[QUOTE=kirby2112;43058441]I think part of the reason they look little in the first one is cuz the grass is so high. Plus you can barely see the tree in the corner. [sp]that's just my thoughts tho, I know jack shit about art.[/sp][/QUOTE]
Okay, thanks for the input.
Don't worry about not being well versed in art. When people say that, I always bring up the fact that "you don't need to be a chef to know the food is crap"
Hi all!
Never wrote here before, but I thought I'd give it a shot 'cause I could really use a second opinion on [url="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/22370734/lifestory.jpg"]this Show-Don't-Tell experiment[/url] that's part of a bigger picture. Hopefully the only additional info you need is that the magic robo arm is a "family tradition", but maybe I've miscalculated completely.
What I think I mainly need to either convey better or cut is "huge sword sheath is a discarded family item (-> old box with the recurring logo on it) because the sword is missing", "beret dude prettied up the gauntlet" and "gauntlet turns bone constructs to gold". The latter's not that important because of exposition focus elsewhere, but I had not one idea how to show it's becoming gold without relying on metallic shading or scribbling "Au" somewhere.
I also think the thumbsup at the end looks out of place, but handshakes, high-fives, brofists and pats on the shoulder either did as well or looked ambiguous. I prolly also relied too much on eye closeups for expressing emotional highs/lows.
Mainly came here for those insecurities, but if you wanna point out something general independent of sketch status like "ew dem face/hand:body ratios" or "bueno boneitis" or "practice everything", you're very welcome to do that, too, of course. I can see quite a bit of that myself, but 4 eyes > 2 eyes, right?
That's all, thanks for reading the wall'o'text!
It's been some time since I visited this thread the last time. I take it, fanart is generally accepted here, right?
Still, a very early sketch, just to get the general idea how the lighting will be set here. I can't belive I spent 2 hours doing this, I need to work out a better working speed.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J6rDJ71.jpg[/t]
[editline]4th December 2013[/editline]
Ofcourse, criticism welcome/needed.
So i whipped up some crappy concept album artwork for OK Computer. If you guys are familiar with OK Computer, this was my attempt at kind of expanding on the theme
i might make a couple more if you guys like where this is going
[IMG]http://postimg.org/image/pdwd3guw7/[/IMG]
[IMG]http://postimg.org/image/6ausdusfl/[/IMG]
[QUOTE=BananaMed;43061295]It's been some time since I visited this thread the last time. I take it, fanart is generally accepted here, right?
Still, a very early sketch, just to get the general idea how the lighting will be set here. I can't belive I spent 2 hours doing this, I need to work out a better working speed.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/J6rDJ71.jpg[/t]
[editline]4th December 2013[/editline]
Ofcourse, criticism welcome/needed.[/QUOTE]
elbows too pointy 0/10 would not fuck
are img tags working right now?
yes, you have the wrong link.
[t]http://s7.postimg.org/e1jrlom7f/Untitled_1.jpg[/t]
[t]http://s24.postimg.org/7d4yweb91/Untitled_2.jpg[/t]
here
Did this tonight, on my spare time, after a month of not being able to make any personal work.
[t]http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2013/337/c/f/amber01_by_alpha00zero-d6wnnic.jpg[/t]
[QUOTE=Jrose14;43059431]
But I digress, do you guys have any tips[/QUOTE]
This might not all be relevant to you (but hell it probably is) so I'll leave leave it in here too, take what you want from it
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;43054704]Even if this thread lifted off you'd just have a lesser community here going nowhere. Being dwarfed by your peers is a highly conducive circumstance to getting better at whatever it is that's happening. If you have a load of beginners stuck in the same room, they'll never get much better. They can't crit each other, none of them really know what they're talking about, and if PRAISE starts going around then it turns into DA syndrome where it's this insular shitpile of amatuer artists who are really bad but also arrogant and super defensive about any negative feedback they get.
If you get a dumb in CW, it's unlikely that it's because of the drawing. Unless it's REALLY ugly and you spent no time on it. If you're a beginner and you put a lot of effort in and it still sucks, nobody's gonna par you based on that.
The problem with what you're doing now is that it's all stylised bullshit. This is what 9/10 beginners do. They copy cartoons or manga style or something, because it [I]seems[/I] easy. Drawings are simplified to the point where it's just a few lines. It's only natural to aim for something that looks so accessible when you don't know better. However, stylised figures without much reference [B]are the hardest shit to get down[/B]. You need to be really dedicated and spend years working with the fundamentals and working with REALISM so that you have a vast array of knowledge in such clarity to you that you can pull the correct information out of your head and then break it down into a style (which you've also spent years defining).
