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Beav's Stuff (nsfw): How Much is that Bugatti in the Window (finished on 15)

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited June 2010
    Great guy, just dresses like a tool. Got it.

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I've been swamped with work since I got back but I took the time to make something for myself this weekend:

    busghost.jpg

    watch out it's a BUS GHOST

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Bus Ghost should be a syndicated series. He'd be like Space Ghosts loser brother in law.

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  • ChromatomicChromatomic Mr. DCRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Someone needs to come up with the Bus Ghosts, theme jingle.

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Busghosters!

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Who's the ghost who boasts the most hosts?

    BUS GHOST!

    You're damn right.

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  • ChromatomicChromatomic Mr. DCRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    :whistle: He was an elder fellow,

    really rather mellow,

    his ticker went to toast,

    so now they call him Bus Ghost!

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    In my head I sang that to the tune of the nanny.
    Oh Fran, get off my bus with your kooky laugh!

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  • PROXPROX Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Wow that is so great! Wait did the guy die on the bench? Is he going to possess that baby?

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  • m3nacem3nace Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    beavotron wrote: »
    In my head I sang that to the tune of the nanny.
    Oh Fran, get off my bus with your kooky laugh!

    In my head I sang that until I couldn't figure out how it'd sound compared to the rest.
    Bus ghost!

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  • ChromatomicChromatomic Mr. DCRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    It occurs to me that that lady is quite pregnant for already having a rather young baby.

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  • GrennGrenn Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I love the illo & choice of colours, however there's a few things in the narrative that I'm not too sure on...

    My first thoughts were that it's a 'piss smell' that's coming off the old guy.

    Being told it's a ghost (and spotting the hand), my next thought is that the old guy has died and it's actually quite sad that the two women are completely unaware of this...

    The body language of the lady on the left is such that she really does not want anything to do with the pregnant lady (who, as Chrom points out, is really rather preggers considering she already has one very young sprog - I didn't think it was possible to get pregnant while already pregnant?).

    Finally, the composition and colour choice lead me to believe there's something significant about the baby.

    Actually, after considering that a moment, perhaps it's as simple as: old man dies on bus; couple are unaware but baby can see the ghost as it leaves his body?

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  • earthwormadamearthwormadam ancient crust Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I love the color scheme and also the little beavo tag!

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Yeah that's it grenn, though you're the second person to say it looks like piss smell, :(

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  • m3nacem3nace Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Reminds me of that incident with Tokyo's oldest man... Well he wasn't really the oldest man after all.

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  • lyriumlyrium Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    You guys know that when a pregnant lady has her baby, she doesn't lose the enormous amount of weight she gained during pregnancy the moment that he's born, right?

    It's a beautiful drawing, but I'm also not sure that I would have understood the ghost thing without being told.

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  • slacktronslacktron Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I love your art, Beavo, but I must say that I'm also seeing the Bus Ghost as a urine odor emitted by homeless men and adored by babies.

    Didn't notice anything strange about the pregnant mother, probably because womanly ways are so mysterious to me.

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited August 2010
    I'm with the others on the pee smell/clarity issue. It's a shame because it's a really nice looking drawing, but I can't think of a good fix to the clarity problem without fucking up the composition. I mean, you could change the color of the ghost/baby, but then it would probably just look like "generic smell" than specifically "pee smell", which probably wouldn't be that much of an improvement.

    On one hand you could have the dude more blatantly dead, you know, gray skin, head lolled back with X'd out eyes, the "spirit" coming out his mouth or something rather than just originating generally around his body, or you could make the ghost look more identifiably human-like, so it reads as more "it's the ghost of that one dude". The first probably ruins the tone you're going for, and the second I'm not sure if you have enough space in there to fit it in, so I dunno what to tell ya.

    I guess just keep in mind for future reference that subtlety is not always going to be your friend.

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  • NatriNatri Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    I think just changing the color from yellow to silver-ish might do it? I mean, that would do the trick for me at least. Loving the design though

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Someone voiced that they think it's a good thing that people first mistake it for a pee smell
    like "oh that's just a stanky ass homless man" then upon reading it realizing he's actually dead..sort of like a comment on how easily we disregard the homeless and their problems

    not at all anticipated or planned by me, but it's interesting nonetheless
    I'm going to mess around with this more

    natri: making it silver would make it all monochrome which would really take the punch away from it. I like the idea of giving it more pronounced human features though, that's a neat one.
    Thanks lovely forum friends!

