Random Sketches

[colossalman]

hello. some random sketches during some of my lunch breaks. :)

http://www.saltygraphics.com/cabeSW.jpg

http://www.saltygraphics.com/Ggroup01.jpg

[I.R Joey]

Nice work dude, very nice pencil work, and interesting coloring as well. Are they suppouse to be Star Wars charecters?


Welcome to Toonzone have some punch and cookies.

[colossalman]

hey thanks, not really star wars characters.

the top one is my nephew who's crazy for star wars, the other one is is just a character. :)

[Mary_mari]

Very nice PS work (assuming you use photoshop*), but I really like the rough sketch of the girl alot. You also did a terrific job posing the characters. The boy is so energetic and the girl is very liquid, nice.

And by the way, welcome to TZ! With your talent, you'll easily find a cozy crannie here -^^

[Outlander00]

First, welcome to the Drawing Board... Nice to see more and more Illustrators finding their way around these here parts. Makes me wanna cry *tears up*

ANYWAY!!

I love the style... very clean and few lines with a rather unique style for the faces. Very energetic as well. :)

hehehe... The one of your nephew reminds me of mine when he chased the dog around with the light saber I got him... :D

[TimTwoFace]

Very nice indeed! I love the contrast between the before and after pics!

-Tim

[colossalman]

thanks everyone. and thanks for the warm welcome. here are a few more ideas. :)

http://www.saltygraphics.com/themoviecrewgroup.jpg

http://www.saltygraphics.com/mikecolorrough.jpg

http://www.saltygraphics.com/GNEW03.jpg

http://www.saltygraphics.com/guy03.jpg

[Marc]

These are wonderful. I particularly like "the movie crew". I can totally picture an animation of them walking in slow-motion like in the beginning of Reservoir Dogs. :cool:

- Marc

[TimTwoFace]

"Errrrr!"

:anime: Love it.

-Tim

[colossalman]

a few character concepts with color ideas. :)

http://www.saltygraphics.com/CCgroup.jpg

[Tanooki]

hahah. i loved that "errr" drawing, too, tim! great stuff here! i like how all the drawings, even the rough sketches, are so fluid and clean. pretty amazing

[Outlander00]

Again, as I said before... I love the line quality and the energy of the characters. I also like the color paletes as well for the characters.

Nice work :)

[colossalman]

Outlander00: thanks for the comments. I checked your profile, I see you're in Newburgh, I'm in Harriman.

anywho...

Blue Falcon: thanks also for the nice comments. :)

[Outlander00]

Outlander00: thanks for the comments. I checked your profile, I see you're in Newburgh, I'm in Harriman.
I was actually going to say something like that to an extent in my last post, but I went "nah". :p

Yeah, Ive noticed a few people from the general area starting to come on here... Im not alone anymore! :D

[colossalman]

character sketch and color idea.

i'm going to put him in an environment next.

hmmm....running a muck in a city? attacking a submarine in the depths of the sea? saying "yuck" after tasting the food in the cafeteria here at work? we shall see..... :)

http://www.saltygraphics.com/Monster01.jpg

[JLAgent]

Great stuff!!! Love your style!!!

[colossalman]

just a color test of a previously posted sketch.

http://www.saltygraphics.com/gcolortest.jpg

[Sparticus]

Great stuff, love the pencils! ^-^ Hmmm *stares reeeeaaal hard* Is that Illustrator or PSP? Dosen't quite look like Photoshop to me...

Hey that kinda rhymed. :gir:

[Mary_mari]

All of your original sketches are the coolest* I love the energy (especially in the oh-so-famous "errr" drawing; that's an excellent piece). By the way, the girl in the "errr" drawing has a sort of Gorillaz's Noodle-feel about her -- she's still totally your character, though! Which is why I love your art~

Awesome work here, colossalman. The group pic is quite delightful, the squid is horribly wonderful, and your colouring skills are first rate. Way to go! I can't wait to see more*

[colossalman]

thanks Mary-mari, thanks Sparticus.

