So much improvement, dude. DigiPen will really do that to ya. Work you to the bone, but the results are great. The one thing I gotta say is that I like the feet midterm picture, but the cartoony menacing eyes are a big put off to me. Would have been interesting to see hands begin to wrap around the ankles or something more suspenseful, if that's what you were going for.
If you ever want some one on one advice or got any questions, my schedules pretty open as well on campus. Great stuff, man.
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edited March 2009
the first actual painting I've ever done. About 2 1/2 hours in class. Need to do some touchup work, but it's nearly done.
need to bring up the saturation on the little orange and the plum and add some more yellow and red to the apples, and play with the shadows, as well as add the indentation where the stem comes out of the apple, but otherwise, thoughts?
edit: woah it looks bad on camera - the colors here are waaay different than on the actual painting
Are you required to finish it in class? Two and a half hours doesn't seem long enough to me. You have to set up your composition, lay it out onto canvas, find your color centers and test strips, THEN you can paint.
Or maybe i'm just bitter that it takes fucking forever for us to do a painting, I don't know.
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edited March 2009
yeah it was all in class
we've got time to finish it, but we don't have the still life to work from any more, so we did as much as we could
Is that oil/acrylic, or something else? Either way, it's looking pretty good for a first painting; I like the toned shadows you've got going, though I suppose as you said the colors are off in the picture, it wouldn't do much good to critique them here...
...though that makes the piece really hard to critique; for instance, the piece in general is kind of lacking a sense of depth, but based on the picture, I'd say it's because the colors of the fruit are too consistent (there'd be a change, in other words, from the highlights to the shadows, not just in lightness, but also in hue and saturation (generally warmer and more saturated in the light regions). But that could just be the picture.
It's not too hard to take a reasonably accurate picture of a painting with a camera, if you know the principles to follow. Did you adjust the white balance of the picture, for instance? If your earlier pictures are an indication, that's gonna be a cell phone camera, so I imagine you can't really adjust exposure, or put it on a tripod, but if it's got a white balance option buried somewhere, that can help at least a little.
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RankenphilePassersby were amazedby the unusually large amounts of blood.Registered User, Moderatormod
edited March 2009
acrylic
the shadows are toned because the light we were using was going through a yellow gel, shifting the shadows toward violet
and it was on my cel phone, I'll try using my actual camera and make some color adjustments in photoshop to try to match the original more once I do the touch-ups
Well, technically the shadows were still grey, but perception is a funny thing that way (and you were still right to paint them violet).
Anyway, if you do take the picture with your camera, and it has a manual setting, try setting it for around f-5.6, with a shutter speed that will give you the lightest picture without blowing out the highlights (if the camera shows histograms, perfect) (also, you might need a tripod or steady surface to pull that off)--you can then adjust the levels in Photoshop, and since the lighter side of the tonal range has more info than the darker side, it should give you a better picture. I think. Photographers, correct me, please. Also, if possible, set your camera's optical zoom as far in as it'll go, so you minimize distortion.
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edited March 2009
one of the drawings for a character design project for my acting for animation class - this is a reimagining of Woody Allen's character from Broadway Danny Rose.
issues with drifting and volume, but the character of the character reads, and the lip sync works pretty well. I should have staggered the audio a frame or two, and I'd like to go in and fix some issues and do cleanup, but schedule is tiiiiiight right now
I'm sorry I don't really have anything to contribute since I don't know anything about animating dialog, but that was a very entertaining three seconds.
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edited April 2009
alright, for my final for tone color comp, I need to do a self-portrait as a character in costume and environment from a game, movie, whatever
so I figured what better chance to draw some badass fucking space marines and stick my head in there
I roughed out a comp in photoshop in about 20 minutes or so to get a feeling for it and would love some feedback/help
I gotta paint this in acrylic, so any help on how to pull that off (how to start, etc) would be extremely helpful, as I've only done like four paintings ever, and only one to completion, and that was some fucking fruit
no, but, seriously, you need to use hard brushes along with soft ones, otherwise everything's going to run together. Also, that suit is way too small to be space marine power armor.
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but the workload for my classes tends to force these sorts of projects to be last minute
I did take last friday off to rest, but otherwise I've been working pretty much non-stop
You'd be surprised how little black you actually need to make something three-dimensional.
it's tough, I'm not used to using a toned paper, but it's fun
If you ever want some one on one advice or got any questions, my schedules pretty open as well on campus. Great stuff, man.
need to bring up the saturation on the little orange and the plum and add some more yellow and red to the apples, and play with the shadows, as well as add the indentation where the stem comes out of the apple, but otherwise, thoughts?
edit: woah it looks bad on camera - the colors here are waaay different than on the actual painting
Or maybe i'm just bitter that it takes fucking forever for us to do a painting, I don't know.
we've got time to finish it, but we don't have the still life to work from any more, so we did as much as we could
mine was one of the more finished ones, luckily
...though that makes the piece really hard to critique; for instance, the piece in general is kind of lacking a sense of depth, but based on the picture, I'd say it's because the colors of the fruit are too consistent (there'd be a change, in other words, from the highlights to the shadows, not just in lightness, but also in hue and saturation (generally warmer and more saturated in the light regions). But that could just be the picture.
It's not too hard to take a reasonably accurate picture of a painting with a camera, if you know the principles to follow. Did you adjust the white balance of the picture, for instance? If your earlier pictures are an indication, that's gonna be a cell phone camera, so I imagine you can't really adjust exposure, or put it on a tripod, but if it's got a white balance option buried somewhere, that can help at least a little.
the shadows are toned because the light we were using was going through a yellow gel, shifting the shadows toward violet
and it was on my cel phone, I'll try using my actual camera and make some color adjustments in photoshop to try to match the original more once I do the touch-ups
Anyway, if you do take the picture with your camera, and it has a manual setting, try setting it for around f-5.6, with a shutter speed that will give you the lightest picture without blowing out the highlights (if the camera shows histograms, perfect) (also, you might need a tripod or steady surface to pull that off)--you can then adjust the levels in Photoshop, and since the lighter side of the tonal range has more info than the darker side, it should give you a better picture. I think. Photographers, correct me, please. Also, if possible, set your camera's optical zoom as far in as it'll go, so you minimize distortion.
one of the drawings for a character design project for my acting for animation class - this is a reimagining of Woody Allen's character from Broadway Danny Rose.
more like
Frankly Vile, Stankin' Pyle
you're pretty awesome rank
a drawing for my bio class. Perspective exercise, etc. Not too thrilled with it, but it has some parts I like. India ink with brush and pen.
not sure if that's what you were going for
damn it
my first dialog test
issues with drifting and volume, but the character of the character reads, and the lip sync works pretty well. I should have staggered the audio a frame or two, and I'd like to go in and fix some issues and do cleanup, but schedule is tiiiiiight right now
so I figured what better chance to draw some badass fucking space marines and stick my head in there
I roughed out a comp in photoshop in about 20 minutes or so to get a feeling for it and would love some feedback/help
I gotta paint this in acrylic, so any help on how to pull that off (how to start, etc) would be extremely helpful, as I've only done like four paintings ever, and only one to completion, and that was some fucking fruit
thoughts? please?
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no, but, seriously, you need to use hard brushes along with soft ones, otherwise everything's going to run together. Also, that suit is way too small to be space marine power armor.