my name is ed
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I think you can learn it but it takes years of practiceKR3W said:
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Raging Spaniard
If they are Dutch, upright and breathing they are more racist than your favorite player
Some of the best artists I know have no talent, you just make up for it with hard work. Its like anything else, really.
Or u could get one of those pencils with lead on each end so u can draw while u draw, dawg.
Or u could get one of those pencils with lead on each end so u can draw while u draw, dawg.
KR3W said:
I say its more natural than learned.
You can learn to an extent but I think the way our minds work is unique to each individual and what one lucky guy sees may not be something that happens to confidentially be seen by everyone else.
I don't want to discourage you, even if you got no natural skills you can go very far with a little education and effort.
KR3W said:
i think of this question a lot, even after my time spent through artschool and grueling hours of drawing and painting. i believe that anyone can learn to create, it's a matter of training your brain to see correctly. Some are successful than others because they have a constant desire to keep getting better.
and being natural is a plus, but inborn talent can only take you so far if you lack the desire.
radiantdreamer
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Tashi0106 said:
It's a good "starter tablet". Professionals will find it limiting. Intuos FTW.
Raging Spaniard
If they are Dutch, upright and breathing they are more racist than your favorite player
Tashi0106 said:
Never used one, but if have never used a Tablet Im sure youll dig it.
Im just waiting for work to buy me a Cintiq so I can drop all the Tablet nonsense, really. Im much better when I can see my hand and what Im drawing at the same time.
hookedonritalin
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Damn, the quality by the end of the last page is insane. Awesome work everyone!
Heres something I've finished after a couple of days and nights of arduous work:
(I don't know if its my eyes playing tricks on me, but I think the image size of this feels a little squished and should be a bit wider like its .psd file. I may fix this in the future)
Heres something I've finished after a couple of days and nights of arduous work:
(I don't know if its my eyes playing tricks on me, but I think the image size of this feels a little squished and should be a bit wider like its .psd file. I may fix this in the future)
Witchfinder General
punched Wheelchair Mike
Odin, with Hugin & Munin. Did it as part of a college project. Not my best work but meh.
Pizza Luigi
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That is awesome Arcipello!
I've drawn a Joker just the other night.
Don't like it at all, but ah well.
I've drawn a Joker just the other night.
Don't like it at all, but ah well.
Raging Spaniard
If they are Dutch, upright and breathing they are more racist than your favorite player
Arcipello said:sketch i did the other night...splashed some red on it and it ended up quite Okami-ish
ARCIPELLO!
This is Xavi from the eatpoo, its been a while!
haha if you dont remember thats fine
my name is ed
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These are two more recent drawings. I'll need to fix my mistake on the Joker's eye later. The second one is from Alan Moore's Miracleman series. The guy is Kid Miracleman, and he is insane. Im going to blow these two drawings up, and some other ones and make posters out of them to hang around my place.
First time poster in this thread. Gotta say, theres a lot of jaw-dropping works of art in here, but it only aspires me to keep on working and enhance my skills.
Heres something I made for an assignment at school, where we were tasked to make a poster for a specific part of the city we lived in. It was kinda big and for some reason it came out all blurry if I tried to make it smaller, go figure.
Forgot to add: It took me a week to finish it after making countless sketches and whatnot. And its dedicated to a good friend of mine who helped me through some tough times. Thats her with the jump rope in the middle.
Heres something I made for an assignment at school, where we were tasked to make a poster for a specific part of the city we lived in. It was kinda big and for some reason it came out all blurry if I tried to make it smaller, go figure.
Forgot to add: It took me a week to finish it after making countless sketches and whatnot. And its dedicated to a good friend of mine who helped me through some tough times. Thats her with the jump rope in the middle.
Prax
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Arcipello said:
So pretty. Love the colours and flow of the lines. <3
I also love pictures like these that have a lot of neat things going on in them. My favourite parts are the whispy lines trailing the flying objects and how it looks like there's an exit in the cavern.. but.. how does this work!? The setting must be on some sort of cliff!Jostifer said:
Anyway, a couple more pro-scraps-tination drawings before I head to bed, wake up, and study for my nuero exam! YAY!
That nameless guy that I made earlier that's already kind of dead? Yah, part of him turned in this guy (who is an idiot). This was actually a character I made around the time FFXI came out and my brother and I were trying to decide on a character. I think it was a red mage ranger. Additional inspiration were FE7's Sacae nomads. The name's Raelis.
