Maxetormer 2.-D-Sk-T, CLOSED THREAD (--Time to shed the skin-NEW SKETCHBOOK THREAD--)

**asoir** · February 8th, 2006, 01:09 PM

That expression is fuckin' priceless! Great sp.

**rodrigo!** · February 9th, 2006, 05:10 AM

i love the last SP man, im inspired to start doing my own soon

i think there should be light on the upper plane of the chin, seeing as how it affects all the other areas. im not sure tho, but still, i think it looks excellent!

**maxetormer** · February 14th, 2006, 04:13 AM

glikster:he he dude thanks a lot not nearly as natural as I wanted it but
man, Im so glad you liked it

Kresh: Man your right about that, I need to really wach my proporcions a lot,
ill get it right, you just wait a bit more

thanks for droping by!!

seth1:BRO! thanks for stoping by, you are way to kind thanks so much for
the nice words, man we need to hook up on OC again some time!!
ill keep this baby up for sure!! see ya later

salah: Ok at your request I did some more inks, I still need way more pratice
in my line work but hey I enjoy doing em a lot!, see ya later

Carnifex: How life this days! man, do I miss beeing at Prague, Im bumed down
because I dont have the cash so make it this time around, we will meet again tho,
that is for sure!! and just for you:

"You should all be ashamed! You've been behaving like human beings. Now our whole village is a wreck"
-Daddy Smurf-

spicy meatballs: Yeah muscles are the best friend of an artist

Im glad you
liked my structure, it has many holes but the more I study the less they show

Asoir: Thank you very much Im glad you dig it!!

rodrigo!: yeah I got what you mean, Im not quite getting this right but
the chin light are should be less birgth than the forehead, still I did maked
it to dark, man keeping those value relationships it dam hard, thanks for
the critisim, you got a very keen eye, Im glad your starting your selfportaiting
again, I will be waiting for them, KEEP IT UP!!

Ok its 3:00 am here i need to sleep, here are some doodling to acompany the
posting

I will see ya guys later!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The left one is from my head, I did the structure of the right one from life
and shading and detail from my head, except for the pencil head

The girl is from a magazine my hand from life and some dude at the bus station

Gestures form my head girl form a magazine

From life

My mother at a restaurant on the left and a spanian armor form a
museum, the face on the armor is made up because the armor
just had this ugly manequin

From my head

**Carnifex** · February 14th, 2006, 07:55 AM

damn,stop cracking me up!

nice pics.

**hurricane** · February 14th, 2006, 09:00 AM

luis, wonderfull stuff my friend !
the inkwork is doing wonders on your pencil handling, wonderfull lines and great sence of bulk to it !! nothing but respect for your artistic journy !!

and happy birthday dude !! sorry i missed it !!

cheers dude and dont stop drawing !!!

**kingcoyote** · February 14th, 2006, 11:00 AM

Those ink drawings from life are just wonderful! Is there any kind of under drawing there?

keep up the great work.
Later.
KC

**maxetormer** · February 15th, 2006, 08:42 PM

Carnifex: Im gald I did maked ya happy

thanks for the props

hurricane: Bro! how is it going that green serpent dragon is the shizzle
thanks for the happy B-D, and for the ecouragment, your
thread is a constant inspiration, it might take a while but ill get to
the place you are, count on it!

kingcoyote: nope most of the times I doint use any, I need to
train my self to visualice and use only the lines that are important
that is why I try not to use a underdrawing it gonna take a while
till this excesices pay off tho

Sum anatomy from Burne Hogarth this time, a very slow day...see ya 8)

**maxetormer** · February 16th, 2006, 07:52 PM

Having a slow day as well, Im felling a bit sick wich makes me
agry because I just got well from an infection a week ago,
sweet luck of mine...
Doing the SP thing, Photoshop three hours see ya later

-Edit-

Spot on critique Carnifex, I do have more flesh on my cheekbones
but it was more a visual effect because I made the top of my head to higth
after reading your critic I made some changes in the chin as well,
Thanks a lot for them, I really need em

ill be seeing ya later

-Daddy Smurf-

bw I just found this guys site, Albert Khai Nam Truong and dam he´s good!!

http://www.alberttruong.com/gallery.htm

**Carnifex** · February 16th, 2006, 08:05 PM

the rendering on the hogarth studies is very good,but you look abit skinny on your sp. or is that just me? i seem to recall you having more flesh on you. so to speak.

edit: something makes the face seem askew. i can't tell if it's the jawline or the placement of the mouth though. something about the mouth and beard area.

