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At 12/2/11 09:30 PM, Bartmr wrote: Its just a different style i guess. more directioned for cartoons

Yeah, I suppose so. I'd like to try and make them look fantastic though.

I guess it just takes practice.

At 12/2/11 09:28 PM, Bartmr wrote: Thanks a lot. I've been here for 2 days. i like doing this kind of drawings as much as see the other one's drawings too. well, thanks again

No problem dude, best of luck to you.

And in other news, I just went through every old submission I made to here and felt physically sick.

I really did suck at drawing. Probably still do. I don't know if this is taboo or not but I might start up a new thread, because the old pics are truly awful.

Then again, maybe the new ones are just as bad. Idk.

Guess that's why I posted them here in the first place, to find out.

At 12/2/11 09:13 PM, Bartmr wrote: I've got drawings like that in my page but i havent been scouted yet :(

I went and had a look.

If I've been scouted and you haven't I feel there's something quite wrong there, I think you deserve to be.

I'm not too sure why you haven't :c

Little dudes, poses n' stuff.

They sort of look like marbles. Not intentionally, mind.

Had to scale down the JPEG quality, it was a very large file.

At 12/2/11 08:29 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

Would love to see some colour on this.

Might actually do so.

Here's another pic.

Meinkraftu. The next one is colored, I promise.

It has been a very long time since I lasted posted anything here.

I've done a lot since then, mucked about with animation and stuff.

It's a little annoying having to save two copies of each file, a JPEG for Newgrounds, and a PNG for everywhere else, but nvm.

Dunno if anyone will respond, can't remember how much feedback I got here.

I might upload more stuff after this. I figure they just sorta look better than my old stuff. Like more legit somehow.

Oh yeah, and I colored something.

It was for a competition on dA, draw yourself and an AT character doing something cool.

It was originally quite large, I don't know how well it will resize here on NG.

At 8/17/11 03:05 PM, jeeshwa123 wrote:

At 8/17/11 02:57 PM, LordofK wrote: Aaaaand something TF2 related.

Practicing particularly peculiar poses.

If you can see this tell me, did you start off at the end with these nicer pics, or did you have to trawl through all the shit at the start?

diggin' this one so far xD

Hah, thanks, good to know someone likes it c:

Aaaaand something TF2 related.

Practicing particularly peculiar poses.

If you can see this tell me, did you start off at the end with these nicer pics, or did you have to trawl through all the shit at the start?

It's been a while, so here's something else to look at.

Gettin' better... I think.

At 6/25/11 12:10 AM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 6/24/11 07:08 PM, LordofK wrote: Dunno how to make this look better. Suggestions plox.

Needs more shading. At the moment, it's very minimal.

M'kay, sounds good.

And the children were to make him commemorative gifts of macaroni art and soap sculptures till the end of time.

Dunno how to make this look better. Suggestions plox.

At 6/15/11 01:26 PM, VividGrim wrote:

At 6/15/11 01:03 PM, LordofK wrote: I 've been practicing my coloring.

I considered uploading this to the Art Portal, but I think I am getting ahead of myself. I would like to know what you think of it.

The finished copy as a .png has a transparent background, however, I do not know how to make the white background for this .jpeg transparent.

I don't know either. Love the picture though! You should totally upload it to the portal. But first I think it would look better with darker shadows. Really good, though, very smooth.

Thank you very much for your review, I'm really glad you like it!

I'll go darken those shadows, wait a little bit in case anyone else has some feedback for me, and then I'll try my submitting this to the portal.

I 've been practicing my coloring.

I considered uploading this to the Art Portal, but I think I am getting ahead of myself. I would like to know what you think of it.

The finished copy as a .png has a transparent background, however, I do not know how to make the white background for this .jpeg transparent.

At 6/10/11 04:25 PM, VividGrim wrote:

At 6/10/11 04:14 PM, LordofK wrote: AvP, because getting lost and dismembered as the Marine is surprisingly fun.

This was done before I realized I should vary line width. It was more an experiment in grey shading.

I think it looks ok, slightly more dynamic than previous drawings, but still not hard hitting or gritty enough as I would like.

