Joims' Random Tangents of Art Work

[baron insig]

It started off with me playing aorund with my tablet i decided to draw a muzzle and i kinda got into it and kept on goin :o

Be nice!

btw havent a clue which links makes image appear in thread so im gunna try all of them n Edit!

http://img180.exs.cx/img180/364/snipersgearfinalwebsmall2vm.jpg

direct link http://img180.exs.cx/img180/364/snipersgearfinalwebsmall2vm.jpg

[Vegeta897]

Interesting sketches. I love your shading.

Now draw a full fledged piece!

[sea]

Yes, interesting colour style. I'd like to see the whole gun, though. :P

[crabonhead]

smashing.

[CREMATOR666]

Looks like something with a 256 color depth...:dozey: cool ayway :thumbs: I love color-banding! (or cutouts, or shtupid 16-bit ugliness, whatever it's called)

[maxrange]

look cool, did you draw it and scan it? I hope it's not made by computer... :P

[baron insig]

meh graphics tablet and photoshop :o

ill do the entire weapon tonite but right now i have a splitting head ache

:x

[baron insig]

http://img150.exs.cx/img150/756/gunrangecopy0jy.jpg

omg sorry about the size so if u wanna see it shank :laugh:

http://img150.exs.cx/img150/756/gunrangecopy0jy.jpg

[Jangle]

that's really good. I like the crazy shading.

[baron insig]

its a concept for my final study for AS art

its gotta be a genre liek veiw points so yeah im jsut knocking out images

[CREMATOR666]

T h e r e s o l u t i o n ' s t o o b i g...... s c r o l l i n g l i k e c r a z y O M G!!!

[baron insig]

Here Is everything else ive been getting up to since i saw TDE and his immense skills!


http://img153.exs.cx/img153/8088/alexbyjamesdonenow5hc.jpg

http://img149.exs.cx/img149/6923/alexdisplay9ta.jpg

http://img196.exs.cx/img196/4226/falling4ec.jpg

http://img136.exs.cx/img136/357/2moons0zi.jpg

http://img144.exs.cx/img144/9978/thesea5lu.jpg

http://img156.exs.cx/img156/3334/redsky2lt.jpg

[baron insig]

http://img159.exs.cx/img159/1416/snipersgearfinalwebsmall2lu.jpg

http://img188.exs.cx/img188/190/guns7fu.jpg

http://img149.exs.cx/img149/1718/spa0fx.jpg

http://img196.exs.cx/img196/9903/finalfantasybcsephiroth3nestbi.jpg
Colouring ^ for a friend first ever thing i did with my graphics tablet :)

[baron insig]

uhhh WTf happened to all the pics that i painstakingly uploaded

[crabonhead]

awsome! is that sephiroth?
ant the first face is really cool.
but for some of those environmenmts, try to clear yup some lines, cause its hard on the eyes to figure out what they are.

good work though

[Druckles]

Woo, all great, but a bit big. Love the gun one

[baron insig]

yeah that sephiroth

[CREMATOR666]

Could you at least post a link instead of the whole pic? :hmph:

[baron insig]

:p

why not cremator! i shall next time :p

[baron insig]

I started Another Peice !

Its HL2 Related and thats all im telling you till its done :P

Thos i might give you a WIP to C&c

[Nostradamus]

spend more than 2 seconds one one painting ok thx?

[baron insig]

/ ouch

Tohse were just me toying around and concepts for other things

so shh unless your gunna Contribute to it plzkthx.

[Druckles]

Ill be happy to give my C&C, just post your WIPs :D

[CREMATOR666]

Just show the thing!! :D This gonna be fun! OooOoOooOo :O

[baron insig]

http://img172.exs.cx/img172/733/conceptoutling0fv.jpg

as u can see creamtor i REsized it for you, im so nice :P

THIS IS A WIP no final positioning so please just Talk about layout of stuff its gunang et updated considerably as u lovely lot suggest stuff so that you can compare it with originals :)

if i get the day off tomorow im gunan finish of this :P (edit : this being the layout and gather all the bloody references i need :P )

it took 8 minutes to save cos originally its 10000 x 10000 pixels :cool:

[crabonhead]

nice, but the canyon edge is too sharp, an the tree should be either smaller, or lower down, cause the roots come too far up.
and maybe do something cool with the tree, cause it looks like the center of attention. like, you could have a lambda carved into it and then a stack of health and ammo in a knot in the tree.

