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Jonluw

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Snotnarok said:
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I wanted to try colouring something.
It's hardly finished, but I doubt I'll ever get around to finish it. Maybe if I got a drawing tablet. Drawing with a touchpad is tedious.
I'm still trying to work out how a lensflare should look.
Did that with a touch pad? Impressive but god damn man get a tablet! They're cheap enough! haha. Just save up a bit and grab a nice wacom.
Thanks.
I do really want a tablet, but...
I don't know really. I can afford it and all, but I just have this most extraordinary reluctance to go buy one.
Might just be the fact that there is a shitload of options that keeps me from buying one. I'm not very good at choices like that. Particularly when I don't know anything about the product in question or what exactly improves in the product as you climb in the price-ranges.
Tablets are basically mandatory for art on a PC, they just really help. And when I say tablets I mean a wacom tablet, they basically have a monopoly on a patent in pens that do not require batteries. I've had a few of their tablets already and they're great, basically what improves is control and size of your workspace. The tablet basically lets you move your mouse via the pen as if you were moving it over the screen, so picture your tablet is your entire monitors dimensions, the higher you go the larger the tablet, the more sensitive they are (higher end models record the angle of your pen)and then you have tablets with screens.

You can have your brush size change based on the pressure you put in, or have the color become more opaque. All the art programs are compatible with it and require only as much set up as you want to put into it.

Look up the graphire series, good to start with. I'm working with the 12WX (it cost an arm and a leg) but they have as far as I've seen the best gear.

Even good for working in zbrush and such, I tried to use the mouse at the very start and after just a little bit of getting used to the tablet it made everything easier and faster.
Yeah, I'll look into it.
Think I might get a Cintiq 24HD...

Ok, no.

The graphire is discontinued from what I gather. Been replaced by the bamboo, which looks like a decent tablet.
I'll try to see if any stores nearby carry it.
 

Snotnarok

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Jonluw said:
Snotnarok said:
Jonluw said:
Snotnarok said:
Jonluw said:
I wanted to try colouring something.
It's hardly finished, but I doubt I'll ever get around to finish it. Maybe if I got a drawing tablet. Drawing with a touchpad is tedious.
I'm still trying to work out how a lensflare should look.
Did that with a touch pad? Impressive but god damn man get a tablet! They're cheap enough! haha. Just save up a bit and grab a nice wacom.
Thanks.
I do really want a tablet, but...
I don't know really. I can afford it and all, but I just have this most extraordinary reluctance to go buy one.
Might just be the fact that there is a shitload of options that keeps me from buying one. I'm not very good at choices like that. Particularly when I don't know anything about the product in question or what exactly improves in the product as you climb in the price-ranges.
Tablets are basically mandatory for art on a PC, they just really help. And when I say tablets I mean a wacom tablet, they basically have a monopoly on a patent in pens that do not require batteries. I've had a few of their tablets already and they're great, basically what improves is control and size of your workspace. The tablet basically lets you move your mouse via the pen as if you were moving it over the screen, so picture your tablet is your entire monitors dimensions, the higher you go the larger the tablet, the more sensitive they are (higher end models record the angle of your pen)and then you have tablets with screens.

You can have your brush size change based on the pressure you put in, or have the color become more opaque. All the art programs are compatible with it and require only as much set up as you want to put into it.

Look up the graphire series, good to start with. I'm working with the 12WX (it cost an arm and a leg) but they have as far as I've seen the best gear.

Even good for working in zbrush and such, I tried to use the mouse at the very start and after just a little bit of getting used to the tablet it made everything easier and faster.
Yeah, I'll look into it.
Think I might get a Cintiq 24HD...

Ok, no.

The graphire is discontinued from what I gather. Been replaced by the bamboo, which looks like a decent tablet.
I'll try to see if any stores nearby carry it.
Hah yeah I said the same thing, but I wound up getting the 12WX anyway, paid it off slowly. I'm very into my art so yeah.

Another painting to show if no one is interested
 

Mr.Mattress

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Art is so last century. Instead, I make Cartoons!

Let's Creep! [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/580718] (A MineCraft Cartoon)

Eversion Cartoon [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/581747] (A Cartoon based off of this video game. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qcTBp8gpNM])
 

CK76

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Inspired by my girlfriend (she's awesome, a far superior artist than I, but she humors my work, love her)

With me (grinning like an idiot)

Her in Halloween costume
 

Archemetis

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Howdy!

