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Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
i'm a big titty deathbot and i'll gently caress you up. pastels at dawn bitch

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Sharpest Crayon
Jul 16, 2009

Always Wag. Always Friend. Very Safety.
Clapping Larry

Avshalom posted:

i'm a big titty deathbot and i'll gently caress you up. pastels at dawn bitch

Challenge accepted



I'm a huge big titty deathbot AND I'm a strong female amputee. I shoot pastels outta my titties.

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
!

i'm slain

Sharpest Crayon
Jul 16, 2009

Always Wag. Always Friend. Very Safety.
Clapping Larry

Avshalom posted:

!

i'm slain

OH YEAH? In that case, take a look at my next DEADLIER, TITTIER robo...
wait, what?

...


Aw.

I had my next sexbot all ready to fight and ideas for so many titbots just waiting to be drawn.

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax
*rests in peace*

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

sketchy head

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
I'm trying to hammer out a rendering strategy for my portfolio. My art has always been exploratory and freeform, so as far as style goes I don't really have one.

I might be getting close, I just can't figure out how to work some good outlines into this without turning it back into lineart. Any suggestions?

Anagram of GINGER fucked around with this message at 04:12 on Apr 6, 2017

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
Hey I just wanted to update the thread with what I came up with. I finally noticed I was using a bright background which limited my options for using brighter colors for outlines. So I put a darker background behind the object and used an underglow to define the underside of the contours.

Diabetes Forecast
Aug 13, 2008

Droopy Only


I made a character by taking a lovely design and changing it entirely.

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
lol bro I can't decide which is the supposedly lovely one can you label them please

Troposphere
Jul 11, 2005


psycho killer
qu'est-ce que c'est?
elsowned

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph
Savage betrayel

Diabetes Forecast
Aug 13, 2008

Droopy Only
right ugh I mean if you guys really want the context I was just taking this ugly thing and contorting it until I made something I like:


I used to like it now I think it's just a loving mess.

Jimlit
Jun 30, 2005



Elsa posted:

In-class concepting exercise, 30 mins. An off-balance tower halted in construction



I love this a lot.


Haven't done anything in like 4 years but last night I sat down and knocked this out.

Jimlit fucked around with this message at 15:46 on Apr 7, 2017

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe

Jimlit posted:

I love this a lot.


Haven't done anything in like 4 years but last night I sat down and knocked this out.



hah thanks. Nice goat

I got stuck on using values and scale and forgot about perspective. Ended up doing the straight-ahead thing. Looks stale to me now.

Jimlit
Jun 30, 2005



Elsa posted:

hah thanks. Nice goat

I got stuck on using values and scale and forgot about perspective. Ended up doing the straight-ahead thing. Looks stale to me now.

That almost always happens to me in illustrator, even more so when I was doing landscapes.

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe

Jimlit posted:

That almost always happens to me in illustrator, even more so when I was doing landscapes.

What types of landscapes? (can you post any)

I don't think i did much in 30 minutes either. I should practice speed drawings. A lot of it seems to be strategy with the Photoshop tools.

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
Redoing this at an insane res to get the linework quality I want



Diabetes Forecast
Aug 13, 2008

Droopy Only
Those colors are wonderful, though they'll definitely pop once you get a proper background in.



Completely done with the reference sheet. couldn't bring myself to leave the head and arms out of the back view.

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe

Diabetes Forecast posted:

Those colors are wonderful, though they'll definitely pop once you get a proper background in.



Completely done with the reference sheet. couldn't bring myself to leave the head and arms out of the back view.

I got one question. What you gonna do with that cute little butt? Wiggle wiggle wiggle

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
wiggle wiggle wiggle

I can make you famous on Instagram

Diabetes Forecast
Aug 13, 2008

Droopy Only
I had like 10 people tell me her butt should be bigger and I'm like
why
her butt is fine the only big thing anyone should pay attention to is her shoulderpads and sword

the answer is I dunno

Diabetes Forecast fucked around with this message at 08:44 on Apr 8, 2017

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
small and round is perfect

Avshalom
Feb 14, 2012

by Lowtax

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe

would

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
Reworking this too. The weird thing is I can't find a PSD of any of the newer versions so I'm redoing it from a flat image.



