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At 1/22/13 02:00 AM, FIREzPHOENIX wrote:
even if you can finish it in 1 hour and it's not that good it's OK for at least it's something

any... volunteers :D ?

Sure! Do you like it? I've never drawn in anime style before.

At 12/15/12 04:01 AM, Goat-Man wrote:

At 12/15/12 03:00 AM, Squidbit wrote: I think this is what you mean.
I dunno how to do it in photoshop, though, other than by hand.

That kind of seems to be what I'm looking for. But I think I want something made of very fine dots. I like if my photo in the end is very heavily black and white like above, with minimal shading.
If someone could point me to a good tutorial (I tried googling stippling, but didn't get anything great) where I can fiddle with some settings that'd be fantastic!

Okay. So I take it you're just modifying an existing picture? First, you'll want to put it in greyscale by going to Image -> Mode -> Greyscale. Then what you want to do is go to Colors -> Brightness-Contrast, then bump the brightness and the contrast waaay up. For my quick trial, I had the brightness around 60 and the contrast around 105, but obviously, the levels are going to depend on what's going on in your picture.
Also, if you want an effect like stippling, you can go to Filters -> Distorts -> Newsprint. You'll want to set your cell size small and the oversampling bar might need to be bumped up a little.

I'm including a sample I made. Using the techniques I gave you above, I found that my background was a bit boring (the picture was against a light colored curtain that was completely washed out when I upped the brightness and contrast). First, I made two duplicate layers when I was in the initial greyscale stage. The top layer, I used as my foreground. I had the brightness/contrast at about 55/105. I then erased the big white space in the background and applied the Newsprint filter. Next, I worked on the bottom layer. I had the brightness/contrast at about 60/45. Then I applied the same Newsprint filter, but I put the angle all the way down and the oversampling all the way up to 15. Finally, I decreased the opacity of the bottom layer so that the background was a little less obtrusive and I was basically done. I did add a layer of white as the background because I had to make both layers transparent and it looked a little awkward, but that was it.

The proportions are all out of whack in your picture. What may really help you is just posing for the picture yourself, and then drawing based on that. Also, all the fingers have one joint missing, while the thumb has an extra joint. And the thumb should be set lower down on the hand. As for the eyes, they're way too big. If you look at someone head-on, their face has almost enough room for five eyes, one imaginary one on either side and one imaginary one between the two real eyes you draw. There are also all sorts of tutorials you can look up for whatever style of drawing your heart desires, in whatever medium you wish. I dunno how to really help out with photoshop; I prefer pencils and pastels.

Oooo. You should have posted the full pictures in the thread, I almost didn't click on the link, but you get a much better feeling of the effect. I agree with everyone, the one on the right works the best, though you lose the navy on the black background. Maybe a lighter blue?

A view of the Sydney Opera House in Sydney, Australia...

Here is a view of one of the Mayan Pyramids in Mexico.

I'll start with a shoe I inked for art. I actually did the majority of the inking with a pointy stick, filling the large spaces with a brush. This one is a view of the Bean from Millennium Park in Chicago.

At 6/11/09 11:12 PM, Mr-Molotov wrote: those are really fucking cool

Thanks!

Here is a picture of the dinosaur Sue's head, from the Field Museum in Chicago, drawn in charcoal. One of the workers didn't trust my fellow art students and me, and she stood behind us for about half an hour before she finally decided that we weren't going to destroy the display by drawing graffiti on it.

Detail of the poison dart frog. Those are little gears in his back.

Detail of the scorpion. Sadly, some of the details of the drawing were lost when I took the picture. The actual drawing looks more shiny and has more highlights.

Detail of the spider... (He's connected to the web... Bad pun, I know. It was late, and I was desperate.)

I'm starting this out with my final from my drawing class that I barely finished in time... I was working on it the period before it was due (shhh...)

Anyways, I was trying to show animals interacting with mechanical elements, because life is pretty mechanical, living things are basically machines, etc. The theme didn't come off so well, but that's ok, because the pictures still look pretty kickass.

At 5/31/09 03:52 PM, Leidolfr wrote:
I still say that shoulder needs to be fixed, thats what keeps throwin me off, everything else is good i think

Maybe it's just that her hips are at a different angle from her shoulders? Going off of the way her hips are facing, you should be able to see more of her left shoulder, and basically more of her front. Good job, btw, Shishizurui, the picture looks really cute and all of your lines are very clean. I'm jealous, my sketches are always a huge mess.

At 5/31/09 02:47 PM, Verdoth wrote: Nextz...: A little concept art on the ladys ;)

O.o

How can she even stand up straight with those things on her chest? Her boobs look like they would break her back...

