[SHAP00PI]

Hi! I've been lurking around this forum for too long and decided to actually become involved, so here is some of my work up to date, I hope to update this sketchbook periodically.

I have left out some pieces from my conceptart.org sketchbook because they really just sucked.. my favorite is my Sub-Dio piece, the mountain.

The last image is currently a work in progress, not sure whether to return to it 'cause it really is on a twirlingspinning ride into hell as far as quality is concerned.

Thanks for looking :)

[Mull]

Hi Shap00pi and welcome to CGPAD, thanks for taking the plunge and post up some work. Nice start to your sketchbook and I like the expressive quality of the mountain scene. Keep em coming

[SHAP00PI]

*sigh* kinda going downhill i think, this is VERY similar to one of my latest images, not sure why, I have this image in my head of an oasis of water centered with beaches on both sides and a structure on the horizon.. i guess my abilities just aren't up to the task of making the images in my head, back to references i go with my tail between my legs.

looking for some tips on painter water, and rocks/mountain structures, i seem to over think both and do too many strokes of different colours trying to pass it off as detail, and as you can see it isn't convincing!

[bsfea]

Hi SHAP00PI,

I think the main problem in your scene is that you have no concrete lighting situation. Try to think about where your light is coming from. Like you did in the mountain sketch. Painting is nothing else than modeling shapes with light and shadow, but without lighting you don't know where to put lights and shadows.
In such kind of landscapes the main lightsource is always the sun or in night scenes the moon. In your image the sky is just plain yellowish. So, if your only lightsource is yellow everything in your scene is infected by this color. For example you painted the water blue, but water is not blue. Water reflects the color of the sky like a mirror, so the sea has to be pure yellow.
I would recommend you to have a look at some reference landscapes photos, with an eye especially on the lighting. Where does it come from and what is infected and how it is infected(probably use a colorpicker to see what color does the light has and what color does the lighted object has).

cheers
bsfea

[SHAP00PI]

Wow, thanks for your very ellaborate and detailed reply. Somehow I think I sub-consiously know this, but consiously, while painting all that information leaves me and I seem to be unable to apply it to my paintings..

[bsfea]

yeah, I have the same problem.
Painting from reference is no problem but painting from mind....
I think everybody who starts painting know it ;)
It's all a matter of observing, understanding and a lot of practice.
Keep up with it!

btw...here is a good tutorial on lighting, if you don't know it yet...
http://www.itchy-animation.co.uk/light.htm

[SHAP00PI]

hey guys, sorry for the massive delay on the latest post, family went over the monthly bandwidth so the internet is temporarily and unbearably slow.

all will be fine on the 11th once we get reset, however, this sketch i wanted to share, and the net speed was acceptable so i decided to upload it :)

painter/2hrs/ref

i'm happy with it, just wanted to see how i handled a structure on an angle, canvas was tiny around like 800 pixels i believe, so detail is vague

thanks bsfea for the link, it's definitely bookmarked, takecare :)

have a great day!

[SHAP00PI]

i owe you guys an extra one for being so lazy and not updating..

painter/45mins/ref

some of the horizontal lines could be fixed, in hine sight, and its not really that readable, but i'm happy that i got the reference onto my canvas, with no colour picking and no tracing :)

thanks for looking ^^

[a la bapsi]

shap00000piiiiiiiiiiii

welcome to cgpad

[SHAP00PI]

thanks a la bapsi <3

Not an update in this post, but a question..

Was painting today, from reference, was a snow mountain (cliche) anyway, I was having trouble suggesting detail in my strokes, and was finding when painting detail that it was unnatural and there were too many value and saturation differences for it to be believable. Not sure how to go about suggesting detail, settled snow, rock extrusions etc. without making it stick out like a saw thumb.

I'm not sure, will try again tomorrow and see how I go.

Thanks for looking, have a great day :)

[SHAP00PI]

Got inspired by a piece in a Painter discussion thread over at conceptart.org by Simon Dominic Brewer (http://www.painterly.co.uk) he's a really epic Painter artist, and decided to give art rage a spin, and pulled it off, so I booted up the dusty old art rage and painted this, no ref, about 15 minutes, just throwing strokes around, tried to be as abstract as possible :)

Have a good day :)

[SHAP00PI]

oh, what a learning experience, something so simple in theory is actually kinda difficult to construct, a simple box with 1 and 4 point perspectives, lit correctly, with shadows, man i underestimated the value in doing these..

here you ago, invested a good 30-45 minutes in these, learning how to correctly map out my perspective and light the shapes, in art rage, i think i did alright :)

hopefully doing a few of these daily will improve my competency, ill try doing more complex shapes, my cylinder is kinda fail, but you know :)

[SHAP00PI]

God damn i've been lazy!

Guys i'm sorry, i've been slacking off lately, and with the homework I've got atm, really just used it as an excuse to neglect my sketchbooks..

this latest was sketched from reference of a samurai stock image in art rage, i've been inspired by ancient japanese culture lately, and of course samurais, contempating whether to finish this off in art rage, or to run back to painter

The folds were a pain in the ass, still don't think I'll be able to pull them off come paint time.

[SHAP00PI]

my samurai painting thus far, about 2-3 hours so far i think, ultimately decided to use artrage, so yeah, i'm off to bed, but will return to it tomorrow and it should be done by then, hopefully I can save those eyes before they end up looking any worse..

[SHAP00PI]

Heres my random creation I dubbed 'Mechusa' a reinvention of Medusa.

I like it, just happy I finally got some productive out of Alchemy :)

Great open-source software by the way.

I may or may not continue this piece in Painter, stay tuned!

My samurai piece will be put on hold for the time being, have some difficulties moving forward with it, it's done, in essence, but not sure whether I want to refine it further.