It's really beautiful and I hope one day I won't get so finicky with my coloring and be able to produce something so fluid and textural as this :)

Well, as folks below are very aptly pointing out, my stuff is still way tighter than Wood's -- I've got a lot of loosening up to do here, too. Still, I'd recommend pushing yourself to be more loose and expressive than you're used to as an exercise to any artist. It's hard to resist the temptation to get in there and render out every little thing, but like you say, something rougher retains a fluidity that often dies in a more tightly rendered piece.

Wow... this is one of the most atmospheric pictures I have ever seen. It's kind of affecting in a way... Almost like an impressionist painting like The Scream or something. This seems along the same calibre... well done!

Hehe, hopefully fewer people will steal it than people have stolen Munch's piece. It's like every couple of years, somebody new tries to haul a Scream out of a gallery ^_^

Haha, yeah... I was reading up on the history of The Scream... I hope that doesn't happen to you D:

Although, on the up-side, it would be hilarious...

Ashley Wood doing K. K. is a remarkably apt desciption!

Admittedly, aside from being a white dog with a guitar, there's no real similarity to K. K. to speak of... But hey, you know, whatever ^_^

Given that K. K. is a generic super deformed white mutt with a guitar to begin with, that's fair! if you really wanted to identify the dog as K. K. you'd have to attach a low fidelity MIDI tune to the image ...

Ashley Woooodddddddddd

The guy who draws cool splashy vags and robots

(ps i love his face)

HE LOOKS MALNOURISHED (sp?)

YEAH K. K. EAT A GODDAM SAMWICH.

For what it's worth, I was going for skinny, not manorexic. I think part of it is the bizarre-o angular pose and the gnarly hands both make him look kind of skeletal.

I like gnarly hands :o

Personally I think it might be his huge wifebeaters, but I could be wrong

Ooh, yeah, that's a good point, too!

I think I wanted something flowy that would slip off the shoulder because I'm gay. Wife beater was maybe not the best choice, haha.

ahaha I like how you added "because I'm gay" to rationalize it

I was about to think up some clothes that you can make large and flowy, but I know as much about clothes as I do about something I don't know very much about.

Also zombies!

Nice one - you've got a way with monochrome

Thanks, I think it's kind of how my brain works at this point. Plus, I was also consciously trying to emulate Wood's work, and he uses earth tones pretty much exclusively in a lot of his stuff.

Oh wow. I love Ashley Wood, though I must say this is a fair bit more comprehensible than his work tends to be!
Gorgeous monochromatic color scheme. Very heavy.

I know >_< Even when I'm pushing myself to be crazy loose, it still winds up like this 9_9...

But! Practice makes perfect and all that. And if I wind up somewhere between Ashley Wood's expressiveness and, say, Phil Hale's rendering, you know...I'll be happy! Hehe, some of us just weren't meant for heavy abstraction ^_^

Either way, thanks! I was really happy with the weight this one had, so it's awesome of you to mention that.

I'd say you're well on your way already.

You're very sweet <3

So amazing.

NO YOU

looks like me omg lol

But seriously this is amazing

Then fabercastel thinks you should eat a sandwich <3

Hehe, although I'm totally that scrawny, too, so I can't talk ^_^

haha
I eat a lot honestly, but it doesn't stick on my bones :c

I suppose I"m lucky? by today's social conventions anyway

Yeah, we're in the same boat there. Enjoy it while it lasts, I guess ^_^
Come 40, we'll be chubbin' up same as the next guy, hehe.

Oh boooy

:[ My dad's nearing 48 and he's only like 160 pounds. Pretty svelt for someone who grew up in Wisconsin, haha

Your art never fails to stupify me with it's awesomness.

Aw thanks, dude ^_^

Ooooooh daaaaang
K.K. Slider kicks ass
This is hot XD

Hmm, although imagining twangy MIDIs playing while looking at this image is kinda...silly. Maybe I missed the mark a bit in terms of mood, haha ^_^

Beautifully atmospheric, moreso than alot of your work. It's very loose and fluid, but still tight enough to keep the "painterly" qualities from overwhelming the expression of the subject. Nice work man. :3

Duh, reply fail.
See below, haha.

Yeah, my stuff tends to be pretty enough, but flat and pretty vacuous, so it was fun to do something a little more classical and try to put in some weight and spatial feeling and atmosphere.

It's a trend I'd like to continue if I'm not incredibly lazy. So basically it's anyone's guess 9_9

anything kk slider-related is a positive good

However tenuously ^_^

DAMN this is truly beautiful.
As far as this being Ashley Wood-ish, limited palette & tone wise yeah, but it's really all you. No gun-toting robots with plump, be-thonged girls perched on their metallic shoulders :P

but yeah, i love this guys stance! somehow simultaneously fluid & crisp.

