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

PROTECTION

Do you remember when we were Going out for lifeguards And snuck into the caves where All the kids were smoking And jeans were in our uniform But not unless the calves were thin And I will take a Polaroid You will show me how to drink Summertime, the hottest day You remember, don't you baby? Paranoid, no prescription You believed I let you die When you close your eyes I don't need protection See those clouds arise Wasn't my intention

A true artist's post, with italics and everything.
Well, here's a layout that's based on these lyrics... well the beginning. It's also about a story I have where there is a small town in southern England. The reason this town even exists is simply cause it's a dig site, and many workers have moved there with their families. Their kids wander around and explore the ruined city and do drugs, kill animals and fight one another. But there's something they don't know......... haha omg so badly written, please don't judge me.

Strawberry Layout

Sketched originally for a Strawberry themed contest at DeviantArt, finished today for Adam's. On 2.5x3.5 tiny canvas lol. I didn't sketch on it before so the house is a little off perspective wise... and symmetrically lol. I was going to do this digitally originally, but I got frustrated ^^; Maybe next time

It's an Artist Trading Card... You guys should look into em :P

Here's a preview of my surreal layout!

Anime North!

Guys!

I said I'd have this done, but i forgot i would be at the hotel for 3 days at anime north. i was really pumped, but i have no time, so here's my progress! i at least fnished the sketch.

because the first one was so empty with just hiccup, it really hit the feeling i was going for. now that i put in toothless, who i wanted to be scaled properly, he took up ALL the room of the picture. now it looks crowded, it wasnt what i was going for.

so photoshop for the win, when i do colour this, im going to make it a widescreen composition. im going to stretch out the cliff. it's going to be very long so the perspective will hold. it was pretty squished before, now it makes no sense.

ill try to be better! hozaa!


-mikki
p.s. i have now failed TWO challenges...along with everyone else apparently...ahahaha <3

how to train your dragon progress

haiiiii
here's what im working onnnnnnn....hopefully will have this done by Sunday, haven't drawn toothless yet ^___^. hes gonna be with hiccup.



the landscape is unclear now, i know, but here's where i got it from, supposed to be abstract unique cliffs on water. it was on eof the original concept art pieces i found..its the right one:



i was having trouble figuring out his body, there arent many pictures of him. i had downloaded and watched the movie, but it was a crappy version, so he was hard to see. i did some sketches of him to figure him out, and i have screenshots now. here's what i did:


and ill start working on adams soon, now onto finishing my animation hw! yaaaaay
-mikki

httyd

so here's everything i did... but im gonna do a final image! i promise!

second post

Hello, so I have come up with 2 ideas... cause one is time consuming and i don't know how much free time all of you have.

Less time consuming: Design and composition

I'm sure you've all come across really rough drawings that look really good, or drawings that are really quick and simple looking that are really pleasing to the eye. I thought we could do quick drawings and then use your computer program (photoshop/painter/art rage/SAI... etc) to make it look more interesting. The goal of this is to be able to render your sketches pleasingly when making a portfolio.

a few examples;;;

http://ytak87.deviantart.com/art/If-you-go-into-the-woods-today-104818810

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuo7AcLeoqcf0fEGprZWDPLg0Ua0fJDmTZe0vqIc256ejL_m5BWd2SYTTeAe9YXwLWq2GwHlU-cUsWtBsdThLbtRS3xtZwU0S2LZqDMSbeBe78kiXLDEJ3a0qmwXfwveTGc7QuGDS1ECI/s1600/144+2+3+final+sklad+lil.jpg

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDG2JcgkpO7vvsgmoe2ZiUP_nucsYh9CfJE6zY6ttCZsZRCal13l-0LoidG6WJy24PrwzD87AkldL5AvIyPoqPrBdSpOiRRZU-bWsyR3vUlxoqhbgx70k-tWix169lEamP674m-4jB-hI/s1600-h/mherman+BYLEM+PSEM+1+A4.jpg

https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgC7lLz8q_vm_DZiQ294JWjlfq9I2y5I4YzqWutSEtETrBaJaSrY8yDffKrgD7mgJkdxjv6riTEg9tXaOWSqzqk__lEmgyGWrRwL2KPpyBTOeRHRDkHHEJO56g_mz944uzFURevaURFOQk/s1600-h/b.jpg

http://taxonomie.blogspot.com/

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v350/liondancer/comm_j_amaip_ex1.png

http://www.jilliantamaki.com/sketchbook/uploaded_images/004-717232.jpg

http://www.jilliantamaki.com/sketchbook/uploaded_images/3-769952.jpg

These don't need to be figurative, or correct in perspective and anatomy, but need to have some sort of interesting presentation. Just play with cropping, colours, shapes and composition. Also, subtle details like texture and gradients will make the work more compelling.

Things to try:

play with filter settings

copy and paste stuff

use the lasso tool to make shapes then fill them with paint bucket and go from there

don't put stuff in the centre

looking at photos and zooming in to parts and redrawing those

being quick with them (not spending more than an hour or so)

also, using ms paint can be fun cause you can't undo more than 3 times

Second idea: Surreal Layout

While it's important to make stereotypical layouts, it's also important to do completely surreal ones. Like in the Feel Good Inc video there's the floating island with a windmill-lighthouse on it. The island in the sky thing has been done a lot though... but it effectively gets the idea of this layout project across...

So yeah! how about a river with beds floating down it, or landfill filled with teddy bears and missiles? Or a house made out of muscle tissue with blood everywhere? Whatever's good!

Zub isn't teaching us anymore so make it as rough as you want and don't worry about field size and all that shit :D

omg i still haven't done httyd fan art ;_;

;__________;

I R Viking

Caus I'm lame like this. I might do some more later, maybe some actual fanart though >3>

Some Ideas

Hey gang!
 Ready to draw how to train your Dragon?

Well here is some videos and blogs to help you get started!
The movie's trailer:


Here are two blogs i found featuring some of the art work from how to train a dragon.
Shane Prigmore
And the Character Design Blog

And this youtube video is chalk full of pre-artwork:


I will be posting some rough sketchs up very shortly. I hope to see your guys stuff up here too!
Good Luck Guys!
~Travis