Probably not on the hanging, I'd feel like a tool if the only thing I bothered to hang up was my own stuff. (I still have yet to hang up the art Iruka and MD gave me in my new place because I'm a lazy asshole. )
Whenever I get into an artistic slump I tackle a different medium just to keep working on something. I have always been fascinated with the old school sign painters and pinstripers. I spent some time learning hand lettering (much harder than I thought) and pinstrping (REALLY much harder than I thought).
I dunno if anyone remembers the robot dude I did awhile back with the intention of doing a gouache version of it to send to a friend of mine, but I started that and gave up on it because I started running into problems because I didn't really have any sort of a handle on what I was doing in gouache 3 months ago. Having been through this gouache class I figured I'd go back and try to fix it up; and in trying to get rid of my mistakes caused by trying to layer things originally, I promptly destroyed the surface of the board.
Not to be daunted, I'm starting over with the proper tiling method. Original digital, destroyed first painting, step by step of new painting in progress below.
If anyone's wondering why the pencil lines have dots scattered amongst the lines, it's because in lieu of a projector, I just took a printout of the digital, poked holes around the contours with a sewing needle, placed it in front of the board, poked a mechanical pencil through the holes to make dots, and then played connect the dots to reconstruct the drawing. Seemed to work out pretty decently.
Next: orange armor, background, blending, and hopefully not fucking up.
Bacon-
I've used the perforated outline technique to transfer designs to automobiles. A ponce wheel and a sock filled with chalk or graphite works really quickly.
Angel_of_Bacon: you mention a "tiling method" and that you still have the blending to do, and looking at your progress pics I assume the "tiling" refers to how you lay up the shades as blocks of paint? or maybe you are referring to something else? in which case ignore mi ignorance, but I'm interested in the blending technique, how does that work exactly, with gouache?
Angel_of_Bacon: you mention a "tiling method" and that you still have the blending to do, and looking at your progress pics I assume the "tiling" refers to how you lay up the shades as blocks of paint? or maybe you are referring to something else? in which case ignore mi ignorance, but I'm interested in the blending technique, how does that work exactly, with gouache?
Yeah, by tiling I mean laying in colors opaquely as specific, discrete shapes, and placing them next to shapes of other colors, as opposed to building up color in layers like you might do with acrylic or oil- a kind of cel-shaded or posterized look before you get to the blending stage.
The reason for this is because unlike those other mediums, gouache is never permanently set, and will reactivate with water, so layers underneath the top ones will come back up and blend back into your upper layers if you apply water to it.
That's what happened with the failed painting- I had a white highlight paint on top of a darker grey, and when I tried to blend that highlight into the surrounding colors, it just turned out like mud, and trying to water down the area and soak up the excess paint so I could do it over correctly ended up tearing the board up.
The blending involves taking a damp brush with no paint on it and running it over the edges of the tiles, or gently going back and forth between two areas for a large blend. You don't want the brush very wet, because then the water will pool on the surface and you'll end up with blotches when it dries. If all goes well, all these hard edges between the tiles will smooth out to make the form roll properly, and give a more realistic effect.
You can also do wet into wet blending with gouache the same as you do with watercolor, but that's a whole different method and look than what I'm going for.
After I did this the other night (terrible photo sorry):
And this from the other week (not finished):
Coming soon: 3 panel city being consumed by blob! hooray!
I fully approve of your new arts. Let me know when you're next selling stuff, if I've got enough scratch I'll seriously consider buying one of these.
Especially the last one.........you're going to jack up the price on the last one now aren't you?
I'm taking printmaking this semester. Assignment was self-portrait. It's my third cut, my second in pine. The other two were practice grids, so this was my first composition really. I'm enjoying the shit out of the class. I'll be up at the studio trying to pull some prints off of this Saturday.
(for those that can't tell from my shitty netbook camera, this is the actual block of wood held up against my belly.
So, I was asking typography related questions a couple of weeks ago for a class project. these are the fruit of that project. printed at 10x15"
these were bigger files than I thought. oh well. also, I corrected some spelling errors and stuff after I made these preview images, and the grey border/squares were trim marks for cropping, not on the final product.
Pretty cool. The design of it definitely catches the eye, but I didn't really get much of what it was trying to communicate, but pretty neat nonetheless. The little monkey is awesome, but it looks like he could've used a little more love when cutting out his edges. Hair can be a bitch to cut around.
My new project in memory of DC. I hope to finish it before the month ends...it's thinking...
