Show us your drawings/artwork

elmarko · 5 Mar 2013 at 20:45

Castiel said:
Your a talented chap, elmarko. One of the things I always wished I could do was draw or paint....I'm rubbish.

Thanks

- but I'm a total amateur compared to some in this thread (Some excellent artists on this forum).

I'm pretty sure most people can draw or paint given time! - but painting is most certainly therapeutic (to me!)

Lysander · 5 Mar 2013 at 20:47

elmarko said:
I'm pretty sure most people can draw or paint given time! - but painting is most certainly therapeutic (to me!)

The word you are looking for is cathartic [release or expression of emotions through art].

Neoni · 6 Mar 2013 at 17:45

Some hand drawn tablet stuff

Tephnos · 6 Mar 2013 at 17:49

LanceCrossfire said:
Done in a couple of hours last night to warm up and get back into a painting mindset.

http://i.imgur.com/Rz8Yc2c.jpg

A couple of hours?

Jut how. :eek:

elmarko · 6 Mar 2013 at 20:03

Got some new art pens today, pretty fun - did a bash at Rick from the walking dead (was reading it earlier so it seemed a good choice).

KatanaDV20 · 6 Mar 2013 at 20:19

Shockingly brilliant talent on OcUk.

Respek

AHarvey · 6 Mar 2013 at 21:47

those using tablets/pc, do you free hand your work onto it, or do you actually use the lots of tools that are built in to software like Photoshop?

elmarko · 6 Mar 2013 at 22:03

Last one from me, quick 30m one -

Neoni · 6 Mar 2013 at 22:17

AHarvey said:
those using tablets/pc, do you free hand your work onto it, or do you actually use the lots of tools that are built in to software like Photoshop?

I free handed all my stuff its all just set to pressure sensitive and away I go

elmarko · 7 Mar 2013 at 10:41

Neoni said:
I free handed all my stuff its all just set to pressure sensitive and away I go

I need to start using my tablet - spent a fortune on a wacom cintiq & now just use paper/pencils/paint.

To me it feels much harder than actual painting or drawing, but it should be easier (as you have CTRL+Z lol).

TheMeekon · 7 Mar 2013 at 10:56

elmarko said:
I need to start using my tablet - spent a fortune on a wacom cintiq & now just use paper/pencils/paint.

To me it feels much harder than actual painting or drawing, but it should be easier (as you have CTRL+Z lol).

It will eventually feel very natural. I now find traditional harder after 8 years on a wacom.

elmarko · 7 Mar 2013 at 10:59

TheMeekon said:
It will eventually feel very natural. I now find traditional harder after 8 years on a wacom.

Yeah I guess, Ill have to give it another bash.

TheMeekon · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:00

Some really nice work in here.

LanceCrossfire I think you'll have a job as soon as you finish Uni.

Only one thing with the last character is I find it hard to read. The colour palette is very monotone and the head gets lost in there. A third colour to bring out the face and character would have been nice. Also I would really try some other styles now than the Darksider inspired stuff, it comes through very strong in your 2D and 3D.

LanceCrossfire · 7 Mar 2013 at 11:57

TheMeekon said:
Some really nice work in here.

LanceCrossfire I think you'll have a job as soon as you finish Uni.

Only one thing with the last character is I find it hard to read. The colour palette is very monotone and the head gets lost in there. A third colour to bring out the face and character would have been nice. Also I would really try some other styles now than the Darksider inspired stuff, it comes through very strong in your 2D and 3D.

Thanks Meekon

I actually got offered a position yesterday at a CG/Anim company in Manchester

I can't commit myself until I finish University though at the end of April.

Thanks for the feedback on the work, the monster still has to have a diorama go with it and when I finish that I'll try and play with the colours/lighting to highlight the face more. Most of my 3rd year is a project on stylised art and Darksiders is a heavy influence within it, that's probably why you see a lot of fantasy stuff.

I also recently did some work for a Steam Greenlight game concept which is a lot less far out, I'll post/promote it shortly.

I've started work on a new human character model to which I'll probably do something a bit more 'grounded' (maybe a WW2 solider).

@Tephnos - It's a pretty simple image if you look at it, practice obviously helps in reducing time. I started using Photoshop just under 3 years a go and wouldn't have been able to do anything close to that, but the time investment does pay off.

elmarko · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:25

LanceCrossfire said:
Thanks Meekon I actually got offered a position yesterday at a CG/Anim company in Manchester I can't commit myself until I finish University though at the end of April.

