Collings's sketchbook

[collings]

Thumnails

After seeing Tandy and Pascal try 3dcoat, i could resist to give it whirl as well. :) i don't really like the fact that you can't go up and down with the subdvision but anyways maybe after some more try i'll get use to it.

So here is my first test with voxel sculpting. i subdivided the mesh once, the inital sphere had 400k and i subdivided it one times at the end to have some more resolution to work with which gave a mesh at 1.3k .
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[haikalle]

I like this a lot. Looks very similar with the picture. I don't know how well you check 3d-coat forum but there is a few thing that I should mention to you. While you are working with voxels you can change it to poly surface on fly when you click small square icon in voxel layer window. The maker of 3d-coat has promoised that poly surface up/down resolution feature is coming in near future. So Workflow is something like you first use voxels to sculpt basic shapes and then move to polygons where you can add more detail with up/down button. And if you already knew this...sorry :)

[musashidan]

This is getting interesting. A few of the pros here dipping their toes in the 3DC water. I've watched many demos and have been really impressed but was dubious about the workflow and hadn't really seen any sculpts as detailed as existing ZB/Mud works. However, i'm really pleased that some really excellent sculptors such as yourself and others are testing this out. Hopefully now the true potential may be glimpsed.
How are you finding the voxel sculpting tools? Do they behave similarly to ZB/Mud.They certainly look great in the vids i've seen. What about high frequency detailing,is it similar to image based sculpting in Modo or is the detail baked to a normal map in realtime?

[collings]

thanks guys,

haikalle, thanks for the info man, i didn't know that. That would be a great addition to the features, a button also to reproject the sculpt onto the new retopo mesh would be nice as well :) .

musashidan: I just tested the thing for a couple of hours so far, i'm still not used to the sculpting tool in 3dcoat, i only used the airbrush and the move tools but there are many more brushes. The pose tools is nice too. It's obviously not as good as Zbrush/Mudbox in terms of efficiency of sculpting, but the freedom it gives you is really cool. So i'm looking forward to see how this software will turn out :)

Here is the concept , i painted it in Photoshop :)
http://photos-g.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/hs048.snc3/13566_201008356893_584551893_3944471_6402810_n.jpg

[musashidan]

interesting character concept collings, and pretty impessive sculpt considering you had only opened the app :thumbsup:. Are you going to go full body sculpt in 3DC. It's interesting that yourself and tandy are dabbling. And Pascal's work in 3DC looks really great.
I just wished you could convert a basemesh from another app to voxels and sculpt away. I certainly predict a great future for the app considering the bloke programming it seems to be some kind of one man coding machine with amazing ideas.

[collings]

I just wished you could convert a basemesh from another app to voxels and sculpt away.

If i'm not mistaken you can definitely do that, import a base mesh and convert it into voxel.

[haikalle]

Yes..It's already there.

That is a fine character.

[musashidan]

If i'm not mistaken you can definitely do that, import a base mesh and convert it into voxel.

That's certainly good to know as the more i read and watch vids of 3DC the more i'm beginning to seriously consider using it.

cheers.

[PascalR]

i don't really like the fact that you can't go up and down with the subdvision

Same here, it makes you think before hitting the inc voxel resolution button :)
Great sketch Nicolas, nice to see you're having fun with 3d coat too:beerchug:

[MiguelAngeloCBT]

Really cool man! Love the design you did on the mouth!

