Laurie's sketchbook

[laurie]

Laurie, you are a really good sculptor. Adding a polypaint work flow to your tool box would sent you to the next level of your art making career. Polypainting might be challenging at first but stick with it, you will get better. Just like you got better with your sculpting.

With that said, I like the design of this creature, but the face is too detailed. Some areas of rest are needed on the face.

Sean

Hey Sean

Thanks for that compliment. I don’t see my self as a good sculptor. Still feel like each sculpt I am wading through. I agree with you about developing my polypainting skills, but right now I just am having so much fun sculpting and finding the forms and shapes.

I detailed that area of the face of this last sculpt in that way to try to give a specific point of focus to the sculpt, so that the audiences eye was drawn there.

Maybe I pushed it to far.

Thanks for the feedback. Always valuable.

Cheers

[laurie]

You’re getting better with each one I see. This is awesome!

Yea I agree adding some polypaint would be cool too. I do like the clay look too. I find polypaint as much if not work as sculpting right now at my skill level but its fun and really rewarding once you get something you like.

Hey Tonare.

Thanks for your input.

Always appreciated.

Cheers

[Lroling]

[attach=260985]ear.jpg[/attach]

An ugly old ear, not anatomically correct but just a fun rendering.

!!!

Wow, that’s one disgusting ear…the hair and the crust! The redness XDXD. Brilliant.

Apart from that, the creatures are really amazing aswell!

[laurie]

!!!

Wow, that’s one disgusting ear…the hair and the crust! The redness XDXD. Brilliant.

Apart from that, the creatures are really amazing aswell!

Hey Lroling,

Thanks for the compliments.

[laurie]

A sketch.

[Madukir]

Wow laurie, you’re really progressing as an artist in leaps and bounds right know!
A pleasure to see!

[laurie]

Thanks so much MattSkinny.

Its so good to read that. Really makes me want to push myself further.

Here’s a little bit more work on that sketch.

[laurie]

A bit more…

[Lateralus86]

Hey, nice concept character. In the first image the zdepth blur seems a little too much in that it obscures too much of the character. Also in that last image it looks like the ear could use a little more refinement/detail and perhaps some sharpness or further definition of anatomy. That’s what I get out of it anyway for a quick critique–but other than that good work on it.

[laurie]

Hey, nice concept character. In the first image the zdepth blur seems a little too much in that it obscures too much of the character. Also in that last image it looks like the ear could use a little more refinement/detail and perhaps some sharpness or further definition of anatomy. That’s what I get out of it anyway for a quick critique–but other than that good work on it.

Hey Lateralus86

Thanks for the feedback.

You are right the ears are bit funky and the z depth was a bit to full on.

Cheers

[laurie]

So I went for a simple polypaint on this last sculpt after some of the feedback I have got.

What do you reckon?

[pjrush]

You’ve got some fantastic work in this thread Laurie, and the latest sculpt is my favourite so far. I can’t wait to see what you come up with next!

[laurie]

Hey pjrush

Thanks so much for those comments. Really humbled and inspired by your feedback.

As a result of your positive comments I thought add some other render experiments.

Not to sure about the amour version, but just a quite concept test.

[koro]

I should say, you are improving well! this last render with the polypaint is excellent.

[laurie]

Hey Koro

Thanks for the kind feedback.

Makes me want to push my sculpting further.

Cheers.

[MealeaYing]

So I went for a simple polypaint on this last sculpt after some of the feedback I have got.

What do you reckon?

I love it, the colors are fantastic.
You and a few other people here make “monsters” that look like people, and I mean people in the sense that they have personality and I think that is a rare thing.

Keep it up, I love your stuff!

[Nichollya]

Really like the sculpt as well as the polypaint. I would bump up the sss on the ear though.

[tonare]

Hey pjrush

Thanks so much for those comments. Really humbled and inspired by your feedback.

As a result of your positive comments I thought add some other render experiments.

Not to sure about the amour version, but just a quite concept test.

This is awesome. Very good.

[laurie]

MealeaYing: Wow. Thank you so much. I don’t see my sculpting as being that exceptional, but you feedback made me feel really good and makes me really want to commit even more to improving. You input on a previous sculpt made me decide to polypaint this last one so thanks again.

Nichollya: Thanks for the input. I see what you mean about the SSS.

Tonare: Thanks for those kind words. Glad you liked it. Your input on an earlier sculpt pushed me to polypaint this last on so thanks again to you too.

Really appreciate all you feed back it really is helping me push myself to get better

Cheers.

[laurie]

Just something I’ve been sculpting - mid sculpt.

Thought I share and maybe get some feedback. Still needs a lot of work on the expression and pose.

Really still trying to get my anatomy a bit better with every sculpt. That still needs a lot of work to. Guess I have a lot of work in front of me. :lol: