[QUOTE=Skerion;34630185]It sure has been a while since the last time I actually posted any of my shit. Probably because I felt that they were too amateur compared to the rest of the masterpieces in here.
[IMG]http://i.imgur.com/YFijM.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE]
You won't be able to improve as quickly if you don't show people!
[b][u]Last year[/u][/b], on this date, I was drawing like [url=http://i.imgur.com/75oC8.png]this[/url]. And that took me [i]hours[/i] because I had no idea what I was doing, but I refused to get any help whatsoever, I was terrified of criticism (something my mom says that has been a long-standing trait of mine, even since I was little. I'd take every criticism I ever got very emotionally, with anything.). I eventually had to learn to just bite the bullet and learn to love it to help me improve.
[url=http://i.imgur.com/BD95Y.png]This[/url] is months later when I finally decided to start showing people stuff. Still making most of the same fundamental mistakes; I'd just learned to hide them behind minimalistic shading detail. That was September, last year.
Whether I've come a long way from where I was a year ago is up for you to decide, but in my own opinion I feel that I've come a long way from where I was.
I think that posting your work, good or bad, is the best way to improve so that people can tell you everything that's wrong with it and you can keep going back to their posts and saying "Am I still doing this?" hours, weeks, or even months later.
On that note, I like what you posted. I'd work more at making the shading look a little less messy, and maybe controlling your sketching lines a bit so that they're lighter and are more easy to ignore (or hard to notice, whichever wording helps you more).
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;34626214]
[editline]10th February 2012[/editline]
So my scanner decided to work for the first time in idk how long
Quick & rough, kind of skewed but I could go place with this style if I did it more often I think
[img]http://i.imgur.com/22qhyl.jpg[/img]
And a gesture type thing, cause I should aim to post more content
[img]http://i.imgur.com/g4vG1l.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]
I'd like to see you do a photostudy (of a picture you can link us to) so that I can get more of a feel as to what you might need Comments and Critiques in. But that's just me.
[QUOTE=Ehanced_AI;34629564][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8702336/Art/Drawings/2012/Scraps_13.png[/img]
[t]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8702336/Art/Drawings/2012/Fallout_1.png[/t]
[sub]I like Fallout[/sub][/QUOTE]
I'm really liking the first one, because it has an interesting style to it, but I think face from the bottom of the cheekbone down seems a bit dark. His eyebrows also seem to curve differently, don't know how intentional that was or not. His lips could use some filling out unless you intentionally gave him very thin lips. The amount of red you used also makes it look like he's sick, blushing, or out in the cold. Again, don't know how intentional that was, but if it wasn't I'd tone it down and use just a bit more towards the tone you used for the forehead.
[QUOTE=Robbobin;34621248]guyyyssss
what do you think of my book cover
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7346219/Stephen/Final/wipbrown2.jpg[/img_thumb]
Updated version
[img_thumb]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/7346219/Stephen/Final/brown%20clasps.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]
Really cool. Love the texturing. But I can't help but think the main skull needs a bit more too it, ya know?
[editline]10th February 2012[/editline]
like, more of the skull. the skull itself (like a full outline) could be embossed and the eyes and shit could be indented like they are now. that'd be cool
[editline]10th February 2012[/editline]
or maybe even, the way it is now, but a spookier face than a skull. like the necronomicon ex mortis
[QUOTE=Martut;34630355]You won't be able to improve as quickly if you don't show people!
[b][u]Last year[/u][/b], on this date, I was drawing like [url=http://i.imgur.com/75oC8.png]this[/url]. And that took me [i]hours[/i] because I had no idea what I was doing, but I refused to get any help whatsoever, I was terrified of criticism (something my mom says that has been a long-standing trait of mine, even since I was little. I'd take every criticism I ever got very emotionally, with anything.). I eventually had to learn to just bite the bullet and learn to love it to help me improve.
[url=http://i.imgur.com/BD95Y.png]This[/url] is months later when I finally decided to start showing people stuff. Still making most of the same fundamental mistakes; I'd just learned to hide them behind minimalistic shading detail. That was September, last year.
Whether I've come a long way from where I was a year ago is up for you to decide, but in my own opinion I feel that I've come a long way from where I was.
I think that posting your work, good or bad, is the best way to improve so that people can tell you everything that's wrong with it and you can keep going back to their posts and saying "Am I still doing this?" hours, weeks, or even months later.
On that note, I like what you posted. I'd work more at making the shading look a little less messy, and maybe controlling your sketching lines a bit so that they're lighter and are more easy to ignore (or hard to notice, whichever wording helps you more).
