In The Dark Forest

**mysticaldonkey1** · October 25th, 2006, 07:42 PM

Well I posted some of these in finished works, but later decided that I wanted to keep updating with some not-so-finished stuff and felt that FW wasnlt the place for that, so here we are...

(Some pieces from my first post were moved down to the 2nd post, I was getting tired of the same sketchbook icon)

**Sartell** · October 26th, 2006, 02:35 AM

I remember you guys actually introducing me to this website

I like these drawings a lot, especially 2, 7, and 8. The common thing that I noticed in most of your creature drawings, is that
you only finish the head, and it distracted me a little bit. But if you just say cleaned it up a little more i'd probably be all set~*

Glad you're starting a SB cuz i've always liked your stuff, ESPECIALLY your sketches. I hope you update frequently unlike Adam and
Mclean "ahem." Can't wait to see more man~*

Joel

**mysticaldonkey1** · October 27th, 2006, 01:18 AM

hey joel thanks for the reply, and i agree with you...ive been trying to focus on working on the piece as a whole lately, heres a character im fleshing out.

**mysticaldonkey1** · October 27th, 2006, 04:38 PM

Royal Imperial Navigator and his cockpit

**DARAF** · October 30th, 2006, 10:34 PM

Nice ideas going on here. I especially like that last interior.

**Sartell** · October 30th, 2006, 11:02 PM

Drew, the first tree dude one is awesome, but suffers from the same unfinished bottom

The cockpit one and pilot one are pretty
kickass too, the pilot design is workin but MAYBe put in more of that cool blue you got in the googles (they also seem a bit high?) And
the cockpit perspective feels a little strange, also the shadows of the bars would make a more patterned shadow on the seat etc.
Nitpicks btw~* Keep it up

**mysticaldonkey1** · November 17th, 2006, 12:52 AM

Trying a faster approach for these...

**mysticaldonkey1** · November 30th, 2006, 06:26 PM

Experimenting with textures and overlay layers, some sketches, samurai speedpaint, turnaround for my navigator character, and von klempt( a hellboy villain)

**designboot** · November 30th, 2006, 09:35 PM

Nice stuff

**dtran** · December 1st, 2006, 01:49 AM

Hey! I love tree creature guy in post #3. You have a good variety in your collection. Keep posting.

**Rich Pellegrino** · December 2nd, 2006, 05:25 PM

Nice start! I like your use of color and value.

**mysticaldonkey1** · December 6th, 2006, 04:50 PM

Hey guys, thanks for the replies. Here's some new stuff.

From top to bottom-
1.Environment I've been working on, still need to tweak the rocks a bit, crits are needed on this one...

2. Weird lil monster fella here, probably gonna paint this guy up later.

3. My take on Yupa the swordsman from Nausicaa, I finished the series a while ago and he was definitely my favorite character from it.

4+5. Series of landscapes I'm workin on for a story I plan to flesh out.

6. Early sketch for a boss monster who resides in the temple from #1...yup, hes a big rock man...

**mysticaldonkey1** · December 7th, 2006, 03:18 PM

WIP goofy demon

**mysticaldonkey1** · December 11th, 2006, 03:55 PM

finished lil fella

**nuki** · December 11th, 2006, 04:26 PM

love his boney, skinny hand a lot. The pencil ones seem to have more detail than the digital ones, but maybe its just the designs.. Anyway, i like those a lot, especially the hattet guy with the tentacles comin outta his belly in post #1 cus of his off, but fso funny pose and expression

**Blaz** · December 11th, 2006, 05:06 PM

Very nice,especially pencil drawings!
(yes that tree guy really rules ^^ )

**Dreamworker** · December 11th, 2006, 05:28 PM

Very cool stuff! I like your pencils works and your painting style, very good job.
Keep more updates
ciao

**veedubb** · December 22nd, 2006, 05:54 AM

you got some badass stuff, id write more but im in a rush!, *i was the dude w/ the mohawk at hemlock!*

**JERI** · December 22nd, 2006, 06:31 AM

Awesome character designs!!

The only suggestion I might say is to play around with the sharpness/definition of subjects in your environments to emphasis relative distance. In particular is your mountain environment in post #12. As of the moment, I feel the village is too sharp and defined and the rocks closest to us blurry in comparison.

just my two cents, love to see more updates.

**mysticaldonkey1** · January 19th, 2007, 03:01 PM

nuki, Blaz, Dreamworker, and veedubb- Thanks! Now that I'm back at my computer I'll probably be updating more often

JERI-Good idea, there's a good chance that I will go back into that one again and try and push some more atmosphere in there also

In the meantime, here is an earlier piece that I reworked

**amer-nazri** · January 19th, 2007, 04:16 PM

Your linework is loverly! I really like the rocky landscape sketches and the one of the macho moustached guy. Your coloured works are very good too. My crit would be to try to be more subtle with your strokes, and to try to erase the outlines. Compensate the outlines for added highlight, really bright highlight to bring parts forward.

amer-nazri

**mysticaldonkey1** · January 30th, 2007, 10:18 PM

amer-nazi-Thank you very much! I'm trying to eliminate the outlines and the black in my work, just gonna keep experimenting with different approaches until something sticks I guess.

**mysticaldonkey1** · February 4th, 2007, 04:36 PM

Couple new pieces, followed by a couple of life drawings from the SF workshop

**carpal** · February 4th, 2007, 11:50 PM

awesome update, your best pieces yet. The second one is too good and I would like to see an entire world of him. In other news, every piece that has rocks in it is cool, so go draw more rocks.

**mysticaldonkey1** · February 8th, 2007, 11:17 PM

Chaos Marine I painted yesterday...gotta love Warhammer
Viva Slaanesh!

**mysticaldonkey1** · February 23rd, 2007, 12:42 PM

Couple recent characters I've done, plus an art test for N ival Online.I feel like some stuff has finally started to click for me.

**mysticaldonkey1** · April 16th, 2007, 09:18 PM

Haven't had a chance to update this in a little while, I'll try and add more sketches later

(Crits are very welcome!)
(and desired!)

...(give me crits!)

Crazy demonic statue I saw in the botanical gardens

This last one was done in oils

**oalexis** · April 17th, 2007, 02:53 AM

your creatures are terrific!!! love your sketchbook

**mysticaldonkey1** · April 17th, 2007, 11:32 AM

Tryin' to start painting more environments, here's one from last night.

**damdischink** · April 17th, 2007, 02:11 PM

your attention to details make your painting really nice!!! but the lack knowledge of anatomy and flow of figure ruin some of your paintings<< that shows in your sketches man,,, study the hell outta human figure and u'll be on your way to be a bad ass artist... peace!