[QUOTE=MenteR;43852665]the other one looked better because now you have natural light coming from under the thing which makes absolutely no sense lol.[/QUOTE]
it's not meant to be realistic
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The main reason I flipped it is because there was an obvious 'smiley face' shape in the stone work which looked silly imo. Or maybe it was just obvious to me idk.
Well now it's a frowny face
[QUOTE=Maloof?;43851705]Not always true
If you've got a very saturated surface that's in it's own shadow (i.e., a somewhat shallow crevice in a high-saturated red rock) then the shadow will be highly saturated
A good exercise would be finding photos of a bunch of lighting conditions, setting your eyedropper tool to like 5x5 sample size and then eye droppering in a bunch of the different parts of the image, light and shadow, to see what the saturation is like. Also looking up some explanations of how light works in the context of colour choices and whatnot to give depth to the knowledge you'll get from the exercise
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That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about creating form, not how color works for different materials under different lights. If you were painting a figure for example, you would want to make it look as though its a 3D object, as if you're looking through a window at someone, even though you're painting on a 2D surface. A lot of painters like Rembrandt, Velazquez, Bouguereau, and Gerome used these techniques to create more volumetric figures. You apply the rules of atmospheric perspective by defying the difference between whats closest to the viewer vs farther away through changes in saturation and contrast (soft vs hard edges) and your eyes will be tricked into seeing things as being more real.
[QUOTE=Lilyo;43852834]That's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about creating form, not how color works for different materials under different lights. If you were painting a figure for example, you would want to make it look as though its a 3D object, as if you're looking through a window at someone, even though you're painting on a 2D surface. A lot of painters like Rembrandt, Velazquez, Bouguereau, and Gerome used these techniques to create more volumetric figures. You apply the rules of atmospheric perspective by defying the difference between whats closest to the viewer vs farther away through changes in saturation and contrast (soft vs hard edges) and your eyes will be tricked into seeing things as being more real.[/QUOTE]
I was responding to the bit about shadows, not the bit about atmospheric perspective
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ugh
[t]http://i.imgur.com/gDsogk1.gif[/t]
Testing some more animation.
[T]http://th06.deviantart.net/fs70/PRE/i/2014/040/a/5/eva_and_sebastien_the_sloth_by_chari_mon-d75ts28.png[/T]
Some character I'm designing!
[QUOTE=RobbL;43852653]here's the final version, just changed it around slightly (also put it the right way up again)
[IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7378/12421238735_0b6732e0e2_b.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
You should totaly cut that thing out and make the background non mirrored. I'm imagining it with something like a sephia landscape and that thing just hovering around. Maybe experiment with fixing shadows on the Background and the construct and see how that works out.
Oh nevermind that, too much effort.
[sp]For radical extra points: Go there, make two good pictures of the building so you can use them to rebuild that thing as if it was angled to the viewer. 3D Modeling works aswell but that's boring.[/sp]
[QUOTE=RobbL;43852653]here's the final version, just changed it around slightly (also put it the right way up again)
[IMG]http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7378/12421238735_0b6732e0e2_b.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
reminds me of guild wars 2
One of my first pictures using 3d models in Photoshop CC, ended up using lightroom and gimp to finish this. I'm really a noob when it comes to Photoshop and Lightroom, but I think for a beginner, it looks good.
[img]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/040/b/3/defending_jacksonville_by_pilot1215-d75ufq2.jpg[/img]
I don't really see the appeal in doing a purely production type collage piece which isn't for a job or to demonstrate anything.. really limiting and low-integrity area of art
Anyway, quickie I forgot to post from a while ago
tomboys tomboys tomboys
[img]http://gyazo.com/fc1ddc65c8ee7a5fb01a0d05217c48c5.png[/img]
drew a guardsman poster with a quote from traitors hand
[URL="http://filesmelt.com/dl/Shame.png"][img]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Shame.png[/img][/URL]
[QUOTE=Kagrs;43852412]Surely there was some sort of appeal when you decided drawing was something you wanted to pursue as a hobby. Maybe it was watching Disney movies and deciding you wanted to do something like that. Maybe it was that one time you sat and sketched an entire night with the same album kept on a loop. Perhaps you were happy about the positive comments you kept getting from people watching you draw.
