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Kratos Linework – finishing touches, punches and headbutts

FilipZ — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:44:12 +0000

Almost done! My Cartoon-Kratos t-shirt is this(index finger and thumb almost touching) close from finish. I’ve been slaving away with the good old Stabilo, skipping my sleeping hours to make sure this is perfect and now it’s paying off!

I have now scanned it back into photoshop and will be erasing all the dirt and stray dots – a part of the job I would not mind outsourcing…

Just kidding, it’s cool – I love cleaning up – don’t send me emails with outsorcing services you outsourcing companies out there…

Booty Vector… summer’s here

FilipZ — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:29:21 +0000

Finally, I am outside and sweating wearing just a t-shirt(…and pants)! Disgusting, I know – that’s why I have something to balance it out!

Coming at ya like an ice-cream van*, 12 stones of delicious summer boothay!…;)

Look around folks – summer’s here;)

Cheers!

*that bit influenced by the awesome Julian Barrat from The Mighty Boosh…

robo concept – sketch and some colours

FilipZ — Thu, 20 May 2010 21:51:17 +0000

Aaaah, at last found a moment for a quick update! I am sometimes forgetting what is all the fun about with having a sketchbook blog and this affects my regularity (not sure if this is a word but it’s a quick update so I’ll look it up later). This here is a result of 10 minutes furious sketching on my lunch brake and about 25 minutes furious chopping away with photoshop’s semi hard round…

I got inspired by this guy here, Mr. Mike Monroe and his Drawing in Circles sketchblog – Bunch of really cool sketches, bold brushes, bold colours – short and sweet – check it out.

chica – doodle colourized

FilipZ — Fri, 14 May 2010 12:53:26 +0000

Not much time for updates recently as I am taking on finishing off images I’ve had pilling up in the backburner for months now. I am not confident enough to put stuff as W.I.P as the progress route of a piece takes so many turns that even I get confused let alone whoever would like to follow what’s going on. I am getting there, though. The moment is near when I will be able to tell what happened there and why…

For now, let me just put up this doodle of a cute little chica… and wish all y’all a good weekend. And whoever’s UK based – a little extra sun.

Kratos Cartoon – sketch cleaned up

FilipZ — Fri, 07 May 2010 13:12:39 +0000

I am making me a Krat0s cartoon t-shirt. I have decided not to take this sketch into digital realm until it leaves no space for guessing when it comes to linework. I’ve redrawn it a couple of times already, even emploing the ancient light-tracer bought in the charity shop, thus saving it from being chucked away by my wife.

God (of War)!, it’s hard work to precision-cross hatch like the best of them… someone’s gotta do it, though;)

Just played God of War III

FilipZ — Wed, 05 May 2010 20:22:35 +0000

Oh, momma! Hack’n’slash taken to a new exquisite level! This game is beautiful! I could resist downloading a demo from the PS store as much as I could resist brutalizing every by-passing innocent civilian (that’s in-game reality) and getting points for that, too! – Madness. In HD quality. Kratos doesn’t looks angry anymore in this installment – he looks possessed, truly mad.

I sat down to computer to do some work but instead, this came out in a speedy type of manner. I will work on it later. Or not. Or I will play the demo again…

t-shirt design

FilipZ — Tue, 27 Apr 2010 12:58:52 +0000

As PR-esent for my father-in-law. The wording is an insight joke. I don’t think anyone actually says “absolutne spoko” except for that one guy that I met once and at the bus stop, nicked this catch-phrase from and sold it to my F-I-L. He loved it, so he loves skiing and, apparently, the t-shirt.

I must get a hold of a good t-shirt screen printing company.

This one here did not, in fact print as well as expected.

Giant Samurai – “storyteller” sketch

FilipZ — Wed, 21 Apr 2010 13:01:15 +0000

I did this sketch this morning on the tube. I really like it. It makes me wanna come up with the story for this big guy. By the way – what an interesting effect just by using cutout filter in photoshop! Even at the default settings the filter changed the sketch into an almost finished stylyzed illustration. Brilliant. I think I am a bit over-excited about this one… it’s just a sketch;)

Tascock – update

FilipZ — Tue, 20 Apr 2010 13:27:08 +0000

There are so many things at the moment (the most urgent being finding a roof over our heads) that take my spare time. This is yet another update to my mutation nation fixation(I know, I know, long gone) and an update to my earlier ball-pen “tascock” cartoon. This one is going to be more serious and messed up as this creature is only designed to be messy and fussy – more about that later. Just scanned it and put some rough colours in photoshop: layer with base colour at the bottom, sketch layer in multiply, base creature colour layer above it in the overlay mode. What’s that? You knew that already?… Well, you have all the tools to start then.

Mutation Nation – the afterthought sketch.

FilipZ — Thu, 15 Apr 2010 08:53:32 +0000

Mutation Nation – the afterthought sketch.

I did not go to Southwark’s Nando’s last night to attend the Sketch Jam gig. Had to go and see the flat in the evening. As I had a moment before the viewing I went to Jumbucks, the Aussie Pie place and had a sketch-jam on my own. A sketch-gravy, more like… And this fat pie eating beast is the result.

Since I have become infected with the idea of the mutation nation (don’t care if it’s over or not) my mind is now subconsciously producing mutant concepts. This is Rheetle (rhino and beetle combination) with certain amount of bipedal in the mix.

I now think the “horns” on its arms should point in the different direction but the familiarity with the rhino came to me afterward. Anyway, an interesting concept to build upon.

In the meantime – it looks like the mutation-nation challenge took an entry-overload and the images are still not there to show. I have been following the progress on the ArtOrder network while on my holiday and trust me – it will be worth the wait. Loads of fine artists took part.

P.S. The flat was taken before I managed to see it…