The artist in thee

[Archemetis]

I drew a little something today, simply because I've been meaning to for a while now.

Spoiler: Grosni, the totally REAL animated movie

The Background is not mine, that's a Bioware screenshot I got off of Google, I take no credit for it at all, it's just I'm still totally useless at scenery.

 

[CK76]

That's great Archemetis!

Did Dragon Age work for someone of their character.

Spoiler

 

[AfroTree]

Guh. Fine.

Here's my humble collection:

Spoiler: this

I don't really know, ok? Don't ask.

Spoiler: and this

Seriously, no matter what I did, he looked scared of something.

Spoiler: and then we have this

that last one...is that wesnoth?

and..i'd post mine...but i cant find my bloody camera to do it..and...while were here...i cant draw mouths or noses ;_;

 

[Lost In The Void]

Alright here goes nothing, critique would be great

Spoiler: The Vaudeville Veteran

As society marches along a stream of conformity
As the drones of sheep and dogs march in vanity
We run along those streets
We wear our masks of decency
And we see what a world of Parody
We remain in

She wears the mask, don't show your face
Hide yourself from individuality
We fight our fellows of the human rave
Because destruction is an inevitability

The girl lay lost, is without direction
Eyes burn red, the mocking?of a crowd
No one has mercy, no one has a heart
Save for the boy, who wears his own mask
He hides his face

She wears the mask, don't show your face
Hide yourself from individuality
We fight our fellows of the human rave
Because destruction is an inevitability

We burn?.we break, a loss we cannot take
We hunt?we scorn, we fill all others souls with hate
We show ours faces, accept the jeers
The wear and tear of disguises, we fear
And the loss of an image, we finally wrought to rear

She wears the mask, don't show your face
Hide yourself from individuality
We fight our fellows of the human rave
Because destruction is an inevitability

The expert of any act, is the Veteran
Her mask hides her true nature
Likely for a good reason

 

[LiquidGrape]

Spoiler: Wisps

 

[RavingPenguin]

Another pencil and paper I did while bored and talking to a few friends.
I'm working on moving to digital art but everything I do on my tablet is rubbish.

Spoiler: An experiment with muscle structure

 

[LiquidGrape]

Spoiler: Promotional Poster for the Upcoming Motion Picture BENJAMIN SNIDDLEGRASS

 

[Sporky111]

Another pencil and paper I did while bored and talking to a few friends.
I'm working on moving to digital art but everything I do on my tablet is rubbish.

Spoiler: An experiment with muscle structure

I'm no authority on anatomy, but I'll give a little blurb. The back looks really good, lots of depth. The arms look a little off, too skinny under the deltoid and around the elbow. The use of rubbing adds a lot of life to it.

Ok, this is my first post in this thread, so be gentle but some feedback from REAL artists would be appreciated.

Spoiler: Billie Joe from Green Day circa 1990

Spoiler: the Vicodin pill from Eminem's first album

Spoiler: Soundwave-coolest Transformer ever

Spoiler: skull from anatomy book

Spoiler: cute little doodle I like

Spoiler: abstract weirdness I tend to do lately

I do not claim to have much talent, but I wanted to share all the same. Thanks.

You seem to give yourself too little credit. This is all great stuff. You show a great range in talent: lots of shading and curves in the abstracty thing, but very precise sharp lines on Soundwave. I can't really tell if the pill, Billie Joe, and skull are traced or not, but they look great nonetheless. I'm not accusing you of tracing, mind you.

 

[SharPhoe]

Still going strong here, I see. Glad to know that things haven't died in my absence.
Work has been getting so far in the wat of me doing anything in my recreational time, I'm afraid I've got nothing new here. Hopefully there will be a change in that someday soon...

 

[RavingPenguin]

I'm no authority on anatomy, but I'll give a little blurb. The back looks really good, lots of depth. The arms look a little off, too skinny under the deltoid and around the elbow. The use of rubbing adds a lot of life to it.

Yeah, I know. I didn't have anything to reference from and it was my first time attempting something like that. Thanks for the criticism

 

[Fightgarr]

Yeah, I know. I didn't have anything to reference from and it was my first time attempting something like that. Thanks for the criticism

Sporky's got some decent advice. Now I won't get into full on lighting and anatomy with you here because this creature's anatomy is rather impossible. waist size etc. The main thing you need to worry about is muscle symmetry, which parts of the back lack. If you want to know how a muscular arm should connect, here's a really quick little 15-second paintover to show you where things go, how they connect to the back etc.