Crits would be great, but I'm not going to be adding any more games or characters since I ended up putting in way more than I originally intended. Also, I'm planning on redoing these inks because I did this with the pressure sensitivity turned off just to get a feel for the composition. I think some thicker lines here and there will make it look much better. I'm also going to color it when the lines are done, but nothing crazy, probably just a simple 3 color scheme...
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no no. sorry that was no good.
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Bacon, are you going to be hanging these on your walls?
Probably not on the hanging, I'd feel like a tool if the only thing I bothered to hang up was my own stuff. (I still have yet to hang up the art Iruka and MD gave me in my new place because I'm a lazy asshole.
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...anyways yeah, I use photoshop for most of my inking, though I almost always sketch things out in pencil and scan them first. And thanks!
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Not to be daunted, I'm starting over with the proper tiling method. Original digital, destroyed first painting, step by step of new painting in progress below.
If anyone's wondering why the pencil lines have dots scattered amongst the lines, it's because in lieu of a projector, I just took a printout of the digital, poked holes around the contours with a sewing needle, placed it in front of the board, poked a mechanical pencil through the holes to make dots, and then played connect the dots to reconstruct the drawing. Seemed to work out pretty decently.
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I've used the perforated outline technique to transfer designs to automobiles. A ponce wheel and a sock filled with chalk or graphite works really quickly.
After I did this the other night (terrible photo sorry):
And this from the other week (not finished):
Coming soon: 3 panel city being consumed by blob! hooray!
I really like the circular one.
Omg, thats so fucking funny.
Angel_of_Bacon: you mention a "tiling method" and that you still have the blending to do, and looking at your progress pics I assume the "tiling" refers to how you lay up the shades as blocks of paint? or maybe you are referring to something else? in which case ignore mi ignorance, but I'm interested in the blending technique, how does that work exactly, with gouache?
damn that came out way bigger than i expected. done with whiteboard markers. nothing else was around at the time
and death waits for no man.
or marker
Yeah, by tiling I mean laying in colors opaquely as specific, discrete shapes, and placing them next to shapes of other colors, as opposed to building up color in layers like you might do with acrylic or oil- a kind of cel-shaded or posterized look before you get to the blending stage.
The reason for this is because unlike those other mediums, gouache is never permanently set, and will reactivate with water, so layers underneath the top ones will come back up and blend back into your upper layers if you apply water to it.
That's what happened with the failed painting- I had a white highlight paint on top of a darker grey, and when I tried to blend that highlight into the surrounding colors, it just turned out like mud, and trying to water down the area and soak up the excess paint so I could do it over correctly ended up tearing the board up.
The blending involves taking a damp brush with no paint on it and running it over the edges of the tiles, or gently going back and forth between two areas for a large blend. You don't want the brush very wet, because then the water will pool on the surface and you'll end up with blotches when it dries. If all goes well, all these hard edges between the tiles will smooth out to make the form roll properly, and give a more realistic effect.
You can also do wet into wet blending with gouache the same as you do with watercolor, but that's a whole different method and look than what I'm going for.
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I fully approve of your new arts. Let me know when you're next selling stuff, if I've got enough scratch I'll seriously consider buying one of these.
Especially the last one.........you're going to jack up the price on the last one now aren't you?
Yes.
Nah. There will be 3 round ones in this show so you'll have a choice! I like the round format, it's neat!
And how do people do complicated things like machines and other complicated things that are not machines?
I'm still a long way off from figuring it out on my own.
I'm taking printmaking this semester. Assignment was self-portrait. It's my third cut, my second in pine. The other two were practice grids, so this was my first composition really. I'm enjoying the shit out of the class. I'll be up at the studio trying to pull some prints off of this Saturday.
(for those that can't tell from my shitty netbook camera, this is the actual block of wood held up against my belly.
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Them some purdy lookin pedals Tam. I quite like how watching this piece progress is akin to watching actual flowers bloom!
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hah, I thought that was you in the livestream! unfortunately photoshop crashed before I could post my submission...blah
So, I was asking typography related questions a couple of weeks ago for a class project. these are the fruit of that project. printed at 10x15"
these were bigger files than I thought. oh well. also, I corrected some spelling errors and stuff after I made these preview images, and the grey border/squares were trim marks for cropping, not on the final product.
My new project in memory of DC. I hope to finish it before the month ends...it's thinking...
Crits would be great, but I'm not going to be adding any more games or characters since I ended up putting in way more than I originally intended. Also, I'm planning on redoing these inks because I did this with the pressure sensitivity turned off just to get a feel for the composition. I think some thicker lines here and there will make it look much better. I'm also going to color it when the lines are done, but nothing crazy, probably just a simple 3 color scheme...
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as for the monkey, I cloned out the white trim halo he had from sloppy cutting for the final, so it looked fine.