All this junk in one week for one class
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auuughhh
your recent stuff is really nice.
I see you reusing those faces salmon! you rascal
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;47268669]I see you reusing those faces salmon! you rascal[/QUOTE]
mr teacher said we should, we figured out the faces of the characters last week :v:
[QUOTE=Skwee;47268521]The further things get from the view point the lighter they get, so why not try and make the area closest to the camera a fair bit darker?
[editline]6th March 2015[/editline]
Like if you look at the earlier version the rock with the flag thing where the guy is now in the new version is pretty dark, make the rocks in the corner be dark like that, maybe a little darker even, sort of like a vignette except just in that corner? Can't really say if it will work unless I see it, but I think it might.[/QUOTE]
Cheers guys for the feedback
I was hesitant to make the corner area too dark - it seems that's my go-to technique these days for distinguishing between foreground and background, and I wanted to try something new - unfortunately that something didn't work. I could've made the cliff behind the guy dark and had a shaft of light illuminating him brightly to create that stark depth and properly seperate the foreground and the background. I've reworked it a bit now (I'll update in the morning once it's tidy) and it's looking far better.
Some patches I made this week
Star Wars
[thumb]http://abload.de/img/whisper_squadyxsbi.png[/thumb]
Homeworld
[thumb]http://abload.de/img/balancebisps.png[/thumb]
[thumb]http://abload.de/img/ecmusr4t.png[/thumb]
Do you know any cheap (and great) drawing tablet ?
[QUOTE=Radaghast;47269350]Do you know any cheap (and great) drawing tablet ?[/QUOTE]
Monoprice is supposed to be good: [url]http://frenden.com/post/31659364200/the-little-monoprice-graphics-tablet-that-could[/url]
Drawing / painting of a pet tortoise I just did
[img]http://img14.deviantart.net/0061/i/2015/065/2/2/tortoise__90_mins__06_03_2015_by_jallenthenovice-d8kmq2h.png[/img]
those thin scratchy straight lines in there are not good. even if it was just the drawing I think they'd be unpleasent
[QUOTE=Sasupoika;47269137][img]http://i.imgur.com/4Hz1cbt.png[/img]
[img]http://i.imgur.com/6WigQ1x.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Are you the same guy who posted concepts for a comic in this style ages ago, with really dodge dragon bally chars? there was a girl with a ludicrously massive chest and it was all pretty scary
Myahh. CC welcome.
[T]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/4565878/facepunch/Sidney.jpg[/T]
[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;47273520]those thin scratchy straight lines in there are not good. even if it was just the drawing I think they'd be unpleasent
Are you the same guy who posted concepts for a comic in this style ages ago, with really dodge dragon bally chars? there was a girl with a ludicrously massive chest and it was all pretty scary[/QUOTE]
I haven't posted for good while in here ( never in this thread either ). Don't know.
[img]http://i.imgur.com/JAiMVyw.png[/img]
I'm ANGRY and it's for a DUMB REASON!
I want to do something with my art and with my characters but in all the 2-3 years that I've been drawing seriously I haven't thought of a single thing I want to follow up on. Everything I draw is unrelated to the next. My latest characters have been a frog-themed super hero, a medieval monkey knight, two atrociously weird skeletons, and a punk teenage girl who wants to beat people up. Before that were a chubby blind French girl with elf ears (yeah I have no idea), an anorexic cyclops with claw hands, a detective fish man... You get the point, it's all random nonsense, and I don't ever see other people with such gigantic disparities between their designs. And you might ask "why not try to be consistent instead?" I try that, but as soon as I try to stick to something (whether that be a style, a type of character, a comic story, a creative universe, whatever...) I immediately feel like I'm wasting my time, like I'm constricting myself to something crappy that I'll never do anything good with, and that I ought to try something else instead. Hence my horribly sporadic work, consisting of static character images, that I'm really not proud of at all.
