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

[Carnifex]

shit now that last page is awesome.

the hand "portrait" looks a bit feminine,although i know how you let your nails get outta hand (oy).on the other hand(argh) how did you do those strokes with acrylics? it looks like you used pastel crayons or something like that. really nice textures aswell. it feels very 3d.

[rodrigo!]

excellent work so far man, the ink drawings of clothed figures are very solid! keep up the great work there!
and yeah you need to cut your nails man! might as well have a shave while youre at it harhar

[maxetormer]

hito: Hey man thanks!! I enjoy your updated as well,
thanks for droping around!

Carnifex: hey my man!!! hows life? yeah I gotta cut that nails,
shave and take a bath, dude I live like a smurf caveman har har
well about the acrylics I used a mixture of dry and wet brushes to
give some hues that I thought were to hard to achive with a wet
on wet tecnique as the paint dryed real fast, but if you take a
little amount of tick paint with a dry brush and apply it on top
I discovered you can get some rather nice noise textures.
Thanks for stoping by and for the ecouragment, may we meet
again on another workshop my friend!!

rodrigo!: The nails maybe, but after close consideration I decided
to keep the beard, its my chick magnet, (yeah I wish... )
thanks for droping around, and drop us a bone would ya I wanna
see what you been working on man!, keep the spirit UP!

Ok so I decide to just LET GO, and this was the result...

Antomy form studies from references
except for the warrior on the second page





My mind runing in its underware, no ref

[Hypronost]

I like the result of your latest update. Just letting go eh..
Some of them are a bit messy and chaotic. But they are definitly lovely.
The first page is awesome.
Post more of that stuff!

[AndreasM]

Oh, snap you are getting too good! This is definately a turning point for you. Where did you get those refs? They definately looked useful. I love that 5ft page...It's raw!

Have you signed up for the thundedome?

[shyamshriram]

Great Updates man !! that Self portait is cool..lines r lovely..but dont u think u r looking bit older in that? maybe its just me.
and that hand study in colours..cool..but u could avoid those magenta patches..looking odd, rest is cool..and those sketches r cool as well
btw i can see ur lines r looking GREAT now ! i rembered u asked me once about the same.

Keep up the good work Bro !

[Carnifex]

ha! i know where you got those refs! deviantart CAN be useful sometimes,ne?
anyways sweeeeet stuff there man. my fav is definately that first pic outta mind,the girl wanderin around topless. i really like the slight indication of enviros in the rest of the pieces,esp. the "graaaaar" page. although that "RARA" one is really good aswell,definately a new level for you. love the strong contrast,pose could be abit more forceful though. like,he's really grabbin and pullin the boy's hair and slightly lifting the sword/knife(?),ready to strike down. because a man that frightenin lookin surely doesn't belong to a peaceful religion.
as for myself,i'm doin quite fine. got myself a girlfriend(can you believe it? my very first),so i'm not quite doing as much drawing lately
school's rather boring,although we have an exhibition tomorrow where we present our copies of old masters (and although i've chosen bouguereau,i'm rather bored by copying). so,all in all,quite well.
yeah,i hope we meet in italy on the next workshop.
have a good time!

edit: ok,i take back that about the copying being boring. it's not as easy as it seemed at first.

[Inkfish]

Cool updates man. I really like the "let it go" image and the dude with the sword.

Have you done much work with acrylics? the hand looks really nice!

[fooxoo]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...ourjourney.jpg - love it!!!

[hurricane]

very nice luis!

i hope everything is ok!

cheers man!

[robin-eleven]

Wow!
Awesome sketchbook!
I love your figures, you've got an awesome style!

