Art Thread

Frooxius · Post by **Frooxius** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:07 pm

Yes, but when it's used often, it's not really that much original anymore though. But why not also use central heterochromia or sectoral heterochromia? Or make a new distinctive features? For example go radical and make a third eye! That will shoot lasers! Pinestrawberry devouring lasers! MUHAHAHA!

*runs to the lab to research what he just said*

Vespier Leo · Post by **Vespier Leo** » Sat Jul 02, 2011 8:13 pm

That is a possibility. One of my characters has Dicromia. It is a condition in wich the eyes have to bands of color an inner band that is Green and a thin outer band of matalic copper color.

Blue Braixen · Post by **Blue Braixen** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 12:34 am

Also, scars kind of suck because you generally have to come up with a story for 'em.

Sun Jul 03, 2011 12:44 am

unless they just walked into a door or something. but coming up with stories for scars can be fun.

Post by **Sleet** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:33 am

Tha Housefox wrote:Also, scars kind of suck because you generally have to come up with a story for 'em.

Or just be like me with my missing eye and not have a story.

It's a mystery to everyone!

QRS3000 · Post by **QRS3000** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 3:42 am

Why not have a damaged eye and a scar?

. I don't know how to describe the eye here but the darker part of the face is a partial face transplant hence the scars.http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/ ... 75657.html If the image doesn't appear it's because I'm getting used to the site format.

redmarker97 · Post by **redmarker97** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 11:14 am

Sleet wrote:
Tha Housefox wrote:Also, scars kind of suck because you generally have to come up with a story for 'em.
Or just be like me with my missing eye and not have a story.

It's a mystery to everyone!

Wait, so thats why your 'sona has different colored eyes?

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. Or I could be completely wrong.

Shyanne · Post by **Shyanne** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 2:27 pm

Haven't posted anything here in awhile..Everyone's art is always so good, heh makes me feel like i suck..well i do but anyway..

A picture I drew for someone.

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and a pic of me and my roomate enjoying some fireworks

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Blue Braixen · Post by **Blue Braixen** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:22 pm

redmarker97 wrote:
Sleet wrote:
Tha Housefox wrote:Also, scars kind of suck because you generally have to come up with a story for 'em.
Or just be like me with my missing eye and not have a story.

It's a mystery to everyone!
Wait, so thats why your 'sona has different colored eyes?

IT ALL MAKES SENSE NOW. Or I could be completely wrong.

Hehe, correct.

@Shy: CUTENESS! *dies*

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 5:42 pm

Some people wrote:Stuff about eyes and eye color and heterochromacy

I think eyes are just a great way to customize them to fit your character. A lot of people don't really get how much of an art there is in character creation (I don't pretend to be an expert by any means), but i love to use the eyes as a way to associate the design with the personality. have one character with completely black eyeballs, and several with different colored eyes. It's just a great thing to utilize, because you'll get a lot of acceptable breaks from reality there, and they are really highly customizable*, and can draw a lot or very little attention immediately. You can get a little metaphorical with it too, in such that the design of their eyes relates to how they see the world. It's just a cool thing to have fun with in your characterization process.

*Spell check says this is not a word. I'm not crazy, am I?

Frooxius · Post by **Frooxius** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:52 pm

Psykeout: yeah, like I said, my fursona has electroluminiscent eye iris, so whenever he/I gets near stronger electromagnetic field (or even radiation) his/my eyes start to glow in electrical blue. And not just that, also when he gets electrocuted (I love that! Get's you so energized! Doesn't hurt because of different physiology that works well as both conductor and dielectric material) or simply very excited (usually about something cool scientific) when I start to generate slight field myself. I hope that it's at least a little bit original too. But it signifies what my "basic element" is: electricity - electromagnetic field/power.

EDIT: OMG... (oh my graviton) another one with a slideshow instead of an avatar

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Sun Jul 03, 2011 8:54 pm

Maybe a thread about character design would be cool.

yehoshua · Post by **yehoshua** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 1:19 am

I won some sort of contest on FA or something and I'm getting a request so I hurried and made a bad but understandable ref sheet for my character WHO IS A FOLF. I will improve my sheet but until then, at least I have a sheet now :*D

Full size image here

QRS3000 · Post by **QRS3000** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 2:33 am

By qrs3000 at 2011-07-03

By qrs3000 at 2011-07-04

I tend to think that I draw people better than animals but what do you think?
I just hope the drawings of people aren't too bothersome. Do any of my characters appear to be lacking in characterization? Is characterization even a visual thing? That is do they look boring?

