Eddy_Swan
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Quote:I am exactly the same. except I don't own a tank at allOriginally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
I've seems this too many times...seems all my toons since Pyro tend to have the Tanker mentality, no matter what AT they actually are...
Nice job Caemgen!
(not enough damage )
*Edit: oh forgot to mention, I will have something to contribute to this thread by the end of the day. -
Quote:heh yeah I could have been a little lighter handed on that :P thanks for chiming in! I'll tweak that in photoshopOriginally Posted by SoulTenant
A quick nit to pick, the farther an item is in the distance ... the lighter the line you use on it should be. The cross over Cloaks head seems to loom out and threatens to fall on him. Otherwise, I think Lady Judgement did a bang up critique.
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dont apologise for wall text! tis my thread and it dosnt bother me
its good to hear your passion on the subject, it's somewhat infectious
while I dont think it will ever come to me quite as naturally as color does I certainly see it's appeal, it along with drawing are both mediums that I wish I was better at, I've no doubt that with time and effort and more formal training in anatomy and lighting I could get to be better at them both, but defining volume in line is something that has always been a weakness of mine, but I have a strong urge to improve on it. I may never be a strong inker but If I could get myself competant on my own work that would please me. so I will probably do more of these over the near future, the cloak and dagger picture was somewhat rushed, I only spent 4-5 hours on and off working on that piece. but it turned out okay, if I had taken more time on it perhaps It could have turned out stronger, infact I did rush it to a point, So I will work harder and take more time! thanks again for the tips and sugguestion's and for the free speach on your love of inking, it really is cool to hear other peoples perspectives on stuff.
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thanks for the critique bobby! going to save that all into an office document so I can referance that from time to time, And I will go through and add some tweaking's to the inks in photoshop thanks man! should help me on the next set of lines I plan to ink
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was cool man, picked up some useful knowledge in actions and its always col to hear a differant perspective, my net ended up going out so thats why I lft the chat abruptly, but yeah, it was very cool. I'll be attending the next one for sure.
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Quote:I just used my 7.1 megapixel camera with flash and macro on, lined the edges up with the camera lcd as best I could. Imported it to photoshop, Used levels to determine the brightest point and the darkest, because I had usd the flash there was a gradiating brightnest from the center outwards. so I had to go in close and clean that up with the eraser tool, till I had an all white background, then I used threshold to harden it all up.Originally Posted by PowerStream
Wow you photographed this THEN cleaned it up? What kind of setup do you use? When I photographed JRs work I could never get it that clean.
that trick would be a huge pain in the **** when we are talking pencils however, the flash would reflect off of the lead. best advice in that instance is to prop the picture up with a 45 to 60 degree angle with a light on overhead, and take the picture with macro and no flash. -
Quote:There will likely be some serious color holding here.Originally Posted by Pyro_Nympho
Just from seeing your color work...my opinion is that your ink work is good, but you'll do away with most of it due to your coloring technique. Your ink will set the guidelines for your color, but your coloring style should do away with most of the ink lines.
With that said, that may be the normal technique used, but other than your Spawn coloring piece...I don't see you "staying within the lines". Your coloring style is amazing in it's own right, and I see you taking this piece to a whole new level.
I'm no artist, but I've watched your work...and I can't wait to see this one finished! Gratz Swanzy....great job!
woah! that is some serious inking! I might have to look into purchasing some of those tutorialsQuote:Originally Posted by FrozenDeath
I suck at inking. But it is something I return to a lot because there are a lot of people who have really cool linework as the basis of their visual style. So I play with it from time to time...and fail, and go back to shading.
But I did buy this download on inking recently, and even from watching this youtube demo I think you can get some insight into things you might want to try:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O4xMbhxbSe0
Nate, the guy drawing is a phenomenal inker and the inking is really primary to his process. He draws a really basic layout in pencil to serve as a guide and then details and adds feeling as he inks. One thing you'll notice right away is how in addition to varying line weight he uses texturing to suggest tonal range and volume. Through the video he breaks up his contour lines along the edge to have them suggest the volume of the forms better (it's easier to get by watching him do it than trying to put it into words).
The other guy is El Coro (Justin Kaufmann) from Conceptart.org. He's also an amazing artist and I've learned a lot from his instructional vids. But he's a nut, really funny guy. thanks for the link BW!
thanks for weighing in bobby! I look forward to the critique!Quote:Originally Posted by LadyJudgement
Swansy: I'll do a Photoshop side by side and circle in red some points of discussion. I partially agree with what Pyro said, a lot is lost in the coloring. Btw that's a great demo to watch, I love Concept Art.org and Massive Black's downloads are so affordable considering all you learn... I've actually watched that WHOLE thing. The only thing is, that guy inks like an old style brush artist, and not so much like a traditional comic artist. So I'm not sure which style you prefer, or if you want to merge them...
By the way did you ink your piece by hand or digitally?
