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Some faces

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do you do this with a mouse or tablet

Mouse, specifically school mouse. I can use my mouse fine for work but our schools mice are horrible!

Anyway Im probably gonna postin a lot of my bored school work in this forum. Whenever I make somethin nice Ill post it here too though

hmm. well, the faces are great. even though you're working on an unfamiliar mouse i'll give my advice anyway.the line consistency is bad. and i know it's because you drew them straight out with flash's auto-smoothing brush that makes the lines that way, but if you like any of these it'd be cool to go back over them and fix all the line inconsistency to strengthen the expressions

Its good but flash's smooth feature really killed it. I suggest you try using paint.
You could also try making the outside lines thicker if you want.

the second one on the left reminds me of me.

Youre all gay
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Course the first one was jerky! I was just messin around cause I was like let me draw a bucnha faces but then all you guys gotta say OH IT LOOKS BAD so then I went home and redid em fuck

Old stuff I forgot about
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look at dat jeb wit his rocket boots

Jeb is so badass

Quote from: CoolDrMoneyCourse the first one was jerky! I was just messin around cause I was like let me draw a bucnha faces but then all you guys gotta say OH IT LOOKS BAD so then I went home and redid em fuck

um

sorry for making any suggestions i'll be sure not to do that in the future

hYUK

Quote from: rtilsorry for making any suggestions i'll be sure not to do that in the future

Man dont say it like that bro

Some sketches I did durin class

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the guy with the glasses is my favorite

your sketches show a lot of life in them, it's good to see some traditional work from you

Quote from: CoolDrMoney

Quote from: rtilsorry for making any suggestions i'll be sure not to do that in the future

Man dont say it like that bro

ghahaha

does anyone here pay attention during class

Quote from: morgan freemandoes anyone here pay attention during class

I do!!

Quote from: B-Cube

Quote from: morgan freemandoes anyone here pay attention during class

I do!!

how do you find the time to draw so much

not in math
does anyone here honestly take that subject seriously because i've had to take algebra 1 like four times.

anyway cool doctah money.
mr. trenchcoat is looking pretty cool  

but your arms need some work man they seem like an afterthought

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Quote from: B-Cube

Quote from: morgan freemandoes anyone here pay attention during class

I do!!

how do you find the time to draw so much

I draw during lectures but I'm always paying attention.
I guess I'm good at multi tasking. New teachers always think I'm writing notes and they're like "HEY YOU REPEAT WHAT I JUST SAID"
and I do and then they shut up

While it is true that Ive always focused on the face in my drawings, I didnt think too many of the arms were bad even for sketches.

I think some of the hands are a bit sloppy though!

i was the same as you in high school bcube, i used to doodle constantly during class and drive my teachers nuts. i drew shit all over the tables, all over my binders, all over my notebooks, and in the margins on the sides of my homework. my teachers would yell at me to stop, force me to stay after class and clean up the tables, etc. but it never made a difference, i still paid attention

Quote from: f0di shit all over the tables, all over my binders, all over my notebooks, and in the margins on the sides of my homework. my teachers would yell at me to stop, force me to stay after class and clean up the tables, etc. but it never made a difference

this is how i read your post

lmfao

Quote from: B-Cube

Quote from: morgan freeman

Quote from: B-Cube

Quote from: morgan freemandoes anyone here pay attention during class

I do!!

how do you find the time to draw so much

I draw during lectures but I'm always paying attention.

This, but i don't think my teachers even give a shit anymore.
They walk right pass me, looking at my paper without a care.
As long as I keep a A - B average, I'm not stopping any time soon.

i havent drawn ever since i came on the internet to be honest like

i used to draw everyday and now im like fuck it
i dont even want to go to art college anymore i want to become a professor or teacher

i mean aside from digital drawing like flash shit

in my science class last year
some guy who sat at the same desk as me would always draw bongs and weed and random band names everywhere on the desk

Quote from: B-CubeI draw during lectures but I'm always paying attention.
I'm good at multi tasking

same here

This one was made 3 years ago after I felt comfortable enough to do a water color piece
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Its a portrait of my ol chum!

Seemed like an angry guy till I scrolled more to the right.
Now I'm just a bit confused.

thats pretty good cool docta !!! i think so anyway

i need to practice water colors cuz i actually fail at it badly :(












i love the piece tho!  

http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/051108/45695_blob.php (http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/051108/45695_blob.php)
Okay so for some reason the animation is going really slow on there. I swear it was at 24 fps!
Anyway tell me

1. How the animation is. (Do not mention line consistancy since I know it aint great wit dis school mouse)

and

2. What should I use it for?

Thnx 4 teh hlp!

neato

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Okay so for some reason the animation is going really slow on there. I swear it was at 24 fps!
Anyway tell me

1. How the animation is. (Do not mention line consistancy since I know it aint great wit dis school mouse)

and

2. What should I use it for?

line consistancy.

