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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Winner, winner. Easter Dinner.

    jonathanvair_dinner.jpg

    EDIT: D'aww, asymmetrical jellybean glass! Poor little guy.

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    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    Mock hip-hop cover for today's warm-up. Featured is my future brother-in-law:
    I don't know if you knew this, but Alchemy has a setting that varies stroke width with the mic. I played rap while I was scribbling around just to see what it would do.

    kofi_jonathanvair.jpg

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  • miscellaneousinsanitymiscellaneousinsanity grass grows, birds fly, sun shines, and brother, i hurt peopleRegistered User regular
    Amazing, amazing work. I definitely need to check out Alchemy now.

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  • ninjaininjai Registered User regular
    I am r gel us

  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    Here's something a bit different: My roommate recently beat Mass Effect 3. I painted over his custom character to establish a better likeness of him:

    space_asim_web.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • ninjaininjai Registered User regular
    Lol, I would never have known that wasn't a 100% screenshot.

  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    More Prometheus:

    jonathanvair_prometheus7.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • McJohnstableMcJohnstable Registered User regular
    edited April 2012
    Love that last one, the megastructures rounded platings are boss. You should look at the Anno 2070 artbook!

    Edit - didn't realize you were going from Prometheus hehe, nice.

    McJohnstable on
  • MustangMustang Arbiter of Unpopular Opinions Registered User regular
    Do you ever use traditional mediums?

  • Faded_SneakersFaded_Sneakers City of AngelsRegistered User regular
    Your reflective surfaces are fantastic.

    Instagram: fadedsneakers
  • NicNic Registered User regular
    I'm with sneakers, the glasses on that paintover, and the surface of the ship in that last Prometheus one are great. As well the pics are great overall.

  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    Thank you! My surface awareness has been virtually nonexistent before these studies, so I appreciate the compliment greatly.
    Mustang wrote: »
    Do you ever use traditional mediums?
    Yes. This thread is a bit of an anomaly, but I normally start traditionally.

    Here's an image of an Orc Shaman. If I'm lucky this'll help get me picked up for some D&D work:
    jonathanvair_shaman_dr3.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • Faded_SneakersFaded_Sneakers City of AngelsRegistered User regular
    Wow. That's awesome man. Do you have any landscapes or environments. Your textures really bring this stuff to life.

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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    Nah, my environment game is pretty weak. But I'm working on it. I need to be more involved in narrative through scenery.
    Mustang wrote: »
    Do you ever use traditional mediums?
    I have before. I'm mostly digital, although I currently have an oil painting and three coloured pencil/mixed media images in the works.

    Here's an image previewing my latest commission style. I can't take credit for the design, as it was done by Pac:
    jonathanvair_grunge1080.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Would you mind talking about your process a little? I picked up Alchemy, and it's interesting but kind of tricky for me to figure out. I like it though because it's not the resource hog that Photoshop is.

    When you're working in both Alchemy and Photoshop, what settings/dpi/image size/brushes do you like to use? In Alchemy, any tips or pointers for getting started or finding good brushes to work with? I'd like to practice more with your style because it's very fast, and that's how I prefer to work every time I've tried traditional art. Thanks!

    Also, I love the reasoning behind the --\- signature. : )

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    When you're working in both Alchemy and Photoshop, what settings/dpi/image size/brushes do you like to use? In Alchemy, any tips or pointers for getting started or finding good brushes to work with? I'd like to practice more with your style because it's very fast, and that's how I prefer to work every time I've tried traditional art. Thanks!
    When it comes to brushes, I use a basic pastel brush or a hard round brush. I don't care about resolution, because I love that stair-stepping quality that comes from image compression.

    The brush/supplies question is strange for any artist, as I don't know if answering it is really helpful to you. The best thing I can recommend is to make your own mistakes. That being said, in Alchemy I turn on symmetry and use the shape tool.
    Also, I love the reasoning behind the --\- signature. : )
    Hey, you checked my blog! Awesome/Thanks! It's a bit silly, but I like it. Having a signature that of me but not my design choice seems to be an appropriate thing for me.

