Crimson Daggers — Art forum

hey man, I find myself coming back here on a daily basis, I love seeing all the work you put out. The new illustration is coming along nicely too. It looks like a pain in the ass to paint ;p
I think mrfrenik has a good point, all in all it's a pretty solid piece but it has a similar issue that you had with some older work in that the values are all very middle key throughout, and because of that there isn't much in terms of points of interest or focal points. The colours look abit desaturated too, but these are both issues which can be corrected fairly quickly :)

Sweet work as always buddy, keep It coming!

Yarrnick - thanks for that dude. I was just kinda going by eye on that one, but I'll be revisiting your comment for sure when I do another arm study. It's that kind of in depth knowledge that I lack, something to aim towards, for sure. Cheers :).

OtherMuzz - Yeah, it's good fun, still playing around with it, no idea what I'm doing lol. Umm, to be honest, I have no idea. I've been opening a polysphere tool, and just going from there lol. Is that bad? Good shout on the subdivisions though, feel like that helps a lot :)

Lex_Paul - Cheers, yeah that was really fun, gonna have to do another one soon :). Glad you liked it.

MrFrenik - Yeah I feel like it's helping, good fun as well :). I know the golden rule of critique is to not argue, but I really didn't want to go crazy on the lighting on this one. I've done a few pieces back to back where the lighting was all dramatic, and I felt like toning it down a bit with this one. Hopefully the changes I made have helped a little though, who knows. Dramatic lighting again in the next piece :).

Warburton - Ah, thank you man. Glad you think so :). Yeah, I have a habit of getting way too dark with my illustrations. Hopefully I've managed to pull it out a little with the change I made, and I think moving the values around a bit helps to make the face a more obvious focal point. Who knows lol. Either way, focal points are gonna be a focus for the next one :). Cheers for the feedback as always dude :).

New stuff

Face study, Used a load of Christian Bale ref, looks nothing like him though. Still, learned some stuff.







Tweaked some stuff so I could use it as ref for my illustration. Didn't really use it in the end, but yeah.



And the illustration. Minus any little tweaks, I'm gonna call this done now I think, thanks for all the feedback, as always :). I repainted some stuff, fiddled with the in certain areas (the cup hand/pillar for example) and brightened up the piece in general. A few people suggested changing the lighting to something a bit more interesting, but I've done a couple of pieces in a row with really strong lighting, and wanted to try something a bit subtler with this one. Don't worry, rim light will be back on the next one ;).



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Man, your progress is sick!

Awesome sculpting and illustration! The guy in the room looks like the highly refined, uber confident sort. The kind of guy who you are not sure if he's a villain or hero until you hear what he has to say.

The illustration turned out great dude, nice one. Looking forward to the next one!

On a separate note, where did you learn to use zbrush? Ive tried it a couple of times but my tiny impatient brain gets overwhelmed by all the stuff to remember lol

Rognoll - thank you :)

Tygerson - Haha, that's a cool story. Better than what I could have come up with to explain it lol. Glad you like it :).

Warburton - Cheers man. Umm, I've used sculptris a little in the past, so I guess that helps. But I just watched a load of Youtube tutorials, then jumped in. This video's pretty good for just an overview of the interface. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ie4Od4eoh-U Then there's a load of intro to sculpting tutorials as well. Get on it dude, it's fun :).

New Stuff

Torso sculpt study








Self Portrait, natural light


Comp Studies


Thumbnailing


More

Yesterday's stuff

Started a hand sculpt, still got a little way to go though, so I'll post that up tomorrow probably.

Comp Studies


Roughs


More roughs,


And a quick kinda thing. I can't paint fast for shit. So hard lol.

Wonderful progress man! I like your idea for the quick thumbnail value studies. I think I'll try that out myself. Can't really give any critiques except that maybe color needs some more work than the other aspects but that comes with time, after all you still have lik 7000 hours to go, right :D

Othrandir - Cheers dude. Yeah, I definitely need to work on my colour use, but you're right. Plenty of time to get to it still ;)

New Stuff

Hand sculpt








Study


Pose Studies


Thumbs


Skeleton dude


Another unfinished thing


Mongol studies


A thing, doubt I'm gonna finish this

Your progress is astounding :)
And your thumbs have really improved ^^

SpectreX - Cheers dude :D

New Stuff

Leg Sculpt






Master Study - Jean Leon Gerome


Thumbs


And the start of a new piece.
Lines


And block colours

New stuff, took this piece a little further, then stopped. Wasn't working :/


Thumbs


And now working on this. Gonna try and push this one to a finish. Gotta stop abandoning illustrations.

That last one looks promising man! Keep with it!

Matt_radway - Cheers man. Fingers crossed lol.

New stuff

Thumbs


WIP

Mannn, loving the volume of stuff you're putting out. Also quite fond of that hand sculpt and the warrior dude in that post. You're killin it! Keep it upp

Simply amazing. Keep doing what you do best.

Hey man nice progress.

For your sculpts what brushes are you using?

It all looks a bit strange tbh. Maybe try using more of the clay brushes?

pnate - cheers man, I'll try. :)

crackedskull - Thank you :)

OtherMuzz - Umm no idea really. I think a combination of the standard one, smooth, and clay buildup. Gonna take a little break from sculpting and work on some other stuff for a bit, but I'll bear that in mind when I get back to it :). Cheers.

New Stuff

Kinda quick colour study


Some more work on this, gonna try and finish it up today I think.

Prolific like a muh fucka.

Passed 2300 Hours here

MrFrenik - haha, cheers man :)

And, gonna call this one done :)



On DA as well if you wanna see the full res one :)
http://jakewbullock.deviantart.com/art/M...-385122008

More stuff soon, pumped.