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Title: school/sketches
Post by: rtil on February 20, 2007 09:16 AM
i'll upload assignments i liked and quick sketches here.

first is cheshire cat done in samurai jack style for character design, then a drawing i did in mspaint and colored in photoshop.
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Post by: Dagolith on February 20, 2007 09:20 AM
i like the face, almost a blissfully surprised expression. but it's just a bit too sketchy, i like sketchy, but thats just a bit too much.
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Post by: rtil on February 20, 2007 06:46 PM
I plan on working it up. Thanks
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Post by: BrianZaremba on February 21, 2007 01:07 AM
I like them both a lot. I don't have any real problems with them and I kind of like the sketchiness of the second one. I also really like the coloring of the second one. Could you point me in the direction of a good digital painting tutorial?
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Post by: dilly on February 21, 2007 01:37 AM
dude... that 2nd picture reminds me of when I used to try and scare my sister...

great sketches though  I love the Chesire cat pics
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Post by: CoolDrMoney on February 21, 2007 01:51 AM
Did anyone else get turned on by that cat?
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Post by: Dagolith on February 21, 2007 08:42 AM
finally someone said it!
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Post by: rtil on February 23, 2007 11:36 PM
fixed up the sketch a bit in photoshop
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Post by: RobjaFalu on February 24, 2007 12:11 AM
Much much better. Love the composition too.
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Post by: yes on February 24, 2007 04:19 AM
i feel almost jealous.

EDIT: fully jealous now
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Post by: Dagolith on February 24, 2007 08:00 AM
wow, thats so much better, it's looks like more effort was put into it.
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Post by: rtil on March 19, 2007 05:45 AM
new character design stuff.

this time we take an animal ( i picked one called a 'galagos'), dress it up in armor (i picked riot gear), and do a turnaround, 3 action shots and  3 faces. some with armor, some without. all work done in flash except for 4 radial blurs on top right since flash is not even capable of making them


also, anyone have suggestions for the below painting? it's pretty rough atm, workin on it a lot tonight. be glad to hear some crits
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Post by: RobjaFalu on March 19, 2007 07:28 AM
Great job on the turn arounds. Very detailed and great.

The painting below seems to being in the right direction. You pushed the colours and the darks a lot. I don't see anything really needing a fix though. The character, i don't know how she looks, but I think her face is a little too manly if you ask me. Other than that, keep it up, it looks great!!!!
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Post by: rtil on March 19, 2007 07:33 AM
too manly, eh? that's the second complaint about the face today .. well, i'll see what i can do. it is still in a rough sketch kind of phase.
and yeah, i'm all about pushing lights and darks. well, looks like i won't finish it tonight, but i will post another one tommorow and you can see what i've done with it.
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Post by: rtil on March 19, 2007 05:55 PM
ok, update. crits everyone!
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Post by: rtil on March 20, 2007 04:42 AM
i'm getting there with the sketch lines. i am starting at that arm and spreading out the work, heh
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Post by: RobjaFalu on March 20, 2007 06:59 AM
still on the right track. Awesome job! I can't wait for the finished result. Nice mood you set.
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Post by: CoolDrMoney on March 20, 2007 03:46 PM
Her arm upper arm seems a little thick to me...really for me its just the arm that bothers me

Other than that and its roughness around the edges, looks great. Love the colors
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Post by: rtil on March 23, 2007 08:14 PM
really? i thought her arm might have actually been too skinny.

here's another update. let me know what you think people.
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Post by: CoolDrMoney on March 23, 2007 09:24 PM
Much better. Finish that plz
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Post by: 2poc on March 28, 2007 04:12 AM
tOTLY NARLY RTIL HOW FAST DID U DO THEM???~?~?~?~ on the other hand im trying to git better and did this one in 5 min. it suxxx ....Go to fast drawings to see i cant put  it here it wont let me...
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Post by: rtil on April 10, 2007 05:03 PM
you're not supposed to put your work in my topic anyway, 2poc.

here is the last assignment in character design at my school: superheroes. you make yourself the hero, and a partner in you class the villian. i sort of switched it around and made myself the villian.  

my character is Noise Machine. I was blinded as a child when a little girl opened up a can of shaken pop in my face, and the acid burned my eyes. in the hospital i realized i could 'see' without my eyes, and i had superior hearing which could allow me to navigate and know what is around me without my eyes. so, i left the hospital, bandages and all. i started putting sound equipment all over me, and used it to my advantage. i carry a keyboard and huge speakers can come out of my back, emitting painfully loud low and high frequencies to mess up what's around me.

one time i sneezed and a girl was walking under a construction site, and the sneeze was so loud a bunch of construction equipment fell on the girls head, including two large screws and a plug for a huge outlet. she survived, but everything she touched after that was electrocuted, and almost everything metal would cling to her. so she vowed to destroy the person that ruined her life. and that was me. she became 9 Volt, and used her new unwanted powers to learn how to manipulate metal in manners she wanted, and channel her electric energy.

