Storm's sketchbook

[Storm]

Since I can't keep focus on just one project with out making a few sketches now and then, I thought I might as well start a sketchbook here as well.

I made this guy today:
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Hopefully more doodles will follow soon ;)

[PascalR]

ahah great style :thumbsup: I know it is stylized but I would brake up the chin shape just a tiny bit.
Nice one though:D

[Storm]

Thanks man glad you like it ;)
Yeah I was actually trying to brake it up but I kinda couldn't think of what to do, but I'll try again for sure, it definitely need it :D

Okay so something crazy good happened last night (while I was sleeping).

Bobby Chiu (guess you all know who he is?) had a Chiustream (donno if you know what that is? he make small contest were we all do an image from a theme and the winner win an original sketch or painting) he made this concept as a warm-up for an upcoming interview with Alessandro Carloni, who was head of story on "How to train your dragon".

The price last night was an original dragon sketch by Bobby Chiu.
We had 6-7 hours (don't remember the exact number) to create a "goth dragon", so with that much time I decided to take my concept to zbrush.
So for 4-5 hours I busted my *** off, (had to stop then because I was so goddamn tired).
I uploaded my image and went to bed.
Here is my image:
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So I woke up this morning, and it turns out Alessandro choses mine as the winner :D So that was pretty freaking sweet! Just wish I had seen it live.

You can see the other entries and the interview here, if it would have any interest:
http://www.sketchoholic.com/Talent/member/my_contest_items.php?ContestID=310

Anyway hope you guys like my dragon as well ;)

[PascalR]

Wow nice one, especially considering the time you've spent on it, congrats for winning the contest :thumbsup:

[Storm]

Thanks Pascal, really glad to hear you like it ;)

[Ken]

nice work! I love your work style (character/creature design) :)
Congrats anyway :thumbsup:

[Storm]

Thank you Ken! And I'm really glad you like them :D

This is not really a sketch but since it need to be done by Thursday, but you get it here anyway.

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I just hope I'll have the time to finish him, got a lot of homework as well.
Hope you guys like him, CC is very welcome!

[PascalR]

Great style, those hands remind me of your aquatic creature :)

Very cool:thumbsup:

[Storm]

Thank you Pascal, alway good to hear :D
And yeah they properly do, my fishguy was kinda intended to be this wierd mixture of a frog and a fish, and I guess the hands came out quite froggish ;)

So yesterday I got really nervous that I might not finish in time, because a. I got sick and spend the entire day puking:banghead:
b. it turned out the deadline was today.
But despite all that, here is my final image:
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Theres still a few hours left to upload for the contest, so If you guys spot something that you think needs to be changed let me know ;)

Edit:
The image turned out a little blurry when I uploaded it, so here is a sharp render:
http://www.frederikstorm.dk/images/doodles/wip/frog/final-amphibian-for-chiustream.jpg

[Storm]

I should be working on my fishdude, and I proberly should have done some homework aswell, but I accidently made this doodle, it started out as random lines on a sphere to show a friend of mine how zbrush worked :D
Its kinda inspired by the balrog from LOTR:
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Id be happy to hear what you guys think ;)

[PascalR]

hehe cute version of the balrog :)

The face looks a touch flat from the 3 quarter angle, but nice zb sketch:beerchug:

[Storm]

Thanks :D
Glad you like it, and I agree he does look a bit flat, leftover from the original sphere I guess ;)

[Storm]

Working on a small project that is due to may the 6th. I kinda need to get away from my fishdude for a little while, I felt a bit stuck with him, so hopefully this is gonna help ;)

He is going to be my own version of Michelango's David:
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I haven't touched the legs much, but I'm working on it.

Let me hear what you guys think ;)
Critique is very very welcome.

[PascalR]

haha nice one, I love the head :)
Depends on how stylized you want to go, but yeah legs need more detailing especially from the back, and maybe you could get the hands more stylized to be in line with the head.

Cool stuff:beerchug:

[Storm]

Thanks Pascal :beerchug:

I think the level of stylize I am at now is very close to what I want, I definitely don't want the sharp edges to become too dominant. Although I agree with you on the hands and legs, so I'll take a look at what to do about them ;)

[Storm]

Got an update ready, I've tried to tighten up the hands and legs, hope it helped ;)

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[Storm]

Okay, been trying to add the final touches.
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Let me hear what you guys think ;)

[PascalR]

Nice stuff! the ankles silhouette looks a bit thick and straight from the back view but great style clap

[Storm]

Thanks mate, I'll take a look at those angels ;)

[Storm]

Okay, so I got him posed, and I would love to hear what you guys think, cause I still got tomorrow to make the final touches.

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[collings]

héhé really cool Storm i like it :thumbsup:

[Storm]

Thanks Collings, really glad you like it :beerchug:

[Storm]

Hey guys, I made this little doodle today, been wanting to do a troll for quite some time now, so I hope you guys like him ;)

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[PascalR]

hehe that's a funny one :beerchug: Don't think those eyes could be smaller than that :D
Keep them comin! (right after you finish your aqua dude of course)

[Storm]

Hehe thanks, no I think this is the absolute smallest I could make them :D
And yeah gotta finish my aquadude, I am really bad at sticking at one thing when its just a sparetime project.

Btw how to I change the thumbnail of the thread?

[Storm]

Don't want this thread to die out, so here is a little doodle I made last night, spend around 2 hours on him:
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He was kinda stuck in my head so I just had to get him out of my system, and I've been thinking about maybe doing a series of small/fast doodles like this one, a bunch of monster in motion, but we'll see ;)
Hope you guys like him.

[oglu]

lol i love this one... :dance:
could give a short breakdown on your workflow...?

[Storm]

Haha, glad you like it Christoph :D

Sure thing, well it started with a little sketch a made a few days ago.
But for the 3D part, I start from zspheres:
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I then spend some time on the low subd, with the move and smooth brush, move it up to around level 4 and move on to the claybuildup brush (which I use along with the smooth brush) and flatten, and from there I take it one subd at the time, jump back and forth a few times to correct some of the major shapes etc.
Also this was so fast to do because I could keep symmetry on for most parts.
And I think thats about it. Maybe I should record it when I do the next one ;)

[PascalR]

Maybe I should record it when I do the next one ;)
YEs please! :D Great style as always, thanks for sharing these Stormclap

[Storm]

Thanks mate ;)
I'm just glad you guys like them :D

I got a new monster in motion ready:
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And I did record the entire process, took 2 hours and 10 minutes, rendering included, and I was just wondering, what speed what you guys like the recordings uploaded at? And this question leads to another, is there some place that take videos longer than 10 minutes, I'd hate to sit and break the video down in parts?

Anyhow, I hope you guys like him!

[Storm]

The videos are up:
http://vimeo.com/14480375
http://vimeo.com/14480526

Hope you guys like them!

[PascalR]

Great vids Storm! Thanks for sharing them:dance:

[Storm]

Haha, glad you like them :beerchug:

[oglu]

great style... i love the dynamic in the pose...

i like to do a camaeleon...

[Storm]

Thanks Christoph! :D
Camaeleons are definitely some of my favorite animals, would love to do a proper one some time.

Anyway, I made this one last night, just got into the new apartment, no TV, no internet, so I really didn't have anything better to do :D
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[oglu]

an other great one... but i dont like the horns...
maybe smaller ones or twisted like a sheep..?

[Storm]

Thanks Christoph, it was pointed out to me on ZBC as well, so I changed the horns ;)
Hope its better this way.

[oglu]

ooh yes... now im fine with... :drool:

[Storm]

Haha, thanks mate, glad the changes improved it! :D