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iQew	Oct 28 2009, 7:36am Anchor
@SinKing: Yeah, it's supposed to be a hideout in a lavern cave or within a vulcano. The blue thing is maybe something like a magic spell of those inhabitants to be safe from the lava and heat. I just started doodling having no idea and just put random lines down. So, I didn't have an epic story or something like that in mind. It's more or less just supposed to look cool
SinKing bumps me thread	Oct 28 2009, 11:34am Anchor
I should return to greyscale too, the Vampire looks horrid, don't know why I posted it... Nice work, Myles (I didn't know you can paint!), though painting after fotography is a bit like cheating. If you do this without template = more respect ! Edited by: SinKing
iQew	Oct 30 2009, 4:55pm Anchor
I was bored so I did this for fun. I used a lot of different mediums to go crazy with them Information: - Water Color - Copic Marker - Pencil (2B, 4B) - Stabilo Boss Marker - Pilot G-Tec-C4 - Estompe - Wacom Intuos3 Hope you like it cheers.
Ninjadave Aka Dave	Oct 31 2009, 4:36pm Anchor
Quick paint I did in the Gimp. Took longer than I wanted it too, and the program crashed right as I saved it so I lost my layers. I'll do a better one later. I also need to use less bold outlines. In fact take them out altogether. Edited by: Ninjadave
SinKing bumps me thread	Nov 1 2009, 1:43am Anchor
Think about bumplight Dave. With a door opening that wide you'd see a little light reflected on the floor and onto the ceiling. It's good painting in grey, though. I went back to using a 5-scale grey (5 tones) and copied my favorite painter Vermeer. This was just to get some practice into painting light. I recommmend you use the same five or six greys and try matching areas in the image that have the same light complexity. Trying custom brushes. Speeds things up. Edited by: SinKing
iQew	Nov 6 2009, 7:32am Anchor
@SinKing: I like the clouds, good job. I started with a doodle in school and digitalized it. After that one thing came by another and I turned the dragon (original was a fire creature) into a damned dragon of the souls. Humankind tries to fight it with their space ships, it's gonna be a hard space battle. cheers.
SinKing bumps me thread	Nov 7 2009, 11:45am Anchor
That'S awesome. did you use a photograph for reference/ background? I have been thinking - I'd dig if this thread became more of what it was originally supposed to: a WIP thread. So it would be cool to show stages of a painting, while it's still WIP and finished. I forgot how you call that, a walkthrough perhaps. --
iQew	Nov 7 2009, 1:04pm Anchor
Well, I found a cool space art image and used a little piece of it. I changed a few things on it and added some little things - I made it work for my purpose. The rest is totally drawn by myself traditional/digital, but that lightning effect, that's simply created with photoshop. I don't do too much saves while I'm working, so there are only those steps: By the way: This might become my next digital painting: "Just closed my eyes and used the first good idea I had in mind and brought it onto paper. I'm not sure, whether I will go further than this with it. There must be changed some things to make that scene interesting, that is for sure. But, I think that it's quite a good idea to show the hero entering to his next further step in his adventure." But, I will definitely have to change some things before I can go to the digital process. I will see, what I can do with it. cheers. Edited by: iQew
Neolight	Nov 8 2009, 2:44pm Anchor
wip Edited by: Neolight
SinKing bumps me thread	Nov 10 2009, 1:22am Anchor
I love your stuff Neo! Especially the last image, because it tells a fun story. I am practicing drawing, in order to create my own storyboards, but whenever I practice in color, I tend to forget pictures need to tell a story. I think we can learn a lot from your work . When you do custom brushes like for the sail and the "fish", do you save them, or are they only for that particular painting? I'm just getting into customization and when I can find some more time for painting, instead of writing, I would like to try using more custom brushes. It seems to add a lot of depth and realism to the painting. --
Neolight	Nov 13 2009, 9:53am Anchor
I dont bother to make my own brush sets because i'm a lazy fuck. I'd rather be in the thick of painting than customizing, so I tweak existing brush sets that you can find around the internets. The cool guys of conceptart (sparth M@ Barontieri etc.) have been known to share their custom brush sets every now and then - you just gotta find them! You may be familiar with Barontieri and M@, their brush sets are availalable on the web and you can download them here: Steammachines.blogspot.com Those two should be enough to get you rolling as far as making your own brushes go. To answer your question, I don't think anyone really makes a brush just for a particular piece. Brush sets are there to help you dive in and explore more organic/abstract paths of expression as long as you don't rely on them. Edited by: Neolight
