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Some of you may know that at conceptart.org, I maintained a digital sketch book that I updated once a week. Because of my busy class schedule, (which, unfortunately contained no digital painting in the curriculum) and the fact that my last server went down and took my site with it, I could not update as regularly as I'd have liked... In fact, I got so frustrated with disorganized classes that lacked focus; and professors who told me that there's no future in digital art or conceptual design (most of them believe that it's still the 1970s) that I spiraled into a pretty big rut. Now with my site back up and with it, the ability to share my work online where I can get feedback from people who know the field (Mostly at forums like Conceptart.org and cgtalk) I decided to give it another go.
Anyway, ranting aside, the process works like this; I make at least one finished and refined digital painting weekly to post here. The rule is that I post whether I like what I've done or not and since I hate publicly displaying work if it's glaringly not up to snuff (to me anyway), I'll have that little bit of added incentive to devote the time I need. Constructive criticism is strongly encouraged and would be appreciated. I’d certainly recommend that any artist here does the same with the medium that they’re devoted to. It’s a great process especially if you hold yourself accountable, and the idea of displaying what you’re working on really makes you push yourself. As one of the better teachers here said,“You can take expensive classes and buy good materials but ultimately you’re only as good as the time you put in”
Here's what I've completed from the beginning of my last run up to when my site and stamina went down.
Here's a of six digital self-portraits that I had been doing for a little while. They were all pianted from life with a mirror in fron of my computer... No cheating.
More to come soon.
Now that this is up to speed, expect my first realtime installment on sunday evening. Again, I'd seriously recomend that anyone give this a try.
Thanks.
-noel
now its a whole new step on the computer system. it makes the pictures a whole lot sharper and clearer.
anyways, GREAT WORK!!
My second favourite and probably my overall favourite is The Dunes (that is what i named it) one, with the very ickle man and the vast sand and hills (or whatever they are called when they are made out of sand
) i love the perspective in that one. you can almost think what he is thinking (FU** me that is a SH*T load of sand! ).Well done.
Keep 'em coming.
overture
edit: if it is not a desert i apologise
i haven't slept much --tired smiley here--
My biggest art form is writing.
overture: Thanks. Actually, I'm a big fan of samurai movies in general. Check out anything with directed by Akira Kurasawa or starring Toshiro Mifune.
wwheeler: Thanks. You ought to post some of your writing sometime.
amkint: Thanks. Actually painting on a computer isn't too different when you have the right tools. I love how with every passing year the line becomes more blurred.
Is that griffin based on some kind of real animal or dinosaur, or did you make it up yourself? and i like your drawings, but how good can you draw portraits, really? i mean, maybe you look really different, and you suck at portraits
(just kidding) but could you post a photo... 
thanks.and just one thing, maybe you shouldn't post images hosted on your astahost account. if a lot of people look at this topic, you will lose quite some bandwith.... i'd go to an imagehost for that, at imagecave.com (http://www.imagecave.com/) you got 1,024.00 MB of bandwith every month, and that way you're sure your own site will stay online... just a suggestion
love the paintings, keep up the good work!
I've been meaning to put a picture of myself on my site for a while but I can never seem to remember to barrow my fathers digital camera whenever I go home.
Anyway, Here's my latest. It's kind of a metroid-inspired aquatic blob monster. That's the best title I can think of right now.
I am always using painter and photoshop
I like the layer system in photoshtop and the brush in painter
Thank you for posting those images but isn't it eating up your bandwidth like crazy?
Go here http://imageshack.us
A good place for a infinity of images to be stored for free
(I haven't tested it out though...But it seems like a good place...Hope it helps....L8r)
Thnx again for posting the wonderfull pictures man...My favorite was the first one you posted
Or if possible do you know a good tutorial on the matter. I will keep trying, it is just a big change from Photoshop like i have mentioned before somewhere on here.
thanks
overture.
I also read through the tutorial on your site...great stuff. I don't know how you do it though, even with the pen thingy. All I have is a mouse, and I would die trying to do this stuff
Everything looks terrific, you should hook up with some game mods and be a concept artist or something. I can do digital art, but not so much along the lines of making my own stuff/drawing, but rather digitally coloring and creating using brushes or other images. (hence my site, unreal wallpapers)
once again, good work dude!
Cheers, and keep it up
-ignition
overture: I have a lot of blending brushes in my personal brush library which you can down load here. But I think just about any blender will do the job as far as texture is concerned. The secret of skin tones lies within the color and value, though. I think it's probably impossible to master. All I could really tell you is that a little bit of red highlight goes a long way. It's a very complicated subject that has stumped aspiring painters for millennia. As far as blenders are concerned in general though, go to your brush settings window and open up "well." The higher you set the bleed to resat ratio, the more smeary your brush is and vice versa.
Ignition: Thanks for the vote of confidence man. I've actually been involved with a few small projects, all of which sort of turned me off of mods. "Free projects" usually mean that everyone involved is busy making a living at something else, including me so they usually never see completion. I've also a variety of other things for free or at least for the prospect of seeing a commission but unfortunately, they never went anywhere either. My one piece of advice to anybody doing freelance work over the net is this; never work without a contract.
Anyway, here's my latest.
This is an illustration based on my all-time favorite novel, Frank Herbert's Dune.
That looks terrific.....I love the eyes and the gaping mouth. Awesome detail put into all the little ridges along the body....how do you do it man?
That's imply amazing. Good work...wish I had a digital pen to draw with.
Cheers!
-ignition
so dull.anyways very nice work... again
anyway, as the folks at conceptart.org always do, they helped me find some things that needed to be fixed. Mainly constrast and depth issues. That's probably always been my biggest week area. So here's the update. Enjoy. Contrsuctive critique is always welcome here so don't hesitate.
. i am studying Software Programming at college i am coming to the end of my 2nd year which will be the end of the course in about June or July.I planned to go to Uni to study Graphic Design but i was not accepted due to some cock-up by some people, they didn't tell me something which was required for me to have a chance to get into Uni.
i am just practicing in my spare time at the moment with lighting in Painter.
That sucks about uni. I know there are schools that I'd definitely love to attend but distance and cost prevent it. You can really accomplish a lot at any school though, if you really invest yourself. That's something I found out pretty quickly here at USM. No matter how bad the professor is, what you get out of the class is proportional to what you put in. My schools art program has no clue as to where to scratch the surface on digital painting so in that area, I'm 100% self-taught. It's the disciplines like traditional life-drawing, painting, color theory and 2-D design principles that really lend themselves to my work here, which I do separate from school.
Keep at it, man. That's really the only thing that works in the end.
-Noel
also at my college they have no idea about where to start with digital art either. they have digital slices in their courses but that is just 3D stuff. it's a shame.
overture.
Speaking of life drawings, here are a few figure studies and gestures done in class.
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