Keep it up! clap

best,
-Malanjo

[mjackson126]

Very nice model. Cool concept.:thumbsup:

[collings]

thank you guys :)

here are a couple of torso studies after Velazquez and Caravaggio.

http://www.nicolascollings.com/Study2D/2009_12_12_Velazquez.jpg

http://conceptart.org/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=883521&stc=1&d=1263878777

study after rembrandt
http://www.nicolascollings.com/Study2D/2009_12_10_rembrandt01.jpg



i have some more study paintings and lifedrawings on my blog (http://nicolascollings.blogspot.com/) that i've recently created.
I'll post from now on my new ones here as well :)

[PascalR]

Great stuff collings, is that all photoshop?
Caravaggio is one of my favourite painters, my only comment would be about the contrast, that's what I love about those painters. The Clair obscur :)

Nice! and refreshing to see 2d artworks too. :thumbsup:

Cheers

[collings]

thanks pascal, yes it's all photoshop. loved Caravaggio 's painting as well.
I browsed that website some month ago and saved on my HD a bunch of paintings i liked from various painters. I'll post a list of them :)

here is the website i'm talking about for those who don't know it.

http://www.artrenewal.org/pages/artist.php?artistid=132

the quality of the images is really good, it's great for studies.
Velazquez's painting
http://www.artrenewal.org/artwork/132/132/1771/mars,_god_of_war-large.jpg

[collings]

thought tonight i would do the painting from above as a study.

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/2010_01_21_Velazquez.jpg

[PascalR]

Great studies Nicolas, and thanks for the link it's brilliant!

:beerchug:

[collings]

thanks pascal, yeah that site is excellent :) i can spend so much time sometimes just browsing randomly all the artist's gallery ^^/

[collings]

here is another one from tonight :)

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/2010_01_21_Leighton.jpg

[PascalR]

Nice one mate:sw:

[tonytrout]

Amazing, all that in one night, nice paintings:notWorthy:

[collings]

thanks guys :)
tonytrout: it takes me between 2 and 4 hours for those studies. So it fits perfectly on an evenning while wathing some episodes of supernatural. ^^ I'll try to make one more tonight or this week-end.

[collings]

another one from B&W photo reference.

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/2010_01_22_photo2.jpg

[PascalR]

Very cool sketches collings! The RHS thumb has a sharp angle but it might have been like this in the ref?

Cheers

Pascal

[Tom]

I know this is probely a basic question but what are those number next to the colour dots?

Are they the settings for RGB?

[collings]

pascal, yes the angle was more or less as sharp in the photo ref.

Tom, yes that the percentage of the saturation and the brightness of the color sample. I'm doing that to learn how to get corect value to my shadow/ mid color and highlight . That's quite interesting to do so on all the paintings i'm learning from as i can put them in relation and find "basic" theories or rules from that.

[collings]

another one done on a peaceful Sunday.

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/2010_01_24_Caravaggio.jpg

[tonytrout]

Its nice job with your colour palette, I see a guy on CG talk has a little photoshop addon that separates out colour from the shadow (grayscale) which I thought might help in checking a sketch for shading and colour

http://forums.cgsociety.org/showthread.php?f=59&t=845788

[collings]

thanks for the link tony, can be usefull :)

[collings]

Here is a little drawing study after Oberhardt.
http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/2008/03/william-oberhardt.html

http://nicolascollings.com/Study2D/2010_02_06_Oberhardt.jpg

[migusan76]

Really diggin your sketchs collings, Makes me want to go sit down like the old days and draw. :thumbsup:

[Lorenzana]

Nice study paintings.

[collings]

thanks guys, here is a couple more from last night.

http://nicolascollings.com/Study2D/2010_02_08_Oberhardt.jpg

[Silva Spoon]

Nice stuff Collings! Damn dude, your making me feel like less of an artist for having not drawn in so long! :banghead:

[PascalR]

nice studies collings:beerchug:

[weiluntsai]

oppps ,didn't I see the Post???????:banghead:

VERY Nice drawing and model :)

[tiktok]

some really nice sketches and paintings collings! My critique on the paintings would just be color choice. It'd be really nice to see a play between warms and cools (your palette seems mostly warm) as light and shadows are contrast between the two.

The paintings by Yuqi Wang demonstrate this very well:
http://www.commissionaportrait.com/media/50_084.jpg
http://www.commissionaportrait.com/media/50_082.jpg

:beerchug:
-Bayard

[collings]

thank you guys :)

tiktok: i didn't know him, thanks for sharing those very cool paintings. makes me want to do a study from one of these ^^.