I love comics and cartoons of all sorts, and that's the kind of art that I want to do, yet I've only made 2 comics in my life and one of them was so badly received that I straight up removed it from the internet ([URL=http://imgur.com/a/hxu4i]here's the other,[/URL] in case you're interested - watch out, bad art.) I honestly have no clue how people draw a character the same twice, or how they can keep with projects, or how they can stick with just one thing and own it so well. All of my favorite artists seem to do it just fine, but I can't seem to, and it's infinitely frustrating.
TL;DR:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/avuX9vt.png[/img]
Made another one.
[t]http://puu.sh/gqsZm/0eb52ff336.png[/t]
This is the first time in a long time that I've been able to make more than a single drawing. Usually I have months in between each.
Fixed it, I think
[IMG]https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/83454840/Images/China%20Hobbit%20absolute%20final.png[/IMG]
[QUOTE=Bynine;47276141]I'm ANGRY and it's for a DUMB REASON! [/QUOTE]
Well, why have you been drawing seriously for the past few years then? I know that I'm thinking about what I want to be able to do. I can think of things that I want to do a year or 2 down the line, and that's the reason I'm continuing to paint because right now my stuff just isn't good enough to do that.
Surely there's some art dreams you had back when you were a beginner which drove you to keep doing it even though your early drawings sucked? What were they?
[QUOTE=Jallen;47276676]Well, why have you been drawing seriously for the past few years then? I know that I'm thinking about what I want to be able to do. I can think of things that I want to do a year or 2 down the line, and that's the reason I'm continuing to paint because right now my stuff just isn't good enough to do that.
Surely there's some art dreams you had back when you were a beginner which drove you to keep doing it even though your early drawings sucked? What were they?[/QUOTE]
To make comics and cartoons. It's like, I know what I want to make in terms to the format, but I can't even begin to think how anyone can settle down on one story or even guidelines for their designs
I mean hell, look at [URL=http://i.imgur.com/qyybS2a.png]this[/URL], this is one character I've drawn over about the period of just [I] one year[/I] and every one of them looks way different. And then I see people who draw a comic over a period of five years and while they improve they keep it consistent and held-together and nice. It's so confusing
EDIT: And sorry if I'm bitching, because I probably am and the answer to all my frustration is probably just "stick with something, quit being fickle", but I'd rather come away from this scorned and with advice than to continue ramming up against the walls of my own brain, if that makes any sense
[QUOTE=Bynine;47276141]I'm ANGRY and it's for a DUMB REASON!
I want to do something with my art and with my characters but in all the 2-3 years that I've been drawing seriously I haven't thought of a single thing I want to follow up on. Everything I draw is unrelated to the next. My latest characters have been a frog-themed super hero, a medieval monkey knight, two atrociously weird skeletons, and a punk teenage girl who wants to beat people up. Before that were a chubby blind French girl with elf ears (yeah I have no idea), an anorexic cyclops with claw hands, a detective fish man... You get the point, it's all random nonsense, and I don't ever see other people with such gigantic disparities between their designs. And you might ask "why not try to be consistent instead?" I try that, but as soon as I try to stick to something (whether that be a style, a type of character, a comic story, a creative universe, whatever...) I immediately feel like I'm wasting my time, like I'm constricting myself to something crappy that I'll never do anything good with, and that I ought to try something else instead. Hence my horribly sporadic work, consisting of static character images, that I'm really not proud of at all.
I love comics and cartoons of all sorts, and that's the kind of art that I want to do, yet I've only made 2 comics in my life and one of them was so badly received that I straight up removed it from the internet ([URL=http://imgur.com/a/hxu4i]here's the other,[/URL] in case you're interested - watch out, bad art.) I honestly have no clue how people draw a character the same twice, or how they can keep with projects, or how they can stick with just one thing and own it so well. All of my favorite artists seem to do it just fine, but I can't seem to, and it's infinitely frustrating.
TL;DR:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/avuX9vt.png[/img][/QUOTE]
It sounds like you're worrying more about making something that will be accepted by others than something that has meaning for you.
My advice would be, instead of trying to make the perfect comic, try and make a comic does the one or two things you like the most well.
If you don't know what those things are, maybe you just need time to explore that.
[QUOTE=Bynine;47276141]I'm ANGRY and it's for a DUMB REASON!