It's been a while, hasn't it?

I've been in somewhat of an art funk, I'm working to get myself out of it.

Here is what I've managed to get done:

It's just two new strips of my comic, MiniGames.


Just a little something to change up the way my character looks, I recently got myself a Mo-hawk and realised it's way easier to draw than my old hair.


And this one was brought about by a small doodle I made in a pub while me, my girlfriend and my friend Sarah were waiting for our friend Becca.

Bless her tiny, wafer-like frame...

Hopefully more to follow from me, I don't want to fall back into a no art habit again for a while...
 

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The metal panels were surprisingly soft on my cheek. The ship was covered in rust, blood, or some mixture of the two. Nasty. Nasty, nasty, hellishly nasty. It wasn't safe there, though it never really is. Never safe. I pushed myself from the metal bulkhead, and started running, motion erratic, loping legs sprinting down blood-soaked panels. Although nowhere was safe, they were everywhere.

Monsters. Big ones. Ugly ones. They were everywhere and nowhere all at once. The bastards were freakin' everywhere. I have come to the expectation that I couldn't go anywhere without accidentally running into one. Five years on a ship will do that. Cold hulls, endless space, and thousands of nightmares prepared to eat your face. My fingers had become accustomed to the feel of a gun in my grip, my eyes used to the affluence skills with a bandsaw had afforded me. The crewmates were all dead. I was the only one left, but none of the monsters had me. Me, left just me. I collapsed, and the metal panels were surprisingly soft on my cheek.

Past the point of rest, though. I got up, panting. The monsters were behind me, as usual. I ran down the aft deck, gasping. My breath hurt. Hard, angry pains with every breath. I tripped, and the metal panels were surprisingly soft on my cheek. I scrambled to my feet. The medical deck nearby had been my favorite hang-out before the accident. The "accident." Military training avoided nasty words. Not "people," but "hostiles." Enemies. We don't kill, we "neutralize." Accident nothing, this was hell unleashed. My hands slammed into the soft metal door. The eye scans, lasers, "security features" had long stopped working. I pulled my cheek from the soft metal panel, and pried the door open. It was safe in here. Safe. Well-lit. Soft. Comforting. Safe.

We heard them growling and scratching at the vents at first. The monsters. Scratching against our air ducts, claws and talons raking the soft, ever-smooth metal all around us on the ship. Even a battle cruiser of this size was large enough for a sizable crew. Dead. Long dead now. Revealed, the monsters were, but it came at the cost of our deaths. I was the last one left. The only one. Curled up on the floor now. Know everyone. Knew everyone. The metal panels were surprisingly soft on my cheek. They would be getting me in here soon.

Ships of this size always had small crews, so I knew everyone. Everyone. Dead now. Killed. "Neutralized." I never signed up for this. This. Understandably, no one ever signs up for this. These. "Accidents." Catastrophes. Anything, really. We just want money, or power. We're all responsible for what happens to us. This happened to me. Unfair, sure, but I could handle it. My life would end at the hands of these monsters, pitiful end to a stellar life, I guess. They would eat me. I could hear them through the paneled doorway. Med-bay has no weapons. I was responsible for this. No weapons. I should've brought a weapon. No weapons. Why were there never any weapons? It got quiet for a moment, is it possible? The monsters must have left. No one was outside. I opened the panel, and the hallway was free of anything. Except for a surprising amount of blood. I left the med-bay, looking around. Here? There? Where? I know the monsters hadn't gone. They never go. Full interest in gutting humans. That's what I had discovered living the longest. Gutting humans. Killing. "Neutralizing." I wondered how long 'til they neutralize me. Kill me. Until I die. I retched, mixing my bile with the blood on the panels. The metal panels were surprisingly soft on my cheek. Gasping for some relief, I got up, and had to hurry. They had to have heard me. Kill me. Neutralize me... The hallways weren't safe. Least safe, least safe place on the ship. That's where everyone else died. Everyone. Dead. Dead. They're all dead. I didn't want to be dead. No dying. Yesterday, you were alive. They were. Now they're all dead. Everyone I knew was dead. Killed. Neutralized...

