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[t]http://angryanimebitches.files.wordpress.com/2011/02/danball-senki.jpg[/t] So there's a new Metabots/Beyblade type toy-based show going around in Asia called Danball Senki. The toys are little gundam-model esque kits that are remote controlled and can fight each other when assembled. Bandai made a line of kits specifically for this anime, and I decided that I'd pick one up while I was in Taiwan. I wanted to find the most operator looking LBX (that's what the little robots are called) and picked out an "LBX Deqoo Recon Type". It looks like this: [t]http://e-toyz.com/webshaper/pcm/pictures/Products/Danboru%20Senki/LBX-Deqoo-Reconaissance_l.jpg[/t] [t]http://www.gundammodelkits.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/ap_20110626122103557_thumb.jpg[/t] Except I wasn't too fond of that grey/navy blue paint scheme so I decided to repaint and rearm my Deqoo. The camouflage I used in my paint is a combination of medium greens and browns (the same color palette as multicam actually!) but in a more fanciful pattern. I also weathered him to look more combat-strained and battered. I was originally going to use a modified 1/6 scale M4A1 to be the weapon instead of that giant Barret spacegun handcannon thing it came with, but it proved too big to be in correct scale, so I took the rifle that came with the second LBX I bought (Achilles Deed, I want to use the legs from that one cause they look more operator than stubby Deqoo legs) and used zipties to make rails, then scavenged a 1/6 scale Eotech from my spares box. I gave the chest a cast iron texture like how those pictures of war weary Sherman tanks in WWII have by painting a piece of tissue paper into the finish. For a WIP, I think it's turning out decent. [t]http://i.imgur.com/CiwBc.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/04y6j.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/AcW3Y.jpg[/t] [t]http://i.imgur.com/xtYkJ.jpg[/t]
Seeing that nebula made me want to post some of my space stuff to get an opinion on it. Hope it's okay to post slightly old art. :I Watercolor - where I used masking fluid and a toothbrush to create stars [QUOTE][IMG]http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc7/332018_2544337406686_563872733_o.jpg[/IMG][/QUOTE] And digital inspired by Greg Martin [IMG]http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/458393_3559798112569_2088757213_o.jpg[/IMG] note: the glare is weird here because the light source was cropped out (can't find the original).
[QUOTE=mecaguy03;37278121]Another nebula painting. NGC 281. [thumb]https://dl.dropbox.com/u/32047569/Red%20nebula%20resized.png[/thumb][/QUOTE] Seeing as you paint these based on real nebulae, how do you go about planning something so seemingly random? And more to the point how do you pull it off so damn well?
booooooo. selling art is well hard. unless I actually sell something by the time I have my etsy bill, I'm going to take the shop down and work on a much bigger project to sell something, like a t-shirt design. there's a screen printers local to me that I could get 25 2-colour t-shirts for £165 which seems pretty good (£6.60 a shirt). I don't have £165 to invest and potentially waste but I figure if I spend a while making a really cool design I might be able to get 13 people to put money up front or at least promise they'll buy one for £13. Might even be worth doing a teeeeny tiny kickstarter or something.
[QUOTE=Triarii;37282659]Seeing as you paint these based on real nebulae, how do you go about planning something so seemingly random? And more to the point how do you pull it off so damn well?[/QUOTE] Well, its not as random as it seems. Nebulae have a sort of flow to them, and you kind of describe whats going on with it. Its like drawing smoke, it seems random but its really not. And once you know the kind of nebulous shapes that look right you can put them all together. I do the larger overall shape first and then kind of clean it up, then go for smaller details, then final details, then glow effects if any, then do the stars. The fun thing about painting nebulae from a reference is that in space photography there is usually noise and the picture isnt super sharp, and some of the time are quite blurry, so I get to fill in a lot of the smaller details that arent in the picture (and if I feel like it some of the bigger ones too)
[QUOTE=Robbobin;37286616]booooooo. selling art is well hard. unless I actually sell something by the time I have my etsy bill, I'm going to take the shop down and work on a much bigger project to sell something, like a t-shirt design. there's a screen printers local to me that I could get 25 2-colour t-shirts for £165 which seems pretty good (£6.60 a shirt). I don't have £165 to invest and potentially waste but I figure if I spend a while making a really cool design I might be able to get 13 people to put money up front or at least promise they'll buy one for £13. Might even be worth doing a teeeeny tiny kickstarter or something.[/QUOTE] no, shut up, i had that idea first :(
[QUOTE=D3TBS;37287356]no, shut up, i had that idea first :([/QUOTE] what idea, selling t-shirts for money????
