Dave Matthews SpeedPaint

After seeing so many glorious speed-paints from Xia and the rest of the idrawgirls Community, I finally decided to take a crack at one. Its a 45 minute long painting of the lead singer of Dave Matthews Band, one of my favorite musical groups that has a new album coming out on June 2. I think I'm starting figure out what Luca told me about "where to add hard lines so that the picture doesn't look blurry and smugged", so I'd like to thank him for tipping me off with that little bit of advice. Opinions and advice are more than welcome.

Have a Good One,

Nick Fechter

V's Anna (new V series)

This is a painting I did this afternoon of Morena Baccarin character Anna from the new "V" series starting next year on ABC network. I wanted to show behind her beautiful smile there was a monster waiting underneath!
Done in Photoshop.

Thunder

I have three siblings, and when we were little we lived in our old house in Tennessee. One time we were all playing outside, and then a thunderstorm started to darken the sky. My older sister decided to tease me and my younger siblings by telling us that the thunder was the roar of a T-rex that wanted to eat us, and being that we were very little, we believed her and got scared. This weeks theme for Sugar Frosted Goodness was "Thunder", so I decided to resurface some of my good ol' childhood psychological trauma :)

Have a Good One,
Nick Fechter

Abandoned Tank

speedpaint 30min

I am dumping my custom brushes 4ever. Round brush and soft brush is tha shit.

Night

This is the same picture as the preview one. But I changed it into night and painted some xtra stuff.

Approx 1h

Superheroines!

Some new drawing I did today. Done in Comicswork. Vampirella and Bomb Queen.

Café

Part of a picture a made for a comic in the Swedish edition of Heavy Metal.

Look for more material at Comicartschool.ning.com

Industry

speedpaint 30min

Mist

approx 2,5h

Tranny-Formers

They're more than meets the eye (if ya' know what I'm sayin')

-Nick Fechter

http://nevilleandcompanycomics.blogspot.com/

DEMONIC !

rough work just to get some new work done and also to practice.

The Professions 2

The Professions 2

Hello again,

This is my update on The Professions of Guild Wars. I've added 6 more class to the line up. 

Tell me what you guys think of it. Thanks!

Train

Future magnet train or something. enjoy!

-shiro

woman

Hi, everyone. I'm Shiro, 18. It's cool to be a part of this site.
I used reference for her face so the lighting of her body and face don't match too well but, hope you all enjoy it.

    -Shiro(white)

First Digital Art

Hello guys my name is Raul, this is my first digital art work... well first painting too, Iv never actually painted or colored my drawings, I've been using my pen pad for about 2 weeks, Im looking forward to learning from you guys and I hope i can get some advice and some critical comments. 

Good Music

Somethin' I made for the weekly theme on Sugar Frosted Goodness, which was "Bliss". I also have an important question to ask all of you more experienced artists out there, and it concerns image files. So far, the best image files that do well for posting artwork are PNG and JPEG, and usually I find myself preffering PNG. Other artists on the web always post there stuff in JPEG, and they've usually told me that its the basic standard for posting art on the web. However, when I try to post things in JPEG, the image becomes all pixelly and less coherent than it would be if I post in PNG. I don't know if this is a resolution issue or not, because honestly I can' make things in high res. with the computer that I have. Can any of you inlighten me on what I should and how stuff like image files work? I would be eternally gratefull to anyone who could help me out.

Sincerely,
Nick Fechter

http://nevilleandcompanycomics.blogspot.com/

me or wolverine

well this started off as a weird concept of me ridin away on a bike ,using a pic o mine as reference
but well
accidents happen
n it turned to be wolverine
hehehe

do comment
thank you
^_^

Captain Kirk

Saw Star Trek last week and boy it was all kinds of coolness! =)

Yosemite Sam

Haven't posted any artwork here in a little while but I'm back with my meaner, darker version of the Looney Toones character, Yosemite Sam. Hope you like it and I'll try to post here a little more. I love this site. Thanks =)

Lucky

Ever known what it feels like to find a crisp 100$ bill in the middle of the street? Ask that guy, he knows.

-Nick Fechter

http://nevilleandcompanycomics.blogspot.com/

I Am Back!

Hello,everyone!I was abroad the last week.Here is what I drew:

Bruce Lee Portrait

Since Luca did a portrait of Bruce Lee, I figured I'd do the same. I hope you like it :)


ref:
http://www.hkcinemagic.com/en/images/people/large/bruce_lee_portrait_5bb77d02bc534983c6a9af1c443cb512.jpg

Another Poetry Club Portrait

This girl is a member of my poetry club who is very dedicated to creating poetry, so much so that she has a LARGE binder full of poems she's written. Comments and advice are welcome as always folks.