[collings]

Evening life drawing session at the studio.

http://www.nicolascollings.com/Lifedrawings/images/LifeDrawings_30.jpg

http://www.nicolascollings.com/Lifedrawings/images/LifeDrawings_31.jpg

[PascalR]

nice sketches man, keep them coming:thumbsup:

[collings]

thanks for your support pascal :beerchug:

[collings]

thought i'd share this torso study i did during the 3-days workshop on anatomy i followed this week. it was given by scott eaton and that was really awesome very usefull workshop.

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/masterclass_scotteaton1.jpg

[PascalR]

Very nice study :thumbsup: I just find the triceps/elbow region looks a bit too defined muscle wise, I would add a thin layer of fat there .

Very cool!

[collings]

thanks pascal, the model had some fine muscles definition actually. and when the arms is fully extended the triceps tend to be contracted as well hence the very defined shape. His forearms for instance was bigger then what i did.

I don't have the photo reference anymore but maybe magda saved it on his usb-stick. if she did i'll ask her to post it here :)

[PascalR]

thanks pascal, the model had some fine muscles definition actually. and when the arms is full extented the triceps tend to be contracted as well hence the very defined shape. His forearms for instance was bigger then what i did.

I don't have the photo reference anymore but maybe magda saved it on his usb-stick. if she did i'll ask her to post it here :)

That would be great yeah! Are you guys doing this workshop through Ubisoft?

Cheers

Pascal

[collings]

yes well it was paid by Ubi but organized by the NAD center (http://www.centrenad.com/fr/corporatif)

[PascalR]

Nice :thumbsup:

[StephaneD]

looking nice
I feel you may have lost a bit of the primary form while going into detail
it's the most difficult when matching closely a reference in my opinion, its harder to feel the model

looking for forward to see more of your studies :thumbsup:

[tonytrout]

I think where the triceps are contracted at the juncture with the elbow ligament looks a little too far forward and possibly a little too far to the outside of the arm to me but I guess the reference tells the story. Also the abdominal muscles seem a bit flat and dominant without an underlying rib cage form support imho. Apologies for crits on your sketchbook thread :eek::notWorthy:

wow going to a Scott Eaten anatomy class, lucky buggers.

[Porkpie Samurai]

Nice studies Nic. That Scott Eaton workshop sounds awesome.

[drummermenco]

sweet stuff man, I like your paintings! :thumbsup:

[collings]

StephaneD: merci stephane, i also feel like some of the main shape are not quite there, especially the back which looks kinda flat to me.

tonytrout: no prob man feel free to throw any critics here, it's just that i won't work on those models i'm posting in this thread as they are just sketches & studies but i'm taking all the comments to hopefully improve my next attempt :) . I also feel like i ****ed up some proportions it looks i think to stretch overall.

Porkpie Samurai, drummermenco: thank you guys :)

[BrettSinclair]

Hey Nic, Awesome work in here mate. That torso scuplt is superb. Love the sketches. You've really learnt a lot since I last saw your work. Congrats man.

[Intervain]

a sweet study there sir :)

[Tandy Nehls]

really nice paintings collings!

and I dig the anatomy study you did a lot too,
the sculpt as whole has a very nice realistic feel to it :thumbsup:

[nielot007]

Hi
Great skechbook !!

[collings]

thanks a lot guys for your comment :)

i practiced a bit of 2d again this week-end. i'm still doing studies from other artist's work but soon enought i'll do my own stuffs ^^

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S9zAgvfNphI/AAAAAAAAAEY/hd6YHrwY2sc/s1600/2010_05_01_BernardoCavallino.jpg

this one is from a still of the movie Jennifer's Body.
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S9zyb-9aL3I/AAAAAAAAAEg/Iw1Fu9EH-Rc/s1600/2010_05_01_Jennifer's+Body.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S9z4iUYuktI/AAAAAAAAAEo/uHIFKNgQPNg/s1600/2010_04_29_Oberhardt.jpg

This one is a study of a aaron mcbride's painting, i just dig his works and wanted to take the time to learn more from him by doing a reproduction of this specific painting.

