Hey geert wish you a happy new year 
michalis, Julian K, Charly 1969, jaystein777, EZRA52, d_lavega, moni-poroni, mutte696, schieffer: woohoo y’all!!!2011!!! Let’s sculpt!!! 
@EZRA52: thanks for the kind words on my works, keep on sculpting, and looking forward to seeing your works on ZBC 
Moni-poroni: hopefully, your fingers will be a lot better by now! Dang, that’s exactly why I stopped snowboarding after one season->waaayy to wild -> gotta be carefull cause we need those arms and fingers. Nevertheless, hope you had a good “Rutsh” too!
Regarding your project: isn’t it surprising/daunting sometimes how much stuff you need to learn/ take into consideration when developing a personal (one man/woman) project? Most of the things you mention keep me busy too! Anyhow, I’m pretty sure it will be supercool once you can release some stuff -> keep goin moni :).
Mutte696: yeah man, we gotta’ (got sum free time comin’ up near the end of februar
For those interested, check out the link below: Frenchy Pilou has started the daunting task of translating my Etcher_Sketcher sheets into French for the French speaking community at ZBrush France. I provided him with my custom made “Etcher_On_Rotring” font so the look and feel remain intact. It’s so cool to read my pages in French. Thanks Frenchy! 
http://forum.zbrush.fr/index.php?topic=7271.msg101543#msg101543
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…you to provide so hepful tutorials and with so good presentation! 
What more is there to say, your workflow and results serve as an example,aswell as an inspiration,im really new to 3d in general and to zbrush to.But since somehow you make everything look so simple (after study that is ) you make me forget all the mistakes i do look as a possitive obstacle.
Again, thanks
Frenchy pilou: 
at_tension: thanks for the kind words, and thanks so much for taking the time to drop me a line: great to hear the sheets where helpfull! I started this sketchbook when I was a relative newcomer to 3d/ZBrush myself as a way to keep track of progress and hopefully, give back something to this great community. Stay tuned for more & happy ZBrushing (look forward to seeing your z-progress on the anatomy stuff)
Etcher,
I must say I really appreciate the time that you have taken on your informative sketchbook. I love the way it looks and enjoy looking at the work you do. I haven’t made it all they way through though but plan to.
Thanks for giving so much to the community . I for one really appreciate it.
Rick
Hey Rick,
So happy to hear you like the sheets -> lots more coming up (man, I need 48 hours in a day, I guess you know what I mean…)
I spent a lot of time searching for the right medium in which to express myself artistically, and discovering ZBrush was a turning point -> ZBrush bridges the traditional and the digital in an exceptional way (infinite kudos to Pixolator) and it’s one of the things I want this thread to reflect (-> it was great to see how “traditional” and digital sfx played together in Wolfman -> aren’t these exiting times to live and work in as an artist!)
The Journal page below wasn’t intended for release anytime soon; it’s part of an overview I’m doing on the things that inspire / inspired me as I go along -> the whole series will show how my artistic skills evolved over the years. But I feel I should post this one now as it shows one of the biggest influences in my life… .
I value other artists comments on my works a lot, I appreciate it when someone takes the time to write me a line - so you can imagine what this means coming from you … 
Look forward (and I’m probably not the only one) to your new works (ZBrush and other!)
Best Regards,
Geert
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1384? Your really old etcher! 700 years! I never knew they had VCR and Fangoria back than! :lol:
womball: :lol: c’mon dewd, did you really think Bram Stoker invented vampires! :lol: ! I know that the typo isn’t the best in the world but it should read 1984 instead of 1384. So, no more comments on the age thing ok? You don’t have to rub it in… 
What a great idea of putting together all your old drawings as well!
Makes me wanna go through mine too ( think I have 2 full binders somewhere) 
Awesome job as always man, truly appreciate all your hard work.
//Jonas
Ha Geert!!! incredible you still have your old art, I Guess our childhood was almost the same but with a delay of 10 years and 50KM. Cheers mate sculpt on…
Energize: yeah man, I got a few binders too -> my kids love to look at that stuff and it reminds me to keep an open and inquisitive mind / fun and energy! Thanks for stopping by, hope all’s well .
mutte696: those where scribbles I did during math, science, history classes instead of paying attention to what the teachers where saying… how did I ever get through High School without flunking… . Hey man! I got a vacation coming up -> I’ll catch you on Skype -> we go grab that beer ttyl
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Ah, the memories!
I remember that issue of Fangoria …and seeing the poster for Videodrome makes me want to dig the dvd out, haven’t watched it in ages!
“Long Live The New Flesh”
When my dad bought home a vcr I got Creepshow and Alien out and paused all the special effects over and over while I sketched out all the details
Great to see the young Geert at work
Rawsunlight: yeah… the good ol’ days… actually, to get my hands on Creepshow I telephoned all videorental stores in a 30 Km radius, I had my dad drive 20 Km to a nearby town, pay a 125 Dollar waranty deposit so I could see it… (even got the Berni Wrightson book) Quote:“paused all the special effects over and over while I sketched out all the details”… I’m glad I wasn’t the only one nuts enough to do stuff like that…
ttyl Herman :), gotta’ go sculptin’
superb
Amazing thread! Brilliant work Etcher. I remember my old fangoria collection thou,especialy the Hellraiser stuff and Pumpkin head. Good times!
small_orange_diamond
Lol !!!:lol: I also did that! I mean pausing the video and copying and sketching all those cool creatures. I remember even before, when we didn’t have the vcr, I tried to take photos of Godzilla when it came on TV. Drawing monsters in school instead of paying attention was my main occupation at that time…
I’m quite sure that nowadays most of us (if not all of us) unite here at ZBrush Central ;).
Cheers
NOB1:thanks for droppin’ me a line & Kudos man ! Eventually I will have some new stuff to post…
digitalmind: thanks so much man , yeah Fango’s cool -> I used to make xeroxes of the most gruesome images and glue them on the covers of my schoolbooks… , I reread from time to time, so much fun to read about new movies & discovering cult stuff like Phantasm & the carnival of Souls. Would be awesome though to see a ZBrush sculpt of the Tall Man, the Spheres & his minions - someone should do one!
Ecthelion: quote:“Drawing monsters in school instead of paying attention was my main occupation at that time…I’m quite sure that nowadays most of us (if not all of us) unite here at ZBrush Central” same here - thank god for awesome soft like ZBrush and the internet! Dang I even sketched out entire movie scenes as comic book pages (Videodrome scene where James Woods gets swallowed by the tv-set, Charlton Heston driving through empty streets in the Omega man, Scenes from the Thing, I even remember doing a flip-book animation of AAWIL David Naughton’s head transforming into a werewolf)
Oh well, I’m glad I’m still as nuts today as I was back then … .
" Oh well, I’m glad I’m still as nuts today as I was back then … . "
Fortunately!
Carpenter’s The Thing was also one of my favourites btw. Considering that all the monsters were brought to life with animatronics… damn good work man!
See ya!
Ecthelion: cheers man!
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