I'm overusing my really crappy paper texture, but last image for the night is a homage to one of my oldest superhero characters. Poly actually started out as an anthro cat... a rip off of Polly Esther from Samurai Pizza Cats--you can still see remnants of that from her triangle symbol on her forehead and her red hair.
She became a "child of a phoenix" while I was watching the animated X-Men and that whole Jean Grey Phoenix Saga was happening--also facilitated by my fascination with Phoenix from the Adventures of Conan. She was pretty much a cat born from a phoenix.. which made her special.. >.>Later, when Sailormoon hit North America, I finally was motivated enough to switch over to drawing humans. Current Poly is now a spear-wielding over-powered monarch of 2 kingdoms.
Raging Spaniard
If they are Dutch, upright and breathing they are more racist than your favorite player
Arcipello said:from here on out im using photobucket... imageshack can go suck on it. Does anyone know if there is a way around Photobucket resizing images that are uploaded? they are smaller than id prefere
From the settings you can adjust stuff like that (I think theres a no resize option as long as you keep the file under 1meg, so it should work fine for anything web related)
By the way have you checked out http://cghub.com/ yet? Really nice website, all the stuff thats good about DA with good web design, not super huge and full of good artists, plus some good networking stuff.
radiantdreamer
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Arcipello said:well i guess im gonna make this thread my new home for a little while
concept bot i never finished.
That's sweet. Any good resources I can look up for good lighting techniques? I am terrible with color too.
radiantdreamer said:
awesome, cuz that's exactly what I am. I haven't draw seriously in like 3 years. By seriously I mean, more than doodling. I'm using it to do some game art and also to get back into art seriously. I'm pretty excited. Also the art in this thread is inspiring to get back into drawing, they are unbelievable!
Zoso
It's been a long time, been a long time, been a long lonely lonely lonely lonely lonely time.
I told myself I would post in this thread. But damn if it isn't embarrassing posting my shit along with all this incredible art. Some of you are INCREDIBLY talented. Seriously good work to all of you!
Also a lot of this is kind of old, but oh well.
Incredibly random collage in colored pencil
Self portrait in the image of that Paul Revere painting. Charcoal.
Another self portrait
The last two are custom wrapping papers that I made for my friends out of duct tape for Christmas.
Also a lot of this is kind of old, but oh well.
Incredibly random collage in colored pencil
Self portrait in the image of that Paul Revere painting. Charcoal.
Another self portrait
The last two are custom wrapping papers that I made for my friends out of duct tape for Christmas.
radiantdreamer
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These two are very good.
I'd scan those into photoshop and start painting over them!
SilentProtagonist
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Conceptual rendering of a game I've been writing:
Gestural painting (coloring done with Rose Art Pencils):
Ink test that turned into a painting (coloring done with Rose Art Pencils):
Gestural painting (coloring done with Rose Art Pencils):
Ink test that turned into a painting (coloring done with Rose Art Pencils):
Always-honest
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RyType said:I like the first pic SilentProtagonist, do you have anymore from your game?
Some stuff I've been doing lately. I'm hoping to make some childrens books eventually-
very nice!. great drawings.
maybe the guy on the pig is a little too cartoony. the rest (including everything in that image) has a nice surreal feel to them.
I could imagine you making illustrations for a childrens book someday
hookedonritalin
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Holy shit Rytype, those are some fantastic drawings.
radiantdreamer
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RyType said:
Woah! Those are AWESOME! I really like the style of it. The detail is very good.
Always-honest
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Raging Spaniard said:
very, very true. keep doing it again and again.
SilentProtagonist
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Nothing worth showing really, but I may get to work on a few more sprites.RyType said:
RyType, your stuff is amazing. Are you currently going to school for art?
SilentProtagonist said:
thank you guys, I just recently started studying Illustration earlier this year at university.
SP, I love 2D retro style looking games- Your other stuff is great too! did you draw the first image in microsoft paint? You can make some nice retro looking stuff in MS, heres one I made a while back.
are sprites difficult to make? I like your game character design
SilentProtagonist
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Oh yeah, I remember your stuff from the MSPaint thread awhile back! That looks incredible.RyType said:thank you guys, I just recently started studying Illustration earlier this year at university.
SP, I love 2D retro style looking games- Your other stuff is great too! did you draw the first image in microsoft paint? You can make some nice retro looking stuff in MS, heres one I made a while back.
are sprites difficult to make? I like your game character design
Yeah, I'm using MS paint at the moment and going for a more retro look (the backgrounds are total placeholder so don't mind them lol).
