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Are you a bad enough DOODLE to rescue the president? (NSFW Stuff Must be Linked)

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  • FlayFlay Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Man, I should really get around to scanning the stuff I drew in hospital...

    Here are some studies anyway. The first thing I've scanned in ages.

    anatomy5ds1.jpg

    Yeah. I'm never going to get around to it am I?

    Flay on
  • amateurhouramateurhour One day I'll be professionalhour The woods somewhere in TennesseeRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    DeeLock wrote: »
    Some crazy scuba guy:

    scubastaff-1.jpg

    OC session with me and armaturehour:

    ocwithamaturehour.jpg

    I'm everything on the left he's everything on the right.

    That was fun, and that guy does look like a retired duke nukem, you're right...

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    are YOU on the beer list?
  • RavenshadowRavenshadow Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    more practice from sketch book.

    practice4.jpg
    practice5.jpg
    bottom right head is .... tiiiiny ...
    knives.jpg
    face is a little borked...

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  • flundraflundra Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Quick ref'd dude, points will be awarded for figuring out who he is.

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    edit: TOTP (correct me if i did it wrong)
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    Tam wrote: »
    fast.jpg
    Flay wrote: »
    anatomy5ds1.jpg

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  • tmccooltmccool Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    i'd like to get an opinion on what colors work best for this guy:

    paiselyakthreadlessarmyla8.gif

    paisleyakthreadlessnavynr7.gif

    I'm also working on a color scheme that uses shades of blues and purples, too, so clearly I'm still experimenting with it.

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  • NakedZerglingNakedZergling A more apocalyptic post apocalypse Portland OregonRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
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  • ShiboeShiboe Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    A lot of cool stuff on this page!

    Raven, you're looking more and more like wakka, and that really can't be a bad thing. =D

    WIP:
    dirttyje8.jpg

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  • AruAru Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Reminiscing about my life in Tokyo...
    wantingtobelost.jpg

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    "You've had all the word Nourishment you need" - Vince Noir
  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I'm gonna try this once again...
    vito.jpg

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  • AruAru Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Another recent one, mainly for lighting practice, any crits?

    dungeon-warrior.jpg

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    "You've had all the word Nourishment you need" - Vince Noir
  • NakedZerglingNakedZergling A more apocalyptic post apocalypse Portland OregonRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    ok i did the mushroom in like 45 min to an hour. this one has been a WIP for about 1 1/2 hours.
    Untitled-1copy.jpg

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  • MangoesMangoes Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I love the 'shroom, NZ.

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  • CampionCampion Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Because I love the Golden Compass, the daemons, and the test on their website.

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    4484-7718-8470
  • FugitiveFugitive Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I took that test and it told me I was a deadly monarch butterfly.

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Mine is a lion! Wooooo!

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  • tmccooltmccool Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    congrats, fugitive. you get a bangin hot girlfriend.
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    too bad she sounds like a dude.


    mine was a jackal.

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  • RavenshadowRavenshadow Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Fugitive wrote: »
    I took that test and it told me I was a deadly monarch butterfly.

    It's not poisonous is it?!

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  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    This stuff is driving me insane:
    vito4.jpg

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    k.png

    fuck yes it is winter break whcih means massive draw time

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  • tmccooltmccool Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Looks like she has wicked fangs, man

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  • tmccooltmccool Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    I think I'm going to redo the face and the colors. It looks sort of goofy and kinda bad.

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  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Actually getting somewhere? Little help, you guys... :(
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  • Mr. FahrenheitMr. Fahrenheit Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Hatstick2.jpg

    How can this be improved?

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  • MykonosMykonos Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    hey aru, i remember seeing an old thread of urs a while back and gotta say you've definitely improved overall. I'm liking the heavy ink lines and slouching posture especially.

    oh and mayday, try making urself an airbrush, low opacy, soft edges, large size, and go for some blending with a mid tone color. Also, u may wanna check out some photos to nail that perspective a bit. It seems the nose and lips are a bit off. As for the hair, which i suck at when doing large portraits, i always get the best luck by experimenting with different brushes till something works - which doesn't happen very often but when it can be suprising at times. I just made myself a nice textured horizontal and flat brush witch seems to be working ok for me. For misc, I just read about using a low opacity speckled brush for texture.

    just some ideas to throw ur way

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2007
    X-Mas present for my sister/bro-in-law
    bowlerbear.jpg

    present for brother x-posted from chat
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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Mayday wrote: »
    Actually getting somewhere? Little help, you guys... :(
    vito6.jpg

    Mayday, man, this is going to be more sympathy than advice, but I'm in that same goddamn boat. Every stroke seems to go wrong and each new one makes me cringe. I'd give you tips, but everything I've come up with has failed. Fuck this painting shit.

