rainbows & unicorns +digital oil sketch*sep30

[Gilead]

Your life drawings are your best stuff. Keep building from a foundation of good refference untill you have enough visual vocabulary to make stuff up. I'm not telling you not to draw from your head, just recognize that drawing from your imagination is how you will develope imaginative ideas and concepts, drawing from life is how you will develope accuracy.
Good stuff, keep it up.

[krakel]

I had this idea.. Its 2 am.. well i just had to post it. I really want to make this a digital piece. I think its going to be a veery early morning-at the ocean-cloudy piece. We'll see.

Thank you all for your commentS!

this is.. approx. 4 by 8 cm big

[Anjo]

Hey Kollege

I love the progress here, some of your characterdesigns are really cool, the smoking guy is really cool captures some atmosphere and style!

Nur weiter so, cant wait for the next one!


greetz Anjo

[Flaskpost]

i like this sketchbook! fun stuff here.
keep it up man!

[Y.H.T.E.]

I love how the monkey man and his ears connect to his shoulders. B-E-A-UTIFUl Touch!

[Hazamataz]

Lots of solid drawing and painting here. The picture with the smoking in is very cool, really has alot of mood/charector.

Keep up experimenting with different colours, thats the beauty of digital, total freedom. The green and yellow charector near the top really works.

Keep it up, your way ahead, inspiring.

[krakel]

hello everyone- twas a weird day today but i got some stuff done.. Im not too confident about it but thats why im here i guess. Soo first of all- thank you peolpe who gave me critsncomments!

anjo- danke! was machst du bei den briten?you got a sketchbook of your own?

flaskpost- thanks

YHTE- ...thanks...?

hazamataz- thanks a bunch, i cant believe that yall like that smoking picture so much

soo heres my WIP.. i think ill have to use reference for the weather and the horsey n everything here. you folks got anything to say so far?



did like 10 of these- nicenlose with ref. goal was to quickly capture the originals essence.. i think im going to keep doing this exercise..



my fav.



My mother wanted me to draw 3 different types of doctors for her presentation somewhere.. one was supposed to be very attentive and serious, one very friendly and easy about everything, and one frightened and unsure about things... hope you can keepem apart







i personally dont like them alot.


bonus: Newyearseve(although im a bit late: happy new year!) guess whos me, i dont drink and i look like im ... 5:



aaand heres an inspiring link i found many months ago i just have to post it here:

http://www.conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=43158

finally...


peace

[krakel]

right after my last post i felt a sudden urge to draw more.. Again its like 2.30 am. scary.

no ref

[Anjo]

At least, your not the only one whos awake at this time

Ive got much arthomework to do too but right ow im too sleepy to be productive hehe, that piece is great, I guess i couldnt do that.

To answer your question, I moved to cambridge 4 or 5 months ago to visit the CATs college there and do my A and A2 Levels in: Graphic art, fine art, media studies and theatre studies. Im currently working hard on my art skills and hope to improve more soon, yeah I have some sketchbooks and Im actually planning to upload some of MY crap soon

And now im hanging out here daily cause I fell in love with CA, since I was small I loved concept art and all that around


See you soon mate
Im so tired, dass ich jetzt echt eine Mütze voll Sclaf brauche


ps. ich tipp einfach mal auf den in der mitte ganz hinten mit der Mütze



Greetz! Anjo

[taxman]

Good job on those facial expression sketches and props for drawing this portrait without ref. Keep working, you´ve got a great book with nice variety.

[krakel]

thanks erone- yup im the guy in the back with the hat..

umm yeah after looking at "the art of hellboy" i felt like doing something comiclike.. playing around with ink soo i started off with this thumb:



then i made this from it(you can see how i got confused on my way down)



and finally I focused on the poses and characters themselves:


i felt good about that one...


not as happy aobut this one

sadly i havent done the detailed version of the third guy which is in my opinion the worst.

peace

[Zaknafain]

Hey Krakel.. Sorry I don't come here that oftn... School eats my brain and I try to spend the rest of my time into drawing.
Great process and it looks like you have fun and patience while developping things. Thats great.
However I'd like to see more colorwork from you because your drawingskills are way better than your colorskills. Work on that, if you got the guts to do so
Some links for you:
http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=35796
http://forums.sijun.com/viewtopic.php?t=15476
Those are the best colortheory links I know. Perhaps you will need them someday.
Rock on

