Painting

New painting I'm working on ... ughhh i dunno... -____<

here's the process so far:

Monster dude

Critique me, I suck at monsters
For a digipainting, the torso's, right arm and part of the left arm is going to be 3D like while the rest will be flat.

Its a shadow monster that latches onto some losers shadow, its an energy drainer and gets bigger and bigger as it lives on the guy, and it eventually can leave its host.

cuz mikki needs help

Mikki you should check out these people especially
http://ashleybambaland.blogspot.com/ Ashely Wood
http://www.skottieyoung.com/ Skottie Young
http://antoniosantamaria.blogspot.com/
http://coyotesaskia.blogspot.com/
http://makismlost.blogspot.com/
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:cuson/310467&section=
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:Mr--Jack/78515&section=
http://ezdraws.blogspot.com/
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:Lancer-X/891575&section=
http://shaneprigmore.blogspot.com/
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:W4M1/115687&section=
http://inspectorcleuzo.blogspot.com
http://kekai.blogspot.com/
http://flaptraps.blogspot.com/
http://tinfoilgames.com/
http://www.robotpencil.org/

In the continuing effort to procrastinate

here's my third try at painting like peter levente (i think that's his name)
1.5hrs

things i learned:
1. it's hard
2. it's really hard
3. dodge, burn - any of the layering methods that produce harsh colours are BAD and take ages to even sorta get rid of...
4. dodge, burn - any of the layering methods that produce harsh colours quickly cause the image to appear.
5. it's pretty fun and i want to get better at this
6. frankly any layering method which produces harsh colours
should be avoided if it all possible.
7. Dani would be a hot barbarian... :p


Awake More Notes:
at first the brushing is pretty random. However, in generally you should be thinking about light and dark and very impressionistic shapes in 3d, ie, paint select an area and paint a bright side then add a dark side, the colour choice doesn't matter just one light and one dark.

when watching his videos note how he pauses, flops the image, impressionisticly paints in an object, connects darks and lights together.


Here Him talk:
http://vimeo.com/927695
painting with intention vs the random
http://vimeo.com/13038087


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Peter Levente's brush pack http://www.megaupload.com/?d=8JG2SGUI

My Inspiration folder and how I find all this crap

Here's a link to all the images i keep on my phone that many of you have seen:
Blake's Inspiration Images


I find most this via www.conceptart.org CGSociety Art Gallery Dominance War on places like conceptart.org I use the artist's handle and then do a google search for their blog or deviant art account. Once I have that I add the subscription to google reader which then allows me to see all crap in on place. (google reader will also suggest other people you can subscribe to)

there's also this place
http://www.gameartisans.org/forums/index.php
and
http://www.zbrushcentral.com/ (main forum) - yes it's 3d but that doesn't mean it couldn't have been 2d


there's also these people that I don't think are on the previous list

These 3 are all NCsoft employed - the makers of Guild Wars and Guild Wars 2
http://kekai.blogspot.com/
http://flaptraps.blogspot.com/
http://tinfoilgames.com/

Friend of Richard Anderson (Flaptrap)
http://ryandemita.blogspot.com/

Coolio Stuff

Here's a process shot of a painting by mr--jack:

Something worth noting is that he's using a hard edged brush - being all painterly and brush strokey pretty much necessitates it. If you don't it'll look muddy and or gooey.















you can see a whole bunch of his process shots here:
mr--jack process shots


*the above image was made and is owned by Luke Mancini (Mr--Jack)

My digital method

here are some progress shots of my creature painting:

first a very quick sketch in black and eraser (white BG)
the sticky-outy things are silhouetted dead trees found on google


Further white erasing and new leg positions - the goal here is not really define a light source but to cut in forms that are important.


finally adding in the girl and BG which is just a cloud brush. at this point it's almost ready for a more delicate touch on the erasing.
 

once it's refined a little more (never actually painting in greys only blacks and erasing white i'll grab a few images off of google, eg: http://theorganicartist.files.wordpress.com/2010/09/ancu.jpg http://nstockham.files.wordpress.com/2009/01/photo-water-colour.jpg and chop out bits of them and paste them all over it in places here i kinda like and then try out different layering methods to get a new and cooler colours. from there I'll be clone stamping with spacing off...

The Crying Child

Hey Team, Travis here;


So I thought I would destroy Blake monopolisation of this place with my assignment of the head and hands.
I was trying initially to go for a photo realistic face. I decided not to go with that because the half photo-realistic and half painterly were working out for me.