[Sui]

I love your finished pieces, like the woman's face and Sephorioth. The smooth brushes used on those pieces complements your simple drawing style. Your use of light and shade is also excellent, although I think you should go over some of your sketches in detail and make them look better. They show potential, but the rough edges hide their simple charm.

I would recommend you go over the guns again, as they show a good sense of perspective and shading, but use smooth, straight lines and blur the light and shade into flowing highlights. It would'nt take too long and I'm sure it would be very satisfying.

Oh and about your W.I.P... In my opinion the painting seems to portray lost hope across the city, and if this is the feeling you want to portray, I think the tree should look more... dead :) hehe

[baron insig]

U got it in one
almost.. :P

basically i wanna put across that after all loss something survives(whihc in this case is going to be an ivy like plant stretching up the now dead tree :P)

tho im torn wether or not i should have the strider Zapping a sole reisistance sniper! :p

[CREMATOR666]

I just love pics with dead trees and combine-related stuff in it, could use more strider, IMO :P

[maxrange]

I just love pics with dead trees and combine-related stuff in it, could use more strider, IMO :P
agreed :upstare:

[baron insig]

day off :) gunna sketch the final version on paper :D put it to PS and probs do base colours/tone :)

[baron insig]

http://img71.exs.cx/img71/8128/treecoloured1ob.jpg

started zee tree :)

[CREMATOR666]

Too green!!!!! :P

[baron insig]

aww :P ive made some changes to its shading :P already so it has more tone across it should i just crete a layer and just paint brown over the top to just almost put a brown filter over it ( not the filter ish kind but a light filter)

[VirusType2]

Too green!!!!! :P

Perfect color green! I love this color. You use a mac dont you, do you use a light pen, or whatever they are calling them this decade (touch pen?) I'd like to see it further along, maybe even on my desktop. I just got Paint Shop Pro9, it reminds me a little of the beatiful art on the box. You've got alot of skill! I made quite a few desktop pics, no idea yet how to post them...
Anyway it wouldn't take much to put something at the top of the tree and leave it like that, you could make several versions.

Awesome.

[baron insig]

what kinda thing would u want at the top of the tree ?? im up for putting sumat in for you :)

i like it green aswell :P
i use a pc with a graphics tablet if i go to uni and do 3d digital design tho i want a mac and a powerful one ( cos that sourse is in 3dsmax photoshop and autocad )

new version - i like the tree i got the reference colours off of a tree its based o na dipteryx tree ( i thinky ).

http://img27.exs.cx/img27/6385/treecoloured27ep.jpg

[CREMATOR666]

Put in some dead rebels pierced by branches :P

[short recoil]

Nice work Joims, i should really get a tablet soon, the pictures below are about the best i can do with a mouse on PS....... both took around 2 hours or so from scratch.

http://img177.exs.cx/img177/5926/northsearig4iw.jpg

http://img224.exs.cx/img224/1813/knight4mo.jpg

[baron insig]

wow thats good :D the best i could do with a mousewas the pic of Alex on the first page ( the drawing of the Girl )

only had this tablet since end of jan so im starting to get used to it now :)

[Druckles]

Hehe, guess what brush was used in the second one? :laugh:
Nice tree though Joims, needs a bit more dimension though methinks

[baron insig]

ummm a round one with shape dynamics on ?

[Druckles]

I meant more dimensions on the 2D image, meaning make it rounder, darker, more contrast in the shades?

