licking your eyeballs as you sleep

**AlexC** · April 5th, 2007, 07:51 PM

tex http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1174090647
this one looks great
a bit phil hale ish, which is probably why i like it.
Figures are getting better and better, some slight out of proportion'essness with the head size.
I think you should do some head studies too, some seem a bit rushed too
last squidmonkey one is cool, i think i may mess around with it, and post later!

**Steph Laberis** · April 5th, 2007, 08:15 PM

Your rate of progress always inspires me - I dig the big "group shots" in your latest update here! Nice to see you start to mingle more graphic stuff (heart icons, swirls, etc) with your more organic stuff.

Grats on the 4 stars, you

A few more master copies and you could be on your way to the 5th!

**BohemianChaos** · April 5th, 2007, 08:34 PM

your works are so varied... me likes

JM · April 5th, 2007, 11:27 PM

Awesome update Tex.

Your recent figure studies are really looking good. I'd say the main thing is for you to work on your drapery as well as your pencil strokes right now.

Hurry up and post more, plzkthxbai

**Stark** · April 6th, 2007, 05:22 AM

Crazy mad updates bro...Phuckin loving this update...got a few more SBs to hit up, but I'll be back to give more in depth crits/comments

**Texahol** · April 7th, 2007, 04:49 PM

maurizio: thanks mate! I should take a pic of what happened to that one...

It's changed quite a bit!

mattgamer: ya...wai2ignore my sb

I hope you like what you see

the puppy's name is carbon, and she's a handful right now X_x

alexc: keep the crits coming man. I don't know wtf happens with the head sizes and other proportions, I guess I'm not taking a step back from what I'm doing early on enough to bang out the proportions correctly._.

steph:

thank you so much!

bohemianchaos: thank you, it's always nice to hear

julianna: thank you

I couldn't agree more.

stark: thanks, hopefully you won't forget to come back with the crits

here's a couple 1 hr IRC thunderdomes: ice skating hippo, hip hop samurai, and mayan panty temple:

**chaosrocks** · April 7th, 2007, 04:54 PM

silly
I post em too

I liked the hippo specially'
I missed that on edue to the fact that I actually sleep sometimes

**Texahol** · April 8th, 2007, 12:22 AM

lol chaos.

oh god painful....

well after hours of noodling and guessing here I am.

i need to use ref and do environment studies in the future.

aaaaand a two hour thunderdome over MSN. "A grinning dog battles a samurai in the woods."

**chaosrocks** · April 8th, 2007, 10:10 AM

tex dear Im gonna take away your acid green .... just remove it from your pallette
I know its spring and the world is puddle-wonderful.... but
moderation in all things particularly the use of brilliant yellow green

the Grinning dog has a great expression
chaos

**Sirio_Brozzi** · April 8th, 2007, 07:52 PM

Hey tex, last set turned out nice, nice messing with color on that envo, although I cant get my thumb down on where the lightsource is, could push the values some more. The grinning dog piece is nice(expression turned out great!) although the posture makes it seems like hes leaning slightly to a side.

Nonetheless seeing some great improvement here colorwise. Ciao.

**Idiot Apathy** · April 9th, 2007, 01:16 AM

ENvairooooo's are looking good. Try and think more about value patterns and value staging, do some black and whites to concentrate.

Going against that - I like how subtle the values are in this one; http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1176006830.

Get used to using color balance, selective color and curves. NOW!

wang.

**adraude** · April 9th, 2007, 09:02 AM

wow. there's a lot of progress from page 1 to 4. rad stuff mr. texahol. keep it up!!

**Zord** · April 9th, 2007, 02:13 PM

Thanks for listening in last week Tex! The enviro's are looking niice, especially the last one. But watch out for generalized shadows under the trees. And do what Tom says, he knows what he's talkin' 'bout! Cheers.

**Addiso** · April 10th, 2007, 08:23 AM

Great to see how your knowledge of traditional media tranfers to digital.
Great textures and a really fresh choice of colors.

I'll tie up my pants and start coming up on you real fast !

**Chirp Chirp** · April 10th, 2007, 11:02 PM

My, my Tex you have been rather busy. I am really liking the green tree environment on this page and in general all your traditional media work.

However, I could be wrong but it feels like your digital characters suffer from a feeling of being posed in contrast to your other media.

Take the samurai guy for instance, he is really stiff considering what he is doing. (Actually what is he doing giving the doggy a hug?) Also his pelvis and legs don't look like their are attached. And finally, the samurai and the doggy are not in perspective with each other.

Keep it up and thanks for motivating me to get my ass in gear.

**Texahol** · April 12th, 2007, 04:35 PM

chaos:

tanks
sirio: ya mate, good points, leaning dog of pisa. Thanks for the crits :I
IA: as always thanks for the tips

I'll try out those new trickz
adraude: :I hopefully I'll keep making progress
zord: the show was good, I look forward to it again tonight ;D yah generalized shadows ftl, I should have done a better job picking lightsource and such. ya tom's an idiot savant.....that bastard.
addiso: actually, a lot of my knowledge that I apply to traditional stuff was learned digitally. It's all the same kind of stuff, really...just different means to achieve a picsharrr.
chirp: I need to still work harder

I have so much to learn, and I'm so much not learning it from my school. yeah, "battles" "hugs" it's all the same really

yah, I made some bad choices in that one, I'm going to redo it...I think.

so I fiddled with those things you said idiot, and ended up with a bit of an adjusted environment [I didn't fix the bad lightsource though...I'm such a lazy git]. aaand some pages from my new 4x6 sketchbook. It fits in my back pocket...so convenient! fold it out, and you have a 6x8 working aread, which is pretty adequate surprisingly :I I'm gonna try to get more l337 with the acrylics. And I've found that this small size allows me to work fairly quickly

JM · April 12th, 2007, 04:54 PM

Kick arse update Tex!

