Iruka's WIP Emporium. Comic P2 roughs.

Iruka

So I figure I'd make a thread since I'm going to try and get some stuff done in the next few weeks.


Working on this now:



Black and white:


Other sketch:


Other random stuff.:

I know shes lopsided in the middle.





I'm working on another 3D printing project, I'll be posting that soon.

Mustang

Oh god that first one is impressive Iruka, wholey depressing but impressive none the less. There's something about dead baby birds that really messes with my emotions. Add the zombie mother bird regurgitation and it's a pretty horrifying image you've got going on.

BloodySloth

I really like your designs, but I think that first picture needs more contrast. Right now, the preliminary sketch has greater impact for me, solely because it has a better sense of its lights and darks (being a black&white and all).

winter_combat_knight

i like how you plan your work out in SO much detail before you jump to use photoshop.

Flay

BloodySloth wrote: »

I really like your designs, but I think that first picture needs more contrast. Right now, the preliminary sketch has greater impact for me, solely because it has a better sense of its lights and darks (being a black&white and all).

Damnit, I thought I actually had a useful crit for once and then I find it's already taken. Oh well, ^ seconded.

Other than that, I really like these.

desperaterobots

So dark!

I'm having a problem with the way the lower beak of the vomiting thing is aligned. It looks like it wouldn't connect with the far side of the head, as though it doesn't match the rotation of the head/top beak at all. It's on a flat plane parallel with the viewer, when it should be receding.

Man I wish I had photoshop at work!

Iruka

Its a wip, I'll be sure to put more contrast into it before its done. The test print is too dark anyway.

Thanks, otherwise.

edit: good eye robots, I'll try and fix it.

The One 52

Damn, woman! Your drawings always have really amazing lines. I really like those B&W versions, I'd hang those in my living room (the hell with people who might not like birds' skeletons).

Betelgeuse

Iruka, your art just always pleases me so. I never cease to be impressed by your color choices and how you apply them. Your linework is definitely unique, and I think your colors are just as unique and it's all so awesome.

There, that's my helpful crit.

Mustang

Are you going to finish that last one? Cause that is, and I use the term sparingly, radsauce.

Iruka

Betel: You crit is super helpful!

Mustang: I'm sure once I get off of school I will be coloring some more sketches, So probably. Coloring is relaxing, Drawing and animating burn me out. I would like to work on more Tees as well.

.Tripwire.

So gorgeous.

earthwormadam

Really cool stuffz as always.

Those birds are freaky as hell, but I think that beetleborg thing is possibly the greatest thing ever.

Kazhiim

it's been way too long since I've seen an art by iruka

was starting to get a little jittery

NotASenator

That's really the best thing.


Next to me, of course. It is second-best because I am best.

Iruka

Contrast is better now, it's also more refined. Some of the touches will probably only be apparent in the print:

earthwormadam

I don't know if it was your edit, or the fact that I'm on my sisters PC with a sweeet moniter, but those colors look good. Vibrant!

Radar6590

Saw this on DA, of course, and loved it. I think the composition and the colors are very nice. However, I do have a few crits.

One is that your eye kind of gets stuck at the bottom. Perhaps because of the half circular form near the reddish bird on the right, but I flow from the top left following the bird spirits, down to the actual birds, and stop there, and then I'm just stuck. Simply breaking up that circle with a feather or something would help a lot, I think.

Also, there is a problem with the brightness of the upper spirit bird. The two light spots are SO light that they are the overpowering force in the image. And, more specifically, they very much make that bird "more important" than the other and also lean the weight of the piece in that direction. One way to fix that would maybe be to light up the red and green spirit bird's eye, or even to brighten the feathers on the top of it's wing. Just something to balance it out.

Iruka

I thought maybe I wouldnt clog up the doodle thread, yeah?


Heres some very loose concept sketches, which arent things I normally scan but we have a huge flatbed in the animation department now, so I figured why not. Its usually a pain to stitch together my 11X14 book for doodles.