[baron insig]

oo there was me tlaking about the brush he used for the second one! gah silly me :rolleyes:

[Druckles]

oh... uhm... I thought you said dimensions lol. I really do skim read too well. Second time Ive done that in the past hour. No, the grass brush tool, default brush

[baron insig]

I reckon the actual tree is aboutfinished unless anyone can see any radical buggereis with it ??
next im going to put a living plan on it :d

http://img234.exs.cx/img234/1236/treecoloured30im.jpg

[Druckles]

A living, changing plan? Bit like the road map to peace thingy? :P

I like it, it just needs to be more round, it looks flat in the centre of the largest part of the trunk

[baron insig]

was meant to be plant aka ivy! major typo there lol :P

[CREMATOR666]

Dont forget the dead rebels...and add some combine assassins!!!! :P

[baron insig]

you are obsessed with bloody assasins int ya!

no im not putting any in i know what compilation i am planning to use so meh :P

[CREMATOR666]

you are obsessed with bloody assasins int ya!

How right can you be....:P Good luck with the pic! :D

[Druckles]

was meant to be plant aka ivy! major typo there lol :P


Heh, I know :P, but should still be more rounded. And speaking of a plant, it should be a dead plant, weaving (or not anymore :P), it's way round the trunk of the tree and up through its branches. Also some skulls or something at the bottom of the tree.

[baron insig]

http://img44.exs.cx/img44/43/treecoloured49mm.jpg

With some vines on it tho it aint finsihed yet :P no i dont want skulls ! tho i might put some kinda resistance person camping out or summat maybe a goudge in hl2 spray and some ammo :P

[EVIL]

RESOLUTION! sjeesh, If these high resolutions where justified because it enables you to see more details then I will say, Great go ahead!
But obviously these are more sketches then anything else, and therefore can be reseized to something that is around 600 x 600 or 800 x 800 pixels max.

Anyway, great that your are experimenting with your tablet, its a great tool and it takes some practice to make the movement natural for yourself. I have the pleasure to work with drawign tablets for years now and can still say that I have not by a long shot, utilized its full potential.

What more can I say then, scale those pics down so we can see them without scrolling (you don't want us to suffer from RSI now do you ;) )
And keep using that tablet, keep practicing with it until everything feels natural (like you are drawing on paper).

Good luck!

[Druckles]

hehe, I can see it fine due to my nice large TFT :D, but I agree :P

And about the art work...
Did you change the opactity, because you can tell where they overlap the edge of the tree, and the vine seems a bit too blurred. The curves of it are also uneven (but as you said, the vine's still a WIP). The bottom part is fine, but nearer the top, it doesn't seem so smooth

[baron insig]

yeah i reduced the oapcity cos it was too bold and looked to stark against the tree but yeah its a wip and i will get around to adding details to everything as these are jsut teh base colours :P

[baron insig]

and evil i have no idea why i used so a huge res for them :P but i dunno how to take the images down :P

new pictar for you all :) http://img180.exs.cx/img180/9993/treecoloured55ue.jpg

[Jimmeh]

Looks nice :)

To scale the image down, (your using photoshop right?) go to Image, then there should be size, or dimensions or something, then scale it down there. I like the vines :D

My only gripes is it looks a little flat, just by the way its shaded. Maybe it you give it a bit more contrast from the dark side to the light, it may help it look like it's actually round and 3D. The only other thing I can say is make the shape a little less straight. I know it's a WIP :p ;)

Other than that, great work ;)

[Jangle]

nice one joims, I love the vines and stuff.

