27/12/12: Where did all the poetry go people?

[Quike Garcia]

Your coloured stuff is so great Where are the epic children?

[ezekrialase]

Great sketchbook, love your figure drawings!

[Renart]

Hey nice sketchbook! Really great work

[Velocity Kendall]

fucking love em all. as usual. man im boring but yeah, just pure viewing pleasure man. if i liked jazz, id say theyre like jazz, but i dont.

[Giorge]

Looks good, you might want to be careful with the traditional colors so they wont get muddy.

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[Colour Coded]

One of my favorite sketchbooks here on this site. The level of progression and line work inspires me. Keep up the good work bro!

[Nerferinn]

Thanks for dropping by! your sketches bring me excitement! the dynamics aaahh real nice! you've really inspired me!

[Lakai]

Hi, I really love ur designs! No crit so far I'm just overwhelmed by it .

[walnut]

Thanks everybody, replies later but here's some sketches:

[walnut]

kikindaface: I got your vibes loud and clear!
Davie: You're welcome, tho i'm positive the linework on that Chtulhu could've been handled better.
n1frit: Thanks, you know i'll keep 'em coming.
Quike: They came on foot, so they'll be a little later :p
ezekrialaze: Thanks a lot!
Renart Also, a lot of thanks!
Velocity: I'm always posting the same kind of shit, so what else can you say? I like the jazz comparison tho, i like jazz. Why don't you?
Colour coded: Thanks bro! Look, i even did a few faces from reference!
nerferinn: Glad to be of help
Lakai: Oh you flatterer you

Aaaand some digis, in various states of disrepair:

[Quike Garcia]

This!
http://conceptart.org/forums/attachm...1&d=1361726002
You should push it further, the composition is amazing

[dessinateurimpulsif]

i like movements in your sketches, the way that girls walks with a lot of movement, very near of cartoons... so i think i recognize one of your inspiration....

[walnut]

Quike: You're probably just saying that because nudity+wings=always a winner, but i decided to take you up on that nevertheless. I'm sensing a recipe for disaster, but you have to admit the colours are nice at this point






dessinateurimpulsif: Tell me, which influence do you think it is?




This is here is a set of thumbnails, i'm trying to explore on a set of illustrations with a narrative logic and a illlustrationish look to them. I'm most probably not done exploring yet, so if you have any feedback on what you see here, please share.

[Quike Garcia]

Nudity+wings+style is always a winner

Colours are coming along really nice

The thumbnails look great also, I like specially the dragon one Keep pushin!!

[NeonPoweredFirefly]

This sketchbook is so amazing

[Spudonkey]

those thumbnails are very cool! really dig the style

[Velocity Kendall]

"Jazz; 4 geniuses soloing at once!"

normally i dont like pinup paintings either really, the elaborate signature and every little thing rendered to fuck, its like the girls are made out of wax, but yours are so fluid and with so much zing i love em all. id take any of your hundreds of beautiful 1 minute sketches over a 100 hour cheesecake chick with stupid fucking rabbit ears any day of the week.

[ATP]

"Jazz; 4 geniuses soloing at once!"

hahaa!

And now, in comment, this entire sketchbook is an absolute goldmine of inspiration - I love how far you've come! Even your rough sketched look like they're bursting with life!

[kevin_]

great stuff! really like your style and you post so much work! keep it up!

[walnut]

Quike: I'm holding the angels in the bay for a sec because cliché x 10, and i've started on something depicting the battle of the sexes. You might be interested in the working title
NeonPowererFirefly:You're one to say! You're totally brilliant!
Spudonky: Thanks man, i was worrying about that tbh.
VK: YEah still, it's got a groove to it from time to time, but one thing's always irked me is how it's always the individual trumpet/sax/drum/vibrafuckingphone player that gets the fame, when i can't even tell one trumpet/sax/drum/vibrafuckingphone player apart from the other. Let's just stick to psychedelica right? And about the bunny ears: c'mon man, they'r'e so cute!
ATP: Talk about coming from far: if you want a good laugh check out my old elfwood account .
I was so busy trying to be Yoshitaka Amano it never dawned that the heads were two sizes too big. Still would give a lot to be able draw so naïevely again.
kevin: Thanks dude, you keep it up too!

