Ok, the idea is the kids are flying a kite with a picture of a bear on it, and the bear starts jumping off the page flying, and the force of that starts dragging the one kid off the ground so the other kid needs to try and prevent him from flying away by grabbing his ankles?
Right now this idea seems to be a little confused on first read. The kite and the transition between kite-art and actual bear is a bit vague, and it looks on first read like a bear just jumping into the air from the ground with a Dragonball Z glow around him- the wrinkles of the cloth end up looking like action lines. A sharper color change between the two, or a more obvious definition of light in the are might make the idea more clear. Also making the kite outline more sharply defined and less wobbly could help it read better.
Also, the kite string being looping around instead of being taut doesn't connect with the kid being pulled off the ground very well, and makes it look like the one kids is just trying to discus toss the other kid at first glance. You could probably fix this just by horizontally flipping the kids, and making the kite-string a straight line.
A lot of people seem to be having the same issue with seeing it as some kind of super saiyan bear... But honestly, the first thing I thought when I saw it was, Oh snap,the bear is climbing out of the kite, followed by the thought, wow he did a really great job differentiating between the kite-bear and the 3d-bear. Which is, I assume, what you would want. So maybe it's just me but I thought it was great. The butterfly thingy clipping off the page though doesnt make much sense, I would just open up the sky a bit and give it room to exist.
EDIT: P.S. I don't think the story is convoluted at all, although the way the piece is set up, I was absorbed by the bear image, and then only later connected it to the boys struggling to stay grounded. I don't think this is a bad thing though, because honestly who wants to get EVERYTHING out of an image in the first glance? (art wise I mean, I understand that for advertising and such images reading quickly is a good thing)
helpful indeed. I think it's helping to do it digitally because it's easier to compare and realize what I'm doing wrong while I'm doing it instead of finishing it and then seeing how huge of a failure I am.
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BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
helpful indeed. I think it's helping to do it digitally because it's easier to compare and realize what I'm doing wrong while I'm doing it instead of finishing it and then seeing how huge of a failure I am.
ruka, that's awesome. I wish that I could muster up the will to spruce up my sketchpads, but my sketchpads are filled with so much rubbish that it seems like a pointless waste.
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my doodliest doodle yet. Testing out photoshop, how come when you do one continuous brushstroke and go over the pervious stuff from the same stroke, it doesnt darken? Coming from painter this is very confusing.
Finally got back around to practicing organic modeling again. Trying to make a generic human male head..
I can tell it needs some work around the mouth and chin area (seems a bit flat)\
EDIT: Also needs ears
Crits welcome of course.
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Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
...how come when you do one continuous brushstroke and go over the pervious stuff from the same stroke, it doesnt darken? Coming from painter this is very confusing.
I imagine you are just painting with presets, play with blending modes, opacity, and flow and you can get what you are looking for.
you have to turn down the opacity to get it to darken. it's not meant to emulate paint. if you're using a tablet, try turning on the opacity jitter in the brush settings to "pen pressure," and the flow jitter as well. blending with PS is about low opacity and soft brushes.
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BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
Itty bitty speedy doodle last night before I went to bed:
I've started playing WoW again (finally hit 70, woo!) and just got my first flying mount :> I named him after the internet handle of a prettyboy friend of mine, because the snowy gryphon is pretty~
...how come when you do one continuous brushstroke and go over the pervious stuff from the same stroke, it doesnt darken? Coming from painter this is very confusing.
I imagine you are just painting with presets, play with blending modes, opacity, and flow and you can get what you are looking for.
OH YEAH. That's what you have to change. Lower the FLOW setting (right next to opacity). Then you will get a build up of pigment when you double over a spot with a single stroke.
No one around here ever seems to post hardware. So, I guess I'll post some hardware. Maybe two more overlays of this to go, adding functionality and adjusting the form language. Ballpoint on marker paper.
Lots of construction lines left around from building the wheels and treads, so sorry if that's a little murky. And the scan is horribly cropped.
That is pretty cool, but unless the driver is what is being shot out of the cannon, that makes pretty much no sense. What kind of gun is it supposed to be? I'm sure Gibs is cringing right now.
That is pretty cool, but unless the driver is what is being shot out of the cannon, that makes pretty much no sense. What kind of gun is it supposed to be? I'm sure Gibs is cringing right now.
SHOT-TRAPS EVERYWHERE! HIGH SILHOUETTE OF DOOM! MECHANICAL SENSLESSNESS!!!
*ahem*
Yeah, its an -awesome- display of technical rendering, but it's an atrocious tank design.
I agree (and appreciate the comment), I just don't "like" it as much...I'm not sure why. I think I painted it a bit more opaque than I wanted (a consequence of using a different acrylic medium, maybe).
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EDIT: P.S. I don't think the story is convoluted at all, although the way the piece is set up, I was absorbed by the bear image, and then only later connected it to the boys struggling to stay grounded. I don't think this is a bad thing though, because honestly who wants to get EVERYTHING out of an image in the first glance? (art wise I mean, I understand that for advertising and such images reading quickly is a good thing)
(A plane like in King Kong.)
Penguins, that is absolutely adorable but the perspective on the dome at the bottom left looks a little strange. Loving the colours, though.
it gave kind of a dark and more serious atmosphere, so that the random dragon looked even more out of place and hilarious
helpful indeed. I think it's helping to do it digitally because it's easier to compare and realize what I'm doing wrong while I'm doing it instead of finishing it and then seeing how huge of a failure I am.
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The white parts are Iridescent, and soon I'll go over it with a layer of gloss varnish, so the whole thing will be a bit shiny.
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And let me just take a minute to lol at that werewolf butt.
I thought I was the only one!
The best part was that the more I scrolled down, the more "wtf" I went
that was the perfect ending.
Finally got back around to practicing organic modeling again. Trying to make a generic human male head..
I can tell it needs some work around the mouth and chin area (seems a bit flat)\
EDIT: Also needs ears
Crits welcome of course.
Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
I imagine you are just painting with presets, play with blending modes, opacity, and flow and you can get what you are looking for.
I've started playing WoW again (finally hit 70, woo!) and just got my first flying mount :> I named him after the internet handle of a prettyboy friend of mine, because the snowy gryphon is pretty~
OH YEAH. That's what you have to change. Lower the FLOW setting (right next to opacity). Then you will get a build up of pigment when you double over a spot with a single stroke.
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a piece of a wip i abandoned but still kinda liked
Lots of construction lines left around from building the wheels and treads, so sorry if that's a little murky. And the scan is horribly cropped.
that is super neat
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SHOT-TRAPS EVERYWHERE! HIGH SILHOUETTE OF DOOM! MECHANICAL SENSLESSNESS!!!
*ahem*
Yeah, its an -awesome- display of technical rendering, but it's an atrocious tank design.
Tofu wrote: Here be Littleboots, destroyer of threads and master of drunkposting.
I had thought of that and even if it was, there's not a lot of room behind the barrel for any kind of generator.