Hehe, his content is almost as characteristic as his style, huh?

Not that I'm one to talk -- moody dog-men is a real stretch for me, huh? ^_^

Oh pshaw!
I've seen your website, you're in no way limited to moody dog-men.

これ、筆のストロークがめっちゃカッコいいですは。特に背景の雲。
じっくり描くのもいいけど、勢いで描かないと出ないニュアンスも大事にしたいな～とか最近考えてます。相変わらず超遅筆ですが・・・

それにしても獣青年にギターってこんなに合うものだったのか。絵の小道具に楽器を使うのっておしゃれで好きなんだけど、
楽器に詳しい人からよく突っ込みが入るのでなかなか描くのに勇気が要ります(笑)

どうもどうも<３

今度は運良く大きな失敗はなかったんで、結構いいペースで出来上がってくれた。手とか、いつものことながらしっかり考えないで適当に描いちゃった割には納得してるし。色々と直したいところはあるんだけど、その気持ちよく描けたところから出る気持ちのよさも大事にしたいから、敢えて手を付けてません。

とか言って、これから手を加えると失敗しちゃいそうだから、適当にほっかってますよ、これは。

でもmotoさんの言うように、勢いでしか出ない感じもあるんですね。これを描く前にAshley Woodって人の絵をいっぱい見てて「ワイルドでいいなあ」と思って、これを描いたんですけど、結局その人の抽象気味たスタイルはあまり真似できなかったんだけど、おかげで結構ルーズに挑めたんで、それでも勉強になったと思ってます。

ギターカッコいいから度々描けちゃいますね。まだ誰も「止めろ」とか「形、違えーよ」とか言ってませんから、また適当に続いてます（笑）。motoさんの場合、どんな点で突っ込まれるんですか？こっちは楽器を描くの下手ですけど、その点を置いといたら、まあ普通に弾けそうじゃないっすか、獣人でも？手も人間の手そのまんまですし。

あー俺は主に形をつっ込まれますね。「これじゃあ音出ねえよ。」とかなんとか。資料見ながら描いたんだけどなぁ・・・。
あと銃器とかメカなんかもよく突っ込まれます。まあ実際かなり適当に描いているのは事実なんで、その道に詳しい人が見るとヘンテコに見えるのも当然なのかも～

まあ勉強第一ですな。勉強勉強・・・・・・

ひどい話ね。第一ものを有りのままに描写するのではなく、より一層美しく描くのが画家の本分じゃないでしょうか？
「この方が見栄えが良いんだから」と適当に答えていいんじゃないかな、そういう場合。

ま、勉強も決して悪いことじゃないし、何もかもを適当にやるのはどうかと思うけど、motoさんほどしっかり描いてる人にそんなケチ付けに来る人は相手にしなくていいって。絵に描いたギターは音が鳴らんでも、見た目が素敵ならそれでいいじゃない？

…ってのは自己満足かな？<3

最近ちょっと絵のことで自信なくしてたけどkamuiさんのおかげで元気になりました。すてきなアドバイスどうもありがとうございます。
ぼちぼち描きますかね・・・

そんな！motoさんほどの腕なら、自信を持っててなんら問題もないはずですよ。

人間誰だって不安になるときはあるだろうし、芸術家なら尚更自分を疑うと思うけど、客観的に見て、motoさんは絶対大丈夫だから、気にしないで描いててくださいよ。
motoさんの描いた絵を見て、インスピレーションを受ける人は少なくないと思います。自分もその内に入りますし。

とにかくドンマイ！絵描き、ファイト！

those. shorts. =O

and youre amazing and i envy everything about you and all that

Oh, hot pants <3

Heh, if this were Wood, I'd just see a lot of photoshop brushstrokes everywhere, maybe just on top of a picture or a screenshot. (If you ever read the Metal Gear Solid comics he drew, a lot of the panels are just him drawing on top of screenshots. Or in the new Tank Girls, the first issue is just him smearing everything all over the page, so for the rest they got some guy to lay it all out into panels or at least sections so it's actually readable). Unless you pay him more... in which case it looks a lot better, but that doesn't mean it's not just a re-do of someone else's picture.

Touché!

Beautiful!

Thanks ^_^ I like how this one turned out, too.

So HE is the clam before the storm eh?

He looks pretty mellow ^_^

Clam? haha, you know I meant calm right?
Clam before the storm, ha. Silly typo.

Yep, he's a mellow pup.

Haha, I was thinking of riffing off of the "clam before the storm," but then I was like "DON'T BE A DICK."

As typos go, though, that one was pretty funny <3

Ah well, dicks are fun too.
Oh wait, uh, I mean... erm nevermind.

A...another typo! Yeah! It was a typo!

Guitar