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Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

This month's theme is texture! Try to create the illusion of surface - this could mean anything from painting glossy reflections to using a thick impasto.
A cool exercise to try is to draw some spheres or cubes, and render them in whatever type of surface you can think of, like these


Or try going out into the world with a piece of paper and a stick of charcoal and making rubbings of things around you!
Here's some feely blogs to get your perusal
http://onetextureperday.tumblr.com/
http://ageofdistress.tumblr.com/
http://badtextures.tumblr.com/

Anyway here's what I started working on just now

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Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

petrol blue posted:

Love those texture studies! It's something I've not spent nearly enough time doing, should be a fun month.

Also, what's this month's horrible portmanteau wordtheme?

I have yet to find an appropriate art meme for December -_-

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

tsintaosaurus progress

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

petrol blue posted:

This is turning into the most surreal round of rock-paper-scissors...

E: stone beats dinosaur. :eng101:

I would have gotten done sooner if I didn't have a 2 year old to chase after all night :v:

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

Yuck! a BOOBS! GROSE!

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

The Naiad Psalakantha

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

wip

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

progress

also


E: wow perspective is a mess on that plane

Humboldt Squid fucked around with this message at 00:29 on Dec 17, 2014

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006


This was a fun commission :)

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006



These are the two things I'm whittling away at right now when I get a chance to draw for myself
A himeriai (naiad of the hot springs outside a town in Sicily) and a scene from the early Eocene Pacific northwest

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

I did make this drawing of the kids making hallacas to give as a Christmas present though

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

trying to de-stress from the holidays

E:

Humboldt Squid fucked around with this message at 09:30 on Dec 27, 2014

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

aaand done :)


"Diodorus Siculus posted:


"While [Herakles] passing along the coast of the island [of Sicily from Pelorias to Eryx], the Nymphai [Naiades] caused warm baths to gush forth so that he might refresh himself after the toil sustained in his journeying. There are two of these, called respectively Himeraia and Egestaiai, each of them having its name from the place where the baths are."

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

progress

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Humboldt Squid fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Dec 29, 2014

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

warmups based on Venus figurines

Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

Any suggestions for next month's theme (sorry for asking so late)?

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Humboldt Squid
Jan 21, 2006

New thread is up! http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3691714

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