THe SkeTch Blog

workshop

2009-12-06T14:02:00.001-08:00

for workshop #3 here at http://boards.polycount.net/forumdisplay.php?f=59

great spot .

punkin

2009-10-19T10:50:00.000-07:00

punkin

nightly sketch ep 2continued...

2009-08-31T06:59:00.000-07:00

I went mostly bulky with this guy . kind pillowy on some areas but that was my bad cuase i did not step down as far as needed when I moved his head to round it out more also the back on him is not showing any muscles should show just shape but even them it is a bad shape i know but I got sleepy at around 2:00 so I went to bed. alos this is a little high but only cause of the teeth witch looking at it now could have used more loving i was happy with how i started them though.

nightly sketch ep 2

2009-08-26T07:14:00.001-07:00

i want to try a hulk guy so I started this guy last night i think the goal here will be to make him look bulky and as wrinkly as possible .

nightly sketch ep 1

2009-08-26T07:10:00.000-07:00

did this last night .

blurb

2009-07-06T06:22:00.000-07:00

so the Wip post was lame now I lame some more .?

but fear not i am getting closer to a better sculpt

i know the teeth are retarded but I forgot to do something and well it is fun to see a progression of what i do even if it is not good . also prepare for care bear?????? yes !!!!

skull again

2009-06-29T15:34:00.001-07:00

I went to far to fast . I probably shouldn't post this, but I wanted to post something I am working on .

I will make this look good./ or not

skull study

2009-04-13T22:57:00.000-07:00

I started out with a cube . 1st two are like 24k then the others are 300k meh! I will do better .

sock it to me baby !!!! sorry ninja turtles is on .

sketch

2009-03-08T19:35:00.001-07:00

i was trying to do a scuplt but it is a fail . I thinkiam getting a little better I just need to do way more ( that jaw s messed up )

me sleepy but my head starts to wake up this late

2009-02-16T01:14:00.000-08:00

this is going to be my bug Bee eye Itch.

I am trying to understand form and structure better I need a lot of improvement still . plus if anyone knows of some good fat people reference please send me a link

Graaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!!! I need to sleep

more sculpting

2009-02-16T01:12:00.001-08:00

the monkey bird guy being more and more sculpted/trying to make look right/ better
must get good .................

fail

2009-01-18T16:35:00.001-08:00

I had the orgin moved off center just a tad .

so this was a fail. I only noticed when i was staring to block in the face shapes.

hulky

2009-01-10T23:08:00.000-08:00

just some hulk sketches trying a new way to draw at least for me Aw( is an awesome artist ) has this really fun way to draw and then AT(is probably my new favorite artist) has this other really cool way to draw I am going to try and learn from these guys . There is a drawing stuck in my head from Aw that is heavy man shows weight and volume and it is just a sketch but holds alot of what I want my drawings to hold . AT has some really great stuff as well he can move from different ways of drawing but keep it his drawing it is really cool here is a link to At's blog ( http://andrewtrabbold.blogspot.com/ ) dude is great I'll post some more tomorrow cause I want to scribble lines now.

peace

also I need me some George Brant Bridgman books ( that is a note to my self )

yo man

2009-01-04T02:55:00.000-08:00

YO !! I love bad ps

one love

damn that man is sexy ! mmmm

2008-12-21T14:48:00.000-08:00

spiderish yay! just playing with brushes and trying to get better at this way of drawing.

spider thumbs

2008-12-12T21:26:00.000-08:00

just a couple spider thumbs I am trying an all digi work flow
it is kind of cool I still like pencil and paper

giant coming out of sketchbook

2008-11-22T23:03:00.000-08:00

small post of my giant guy it will eventually be a giant and machine put together.

i'll color him red when he is done yay !!! RED!!!!!!

Attack mode

2008-11-22T22:54:00.000-08:00

I tried this before but this time I feel a little stronger with it right now i am blocking in the features i will work on the arms and legs next but i hit the face and body a little.
The Brush Crashed and i didn't save so your seeing a slightly older version the newer one i toned down the cheeks and fixed the eye lids. so right now this should look like i am trying to get the underlying skeleton to fit and the anatomy blocked in i am so going to need a little help with the feet, but I have ref for that . any way I'll post some pics of my sculpts i am working on later .

peace love and soul train!!!!

Sketch

2008-11-14T15:26:00.000-08:00

this was pretty quick sketch of a snub nose detective gun i just wanted to try and make shapes no detail . i might take it further but mostly I'll use it for parts.( i kinda feel it looks wonky)

my other sculpt

2008-11-09T22:25:00.000-08:00

i am working on more than one project at a time you know so i can put one away so i don't get used to the way it looks any way this one is something I want to do more of a metal cyborg kinda deal I want to learn and get better at sculpting I really like it.

yay sculpy I said a WOOT!

