At 10/21/09 09:28 PM, toshema wrote: Well, my work gets torn to pieces on CA, and someone there said that as an profession artist I would get beer money.

Yeah, ConceptArt is filled with people who do this stuff for a living. But you're on your way.

Put it this way. The individual parts look great... but the overall picture gets confusing. May i suggest reading up on Composition? And... I always love linking back to this tutorial. Don't know why.

hah, of course, i gotta take my own advice one of these days....

At 10/2/09 08:29 PM, LegolaSS wrote:

At 10/2/09 06:36 PM, AwesomeSaurus wrote: So then our friend LegolaSS will fill in for him with kernalphage, as long as he is up to the task!

i am here... at 1:30 am in the moring for all your art fourm needs :3

Sweet, let's get crackin.

Wow. Second ain't bad for never seeing a full Bond film.

Put me in for this month!

At 9/28/09 07:53 AM, SuperSuperKLC wrote: What do I get for winning?

Pride, a sense of accomplishment?
a chance to better your art and work with newgrounds artists?

At 9/26/09 08:56 PM, EJR wrote:

At 9/26/09 01:52 AM, Emerald-Mara85 wrote: Speaking of learning from teens,
Does the art classes from high school make you learn art seriously?

Not really.
We pretty much just took pictures and reproduced them in different medias, just three times as big.
She made some effort with "okay stand on the table and we'll draw you", but that only happened once or twice.

Maybe that's just because i was in art1 (meant for sophomores) as a Senior, but i learned more from the internet and books.

At 9/23/09 04:44 PM, Dahakka wrote:

At 9/23/09 04:00 PM, dreamzmighty wrote: I would appreciate more critique. (:

tryed inking?

Inking usually doesn't make up for bad anatomy unless you go down that "oh this is artsy ignore the scribbles" road.

As for the first picture, i think it's the head and the torso that's messing with it. Her neck is sitting on the far shoulder, as opposed to the center of the spine.
And... There's no ribcage. Torsos tend to curve a bit.

At 9/19/09 05:44 AM, LegolaSS wrote: now... where do we post our master piece?!

I'm assuming a preview here, and a high-rez pic at the upload site of your choosing?

At 9/11/09 11:44 PM, SirBeretofClock wrote: Just a heads up.

Lemme know if you want me to help with the code and stuff.

So... for clarification, do you mean something like this? Drawing them in a 'cartoony' style/situation?

I'm in! (use my DA if you're checking, i haven't posted art here in awhile)

For beginner or quick scenes, i would suggest working modularly.
Make a couple of different trees, rocks, and clumps of grass. The easier you can tell them apart, the better. Save each as a Graphics symbol. (Or make each a new frame, if that makes sense)
Place them in various positions around your scene. Change the scale and rotation. Don't put two of the same right next to each other.

This way, you can focus on making each item look good, and your effort is multiplied.

Don't worry about reflections. Only shiny things have them, and unless you're trying to add a lake, you're fine. The trees need shadows... Think of them as 'fuzzy' spheres.

If you're really serious about getting it to look good, read up on composition.

Saw this at the local craft-shop while looking for some good ink-pens.
Looks like an employee's kid did the box-art...

At 8/28/09 03:42 AM, willobeen wrote: LEMME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK.

Everything from the shoulders up looks good, but i think the legs end too 'quickly'.
It's looks like a forced perspective. but nothing else in the picture suggests that angle.
Does that make sense?

they're short.

At 8/26/09 06:48 PM, Angelus-Mortis wrote:

At 7/30/09 09:59 PM, TheSwindler wrote: I have already. It looks terrible when I do it with Flash, and worse when I do it with Paint. The question was whether I could to it without making the new image looked like I poured acid over the original.

There's a menu under File>publish settings. Use this for more options than 'export'. But if i read you correctly, you're better off using a free raster program, like GIMP.

Paint shop is like Photoshop?

Nope. Two different companies: Paint Shop is owned by Corel, Photoshop by Adobe.

DDS file editing?

One thing that might be geting in your way: you're using the trial edition. They might cut some features until you buy the full version.

The Freeware Gimp has a plugin for everything!
What kind of data is in a DDS, anyways?

At 8/26/09 09:49 AM, nuninho7 wrote: I'll make another one then. and it's going to be on paint unfortunately T_T

There's always the pencil tool in p-shop... It doesn't have anti-aliasing.
Plus you'll still have layers and multiple undos!

it'll even convert all those pre-made brushes you used!

At 8/25/09 01:09 PM, ForionMasta wrote: Is it ok if I post my own pics in here? I only have 1 though.

Yup! It's not a personal thread, it's a theme.
...Just because we're all intimidated by Cypress's skills doesn't mean you shouldn't join in the fun.

At 8/22/09 01:13 PM, JKAmovies wrote: Damn, the list is getting long already, and this collab has only been posted for almost a day now :S

...and it's about to get longer.
I'm a week away from college and i need something to keep my mind off the impending doom.

