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hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

This thread will be full of it.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Stupid exams make me not draw. Still, I got a sketch done.

I DRINK ALONE. Based on George Thoroughgood's song.

Fennewalde · **Posted:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 12:32 pm

dude, normally, your finished work is so crisp and angular but i gotta say, i love the raw energy of your pencil lines. Like a lot. Slick work!

Hardsloth · **Posted:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 2:58 pm

I love this man. I need to see him finished.

Igo · **Posted:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 3:09 pm

Awesome shit man. Only issue I have with it is his sword handle kinda runs a tangent into his left arm, I thought the handle was his fore-arm. But otherwise looks great man.

NHOJ · **Posted:** Tue Feb 01, 2011 10:40 pm

This is great character design right here: very distinctive, with a nice silhouette.

Osorio · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 12:48 am

Agree with the tangent thing that Dave mentioned. But yeah, I really dig the energy in the lines.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Whoah, thanks for all the comments!
You guys are right on all accounts - I'm rather rusty since I hadn't drawn for a while, but I had no time to deal with the tangets tangent. Also, I am painfully aware that my pencils far outmatch my finished work, even tho they are by no means stellar. I will definitely get at least one finished thing this month, only, sadly, not today.

OPEN THE GATES OF BATTLE! So the female half-orc monk can kick the crap out of the ogre. I was there when it happened.

When I was a kid I used to love Metzen's Warcraft 2 loading screen sketches. In fact, they got me into drawing.

I will not do one-character sketches this february, for that would be cheating.

Igo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 2:55 pm

I love coming to threads seeing sketchy stuff, to me it's kind of the point of this challenge, to keep it loose and exercise, not try to impress with FINISHED art. Even colors can hold the "loose" look and a few people are doing excellent with it. So no apologies man, these are looking great.

TheBronzeBush · **Joined:** Wed Sep 22, 2010 9:07 pm **Posts:** 248

wicked stuff!! I like to believe when I drink alone I look like that.

is there a dead thing on the table?

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Yes, and Mjolnir is lodged in its skull. Or at least that was the general idea.

After walking around most topics (I couldn't see them all and comment there, despite my best intentions) I realized two things:

1. Everyone on this forum is awesome.
2. There's not nearly enough bears, dinosaurs or sharks.

So I decided to fix that with my next pic, and upload it before I go to bed, so I can get some work done tomorrow. Here goes:

Ken · **Posted:** Wed Feb 02, 2011 7:38 pm

Bahaha awesome. What are you inking with? Lovely loose feel to it.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Some strange japanese comtraption - some sort of a brush pen, although I know not its name, since it's in Japanese. And since it's the unoficcial 'draw a dog day' I whipped up this Post-apoc wolf.

Igo · **Posted:** Thu Feb 03, 2011 6:53 pm

hangemhigh13 wrote:

2. There's not nearly enough bears, dinosaurs or sharks.

Im on it...

And thanks for the compliments on the forums inhabitants, we try to scare the d-bags away...

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

i wish I could work on that more, but I don't have the strength - some crappy virus beat me to a pulp today. Hopefully - more tomorrow.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

AN UNLIKELY FRIENDSHIP. I love owlbears. I want to have one as a pet.

Hardsloth · **Posted:** Sat Feb 05, 2011 3:01 pm

Dude. That Metzen-inspired one is so clearly Metzen-inspired. I always loved his work in the old Warcraft manuals. Way to capture that essence!

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Thanks, Slothjammer. I really appreciate your opinion - it is because of one of your post backs on the Tavern that I started paying more attention to colors and stuff.

And now - KUNG FU PANDA vs. BOXING BEAR. That would make an awesome Rocky-style movie, albeit a rather short one.

HolyMane · **Joined:** Fri Feb 04, 2011 7:54 am **Posts:** 15

nice stuff man!
...that bear has a shark club and a dinossaur pet?
HOLY CRAP ITS LIKE XMANS ALL OVER AGAIN!

Hhoal · **Posted:** Sun Feb 06, 2011 9:58 pm

These are awesome sketches man. I really love how loose everything is. And there's a good amount of bears here but there could always be more. I like the sketches you inked also, great lines there.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

shitshitshit shit SHIT my slow scanner FAILED ME. I was so close and yet I failed. Or did I?
Well, here it is, my FEB 07, 30 minutes late. Drat and double drat.

These are rough sketches for Post-Apoc Riding-hood.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

And for today - this.

CogNoman · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:15 pm

I can only imagine how you must hold your pencil to get those kinds of sketch lines. You're somehow able to draw really "fast-looking" lines, which must mean you're probably holding the pencil kinda loose, and maybe fairly high-up the shaft (yuk yuk), but you're also able to throw in harder/darker, sharp/pointy lines in to the mix too, meaning there must be some pressure there as well. I dunno - however you're doing it, the results are pretty distinctive; it creates like... a really energetic feel with a lot of power behind it and strong shapes with curves leading in to points, etc.

But yeah - it's great to see you on the boards, hangem. I still remember when you coloured bayless's superhero drawings and it still blows my mind to this day the direction that you took them in and how cool they were, haha.

So yeah, the sketches are cool, colour is cool, it's all cool. Cool cool cool cool cool! Cool!

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Cog, this was an awesome post. It really was.
There's no secret to how I draw the pencil - just like everyone else, I only try not to spend too much time drawing - if it sucks, move on to the next pic - every next thing you do is better than your previous stuff, so dwelling on something that sucks gets you nowhere.

I also like being on these boards, I'll start walking around giving everyone a piece of my mind ASAP.
About these sketches - I have no clue where they're going, may have to redo the rat. The face of the fox is an example of sticking to it till it comes out the way you want it to - hence the graynessness

EDIT: also

Igo · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:12 pm

I'll be honest, your looser more abstract form is way more confident than when you try to make things a bit more generic. Dont you dare stray again, Im loving it when you're not so worried about bringing things 100% home, keep em loose as hell man.

Monk · **Posted:** Wed Feb 09, 2011 6:14 pm

I agree, second guy from the right on that last piece is a great example.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Yeah, but sometimes it simply yields crappy results.
I have decided to post colored stuff from the 14-th on.
Luckily, it isn't the 14th today.

This could've been a great picture, if someone else thought of it.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Yay! On time!

spaghetti016 · **Posted:** Fri Feb 11, 2011 9:28 am

Lots of fun shapes on your last piece here. I am thoroughly impressed with everything else. KEEP GOING!

Kid-With-The-Hat · **Joined:** Sat Jan 29, 2011 10:11 pm **Posts:** 227

... is that Rick Deckard executing Darth Vader?

you have to finish that

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

Thanks guys and yes, it's just that.

I'll redraw it after the 14th and finish it - I also thing it's a neat idea, even if I say so myself.

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

hangemhigh13 · **Joined:** Sun Jan 30, 2011 4:22 am **Posts:** 107

HOLY EPIC COLORED BACKGROUND, BATMAN! also no, this is the name of tomorrrows's pic. Today it's just a castle.

Ken · **Posted:** Tue Feb 22, 2011 8:01 am

We demand moar owlbear!!
Haha such a cute design.

kaptain-karmel · **Joined:** Tue Jan 31, 2012 7:16 pm **Posts:** 208

Whoa. Awesome pencil sketches. Love your lines man.. seriously.

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