amateur at work (nudity) (updated june-01)

[QE]

newest stuff toward the bottom of page 3!

Alright, I’m restarting my thread, again. No link back to my old thread(s), so it almost feels like a fresh start. I’m glad to see the poo is still kick’n through the recent trouble. Moreover, I’m glad to see it back to phpbb; I didn’t much like those others.

A small recap of my previous threads: I am currently 25 and have been endeavoring to learn the skills useful to a professional artist of some sort as of May ’06. So yeah, I’m still learning and am eager to learn more.

Anyway, I’m going to start out posting a few older images. Newest stuff will always be toward the bottom. As always, all feedback is welcome and highly appreciated.



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2. this image actually got picked up for Ballistic Publishing’s Exotique 3 book, due out later this year I think. So this will be my first time being published.. it’ll also be the first time I ever see a painting of mine anywhere other than the computer screen (I get a free book out of the deal).


3. Mistress Honey Bunns – for eatpoo weekly.. err, arena or something


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6. Shego from Kim Possible


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9. kind of looks like Queen Amidala with a fro


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Thanks for looking!

[jigatron]

Love your work.

I'm incredibly envious of your ability to foreshorten and your overlapping anatomy. Plus, hot chicks

[MooZ]

Great stuff. But I find the back lip of the hot chick is a little too big. As if she were bitten by a bee or had ... herpes

[Burl]

if this is an amateurs work then i must suck so so bad. love your choise of colours in most of these, and the lighting. i especially like number 2 and 6.

[gra]

amateur work

[nook]

Hey QE good to see you back on the forum. As always good stuff. Love how the first one turned out, I remember seeing the progress shots on the older forum. The second one is good too (congrats on ballistics) and As always great studies and character designs.

[Shoo]

Hubba hubba
I am particularly in love with the lighting on 2.

[ashess]

amateur work

yeah ^^ hurts and stings..
Qe, I notice you have a tutorial page on your site.. but it's empty. I'd love to see a step-by step walk-through of how you work there

[Oded]

damn i wish i was amateur...

love your lighting. you seem to have anatomy down pretty well, especially foreshortening. love the sketches too. keep posting

[Capcadaverman]

Great renders all around. I love the second piece much!

One suggestion on the composition of the first. You could easily make the whole piece more dynamic if you crop some of the bg action and make everhting less centered. Also if some of the little sperm fireflies are venturing from the background it would make the piece seem less divided.

[kirbyy]

awesome... i can only hope to be as good as you someday love the second piece

[Howie]

Really great figures and poses. very inspiring

[king ocean]

get the fuck outta here.

your shego piece is sooo seductive.

[eminkey2003]

Those are some fantastic colors. But I think your faces are a bit generic, except for 6 and 10. Try to show more personality in your faces, or at least, in their expressions to give away something about their characters. I mean, why not show more character if you focus on the characters?

[Dwayne]

I'd say your off to a great start!
That kim possible piece is beautiful.
You seem to have the anatomy and painting down pat, and as your style develops it should only get better. beautiful lighting on the piece ballistic picked up.
Looking at this thread tells me I need to find more time to paint, you kids will kill me

[pimpchichi]

hey QE good to see you re-registered.. still calling yourself amateur i see

congrats on the book thing.. soon you'll have to stop calling yourself amateur..

[fish]

Delicious! Rendering and color choice makes me warm and fuzzy I do agree with the above comment about some of the faces being kinda generic, though. They seem kinda flat. To me, it's most evident in the areas around the eye sockets and the forehead (2 and 6, eye in shadow).

I nothing but good feelings for number six, but will she ever love me like I love her?

[Baskerville]

What sort of brush palette did you use for #9, QE? It has a nice texture to it.
As usual, very solid work. You don't update often enough though

[curtp]

This belongs in the "finished works" section. "amateur"... erm, no.
Awesome post as always!
I beer you.

[QE]

Wow.. I didn't expect nearly so many replies to my little post there. I might develop an ego or some such if that continues. Seriously though, thanks all for stopping by, it means a lot to me!


Jigatron: thanks!

