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[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/U2URIbO.jpg[/IMG] i'm trying to learn to paint but im really bad at shading and picking colours that compliment each other for shadow and light etc
flesh tones don't grey out in shade, they tend towards redder hues (or bluer depending on the lighting) as for picking complimentary colours, just take a look at some colour wheel stuff
made 2 poopy castle landscape thingies past few days [img]http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/018/a/0/the_pit_by_kerimakyuz-d72q4lw.png[/img] [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2014/019/9/a/snowmount_by_kerimakyuz-d72vzmt.png[/img] im bad at architecture rrip
Finished, at last D: [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/019/6/d/psycho_puppeteer_concept_by_fadingz-d72wfqe.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Maya2008;43599192]Finished, at last D: [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/019/6/d/psycho_puppeteer_concept_by_fadingz-d72wfqe.png[/img][/QUOTE] Phhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffffpppppppppphhh The colours are awesome, also has amazing volume in general. Have you had a look at bravely default art work? -one thing, the figure looks really detached from the environment, its mainly the jump in quality, although that could be considered fine honestly, since the figure is clearly the focus.
been slacking lately [img]https://24.media.tumblr.com/69b61dbf21f65c5184c7677c5fb27e59/tumblr_mzd9zgfSKl1qd5eico1_500.png[/img] [img]https://24.media.tumblr.com/ce1acae553c10ed0dc7cfe4654977802/tumblr_mzh5uhl99R1qd5eico1_500.png[/img]
Awesome as always Maya. "Today brain, you're going to draw whatever you want!" "Sure thing!" [IMG]http://www.majhost.com/gallery/Elburro/d3/snailblurpresize.png[/IMG] Aaaand back into the box you go.
[QUOTE=salmonmarine;43588149]I animated a thing [img]http://i.imgur.com/J5Pudso.gif[/img][/QUOTE] i thought it was going to fly into a giant butt for some reason
[QUOTE=plants;43596672][IMG]http://i.imgur.com/U2URIbO.jpg[/IMG] i'm trying to learn to paint but im really bad at shading and picking colours that compliment each other for shadow and light etc[/QUOTE] What brush are you using? Looks cool mayne
[QUOTE=Xephio;43598486]made 2 poopy castle landscape thingies past few days [img]http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/018/a/0/the_pit_by_kerimakyuz-d72q4lw.png[/img] [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2014/019/9/a/snowmount_by_kerimakyuz-d72vzmt.png[/img] im bad at architecture rrip[/QUOTE] A lot of your paintings I've seen have an extreme range of colour temperature in them, it's cool. I reckon you could put some more yellow-white highlights coming from the warm areas and have increased areas of contrast between the cold and warm areas and you'd really make it feel like a more intense heat, because atm the areas of orange seem a bit too big and solid to represent significant warmth and they fade into the cool areas which makes them seem more mellow and soft than searing and intense. Some examples of what I mean - [url]http://andreasrocha.deviantart.com/art/Ar-Nat-Village-II-379137852[/url] [url]http://klauspillon.deviantart.com/art/Primeval-Thule-Concept-003-382368939[/url] [url]http://noahbradley.deviantart.com/art/Cave-of-Trials-158896360[/url] [url]http://noahbradley.deviantart.com/art/As-Darkness-Rises-204076326[/url]
hey thats pretty useful. thanks!
Something I'm doing in my sketchbook at 2:40 in the morning. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30622781/2014-01-20%2002.34.43.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Xephio;43598486]made 2 poopy castle landscape thingies past few days [img]http://fc03.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2014/018/a/0/the_pit_by_kerimakyuz-d72q4lw.png[/img] [img]http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2014/019/9/a/snowmount_by_kerimakyuz-d72vzmt.png[/img] im bad at architecture rrip[/QUOTE] you really need to do some material studies, even simplifying it down to sphere studies of materials. really read up on specular and gloss too for months now your values, colour, and composition have been getting better and better, if a bit simplified, but your material definition is really lacking. i can spot a xephio painting from a mile away because every element of one is made of clay the second image isn't too bad but the first one really suffers from it. i have absolutely no idea what that castle is made out of i've always really struggled with this too so maybe this is why i might come off as a bit harsh. sorry if it seems that way. i think it's the next thing to push yourself with. almost like the final piece of the puzzle of basic principles. nail that down and you can move on and really advance yourself further as an artist [editline]20th January 2014[/editline] i think part of the issue with this is probably that you start most paintings as greyscale? this would also explain why your use of colour is usually way too simplified. yeh it's pretty striking, but your work is practically two-tone most of the time try doing some studies in full colour, especially master studies
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/Z5EyuD2.png[/IMG] My drawing's bad and i should feel bad :P But creative anyway :D