I'd like to see you do a photostudy (of a picture you can link us to) so that I can get more of a feel as to what you might need Comments and Critiques in. But that's just me.
I'm really liking the first one, because it has an interesting style to it, but I think face from the bottom of the cheekbone down seems a bit dark. His eyebrows also seem to curve differently, don't know how intentional that was or not. His lips could use some filling out unless you intentionally gave him very thin lips. The amount of red you used also makes it look like he's sick, blushing, or out in the cold. Again, don't know how intentional that was, but if it wasn't I'd tone it down and use just a bit more towards the tone you used for the forehead.[/QUOTE]
what the fuck
really
you improved that much on a year.
fuck it im gonna read that book you told me right now.
thats not that much improvement for a whole year
[QUOTE=Martut;34630355]
The amount of red you used also makes it look like he's sick, blushing, or out in the cold. Again, don't know how intentional that was, but if it wasn't I'd tone it down and use just a bit more towards the tone you used for the forehead.[/QUOTE]
The red was a side effect of recently reading some tutorial and not knowing how much red was enough lol
thanks though
[QUOTE=Rusty100;34630593]thats not that much improvement for a whole year[/QUOTE]
The second image was from last September when I wasn't taking any advice at all. :v: I was saying it as a demonstration of how far I've come since I started taking advice and showing that I didn't improve much when I was just working on my own and never putting my work out there.
I didn't link an image of a current one because I didn't want the focus of my post to actually be on me.
Unless you mean my work hasn't [url=http://i.imgur.com/i3LTQ.png]actually improved as fast as it should have[/url] in which case I'd love to know what I could improve on. Admittedly I was in Graphic Design classes for my first semester, so I wasn't learning how to paint, and I didn't do much drawing during the summer. [i]And[/i] now I have to actually wait until August before I can get into my first Illustration classes because that messed my whole schedule up.
[editline]February 10th, 2012[/editline]
I mean, to be fair, [url=http://i.imgur.com/uGAgS.png]this[/url] to [url=http://i.imgur.com/I51yg.png]this[/url] is a decent jump in under a year. (second one's from January)
[QUOTE=Rusty100;34630593]thats not that much improvement for a whole year[/QUOTE]
he posted something cool on the last page.
[editline]10th February 2012[/editline]
and now the posted it again above me.
that's a lot of improvement.
at least for me.
oh ok thats better
[QUOTE=Rusty100;34630895]oh ok thats better[/QUOTE]
Gave me quite the scare there.
The anatomy in your drawings is especially way better than your previous drawings from last year.
Gotta love also these color values
[t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMAG0234.jpg[/t]
I know I know it's a stupid joke but I was at IKEA and saw an open space on the chalk boards..
[QUOTE=Rusty100;34630593]thats not that much improvement for a whole year[/QUOTE]
People progress/learn/improve at different rates. What might seem like a shitty improvement to you could be a massive improvement for somebody else, especially considering all that stuff that's not immediately apparent (underlying understanding of concepts, technique, etc).
subjectiveshitmotherfucker.jpg
[QUOTE=ADT;34630952]The anatomy in your drawings is especially way better than your previous drawings from last year.
Gotta love also these color values[/QUOTE]
I'm still studying anatomy a lot, but from that point to this point I've just been studying things more intensely and nearly constantly. Every time I see something visually confusing to me (at my current understanding, anyway) I look it up. I feel it helps me get better at art, but I've always done it since I was little (I was one of those kids who would always ask "What if?" and "Why?", drove my parents insane.). I'm glad to see it paid off though, considering I've never been in a figure drawing class yet and officially studied anatomy in a scholastic setting.
[QUOTE=Paul McCartney;34631095][t]http://filesmelt.com/dl/IMAG0234.jpg[/t]
I know I know it's a stupid joke but I was at IKEA and saw an open space on the chalk boards..[/QUOTE]
If I saw that, I'd probably smile, admittedly.
[QUOTE=Martut;34631183]I'm still studying anatomy a lot, but from that point to this point I've just been studying things more intensely and nearly constantly. Every time I see something visually confusing to me (at my current understanding, anyway) I look it up. I feel it helps me get better at art, but I've always done it since I was little (I was one of those kids who would always ask "What if?" and "Why?", drove my parents insane.). I'm glad to see it paid off though, considering I've never been in a figure drawing class yet and officially studied anatomy in a scholastic setting.
If I saw that, I'd probably smile, admittedly.[/QUOTE]
I've been doing that with shadows since I was really young. Just looking at how shadows fall on objects. It helps immensely.