MooZ: heh, noted.

Burl: thanks

gra: I agree!

nook: Hey man, thanks stopping by, love your work!

Shoo: thanks

ashess: heh, I don’t think I’ll be making any tuts for a long while yet, sorry.

Oded: well it’s not hard!

Capcadaverman: Aye I agree on the composition problems.. though I think some of the spermiflies are venturing from the bg-fg already and it didn’t help.

kirbyy: thanks but.. aim higher!

Howie: thanks

king ocean: thanks man

eminkey2003: yeah that’s certainly something I need to work on.

Dwayne: kids yeah, I wish I still was. Thanks though!

pimpchichi: hey man! Thanks for gracing my thread once again with your lovely avatar! And yeah I’ll stop calling myself an amateur when I get a job.. maybe.

fish: ha ha thanks and noted.

Bakserville: #9 I err, just used standard PS brushes with a couple tweaks. I’d try and update more but I already run the risk of filling this thread up with fugly drawins’

curtp: heh thanks


whew.. okay more images…

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13. this was a brush experiment.. ref’d


14. layer experiment ..


15. omg gas mask! lol!


16. a sampling of some random doodling I was doing; focus was on drawing strictly from memory, still trying to grasp anatomy


17. a wip from today.. so far about 4-6 hours.., comments welcome!




As always, thanks for any and all feedback!

[Drew]

If you're not getting any work at all at this point, you must not be trying. Your work is fantastic!

[divtag]

you have so nice light in your drawings, i specialy love the last one!

[Eden]

im a very big fan of your sketchs, some great movement, interesting characters and just very fun to look at. keep up the good work!

[QE]

Yeah, I’m probably guilty of not trying hard enough to find any real work. Honestly though, I'm not too sure how to get this going. Any suggestions on this would be appreciated…


Anyway, all critiques & comments are welcome and highly appreciated, as always!


18. ‘best friends,’ finished. and yeah, it’s a bit rushed.. was working under a deadline


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20. for poo challenge #2, ‘yesterday’s tomorrow’

[joe]

wow ur improving so rapidly

[airman]

you don't work??
you're the best amateur i've erver seen
i hope i hope you'll work
i love your girls especially the rocket girl!


maybe why not create your own society and productions.
i think you'll be great on cover romans and on comics books.

[QE]

Yeah so I guess it’s about time I throw something in here and update my thread. I trust no one noticed the lack of updates.

I was contacted about a month or two ago about being included in “the next issue” of ImagineFX. Umm, so yeah, no idea if that went through or not. ImagineFX isn’t readily available out where I am so I can’t check it out. So, yay..?

anyway…


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20. SoulCalibur doodling.. I don’t actually play any of these characters


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Following are from a project of mine.. the intent is to eventually model this concept in 3d and make a pretty rendering; which should be interesting as I haven't really learned how to do that yet.

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27. test render



As always, comments and critiques are always appreciated.

[hanna_e]

OMG, I'm speechless, these are amazing, I love the way you work with light and color. So inspiring! I'll come back when I have something more constructive to say, i just have to admire these a bit more first...

(22 looks like Celine Dion..?)

[Iananan]

saw #3 in the exotique preview today, congrats man!

(you can take the amateur out of the title now...)

[nook]

Great updates man! You are a machine. Also love your chicks, makes me want to do a few pin-ups.

[rashmatash]

I love your work! I'm really looking foreward to seeing the 3D model of that last character design of yours; it's a great concept! Two things bother me about #27 though. First, the sharp bones sticking out the pelvis area are, well, too sharp. Second, I think her calves are a bit slim. But that could be my taste, because I like rather strong calves. Keep 'm coming!

[heygabe]

please make a youtube video please.

[QE]

hanna_e: ha ha, no.. not Celine Dion.

Iananan: thanks! I wouldn’t know what to call my thread if I took the ‘amateur’ out..

nook: Do it!

rashmatash: I agree.. this will definitely get corrected in the 3d. umm, but don’t hold your breath for that though; 3d is kind of hard for me as I’m a noob and my computer is a dinosaur.

