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travistravis
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Hello
i have moved everything to my new website and new things will go there also. It's a lot easier to manage. The other thread had become massively bloated so I hope it is ok to start a new one. I plan to post just as many drawings and it would just take people too long to scan through them all.
Anyway I have new drawings coming and old ones updated they just need to be inked etc.
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i have moved everything to my new website and new things will go there also. It's a lot easier to manage. The other thread had become massively bloated so I hope it is ok to start a new one. I plan to post just as many drawings and it would just take people too long to scan through them all.
Anyway I have new drawings coming and old ones updated they just need to be inked etc.
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well images will be posted here but the best of the rest is collated there. The old thread should have dissapeared soon anyway.
so if there's specific stuff you want critted from your website, post it here. and it'll get crits
it's really not a gallery forum so much as a "hey this is what i'm currently working on, give me feedback so i can make it better and improve" forum. ... man it's hard to say that in one breath hahah.
and the first one in the post because they feel like more of a composition than most of your other works. I really like your crazy objects, but feel like they are loosing some potential to be really cool well balanced pictures when they are sorta just stuck in the middle page. I wish they were like comic panels, or more narrative illustrations, anything that would let me into this world and inform me about whats going on. With out it, I think the works are too similar to one another.
I hope that makes sense.
Rather than copy-pasting the same black marker spot over and over again to cover a space...(the marker spot has obvious variations of value inside it)...just go over the entire black space with a brush, digitally. It'll smooth out that entire space and make it a flat spot of black, like it was intended.
In that case, he should consider using something like acrylic black ink instead of markers.
If you're showing something on the computer - something that originally needs to be scanned, it is an incredibly bad idea to not digitally alter it in some way. Most scans end up looking low-contrast, muddy, and have specks of dust all over them. You have to up the contrast and remove the specks to even make it look like the original, sometimes.
While I completely agree with you about this for most other cases (something that was painted, for instance), I think that the purpose here was to make flat blacks exactly that - flat and black...like in comics. And I can pretty much guarantee you that the majority of comic pages are digitally altered so that they will print well (they'd be using ink anyway, though, not marker). I just think that due to the medium, and what the OP is aiming for, digital alteration would be highly beneficial.
It looks like the OP actually already did alter that last piece by going over an area with white (the background is just very slightly offwhite, and viewing it at an angle on my monitor makes it much more apparent).
Never forget that ANY scanner/ camera also interprets the artwork in its own unique way. pressing scan does nog make a digital exact copy of your artwork. All it does is show how your scan hardware/ drivers/ software interpret your work.
not editing = allowing your camera or scanner to choose.
There's a sort of Appleseed feeling herebut you've mixed it in nicely with fantasy concepts as well. Good work.
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Anyway note taken I'll sort it.
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i redrew this, just added some details
The last face kinda shows some major structural issues- and i'm not digging it as much, as well as the the tank at the end that has some weird, (not as patient and considered as the rest of the drawing) tread things, but when you do your crazy bubble armour connecting stuff- i'm all yours
i really like your stuff normally, but it is way cool to see it in more of a finished-looking piece
really implies some kind of story/event in motion, as opposed to crazy mechs/monsters floating in whitespace
which are still awesome, but can seem more like design work/testing than art pieces in some cases
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You may want to throw an NSFW tag on your page after the blade-tentacle-penis one, though.
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yeh good point, not safe for wusses. Sorry there's like tits in the national newspapers, I don't think about it much.
And it wasn't an afterthought, the original from ages ago is the same. Essentially it looks exactly as I wanted it to, like it or not.
Also, that looks like a heavily filtered photographic background on that woman, which is never a good idea. Even if it is painted by you, it looks like it was an afterthought. Backgrounds and people should always be symbiotic.
I dig your style, but it doesn't seem to be going anywhere. Like a few have said the ones where you have some form of composition are pretty nifty.
Do you have any shots of hands? In the last two particularly they just seem like blobs or extremely abstract.
That picture with the yellow hoodie chick floating in space is really awesome and definitely something I want to see more of!
But then you go and draw something like the pink haired, yellow sneaker, squiggly lines chick - it looks neat but it just feels very random and not thought out.
Keep it up man, you're off to a great start in the new year.
Still though, your artwork is always interesting, so I look forward to seeing more. What I'd really like to see though, would be some of your cool designs incorporated into a dynamic scene where something is happening. So far we've seen some fantastic concepts, but seeing them doing something would be great. Like if not a comic than at least a dynamic spread or something.
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But the way you want it to look is ugly! Your linework is cool, but if you want to take art seriously, it wouldn't hurt to take some advice. d:
Also, if I had my say with the fill-in-the-black spots, I personally prefer seeing the un-even tones. For me it keeps the traditional feel better. However, I do like the backgrounds, when white, to be just that - white. (Instead of off-white or speckily from the scanning).