The artist in thee

[Fightgarr]

Spoiler: Default Maleshep is CREEPY

On the other hand, I've found it near impossible to create a male Shepard that doesn't look really weird. The facial creation engine in that game is just sort of... awkward for creating men. I've been admiring your drawings for a little while now, I haven't really gotten a chance to say anything yet. You have a lot of style and a very good sense of suggesting form. Hope you keep making us these things.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Spoiler: Default Maleshep is CREEPY

On the other hand, I've found it near impossible to create a male Shepard that doesn't look really weird. The facial creation engine in that game is just sort of... awkward for creating men. I've been admiring your drawings for a little while now, I haven't really gotten a chance to say anything yet. You have a lot of style and a very good sense of suggesting form. Hope you keep making us these things.

I don't know, I managed to polish up a pretty decent maleshep.
- Though the hairstyles are all ghastly. Bald is really the only option.

And thank you so much for the kind words; in response I'd like to say that I really enjoyed your take on Demon Nago from Mononoke-hime.

Anywho,

Spoiler: Audrey Shepard

My primary Shep.
Earthborn/Sole Survivor/Infiltrator/Paragon.
Enjoys anthropological discourse, sniper rifles and ladies of an azure disposition.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Spoiler: Jack/Subject Zero. My favourite addition to the Mass Effect character gallery.

 

[Labyrinth]

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Just a note, looking at your style has reminded me of the Surrealist James Gleeson. Look him up some time, he has some fantastically creepy stuff. My favourite is The Citadel. You'll probably spot why when you find it.

 

[Fightgarr]

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4B is part of your standard set you can find it at any art supply store and even at most good stationary stores. The mid to high B pencils are very soft, so yes, they will create smoother transitions and will allow for a greater range of tone. The 4B is the real middle of the road for drawing. It's why I like it, it's hard enough to get some really nice crisp lines, but soft enough to shade smoothly. Try using a blender or your fingers (nature's blender) to get a gradient feel, it may not be what you're looking for in terms of aesthetic but it's always something to try out. As for background taking away from your piece, only if you overdo it, I'm not even talking about establishing a concrete place for the thing to be in, it could just be parts of the drawing have a light grayscale, suggestions of shape. Experiment is all I can say.

 

[LiquidGrape]

Spoiler: Great Minds on the Internet #1

 

[LiquidGrape]

Spoiler: Commandeered Romance

 

[hotacidbath]

I don't have any drawings online since I mostly just do sketches that aren't good enough to scan. I do have some quick photo manipulations I can post though. These are also all things I got off of tutorials so if anyone's interested I can link those. I would also like to note that I am not a photographer by any stretch of the imagination so the pictures I used are ones that I took out of a moving car and I just thought they looked neat.

Spoiler: Before

Spoiler: After with fake HDR photo effect

Spoiler: Before

Spoiler: After with another HDR effect

Spoiler: Before (not my picture)

Spoiler: After with watercolor effect

I have to dig through my old stuff to find some of my better work to post.

 

[Labyrinth]

Spoiler: Commandeered Romance

Oh, I laughed. Hard. For several minutes. Fantastic idea and great execution.

 

[Hat of Controversy]

Spoiler: Great Minds on the Internet #1

Perfect.

There's nothing else to be said about this.

It's just perfect.

 

[Hollock]

hey I'm coloring on photoshop for the first time. Well actually I've done almost no coloring in general. So does anyone have tips for a n00b?
here's what I have so far

Spoiler

 

[LiquidGrape]

Spoiler: Commandeered Romance

Oh, I laughed. Hard. For several minutes. Fantastic idea and great execution.

Spoiler: Great Minds on the Internet #1

Perfect.

There's nothing else to be said about this.

It's just perfect.

D'aww. You're both too kind.
I feel obliged to celebrate with more Mass Effect innuendo and intellectuals caught in the torrent of online idiocy.

Spoiler: Samara's Rejection Explained

Spoiler: Great Minds on the Internet #2

Spoiler: I'll throw in Spock, too. Spock is cool.

 

[sky14kemea]

Spoiler: Great Minds on the Internet #2

Spoiler: I'll throw in Spock, too. Spock is cool.

These last 2 made me laugh xD You're an awesome artist!

 

[Sylocat]

Spoiler: My latest work... (click on the image for the larger version)

[http://sylocat.deviantart.com/art/Life-Imitates-Art-158200045]

 

[Trivun]

Probably not my best work, but I did this today in GIMP as an experiment with colouring different layers and fractal images. This was mostly done with the Flame render, with a bit of paint work for the golden stars.

Spoiler: Shards of Ice

 

[LiquidGrape]

These last 2 made me laugh xD You're an awesome artist!

Not the first one though?
Suppose I'm not as funny as I like to think. Oh well.

Spoiler: He seems a patient man, Mr. Waits.

 

[sky14kemea]

These last 2 made me laugh xD You're an awesome artist!

Not the first one though?
Suppose I'm not as funny as I like to think. Oh well.

Spoiler: He seems a patient man, Mr. Waits.

Noooo! Don't think that! D:

It's cause I don't actually know who it was >___> Is it from a game? *is oblivious*

 

[Firia]

I should post in this thread more often.

I'm a Serenity RPG GM, and in all the adventures we've had in the black, the Crew has only once encountered Reavers, and that was with a different GM. I'm about to pit the crew against a frightful monster, and the whole thing will be treated a lot like the movie Alien.

Spoiler: Armored Reaver

"You've never heard of Reavers?"
"Well, uh, campfire stories. Men gone savage on the edge of space killi--"
"They're not stories."
"... What happens if they board us?"
"If they take the ship, they'll rape us to death, eat our flesh, and sow our skins into our clothing. And if we're very very lucky, they'll do it in that order."
"...."
-- Excerpt from Firefly.

Time: About an hour and a half.

 

[Fightgarr]

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Pose is something you may want to look into. While your proportions are fine, it looks awkward right now for a few reasons. His right hand (the one holding the blade) is inclined at an awkward angle. The big issue is with weight distribution, though. The character looks like he's about to fall over backwards. His butt is just sticking out too far behind him for his balance not to be way off.

And... hey I have some images.

Spoiler: If you follow my blog these aren't that new in terms of images, but here are my most recent Creature of the Week entries

 

[Firia]

Hey all. So, a while back I came up with an idea to draft some art for donation to Childs Play via the Desert Bus for Hope event. I was inspired by last years auction with Ken Staecy. Since then, I've gone into an art college, and whatever work I had begun privately came to a sudden halt.

But recently, I've sort of come to a NEED to do my own work, in addition to school projects. So, I'm picking up where I left off. But it's not done. There are some gaps that I left intentionally unfinished, in case I wanted to go back and add a new character. And that's really what I'm here for. Is there anything you'd like to see?

Spoiler: My donation art.

[sub] My artistic stills have improved since I started this piece. Such as, elipses, and circles. So, if you want to give critique, bear this in mind, and go easy on me. [/sub]

The picture is really fuzzy. The paper is bigger than the scanner, so it's not flush with the glass, to get the whole image. And it's cropped at the sides.

There's one character I definately want to add; Ripley behind Samus. And probably a Bulbasaur*. But other than that, I dunno!

[sub]*I know nothing about pokemon. This came at the suggestion of a friend.[/sub]