Spoiler: quick paintover

I suppose it's been a long time since I showed what I was doing too. Unfortunately I don't think I can show you guys what I'm doing in terms of the LoTR concept art I'm doing, but I can show you a couple of quick things I did. So here's a design I did when trying to work with creating a race. I was looking at horns as a differentiating feature. Influences for this creature include: protoss, turians, bodaks, and Avatar-type creatures.

Spoiler

I'm also doing the creature of the week competition again. This time the title is 'beautiful rebirth' wherein you have to take a creature, from film, that scared you as a child and do your own drawing of it, beautifying it in some way. I'm working with the Tatari-Gami from Princess Mononoke, this is a very early in progress image to bear with me.

Spoiler

 

[AWAR]

Spoiler: perfect

when you do these things,
these terrible
hurtful things,
I am without words.
I cannot speak.
I cannot stop you.
I can only
watch...
observe
as you end lives
wreck homes
mutilate spirits.
"it?s for the greater good"
you say
What good?
no good
only
evil.
but do you think twice?
no.
you are always right
never at fault
you
are
perfect.
no one can improve on you.
you
are
perfect
you can do
no
wrong
you are flawless
amazing
and
absolutely
positively
perfect

What do you think?

Honestly? I think the structure is kinda tedious and it just didnt make me feel anything.

 

[AWAR]

Here's a drawing of Rukia I did 3 years ago

Spoiler

As you can see it's unfinished.

 

[Zemalac]

I finished this about ten minutes before my laptop decided to die on me. With any luck I'll have the problem fixed on Monday and I'll be able to work again.

It's a wallpaper requested by Shapsters in Trivun's Wallpaper Commission thread, featuring his character in my RP, "The Unknown" (what's the procedure for citing names of RPs? Quotes? Italics?). I think it's best when viewed at full size, but you should get the idea from the Escapist-shrunk version.

Spoiler: Derlan Wallpaper

[http://img704.imageshack.us/i/derlanwallpaper.png/]

I quite like it. Making wallpapers is easier than I thought, because I tend to draw characters at that scale anyway. Might do it more often now.

 

[Fightgarr]

Honestly? UUUUUUUUUUUUhhhh...

Please post constructive criticism or don't bother wasting space with comments as entirely unhelpful as this. This is a thread for the creative community to post work with the possibility for C&C to help them improve. If you don't like something tell them a way that it could improve or at least say why you don't like it.

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You seem to deal with a specific style of imagery that you do quite well with. Here is my advice: Firstly, purely to create a bigger body of work you should branch out. Skulls are cool and all, but at the end of the day a bunch of really good drawings of skulls are still just skulls. Secondly, you seem to grasp the basics of shading, but your shading will always make objects feel flat until you can really take the plunge and make extreme darks and highlights. Right now you're using white as a midtone and your midtones as your darks. A good step in this direction would be to start working with some softer pencils try working with a 4B as your standard pencil and see the difference it makes on your shading. Thirdly and lastly, establish a space. A space doesn't necessarily mean the room or landscape, but right now your pieces are all an object floating in some vacuous space, there isn't anything composing the drawing except for that. Add small elements of tone or texture, you don't need a lot of anything really, but just that little extra attention to the rest of the page will really help make your work feel less like a sketch and more like a drawing. Hope that helps.

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Hey buddy, just a couple of things. The drawing still feels a bit unresolved, the good news is is it's simply a colour balance issue. The piece is too warm. If you can make that green colder or make the subtle blue hints more saturated it'll really help resolve it as a whole. The only other piece of advice I have today is to start looking at arm shape a little more. I've noticed you tend to draw arms fairly straight, but an arm tapers in and out slightly. Just that small tapering I feel would help bring more form to your characters. Other than that, really nice work with lighting. The piece has a very established mood, and the character has a lot of personality. Hope that helps.

 

[Shapsters]

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Hey buddy, just a couple of things. The drawing still feels a bit unresolved, the good news is is it's simply a colour balance issue. The piece is too warm. If you can make that green colder or make the subtle blue hints more saturated it'll really help resolve it as a whole. The only other piece of advice I have today is to start looking at arm shape a little more. I've noticed you tend to draw arms fairly straight, but an arm tapers in and out slightly. Just that small tapering I feel would help bring more form to your characters. Other than that, really nice work with lighting. The piece has a very established mood, and the character has a lot of personality. Hope that helps.

I see what you are saying about the arms, but hey, it looks perfectly awesome as my background!

And as for the character, I like to think he has tons of personality for that is how I intended him and play him!

 

[LiquidGrape]

Spoiler: A Machiavellian Countenance

Spoiler: NeON

 

[mip0]

I'd like to know what you guys think before I upload the speed paint video on youtube.

Spoiler: Humble enough to let you choose.

Maybe you have some suggestions for what song to use?