Sketchbook: Beestonian

Beestonian

Hello people! Gaining the confidence to finally start posting my work regularly on forums and stuff. Here's some things!

RobertRamsay

Magnificient work, really like the colours!

riotorange

Whoah. Lava penis 0.o

I agree with RobertRamsay,there are some nice colors going on. Looking forward to seeing some more of your stuff.

Beestonian

Some quick material practice

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a bunch of sketches I did yesterday WABBALUBBADUBDUB

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some stuff

gonna try hosting locally for permanence sake

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Some more

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Sargent study. It's cool that I can upload directly to polycount now.

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A quick Repin 

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a Benczur study

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intuitive drawing left, traced reference image major forms right 

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Attempt of the same above technique, but with a life drawing 10 minute pose.

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an update on a thing I was working on before

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hey found some old concepts that I did

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ayy lmao just updating my sketchbook guys don't all comment at once

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Couple more things

Eric Chadwick

Love the weeping robot! Especially love the woman in the kitchen piece, and the block forms dissection. Would be great to see more of these, committing to a series is a great way to improve and evolve.

DanaosC

Oh my god! That Robot blows! Incidentally I'm listening to a music track that also has rain playing and it hit me so hard. Nicely done my friend!

William3DArtist

That Robot kicks butt. I thought it was 3d at first. I had to scroll up and see your 2D and was wondering why there was no 3D besides this one. I then looked at it again and realized it was frickin 2D!!!! What the heck. Did you animate the spec on different layers when the light turns on? So confused on how you got the water to look like a 3D fluid sim. I could imagine blur tool mixed with some displacement in photoshop. All in all I think you should show your secrets and do a tutorial. That is an amazing piece. I like the albino alligator. Reminds me of Claude from California Academy of Sciences.

drawntothenorth

Awesome sketchbook, love the figure studies

Beestonian

Thanks guys! I did dozens of these little animated speed paintings at my last game Job. With regards to the water, After Effects has some pretty stock standard particle systems, one of which is CC Mr Mercury. Beyond fiddling with the particle properties, you place the rest of the illustration into a precomposition and apply the Particle effect to that precomp and it kind of behaves like a mask, with in-built basic displacement controls. 

The Robot was kind of basic and easy to execute. You don't really have to do much to make them work to a minimal standard.

Here's another one of those I did a while back. 

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Weird that I've never uploaded this

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one of a family memeber over christmas

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Arthur Streeton

might be too saturated, iunno, looks different on each monitor which is a damn shame really

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erghmygod we ll something I did for Infinity wars I dunno

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Test post please ignore

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A small sketch of a dragon file iunno maybe will finish it

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A detail shot of a larger illustration. The full thing will answer many narrative questions such as: Who killed the dragon? How did they bring it down? How did they remove that giant chunk out of it's neck? All these and more will be revealed when I post the full illustration on January 32nd!

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I did this today as well

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Quick test to convert 2 point to 3 point perspective if the cone of vision sits below the horizon line

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Study of my favourite digital painting by Xiaoyu Wang, Original is here.  Don't know why this didn't appear when I submitted it the first time. EDIT: Apparently pending approval. Problem solved. 

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I'm so Ronery

So Ronery

So Ronery inside 

Will no one comment on my sketchbizzay

Eric Chadwick

Verified your account, you should be good from now on. Work's looking great!

Eric Chadwick

Your work is now in the banner rotation. We had to attach an image in your first post to get it to work (banners rely on the images being hosted locally). Hope that's OK.

Personally, I like your work a lot, very painterly. Keep up the great work!

Caiterade

Really cool colors :> 

Tobyfredson

Dude this is amazing stuff!

Beestonian

Accuracy exercise I tried, it was really hard and I made a ton of mistakes. Probably the same amount of mistakes I normally make, but this exercise made it so much more obvious where I was going wrong.

Look at Dorian Iten's accuracy guide, it seriously helps. 

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some more progress on the tingymabobsicles

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Did some sculpting over the weekend, this shit is fun/hard/rewarding

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I dunno some more stuff

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Studied wangjie le for the following info:

1. Brush strokes across the contour of the form to get a better grasp of volume

2. Losing edges across forms where the normal direction relative to the light is similar, and accentuating areas of ambient occlusion near them

3. dark value areas of interest with one hard edge and one soft one

4. (didn't get this one right) conservation of energy - brighter values on tighter speculars:

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Someone tell me how to do this sculpting thing lol

I can't seem to smooth over my big forms without them being lumpy all the time 

And I can't seem to get a nuanced control of my small/tiny forms. See mouth,  eyes, etc

Beestonian

Been chipping away at this painting for a while... I feel like my value hierarchy is sloppy. It'd be nice to find a nice balance between dynamism, readability, and having the lighting make sense.