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My Personal Sketchbook - Syntaxcide - 12-22-2012
Finally decided to put one up!
A character I designed for a Star Wars fan fiction. The armor deviates from the traditional pure white of standard stormtrooper armor because this is a field commander.
Dropping in to ruin your day!
RE: My Personal Sketchbook - Syntaxcide - 12-22-2012
After a day of frustration and trashing studies, finally produced this:
Portrait study - Syntaxcide - 12-29-2012
Tonight's study. Weak with portraits and faces; gotta keep working at it.
RE: My Personal Sketchbook - Majinpower - 12-30-2012
Nice studies. The storm trooper is pretty sweet and the textures on those spheres are awesome. Keep the studies coming :D!
RE: My Personal Sketchbook - iggytek - 12-30-2012
hey syntax
quick crit , you need to work on your values and mark-making esspecially with your edges,
with the girl study you have that samey muddy digital material every where because your not varying your edges or pushing your values and using the wrong brushes for the wrong purposes.
on the girl you used a soft brush to paint a hard outline, you kinda know some programatical painting tricks like you used dodge or color dodge to hit the highlights in her hair and the metal studies but beware those tricks will damage your painting than help it becuase i really blast everything to white and blows out the color tempreture so yh.. use it sparingly
so yh dude work on your drawing and values i suggest hitting the loomis books, all 6 of them are free pdfs online google dat shit.
![[Image: Andrew_Loomis_books_by_QuicheLoraine.png]](http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs43/f/2009/107/6/e/Andrew_Loomis_books_by_QuicheLoraine.png)
![[Image: Loomis_Andrew_Figure_Drawing_For_All_Its_Worth.jpg]](https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fPNAUxGJv4w/Tft2NmFhlNI/AAAAAAAAJb8/-IDFUMVWqRw/s1600/Loomis_Andrew_Figure_Drawing_For_All_Its_Worth.jpg)
for value check out my sketchbook follow the value study form scot robertsons mate suface rendering dvds
look forward to seeing your stuff man
oh and move out the mid-west loool :P
RE: My Personal Sketchbook - Syntaxcide - 12-30-2012
(12-30-2012, 06:42 AM)iggytek Wrote: hey syntax
quick crit , you need to work on your values and mark-making esspecially with your edges,
with the girl study you have that samey muddy digital material every where because your not varying your edges or pushing your values and using the wrong brushes for the wrong purposes.
on the girl you used a soft brush to paint a hard outline, you kinda know some programatical painting tricks like you used dodge or color dodge to hit the highlights in her hair and the metal studies but beware those tricks will damage your painting than help it becuase i really blast everything to white and blows out the color tempreture so yh.. use it sparingly
so yh dude work on your drawing and values i suggest hitting the loomis books, all 6 of them are free pdfs online google dat shit.
for value check out my sketchbook follow the value study form scot robertsons mate suface rendering dvds
look forward to seeing your stuff man
oh and move out the mid-west loool :P
Thanks! Yeah, I've been told that. I have some issues when it comes to edges and I think I have a tough time understanding when to apply a hard brush in many cases.
I've looked at the loomis books too; actually my pencil studies are much better than my digital stuff. I start to lose form when I start rendering, especially with people. I'll post some of my pencil stuff and you'll immmediately notice the difference.
And yes, I am guilty of using color dodge for lighting. Trying to tone that down a bit as well.
Appreciate the crit!
Couldn't leave it be. Tried to get the facial planes to look proper this time.
Also, I hate noses. -.-
(12-30-2012, 04:25 AM)Majinpower Wrote: Nice studies. The storm trooper is pretty sweet and the textures on those spheres are awesome. Keep the studies coming :D!
Thank you! I definitely will.
Dark Western - Syntaxcide - 01-02-2013
Dark Western
Something quick and fun... happy new year, Daggers! :)