FEATHERS

Anagram of GINGER fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Apr 8, 2017

sigma 6
Nov 27, 2004

the mirror would do well to reflect further

Sucks to lose layers but I think it forces you to be a much better painter.

Can you tell me how you use the smudge brush? Do you modify the brush in some way or use the defaults?

Anthony Jones had a custom smudge brush I loved years ago but I have never been able to replicate the results and I know it was something relatively simple. Right now my photoshop painting looks like bad marker drawings because there isn't enough blending.

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe

sigma 6 posted:

Sucks to lose layers but I think it forces you to be a much better painter.

Can you tell me how you use the smudge brush? Do you modify the brush in some way or use the defaults?

Anthony Jones had a custom smudge brush I loved years ago but I have never been able to replicate the results and I know it was something relatively simple. Right now my photoshop painting looks like bad marker drawings because there isn't enough blending.

I use brushes from Kylebrush.com and they're mostly tool presets. The smudge tools act more like how you'd want by picking up color and then placing it elsewhere.

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph

sigma 6 posted:

Sucks to lose layers but I think it forces you to be a much better painter.

Can you tell me how you use the smudge brush? Do you modify the brush in some way or use the defaults?

Anthony Jones had a custom smudge brush I loved years ago but I have never been able to replicate the results and I know it was something relatively simple. Right now my photoshop painting looks like bad marker drawings because there isn't enough blending.

Try as hard as you can to not use smudge as a crutch, like it's a totally legitimate tool and everything especially if you have a specific type of texture you want to emulate but if you can do >75% of your blending with your brushstrokes that will be much better for your painting skills/speed and also keeping some of the expressiveness of your hand movements in the final piece. I mostly only use smudge on large areas of background where I don't have enough ram to run the 900 pixel wide oil brush it would take to cover it smoothly

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
Yeah I agree, i dislike smudge and sometimes I lose track of it and everything becomes smeared. It's a very good reminder to only use smudge for an intended result.

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
Trying to figure out a good way to render feathers and I should probably just look at references.

I'm also trying to find the right settings for my display. Got this laptop yesterday and there are like three different programs adding their controls to the display colors: The laptop manufacturer's utility, Intel's color management utility, and the Windows 10 adjustment. To check colors I'm uploading them to imgur and then viewing them on another computer.

Jimlit
Jun 30, 2005



InevitableCheese
Jul 10, 2015

quite a pickle you've got there

I love when this thread starts rolling because I know you'll post eventually.

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph

Elsa posted:

Trying to figure out a good way to render feathers and I should probably just look at references.

I'm also trying to find the right settings for my display. Got this laptop yesterday and there are like three different programs adding their controls to the display colors: The laptop manufacturer's utility, Intel's color management utility, and the Windows 10 adjustment. To check colors I'm uploading them to imgur and then viewing them on another computer.



no colorimeter?

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe

Wowporn posted:

no colorimeter?

I have something else but haven't loaded the plugin. Coolerator I think it's called.

I'll look up colorimeter. Oh is it a monitor calibration tool, like a physical thing and not a program

I'm not too worried about it. I'm going to rig one of my Retina displays to this and then using Apple RGB makes it perfect.

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

InevitableCheese posted:

I love when this thread starts rolling because I know you'll post eventually.
It's just like they say: Avshalom finds you working :allears:

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Wowporn posted:

no colorimeter?
whats that

Anagram of GINGER
Oct 3, 2014

by Smythe
I think I've worked out the levels and separated this into a manageable layer system. This has to get finished, like soon and I'm looking forward to it.



Feeling like this needs to absolutely get pushed out is giving some surprising results.

Anagram of GINGER fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Apr 12, 2017

Wowporn
May 31, 2012

HarumphHarumphHarumph

a thing you put on your monitor and it calibrates your display colors to be accurate. really good investment if you are serious about digital art or just want your monitor to look right

the one i have
https://www.amazon.com/Datacolor-Sp...ds=spyder+5+pro

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Beelzebub
Apr 17, 2002

In the event that you make sense, I will still send you to the 7th circle.
Couple of relatively new illustrations for Magic the Gathering.







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