Tim Schafer's [DÜDLE] Legend

Fugitive

Thx!

I don't know. I've just been in good headspace for drawing fiddly shiny robot things lately, I guess.

[Edit] Oh, oops

SeveredHead wrote:

fungal guy, does that look like fungus?

Angel_of_Bacon wrote:

WIP of a portrait of a friend (previous iteration here)- think I'm going to put this on hold/abandon it at this point because I've stared at it so long I can't really see what I'm doing anymore, probably need to move on to something else so I can come back to it with fresh eyes. One thing's for sure though, he looks significantly more sinister here than he does in real life.

kevindee wrote:

Still working on values



Still..i probably shouldnt have spent half an hour on a doodle of a monged out head. argh, I swear I need to do an actual study soon and stop just doodling!

zapattack

Nice paint bacon. Sinister is better.
Severed Head, I didn't think it was a fungus at first. Maybe rocks or embedded eggs or something. At a large scale, fungi have stalks and stuff, if those are supposed to be groups of small fungus seen from a far, there's usually a lot more fractal randomness and texture in stuff like that.
Here's what I'm picking away at. Man-faced birds just look better.

Nic

Fucking awesome so far, Zap. That puts me in the mood to try and paint shiny, leathery desert people.

Spectre-x

Is that

Vlad Tepes?

Fuck yes.

F87

Really nice Zap!!

Nic

I've mostly been doing figure studies in my sketchbook, but I have managed to do a bit of work on Jackie Chan


Also Neil Gaiman


I haven't really focused on the neck and shoulder areas so much, I've just got them kind of roughed in there, I'm looking at a bunch of different light references and figure pics for what I'm going to do with that


EDIT: also here's a gif of the differences between Jackie Chan before and how it looks now:

The_Glad_Hatter

I think it was loomis who advised artist to try to stay away from celebs for portrait drawing. You'll end up focussing too much on the likeness and too little on the drawing. Because as you see the parts of what you draw are pretty good, but the placement/ proportions knocks 'em down a notch sometimes.

Also, i'd have used a smaller brush on Gaiman's hair. Perhaps only try to draw the mass you see when you squint? check out Zapattack or Bacon's portraits above. There probably would be stray hairs everywhere (esp on the bird-dude), but those aren't really crucial for the drawing.

Nic

Thanks, hatter, I'll bear it in mind.

Was dicking around in photoshop with the pencil tool and made this for my profile pic for both here and DeviantArt, because the more I looked at the old one, the more I found wrong with it.

Scadilla

Fugitive wrote:

Iruka you always choose the prettiest hues.

Speaking of, I felt like I was channeling some Iruka design flavor while drawing this.

I really like this style, fugutive. It reminds me of Jet Set Radio and Cannonbusters.

square

Scadilla wrote: »

It reminds me of Jet Set Radio and Cannonbusters.

Same thought.
Also, yesterday I discovered this neat videogame Alan Wake, where you have to kill shadow things with a flashlight. Not that original but I think is fan-art worthy.



I think is missing something to give the impression of overwhelming darkness.

F87

Color it!

Reworking a character


I want her to be a mix of that staff girl from Xena and Zoey from Firefly.

Scadilla

Any MMA fans?

square

Scadilla wrote: »

Any MMA fans?

I'm not a fan but I do know to don't mess with that guy.

Avraham

SeveredHead

F87 nice charater once again, i like how u have such a consistent style with those. the legs might be a bit short.
sweet pencil rendering on the mma guy.
practice session!

Obilex

Faded_Sneakers

Scadilla wrote: »

Any MMA fans?

I really dig this. Can feel those muscles.

Arden Canelo

I posted this in my thread, but I'ma post it here too. Just because, you know. it's a doodle.

NightDragon

Goddang Zap that looks like it's going to be amazin'

melting_doll

I love the colors Obi!

Fugitive

OC session with Spex

F87

Nice, Fug. And Spex. Awesome styles!

Update on this character


Need to figure out her staff and hands...

Mynt

A suggestion:

The way a character holds something is the main way we can perceive it's weight. The way she's holding the staff with only her left (our right) hand makes it seem like it's either made of foam or weighted heavy on the top (like a sledgehammer)

I'd curl her fingers on her right hand to give the staff some more weight. Something like this:



Go find a Stick and hold it as you'd hold the weapon. That always helps me

F87

Hey, that's a good point! I'll try to fix that up! Thank you.

Angel_of_Bacon

Hey Frank, you might want to consider pushing the colors on the girl a bit- your recent environments have shown a more bold sense of color usage than you have in the past, and it'd be nice to see it brought into your character work as well. Specifically, you tend to leave your skin tones fairly desaturated, when you could go for a richer warm tones would likely sell the complexion more. (This could be the result of usually working off a grey background.)

Quick paintover- tried to move skintone more yellow/orange, with more reds in the shadows, and moved the shirt to be a warmer tone of blue and more purple in the shadows. Also tried to make the hair less reliant on white highlights (which will cool colors of any color mixed with it) and more on straight lemon yellow, with red/orange shadows. These are pretty subtle changes, but a little variations in color temperature can make a big difference in overall effect.

Nic

Made a colour sketch for what is decidedly a concept for an Earthbound fanart piece.


Made a little gif of it as well.


Edit: it's also best viewed when listening to this.
And like I say it's just a concept piece, so I'll likely do a more fleshed out take over the next couple of days.

Faded_Sneakers

Nicely done.

F87

Angel_of_Bacon wrote: »

Hey Frank, you might want to consider pushing the colors on the girl a bit- your recent environments have shown a more bold sense of color usage than you have in the past, and it'd be nice to see it brought into your character work as well. Specifically, you tend to leave your skin tones fairly desaturated, when you could go for a richer warm tones would likely sell the complexion more. (This could be the result of usually working off a grey background.)

Quick paintover- tried to move skintone more yellow/orange, with more reds in the shadows, and moved the shirt to be a warmer tone of blue and more purple in the shadows. Also tried to make the hair less reliant on white highlights (which will cool colors of any color mixed with it) and more on straight lemon yellow, with red/orange shadows. These are pretty subtle changes, but a little variations in color temperature can make a big difference in overall effect.

A big difference indeed. After seeing your paintover, the original girl looks sickly. Thank you, Bacon!

Edit: Update:

Spoiler:

Do the color temperatures look better?

amateurhour

Nic that is fantastic and also I have to go play Earthbound again like this weekend. I wish it would hit the Nintendo wii marketplace.

Nic

Thanks! I tweaked the fog animation a bit when I got up this morning, I like the subtletly of the first one, but I wanted a bit of a variation.

Arden Canelo

That looks waaaay better F87. I like the weapon design too!

Spectre-x

revisiting an older character

kevindee

Environment doodlery:



I think I'm improving with these, but results vary wildly

Angel_of_Bacon

F87 wrote: »

Do the color temperatures look better?

:^:

Only suggestion I might make is to soften up some of the orange strokes on the face/neck so they blend in a bit more; a really subtle, minor point, but they do stand out just a touch at the moment.

Nic

Picked up some faber castell artist pens, so I've been playing around with them. Did a couple figure sketches from Posemaniacs.

sharky t

Watercolour, ink and some digital work.

hams

Nic

Love the flow of the lines hams! I wish I could sketch like that, it's very difficult for me to express a form with rough lines.


Just sketched out a little concept for a robot while listening to the M.U.S.H.A. soundtrack


EDIT: made this too

Obilex

Avraham

kitty!