When learning to draw figures the focus is on nude figure and the underlying muscular/skeletal structures because without understanding how bodies are constructed, how everything interacts, protrudes, bulges, contracts, etc it is difficult to make a convincing figure when all of your underlying knowledge of anatomy is completely wrong, even if the specific bits of anatomy aren't actually visible in your drawings.
Also look in to getting a windows tablet with pen input, especially if you don't already own a wacom.
+1 Servbot!
some questions for you....
website/portfolio?
training/education?
hardware/software you use?
I love your frog character. I love character design!
Cool stuff as always guys!
A few random enviro's done in lunch breaks. Not much, can't wait till I get to show off some of my work stuff. I'm finding my stuff I do at work so much better and more interesting than my personal stuff. I seem to default to boring mode when I'm just doodling stuff.
I have some other crap on my blog too, but not as cool; http://blog.phandy.co.uk/
Hopefully I'll be getting a scanner too soon, still haven't got one with me. So many sketches unscanned!
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Have any of you pitched an idea to cartoon hangover? or any other animation studio? Or do you want to?
Hey dudes, printing house suggestions? Im getting close to having my sketchbook all put together so I need to start shopping for quotes.
i ended up with shadows that don't make much sense. something to look out for next time.
Another work in Hexels... this time not a videogame inspired one, but a tribute to Escher's Stars.
Hexels is really the shit, sooo much fun!
Took forever to get my inking brush where I wanted it. I can only dream of the more advanced brush settings in newer photoshops.
What version of photoshop are you using? I don't do much inking in photoshop, typically just use the default brushes all the time.
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@ C.B awesome sketch cant wait to see it painted.
trying to get better at coloring, since I never do it. monster comin' out a hat
CS2. And with "inking brush", I just refer to the regular round brush with some tweakings I've made. I've noticed that the best results come from fiddling around with the wacom settings themselves. Especially the tip feel customization tool. That eliminated the random "drops" you would get sometimes when trying to make a fine line that starts from thin and goes to thick and back to thin.
Ah i see. I use to use the default round brush until i started doing much larger pictures, and realised that you would get sort of ellipses around the line work from the circle shape itself so i started using one of the default rectangular ones. You should be able to disable the pressure sensitivity and turn the pressure controlled opacity off in the brush settings without having to change the actual tablet settings. Unless what you do gives you a whole other effect from what I'm imagining...
Some sketches done during wondercon
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I painted much more before I started concerning myself with selling my stuff and how much I got, it's a such a fickle living.
I actually prefer this picture a lot to the first one you did. I like the added depth.
Some mind blowing stuff in here! Here are a couple of mine.
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Exactly. It's like golf, but even worse.I'm banking on that if I improve my techniques enough, I'll relax once I'm "good enough" whenever that'll be (in 50 years maybe lol)
Some more boar character doodles. He's a bit stiff still.
Is it a known hardware "feature", that the accuracy of a wacom intuos tablet falls off the farther you go from the center? I can clearly see this on my intuos4.
I never noticed it before because I used mouse mode (lol) and now that I use pen mode, I have to use the whole tablet surface area. Maybe I need to crop the area now...
Exactly. It's like golf, but even worse.
My largest oil piece:
Attempt at Ashley Woods brilliant oil painting style said:
Stylisation and representation of Sean Galloways cute cartoony style said:
Any tips on how to digitally paint well? :L
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And a tip to paint well. Paint a lot. Follow good tutorials, take painting classes, read books about it. And don't forget the basics of drawing.
But above all, just paint all day every day.