Now it only need take a year or two of doing a reasonable amount of the right kind of practice to become a capable artist, but if you start at the wrong end of the journey and just do nothing but anime fanart for example, you can work at it for five years and still be pretty shitty (and that's just right in your comfort zone, if asked to do anything else you'll have absolutely nothing, square one)
So you're at square one now, what you should do first is look up how measuring works and draw some simple objects from life. Draw a cup, draw a bottle. Draw a cardboard box. Draw things AS THEY APPEAR from the angle at which you draw them. If you fail (you will fail constantly at the beginning) try again. You're guaranteed to improve if you're measuring properly and concentrating on getting shape and proportion correct, so these steps at the start where you're absolute dogshit at drawing are essentially the test you have to pass to see whether you have the determination to become a decent artist. You'll get past the dogshit, no question, if you're applying the techniques it's just a numbers game. So you either get disheartened and give up, or you stick at it and begin to improve, and then you broaden your practice to include other fundamental stuff like perspective theory, line weight, value basics and whatever else. And then you're horrible at those, and again you either don't have the patience or you want it badly enough that you keep doing it and sure enough you see gradual results. It gets easier to keep going the better you get, and you improve at a rapid rate in all respects once you get past the initial grind, since you can only go uphill.
I started in the same place, my first CC posts were awful photographs of awful awful manga drawings. Nowadays I can draw and sometimes I do not vomit upon looking at the result afterwards. Some of my stuff is kind of ok, even! I would say the bulk of my learning was self-teaching and paying attention to the CW thread. What you might not realise is that every piece of valid advice anyone gives is relevant to you. Real the whole thread from start to finish, you'll pick up masses of information that either applies to what you'll be doing now or will soon apply.
So if you want to draw as more of an occasional doodling hobby, grab your pencil, google how to measure by eye properly and go and draw your deodorant stick or something.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;43063074]This might not all be relevant to you (but hell it probably is) so I'll leave leave it in here too, take what you want from it[/QUOTE]
Thank you, MakoSkyDub. This was really informative.
That is alright, user: Jrose14.
If you have any specific questions, do not hesitate to inquire. beep boop beep
Thinking of coloring this in
[t]http://i.imgur.com/OZvgmkb.png[/t]
This is kinda off-key, but since you guys are awesome at what you do I figured I might as well ask. I'm trying to retexture this weapon to look like it's been coated in a thin layer of spraypaint that's wearing off heavily and can't get it anywhere close to right. I try to make the edges of the paint layer sharper but the shapes never look right.
Anyone have any advice?
[t]http://puu.sh/5AmQh.jpg[/t][t]http://puu.sh/5AmPV.jpg[/t]
Oh and FYI the paint is 3 color tan/brown and it's black underneath.
I don't have a good reference image but it should look much more like the [url="http://puu.sh/5BCy6.jpg"]wear on stock of this rifle.[/url]
id make the areas where the paint has worn off more visible and defined, kinda looks all blurry, which is a good job for spray paint. Though the balance is off with the higher contrasted (between paint and non painted areas) foregrip.
(^i might be stating what you already are though..??)
play around with grunge brushes and im sure something will come out!
[QUOTE=Anax;43053771][img]http://i.imgur.com/Cx3VwcA.jpg[/img]
continued on sketch from earlier
lolflipped[/QUOTE]
Might be too nitpicky but arrows always leave some length beyond the fletching to grab the arrow and put it onto the bowstring.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/o9Fz91t.png[/img]
Plz dont yell at me
what have i told you about pretending to be a robot ffs
[editline]5th December 2013[/editline]
also robots don't even go boop at least make an effort
[editline]5th December 2013[/editline]
Haven't posted in a while, life's been pretty busy; finished my Visual Arts degree, moved house, got a job as a librarian, finally got an unfiltered internet connection after 4 years of not being able to connect to Steam. It's been hectic!
But here is a very short story what I have written. It might be an introduction to something bigger if I get the motivation to write the something bigger.
"Don’t you think that we could start looking at serving the vegetarian market, dear?" She sat on a cold
steel bench, hands clasped in her lap, shoulders shrinking away from the pink all around.
"I can’t very well butcher carrots, my love," he called over his shoulder, swinging his arm again. Sweat
glistened. "I take no pleasure in this, dancing amongst the corpses of bestial souls, but I must."
(They probably say that butchers can’t be poets; they’re wrong.)
"And besides," he continued, "the people must eat. We must eat. There is no money anywhere else."
"There is no money [I]here[/I],” she shuffled uncomfortably, “The newspapers are calling this the Great
Depression. If you got out of this shop for once you’d see that it’s making people depressed. They’re
not buying our meat; they’re not buying anything but the bare minimum to survive.
"The mortgage is falling apart, and while I love you with all my heart I will not live in a house of bones."
(Vegetarians can be poets, also.)
He turned now and winked, mopping his brow with a cleaver. “It’s all in hand, my riblet. I’ve read
the news and I’ve used my ears. The doctors tell me that to cure the symptoms you must cure the
disease. Well I have the cure for this depression, and it’s ready to be administered.”
She was shocked at this, from the man who had only aspired to two things in his meaty life, neither
of which had been to marry her. Shocked, and apprehensive. She knew her husband.
He went on, “The cure for depression is joy. It is happiness and love. It is laughter.” He wiped his
hands on a rag of dried jerky, “I have been practicing and training for this. I will be this town’s first
butcher comedian. And I will fix this; for you.”
"Um," she said.
"Don’t worry, my love, my darling, my crisp shepherd’s pie!" he took her hands in his, eyes twinkling,"This
will save us, you’ll see. In fact, I [I]steak[/I] my life on it.” He grinned enthusiastically.