    I'm going to try and do life studies to see if it helps.

    Tam on
  • MykonosMykonos Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    dude, try imagining how frustrated i was for the first few weeks when all I knew how to do was change the brush size. Just about gave up entirely...coulda had a normal life after that too now that i think about it

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    "I was born; six gun in my hand; behind the gun; I make my final stand"~Bad Company
  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Fuck I can not paint in photoshop

    I can do colour, but hell I cannot blend my colours, and even following a tutorial turns out shit

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  • TamTam Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    But then my ideas starts working in MS FUCKING PAINT. Why, oh why?

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  • Angel_of_BaconAngel_of_Bacon Moderator mod
    edited December 2007
    Mayday wrote: »
    Actually getting somewhere? Little help, you guys... :(

    Looks like you are starting to just obsess over individual features- the eyes, the area under the cheekbone- and as a result they're becoming a bit blown out and exaggerated when you step back and look at the thing as a whole. Example, look at the eyes- dead white. They aren't taking into account the shade afforded them by the eyesockets, which make them appear to glow and pop out unrealistically.

    Sure, these bits and pieces might be refined, but you need to be paying more attention to everything that is NOT a feature, the overall form, the overall light. Pay attention, for example, to the area between the bottom of the nose and the top of the lip- the light would indicate that a shadow from the nose would be cast over part of that area. Where is it? Everything has to work and make sense together, not just the parts you decide to take particular interest in. If you find yourself obsessing over tiny areas, just walk back 3 or so meters from your monitor and look at it, so for a moment you can only see what's going on in the big picture.

    Also, in terms of design, since this is such a humanoid kind of design in a basic sense, you run the risk of things becoming ambiguous as to what is intentionally non-human and what will just read as "off" to the viewer. Particularly here the design of the eyes, it becomes unclear if the circle of shade in the sockets is supposed to be shade or a discoloration of the skin, since the light on the overall form is not put forth as clearly as it might. In my example I tried to pull it back to a more 'humanish' kind of look, but this may not be what you were aiming for at all, I just had to guess which direction you were going for- and that's the problem, the viewer should never have to guess your intention when it comes to the rendering of form.

    maydayhead.jpg

    Also, short aside: I'm kind of sick of seeing all these paintings with palette splotches all over them, because it seems more often than not the artist sticks to it so damn rigorously that it starts to feel like they think sticking to their arbitrarily defined initial palette is more important than what the final product, or reality for that matter, actually friggin' looks like. It's supposed to be a TOOL, not a GOAL, guys. If something needs to be darker, don't be like "but I can't go darker my palette doesn't go that dark" or "maybe I should add a darker palette splotch", JUST PICK THE FUCKING COLOR AND DO IT ALREADY, JESUS! Who GIVES A DAMN if the color is on your palette splotch array or not, good lord.

    Maybe that's not as helpful as I was hoping to be. :?

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    ErinAnniversaryGift.jpg

    We've been together since 24-Hour Comic Day!

    Woooo!

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    internet together or physical interaction

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  • Spectre-xSpectre-x Rating: AWESOME YESRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    only internet for now

    D:

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  • ProjeckProjeck Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    that's cool

    good luck in your relationship

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  • MagicToasterMagicToaster JapanRegistered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Spectre-x wrote: »
    only internet for now

    D:

    Wait, where do you two live?

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  • MaydayMayday Cutting edge goblin tech Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    Dutchland and Unlimited States of Absurd.

    EDIT: Man, what, I thought I edited this post! confused.gif

    I wanted to thank you, Bacon, for your valuable help... :) I don't treat the palette all that strictly, I just wanted a picture with less dramatic lighting... which, in retrospect, wasn't a good idea. And I wanted him to have normal eye sockets.
    I guess I'll have to work on references more :/

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  • Doctor PainDoctor Pain Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    wait, i cant tell who the guy is.

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    I FUCKING HATE SIGNATURES.
  • mattharvestmattharvest Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    wait, i cant tell who the guy is.

    Well, you've got a 50/50 shot at guessing.

    I believe it's the one ironically blushing and lifting 'his' foot.

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  • DeeLockDeeLock Registered User regular
    edited December 2007
    WIP:

    caterpillarcopy.jpg

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