At 8/13/09 11:07 PM, Jereminion wrote: how do i get my drawing to look like a pencil drawing? i see some concept artists use a cool brush that looks like pencil

Hopefully you're using a tablet of some sort, But i've had good luck with these brushes.

At 5/20/09 07:01 PM, Twilight wrote: I have a question (thanks to ReNaeNae). Does anyone know where I can get a smoke effect tutorial that actually works?

And... not to plug his site, but he has another tutorial. It's more 'artsy', but it should get the job done. If you don't have a tablet, you can replace 'random' for pressure.

Yeah, i agree... that kind of ruins the point.
It might still work if you make the background gray?
it reminds me of that one DS game...

Hope it's a bit clearer that he's a demon... thing.

If not, i'll just start up a different one!

Like i said, Black/white/red.
GIF works nicely (color-wise, at least) for this one, but i'll upload a .png if you need it.

When you're limited by color, you really have to work on texture and form.
Whaddya think? Should I clean it up some more? I think i went a little crazy with the texture pencil.

At 8/7/09 12:48 PM, GuitarrMaster92 wrote: What tha hell is png, please since I'm new at this explain, I tought the link I added was it.

.png is the file type. Lossless compression and all that. It makes for sharper lines and more accurate colors.

It should be a Save As or Export option, depending on which program you're using... Paint should have the option too.

Oh, this looks like fun. I'm in. Black/White/Red seems like a 'safe' choice to start with.

May i recommend COLOURlovers for choosing your colors?

shading?

Well, it looks like black/white (unless they are your base 'colors') are out. If you tinted it, you'd be adding black.
What about using gradients or transitions between the two colors? Or messing with the opacity?

Or, we could just suck it up innovate. Use the mid-tone in one place as the as the shadow on another.

At 8/5/09 06:42 PM, MeMB wrote: It has no use either.

Well, technically the heavier the weapon, the more force can be applied.
Apparently useful against horses

But yeah, 'Cloud-sized' being used/held one handed is crazy.

The sword Won't hold together, theoretical stuff.

Well, if you're working in wood you could use a router, cut a hole, then glue magnets in there. But... No one's that crazy, so i'll shut up.

anyways this is an awsome thread and i am wondering why i never saw it before,

Because no one checks the post dates. made three years ago; two pages back and you're in '07
DaveAngle's keeping this thread alive.

I need to try making one of these again. What kind/size of wood do you suggest?

At 7/30/09 07:52 AM, Xcyper33 wrote: And here is the tree

I agree with Kuoke: Look at balls. It's for your own good.

...But I have never seen a tree made up of a bunch of spheres. Go outside, look at actual trees. (insert drawing on right side of the brain rant about drawing what's 'actually' there, as opposed to what you 'know' is there)

Sometimes with backgrounds, Less is more. If you insinuate detail, instead of actually drawing it in there, it'll keep the viewer from being distracted from the actual subject of your video.

And yes... it will reduce lag.

Publish it, don't use export. There's a difference. Publish gives you finer control over the final image, like resolution, size and quality.

Just make sure you uncheck .swf and .html options before you publish, or you'll end up with 4 files with the same name.

I'm seeing 'MG', but it might come across as an 'A'

You could might wanna make it more obvious by curving the long spike? (the left side of the G)
mess with it a bit, after a certain point, the tail of the M can still be read.

Also... it looks flat. Are you going to change the outlines/volume once you have the form down?

At 6/30/09 11:17 PM, santosjg89 wrote: Looking for artist to contribute to a horror flash game.

I'm gonna stop you right there.
obligatory link to rules

Might have more luck in the flash forum...

...CorelDraw is a vector program, and probably doesn't have much use for pressure data that a wacom can provide. Plus, accurately poking at verts with a tablet pen is annoying. You're best off staying with the mouse.

On the other hand... I think those tablets sometimes come with a trial/stripped down version of Painter.

As for a scanner... Ask a friend? Or save up, some are pretty cheap. Especially compared to a Tablet.

Next time try the Lounge, or the tech support thread, so you don't have to bend or ignore the rules.

Alright, before we begin... You're IN the art FORUM. not the art PORTAL.

Also, if you have general 'artsy' related questions, ask in art lounge...
if you have a specific technical question, ask in the tech support thread...

if you're doing more 'shopping of photos' than 'creating pictures' then, may i direct you to the The Photoshop Headquarters

or... just look it up

it's looking good!
From what i remember of Paint.NET, it has trouble getting soft shadows, so I'd recommend using GIMP as another free alternative.

No matter what the program, the work flow is usually the same. Once you clean up your scanned pencil work a bit, put it on a separate layer. Somewhere on the layers toolbar, you can set the blend mode from 'normal' to 'darken' or 'multiply'. Both of these options will make layers under it darker.

Then, you just paint on a layer below it!

(I'm guessing that's what you mean by one level?)