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S94W8BYztJI/AAAAAAAAAEw/BAtsx2pxRbw/s1600/2010_05_02_AMB.jpg

[PascalR]

Always nice to see your studies, keep em comin!
Second and last one are my favs :thumbsup:

[collings]

merci Pascal glad you like it :)
i decided tonight to make a study from an animal this time around to change of subject.

still from ref.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S-DjTJ8cVZI/AAAAAAAAAFc/wpTmTbHyIS0/s1600/2010_05_03_jaguar.jpg

[collings]

Some lifedrawings from this week session at the studio.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S-TEml1SOPI/AAAAAAAAAFs/-GEtqH0o-z0/s1600/LifeDrawings_33.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S-TEmBw4DLI/AAAAAAAAAFk/wINfT7fm9JQ/s1600/LifeDrawings_32.jpg

[Manuel Poehlau]

Great sketchbook! I really like your latest studies and the painting from Jennifer´s Body.

[Storm]

Some great sketches/studies in this thread, keep it up man ;)
I especially like the 3D torso, with the painted anatomy, really cool.

[collings]

Here is a little update with some work i did in the past weeks. hope you like it, still practicing my 2d ^^

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S-TEmBw4DLI/AAAAAAAAAFk/wINfT7fm9JQ/s1600/LifeDrawings_32.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/S-TEml1SOPI/AAAAAAAAAFs/-GEtqH0o-z0/s1600/LifeDrawings_33.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TASMoFBkasI/AAAAAAAAAGY/Sd3JLifmSA8/s1600/2010_05_29_self_portrait.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TA8aOgcu1tI/AAAAAAAAAGg/BkGEOmAU_9I/s1600/2010_06_09_turtle.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TB19VjUFvfI/AAAAAAAAAGw/jVtkbXpf2Oc/s1600/2010_06_17_concept.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TCF0I_OruUI/AAAAAAAAAG4/xFMQgvFdAEw/s1600/2010_06_19_concept.jpg

[collings]

and i also worked on a new 3d design.

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/Pose01_A_v04b_colo.jpg

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/Pose02_A.jpg

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/Pose02_B.jpg

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/Pose03_A.jpg

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/render_007.jpg

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/render_008.jpg

http://www.nicolascollings.com/WIP/render_010.jpg

[PascalR]

Great works man, your latest creature shot looks awesome:thumbsup:

[nielot007]

Hi
finally some new stuff from you !!clap

superb 2d stuff !! great concepts :) i specially like fifth paint :)

about 3d what can i say ? sweeeeeeet hehe, last pic...:drool:

cheers

[Storm]

The chupacabras looks awesome!
Personally I'd properly had made his feet bigger, seems like he might loose balance ;)
But awesome character more of these please :D

[PascalR]

:sw:plugged:sw:

[Infinite]

Superb character!

[El Burritoh]

That Chupacabras is freaky. Love that design!

[collings]

thank you guys, glad you like it :)

[sebcravoisier]

i like it!
you have a very good hand!

