General Art Nicktheslayer's Sketches

[Azure Sage]

These are really good. I like your style. You're even better then me! Keep it up!

 

[nicktheslayer]

BLARRRGH IM SLIMEY

Octoroks!!

WTF Chicken Man

Another Tektite!

Keys, Keys, Keys and a Map!

Ill resive/crop them later! These are older ones, lol.

 

[Keyari]

Wow! These are great! I really like your style, and your shading with all of your drawings are great too! I don't really have any complaints. Good job!

 

[nicktheslayer]

Five more:

I wasnt working so hard on the dragon, i was working on a Wind Waker inspired fire/smoke combination:

ANOTEHR DRAOGN

Some Darklink/Poe hybrid?

Cartoonified Dead Hand, other hands not included:

Cartoony Baby Gohma as well:

 

[Azure Sage]

Awesome as usual. :nod: Keep drawing, man! You may be able to make a career out of it!

 

[nicktheslayer]

A would be Mothula:

Swords a drew one time:

Skeleton:

I totally blame hitler for everything that is wrong with our economy. He shot it.

 

[nicktheslayer]

D-D-D-DOUBLE POST!

I am now taking requests for anything Nintendo Related! So Anything from Toon Link slicing an Octorok, to Mario Tail-Whacking Pikachu, ill try to sketch it!

Be as specific as possible as to what the picture should be of. If you want to know my specialty, i love making new kirbys! (Such as the Kirby Luma)

(For a present, i gave my girlfriend a picture of a Midna Kirby. She loves Midna! I also gave her one of Midna Kirby shooting Ilia Kirby in the face. (She cant stand LinkxZelda or LinkxIlia. He's Midna's only. (For TP, at least)

 

[Xinnamin]

I must say, you're pretty darn good at skeletons. Wonderful details. The only thing I can really think to crit right now is that the shading in some of them is just a tad bit messy and scribbly. Ever try cross hatch shading? I think it would look really cool with some of your sketches.

 

[nicktheslayer]

Xinn, when you say messy, are you referring to the Kirby Luma as well? Im trying to develop my own techniques, ive always loved teaching myself things, being a self taught artist makes me the artist i am, so right now, im still developing my own styles of shading and foring shapes. The Kirby luma is actually one im proud of, shading wise, (except around the feet), because i dont see this style anywhere. So at this point, im wondering. Is its messiness charming at all? Or should i work on my shading skills and tweak the style some?

 

[Xinnamin]

Ah, good for you for experimenting with your own style, that's an excellent way to grow as an artist. I normally would not critique style experimentations since those are more personal growth things, but I will give my thoughts on the matter. Messiness can certainly be charming, and in fact it often is. That is what makes pencil sketches so endearing to many artists. The Kirby Luma certainly did stand out with the way it was shaded; I actually rather like it. The only thing I would say is that I think you may have been so caught in the shading that you sort of lost some of the shape, namely the forehead. I think you put a few too many shading lines on the forehead, which compromised somewhat the round appearance that the creature should have displayed.

I will say though the shading lines themselves are pretty neat, as the lines do follow the shape and contours of the luma. A few of the others though, namely the Ghini and Tektite on the first page, the lines don't seem to follow an overall coherent structure, which distracts from the shape of the creatures. So by all means, continue to tweak and experiment, because those are the main steps on the road to improvement and growth :>