I want to do something with my art and with my characters but in all the 2-3 years that I've been drawing seriously I haven't thought of a single thing I want to follow up on. Everything I draw is unrelated to the next. My latest characters have been a frog-themed super hero, a medieval monkey knight, two atrociously weird skeletons, and a punk teenage girl who wants to beat people up. Before that were a chubby blind French girl with elf ears (yeah I have no idea), an anorexic cyclops with claw hands, a detective fish man... You get the point, it's all random nonsense, and I don't ever see other people with such gigantic disparities between their designs. And you might ask "why not try to be consistent instead?" I try that, but as soon as I try to stick to something (whether that be a style, a type of character, a comic story, a creative universe, whatever...) I immediately feel like I'm wasting my time, like I'm constricting myself to something crappy that I'll never do anything good with, and that I ought to try something else instead. Hence my horribly sporadic work, consisting of static character images, that I'm really not proud of at all.
I love comics and cartoons of all sorts, and that's the kind of art that I want to do, yet I've only made 2 comics in my life and one of them was so badly received that I straight up removed it from the internet ([URL=http://imgur.com/a/hxu4i]here's the other,[/URL] in case you're interested - watch out, bad art.) I honestly have no clue how people draw a character the same twice, or how they can keep with projects, or how they can stick with just one thing and own it so well. All of my favorite artists seem to do it just fine, but I can't seem to, and it's infinitely frustrating.
TL;DR:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/avuX9vt.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I know exactly how you feel. Up until recently everything I've tried to do with the characters I've come up with have been rip offs of popular comics since I was too worried about people liking it and it really made me depressed and I stopped doing art for a while. Similar to what Mr. Scorpio said the best way to combat that is to make it for yourself rather than what other people want. Since I started doing that I have been drawing and expanding my characters way more, and even started tests for a comic with them completely unlike the things I tried to do when I was pandering (or at least trying to) to an audience. That's just me though.
Anyways I tried speedpainting for the first time, and did it with a limited palate (which is a first for me as well). ~30 min
[t]http://orig03.deviantart.net/cd3c/f/2015/066/0/e/city_speedpaint_by_jazxsora-d8kthri.png[/t]
I would avoid trying to do things fast right now. Spend time getting it to look right even if it takes ages (this can be rough, but it has to look right), and I highly recommend painting in greyscale because you've used a really tiny range of values - even the sun is a mid tone. The perspective is weird, especially with the buildings. The buildings aren't really representing forms so much as ambiguous light to dark shaded rectangles. The colour temperature of the buildings and ground is too cool considering they are being completely bathed in direct warm light.
It's a cool concept and I like the colours you've chosen, but I think you need to spend a good amount of time painting from reference. Start with greyscale.
[QUOTE=Jallen;47278500]I would avoid trying to do things fast right now. Spend time getting it to look right even if it takes ages (this can be rough, but it has to look right), and I highly recommend painting in greyscale because you've used a really tiny range of values - even the sun is a mid tone. The perspective is weird, especially with the buildings. The buildings aren't really representing forms so much as ambiguous light to dark shaded rectangles. The colour temperature of the buildings and ground is too cool considering they are being completely bathed in direct warm light.
It's a cool concept and I like the colours you've chosen, but I think you need to spend a good amount of time painting from reference. Start with greyscale.[/QUOTE]
Thanks for the advice man. Speed painting was something that I had wanted to give a try but I probably am going to either expand upon this one or re do it. Probably the latter, and I'm definitely gonna take my time with it. The picture itself is from memory of the city I live in but most likely will use reference for a more refined version.
[QUOTE=jazxsora;47278804]Thanks for the advice man. Speed painting was something that I had wanted to give a try but I probably am going to either expand upon this one or re do it. Probably the latter, and I'm definitely gonna take my time with it. The picture itself is from memory of the city I live in but most likely will use reference for a more refined version.[/QUOTE]
What city do you live in that's on the edge of a cliff?
[QUOTE=dnqboy;47279000]What city do you live in that's on the edge of a cliff?[/QUOTE]
I think thats water.
