Sketchbook: Simon Trümpler

SimonT · Oct 2010

Opened this sBook for critique & comments. Don't be shy!

SimonT · Nov 2010

Der Hollander · Nov 2010

I'm digging the watercolor a lot. Your studies look good, really solid values and I like the use of a monochrome scheme instead of straight black and white. I'd just like to see some more finished watercolor stuff, from what I see here, you could turn out some awesome stuff with it.

SimonT · Nov 2010

Thanks man! My problem with the water color is: it hides "shitty" paintings. You can turn a medium drawing in a cool looking picture just with some color and what i want to is to learn how to draw "right" and not how to draw beauty...but thanks a lot for your kind words

i just want to say why my latest pics are back to just painted with pen.

SimonT · Nov 2010

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SimonT · Nov 2010

Tried around with some simple geometry bodys like Brigman did.

SimonT · Nov 2010

Again studies a la Bridgman. I tried to first block it out and then shade rough and sketch some outlines.

SimonT · Dec 2010

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SimonT · Dec 2010

A new one. Resolution is better in the original but photobucket scaled down it because it was too big.

Did some technique practise:
1. Sketch (Figures as Cubes, like when i do lifedrawing)
2. Fine
3. Brightnes just as gray
4. Shadows
5. Color (Layer with Blendmode "Color")
6. Colorcorrection
7. Glow

SimonT · Jan 2011

Ged · Jan 2011

keep up the studies looks like youre getting more natural at human form

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Desislava · Jan 2011

Nice figure studies. I just think you need to be more accurate with the big proportions. Pay close attention to the size of the legs and arms. Always compare the two. The box drawings done in pencil and pen are my favorite

Keep it up!

SimonT · Jan 2011

Desislava wrote: »

Nice figure studies. I just think you need to be more accurate with the big proportions. Pay close attention to the size of the legs and arms. Always compare the two. The box drawings done in pencil and pen are my favorite
Keep it up!

Thanks man! I just saw you drawings and the are really great! Do you have ssome tipps about line drawing for me? Do you follow rules for the thin/thick lines like thick for the "active" side of the body and thin for the passive one? Or something like that?

SimonT · Jan 2011

xenaxis · Jan 2011

wow, nice studies! the values are awesome. keep it up !

SimonT · Mar 2011

This is my entry: Mr. Turtle ("Hot Air Balloon"-like Mount)

- i'll add a "chair" under the turtle (like in the sketch)
- i'll try to paint it in zBrush to practise vertex painting

SimonT · Mar 2011

I added the pilot chair and i got exactly 2500 tris.

SimonT · Mar 2011

Small update

Texture Sketch. Refined the face.

SimonT · Apr 2011

small update

SimonT · Apr 2011

SimonT · Apr 2011

I had the idea that the back of the fornt "wings" could get a structure like feathers. Not real feathers but that the viewer can recognize the structure.

Spacey · Apr 2011

Turtle is looking good so far. If you're going to do a kind of faux-wing on the underside, I think it'd look more convincing and winglike if you follow more closely the actual feather structure of a bird. It doesn't have to be exact or even functional, but adding some of the different sizes, densities, and spread of the various structures would help sell the idea of wings. As it is now, they don't read as "feathers" and look more like teeth.

edit: whoops, that was a view from the top of the wing. fixed.

SimonT · Apr 2011

tried around with feather structures

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SimonT · Oct 2011

A new lifedrawing class started

Joseph Silverman · Oct 2011

Some great life drawings man! Great sense of interlocking forms.

Kot_Leopold · Oct 2011

Those are some amazing anatomy studies/sketches, my friend. Keep it up!

SimonT · Nov 2011

ladyknowles · Nov 2011

Your studies are gorgeous and I love that turtle!! Please finish it!

SimonT · Nov 2011

new new new

and thanks lady!

SimonT · Nov 2011

Joseph Silverman · Nov 2011

Damn dude, nice work. I like post 39 especially.

SimonT · Dec 2011

Baj Singh · Dec 2011

The life drawing renders are great. Nice work.

SimonT · Jan 2012

Digital Cantina · Jan 2012

Some great figure drawing in here, cant wait to see more. Keep it up!

matt luxton · Jan 2012

some really nice sketches here

SimonT · Jan 2012

Thank you Endr and Matt

SimonT · Feb 2012

SimonT · Mar 2012

Currently i'm working on this. I place all figures (some are missing right now) and after that i'll check the "noise" and make sure that overlapping people are separated better (contrast wise). Of corse shadows and color will follow and some overpaint for the girls in the foreground.

Sketchbook: Simon Trümpler

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