[krakel]

Well schools keepin me busy as always but here is some stuff i did this weekend.. www.warpaint.se is a fun place to be at... well its all oc and mostly well.. quick oc stuff you know









oh yeah and this pooey doo doo(i gotta show this.. so ill be forced to show some progress on enviros n such):



ill try to post more often..

peace

[krakel]

dunno.. just for the fun of it





peace

[krakel]

well...

heres more.

another comic thingy- i think im gonna color this one. (i dont like the guy on the right!)



selfportrait that doesnt look a lot like me..eyes are too large and girly i guess



And thisone.. its a sketch- i might take this further i like it.. a mixture of me and... umm.. prince?




peace

[Anjo]

Hey Krakel whats up man!
You should really upadte more regulary, i love the lizard man head you did recently, really neat work and still looseness in there. I am actually sitting on my Movement Sketchbook for Fine Arts right now, cause its half term and that means work *sigh* .

Anyway man, just want you to know that ur sketchbook is not forgotten and i hope to see more stuff from you soon, keep it up Krakel!

[krakel]

THANK YOU Anjo - no really i needed some motivation.. i will do some more work in the next couple of days because we'll have a small "karneval" break..

So heres 3 new little somethings:

Photoshop experiment.. the original is only half of the figure and only linework..


Heres what happens when I get bored in school ....



vector life drawing... it cost me about 10 minutes.. my sister didnt want to stay longer.




'tis all for now...


peace

[Anjo]

hey!

I really enjoy how you always try out different stuff, thats the right way to go and vital for your own development (well thats what my graphic art teacher usually tells me

Hmmm thus i dont know what vector life drawing means, i like it the most, appears very sophisticated to me. Just keep going you definatly have good skills when it come to know what looks good .

Dont get upset about the few posts, thats just because you dont update regular enough to be on the front page or to have the stars, however i know you have the skill to be

Great update, keep it coming Krakel!
*gos back to his coursework*

[krakel]

Thanks Anjo! - Not sure if you know the difference between vector and pixel graphics.. But that could be your problem- what i meant was: The image shown was drawn from life, using a vector program...

Heres a small update ..





mäh

peace

[gmags]

You got fun stuff in here Krakel. Keep it up bro!

[OleOlsen]

jo danke fürs vorbeischaun! good stuff in here. you have some pretty good shapes here i think

[krakel]

small update.. been partying alot lately and having some trouble with them females.. so i didnt get to draw alot..

heres 2 cd covers i made for a contest





and something i came up yesterday.. it shows my state of mind, i dont even know what it means myself.



peace

[Manuel Baum]

Wow, your digitals have improved a lot. nice stuff in the last few posts. are you from germany?
embee

[T-Raktor]

Nice work. Some of the portraits are really realistic and cool. Do more of those.

[Pesmerga]

Keep it up, I see some improvement. You're getting more confident n all.

[jtheanswer]

Solid, and lots of variety, keep at it!

[Quicksilver]

A very fun and diverse SB. Nice one! ^_^

This one made me lol: http://img363.imageshack.us/img363/3292/kopfk0zm.jpg
I also like this one: http://img351.imageshack.us/img351/7530/triple13dc.jpg

Yeah, I didn't like my High School Art teacher either, which is one of the reasons why I left and went to college. Best decision made so far; it's sooo much better in college - very free and independant.

I agree with Permerga: it's evident that your confidence is rising from all the drawing. Keep it up!

[krakel]

thank you for all of your kind comments! Ja ich bin Deutsch.

Heres an update- only a very small part of what ive actually done.. Did a bunch of oversized works and messed around with inks .. scanning it only makes it look weird


doodle:



more doodle with a brush.. bought some ink today and as i said have a lot of stuff that i might photograph some day.. or something..



quickone:



digital doodle on uuh.. OC



i dont know.. faces got mahself a mech pencil too.. very nice instrument





thats all for now.. i want to do more though..

peace

[krakel]

quick update! Always wanted to do one of those vector illustrations..

tis a birthday card for a friend of mine




peace

[Zaknafain]

Some of the new stuff you posted looks cool. You are progressing fast. I want to see more .
The only thing I don't like that much is the last vector illustration. (I did many vector illustrations some time ago and never liked the look of vectorart anyway so I guess its a matter of taste.) The flowers in it look great though.