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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Micro tut:
Start verve, press STRG+F2 to double canvas size.
Mostly brush #9, size (w) off opacity (e) on, bristles around 50 at the beginning and less towards end.
Paint & erase.(erase = Paint+STRG)
Fine tune with brush #9 plus size (w) on, and brush #2, few bristles - (a) pressed to fix tilt and high speed on (upper right corner button) to avoid stuttering, plus mouse speed lower at 35%.
Space Elf Sketch:
Trying to improve my colours
Maybe next time also plot out a perspective grid to help?
The super hard glow out of the light seems a bit too much. From my experiences, having that kind of light beam only happens if you have a cloudy / misty environment on which the light can bounce on the cloud particles. You can have a slight glow that spills over the edges of your light shape to show the intensity though. Most of the time, lighting the planes that receive the light would be enough.
Dani: nice character, do you have more of them
Here is another study / work I did today:
Very nice colors, Lyno. Most interesting characters!!
I just made a quick light practice...started as a ball
Today I did this study from photo. I found this relaxed way of working where it all comes down to just painting. Manually picking colors, no undo's, one layer, no stress
@Lyno man, your landscapes are awesome.
I just let the fluids go in verve and were looking for forms, like cloud watching.
Finally I found him:
Half Bull, half Piranha and three third Miss Marple.
Here is another work / study
Heres a undead dude or dudett
Today's work: ~ I get inspired by Jakub Rozalski lately
I think so, it would be nice to have more people posting here!
Edit: You might want to watch out for tangents. His left wing is merged with the moon, killing your depth. Go for overlap!
This is something I did today, trying to find out what've learned the past days. I'm still struggling with the grass but I kinda like the trees
Nice Lyno!
Study:
Here is my study / work from today. This 'How to render grass in oils' video helped a lot:
Cool vid Lyno! Now I kinda wanna do a grass study
Heres a portrait study for now:
Last nights doodlin. "Toro".
Almost doing these mech's on auto pilot now, which is great but maybe I need to think about adding some "dynamism". I always seem to go to a static pose... Great for giving it a sense of power and stability but a bit boring to look at.
You should try to do one in sprint! Its a lot of fun ^^
Heres a little dogo from me as well, tonights study session:
Nice dogo btw. Lovely lighting!
@ErikNilsson your style is very refreshing and always inspiring. The you of colors on the rocks...well rocks
@stinger88 your lines are so freaking sovereign, the composition so solid. I could die for the man in the moon - love the runner
Maybe one pair more legs and a little Mantis Kung Fu inspiration could lead you into new directions??
Crazy wonderful animals!
Ok. I am short in time - symmetry makes every picture not monster exiting but basic construction easier.
@Stinger88 - cool! try doing an ostrich mech in mid run, or a horse.
@knacki - cool man, mechs are fun but like everything they take a bit of practice to get used to, especially if you dont usually draw mechanical stuff.
@ErikNilsson yes - well this mech thing is kind of cool, but maybe I should take it more serious
Ready for the club
Here is mine for today, focused on the temperatures of the colors
I mostly use free verve painter.
LMB=paint, LMB+Shift = smudge, LMB+STRG+SHIFT=blend, LMB+STRG=erase. And all this so much faster than PS. Sometimes feels a bit like zBrush for painting. But you never watch your brush moving for ages over the canvas, like in PS with mixer brush (I am on an older system, but Titan GTX, 64Gig Ram and 4GHZ i7 - which should really do the job for just "painting".) But verves fancy painting possibilities are bought with quite some missing functions, compared with good old PS.
@ErikNilsson Here' an Ostrich!
Here is another painting I did:
The last one is really tight, have you checked out edgar alwin payne? Really good environment artist, might be worth doing a Master study!
@Lyno Great color studies! Keep them coming!
little pocket sketchbook gif: