Walpknut Doodles Reloaded

Walpknut

Walpknut

This ghoul has seen it all
So, I posted some pencil doodles a few years back. Now I have acquired the magnificent WACOM BAMBOO TABLET (the cheapest good Tablet) so now I can actually do something with my drawings that I couldn't do with just scanner and mouse.

It's kind of preposterus that I wanted to become an illustrator without a Wacom, and kind of lame I am getting so excited over a gadget almost everyone has. But well, lack of funds are a bitch, until they stop being.

Anyways I ramble.

Here I have some drawings I have been cleaning and coloring to use in a short film some friends are working on:

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He is Number 1.


And he is number Turd.


He is one handsome fella.

So these are the main characters, I didn't choose the names, or the story, they just asked me to come up with designs for them, they wanted to go for a Moebius-esque look with apple looking tech.

And here are the Guards, tall, bulky and mean:


I had never done a character with an armor that Bulky, I mostly prefer lighter armor on designs but I think I pulled this one off rather nicely.

This is the Casting Call Poster, done with Vectors. With Mouse, so the Wacom has nothing to do with it.

And in spanish of course.

And here are some character designs I have been cleaning up recently for various other projects:


A Punk girl, didn't want to go for the cute punk thing, I think a more tomboy like appearance fits her better.


Vlad, a grumpy Undead humanoid abomination, he likes to smoke and he likes 80s Hair.


Caleb, a troublemaker teenager that just likes breaking noses.


Beth, a plucky witch in a world were spells take 1 month to prepare...[/spoiler:7e0e2977e0]


So that's what I have right now, I know it's not much, but I had been wating a wacom since forever, drawing with the mouse is a pain in the ass.
 
Thanks Alec.

Here some other stuff
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The Punk Girl all cleaned up and with illumination and shite



Another Character, Keith. More of a preppy greek wrestling aficionado.


A Mascot design for a small project with some friends.

And character designs for a Kid Illustration book with a friend


Yago the Pirate


Guido the Fat Cat

And the first Illustration

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Something looks really off with the faces on Yago and the punk girl.
Otherwise, this is some cool stuff!
 
you should try to give the cat more a "cat" face then a "dog" face though, because if you would not have mentioned it I would have seen it as dog.

Some really nice stuff in here though, I do like the simplicity of the illustration :D
 
Thanks for the feedback guys.

Altho, I have to ask what do you mean by "graceful"?

Here is 4 more I did the last 2 Days, I have been working on my Graphic Design Portofolio so I have had very little time to do much else (even update my BLack Dynamite LP oops)

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You maybe have seen this as my Avatar, I was trying to make somehting A Scanner Darkly esque with a photo of me, didn't come out quite like it, but it was good practice of making volumes with shading and lighting.

On the front of Character Design


A Shy girl or an Internet Troll, it's for a weird psychological Tactical RPG project with a friend, we are designing characters and thinking up mechanics right now.



A Hipster girl with a cyber implant on her skull.


And some Doodles I just made in 5 minutes and colored in 2. Silly but fun.
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Walpknut said:
Altho, I have to ask what do you mean by "graceful"?
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The linework, "your hand" so to speak - the long, smooth lines that make out your characters, rather than shorter choppyer lines. Personally I avoid long lines like that, because I feel much safer micromanaging my drawing.

Long, smooth, uninterupted lines, as well as slender, elegant looking characters - an impression of gracefulness!
 
Oh I see that's what you mean. And yeah, that's what I've been going, thanks man.

so here are 2 more characters

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Matt, and ex soldier of the weird Cyber punk police corps from the game.


And Joshua, a meek looking guy (his gun looks like rubber, I am still cleanning that one up) or is he?
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zegh8578 said:
Walpknut said:
Altho, I have to ask what do you mean by "graceful"?
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The linework, "your hand" so to speak - the long, smooth lines that make out your characters, rather than shorter choppyer lines. Personally I avoid long lines like that, because I feel much safer micromanaging my drawing.

Long, smooth, uninterupted lines, as well as slender, elegant looking characters - an impression of gracefulness!
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Yeah, that's the gracefulness I also talked about.
It's awesome.

And I hate you Walp because of that.
 
So I completed 4 of the Illustrations for the Children Book

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I don't usually do Children Illustrations, actually this is my first venture on doing so. I think I did a decent enough job.
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It's gonna be cool imagining these drawings taking part of a young minds impressions :D

Years ago I was in a workshop for unemployed people, totally demotivated. "Dey herd I liked to paint", so they gave me this wooden cut out silouhette of santa claus, and gave me paint to color it. Oh god. Colors: Not even fucking red. Like green and blue and yellow and what not.
Then they told me this would all be sold in local auctions, for xmas decorations.

So I decided to make the best of it, and colored it quite plainly, but neatly. Its eyes however, I made completely rounded, and detailed the pupils with photorealism, making its eyes stand out, piercing, penetrating :D
The grunt director took a look at it, and as I arrogantly expected, he didn't notice "looks fine".

I always have fun imagining some parent, with the same oversight buying the decoration, cus it "looks cute" or something, and then their poor kids being terrorized by it every year.
"No, mommy, not the creepy stary santa :("
"What are you talking about, it's smiling!"

:'D

/lil rant
 
As I said before: really nice work. BUT I do start to get that annoying feeling I often get when looking at one's artwork: it's all characters, character, characters... And when you actually do some background work, it's... water. And very poorly drawn water, I should add. I don't want to sound like the asshole here, 'cause I truly like your character designs, but the thing is: this is what most artists are capable of doing: drawing characters. And some really excell at it and all, but it also gets boring real real soon. Because, in all honesty, there is very little skill involved in drawing character after character after character. You can buy a ton of books, dirt cheap ones even, that will teach you how to draw exactly that (and become really good at it too) in, meh, 100 pages or less (and you even fail here and there: your knowledge of anatomy is visibly limited).

It's sort of funny that 99% of 'How to make comics' books completely focus on character design. As if that is what makes a drawing interesting. In theory it basically comes down to this: if you know how to draw one character, you can draw a million of them. Why show off the obvious?

Do me some page-filling stuff, with nice backgrounds, nice scenery, a world that lives and breathes, a world I'd like to visit.

Maybe a little hard, but you should be able to handle that kind of criticism, seeing as how you obviously have enough talent to become better with every pencil stroke.
 
Yeah, I am lacking in background drawing. I am working on that, I got the corrections for the previous illustrations too is there still stuff to do.

And Don't worry Alec, I actually like criticism, it helps improve on what we are lacking, and I learned to swallow my pride a long time ago.
 
Cool stuff. You get something essential down in a few strokes. I can only work in a gazillion strokes like an epileptic and I have a hard time with simple designs :x
 
Okay, so I corrected the Anatomy, color and background on the previous Illustrations.

The Lady Boss had a color palette defined so I had to change it.

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Crni Vuk said:
You still cant sell me that creature as cat :p

Sorry
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Walpknut, I think it that if you would like to keep the overall look of the catbeast yet make it more catlike - play around with its face/muzzle. The "cat smile" or mouth is way too wide and the nose is very dog-like. Where are the whiskers, man?! That's where it becomes confusing. Cats have smallish mouths in comparison to their faces, unless they're the naked penis cats... or are yawning. And if you could only find an excuse to show some underpaw - most animals have very distinctive paw shapes, cats included.

[spoiler:e42caba6f8]I'm a dick so I did a paintover of what I mean:
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