little did i know the girl i had given the powers to was the girl who opened the can of soda in my eyes as a child.  once we both knew who eachother were, we were both pitted eachother forever. wreckless with no regard for what is around us, we destroy and eliminate for only one target -eachother.
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Post by: Dagolith on April 11, 2007 06:18 AM
wicked art work but in the first side view of "9 Volt" her face looks a little protruding, like a mouse or something of that caliber. awesome battle scenes though, they look vary... epic.
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Post by: rtil on April 11, 2007 07:20 AM
yeah, i'll be fixing her side view. thanks
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Post by: Dagolith on April 11, 2007 07:42 AM
it's what i do.
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Post by: trent bortknob on April 11, 2007 11:29 PM
the drawings of noise machine looked really cool except for the back view of him. Something about that looked off to me

you did a lot of great stuff on the fight scenes. the positions and coloring were great

you should turn this into another series along with freetown and all of the other cartoobns you make that way you'll never have to time tyo finish anything
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Post by: rtil on April 15, 2007 06:38 AM
ya just wahat a need anotha series!!!!!
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Post by: trent bortknob on April 15, 2007 06:48 AM
notthin like some hard work it builds character!
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Post by: Zwickel on April 15, 2007 09:01 AM
Damn you rtil, your art is soo neat.

Love the chars and the pics.
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Post by: RobjaFalu on April 15, 2007 07:03 PM
Great works Rtil. I do agree with everyone else. The turn arounds for 9 volt, her side pose looks awkward. And i'm partial  noise makers extremely broad shoulders. They seem to unnatural, and even painful for the character. Everything else though is pretty dead on. The lighting is pretty neat and the action shots are really stellar.
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Post by: rtil on April 15, 2007 09:30 PM
many people have complained about 9volt's side view, i'm repainting part of it today for the critique tommorow.
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Post by: CoolDrMoney on April 16, 2007 06:57 AM
Makin 9-Volt hentai, brb
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Post by: rtil on April 16, 2007 08:15 AM
eyy none of that  this is a charicature of a real person close to me that would be bad
anyway never gonna touch these again, updated model sheet for 9 volt and added a real bg to the 1st action shot
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Post by: Dagolith on April 17, 2007 12:38 AM
thats too bad, because her nose is still too big, and her chin is still to small. but if you wanna be a quitter.
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Post by: RichChap on April 17, 2007 01:16 AM
Woah, the superhero/villan ones are the best ever. Noise Machine looks sweet, but the fighting pictures are the best.
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Post by: Doodle on April 17, 2007 01:20 AM
You're artwork is so hardcore :]

It's inspiring. I love it. And your designs are so crazy. I really hope you finish the one with the girl smoking, it's awesome. I love these new ones also
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Post by: rtil on April 17, 2007 08:36 AM
i want to finish that painting real bad. i think i'm going to bring it into painter and see if i can do it there, because i'm having some issues getting the feel i want in photoshop. thanks , doodle

Quote from: Dagoliththats too bad, because her nose is still too big, and her chin is still to small. but if you wanna be a quitter.
haha , i like her nose! i think i'll cop out and say it's my style

Quote from: RichChapWoah, the superhero/villan ones are the best ever. Noise Machine looks sweet, but the fighting pictures are the best.
that seems to be the consensus, and i can agree on that since they are actually full formed and dynamic
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Post by: trent bortknob on April 18, 2007 03:06 AM
Quote from: CoolDrMoneyMakin 9-Volt hentai, brb
yeh man that would be 3h p2n3abgea XD X3 XP XA XFAD DSAdfkmas.
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Post by: CoolDrMoney on April 18, 2007 10:31 AM
WHBAT THAT FUCK TAYLOR! YOU FUCKING HAVE NOTHING BETTER TO DO!?!?! WHA TA FK~!:L?

Also I was wondering with noise machine, what happens to his arms when those bandages unwrap. They just seem to vanish. Im guessing its intentional, but an explanation would be nice : (
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Post by: rtil on April 18, 2007 02:31 PM
he begins to unwravel due to the intense amount of sound waves he is emitting through himself. i mostly did it because it looks cool.
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Post by: Zwickel on April 19, 2007 02:35 AM
Hey rtil, please refrain yourself of stretching the boards with your uploads, thank you.

Hahahha, man, I like the turnaround a lot, the consistence...awesome.
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Post by: RichChap on April 21, 2007 12:52 PM
Yeah, it looks really awesome :]
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Post by: Deathchip on May 7, 2007 09:22 PM
Your superhero artwork is some of your greatest work RT. I would be lying if I said it wasen't
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Post by: notorious on May 7, 2007 10:31 PM
Wow imo you should do some little short cartoon thing with the Superhero thing, it looks awesome.
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Post by: rtil on May 8, 2007 08:03 AM
this didn't really turn out the way i wanted it to , but fgjaerg4j
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Post by: Shida on May 8, 2007 05:08 PM
I love the colouring and the shading on this piece, and I love how you've done the smoke.

The thing that's been bothering me a bit about this picture is the face, and mainly the cheek on the right. You've drawn it as if it were a 3/4 view (at least, that how it appears to me) but the rest of her face looks like a frontal view, in which the cheek wouldn't be so pronounced.
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Post by: trent bortknob on May 8, 2007 09:12 PM


@_@

>_>

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Post by: Dagolith on May 9, 2007 06:28 AM
i like the definition in the elbow, it makes it look more like an arm than it did before.