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Shpongulate said:
That's cool stuff, I REALLY like the textures in your darker looking drawings, reminds me a lot of Stephen Gammell (any inspiration there?) either way you certainly have a talent for rendering things, good to see.

EDIT: Also, do you use an eraser for the light smudges?

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Thanks, and yea I remember liking that guys work when I was growing up. I also enjoy zdzisław beksiński's work as long as it doesn't involve distorted female anatomy

I really need to work on my surreal backgrounds...I think that's part of what makes beksiński's work so fascinating.

And yes, I did use an eraser in a similar fashion to the frantic charcoal scribbles. I usually end up doing the darker charcoal pieces in a frenzy. I just let my eyes go slightly out of focus and and pay more attention to the overall feel of it rather than the details.

I need to start messing with color more...I haven't done much with that other than a few things in highschool.

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agmotes165 said:
Thanks, and yea I remember liking that guys work when I was growing up. I also enjoy zdzisław beksiński's work as long as it doesn't involve distorted female anatomy

I really need to work on my surreal backgrounds...I think that's part of what makes beksiński's work so fascinating.

And yes, I did use an eraser in a similar fashion to the frantic charcoal scribbles. I usually end up doing the darker charcoal pieces in a frenzy. I just let my eyes go slightly out of focus and and pay more attention to the overall feel of it rather than the details.

I need to start messing with color more...I haven't done much with that other than a few things in highschool.

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Oh I love beksinski's work. In hindsight I had a similar feeling when looking at your branches to how I felt looking at his painting of surreal trees. Agree about the female anatomy thing, quite disturbing shit.

Try a painting some time and you'll prolly get good experience with both colour and the creative backgrounds you're looking for. If I could manage it all of my drawings would have backgrounds to go with em but for now they will remain desolate ~_~ I typically draw with the surreal objects in mind only and just expect people to imagine a background (lame).

Here's a few more, stuff from near the end of highschool/beginning of college. After I developed a style (and similarly, I zone out and disconnect and am not aware of what I'm drawing beyond what my previous stroke was) it pretty much stayed looking the same but I have a bit more confidence to draw more complex things.



And by contrast maybe a year earlier than that last drawing my drawings looked like this which is quite uglier I do say. That's my first ever drawing attempting such a style and it didn't really work out. But being able to utilize expressionism, in time, has huge merits such as being able to use anything and draw something unique at any time pretty much.

As far as inspirations for me goes, just shit in my brain LoL, but generally things in my head have an organic look to them, similar to plant biological stuff (above and underwater, mostly underwater stuff).

Also just noticed apparently everything I draw can only look left.