Sam Santala - Sketches

[samsantala]

Name: Sam Santala
Email: samsantala@gmail.com
Artstation: https://www.artstation.com/artist/samsantala
Twitter: https://twitter.com/samsantala
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/samsantala/

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Hey everyone, professional concept artist here. specializing in creatures and characters. Thought I'd start a sketchbook here and share what I've been working on in my off-time

I'm working on a lot more so expect regular updates

[malcom]

Firstly let me say welcome to the forums.
Awesome creature work you have here.
Looks as if drawing in the bone structure underneath really helps. Good work. Look forward to see what else you create.

[samsantala]

Hey thanks @malcom

Yeah studying the underlying creature anatomy can be incredibly useful. It's definitely an aspect that too often gets overlooked.

Anyway, more anatomy studies

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[malcom]

I really love how you break things down to understand whats going on in the anatomy and structure of things. Do you recommend any books or anything that I can look at for animal/creature design stuff?

[samsantala]

Yeah, for sure I've always found Terryl Whitlatch's 'Animals: Real and Imagined' as my go-to book for animal anatomy. She has pages and pages of things like these, all drawn beautifully. There's also 'Science of Creature Design', it's got some good explanations, but the pages are much more bare bones than the previous.

And for really creative design the 'Monster Hunter Illustration' book have always had some great creatures inside them. I highly recommend

Anyway, I did some Metal studies last night. Thought I'd share!

[malcom]

Thank you and those are some cool metal studies. Nice work.

[samsantala]

Just a couple more studies.

Also, I notice I'm on the top bar of the forums. So that's made my day

[samsantala]

Finally finished these studies. I also decided to try making a load of material spheres and a short tutorial on rendering armour and understanding light/shadows over on my blog.

If you're interested you can find it here: http://samsantala.blogspot.fi/2017/03/armour-studies-material-spheres.html

[samsantala]

Just updating here with a clean up of some work from last year. Wanted to make more actual 'design' in my concept designs and add some notes on here.

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Part of a daily studies challenge. More on my Twitter (Link below)

[Stefanie_Drawinger]

Your studies are really great! You have some splendid work here, keep it up!

[samsantala]

Aw thanks Stefanie. I'll be sure to keep this place updated with a few more in a couple days! I'm glad you like them

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[luckyyy]

Adoring your studies!

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Adding some development images from a few commissions I got permission to share

This one was to paint a specific creature design they already had, dragging out a victim from a series of underground tubes.

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[luckyyy]

You're really good at lighting! Very nice work.