?????
in this I need to fix the face to be more like a real face AW showed me some flaws in it already and gave me some good advice on how to fix them . Woot :)
i have no idea where i got woot from but i have been saying lately just like mandango ??????
peace

super hero YAY!!!

2008-11-09T22:22:00.001-08:00

hey cuz some here is my
super hero of the day it is super duper maaaaaan
and just a quick sketch of his enemy the wierd bolt guy ok i didn't really name them all that well but I had semi fun on them .

bugbitch

2008-11-09T22:16:00.000-08:00

ok so here are some pics of a reworking of an old character I learnde alot from the old one and now will hopefuly learn something from the new one . The thing i neeed most work on besides everything is the armature i hope i spelled that right. also i feel i am starting to understand structure better . in the next post you might not see it.:) sorry but they were quick sketches

Swords Pt 2

2008-11-02T21:27:00.000-08:00

Hey Cuz
I took a few of those thumb nails and turned them into a 3 quarter view it is more like just squeezing one end down and giving it a little volume. (Which means thickness/ depth.)
in the thumb nails we were just going for a design you know let are imaginations take the pencil
in this step you want to clean up the idea so when people look at it they can start to see what you are drawing . also the white and black are there to help with the depth and witch way the light is hitting it , the paper i am useing is just to help see the white better .

if you feel that it might be to hard to draw your sword this way try a box first

draw a flat rectangle the re draw it so on end is thinner than the other .

then put your sword shape inside of it and carve it out of the rectangle .

in the book i am sending you it will help you understand this better .
any way I'll post the tree i drew per our little challenge in a day or two .
any way message me if you have any questions .

peace out

2008-10-19T21:05:00.000-07:00

i was trying out some very basic blocking out shapes . I did this spider witch is only like ten minutes inand an alligator that i don't have cause my max crashed but I think all and all this will be a new thing for me to do sculpt sketching .

2008-10-16T20:53:00.000-07:00

i am stressing structure in the face here i only had a little time on him today but i will make it look nicer . and hopefully better. also this head is just for sculpting purposes and learning the ways of my jedi mentor :) yay tacos .........

?Swords?

2008-09-28T22:32:00.000-07:00

Hey cuz

so this is stage one. everybody calls it thumbnail stage .

So I labeled them A. b. and c.
In (A) I used a ruler to get straight lines at least trying to
in (b) I just tried to keep my lines straight with out a ruler .

in (C) i just let the pencil flow. Meaning I don't care about straight lines just messing with shapes .

Now one of the first rules you should always abide by is look at reference. just Google what ever you want to draw . study what it is what it is for how it works . now this is a prime rule that should be broken .what i mean is just let your self make shapes and see witch one you like then pick it and move on to stage two witch I'll post later . any way have fun with your drawings cause it is something you can be loose with or tight or a mix I'll send you a few links to some really talented guys know and one guy who i work with who is an amazing artist .

peace

2008-09-09T21:38:00.000-07:00

don't look at the bug eye version i was kind of liking the way this type of work flow was going but my reference was only 1 pic and i know i need more than that . but i had edge flow problems with the mouth and middle of the forehead . i am going to fix those problems in a momento .

alos I had this weird dream of this little girl looked to be about 5or 6 any way she was holding a tea party with her stuffed animals in her room . then I see the floor start to i should say the rug start to move as if someting growing out of it then i start to see this row of kind sharp teeth start tearing through the floor/ rug and thi little girls is still playing tea as if nothing is wrong she even leans back on the chair when i finally realize it is a dragon about to swallow her he clamps down and eats her . I now see her and she is in the dragons stomach were she is talking to a teddy bear wich i relize is the dragons conscious and he tells her ( can't remember witch one ) they eaither need to find a crystal or keep it safe from a bad guy i kinda of remember the bad guy but not really.

2008-09-06T00:18:00.000-07:00

This is a W.I.P I am trying a new way of sculpting well i should say the right way i am starting with a ripped base mesh head and importing it into Z brush where i do as much as I can with each subD level before i have to move on to the next (thanks AW) I am going to try and take my time with this sculpt unlike the other ones witch took only a couple of hours I think this will be a great way to improve my skill set.

oh yeah this really doesn't have anything to do with my model but This great artist said i should just write out my dreams here so i will ...

I dreamed
that I was at my sisters wedding with this thin mint girl who was in love with me and who i was in love with . While the priest was going through the ceromony the girl and I were saying our vows at the exact same time as the bride and groom only we were in the back row and when the ceremony was over we were secretly married .
i thought it was weird.........(I have this other dream about vampires but I'll write that one later since i need sleep. peace

2008-08-24T10:51:00.000-07:00

learned subtools and getting a little better in useing z brush.

zbrush is awesome

2008-08-23T17:01:00.001-07:00

This is a WIp I really like z brush it is zmazingling
zawesome ( i like the zmazing but not the zawesome................