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;43603319]you really need to do some material studies, even simplifying it down to sphere studies of materials. really read up on specular and gloss too for months now your values, colour, and composition have been getting better and better, if a bit simplified, but your material definition is really lacking. i can spot a xephio painting from a mile away because every element of one is made of clay the second image isn't too bad but the first one really suffers from it. i have absolutely no idea what that castle is made out of i've always really struggled with this too so maybe this is why i might come off as a bit harsh. sorry if it seems that way. i think it's the next thing to push yourself with. almost like the final piece of the puzzle of basic principles. nail that down and you can move on and really advance yourself further as an artist [editline]20th January 2014[/editline] i think part of the issue with this is probably that you start most paintings as greyscale? this would also explain why your use of colour is usually way too simplified. yeh it's pretty striking, but your work is practically two-tone most of the time try doing some studies in full colour, especially master studies[/QUOTE] well its true my material definition is terrible most of the time and i dont think youre being harsh at all. its something people have been constantly telling me about and im aware of myself. i guess what my issue is that I cant seem to find any good or relevant pictures to do a photostudy of? I mean that sounds pretty stupid, if i want to paint a castle i'd just photostudy some castle or concrete building pictures, but somehow i dont :L i think ill force myself to do like 10 photostudies from this point on till i decide to make another personal piece, and use references and photostudies relevant to the paintings i make from then on [editline]as[/editline] the thing you said about being able to see one of my paintings from a mile away is so so true ;_;
[QUOTE=Xephio;43603500]i guess what my issue is that I cant seem to find any good or relevant pictures to do a photostudy of?[/QUOTE] it can be good to do 2 different things but do both of them: 1. find pictures (or do still life) of objects made of a specific material and paint them loosely but make sure you get all the value and colour extremes in there but also 2. take just one element of those objects and paint it in high detail super rendered realism. maybe take one section of it and paint it as a sphere (which will give you an opportunity to think about lighting without simply copying a reference) eg. get a picture of a big suit of armour and paint the whole thing in, say, 30 minutes or less. then take one area of it, say, the helmet, and paint it in much higher detail and/or use a specific detail from the armour, say, an ornamental trim, and paint it onto a sphere. you could do the same thing with a cat; painting the whole cat and then painting a sphere of fur or, specific to your recent work, paint a castle turret and then paint a sphere of masonry i think it's really important to do these in colour though personally. doing it in greyscale will teach you about overall lighting but proper colour is important to understanding specular and gloss and the way certain materials reflect and absorb light (for example, wood veneer is really shiny and so is metal and in greyscale they look quite similar but the way they reflect light is literally the complete opposite of each other)
i did an entire set of those black and white portraits of my OCs [IMG]http://puu.sh/6s788.png[/IMG]
[IMG]https://31.media.tumblr.com/f54092702dc040fca2bd1d6938c29a8a/tumblr_mzq3an52hT1snfjwfo1_500.png[/IMG] Henrie and Ana enter a mystical place (this is the first time i've really put effort into a background, criticism on that or any part of the picture would be super)
I've never really tried writing before outside of a classroom, I thought I'd give it a shot. Critiques most definitely welcome. It's supposed to be short but I feel as though the pacing is too fast. Perhaps somebody who knows a thing or two about creative writing could help? [quote] And that’s when I woke up. This breathless dark room of mine, I lay there staring at the ceiling following the cracks with eyes until they descended into a void of uncertain existence. It was colder than I remembered; perhaps I should start from the beginning. Briiiiinng! The bell went off again as it did every day at exactly 12:30 it was time for lunch and I wasn’t sure what I was more excited for, the witch doctors famous miscarriage taco supreme or the relief knowing I was one step closer to choking my History teacher Ms. Maribell to death. I followed the patterns on the floor of the school hallways, left foot red and right foot yellow. Concentrating on this was the only way to numb the white noise of entitled girls with fake spray tans chatting shit to one another. I head into the cafeteria and dropped my bag off at our usual table on the far side of the room. Once I had gotten in line for food I grabbed a tray of mystery meat and looked up into the old lady’s face. Oh it was horrid and I couldn’t wait for the day she keeled over, that is if she hadn’t already. She always stared through me with those cold lifeless eyes. I got to my table and proceeded to conjure small talk amongst my friends. I had been staring into the pool of meat that was my lunch swirling it around with my fork like an autopsy. That’s when it happened. A crow, a fucking crow came down and started pecking at my friend’s head. Everybody was screaming, I froze, I didn't know what to think of it. The bird was tearing away at her eye and nobody seemed to be helping her. I screamed and yelled trying to bat away the bird. I looked around the room and saw the crowd around staring at me, eyes open and backing away. “What’s wrong with you people!?” I yelled, I hadn’t a clue what was going on. I looked down at the fork in my hand, covered in blood and my friend’s lifeless body face down in her food. The security guards wrestled me to the table, “It wasn’t me! It wasn’t me! It was the crow you idiots!” I screamed and I yelled and that’s when it all went black. And that’s when I woke up. This breathless dark room of mine, I lay there staring at the ceiling following the cracks with eyes until they descended into a void of uncertain existence. It was colder than I remembered… “I don’t remember owning a bunk bed.” I thought to myself as I peered over the edge. I dirty toilet and bars holding me in. I suppose it wasn’t a dream after all. [/quote]
The tone of your piece is rather dark but onomatopoeia tends to ruin that effect. Your tenses mess up a couple of times. Start a new paragraph when some one new speaks. Your pacing is off with regards to the use of commas and semi colons, and your writing tends to segue into another plot point without capping the first. Try to vary your sentence length as well, you tend to write single sentences that don't flow together properly. i dont want to give it a complete rewrite because that would be rude.
