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opticillusion · member Member # Joined: 22 Sep 2000 Posts: 255

Hello everybody,

How can I make this better?

I started this out in color, but quickly got frustrated and desaturated it because I'm more familiar with black and white renderings. Any thoughts?

No photo ref for this one, just a gesture sketch from a life drawing class earlier tonight.

dr . bang · Posted: Thu Nov 08, 2001 11:15 pm

Oblagon, here's a link that might be useful. I'm trying to help Craig out hehe.

http://www.cardesignnews.com/

pimento · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 1:31 am

Wow this is a long thread. Here's a screen grab reference I did from The Wall.

[ November 09, 2001: Message edited by: pimento ]

spooge demon · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 4:14 am

Oblagon, it has been awhile sine I have known any of those guys. You might try Francis, he's as close as you will find among net geeks like us. Maybe i could be of help?

optic illusion, just needs a fuller value range, go to blacks, and then it just needs more information in the shapes, ie drawing.

feh

Optical · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 7:45 am

pimento - love the wall and love your pic man.... recognized that immediatly. GORGEOUS.

sweetpea · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 8:09 am

an empty wine bottle is a sad wine bottle.

done in painter 5.5, charcoal and watercolor tool.. um... about an hour and a half? two hours?

boy, this is a great thread. i'm glad i could muster up the motivation to contribute to all these wonderful pieces.

balistic · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 10:43 am

Did this quick splash screen a while back for an ill-fated game project:

Its probably about a 30-minute piece, not counting the logo, which I had created previously.

Shiro_tengu · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 3:51 pm

I did this during my Thursday lunch break with the wacom.

And this on my Friday Break in 3d Studio Max4 to add to the underwater city thread

Craig - I love your digital artwork (and those awesome paintings for the Final Fantasy movie)(and all the stuff on your website). You are a remarkable artist.

Jezebel - I love the dragon, the moon and as usual - all your artwork.

[ November 09, 2001: Message edited by: Shiro_tengu ]

Anthony · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 9:38 pm

OK, the first speed painting I spent any time on....does that make no sense to you too? ^_^

Full rez: http://antsin3d.com/500/046-bigboats-big.jpg
Lots more practise needed! Crits extremely warmly welcomed, I need to improve.

Oblagon · Posted: Fri Nov 09, 2001 10:51 pm

Spooge, can i email you ?

worthless_meat_sack · member Member # Joined: 29 May 2000 Posts: 141

Oblagon, mail away.

Anthony, the drawing needs more consideration. A fast simplified stroke can only work if is in the right place.

Look at water, how the shapes compress vertically as they get near the horizon.

Decide where the light is coming from stick to it. The light is kinda semi there, meaning the light and shadow patterns do not have enough dfferentiation (contrast ) from one another.

shiro tengu-thanks!

This is where the evil giant manufactures his favorite meat pies

worthless_meat_sack · member Member # Joined: 29 May 2000 Posts: 141

Anthony, more like this?

It is quite graphic, but you can see how little "rendering" you need if you just get things in the right places. That is what you shoud be thinking about. You have 30 minutes to decide how to get the most out of 4-5 big shapes.

This is loosely based on a Dean Cornwell drawing.

Anthony · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2001 8:45 am

Thanks thanks good sir! Backbone of England. Stout chap. I'm happy now that I "know" what I'm supposed to be doing when I'm painting-just have to convince myself to do it. Thanks again, just what I needed to refocus! I'm gonna see about doing another pic in a similar vein later tonight.

[ November 10, 2001: Message edited by: Anthony ]

Anthony · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2001 6:30 pm

OK, "Small Boats" was the topic this time. I tried to get the drawing down better, get the lighting a little more consistent, get shadows in the right places. Some parts I like how they came out - other parts I just didn't know how to go about drawing them, gotta study more I guess(like the water in general, I don't know how it behaives under varying circumstances). As always, crits welcome, can't stop now :]

Big One: http://antsin3d.com/500/047-smallboats-big.jpg

Gandalf- · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2001 6:50 pm

pffft.... his favorite meat pies!? hahahaha, what the hell?

Mr. T · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2001 7:26 pm

really quick one, a bit different style

Mr. T · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2001 7:30 pm

i guess this fits here too.

Gandalf- · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2001 8:27 pm

Whoa, I totally dig your latest one Mr. T., it works really well. I am really liking the style of it.

Mr. T · Posted: Sat Nov 10, 2001 9:11 pm

corn pops: thanks
the last one is an autoportrait.

whoah, this topic is -huge-

sandhu · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 4:56 am

did this in the office

(nope. my proffesion has nothing to do with arts whatsoever)
about 15 mnts
with mouse
in a crappy program called photodeluxe something

.
as speed as you wanna be

anybody care to explain what's exactly the purpose of this speed painting?

i mean is it just some kind of preliminary painting (e.g. early concept, composition, big values, etc) or is it meant to make finished painting (which is done as fast as you can)?

i see some paintings still very loose while some are too incredible

to be called preliminary.

many thanks in advance.

Mr. T · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 5:19 am

read the previous posts

Mr. T · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 8:23 am

i don't like this one much...

dr . bang · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 2:13 pm

here's a pic i did a loooooooong time ago, thanks to Craig.

Jezebel · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 2:26 pm

Here's one I did a while ago that I was rather proud of. I didn't quite do it the way it was meant to be done I think... but I like it. From the head drawing thread...

Oblagon · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 2:53 pm

next,

Anthony · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 3:11 pm

A wedding:

Big one: http://antsin3d.com/500/048-birdseye-big.jpg
I dunno why, but I like my big ones better than the shrunk ones. Kinda funny, considering how messy I am.

Mr. T · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 3:38 pm

btw, Jezebel or anyone else, can you post a link to that head drawing thread?

dr . bang · Posted: Sun Nov 11, 2001 8:45 pm

i feel so special.

http://www.sijun.com/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi?ubb=get_topic&f=5&t=003052&p=3

nori · Posted: Mon Nov 12, 2001 12:29 am

redneck vampire: 30 or so minutes

worthless_meat_sack · member Member # Joined: 29 May 2000 Posts: 141

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