Sketch Thread 2008

dfacto

New year, new thread. Lets make this one better than the last!





And a moment of silence for Makkon, who won't be with us on this one because of missionary work. *takes off hat*

Uly

Cool bot. : )
Hope you enjoy yourself, Makkon.

aesir

nice start dfacto, I'll try and draw something. someday...

Option

Gonna contribute to this regularly this year, it's a resolution.

The Ben

Got some sick reference and sketched it up.

HEx

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New year, new thread. Lets make this one better than the last!

And a moment of silence for Makkon, who won't be with us on this one because of missionary work. *takes off hat*

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Omg! i love that concept! I wan't one!

katana

Yea!

Slash

Here's to an awesome 2008!



Just a little doodle before bed.

xysdf

thats a nice one slash & great designs on those dfacto.



mightypea said i am a dirty perv ... 2008 in my (pretty) new moleskine

The Ben

xysdf! Much love to you, sir. I love the crustacean.

StJoris

Calling it done


xysdf, great drawings, you are very skilled

Ferg

xysdf you're an inspiration. I need to get on the life drawing train that you rode.

first sketches of 08...


aborted near the end of a long new year's evening...

Minos

I love the second one Ferg, lots of movement going on there

The Ben

I like your style, Ferg.

Jammed with Killing People tonight over grub n' booze.

pliang

There's a lot of interesting things going on in that one.

Option

quick stuff, I'm humbled by the other work in here, although these are pretty fast sketches.

Peris

ooh i like the second one option

I put a mirror next to my monitor and did a selfportrait. It's the first time i did this and am pretty happy with it, eventhough some things don't really look right to me.. Comments/crits would be much appreciated!

around 1-2h in photoshop

pior

You're prettier IRL :P

rooster

aw i always pictured you like your avatar, a big skin cuboid with a face in the side

Option

one more for the road

Mansir

Happy 2008 Everyone!

Peris

did some more work on my astronaut

Xaltar

Some awesome stuff here guys. I have been doing a lot of 2d practice of late to try and bring my texturing skills up to standard.

Anyways, heres what I'm working on now. Its a bit stylised and also my first go at color so feel free to be brutal with the crits and tips.



Still WIP

Slum

peris is win. i love your stuff lately.

The Ben

Nice Minitaur, Mansir! I'm working on one too, so I pretty much declare a Minitaur duel.

I like how both of those turned out, Peris.

Option

nother one.


it's late so I didn't finish the hands, I just left my marker blocks there, the right side on is actually decent, left the left side one bare and unrendered.

Davision3D

Tryed to sketch a space marine, turns out to look more like a robot.

I made a quick shadeing to make it better read able, i really need to learn to draw cleaner.


@ Mansir
I like the design of the Girl with the wings a lot.

@ Peris
Nice Picture!
Put some smoke on the cigarrete too

@ Xaltar
Looks good, try to put more color in the skin and more saturation for the shadeing

Xaltar

Thanks Davision3d, trying to do what you suggested



Hope I didn't go to far with it...

dfacto

I'm loving the crustacean thing Ben, very dynamic.

Space dock worker who started as a combat cyborg, which is why his anatomy is wanked. Wide stance, etc etc.

gauss

great start in the new year, especially your contributions dfacto
nice work incorporating that superfuture flight helmet into that cyborg design. i dig the janked out anatomy

i always wanted to riff on the gordon design from the really early screenshot (seen here):

indian_boy

the first bit of gaussness i've seen for a LONG time..

amazing stuff!
obviously u dont need me to say that... but its really great!!!

though i think the toenail should be up by his head rather than where his foot is? [reference to 'dom war' thread if u think im this much of an rtard?]

and @ peris - lolness.... i swear that piece made me laugh...

@ Mansir - how long does an average piece like that take u?
how big are these sheets?

inspirational stuff RIGHT here!

The Ben

Option

bored in chem.
yes, an eyeball with legs jumping out of a mouth, which I decided was a leaf.

ChaosEidolon

Goal: stop being a lazy bitch and make this thread my home.

Me and fleshtones had another duke out tonight. Lesson for today...dark saturated red makes for a good outline color.

SheriffNotic

This is a cool thread, so I thought I might add something too. Here is something I drew recently during some downtime at work.



Sweet work, everyone!

Japhir

some really cool stuff in here as always!

small b/w doodle:

TheWinterLord

Sweet stuff guys!

konstruct

dfacto: badass first post sketch

ChaosEidolon: them flesh tones are looking mighty fine. nice gestures too.

Master_v12

Im feeling the colors on your first piece kon, awesome!

Ged

Hey TheBen, I dig the turtle house, would make a great sculpted model

Ive been practicing my anatomy and sketching skills by copying the masters, mostly michelangelo and raphael

Japhir

some really nice stuff going on in here! loving the anatomy of that torso and female ged! and that is very cool chaoseidolon!
some heads i drew. somehow when scanned it all looks a lot more dull :P

Ged

thanks Japhir, you might want to check the levels in photoshop . I always have to adjust the levels of my drawings in order to reproduce a similar quality to that on the paper.

ThE_BirD

Soooo much cool stuff already....great start Dfacto.... nice busy vs. quiet shapes... xysdf, damn you're sketchpages are getting better and better... nice sensitivity of line. Awesome Crustacean Ben and Mansir your sketches are as full of contrasty fun details as ever:)
Here're a few from the Dallas\Austin sketchgroup meetup

shotgun

great stuff _bird

Slum

Sweet jesus bird, i love you.

Ferg

dammit chaos your nude study has inspired me, still like yours way better. Been touching photoshop in all kinds of strange places tonight.

oobersli

just some stuff..

Slum

ferg, i love that suicidal frankenstein. you should really take it further.

The Ben

Ged! The Bird! Delicious!

Ferg

Slum: I'd like to, one way or another. I'm hoping to start getting into acrylics here soon, and it would be fun to redo frank on that scale and really tighten it up in the process.

portrait for some weird lookin' fucker...

xysdf

Ged: nice approach with the master studies! ...buttt ah maybeee... i would recommend to follow there lines
Ferg: awesome stuff you have to show, i really like the sketchpages of the first page!
The_bird: niceee! you have good control of the pencil too
The Ben: they are comming allong nicely, the turtle thing is a great piece in my eyes.
Mansir: there are all great to watch, you have a great libary of material in your sketches
gauss/peris/dfacto/slum



thx for comments guys! (the "dankeschön" in one sketch was for another person ...) it happens now somedays that i need to force myself to stop drawing to get some charming sleep... blabla bla ... ah and i thought i render the crustacian thing out, and ahhh... excuse my engrish (i guess it will never change...)