[QUOTE=omarfr;43612725]I've never really tried writing before outside of a classroom, I thought I'd give it a shot. Critiques most definitely welcome. It's supposed to be short but I feel as though the pacing is too fast. Perhaps somebody who knows a thing or two about creative writing could help?[/QUOTE] You should proofread into it a bit, there are a lot of simple grammatical mistakes floating around that make certain sentences more confusing than they should be. I agree with lintz on most of the rest, though. Especially onomatopoeia, "briiiiiiing" sounds so... silly in contrast to the dark tone of the rest of the writing. [editline]21st January 2014[/editline] Also I tried to make a tree. Trees have been annoying me, because their limbs can be so sporadic, so I tried to make one decent. I don't draw as much as I should, and I'm still very much a beginner, but I did my best. Critique and critisms very much wanted. [t]http://i.cubeupload.com/upZOCp.jpg[/t] [editline]21st January 2014[/editline] Excuse the shitty scanner quality please.
I hope you guys don't mind if I keep showing you updates on that drawing periodically. [img]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/30622781/2014-01-20%2021.49.00.png[/img]
oh god
[t]http://i.imgur.com/npMDcV4.png[/t] Any critique? I feel like something is off about the mouth/chin area especially, but I can't quite put my finger on it. It also kind of feels unbalanced in general.
it's kind of hard to tell what you're even going for having an upper lip and then just teeth? The nose looks weirder to me though, having said that. Also whatever brush you're using is horrid
[QUOTE=lintz;43612889]The tone of your piece is rather dark but onomatopoeia tends to ruin that effect. Your tenses mess up a couple of times. Start a new paragraph when some one new speaks. Your pacing is off with regards to the use of commas and semi colons, and your writing tends to segue into another plot point without capping the first. Try to vary your sentence length as well, you tend to write single sentences that don't flow together properly. i dont want to give it a complete rewrite because that would be rude.[/QUOTE] Yeah I can totally see that. I take no offense I'm super open to critique! I'll try and rework it some and see where it ends up. Cheers!
[QUOTE=Headcrab54;43600074]been slacking lately [img]https://24.media.tumblr.com/69b61dbf21f65c5184c7677c5fb27e59/tumblr_mzd9zgfSKl1qd5eico1_500.png[/img] [img]https://24.media.tumblr.com/ce1acae553c10ed0dc7cfe4654977802/tumblr_mzh5uhl99R1qd5eico1_500.png[/img][/QUOTE] I love the colors you use! And the texture quality I've been stalking your deviant art, your stuff is so sick dude.
[QUOTE=Oicani Gonzales;43616971][t]http://gamingduck.files.wordpress.com/2013/01/metal-gear-rising-revengeance.jpg[/t][/QUOTE] Aha, thought he looked familiar. And I found his ref, looks pretty weird there too. [url]http://www.gatheryourparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/mgr___rebuilt_by_odinsdeath-d5gbrz1.jpg[/url] When your mouth is closed your lower lip comes up above your upper front teeth, so aligning the lip and teeth perfectly like that looks pretty stupid to me
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;43617449]Aha, thought he looked familiar. And I found his ref, looks pretty weird there too. [url]http://www.gatheryourparty.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/mgr___rebuilt_by_odinsdeath-d5gbrz1.jpg[/url] When your mouth is closed your lower lip comes up above your upper front teeth, so aligning the lip and teeth perfectly like that looks pretty stupid to me[/QUOTE] that's actually just part of his helmet his face is normal underneath he still has his jaw [img_thumb]http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/MuiNiu/Screenshots/092-Epilogue-Jackmkv_snapshot_0235_20100724_215501.jpg[/img_thumb]
[QUOTE=Fire Kracker;43617769]that's actually just part of his helmet his face is normal underneath he still has his jaw [img_thumb]http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad184/MuiNiu/Screenshots/092-Epilogue-Jackmkv_snapshot_0235_20100724_215501.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE] [quote]As a prisoner, the Patriots used Raiden as a test subject for experiments in exoskeletal enhancement surgery, during which he had his head and spine excised from his body from his lower jaw down and subsequently grafted into an enhanced synthetic body.[/quote]
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