Hey, thank you! Im super excited to start next year.


Heres some non portfolio related work!

[Brall]

Good looking stuff as always bro, you totally kick my ass.

With a protfolio like this your a shoe in for animation...if thats what you choose to do. Personally I think it would be cool if you were at OCAD with me, who knows what kind of art antics would ensue!

[pennington]

wow! you got a lot of great stuff man. i really like lin. and your character designs are sweet!

[Alcian]

Thanks for commenting in my sb, you got a great one going here. Love the life drawing work and your characters, I really have no crits at the mo :X. Do you do any enviros?

[Amazing Action Ape]

Thanks for the replies guys

Brall: Even your girlfriend can kick your ass, so thats not saying much! hahaha Id imagine late night DnD sessions with a last minute attempt at a painting is what would ensure if i went to OCAD

Pennington: Thanks!

Alcian: Thanks! I draw the occassional environment, but its something i really need to work more on. Ill do some and post them in here!


Heres some stuff from today on the bus.







Nothing outstanding really, but im trying to keep this thing current

[Amazing Action Ape]

Heres a small update on the cover in progress from my comic.




Seeing it so small I see lots of glaring issues that need to be tweaked!
stupid photobucket resize!

slightly bigger version can be seen here.
http://www.deviantart.com/view/32123163/

[Matt Smith]

You got some cool sketches, I enjoyed looking at them. One minor thing I noticed though, is on some of your more full body pieces, the heads tend to get alittle small. Keep up the good work, cant wait to see more.

[pennington]

yeah i hate how small photobucket make your pictures sometimes. i noticed the guys left foot/lower leg is in an odd angle the the arm on the handle bars is a little long.

[rsnurkle]

Nice life drawings, and cool character designs you've got. I also really like that digital painting wip up top. Great stuff. Good luck on your comic!

[Amazing Action Ape]

heres an update on the cover!

Some things still need tweaking, but its getting there! Thanks for the crits guys!




edit: If anyone knows how to remove the blue bar resulting from scanning images in halves in photoshop please let me know.

[Fellah.]

Cool style, dude!

[Amazing Action Ape]

Started inking this, for some reason photobucket likes to fuck around and resize it! Even though the image is like 200kb *sigh* ah well..





Fellah: Thanks dude, I've always been a huge fan of your work!

[Amazing Action Ape]

A speed self portrait, Im trying to be more experimental with colours but I dunno if im doing to well at all.

Expect to see a fair sized batch of sketches in the upcomign weeks, just need to rehook up my scanner!

[Amazing Action Ape]

so far, a quick idea for a painting i want to do.

lots of shit to be worked out.