Art Thread

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 1:54 pm

I love the toon facial hair.

zeldakeeper · Post by **zeldakeeper** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 2:27 pm

Really? I struggle with facial hair which annoys me because I love guys who have a stubble.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Thu Oct 20, 2011 5:39 pm

that's a fun drawing.

facial hair is indeed epic.

BRAVO ZELDA.

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Fri Oct 21, 2011 9:01 pm

NickCole: The furriest non-furry ever.

@Zelda YOU HAVE THE CUTEST DRAWING STYLE EVER

I tend to sacrifice beautiful drawings for compactness and efficient story-telling (since I'm a cartoonist and all), so this is what you get.

Not that I can draw beautifully anyways.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 12:01 am

Teh Brawler wrote:*art goes hurr*

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 1:16 am

Psykeout wrote:
Teh Brawler wrote:*art goes hurr*

The sad thing about the art student owl is I have yet to find one that isn't true at some level.

zeldakeeper · Post by **zeldakeeper** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 4:42 am

@Psykeout

Thanks! *bows*

@Teh Brawler

; u ; Thank you but I was just copying Wind Waker Link for the face then Snake just happened so Nintendo has the cutest style ever not me.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sat Oct 22, 2011 7:19 pm

Teh Brawler wrote:
Psykeout wrote:
Teh Brawler wrote:*art goes hurr*
blurp
The sad thing about the art student owl is I have yet to find one that isn't true at some level.

Art newbie owl (which I realized I can't link to the tumblr because blargh language) always manages to lower my self esteem. Just when I think "oh art newbie owl can't hurt me anymore" they do.

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 5:04 pm

A censored version of the poster quarter I'm working.
The poster is 1/4 finished, and its a shame I had to cut out the Hirogian warrior, but
he was naked after all...

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Sun Oct 23, 2011 10:44 pm

You've got good variation in designs going on. (What happened to the one guy's foot on the bottom row, though?)
I'm intrigued by the fellow in orange with the impressive gut on the bottom row there. Are all his people of such generous girth?

Hey let's start a space chain

“The best we can hope for is entertainment. We'll get along as long as you provide amusement - fighting our wars for us, fixing our worlds, looking for meaning where there is none, and groveling in the dirt to fetch us plants. So keep it up! Just remember that we're laughing all the time.”

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Mon Oct 24, 2011 2:16 pm

You've got good variation in designs going on. (What happened to the one guy's foot on the bottom row, though?)
I'm intrigued by the fellow in orange with the impressive gut on the bottom row there. Are all his people of such generous girth?

Thanks! Variation in design is really what I was aiming for, since they're aliens XP.
Now about the Ambraali foot... I sorta ran out of space an the A4... and so decided to edit a fade out of the foot... should work on that.
Yes, the Glish are all like that (ok, most don't really have a fat belly, but this is a well fed slave-driver).
I've made the Glish here busy with a whip because they're the only 100% true evil race in our galaxy, and collect many slaves
of stone age planets.
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Just for the heck of it, I'll post up another snippet from my poster (currently 45% finished):

Dark miner, not from the Milky Way galaxy, or this dimension in that case....
(Captain, your alien looks.... weird; like a three eyed fox ^_^ )

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Tue Oct 25, 2011 4:24 pm

A pic of me!!:

Well... sort of anyways...

theblackcateyes · Post by **theblackcateyes** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:10 pm

ammmm haha Caty in Housepets! version
I made it in like 10 minutes hehe

ManaWolf · Post by **ManaWolf** » Wed Oct 26, 2011 8:28 pm

It think the part of a housepets! housepet that throws me off the most is the arms. I have no idea how the arms work. Nice work the theblackcateyes :3.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:17 pm

more of this shtuff

and maybe one day you, too can have yourself drawn as such

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Fri Oct 28, 2011 4:34 pm

And more of this stuff:

Terrig space marine.

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:34 am

And some art you can all make fun of.

