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I might do some more about this, but I dont think so

At 9/15/09 09:16 AM, Luis wrote: I was a bit tied up with stuff, but yea you dont want excusessss.

oh we do... give us excuses... ahh sweet little excuses... exquisite excuses...

whoops, got a bit carried away there

Ooh, hes back.
Nice colors and shading on the second last one.
the very last one is quite intriguing... it somehow grips you, which is a good quality for abstract art. (for all art really, but I feel it is not as common in abstract art).
Id like you to draw something realistic... want to do that for me? would be cool, I think

At 9/14/09 02:19 PM, JoeTheToucan wrote:

At 9/14/09 11:38 AM, J-qb wrote:

At 9/13/09 05:42 PM, kikomannnn wrote: this is why black people hate us.

pretty damn racist that one... both ways

I'm a cunt, but not a racist, and I found this funny.

Im not saying it isnt funny..
I was just remarking the oddness of making a comic supposedly against racism, which is racist itself.
"(all)Black poeple hate (all) us (white poeple?)"

At 9/14/09 05:35 PM, Captain-Ben wrote: I totally didn't make my submission in an hour.

Rigs stubble was much lighter on paper, that's what i get for using a cheap scanner.

I laughed at that... great idea for topic, cant believe nobody else thought about that.

At 9/14/09 05:27 PM, J-qb wrote: WIP... you may notice I changed the enemy...
I think it is time to add the finishing touches.. some dents, some glows, some corrections... some clouds?

BIG version... yup... calender crasher

WIP... you may notice I changed the enemy...
I think it is time to add the finishing touches.. some dents, some glows, some corrections... some clouds?

At 9/13/09 05:42 PM, kikomannnn wrote: this is why black people hate us.

pretty damn racist that one... both ways

so... something like this.
Still to much empty space imo...
I might add an animal orb, and I might make the lightning a bit more... have it envelop his arms a bit...
Thoughts on that?

At 9/11/09 10:58 PM, libarian wrote: I did this a while ago in a little drawing workshop, really the only art class I've ever taken. I did have a reference,but I think it's pretty good, even considering a reference was used. What choo think?

I generally use references, to study certain (anatomical) structures. Then I will apply them to my drawing, so its not exactly copying, but looking at an image to see what something actually looks like.
Im always amazed at the number of details you dont notice if you are not specifically looking for them

At 9/11/09 03:56 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 9/11/09 11:51 AM, J-qb wrote: Im using it as a desktop background, it replaced the cock... I think it ate it.

You ate dick?
I mean cock?
I mean the cock?

no... the apple did

At 9/11/09 02:50 PM, tmkunt wrote: I like it quite a bit, but the text looks really out of place

I'd recommend that you remove it

what he said... remove it, or maybe place it somewhere else, and use a font that matches the drawing style

At 9/11/09 02:59 PM, ashman112 wrote: in the last doubles everyone was chatting in this thread, this time its deadsville although theres more people, we can just chat without giving too much away right...right?

i dont get it

well, a lot of the chatting last time around was about
A; Clearing up/making up rules
B; Poeple quitting, and partners being angry at that.

I think we should be glad there isnt so much "chit-chat"

I think adding style elements and consistently following them makes it a not so terribly "bad" comic.

Its three seperate comics btw

Yup, Its a study of an apple... not much to say about this one.
It was just something to get my mind off my Newgrounds calender submission. These kind of things help me build up some speed (and skill) in shading.
Im using it as a desktop background, it replaced the cock... I think it ate it.
BIG version

At 9/11/09 01:07 AM, Black-Heart11-1 wrote: if its not to late id like to submit one, its a little big but ill resize it after. heres the preview

http://s59.photobucket.com/albums/g310/C hrisTheGuy/?action=view&current=Madnessp review.jpg

oohom thats nice

At 9/11/09 02:53 AM, Captain-Ben wrote: Bryce-os Penicorns looked poised to win the tour de france a couple of times.

GET IT?!

Im laughing

At 9/11/09 04:48 AM, Zytemarre wrote: Welcome "J-QB" it has been while since you have visited my thread. Tell me, how's my work coming out?

hey, well, ive been watching it from the dark... I think its a bit difficult to really pinpoint some progression. the biggest change I see is that you are trying to do different things, which is good. but because they (e.g the cock and the madness thing) are so different from the other things, its hard to compare them.
The only advice I will give you is to keep drawing... a Lot.

At 9/10/09 03:03 PM, Zytemarre wrote:

At 9/10/09 10:13 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote: sword

Kool i didn't think people would know that's a sword. Ok the problem is fixable. Any other problems, big or small?

Welll, you did say it was a sword... that might have helped him...

At 9/10/09 03:02 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: I never pay attention to the time, I'm distracted to often and don't feel that time is really adequate measure of anything, lest you spend too little. I post things when I'm done with them, whether or not they appear finished, I'm done with it. =P

I totally dig that, and you should do that. It just helps me in assessing a drawing/painting when I know how much time someone spent on it.
The specific reason Im asking is that whenever I do a more "sloppy" (no offense, i just dont know how to otherwise name that style where you dont smooth everything out, but you keep every brushstroke obvious) work of art, I feel like it looks sloppy... which it shouldnt, and doesnt in your pieces.
Now if you spent about 10 mins on those drawings, id see it would just be a lot of practice on getting the right strokes. whereas if you spent a few hours on them, It probably relies more on getting a view on which strokes are effective and which arent, and erasing the noneffective ones.
Im basically wondering because I feel it takes me way to long to finish a drawing.

