Wm.B.Hand • SHARPIE CREATURES!! -- (Apr.16th)

[Hethabyr]

Brilliant stuff! It's got that "tortoisy" feel about it. I was watching an episode of David Attenborough's excellent new series, "Life in Cold Blood" a couple of nights back, and it showed some fascinating footage of tortoises fighting each other. The males of this particular type had an elongated spike protruding from the carapace, just below the head, which they use as a sort of fulcrum lever, to wedge under their opponent's body and flip them on their backs. Amazing to watch.

Keep up the good work : )

[Amir the night wolf]

Love the the walk through do more please

[Smeg Head]

Utterly astounding work, I'm gobsmacked by the level of detail. The walkthrough is also a fantastic read, wish you all the best.

[Me,Myself & Me again]

Absolutley of amazing. Love your airbrush work, those have to be my fav.
Keep it up!

[MARMENTIDO]

WHOOOW¡¡ men, super realistic , nice render better imagination!
I love your stuff men

[William b. Hand]

Apocalypse_Rex - You absolutely should look into it! It's like any medium in that there are things that you just wouldn't otherwise create if you weren't using that particular item. Do lemme know if you ever dabble, dude.

Hethabyr - Thank you! And thanks for the heads-up on the new Attenborough series! I am a huge huge fan of his work and was unaware of it. If you haven't seen disc 1 of the LIFE IN THE UNDERGROWTH series, you absolutely MUST. I was just watching that for the millionth time a couple days ago.

Amir the night wolf - More walkthroughs, huh? We'll see... those take time, but I'm glad you dug it - thanks!

Smeg Head - Thanks much! I do appreciate the support.

Me, Myself & Me again - Thank you, thank you! Will keep airbrushing.

MARMENTIDO - Gracias! Much obliged!


So, I've finally gotten around to doing some more art again...
This is my one piece for a gallery opening in NYC that's just around the corner. I spent all yesterday evening and most of today working on it, but I think it came out pretty well. See whatchya think...

"THE BIRTHDAY GUEST" : Airbrushed Acrylic on Board : 2o" x 3o"


Detail 1


Detail 2


Detail 3

[MonkeYoakum]

Nice! Real nice. And thanks for the detail, wierd stuff but cool.

[Mr-Joe]

I'm wondering if you could take some photos of your progress while working on an airbrush painting?

Thanks,
Joe.

[William b. Hand]

MonkeYoakum - Thanks, and you're welcome! Yeah... detail shots do seem to help.

Mr-Joe - Okay, I'll try to do that on my next paintings. It is somewhat weird to take snaps of in-progress paintings, because it requires a break in focus, and I never know if a particular painting will even work out... But -- for you -- what the hell, I'll do it.

[rahulmehta5]

VERY INTERESTING CHARACTERS DESIGN AND COLORING ..
FULLY IMPRESSED..!

KEEP IT UP MAN..!
GOOD SHOW..


http://conceptart.org/forums/showthread.php?t=120926

[D.Focus]

fantastic. you really know what you're doing.that tortoise one is done all gieger style. incredible. thanks for the WIP shots. i'll take that info into account.

[Draniel]

wow that's really good! i like the color you chose and the atmosphere you created, and nice textures as usual

[zweiDee]

William thats a very nice Airbrush, wow!

[Spade]

Those airbrush works blow my mind, very appealing, i love the softness of it even though you are painting monsters! thanks for sharing

[Amir the night wolf]

ThanX I so god damn lovem all and yes i dug it all

[Merlkir]

Incredible sketchbook! Thank you, I feel very inspired You creatures are amazing and your rendering reminds me of Neville Page's whose work I like a lot! (especially the eyes).
First impression was "why does he keep on adding that ugly noise effect ?!"...then I found out it's airbrush. sorry. Really stunning work.

[Mr-Joe]

Thanks a lot William I can understand about breaking the focus, so I appreciate you doing that. I'm excited to see how you work with that thing.

[Clochette]

Creepy and beautiful! I like the textures so much, and the expression of the creature giving the heart gift! Can I saved it in my inspiration folder?

[silentbrain]

Duuuude! Awe-inspiring!
I haven't any experience with airbrushing but those pieces look like they were totally killer to execute. Love the soft focus on the tortoise one too, it really adds to the piece. Bravo!

[Sady]

Geriatric Alien made me laugh. ^_^

And that demon portrait in the second page made me stare for quite a while, I like it.

[Quinn Simoes]

Nice to see in this digital age that someone is still producing astonishing paintings with airbrush, Brilliant work William!

Quinn

[William b. Hand]

rahulmehta5 - Thanks! I'm still pretty rudimentary in my understanding of colour, but I'm trying.

D.Focus - Thank you! Tortoise reminds you of Giger? Really? Wow, I never know what's gonna get that. Fascinating.

Draniel - Glad you like the colouring and textures. Thanx!

zweiDee - Thank you!

Spade - Thanks! By "softness", I wonder if you mean the fuzziness of the edges (since I don't use masking), or if you mean the amiable spirit of the narrative?

Amir the Night Wolf - ALL of it? Wow, thanks!

Merlkir - Thanks, dude! Very happy to be an inspiration! Hm.. the grit of the airbrushed stuff can be a bother sometimes, yeah. Room to grow!

Mr-Joe - You're welcome (in advance)!

Clochette - Thank you, thank you! You may certainly save it in your inspiration folder!

silentbrain - Thanks, man! Yeah, that took some real focus I must say.

Sady - Aah... Thanx! Going back a bit there. Glad you like!

Quinn Simoes - I can't give up airbrushing... Love it too much. Thank you!

Wow. So many kind responses... Thanks everyone -- much appreciated!

So, here's what I spent my evening on. It's Photoshop. There's actually supposed to be a second creature in this pic that is challenging the first, but there were some issues with it and so I'll post the full image when I've beat it into submission. Hope you like!

"THREATENED ALIEN"


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[PerinGalitte]

Lovely textured skin. Nice one, man.

[William b. Hand]

PerinGalitte - Thank you very much!

Welp, I just did my first batch of silhouette thumbs, and I am completely sold on this old technique. I can't believe how satisfying it is to crank out so many creatures, even at such a small scale. I'll be doing a lot more of these, I think. I just can't recommend them highly enough... This stuff is like crack.

Take a look:

[TheGnoll]

man, the airbrush painting rock as usual, just lovely, bt its really cool to see you do some concept art again, the creature thumb look really tight for such a basic stage, can't wait to see more critters

ciao!

[William b. Hand]

TheGnoll - Thanks! Couldn't really find anyone else as excited about the thumbs as I was, but that's how it goes sometimes.

Here's something expanding along the same lines as the critter thumbs... I tried putting in some shadows, but my shadows are still crap, so I ditched 'em.

GREYSCALE ROBOTS • (Photoshoppery)

[Quinn Simoes]

Great thumbnails in the last two posts, was it just for practice or for work?

Very nice presentation as well!

Look forward to more,
Quinn

[William b. Hand]

Quinn Simoes - Thank you! Just for practice/fun. The robots I did for the most recent Daily Sketch Group topic.

Here's some doodling:

THREE HEADS • (phertoshep)

[UCT]

Dude, your SB rocks. Love the air brushing, mindblowingly good fun to look through...

and thanks for doing the DSG, its a cool part of this place.

[TheGnoll]

love the smooth, precise look of those robots, clean and organic at the same time, diggin' a lot head no2 and no 3 is very...very..."fleshy"

keep 'em coming!

ciao