[QUOTE=Barnhouse;37288320]what idea, selling t-shirts for money????[/QUOTE] holy shit im gonna patent this brilliant idea
Wait NO, NO GODDAMMIT NOW I'M NEVER GOING TO BE A MILLIONAIRE
[QUOTE=Robbobin;37286616]booooooo. selling art is well hard. unless I actually sell something by the time I have my etsy bill, I'm going to take the shop down and work on a much bigger project to sell something, like a t-shirt design. there's a screen printers local to me that I could get 25 2-colour t-shirts for £165 which seems pretty good (£6.60 a shirt). I don't have £165 to invest and potentially waste but I figure if I spend a while making a really cool design I might be able to get 13 people to put money up front or at least promise they'll buy one for £13. Might even be worth doing a teeeeny tiny kickstarter or something.[/QUOTE] I get paid on the 1st. I'd love to have that llama still. Promise you'll sell it to me even if you take the store down? Unless someone gets to it first.
[QUOTE=draugur;37289161]I get paid on the 1st. I'd love to have that llama still. Promise you'll sell it to me even if you take the store down? Unless someone gets to it first.[/QUOTE] You want the llama?! How did I forget about this? ahaha. What did we agree to do?
A neat time-lapsey thing by this guy. Pretty impressive. The use of adjustment layers and whatnot is pretty interesting. [video=youtube;6W9LoAN2rpQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9LoAN2rpQ[/video]
[QUOTE=Robbobin;37292277]You want the llama?! How did I forget about this? ahaha. What did we agree to do?[/QUOTE] Nothing that I know of. I'm just saying, it's an amazing piece that I'd love to own. :3
[QUOTE=Maloof?;37292606]A neat time-lapsey thing by this guy. Pretty impressive. The use of adjustment layers and whatnot is pretty interesting. [video=youtube;6W9LoAN2rpQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6W9LoAN2rpQ[/video][/QUOTE] That's Alicexz [url]http://alicexz.deviantart.com/[/url]. I actually have that print on my wall haha
[QUOTE=draugur;37292778]Nothing that I know of. I'm just saying, it's an amazing piece that I'd love to own. :3[/QUOTE] Cool! I'll keep the store up for a while longer, I'm just feeling a little disappointed at it so far but I guess it's only been 4 days!
[QUOTE=Robbobin;37292827]Cool! I'll keep the store up for a while longer, I'm just feeling a little disappointed at it so far but I guess it's only been 4 days![/QUOTE] Perhaps it would be useful for a bunch of us to help each other out in terms of advertising? I don't mean telling people 'nobody will love you unless you buy this print'; I'm talking about some good old-fashioned networking. If we've all got Tumblrs, DeviantArt accounts, etc, a bunch of us could start linking to each other's stuff? Scratching each other's backs, as it were, but without the awkward heterosexual angst
Doesn't sound like a bad idea to me! Pretty much all of my 650 etsy views are originally from facebook and facepunch, from what I can gather from the stats, only like 25 views are actually directly from etsy and a dozen from tumblr/twitter (to be fair I hardly use twitter, and I've only had tumblr a week). This week I'm going go try and produce one cheap ~£5 drawing a day just to keep my views ticking along. I think as long as I make a new entry I can safely get 100-200 views (but yeah like I say it's only been going 4 days so it's impossible to know for sure). Besides letting this tick over, my plan is to spend a while producing a t-shirt design and work out a way of making the £160 investment in 25 shirts without risking a total loss... Not too sure what to do on that front, besides trying to convince 13 people to promise they'll pay £13 for the shirt (obviously having seen the finished design, just not applied to a t-shirt).
You know that this whole selling art thing isn't really easy and requires a lot of patience, right? Also, about that shirt thing: You're afraid to lose your money, but you should know that it's always a bet when you start a project like this. You can't just go around asking people "If I made something like this, would you buy it? Would you really buy it? Really really? Promise?". Also, if you want to take this seriously, then I suggest getting more money to invest. If not, then why don't you just try spreadshirt or something?