Heygabe: You know, I thought about doing that. Looked like fun watching other’s stuff. But I don’t know what software to use and I’m afraid pornoshop will run like crap.



28. so this started out as a speedpaint which unfortunately got too much attention. The original doodling was I think far more interesting than what I ended up with here; but I kept working it anyway in the hopes of learning something.


28b. …close-up…



Thanks for the feedback!

[py!]

i actually think the close up is far more powerful then the full shot. your work is really great, hope to see more <3

[QE]

Uhh, yeah... lotta this gonna be stuff I posted in the speedpaint thread just to catalog it.


29. bleh.. more I look at it the more disappointed I am. but I did learn a few things


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31. inspired by the opening cut scene of the original FFVI


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34. Ando from Heroes


35. Chun-Li is turning into kind of a benchmark for me


36. original drawing for the following..


37. yeah so, trying to do a better job with the colors this time.


As always, all comments/critiques are welcome.

[Gunstar]

Holy fuck! you have your own thread, how did I miss this! I love your characters

[rashmatash]

I like the way her flesh pops out around the tight corset and jarretel. I think the most left wedge should follow the curve of her waist more to the side of her leg. In the color version you cropped the legs to short which makes the legs look like they're going to be like chicken legs if you know what i mean.

[QE]

Uhh yeah.. guess I'll update my thread and pretend I'm still alive.


38. luckily I didn't spend too much time on this...


39. some doodles


40. I have a coloring of this started but I doubt I'll get the energy to work much on it; kind of looks good just as line


41. still not finished and honestly still debating whether or not I want to bother


42. originally I was going to do a flat coloring and thus made an ink'd drawing...


43. .. but I ended up not using it. Jessica Rabbit for the "pin-up" challenge. Colors in this one half way look like I knew what I was doing.


44. At the Copy Machine. again done for the "pin-up" challenge..



As always, all feedback is welcomed and appreciated!

[Fanch]

Wow wow wow , great work , i ve really envoyed walking through your topic looking at your art.
Excellent work mate .

[rashmatash]

good work maybe you could try a different rendering style for #40. Something watercolor-ish like Alphonse Mucha maybe? Just a suggestion ofcourse.

[curtp]

You just keep cranking out the awesome...
Simply amazing thread...
I love the photo copy one.
keep posting. I love this thread!

[LO]

Beautiful thread. Awesome progress you´ve done as well. Really inspiring to see!
I was wondering if you have any tips on getting more dynamic figures? You kick ass on them.
Was thinking of these among others: http://www.thenamelesspage.com/poo/daily00359.jpg
Got any books to recomend or something?

Take care and keep this baby updated!

[Klaatu]

Amazing stuff...I love the lighting on the photocopier illustration.

[Khory]

Be careful if you color that one. The squid, so close to her buttocks, will definately look like a sea penis, or a strong phallic symbol ( but maybe that's what you intended ? )

Otherwise, man, you paint the hottest women

[QE]

rashmatash: Aye, I tried that but wasn't very pleased with how it was coming along. not too good with simple coloring schemes I guess; something to work on.

LO: Uhh, well, study gesture along with anatomy is really it. Specifically, study gesture as how it applies in animation. Animators are masters at capturing energy and motion in a gesture drawing.

Khory: ha ha yeah.. I never noticed that. Might be fun to color the image now just for that.

And of course thanks to everyone else for leaving your comments, it's appreciated!


45. for pin-up challenge


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47. destroy concept; we'll see if I finish this.


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[tekneko]

love your stuff... nothing amateur about it... would be very interesting to see the big monster guy fleshed out more.

[Slacker]

yea that was pretty damn "kickass", I couldn't find anything negative to say. Some pretty good dynamic poses going on here too.

[Heinster]

Man how much I'd love to have someone like you in my comicstoryproject ..... Calling this amateur work kicks me of my only pride I had left for having the chance to work for Mike Kunkel and Hallmark.... But then again that was all cartoony...

[cableclair]

I lovelovelove this, especially the way you color. The lady in the corset is amazing!

[Klaatu]

Beautiful work...I really like your style