Safety. Med-bay had it, for a time. I should go back there. But there are no weapons there. Weapons there. I needed weapons. Bandsaw to orange faces? Monster face squishes easy. Chitin squishes very easy once it breaks. I had to get weapons to the med-bay. Safe. Med-bay. Fortunately, I knew where the engineers' cabins were. Safety in weapons. Safe in med-bay. I found some tools, tools for fixing, fixing problems. Tools fix monsters. Monsters are problems. I'd fix them. Found a bandsaw.

Orange faces greeted me, and I panicked. Blades were better for monsters. Soft, squishy faces. I swung the scalpel around in my hands, nasty cuts along the orange faces. But they cut into my arm. Felt the tip of a talon. They got me. I ran toward the med-bay.

Mastery of the bandsaw was all that saved me. I threw myself away, and got away. I dove into the med-bay, closing the door. Could still hear yelping, the nasty rasping of their breath. The metal panels were surprisingly cool on my cheek. I gasped harder for breath.

Cheek. Cool. Cheek. The monsters were on my cheek now. Squeezing, touching. I could see their orange faces. Nurses had called them healthy. "Masks." She had said. Their fingers and faces were orange. "Doctors." She had said. Monsters. They were still monsters to me. Evil, evil monsters. My parents had called it a "mental health facility." For my own good. Monsters. Orange gloves, orange faces. Monsters. They're evil, evil monsters. The syringe had been filled with my medicine. Or so they called it. I knew better. Someone would be in to clean my retch, keep my padded room safe. The padding was soft. In my room. On my ship. The metal panels were surprisingly soft on my cheek.
 

Jonluw

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I and some friends are getting together to start up a sort of homebrew tabletop RPG campaign.
So I decided to draw the character I'm rolling.

On the screen it isn't really easy to see the perspective that his arms are drawn in. This makes his overarms look somewhat stubby. I tried compensating by editing the image in gimp to make the perspective more obvious.
Cookie for the reference.
 

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My friend's gf's D&D character. I wish I'd been able to add more detail and some art deco frame or background, but was on a deadline.
 

Svenparty

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Will try and get some of my drawings up here in January when I'm back in University but for now my "rock and roll career project".

http://soundcloud.com/faceholerecordings

Would like feedback on if I'm demented or not.
 

Jonluw

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ensouls said:
Pens, I like them :B


I can't get your images to work.
 

Snotnarok

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Trying out a new type of painting style, digital mind you. Also new outfit and such for Neige, I dunno what to think. What do you think?
 

CK76

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My girl friend (left) and her best friend (right) in Harry Potter house attire.

 

CK76

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Archemetis said:
Hopefully more to follow from me, I don't want to fall back into a no art habit again for a while...
Yah! More Archemetis! Do you have a site where all your comics are sir?
 

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I'm into nature photography. Mainly animals. Here's a few of my favorites.





 

Azaradel

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Quick redesigns of some old characters. Shoddy coloring galore. What is effort?
My originality can be summed up as "My name is Aza and I like horror movies" but oh well...
<img width=450>http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13992667387/1/tumblr_lvys32I3YA1r5imab<img width=400>http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13992667387/2/tumblr_lvys32I3YA1r5imab<img width=400>http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13992667387/3/tumblr_lvys32I3YA1r5imab<img width=400>http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13992667387/4/tumblr_lvys32I3YA1r5imab<img width=450>http://www.tumblr.com/photo/1280/13992667387/5/tumblr_lvys32I3YA1r5imab
 

Poetic Nova

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Some 2 year old drawings.



I don't take credits for the characters themselves, they belong to their creators.
 

Jonluw

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So I found a nifty Danbo papercraft on the net:
http://mio-mio.deviantart.com/art/Danbo-Papercraft-132113813
Glued it to the back of an old cereal box and got to work.

Danbo wonders

Danbo is sad because he has no digits.

The piano might not be possible, but maybe the bass...
Rip-off images taken with my cellphone, but I edited them a fair bit to make Danbo look smoother and more cartoony.
 

Truniron

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Time to share some of my own artworks. Most of my art consists of ASCII-art, and my specialty is video game characters

http://imageshack.us/f/824/ascii1x.jpg

http://imageshack.us/f/17/desktopgwt.png/

http://imageshack.us/f/171/ascii3x.jpg/

http://imageshack.us/f/710/cassiopeiaascii.jpg/

I also have a home-made collection witch consists of more then 30 other artworks.
 

Labyrinth

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It always surprises me to see that this is still going. A commendation to the Escapists for keeping it alive throughout the years.