Surfeit's Art Dump, 2004 (occasional nudity)

[Surfeit]

I got away from updating the last thread frequently, mainly because I went through a period where I didn't have much time to draw. I made time later, but I forgot to post what I was doing here. I'll try to start that up again, if anyone still cares.

Anyway, here's what little I managed to finish last semester. Click the thumbnails to view the full version:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2003-ooeconcept0020.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2003-ooeconcept0020.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2003-demiurgeboards01.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2003-demiurgeboards01.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2003-figstudy01.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2003-figstudy01.jpg"></a>

And here are some preliminary sketches for an illustration job I have. I'm actually being PAID to illustrate the 12 labors of Hercules for a new-age psychology book, but first I'm doing some concept sketches to cater the look to the client's satisfaction. You can see the stylistic evolution in these:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2003-hercconcept01.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2003-hercconcept01.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2003-hercconcept02.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2003-hercconcept02.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-hercconcept03.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-hercconcept03.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-hercconcept04.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-hercconcept04.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-hercconcept05.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-hercconcept05.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-hercconcept06.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-hercconcept06.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-hercconcept07.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-hercconcept07.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-hercconcept08.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-hercconcept08.jpg"></a>

Finally, here are two character portraits and a costume design:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0013.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0013.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0014.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0014.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0015.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0015.jpg"></a>

Check this thread regularly for new additions!

[Sonsquidku V.2]

I dig it.

[Spice]

Woooooooooooowsers. That's beautiful stuff right there. I think I'll start calling you Mr. King, for no particular reason.

:p

[Kamui]

Very good! I envy your talent.

[Surfeit]

Gracias, all. Here's a new one:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0016.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0016.jpg"></a>

Tried to combine several different Middle and Near Eastern cultures into a single costume. The anatomy came out a little doofy in places, but the costume turned out okay.

[Kamui]

Hey still looks great! I like it.

[Surfeit]

Thanks.

Two photographs I took out in my backyard and proceeded to corrupt via Photoshop trickery:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-photo-plant.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-photo-plant.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-photo-dhouse.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-photo-dhouse.jpg"></a>

Next, a hastily finished digital painting. I had planned to push it further than I did, but it was taking too long, so my interest in it waned. It looks pretty striking when printed at full resolution, though. Behold:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0017.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0017.jpg"></a>

[Surfeit]

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0018.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0018.jpg"></a>

I also made a <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/tut-digicolor1.shtml">really big tutorial</a> out of this one.

[Dwalin Xinafu]

WOW Surfeit you're really good at drawing , i could never draw like that

[Cloud Strife 1]

Those drawings are unbelievable. Good work Surfeit

[CloudCobain]

Originally posted by Surfeit
<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0016.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0016.jpg"></a>

That one rocks.

[Cloud Strife 1]

They are great. I would show u mine but i dont know how to get it up on this site.

[Dwalin Xinafu]

all you got to do is copy and paste.

[Cloud Strife 1]

I did it in pencil and havent coloured it in. So it would be difficult to see.

[Dwalin Xinafu]

oh then you should color it in so all of us can see it. besinde im sure its better than i can draw

[Surfeit]

If you have Photoshop, you can make any pencil drawing stand out by going to Image > Adjust > Auto Levels. I do that on all of my scanned stuff.

[Knodr]

Wish I knew that.

[specter]

your talent his good i evny you for anly if i good do to poetry what you do to your art work

[Surfeit]

First, another costume design, drawn months ago and just recently colored. Inspiration includes traditional German attire, modern fashion bimbos, scarecrows, and goths. Somehow, a little bit of Michael Jackson made its way in there, too. Whoops.

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0020.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0020.jpg"></a>

And here are some Herculean labors:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-herclabor01.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-herclabor01.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-herclabor03.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-herclabor03.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-herclabor05.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-herclabor05.jpg"></a>

And a girly doodle I did in the corner of my sketchbook. I guess you can tell I ran out of paper space, what with the mysterious severed arm on the right. Tinted in Photoshop.

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0019.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0019.jpg"></a>

Finally, a concept sketch of a mechanical cross between a spider and a spinning wheel. I'll color this one.

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/junk/2004-spinner.jpg">Click here.</a>

[Surfeit]

Colored this one quickly, including a cheesy speed-background for mood:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0021.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0021.jpg"></a>

[Ziggy]

Do you do pictures by request?

[Surfeit]

Not at the moment. Lately, I've been too busy juggling other commissions along with a full-time job, so I rarely even have time for personal art anymore.

[omokage]

Mist, if you want to do comics, I'm looking for illustrators to work with. Either to put on OPi8.com (http://opi8.com/) or to put into print.

[Surfeit]

omokage -- Thanks for the offer. I'll consider it, but I'm not sure if I really fit into the theme of your site. I enjoy dark things, but I'm also flowery and like pink, frilly ballerinas in tutus. I don't know if your readership would put up with me.


New stuff:

First, some sketchbook randomness:
1 (http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-bluelady.jpg) 2 (http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-redlady.jpg) 3 (http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-thinker.jpg) 4 (http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-dino-bird.jpg)

And a dancing nude that was digitally inked in Photoshop:
Click Here (NUDITY WARNING) (http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-nudedancer.jpg)

And here we have some studies of two characters from one of my stories. I haven't drawn the one on the left in two years, so I was a bit amazed at how different he came out looking. (I draw faces a lot more realistically than I used to.) Anyway:
<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-ooeconcept0021.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-ooeconcept0021.jpg"></a>

Following that, Herculean labors. The first one I forgot to post, and the other two are new:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-herclabor04.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-herclabor04.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-herclabor11.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-herclabor11.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-herclabor09.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-herclabor09.jpg"></a>

And a doodle I did of Herc's face:

<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-hercface.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-hercface.jpg"></a>

[animeshounen]

*points to old post*

Hey, did anyone notice dwalin's avatar looks like a big enflamed vagina?

Anyway, this stuff is oodles of times better than my stuff....which you can view in the other thread...
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That is...if you wanna...

[Surfeit]

One more Herculean labor:
<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-herclabor08.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-herclabor08.jpg"</img></a>


Some character/costume sketches:
<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-ooeconcept0022.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-ooeconcept0022.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-ooeconcept0023.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-ooeconcept0023.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-ooeconcept0024.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-ooeconcept0024.jpg"></a> <a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-ooeconcept0025.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-ooeconcept0025.jpg"></a>

[Surfeit]

And a color costume concept for a character who lacks a western sense of modesty (NUDITY warning):
<a href="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/2004-doeconcept0022.jpg"><img src="http://www.angryfrenchman.com/images/art/t2004-doeconcept0022.jpg"></a>

[CloudCobain]

I was waiting for that.

[other3176]

hey guys nubie at this but i catch on quick:cool: so whats up?

[Knodr]

You better catch on quick, necro.

[Blade]

Well apparently he doesn't.

Get to posting you damned n00b. :p

(Necro?)

Wasting time for the 75 second thing...

[other3176]

consittering i am sitting at schoool when i have the time to get online my posts might be a little off date n00b? noob> has a name its jon ok :) <~>

peace