Sketchbook: C. Gartland

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Hey Polycount, I've been a student of digital art for a while now, lately I've been determined to improve my technique.

I will post Photoshop sketches and 3d Sculpts here, any crits welcome.

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nothing too impressive, just some 3d doodles

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Some 2d sketches

(this ones just a paint over as a brief value study)

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Fun with tentacles, the face was a bit half hearted, I just wanted to see how multiple tentacles in action would look.

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Buddha Bust, done in the last 30 minutes.

brenly

keep up the sketching .. great way to learn muscle anatomy. Your last sketch looks like the guy is falling backwards.

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And another drawing

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some pose-maniacs 30 second gesture drawings

and a 30 minute sculpting practice, martain man hunter popped into my head when I went to do the face for some reason.

I need to work on legs, but I seem to be grasping torso musculature pretty well. Didn't get to the arms much on this guy, I may finish it later

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Been a while, but I'm getting better for sure.

This one is just poly painted, definitely a step up in my sculpting ability

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Reworking some of the old mans proportions, aiming for realistic

And a bunch more gesture sketches

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need to be way more active at this, my practice kinda dropped off.

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Says he needs to be more active.... gone for over a month

Anyways I've been pretty busy exploring non digital art this last month.
Clay and Drawing has completely upgraded my observation skills, I'll post some of my traditional sketches if I get around to it.

here's art:

ultra low poly, ~700 tris



ultra low poly weapons, >100 tris each

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painting seems to be more fun every time I try it

doodle turned out like a dragon ball z character

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Also doing some polishing old stuff I liked:

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getting better, hopefully I'll find more time to practice.

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Yeah muscles

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Some digital Painting practice.

These are thumbnails for a game I'll be working on this year.

I'm new to 2d environments, but I learned a lot from doing these.





Moving on to character painting next. Crits appreciated.

Deathstick

Definitely noticed a jump in the before and after posts, keep it up!

One thing I noticed is your characters faces usually seem to be getting rather flat around the mouth area, something to keep an eye out for. I'd probably pay closer attention to the overall silhouettes of the side/profile view to help correct.

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And here's some 3d stuff I've missed posting here:




The man and the mutant will sadly never be finished, as I had 2 computers break last month and had to start over on a clean slate.

Yedp

Hi cgartland, what a shame about the computers, it was quite a good start for your sculpts
nice gallery by the way I like how you detailed the old man face!

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Daily Sketches coming in hot

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Here's another sculpt I made a while ago and never posted.

The render turned out pretty awesome.

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More Sketches



More Z Doodles, getting back into sculpting. I'm way outta practice but getting back into it quickly





And last but not least the Nose Golemn

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Got the character sketches for Mori finished! Some were better than others because I really got into "art mode" and it sort of clicked. The not as good ones I had to really struggle through, but I figure the more I make the more intuitive it will be.

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Couple wip character high polys, been busy making every asset for my thesis project.



I actually ended up giving the human eyes to the skinny guy and the beast eyes to the big one.

I'll post full bodies once I've made more progress on the creatures.

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Well, I've totally ignored this sketchbook for a few months, but no point in starting a new one.

Here's a dump to get things up to speed

Promo shots of my thesis game Mori:



Some Spit Sculpts that I'm Proud of:


And finally the WIP characters I'm doing for my portfolio:

concept by regourso

concept by Max Davenport from the concept bank

MAAN lots of good stuff. I'm gonna start posting here to keep up momentum

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Last few days of sketches

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I feel like I'm hitting a wall in limiting myself to 45 minutes

I'm going to work on this a little every day and see how far I can take it:

progress after about the first hour

working from this concept:

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Progress on the Diablo 3 fallen Shaman:


Another 45 min quicky:


Almost done with baking this game character

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some speedsculpts



Finished 'folio characters



and about 5 hours into the diablo shaman sculpt

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Been working on painting recently, trying to do daily sketches





I plan on working on some portraits as human likenesses are a blind spot for me