Benjamins Book of doom

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carrying on with some alien/plant like creatures, did these sils and picked one to base a piece on

[JakeB]

Huh, I haven't seen anyone do silhouettes like that before. Seems to work though, nice job. The only comment for me would be to try and push the depth a bit more. ATM it looks like you're trying to push the (our) left arm forward, and the other back. And trying to push one leg back. The perspective is kind of working, but the value range is popping them forward again. I think you could bring the front arm way more into the FG, so it looks like it's in front of the leg, and use some of the atmosphere in the BG to push the other bits backward.

OK, I typed that, wasn't sure it was making sense, so I did a little paintover. I hope that's OK, if not, shout and I'll get rid of it or something. It was weird painting over your work as well, it's a better design than I could have come up with lol. Just figured I'd make more sense this way.



Hopefully you can see what I mean about the atmosphere helping to push the limbs back. I also kinda hid/lost the feet. I'm not sure why, it just seems to add depth to illustrations of big creatures.
Maybe not being able to see the feet leaves room for imagination or something, who knows. Also, I brought in a new plane in the FG, and put the dude's hand on that. Trying to bring that hand right into the FG, again to try and push depth.
Basically, I tried keep the dark values in the FG, the middle in the mid ground, and the lights in the BG. Splitting your values like this means you can make something lighter, and that'll push it backwards. I'm sure people online have explained it better, but essentially, biggest value range in the FG, smallest in the BG.

Hope that helps lol. Shout if anything didn't make sense, I'll try and clarify it.

Alright, here's an example, just pulled from cghub. http://cghub.com/images/view/560541/
See how greyed out those back legs are compared to the front legs? And how putting that big rock in front of them helps create even more depth? That's what I was trying to say lol, I'm just not very good at explaining stuff. :D

Apologies for the rambling essay. Keep up the good work man, it's paying off :).

[rainbowsorknives]

Huh, I haven't seen anyone do silhouettes like that before. Seems to work though, nice job. The only comment for me would be to try and push the depth a bit more. ATM it looks like you're trying to push the (our) left arm forward, and the other back. And trying to push one leg back. The perspective is kind of working, but the value range is popping them forward again. I think you could bring the front arm way more into the FG, so it looks like it's in front of the leg, and use some of the atmosphere in the BG to push the other bits backward.

OK, I typed that, wasn't sure it was making sense, so I did a little paintover. I hope that's OK, if not, shout and I'll get rid of it or something. It was weird painting over your work as well, it's a better design than I could have come up with lol. Just figured I'd make more sense this way.



Hopefully you can see what I mean about the atmosphere helping to push the limbs back. I also kinda hid/lost the feet. I'm not sure why, it just seems to add depth to illustrations of big creatures.
Maybe not being able to see the feet leaves room for imagination or something, who knows. Also, I brought in a new plane in the FG, and put the dude's hand on that. Trying to bring that hand right into the FG, again to try and push depth.
Basically, I tried keep the dark values in the FG, the middle in the mid ground, and the lights in the BG. Splitting your values like this means you can make something lighter, and that'll push it backwards. I'm sure people online have explained it better, but essentially, biggest value range in the FG, smallest in the BG.

Hope that helps lol. Shout if anything didn't make sense, I'll try and clarify it.

Alright, here's an example, just pulled from cghub. http://cghub.com/images/view/560541/
See how greyed out those back legs are compared to the front legs? And how putting that big rock in front of them helps create even more depth? That's what I was trying to say lol, I'm just not very good at explaining stuff. :D

Apologies for the rambling essay. Keep up the good work man, it's paying off :).

Hey Jake, dude thanks for the indepth crit :) really appreciated, actually alot of what you said makes sense and the paint over isnt a problem dude, glad you did it. I seem to forget things like separating my values into FG and BG, but you worded it well enough for it to make sense to me haha, dont always need those fancy books. Cheers dude appreciate it and ill keep it at the foreground of my mind and not the background :P

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2 hour still study, not sure why but alot of my work keeps uploading really blurred, can anyone else help me with this problem?

[JakeB]

Haha, nice one, I'm glad. Not sure about the blurring issue, could be to do with your edges. Might be worth doing a study where you really focus on getting all the hard and soft edges in the right places, see if that makes a difference? Still lifes can be pretty good for that :)

Nice work on the study though, keep it up dude :).

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more studies and some sketching of ideas
















possible idea from the perfect pitch

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some pf today's studies

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Few morning studies ive done over the past few days, only quick just to get my brain up and running i guess.

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Not posted in awhile, found it hard to break away to just make time to upload my work on here and anywhere else. So heres a smallllllllllll stack of recent work.

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study from lastnights google hangouts :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbpXTuwn6oM

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Some more quick colour studies of Rich Bowmans work and grey scale studies of Frank Tenny johnson.




Some random hell solider, enjoyed this still have such a fear of the human figure and anatomy ARGH! my fear shall be stamped out!


knight number 34342893742342342323353

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getting down some ideas for my own ( lightyears away ) IP









and something for fun

[Adam Lina]

Seeing lots of improvement! All that works paying off man.

[rainbowsorknives]

Seeing lots of improvement! All that works paying off man.

Really appreciate this dude! thanks :)

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Update from the past few days




needs more work!








trying to create more characters and what not for my personal project NEST

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About 3 months ago i drew up this map for my NEST project. me and my bud have regular meets on a sunday to brain storm more ideas for whatever this is. because i have no idea at the minute. but im loving it :)



dont have the time to scan these in but, they are all full of studies, anatomy, perspective and tones of doodles. got two new ones to fill and add soon :)


Had two packs of clay for sometime, decided to pull my finger out





last nights sketches, had this idea where everyone wears huge spherical birds houses thats about as far as it got.

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small update. really need to take some photos of my sketchbooks but damn! my phone is so slow....

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Been in a cave for a year trying my darnedest to improve, here's a small amount of work...so much to upload and photograph. Will be posting,livestreaming and joining in alot more often! 4 walls and a cat drive you crazy.

Still life studies






Few movie still studies






Other studies :)


































And the personal stuff :) if you made it this far scrolling thankyou haha :)





































first attempt at zbrush, muchos fun!



Decided to crack out the oil paints

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While ago i emailed Sycra Yasin, asking if he has ever considered doing a stream or recorded chat with a none professional, just to hear how the opinions on each end would compare along with a bucket load of other reasons but blegh some people said it was really helpful others were not to keen oh well :D twas fun.

here it is
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a01QMg47...vGtbBtHw_w

...be gentle with me.

crustacean crew

monster scribbles


Been working on this piece on and off, rather happy with it...so far.

[Adam Lina]

Really like those creature designs bro! And that was you on scryas vidja!? You're like a celebrity now :)