Je ne T'aime plus

Je t`aime encore

Mon amour

Mon amour

At 9/10/09 04:31 PM, GlassBomb wrote: PINK IS REALLY SIGNIFICANT, 'CAUSE, IT'S A COLOR THAT IS USED IN LOTS OF THINGS, AND A POP SINGER IS NAMED AFTER IT"

Actually, the pop singer is named after "mister Pink", which is a character in the Quintin Tarantino film Reservoir Dogs....

At 9/10/09 12:00 PM, BlackmarketKraig wrote: some dark face thing

lovely...
would you mind adding the amount of time you spent on these things in the post?

also: you should work on your french ;)

At 9/10/09 01:53 AM, sucho wrote: ugh, i dont know why, but newgrounds loves to prevent me from posting images, to art portal, to journals, to forum posts. it just freezes despite that the filesize is fine. grr.

is this too hard to read? can you tell what's goin' on.

hominid is in his ship, one of those suits is wiping dust of the window?

looks amazing... Love what you did to alien hominid. Adding details is generally the hardest part of drawing such simple things in your own style. At least, adding details isnt that hard, but doing it in such a way that they actually improve the drawing, and still keep the character easily recognizable.

At 9/9/09 03:58 PM, IdentiC wrote: Im gonna try out the pointers you've provided and see what i can come up with. One pointer puzzles me though, and thats the brush. I have no past education in any drawing program (like it doesnt show >_>) and im using GIMP atm cause ps is waaay to messy for me atm. Do you mean like a texturing brush, or different shaped brushes, and if yes, to what purpose?

nah, I just use different brush sizes. they help give your paintings some authenticity, and really add some atmosphere to it. I never used GIMP, but my quick research shows that there are quite some tutorials on how to make them yourself.

And btw, thanks alot for taking the time.. Most people just walk away. <3

Your welcome... I figure any extra `good` (not as much in skill as in attitude) user on the art forum, adds to my art forum experience ;)

Here's one colouring attempt i made some week ago. Better then expected, but still alot more to wish for..

It's a rough scetch so havent really worked with the lines, just the colouring. *^_^*

I like this. It shows how just a little more effort can make a piece really stand out a lot more.

At 9/9/09 09:01 AM, Lundsfryd wrote: Natfisken = the night fish

in dutch "nat" translates wet..
wet fish...

At 9/8/09 08:13 PM, IdentiC wrote: Yeah it is getting a tad boring with all the shading and stuff, but i gotta learn to walk before i run. My goal is to be able to make full drawings but alas i have yet some things i need to figure out.. Such as texturing, and patience with using cours instead of shades (use bright red and shade with black).

Also if you know any nice tut's on inking that would be super! My hand is way to shaky to ink properly..

hmm, Well, one tutorial that really helped me was one I cant really find anymore... It was initially a drawing of a face, but it eventually became a mask.
a few of the big things would be:
-before any other colors, put in the background, or at least the background color... on a dark red background, a greyish-pink color will look like white.
-use Three basic shades for each color: dark, light and mid.
-put in the mid shades first.
-put in the darks and lights (these are shades of the same color, not black and white)
-add very deep shadows and highlights (black white)
- use alt+click in ps to quickly select different shades.
- use a custom brush... It takes some time to figure out, but it is worth the effort.

At 9/8/09 05:17 PM, Zytemarre wrote: want very detailed critiscism? I got one thing. U gave the guy a shadow. I noticed that the flowers or wutever he is holding, goes over the swrods shadow, but if u look at the actual sword, it has no shadow of the flowers. Is this an illusion?! It's preposterous!

this is a tricky one, but I think the shadow of the flower is on the "lower"side of the sword, the side we cant see. It would depend on the angle/ actual width of the sword though...

At 9/8/09 03:02 PM, IDuDe wrote: I'm almost done with coloring the characters...
SEE HQ FOR TIME CONSUMING DETAILS
And can I PLEASE get some feedback on my progress?

Its just really good... Hard to give criticism on this since it is so dependant on style. You pull it off, all good, the person on the far left looks a bit isolated from the rest, but that could be due to him being less detailed and not even completely colored.
What are you going to do with the (back)ground?

At 9/8/09 02:46 PM, IdentiC wrote: Second one; Hmm, taking some time to think about it yeah, i think i see what you mean. I agree with colour, but so far im happy with keeping it in shades because im still learning how to keep a steady line and stuff, and as you can see, im still getting the hang of shading. ^^

Its up to you of course, but I like to make full drawings (lineart,shading and color) so that I can have some variation... I tend to get bored doing only lineart etc..

Well ima give it a go.. Prolly will update sometimes soon for poops n giggles.. ^^

Good

Thanks for the input!

Yur Welcome

At 9/8/09 02:43 PM, CypressDahlia wrote: I thought the general theme we had going was pencil/ink stuff.

I think that theme would go more likely in this topic