At 5/27/09 07:32 PM, Ultimate88 wrote:
may you say what you find wrong with the pic? I need details so I can practice harder on something specific

Well, your outlines are fuzzy along the edges and they look shaky, as someone already mentioned. If you're going to have a dark outline like that, you don't want your brush's hardness on 0%, which it looks like it's at right now. You can adjust this by going to the brush pull down menu, the place where you can resize your brush/choose your brush, whatever. It will be under hardness.

Another problem I see is that your shadows were drawn with a very thin brush. This makes it easy to see the color that you have underneath and makes the picture look kind of sloppy, especially on that top left corner of the collar. This is easily fixed by using a larger brush. Along with this is where you've mostly filled in areas but left small cracks where you didn't completely cover the area you were filling in. It might help to have your outline as a separate layer on the top. Then you won't have to worry about drawing over the lines, and mistakes in filling in color are easier to fix.

And finally, the hair... I think you were trying to show individual strands, with the small lines. However, this doesn't ever really work well, especially when the lines are going all over the place like yours are. I would suggest again using a larger brush. Color your hair in sections, maybe have a light shadow giving definition to the sections, but don't go too overboard. Also, the highlights in hair don't normally go around the head like a huge halo. They generally follow the part, going in bars towards the back of the head. And they don't necessarily have to be bright white, either. If you have some of the blue running through, it might help to make it look more natural.

Oh, and with the bottom of the picture, I think that you should crop your picture so that you can't see where the drawing ends so that you don't have half a person floating in space.

Erm. Yes. I hope this helps. Good luck with your Photoshop endeavors.

At 2/10/09 06:14 PM, KartuneHustla wrote: New t shirt design... Astronaumical

His hand is backwards, his thumb should be on the inside.

Ha, np. It's mentioned in Illustrator's help topics, too, you know, though without my handy descriptions of where to find things.

At 2/6/09 08:19 PM, GodAmbiance wrote: hmmm well im really good at making my own flourishes. but how do i make them into brushes?
I use Illustrator

To make brushes in Illustrator, you select the picture you want and click the "New Brush" button (right next to the little garbage can) in the brushes palette, which you can find by going to "Window" and scrolling down to brushes. And then you chose the brush type, probably pattern for what you're doing.

At 7/26/08 02:33 PM, adrenalinmat wrote: heres a start (this one was for my g.f)

Is that all pen? Because it's insanely awesome. How long did it take you?

I personally like the black one and the white one the best, though I don't think that the green goes on the white one. Also, if you do have the white one printed up, make sure you fix the beak, because right now, it's solidly colored in, unlike an outline like the rest of the prints.

These are amazing, how'd you get such clear lines when you inked them?

At 7/12/08 01:44 AM, UMREE wrote: i think of blenders and using your fingers to shade as shortcuts, for quick shading. a blended image also doesnt look as good as a thoroughly shaded image. i also think that most of those supplies are just bullshit, i mean you shouldnt have to buy $100 worth of materials to be a good artist. for my sketches, all i use is a good old #2 and some paper, and for my paintings i use cheap, basic color, Acrylic paints and a few brushes.

I still disagree. I think that you can use blenders and your fingers to an extent, though you should add texture over it, because an image that was simply blended doesn't look quite right. However, I do agree about the materials. I use $6 (per pack) watercolors, and I don't even know how cheap my acrylics are.

Because he didn't use a blending stick. But I don't think it's cheating. I have to use my finger most of the time because people "borrow" my blender and don't put it back. Stupid public schools and their lack of locks. And proper supplies.

At 4/23/08 08:03 PM, DanikaDarko wrote: Wow!
Thanks a ton you guys
Its a nice change of pace from all the assholes in the general forum.

That's cause they don't know how hard it is to draw with such detail! Good job, they both look great!

I like the final, It really brings the witch sharply into focus. But I agree that the border should be taken off, it burns my eyes and doesn't fit the picture.

That made me laugh muchly! Oh wow, i sound retarded... iScribble=awesome!

Yeah, because the eyes are too high. They should be at the middle of the head, which would bring down all of the other features. Try to find a blank or a head tutorial, something that shows the correct proportions of the face. There's an example here. Sorry if it isn't the best...

Ah, see, I love the whole thing! The movement in the pic is awesome! I wish it were colored!

You can't really tell that it's a gun right now, try making the barrel shorter. Also, in the first frame, the outline of the eraser doesn't go all the way around, near his arms there's pink space. Looking spiffy, though. I wish my pencil and eraser would have an epic fight.

At 4/7/08 11:58 PM, willobeen wrote: you have a nice simple style to your art, it reminds me of this artist who does a lot of the new yorker magazine covers.

Wow, I think that's the best compliment I've ever gotten on my art work! But you'll probably change your mind with this cobbled together scan... This is the whole drawing, mostly completed. I need an idea for the second building on the left, though. Any suggestions?