[Portfolio] Aline Gladh, Concept Artist
Hi there!
My name is Aline Gladh. I'm a swedish freelance concept artist/illustrator, all new to Polycount. I'm looking forward to get critique and loads of inspiration from you guys and hopefully I can help someone else too!
If you would like to check out my portfolio you can find it here:
Website/Portfolio
Also check out my one year long self portrait project:
365 self portraits in 365 days
Work not posted on the website will probably show up at my deviantart, and also I will be posting some WIPs here on polycount!
/Aline
My name is Aline Gladh. I'm a swedish freelance concept artist/illustrator, all new to Polycount. I'm looking forward to get critique and loads of inspiration from you guys and hopefully I can help someone else too!
If you would like to check out my portfolio you can find it here:
Website/Portfolio
Also check out my one year long self portrait project:
365 self portraits in 365 days
Work not posted on the website will probably show up at my deviantart, and also I will be posting some WIPs here on polycount!
/Aline
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other then that I'm digging the 365 idea, I hope you dont mind If i do that in the future : )
stuff looks great ^_^ keep going !
God Jul och Gott nytt
@ haiddasalami: Thnx!
@ ErichWK: Thanks for checking it out! Glad u like it!
@ Jungsik: Yes, that's true. I tend to do that with my personal work. I will absolutely stop drawing the same faces! ;D Cool that u like the 365 idea, I would not mind at all. I was inspired by Andrew Jones's 365 project (there's a link to his portraits on my 365blog).
@ bloodmoon: Thnx for checking it out!
SKETCHBOOK
http://www.bioware.com/bioware_info/jobs/art_portfolio/
@kaoticvisions: Thnx! Yeah, I've actually already started practicing it, but I'm having quite a hard time getting the inspiration since I'm not used to it, but hopefully I'll figure it out. Thnx for the link, very helpful!
I also really like your 365 days of 365 self portrait blog
I was also checking out your Sketchbook thread you linked here. Really loving those face studies! However, I think you'll need to work from a lot of good reference images for backgrounds to really get that rocking like your characters!
Best of luck!
Ok so here's a new one! It's not like me to paint men, but I really like it! I'm working on some new environments too but they are far from done.
and btw, God Jul
I would try to branch out a bit more, though. Your bodies tend to be weaker than your faces, and your digital stuff seems to lack the experience of your traditional works as a whole. I think you'd benefit a lot from working more with bodies (more motion, fun perspective!), and practicing a better grasp on rendering. At the moment most noticeably your digitals seem to lack that finishing polish. Basework is there but it feels really soft, and lacking in color - almost like it stopped at a middle ground, below is an example of a few things I think could really help.
Sharpened it up a bit, brightened it up (in places), gave it some more color in places (as initially his face looked like it was made up of roughly the same colors as his shirt, etc).
Anyway there's my $0.02, keep working.
You have skills, I wish I could draw as well as you.
God Jul
@NinthJake: Haha well I am... u too? Thnx so much, just practise, I do! God forts
I didn't take away any shadows, really. I just took the image, sharpened it a little, duplicated it as another layer, then brightened it a tad/did some color adjustments, and erased parts of that top layer that I thought were too bright. All the shadows that were there before are there now, they're just not so black. And in a (presumably indoor) setting, the shadow cast by his jawline probably wouldn't be so black.
I did it on my work monitor (which is a total piece of crap) so the contrast might be a bit off, but I thought it might give you an idea or two.
Speaking of monitors, be sure to make sure your monitor is properly calibrated, it's hugely important for digital painting and if it's not - that might attribute to what looks like lack of shadow (as well as for how it looked prior to the color/brightness adjustments).
Nice to see you here. We went to the same concept art course a few years back (concept art 1 and 2 at HGO) You've done a lot of character work since then I see, looks nice indeed.
What do you work with now? Freelancing?
Yes monitors are tricky. I usually check different monitors at different computers before I send anything away, but yes, calibrating it would probably be the best. Thnx for your time with that pic
Haha aweh :P Thanks!
Yeah, Hi! I remember you!
We should cath up at skype sometime!
Please check it out here and tell me what u think:
www.alinegladh.com
and don't fogett that I'm still keeping up my 365 portraits project!
http://365aline.blogspot.com/
This is super cool! How long do you have left?
I will go through all of them
Haha tack ;P
Thank you for checking out my sites and sweet that u like them!
They are all numbered so today's portrait was nr 198 and I'm going for 365! I think I started in august so there are some months to go. Cool that u want to check out all of them haha!
Also I would like to tell you that I am still keeping up my 365 self portraits in 365 days project and post them all on this BLOG. Here is a sample, story behind it was a long day of playing Mortal Kombat with friends.
The dragon stood guard of the moon stones placed in the mountain of cliffs
until he turned into cliffs himself.
His eyes and mind stayed focused so that he would be ready when the thieves one day
would try to steal the stones away.
You'll find some W.I.P pics here: http://wipaline.blogspot.com/