Sketchbook: EricElwell

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Comments and Critique very much welcome!

Starting a new sketchbook this 2016, as almost all links in the old SB are dead. 

National parks studies in reverse chronological order. From CC stock footage at nps.gov (go check it out!)

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Getting the mechanical pencils out a little bit lately.

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Doodles and practix.

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jeffvoss

Looks great.

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@jeffvoss  thanks!

More drawings references GapingMaws.com (so much fun!)

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some doodles and some animation ideas I'm kicking around (more the process than the content) 

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Armor study, reference credit: https://www.flickr.com/photos/charlestilford/3091860019

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RitualSynergY

Really cool work! Love your lines

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@RitualSynergY  Thanks!

More Sketchy McSketchies. The first is from a conversation on drawing styles at ConceptArt.org in hangouts. The others are warmups from the pad. 

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brush test

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JoshGilroy

Lots of energy in your drawings. Really cool stuff.

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@JoshGilroy thanks!

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Referencing: http://www.hermann-historica-archiv.de/auktion/hhm56.pl?f=NR&c=72964&t=temartic_P_GB&db=kat56_p.txt

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polygonmonster

Love this. 

Stinkhorse

Please continue at high speed.

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@polygonmonster @Stinkhorse Thanks!

Here's an odd one from today

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some studies

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added a background

riot

awesome stuff, love the traditional portrait sketches

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@Riot thanks!

brush test today

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Another space dude thumbnail taken a little further

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Virtual Plein Air

KurtR

Lovely sketchbook. Great work.

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@KurtR Thanks! 

Muzzoid

Solid man, Putting in the hard work, and it shows.

EricElwell

@muzz thanks! Unfortunately, I haven't had as much to commit these past few weeks with other priorities ahead in line, but still love'n it

for fun:

For work:


For contest (not very happy with my final things got messed up compositionally, and I hadn't the time to commit):

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some updates to all of these characters

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armor study. photo reference used: https://www.flickr.com/photos/spacecamp/5060556766/

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Inktober 2016 art dump below. Tried some new things. Limited myself to black ink only. Ran out of ink. Learned a lot. 

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Testing out Procreate on iPad Pro

Greg Westphal

I've had friends come down on both sides of the procreate + ipad argument.  How are you liking it and do you think it'll replace your sketchbook for doodling on the go?

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@Greg Westphal it's too early for me to say for sure. It certainly has not replaced my sketchbook yet. I carry both now... but I do love the ipad pro just as tablet (my first tablet actually.. I am late comer for sure). As for Procreate, I am still learning it, and admittedly have been out of practice with painting for a few months due to other projects. So I can't blame the app if I'm not hitting the ground running with it. There were a few laggy moments, but negligible compared to Adobe's apps. My first impression is that it is a happy compromise between mobility and power. It's not quite photoshop, but is about 80% of what I would have used in PS.  What I am looking to test soon is the cross-compatibility... If I can sketch on the go and "get 80% there" and easily transfer via cloud and pickup the project in PS at my workstation.. well that'd be nice. All told though, for the price of the app? Come on! If you've already bought a tablet and iPencil, what's a few bucks for the app? If you don't have the iPad+pencil combo yet, but you're thinking about it, I'm not ready to recommend it or not. I think it's just as much about habit-forming than it is about the tools. If I'm not intentional to take it out with me and do some sketches... I simply don't, and it ends up being an expensive email machine. I love the side pressured of the iPencil, but am still untraining my brain from Wacom. I've gotten used to the spring in my Intuos stylus, so hitting the screen with the iPencil feels like drawing on a rock. Well, for better or worse, those are my initial thoughts. Take it with a grain of salt, because I haven't done more than 3 paintings on the iPad yet... maybe 30 or 40 paintings later I'll have something meaningful to tell you  Do you have an iPad+pencil already, or are you looking into that workflow for the future?