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 10:55 am

QRS3000 wrote:Do any of my characters appear to be lacking in characterization? Is characterization even a visual thing? That is do they look boring?

Psykeout wrote:Maybe a thread about character design would be cool.

I reiterate.

QRS3000 · Post by **QRS3000** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 6:29 pm

so this is a rate my drawings animated drawing of one of my favorite pianists Art Tatum http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/ ... 79508.html I tried to go for the line engraving look

and then here is what I would consider my best drawn anthropomorphic/furry/funny animal. I hope the retro 20s feel isn't too strange and/or mooching off the popularity of Lackadaisy Cats. yes, it's a cat ... at least I think it looks like one. http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/ ... 72260.html The stray line really ruined the mood of that piece. How well would that character would appear in color? I only have a lot of black and white drawings because I know that it will, more or less, look the same. Color, however, is a lot more difficult to render,especially the color purple. in that regard, the inside of Pete's ear can ether appear blue or purple depending on the display device that is used to view the color.I don't want to run into this problem.

Vespier Leo · Post by **Vespier Leo** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:44 pm

Those are good QRS3000. They have a very interesting style to them.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 7:57 pm

QRS3000 wrote:so this is a rate my drawings animated drawing of one of my favorite pianists Art Tatum http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/ ... 79508.html I tried to go for the line engraving look

and then here is what I would consider my best drawn anthropomorphic/furry/funny animal. I hope the retro 20s feel isn't too strange and/or mooching off the popularity of Lackadaisy Cats. yes, it's a cat ... at least I think it looks like one. http://www.ratemydrawings.com/drawings/ ... 72260.html The stray line really ruined the mood of that piece. How well would that character would appear in color? I only have a lot of black and white drawings because I know that it will, more or less, look the same. Color, however, is a lot more difficult to render,especially the color purple. in that regard, the inside of Pete's ear can ether appear blue or purple depending on the display device that is used to view the color.I don't want to run into this problem.

i only now just realized that you only use straight lines.

cool.

QRS3000 · Post by **QRS3000** » Mon Jul 04, 2011 9:30 pm

If I tried to use the pencil tool my line art would be a lot wobbly plus I rather prefer to do my art traditionally, though when I draw traditionally my drawings tend to be all over the pages.

ResTheRabbit · Post by **ResTheRabbit** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 6:44 pm

hmm... if you're using mainly a mouse, I suggest downloading GIMP which is free and is on par with photoshop. It, I'm pretty sure but still not quite confident, has a line anchoring tool that allows you to create curves and lines accurately. In photoshop you use anchor points to make perfect curves when inking your drawings... how to do that, I'm still clueless, but that's what they're used for traditionally, creating paths. But if you create paths as a way to draw, that could work to make curves without having to use the pencil tool. :3

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 7:07 pm

Box O Lions wrote:I suggest downloading GIMP which is free and is on par with photoshop. It, I'm pretty sure but still not quite confident, has a line anchoring tool that allows you to create curves and lines accurately.

It does. i use that tool all the time. if you need any help with it, ask me about it. i know my way around the path tool.

(psst, it's actually really easy)

QRS3000 · Post by **QRS3000** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 8:54 pm

Box O Lions wrote:hmm... if you're using mainly a mouse, I suggest downloading GIMP which is free and is on par with photoshop. It, I'm pretty sure but still not quite confident, has a line anchoring tool that allows you to create curves and lines accurately. In photoshop you use anchor points to make perfect curves when inking your drawings... how to do that, I'm still clueless, but that's what they're used for traditionally, creating paths. But if you create paths as a way to draw, that could work to make curves without having to use the pencil tool. :3

It's funny you mention that because I already have Gimp on my computer, Gimp 2.6.11 Tiger, in fact. When you talk about paths that's not using the shift key and line tool is it? I forgot to mention that I have Adobe Illustrator 8.0.