2008-08-14T22:00:00.001-07:00

i am going to be a painter

2008-07-22T23:38:00.000-07:00

ha,. Hello i am fiddling with the normals on this thing and playing with making ao passes in photoshop (didn't workout ) . ok the top two pics are witha a bump map and a normal map (used nividia plug in ) with the settingins at -100 . and the the last pic is at 100 it is wierd. but interesting .

2008-07-19T22:17:00.000-07:00

2008-07-19T13:08:00.000-07:00

making more brushes trying to get diffrent textures .

2008-07-19T12:15:00.000-07:00

Je fais de nouvelles brosses et ce n'est que moi de jouer avec les effets de celles-ci.

2008-06-06T00:25:00.000-07:00

a quick Conan with ink n nib :)

das is it.

procto soldiers

2008-05-29T14:50:00.000-07:00

my procto soldiers :) /Gyrold 101

2008-05-29T01:26:00.000-07:00

ymca ???!!! some heightened drawings in photoshop eh.

2008-05-22T01:17:00.000-07:00

I really like how mud box works I am going to start some z brush tomorrow .I really like the move tool in mud box .

2008-05-22T01:15:00.000-07:00

new head based it off reference but it didn't look like who I was referencing .
but i got a chance to mess around in Modo 301 :)

I like mudbox

2008-05-21T17:13:00.001-07:00

2008-05-21T17:11:00.001-07:00

tweaking with the move tool and messing with flatten and now know shift and alt change the tool your working in sweet.

2008-05-21T15:36:00.000-07:00

Ok so same head just a little different I am having trouble with the eyes and mouth but i am getting close to fixing it/ looking at reference .

2008-05-21T06:06:00.000-07:00

I saw this person model one of the best faces ever well more than one so i tried to do it too. As you can see
I have failed but since this is the first time i have modeled a head in mudbox I think it might go a little faster and better next time .(I need to fix the eyes i really liked the nose though the mouth needs work and damn flabbin ear it was fun building it )I started out using a plane primitive
it took way too long about a half a day . next time back to box modeling.

2008-05-19T00:51:00.000-07:00

This is what I like but it might change i am riggin it and the I'll do a few animations then import into unreal.

2008-05-15T08:38:00.001-07:00

I tried to put a little color onto it but i didn't like it.

2008-05-15T00:50:00.001-07:00

added spec here lightened it a bit messed with the normals

2008-05-14T23:56:00.000-07:00

darkened it a little and added lights

2008-05-14T23:27:00.000-07:00

it is starting to come together needs more colors plus more photo realism.

2008-04-27T22:56:00.000-07:00

yeowza! that is a saturated RED but can't help it those of you who know me know I like RED but this was just a quick mock up I am going to have somebody help me color it when i finish the tone .

but man I love RED

2008-04-09T11:52:00.001-07:00

this is Ryan (Hammer)

it was a quick thing I don't like the line drawing all that much .

Rygar 4 life

2008-04-09T11:01:00.001-07:00

there are a couple of tangents i want to change near the top of his head and the side of his arm but it is almost done .(you might remember this from a while back I redid it as a hight drawing going from a silo to grays to color ) (EB is cool)

wip_giant

2007-12-29T23:33:00.000-08:00

It is not done and I might not finish it.

ok .

lizardey

2007-11-12T10:06:00.000-08:00

just playing with my line .
olddrawing

dragon again

2007-11-12T09:59:00.000-08:00

2007-11-12T09:57:00.001-08:00

old dragon faces

2007-11-12T09:55:00.000-08:00

sketch or doodle?

2007-11-12T09:39:00.000-08:00

sketches

2007-11-12T09:37:00.000-08:00

sketches.

2007-11-12T09:31:00.000-08:00

glwaahhhhh........ So this is a quick model of a creature .I will rip it, rig it ,and then composite it later in my spare time.I call it glwaahhhhh.....

oh yeah I have to apologize to any one who reads this sketch blog I miss spell allot of stuff due to me racing to put stuff on and then get back to working on my class assignments plus I don't take the time to slow down ,but Ill try and spell better.

2007-11-05T18:48:00.000-08:00

oldthumnails

2007-11-05T18:47:00.000-08:00

more tums

2007-11-05T18:45:00.000-08:00

assets to go in my environment drawing._

2007-11-05T18:42:00.000-08:00

upmore

2007-11-05T18:40:00.000-08:00

morethumbnails

2007-11-05T18:38:00.000-08:00

mor thumbs

2007-11-05T18:36:00.000-08:00

lil quick light dark test(done wit marker)

fo class these are just thumbnails so i'll put em up in my sketchblog.

