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Call me an elitist, but I have started out with other software and I can confidently say Photoshop is not overrated. The best thing, before anything else, is stability. Gimp has lost me more hours of painting (by crashing) in the short year I've used it than Photoshop has in 6 years now.

Perhaps I'm a bit "too" accustomed to Photoshop, but whenever I pick up the interface of any other image editing software it feels like a horrible disease.

You are very talented and I really love your lineart, as well as your more traditional paint-jobs. Keep up the extremely good work ^^

At 10/31/11 07:44 PM, WolfoftheDarkFlames wrote: there's just one problem....

I think there are several problems here. You're going to have a hard time putting together an animation if you are not able to draw faces. It seems you also need some help with hands and general anatomy as well. How about following some tutorials right here?

Many of them are probably rubbish, but if you feel you can learn something from them, go right ahead!

You have much to learn.

I suggest you pick up a good old pencil and paper. Find yourself a sculpture, or a nice picture, and render it in the most realistic way you can. Repeat this several hundred times while attempting to improve with each consecutive try.

I guarantee results.

As it is right now, I'd say your art is messy more than anything else.

Don't get me wrong, you have some decent stuff in there, but most of the stuff you've shown so far lacks in technique and structure. As outlined by many people before me, try to plan ahead when drawing by sketching out the basic anatomy of whatever you're about to represent. Then, pen in the most important lines by adding thickness. Try to avoid unnecessary lines (like in your latest post...).

Although age is usually irrelevant to drawing skill, I'll concede I was probably around your level at age 15. Hopefully that will not discourage you.

Cheers, keep it up!

-Vonschlippe

Hey thanks everyone for the nice comments :) I'm super glad you like these!

Here's a 1 hour quickie. I was filming it but when I finished the painting it said the video file is corrupted :(

Boo.

At 8/27/11 10:05 PM, Kumakun4 wrote: So you basically start off with a real picture, modify the perspective, trace the general look of it real quick and then just... add in details as fast as possible?
I mean, even after looking at your workflow, I'm still not quite sure how you did it... ._.

Nah, the original picture has nothing to do with the end results... it's there for several reasons. First off to provide a variety of colors to start with, and to provide inspiration in the shapes and forms already there! Having something like a picture already there makes it easier to be creative, as there is no "blank page" syndrome!

At 8/27/11 02:56 PM, Nae wrote: Now you just need some recording software so you can upload the videos for us all to watch and be amazed by!!! DO IT!!!! :D

please

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED.

Here's another done in 1.5 hours. I'm going to start diversifying my subjects...
Oh and here's a timelapse video of my workflow, sped up 90 times!

Hope you like it :D

Valley - 2 hours

Snow plains - 2.5 hours

Tundra - 2.5 hours

Hey there!

I've decided to learn to speedpaint! The only method towards improvement being practice, I'll just post my speedpaintings here every time I fart one out. I'm still quite far from where I want to be in terms of speed and quality of the finished piece...

I consider most of these as sketches and not finished artworks, which is why they will not be featured in the art portal or on my page.

Anyhow, here's my first speedpaint ever :O
Future city - 2 hours

First off, I believe you have to work on anatomy, because that does remove a lot to the quality of the piece. Even before you start looking at color theory, your drawings would improve a lot if you used some reference, both for the proportions and poses.

When it comes to rendering skin, a lot of people find it hard to move away from a weakly saturated beige and some nondescript brown for the shadows. Skin requires a lot of varied tones in order to appear correct; there should be some red in the shadows, but also pale (blue?) highlights. Don't be afraid to use some blue, green, and other colors that can make the skin come to life. The neck you featured in your post used only two colors! Feel free to practice adding more hues to your rendition of skin.

I find it is easier to paint skin at first under white lighting, and then do some color adjustments using overlays in order to fit the color scheme and mood of the rest of the picture. This allows me to focus only on contrast at first, and then leaves me some creative freedom to edit the colors I've painted. I've included an example of what I mean by "white lighting". The final picture had blue hues, but I painted the neck as if the light was white, making the skin beige and brown (like your own).

One final trick when it comes to actually painting the skin; you'll need to add irregularities to the skin if you don't want it to look like plastic. You can make your own custom brushes (as I have) in order to suggest skin grain, but you can also play arround with filters (such as an overlayed gaussian monochromatic noise layer) in order to achieve a different effect.

I hope this helps!

At 5/9/11 10:31 AM, Morthagg wrote: All hail the Cintiq animator's glove! ! ! !

Also, I don't look like me. But whatevs.

I am SO jealous!

Changing subject.

Here's my favorite classic artist: William Adolphe Bouguereau, a 19th century French painter. I don't believe any other painter has matched his level of mastery in the rendition of skin using oil paint. He is truly inspiring.

At 4/28/11 05:56 PM, esko-man wrote: "This is not a wall" and I am not a street artist.

Ceci n'est pas une pipe.