[baron insig]

the image is scaled down :P well the tree is

thats 20% of the original size :P
it is 5000 5000 not sure why but i just like big res' :P

was 10000 10000 but the psd was 250 megs with one layer :S so i thought stuff that and went down 50% :P

[Druckles]

Hehe Jimmeh, already been at him about that for ages :P

I like the vine now, looks much better. Like the extra bits you put on, but of course as can easily be seen, they don't join up :P

[baron insig]

so your saying you want em joining up init!

yeaq i see where this is going ( that was jsut an experiment yeah : shifty: )

The real vines are being done like now yeah, now :shifty:

[CREMATOR666]

What about m3h corpse? :O Well, hope you at least include more striders, then...and blood, Blood, BLOOD!!!!!!! :D

[Druckles]

I still think a skull at the bottom of the tree and a few bones would look really good :D

[baron insig]

http://img142.exs.cx/img142/8243/treecoloured66oz.jpgThanks to ImageShack for Free Image Hosting (http://www.imageshack.us)


Slightly Darkened the tree will get 3D ififed whens the Bg is in so it can be easier to diferentaite between the 2 ( need contrast)

[mindless_moder]

thats working well joims ..i hope you have the veins on a new layer because u need to define a tree bark texture to the tree ... and work on the shading at the base a bit more thi reminds me of a tree that i did lol

[baron insig]

:) its all on sepreate layers ;)

yeah i wana add detail to the tree but im not sure how t o do it any help ppl ?

[Druckles]

Same way you got the texture onto the vine?

[baron insig]

:( that was by just random hatching of white and black n i dont think that will work and the viney tendrils is a duplicate layer gausian blurred :P

[Druckles]

Hehe. You can do the bark by finding some picture of a tree and making that into a texture (somehow :P)

[baron insig]

so u dont know how druckles :P ?

[baron insig]

http://img149.exs.cx/img149/6662/treecoloured70lb.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

A har i thought i know ill try a bubm map tutorial but the way the bloke did it mean i couldnt paste into the linked mask thing so i just resorted to yes u know it


Squigles

[mindless_moder]

the scribliness is working well you just need to kind of break the pattern behind it ... a good way to go about it is to find out what bark pattern looks like
here are some examples
http://altnature.com/Herbs2003/images/wildcherrybark9316md.jpg
http://peace.saumag.edu/faculty/kardas/Images/Backgrounds/Tree%20bark.GIF
http://www.lsadecatur.net/images/Hackberry%20Tree%20Bark.JPG
http://cathedralgrove.se/pictures/02-4-Tenise-Creek.jpg

[Druckles]

The third one looks the best, but for this tree I would look for something more plain and dead

[baron insig]

Here is a nother lump done on the entire thing :)

http://img217.exs.cx/img217/4929/treecitadel14ok.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Jimmeh]

Looks great Joims, I really like the citadel. The tree's texture is really good, I like it alot, but it still looks a little flat to me. At the bottom of the tree (where the roots are coming out) it looks three-dimensional, whereas the rest of the tree looks flat in comparison, and the bark looks way too smooth. If you just get one of those rooty things (not the vines around the tree) at the bottom, and have lots of the running up the tree, it'll look at more..erm..tree like :p

Citadel looks great, can't wait to see it all finished :D

[baron insig]

:S everyone is saying make it less flat but i cant see how!! i think it will lok right once there is a back ground in ! jsut gotta do it :P

[baron insig]

http://img234.exs.cx/img234/5062/huhmetalsmoothscopy0wa.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Druckles]

You're not going to finish that last one?

[baron insig]

yea i am! jsut when i complete hl2 again cos i need some specific screenshots eg of striders and crapped up stuff :P burnt out stuff

[CREMATOR666]

what's that thing? :O

[baron insig]

i dont have a clue what it is :P

i jsut saw a logo with curvy bits form my graphics card box and decided it would be cool to draw something like it,

and that basically happened :P

[Druckles]

Doesn't look too bad, just a bit blurred?

[baron insig]

smudged :P its was originally shaded like the gun concepts at the v start of this thread and i have a layer of that so i cnould show both but this one is more finished :P

[CREMATOR666]

i dont have a clue what it is :P

i jsut saw a logo with curvy bits form my graphics card box and decided it would be cool to draw something like it,

and that basically happened :P

oh.....sudden inspiration, eh? :P

[Dodo]

... :( i hate high-res !

