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I'm going to stop procrastinating and just post. Quick newt study I meant to post for last month's theme.  Aaand another study. SirJohanna posted:
I like your idea for this scene, and the little fox character. Like others have mentioned too, I'm not super fond of the antler crossing the tree, and I think the tree between the deer and fox's head is kinda distracting as well - I think the easiest solution is to just remove both, unless you're particularly sold on them  - and I think you could also push your values further, as things are looking a bit flat to me. I did a quick paintover to better show what I mean (I hope that's ok!)
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Octahedron posted:I'm going to stop procrastinating and just post.  This is all great stuff. You have superb control of light and shadow. Not that I'm jealous or anything.
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Feb 21, 2015 07:18
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Propitious Jerk posted:Maybe add more ground clutter and clone in a few more trees/ branches to fill in the forest, other than that it's looking good. The texture on the deer is great. Sharpest Crayon posted:
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Thank you all for the crits! Also I'm super in love with that paintover, looks awesome. I will definitely push the values further. And I'll do something about that distracting tree.
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Feb 21, 2015 11:47
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Propitious Jerk, your dragons are awesome, especially the shadow one. Honestly though there's way too much amazing stuff to mention this month, you guys all rock and are super inspiring. Thanks for the previous feedback, it was really helpful! In celebration of Expressions month, here's a bunch of completely expressionless people (people in cafes don't have emotion, I swear) and also the city of Sarajevo. Again sorry for the hilariously large images.  
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Feb 21, 2015 12:12
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 Chromebot needs no 'functionality', just a shitton of polishing. Done for lighting/chrome practise, pretty pleased for a non-referenced image. e: Tannin, imgur has a resize option (under 'edit')if you're worried about image size. For me at least, it's not a problem, the forums keep them scaled down. petrol blue fucked around with this message at 20:26 on Feb 21, 2015 |
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Feb 21, 2015 20:19
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Propitious Jerk posted:Starting the detail work for the shadow dragon. Added deeper shadows and highlights to the head to pick out detail and brought in some textures of rusted ship hulls to add more grit to the foreground and darken it. Like Reene, I think the eye could use a bit of work, but all I'd say is that the light could be pulled back a bit to give it more depth - still white-hot in the middle, but more clearly enanating from deep inside, more ethereal.
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Feb 21, 2015 20:53
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Octahedron posted:I like your idea for this scene, and the little fox character. Like others have mentioned too, I'm not super fond of the antler crossing the tree, and I think the tree between the deer and fox's head is kinda distracting as well - I think the easiest solution is to just remove both, unless you're particularly sold on them
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Got a head start on my Sunday project; an illustration for some custom goblin tokens for my mtg deck (because I am a big nerd). I wanted to play around with foreshortening on a character where I didn't have to worry to much about nailing proportions. Final will be carrying a lit torch and he'll have some bombs on his belt with the fuses lit.
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Feb 22, 2015 09:00
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 1. Oops, I forgot to give him a pose, how convenient. 2. I need to become bolder with my colors. 3. Does light even work lke that. 4. I should start reading Cucumber Quest again.
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Feb 22, 2015 10:06
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Propitious Jerk posted:I wanted to play around with foreshortening on a character where I didn't have to worry to much about nailing proportions. Final will be carrying a lit torch and he'll have some bombs on his belt with the fuses lit. Hah! The goblin/orc army will take over ALL arts! (Phylodox, where's the rest warcraft stuff? I need to see it!) Curiously, I was just doing the foreshortening thing myself:  I wanted to try doing a backlit piece, 'cause I've never tried to do one before. That's a facefull of confusion spell you're looking at. 1. It looks like the swirly clouds are hugging him and he's all "no I'm huge and cool and no"  2. You go any bolder, you gonna blind someone (seriously, the colours are nice and rich here) 3. Doesn't matter if it's a) magic or b) looks good
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Feb 22, 2015 15:13
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I was thinking of working on a Forsaken this week...
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Feb 22, 2015 16:28
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Do a lady forsaken. They're the best.
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Feb 22, 2015 16:29
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Seconding lady forsaken. Dead chicks rule.
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Feb 22, 2015 20:22
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Cleaned up line drawing for the goblin token. I recently bought Frenden's brush packs for photoshop and this is my first time giving them a whirl.
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Feb 23, 2015 06:10
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That looks really good. Please tell me his weapon is a torch. It looks sort of like one. I just get this image of a goblin swinging a torch around while he has bombs with long fuses strapped to his chest, then he accidentally lights one and is flailing around panicking.
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Feb 23, 2015 06:16
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He already said that all the fuses are already lit.
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Feb 23, 2015 06:26
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Ah, I missed that. but hey at least he successfully got the idea across then!
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Feb 23, 2015 06:33
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Skwee posted:That looks really good. Please tell me his weapon is a torch. It looks sort of like one. I just get this image of a goblin swinging a torch around while he has bombs with long fuses strapped to his chest, then he accidentally lights one and is flailing around panicking. Bang on! Yeah the concept I started with was a goblin suicide bomber, I decided to give him a club and changed it to a torch late in the sketch phase. I like the idea of him using one of those wrought iron ones you see in castles to batter people out of his way as he runs towards his target.