**kingcoyote** · February 16th, 2006, 08:25 PM

I went home and did some ink drawings the other day, after seeing yours.

Thanks for the kick in the balls!

I'm studying Hogarth right now too. I hope it pays off... I've just forgotten soo much.

Later.
KC

**Burning Eyes** · February 16th, 2006, 11:43 PM

screw u man... i finally thought i had a self portrait that i could be proud of and then u post this, now i see i have muchhhhh more to learn, and put in practice.... awesome work i wanna see more like this last one!

much love

cheers!

**young paddy1** · February 18th, 2006, 06:45 PM

I'm liking your inks a lot especially the shading you use and the sps are great, your characters are usually very good but every so often they seem somehow hollow.

cheerio

**maxetormer** · February 18th, 2006, 08:44 PM

Carnifex:Yo!its good to have you around! thanks for the spot on critique,
I made some changes based on it, Im glad you liked the shading on the
hogarth studies, see ya later!! -Daddy Smurf-

kingcoyote: Hogarts is kinda exagerated but its great to see the muscles
as volumen instead as just abstract shapes conecting here and there,
Im happy to har you wanted to do inks after seeing my experiments I made
my day

you will see studing anatomy does pays off, but it takes
some time to even start to kick in, so keep it UP!

Burning Eyes: Your last SP looked hell of a lot nice cool harsh dramatic
lighting, I diged it a lot, just keep doing em, Im still way far from doing
a really good face, its a matter of pratice thats all, you doing really
good man!!

young paddy1: Hey Im glad you liked the inks and the shading, as far as the
hollow thing, well I was gonna write that ill overcome it with practice
but truth be told Im not even sure if Ill be able to pull it off, I mean
its not the first time someone tells me this (Jason Manely sorta told me this
same thing on the workshop) and well I dont know what to tell ya, I guess
time will tell, its not like I dont see "it", its more like Im not even sure if I
can fix it, and like I said time will tell...I know you dont meant to be
harsh on anything but man, you comment really bumed me out, its like
I prefer to be told that my tecnichal skills are bad

oh well back to the
drawing board, still a long life to live and learn.

SP and some portraits form this life drawing group in my city

see ya later, let see if next bach looks a little better...

**maxetormer** · February 19th, 2006, 12:47 PM

Ok some creatures, the big one was for the weeks COWS but I wasnt able
to bring the skech to color, still I liked my portal opener, and I call
it "entropy beast" and some demonish lemur, see ya guys later

**kingcoyote** · February 19th, 2006, 02:18 PM

The portal creature is a good start... very dark. It reminds me of the Naz'gul from LOTR, and also some of Brom's stuff. The arms on it look a little "off" though, like you couldn't figure out how they should attach... um, it looks like you added some mass in between the torso and arms to make up the difference, instead of getting them positioned well in the first place. Does that make sense? I'm also having trouble figuring out what's going on with the triangle shape next to him... I'm assuming that it's the "portal", but it's position in space isn't consistant with everything else. I love the head-piece/body armour, and tatoos though...

The SP and portraits are awesome, as usual. Do you work from photos with your SPs at all? The reason I ask, is that I always have trouble maintaining (or, failing that reestablishing) facial expressions with the angle, and lighting etc. when I'm drawing myself from life.

Great work, man! I always enjoy looking at your stuff.
Later.
KC

**P E N Ricklund** · February 19th, 2006, 02:54 PM

Hey, my crazy mexican, sorry for not stopping by to often.
Damn, I missed a lot of goodies. You sp's are looking top-notch. And the expressions, wowser.
Anyway, nice work.
Hope everything is well with you.

Hugs!

**bumskee** · February 19th, 2006, 07:20 PM

I must have this thing whenever I see awsome lines. I just love seeing really nice line works..

love the SPs too keep drawing away!

