Hello!
Welcome back to the third installment of pagebook sketch throughs! I mean sketchbook page throughs! Where I take you through my old sketchbooks in a video.
For those who can't watch the video due to time or data constraints, I give you- Le writeup!
This time we are looking at end of 2009 and 2010. My sketchbooks at this time are fully functional to fit in with my digital painting work flow. I would use my sketchbooks for life drawing and to plan digital paintings. There were a few things that I really focused on in this sketchbook. I will point those out in the next few images.
Focus 1: Character development.
Weirdly enough Morgoth or Melkor appeared a few times in this sketchbook. I love the Silmarillion, and Morgoth is an awesome character! I haven't seen a depiction of him that I super love though. So every now and then I take a crack at him!
Focus 2: Dynamic poses
The prize for most hated image in this sketchbook goes to this cat-man-fellow. He was so stiff and boring that he sent me on a tangent to prove to myself that I could produce more dynamic poses!
Proof of said tangent. I wanted to make dynamic poses. These were much better, much more fluid and dynamic.
Focus 3: Planning paintings
I was at now regularly planning paintings in my sketchbooks. The painting would often end up almost exactly the same as the planning sketch.
Ta da! Weird alien culture duel, or ugly little alien dudes as my wife called them.
This image is my attempt as Smaug, a long while before The Hobbit movies. I wanted to show his coiled raw power as he shattered the side of the mountain where the Dwarves and Bilbo were hiding.
Here is how it turned out, look at that chest full of bling!
Thanks for checking out my post. If you'd like to see more of my stuff have a look at :
- #tbt Sketchbook page through part 1
- Sketchbook Page Through Video Part 2: LOVE&NARNIA
- Venom Charcoal Sketch
Cheers
Lynton