NOTE to Eddy: I'm not even on coffee yet, and I taped the Parade so I could relive the times I use to freeze watching it from the streets. So it may be a while before you get my full crit.
I cleaned the image up first digitally, then printed it out and inked it by hand, then photographed it and cleaned it up again... so I dont know if that would be considered digital or traditional... -
Dont know if this is something I am going to make a huge habbit out of doing but I really wanted to color this picture, and there were no descent lines around to download.
original pencils here http://fc08.deviantart.net/fs14/f/20...RandyGreen.jpg
I've never been very good at inking but By all means give me critique if you would like, who knows? maybe I might get the hang of it.
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Quote:the first place I saw herOriginally Posted by Hericane
Don't forget Mallrats!
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Quote:I think the dev's were trying to nerf you. fo shiz!Originally Posted by BattleWraith
Ok, so I stopped drawing and watched a Rick James video. Then I logged in and said "hola" to Kat. And then city of heroes broke and doesn't work at all any more. Is this mere coincidence? Who's responsible for this--the spirit of Rick James? Kat? Castle?
There are people that need to die right now in Siren's and they're getting all cheeky because I'm not around to pounce on them. The person who comes up with the best conspiracy theory to explain this sad state of affairs will receive a small sketch of a body part...like a face or a shoe or maybe a fist or something.
Also I think thursday I'll be talking about using 3d in your 2d and doing some soul searching about how to tell if your being a hack.
and thursday night is fine for me! no thanksgiving over here But I will assume you were asking the folks it actually would effect
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that's it. city of heroes is now the perfect game in my eyes
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Like I said on DA I love it wassy! thank you for choosing my gal
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that is some damned Nice work!
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Quote:or chipmonkiansOriginally Posted by The_Foo
Chumpians is fun, but not as good as Champions or Chimpians.
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Cya ya again tutor! remmember deviant art!
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Red named!
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Sorry for double post, Decided to tally up the result cause foo said it should close wednsday and no folks are voting so 'voila!'. I am the silent partner in this but I am also an organiser on this event so here we go!
1st Mystic Fortune
2nd Tuter King
3rd Scooter Two
no doubt foo will get to this picture as soon as he has sorted out outstanding commissions thanks all for entering and voting. Mystic send referances to foo.
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Quote:I just rolled out of my chair laughingOriginally Posted by Caemgen
Oh, wasn't an announcement made? Sorry about that.
In a suprising turn of events, there was a massive write in vote turnout for none other than our very own Caemgen. It seems people were touched by his compassionate refusal to have pumpkins slaughtered merely so he could enter a contest. Many also found it touching that his non-entry was a tribute to both Foo and Swanzy...
The final judges, the aforementioned Foo and Swan, initially were reluctant to award Caemgen with the prize fearing it would look like they were bought off. When they found themselves swamped under mailbags after mailbags of write in ballots for Caemgen, however, they felt honor bound to succumb to the will of the masses.
"that's not true at all!" Eddy Swan was initially quoted as saying but his freaky looking, red skinned Australian to English translator explained that was just one of those cute, odd, nonsensical Aussie phrases and that a correct translation of it would be "everyone loves that Caemgen guy."
Foo, when asked about these developments, laughed hystirically and had many unkind, unprintable things to say both about Caemgen and the masses who submitted the write in ballots.
A well respected Profanity to English translator later explained that such judicious use of profanity is usually a sure sign of utter agreement with current events and joy that everything turned out so well.
We attempted to reach Caemgen fir his comments on this stunning turn of events but unfortunately he was laid up in hospital suffering from a myriad of ailments including writers cramp, envelope glue poisoning and mail fraud toe.
Many thanks to all those that pointlessly entered but really, after seeing Caemgen's blatent attempt to influence the judges through bad art, what did you expect?
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The words out of my mouth when I saw the first one.
WOAH! beautiful use of lighting to really make him look ominous, it amazes me what you can do with those markers
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Quote:not a problem man, its in my on demand if you care to watch itOriginally Posted by Starwind
Sigh...babysitting and I fell asleep on the couch with my son.
OH! so the truth comes out! you'd rather watch a movie with your lady then attend my livestreams. I thought we had something special going on foo... Clearly I was wrong *turns in dramatic fashion*Quote:Originally Posted by The_Foo
I missed it 'cos I was out watching Zombieland (finally) with my lady.
Heh I dont care! hope you enjoyed the movie buddy, its nice to just chill back and watch movies lord knows I don't do it very often, certainly not with my lady as I dont have one.
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your right.. clown shoes it is...
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I was thinking maybe giving one of my toons a caemgen tatoo
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the prize is a character drawing finished by the artist who held the contest http://web-head-uk.deviantart.com/ i would have trouble sharing 10% of that with you
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Quote:wait... WHAT!? o,0Originally Posted by Larissa_Rasputin
Also Oreos and Salsa are a delicious snack.
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all done, you all can watch it in my on demand