Othrandir's sketchbook

[Othrandir]

jackjones - Thank you! :)

so ccrazy stuff happening.I'm going to have my own exhibition in march , so I have to produce some good stuff :D









revisited an old paiting , which I think has some potential. I don't know if I'm done with it yet.



also a new painting from today.I call it " Tired."

[Othrandir]

Today I did some client work , but other than that I finished the dragon thing and I also did two 30 min airplane studies.Unfortunately the second one got corrupted...so yeah , here's a dragon and a plane :D

[Othrandir]

some stuff from today for youuuuuu :D
Got back into toned paper , yey.How could I not after seeing for the 100th time Donato Giancola's stuff...daaaaaamn the guy rocks :O

the guy with the hat was supposed to be Indiana Jones.Everything else is from mind.









and a part of a new personal painting I started, trying to give more sense to my senseless paintings :D
I learned so muuch from it so far , I can't wait to see it finished ( hope I do't ruin it in the process...)

[Othrandir]

haven't slept yeey :D
Here's what I was doing through the night.
finished the dragon thing (came out waay too contrasty as always...damn.)
Although , I am not extremely happy with the painting , it felt like a huge leap forward.One of the most obvious things for me was that I started painting without zooming in all the time.Most of the time I was far away , which was extremely hard for me.



the sketch I did beforehand



close-ups





I also did another re-do of an old painting.This time a lot quicker and dirtier. 2-3hours max.

[Othrandir]

Just some sketcheeees :O





I call him Mr.Whatthefuckiswrongwithmylips Smith

[Othrandir]

Yey! Today was a really produvtive day, even though I got up at like 9:30 am and didn't start working 'till 11 'o clock.I managed to take out a big out of my commission stuffs and as a reward I did a lot of studies and experiments.

started with three 20 min still lifes to warm up ( I had to make up most of the lighting , since it was a creepily gloomy morning...everything greeey :D ) , not sure about the headphones , maybe I'll blow itout into a more detailed thing , but I haven't decided yet.Probably gonna leave it like that.







so here's the sketchbook stuff - hands , faces and poses - some of them from reference , most of them from mind















I tried a new style of studying - doing the preliminary sketch and colors from photo reference , and after the basics are down go your own way.It's really fun!
Experimenting with textures and going for color



I went through Bumskee's sketchbook again ( I'll never get tired of it :O ) and I decided to try and do one of these.Great practice.





and a 1 hr sketch to let some steam out.Trying to put some texture in my work for a change.I've always been working with mostly the hard round brush and always smoothing things over.Figured I was missing out on something and I waaaaas :O Everything today I did with almost no zooming in and it feels GREAT! :D

[Othrandir]

So today wasn't nearly as productive as yesterday.Suuper depressing day...nothing came out nice and I had zero excitement while drawing...anyway

two sketchbook pages , a live portrait of a girl in my drawing course and a sketch for a new painting

[Othrandir]

yey , I've got a tumblr now - http://www.othrandir.tumblr.com be sure to follow me, I want dem stalkers :D

here's some pumpkins through the ages



a friend drew me one of these -> :3 <- , but sort of made it like a bear, so I played around with it a bit.We called it care-gollum, because it looks creepy but he cares
I'm experimenting with the smudge tool.This was mostly done by putting down color with a brush with no opacity dynamics and then spreading with the smudge tool with a scatter brush.



and here's some sketches

[Othrandir]

wooohoooow , broke 8,000 views, you guys are awesome! :O ;)


pencils - sketches and figures mostly , all from imagination
digis - LOTR FOTR screencap studies ( 40-60 mins each ) and a crazy random sketch from this morning to warm up ( 20 mins i think)

[Othrandir]

Okay, well at first it was supposed to be a speed painting of a flying chick in a random background, but i kinda got way into the background...so yeah

It was pointed out to me that it looked a bit like Noah Bradley's painting, that was not my intention at all , I didn't even think of it that way until someone told me.

anyway, it took about 3-4 hours, I hope you like it




and the steps I could gather...didn't really think ahead, sorry :D

[Othrandir]

done for concept art.org's teen challenge with topic : Return of the terror" too bad i missed the deadline :D

done in 6 hours

[Othrandir]

some sketches, skullzz from life ( well in their case, not that much life but you knwo what i mean) and my drawing class :D







then i tried randoooom experimentation with a small sketch of a girl :D things turn weird quickly when you don't give a crap about the end result :D



here's the before & after :D:D

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some sketches



and a small thing i did for my fb cover :) http://www.facebook.com/Othrandir

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some sketchezz



and also wanted to show you my new book separator i made for myself :O How i did it you ask?, Well, very easy, 1) I took a piece of paper and drew it
2) then i scanned it and printed out a new,exatly the same version, flipped it and taped it on the backside of the original
3) took it to get laminated and voila!

[Othrandir]

Okay guyssss! Going hardcorererererer :D

These were all done today, I don't believe it either :D But yey Productivity boost :D

sketches I didn't bother to put in any particular order, so yeah : almost all heads are from head, except for Eddard Stark ( try to find him! :D ), poses from mind and hogarth, hands from life and from hogarth, skulls from photos









1hour still life of my IBM coffee mug



20 min still life of Bob with some random on top of it



1hr 30 mins still life of a wine bottle on my desk ( trusty companion after a finished painting :D ), perspective is so shitballs on this :X



and a supermegacrazy random 3 hr portrait :O



bleh that's it , tomorrow more ;)

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[Othrandir]

Yarrnick - hehe, hey I'm Othrandir and I approve your approval of me.I hope you keep it up :D


well today it was too crappy too little too quick

super crappy 1 min poses, haven't done those in a whiiiile :O



sketching heads before exam in school... i messed up both the heads and the exam...damn



sketchbook page, some stuff i like , some i hate



trying to quickly capture screencap motion, trying to put a small amount of detail, but still have the scene be readable

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anatomy stuffs...all hands from life ( my left hand ) , poses and heads are from mind
I've grouped them two by two A4 pages, cuz i think you don't need to see too much details :P









sketchbook page fur fun :D



something I'm having fun with at the moment... got inspired after watching Silent Hill... thinking of doing some pyramid head fan art...definitely would be cool :O

[Othrandir]

helloooo :D

first a 15-20 min sketch from the morning to loosen up ( supercrazyultrafreaking bad...I know :D )



then some referenced arms and heads from lovecastle





( these looked so much better when i was doing them...i promise :D )



a 20 min doodle while talking to friends



finally finished the Silent Hill guy, I call him Jargsold
For better quality - http://othrandir.deviantart.com/art/Jargsold-354405737



I also did some client work buuut i can't show u that :D and i want toooo :D

[Othrandir]

Yey, I did a lot of work today ^^
grouped them by twos, every page is A4 size as usual

some hands from life to warm up



accordingly gotta draw some feet



moving up : legs



poses from reference



Hogarth studies



top of the body now - Heads
These are from reference



and these are from mind :)





3 still lifes- an onion, an apple ( with some cheesy effects lol ) and a lamp thing painted with full opacity..damn that's difficult :(







and finally a 2hr 30mins sketch, trying to get an "in-game" kind of feeling. Going to paint a character in the front...or at least i plan to... :D