Yeah I guess you're right. I'm just feeling unadventurous since spending so much money on materials lately. I'll explore safer routes, thanks!
and I actually suggest you use society6. You can put posters and tshirts there, and the place doesn't look cheesy like the others
Try out Redbubble Rob, you've got nothing to lose and people will buy literally anything from there. Least discerning community I've ever come across. Cutesy animal things like you've been doing, they lap that stuff up. Personally I wouldn't like to "sell out" and start doing little things that pander to that kind of audience to scrape out a profit, but your stuff would go like hotcakes I reckon. I have made some money from people buying old shirt designs that I put up to buy myself, got a lump payment of like 25 bucks on paypal the other day. The profit per item is only a few quid, it's rubbish, but you invest nothing so it's probably worth your while if you're desperate to sell stuff. Plus you could link to wherever you're selling originals or whatever..
[t]http://www.deviantart.com/download/321851856/sci_fi_cat_lady_by_juniez-d5bmehc.png[/t] [t]http://www.deviantart.com/download/321940913/id_by_juniez-d5bob75.png[/t]
'nother quick doodle, still playing around with brushes. It's pretty neat how different brushes can radically change my workflow [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1925002/loose/doodlekaboodle.png[/img]
[QUOTE=Headcrab54;37297198]'nother quick doodle, still playing around with brushes. It's pretty neat how different brushes can radically change my workflow [img]http://dl.dropbox.com/u/1925002/loose/doodlekaboodle.png[/img][/QUOTE] What sort of brush packs to you fellas use?
I make my own, way more fun that way
Scribbled some sci-fi wild west thingy last night. [IMG]http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2012/232/e/8/colorado_by_skoparov-d5bn19t.png[/IMG] I suck at drawing clothes.
It's great as usual Idk about those lens flare light bar things though Oh wait are they supposed to be like bullets? That makes so much more sense, they still look weird though and not like gunfire
[QUOTE=Robbobin;37292983]Doesn't sound like a bad idea to me! Pretty much all of my 650 etsy views are originally from facebook and facepunch, from what I can gather from the stats, only like 25 views are actually directly from etsy and a dozen from tumblr/twitter (to be fair I hardly use twitter, and I've only had tumblr a week). This week I'm going go try and produce one cheap ~£5 drawing a day just to keep my views ticking along. I think as long as I make a new entry I can safely get 100-200 views (but yeah like I say it's only been going 4 days so it's impossible to know for sure). Besides letting this tick over, my plan is to spend a while producing a t-shirt design and work out a way of making the £160 investment in 25 shirts without risking a total loss... Not too sure what to do on that front, besides trying to convince 13 people to promise they'll pay £13 for the shirt (obviously having seen the finished design, just not applied to a t-shirt).[/QUOTE] I think you should focus on creating more art rather than trying to sell it straight away and make money fast, its not an easy thing trying to sell your art and as said before requires a lot of patience, before taking the plunge and spending lots of money printing your art onto t-shirts, you should first make sure that there is a demand for your art, then when you get more attention start moving up onto t-shirts etc artists like Godmachine do this, at first he started working on smaller self initiated work and band related stuff (album art/posters) and eventually moved onto merch for clothing companies and band t shirts because people started buying his prints like hot cakes! [URL="http://deadmetalclothing.bigcartel.com/"] Prints and Posters [/URL] [URL="http://godmachinedesigns.blogspot.co.uk/2011/09/new-disturbia-range-is-out-and-i.html"]Merch designs[/URL] I think Godmachine screen prints most of his work which is an awesome way to bump up prices, I wouldn't be as willing to pay as much for a digital print, I really want a Godmachine print they just often sell out really fast :( also if you were going to sell t-shirts [URL="http://bigcartel.com/"]bigcartel.com[/URL] is a really awesome place to do it, hope this helps in anyway :)
[QUOTE=antianan;37298783]Scribbled some sci-fi wild west thingy last night. I suck at drawing clothes.[/QUOTE] The only problem I can see is her left foot's angle. To me, it looks kinda twisted. You can just fix that foot or [IMG]http://i.imgur.com/x6GZP.png[/IMG] It's still a masterpeice because I can't even draw anything nearly as half good as that.
it looks good but she seems to be chillaxing rather than being in a gun fight
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