Toyoka Cpt. Leon Gyroheart	Nov 13 2009, 2:56pm Anchor
Wow. Interesting progression! I wish I had a tablet, I would be drawing concepts more often just because it is much easier on computer than on paper. -- "There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."
iQew	Nov 13 2009, 3:02pm Anchor
Toyoka wrote:Wow. Interesting progression! I wish I had a tablet, I would be drawing concepts more often just because it is much easier on computer than on paper. To me it's not like that - I feel the opposite. At least for sketching in photoshop, I haven't used painter yet, as I had no idea of the program and was always too lazy to begin getting to know it. It's really a different feeling and to me drawing with a pencil is still easier.
Toyoka Cpt. Leon Gyroheart	Nov 13 2009, 3:07pm Anchor
Well what I meant by easier on computer is that there is an ample amount of brushes you can use, while on paper, you are (usually) stuck with 1 tool = pencil, and it's harder to get your picture to look how you want it to if you don't have colors or different shades/types of pencils with you. I'm not a professional artist and thus I don't carry around multiple pencils with different "leds" so it's harder for me to draw a concept I'm thinking of on paper with one pencil, than on the computer which can contain different size/shape/colored brushes. Edited by: Toyoka
SinKing bumps me thread	Nov 13 2009, 3:10pm Anchor
I think you should change the hue in that picture, so the mountains turn red and the guy turns blue (inverse it). You chose the strongest complementary contrast available. As far as I know we have most receptors in the eye for red. A lot of things come into play whe you think about, why these mountains are pushed back so far. That's really a bold coloring for a landscape. It's cool! I like these stage paintings. I'm always amazed at how much people paint over and chop off in their images. I need to deal a lot more with that, but usually I just don't do enough. I paint something for two hours at most and then I don't touch it again. Most of my time is diverted to writing, but I think I should and could paint more. My interest lies largely on storyboard now, which is why I like paintings that tell a story - something you do in your painting. --
Ayro	Nov 14 2009, 10:49am Anchor
Toyoka wrote:Wow. Interesting progression! I wish I had a tablet, I would be drawing concepts more often just because it is much easier on computer than on paper. That's what you think until the day you buy a tablet. It's hard to get used to a tablet where you work as well as you do with just a pencil and paper.
iQew	Nov 14 2009, 2:22pm Anchor
Toyoka wrote:Well what I meant by easier on computer is that there is an ample amount of brushes you can use, while on paper, you are (usually) stuck with 1 tool = pencil, and it's harder to get your picture to look how you want it to if you don't have colors or different shades/types of pencils with you. I'm not a professional artist and thus I don't carry around multiple pencils with different "leds" so it's harder for me to draw a concept I'm thinking of on paper with one pencil, than on the computer which can contain different size/shape/colored brushes. However, you need to understand each medium to use it correctly - even digitally. I don't think there is a change of difficulty within each medium. You're truely an artist if you can bring down a convincing concept onto the paper with each and only medium. What I want to say is that you will suck digitally if you suck traditionally, it won't help you much. I was in the same belief and I now learned that drawing digital is a whole new thing and you have to learn it - it won't be easy and concepts just flew by! You still have to learn it and it's a completely different feeling, which you have to get used to. cheers. Edited by: iQew
Toyoka Cpt. Leon Gyroheart	Nov 14 2009, 9:56pm Anchor
I'm well aware of such I guess my post was a bit misleading. I've used many media and have somewhat an experience of each. Although, a tablet would indeed need some getting used to, I think I could get used to it if I tried enough. Then again, most of my concepts are created when I have nothing else to do (at most times, during school or elsewhere) so it wouldn't be likely I would use it much (as I am usually well preoccupied). Ah well, art is more of a minor skill for me Edited by: Toyoka
Arachnid-X	Nov 21 2009, 11:01pm Anchor
consept Idea of zodiac armys that I drew while in school.
iQew	16hours 12mins ago Anchor
I was just playing around with colors and let my mind wander while listening to music. More of a general practice to draw with tablet. I'm still uncomfortable with it. cheers

