The artist in thee

[Archemetis]

Here's some stuff from my DA account...

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I hang around GaiaOnline a lot and draw people's avatars/RPCs, though I admit the second and fourth ones are both mine. XD

[double posting I'm aware]

Damn I love your line style, do you ink in flash or something?
'cos I've seen simliar styles done in flash.

And the colours and characters are also incredibly interesting to look at, plenty of attitude to them.

 

[SharPhoe]

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I actually have another question for you, since you brought up inking and whatnot...
You own a tablet, correct?

 

[The Black Adder]

I wish I was as good as drawer as some of you. But my talent lies in writing. Here are two poems that I recently wrote that I'd like to share with you. Hope someone enjoys it. : )

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O, how my mind is wandering
On so enchanting mid-evening
Where gossamer threads of light
Break through cloud and mist
Bowing gracefully under the gaze
Of the moon
Silently, her ivory figure cast
A nocturnal spell
Whispered in chaotic and archaic tongues
Of beam and shadow
Eclipsed with the rites of
Unbridled passions
Whence stood long ago
Now rends the walls of my
Fragile heart
Vanquish the armor to seek what is underneath
Where soft tissue and sinew
Vest me with waking existence
Whilst they trick me with
Fantasy in immaculate dream (deception)
Manipulating my psyche
Raking it with misty tendrils of Fate?s frozen fingers
Breathless am I in your presence
Voiceless am I who ponders silently
May I never convey my plight
For anxiety of death in rejection
From fear of time erasing your
Mysterious façade
So that I can see the burning flame
That is your soul
You, you without your elaborate masks!
Your soft core
Where all sensitivity and emotion thrive
Or is there really nothing behind
Your magnificent eyes?
Witty deception locked in malice?
But never will I know
Until I solve the riddle of myself
(Anyway) It is not important
You have forgotten me
I am forlorn, cast from your memory
Into the thriving sea of my vivid
Imagination were my mind wanders
Among the crashing tides of Neptune

I burn with the fever of these passionate words
O, how it bends my psyche to the limit of my being
Your pale specter that haunts the recesses of my mind
Where your fragile image is held by a tender string
Tender strings that weave my even tender heart
Your magnetic grace, your sibilant figure, your lyrical voice
Rouses me from my maddening sleep
Rends me from my deathly trance (my hypnotic fate)
Steals me from the caverns of my subconscious
Where my tormenting thoughts are eternally repeated
Until the chalice of my soul is brimming
With the heavy intoxication of desire
Lunatic moon! Shed on me thy light!
So that I may forget my sweet somber laments!
Your silence disturbs the balance of my heart
It, like a great drum, beats
In the darkest and densest jungles, where
Sweltering, choking, internal humidity
Pierces my brow with sweat
Just like your eyes that pierce my heart
With the ever-sharpening daggers of passion
You finally speak and your quiet voice belies intelligence
But still it is interwoven with shimmering spider-tendrils
Of mystery and ambiguity
Ever will I know?
I fear not, yet forever will this fascinate me
Because it is unattainable
Or is it?
How to break the veil??
It will come to me in a dream
And it will escape me
Do, do let me remember, recall
So that I may be enthralled
In the misty vapor of ecstasy and bliss
Take flight of me, for I am naught!
A spirit from the realm of ether hight
And never shalt we be anything earthy or tangible
Forever shalt we remain voiceless and silent
We will become nothing
Other that utter strangers in an
Even stranger land
Forgive me soul for being such
But it is not like you can ever recall
No acknowledgement
Only ignorance

 

[Archemetis]

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I actually have another question for you, since you brought up inking and whatnot...
You own a tablet, correct?

I do indeed, a Wacom Intuos4 medium.

 

[SharPhoe]

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I actually have another question for you, since you brought up inking and whatnot...
You own a tablet, correct?

I do indeed, a Wacom Intuos4 medium.

Well, seeing as how I feel like my work is all stylistically "lacking" due to having to ink with a mouse, I'm considering buying a tablet, possibly sometime in the near future. I know that using a tablet is nothing like drawing regularly, so do you have any pointers on learning how to use one?

 

[Archemetis]

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I actually have another question for you, since you brought up inking and whatnot...
You own a tablet, correct?

I do indeed, a Wacom Intuos4 medium.

Well, seeing as how I feel like my work is all stylistically "lacking" due to having to ink with a mouse, I'm considering buying a tablet, possibly sometime in the near future. I know that using a tablet is nothing like drawing regularly, so do you have any pointers on learning how to use one?

Again it's a whole point of practise makes perfect.

The only thing you've gotta get used to is learning to draw while looking at something else.
which throws off lots of people at first. A good way to do this I've found is to first try sketching with it, because it's basically the walking before the running.

Another thing that might help, if you can manage to get hold of a medium one, I've got a medium sized one, my intuos4 cost £300, but that's because it's the latest of that model.
The medium sized ones are ideal for people who've gotten used to working on a strictly a45 sized work area because they're virtually the same size and won't make you feel restricted while working.

