michael doig sketch thread

[michaeldoig]

Thanks Pierce :D

JakeB - that's so useful, thank you. I've seen the article by Gurney about the colour bands, and its a great technique, keeping it in mind for this one though and applying it is where it counts. I'm working from a pretty flash ruining photo, so trying to invest a bit more life back into the painting is a really good exercise.

I'll apply these lessons and bring it back with some gusto. Thanks for the direction!

S-mrr! You've totally inspired me too - I desperately need to pour some time into figure gestures, I'll be thinking of your Sb when I do!

And cos' I don't like to comment in here without posting up some work, here's a sketch I did over lunch to go with my recent dabbling with spacecraft. More details about it here on my blog.

[michaeldoig]

Updatage - I started the february sketchbook challenge so expect pages of figures! PAAAAAGES.






Ending with the tortoise piece I'm working on, crits welcomed yo. I'll need to put in a hind leg I think to avoid hover zimmer tortoise.

[Craig Paton]

[Jaik]

Nice sketchbook you have here. The colours in that turtle look amazing, and I really like the method you used on that last portrait.

Great stuff :D

[michaeldoig]

Haha Craig, that's awesome and made my day over and over.

Thanks Jaik :D

[michaeldoig]

Ryu~

[michaeldoig]

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[michaeldoig]

Artchemical 1 hour sketch and Valentine's Gift

[michaeldoig]

Hey folks, got some more work for you.





Speed paint and process, lots of fun on this one. This character has been haunting me for years and I've not been able to quite achieve what I was aiming for. This is closer, and it happened by accident!



Morning warmup inspired by a typo.



Late night, couldn't sleep. Must Paint. Painting.



Eat the f-------king Rainbow.

[s-mrr]

Yaaaaaaaaaaaay more work-!
Wow your use of colour is beautiful and that first female portrait... mother of god... talk about kicking ass!!

Really fantastic stuff and again - eagerly awaiting updates ^^

P.s. thanks you for the kind words, :) really keeping me motivated!

[michaeldoig]

Much thanks to you s-mrr :D Stop by anytime.

This morning's 40 min Owl Study

And a GIF of the process

5 mins of playing around with Flash, luffs FX


Owl God WIP for a poster, crit on this welcomed.

[michaeldoig]

These 2 were done while out at a bar, fun times.

This morning's studies + 15 min colour rough landscape



Trying out using photo's and ref as part of creating some quick production concept work for a short sci fi film.





This is an Owl Man poster for the film Lord of Tears - you can pre-order and watch the trailer for the film here




Round 5 for Artchemical



This is Jenny May, done as part of an art jam - as is the Evil Forest Hooker Automaton at the bottom.

[NickHuddleston]

Really love the stuff you got going on here, keep up the good work, when you get a min can you give mine a look http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-1501.html

[Craig Paton]

Really like the shuttle cockpit concepts. Looks great.

[michaeldoig]

Thanks Nick and Craig :D

Here's some entries for Gaimain's Calendar of Tales February Tale.

[anzhou]

Heya,

Great colours and the mood is great. Feels really fun :) Keep posting!

[SpectreX]

Nice sketchbook! Really fun to look at ^^

[michaeldoig]

Thanks folks :)

Sorry for the quiet spell! For the last couple of weeks I have been moving flat, which feels like a project in and of itself so I figured I'd post up some progress shots of that (as proof ;])



Here's some work from the last while too :D

[TylerDonnelly]

Those are great environment sketches. Your world map is super fun too. You have some great shapes in colors in these last few posts :) Good stuff!