The Lama's Sketchbook

[Nick Waldinger]

Really cool stuff in here, keep up the grind! I'm really digging the very last piece you added here, the black & white alien/robot dude. Feels pretty loose but also sound enough to be considered finished.

One thing I'd advise though is to always have some structure in mind. Some of your drawings (looking at your most recent figure drawings, in particular) feel as if they are about to topple over on themselves due to not enough attention on what's underneath. Even if it's just a quick 10-30 second gesture drawing, simply keeping that in the back of your head will only help you.

Keep up the good work!

[The Lama]

@Nick Thanks for the advice man, you're spot on. I definitely didn't pay enough attention to the balance of the figures. I think im moving too quickly to the contours so ill try keep the construction in mind next time I do some figures. :)

Bit slack today so just one page from imagination;

[The Lama]

Some stuff from imagination, pretty janky

[The Lama]

Gonna focus on some basic skeletal studies for a bit


Tough dude with his birb

[The Lama]

Faces, a butt, and a random painting today

[bmswift]

Love the lineart on the guy with the bird, really nice!

You're killing it with all these studies, and good job on the September CC :)

[The Lama]

@Bmswift Thanks man! Likewise, i'm looking forward to the CC stream :)

Did an alien sculpt in zbrush for the daily spit sculpt group on facebook and some environment thumbs. I'm interested in giving environments a try since I haven't done more than dabble in them

[The Lama]

Didn't get much done today unfortunately, attempted to work up one of the thumbnails from yesterday. turned into a bit of a rave though

[The Lama]

Trying to do simple value comps but having a bad time

[The Lama]

Did some random drawings from Paul Richards random generator with a buddy O mine, good fun!

[The Lama]

Zbrush thang and more environment squiggles

[The Lama]

Spent most of todays painting time trying to work on my colouring. Having trouble picking appealing colours as usual. I was happy with how the shark thing turned out but not so much the little grenade mine thing. Not sure if its a problem with the design itself or the colours. Also my Inktober drawing for today and the normal map from a tiling rock set ive been working on in zbrush.