Kraken spotted at Dover

m3nace

Ohh boy I made a thread.
So here's my most recent stuff.... Wait wait wait, introduction first. I'm m3nace, I'm 16 years old [edit: screw that, I'm 17 now! A big boy.], I'm from Denmark and my dad's a graphic... Graphicer... An artist that works with lithography, japanese wood cutting and other kinds of 'graphies. That was all.
So here's my most recent stuff:

Frog in the fog. An intrepid frog going on a journey. Jolly fun to make.

Batmanman. Way more man than a batman. I think I need to do something about the value in this to improve
the depth, by making the darks darker the closer it gets.
I also see a conflict between his right ear (our angle) and the dark tower in the background.

Dragon scout on the steppes.It's really small actually and my scanner is shit, thus some of it might look really weird.

Dragon rider painting... Painting. Every time I try to put eyes on this guy it's all ruined.

He's a real pussythief!

Doodles:

Slightly older stuff (or stuff that I've posted before):

and the prizewinner ^^

Stuff from a star wars play by image rpg:

I should also scan my lifedrawing drawings some time.

Ok I'll just leave you with my da http://emir0.deviantart.com/

Arden Canelo

Those are some adventurous lads you have there. So far i want to see more Frog in the Fog stuff. Because frogs in armor interest me. Also we will want to see the life drawings very much. For you see we at the PA:AC like them to bits.

m3nace

Arden Canelo wrote: »

For you see we at the PA:AC like them to bits.

Thanks but it has occurred to me at least once during the 204 days I've fooled around here

Arden Canelo

m3nace wrote: »

Arden Canelo wrote: »

For you see we at the PA:AC like them to bits.

Thanks but it has occurred to me at least once during the 204 days I've fooled around here

Right then, carry on.

Tell us more about the Frog in a boat dude, please.

m3nace

Uhh. Well, that's all for tonight. Nighty darling, I'll upload an older picture of the frog some other day.

m3nace

Soo... Still haven't gotten around to uploading any traditional pieces. I AM TOTALLY A VERY BUSY MAN!
But here is some recent digital stuff I've been doing!

First is a minimalist (more or less) poster that is part homage to Chrom (if you haven't yet, you should check out his posters) and part a piece of a star wars fan project.



Next are some mugshots for the same project
and
and they requested it be in a jrpg style soo, sorry it's a bit horrible and she looks like a retard but

Here's an avatar for a friend's brother (I think it is safe to say that I now have a fan)

Same style as mine, check it out matching avatars.

And here's a thing I did while trying out different ways of using brushes


And just so my pumpkin will have a space in my thread

NibCrom

Tell me more about that holocron piece.

m3nace

We're some guys over on the swtor (bioware's old republic mmo) forums making an rpg with rpg maker vx or some dingus like that. I'm in charge of some of the art and for mugshots, a bit here and there.
Working on that poster was like Christopher Nolan must have had it working on inception, jeebus a box within a box within a box.

NibCrom

Is that a map of the galaxy in there?

m3nace

Yes, yes it is.

m3nace

Some dude I just made. I went nuts with colors hurrah!

m3nace

I tried extracting an environment I've had in my head for a time now, the colors are a bit vague. It doesn't look exactly like I see it in my head but it went pretty well.

m3nace

Yes I do like critique... Pweease

NibCrom

Well it's a bit vague. It looks like a concrete bunker built into a cliff side. Is it on the water? The ground and the sky are very similar in color, I can't tell the difference. Is there a door to this place? How do you get in? What is the purpose of the location? Is it military? Is that a cave underneath it? Build some more context into the piece. Set up a mood. It's just kind of plain right now.

m3nace

Alright now we be doing it! I'm in the midst of improving it right now but - how do I show that it's a military outpost?
edit: here's an update

NibCrom

Do some research. Look into what real military bases have. Radio towers? Gun emplacements? Trebuchets?

bombardier

Observation, communication, offenses, defenses, transportation...

m3nace

Come to think of it, every summer of my life I've spent at a military outpost - it's our summer cottage located on a small lovely island with does and everything! Well let me see.

We live behind the trees there, right next to the lighthouse there's a small spotter cabin (not the black ones the yellow one that the tree is blocking)

edit: I'm getting the impression you think I meant like a military base with guns and shit. It's not exactly that, the transportation thing I'll have to work on though - there's supposed to be a small hangar in the cave beneath it. It's rather a small observational outpost/lookout
Thanks for the help so far lads!

m3nace

A frog riding on a black goothing

I think I need simplifying this or something, it gets way too cluttered around the hands.

earthwormadam

Yep its east to lose track of the hands against the fancy armor.

