Raph's Sketchverse

[Raphael_Nadeau]

not a lot of work this week, tried to finish the poster.

[Raphael_Nadeau]

Pretty relax week because of the holidays, (Happy holidays people) but you can go look at my blog to see all the sketches from my project combine together.

And I did this

[meat]

Very nice poster! Also, nifty animation :D The dog looks like he has something dropping out of his chin tho.

[Raphael_Nadeau]

Thanks a lot for the comments meat, you are right, I need to change some things and I will try to change the chin too.

[Raphael_Nadeau]

I am back after some day off for the holidays.
Here's my new schedule, I never did the Bloodsports, so I took 9 of them and I will do them (BS stand for BloodSport not the other thing)



Last week :

Trying to  do realistic and stylized characters, drawing is hard. 







Finished this guys yay ! any CC ?

[AlCo]

First of all, amazing sketchbook, you're really putting the hours in and it shows A LOT.
You have a good sense of design/forms/shapes.

Do you work traditionally only when you're away from the pc?

I have to admit I fell in love with Riley and Torch :D amazing illustrations in the previous page!

Also, with that leg gif, it was something I wanted to try out by myself too (after watching Sinix's video); what did you use to do that? TVPaint or Photoshop?

Keep the awesome work coming!

[Raphael_Nadeau]

Thanks for the kind word AlCo, trying my best to work harder tho, well, i know how it is I guess. 

Sadly, you called it, I don't work enough in my sketch book when I'm near my pc. I need to change that :).

I'm glad you like them, they were a lot of fun to work on. 

For the animation, I use photoshop.

Thanks again for looking at my stuff :)

[JyonnyNovice]

Hey man, I love the way you study, seems pretty thorough like how you focused on the leg on and off for quite a while. Love the character development stuff too! The asterix is cool, I like how he feels like he's smiling even though his mouth is hidden. Maybe the red in the nose is a bit strong, since the light from the right feels cool but his nose looks red all over - I am no pro on colour though so maybe it's right and could be balanced by some more warm / red tones under the eyes / upper cheeks or something. Is it moonlight and he's outside by a campfire?

If you're still looking for movies to study, try Samsara. Awesome for settings, costumes, colours, ethnic types. Hope your year is great!

[Raphael_Nadeau]

Hey JyonnyNovice, Thanks for the kind words, i am glad you like some of the stuff i do :). For Getafix, I am happy too see that his expression is reading well but I most agree with you with the colors, I tried with the nose being a little more red in his local color and tried to add son SSS with the light coming from the botton ( the fire ), but I think It is a little too strong and is more distracting than helping the piece.

I had to put the movie studies on the side forthe past months but, I am bringing it back so I am always looking for interesting movie and stories. Thanks for the suggestion, just to be sure is it this one ?

[JyonnyNovice]

Yea that's the one, endless amount to study in there ^^

[Raphael_Nadeau]

JyonnyNovice : Alright I'm going to look at it sometime, maybe next Sunday and takes a lot of screenshot.

Last week (some sketchbook since I was away heyhey...) ; 

Sketching, mixing realism and stylised stuff





trying to simplify the shapes and the rendering.











gesture / study :









Bloodsport 1 : scifi hunter and pet :





quick idea





composition and studies (watercolor)

swamp dragon (old sketch):





I don't know if I should keep the foreground.





''finishing this guy, I have so much more in my head for this guy

[Raphael_Nadeau]

Hey guys, here's last week :

Trying to stylize again






Little logo thing for a friend

gesture


Study and design for Bloodsport 1 scifi hunter and pet, African hunter and his wild dog. Didn't finish it in time (last saturday)  for multiple reason but I will try to make the deadline for the next one.








design idea

color sketch

[Raphael_Nadeau]

This week work (for the bloodsport process you can see it on my blog :

Studies :







Sketching









Bloodsport 2





Bloodsport 1

[DQ_Nick]

Damn dude looks you're improving a lot, especially with your brushwork and gesture. I need to catch up
to your volume of work lol

[nutriman]

Really nice, whenever I see other people's SB I wish I had more time to study..

Don't you count your heads anymore? i actually thought it's a nice idea to do so.
Sorry didn't see anything systemic to critique, just enjoyed viewing your SB.

[Raphael_Nadeau]

DQ_Nick: 
Thanks Nick, My schedule kind of help to improve I guess, drawing every day is a most do in my opinion.

Nutriman: 
I think it is good to have a good balance studying and drawing your own ideas. Yeh I guess I could count them again, I was counting them last year because I wanted to get better and do 1000 of them. I guess I could do another 1000 this year ahah

Last week :

sKetching:














SVS contest




Bloodsport 2 Swamp elder sketches and studies

[Raphael_Nadeau]

Las week :
-trying to finish the bloodsport 2
-a random Danny phantom fan art
-lots of sketches since I was away from my pc
-sketched for bloodsport 3 : Gauntlet cover
-sketched for the fisherman from last week
-Sketched for someone who donate for the challenge.

I am currently doing a challenge to raise money to help children with cancer, here's the promo art I did.
If you are interested and want more info on the challenge please here.



Warm up and sketches:

















Danny phantom fan art for no reason



BS2



Wasn't sure about which hand to choose



BS3: gauntlet

[Raphael_Nadeau]

damn... where does this week went... already Sunday, I can't believe. So yeh lame week :

Thanks for looking

 sketches and studies, all my portraits are now looking the same...f me :














Almost finish with the bloodsport 2, That took me way too long....

[Raphael_Nadeau]

last week :

Process of the bloodsport 2 on my blog

Sketches:















Bloodsport 2, done for now,
I think the design could be better, it's a little boring that way. It feels, to me, like I had to texture him to compensate over the fact that his design is not good... I might do a simple character concept image for him with a better design.
The warm light could have been more subtle' I think. But yeh, Lets do better for the next one.



Danny Phantom fan art.

[Einver]

Solid stuff! The volume of work you're outputting is sure to energize your progress. I love how you've been quantifying your studies and also laying out your plans linguistically-- these are important modalities for learning.

All in all, keep up the good work-- a lot of "character" is starting to bleed through to your drawings and paintings.