[tonytrout]

Very cool clap clap

[nightwoodwolf]

awesome work here

[Sqwark]

very cool sketches !

the last model is great ! love the poses you pose that creature !

keep 'em coming

[collings]

thanks guys, ok been a while , i have been inspired by Joe Bluhm's videos on youtube . So here is a portrait i painted this week , kind of happy with how it turned out :)

Reference from 3dsk
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TJKX6xcE1UI/AAAAAAAAAHI/EBijdD4OaiY/s1600/portrait-3dsk1.jpg

[Storm]

Hey Collings looks great, I like the hand drawn feel to it ;)
I do have some crit, if you don't mind, and to be hornest it is a bit hard to judge without your reference, but. I think his ear is to low, and his jaw is to big and square, and the shape of the back of his head looks a bit off as well.
But apart from those minor things, really great work, and his face looks really good ;)

[collings]

hey storm, thanks man i agree with your feedback. those areas you pointed out looks a bit off i can see it know ^^ . i'm kind of a novice when it comes to drawings and paintings, don't know why but i always strive to get my proportion and perspective looking correct even if i know the theory behind it ^^ guess it will come with more practice.

[collings]

live drawings from last week at work :)

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TKvWFLCAN0I/AAAAAAAAAPM/7tOI78qIV0E/s1600/LifeDrawings_36.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TKvWEx1VAhI/AAAAAAAAAPE/MEH6zSjb2yo/s1600/LifeDrawings_35.jpg

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TKvWEqfTUgI/AAAAAAAAAO8/wzesyKNAwGs/s1600/LifeDrawings_34.jpg

[PascalR]

Love these, great sketches manclap

[collings]

thanks pascal :)

This time around we were lucky enought to have 2 models for this week session. having to draw 1 model is difficult so you can easily imagine how challenging it was to draw 2 models in such short time poses. It turns out quite ok even if in almost all the poses i haven't been able to draw fully the 2 figures. Like i've been told , it should pays off. Next session we will be back with 1 model so hopefully i feel more comfortable.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TNIhcLRl43I/AAAAAAAAATM/-P7AqPw26k8/s1600/LifeDrawings_38.jpg

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TNIhb6gukXI/AAAAAAAAATE/j6NrZ3pziSA/s1600/LifeDrawings_37.jpg


Also painted thosee 2 quickies :)
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TMYVeiCsroI/AAAAAAAAAS8/UU5DmBpzSHE/s1600/thmbnails_fun.jpg
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ee5K3enY4Bg/TMTN7CmWAGI/AAAAAAAAAS0/_IOeGZLoJIg/s1600/marylin1.jpg

[collings]

zombie mode aaarrrrrhhgghh :p
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[PascalR]

Aha that's freaky and well done! All Photoshop paint over? would like to the see a before / after :)

Nice one:thumbsup:

[collings]

thanks pascal, was fun to do :)

here is the before-after
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[BrettSinclair]

Haha. Awesome :thumbsup:

[CristianRio]

Great art works Collings!!! Your drawings and paintings are excellents!!!:thumbsup:

[Intervain]

gosh Nick, a few days without work didn't do you well - you look awful :thumbsup:

[collings]

hahaha indeed looks like i need my daily fix of work or you see how I turn up :p Starting my new job on Monday though so hopefully the mutation will be reverse quickly :D

[maurodelia]

great works ! That zumbi looks manacing
Great painting studies also:thumbsup:

[BrettSinclair]

Good luck on your first day :bouncy:

[PascalR]

love that paint over, plugged! :sw:

[collings]

thanks guys and pascal for the top row :)

Brett; thanks dude first day on monday can't wait. :bouncy:

[El Burritoh]

Oh hey! You're now at Blur? Say hi to Brent Wiley if you see him (rigging). And Steve Caron's all over the XSI list. I sure do have some questions for him...

[KonginChains]

wow.. wait a minute, that head paintover of yours was completely handpainted in photoshop?! Would've thought it was a zbrush/polypaint compover painted over your pic.

The hairs on the head of the chupacabra, look great, are they handpainted as well?

[collings]

yes it's a paintover, i used a image of fresh meat though to make the red flesh in the neck. with another passe of paint-over on top of it .

The hair on the chuppacabras designs are also hand painted. like actually the over all color of the body. which is painted just over the zbrush render in photoshop.

[3mm]

nice thread nic,like the paint over dude,and congratulate for first day @ Blurclap

[ShamsArt]

Love it ! excellent man !