If you look for maybe a graphire or intuos3 you'll find medium sized ones going for better prices because they're last gen (but by no means inferior) products.

Also, in Photoshop or any other art program, when it comes to digital inking, it's popular opinion that if you make the image you're inking larger then you'll end up with a much more precise line, I do that by zooming in 300% on an uneditted scanned image, then once I'm done I re-size the entire image depending on what works best. (usually for my images this anwhere between 12.5% - 25% of the original size.)

After a while it will just becomes a natural part of the process.

 

[Fanboy]

I love this thread and you talented people; You give me such nice things too look at and swell things to read. I haven't contributed anything in long time, so here's something I made in recently. I might do some more detail in the background later, but I'm tired of fiddling around with this one. The pun is in honor of the awesome that is Fightgarr.

Spoiler: Gen. Nerric: Space Marine

 

[SharPhoe]

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That is just great work, dude.
*Sigh* I miss Fightgarr, too... I've seen him online, I guess just to watch over us, but it'd be nice if he would actually return...

 

[LopezMeister]

Some stuff off my dA profile:

Also, the 2nd image is 3D, you'll need red and blue glasses for it to work.

 

[SharPhoe]

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What you wanna do is put [*IMG] before the URL and [*/IMG] right after it (omitting the asterisks, of course).
I'll use one of your pictures as an example. Quote me and look at the code inside the spoiler itself to see how it's done:

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That said, I really like your work. I just bought a nice new camera recently, but I don't think I have the knack for photography.

 

[RavingPenguin]

*sigh* I dont like posting things of sub-par quality.
Though, I am quite proud of this little doodle. It looks loads better on the paper than my webcam can manage.

Spoiler: Its supposed to Morrigan from Dragon Age

 

[SharPhoe]

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...I love you call THAT a "little doodle". You're makin' me feel LOADS better about myself. >__>
That said, I think it turned out rather well. I like it.

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Hey, bud, another thing? Try to keep your work in spoiler tags like everyone else has, it saves us from a lot of page stretching and whatnot. 'Kay?

 

[RavingPenguin]

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...I love you call THAT a "little doodle". You're makin' me feel LOADS better about myself. >__>
That said, I think it turned out rather well. I like it.

Compared to the time I've spent on some of my other works that aren't even close to done, that is a small doodle. 3 days and about 5 hours of work total. I do like your work better though.

 

[SharPhoe]

Compared to the time I've spent on some of my other works that aren't even close to done, that is a small doodle. 3 days and about 5 hours of work total. I do like your work better though.

..Really, now?
It rarely ever takes me longer than an hour to sketch up a human figure, IF I have a reference, and if not, then it's nowhere near as good, but... thanks. I appreciate the compliment.

 

[RavingPenguin]

..Really, now?
It rarely ever takes me longer than an hour to sketch up a human figure, IF I have a reference, and if not, then it's nowhere near as good, but... thanks. I appreciate the compliment.

Sketching is only about an hours work for me too, the rest is line placement, light placement and shading. Compared to my work on Liara though, which is totalling near 8 hours and is nowhere near done, that was easy.

 

[SharPhoe]

Sketching is only about an hours work for me too, the rest is line placement, light placement and shading. Compared to my work on Liara though, which is totalling near 8 hours and is nowhere near done, that was easy.

Eight... hours...
I'm starting to think I should actually spend more time working on my sketching from now on. I wonder what I could pull off with eight hours of work..?

 

[RavingPenguin]

Eight... hours...
I'm starting to think I should actually spend more time working on my sketching from now on. I wonder what I could pull off with eight hours of work..?

Who knows, but if you dont think your works need the extra work than I wouldn't. As my mentor and history teacher once told me, "There comes a point where nothing you do is going to improve the work. The key is to recognize that point." I rarely hit that point anymore but to me thats more a sign that everything I work on could be better. That sketch hit the point so I stopped working on it.

 

[SharPhoe]

Eight... hours...
I'm starting to think I should actually spend more time working on my sketching from now on. I wonder what I could pull off with eight hours of work..?

Who knows, but if you dont think your works need the extra work than I wouldn't. As my mentor and history teacher once told me, "There comes a point where nothing you do is going to improve the work. The key is to recognize that point." I rarely hit that point anymore but to me thats more a sign that everything I work on could be better. That sketch hit the point so I stopped working on it.

That's some pretty sage advice. Good to know, I'll try to keep that in mind for future projects.

 

[Frank_Sinatra_]

Fans of Gundam will recognize this Core Booster.
Modeling took about a week, the cel shading material took about 2 days to get it perfect.

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I can't draw worth crap, but I sure as hell can model.

 

[kawaiiamethist]

This is my DA account: http://kawaiiamethist.deviantart.com/

There's a lot of Final Fantasy, and other such thingos.