Psykeout · Post by **Psykeout** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 9:09 pm

QRS3000 wrote:
Box O Lions wrote:hmm... if you're using mainly a mouse, I suggest downloading GIMP which is free and is on par with photoshop. It, I'm pretty sure but still not quite confident, has a line anchoring tool that allows you to create curves and lines accurately. In photoshop you use anchor points to make perfect curves when inking your drawings... how to do that, I'm still clueless, but that's what they're used for traditionally, creating paths. But if you create paths as a way to draw, that could work to make curves without having to use the pencil tool. :3
It's funny you mention that because I already have Gimp on my computer, Gimp 2.6.11 Tiger, in fact. When you talk about paths that's not using the shift key and line tool is it? I forgot to mention that I have Adobe Illustrator 8.0.

no, you press B

QRS3000 · Post by **QRS3000** » Wed Jul 06, 2011 11:57 pm

Psykeout wrote:
QRS3000 wrote:
Box O Lions wrote:hmm... if you're using mainly a mouse, I suggest downloading GIMP which is free and is on par with photoshop. It, I'm pretty sure but still not quite confident, has a line anchoring tool that allows you to create curves and lines accurately. In photoshop you use anchor points to make perfect curves when inking your drawings... how to do that, I'm still clueless, but that's what they're used for traditionally, creating paths. But if you create paths as a way to draw, that could work to make curves without having to use the pencil tool. :3
It's funny you mention that because I already have Gimp on my computer, Gimp 2.6.11 Tiger, in fact. When you talk about paths that's not using the shift key and line tool is it? I forgot to mention that I have Adobe Illustrator 8.0.
no, you press B

OK , I understand that now but how do you switch between an open path and closed path? If I understood how to properly use it I could get much smoother curves in my digital drawings. It's much harder to fake a curve with many straight lines.

Zander · Post by **Zander** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:32 pm

or not.

Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:36 pm

that's awesome.

CaptainPea · Post by **CaptainPea** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 1:37 pm

Your mom is a human

what

I like that expression in the last panel there. Well, the last panel before the text, that is

Daggy · Post by **Daggy** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 2:12 pm

CaptainPea wrote:Your mom is a human

what

Clearly a house pet. Or Zander was mysteriously transformed, leaving his mom completely unharmed.

This made me laugh. Good work, as usual!

Zander · Post by **Zander** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 5:50 pm

CaptainPea wrote:Your mom is a human

what

My mom is anti-furry, it would be redundant to draw her as one.

Kitela · Post by **Kitela** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 6:06 pm

Zander wrote:
CaptainPea wrote:Your mom is a human

what
My mom is anti-furry

Then you should draw her as one. x3

Nahh...

Btw, I lol'd

Coatl_Ruu · Post by **Coatl_Ruu** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 7:24 pm

But then if his mom came into contact with the drawing, they would annihilate each other and turn the entire east coast into a blast crater! D:

Anti-furry... anti-matter... ahem. >_>

Anyway, I liked the comic.

Post by **Sleet** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 8:13 pm

Zander wrote:
CaptainPea wrote:Your mom is a human

what
My mom is anti-furry, it would be redundant to draw her as one.

I like the comic though! ^_^

Zander · Post by **Zander** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 9:19 pm

inconsequential

There. that fits better.

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:10 pm

Meh.

I feel like it looks like crap, which must mean I'm a real artist.

Sleet wrote:
I like the comic though! ^_^

Princess Bride reference ftw

Hypergenesis · Post by **Hypergenesis** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:13 pm

Thumb in the wrong position?

Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:13 pm

better than I could do.

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:14 pm

Hypergenesis wrote:Thumb in the wrong position?

Crap. No wonder it looked wrong.

Hypergenesis · Post by **Hypergenesis** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:16 pm

Teh Brawler wrote:
Hypergenesis wrote:Thumb in the wrong position?
Crap. No wonder it looked wrong.

On a slightly related, or completely unrelated note.

Onizuka?

Teh Brawler · Post by **Teh Brawler** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:26 pm

Hypergenesis wrote:On a slightly related, or completely unrelated note.

Onizuka?

Gesundheit.

Zander · Post by **Zander** » Thu Jul 07, 2011 10:43 pm

Teh Brawler wrote:
Hypergenesis wrote:On a slightly related, or completely unrelated note.

Onizuka?
Gesundheit.

Dang it. I lol'd