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Humboldt Squid posted:I watched this video a few times, and I think something clicked finally I tried to do a thing with this video in mind. I'm still a long way from "getting" it, but at least it was fun to make! 
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Thanks for the feedback everyone! Going to call this sketch done for the time being.
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I just noticed the transistor (I think) symbol on her back - is that a watermark/signature thing? I really like it.
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Humboldt Squid posted:getting there Painting looks good to me, but I think you wanted to show more volumes than would be possible from that angle, resulting in too little overlap in the volumes. You should use two mirrors to have a look. I also think you gave the neck itself more of an angle than what would be seen. Tried a PO to show my thoughts:  E: uuuh, I didn't see this second page and that you had called it done. Oh well! noggut fucked around with this message at 15:12 on Jul 11, 2014 |
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Jul 11, 2014 14:19
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Man, I remember the first time I found out I was a house. Pretty much the same reaction too. If you haven't been tested yet for residency yet you should probably get that done. It's a lot easier to renovate yourself when you catch that stuff early.
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Some quick line-art and graphic coloring on top of an even quicker ZBrush sculpt. Lots of fun, great way to work on both draftsmanship and 3D at the same time.
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 E: Hey thank you! Took forever but playing with timing is almost the most fun part. Now to try something really crazy... VVVVVVV mareep fucked around with this message at 17:57 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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Jul 11, 2014 19:35
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Okay that rules. I love the alternating speeds.
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 How do you do your linework? I'm an absolute sucker for smooth lines like that, and I've not come up with a reliable way of doing it yet. Generally I use a hard round brush freehand, with pen pressure controlling width, but I'm not sure if my problems with that are from the method or just lack of practice.e: Also, as a more general question, how useful have the better-than-me (ie, everyone) people found the advice of "you have to be able to draw a thing before you can paint it"? It's something I've heard a few times in the last week, but I don't have the skill to know if it's true or just a soundbite. Should I focus on purely construction/drawing, or is it useful to work on everything at once? petrol blue fucked around with this message at 01:39 on Jul 12, 2014 |
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Jul 12, 2014 01:04
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petrol blue posted:
I work really loose at first and sketch out my ideas kinda quick. Then I trace over those block outs. I do the final lines at a pretty high resolution. Couple thousand pixels wide. Anywhere from 3k to 6k. That helps things look smooth when you downrez for web viewing. I use a hard brush with the transfer settings (opacity) turned off. Round works ok for some people. I like a chisel tip or a triangle shaped brush personally. Another neat trick is to make a selection around your whole drawing. Fill it in on a layer underneath with a base color and add a small 1 or 2 pixel stoke effect to the layer. It gives a nice clean outline to help pop things out. You gotta be smart with this and follow typical line art rules of overlapping or foreground shapes having thicker lines or it looks lovely. Other then that draw with your shoulder, don't pet your lines and keep practicing.
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Thanks, that helps a lot - it's good to know that I'm taking the right approach in general! As to drawing from the shoulder - my graphics tablet is an A6 wacom, or an A5 android (samsung note, I'm so in love with it): is that too small for loose work like that? I'm vaguely planning on saving for something bigger (likely a medium intuos), but it'd help to know if it's a legit 'this is holding you back' or more a 'trying to solve lack of technique by throwing cash at it'.
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petrol blue posted:e: Also, as a more general question, how useful have the better-than-me (ie, everyone) people found the advice of "you have to be able to draw a thing before you can paint it"? It's something I've heard a few times in the last week, but I don't have the skill to know if it's true or just a soundbite. Should I focus on purely construction/drawing, or is it useful to work on everything at once? I think it's pretty true. It might just be as simple as time investment: It takes way less time to do 10,000 drawings than 10,000 paintings. Why not burn your beginner poo poo-art out in the fastest way possible? Drawing is fast, accessible, portable, and teaches you stuff that's relevant to any media: line, tone, texture, shape, space, etc. Your painting of a house isn't going to look good ever unless you can draw a house and put in the right values and proportion and all that. Granted, someone who's good at drawing but using oils for the first time is gonna have a pretty poo poo painting. It'll still probably look better than a painting by a novice to both though, and they'll be able to improve their output much faster as they get more familiar with the paint. I guess it depends on how much realism you have in your paintings, but again I think you need a pretty good understanding of the barest components before abstracting them in ways that work and make artistic sense. Drawing will always help!