When I'm hitting a dry spell and can't find what makes me happy and motivated I try to look back at what got me started and revisit or even recreate those moments.
It's also important to get some fresh input. Movies you've never seen, books, museums, cities, parks, etc.
And daydream a lot. Preferably with a sketchbook in hand so you can draw out funny ideas or cool concepts. It can be a great source of inspiration when you've got a piece of clean paper and [I]want[/I] to draw but don't know [I]what[/I]. Good luck![/QUOTE]
I've never sketched in my free time up until now (even then it's jsut for Uni work)
The only positive crit I ever got was for my photography work - so many people from home just presume I'm studying photography. The main reason I cam here was to learn 3D Animation and such to open my doors to game development and VFX - I totally underestimated the amount of drawing I had to do.
Even though I don't enjoy drawing I really enjoy watching other people draw and looking at work - hence why I've lurked here for so long.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/Lmz92LH.jpg[/img]
sure it's unfounded musing but it might be interesting to some people
due to workload in other projects and being unable to experiment at the moment, i'm pretty much in the "art low" section right now, at least where 2D is concerned
Wow so many schemes and cool things. Honestly, i think it's all just about if you do want to draw or if you don't. I personally don't give a shit about all this self-reflection stuff, painting is fun and i don't want to be the best or something, I just want to have this fun.
I mean, if you want to draw, you will draw and get better no matter how bad you think you are, and if you don't, no schemes or graphs will help you imo.
some people might need those extra pushes just to remind them tho. i sometimes do. like people who lift or play sports who watch those "U CAN DO IT" montage things on youtube
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"GET UP IN THE MORNING
EAT 10 EGGS
BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE"
also
[t]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1482927/ROBOCARD.jpg[/t]
greentext because visor vision
[url]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/1482927/robocop.jpg[/url]
Dead or alive, you're cumming with me*
now now i like my murder, rape and abduction jokes a little more classy than that
So some guy in my class just through up a really great speedpainting in about 40 minutes or so.
[B]WITH A FUCKING MOUSE[/B]
No Tablet, no track-pad, just a standard issue Apple Mouse - the old ones at that.
Fuck this guy.
[QUOTE=Pilot1215;43854311]One of my first pictures using 3d models in Photoshop CC, ended up using lightroom and gimp to finish this. I'm really a noob when it comes to Photoshop and Lightroom, but I think for a beginner, it looks good.
[img]http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2014/040/b/3/defending_jacksonville_by_pilot1215-d75ufq2.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
that looks pretty cool, man
the ship is blurrier than said perception would ignore
i'd lose the ship and add some bridge destruction
[QUOTE=ChestyMcGee;43856862]some people might need those extra pushes just to remind them tho. i sometimes do. like people who lift or play sports who watch those "U CAN DO IT" montage things on youtube
[editline]10th February 2014[/editline]
"GET UP IN THE MORNING
EAT 10 EGGS
BE THE BEST YOU CAN BE"[/QUOTE]
The best I can be is digestively regular at least
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/yA5cej8.png[/IMG]
When you are bored then you open ms paint and see what happens
Rules 4 & 5
Aaaaaannndd, there's the ban. Like clockwork.
[editline]10th February 2014[/editline]
Really though I can think of a couple better reasons to ban him.
A ridiculous amount of time, far too much ctrl-z and heavy use of references. I'm not cut out for this sort of thing.
[IMG]http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/gn8r/essktch.png[/IMG]
Less reference... my abilities are shaping up!
[IMG]http://i847.photobucket.com/albums/ab35/gn8r/mutantmonk.png[/IMG]
That's some hair
uhh i made comic strips because my life sucks
[url]http://files.1337upload.net/heroin_1.png[/url]
[url]http://files.1337upload.net/banana.png[/url]
[url]http://files.1337upload.net/jolly.png[/url]
I used cut outs of some characters I made a while back, the original drawings are just really dark humour but they're in finnish so no point in posting lmao
[url]http://files.1337upload.net/chars.png[/url]