Quote from: CoolDrMoneyhttp://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/051108/45695_blob.php (http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/051108/45695_blob.php)
Okay so for some reason the animation is going really slow on there. I swear it was at 24 fps!
Anyway tell me

1. How the animation is. (Do not mention line consistancy since I know it aint great wit dis school mouse)

and

2. What should I use it for?

That's pretty damn cool dude. I draw all my stuff with a mouse...

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Quote from: CoolDrMoneyhttp://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/051108/45695_blob.php (http://spamtheweb.com/ul/upload/051108/45695_blob.php)
Okay so for some reason the animation is going really slow on there. I swear it was at 24 fps!
Anyway tell me

1. How the animation is. (Do not mention line consistancy since I know it aint great wit dis school mouse)

and

2. What should I use it for?

line consistancy.

God dam punk

Girl I drew
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Please critique!

the eyes are sorta creepin me out ! otherwise nice job. i'd probably be less deliberate with the hair and shirt, the abrupt darkness of it sort of draws my eyes away from the face

Noted! and thank you. Ill probably make some changes

I figured the big creepy eyes would help attract more attention to her face but Ill tone down some of the darks

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Thoughts?

i liked the sketch a lot better

this could use more refinement

a good way to start a painting is to use a selection tool to block out major sections of color. then add halftones and blend if you think it would look good. save highlights for last. also it's good to pick an area of high contrast - the place of highest contrast should be where you want people to look

Damn that ain't bad, nice work cdm.

Quote from: rtili liked the sketch a lot better

this could use more refinement

a good way to start a painting is to use a selection tool to block out major sections of color. then add halftones and blend if you think it would look good. save highlights for last. also it's good to pick an area of high contrast - the place of highest contrast should be where you want people to look

If you could explain to me by what you mean with halftones Id be appreciative!

Also by blending do you mean using the smudge tool?

I am a photoshop newbian

halftones as in darker shades of the main tone for lighting

and by blending i mean using a soft brush and starting to pick where your hard and soft edges should be for coloring, basically going from something you would make in flash (graphic style) to a more painterly style. but that's a stylistic choice

i would avoid the smudge tool as most things i see with it are crap, but some people like blvd use it very well

your artstyle reminds me of krebskopf/arsecancer/coffeelock's so muchhhhh

Big orc man

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cools back!

Not that ANE LOOKS AT MY STUFF ANYMORE

But here its the guy aboves son after he raped a female human

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Im pretty ga

That...is pretty awesome

looks great, keep it up

that drawing is a piece of shit no detail whatsoever fuck you you suck

fuckin cool

Quote from: CoolDrMoneyNot that ANE LOOKS AT MY STUFF ANYMORE

i look at ur stuff

Nice hat!

Havent shown anythin in awhile. Heres a newish one

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Thats what I been up 2. Still trying 2 learn 2 color

the coloring is kind of muddy. it works for some things, but not other things, especially the skin. but the detail is nice

^
I still love it tho! very different from a lot of drawings ive seen from you

Yea I gotta get someone to teach me to color like the proz

I used the marker setting on Corel Painter

here's a nice boy

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and yes I did get bored while doing some traditional animation and drew on a pre-hole punched sheet of paper

I have pulled all nighters twice in a row I swear to god if someone doesn't talk about my wonderful art I'm goin ghost

he's a very handsome lil boy

he's a very handsome lil boy

the design is cool, I like his mushy face

the comparatively dark background and limited value scale on the guy makes him look flat, so uh darken your darks if you want I guess

Quote from: tmkthe design is cool, I like his mushy face

the comparatively dark background and limited value scale on the guy makes him look flat, so uh darken your darks if you want I guess

yea I thought so. I will do this and try again

Tried something new

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absolutely horrific please set your hand on fire and delete this image from existence

i sorta like the designs in the face but the top and the hair doesnt look that gewd maybe try something else to make it more interesting

Id rather jus jack off but thanks 4 the input!

self portrait

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holy mother of cool

it looks like charcoal or conte with some weird photoshop filter applied.. or maybe it just scanned weird? nice use of light though

Quote from: rtilit looks like charcoal or conte with some weird photoshop filter applied.. or maybe it just scanned weird? nice use of light though

I did it in Corel Painter using the charcoal tool. Thats it. I even toned the canvas with charcoal making it grey and blended it with the grainy stub tool. But yea no filters

What about it looks weird?

u will be a failure forever this is awful!!