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited August 2010
    beavotron wrote: »
    Someone voiced that they think it's a good thing that people first mistake it for a pee smell
    like "oh that's just a stanky ass homless man" then upon reading it realizing he's actually dead..sort of like a comment on how easily we disregard the homeless and their problems

    not at all anticipated or planned by me, but it's interesting nonetheless

    pfft social consciousness is for dorks.

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  • IrukaIruka Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited August 2010
    You could possibly fade his legs into to slightest bit of transparency so that the top of him has the same weight, but as you look over him he starts to taper off.

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    thanks for all the feedback dudes and lady, you are all awesome.

    Hopefully there's no fart gas in this one, it's a quickie anyways:

    HAPPY SHARK WEEK!

    peggyscove_sharkweek.jpg

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  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    Fucking hell you're getting good.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    ha... that reminds me of the cart ride at Universal. Only much better.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • MKRMKR Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    These arts are terrible and you should feel terrible for being terrible.
    I don't even need to hide a <3 in here because you know I'm lying for comic effect

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  • BroloBrolo Broseidon Lord of the BroceanRegistered User regular
    edited August 2010
    The fade to the horizon feels a little too sharp given how hazy the atmospheric effects get in the background.

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  • KendeathwalkerKendeathwalker Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    You have a lot of hard edged small pattern going on in this. The value structure is pretty solid so it does not bother me much but maybe calm the water down. Eliminating pattern anywhere else would detract more than help.

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  • PROXPROX Registered User regular
    edited August 2010
    That water is real sweet.

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    I'm working on a quickie little composition for funsies

    I'm seriously so swamped with work, I got the weekend off from my client and I'm drawing my own stuff like a fiend.

    driftwood.jpg

    adding color now, thoughts?

    also i saved off my process sketch cause i always find them funny. my process drawings are so ridiculously rough:
    driftwood_thumbnail.jpg

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    tightened things a little:

    driftwood3.jpg

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    i can't see any of those images for some reason :(

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    colors!

    driftwood_color.jpg

    thoughts?
    does this one show up? haha

    i keep seeing things in the driftwood
    like an elephant! and the negative space sort of looks like the head and beak of a bird.

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  • NappuccinoNappuccino Surveyor of Things and Stuff Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    No to all of those :/

    Maybe I'll have to move back to firefox because Chrome is being a jerk today.

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    Rorus Raz wrote: »
    There's also the possibility you just can't really grow a bear like other guys.

    Not even BEAR vaginas can defeat me!
    cakemikz wrote: »
    And then I rub actual cake on myself.
    Loomdun wrote: »
    thats why you have chest helmets
  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    That is really cool wood!

    I'm kind of partial to the monochrome color scheme of the WIPs, but the muted tones you have are really sweet.

    I forget, do you use Photoshop for this kind of work or something else?

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    all photoshop for this!

    thanks fug!

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  • IrukaIruka Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited October 2010
    Is it in sand or foamy water?

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  • beavotronbeavotron Registered User regular
    edited October 2010
    sand
    uh oh, does it looks like foamy water? how can i fix this...?

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  • IrukaIruka Registered User, Moderator mod
    edited October 2010
    Edit: stupid totp
    beavotron wrote: »
    Iruka wrote: »
    beavotron wrote: »
    colors!

    driftwood_color.jpg

    thoughts?
    does this one show up? haha

    i keep seeing things in the driftwood
    like an elephant! and the negative space sort of looks like the head and beak of a bird.
    Is it in sand or foamy water?

    sand
    uh oh, does it looks like foamy water? how can i fix this...?


    The sand looks like its its own form breaking up in the air, like little foam bubbles, but sand makes smooth horizons or little clumps, it doesn't usually perforate itself. If its supposed to be clumping on the log, maybe it should conform to the form a bit more, It looks fine on the base but the front sticks bumps in the sand look like foam sitting in front of it. With the back line of the sand, Ocean foam does that, which is why I thought it was foamy water.

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