It's a really cool character concept, and I'd love to see it tightened up some to completion. Also the eyes on mister goop are distractingly simple compared to the style of the rest of the piece.

m3nace

Oh yes the eyes are quite poffy or popping or whatever.
Here's a 3D sculpt I'm working on, I've also got a lowpoly version of it with a normal map of this baked on. Going to upload tomorrow!

ninjai

are you perchance influenced by The Wind in the Willows?

Enchanting.

m3nace

Well, I faintly remember seeing it as a wee lad (it is the one with the frog that commits murder or however it is he ends up in prison right?) and loving the frog guy despite of his nature.

ninjai

Something like that, and a motorcar. And weasles. I too FAINTLY remember it, but I think of it every time I see your rowboat frog. Which is badass. Also digging your samurai frog.

m3nace

Finally uploaded some traditional art again!
First are two small drawings I did (about 12 times 10 cm) A frog warrior (arhermmm THE frog warrior) and a wizard whose head is an animal skull




Half a life drawing. The hands are fucked up and it really does look better in real life


A colorscribble of a shiny wonder horse.


And a square meter of my home


!BONUS!
Last I want to show that I used to be a funny guy, I made this joke when I was 11 years old and I do still enjoy making these kinds of jokes where it only slightly suggests what will eventually happen.

edit: it also shows I was good at english at age 11 (second language), hooray for videogames!

I found the version of wind in the willows I grew up with. Everyone seems to love the older version but I really like this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8NVfMppU3Q

m3nace

I need help with her hands. How can I fix it?

ninjai

Frog with a mace. Awesome.

That still life of the window is great.

Edit: Draw your hands.
That exercise where you draw your hands without picking up the pencil
Or draw your hands finding only the most basic 3d shapes
Do sheets of these in all different positions.

I've only done a few pages, and I've seen vast improvement over what I used to call hands.

Phthano

I would recommend you Burne Hogarth's Drawing Dynamic Hands. That book is just all hand studies. It's really useful for hand anatomy.

m3nace

Some new stuff

And with super quick colors just to get an idea

A guy in a robosuit


A selection of faces I did from random shapes


And the 20 mins which is also in the Resolutions thread

m3nace

Snowman...Pig

m3nace

I'm not really good at handling contrast. My colors always get too bland

farbekrieg

m3nace wrote: »

Snowman...Pig

needs more bear

jho

that snowpig is amazing

m3nace

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m3nace

Well as the title expresses I'm having some vexatious trouble with a dude that makes cobble.
I don't know which one I should choose! Edgy or softy? Crits are also welcome, mind you though that it's a wip.

earthwormadam

Try getting more experimental with the colors. Right now it looks like your just adding white/black when you want things to be light/dark.

Like on the helmet/backpack guy a few posts up, his scarf could have highlights of yellow or orange, instead of just a lighter and lighter red.

m3nace

I'm changing the armor to oxidated bronze but I'm having difficulties with the neckguard and the shadowing+shading around that area.
I also tried following ewa's suggestions.. Succes?

tapeslinger

I like the oxidated bronze colors, but remember too that oxidated metal is often not-all-one-color, and the actual color of the metal is different from the color of the oxidation-- bronze with no oxidation is a brown that's vaguely umberish with a yellow to purplish cast to it, depending on what other metals were combined to create the alloy.

A little texture or some more shadowing would help to really pop that out a bit. Reference different bronze finishes-- this is just one page of examples. Different chemical exposures can cause different oxidations.

(I don't mean to be pushy... I am a technical consultant for a company that sells sculpture supplies: I actually do consults on "how to patinate metals" as part of my day job so I nerd out about it a bit.)

m3nace

Thanks for the input! I've definitely been too careful adding non-oxidated bronze. I've also been looking for a picture like that in the link, thanks!

tapeslinger

anytime! We have a whole *book* of chemical finishes for bronze at work, I think that might be a color plate from that book-- I googled "bronze patina photo" to find it. Usually an intentional manipulation of metal coloring would be called a patina so that's a better search term usually.

m3nace

A little update on this one as well as another wip of some tengu-like people. I just don't know about the colors, it gets way more intense when it's just black and white...
Maybe the colors just aren't tense enough but I wanted them to be slightly faded