Have a Good One,
Nick Fechter

http://nevilleandcompanycomics.blogspot.com/

Bruce Lee Portrait

Since last time Xia got my attention, here is a portrait of the legendary Bruce Lee... I have to tell you that when I scanned it, it lost its quality (even @300dpi). I don't know why but the one I have on paper is much better then this one... still, I hope you like it!


Peace!

Arcana Girls commission

Here is a piece that was commissioned by an VP over at Arcana comics. These are some of their top heroines. Banzai Girl, Eve Vampire Diva, and Koni Wave. All hand drawn by your's truely.

City of desert

Another Color palette study and light

Random Stuff

Hi there, here are some (useless) drawings I did a couple of days ago while watching TV... nothing of special, but I thaught of sharing them with you over here!





Hope at least you like one!

Self Portrait

Here's a portrait that I did of myself, just for any of you who don't know what I look like.....which is probably all of you :P
Comments, opinions, and advice or always welcome.
Have a Good One,
Nick Fechter

Captain America

a sketch i did of Captain America

Mars

A color palette study

Life Drawing: now in color!

This is my first post. I shouldn't let you guys have all the fun... =) I tried life painting digitally for the first time, which allowed me to get some much-needed practice with color and how it relates to value/form.

The first pose was 45 minutes, and the second one about 20 minutes. I used Painter X and my latop/wacom tablet.

As you can see the color temperatures and tonal ranges are quite different between the two, despite being from the same scene. I started with an arbitrary background color for each and focused on judging the relative color values and temperatures. I'm not sure if that's how real painters do it, but at least it doesn't fail the squint test...

Beowulf

Here's a drawing of good ol' Beowulf, the fabled monster slayer of Danish lore. It took me about 2 hrs, any advice or opinions that anyone is willing to give would be much appreciated.

Have a Good One,

Nick Fechter

http://nevilleandcompanycomcis.blogspot.com/

Hi! I'm New!

Hi, my name's Nick Fechter and I'm a seventeen-year-old student who attends Neville High School. I've been striving greatly to improve my talent in art ever since I've asked the Editor of my school newspaper if I could create a comic strip.The top piece of art is a portrait I did of my English teacher, and the bottom one is an illustration of Edgar Allen Poe's poem "The Raven" that I did for a poetry project. I also have a webcomic (of sorts) online which you can visit by clicking the following link:http://nevilleandcompanycomics.blogspot.com/I'm open to any advice, suggestions, or commentary that your willing to provide. My hope is to one day to become as successful and talented as all of you :)

All the Best,

Nick Fechter

Candy

*updated lighting

hello all,

heres a random character i created just for fun, i call her candy lol. 

comments are appreciated :)

Speedpaint spidertank

Here is a following tutorial to my spider robot. Yep I know it is not perfect but I am just messing around with the new screen record software. LOL first time I render out it was 21gb big but I manage to crank it down to 60mb^^And now I can further more produce loads of tutorials muhahahaha!! Oh man I need to get some sleep I havent slept in 2 days.

Good vs. Evil

The good fights evil in an epic scenery.

I entered this for the competition at Deviant Art and I liked how this turned out. I'm trying to improve on every painting I do. The picture is entirely painted except for the small windows and stuff which are parts of photos.

I used Photoshop only and took a me a bit more than 3 hours to paint.

Hope you like it :)


(my DA account is pokepetter.deviantart.com if you want know but I don't check i too often.)

The Professions

Hello all,

Been awhile since i posted anything here, sorry about that, i was bz playing GW =p 

So here is a colored sketch i did of my characters from Guild Wars, i have only 8 professions atm, but maybe i'll add the other 2 profession later(paragon|elementalist).  

Anyway, as you can see, the color pallettes are strongly based from the in-game skill colors of the professions, i just love the way the skill icons looked in the game, so i had to bring some of that into the sketch  :) 

Let me know what you guys think ^^  

Sword Fighter

Just a quick character I did. It started out as a sketch, then did the line work in a vector program and exported to PSD, then did the coloring in PS. Kind of a new technique for me. I used to do everything vector but trying to do more with my sketches and painting and coloring in photoshop.

my new background work :D

well
this is like the 2nd background iv done
i know that im still not good,
im actually scared of making backgrounds for some weird reason
if any of you guys have some ideas for me to get out of my phobia for backgrounds,
then please help me out
thank you