A few more DnD type sketches, haven't been doing too much painting, but I'm hoping to get some done today/this weekend!
Some shaman findin some dreamcatcher in some swamp for some reason
Caddy's not lookin too hot. Dray's face is a little janky, BUT ITS INK SO THERES NO FIXING IT.
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Have you experimented with turpentine color washes? They're the traditional art equivalent of a gradient tool :bzz:, and they can be great for atmospheric color. I do mine using Gamsol, but I don't think brand matters.
@gavindel I haven't! I'm still basically a baby when it comes to oil painting. I've done maybe 10 little paintings on 5x8 canvas boards. I'm hoping I get more time to paint during this coming summer!
The pet commission train rolls on
yet another example that I'm unsure of what to do with color
Hey guys, been a bit. This week (and the rest of the month, really) I've been doing a comic project where me and another old comic making friend try to make 10 comics a day. Aside from some a bit too late nights for my fulltime job schedule, it's been really quite fun to do. After not creating any comics for years, or maybe one or two a year, to suddenly poop out FIFTY is kind of a relief. My journal comic, which was my most substantial project before this, didn't hit 50 pages for almost 2 years. By the end of the month, we will both have produced 300 comics, 600 between us. The first 100 are up live right now and, since they're all being created basically in sequence, with almost no planning or discussion beforehand, the storyline takes some weird jumps, as I scramble to patch plot holes, or imagine new situations for now-established characters to find themselves in. For a project that's only 6 days old, to have kind of a weird canon already is pretty fun.
If you're interested, check out 600and2.com to read from the beginning. There are fun authors notes and alt-text for each! The first ten pages are his, the next 10 are mine, etc. etc.
Here are some that work standalone, but the vast majority of it requires... some context to really get. I AM looking for critique if you have any to offer, writing and art (on my comics) are both mine so everything is fair game.
BEE COMICS:
This works fairly well on it's own:
PLANT COMICS:
but most of them are really very stupid and dumb, which I love but may not be for everyone, obv
BUTT COMIC:
Some more no context needed comics that I've mined from this creativity vein this month.
MORE BEE COMICS:
They happened to end up providing some context for these other comics that also kind of stand alone. Most everything else I'm making during this project is storyline based, and while funny, definitely require the absorption of the whole project. I'm kind of considering the below as a rough draft or like, backdoor pilot for maybe a childrens book or comic on bees.
I mean it's a good thing Jon learned how to ride a dragon for the coming battle I guess but at the time it seemed needlessly reckless:
They sure seem to be rushing through the payoff for a lot of set up throughout the series. This is me thinking 'what if they threw a bunch of weddings before the end, for all those GOT love fans out there:'
This one implies to me that maybe the night king has a sense of humor:
@LegacyGame Thank you! I've posted a few of these around and they've gotten some good feedback, though I find that most anything posted on reddit is ignored unless it's posted at a certain time of day (when the people who browse 'new' decide what will be looked at for the day).
Here are a few more 'developed' panels from the last two nights. Post-apocalypse comics:
The western comics and the Post-apocalypse panels are really strong. Love the direction those are going in.
The painted sketches are fun too. I wouldn't be afraid to use that as a base for painting on top of, if you think it suits your process. That is how most of my paintings start and then I render over them.
In my thread you are talking about compositions, but I think your sense of composition is pretty strong! Its clear you are considering during the process on some level, I wouldn't get down on yourself about it.
You have nice work that has a lot of character and energy. You have a loose, sort of delicate quality to your lines, and I would be curious if you could get some sort of sharpness that carried through to your colors, so that you aren't loosing details and hard edges to your colors. It might require more time investment than you currently can allot for a painting, but I would think about it!
Damn tho, looking good. I sorta like the fuzzy photo effect but I would continue pushing for the practice. Good likeness on these, which is no small feat of measurement.
@Iruka Haha actually it was a pretty major feat of the liquify tool. Mac is the only one for whom I did any preliminary under sketch to place the features, and wouldn't you know it he's the best likeness imo.
i cant tell if half of this stuff is traditional or not, like the charcoal stuff has to be digital cause theres no smudges in sight, and we know thats impossible with irl charcoal. dumb ass burnt wood, getta here charcoal
@SeveredHead The only things not digital on this page are in the first three posts. The lines for the colored Star Wars illustrations were originally pencil sketch, but many of them were altered during the digital coloring process. All the comics are digital. I paid 8 bucks to download a set of Kyle's Brushes a few years back, and they do a great job mimicking traditional media in a way that I found very easy to work with. Way easier than working with actual real charcoal, I'll tell you that.
@Juggernut thanks a bunch, i should really make more comics
Hey remember that door i painted a billion years ago? I didn't gesso the canvas so now it looks like this:
So I just redid it on another canvas that I actually prepared correctly:
it's still in my possession though, so I'll be able to fix up that wonky ceiling light and bad texture/lighting above the door before I hand it off to its original intended recipient
Orphan portrait of John Mayer. I’d say this is maybe 50% there but my brother wanted to push me into doing it in oil (it’s a birthday gift) so I’m finished with this I guess!
I just went through your entire thread mate! You are very creative, and have a good eye for composition, color, lighting, scale and proportion. If you have time to really focus on a piece I believe you will create something super amazing!
edit: I hope I am not being disrespectful and made you feel uncomfortable, I truly feel that you already have the ingredients to go beyond the good stuff that was shown in the thread.
