Rotohail's "Reclusive" SketchBook

[Rotohail]

Nah man, no suggestions. I was wondering how you come up with that design. Looks dope. It's really fun and inspiring just looking at your sketchbook. Makes me want to do better myself.

Well I think you are doing really good yourself! But thanks! that was nice to hear. I think we all have our ups and downs, I've been on a down one for a week at least, just try to be ready for the ups and focus your energies on those! I can feel the tide rising.. ha, maybe just wishful thinking...

Some really great updates here, solid work all around.  I really enjoy the angles you chose to depict, always very dynamic and unique, as well as confident.  Keep up the great work!

Thanks! I guess I can say the same about yours after checking your SB. Lets both do so!

Those studies, man! I'm repeating myself but: They are so strong because you know how to put in just the right amount of brush work. Taking for instance the woman on the sofa, looking at the clothing detail and the sofa pattern, you keep it broad, kind of fuzzy at places, and yet it all looks so believable.

The second canvas, the three scenes, they look like ready to ink for a comic! Try this please, as an exercise (and an enjoyment for me ;). Is it a visual pun that the elf looks like she is leaning on the dead king's thigh? If she wasn't on a different perspective space she could have been the assassin.

Honestly, like I appreciate it but I feel like I still don't get that at all, like I catch myself at times still "scratching" with my brush, a really bad habit, like I have to stop myself and just look at something and think, how many strokes and what angles, or if I need a different brush, softer or what not, but I just default to scratching with what I have. I'm working on that, but I'm glad you feel is working right now! Well believing is more about the right values/tones, that's what gets you the form illusion. I can tell you if you check the reference, there's so many mistakes, and so much details I don't catch, but I'm trying to work on that, eventually I'm hoping I'll get there, or eat my fingers! Ha.

I'm actually doing that! But I've been stuck. Thanks for the suggestion tho! Ha, yeah actually I didn't plan to have them be related as in a sequence of events but they do feel that way, I just wanted to have fun placing them, I like to do stuff like that, characters coming out of panels or interacting with others in abstract ways, like stealing a line (like the ones for that leg section) for something else lol, it's fun!



So I've been slacking off, and I'm not happy with myself about that but oh well, I'm trying to get back in the saddle. I have a bunch of things started out and I've been jumping between them, a bunch that failed and had to rework or will rework on the future.
I've been mostly trying to practice the things I've been reading on Scott's "How to Render" but still on the early stages. I have a few studies I need to keep working at, blocking things out, then detailing. I did start coloring the previous page with the running characters, added/changed things there, but I've been stuck with the fantasy character ones sitting, still figuring what I want. I had some fun with potentially a few sketches, the girl smiling, the organic designs and the sci-fi girl standing I think I can get something out of them. I would like to make something interesting with hard-surface drawing / industrial drawing but I still can't think of anything I like.
Anyhow, leaving here a few things. It's been two weeks...