The artist in thee

Fightgarr

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Archemetis said:
Just a little something simple that I cooked up for a friend who requested it.
The antlers are dodgy, But I've been ill throughout all of today, So I'm a bit off-game.


It's admittedly not my greatest, but it's something to share.
This is truly holy. You're right the antlers look a tiny bit out of place, purely because they aren't as flat-tone (not a bad thing!) as the the bear itself. I know this seems like I'm digging for compliments but its really well placed on the page. Fix them antlers and you've got yourself a solid drawing.

I've got myself a bit o' work. I brought my tablet to class today so I was working with a model. Its a bit flat, but that's actually because the model herself was a very flat person. I'll be working with this drawing over the next week, tweaking it and making it into a full piece.
 

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Fightgarr said:
SharPhoe said:
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The expression on that face is awesome. I'm always amazed how you manage to get so much emotion in these kind of things.
Thank you, thank you. Over a decade of practice with these guys has paid off, it looks like.

And since you suggested that I should, here it is, the weeks-long project I worked on for our group and all of its success:

A much (MUCH) larger wallpaper can be found here. [http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs50/f/2009/261/8/a/Wallpaper____Get_used_to_it____by_SharinganPhoenix.jpg]
Cool stuff man. I know what a couple of these people look like and you nailed it on them so I assume you did a good job characterizing all of them. Xitel looks appropriately violent... like he's about to ram that throwing knife into my eye (which he does with alarming frequency)...
Yeah, it does look pretty good.

I wonder what I would look like in little-round-dudes form.
 

SharPhoe

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Berethond said:
I wonder what I would look like in little-round-dudes form.
Only one way to find out, huh? My door always, open, all information shared is confidential, and it's completely free.
 

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Fightgarr said:
SharPhoe said:
My door always, open, all information shared is confidential, and it's completely free.
Are you a solicitor?
I only just realized that sounded like pandering. Whoops. >_>
Still, you know... give it a thought.
 

Fightgarr

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SharPhoe said:
I only just realized that sounded like pandering. Whoops. >_>
Still, you know... give it a thought.
I kid. I kid. I thought you might have actually been going for the ironic sound like a solicitation there.
 

SharPhoe

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Fightgarr said:
SharPhoe said:
I only just realized that sounded like pandering. Whoops. >_>
Still, you know... give it a thought.
I kid. I kid. I thought you might have actually been going for the ironic sound like a solicitation there.
You would think so, huh? I always seem to give off the air of being more intelligent and clever than I actually am, apparently. It's a blessing and a curse, I'm afraid.
 

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Recently, while reading Wired, I came across these really neat portrait things. What they'd done was, they'd taken a picture of each person they were talking about in the article, and made the photo very artistic-looking: edged with brush strokes, all in the same color, etc. I really liked the style, so I set about duplicating it.

I rather like the way it came out.

And I also have a random thing I made because I was extremely bored. It's a symbol for a secret society in a project that I've been working on.

 

Fightgarr

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Zemalac said:
Recently, while reading Wired, I came across these really neat portrait things. What they'd done was, they'd taken a picture of each person they were talking about in the article, and made the photo very artistic-looking: edged with brush strokes, all in the same color, etc. I really liked the style, so I set about duplicating it.

That's a cool style. You should see if you can incorporate some of your own drawings into it. Maybe have one of the characters from your D&D setting and a small amount of background with that sort of style. I think it could be really cool.
 

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SharPhoe said:
Berethond said:
I wonder what I would look like in little-round-dudes form.
Only one way to find out, huh? My door always, open, all information shared is confidential, and it's completely free.
then I have a request sir, may I add you as a friend as to make pm'ing easier?
 

SharPhoe

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Guitar Gamer said:
SharPhoe said:
Berethond said:
I wonder what I would look like in little-round-dudes form.
Only one way to find out, huh? My door always, open, all information shared is confidential, and it's completely free.
then I have a request sir, may I add you as a friend as to make pm'ing easier?
By all means, go ahead!
 

Fightgarr

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I finished a piece...
I may go back in a month or so to add some ravens in certain places.
 

SharPhoe

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Fightgarr said:
I finished a piece...
I may go back in a month or so to add some ravens in certain places.
Ooooh, I like it, a lot! Where do you get the ideas for your work?
 

Fightgarr

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SharPhoe said:
Ooooh, I like it, a lot! Where do you get the ideas for your work?
Thank you, I really appreciate it.

I get ideas from everything around me. It could be something as simple as fog coming over a mountain that I saw the other day, or as complex as a series of interactions I've had. This is simply a tribute. I'm really big into a fantasy author named Patricia McKillip. This is a piece inspired by here book The Book of Atrix Wolfe, which I got my dad for his birthday (he's just as big a fan as I am), and is one of mine and his favorites of hers.
 

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Fightgarr said:
I get ideas from everything around me. It could be something as simple as fog coming over a mountain that I saw the other day, or as complex as a series of interactions I've had. This is simply a tribute. I'm really big into a fantasy author named Patricia McKillip. This is a piece inspired by here book The Book of Atrix Wolfe, which I got my dad for his birthday (he's just as big a fan as I am), and is one of mine and his favorites of hers.
That's really cool. I really need to try that someday. For now, all of my ideas have simply come from my own mind, I've never really drawn inspiration from much.
 

Fightgarr

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SharPhoe said:
That's really cool. I really need to try that someday. For now, all of my ideas have simply come from my own mind, I've never really drawn inspiration from much.
Get lost in the woods. Find your way out. Its how I make art.
But don't look for inspiration, let it come to you. Too many people actively seek it out.
 

SharPhoe

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Fightgarr said:
SharPhoe said:
That's really cool. I really need to try that someday. For now, all of my ideas have simply come from my own mind, I've never really drawn inspiration from much.
Get lost in the woods. Find your way out. Its how I make art.
But don't look for inspiration, let it come to you. Too many people actively seek it out.
Makes me wish there were actually woods around where I live... *sigh*
 

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This thread makes me wish I still had all of my old drawings. I think they all got thrown away in between moves. :(