Thanks for the feedback on the work, the monster still has to have a diorama go with it and when I finish that I'll try and play with the colours/lighting to highlight the face more. Most of my 3rd year is a project on stylised art and Darksiders is a heavy influence within it, that's probably why you see a lot of fantasy stuff.

I also recently did some work for a Steam Greenlight game concept which is a lot less far out, I'll post/promote it shortly.

I've started work on a new human character model to which I'll probably do something a bit more 'grounded' (maybe a WW2 solider).

@Tephnos - It's a pretty simple image if you look at it, practice obviously helps in reducing time. I started using Photoshop just under 3 years a go and wouldn't have been able to do anything close to that, but the time investment does pay off.

Some very very nice work you have there.

Most certainly makes the jump from amateur to professional level.

How long have you been doing digital art for now?

I really need to spend some hard time improving as I'm considerably worse than I should be, alas it's the downside of splitting time between painting/drawing/playing guitar & writing music - not to mention too much time gaming!.

LanceCrossfire · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:31

elmarko said:
Some very very nice work you have there.

Most certainly makes the jump from amateur to professional level.

How long have you been doing digital art for now?

I really need to spend some hard time improving as I'm considerably worse than I should be, alas it's the downside of splitting time between painting/drawing/playing guitar & writing music - not to mention too much time gaming!.

I started using Photoshop about a month before I started Uni (which according to my uni info is 2 years 6 months ago). Before that I hadn't done any art for about 6-7 years

I'm an on Games Art course but it has A LOT of 3D in it (infact only 1 module was dedicated to 2D work and I did that in 2011), so I don't get as much time as I'd like in Photoshop doing the stuff I want

elmarko · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:37

LanceCrossfire said:
I started using Photoshop about a month before I started Uni (which according to my uni info is 2 years 6 months ago). Before that I hadn't done any art for about 6-7 years

I'm an on Games Art course but it has A LOT of 3D in it (infact only 1 module was dedicated to 2D work and I did that in 2011), so I don't get as much time as I'd like in Photoshop doing the stuff I want

Still, the standard of your work is very high (considering how short a time you have been at it) - good seeing it up here.

Need to focus on photo-shop more, as been moving from program to program - but keep going back to photo-shop.

Currently I'm only using it to prepare reference material for real paintings/drawings.

LanceCrossfire · 7 Mar 2013 at 12:50

A bit of an art dump from me :-

First a 3DS Max animation I'm working on-

http://i.imgur.com/dmNnVb6.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/gd5bP9W.jpg

Some random work for various clients-

http://i.imgur.com/wrCPbab.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/DqGq8Du.jpg

And some of my portfolio stuffs-

http://i.imgur.com/zpve0cH.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/YszbULX.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/EYXYb3g.jpg

http://i.imgur.com/36Xlugy.jpg

And a digital sculpt I started the other day which I'm probably gonna turn into a soldier of some sort-

http://i.imgur.com/0YuJOjl.jpg

TheMeekon · 7 Mar 2013 at 13:39

LanceCrossfire said:
Thanks Meekon I actually got offered a position yesterday at a CG/Anim company in Manchester I can't commit myself until I finish University though at the end of April.

Thanks for the feedback on the work, the monster still has to have a diorama go with it and when I finish that I'll try and play with the colours/lighting to highlight the face more. Most of my 3rd year is a project on stylised art and Darksiders is a heavy influence within it, that's probably why you see a lot of fantasy stuff.

I also recently did some work for a Steam Greenlight game concept which is a lot less far out, I'll post/promote it shortly.

I've started work on a new human character model to which I'll probably do something a bit more 'grounded' (maybe a WW2 solider).

@Tephnos - It's a pretty simple image if you look at it, practice obviously helps in reducing time. I started using Photoshop just under 3 years a go and wouldn't have been able to do anything close to that, but the time investment does pay off.

Congrats on the job, now you'll get to see how mundane it really is

I've been off for 4 months so looking forward to getting back on the Zbrush.

elmarko · 7 Mar 2013 at 18:06

Thought I'd try something iconic, should have added a bit more detail - but oh well - using indian ink art pens - took about 45mins (most of the time spent pencil sketching it).

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