Hi everyone! Erik forced me to join. I'm waaaay too self conscious about my stuff currently, but I promise to start posting here very soonish. You guys make amazing stuff! ;__;
Since I don't really have anything right now, enjoy one of my many croquis pages.
Yeah it was a crazy fun one to do. I just picked a few colors I liked and worked it all around until I got the shapes I wanted. Then I just fixed the contrast and values with some color balance and hue - saturation adjustment layers.
Good to see everyone's active! Some new faces as well, hello, hello! Still sketching, just forgot to upload. So here's a bunch of uploads for the last couple days!
Worked on a quick portrait for class. HR Giger inspired with some Alien touches. Didn't turn out quite how I wanted it to but it was late and I didn't want to sacrifice precious sleep to keep working on it. I'm quite satisfied for a first try. I really have to practice more on concept and just running wild with shapes and stuff. But I've gotten way more used to blocking in colors and working without lineart
I paint at a much higher resolution. Around 2000px width and height. And then crop according to actual image size. And I also shrink the picture a bit and lower the quality so it loads faster on the net or it will take forever to load for those will a slower connection
Really nice stuff everybody! Im way impressed with all the creativity ^^
Awesome chair Twoflower!
Cool thumbs keres, altough you could go more crazy with the shapes, start with the legs instead and see what kind of body you end up with. Do different sized and lengths on the legs, go crazy
Pisciel: That giger work turnd out pretty damn neat! ;O
Awesome work everyone! I was not able to post much but I was watching this thread every day. You guys are improving so much! I'll fall behind eh. I've been away on vacations and settling back to school so I didn't have much time for uploading stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to this thread regularly again.
Started today with some doodling and this is what came out so far. I kind of lke the idea, so I'll try to go for a finished piece. I'm not quite sure about the composition yet, but I have a very specific color-palette in mind.
great to have you back aleon! cool piece think you could throw in some cool looking mountain or fantasy castle/structure in the background. looking forward to the finished piece ^^
Nice stuff TF, those thumbs look damn fine. I love the characters and the colors for you as always aiconx. I also dig the organic mecha sketches there Erik.
Derp I'm still playing around with the same pic. I can't seem to be able to get past the thumb concept...
It doesn't look like you would have any brushes to do that :P You seem to have a polished illustrative style whereas I need them for quick rough concepting
Frell I think you can easily make your own brushes for that. For rocks and foliage just get a texture, crank the contrast to heavens, then chip the edges off and create a custom brush. (Scattering, etc as you like) For bricks I think you would be better off using a texture overlay.
No digital from me yet. Have been drawing a lot on A2 sized paper recently tho... Still no idea how to digitalize them sadly. I think I need a camera.
Have been struggeling with edge control especially with hard edges. tried out lasso tool today and im soooo gonna start incorporating it into my workflow
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thanks! and keep it up kine, you're improving fast
looks wicked caspar!
Here is my ocean pics!
That dude reminds me of the sellsword dude stuff we did some while ago
edit: lineart! will prolly be a values one tomorrow!
thank kine!
nice stuff guys, like the bottom left one erik, interesting scene
My old bamboo fun died on my, with smoke and everything. So I'll stick to traditional with mouse touchups in photoshop for the weekends for now
Day 1:
I'm learning how to paint right now. The rocks, for my level of creativity, actually turned out rather well I think
Since I don't really have anything right now, enjoy one of my many croquis pages.
The shading on those rocks look pretty good keres, try some more irregular shapes for the mountains in the back to make them look more interesting
my left hand stuff often turns out more dynamic than my right hand stuff
Been slacking on the uploading part
day 141-143
^^^WIP
Cool aiconx, really liking them sketches
Hiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii Li...sorry, Pisciel
Gooooooooooooood too see ya here!
hehe, I sit behind you in class pisciel
Really like that girl's outfit TF
left
Final pic of my "Small-environmet-thumb" series based on the four elements.
Yeah it was a crazy fun one to do. I just picked a few colors I liked and worked it all around until I got the shapes I wanted. Then I just fixed the contrast and values with some color balance and hue - saturation adjustment layers.
aiconx: cool top image! really makes you wanna know the story as to what is happening in that image.
day 144
The poses were very fun.
Worked on a quick portrait for class. HR Giger inspired with some Alien touches. Didn't turn out quite how I wanted it to but it was late and I didn't want to sacrifice precious sleep to keep working on it. I'm quite satisfied for a first try. I really have to practice more on concept and just running wild with shapes and stuff. But I've gotten way more used to blocking in colors and working without lineart
looking good guys!
I revisited my mountain painting to get some shading practice. Hopefully that is allowed
Do you guys paint at these low resolutions, or do you scale them down before posting?
I scale down too
The mountains look much better that way
day 145-146 first of 4 chairs ^^
A couple of strange silhouette sketch practices
Awesome chair Twoflower!
Cool thumbs keres, altough you could go more crazy with the shapes, start with the legs instead and see what kind of body you end up with. Do different sized and lengths on the legs, go crazy
Pisciel: That giger work turnd out pretty damn neat! ;O
Here is some Zbrush stuff im working on for school -
http://www.polycount.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1664955&postcount=151
Il see where these leads:
day 147
nice stuff guys!
bears today
Also this, here ya go Caspar :P
refs used -
nice dino warrior erik ^^ school assignment?
day 148 1h speedpaint
awesome lizard erik, dig his design
nice TF, like the poles with the wires there
more bears with girl and a necromancer
Awesome work everyone! I was not able to post much but I was watching this thread every day. You guys are improving so much! I'll fall behind eh. I've been away on vacations and settling back to school so I didn't have much time for uploading stuff. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to this thread regularly again.
Started today with some doodling and this is what came out so far. I kind of lke the idea, so I'll try to go for a finished piece. I'm not quite sure about the composition yet, but I have a very specific color-palette in mind.
WB aleon
day 150
sweet colours in the bottom one TF
right hand the left one and left hand the right one
I set a 30 minute timer on each one to keep them within that time frame.
day 151
dig those thumbs TF
Derp I'm still playing around with the same pic. I can't seem to be able to get past the thumb concept...
Edit: day 5
painting different sized boxes from different angles with different light source angles
Here are some sketches I did on the bus since all the trains were cancelled for the morning. First try at some traditional speedpaints : )
like the forest one the most aleon
dig the bottom mid one pisciel
cliffs/rocks
bricks in building walls (obviously not perfect but just a concepty look)
Grass
Or does anyone have any techniques to create these fast? They all seem so tedious and im new to painting environments
day 152 did some paper sketches and still don't have a camera : (
day 153 starting to polish this piece
none here I'm afraid Frell
No digital from me yet. Have been drawing a lot on A2 sized paper recently tho... Still no idea how to digitalize them sadly. I think I need a camera.
day 154 2 uninspired quickies