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iQew

Oct 28 2009, 7:36am Anchor

@SinKing: Yeah, it's supposed to be a hideout in a lavern cave or within a vulcano. The blue thing is maybe something like a magic spell of those inhabitants to be safe from the lava and heat. I just started doodling having no idea and just put random lines down. So, I didn't have an epic story or something like that in mind. It's more or less just supposed to look cool

SinKing bumps me thread

Oct 28 2009, 11:34am Anchor

I should return to greyscale too, the Vampire looks horrid, don't know why I posted it...

Nice work, Myles (I didn't know you can paint!), though painting after fotography is a bit like cheating. If you do this without template = more respect !

Edited by: SinKing

iQew

Oct 30 2009, 4:55pm Anchor

I was bored so I did this for fun. I used a lot of different mediums to go crazy with them

User Posted Image

Information:
- Water Color
- Copic Marker
- Pencil (2B, 4B)
- Stabilo Boss Marker
- Pilot G-Tec-C4
- Estompe
- Wacom Intuos3

Hope you like it

cheers.

Ninjadave Aka Dave

Oct 31 2009, 4:36pm Anchor

Quick paint I did in the Gimp.
Took longer than I wanted it too, and the program crashed right as I saved it so I lost my layers.

I'll do a better one later. I also need to use less bold outlines. In fact take them out altogether.

Edited by: Ninjadave

SinKing bumps me thread

Nov 1 2009, 1:43am Anchor

Think about bumplight Dave. With a door opening that wide you'd see a little light reflected on the floor and onto the ceiling. It's good painting in grey, though. I went back to using a 5-scale grey (5 tones) and copied my favorite painter Vermeer. This was just to get some practice into painting light. I recommmend you use the same five or six greys and try matching areas in the image that have the same light complexity.

User Posted Image

Trying custom brushes. Speeds things up.

User Posted Image

Edited by: SinKing

iQew

Nov 6 2009, 7:32am Anchor

@SinKing: I like the clouds, good job.

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I started with a doodle in school and digitalized it. After that one thing came by another and I turned the dragon (original was a fire creature) into a damned dragon of the souls. Humankind tries to fight it with their space ships, it's gonna be a hard space battle.

cheers.

SinKing bumps me thread

Nov 7 2009, 11:45am Anchor

That'S awesome. did you use a photograph for reference/ background?

I have been thinking - I'd dig if this thread became more of what it was originally supposed to: a WIP thread. So it would be cool to show stages of a painting, while it's still WIP and finished. I forgot how you call that, a walkthrough perhaps.

--

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iQew

Nov 7 2009, 1:04pm Anchor

Well, I found a cool space art image and used a little piece of it. I changed a few things on it and added some little things - I made it work for my purpose. The rest is totally drawn by myself traditional/digital, but that lightning effect, that's simply created with photoshop.

I don't do too much saves while I'm working, so there are only those steps:
User Posted Image

By the way:

This might become my next digital painting:
User Posted Image

"Just closed my eyes and used the first good idea I had in mind and brought it onto paper. I'm not sure, whether I will go further than this with it. There must be changed some things to make that scene interesting, that is for sure. But, I think that it's quite a good idea to show the hero entering to his next further step in his adventure."

But, I will definitely have to change some things before I can go to the digital process. I will see, what I can do with it.

cheers.

Edited by: iQew

Neolight

Nov 8 2009, 2:44pm Anchor

wip

Edited by: Neolight

SinKing bumps me thread

Nov 10 2009, 1:22am Anchor

I love your stuff Neo! Especially the last image, because it tells a fun story.
I am practicing drawing, in order to create my own storyboards, but whenever I practice in color, I tend to forget pictures need to tell a story.
I think we can learn a lot from your work .

When you do custom brushes like for the sail and the "fish", do you save them, or are they only for that particular painting? I'm just getting into customization and when I can find some more time for painting, instead of writing, I would like to try using more custom brushes. It seems to add a lot of depth and realism to the painting.

--

User Posted Image

Neolight

Nov 13 2009, 9:53am Anchor

I dont bother to make my own brush sets because i'm a lazy fuck. I'd rather be in the thick of painting than customizing, so I tweak existing brush sets that you can find around the internets.

The cool guys of conceptart (sparth M@ Barontieri etc.) have been known to share their custom brush sets every now and then - you just gotta find them!
You may be familiar with Barontieri and M@, their brush sets are availalable on the web and you can download them here: Steammachines.blogspot.com

Those two should be enough to get you rolling as far as making your own brushes go. To answer your question, I don't think anyone really makes a brush just for a particular piece. Brush sets are there to help you dive in and explore more organic/abstract paths of expression as long as you don't rely on them.

