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Re: Art thread

Post by Blackadder51 » 14 Jun 2011, 19:15

Draw Batman with your eyes shut.
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Re: Art thread

Post by Blackadder51 » 14 Jun 2011, 19:26

Its fantabulues!
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Re: Art thread

Post by Cho » 15 Jun 2011, 06:46

givemeabreak432 wrote:
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This is about as well as I can draw with my eyes open. Or maybe it's a bit better.
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Re: Art thread

Post by Jake55778 » 17 Jun 2011, 07:24

Random mountains inspired by this thread: http://www.escapecraft.net/phpBB3/viewt ... =11&t=3041
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Re: Art thread

Post by EricSmarties » 17 Jun 2011, 12:44

ive not posted in a while :3
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Re: Art thread

Post by Jake55778 » 19 Jun 2011, 06:22

Fan art! For a podcast I listen to sometimes.
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Re: Art thread

Post by Jake55778 » 06 Jul 2011, 11:14

Work in progress:
Done:
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Re: Art thread

Post by Pinmissile » 06 Jul 2011, 13:40

Awesome as always, Jake.
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Jake55778 wrote:Work in progress:
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Re: Art thread

Post by Pinmissile » 10 Jul 2011, 09:08

I drew my minecraft character.
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Post by Beltom1066 » 10 Jul 2011, 21:24

Something I made in Serif Draw Plus, a vector art program I used before I got AI.
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Re: Art thread

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Oh believe me, I can do a lot worse.
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Post by Hytro » 14 Jul 2011, 13:21

Love your painting skills so much man :O
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Re: Art thread

Post by Sti_Jo_Lew » 14 Jul 2011, 17:42

Grr... Why can't I paint like you... /me sulks in the corner.

Good stuff though, I just need to practice.
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Re: Art thread

Post by luke2006 » 14 Jul 2011, 21:55

Thanks for posting that Jake! I like the music :)
And *obligatory compliment for incredible artwork*
What brushes are you using, btw (mainly for the clouds)? And what'd you do with the water? It looks like you kinda stretched areas so it looked like reflections changing on the waves?

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Re: Art thread

Post by luke2006 » 14 Jul 2011, 23:53

I just drew this in paint quickly. It's a boat. At sunset. Though the boat looks kinda retarded :/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/54 ... hebay.png/

This one took a bit longer:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/215/islandsa.png/

They look pretty cool if you blur them heaps haha. You can't do too much blending with paint, unfortunately.

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Re: Art thread

Post by Zehydra » 15 Jul 2011, 00:37

Jake55778 wrote:Moar pictures
dude these are awesome. I love fantasy/sci-fi landscape paintings. You ever hear of Roger Dean?

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Re: Art thread

Post by luke2006 » 15 Jul 2011, 01:44

Jake55778 wrote:Work in progress:
Done:
That's my new desktop background. Thanks :D

EDIT: Nevermind, I'm using the one with the valley and the river that runs through it.

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Re: Art thread

Post by Jake55778 » 15 Jul 2011, 01:58

luke2006 wrote:Thanks for posting that Jake! I like the music :)
And *obligatory compliment for incredible artwork*
What brushes are you using, btw (mainly for the clouds)? And what'd you do with the water? It looks like you kinda stretched areas so it looked like reflections changing on the waves?
I used this brush pack for the clouds: http://javierzhx.deviantart.com/art/Clo ... s-34277964
Everything else is just the default chalk brush.
No fancy trickery for the waves, I just tried to paint them with some volume.
Zehydra wrote: dude these are awesome. I love fantasy/sci-fi landscape paintings. You ever hear of Roger Dean?
I have not, although I may try and research him. I really enjoy fantasy/sci fi landscapes too. Probably to a fault since it's practically all I paint. My figure and portrait drawing is pretty poor by comparison.
luke2006 wrote:I just drew this in paint quickly. It's a boat. At sunset. Though the boat looks kinda retarded :/

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/54 ... hebay.png/

This one took a bit longer:

http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/215/islandsa.png/

They look pretty cool if you blur them heaps haha. You can't do too much blending with paint, unfortunately.
Those are pretty good. Obviously you don't have much rendering going on, but your composition, colours and perspective are pretty solid. If you used a program with variable opacity and better range of brushes I recommend GIMP: http://www.gimp.org/) you could turn those into something awesome.
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Jake55778 wrote:Work in progress:
Done:
That's my new desktop background. Thanks :D
But I have a newer version
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Re: Art thread

Post by luke2006 » 15 Jul 2011, 02:07

Define rendering and composition? :P

Oh, new version is good. WHICH TO CHOOSE?! :O :S

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Re: Art thread

Post by Jake55778 » 15 Jul 2011, 02:21

Rendering is indicating shapes as though they were in 3D space. It's basically shading and detailing.
Composition is how you arrange everything on a page in order to be visually interesting.
You may have seen during the video at one point I flip the canvas a bunch of times. That was to check whether the composition was balanced. I ended up adding a small town on the left island to help draw some of the focus away from just the big hilltop.
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Re: Art thread

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Jake55778 wrote:Rendering is indicating shapes as though they were in 3D space. It's basically shading and detailing.
Composition is how you arrange everything on a page in order to be visually interesting.
You may have seen during the video at one point I flip the canvas a bunch of times. That was to check whether the composition was balanced. I ended up adding a small town on the left island to help draw some of the focus away from just the big hilltop.
Ah, ok. Thanks. I liked the cloud above the bridge, too.

I've been playing around with the GIMP -> it's a fair bit better than paint for this sort of thing haha. I managed to get a fairly decent looking sky, and mountain. Water is a biatch to do, though. And I can't get components of the image to blend together. It end up looking like a crappy collage, with a photo of a mountain plasted clumsily on a child's crayon-sketched sky :/

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Re: Art thread

Post by Jake55778 » 15 Jul 2011, 05:41

Water is a biatch to do, though.
Understatement.

Here are just some of my earlier attempts to get it right:
http://jakeneal.files.wordpress.com/201 ... =640&h=453
http://jakeneal.files.wordpress.com/201 ... =600&h=338
http://jakeneal.files.wordpress.com/201 ... =600&h=450
http://jakeneal.files.wordpress.com/201 ... =640&h=453
http://jakeneal.files.wordpress.com/201 ... =600&h=424
http://jakeneal.files.wordpress.com/201 ... =640&h=360

(As a side note; I think it's quite encouraging that even though these are only a few months old, they look much worse than anything I'm doing at the moment. Hopefully that's a sign that I'm making good progress. I can only hope for the same kind of improvement a few months from now.)
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Re: Art thread

Post by luke2006 » 15 Jul 2011, 08:25

Well, to me, that looks very much like water done right... it looks like it's flowing. If those are much worse than what you're doing currently, then yes, you're making good progress haha. That's impressive.

EDIT:
Another attempt at a sunset, this time with gimp. I'm able to get the sun to look better, but I cut out most of the water because the reflection didn't look right. Then there's the sun blur-like effect, like you get with photos, that I added near the end because it looked cool :)
http://imageshack.us/photo/my-images/269/sunsetmd.png/

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Re: Art thread

Post by Sti_Jo_Lew » 16 Jul 2011, 04:42

That looks like something I made in AI and forgot to save a few months ago, but mine had a silhuoeteCouldn't ever spell that damn word right... of a dragon in front of the sun.
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Re: Art thread

Post by Jake55778 » 17 Jul 2011, 22:58

Celebrating my geekdom with a quick painting of Garrus from Mass Effect, and The Arbiter from Halo about to fight. Inspired by a thread on the escapist.
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