hey all! this is gonna keep me drawing, great idea.

i've been on a cyclops kick recently, here's one now, during lunch about 35 mins in sketchbook pro.

a combo of sketchbook and some ps. around an hour...

I really like the sense of style and character you've conveyed in your drawings. But on the second piece, I think your placement of the feet kills the 3D illusion you've established with the upper body. Can't really judge you too much on that though, I'm guilty of doing the same thing. Just keep practicing I guess.

Also, this is most likely just personal stylistic preference, but I'm not a fan of thick outlines. I like rendering form through shading and value - shows you have a clear sense of dimension and how far away something is depending on the value of the shadows you use. In contrast, I feel that the outlines flatten out an image. Do you have any life drawing samples to post up here?

Just a few minor critiques there. Still, the fact that these took you an hour tops speaks volumes for your capability. Great stuff!

thanks pangarang, great critiques. i really appreciate it when i get some good pointers from an already established 2d and 3d artist.

as for life drawings i got a pile but am to brutally lazy to scan them in and crop them so they aren't so obnoxiously massive.

i'm going to take what you said with the shading as opposed to my ham-handed outlining and see what comes up.

heres a zombie viking vulture feeder guy. this took me a while cause i did like 5 re-fining layers (still came out looking rough as all hell) but a good learning experience. all in alias sketchbook pro.

during lunch, 20 mins in alias sketchbook pro. i think i'm gonna take this idea further. a pirate with crappy depth perception needs as many pistols as he could uncomfortably carry in order to make up for his handicap.

I'd like to chime in and say jouste sits beside me at work and these concepts roughly take him 2.7 seconds each to make.

Originally Posted by jouste

i really appreciate it when i get some good pointers from an already established 2d and 3d artist.

If by "established 2D and 3D artist" you mean a fresh game school graduate waiting tirelessly for the main door of the game industry to open so he can stick his foot in, then I'm your man!

I think the zombie viking looks great. Took it into photoshop and filled the bg with gray and the silhouette looks good too. The pirate's legs, a little hard to make out what he's wearing there. Kinda looks like a loincloth at first glance, or maybe a sash, or that thing Chun Li wears over her crotchal region. Whatever it is, doesn't really go with the upper body (which looks great, silhouette, pose, and all).

hey pang, thanks for the feedback on my sketches. the bottom part on the pirate was just some stray scribbles so i really wasn't going for anything in particular. i probably should have either been more lazy than i currently am and not drawing anything.

and i didn't mean to make you uncomfortable by saying "established" i was meaning that you got your stuff together online in a portfolio which is more than i could ever really say for myself.

this took the majority of my lunch hour. its like a lizard guy thats swarming with poisonous frogs that hop around and kill guys. the blades are like drenched in dimensional venom and totally blow living things apart.

about an hour and 10 mins in alias sketchbook pro

I love the amount of movement you work into your shapes... good line weight and flow. Great examples of speed-paint concepting, I could see any of them being fleshed out into great characters or scenes.

thanks for the feedback ferg. i'm pretty much notoriously never done anything. which has severely neutered any idea of a portfolio or anything.

i think its because i find polishing not fun at all. after i get the rough idea and people get what i wanted to get across i figure i'm all done and move onto something else.

heres an hour in sketchbook pro. its like a hunter kinda guy who uses a demon's antler on the end of his rifle to channel wicked awesome powers. and that bird is totally telling the guy how it is... in bird speak.

wow these are really fun. Keep them coming!

- BoBo

@ bobo:
duuuude you are seriously like my favorite character modeler! i'm not even lying. the stuff that you did for titan quest was really great and you bring a lot of style into your models. truly inspiring stuff. so thanks for checking out my scribbles!

here's a bogey-mage. ad his mount. the idea is that he casts out all these ghost lures (the little crystal things) and catches em up and stores em for magic. he's launching some ghost bats at the moment and his mount is looking none too impressed. i'm actually pretty happy with some of the details and may do up another pass along with some character model type stuff.

i'm kinda partial to drawing casters and junk cause they can dress like total jack-asses and still tear you in half with a bunch of goofy gestures and magics. i find that you can keep them looking deadly without locking them down with a bunch of crazy weapons and armor (although i love those too).

a little longer than i would have liked,; about 2 hours in alias sketchbook pro with the talking heads in the background.

I know i'm probably sounding like a fanboy right now, but really - your concepts are just WOW. The only thing I can really pick apart is your execution, which is pretty darn solid. But I think it'd be cool to see other kinds of drawing that you can do too, different styles like realism, or some of your completed images too. What you've shown here is quite impressive but they all seem to be at the similar levels of completion.

But yeah, keep up the good stuff!

