***the sketch book***

[E.Simon]

Okay i don;t paint but i just got this one from my homey he got some skills i tell ya!



for more of his work check http://www.facebook.com/l.php?u=http%3A%2F%2Fnickwho.blogspot.com%2F&h=183de

peace

[IIIII]

[dishwater]

i did this one last week, for the diggers:

[UbiquitousCanuck]

Dude that looks so ill! Looks like it could make an ill record/cd sleeve

[timfromtexas]

i agree it is supe sick! illustrator? photoshop? can you give a basic run down of your process and how you did that drawing?? i wanna do more digitally and have trouble making things look organic my stuff is all real rigid.

[dishwater]

thanks guys, cool that you like it.

It's not digital, just pen and paper. The original drawing is only 22x 10cm. I did it with a bunch of old plotter pens (like the ones that used to go into machine plotters) that I refilled with india ink. Got them from a secondhand shop around the corner, I bought one box for a euro and the next day went back and they gave me the rest of them for free.

The shading, other than the ink lines, was done in photoshop though, one layer of greytones set to "linear burn" (blending mode of the layer, at the top of the layers pallette). I was actually planning to color it fully, but i decided I like it better minimalistic. There was also a head on top of the body, but I didn't like that, so i cropped it to the bare essence.

@ tim:
i agree, i dislike most fully digital stuff too, so I try to do most on paper, it just adds a lot of texture and naturalness that you will never get from software. But I always take it into photoshop after scanning to do different stuff to it, change levels, colors and so on. I'm not so into illustrator for the same reason, too clinical.

[timfromtexas]

just what i needed to know and kinda what i thought you did... some of the lines look like stuff i have had happen on accident in illustrator so i wasnt sure... looks cool man... thanks for the walk through

[dishwater]

dilla portrait, what do you think? still working on it, but any feedback would be great.

[timfromtexas]

love the direction this is at. what medium? i have mad respect for anyone who has looseness to their work. i am confined by my rigid hard lines so when someone gets organic i love it. id like to see it finished before i say much ya know?

edit: will you post the photo reference?

[dishwater]

thanks
it's black watercolor (ie. no colors used), plus photoshop...

and i like the looseness too, just i wish i could do tight as well... i find it hard to do anything very clean

gotta look for the photo reference, it's a nice pic, somewhere in my hd

[IIIII]

[timfromtexas]

the yellow guys expression is awesome.



yin and yang. hang that up someplace random in public. ive been wanting to start doing that.

[IIIII]

lol i noticed that after i painted it. its mad creepy upsidedown ha
bad photo but new styles altho prob not done

[timfromtexas]

i like that print stuff you have going on in the background. the layering is nice. any explanation behind it? or do you just work it up to a point where you just cook till done and serve?

[IIIII]

just something ive been doing... pics don't do it justice. I've been chopping up my old drawings/photos and whatever else i have and layering them, sanding with an electric sander and re layering and adding new stuff as it progresses. circles and collage come from a heavy chuck holtzman influence after i met him and saw his work. been drilling out stuff on some thicker pieces... sometimes i have a design plan and sometimes i just go at it and work off what im doing in real time. ive started getting into the idea of representational architecture, that's what these thick lines are trying to achieve.... architecture as authority, architecture as director of movement, etc. trying to mash up all my idea's into something cohesive and its really tough gettin' there though