Unfortunately, the sentence you wrote "Ceci n'est une mur" does not work.
It's kind of awkward like saying "This is not wall" , and you used the feminine form for a masculine word. Correct saying would have been "Ceci n'est pas un mur".

Sorry, I hard to correct it >_<

It seems I accidentally edited your sig without your permission....

I am not creative at all.

I just draw the same things over and over until they become prettier. That solves the problem for me ^^

At 4/27/11 05:09 AM, test-object wrote:

At 4/26/11 10:35 PM, Kumakun4 wrote: I don't mind sharing.

Neither do I, after seeing your pictures :3

You mean pictures of me or my drawings?!
o_o ahhhhhhhh hhhh hh h

At 4/26/11 01:56 PM, Kumakun4 wrote: So I went ahead with some creepiness and lurked around facebook, and found VonSchlippe!
Aside from the fact that he's a dead-sexy beast and I would totally go gay for him, there seems to be a few interesting wall posts...

March 2nd - Just lost 4 hours of work because he didn't save.

March 6th - Just lost 90 hours of work because the file was corrupted.

I couldn't bear to scroll any lower :c
But yeah, Von is hot. If he'd ask me out, I'd say yes :D

Jesus christ O_O
I am being stalked!

Yeah, those hours were lost when the .psd file for my Terran Ghost got corrupted... but I managed to reclaim some of it using a file converter. Some parts were lost forever (including her chin), but I repainted them from scratch and it looks somewhat better than before the failure!

Also, I'm already taken =P

At 4/25/11 06:05 PM, YellowisCOOL wrote:

i have this really great peice of art i want to share with Newgrounds

Is it as great as your other pieces?

Nature is frickin hardcore.

I get it.

At 4/23/11 04:07 PM, shinobody wrote:
And I can't help it (i tried hard, really):
ENDING:
EPIC POLICE BRAWL SCENE!
(Kate easily knocks out policeman)
SWAT TEAMS SURROUND HOUSE!
THEY STORM IN...
FINAL SCENE:
Kate:"Evil... Officer... ?"
Gary Oldman: *nod*
Kate:"This... is... from... Courtney..."
Gary Oldman: "Oh crap - wait is this rosary?"

At 4/23/11 04:07 PM, shinobody wrote:

And I can't help it (i tried hard, really):
ENDING:
EPIC POLICE BRAWL SCENE!
(Kate easily knocks out policeman)
SWAT TEAMS SURROUND HOUSE!
THEY STORM IN...
FINAL SCENE:
Kate:"Evil... Officer... ?"
Gary Oldman: *nod*
Kate:"This... is... from... Courtney..."
Gary Oldman: "Oh crap - wait is this rosary?"

I understand what you mean.

Anyhow, more fan art.

I like this idea!

Here's something I did when I was 14. The file info says it was completed on april 27th, 2005, which makes it about exactly 6 years ago!

It's my first CG coloring, made using GIMP. It's some halo 2 inside-joke about a pink warthog, and my high school friends. I'm the driver (somewhat...), and my friends are playing as their respective role.

I'm hoping someone finds this inspiring! I cannot say I've made more than 50 paintings since this one, so someone who paint a lot and learn from their mistakes might become far better than I am in a shorter timelapse!

At 4/23/11 03:57 PM, shinobody wrote:

Woah is this a poem?

At 4/22/11 09:08 PM, TjA wrote: No excessive specular or shadow at the moment.
It looks bad though, really bad. Hair seems too... clumpy.
Advice on good hair techniques would be nice, other than "Do hairs all individually" - I know that can work but I know there's a more efficient way.

Ignore the eye.

I usually do 12-15 strands of hair individually, then copy paste them, warp their shape and use color corrections on them to break the monotony. That's how I did the hair for this piece.

At 4/22/11 04:59 PM, PigeonOnAStick wrote: I think it's called Glitch Art or Data Bending, which is usually done by opening and editting the file with a program NOT used for art.

Is that Gilles Duceppe from the Parti Québecois?!

Option 2.

Let me give you an example.

In the first panel in there, the skin not smooth yet, since the edges between the brush strokes on the cheecks is visible in the form of blobs of different, hard colors. That is the result of a painting quick using hard brushes. However, by the third panel, the cheecks are already rounded and you can no longer see the blobs of hard color present in the first panel. That is achieved by painting a median color in between the two zones, so the eye sees a natural transition.

You can get more skin realism by using a brush that incorporates random elements (like mine), but there are also more advanced techniques using noise, grain and adjustment layers to make sure the skin does not look like a plastic barbie doll, which I used further in the drawing process.

At 4/22/11 02:16 AM, Matkingos wrote:

At 4/22/11 01:07 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 4/21/11 11:14 PM, Matkingos wrote: I seriously think that no series has not done one of these things

She looks more manly than he does.
It's scary.....

Hmmm... I think you're right, here let me re-draw her...

Look manly now?

... yikes

Less manly and more like post-failed-botox surgery