[Cos]

thought I'd take another try at this, hopefully this host will hold better than the last one!

(uploaded them here aswell incase they time out again)
http://www.boomspeed.com/coskoniotis/upload01.html

c&c welcome

[Hyptosis]

Very friggin' nice dude. What can I say otherwise.

[scylla]

oh my

what can i say?????

you're brilliant. God gave you all the bloody brilliance and there wasn't any left over for me. Thanks.

[Kari Christensen]

Super cool stuff!!! Nice texture with the paint and great color. What programs are you using? What are these for?

[Gimbal8]

"Random sketch junk" he says...

One of those words does not belong.

[kaylon]

Man there good....Questions .

1. Do you use a high pressure airbrush..or low paintbrush...

2. Also..do you use the transparancy settings of layers alot ?.

3. Is it possable to see a quick step by step hehe . Im very interested in your under painting tech and style as it is sorta how my work is going...just yours is to a much higher standerd .

Very insperational..many many thanks for posting .

Kay.

[Basse_Ex]

Dang! If this is junk, then I wanna become a junkie!

But.... I do have one problem. The painting, they're just too damned dark. Now it's a good kind of dark, kinda like a cross between Simon Bisley and Scott Hampton or something(That's not to say it's ain't original, it's just that name dropping sometimes helps keep my mind on track ).

But... in your pencil(?) sketches, you have these amazingly cool and very human facial expressions, that really give your characters an awesome sense of life. But in the painted versions... well... they're just cool-looking dark shapes. Grim and tough and all that, but lacking the life they had in the sketches. Which is a shame... since them facial expressions were just so damn'd nice.

I especially like the smug expression, on the guy with the cross on his chest, in the pencils. He just looks so damned satisfied with himself.

Brilliant stuff anyhow.

[Torstein Nordstrand]

I like your colours, though these seem a tad too dark, maybe it's just monitor calibrations. Are these meant to be character concepts? If so, they don't convey truly distinctive personality IMHO. What are your reasons for doing these? If they're just doodles, there's not much more to say than - you handle your art very well.

Your black and white work is always fantastic, but I think your colour work lacks some life, maybe it's the dark colours? Anyways, nice brush handling. These aren't PS7, are they?

[kaylon]

I know everything is personal interps etc..heheh...but I'd re-tune your monitor Just make it a tad brighter and you'll see these pics Ooooze detail .

The colour work here is fantastic, and I feel they have plenty of character .

Also...I dont belive you ever need a reason to do any form of art...just the urge .

Kay.

[Lukiaz]

Absolutley frigeen excellent mate.

I was wondering about you and your art actually.
Love the lighting on the first man.
I'm blown away by the simply sketches underlying... some are just so minimal in line amounts its crazy.
Your skills are so large.

Erie & scary shit too.

[wigin]

Woah.. i dont post much anymore.. But i just had to say that i really enjoyed looking at these.. good job man. Keep it Up.

[Lunatique]

kickin', baby.

[Cos]

Hyptosis, Scyalla - Cheers

Kari - Thanks, they were painted in PhotoShop, not done for anything special really. Some are concepts for something I'm working on, other were for the sake of it.

Gimbal -

Kaylon - Thanks very much, they were done using the paintbrush, my opacity varies for harder/softer areas, I do use airbrush but very sparingly. Never use transparency settings of layers. The concepts are probably the best example of an instep of how I paint, tho I don't have any inbetweens of them.. (I got your email, I'll try and explain into some more detail there.)

Basse_ex - Cheers, glad you liked 'em. Never heard of Scott Hampton actually, gonna look him up, been a bisley fan for years tho. Yeah I did find the expressions were changing abit in the paintings, tho I kinda prefered they started looking more like realistic than in the pencils sketches..

Torstein - Cheers, nah I haven't managed to get my hands on PS7 yet, hopefully soon, these were done with 6.

Lukiaz - Hey thanks alot man, glad you liked 'em. Yeah it's been awhile, gotta drop u a line see how everything been.

Wigin, Lunatique - Cheers

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[Sedone]

Cos, neat stuff as usual. I think my favorite's the first one, just for the steampunk-ish armor. Our painting process seems similar, yet very different at the same time.

[blok]

very dark, very messy, and very nice!

[[666]Flat]

Good fucking lord, man. If you call that junk I'll be da garbage collector anytime.