I love to see nice big updates like this. Your line works on the last couple of drawings are looking much better. Seems like you're just having fun with your new book and you're going to have to buy another one soon ;P

You ought to do more stuff like the hippo you did earlier - without using many lines or no lines to define the shape when doing things in colour. Makes things less stiff looking.

Cheers, and post some more soon!

**Zord** · April 12th, 2007, 05:01 PM

Those painted pages in the sb totally pwns nubz. Maybe try gesso-ing the pages pre-paint, so they don't wrinkle? (Unless you already did it, otherwise, me = nubz) I've got to try that mix media in my book too.

And yay for more listeners. Cheers man.

**MattGamer** · April 12th, 2007, 08:43 PM

Buddy, I love you painting. That one... hahaha... the Life Aquatic is soooo awesome!

You rule and I need to go paint. Thanks for reminding me how much I suck. :p

**Chirp Chirp** · April 12th, 2007, 10:55 PM

Tex, regarding your changes to this environment http://www.conceptart.org/forums/att...1&d=1176409939

My initial reaction is that the image just more saturated (I do like more of the purple, great choice with the green), anyway I opened up both the original and the new one side by side in PS and flipped them to grey scale. Overall I think you were rather conservative and have room to push your darks more.

**deadred** · April 13th, 2007, 01:41 AM

your hawtest update yet

looking at your stuff make me want to pick up real media! one that stands out the most to me is the playbutton-bunny-thing saying "hi", great concept there

**Dile_** · April 13th, 2007, 04:56 AM

Dude.... f*** you! theres nothing that makes sense between the improvement fron page 1&2 and now... lol I probably looked at the title three times before i realized i was looking at the right sketchbook!
I am very impressed over what i see in your book now haha ^^
Keep the good work up, I'm sure to leave you some critique when i get home..

Thanks for the strong inspiration!

-Dile

**Stark** · April 13th, 2007, 05:22 AM

Hey man..Good stuff here... We discussed in IRC what was wrong in here, but I'm gonna post it again really quick to emphasize what I mean.
The stiffness of your characters really take away from the overall atmosphere and "emotion" that they may try to convey. The arms, some of the legs, everything just needs to dynamic poses. Nothing major needs to be done, but a turn of the wrist/arm/torso/ etc, even some *gasp* foreshortening!

Keep at it and you'll get there...Great update too

**Anurizm** · April 14th, 2007, 12:52 PM

hey tex, the i am a rocker sketch looks great. keep it up.

**Texahol** · April 18th, 2007, 07:37 PM

juli:

thank you. I'd like to see some big sketchbook updates from you too

regarding the hippo, yeah, it's always good practice to do that, unfortunately I feel I've been a bit lazy. Having good descriptive values seem to be more impressive than good lines [because lines are really just a way to describe sharp changes in value...I think] I shall work on doing more digi's like that

zord: I've started experimenting with gesso on paper, you'll all see how it comes out in the near future. I think having a thick paper to start with is very important....
mattgamer: !! thanks!! I feel I'm starting to get a better feel for painting now...Still have a lot of work ahead of me though.
chirp chirp: yeah I was being probably a bit too conservative with the darks, I'll throw that one under the 'experiments' category. I still have a lot to learn about color and value relationships.
deadred:

thank you! yeah, I was looking at manu is malin's stuff, and it's so playful...I think that's where the bunny came from.
dile: thanks dude, you've been working hard too

Stark: yes yes, you're too right, I need to work on dynamism...it's why I get for being a lame-oh, and "fixing" things.
Anurizm: hey thanks man

Photo ref, I think I had been up for a while [2 days maybe?] and I thought it was a funny idea at the time.

more pages from the sketchbook, and two IRC thunderdomes, 6 of 7 and 'ugly baby' ...TDs were about 30 minutes each

**MattGamer** · April 18th, 2007, 08:52 PM

Sweet, mate! I love the teeth theme. You have the coolest ideas! ;]

**Anurizm** · April 18th, 2007, 09:03 PM

i like how your lines flow.

**Chirp Chirp** · April 18th, 2007, 09:29 PM

Grats Tex.. I think you just leveled up! Seriously, I really thought I was on the wrong sketchbook and did a double take. Very impressive line work, it looks fast, clean and especially on the second one your lines give off a nice energy adding to the feeling of vomiting. What is he puking anyway, rabbit turds?

No pressure, you just raised your own bar and now I want to see more.

**bhanu** · April 19th, 2007, 02:03 AM

the paintings are so great......I dont have words , so fresh and fun.
Dude , subscribed.

**Stark** · April 19th, 2007, 05:11 AM

Looking good man...reminds me a tiny bit of nicolas...so I guess that's a good thing. Your choice of topics/subjects are varied, which is a good thing.

Now just look around for some good dynamic-ism and foreshortening and you'll be fine.

Keep at it bro...