At 12/2/09 11:20 AM, J-qb wrote: I think ill do some more bw portriats next week (maybe ray charles?), and I might work on this an hour more... who knows.small update, I tried adding the piano reflection in his glasses, but it didnt work. I fixed his lips a bit, and added some color, YAY!

I will not work on this any more.

I made a new custom brush today!
Its diamonds, like you see in the bottom right cornor, I used it to make this, I named it "For the Love of God".

Now; if you dont get it, dont worry, just google "for the love of god".

At 12/8/09 09:30 AM, J-qb wrote: I used it to make this, I named it "For the Love of God".

Pretty interesting brush effect, but I think that the jaw is a tad wide

i quite like it, it give the piece an impressionist look to it where you've used the smaller brush size

At 12/8/09 09:47 AM, JoeTheToucan wrote: Pretty interesting brush effect, but I think that the jaw is a tad wide

Thanks, and yeah, the brush is wide... I didnt really use any reference for that one...

At 12/8/09 09:52 AM, JustJoshy wrote: i quite like it, it give the piece an impressionist look to it where you've used the smaller brush size

Yeah, I see what you mean... the stippling thing right?

Heres another one 30-45 minutes I think, its a rhinoceros...it is

I think this my best art spree in a while... nice

At 12/9/09 10:20 AM, J-qb wrote: Heres another one 30-45 minutes I think, its a rhinoceros...it is

and here is the large version

At 12/9/09 10:21 AM, J-qb wrote:

At 12/9/09 10:20 AM, J-qb wrote: Heres another one 30-45 minutes I think, its a rhinoceros...it is

and here is the large version

Man, I wish I could do stuff like that!
I admire the colors and I envy your skills!

How do you even du that?

At 12/9/09 10:30 AM, havegum wrote:

At 12/9/09 10:21 AM, J-qb wrote:

At 12/9/09 10:20 AM, J-qb wrote: Heres another one 30-45 minutes I think, its a rhinoceros...it is

and here is the large version

Man, I wish I could do stuff like that!
I admire the colors and I envy your skills!

Thanks dude, though Im nowhere near where I`d like to be.

How do you even du that?

Ehm...? I`d like to help you out, but youll have to redefine your question a bit...
Do you mean the colors or the "squarishness" or what...

At 12/9/09 10:46 AM, J-qb wrote:

At 12/9/09 10:30 AM, havegum wrote:

How do you even du that?

Ehm...? I`d like to help you out, but youll have to redefine your question a bit...
Do you mean the colors or the "squarishness" or what...

Yes. that ... "squarishness"

But also figuring out the color scheme.

At 12/9/09 11:10 AM, havegum wrote: Yes. that ... "squarishness"

But also figuring out the color scheme.

Custom brush I believe.

And for schemes and ideas you can
go here.

Or... you can pick a colour you like, paste its hex value (#000000 and beyond) and paste it in Google, a few search results will give you the colours that go with it.
Illustrator has a 'Color Guide' which offers the same functionality.

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At 12/3/09 11:15 AM, J-qb wrote:

At 12/2/09 11:20 AM, J-qb wrote: I think ill do some more bw portriats next week (maybe ray charles?), and I might work on this an hour more... who knows.small update, I tried adding the piano reflection in his glasses, but it didnt work. I fixed his lips a bit, and added some color, YAY!

I will not work on this any more.

That's great man, I think it's the best you've done, and that's a lot! Really stylish!

At 12/9/09 11:10 AM, havegum wrote: Yes. that ... "squarishness"

But also figuring out the color scheme.

its custom brushes all around, take a look at that picture below.
On the left you see those two black squares? that is my brush tip. Then I open up the brush settings menu (visible on the right) and give it an angle jitter, so that it randomly rotates the brush tip. I also use pressure sensitivity on the alpha, which gives you those lines you see in the middle..

colors are just experimenting.... First thing I did was take five bright contrasting colors, and made a pallete.
Then I draw the entire rhino in purple (you can still see some purple underneath his horns) and just layer your other colors over that.
Finally I took a small standard round brush (with size jitter, but that doesnt really matter) to add some final touches. (lines around the eye, the nozzle,mouth...)

At 12/9/09 11:47 AM, J-qb wrote: Finally I took a small standard round brush (with size jitter, but that doesnt really matter) to add some final touches. (lines around the eye, the nozzle,mouth...)

About that, I don't really like those. They don't fit in with the rest of the pic.
Like they're unerased remains of lineart, I think subtle shading would work mucn better.

At 12/9/09 11:57 AM, RNNR wrote:

At 12/9/09 11:47 AM, J-qb wrote: Finally I took a small standard round brush (with size jitter, but that doesnt really matter) to add some final touches. (lines around the eye, the nozzle,mouth...)

About that, I don't really like those. They don't fit in with the rest of the pic.
Like they're unerased remains of lineart, I think subtle shading would work mucn better.

yeah, you`re right. I didnt use lineart for it, but perhaps it should have been a bit more subtle... anyways, the image looks better with them than without them.

I didnt want to oversmoothify it, cause if you work really smooth in one certain area, youre going to have to apply that same level of smooth in the rest of the picture..

At 12/9/09 11:46 AM, Zyphonee wrote:

At 12/3/09 11:15 AM, J-qb wrote: I will not work on this any more.