Edited by: Neolight

Toyoka Cpt. Leon Gyroheart

Nov 13 2009, 2:56pm Anchor

Wow.

Interesting progression! I wish I had a tablet, I would be drawing concepts more often just because it is much easier on computer than on paper.

--

"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly."

iQew

Nov 13 2009, 3:02pm Anchor

Toyoka wrote:Wow.

Interesting progression! I wish I had a tablet, I would be drawing concepts more often just because it is much easier on computer than on paper.

To me it's not like that - I feel the opposite. At least for sketching in photoshop, I haven't used painter yet, as I had no idea of the program and was always too lazy to begin getting to know it. It's really a different feeling and to me drawing with a pencil is still easier.

Toyoka Cpt. Leon Gyroheart

Nov 13 2009, 3:07pm Anchor

Well what I meant by easier on computer is that there is an ample amount of brushes you can use, while on paper, you are (usually) stuck with 1 tool = pencil, and it's harder to get your picture to look how you want it to if you don't have colors or different shades/types of pencils with you. I'm not a professional artist and thus I don't carry around multiple pencils with different "leds" so it's harder for me to draw a concept I'm thinking of on paper with one pencil, than on the computer which can contain different size/shape/colored brushes.

Edited by: Toyoka

SinKing bumps me thread

Nov 13 2009, 3:10pm Anchor

I think you should change the hue in that picture, so the mountains turn red and the guy turns blue (inverse it). You chose the strongest complementary contrast available. As far as I know we have most receptors in the eye for red. A lot of things come into play whe you think about, why these mountains are pushed back so far. That's really a bold coloring for a landscape.

It's cool! I like these stage paintings. I'm always amazed at how much people paint over and chop off in their images. I need to deal a lot more with that, but usually I just don't do enough. I paint something for two hours at most and then I don't touch it again. Most of my time is diverted to writing, but I think I should and could paint more. My interest lies largely on storyboard now, which is why I like paintings that tell a story - something you do in your painting.

--

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Ayro

Nov 14 2009, 10:49am Anchor

Toyoka wrote:Wow.

Interesting progression! I wish I had a tablet, I would be drawing concepts more often just because it is much easier on computer than on paper.

That's what you think until the day you buy a tablet. It's hard to get used to a tablet where you work as well as you do with just a pencil and paper.

iQew

Nov 14 2009, 2:22pm Anchor

Toyoka wrote:Well what I meant by easier on computer is that there is an ample amount of brushes you can use, while on paper, you are (usually) stuck with 1 tool = pencil, and it's harder to get your picture to look how you want it to if you don't have colors or different shades/types of pencils with you. I'm not a professional artist and thus I don't carry around multiple pencils with different "leds" so it's harder for me to draw a concept I'm thinking of on paper with one pencil, than on the computer which can contain different size/shape/colored brushes.

However, you need to understand each medium to use it correctly - even digitally. I don't think there is a change of difficulty within each medium. You're truely an artist if you can bring down a convincing concept onto the paper with each and only medium. What I want to say is that you will suck digitally if you suck traditionally, it won't help you much.
I was in the same belief and I now learned that drawing digital is a whole new thing and you have to learn it - it won't be easy and concepts just flew by! You still have to learn it and it's a completely different feeling, which you have to get used to.

cheers.

Edited by: iQew

Toyoka Cpt. Leon Gyroheart

Nov 14 2009, 9:56pm Anchor

I'm well aware of such I guess my post was a bit misleading. I've used many media and have somewhat an experience of each. Although, a tablet would indeed need some getting used to, I think I could get used to it if I tried enough. Then again, most of my concepts are created when I have nothing else to do (at most times, during school or elsewhere) so it wouldn't be likely I would use it much (as I am usually well preoccupied). Ah well, art is more of a minor skill for me

Edited by: Toyoka

Arachnid-X

Nov 21 2009, 11:01pm Anchor

consept Idea of zodiac armys that I drew while in school.

iQew

16hours 12mins ago Anchor

I was just playing around with colors and let my mind wander while listening to music. More of a general practice to draw with tablet. I'm still uncomfortable with it.

User Posted Image

cheers