[maxetormer]

Jens: hey thanks man!!! In real happy to hear you diged the inks
will do more had studies like that one, and I will think more about the
setup, I promise

Hypronost: will do that, and messy is good, I would do anything
to battle the stiffness away he he

n0fish: DUDE! hows life!! I hope good, I got them like carni just wrote
from a DA stock photo album, its got some really asum photos,
heres the link, I hope you find em usefull too.
and yep I singned up, may the gods of CA smile at me!!

and thanks for the props I means a lot to me!!!

shyamshriram: I agree I need to keep those saturated magenta
strokes at bay, he he Im glad you rember that I asked you
that, I think it was my first post on you skb, your one of the
ppl that I admire the most and I strive to be on your level one
day, many kudos to your art!!! thanks for stoping by!

Carnifex: Carni!!! man thanks for taking the time to drop around
now I must go your skb to drop some good criticing! good to go
on getting a GF having a musse is always helpfull!
Yeah coping at first seems bland but once you really get
onto the tiny bits of detailing and figuring out why this or that
stroke is placed, on this or the other way, things get quite complex,
I copied the Dead Dealer back on my uni, I got real close to it
I still have it and some day ill hang it on my living room and
ill fool ppl into thinking is the real thing (I mean mine is
way smaller but some ppl dont know that he he)
and yeah inking stuff is problably the best way to gain pencil work
confidence, I will keep doing em till the end of times!!
Thanks for droping around, its always a pleasure having you around!

Inkfish: well I have done more in acrilics than in oils, but
I would not say that I have done much yet some ilos here
and there, by the end of the year I should have some ilos
made for my portafolio both on oils and acrilics, by then I
hope I have my tecnique figure out at least to have a decent
creation time, Im too slow! and thanks for the props, those
two are actualy my two new favorites!

fooxoo: Thanks a lot, I enjoy ur work a lot as well! that one is
among my favorite drawings of all time!

hurricane: Hey man bro! life is good u know the usual up as downs
I might be teaching some ilustrations course at a uni in a near
by city, aside that, things are cool, Im really tring to get
focused on my goals, thanks for the inspiration seeing how
hard you work and how much you have progressed is one of the
things that keeps me going!

robin-eleven: thanks a lot!! Im glad you like my stuff!

Ok some life drawing and observational studies,
tomorrow ill draw some monsters and knights,
today I learned how to see better, kinda

[rodrigo!]

man you sure know how to pump out the drawings great portrait, cant think of much to crit, just keep working hard

[maxetormer]

rodrigo!: yeah let hope that this leads to some improvent over the
years and not just a big pile of bad drawing time will tell I guess har har
ill keep working hard mate, you keep at it as well!

Oh well not my finest day but at least Im still here

[Fellah.]

max - you need to keep working those loose line art sketches, man! Looks great!!

[maxetormer]

Fellah.: its always a pleasure having you around man, your kicking some
serioud ass on the finally finished seccion this days!

Ok so today I went out with some friends, (well I didnt knew most
of this guys but I did drawed em, wich made for a really amusing
afternoon) it was the birthday of a girl that I meet on my weekly
life drawing seccion and she invited me to her party,plus there was
a blackboard on the room she rented for the party,
to I filled every inch of it with naked girls, angsty warriors and
a battery drumm that was at the end of the room, to bad
I cant show you guys, it was loads of fun!!!

[dCepT]

You rawk! I should bring my sketchbook to parties as well... at least bring my moleskine... No crits really... I just wanted to say thanks for the inspiration!

Thanks!

d-C

[Inkfish]

Hey man!

you really nailed shug.jpg the gesture is really good in that. Also sotired.jpg looks really nice. It looks like you have been hitting the inks pretty hard lately, and it's showing. Keep it up man

[maxetormer]

dCepT: Np bro, Im glad Im inspiring ya, since I get so much
inspiration for you, and of CA thanks for stoping by
and yeah, drawing at parties is fun!!

Inkfish: thanks a lot Im glad you see some improvent that
really keeps me going and that shug.jpg piece is my fave so far,
so Im really happy to read you dig it too.

Ok ass studies!! graphite, about three hours, way too slow!
and Im sleepy cause I had very little sleep last nite, so
time to hit the sack.

n0fish: he he, Thanks, here it is mate!

http://ahrum-stock.deviantart.com/

Thanks for stoping by and for the encouragment, I can always use some of that!!