    If you want to check out my process, you can catch my streaming times if you follow me on Twitter. I'll be streaming tonight.

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    I'll do that, what time do you usually stream? (I'm on Central US time)

    Alchemy is pretty damn rad. I found a few tutorials and started playing around with it and I've got like 15 pages of multi pdf files now to dig through. I like that it's java and low resource. It works well at work when I want to bring my crappy 1st gen bamboo to work on my laptop here without photoshop.

    Also I like that it default saves them as big ass 300dpi print ready files so that if you want to clean them up in photoshop for prints or further work you can.

    Thanks for that!

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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    I'll do that, what time do you usually stream? (I'm on Central US time)

    Thanks for asking, @amateurhour. Today I'll be streaming in a few minutes, at 12h35 EST.

    Check my twitter account for the URL, when the time comes..

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    Damn, I was just about to head out to lunch. If I get back early I'll check it out.

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    Thanks for looking, amateurhour. Glad you got to squeeze some time in. Here's what you guys missed, in part:

    jonathanvair_rooth_blackie.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    tjkross_jonathanvair.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    One of my fans has rabbit character, so I drew this for him:

    jonathanvair_sterne.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • ManguyManguy Registered User regular
    I am seriously losing my shit looking at these paintings. This work is phenomenal.

  • F87F87 So Say We All Registered User regular
    edited May 2012
    Really awesome work, my friend! Your sense of form is impeccable! I like that shaman a lot, great details and design.

    F87 on
  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    edited May 2012
    More Prometheus studies, this time a little less ambitious. Also, I'm streaming soon! Check my Twitter or Facebook page for the join.me link.

    jonathanvair_prometheus8.jpg
    jonathanvair_prometheus9.jpg
    jonathanvair_prometheus10.jpg

    wahay on
    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • ninjaininjai Registered User regular
    Man, the way you allude to forms and motion using brushwork not rendering is fucking killer.

  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    How long did those studies take you? each?

    are YOU on the beer list?
  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    How long did those studies take you? each?
    Uh… I don't keep track any more, but I could estimate the last three…. Four hours, two hours, and two hours respectively.

    Just did this one, it also probably took two hours:
    jonathanvair_prometheus11.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    jonathanvair_havokblackie.jpg

    I'm screensharing soon, by the way.

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    jonathanvair_solidasp.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
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  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    I forgot to ask if you were going to have a spot at Arts Fest last weekend.

    I doubt I would have missed your booth if you had one. Unless you were in one of the off the square areas.

  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    joshgotro wrote: »
    I forgot to ask if you were going to have a spot at Arts Fest last weekend.

    I doubt I would have missed your booth if you had one. Unless you were in one of the off the square areas.
    Arts Fest?

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  • m3nacem3nace Registered User regular
    It's like a fest, for art... I don't know what it is.

  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    wahay wrote: »
    joshgotro wrote: »
    I forgot to ask if you were going to have a spot at Arts Fest last weekend.

    I doubt I would have missed your booth if you had one. Unless you were in one of the off the square areas.
    Arts Fest?

    Columbus Arts Festival

  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    Got back from Anthrocon last weekend. It was a blast! Made a lot of new and talented art friends and got a sizable commission queue. Here's the latest:

    jonathanvair_vsmok.jpg
    joshgotro wrote: »
    Columbus Arts Festival

    I never knew of this. I'll be sure to look into it next time. Thanks for the heads up!

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    'Nother commission:

    jonathanvair_karannia1080.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    Woo, tough crowd this week.

    Here's a super-rough demo of a splash image I'm composing—it's concept art for an MMO startup.

    demo.jpg

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  • joshgotrojoshgotro Deviled Egg The Land of REAL CHILIRegistered User regular
    that concept is sexy.

  • wahaywahay Your Handicapped Hero Cincinnati, USARegistered User regular
    This image previews the colours I did last night:

    vero_banner.jpg

    "Sorry ladies, I give my everything to Sallie Mae."
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