John Silva's Sketchbook adventures!

[John Silva]

Eyecager, Thanks man!

Tooth, Thank you buddy! :)

Illustration/Concept of a Furry Rhino Monster.

Thanks for looking, C&C are welcome :)

[kaji02]

amazing!!!

[midknight523]

very cool.
i like how you handled the back leg

[John Silva]

kaji02, thank you! :D

midknight523, Thanks man, yea always wanted to play with that :)

I gotta be more active, let's go back to basics!

"Knightmare":


Armor study:


Hand study:


Fast Feet study:


Ilya Repin master study:


Loomis studies (a ton more to come):


<3

[nickmacey]

awesome john! keep pushing hard! looking forward to a huge update with all the work you've got to do! :)

[Piotr Jasielski]

Great studies man. Love the armor one. Do You have a link to original?

[John Silva]

nickmacey, Thank man, here it is! :D

Piotr Jasielski, Thank you! Sorry i have it only on file :(

Nowww, I'm doing my fundamental studies, what about you?

Anatomy:



Unfinished master study (shame on me):


Hey look! they liked my previous goblin so much that now i gotta do another... [SIZE="1"](I'M TIRED OF GOBLINS...PLEASE GIVE ME DEMONS OR STUFF LIKE THAT!!!)[/SIZE]

Still on the very early stages:

[Ursula Dorada]

Nice ones John, but some images are not loading, at least for me here :(

[John Silva]

Ursula Dorada, aw why not? i can see all of them :(

Card art of a Goblin Captain/Chief charging to a battle.
Had a lot of fun with this one and again, learned a lot!:


More anatomy studies:



And some shitty environment exercises from imagination (around 20-30 mins each):




C&C are always welcomed!

[Piotr Jasielski]

My main crit for environments would be that the contrast is too high. I see that quite a lot on this forum, and I think it's because people usually do not consider how bounce light affects the surroundings and focus just on the main lightsource, leaving, as a result, places the main lightsource doesn't reach too dark.

Look for example at the last one. The sky is pretty bright, even if the sun is on the left side, the sky light alone would make the backside of buildings way brighter. You should either brighten those places or darken the sky. A good method, I learned from Feng Zhu, to check the lighting/values is to look at the image with desaturation layer.

Hope that helps