Sorry Zebz!! I forgot to paste the dam thing

Apartely if you name a pic ass.jpg on photobucket the bot that
controls their images will delete the image, I guess its an anti porn
defence, so I changed the name of my pic to rearpartofawoman.jpg
the internet is ridiculous har, har, har...

[AndreasM]

Yo! I was going to tell you how much you kick ass, and then it turns out you draw ass too. That one cheek (*physically points at) looks pretty suspicious though.

heres the link

Where? I'm really just curious where you found the refs for the kneeling guy and the one in 3/4 view with raised arms in this one, though.

Btw, your latest hand studies and that sp are awesome. Raw!

[hurricane]

great work dude!!

i'm glad that you'll get some illustrator gig, you're worth it!!
*patting the latest ass* good job !

keep at it luis, the progress is there, and keep on improving with each post!
cheers !!

[Ham-e]

Wow! nice SB! That first page on post #433 is just awesome, your self ports really stand out as well, great work.

[enthombed]

great job my friend, i really like your stuff. i hope make something like this soon.

see ya

[maxetormer]

n0fish:ha ha, thanks mate!! im really glad you like some of my stuff!!
last hands you did looked asum,

hurricane: Hey bro! thanks for the encouragment, its not a big
thing but at least ill be doing something, and thats always good
I hope your doing good too man,
working hard on school proyects and stuff

Ham-e: Hey thanks, not even half as good as I would em to look
like, but still is nice to hear you dig em!

enthombed: He he, your doing fine my friend, Im not near as good as
I need to be, but I do apreciate the vote of confidence! THANKS!!

Aw, nothing camed up as I wanted, I must have learned
some stuff in the process, but heck, I hate to hit tecnical
and desing brick walls har har
I just need to keep doing em no matter how bad some
migth get, put them behind me and DO MORE!!

Ok some doodles some from my head some not.

[hurricane]

that hand page is great !!!
wonderfull lines!

cheers!

[maxetormer]

Thanks man , hands are most newly discovered pleasure
I used to hate drawing them, now I wanna draw em all the time,
life is a weird thing...

Ok Im still adding stuff to this page, some frog-fish thing?

[rodrigo!]

lol the fish dude is great man!
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...mer/Ilosse.jpg is also one of my faves recently, very energetic figure its always cool to use the wrinkles in the clothes to describe the kinetic forces at work in dynamic poses.
id love to see a more finished pencil work or painting (altho u did post a 6 hr painting lately) but i guess ur probably too busy
how r u anyways? are u still doing freelance or are you enrolled in any courses? either way keep it up

[maxetormer]

rodrigo!: he he, thanks o well you ill see some finished pics,
at least for the TD, I gotta pull one goodly done ilo for that,
(dunno how but ill manage he he) Im not gonna do ilos in this gig
I got, ill teach some uni students some ilustration stuff, mostly
ill be stuff from some books I read and shit, its not my dream job
but Ill be a nice experience, Iv never have had to teach anything he he
Ill post more finished stuff soon, but the way I see it I wanna
bring my skeches to an almost finished look, so by the time Im done
with my self imposed training my sketchs should look say more profeccional
then again all this it theory, so well see were does life takes me

Ok Im done with this page, I learned some usefull things about light

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This is amazing
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v7...mer/Ilosse.jpg
What kind of pen did you use?

great lines and rendering im gonna have to check this thread more often.
Update more!

[maxetormer]

Asgardian:Im glad you finded some of stuff interesting to look at,
lets hope things improve over time I liked your stuff, thanks
for droping around! oh! about the pens, i used a regular fine liner
by staedtler.

Ok not the most inspired of days, but I did had fun doing this one page
Im need to get a habit out of pouring my mind on the pages.



Some master study done out of insomia
Edit: I softened some areas and changed a few subtle things I think it looks better

man would I love to be studing at Watts right now...