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Haven't drawn in a long time, just did a couple of sketches today. Hoping to follow through with actually drawing every day.  
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Feb 23, 2015 08:07
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Sharpest Crayon posted:2. You go any bolder, you gonna blind someone (seriously, the colours are nice and rich here) Thanks for the input. Looking back bold was a weird choice of words. I usually tend to go for a really desaturated and cold palette which is easy (colors tend not to clash), but not very rewarding I feel.
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Partial colours for the goblin. Went with a fairly standard scheme, I'd say he's about 50 percent done.
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Feb 23, 2015 11:18
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another page of expressions 
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Feb 23, 2015 11:41
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Propitious Jerk posted:Partial colours for the goblin. Went with a fairly standard scheme, I'd say he's about 50 percent done. I think it would be funny if you stuck a bomb right in his mouth.
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Thing to be a poster. Imgur artifacted the hell out of it  
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Feb 23, 2015 16:59
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Guys guys guys. I discovered the TRUTH. About EVERYTHING!
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Feb 24, 2015 00:35
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Sharpest Crayon posted:Guys guys guys. I discovered the TRUTH. About EVERYTHING! 
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petrol blue posted:Well I hope you brought enough acid for everyone, mr. Xenu. Of course I did, sharing is caring! See above, Scathatch already got theirs.
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Feb 24, 2015 15:45
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Oh yes, I see it all now. Everything is beautiful. 
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JamieTheD posted:Another book I found on expressions that was kind of useful was Making Faces: Drawing Expressions for Comics and Cartoons. If you like case study type art-books, well, I find cartoon expressions a good place to start. Got this yesterday. To say I disagree is putting it mildly.  I don't think it's unreasonable to say that that's not a decent amount of content, not when 3/4 of the book is spreads like that. A few sentences per expression, and no discussion of why stuff does what it does. Anyone want to buy an art book?
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Ouch. All those draw-by-numbers books are pretty much useless and it doesn't seem like that particular example goes into theory at all. Hopefully it wasn't very expensive? Anyways, came to post the finished goblin. Spent a lot of time adjusting his values. My initial pass was waaaaay too flat and the colours were off. 
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Feb 24, 2015 20:32
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If you want a good legit book on facial expressions, these are my two faves: http://www.amazon.com/Facial-Expressions-Visual-Reference-Artists/dp/0823016714 http://www.amazon.com/Faigin-Artist...cial+expression
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petrol blue posted:Got this yesterday. To say I disagree is putting it mildly. Good reference book for face shapes. Not a good book to explain how to draw a face. 
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Troposphere posted:If you want a good legit book on facial expressions, these are my two faves: Oh boy, I was not a fan of that book and shelved it immediately after getting it. It was more of a reference in bad facial acting and I wish I'd paid more attention to the Amazon reviews.
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It was a tenner. ($22.99, CAN$27.99) Not horrific, but enough that buying it was a treat for me. Thing is, I bought it because I mentioned it'd come up to my mum (textile artist), who said one of her mates had raved about it. Maybe she was thinking of a different book, because (lemme count a sec..)quote:part 1: the fundamentals [ie: draw a circle] p14-38 This is legit the worst 'art' book I've ever read, and I got started with some real poo poo. What pisses me off isn't so much that it's 'bad teaching', it's how obviously minimal-effort it is. poo poo, part of me is just jealous that I haven't kicked a nice pretty "Learn to draw good with a pigment in some easy steps*" book.  Also, this is not a rant at JamieTheD - everyone finds different books useful at different times, and so on.
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Thanks for the feedback everyone.  And yeah, most expression references I've found seem to be bad acting references rather than anything useful, which is why I like the book I linked in the OP since it goes into detail about how muscles of the face actually contort ect. Anyway, today's theme for DailySketchChallenge on DA was Garnet from steven universe  both my kids love that show so I pretty much had to :p
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I don't venture into other CC threads, so I don't know if this is "old news" or not, but I just read about Astropad: http://astropad.com/ which turns your iPad into a screen for your apps, which means you now have a Cintiq for $49 (assuming you already have an iPad). I plan on giving this a whirl after work today! \/\/ Not on it's own, but there are many a pressure-sensitive stylus for it. Lumpy fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Feb 25, 2015 |
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Feb 25, 2015 19:30
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Does the ipad do pressure sensitivity? I'm not very familiar with tablets. I've been in a bit of a creative slump today, so, for a change of pace I've been having a blast doing a few landscape sketches using the frenden pencil and ink brushes. This is my most successful effort; about 20 minutes just randomly putting forms on a blank canvas.  Spent some more time cleaning it up and adding more depth. 
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Feb 25, 2015 20:35
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Surprise! I tend to not share any cake. I've been meaning to take a separate pic for sketch/first colour/shade&highlight/finish for the past three pics now. I get mega into what I'm doing though, and always forget. I can't bake when I draw because "do I smell burning? there's no way it's been half an hour already.. oh. It has."
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Some quick, dirty concepts for this thing I'm fooling around with.   
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 I did a cheesecake.
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