sketcharoos

howdy partner, long time no see.

not really proud of these, but anything is better nothing.

schools been really a beech.







haha i quickly threw in a bra in ps to cover her boobs, Pwned.







unfinshed stuff

This work is awesome... you are very talented.

Yes, kimchi is certainly the master of realistic shading.

lots, and lots, and LOTS of girls

good job, as horrible as they are they are 10x's better than what i could do

heh... good job Kimchi

And what's with the Bra in PS? You know I think that nudity does not equal porn.

Awesome realistic stuff...

And yes... school's a b*tch.

icbm1987

School's a bitch! lol i said that too!!!!

Well I hate to break it to you but... you're awesome... really really awesome....
Damn that shading ^^b

I luv ur weird designs very original and FUNKY.

great stuff....

meh... third person to say that school is a b!tch but i cant complain....

the third one some how reminds me of that amazon lady that was on tv several years ago....

neat stuff again kimchi!! what can we critic?? you got teh ultimate master shading technique (like in my anatomy book) -_-'

School isnt a bitch!!! school is weird for me.... my homework is to draw a font with my own homemade tool and ink. gonna use spaghetti sauce for ink and probably a stick with grass for a brush... stange isnt it ? and we dont have the right to use any existing tool... the teacher gonna take all of our weird stuff in photos and present all to some kind of conference

weeee I have comments. glad you peeps like the pics, it was fun drawing them

im kinda happy with the first one. I didn't use ref and it came out pretty decent. hurray for me. Dont have time to go on the net looking for ref.

I always feel wierd replying to comments, because I don't know what to say.

Marco: wha my shading is realistic. i didn't know it was realistic. I always thought it was just confusing.Thx

shadow: yes girls! the most beautiful creatures on the planet. I just cant get enough of ass, legs ,and boobs ^_^.

Icbm: School is a bitch indeed. In my class I have a gigantic text book to read. And get this we have 2 extra books to help us read the gigantic text book. You need books to help you read other books wtf. I dislike reading very much > . <.

Candy: ha most of these funky concepts were influenced by anime. Watching some wierd ass anime. Lately I been gettin a fetish for girls wearing corsettes, harness,and fish nets, hawt hawt hawt! boing ing ing ing.

death: thx

saborea: Waht going to use the photos and show to people in a confrence sounds fishy. maybe your teacher is doing expirements on you guys, and you guys are like her gueinea pigs. like ink blot tests.

lol wtf am i saying.

Anyways back to doing boring ass homework.

Awesome work Kimchi, the more girls the better.

:)

Yes anime has weird ideas... man those japanese doods are great rofl!

Really nice stuff. Inspiring to see. One thing that makes your shading so great is the fact that you use a lot of light greys in there. Well, you use a lot of all the greys come to think of it, so I guess having such a great range of tones accounts for it. Nice
blending too - did you use a pencil? I don't like when people blend with tortillons or paper stumps, and respect people who can make nice grades only with pencils.

And down with censorship! We, as an art community, have to be open-minded. You can't close your mind if you want to experience everything as it was meant to be.

But you don't like ass-patting (as they call it in eatpoo) without some constructive criticism, I understand. Well, you make it a hard job for me. I am still so very impressed by how much you've improved. If I had one gripe, it would be this: sketches are great, but when haven't we seen a sketch from you? I want to see a finished picture that you can say you went all-out on. I know, it is kind of revealing that way, and you lay yourself open, but it's a great way to grow. Not to say that the spontaneity and energy of your sketches doesn't help you, for it surely does.

My favorties are the head in the middle of the second piece, the crouching girl you covered up, the top view of the one lass, and that last picture. It looks like it would go great in a game.

Well, keep up the good work, man! I always love to see your stuff. What kind of school are you in, by the way?

heh stop nagging me about making a finish piece ogre - . -. To tell you the truth I don't know what "finish" is. Is it picture with eye exploding detail, everything really tight, tells story. Im kinda clueless when it comes to art, everything is just done spontaneously.

I don't know how to communicate my ideas properly.

I don't even know anything about composition, how am I suppose to attempt a finish .

greys Pwn. Heh most of these were frontal lighting, you hardly see any shadows only half tones creeping on the sides.

Im going to a crappy community college majoring in Liberal arts. Liberal arts is like not even a real major.

Liberal arts something to do when you don't know what your going to do with your life.

Lately I been thinking being a Cook, Animation or Graphic artist, I still don't know yet, so confused and lost :\ .

Maybe ill just be a carpenter like my dad.

Finished. That is an ambiguous word, I suppose, which changes depending on whose point of view you're using. What finished to one person is sketchy to the next. You know, how some people wash their floors every second day and call it clean, whereas I sweep my floors every couple weeks and say that's clean.