2007-11-05T18:32:00.000-08:00

(silo is my short for silhouette)

these are some silos of gun shapes to later be

drawn then modeled.

2007-11-05T18:31:00.000-08:00

just drawings

2007-11-05T18:29:00.001-08:00

sketchbook

2007-11-05T18:26:00.000-08:00

sketchbook

2007-10-23T04:11:00.001-07:00

I didn't know you could put more than one pic in these thins that is cool. this was a bored sketch the a 10 min paintover.

2007-10-23T03:57:00.000-07:00

This is a paint overkinda agian I basicly get the silo of the head the rough it in . this is a wip but I probley wont finish it. cause I have to do other stuff . the colors are me messing around with brushes .

2007-10-16T15:41:00.000-07:00

WIP

I have know idea when i'll finish it even if I want to

(it started out as a paint over but not really I took her face silo and hair sillo the put the pic on the side and wnet with lights and darks I now know I need to work up a lot lighter)

but any way tis what it tis............

2007-10-03T23:18:00.000-07:00

the white highlight is the high poly
the others are the low poly rtt

I was happy with this being this is the first one i have done (right anyway) it is 860 tris i have a buget of 1000 so i'll post the more finished one later .

2007-09-10T14:29:00.000-07:00

high 2 lo rtt test #2

2007-09-10T14:28:00.000-07:00

anotherdragooooon?????

no jus nother color

strarting up

2007-09-10T14:26:00.000-07:00

a drgooooon

2007-08-24T20:59:00.001-07:00

http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bugtest5ql2.flv

another tes video of the bug.

2007-08-19T20:22:00.000-07:00

http://img532.imageshack.us/my.php?image=flickskintest4tk5.flv

this is a test animation of the bug now i can composite. but that will be for demo reel so i'll put that on my website when i learn how to do it.

this is a sketch

2007-08-17T19:17:00.000-07:00

So I have the realization people looking at this page think this is my finished work it is not it is full of stuff I might finish i might not it is about time . I will have a website with all finished work when I am close to done with school and there you will see my abilites as an artist. I hope all that reaad this understand i am just a novice one day maybe I'll be a pro but if youve seen the people i'v seen you'd understand why i'm still a novice.

so agian just a sketch blog

Grabiel

testin rignskin

2007-08-17T19:14:00.000-07:00

http://img531.imageshack.us/my.php?image=flickskintest3xe0.flv

2007-08-15T20:53:00.001-07:00

bird-test
testing
Add to My Profile More Videos

2007-08-14T15:37:00.000-07:00

cleaner lions(lines)

2007-08-14T15:35:00.000-07:00

lion studies from books

2007-08-14T15:32:00.000-07:00

my lion out of head drawings(i don like this one with its leg looking to long)

2007-08-14T15:30:00.000-07:00

mosters and studies

2007-08-14T15:29:00.000-07:00

more zoo/out of my head drawings

2007-08-14T15:28:00.000-07:00

my zoo draWings

2007-08-14T15:27:00.000-07:00

some cog studies a monster and ect.

work sucks

2007-08-14T15:22:00.000-07:00

I have a cool job working @ DHL ,but it sucks. I have no time to draw anymore

but I have a few things Im still working on.

i drew these last last last week. some from life some from my head some from books

birdguy mediumpoly

2007-06-13T13:48:00.001-07:00

it is coming along I ripped the uvs i have to now paint rig skin him then try and animate.

hes about 150000 polys/quads my computer runs so slow so I'll put more deatail in specialy on the hands this will be for a bake to low poly test i am going to do later .wish me luck.

2007-06-12T15:27:00.001-07:00

creature i didn't like.

dragooooon

2007-06-12T15:26:00.000-07:00

a sketch night dragon head

i like

goats?????

2007-06-12T15:25:00.000-07:00

I am thrying to create

a goat God. i'll get one that i like.

rino sketches

2007-06-12T15:23:00.000-07:00

these are some rino studies.

I try to do these qucik seeing as i only have a half hour lunch and people bug me as I draw.

but rinos look weird.

2007-06-12T15:22:00.000-07:00

I am working at the zoo

and every lunch break i do studies of the animals.

the one on the bottom is an evil goat that trird to eat my drawings.

2007-06-12T15:21:00.001-07:00

one charcole drawing of a face study

will do more.

2007-06-12T15:19:00.000-07:00

face studies from pictures i took.

2007-05-23T14:16:00.002-07:00

I am out of class right now .I have ta pay for them so that is why so many post I don't have internet and I need to find a nice cheap place to live so I can do more art God I need to win the lottery.