[baron insig]

Tis a WIP Randomly started it today after Alex, My girl-friend
Sent me a pic of her which made me just go for it :P

http://img57.exs.cx/img57/8083/darkstrokescopy5rb.th.jpg (http://img57.exs.cx/my.php?loc=img57&image=darkstrokescopy5rb.jpg)

Admitedly its not done yet:p the proportions are a teensy bit wrong but i can fix that at the end by adding/ moving hair :P

and some bits sharp/blurred whihc isnt dealth with yet either:p it will be fixed

C&C be welcome :)

[baron insig]

http://img227.echo.cx/img227/8601/treecitadel28mx.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

:D got bored di the sky, one lsess tihng on my list of to do's, now need pics of an apc a strider and ehhmmm random combion + strider chasing Resistance:P
ooorrr
i make a city and a hil loking down on it liek lloking down on city 17 :)

[Jimmeh]

That looks pretty damn cool. :)

I've got to be honest here, the background looks great - the tree does as well but it seems so out of place for some reason.

[baron insig]

its meant to :P when tis done i kinda want it to be the hl2 kinda landscape all crapped up burning with one last tree holding on :)

[baron insig]

http://img256.echo.cx/img256/1985/glock72copy1pr.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)
ja Har random glock type weapon 4 a concept

o yeah i couldnt think of a backgroud, there is going to be a whole range of weapons so ill do sumamt with em when they all done

[MikeL15]

Awsome stuff Joims. I like the tree one and all, but I dont think the purple-ish sky really fits too well with it. Maybe like a grey gloomy type sky would look better. But thats all up to you.

And the gun looks cool, but why is the handle so small? You have kinda inspired me to do something in Photoshop again...

And what did you use to get the lines on the combine citadel? Maybe a 3rd program, or di you do it in Photoshop?

[baron insig]

i jus used the brush tool, using the shift key to get straight lines :)

The gun was froma scan of a weapon my mate drew, i took it redrew it n coloured it so the proportions were based off of that,

Im glad i kinda inspiried you! go do summat n show everyone ! :)

[baron insig]

http://img191.echo.cx/img191/3320/kalihires22jf.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)


Summat im colouring for a friend, just the top atm taking a while to do, but im finding it really good practice, with my tablet!

what u lot think ? anything i should change?

[Vegeta897]

The lower lip looks a bit odd.
The sword needs more highlights... like, shinyness.

[MikeL15]

Ya, her lips do kinda looks weird and the sword needs to have like streaks of light, but other than that its pretty good. :)

The sword also should reflect things in the background a little bit. But make the stuff a solid color with a little transpency. Solid meaning, dont make it look blured, make it have sharp sides kinda...

[baron insig]

uh huh :) , yah i was kinda confused with the lips:P so i attacked them :o

and this atm is the colour and tone layer, im gunna have soemthing sat on the top for like sharp highlights and textures :)

[baron insig]

o look whats this :P it done! tho i still cant figure out how to do the god dam lips!!!

http://img97.echo.cx/img97/3697/kalihires5donenobg5tj.jpg (http://www.imageshack.us)

[Druckles]

Nice. Love the colouring :)

I think I get the lips. It's like she's half stuck out her tongue...

[Jimmeh]

Very nice :)

I think with the lips, the little line underneath the bottom lip, is really meant to be the bottom of the bottom lip. If you understand :p

[baron insig]

any suggestions for a back ground, i was ithnking just a flat sky blue colour, was playing around in ps and it seems to bring the picture out more

[Druckles]

Sky blue with clouds. Then make a floor. No idea what

[baron insig]

Need these pics for Art As, Pposting links here so i can print them at schoo,, couldnt think of a nother way of doing it sorreh

http://img268.echo.cx/img268/7678/dsc042986wv.jpg

http://img278.echo.cx/img278/6941/dsc042994ks.jpg

http://img270.echo.cx/img270/7564/dsc043008jf.jpg

http://img277.echo.cx/img277/370/dsc043016om.jpg

http://img285.echo.cx/img285/6580/dsc043026rd.jpg

[Sulkdodds]

I hate my modem.