@Peas hey thanks, no disrespect received, always nice to get a compliment! I do tend to abandon ideas pretty quick, I don’t have any kind of running project, and I’m not a pro or anything, so thumbnails aren’t a part of my regular process (something I should probably adopt, and would improve composition and lighting design at least). I also jump around in subject matter, style, and medium. Jack of a bunch of trades, master of none. None my pieces really get the time and attention to reach “amazing” status, but I’ll never stop, so it’s only a matter of time till I find an idea cool enough, I bet. Till then, everything I do is just practice. Thank you for the kind words!
I am really interested and envious of people with creativity because it's something I lack due to maybe my personality or upbringing
How would you go about the process of ideation personally?
That's a tough one, as it's kind of a spontaneous process and is the subject of a lot of philosophical questions to which there is no real answer. You just kind of have to decide to do it, and don't judge your own brain for the stupid shit it comes up with when asked to perform that particular task. The stupidest idea, if put into the right context, can seem smart and well thought out.
And set yourself a deadline. I had to make 300 distinct comics a year ago over the span of a month, and they wouldn't have happened if I didn't have that self-imposed deadline of May 1st.
And if you can, find someone to hold you accountable (that can be your own self if need be). It also may not have happened had I not had another guy doing his own 300 at the same time.
As for standalone illustrations, I play in two weekly tabletop rpgs, which provide effort-free creativity.
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Some shaman findin some dreamcatcher in some swamp for some reason
Caddy's not lookin too hot. Dray's face is a little janky, BUT ITS INK SO THERES NO FIXING IT.
The process shots:
The pet commission train rolls on
yet another example that I'm unsure of what to do with color
something for my niece who loves The Clone Wars
If you're interested, check out 600and2.com to read from the beginning. There are fun authors notes and alt-text for each! The first ten pages are his, the next 10 are mine, etc. etc.
Here are some that work standalone, but the vast majority of it requires... some context to really get. I AM looking for critique if you have any to offer, writing and art (on my comics) are both mine so everything is fair game.
BEE COMICS:
This works fairly well on it's own:
PLANT COMICS:
but most of them are really very stupid and dumb, which I love but may not be for everyone, obv
BUTT COMIC:
MORE BEE COMICS:
They happened to end up providing some context for these other comics that also kind of stand alone. Most everything else I'm making during this project is storyline based, and while funny, definitely require the absorption of the whole project. I'm kind of considering the below as a rough draft or like, backdoor pilot for maybe a childrens book or comic on bees.
QUEEN BEE COMICS:
They sure seem to be rushing through the payoff for a lot of set up throughout the series. This is me thinking 'what if they threw a bunch of weddings before the end, for all those GOT love fans out there:'
This one implies to me that maybe the night king has a sense of humor:
Here are a few more 'developed' panels from the last two nights. Post-apocalypse comics:
been painting clouds recently on my ipad in procreate
been taking old sketch pages, making them a linear burn layer, and then painting beneath them in procreate
version 1 of restaurant:
I cropped it and went crazy with the color balance sliders a few times and now I'm blind
The painted sketches are fun too. I wouldn't be afraid to use that as a base for painting on top of, if you think it suits your process. That is how most of my paintings start and then I render over them.
In my thread you are talking about compositions, but I think your sense of composition is pretty strong! Its clear you are considering during the process on some level, I wouldn't get down on yourself about it.
You have nice work that has a lot of character and energy. You have a loose, sort of delicate quality to your lines, and I would be curious if you could get some sort of sharpness that carried through to your colors, so that you aren't loosing details and hard edges to your colors. It might require more time investment than you currently can allot for a painting, but I would think about it!
There’s an earlier draft in the doodle thread
there are a lot of edges to clean up, I'm very bad at edges
Funny comics too!
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@SeveredHead The only things not digital on this page are in the first three posts. The lines for the colored Star Wars illustrations were originally pencil sketch, but many of them were altered during the digital coloring process. All the comics are digital. I paid 8 bucks to download a set of Kyle's Brushes a few years back, and they do a great job mimicking traditional media in a way that I found very easy to work with. Way easier than working with actual real charcoal, I'll tell you that.
Its exactly my jam.
Hey remember that door i painted a billion years ago? I didn't gesso the canvas so now it looks like this:
So I just redid it on another canvas that I actually prepared correctly:
it's still in my possession though, so I'll be able to fix up that wonky ceiling light and bad texture/lighting above the door before I hand it off to its original intended recipient
Orphan portrait of John Mayer. I’d say this is maybe 50% there but my brother wanted to push me into doing it in oil (it’s a birthday gift) so I’m finished with this I guess!
edit: I hope I am not being disrespectful and made you feel uncomfortable, I truly feel that you already have the ingredients to go beyond the good stuff that was shown in the thread.
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
How would you go about the process of ideation personally?
This will be here until I receive an apology or Weedlordvegeta get any consequences for being a bully
And set yourself a deadline. I had to make 300 distinct comics a year ago over the span of a month, and they wouldn't have happened if I didn't have that self-imposed deadline of May 1st.
And if you can, find someone to hold you accountable (that can be your own self if need be). It also may not have happened had I not had another guy doing his own 300 at the same time.
As for standalone illustrations, I play in two weekly tabletop rpgs, which provide effort-free creativity.