[QUOTE=Bynine;47276141]I'm ANGRY and it's for a DUMB REASON!
I want to do something with my art and with my characters but in all the 2-3 years that I've been drawing seriously I haven't thought of a single thing I want to follow up on. Everything I draw is unrelated to the next. My latest characters have been a frog-themed super hero, a medieval monkey knight, two atrociously weird skeletons, and a punk teenage girl who wants to beat people up. Before that were a chubby blind French girl with elf ears (yeah I have no idea), an anorexic cyclops with claw hands, a detective fish man... You get the point, it's all random nonsense, and I don't ever see other people with such gigantic disparities between their designs. And you might ask "why not try to be consistent instead?" I try that, but as soon as I try to stick to something (whether that be a style, a type of character, a comic story, a creative universe, whatever...) I immediately feel like I'm wasting my time, like I'm constricting myself to something crappy that I'll never do anything good with, and that I ought to try something else instead. Hence my horribly sporadic work, consisting of static character images, that I'm really not proud of at all.
I love comics and cartoons of all sorts, and that's the kind of art that I want to do, yet I've only made 2 comics in my life and one of them was so badly received that I straight up removed it from the internet ([URL=http://imgur.com/a/hxu4i]here's the other,[/URL] in case you're interested - watch out, bad art.) I honestly have no clue how people draw a character the same twice, or how they can keep with projects, or how they can stick with just one thing and own it so well. All of my favorite artists seem to do it just fine, but I can't seem to, and it's infinitely frustrating.
TL;DR:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/avuX9vt.png[/img][/QUOTE]
Bro, the thing that unites all your work is that you made it. Don't worry about cohesion, just make stuff you want to look at, and people will appreciate it.
[QUOTE=Bynine;47276141]I'm ANGRY and it's for a DUMB REASON!
I want to do something with my art and with my characters but in all the 2-3 years that I've been drawing seriously I haven't thought of a single thing I want to follow up on. Everything I draw is unrelated to the next. My latest characters have been a frog-themed super hero, a medieval monkey knight, two atrociously weird skeletons, and a punk teenage girl who wants to beat people up. Before that were a chubby blind French girl with elf ears (yeah I have no idea), an anorexic cyclops with claw hands, a detective fish man... You get the point, it's all random nonsense, and I don't ever see other people with such gigantic disparities between their designs. And you might ask "why not try to be consistent instead?" I try that, but as soon as I try to stick to something (whether that be a style, a type of character, a comic story, a creative universe, whatever...) I immediately feel like I'm wasting my time, like I'm constricting myself to something crappy that I'll never do anything good with, and that I ought to try something else instead. Hence my horribly sporadic work, consisting of static character images, that I'm really not proud of at all.
I love comics and cartoons of all sorts, and that's the kind of art that I want to do, yet I've only made 2 comics in my life and one of them was so badly received that I straight up removed it from the internet ([URL=http://imgur.com/a/hxu4i]here's the other,[/URL] in case you're interested - watch out, bad art.) I honestly have no clue how people draw a character the same twice, or how they can keep with projects, or how they can stick with just one thing and own it so well. All of my favorite artists seem to do it just fine, but I can't seem to, and it's infinitely frustrating.
TL;DR:
[img]http://i.imgur.com/avuX9vt.png[/img][/QUOTE]
I think this is less an art problem and more a maturity/conceptual ability problem. I.E. we're talking about making a story here, so you have to be a writer too. a lot of authors will say that you just will not be very good until you're at least in your thirties, and I think it's mostly true, there aren't many really young authors. Storytelling is a whole other kettle of fish you have to learn about. I advise reading loads of books
And start writing. A lot. It's going to be awful and you're going to hate it but being able to live with writing shitty stuff and bearing it is generally regarded as an important part of the process. Going back to fix bad writing- also an essential skill. I like to follow [url="http://www.timclarepoet.co.uk/"]Tim Clare[/url], an english fellow who does a blog about writing and has a regular segment on critiquing hopeful writers first pages. I find a lot of his thoughts pretty useful, although you might not necessary agree with everything he says.
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