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Some thumbnails I've done. (Sorry for the instagram filters, don't have the originals anymore.) 
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 This is a more realistic reimagining of the character Morgan LaFlay from the game Tales of Monkey Island. 
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Jul 12, 2014 19:27
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Some sort of ant bot thing that does something of some sort. Also my daughter's toy frog up in the corner because she asked me to draw it looking at the "robot thing". Sorry for the scanner shadow. I made a few of my own sketchbooks, and they don't lay flat so good.  
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Jul 13, 2014 16:32
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I realized that my yesterday's contribution wasn't very thematic, therefore
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It's been a while since I've posted here!! Decided to give my screen printing kit a test run and I'm pretty happy with the results. I know what to fix up drawing wise and what steps to do differently for my first actual print. 
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I followed the advise from a video someone posed earlier (sycra.net) about limiting colors to a "split complementary palette": only sample from there, and mix everything else. For me, it was a wonderful experience, and I made something I'm actually not embarrassed about in color!
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Jul 14, 2014 01:00
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Been looking at a bit of Durer, love that woodcut vibe. 
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I'm currently working on a drawing of the Squale from "14", a novel by Peter Clines. These are some pattern work-ups I did. (The squale is part of a much larger scene, but I scanned just the beast so I could mess with patterning.) Just lines  Pointallism (I wanted this one to look kind of like the skin of a Sperm Whale.)  Pointallism again (I like this one, because the stripes imply a predator/prey relationship with some other, possibly larger, creature (The squale is about 900 feet long in the story.))  Any thoughts, opinions? Genesplicer fucked around with this message at 22:44 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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The third one is clearly missing something. Edit: Are there just supposed to be the three? I thought the empty img tags were missing an image. supermikhail fucked around with this message at 16:48 on Jul 14, 2014 |
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Jul 14, 2014 13:57
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I don't know the creature/story, but I'd say the body looks a bit too solid & heavy for those sized wings. Obviously, it's not actually got to fly, so it's just an aesthetic thing...
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Pretending I can make awesome armour designs. It turned into a colorful clown >_< edit Have some more.  
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Does anyone know what this style of art is called?  I want to do some research on zombies done this way with the very stylized black lines.
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Comic book? 
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supermikhail posted:Comic book? Yeah tried that but there are so many different types of comic book art...
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No idea, but please let me know if you find out, I love that style. Reminds me of the artwork in framed ink.
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It looks like the sort of look you get when you ink something so it looks complete in just black and white, and then add flat-ish color in the white bits later. Although if that's what they did, they've removed some black and also redone the fleshy bits in a different style Anyway.. i don't know what it's called, but colored black/white, maybe? Sharply shadowed something something?
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ExplodingSquid posted:Does anyone know what this style of art is called? I doubt it has a name. It kinda follows a comic tradition of doing line work so that it works as B&W but is able to also be colored in, but really I'd think it's just that the artist likes heavy black shadows + color.
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dupersaurus posted:I doubt it has a name. It kinda follows a comic tradition of doing line work so that it works as B&W but is able to also be colored in, but really I'd think it's just that the artist likes heavy black shadows + color. You can get this part by googling "Mignola-esque" as long as you don't mind it looking nothing at all like that cowboy zombie. 
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Goons, I know it may look bad, or at least weird, but because I'm following a let's play of Tales of Monkey Island I got the feeling that I could have done better with the following. I tried to find a picture with a more neutral face and repainted the nose and the mouth according to my new idea. I still feel that it could be closer without breaking realism, but I'm not sure. Possibly the cartoonishness just can't be translated well, especially the eyes where I can't do much because people just don't come with peepers like that. I'd appreciate any input and ideas. I also tried a kind of arabic nose, but then decided that it should be more of the buttony kind.
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Sea scorpion mermaid
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Skeleton Bro
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 ^^^Oh. Er, half-skeleton bro.
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McKilligan posted:Skeleton Bro drat, that is awesome!
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I decided to use my God-given right to apply textures to my drawings. What are some usual places people get brushes or maybe starter packs? I found some "Free Brushes" site, and the amount is as overwhelming as expected.
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McKilligan posted:Skeleton Bro This is fantastic. I love the woodcut aesthetic.
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