I need to start doing the same with colour and surface
Did this on the back of some Japanese homework, class was kind of slow today, so I dug up my micron 08 and randomly started sketching.
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/30622781/class%20sketch.jpg[/img]
looking like a real nice sketch, the helmet is really cool
(Motion Graphics)14 hours for 14 seconds of experimental weird stuff:
[video=youtube;NeWhhz4vCx4]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NeWhhz4vCx4[/video]
I wish I had more time to work on this.
[QUOTE=luishi5000;34604922]Just finished this up. Only took a decade to render.
[t]http://i.cubeupload.com/Me7NKs.jpg[/t][/QUOTE]
There's a thread for 3D art.
[QUOTE=Rusty100;34630399]Really cool. Love the texturing. But I can't help but think the main skull needs a bit more too it, ya know?
[editline]10th February 2012[/editline]
like, more of the skull. the skull itself (like a full outline) could be embossed and the eyes and shit could be indented like they are now. that'd be cool
[editline]10th February 2012[/editline]
or maybe even, the way it is now, but a spookier face than a skull. like the necronomicon ex mortis[/QUOTE]
thanks man! initially I was going to have the whole skull's outline and it would be inside some kind of speechbubble motif but it ended up being really hard to incorporate without it totally ruining the effect it had. I'll try doing something with the skull outline, though I'm sceptical it'll work. I need to sharpen up the clasps so I'm gonna redo that anyway.
It's been ages since I last posted anything here, but here's something I did in an hour. It's one of the first landscapes I have ever done in cs5.
[img]http://th07.deviantart.net/fs71/PRE/i/2012/041/a/0/desert_landscape_by_god__of__war-d4p8f4w.jpg[/img]
I can't see anyone's art because of my capped internet, I wish I could go into cryo until it fucking rolls over
I'm spending three times more than usual at the computer and not enjoying a minute of it because nothing will load :argh:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/33CP2.jpg[/img]
I'll see what I can do @ Mart
[QUOTE=Eric95;34621314][video=youtube;KJ-m0tf1u-o]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJ-m0tf1u-o[/video][/QUOTE]
The music doesn't fit. I think you need to use some crap from skrillex or some dubstep to make it sound more ~*l33t*~
[QUOTE=Ehanced_AI;34629564][img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/8702336/Art/Drawings/2012/Scraps_13.png[/img][/QUOTE]
wow I love those values. How exactly do you paint like that and what brushes do you use if you dont mind me asking? Do you just block in the main colors and then go back with a partial opacity brush and add the shadows and highlights?
[QUOTE=Lilyo;34636632]wow I love those values. How exactly do you paint like that and what brushes do you use if you dont mind me asking? Do you just block in the main colors and then go back with a partial opacity brush and add the shadows and highlights?[/QUOTE]
Basic round brush with pen pressure opacity on and a chalk brush with pen pressure opacity on
For colors i just use overlay and color layers, mainly overlay layers
for values i just sorta do everything under the lineart layer so i can see what i'm doing.
Really i just dick about with things till it looks cool, i don't have a set way of doing things.
thanks for asking though
[t]http://localhostr.com/file/tDbw5nU/skulliunfton.png[/t]
(click for full size)
tried to draw a skull, using some pictures as ref
C&C would be really appreciated
Hi guys, I'm a huge beginner, so I don't really post here, but I want some help with this watercolor I'm doing for school.
I'm doing this watercolor based off a building that I really like. It is by no means professional, or even half up to the level of what is usually posted here, but I am quite proud of the way its turning out, and I wanted some help in finishing it.
First off, this is an actual picture of the building I based my painting on.
[t]http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_pGDsBvP25xs/ST-Hr2YOBiI/AAAAAAAAA34/zLb8EWuIF6s/s400/a+chile11b.JPG[/t]
What my painting currently looks like is this:
[t]http://i.imgur.com/nfqim.jpg[/t]
It is still in progress, it has 0 details, and I'm not even done with the back/foreground. This is where I'm requesting some help from you guys.
You'll notice that on the right lower side of my painting, there's some shittly painted background buildings. I want to make them look not as shitty.
My art teacher suggested just kinda making them fade off with blue, what do you guys think?
Oh man, it took all my courage to make this post. Go easy on me.
Portrait of another friend :)
[img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/12913216/Art/Digital%20Paintings/diala.jpg[/img]
you have a lot of attractive female friends
Not entirely, me and the one above are more like old acquaintances.. Haven't seen her since I left for America from Dubai years ago.
you stalking fb for reference photos then?
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