Great Empire of Gunzeticus

Yea I agree with everyone, nice concepts. Hope to see your organic character soon.

Thankyu, thankyu, I think that has to be my best work of 2011 so far. I've been hard at work with practice lol.
As for the line issue. I personally like scratchy lines, I mean, the type that are a slight bit unclean, but not too all over the place to where it's horrible...it's just grown on me over the years, I don't really like turbo clean lineart...at least in my art.
But thanks man.

HERE, is a new one...oh god it was horrible. I took an old sketch I was initially NEVER going to finish, and decided to work on it. It took hours, and hours, and hours, due to the mutated anatomy, so I had to figure out what values went where, and tried my hardest.
Wall of text aside. Here is the result.
I know I messed up a few spots. Crits on the value placement though?
http://img696.imageshack.us/img696/4...tpractice5.png
http://img824.imageshack.us/img824/6...actice5col.png
You can't see the text, I did that on purpose. It says "The dark isn't so bad...once you get to know it". Hinting that a fking huge demon grew out the dudes head lol.


Even more.
This one is a lame practice attempt at making a Soviet...I didn't do a good figure, so I erased most of the body, resulting in a steaming pile of gray crap.
http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/6...tpractice6.png

This is a commision for my aunt. She's throwing a party and wanted my art on the fliers, so here's what I did.
http://img585.imageshack.us/img585/3131/heartj.png
Here's the flier itself that I just received today.
http://img543.imageshack.us/img543/4...edownloadm.jpg

The organic character turned out pretty nice, actually. You're good with maintaining strong levels of contrast, which is a step above most people who get into value sketching. Don't be afraid of blacks, which isn't hard for you considering you are one. Ohohohohoh, casual racism. But anyway:

Now that your shading is pro, all you need to work on is establishing VALUE with your value sketches. What I mean by that is: even in black and white, you should be able to get a loose idea of what "color" everything is. Whereas everything in that piece looks like it would be the same or a similar color. If that IS the case, then work on establishing more variety in terms of texture. Make your metals shine, your skin look supple and your clothes look....fabric-y. That way, the separate elements of the picture don't run together.

Other than that: great work, Gunz. Looking forward to more.

Ah thanks, you got a point, I never really think about color, since I don't do it much.
But that's definitely something I'll look into on future drawings. I'll also work on making my textures differ. Thanks.

Here's some more practice.
The first cone I did before I went to sleep, the last two I did just as I woke up.
http://img18.imageshack.us/img18/24/latestpractice7.png

you are taking some huuge steps gunzet! i really like, no, ENVY your works.

xD thank you a lot, forcing myself to progress and try what I'm not used to has turned out to be a good move so far. Naw need for the envy though lol, we're all at our own levels. Just keep it moving and you'll be awesome.

Here's another I started a few hours ago.
This is near 2 or 3 hours of sitting at my desk, and it's still nowhere NEAR done at all. So this is a progress thing.

You guyz may remember I made two of these characters, Divinity and Child's Play, and so I decided to go back to one of them and choose which to finish up...chose the evilest and easiet one...I mean, Divinity had a simpler face, but a fking gattling gun, while Child's Play has a kitten and a really hard face....anyway, here's the work so far.

http://img195.imageshack.us/img195/7764/progressn.png

Nice. The values are well-assigned so far. I can clearly tell the top of his helmet is darker colored than the middle part.

Thnx Cype.
As it turns out, this one is harder than I thought. I didn't balance the shapes and stuff right so I was constantly going around changes things. Although I rarely erased.

Still not done, just more progress on it...
http://img263.imageshack.us/img263/6...tpractice8.png

very rad so far, I don't have any problems with it at the moment. I've probably told you this millions of time, but you have an epic eye for value.

more plz!

Mmmmm. Cheese. Still waiting on the return of TP3.