That's great man, I think it's the best you've done, and that's a lot! Really stylish!

Thanks, thats good to hear.

At 12/9/09 11:26 AM, RNNR wrote:

At 12/9/09 11:10 AM, havegum wrote:

Custom brush I believe.

indeed

And for schemes and ideas you can go here.
Or... you can pick a colour you like, paste its hex value (#000000 and beyond) and paste it in Google, a few search results will give you the colours that go with it.
Illustrator has a 'Color Guide' which offers the same functionality.

color lovers is a brilliant site, although I rarely use it to actually find colors...
I generally use it for inspiration, just browse through the swatches, and then you see a certain colorcombo and it makes you think "Hey, I`m gonna draw an apple".

Quick scetch before I go to bed... 15 minutes.

This one is called BMK

those eyes freak me out, they remind me of the owl from 4th kind if you've seen it

At 12/9/09 06:21 PM, J-qb wrote: This one is called BMK

Hmm ... why would that might be?

lol

At 12/9/09 06:21 PM, J-qb wrote: Quick scetch before I go to bed... 15 minutes.

This one is called BMK

Why do i think this is adorable

must be the fluffy affect of the brush

At 12/9/09 07:07 PM, M-Vero wrote:

At 12/9/09 06:21 PM, J-qb wrote: Quick scetch before I go to bed... 15 minutes.

This one is called BMK

Why do i think this is adorable

must be the fluffy affect of the brush

he was referenced of a teddy bear...
didnt you know? blackmarketKraig is actually a teddy bear... he is
In fact, you should give that a place in the AFGS!

nah.. it wasnt referenced at all.... still looks like a teddybear thouhg

At 12/9/09 06:28 PM, JustJoshy wrote: those eyes freak me out, they remind me of the owl from 4th kind if you've seen it

Nah havent seen it.... but that one is supposed to have some quite nice imagery so comparison isnt bad I guess ;)

lol at dragging compliments out of everything
At 12/9/09 06:30 PM, havegum wrote: Hmm ... why would that might be?

I have no idea why that might would be...?

anyways, Ray charles didnt go down so well, 1 hour...
Art portal link

I find this new flow I`m in really enlightening.... It really motivates me to do more art.

It used to be It took me 8 hours to finish a drawing... whereas these thing take an hour max... and I cant say the result is that much worse, just really different.
I think it also has to do with the fact that I used to work on drawings for such a long time that I`d get bored with them by the time they were finished...

At 12/10/09 08:29 AM, J-qb wrote: text n' stuff

That looked more detailed than the BmK thing.

Reference?

At 12/10/09 08:59 AM, havegum wrote:

At 12/10/09 08:29 AM, J-qb wrote: text n' stuff

That looked more detailed than the BmK thing.

yeah... it also took my 4 times as long... the bmk thing was just a quick scetch because I didnt want to go to bed yet.

Reference?

yep
didnt have it side by side... in another window, so I had to switch to and fro...I dont want to rely too much on the reference. I`d rather look at some of the features in the reference and make the actual drawing from my own knowledge of how faces work...
I dont know if anyone would advise this way to go about it or anything... thats just how I did it for ray and thelonious... and the rhino btw

I love these last few ones you've done on this page. . . very well executed pop art.

At 12/11/09 07:13 AM, JKAmovies wrote: I love these last few ones you've done on this page. . . very well executed pop art.

Hmm, yeah I wasnt specifically going for pop-art but I guess it kinda is. what with the musicians and bright colors...
Thanks

At 12/11/09 02:03 PM, CypressDahlia wrote: Square is the new cool.

I think you made ray sad... ah well, he`s dead anyways... ;)

nice art.

Thanks!

Heres my entry to the NG levels collab. theres still a few levels left, so be sure to join if you havent already!
This is a lvl 38 Crowguard. not too keen about the head, the stiff arm, the hand and the feet but its okay overall I think. I like the eye.
[ART PORTAL]

I made a funny!
this one is called"I`d walk a mile for a Camel". Which is a reference to the identic slogan for Camel cigarettes.
The joke is consists of multiple layers.
1] The picture shows an actual camel, not the cigarette. This gives the suggestion that the camel would walk a mile to see another camel.
2] The Camel is smoking a pipe instead of cigarettes.
3] Camels walk up to 25 miles a day, so walking one mile wouldnt be that much for a Camel. Considering this, one can see the true sarcasm hidden in the camels statement. The camel is saying I do not care for Camel cigarettes, I prefer my pipe.
[ART PORTAL]

At 12/18/09 07:48 PM, J-qb wrote: I made a funny!

Hehehe, awesome. Pipes are cooler anyways.

Sorry I didn't answer, I'm watching the karate kid.

At 5/30/09 10:30 AM, J-qb wrote: nro 3: Metropolis Desmurftion
29-01-2009

I like the simple style of art you use and I gotta say, I laughed on this one.

At 12/19/09 11:46 AM, Joshsouza wrote:

At 5/30/09 10:30 AM, J-qb wrote: nro 3: Metropolis Desmurftion
29-01-2009

I like the simple style of art you use and I gotta say, I laughed on this one.

Thanks, though Im actually deviating from that simpler style at the moment... getting more arty, less cartooney...
But its good to hear it made you laugh, that was one of the main aims of that picture