Mary-mari: you're right it does kind of look like Gorillaz. (which is cool) I've been looking at Koji Morimoto's Sketch book a lot lately and I think that's where I was influenced the most. thanks.

Sparticus: the inking & coloring are Photoshop. I drew paths with the pen tool over my sketch, selected the path and after customizing the brush tool so it had a thick and thin stroke (like a calligraphy pen) I then applied the "Stroke Path" feature. this was just for the outline. I then filled in the color.

thanks again. :)

[kimpossible1fan]

Some very nice stuff you have there. Peronally I like the girl under to the Star Wars guy the best. I wish i had Photoshop, I'm stuck with MS paint :P. I don't use it much, I like to do sketches by hand, be nice to colour them on PS.

--Laur

[colossalman]

sketches from a short comic I'm currently working on entitled, "Pen & Gull.

:)

http://www.saltygraphics.com/gull02.jpg

http://www.saltygraphics.com/gull01.jpg

[Salvor]

Very nice style. A bit too anime-ish for my taste, but it looks solid nevertheless. Looking forward to your short comic!

[Beguiled]

Ah, I love them!!! They're crazy but really fun! Very cool. I think my favorite is the 'errr' one. XD So cute.

[colossalman]

I havn't posted in a while, here's a few new sketches.

http://www.saltygraphics.com/RocketLamb02.jpg


:)

[colossalman]

a few sketches of Barbarians.

http://www.saltygraphics.com/GOLGROUP.jpg

[Mary_mari]

Ah, awesome. The "Pen & Gull" characters have excellent expressions--very emotive and alive! And I really like the rocket lamb; that's quite an idea there* The barbarians are great and have a kind of Disney's Mulan style to them (which is very cool).

Great designs here, colossalman! The short comic sounds/looks fantastic.

[colossalman]

a color study of a previously posted image.

Thanks Mary_mari!! :)

http://www.saltygraphics.com/bar01.jpg

[colossalman]

decided to put a barbarian in some type of contest. david and goliath cam eto mind.

:)

http://www.saltygraphics.com/davidandgoliath01.jpg

[Phantasm]

Great sketches. I love your very simplistic, round ended style of rendering.

[colossalman]

just some scattered character sketches.

http://www.saltygraphics.com/charactersketches.jpg

http://www.saltygraphics.com/charactersketch02.jpg

[Rune]

Wow, what can I say? Love your work and the range of characters and ideas, too many individual good pieces to mention but I did laugh out loud at RocketLamb and the Gull character looks fantasstic, there's almost a paper placn quality to him I can't quite pin my finger on but definitely a wonderful fluid character.

Looking forward to seeing more :D

[HoweyDuck]

Im really impressed thanks for shairing your talents with us

[Casity]

These are sooo good!

-Cas

[colossalman]

Thanks Rune, HoweyDuck, Casity.

I have a bit more to add on this, but I thought I'd post it.

http://www.saltygraphics.com/DGupdate.jpg

[colossalman]

these are for work. I'm designing a farmer character for a point of purchase display. this character (when finished) will stand roughly 5 feet tall. :)

http://www.saltygraphics.com/farmer01.jpg

http://www.saltygraphics.com/farmer02.jpg

[colossalman]

they come in all sizes.

http://www.saltygraphics.com/SMGroup02.jpg

[colossalman]

a few more sketches of the SuperFan.

http://www.saltygraphics.com/SFGroup01.jpg

http://www.saltygraphics.com/SFGroupColorBlock.jpg

[I.R Joey]

Awe inspiring dude, awe inspiring.

You seem to have a really defined line of action on the super hero. In all his poses he has a real thrust in one direction or another.

Good work.

[Easily Amewsed]

Kewlness. ;)
Make me wonder what kinda Christmas cards you make each year.
EA

[SillyBillie]

Those are awesome.