But the tops of those pictures look seriously amazing. :p I'll post a proper comment next time I'm using someone else's connection. :P

[baron insig]

there just pose :P not exactly Art Art photography jsut need that motion for art:) crappy thematic study hate em :P

[baron insig]

hehe,

did a sketch of an eye( obsession with eyes) while gf was in shower.

went back to it later in day (now) and am making it look more realistic, the first one was a crazy 10 min smudgeness of crazy colour,

im trying to make it as realistic as poss, i prefer drawing eyes with a biro, makes a nice effect so i know the shapes but colour is a large step, which im trying to take forward and thusly practice!!!!:P

http://img342.imageshack.us/img342/5003/wipeye2ix.th.jpg (http://img342.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wipeye2ix.jpg)

AS u can see it is no where near done, i hope to have it all finished at the end of the week, and then that tree one will get done because i bought a 6200tc leet gfx card and it manages to run hl2 so ill be able to get the screens i need for reference :)

[*~Alex~*]

woow thats really cooool wooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i like them all tho you really should actually bother to finish them

[baron insig]

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4163/elishacuthbertpo22kd.jpg


wallpaper........

[*~Alex~*]

Lush! <3

[baron insig]

http://img387.imageshack.us/my.php?image=betterrev3links90iy.swf

need link to show teach at school

[Vegeta897]

What?

By the way, the scroll bar on the far right and the text on the far left make it extremely confusing. I didn't even know there was a scrollbar there until I started highlighting the text and it began to scroll down. Even then it took me some time to notice because it blends in way too well.

[baron insig]

lol :p ill move it over:p

[Ennui]

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4163/elishacuthbertpo22kd.jpg


wallpaper........
ahhhhhhhhhhh...

[sinkoman]

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4163/elishacuthbertpo22kd.jpg


wallpaper........

LEAVE MY PENIS ALONE

[baron insig]

http://img276.imageshack.us/my.php?image=redblack25vo.swf

another verison of webby,

sinko man your signature is wayyyyyyyyyyy to long, u mght wanna shorten it before the mods dooo....

[Vegeta897]

The actual bar that you move in the scroll bar is practically invisible. Please make it more noticeable, I couldn't even tell what part of the document I was at.


And uh, I don't know how many others agree, but super flashy and graphical and high tech is overcrowding the importance of actual content. It's wayyyy too flashy that it is ruining accessability. I hope you understand what I mean, because I don't know any way else to say it.

[CrazyHarij]

http://img22.imageshack.us/img22/4163/elishacuthbertpo22kd.jpg


wallpaper........

So you took a skins.be wallpaper, flipped it horizontally and ran it through a filter or two in PS. Nice job.

[Sui]

So you took a skins.be wallpaper, flipped it horizontally and ran it through a filter or two in PS. Nice job.

heh, it even says "eb.sniks" in the bottom left :p

I've seen this wallpaper before, and the middle image is WAAAY too 80's for my taste. Although Elisha Cuthbert can still flip my switch anyday. I forgive her.

[baron insig]

itook several wallpapers, and taped them together to make them more distracting (you have a window open covering elisha hey theres another two of her:P

u cant win, ill take the internets

[baron insig]

http://img154.imageshack.us/img154/5071/resizecompare7ig.jpg

something im doing for art, gunna now animate it so it looks like its building up ( kind of)

[baron insig]

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4923/wiptuteye62pg.th.jpg (http://img180.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wiptuteye62pg.jpg)

http://img180.imageshack.us/img180/4923/wiptuteye62pg.jpg

tutorial that was linked in other thread, its rather good tho some of the refering phrases to colour "aka ruddy..." are a bit confusing

[baron insig]

http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/4743/wiptuteye96ml.jpg


Eye...... :D

[*~Alex~*]

Wow! Its amazing! I Love it! <3