Here's one of the first sketches of the character I did:
my name is ed
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A drawing of my family in San Francisco. I gave this to my dad as part of gift exchange. Of course, we found out who we got two days before X-mas so thats why its very sketchy but the family liked it so its all good.
SilentProtagonist
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Looks really good. Heh, I like the face on the headphones.Arcipello said:random sketchyness
What did you use for the background/coloring?
Pizza Luigi
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RyType said:
Not really, I made sprites for a LONG time, but I haven't done it for about three years now.
It's just the detail and the way you want to build a character with a really small amount of pixels. This is some of my work:
As you can see, it is really old. It is when you see how my drawing skills have evolved. If you want some tips, feel free to PM me.
Prax
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Brobzoid, have you done things.. not worth showing.. but can show us anyway?! XD
RyType: I LOVE all the detail in your work and how it contrasts with the simpler characters. It would make for great children's book images!
And Arcipello, that's an awesome image.
My favourite part would have to be the texture on her and that ink splash on the star. Is there a secret way to do ink/blood splashes? I dont' get how to do this obviously cool thing!
Anyway, just to end this year off, here's a few of my stuffs!
Oh, and before you all yell at me.. sorry for my extra-wide images.
Fire Emblem fanart!
Favourites from FE1-11 (I didn't actually play all the games, so I just picked random people for games I didn't play). All ballpoint pen with some PSP7 colourings.
Favourite Males!
Volke, Hugh, Kashim (Castor), Hector, Marth, Navarre (Nabarl), Shinon, Noish, Brighton, Arum (Alm), Cormag
Favourite Females!
Micaiah, Celica, Mareeta, Farina, Calill, Shiida (Sheeda), Ira (Ayra),Minerva, L'Arachel, Linde (Linda), Lilina
And an image anticipating the New Year's!!!
My character Eve.. GET IT?! *cough*
Aren't you guys proud of me?! No ballpoint pen to be seen! It's pure tablet-to-computer on one layer! I actually gave up on using a reference (because I'm too lazy to search for good ones, and I have some weird anxiety about it...), so there are probably plenty of anatomy, lighting, and drapery issues, but it's not a bad attempt.. >.> I was going to try to finally use Painter X at first, but I think I did something to make it crash on me, so I just went back to PSP7 like the wuss I am. XD
If any of you are interested in seeing my clueless process, you can take a look at this: http://meibatsu.deviantart.com/art/Walkthrough-of-New-Year-s-Eve-107823105
So, artsy GAF, HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEARS! Hope to see plenty more of your amazing stuff next year!
RyType: I LOVE all the detail in your work and how it contrasts with the simpler characters. It would make for great children's book images!
And Arcipello, that's an awesome image.
My favourite part would have to be the texture on her and that ink splash on the star. Is there a secret way to do ink/blood splashes? I dont' get how to do this obviously cool thing!
Anyway, just to end this year off, here's a few of my stuffs!
Oh, and before you all yell at me.. sorry for my extra-wide images.
Fire Emblem fanart!
Favourites from FE1-11 (I didn't actually play all the games, so I just picked random people for games I didn't play). All ballpoint pen with some PSP7 colourings.
Favourite Males!
Volke, Hugh, Kashim (Castor), Hector, Marth, Navarre (Nabarl), Shinon, Noish, Brighton, Arum (Alm), Cormag
Favourite Females!
Micaiah, Celica, Mareeta, Farina, Calill, Shiida (Sheeda), Ira (Ayra),Minerva, L'Arachel, Linde (Linda), Lilina
And an image anticipating the New Year's!!!
My character Eve.. GET IT?! *cough*
Aren't you guys proud of me?! No ballpoint pen to be seen! It's pure tablet-to-computer on one layer! I actually gave up on using a reference (because I'm too lazy to search for good ones, and I have some weird anxiety about it...), so there are probably plenty of anatomy, lighting, and drapery issues, but it's not a bad attempt.. >.> I was going to try to finally use Painter X at first, but I think I did something to make it crash on me, so I just went back to PSP7 like the wuss I am. XD
If any of you are interested in seeing my clueless process, you can take a look at this: http://meibatsu.deviantart.com/art/Walkthrough-of-New-Year-s-Eve-107823105
So, artsy GAF, HAVE A HAPPY NEW YEARS! Hope to see plenty more of your amazing stuff next year!
hookedonritalin
Member
Lovely work there, Prax.