You should know I work in links by now.

Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:37 am

looks good, but he seems to have a small case of T-Rex arms.

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 3:59 am

Yeah, I'm not so good with limbs.

Took me at least six tries to get them the way they are. Usually if they were bigger, they'd look funny.

Blue Braixen · Post by **Blue Braixen** » Sat Oct 29, 2011 12:47 pm

I agree, it looks really good.

...And reminds me of Zander's 'sona.

ReCreate · Post by **ReCreate** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:29 am

The clothing is similar.

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 12:39 am

I've never seen a full body shot of Zander's 'sona.

FowlJ · Post by **FowlJ** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:42 am

Tattorack wrote:And more of this stuff:
Picture.
Terrig space marine.

You're pretty good. Would you mind terribly if I had a few comments, though?

Firstly, what program do you colour in? I have a suggestion, if it is one like photoshop where you can set blending modes to different layers - Set your sketch to 'multiply', it gets rid of the white fuzzy edges.

Secondly, you should really avoid soft brushes/blur tool/smudge tool/blur filter for shading - hard brushes almost always give a better look, whether you are going for cell shading or gradients.

Regardless, it's still better than most of the stuff I do - Nice work.

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:40 am

zeldakeeper wrote: @Teh Brawler

; u ; Thank you but I was just copying Wind Waker Link for the face then Snake just happened so Nintendo has the cutest style ever not me.

DON' CURR STILL CYOOT

NickCole · Post by **NickCole** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 3:18 pm

A little gift art for Mystic Wolf. x3

zeldakeeper · Post by **zeldakeeper** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:21 pm

Teh Brawler wrote:
zeldakeeper wrote: @Teh Brawler

; u ; Thank you but I was just copying Wind Waker Link for the face then Snake just happened so Nintendo has the cutest style ever not me.
DON' CURR STILL CYOOT

HUURRRRRRR

(that means Thank you in derp)

@Nicky

D'AAAAAAW LOOK AT THOSE EYES!

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 4:39 pm

Psykeout wrote:more of this shtuff

and maybe one day you, too can have yourself drawn as such

Oh joyous anticipation!

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:24 pm

FowlJ wrote:You're pretty good. Would you mind terribly if I had a few comments, though?
Firstly, what program do you colour in? I have a suggestion, if it is one like photoshop where you can set blending modes to different layers - Set your sketch to 'multiply', it gets rid of the white fuzzy edges.
Secondly, you should really avoid soft brushes/blur tool/smudge tool/blur filter for shading - hard brushes almost always give a better look, whether you are going for cell shading or gradients.
Regardless, it's still better than most of the stuff I do - Nice work.

Thanks! I'm using Gimp... and I'm not all too familiar with it, so I wouldn't know what setting to multiply is/would do/where to find.
Also, I color all this with a mouse

, no special Wacom tablet.
How would you make a gradient with a hard brush?

FowlJ · Post by **FowlJ** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 5:52 pm

Tattorack wrote: Thanks! I'm using Gimp... and I'm not all too familiar with it, so I wouldn't know what setting to multiply is/would do/where to find.
Also, I color all this with a mouse, no special Wacom tablet.
How would you make a gradient with a hard brush?

It's easy, just takes a little longer - Choose the colour you want you shadow to be, then fill that it like you did, then make the brush a tad smaller, choose a colour that is about half way between your flat colour and your shadow, and then go over the hard edge of the shadow. If there are still hard edges, pick a new colour, again half way between the colours that are there, and repeat. Continue doing that until it blends something like this:

Now, I was lazy, so the gradient is kind of banded, but you get the idea - Takes a while, but it's totally worth it.

As for the multiply thing:

RandomPersonOnYahooAnswers wrote:In the layers dialog (control L) highlight the layer you want to modify. There's a dropdown list called "mode" in the layer menu. All the options you mention (and many more) are available in this menu.

