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    Kherns - Thanks! Planet of the Apes was also really good, loved the NO! moment ;D
    JohnSilva - Thank you!

    Yey 2nd page! Here's some more stuff -

    Pose studies (since my proportions were off before, I do need to go back to basics again like at the start of this sketchbook and make sure everything is tight like a tiger) -



    Clothing folds studies (It's amazing how you can just design a character around folds themselves (J.C. Leyendecker/TF2 shadow shapes) -


    Fold/material photo study -


    Roman/modern char design -


    Medieval/modern military char design (the 2nd colour scheme turned out a little football hooligan xD) -


    Some random doodles -


    Started doing environments -
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      Here's a character lineup based on historical fashion reinterpretation into modern day. Both casual and military clothing. This is for a school project, so I'm a little pressed for time thus the basic block colour rendering -

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        First update since before xmas, hope you all had a good one!

        New year, new work -

        My bloodsports 4 action figure packaging entry


        Some environment wips inspired by http://nathanfowkes.blogspot.com



        character concept, can you guess who it's based on?


        Some Buffalo studies


        Crits encouraged!
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          some wips-



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            Beautiful updates! And you should definitely do more environments - they're so vibrant
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              enviro update, gonna leave it alone for a month then come back and pulverise it-



              some new char roughs from today -


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                Saturday I did some more character concept designs playing with shapes as his original design was quite generic. Still gonna do some more till I hit the sweet spot or one jumps off the page…


                and a rough 2hr environment from todays livestream, lots more of these to come -
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                  These buffalos look really amazing.
                  The colours and lightning seems to be spot on.
                  I like it.

                  The library interieur is also nice.
                  For having so many green lights, the light itself seems akwardly white, dont you think ?
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                    Thanks for commenting in my sketchbook. I remember seeing some of your stuff on the Crimson Daggers forums, awesome stuff in here Keep it up
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                      TerdT - thanks man, but those buffalo are just studies, nothing special, the trick is getting my imaginative stuff to look as good lol As for the library your right! Good eye, I'll be going back to that image next week and hopefully make some good progress on it!

                      Forrest_I - Thanks mate Lots more to come.


                      I went back over an old piece that's just over 2 months old now to see quite literally how much I had improved within that time frame, it still has it's flaws but the progress is quite visible! Just goes to show that dedication and hard work pays off, so stop browsing and go paint! (well after this post anyway )



                      My previous posts had some tired and 'seen that before' designs that didn't gel well with the themes and directions I had chosen so I took a step back and thought about it. I added two tablespoons of sugar and dived back in revamping them into something hopefully fresh, regardless I learnt a lot and levelled up in the process -


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                      Some environment thumbs playing with shapes from mind and inspired by other artists (Ryan Lang, Scholes, and another I forgot the name of ><). I'll be combining 5&6 into a new finished piece (hopefully ;D) -



                      Some beastie silhouette ideations from today -

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                        After giving the image a break I went back to the library scene and pushed it some more. It's heavily inspired by the beautiful interior environments of Deus Ex. Also to see what I started out with I've attached the basic 3D blockout -



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                          Hello! New stuff -

                          Some ‘singing tree’ enviro things for my project


                          Char wip/ideation, I wan’t to make some more interesting drastic versions with more obvious ties to sci-fi


                          An enviro photo/paint mashup


                          Some sketchy doodle doos



                          As you can see in my sketchbook there is a disturbing lack of studies. It shows. I suck terribly at hands/legs/feet. Well anatomy in general. So focusing this week on hardcore study, Vilppu my hero. But first, time to save the galaxy, mass effect you beast!
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                            your characters designs and enviroments are beautiful I see a lot a of improvment
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                              udonhead - thank you very much!

                              I got some new stuff to lovingly share -

                              Mind sketches that are blah, seeing what I need to look into with anatomy (been studying but not as much as I should, pressured to work on graduation stuff..) -


                              An enemy Japanese/sci-fi/Trevor Claxton inspired dude, I love how he uses a combination of different materials -


                              Another char wip, ye anatomy ... *sad face* -


                              Some environment wip -


                              Some project world character inhabitants concepts I did today -
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                                Today I went to a Museum to draw. There were so many amazing things, I'm going to have to keep going back! It's great to get out of the house and interact with real people as opposed to staying in drawing alone lol, especially when kidletts and museum staff take interest in what your doing and pay you compliments, it's really a nice feeling. I made a few sketches and some photos that you can see below. Feel free to use the photos for studies, or commercial stuff -

                                Sketches. Why do pencil drawings always look terrible scanned, anyone know how to get them to look like they do in life? The dodo was not impressed.



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                                I wonder if anyone can guess what IP my grad project is (this is a redesign, but still should be obvious) -



                                After doing some studies and I reworked some older chars -




                                New chars -



                                Artax colour thumbs, currently taking it to finish -



                                Some environments, I've been experimenting with the Sparth shape workflow. Really a fast way to work -



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