(01-17-2024, 06:43 PM)FallowGround Wrote: Awesome to see such a large volume of studies. Really lights a fire under the ass to do more lol.

Your stuff really reminds me of old school concept art from the early 2000s. I'm thinking Blizzard or newgrounds-adjacent stylisation. It's really neat! I feel like it's kinda hard to find that today online, unless someone is purposfully trying to recreate it, like this resurgence of early deviantart sparkle-creature art. It's really soulful.

If you're looking to get feedback with your figures/practice sketches I'd be a bit neater with how you set up the pages. With the space-filling hatches it's hard to actually focus on your draftsmanship, and the art gets harder to read. It's definitely cool to see a filled page, but it can be useful to you as well to be able to tell what the drawing is about at a first glance when you're reviewing your own work later. That way every single drawing also 'matters' a bit more, since it's not just space filler, but a more deliberate study.

Thank you so much for the compliments and critique. I just do what I do, and your recommendation about the full pages make sense. I tend to work very chaotic, most likely a reflection of my over creative mind and thoughts. I'm definitely considering your advice and thank you so much man! 

(01-18-2024, 02:50 AM)darktiste Wrote: Filling space is great for compositional awareness and playing with overlap to create a sense of depth that would otherwise require more perspective plotting. One exercise to practice 4 fundamental at once is to draw a cityscape it practice spacial awareness(how object occupy space),composition(how object are arrange in a pleasing way),perspective(how those objet are represented) and finally overlap (How those object flow into one or an other)

Those fill page remind me of mural like poster but to create to direct the eye and help thing look a bit more natural there empty space to create contrast between the area of interest and where the eye rest.


It already pretty apparent that you have that comic influence and it not surprising knowing how influential comic was in the last 50 years but specially if you were a kid growing up reading or watching them.

With hatching i am not an expert but i would say the trick would be to a master of understand light and shadow and to use the directionality of the hatching to achieve flow in the piece. Obviously that apply to if you to have unity and it not just random accident being put onto a page.

I am talking about those page you did in such a mural way because of your graffiti background.Would it not be amazing to have one of those picture on a wall?How cool is that?

I also know that it natural for graffiti artist to draw over other people work so i am not surpris to see that your drawing sometime seem to come from different universe which create those different perspective point.

Thank you so much Darktiste and everything you said there makes much sense, FallowGround mentioned the clustered full pages not being the best for visual readability so I will make some changes in future posts. I appreciate the good words and glad you can understand me better as an artist, my background, and why I do certain things. I was influenced heavily by comics as a kid and have friends that are well known artists in the industry, so the influence has been strong. I would consider myself a reject of the visual arts because instead of focusing on one topic or subject matter I have become a tornado of many different influences and mediums. That is an awesome picture you posted there, definitely very inspiring and always cool to see that 90's style of comics with the line art. Thank you again on the compliments, mentions, and critiques. 

(01-18-2024, 07:17 AM)JosephCow Wrote: Nice! Glad to see you made a sketchbook! You have so many sketches, the little pose/mannikin studies are looking good

(01-18-2024, 02:21 PM)darktiste Wrote: When i was saying from different universe i was referring to the perspective of the character not the subject matter.

Anyways the concept of multiverse and cross over as become more and more of a thing lately... specially in video game a good example of that is mortal kombat. So nothing bad about liking different influence...

Also you can totally fill space with drawing but it require a bit of thought.Look at how he use the hatching here does it move your eye?I think it does.Look careful even the shading doesn't make sense but he still get away with it...

Here a example and let no one discourage you that this look dope.Sure it not everyone cup of tea.

(01-27-2024, 02:36 PM)Lunatique Wrote: One thing I noticed in your sketchbook is the overuse of strong contrasts everywhere. When depicting form and the lighting, try to put less emphasis on micro contrasts and plan your macro contrasts better. Too much micro contrasts everywhere will create too much visual noise. Some areas are not supposed to have sharp contrast of values, especially in the shadows. Simply the values management of the entire image down to just around 5 basic values, then only put more macro contrasts in areas where you really want the viewer to pay attention, while downplaying the contrasts in areas that aren't as important

(01-28-2024, 04:55 AM)Lunatique Wrote: Sorry, there was a typo in my post. It's supposed to read:

..." then only put more micro contrasts in areas where you really want the viewer to pay attention..."