Chupacabra's Sketchbook: By-By, CA

[wi2rd]

great feeling of gesture in you characters.. very cool!!

[DANKA]

You have some very nice pieces!...you good skills on light and shade effects...put more "weight" on your real life figures study and keep up!!!

[Kan Muftić]

Hey folks, I'm gonna try and reply to everyone now with my left hand.

Huey Yeng: Tx. its the REAL Tom Cruise, but we only see his human form, hehe..

Sept13: Thans a lot.

GweNdZ: Much appreciated!

Metal-Mike: Thanks Mike!

Mark Tarrise: Thats very nice of you, cheers!

Bendragon: Thans, see you soon!

Darkside: Thanks buddy!

MatejaPetkovic: Hvala drugar!

Iridyse: Haha, you are so much better with these things, I want to pick YOUR brain Thanks a lot!

Call0ps: Thanks bud, hope you're well.

Cam Sykes: Hey dude! Glad you like the others too! Thanks.

zweiDee: Merci viel mal, Schnuggi!

Jeff Lai: Thanks Jeff, need to do more

Nicky S: Yeah, love comes before art for me and I am so in love Yeah, I worked on Batman Arkham Asylum. Tx

surrealitycheck: Good for you, that is really nice to hear.

xinranliu: Thanks very much!

Robert.B: Thanks mate, hope you're well.

coldrum: Cheers Jez, thanks for dropping by.

Cacodaemonia: Yeah, it's for Coro's "Transient man" graphic novel, which can be found in the "Finally Finished" section here. Thank you!

midknight523: Haha, that's wright!

Matte_Art: Many thanks, my friend.

Spaggen: Wow, thanks for such nice compliments!

TASmith: That is so nice of you to say. Many thanks.

Farvus: Ha, my fav was the flower face but now I'm glad Coro picked Thom. Cheers!

B-Man: Thanks Bjorn!

Hive_minD: Thanks a lot, Chris!

Ghostbrush: Hey Alex, loving those recent studies of yours. See you soon, mate.

MatejaPetkovic: And you did well, my friend!

mike butkus: Coming from a true master, that means a lot! Thank you.

llex_paul: Cheers, tried to paint something within 20 minutes and achieve max. impact.

Giorge: Good points there, Giorge! Thank you.

Jorge Gecov: Congrats on your engagement, Jorge! Glad you like Batman!

Coz_K: Me iz happy!!!!!! Thanks, broth!

Cam Sykes: You are so in synch with me, man! I drew that first but then erased it afterwards for some reason.. Thanks!

Nicky S: It's not getting any better yet

Darkside: Thanks, means a lot, really.

Junpei: Thank you very much. Yes, I will but in the meantime, you can flip back a few pages and there should be a step-by-step there.

huhucg: I am very sorry but I didn't quite understand the question my friend?

Verehin: And I love you too! What a happy world

huhucg: Hard work seems to pay off

Cacodaemonia: Thank you very much.

DanielC: Yeah, I just bought a Ferrari with leopard skin on the seats. Pimp THAT up, Limp.

Matte_Art: Thanks but ot's really very hard atm..

aefx: Hey hey, how are you doing, bud? Thanks a lot, see you soon in the land of tasty chicken!

Mischeviouslittleelf: I know, I know But they're all made within about 5 minutes and I doubt I could do any better now. Thanks!

MattGamer: Thanks Matt, yeah studies never look the way you want them to look but it's so important to push it.

palladium: That is so nice to hear. I mean, really, that kind of thing keeps me pushing. Thank you so much!

Huey Yeng: Sure thing, gotta do hundreds more

Ghostbrush: Thanks for that, mang! But it gets really boring.. Ah fuck it..

Cacodaemonia: Thanks but it doesn't seem to get better yet.. So depressed.

Bingo: Hey Tony, we all inspire each other here. Thanks for that!

Teundeboer: You're totally right, it's bit off. Glad you liked the rest though

Darkside: Thanks, yeah I feel that all you see now is the same old Photoshop trickery.

Gloominati: Thanks, glad you like it. Yeah, I'm trying but it's hard..

wi2rd: Thanks mate although it needs more practice. Much more.

DANKA: Thanks for dropping by. Yeah, weight is something I need to improve tons. Cheers.

Ok,

The pain in my arm is getting slightly worse and I am terribly angry at myself to have worked so much and, most of all, so fast.
In my despair, I fired Photoshop yesterday and tried to paint something with my left hand.
What do you guys think?
Please, let me know,
Khan

[Sebastian Gromann]

ay, still pretty tight, i think, ... man \o.o/


ohm, couldnt give more than a 'great-work-comment' ; sry D:

[Cos Koniotis]

I've got a similar problem with my shoulder so I've been using my left to sketch recently aswell, tho I'm in no way as skillful in using it as you are. I love it man, that's a beautiful painting!

Props to your dedication Kan, always a pleasure bro.