She said, “Oh dear.”
[QUOTE=Biscuit-Boy;43064144]This is kinda off-key, but since you guys are awesome at what you do I figured I might as well ask. I'm trying to retexture this weapon to look like it's been coated in a thin layer of spraypaint that's wearing off heavily and can't get it anywhere close to right. I try to make the edges of the paint layer sharper but the shapes never look right.
Anyone have any advice?
Oh and FYI the paint is 3 color tan/brown and it's black underneath.
I don't have a good reference image but it should look much more like the [URL="http://puu.sh/5BCy6.jpg"]wear on stock of this rifle.[/URL][/QUOTE]
yours needs much sharper edges and more scratches. right now your wear is very cloudy in comparison which is why it kinda looks like a camo pattern that's been painted on, rather than damage
Ah! Chesty and iliketokill! That's exactly what I've said! I understand that I need to make the edges sharp but I've no idea how to do it convincingly.
The soft edges is essentially my way of tiptoeing around the problem. I've been farting around with brushes for days and it's still not yielding any satisfactory results.
oh right shit. well... i assume you're texturing this manually? ie. using photo textures and painting in photoshop? so just observe your reference and... paint it
i can't really offer any other advice or specific set of techniques like "go to this filter, enter 250 in the box, do that twice, use the other filter, layer style, 30 degrees to the left" etc
i think the best i can say is, block in the hard shapes of where you want the damage to be, maybe using the lasso tool to help, paint in the larger, hard flecks of damage, and then get some good rust and damage decals/textures, overlay/multiply/screen them on in the right places, mess with the colour, blend them in
yeh that stuff
More character experimentation. What you think of the artstyle?
[IMG]http://i42.tinypic.com/2chun3q.png[/IMG]
Final assignment for my perspective class, pretty happy with how it turned out.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/FPFKW8T.jpg[/t]
some of the angles of the roads are pretty confusing to look at - they look really uneven, like they're slanted or have really strong cambers
i like the overall style and setting of it though
Oddly enough I think you nailed everything but the perspective.
i made this for uni. Only allowed to use still images.
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VDsY3Oynww8[/media]
Can anyone give me any advice on how to make my website more appealing?
[url]http://www.iainmatthiae.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=snowboardmoose;43071041]Can anyone give me any advice on how to make my website more appealing?
[url]http://www.iainmatthiae.com/[/url][/QUOTE]
Give the images a consistent height and width.
One dimension for wide images, one dimension for tall images and one dimension for square images.
Also try to arrange the images in an appealing order. Having the really tall/big images on the far right is far less appealing than having them on the left where you first look. Gives more balance.
[QUOTE=dgg;43071312]Give the images a consistent height and width.
One dimension for wide images, one dimension for tall images and one dimension for square images.
Also try to arrange the images in an appealing order. Having the really tall/big images on the far right is far less appealing than having them on the left where you first look. Gives more balance.[/QUOTE]
Alright, I rearranged the images a bit to give it more flow. Sadly the images can only be sized by their own resolution or be fit to a square with a set resolution. Which looks shit.
[QUOTE=snowboardmoose;43071432]Alright, I rearranged the images a bit to give it more flow. Sadly the images can only be sized by their own resolution or be fit to a square with a set resolution. Which looks shit.[/QUOTE]
I'd suggest either finding a way to change that (everything is changable in wordpress) or finding a template that gives you that kind of control, because just having a bunch of images of all sorts of orientations makes it really messy and doesn't do the images justice, as some are just instantly thought of as crap simply because the amount of detail you can see is just not enough, especially not when you have eye-catching big detailed images next to them.
I'd also recommend having an image in the "about" page, or getting that information into the frontpage since there is hardly any information there to begin with. If your work and your name with accompanying email is all you really want to present there is no reason to have your visitors have any links to click on. There is also no reason to have the URL to the webpage they are already on in there.
[editline]itsfake[/editline]
I see that you've put on the square setup now. I kinda like that personally, do you have any way to adjust what part of the images are visible? Maybe it's setup to use whatever image you upload as thumbnail if available? If so you can have some great control on how your work is presented, showing the best and most exciting parts enticing the user to click on it.
I also think having some whitespace between the boxes would work better. Some ~20 pixels maybe.
[QUOTE=dgg;43071510]
I see that you've put on the square setup now. I kinda like that personally, do you have any way to adjust what part of the images are visible? Maybe it's setup to use whatever image you upload as thumbnail if available? If so you can have some great control on how your work is presented, showing the best and most exciting parts enticing the user to click on it.
I also think having some whitespace between the boxes would work better. Some ~20 pixels maybe.[/QUOTE]
I think I might be able to do that. I've changed it to a different template for now, messed with it a bit. Is this one or the previous one be better? [url]http://www.iainmatthiae.com/[/url]
[QUOTE=The Vman;43069708]Final assignment for my perspective class, pretty happy with how it turned out.
[t]http://i.imgur.com/FPFKW8T.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
If I were my dog this piece would be my back yard..
[sp]Because I'm digging the fuck out of it[/sp]
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