Delmar´s Sketchbook "And there will be stuff.."

[marioucci]

Fantasy work full of emotions and walking around the bizarre eh?
love it. Tim Burton when he decides to grow up a bit.

Cheers man

Mario

[House Hatke]

Hey, I like that series of characters you did -the ones colored/shaded in reds. I also enjoyed the really hairy guy -and the guy with his dog you just posted -that has lots of character. Keep sketching!

[Delmar]

Thanks a lot, guys!

here´s another one, i really have to get better in pencil shading, so if anybody has some advice i will gladly accept .

[Delmar]

another study..

[Delmar]

I really love to do studies at the moment, i'm trying to get faster with each drawing, right now i´m to slow, i guess an hour for the girl in the middle....

[Delmar]

yeah, getting faster and faster under 15 min each..

[N A Johnson]

Thank you for visiting my thread. You have a great sketchbook so far, Your characters are very interesting to me. I hope to see more.

[Delmar]

Thank you !

Here's a wip, messin around with colors and meatworthys brushes, which are by the way awsome!!

[Delmar]

And a quicky, inspired by watching alyssa milanos sb .

[lema]

nice stuff you got here. you got a good feeling for colours.
the last anatomie sketches are very good.

kann dir nur empfehlen noch mehr anatomie studien zu mahcen, nach guten zeichenbüchern. und nimm ruhig mal nen fineliner statt kohle.
bist aber auf jeden fall auf dem richtigen weg.

cheers

[Delmar]

Thanks lema...actually doing studies with fineliner is my next step

Here are some thumbs....

[Delmar]

first attempt in eow topic: the inferno......overall i guess about 4 hours.

[Delmar]

A character sketch, i tried to do different angles and movements and i´m quite happy with the result.....i kind of like the edgy and exaggerating comic style.
...now it´s colors turn.

If anybody has some advise about the composition or so, please let me know.

[GiantRibot]

hey, thanks for posting in my SB. your crit was spot on!
i wish i had your ability to capture expression.

if i have one crit, it would be to watch your shadows, especially the pure black ones. if it's not used specifically for stylization, it can become oppressive.

but on the whole, great work!

[Delmar]

Got me....i tend to overdo shadows, i always try to keep it more distinctive...but in the end, its often just too dark.

Thanks for the crit

[Delmar]

thought i might put a few progress shots of my chow in here, i think this is my first piece where i didn't mess up the colors....for now

sketch wip more refined color, also decreased the saturation

[ajvenema]

yoyo! in one of ur first posts u say u are not good with color. In the 'inferno' post u prove the opposite, seems like u improved a lot!
a thing u could work on is making things a bit more clear, some things are a bit vague right now, adding some extra detail wouldnt hurt...keep posting!

[Delmar]

i know what you mean...thanks

heres the progress of the chow

[Delmar]

final...

[Delmar]

Here's another sketch from today...

[Delmar]

a sketch for meduse the new queen

[demuz]

The best!

demuzart

[Vritra]

Amazing work Delmar. The only crit from me would be that your constructions are vague. I think that is why some of your art lacks the 'punch'( although I am nowhere close to you in anything).

I cannot believe that you don't have stars. Kindly take some.

[Delmar]

@demuz...thanks man

@vritra...thanks, and you really hit the nail with your critic....i have to find a way to make my illustrations more spicy and mor interesting...yet i dunno how.


here's a wip...it's more color and value practice than character design....

edit: update

[NikhilSalvi]

Hey Delmar ! for ur artwork to hv tht punch, i strongly feel tht u start with the drawing first, dynamic posing...construction...character design...supported by nice coloring

btw, wud love to c the finished artwork of Medusa

[snubbed]

Some solid looking material here! I think the previous advice of clearly thinking about the concept before you actually put pen to paper or pixels to screen is good advice. Really know what you intend to draw before you begin drawing and you'll see in your mind the "details" that you want. That's really hard to do, as so many of us just start sketching and let the drawing come to life on its own, but I think the masters probably have a good idea of what they want before they start.

My two cents.

-snubbed

[Delmar]

Thanks to all for the advices. It's definitely true that in my recent character work i've focused more on coloring than dynamic poses and structure. I'm going to spend more time on structuring and pre work of my concepts...

It's funny, conceptart suggested everyone to go and draw when they were offline yesterday....and i did....haha

so here are a few sketches from yesterday...no ref used

[Delmar]

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[sjuskadur]

Your digitals are great! fun character design ! keep it up!

plus your portraits are cool!

[Delmar]

thanks a lot sjuskadur!

Here's another sketch from today...