Cobi's book! (Kinda) Updated 04/01/08

**darkchild** · January 20th, 2006, 04:29 AM

Nice to see you back. Congrats on the sucess of the show. Hope to see some more periodic updates to your thread. We all missed you

**Cobi** · March 12th, 2006, 06:18 PM

Newest one

better boondock picture. this is the 3' x 5' one. looks nice over my couch :p

**darkchild** · March 13th, 2006, 02:52 PM

I really like the newest piece of art from you. The waves and the sky is amazing. You are improving much in your environment works. Keep it up.

**blanchefleur12345** · March 16th, 2006, 05:26 PM

Originally Posted by Cobi

oh my gosh
this looks EXACTLY like James Hetfield from Metallica
i don't knw if you meant it to
but it does!
well done.
i like it.
hee hee.
Rye
x

**OleOlsen** · March 17th, 2006, 01:40 PM

hey cobi the one with the waves and the palm is looking really great!

**Cobi** · March 18th, 2006, 01:18 AM

Darkchild-Thanks for the comments. I haven't been able to do much art, have been busy with the new house and picked my guitar back up. But hopefully will post something newer soon. Come back!

Blanche-That's exactly who it is!!! Good eye.

I love him.

Olson-Thanks for the comment. If you have any constructive criticism feel free to let loose! I want to improve just as much as the next person. That goes for all of you!

Thanks in advance

Cobi

**B-Man** · March 19th, 2006, 12:23 PM

Good stuff as always cobi!

**Cobi** · May 21st, 2006, 02:56 AM

**Cobi** · May 23rd, 2006, 10:52 PM

obviously not done, just trying to understand color a bit more.

**Cobi** · May 24th, 2006, 12:01 AM

I can't tell if it's getting worse. this is my first real color thing in paint shop pro. anybody got any tips?

**darkchild** · May 25th, 2006, 02:21 AM

hey good to see you back. On the last piece, maybe blend a bit more on the face. I haven't used PSP enough to know the program. But keep working at it!

**Cobi** · May 25th, 2006, 09:58 AM

Thanks for the suggestion. It's getting there I think

**bhanu** · May 25th, 2006, 10:25 AM

Nice stuff in this thread,
But be careful about the proportions.The last WIP is turing out good.Hope you finish it soon.

**Mag-Neo** · July 19th, 2006, 02:54 AM

-Hi... There is too many interesting characters & some portraits. I like your last one so much. She is looks like French actress Andie MacDowell... she is one of my favourite actress... keep posting... CHEERS...

**Cobi** · July 27th, 2006, 04:10 PM

Spent an hour on this now my hand's killin me. ARGHH

still have a few things left to do around the eyes and the lips, but i didn't feel like doing anymore.

**darkchild** · July 27th, 2006, 08:46 PM

Hey there you are

Hope you're doing well. Good piece. The eyebrows are bothering me a bit. Maybe they're too long.... or that they don't really follow the brow line. At any rate I'm glad you are still working the art. That last digital is awesome, whatever became of that? Did you do anymore updates on it?

**Cobi** · July 29th, 2006, 07:22 PM

My coworker, experiment. I never use ink pen!

You'll be seeing a lot more from me. I started a project and now I'm doing 1-2 portraits a day.

**Cobi** · August 10th, 2006, 03:07 PM

**Cobi** · August 22nd, 2006, 05:03 AM

where are my regulars?! i miss you guys!

another portrait in my project

**darkchild** · August 22nd, 2006, 01:37 PM

Hey there! I'm here! I'm still a regular. So what kind of project is this? Personal, commisioned...? I really like that last piece. Good use of colors, was is a photo ref? Please tell me you've been painting a whole bunch and just not posting. My main crit for your last piece is to try and use less line, and use more value to determine the shape of the form. Example would be the baby's arm. Instead of the two lines forming the arm, use some tone to imply shape. I really hope to see you post more often

**razorreke** · August 24th, 2006, 06:56 PM

god i love this one, it's fresh and very vibrant keep these up

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**sith** · August 25th, 2006, 01:45 AM

Good book you got here Cobi! i dig that pen thing you did, especially for never working with ink. My only crit is that a lot of these faces seem a little too curvy. i always start out my portraits with really basic straight lines, then i go over those ones with some more exact straight lines- then finally i draw my contours. who knows if that made any sense. i'd suggest checkin out some of these tutorials by ron lemens that you can find here

http://www.creativespotlite.com/drawing-lessons.htm

Anyway, you got some great work in here, but it could get even better! Keep on truckin' Cobi.

btw Bowie rocks!

**Cobi** · August 26th, 2006, 08:26 AM

razorreke-thx !! im workin hard to keep it up!

sith-ill definitely check that link. thx for the advice (and it did make sense). i always think im doing that then i get ahead of myself and impatient.

here are a couple pencils i did tonight, im trying soooo hard dammit i hate shading!

my guy took this pic before i was finished, i'll repost when i get the camera back out.

this hand was a pain in the ass

the only prescription is................................................ .

**razorreke** · August 27th, 2006, 11:24 AM

is the first one bruce willis??he looks like him,
i really like him nice shading already,finish it finish it and paint it

i like bruce willis,he's a good guy......i think...

**Cobi** · August 27th, 2006, 10:19 PM

it's hard to paint with a laptop

**Cobi** · August 28th, 2006, 05:57 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gteSlmcBHzE

made this video for you tube. i had fun making it so i thought i'd share!

**razorreke** · August 28th, 2006, 08:41 AM

the movie is funny, like the music

youre result was very resembling the king to,
make another one

bruce willis lost it's touch in the laptop version,do you draw with a tablet or with a mouse???i used to draw with a mouse and it's very very sucky,you can't set lines the way you want to...

i wanna see more pencils

i really like em

**Cobi** · August 28th, 2006, 04:00 PM

hey thanks for watching it!! the bruce willis one i used the mouse on my laptop.. that little red thing in the middle. it was hard, but was still fun.

i did make another one last night, heres the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IklGhLSLnoo (James Hetfield)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gteSlmcBHzE (Elvis)

my fiance is really into youtube and he had been bugging me to make something to put on there.. these are really fun and I'll probably end up doing a lot of them. i'll do a pencil one today just for you, razor!

edit: to add both links since it's a new page, yipeee!

**razorreke** · August 28th, 2006, 05:18 PM

yay a pencil all for me alone, yippie ka yee (qoute of bruce willis)
the movies are fun to wach,
it looks like you are fast painting with charcoal haha, keep em up
they're good,i like the james hedfield better than the elvis (sorry king,it's just true...now don't be mad Elvis,you a such a baby....)

sorry got carried away ....

**darkchild** · August 29th, 2006, 12:52 PM

Hey there! I just got done watching your time lapse stuff. I was trying to access them last night from work, but the filter on our servers prevented me from doing so. The James Hatfield piece was cool! How long in real time?