Finally getting a decent grasp of 3D

Here's my famous Evil Robot in a menacing, lumbering walk cycle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bePSA_bvOUM

Quote from: CoolDrMoney

Quote from: rtilit looks like charcoal or conte with some weird photoshop filter applied.. or maybe it just scanned weird? nice use of light though

I did it in Corel Painter using the charcoal tool. Thats it. I even toned the canvas with charcoal making it grey and blended it with the grainy stub tool. But yea no filters

What about it looks weird?

i meant it looked weird for a traditional piece because it looks digitized. but now that you have said it's digital, it makes more sense.

Quote from: CoolDrMoneyFinally getting a decent grasp of 3D

Here's my famous Evil Robot in a menacing, lumbering walk cycle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bePSA_bvOUM

this is pretty good, i think the step up goes way too fast though, there's no anticipation for such a quick push up like that. i think it could be a lot slower and that might feel even more menacing.

what are you animating in?

these are magnifitrill coolio

Thanks 4 all the feedback dudes! its always welcome here except when I draw with a mouse!

This next one is important. This is basically what I have so far. Im redoing it for a final project that I have a couple weeks on.

This is another 3D animation. Tell me anything I should improve on preferably in an order of most necessary to least. I'm pleading for constructive criticism here. What's its biggest flaws? Even the minor ones. I just have a time frame to keep in mind thats why I was the biggest problems to come first.

Heres the movie!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBO4cbeQecM

the timing and pacing of it felt awkward, i also think the characters could have been more lively. their movements felt robotic

Haha. Well I like to revolve around magic when animating which is why I insist on not animating everything on 1s.Its my movie its my style buddy

heh

Here was my final 3D project for advanced 3D. Couldnt put any textures down really because ohmygawd the time restraints.

Grayson_F_HighQuality.mov (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izZoLkgo5Tg#)

And because of this little diddy Im known as the class racist in my Drawing 2 class.

Done in Charcoal

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that third one is great

"this video is private"

yeah i cant see the video, its set to private.

Okay video should be fixed now. My bad!

well i liked the premise, kinda disappointed the characters didnt really have faces and that the guy couldnt talk. i think it would have helped a lot to be able to add facial expressions and such to them. but i know rigs take forever and you were probably on a huge time constraint considering the fact there were no textures

Quote from: rtil on February 20, 2012 01:30 PM
well i liked the premise, kinda disappointed the characters didnt really have faces and that the guy couldnt talk. i think it would have helped a lot to be able to add facial expressions and such to them. but i know rigs take forever and you were probably on a huge time constraint considering the fact there were no textures

Pretty much. Was workin 3 jobs n shit. Even with no textures/facial rigging, my project was still 2 hours late. After pulling 2 all nighters in a row the night before.

So mostly just wanted to focus on the animation of the characters. But uhh even that I had to take some shortcuts with. Learned a whole bunch though about wire deformers, controllers, and blend shapes!

Just me trying out unfamiliar mediums. First is colored pencil (outlined in charcoal) 2nd is conte.

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ntb

Muscle studies. Free pizza point to the first one who guesses all 5 different mediums I used! (A different medium is used for the arm, leg, back torso, front torso, and body)

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conte is fun. it's like charcoal but without a lot of the mess and broken tips

Incoming:

Some weird sht
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Bunch of greek sculpture I had to draw fairly quickly
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Now this one I would really appreciate some feedback on. I need to learn so much more with colors (Also part of it was me running out of time for the deadline). I took a sculpture from the renaissance and put him in modern times. Turned him into a raver. But as you can see, the color leaves much to be desired for. Was thinking of redoing this one in photoshop/corel painter. Any suggestions?
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well its certainly colorful, not too sure abou tthe composition and the use of black. might be cooler to see him from top-down instead of straight on with a lot of awkward empty space between him, the 2 other people and the blobby crowd in the background

huh...that could work. For the class I wanted to make sure it was very recognizable as the Roman figure statue I was reproducing. But a different angle might work. You think the whole roman statue thing might be lost in the process however? Because then it would just be a picture of some random rave

well it could work from that angle but it just feels flat and the lighting is inconsistent. also i think a roman statue would look out of place in a rave. unless you meant you're going for the contraposto pose

I was just putting this statue in a modern environment. Like old meets new

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So all this time I didn't know there was a way to control the opacity of a brush in Photoshop with pen sensitivity. I just found out how to do it and practiced by remaking an old drawing. I'm stoked! Gonna be releasing a lot more digital stuff now.

For reference, Old drawing from flash:
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New drawing from Photoshop:
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That looks freaking great! His beard is especially nice and rugged

there's a couple places wher ei think it could use line but it's definitely an upgrade

a logo I made and am currently using for everything

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