Polycount's Sketch Thread!
polycounter lvl 14
We'll start by just drawing a piece everyday, and it can be digital or traditional. Then we'll start to work in some sweet themes to challenge ourselfs! ex. robots, chicks etc.
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http://www.livestream.com/makkon?t=692225
Makon, how are you using textures in that pic?
With the colouring on that, pay attention to your planes and edges, its easy to make shading look soft, its hard to make it look like it has intent.
Another random composition idea for my Tuesday contribution.
Todays drawing!
And thanks Muzz. I'm definitely doing what I can to incorporate the advice.
Today's sketch.
I'm attempting to combine the fast mark making of my landscape paintings with the hard line work of a comic book. Still working on it. Any help would be much appreciated.
20 min lunch sketch.
tacit: Bam! Loving the fluo green yellow version to bits. Great stuffs, great stuffs.
Its very intimidating posting in here, So many wonderful artists...
Reckon you could darken the values in ps though, they are way too light.
Maph, yeah i probably should ey. Thanks.
Russian tank man!
Photoshop.
I'll be posting some sketches tonight again hopefully.
haters gonna hate, naked version? Nice.
lol? i have no idea.
This is my second attempt at something like this, everything else was line-art that I'm not particularly proud of.
I took my reference from the Deus Ex: Human Revolution extended trailer.
Full sized image can be downloaded here if you want a better look:
http://jacen-c.deviantart.com/art/Adam-Jensen-288300686
I also found out that this kind of stuff is time consuming. I spent about six hours on this. It was very fun though.
Still learning, any suggestions or tips?
use hard edged brushes and blend by hand - soft edged brushes make your work look fuzzy and ill-defined
and..
since i'm putting it up everywhere else...
generic rubber clad lady
Practicing painting in photoshop.
color-play warmup doodle (+filtration) before workin on (shameless mini-plug) Ms Facepuncher