[Call0ps]

nice to see that the enjure is not stpoping you from doing more art, hope you recover as soon as possible

[meth]

What is going on with you arm man, you are third or forth artist complain about that. I saw your thread at lounge, rsi?? what does it mean?
I am worried because i have bad habit not to take care of my self, and now i have more and more work, don't wanna burned, yet!!!

M

[Cam Sykes]

Still looks great man. The joy of painting/drawing with the opposite hand is to keep loose and end up with marks that vary from the other hand. SO I guess don't get to hard on yourself about trying to tighten up details and things. Just play around keep it pretty loose and maybe do a bunch of loose quick stuff rather than get to caught up on a single piece for now.

I have had problems too. One thing that has helped is where I position the wacom. It helps to not have the wacom to the centre of you but to put it to the side so that your arm has a better arch of movement and is in a more natural position.
Also while sitting at the desk our front muscles tense up especially when drawing. So it really helps to stetch the front muscles and those around the collarbone. Raise your chin up as far as goes and hold for 20 secs, then to the side and at diagonals. There's a bundle f nerves there that when the muscles tense up put pressure on these nerves. All these nerves branch out to your back, shoulder and arm, so any problem with them will cause problems all down the line.
Also consider morning excercise if you don't do it already. BEfore you sit down at the desk go for a light jog or walk and really warm up, shake out your arms and body and do like air swimming to warm up the arms. Then when your warmed up do alot of stretches. Because you can do damage to stretch before you're warmed up. The extra bloodflow can help heal ailments to because the blood can transport more things like collagen that repair tendons. I knwo sometimes excercise can seem like it cuts into productivity time but it really makes your more productive in the end when your body is working optimumly.
Anyway I hope this helps.

[Hideyoshi]

left hand? is nich wahr!

[Darkside]

ah man, this one is special! great stuff

[Huey Yeng]

Looking great for left hand. I second Cam Sykes about exercising. I've encountered a few times where my right arm aching due to my already awkward position of my computer position.

Just some light stretch and some weight lifting do wonders if you plan to work on something for a long period of time.

[Cacodaemonia]

Holy shit, left-handed? It looks pretty good to me! I really like the edges, especially along the left side of the figure.

[DHTenshi]

Gonna suscribe now hmm, dunno why i haven't done it before! i've seen your art many times, here and on cghub, but i wanna keep track of your work... gonna watch it all little by little thou... 52 pages is a lot!

that painting you did with your left hand looks really good, i really like how you paint skin, flesh, it really seems lively =)

keep sharing!

[Nicky S]

I think it's still looking good, but you need to let your hands heal, it's probably for the best, but if you're depending on your drawing ability to keep money coming in... Damn man, take some breaks every now and then, and the advice Cam Sykes gave sounds pretty good.

And I'm glad to hear you love your wife so much

[Spaggen]

Sorry about your arm man, I hope you get better soon.

The last update is really good. And the fact that you painted it with the wrong hand is just amazing. Great skin and overall mood.

Keep 'em coming!

[MattGamer]

awesome left hand study! i should try stuff with my right. you're so used to using a certain side of your brain, but when it comes to using the other side for art... your brain has to start over. really good work you've done!!! maybe if you do more left hand studies, you'll come back to your right and it'll be easy!

[algenpfleger]

Sorry to hear about your hand man Left handed painting still looks awesome though. But go see a doctor!

[huhucg]

Hey, friends, you are looks like guilty of an occupational disease, we recommend you to yourself to be a massage therapy on a regular basis. Makes you feel very comfortable. ....
Although the work is more important, but it is also important that health, oh ..

[MeTaL-Mike]

respect for doing that with your left hand man. hope you'll get better soon. all the best!

[llex_paul]

great! a good one, again, with impact! you have the style man!

[elihanselman]

Great Works, was just admiring your works at CG Hub today!

[Dr poPcoRN]

like your thom croose! haha!

[Koto]

That's incredible, left hand?! DUAL GOD HANDS CONFIRMED.

[purb36]

congrats on the wedding, and on batman; the game is preeeetty awesome. i hope your arm gets better. again, thx for stopping by my sketchbook. beautiful work here.

[[Q]]

wow,,,i have no word to say, i really start to love come CA due to lots of awesome works like yours!!! so inspiring

[Axel.s]

very good sketch book, i have to come back !

[Smarty]

Hey Khan, wicked as usual. Love that you keep on experimenting this far in. Always fresh. Love it.

[huhucg]

Hey, Every time you look at it, I can feel he can learn to gain more respect in the paint ... very grateful, thank you ... I think by the way, your work now what?

[B-Man]

Man your left rocks! hope your arm gets better though. You need to excersise your arm and wrist, you dont want to end up like Trev or Janaschi.

[Jorge Gecov]

Left hand????
Humn it reminds me the F.Frazetta story. And its a proof all command is in our mind and you just have to be training another muscles to do the work hehehe.

Hey, are you doing some kind of physiotherapy to recover your arm?

Thanks for the kind words buddy!

Cheers,