Anyways, tell me whatcha think. I'm open to any suggestions here.
9-10 hours

hand and face

My head 'n' hands; 5hrs photoshop:

Critiques:
Barney - face (and hand) need more structure and expression isn't really working - hair annoys him
Adam - gets to "furry" on the edges use the eraser; arm is a bit wonky along with neck and shoulder - expression could be better.

Grog McGee

Here's my concept for my pirate and my soldier

Notes: I need to bring grog's head down - his neck feels skinny which doesn't make sense.

neatness

I just stumbled on this and thought it was a worth linking here - it's a good example of how to make a gradient background not look retarded:

Grog McGee

Here is some early work with grog mcgee who will be one of the characters i'm doing for character design:

and this would be the ship he sails on called the black albatros (the ship in the image is the HMS Rose):

Character Design roughs

of me?!

iz a pirate! (and some other stuff)

First Mr. Pirate Man (aka Grog McGee)

And here's some older stuff (newest to oldest) - most of it is unfinished ... because either I'm bored of it or I don't know how to finish it :/

Sweet tits that's some hot links batman!

Here are all the blogs etc where I get all my images from:
http://ashleybambaland.blogspot.com/ Ashely Wood
http://gotcheeks.blogspot.com/ Sean Cheeks Galloway (Char designer for Spectacular Spiderman)
http://www.skottieyoung.com/ Skottie Young
http://southerngfxblog.blogspot.com/ Glen Southern (he did my creature last semester)
http://stephensilver.blogspot.com/ Stephen Silver
http://sushixav.blogspot.com/ Gobelins Grad (via Adam)
http://thomasperkins.blogspot.com/ Thomas Perkins
http://antoniosantamaria.blogspot.com/ Antonio Santamaria (he's awesome if only cause his name is Antonio)\
http://coyotesaskia.blogspot.com/ Saskia Gutenkunst
http://katiecandraw.typepad.com/katiecandrawcom_internet_/ Katie
http://francisbarrios.blogspot.com/ Francis Barrio
http://waltergatus.blogspot.com/ Walter Gatus
http://makismlost.blogspot.com/ Maxime Mary (3rd Year Gobelins Student)
http://makism-book.blogspot.com/ more Maxime
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:cuson/310467&section= Cuson
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:Mr--Jack/78515&section= Mr--Jack (concept artist for Blizzard)
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:ToddNauck/435814&section= Todd Nauck (Penciler for some of Spider Man Back in Black)
http://ezdraws.blogspot.com/ Eytan Zana
http://grantgould.blogspot.com/ Grant Gould
http://inspectorcleuzo.blogspot.com/ Sandro Cleuzo
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:Lancer-X/891575&section= Lancer X
http://larolaro.blogspot.com/ Rob Laro
http://shaneprigmore.blogspot.com/ Shane Prigmore
http://search.deviantart.com/?q=gallery:W4M1/115687&section= W4M1
http://uminga.deviantart.com/gallery/ guy that did the super cutie superheroes

Ms. Cartwright

Really fast paint and sketch (in the reverse order ;| ) -about 20mins-

Skoooooool FISH

For digital painting we got our first assignment - a fish; part 1 is just to paint in a greyscale; this is my first couple of hours:

Inception Fanart

Mal from Inception.

i really liked her character, she was pretty awesome. i loved them all, but shes currently my wallpaper. wanted it to be stylized, kind like those fashion kinda drawings? theyre always elongated and stuff, and kinda weird looking. i have this fascination with it, despite the fact i have no reference...haha. and i dont remember what artist did it first...but they always make their dresses turn into things...im sorta obsessed with it, i always draw it in notebooks and stuff, but i dont care! its pretty! coloured roughly like how adam suggested. i need to get more brushes...serioully.

what ya think? anyone alive?

Howl's Moving Castle

Fanart for howl and sophie! i was watching it and decided to do it! i hate colouring, so its really rough, and for some reason all my cool brushes decided to run away! yay! comments are appreciated!

ALSO! this was coloured with a mouse!!! not a tablet!! so it sucks moreso cuz of that.

-mikki
p.s. i tried to load up my last animation assignment but it wouldnt >__<

WUT

So I was drawing... And I had this really cool idea.