@pang:
thanks for the boost there man, and you're right, my stuff all looks the same at the moment, but currently i'm just trying to get one new image on here a day to keep me drawing. next week (after hopefully seven more images) i'm gonna pick one that's gotten a little more attention than others i'm gonna take it further. and believe me, i'm taking what you're saying to heart, i need to work on my realism and finished concepts as well as these crashy rough ones.

onto the sketch! i really liked the idea of a lizard centaur thing like in my sketch a couple of posts ago, so i did another one, and i like the idea of him being an awesome sharpshooter. i gave him 4 arms so he can do the single round re-load faster and like gun-juggle between 2 rifles.

so this guy is like escaping from these dog things that have "pur-evil" (thers an oomla thing above the "U")backpacks on that jack straight into their brain and make them meaner than anything i could ever draw in RL. they have been hunting our lizardy friend with the ferocity of ten million raccoons at a garbage dump.

and for those people who are gonna come down on me for "ptchow" and "biff" not being viable ballistic sounds; they totally shouldn't because they totally are.

about an hour and a few minutes in alias sketchbook pro, my crash-artist weapon of choice

Repeating the above by saying your characters have allot of style. Conveying an emotion in drawling is hard for me but it seems as tho you have got the gift. Nice stuff look forward to more sketchy sketches! Dmn 30min or less I need practice this.

the images by themselves are great but the commentary before hand is what sends it over the top into awesomeness:poly104:

oh, certainly no hate'n on 'ptchow!' and 'biff!' from this guy. Reminds me of Waterson. The commentary, not so much in style. I like the style though. The mount for the bogey mage is cool, the trunks remind me of Gagne's Insanely Twisted Rabbits. (must be the twistiness)

Well, keep on biff'n and ptchowin for sure!

chiz chigga pang! wick! wickity-wickle! runk! (apparently, I don't have the touch)

@slingshot:
yeah dude just keep grinding out the drawings. i find that sketch swapping really helps get a few images blasted out. i did a few with some friends a while back and would like to maybe get something like that going here.

@rusty:
thanks for the boost man always good to hear that people read my stuff ;D

@eric:
i must thank you kind sir for directing me too mr. gagne. i've seen some of his stuff before but now i got his name down thanks to you! and i also dug you're face wing angel thing guy. quite the cool beans.

onto today's sketch: about 45mins over the course of a few sessions (gotta get some tf2 in there somewhere...) i drew "knot-head the stumper". he's this guy that's a tree that carries a big axe thats used to take down anybody who doesn't check out this thread.

knot-head also is infested with a variety of totally awesome woodland critters like the adorable birds that made a nest in his face and the alfred the confused squirrel, who can't quite figure out why his home in never where he left it last.

again i pulled a little inspiration from that dimensional venom lizard centaur post (holy crap, i'm such a no-talent hack i actually hack myself) and decided to have some small cool animals that live inside the guy as opposed to swarming all over him.

i thought it would be really funny to have some goofy looking warrior cleaving the hell out of everything while a variety of tree animals hold on for dear life or throw acorns at enemies or something i don't know...

Awesome!

@jaco: tanks for the boost ;D

so its a little later than i usually post, but heres one of my favorite characters i've continued to draw.

he's the sluggernaught, an unstoppable mound of mucusy mayhem. he lashes various things to his giant club (including one poor S.O.B that's still breathing) in order to make it more awesome and deadly.

i like the idea of something being so slug like and mega strong that a ballista could blow a hole through him and he would just bellow and keep coming at you with a bunch of gnarly chaotic weaponry. he keeps getting more and more sloppy and gross. eventually i'll do something thats a little more complete so i can call this goofy bastard done.

hey all, a quick one i did at lunch. took me a bit to get started so around 25mins. more of just an idea. i think if a mage was also in an awesome robot body we would be a true force to be reckoned with. his head's made out of a crystal ball and his socket arm ala mega-man can flip out wands and other magic stuff. that's a series of batteries on his back because that's as far as my understanding of the inner workings of a robot goes.

again in sketchbook pro. hoping to make my pick of sketch this weekend to take to a moderately "finished" piece.

Jouste, I love your style! all the random noises and such remind me of how I used to doodle

Haha, great ideas, nice sketches ... fun stuff!

@GsKanible: thanks for the boost man ;D

@MoP: dude i know you probably get it in piles but your lizard guy was soooo awesome. i love lizardmen and your model reinforced my love for the coldblooded cretins. thanks for dropping by!

here's snailor the salt-shooter, scourge of the slugmen. i got a bit of a character sheet for the sluggernaut and wanted to do another snail kinda guy. and bows are pretty cool along with spiky shells.

snailor is also an avid pigeoner, kinda like a falconer but less deadly and more annoying.

i'll get up the sluggernaut character sheet later on today as i have been slacking off a little to much recently on the drawing side of things :{.

this took me about 25mins in sketchbook pro.

Haha.. I know I told you this 1 minute ago, but that salt shaker cracked me up pretty damn good.