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wes9000 · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 1:17 pm

hello to everybody
wow...i just found this forum about an hour ago, ive been looking for something like this for a long time. so anyways, i just registered...and i thought i might introduce myself. im 19, and am attending college at the cleveland institute of art, i have some of my work up on my brand new website, anyone can check it out at http://wes9000.topcities.com
any kind of feedback is more than welcome...
right now, im focusing on concept illustration and planning on majoring in industial design or illustration, so if anyone out there has any tips or anything, please send em in

Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

Nice stuff. Real impressive.

Francis · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 1:34 pm

Yeah, really nice stuff on your site. Are you an illustration major or design major?

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Lukias · Guest Member #

Agreed, I checked everything and theres some very cool work.

Welcome to the board

Jezebel · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 2:20 pm

Go away, you make me look bad

Hehe, just kidding. Your work is great! I loved your figure drawings.

I can't wait to see you post some stuff here

-Beth

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MeatyCheesyBoy · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 2:21 pm

I also agree. Really nice drawings. I also like your site alot. Very clean and since it only has 3 colors, it loads really quickly. But I must also say that, popups that are like 75% of the screen size suck. Might I suggest liquid2k.com? Free hosting, no ads.

Jerry · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 2:22 pm

very good stuff you got there... I especially like your illustrations... I was just wondering what type of tool you used for the robot in illustrations (first one) it looks like markers to me. I've always wanted to do coloured pictures and though of trying water colour and markers. If you did use markers... what brand are they?

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ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

wes9000: That's an extremely impressive portfolio! Nice work! Welcome to the board!

Painted Melody · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 2:53 pm

That is one hell of a portfolio, good work

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Waldo · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 3:06 pm

I'll jump in the pool with everyone else and say, "Great stuff". Particularly like your figure drawings. What was the torso sculpture for?

Welcome and look forward to more!

Akolyte · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 3:15 pm

Excellent stuff. Pretty much what everyone else said x 2.

Nex · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 3:42 pm

lots of great stuff on your webpage.

welcome on board

immi · Posted: Wed Feb 07, 2001 5:49 pm

I agree, very nice stuff. Have you done any digital illustration?

Definately try find a new host. The site is quite slow. Also, consider putting the pictures in a thumbnail gallery format. It makes things a lot easier for viewers.

Joachim · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 3:30 am

yeah, very nice work. . . especially at your age. Welcome to the forum.

-I can tell you are a big fan of Ian McCaig, right ?

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strata · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 4:06 am

hate.... popup... windows....

Fantastique.

How do you achieve those amazing pencil tones btw? What kind of pen do you use? Caus it looks like you don't shade with a stomph at all... amazing...

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sear · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 5:24 am

welcome wes!
you got really smashing work on your site!

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AdezJ · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 6:12 am

Impressive indeed!

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silber · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 6:40 am

love you drawings
hardly to believe you are 19
have to work harder now

welcome to the board btw.

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::Dino:: · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 6:45 am

Great stuff. Welcome to the forum

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wes9000 · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 9:34 am

wow, thanks everybody for all the replys...i totally didnt expect that many, wow...
to answer some of the questions:

im not in a major right now...im still in the foundations dept. of my school. ill probably go into industial design or our technology interdisciplinary program.

website stuff-ill definitely look into moving my site over to liquid2k...i really hate all the banners on my site. also im going to add thumbnail pages for each section.

the robots in the illustration section were done with prismacolor markers, 30%, 50%, and 70% cool grey. and then a micron pen for fine lines...for info, check out doug chiang's website, www.dchiang.com, and he has a whole marker tutorial, if you havent seen it already.

the torso sculpture was something i made in high school. its regular pottery clay, that i added wire to after firing, and then painted. ive made several of these, ill try to get a few others up soon

digital illustrations- yes i have done some digital work...im going to get that up soon too

about my pencil tones- those were all done with a regular HB or a black color pencil.
pens- i usually use whatever i can get my hands on...lots of microns or uni-balls. oh yeah, whats a stomph?

well, i think thats about it. thanks for all the feedback and welcoming, im looking forward to being part of the forum

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Axl · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 10:41 am

Some great work on your site. I really like the illustrations, the characters with the face masks are really good.
Welcome to the forums.

strata · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 10:45 am

Wheee!

A stomph is a little stick. =)

It looks like paper mass rolled into a stick (which is probably what it is too)

You use it to smudge out pencils or charcoal or whatever, and you get a really nice smooth shading. It works sort of like photoshops blur tool...

gives you this effect www.alienphobia.com/strata/scan2.jpg
(sorry for pimping that sucky ass image, nobody but wes look at it. Nobody y'hear?)

I like it alot, only I like shading like yours better. arr.

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Sergenth · Posted: Thu Feb 08, 2001 11:59 am

Muy Bueno!

You and I take the same approach at drawing robots... in the elemental design-wise way! Ugh! Now I have to go in a different direction :P ...kidding. I'll still have to break your arm though.

Great characters in the masked individual and the various nomadic desert people in the drawings section. I can see you've put many hundreds of quality(fun) hours into drawing people and faces.

TheMilkMan · Posted: Fri Feb 09, 2001 12:37 am

Hey stuff looks good especially your chaingesque stuff....but anyways your site pop up banners are annoying as hell...you should invest the like 10$/month for an exclusive host so people can look at your at stuff..as it is I would not go there again..sorry but those pop ups annoy me..anwyays try this place they have cheap web hosting www.aaahosting.com