But as you can tell, I had a bit of an issue while working on it and just decided to do something else ^^

P.S. I don't know why it's so big >.<

Yay for robot duuuuuuude xD

It's just a sketch. I don't really plan on finishing it. But it's just a random idea that I had and sort of put out there. Just showing that I'm not dead xD

double trouble animation!

w00tw00t

i'm gonna upload TWO animations!!! they're what i handed in. there are mistakes, but ohhh well, i am learningzzzz.




heavy ball lift. we had to have these stupid jitters...i didnt do it cuz i wanted to. brian really liked it tho XD i was happy.




harley not done....obviously. still like it tho ^____^ hopefully ill do okay.
sorry i havent commented on ppls work in awhile. i shall catch up!
-mikki

2hours still doesn't loo klike glass

Zoo sketches... I also drew a horse, this girl called Kelly brought out the horse just so I could draw it, but it's one of my weaker drawings... Still, people at the zoo are so nice!

:c c:

We have many weaknesses

We feel too much. We die.

So, here's a sketch Deanna did for me. I was really nervous talking to her cause she's such a great artist and I really wanted her to have a good impression of me. But she's really nice - she did this during her character design class. She was basically helping me understand my character...

Also, I was gonna upload life drawing but scanning is so slow, I just don't want to do it. So, just have some boycat character sketches.



With photoshop crashing twice, this took about an hour to scan. haha ha hhahahhahahaughhhhh

ALSO WERNER SAID SOMETHING COOL TODAY (HE ALWAYS DOES) HE SAID THAT WHEN YOU ARE CAFE DRAWING, IT'S BETTER TO THINK OF THE DRAWING WE DO AS THE REALITY AND THE REAL PERSON AS A REFERENCE, SO DRAW AN APPROPRIATE GESTURE AND THEN DRAW THE PERSON BY REFERENCING FROM THEM, BUT THEIR POSE CHANGING SHOULDN'T MATTER GET IT?

Team Pocket stand Up

So if you haven't noticed I've been trying to submit something at least once per day this week. Today I ran out of stock art that I felt was good enough to show anyone so I decided to make something new.

Well sorta new, I took the idea from Dani, when she drew Team Pocket with their pokemon. I loved that idea so I thought I would also take a stab at it;

So I don't know why my scanner decided to chop of the very edges of my drawing. Tells me I need a new scanner. I also don't know why they been turned into different sizes when posting them up here.

Anyways. So Why i am posting all of the inked drawings on here is, while I was colouring them, I was having trouble with my copic markers... meaning that I didn't have enough colours to choose from. So I Scanned them all in and started colouring them in Photoshop... but they were turning out terribly.

Then I thought of a cool idea. I'll turn it into a challenge is enough people are interested. I thought what if we all coloured ourselves? You could print it out and paint it, pencil crayon it or marker it, or digitally paint it, whatever!
The colour scheme however I would like to keep where pokemon are coloured their actually colour. Each of us has our own colour. Adam is Red, Elena is Black, Blake is Blue, Dani is Green, Travis is White, Mikki is Purple, and Sean is Yellow. So if you were to colour yourself just keep in mind your main colour. Other then that it's free game.

However if not everybody wants to do it I will colour them myself.

Anyways that is just an idea I had, I would still like a critique or comment for my all days work.

I had the most fun drawing Blake and Elena. Elena Goth Lolita dress was really fun to come up with. I really like dressing Elena up! Ha ha ha. Whenever I see Dani's or Blake's I chuckle to myself because I think I'm funny.

Out.
~Travis

Girl with Gun

So here's my girl with a gun. I actually started her in May but never finished. So... I think I'll try to finish her this week.
And I cropped off the gun because it looks really stupid right now.

Elena

hi sean

hi sean, just drew over your pic in ms paint

with my mouse!

talent huh?!

basically, i just made his SCM muscle connect to the lil spot beneath his ears more directly. and i gave him a little bump beneath his chin, cause otherwise it was flat as cats. and some lines to help show the change in planes from the under the jaw area to the neck. i dunno, what do you say?

sean, sketch

#058 Growlithe

 
*Press play to play battle music*

 You encounter a wild Growlithe!

A Pokémon with a loyal nature. It will remain motionless until it is given an order by its Trainer.

You throw a Pokeball!

Blurry Growlithe is caught!

Pokédex has been updated;

A Pokémon with a loyal nature. It appears to be a little fuzy in some areas and lacking some structure in other. It would be nice to call this a finished Growlithe but I the pokédex cannot recommend it. The creator of this Growlithe really must have finished it fast and has not spent any time with it for about a month. It will remain motionless until it is given an order by its Trainer. This one must have been given a strict order to be playful.