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Back in High School I considered myself an Artist, however College and beer raped me of whatever artistic juices "mojo", I once possessed. Anyways this topic is made for Various RM Artists to post their work, similar to a Screenshot Topic, however just a place for art work.
Ashramaru, interesting idea. I don't really have much to say about it, as there's not a lot there, but I like the eye!
systemyournameistoolong: Well, the first thing that strikes me about Jill is that the anatomy is off. I'm not an expert, but the big things that stand out are that the hands are way too small (should be about half the size of her face; check it on yourself), and the head is too big for a realism, although of course many styles draw bigger heads. The hand holding the gun could also use some more definition; try drawing in some knuckles and considering the shape of the fingers instead of just having it curve like that. Hands are a bitch, though, so yeah. But I'd recommend checking body proportions on yourself, but I'm sure the Internet is full of anatomy reference pics. I'd go dig some up, but they tend to be naked, so I'm disinclined to post them. D:
As for me, uh, I'm a fair hand at art when I have a reference but fairly horrible otherwise, so I generally do self-portraits. I haven't drawn in months and months, though, and I never really did it before I took a drawing class last year... :\ I should get back on that. All of this is about six months old, anyway.
Self-portrait I did for said art class's final project. Going for an artsy charcoal thing.
I'll post something I did without a reference for comparison, but I know it's pretty bad, so I'm not really looking for crits on it. Edit: Ergo, the purpose of this is to go, "haha that's weird how you go from decent to totally suck when you change it up a little," except you won't actually post that because you don't want to grind my hopes and dreams and soul and etc. under the cold, hard heel of reality. :D
Love the hair, very very expressive. You do quite well with contrast.
The second portrait is good, not as well as the first. Its dull in the sense of values, but a bit of darkening will fix that up.
Love the hair, very very expressive. You do quite well with contrast.
The second portrait is good, not as well as the first. Its dull in the sense of values, but a bit of darkening will fix that up.
I blame my scanner for that. The values look better in person, but it's hard to get nice darks with graphite. Charcoal, on the other hand, is very nice for that, but I use sticks 'cause I don't have any charcoal pencils, so it's a bit of a trade-off. Thanks, at any rate!
Nothing is wrong, you're posting in someone's thread.
For example, interjecting in the middle of a conversation with your own topic is considered rude.
You don't post your images in someone else's thread. Its hi-jacking.
Sure, but the TC expressly said that this topic was for artists to post their crap and critique other people's crap, both of which I did, you'll notice. I left comments on the other pictures, so it's not like I came in here and decided this topic was now about mememe. Why didn't you jump on that other guy who posted his stuff, anyway?
Whatever. :P This is more casual than making a thread, anyway.
Speaking of derailing the thread, we sure got off-topic. Guess I'll throw another thing up to get us back on track!
Composition's sort of banal, but I'd had it sitting on my hard drive for like a year before I did a background, and at that point I just wanted something done. Plus I was experimenting with some new techniques. Not really happy with it overall--the background's also kinda distracting--but it's a technical improvement from the last thing I did, so eh.
Edit: Silly me, I forgot to credit the textures. D: This is not from scratch; the planet is a composite of about five textures from Resurgere, and I also used brush textures that aren't mine, probably also from Resurgere.
wow 0.0, did you do that from scratch?! Plain amazing!
I'm still learning myself how to make things from scratch in paintshop pro. but I'm no where near the level you are ^^;
wow 0.0, did you do that from scratch?! Plain amazing!
I'm still learning myself how to make things from scratch in paintshop pro. but I'm no where near the level you are ^^;
Oh god no. I wish I could make something like that from scratch, haha. I forgot to credit the textures; I'll go add it in. The planet was five-ish textures from the deviantART group Resurgere, and the background was mostly from scratch except for textured brushes. This one was mostly from scratch--various filters, mainly liquify, plus some textured brushes for added detail--but it wouldn't work with a rocky planet 'cause you just need so much detail. (Edit: Well, I remember one tut from a great artist that built planets with textured brushes, whereas I directly edit the textures, but it comes out to about the same thing.)
Anyway, I've never used Paintshop Pro and know virtually nothing about it, but all the space artists I know use Photoshop. It's a very effect-based genre; honestly, knowing PS and having good textures is at least as important as artistic vision or whatever. But I use filters a lot. If you're serious about getting into it, I'd see if you can secure a copy of PS somewhere for cheap, maybe an old version. And beyond that, there are lots of tutorials to introduce you to some of the basic techniques, but said tutorials also produce a lot of art that looks the same, so you gotta experiment on your own.
Man, I seriously gotta stop being lazy and make some new art. I want to do a badass nebula. Maybe make some shinies for my game. Who knows.
Now I might have hijacked the topic for real. Didn't mean to! Other people post stuff too!