I think a good word to describe this would be flimsy, as there is still a lot to improve on. I am having trouble establishing what is wrong though, so if you can suggest anything please do.

Cute idea. There's something off about the guy's lower body - his legs are lumpy at the knees but skinny elsewhere, and his feet don't even look like the simple feet you normally draw. Did you sketch this first? If so, did you construct the body using basic shapes like a circles, cylinders, etc. ?

I did construct the body out of basic shapes, I start stuff with a sketch on one layer, and then build it up on a separate Photoshop layer above.

I looked up a reference from the internet for the Troopers armor, seeing as they're from a game and I wanted to get it right, unfortunately it has these strange knee guards, which is possibly the lumpy you're referring too.

I'm not sure about the feet problem though, I don't see what's wrong with them. Are they too simple, or not simple enough? I was going for more simple than usual seeing as it's a cartoony style of picture. That is however no excuse for the proportions not to be accurate.

I went over the original sketch in red. The green is where the kneepads are, just to clarify where I'm talking about. The knee pads are made of metal, but I wasn't sure how to get that across, so I just left them like that.

The extra lumps around them were supposed to be the folds of his trousers, but I think I may have messed that up.

AvP, because getting lost and dismembered as the Marine is surprisingly fun.

This was done before I realized I should vary line width. It was more an experiment in grey shading.

I think it looks ok, slightly more dynamic than previous drawings, but still not hard hitting or gritty enough as I would like.

I think a good word to describe this would be flimsy, as there is still a lot to improve on. I am having trouble establishing what is wrong though, so if you can suggest anything please do.

At 6/10/11 03:49 PM, VividGrim wrote: This has probably been said, but use a greater variety of line widths, especially when only working with black and white. That said, I really like your b&w stuff.

Hmm, I understand. What I began doing was tapering off the edges of lines to a sharp point, but yes, I have forgotten to vary the line width.

I'm not actually sure what effects I can get, or how I should go about utilizing the line width to produce an effect. I will have to get some practice in at that.

But I am very happy you like my black and white work, although it is very basic at the moment.

Germ warfare. Black and white, took into consideration what someone said earlier about the white to black ratio.

It's still not right though, there isn't enough black, but I didn't know where to add more without it being unnecessary and/or making it impossible to tell what was going on.

When I go to sleep at night, I know he's watching over me :J

Not really as dynamic as I wanted it to be, but it really started out as a proportion exercise so... Ho hum.

At 6/2/11 06:29 PM, DemocracyFTW wrote: Your art has such an awesome charm to it! keep it up!

Woah, thanks for the kind words!

Genie fight :J

Warriors of Derp Undivided.

A blender, chasing a strawberry, coz that's what they do.

It's a pumpkin cosmonaut. I liked this too much to color it, but I really should try.

Any advice on how to improve? Possibly how to make my stuff a little more eye-catching? Any basic techniques I have apparently ignored? Do tell me, please.

Just saying now though, I'm working on coloring stuff.

At 5/30/11 11:10 PM, big-jonny-13 wrote:

At 5/30/11 10:45 PM, LordofK wrote: I don't like furries, they're pretty creepy.

Lol, trolltopus, that's great.

Heh, thank you.

SUCCESS.

SO HERE'S A COMIC.

I don't like furries, they're pretty creepy.

And I'm working on a big scale colored pic, because I should really use color more.

Animation time. Don't know if this will work, if it does, the little guy SHOULD punch the fridge repeatedly.

And here he is, but colored.

Lots of layers, and I tried to color this in a more expressive way, rather than just sticking to that crisp digital style, because I feel it's holding me back.

The swords horribly off too, but I really wasn't sure how to go about that.

(I couldn't find a good reference on Google to look at :L)

I haven't done much recently, so here's a little update. I recently fixed my graphics tablet, so now I can draw tons of lines quickly without it spazzing out and merging them into one great amorphous blob.

I'm also considering starting a new thread for my stuff, because I think no one gets this far because of all the crap at the start. I might not though, because it's good to look back and see improvement.

So if you can read this, comment or something. Just say something you think I can improve on (There's a lot to choose from :J)

RIGHT, so here's a before and after of a little knight-ish dude.

Here he is uncolored...