Hey people i'm just new here, I just finished my school and i'm now an " animator" that means that it just all begins for me.
Here are some drawing from me, I hope you like them.
Comments are welcome.
Wim Houben Gallery
By Wim Houben | Wednesday, July 19, 2006 at 4:02am
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Wim Houben Gallery
Great, very solid, very unusual! I wish Jar Jar Binks had looked like the critter in the first sketch. MORE! (Please.)
Nice work dude. Keep posting, I wanna see more!
Yours Truely
Da' Phreak
Neville Howard.
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Some of these pictures are more than a year old. This year I just finished school and it was too busy to draw nice things. Damn I really mis drawing.
Very good, like the first ones. Reminds me a bit of the acclaimed fantasy illustrator Brom.
What is your preferred animation technique for characters like that? Traditional hand-drawn, stop motion, 3D? A mixture or something completely different?
I like to draw for my concept art. I animate in 3D using lightwave. Personaly I love 3D because the concept is very big. You never gets boring. When I animated in 2D... I really dont liked it. For me is, if you draw, you have to put emotion in you're drawings, and making 12frames per sec ( min.) gets boring and looses the emotion of drawing a bit. Bit thats my oppinion hé. What you think.
But give me some critics please. what could be better? I want to learn.
Your style and designs largely appeal to me. I don't have much to quibble, really. It took me a little to recognise the creature in your very first sketch is turning its back towards the viewer, though. Maybe if you made its musuclar structure a little more reminiscient of a well-muscled human back?
As for 2D, I think the fact that you work with a pencil on paper puts you in direct physical contact with your work and helps you put emotion into it a lot. It's a tactile experience the quality of which I think 3D is missing. It is, of course, possible to achieve outstanding emotion and character animation in 3D but the process is different. It all boils down to personal taste and there's no "right" or "wrong" in that.
Its true about the fact that 3d can lose his emotion. You really have to be a great artist to bring the feeling of 2D into 3D. The technical stuff arround making an emotional 3D image is very complicated.
Do you have a site?
No, sorry, I don't have a website of my own. (Yet.) I'll either have to learn HTML or some other kind of GUI web creation program or just press-gang someone into doing it for me ...
I just took a look at your last three sketches you posted. I really dig the middle one the most, great job! Nice attention to detail too. I like how you fade the detail out from the face to basic line sketches. The one on the right, I'm not crazy about, but that's just preference. Probably because it's too dark to identiy any real light source! But the one in the middle is really eye catching and well executed.
Oh. You're from Belguim right? I've heard this "theory" that we should understand each others' home languages in that case, with me being from South Africa, and being Afrikaans. I was always under the impression my home language would be a 'newer' dialect of Dutch, and I lived with a dutch girl in Australia, we could understand each other, but that's where I also heard that the Belguim people would probably have a better understanding of afrikaans! So....Hoe gaan dit met jou daar anderkant?
Hey. i had to try! :D
Yours Truely
Da' Phreak
Neville Howard.
WWW.Comicwrx.com
Haha nice nice , it's very understanding what you wrote in Duth really. In school I had some lessons about the duth in Z Afrika. Like aftershave?; naskeermiddel?
You guys refuse to use english word back than, and created you're own dialect.
About my drawing, yes the middle is my favorite too, its simple where it has to be simple. Like live and muziek less is sometimes more. But I like sometime push the details just for fun. The colored is not directly my favotite too, but most people seems to like it. I'm not a good colorer so thats why I only post sketses...And I've a wacom A4??? But I use it mostly for 3d
Peace man
Yep Dutch settlers in South Africa, that's where my home language comes from, even though I'm really only second generation South African, with my grandparents being from Ireland/France. Oh well. I really laughed when you said naskeermiddel! Cause even in afrikaans we currently just say aftershave, though it's considered slang.
Cool man, hope to see more of your work soon.
Yours Truely
Da' Phreak
Neville Howard.
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An other sketh from a wile ago.
I like the yellow hilights coming from the direction he's looking towards! Nice.
Yours Truely
Da' Phreak
Neville Howard.
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Seems to be very complecated. I dont know, how you completed with such perfection. Keep it uo.
Very well done.
madurai
south india temple city
hotel madurai
my madurai
THX I just try to make the image as nice as possible in one hour. When its longer i start to get bored.
Here are some sketches I made a wile ago. less than 1 min. But sometimes there is more life in a quick drawing than in an detailed drawing.
critics are most welcome
Those are really some nice roughs. More than anything, I like how you get it right to indicate motion with your lines! Most of my roughs are static designs, almost posed. So it's nice to see it, it looks nice and dynamic!
Yours Truely
Da' Phreak
Neville Howard.
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I like the fourth entry the most!
Yours Truely
Da' Phreak
Neville Howard.
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Howdy Wim,
I love the quick scketches the most. I've seen that style that you use to quick draw... it reminds me of an artist who illustrates for the New Yorker Magazine. All in all great work sir.
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Hey thx. Preak for making quick drawing come alive, you just have to have an id and then draw them quickly, without thinking if its drawn good or bad. Just draw and dear to draw bad things.
I started with this, its not finished,and probably stays like this because I understand nothing of coloring. And I go to Bolivia for 5 month so... bye bye computer
The energy in the linework is very impressive. Kind of like Ralph Steadman doing fantasy work, but more than distinct enough. When you get back, I'd love to see a series taking a figure from quick sketch to full rendering-- just stopping and scanning a few times.