CGMythology's Sketchbook

[cgmythology]

darktiste:  That's a great point, and the reference you posted was very helpful.  Just refined the image, hopefully it works better now!

Lunatique:  That's interesting regarding the anatomy - I was going for a bit more of a stylized look to show off the muscle groups.  Not sure if that was the right call but I just tried to make it look more natural now, hopefully it works better.

I agree regarding your feedback, it's something I needed to hear.  Right now I'm focusing on some freelance work and I'm currently doing studies on lighting on my spare time, both digitally and traditionally.  Sometimes I really want to paint a full illustration, but what I do now is if I have a good idea I just sketch it out and will paint it at a later point as to keep the focus on the studies.  

Thanks for your honesty and advice as always, means  a great to deal to me and I really appreciate it!

RottenPocket:  Great feedback!  Love what you did with your paintover and you made some very valid points.  I refined it based on your input, hopefully it works better now!

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I have a ton of updates today.  First She-Hulk, did some final adjustments to the image to try to improve it based on the feedback I received, hopefully it's an improvement:






Next I decided to go work traditionally to do some lighting studies.  I haven't drawn on traditional media in over a decade believe it or not, but I just adjusted fairly well I think.  This was the first time I experimented with toned gray paper as well, and I'm glad I did because I absolutely love the format and it works ridiculously well for lighting studies:

























































Finally I continued my digital movie still studies.  These are speedpaints pretty much, I try not to spend over an hour or two on these as the goal is to understand light better, not refine/detail them to death as I don't see the point:




















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and that's all for now!  I'll continue doing these studies as I learned an immense amount for them as well, so I'll have more updates in that regard soon.