Set it to multiply there, and then just do the colours under the line layer. Multiply basically sets the opacity of the layer based on how close the colour is to white or black. The black lines would stay solid whereas the white noise around the edges would become mostly transparent.

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:27 pm

Hey thanks! Will try!

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:40 pm

Hay dere

FowlJ wrote:
Tattorack wrote:It's easy, just takes a little longer - Choose the colour you want you shadow to be, then fill that it like you did, then make the brush a tad smaller, choose a colour that is about half way between your flat colour and your shadow, and then go over the hard edge of the shadow. If there are still hard edges, pick a new colour, again half way between the colours that are there, and repeat. Continue doing that until it blends something like this:

You can also just change the opacity of the brush instead of finding a new color each time, but I don't know if that would produce the same result.
I myself usually keep a flat color layer, and put any shading in a single color on another layer, on which I just play with the opacity and blending effects till it looks right. Of course, my shading is pretty much always flat so ya now.
Why do you want to make a gradient with a hard brush?

Tattorack · Post by **Tattorack** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 6:53 pm

Captain: I can really see what inspires you!
Just in case your wondering how I shade:
I take (in gimp) the paint brush, black, with 47% opacity, then I blend with the blur tool.
Its practically almost the same as how I normally draw on paper:
I take a B2/4 pencil, with soft tip, then I blend with a color shaper (hope you know what that is).

Irony · Post by **Irony** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 7:33 pm

peanut doing parkour or something derp

skateboard and shades because DEAL W/ IT

FowlJ · Post by **FowlJ** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:09 pm

CaptainPea wrote: Why do you want to make a gradient with a hard brush?

Well, when you are shading something with a matte texture, like the sphere I drew, it doesn't really matter so much. There are a lot of things where using a hard brush makes much cleaner, smoother textures, though, so it's typically good to get into the habit. Now, if one is doing their shading with blending effects like you said, that's where soft brushes can really shine - But in a complex picture, you end up with a massive amount of layers when you shade like that.

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Mon Oct 31, 2011 10:43 pm

Irony wrote:
peanut doing parkour or something derp

skateboard and shades because DEAL W/ IT

I like the way you colored this, although, to be a nag, it's better suited for the Fan Art thread since it is in fact Housepets related.

FowlJ wrote:
CaptainPea wrote: Why do you want to make a gradient with a hard brush?
Well, when you are shading something with a matte texture, like the sphere I drew, it doesn't really matter so much. There are a lot of things where using a hard brush makes much cleaner, smoother textures, though, so it's typically good to get into the habit. Now, if one is doing their shading with blending effects like you said, that's where soft brushes can really shine - But in a complex picture, you end up with a massive amount of layers when you shade like that.

I hardly ever use soft brushes, but that's because I usually do very simple flat shading.
I'm also just a neurotic freak and I'm paranoid that if I don't keep everything on separate layers I'll mess up and wish I had. It runs Photoshop up a wall sometimes, but hey.

Edit: Now time for more dinosaurs. (Although pterodactyls aren't dinosaurs)

I'm not really a dinosaur guy, but they're in my brain at the moment.

Ian the Gecko · Post by **Ian the Gecko** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 11:32 am

A friend of mine drew an otter saint, so I thought about drawing my 'sona as a real saint:

CY_Law · Post by **CY_Law** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:45 pm

I derped and actually forgot to post this here

Happy halloween~ |D *late*

EDIT: Photobucket messed up the picture for some reason, so I switched to the one on my FA account.

Seth · Post by **Seth** » Tue Nov 01, 2011 9:56 pm

Irony wrote:

peanut doing parkour or something derp

skateboard and shades because DEAL W/ IT

The awesome contained in this cannot be totally encompased by words

Post by **Sleet** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 1:35 am

Tonberry! <3

Amazing costume!

Leafolawl · Post by **Leafolawl** » Wed Nov 02, 2011 3:13 pm

I am about to assault your eyes with a horridly done year-old drawing!

IN COLOR!