Sketchbook: Gnarf

Gnarf

Hey there,

my name is Steven Bagatzky, i'm a freelance illustrator from germany, mostly working on advertising storyboards but also do concept art, print illustration... whatever comes up and fits.
I'm finishing the last week of a long term contract and figured that this would be a good time to draw some things for myself again and finally join polycount as an active member after lurking about for a long while.

I often doodle NSFW-stuff, but i won't post it here to keep this thread safe for everybody. If you wish to see NSFW-drawings feel free to visit my blog.

Here are my sketches/doodles/warmups etc. for march so far.

Enjoy:)

bounchfx

You have a fantastic style Steven! your drawings feel full of life and I'm a big fan of how you render your pieces when you choose to color them up. Really looking forward to more !

Gnarf

Thanks bounchfx!
I hope to at least add something once or twice per week.

Yesterdays drawing was heavily influenced by Kygo's tropical house mix, warm, sunny, smiling.. . Probably a good thing that i spent more time waiting on feedback than on working, otherwise i wouldn't have been able to get this sketch finished yesterday.

Gnarf

Maybe i'll find the time to color these guys later, at least the guy to the far left i'd like to get some color in.

lfargo77

Very Cool Cartoon style love the rabbit in image 2

Gnarf

thanks lfargo77, glad you found something you like

We had visitors through the easter weekend so i didn't get about to do anything until today.
I set up a digital sketchbook in Manga Studio for convenience, the odd format of some sketches is a result of that. The following sketch is a double page spread with all the additional bleed space etc.

Gnarf

good morning you nice folks at polycount. here are todays warmup sketches.

Gnarf

I just got permission to show a small excerpt of the earlier work i did in the past couple of months for the great people at Socialpoint.
If you're interested in seeing a handfull of images like this
feel free to visit my portfolio site.

Gnarf

And so it happened what always happens, life and work get in the way.
But here are a couple of sketches i did in the past few days. Just experimenting on facial proportions, body proportions and varying brush-setups for lineart in Manga Studio.

Gnarf

Weekend sketch. I used 3 different Manga Studio lineart brushes by DAUB and learned that they don’t show much visual difference if the brush is used small or the file has a medium to high resolution.
I’ll probably do another experiment throughout the week where i’ll try working with a rougher outline, more spontaneous lineweight variation

Gnarf

so throughout the weekend i did a couple of quick experiments inspired by magazine illustrations from the 50s to 70s. Here are the first 3 of 5. Besides the general source of inspiration they only have in common the brushes which i used. Theme and my focus on what i wanted to explore was different for each image.

JTArnoldArt

Very cool stuff. Really liking the set of four creatures sketches(#4).

Gnarf

Thanks JTArnoldArt, glad you found something you like, there will be more creature sketches upcoming for sure since it's something i often sketch while waiting for feedback.

Here are images 4&5 of my magazine inspired illustration experiments from two weeks ago, a quick nonesensical sketch before i went away to work at a clients offices for a bit again and then i did a painting of a dragon this weekend because i've mostly done lineart-based artwork for the past several months and felt like exercising.

Gnarf

A quick character doodle


One thing i enjoyed when i was doing the magazine-inspired illustrations a couple of weeks back was to work with texture & brushstrokes and let them stand instead of rendering everything smoothly. I revisited this aspect in this image and on purpose worked in a small resolution that forced me – with the way i set up particular brushes – to not go into too much detail (for the most part).


And another quick doodle

Gnarf

Aquaintances/former co-workers started a games company and they're doing a little live-contest for their first game on a tradefair. I'm not there, but they posted about it on their facebook and i decided to join in. I guess drawing storyboards for advertising a new electricity provider wasn't enough work for today. Anyways, here are the two guys.

mcbirdyturdy

Wow, i am really liking your art. I appreciate the stuff that is in your style and the fact you can go outside of that and do something different. Keep up the great work!

Gnarf

Thanks Mcbirdyturdy, storyboarding for advertising is very straight forward and artistically limiting, so i like to experiment when i can in my free time.

Couldn't help myself to do another doodle for TinyRoar.