Yeah, I'm one of those people who like multiple forms of art, so I make both music and draw. The positive side of this is that my music is always original and never a remix or remake, the downside is that my artwork is usually fan art, but not always (I do originals and occasional drawings from real objects or people).
Anyway we'll get started with a few links to some of my better songs. There's far too many to post them all, as my music has been made for 13 years (been doing Audio music since 2005 or so, it was all Midi before that).
I'll go from oldest to newest, so the newer stuff is at the bottom, and if you have any suggestions, I suggest you only use it for the bottom stuff as I probably learned from the mistake already if it was a top one you have a suggestion for.
Fair warning: My music is entirely original, even in style, so please don't expect it to sound like mainstream, because it's far from that, and never will be that, as it would not be "Me". So please keep critique about style to the side, and don't be bias about it not sounding like mainstream. I have nothing against mainstream, I'm just saying this so you understand why my music is the way it is.
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com/Music/05-AttackoftheBear%20_%20AttackoftheBear.mp3[/url] -- Song about a possessed bear that gets worse and attacks people
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com/Music/Evil_Santa_3_0.mp3[/url] -- I used to make an evil Santa song every christmas
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com/Music/Begetablers_the_Unvegetables.mp3[/url] -- Started using house recorded samples for songs at this point
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com/Music/Dr_Death.mp3[/url] -- A song made in a period where I was more upbeat
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com/Music/Hunting_Hippos.mp3[/url] -- Used a rather strange scale on this one, at points it will be ethnic sounding
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com/Music/Midna.mp3[/url] -- song where I used Midna sounds and made a few as instruments, others as sound effects or percussion.
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com/Music/Barneys_Feast.mp3[/url] -- Song about that purple Dinosaur, eating whatever you want to think he's eating
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com/Music/PGS_Overworld_1.mp3[/url] -- latest song, made for a pretend RPG that doesn't exist. Was an exercise seeing if I can stay to a theme.
And now my artwork. Same as above, Oldest first, newest will be last. So please hold off suggestions until you've seen the newest, so you know if I've already fixed the mistake in my work or not.
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/MorMidna.png[/img]
(You will soon find that I like this character a lot, so you will see a lot of it, especially if you visit my gallery).
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/Guitar_Hero_Controller.png[/img]
(stylism, but when I do stylism I don't really copy, I just recreate it in my own style. This was the actual controller I have).
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/Pattycake_1.png[/img]
(more stylism, but this time I chose a model that I think looks cool, and wasn't the usual phony type of model either, which I hate).
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/Malboro.png[/img]
(fan art of Malboro, my fave enemy of Final Fantasy, No reference was used).
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/Jason_VS_Barney.png[/img]
(original/fanart of barney. He's one serious MOFO, and He would even eat Jason Alive. Yeah Jason sucks in this picture, I'll admit it. Next time I will not rush like that on one character)
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/Midna_Obsession.png[/img]
(A consistency practice, so I chose my favorite character, Midna, and drew her four times, as you can see, I rarely use reference in my pictures, I try to avoid it the best I can)
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/Terra_Censored.png[/img]
(Fan art of Terra, I pretty much just made it up, as you have no real way of knowing what she looks like, well OK Dysidia is out now, but I didn't know that until after I made this, and I refuse to use it as reference anyway)
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/Ruto_Swimming_2.png[/img]
(Fan art of Ruto, another character where I never use reffernces. Before anyone says it, yes it's possible to swim like that, but even so, I will not do such an odd thing again in the future. For the record I myself can swim like that underwater, with just my feet propelling me).
[img]http://www.kristroutman.com/Artwork/BananaGetOrangeTime.png[/img]
(My most recent original. A forum post where you had to draw what they say. I also made it a 1 hour challenge and did this in just 1 hour, hence the simpleness).
And there you have it.. Sorry for such a huge post. Future posts will not be so big, so please keep that in mind. I know nobody will have time to view it all, so just view whatever you want and I'm open to suggestions, or even if you just think I suck, just say so, I can take it. Better to know you suck then to never improve and just keep making the same mistakes.
If you are interested in more you can visit my website and deviant art page at the following links
[url]http://www.kristroutman.com[/url] (go here for my music, however my art is there as well)
[url]http://thetrashman.deviantart.com[/url] (please go here to see my art, as it's just faster and easier, as well as you can leave comments and suggestions on this place).
Thank you for your time. I will do my best to review other people's threads.
Use image tags for your art work...
Nobody wants to click all of those links...
Done, but I hope you realize this is going to be a major page stretcher, as my drawings are of high resolution.
Yah... it's fine on my computer... but some people might yell at you for not resizing.
Your pretty good actually... I mean I can't really critique anime stuff, but you could use some more work on human anatomy. and referencing is not cheating.. far from it, it's the best way to improve.
Well, what I mean is I usually only reference when I need to. Like if I had to draw Midna's Helmet, or if I'm doing Realism.
As for the Anime thing, I really didn't think my style was as such, seeing as Anime is far different in face style. IT may just seem that way because of the characters I usually draw, which would be far out of character if they were not drawn to look enough to resemble them. I personally don't really like Anime, just video game and movie characters.
I'm far from interested in what you draw but they are pretty well made, but your realism could use more...realism.
I don't even know if I should be calling my realism what I call it. When I do what I call realism, I just draw the object or person in my style. I hope this helps clarify and maybe somebody can tell me what the proper term for that is.
uhh..... thats just a stylized drawing...
Realism is when you draw something as close to "real" as you can.
alright OK then I'll change my post then. Thanks for clearing that up.
Also xamllew, can you please tell me why you don't find them interesting? It's OK I can take harsh punches to the face. I would rather know why, so maybe I have an idea on what else I should make that would make more people interested. Is it because they are fanart, or is it because they have that cartoon/fake look to them, or both? IF so, I can understand that, I just don't know if I can change that because this is the result of how my style developed over the years.
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