Let's take your last example. I see you started on it, but it looks like you just lost interest and wandered off to do (draw) something else. There's a story developing here, but it fails to connect with the viewer. I mean, there's something of a background in there, and that armor looks pretty snazzy, and her anatomy is very good. But the viewer might ask questions like who is she? What is she doing there? What's happening in her life? Why is she bare-breasted? Is that how she's supposed to be, or is it because you didn't clothe her yet?

You can add more things, but it doesn't necessarily have to be insanely detailed. Is she from a high or low class? You can communicate that many ways. The way her hair is neatly trimmed and her aloof expression make me think so as opposed to loose strands of hair and a more open, down-to-earth expression might say. Is her clothing well-trimmed or homespun? Does she bear any insignias? What's she resting her hand on? Is that a staff, or a sword? Is she a knight off the battlefield, a figurehead, or something else? What of her environment and locale? Where is she standing? Is she on the ground in front of an army, taking a rest on a battlement, or is she posing on a balcony?

It may seem kind of cold to calculate so many things into a drawing, and you may find that it makes it much less interesting for you cand can kill the process of illustration. I can see you have a lot of energy in your drawings, and something makes me think that stopping to carefully consider putting all kinds of things like this into a drawing would hamper your creative process.

But that's what concept design is all about. You have to tell a story with your picture. You have to set a mood, and most importantly, you have to involve the viewer. It can be flawlessly drawn and perfectly rendered, but if it doesn't go outside of its boundaries and engage the viewer in an intimate way, was it as succesful as it could have been?

Telling a story and making something that the viewer can relate to adds a different dimension to the drawing.

Now don't get me wrong, because I see a lot of this stuff in some of your works anyways, You handle poses and expressions in a great and expressive way. Your fresh and interesting design of your pictures surely does capture the viewer, but I know you have the ability to push it further. Once you've done it enough, it will be a subconcious thing that you don't even have to think about.

You can't be scared to fail, either. Not knowing about composition, for example, should never hold you back. You'll learn by trial and error. Even if its a subconcious thing, you'll eventually understand why a picture with a good composition does it for you and one without makes you feel indifferent. I already see a lot of stuff you do which compositionally make your pictures succeed. For example, focusing attention via tightness of rendering, texture, and speed of the lines are all things that you do already. Some other aspects of composition, however, can't really be fully appreciated or realized on sketches. Leading the eye around a picture becomes easier when the figure is in an environment and there is something going on.

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Yeah, I'm taking some liberal art courses along with my other ones. I'll just say: my design class is the hardest and most intensive thing I have ever done in my life; liberal arts are kind of boring at times, interesting at others; fine arts classes really let me slack off.

And there's nothing wrong with not knowing what you want to do with your life. High school really puts so much pressure on you to know what direction you want to take your life and can lead some people to making bad decisions. Take some time, and just choose whatever you feels makes you happy. There are bills to pay and food to be brought to the table, indeed, but money isn't everything, and your happiness is or cardinal importance.

My sister spent three years and has a bachelor's of arts. She's a restaurant manager now, although she originally wanted to be a pharmacist. See how things can twist and turn? She thought she wanted to be a pharmacist because that's what the teachers told her she wanted to be. There's nothing wrong with carpentry. Her husband installs drywall and he makes about 30 USD/hour.

Just do what feels true to your heart. Can you respect yourself if you're doing something which you feel isn't right for you? Let's just say I respect the farmers from my hometown far more than all of my relatives with great engineering degrees stuffed in their briefcases.

Hmm, maybe I should have put this in a PM. Whatever. Cheers!

Well kimchi, you know i had the same problem, i didnt knew what to do of my life, maybe a suggestion here... you are awesome with a pencil, so basically it would be a waste to never use that...

Suggestions:

-Graphism-
you can try like me graphism at college, so far i love thoses classes, however you dont really need to be good at drawing to take thoses classes, creativity is the most important abbility to have and develop while your studying, it is another form of art, Commercial Art to be exact, at this moment we learn Visual Communication (which is insanely fun and great, we learn to communicate by visual art), Drawing here is like a + , you can be graphist and Illustrator, one of my teacher is graphist and illustrator, he make Commercial stuff (like posters and he always get job of illustration by a bunch of ppl (basically you get paid around $600 to put a theme in image) need info? pm me and i will tell you all, i could talk hours about that

-Artist jobs-
have you tough apply to get jobs related to art ?
like concept artist or illustrator, colorist (dont know how to spell that) there is plenty of job in art domain, you just need to know them...

anyway i hope this help a little... and good luck with whatever path you chose