DeeLock

Great expressions!

I'd love to see an anamatic or something from you, you are an animation major right?

t i m

Nice sketches! The contrast fix was definately an improvement, keep posting!

Iruka

I'm an animation major, yeah. I've posted short things before but I really don't have a lot of finished anything from this year. I'll see about getting some stuff online, and I'll be doing some test animations over the summer I'm sure I'll be posting for crits.

Thanks guys.

Kazhiim

I'm spent.

Do you have any facial animations? I'd love to see what you can do with changing expressions.

NotASenator

<--- boy shorts

Iruka

look, those labels are completely necessary nac, I wont have you making a mockery of them. I may need to know later that Nia wears boy shorts, Or I may mistakenly draw her in not so boyish not so shorts.

Unless you are just labeling yourself, in which case, carry on.

NotASenator

I am currently boy shorts.

PROX

you are really coming into your own iruka. I look forward to the day i can tell people I know you.

Man my compliments are also scathing insults!

earthwormadam

That zombie is waaay cool in an untypical sorta way.

Loomdun

PROX wrote: »

you are really coming into your own iruka. I look forward to the day i can tell people I know you.

Then you include on a forum

Prospicience

Fun fact: Nia was an incredibly great album (and first I believe) by Blackalicious on which, one of my many favorite hip hop songs comes from.

woo

Iruka

So I have some snapshots of my 3d print. Shes been sanded. Her arms will be made of wire, to accommodate wings of feathers that I hope to lazer cut out of wood then paint.






I fucking added two of the same goddamn hand to the print file on accident. Its balls and I don't know if I have time to print another one before Friday.

AlyceInWonderland

how did you...... how did you make that 3d..print..? I don't know that process...

PS.-It's really fucking cool by the way.

Kazhiim

High fructose corn starch, or something. It's all very complicated, and largely subsidized by the government.

Iruka is taking food out of the mouthes of hungry claymakers everywhere

Iruka

If you can model in 3D and have access to a printer its easy. Its corn starch and glue, which the printer lays down in alternating super thin layers. What comes out is a chalky feeling thing that you have to sand and seal with superglue and sand again. You have to shell the file in max or it wont be thick enough, it'll phwumph into dust as soon as it comes out.


Heres the model:

sketches too:


I know some sculpture majors, I'm pretty sure they'll always have old ladies to sell pretty bowls too. I don't feel bad. Though, I wonder if I could print bowls.

AlyceInWonderland

So...this is quite obviously a 3d printer...correct? This whole thing has piqued my interest incredibly.

Iruka

Yeah, its a 3d printer, sorry if I didn't specify haha. We have a Zcorp printer on campus. These things are mostly for rapid prototyping, but the machines are becoming progressively cheaper, and so gaming companies and medical companies have been starting to use them to print models.

I don't know where you could find one that you could access, but its a very cool process.

PROX

that's really boss iruka.

Iruka

This is a 24x36 painting, so unfortunatly all I have are shitty cameras to get a picture of it:


The colors are way more obnoxious in person, its like, hot pink, lime green, lemon yellow and Alizarin crimson.

Derived from these, which I've posted before:

Tam

Holy hell, Iruka, this is some posh gallery stuff right here

And I love the obnoxious colors

also the print character is great

this thread is ambrosia for the eyes

Food

That last post is great. Keep going with that stuff.

JohnTWM

Iruka wrote: »

Yeah, its a 3d printer, sorry if I didn't specify haha

Yeah I go to university of Texas and we have one, but as far as I know only the engineering school uses it.
Also these are rad. I like the bird spirits one ( I took them to not be baby birds, but rather just dead birds and these were their spirits...). I think the jaw is still wrong on the red one. I see what you did to fix it, but I don't think it was quite enough. Rather than trying to further align the top part, I would take the... back bit of the lower beak (the part furthest into the background) and make it closer to the front part horizontally (does that make sense?). I think that will make it look like it lines up better with the head.