Hai' s Sketchy Ink
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Hello all
My name is Hai. I'm a concept artist and illustrator from Vietnam. I started posting on Polycount in 2014. However, I suffered a massive skill block in the past 2 years. I stopped for a while to practice. I became a bit better I guess. I would like to share some of my newest stuff, especially the Week Sketch thing with pen&ink and ball point pen I've been doing. Hope you like them
More of these guys's WIPs can be found on my Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artist/vncchildren
My name is Hai. I'm a concept artist and illustrator from Vietnam. I started posting on Polycount in 2014. However, I suffered a massive skill block in the past 2 years. I stopped for a while to practice. I became a bit better I guess. I would like to share some of my newest stuff, especially the Week Sketch thing with pen&ink and ball point pen I've been doing. Hope you like them
More of these guys's WIPs can be found on my Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artist/vncchildren
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Here is some drawing I did for the temple ruin.
Good work mate, this looks fantastic.
My only critic would be... the birds :poly136:. I know from Feng Zhu videos that it's quite useful trick, to give the drawing a sense of scale and all, but I suggest you might work just a bit more the birds so they don't look as cheap as they do right now, especially in the Root of Elder Rasha shot.
Otherwise, I've nothing to say ! Great skills
Final week was crazy but I finally got it done. Here is a new character, my version fo the wiked witch
the stylized stuff looks good too
I love your less-rendered work, the pieces with flat colors and less shading.
Seems like improving your rendering is all you need (or just stick with the more awesome, simple rendering). Really awesome stuff!
My 2 biggest problems right now are colors - composition and rendering - detail. I overdid a lot with rendering my concept, thus making them too heavy handed and not artistic. I'm working on fixing those right now with my new stuff.
Taking a break from the exhausting jobs hunt, I decided to join Helpful Bear Production' s Kaiju design contest. Not sure what will be the prize but most importantly, I will get feedback from the creature designers in the movie industry.
Here is the design of the monster head. She is named Ashatasia, or Lady God Breathe. She actually belongs to the same story Dragon Castle, along with the princess dragon I posted in the 1st post. I decided to give her a long lance-like head, which is inspired by the whale skull. She uses her head as a giant blade for melee combat. Aside from that, the head indeed can open up into the shape of a 5 fingers hand, and her actual head is inside, attached to the tongue. When opened up, she can talk with her real face or fire powerful energy beam toward her enemies. The 5 parts of the dragon head shoot out lightning to enforce the beam she fires. It works like Gypsy Danger's plasma cannon
All of your tiny thumbnails also read instantly, that's a sign you're doing a great job.
Keep up the good work!
I have been busy lately, but finally got the dragon done in a new style I didn't normally use. Not very happy with it, now I understand why Peter Jackson didn't do 6 limbs for Smaug. Also, I'm working a comic called The Stop Moment, my friend Luc Tieu Mi is the writer. Here is a few sample pages from the comic, done with pen& ink on paper:
That is not "scribbling," it is cross-hatching and it looks fantastic.
Looking at the comments you make on your own work: we're always our own worst critic, but I think you're overly hard on yourself. Your work is strong, and if you put forward the stance that you aren't happy with work it starts to come across, almost like a mar on what other people would otherwise view as great. Put confidence behind your work, you deserve to. That dragon concept is one of the most creative dragon concepts I've seen in a long time. Personally, I'm a fan of the six-limb dragon (and couldn't stand the Smaug design in Peter Jackson's version) so I actually love the direction you went.
Here are 2 of the all the art tests I' ve done for some companies. These two are the failed ones
all the best to you
Lou
WIP:
I can't help to notice that perspective gets quite bizarre on the gun, mostly around barrels.
Also the way the axe is attached isn't very convincing imo.
It looked fine on earlier WIPs but after you removed the barrel cover and changed gun's angle it just doesn't seem to work.
@Blaisoid: I know the gun looks really weird, but if you google Gatling gun or Mini gun or Vulcan you will see mostly the angle will turn just like what I painted. I was confused at first but learned that it due to 3 point perspective and decided to floow those references. Anyway, did a catfish inspired monster design lately, think I should post it for some critique before finalizing
That being said, awesome use of atmospherics. It adds a ton of depth to your scene. You may want to try and squeeze in a foreground element just for more depth. Keep it up man this is looking really pro.
Fantastic work, especially the armor characters and creatures. His cross hatching technique is amazing.
Congratulations!
I'm currently a game art student, hoping to be a concept artist and your work is inspiration to me.