Sketchbook: Lamb's Study Thread

lamb

Hello,

I decided to work a lot on materials. First batch from today.

Jug (about 3 hours)

helmet (about 30 minutes)

DEElekgolo

lamb wrote: »

Jug (about 3 hours)

When I was scrolling down I thought this image was going to be your reference!
Great job on these studies dude keep it up

lamb

wow, thanks DEElekgolo!

another material study. Been stuck on this for ages. Not really perfect, but I feel I need to move on.

Mr.Moose

Expected sheep, was disappointed.

Was looking for paintings, was confused.

Found paintings. Blown away.

5/5 stars man, I'm still drooling over your work

lamb

Reading that feels good. I swear I will try to make up for the lack of sheep-related artwork in my thread.

doodling in the evening.

lamb

Hello,

I've been exploring different techniques in Photoshop. I get easily confused.











I have became a huge fan os Ankama in the meantime. Their stuff is so pretty

lamb

still working out the digital painting thing. Here is a Naga Siren from today.



I used a soft round brush through all of the process. I love it. I always used to avoind the soft brush, but I am getting more comfortable with it.

lamb

hello

ornate shark mecha


Ramona Flowers portrait study

Progress gif


What is the best way to learn portraits? I seem to be unable to catch the right shapes and life in the drawing and it always is a struggle with continuous fixing of issues.

What are the best ways to practice this? I also have huge problems with detailing as my color and brushstroke control is terrible, any good exercises for this as well will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

lamb

Hi guys.

Some updates. Trying to learn all the things. Edge control, anatomy, light. (also workflows) So damn confusing.

lamb

stuff from today.

The topic was Police Force from 2099. This is the third version. THis last one was inspired by Panty and Stocking. Did not nail the style at all (well, maybe the colors), but their lines are so aggresive, mine are not.


The second is a speedpaint. I wanted to emulate the style in Duelyst artworks. I think this one went pretty well. Learning environments seems to be a bit easier for now than working on characters. I spend the wast majority of my time working on my characters though. So maybe I am just better trained at spotting what is wrong.


C&C are very welcome

lamb

Struggling with volume on the armor and lineart in general


portraits are also very hard


Izayoi fan-art from BlazBlue


Another attempt at Izayoi. Still struggling with faces.

lamb

these guys are so good. Practice from today. I found that I al better at using my brushstrokes than before. So yey. Before I often had to go in and blend with many strokes to get the right effect. Now I do that much faster. Still miles behind. The Paul Kwon piece was actually hardest technique-wise. I find problems when I have to be precise, and his style there is very precise.

lamb

Hey guys. Have been trying to improve as usual. Quit my non art related job, I feel less depressed as a result, hope it will last longer. Still no idea how I am going to survive, don't want to do anything else.

lamb

le update

I am having trouble with elipses. It is something I will have to practice more.

lamb

hello friends

started working on some serious 3D business.

from this tutorial: [ame]

In other news:




and some hexels fun

lamb

more 3d progress



Undyne from Undertale (that game is amazing!)

justjake

You keep saying you're struggling/confused but it all looks like you know what you're doing to me. I like the bike and Undyne, almost everything! Those metal material studies from earlier are great.

lamb

Wow, thank you so much. Now I am not sure if I am really confused or if I just FEEL confused

Here is a render of a drone.



My trial on 3ds max ends in 4 days. Any ideas on what I may do? I cannot afford the subscription. What are good alternatives? I already have Blender, if that is the best solution.

lamb

Hey all

long time no see so here is a dump. I really want to make games some day ^__^.

I made these whilst obsessing over Onepunch-Man. Needed to kill time in between episodes.


 

 



those are all referenced from either the manga or the anime (I wish I was so good with shapes on my own).

I have also completed a mentorship with Anthony Jones. Literally the best month of my life. Unfortunately my tablet started not working (that was back in November) and I still cannot get it back to work properly. It is super frustrating not to mention that I have an appointment with a neurologist Tomorrow because my hand is going to hell as well (I seriously hope there are pills for that so I have no stupid excuse, but drawing has been a real issue lately - you can see it on the wobbly lineart which is partly caused by the broken tablet driver and partly due to the tremors in my hand)



the same one redesigned




plus some other personal work (or work work which I do a bit now)


this one is inspired by DVA from Overwatch.


I really want to learn drawing the body using a grid/box and simplify the shapes. I am having a really hard time understanding that, though.





I wanted to paint something with the soft brush, like really really soft.


some attempt at isometry.

and here is an explosion. I think there was a tutorial for this one. I only reverse engineered the gif, but I vaguely remember reading it a few years ago

I get so easily lost in the volumes. Especially when they are wobbling back and forth, which looks bad in real time, but seems ok when I scroll through them on the timeline.

Thanks for stopping by. I will appreciate the hell out of any advice!

lamb

Hello Still honing my skills

Bravely Default (or possibly Second) study, to figure out their style


Same, but this is a freeze frame from the Wakfu animated series



I designed my own Skullgirl too. 



Vadasi from Gigantic. This is her intro from the animated overview page.



And a pixel art verion of Aisling



And a design of my own to top it off (I think this one turned out rather good



Looking forward to your crits.

lamb

here are some more recent things. Working on light, composition, materials and efficiency.

looking for crits especially on the last one. I want to add colors and improve it in pretty much all areas. I just don't know if it is any good anymore. I kinda learned a lot with it (I know they are not perfect but the legs and the pose in general has been a problem for me for a long time) So on one hand I am pleased that I managed to tackle those issues, but on the other hand I cannot discern whether I am pleased by my progress or by the objective quality of the piece.

lamb

Kinda small update.