OK, so this is the thing i'm working on. Think it could be good, but i'm at a crossroads with it and i don't know where to turn. All shapes and rendering, keep the linework (in which i case i should redo it cause it's too stiff an has bad lineweight variation) or something completely different. YOu tell me. No, i mean seriously, input is very much appreciated. Any kind, don't be shy.

[Quike Garcia]

Hahaha, this is great!! I'd go for full rendered, the epicness of these kids deserves it

[Velocity Kendall]

i know its a silly thing, but 4/5 stars is wrong! come on people, this is 5* stuff if ever i saw it.

[Fallenangel]

walnut: Great SB, love the loose lines and the energy in the sketches!

i know its a silly thing, but 4/5 stars is wrong! come on people, this is 5* stuff if ever i saw it.

It is an awesome sketchbook but imo it is far from being a 5 star.

Cheers,
Fallen.

[Nettle_Mountain]

Hullo again, i really like purple boss badass guy from page before, getting good vibes from all your watercolour experiments and other as well. Girl with a sword upper this page isinteresting character, but now to the beef:

Really dig those illustrational graphic thumbnails, very graphical, stylish and good looking! you have bold contrast there what you don't usually have that much and it is working, those thumbnails are almost finished images! my favourite is night scene with monsters around hero.

About your latest image, really like idea!
But how to make it groove? i honestly feel it doesn't matter whether it will be analog, watercolour/quaches and linework or completely digital with lines painted over.

It doesn't matter, i feel you are asking wrong question.

The right question is in your graphic thumbnails, the question is How you can stack up your values together as shapes so that the image has strong composition?

Think about it, technique does not matter as long you have stronger Black&white values underneath your colours, you can check this by desaturating your image. I feel that is what is missing from your image right now.

Hope any of this might help

[rumpenstiltzkin]

aah just been through alot of pages of awesomeness! really digging the girls in post #1093, you gonna finish that?
also like the thumbnails in the same post, esp. the 3rd of the top ones, it just has a great flow to it!

[Gpozzo]

Nice updates man, I'm loving the thumbnails, the last one is quite clever and funny.., really nice stuff

[walnut]

Quike: I was afraid you were going to say that :p
VK, Fallenangel: Hope you don't mind me lumping your 2 comments together. I'm okay with four stars, it doesn(t matter in the grand scheme of things (okay i was a little pissed of at first). The question that begs to be asked tho: what does make a 5 star sketchbook. Opinions vary obviously, but i would be interested to find out how to get that start if it will entice me into becoming an even more awesome artist. So spill it!
Nettle: I thank you for this brother, very good advice as always! I've rebuilt the pic from the ground up and i've tried to take the value compo into account.
rumpenstiltzkin: Hey there, long time no read! i hope to have that pic done sometime, i'm starting to get a good feeling about being able to do that!
Gpozzo: Thanks a lot man!

So i changed a lot about that last picture, there was too much stuff not working. As always, any input is muc appreciated.
Also, there's some doodlish stuff.

[Axelga2112]

It shows that you know your colors in the illustration. I really like the look that I think you're going for with a clear difference between the foreground and the further away focal point, seperated by the contrast between the deep purple shadows on the girls and the light values of the boys and the pantie. Reminds me a bit of the works by the awesome illustrator Tomioka jiro. Could turn out stunningly good if you put your soul in it.

The following sketch is awkward because the right eye is too big and too low according to the perspective you have drawn the rest of the girl in. Also her hands are too small, but you probably know all of that. It's just a sketch.

I couldn't contain myself. I'ts not quite your style, but I hope you don't mind.

[jabbit]

Haha love that girl's knickers thing, very funny. Thanks for the words of advice in my sketchbook, and i will do my best to keep growing

[Nettle_Mountain]

Looking good you have to render that last one! I think it is ready for finishing it, all the major shapes are in there!

See you, im stuck in final polish etc/but hopefully done tomorrow! (so challenges may fly again)