Fergus Russell's sketchbook

[Crowbit]

day 30 I can't wait to work on something for more than a day

[Dominicque]

@dominicque - your traditional work is looking great. I feel like I kinda cheese the painterly look. I use a lot of the soft round brush and then add texture in the much later stages to give a painterly style a lot of the time to be honest. 

just calling it done I got to lazy

Thanks. I'm sure this knowledge will come more in handy the more I become fluent with digital-based workflows.

Big Kimo dumb plenty of days where i did very little. I've learned a tone of things from the younger generation that's left me quite windblown by

The rendering on the last image is really reminding me of (a) certain artist(s), yet I just can't remember their name. Were you referencing a particular artists at the time? :)
I assume Kimo must be some sort of art challenge? My, my you are machine! Did you really do one a day? 

[Crowbit]

I'm not sure who that artist might be. I'm looking at a ton of random artists atm but the character is the OC of amerio if that rings a bell. I also look a lot at Mingchen Shen.

KIMODAMESHI, or Kimo7, as it's called this year, is a month-long event that happens on Discord every year. The server only pops up for a month, but the premise is that you need to draw figures every day or you are kicked from the server. It's brutal but fun.

highly recommend it for next year

[Crowbit]

fun one for the final night, did everyone's characters as teddys

[darktiste]

Just wanna say that having tried monthly challenge (inktober&swordtember)myself i admire your persistence but also the level of what you produced daily which i personally would say remain dynamic and pretty consistent in quality.

[VitorCardoso]

Really good stuff, keep it up!

[Crowbit]

@darktiste - Thank you Dark! ^-^ I really want to try Swordtember this year. I found Kimodamashi a lot easier as you work alongside others in Discord rather than alone. There's also the fear that if I miss a day, you're kicked from the challenge completely.

@VitorCardoso - thank you as always (^-^)

morning warm-up sketches while I've been working on my splash piece. Just keeping them fun. Met some new art buddies on discord and they have got me inspired to pump out way more art in my spare time

[Crowbit]

fish have nipples

just a quick character design from a fish pic

[cgmythology]

Great to see updates from you. Loving the latest images, very solid figure work and anatomy as well. The skin tones in particular are also very well done with your human characters, the 'flesh' is very convincing. Keep it up!

[Jephyr]

Continue to love your figure work. Cat on the precious page is sooo good — as is fish guy and sitting down. Love that you put funny elements in your work as well. Makes it fun to check out what you've been up to.

[Dominicque]

I'm not sure who that artist might be. I'm looking at a ton of random artists atm but the character is the OC of amerio if that rings a bell. I also look a lot at Mingchen Shen.

KIMODAMESHI, or Kimo7, as it's called this year, is a month-long event that happens on Discord every year. The server only pops up for a month, but the premise is that you need to draw figures every day or you are kicked from the server. It's brutal but fun.

highly recommend it for next year

That's not the one, but nevermind. If I think of them, I'll note it down and let you know. I got a random company and then AOC, when I googled 'Amerio' (+art).   Thanks, for introducing me to Mingchen Shen, tho! 

Maybe once I figure out a fast digital workflow, I'll try it. I assume all media?
Great work as usual- you are a DON at making your artwork look complete. And, I see we used the same reference. That Kevin Durand pic comin' in clutch for sitting poses with attitude.

[Crowbit]

You people are the BEST!!!! love your kind words ^^

@Dominicque - all medias are valid for Kimodamshi, but I've started to enjoy just trying to make everything just a little more finish looking where I can 

Here are some random ones.
Doing a challenge again this time with workmates and also switching to Clip Studio over PH. tried a splash art but I just hate the comp so it's going here instead of the bin

[Crowbit]

this one came out bad! Who thought trying fish eye one 4 hours was a smart idea =.=