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Cos · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 12:11 am

few more sketchbook pages i scanned, thought I'd post em. First two and the last page sketchins from reference, c&c welcome.

[666]Flat · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 12:32 am

Good common lord, that's great stuff. Overpaint these goodies and there shall be pure sw337nez.

Mysen · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 5:49 am

I am pretty much in awe every time you post sketches dude. You have some great work there. Keep it up.

madmouth · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 10:12 am

sweeet. I like the second drawing best. you should do more of those and less of demon/warrior/fantasy stuff. the latter is too cliched and you have the talent to make things that look really original

jr · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 2:38 pm

cos, very impressive, keep them coming!

Cos · Posted: Sat Mar 23, 2002 2:57 pm

666 - Thanks man, yeah I will get some painted up sometime. Just been trying to concentrate on my raw sketching lately.

Arkenoid - Thanks guy

Madmouth - more demons,warriors and fantasy stuff u say!? nah I wouldn't do less o that stuff, that's what I enjoy. All a matter of taste I guess, that second page is just a sketch from a magazine, more boring imo. But I'll probably make more effort in doing that kinda thing, to learn from, etc. Cheers.

Tek9z - Thanks Tek

JR - Thanks man!

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Atomic Urine · member Member # Joined: 20 Feb 2002 Posts: 71

Hey! I see a dinky!

... wonderful as usual, Cos.

The naked guy holding the punk in the air looks incredibly "stiff" to me. Almost like it's a statue. Other than that itty-bitty crit, I have nothing more to offer except everlasting praise.

tek9z · Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 12:59 am

yeah those girls are so sweet
you keep 'em comming..

Cos · Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 4:35 pm

creed - Cheers man

I was happy with the zombies anatomy, but the pic on the whole probably got abit over worked, stiffened their poses some.

Lukiaz · Posted: Sun Mar 24, 2002 6:05 pm

Oh man, slow down!. Again, these are all awesome.
Sexy ladies, flush anatomy, and most of all mad gangzta skillz

You work in A4?. If not, what size?.
Do you often shade by turning your pencil side on, or am I just imagining it?

Brilliant work man.

Frost · Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2002 10:04 am

Great work Mr.Koniotis! Going to paint those?

Gil Agud�n · member Member # Joined: 14 Feb 2002 Posts: 103

oh god!! i'm speechless... i take my hat off to you!! those are the best i've seen in a long, long time!!!

Morbid Guy · Posted: Mon Mar 25, 2002 11:42 am

Yo bro, hows it go?.. :P Your work is absolutely kicking it. I've noticed some huge improvements lately and you been knocking it out like a machine man.

Great stuff!

Cos · Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2002 4:56 pm

Lukias - Thanks dude, yeah been working on a4 for awhile, used to work in more than double that size pad, but I'm finding this size more comfortable for working out compositions, etc. I do turn the pencil occasionally, get's a nice textured look. Found you get different result depending on the paper you use, rough seems to work better for it.

Frost - cheers m8, yeah I'll paint some of this stuff at some stage. Just staying focused with sketchbook work lately.

Gil - Thanks =)

Morbid Guy - Yo bruvsah! cheers for the compliments man :P

Spectra · Posted: Tue Mar 26, 2002 11:28 pm

So many sketch again, this soon! Damn, you'r a real sketch machine! Nice work.

Guillaume Le Tual

good bye · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 37

Barbarian hoards aren't really my thing

but these are really well done. You're drawings show that you have a solid grasp of anatomy.

saladbowl · Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2002 6:30 am

The 2nd one is really cool / hot!

Nice work!
I wish I could do that...
2 Periods of art coming up..

Makafui · Posted: Wed Mar 27, 2002 8:49 am

i really like sketch work those are very cool man.

good bye · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 37

Your style has an old-school 70's comic-style to it, like some of Jim Sterenko's work. Cool stuff. I always liked that style more becuase, well it was drawn better. The characters are all anatomically correct. Later 90's artists that were popular, like that Liefeld guy, were just plain crappy artists.

Cos · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2002 4:35 am

Spectra - Dahamn! *busses me james brown moves* like a sketch machine! (like a sketch macheeene!!) Cheers

Apollo + Makafui - Thanks =)

Watchitman - Cheers, Steranko rung a bell, did a search. Never really was into his stuff, bit before my time, but he has some nice work. Some of his fantasy stuff looks kinda frazetta inspired (no suprise there) but still in his own style.

I agree with what you're saying about the earlier artists tho, was just alot more originality in their styles. Later on (specially when labels like image came out) and all the copycats trying to draw like mc'farlane and jim lee, just got really fucking lame..

[edit]- I was more into the 80's and early 90's stuff, liked alot of the 2000ad artists like Bisley, Fabry, Bolland, Hickleton, Dillon, O'neil, etc. Some of the 70's/80's marvel guys like John Byrne and Mike Zeck I really liked, Sienkiewicz and Kent Williams (who still kick arse) too..

Not many of the new comic artist's really catch the eye nowadays, Greg Staples who started late 90's for 2000ad has gotten pretty shit hot tho, really like his stuff.

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Presto Change O · Posted: Thu Mar 28, 2002 9:56 pm

This shit is just..... hell yeah! **Imagine a smiley giving the rock on sign and stickin his toung out** Really inspiring man.

Screw imagining, insta smiley on a sticky-note pad.

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good bye · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 37

quote:
and all the copycats trying to draw like mc'farlane and jim lee, just got really fucking lame..

Especially because neither one of those artists were very good, Jim Lee is especially bad, in my opinion.

I love Sienkiewicz and Kent Williams work. Dave McKean's early work was very similar to Sienkiewicz's style but his more mature work has developed in a totally different (but cool) direction. And speaking of artist's who imitate Sienkiewicz, check this guy out: ashleywood.com I never heard of him until a friend told me about his site last week but then, I don't really pay much attention to comics anymore. He has some great fine art work though.