Sketchbook: roo

rooster

figured its about time I started one of these.

edit: crits welcome

lets begin with some love

JohnnySix

Hey man, good to see you start one at last - is really interesting looking at some of the older threads here and seeing just how much people progress through their threads.

Digging the lovebot, was this inspired by the lovebot from MarshMonkey's Kart game/

Lighting is nice, how long did you spend on this one?

rooster

durrrr, ive no idea actually how long i spent. will need to start keeping track hehe. not too long anyway

don't ask why his zips the wrong way round
(new comp and tablet, its taking me a while to get all the settings comfy )

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konstruct

Awesome man! that zipper makes me uncomfortable :P

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bit of a monstrous experiment:

iWeReZ

The monster seems a bit bland, but i like the colors

And amazing hard surface painting on the lovebot

rooster

mm, totally agree about the bland shape- was concentrating too much on texture, here's a more interesting one:

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i wish I was ashley wood

rooster

good morning class, welcome to awkward posing and dodgy anatomy 101

rooster

well, i thought my ashley wood girl sucked so bad I went and spent a bit longer on another pic. I hate her face . How the fuck do you draw a pretty face from below. I think while I'm stealing so hard I might go chuck some HPX into the mix next time

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disclaimer! i nicked the idea of this one from another concept, I think from titan quest. i just wanted to try sketching something similar

Ged

nice fun sketchbook, titan quest had some great art

rooster

cheers ged!

ngs616

That hexapod is awesome. Are those a bunch of eyes on his face or is there only one in the center?

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lots of eyes

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Sirdelita

I love the top robot. model plz

danpV

I very much love the energy your brushstrokes convey. Slick stuff.

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quickie

Uly

this thread is absolutely bitchin
loving it roo, post more of your cool guys! : )

rooster

thanks man!
this guy:


is a reworking of this guy (v. old concept):


and this dude I already posed in WAYWO but here he is for the record

Emil Mujanovic

You know I'm a fanboy of your work. What I've love to see is some more colour variation in some of your pieces. A lot of is very mono-chromatic.
Your last two pieces seem to be heading in that direction, especially the earthworks.jpg one.

Keep pimping, mate.

rooster

Lampoly: love your work, so thanks for that! not sure to be honest, I have some kind of story he's part of but its really vague and I don't know what to do with it.

Emil: yeah, I agree. Part of that is down to preference, I quite like keeping it simple and playing on two or so main colours, but sketchbooks aren't just about staying in the comfort zone, right?

I didn't go wild with colour in this next brainfart, but hopefully there's something a bit more interesting anyway:
edit: wish I'd fixed his proportions! fack it

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Stinger88

Sweet sketching.

I think the latest one misses the loose background movement you've added to most of the other sketches though. Especially considering the pose he's in.

Anyhoo...keep em coming

rooster

cheers man, yeah I agree about the bgs. even if its just flat colour, but with some marks and strokes mixed in it feels more alive or 'autentic'

was going to tweak it, but the tweaks look worse hah. I'll have a look tomorrow
the back, shoulders and neck are weird, I just drew over a loose sketch without really trying to correct it. lesson learned!

DeusExMatteo

Nice sketching, like your choice of colors, but there is something with your paintings that bothers me. Don't really know what but they look kind of unsharp to me. Also the proportions on the cowboy looks a little off to me.

Keep it up

vofff

Like ur style of painting very loss and sketchy and great color mood too^^

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HonkyPunch

COACH

Two Listen

You've got some wicked color usage man. The style's loose, and undefined which I'm not normally into. But it's got a cool flow to it. And I feel like I could learn a lot from the colors.

Good deal, keep it up.

Stinger88

ahhh...Now we are talkin!

It's inspiring me to do an Ellis piece...or Bill...

Tiny little crit not worth mentioning to be honest. But the brush you've use to paint some white on the wall, lower left. I'd personally have an angle jitter on at 100% for a brush like that. Kinda sticks out in the scene a bit for me... might be the look you're after though so ignore me if so.

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-Ricky: cheers man! agree about the brush- that's one of my block in brushes which isn't supposed to make it to the light of day, I just got lazy heh


-thanks for the crit Lampoly! and thankyou for the link to your instructor's blog, I love his work straight into favourites! I'm jealous you were tought by someone with such talent.

I totally agree with you. I see that one as more like an underpainting for a piece which gets the core 'mood' of the concept rather than something to call finished. These are all drawings as exercises, so it's the process of making them that's valuable to me much more than the picture. Having said that, if I don't take any to completion I'll always be missing that part of the skill, and like you say anyone browsing my sketches sees them at face value..

thanks again for the crit, it's all taken on board

edit: hate posting in here without any piccies:

rooster

blah, another dude in the same position as like 3 others. need to put more thought into my poses. sod it- trying to do something every night, if its the choice between something or nothing then i choose something :P

Two Listen

You could always just spend a night doing silhouettes. Not only is it fun and easy - but it has that oh-so-generic "look I'm an artist" feel when you're done!

...haha.

So long as you're learning, that's the important thing. I'd rather see a page of lizardman, regular man, rocketman, android - all in the same position, than a single page of those damned "posemaniac" gesture studies. Pah!

Keep at it.

JohnnySix

What Two Listen said - better to have some variety in the types of stuff you're doing, can worry about posing later.

I really dig the textured effect on the lizard guy - is this in Painter or PS?

It'd be really interesting to see a bunch timelapses of people's drawings from this Sketchbook forum and see how people approach things.

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Stinger88

Thats Dreddful!..........................

Love the chunkyness

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trying some pose variation..

Two Listen

Holy shit that guy's head and expression is hilarious.

ebagg

Lovin the sketchiness, designs, colors choices, and crazy action poses!!!

rooster

page 9 man, fuck.. ive been neglecting the sketchbook!

aesir

cool stuff, I hadn't seen this before.

Your car is like, desert version of twisted metal

Thegodzero

Where have seen that before? I swear it wasn't on PC, but some where else... Maybe i'm just going crazy. Is it from something?

rooster

Hmm, well I did mush together some familiar looking shapes . Its not based on any one source, although I did look at reference from:
military vehicles (M-ATV) http://images.google.co.uk/images?um=1&hl=en&tbs=isch%3A1&sa=1&q=matv&aq=f&oq=&start=0
vw beetle http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=vw%20beetle&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi
and formula off-road http://images.google.co.uk/images?hl=en&source=hp&q=formula%20off%20road&oq=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi

i also posted an early version in WAYWO

rooster

hey man, thanks . I agree about the booster, however it's for a game design and all the bullets are hot, orange-yellow-white. The booster is blue so that when it fires the player can't confuse it with gunfire

Cyrael

you're sense of color is super unique - in a great way.. I dig it.. in a world filled with darkness and dreary tones (aka a lot of stuff nowadays) its cool to see this stuff.

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