**rodrigo!** · February 20th, 2006, 08:14 PM

sucha big improvement man, and i love to see the lineart from life, its a good variety you have there!

**maxetormer** · February 23rd, 2006, 04:38 PM

kingcoyote: Spot on critiques, I will develop this creature some more
for the next post, so ill take all of your coments in acount for sure,
about the photo thing I have never made a photo selfportait,
you see you can always use photo refs of other people from magazines,
but the beauti of using a mirror is that its almost as good as a life
drawing, and doing stuff form life activates diferent parts of your brain
that you dont use while coping from photos translating 3D to 2D is much
more streessfull for your brain and you learn the doble of things,
as far as expresions I dont mantain my face on the expresion all
i start with a losse gesture and then I try to tighten it up by going
back and forward on the expresion on my face, say... I consentrate on
how the the nose goes a littel up in my face when my lips are contrated
on anger and then I try to refine that area, and so on and on on the rest
of the features and overall expression that I already skeched on the gesture
underdrawing, (not that my system is all that good, actually Im pretty
dam far form doing good expresions

) I hope this helps you a bit

see ya and thanks for droping by!!

Pencilator: Hey you blond sweden drawing machine!!
I hope things are well with you too, I really need to stop
by your thread man, those skulls are looking superb!!
thanks for droping by my friend, and for ecouragment!!

bumskee: Im glad you liked my linework, its a never ending work he he
but heck I have good times with it so its ok,
I really liked you last black and white desings, I so want to steall
you desing sence!!

rodrigo!: Hey! thanks lets hope I keep the improvent through the
entire year

some times I fell Im going bakcwards, Im happy
to read you liked the lifedrawing those are my personal
favs of the last week.

UPDATE!!

The cover of my sketchbook in acrilics

**Carnifex** · February 23rd, 2006, 04:56 PM

gotta do more studies myself...

**maxetormer** · February 24th, 2006, 05:17 AM

Carnifex:

yeah doing studies is good bro.

Ok heres todays work some SP life drawings and some
weird walking pen inspired by a gallery show in my city

see ya guys later!!

**ChrisMayernik** · February 24th, 2006, 05:36 AM

This new update is awesome. SO inspiring. The figures and self portait and fantastic and your progress just makes me want to draw all night, but sadly I can't cause it's 5:30 am. I gotta sleep. Rock on.

**Bloodsbane** · February 24th, 2006, 05:56 AM

I haven't been in here for a while and BAM! soo much cool stuff. You're a drawing machine man!

**johnny78** · February 24th, 2006, 06:17 AM

And another CAorg drawing machine

By the way: Happy birthday. I know that I´m late ...but better know than bever.

No crits with your pencilwork. And I guess that your digital stuff would enter the next level if you dared to use a not so transparent pencil tool instead of the airbrush-tool. I guess that this was -as your strokes would nor blend one into another -it would look more vivid.

**Setherial** · February 24th, 2006, 07:46 AM

awesome

**maxetormer** · February 26th, 2006, 12:45 AM

ChrisMayernik: i know the felling of wating to draw all nite long

Im very happy to hear you got inspired by my doodling, keep rocking
on I saw you SKB youv got some solid stuff there!!

Bloodsbane: hey thanks a lot Im glad you diged the updates!

johnny78: DUUDDE thanks a lot for droping by! Im so happy to hear you diged the pencil work, and you are spot on right on the paint thing, I need to do more deliverate strokes on my digital painting, thanks for pointing out!

Setherial: thanks a lot!!

Ok this is todays work, see ya guys later!!

Life drawing on charcoal 20 min

Will this poor bastard will ever find the key for inner peace?

Made on the movie theatre and the bus

A queen on hearts packing a gun

**sith** · February 26th, 2006, 12:58 AM

Your technique is wonderful. Those self portraits are really nice. I dig the one that's on the cover of your sketchbook. What else can i say? I would die happy if i had your skills.

**OleOlsen** · February 26th, 2006, 04:23 AM

jo maxetomer....
i was really a,azed as i was scrolling through your thread. man those sp's and the life drawings from the bus are really great...keep it up. it is a lot of fun watching your stuff