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thanks jdillon & sukhoi!
sukhoi, you sure seem to have improved a lot!

I've been drawing the traditional way and now am trying to remember how to handle that wacom.

anyway here's tonights catastroph ...

whew...first wacom painting in weeks. would've been a quickie but since my tablet works only sporadically (something to do with the usb wire I think) it took almost an hour.
http://www.lyseo.edu.ouk ...

*shiver*

*shiver*

http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~sleech/clown3.jpg
aghhh...clowns are creepy

dizzypope: yes and no. my second clown in this thread was painted over a scanned scetch, the rest are done without one. Usually I just start painting from scratch or perhaps make a very delicate scetc ...

thanx gawain! you saying that makes me feel the pic was a success images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

I'm having trouble adding detail to the pic, it's losing its looseness as I try to do it.
It will start ...

too long for a speed painting, not long enough for a polished piece... just wanted to share it.
it's done just for fun, wanted it to have that cheesy two-sided lighting that plagues most of the works ...

thanks for the comments everyone!
nova: great point there, I'll start fixing the ground asap. those off-scene-tree cast shadows actually are there already, I'll just need to exaggerate them a little. ...

this is supposed to be a scenery from our summer place in northern Finland, Lake Kitka.
tried to do it in a semi-matte style, but I guess that purpose was lost during the process. still quite happy wi ...

yikes
the expression looks...well, ghastly. the overall feeling here is that you just snapped a random photo (thus the awkward look in her eyes) and painted a copy of it. the office hardware in the ba ...

it's time for a clown thread!
if you've got 'em, post'em. If you have none, draw some new ones! (and hopefully someone will post a happy clown, I'm starting to have nightmares images/smiles/icon_smil ...

first the compliments to smoothen off:
posture looks great (though it looks more like a slave/guard's pose, not very sultanish), colors look good too.
as for crits:
check the anatomy with the left ar ...

a gut-smashing trainwreck here
http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~sleech/paskaritari.jpg

I think I know what's wrong with it... everything :/

"vittu, kyt�t soittaa poliisit!!!"

roughly translated from finnish:
"fuck, the cops are calling the police!!!"

some bloke with the gracious help of mr. alcohol at a rock festival last summer images ...

thanks nova!

speed painting knights are ok if you ask me.

how about this one:
http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~sleech/aapo.jpg
I think I'm getting a grasp on how armour works images/smiles/icon_smile ...

http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~sleech/knightjoku.jpg

those white thingies...dunno but they're just cool images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~sleech/harness.jpg

a killer thread!!! great work everyone! **so glad to have happened to start this thread**

above:used ref for the pencil sketch... turned out quite n ...

oh wow, this *thread* has grown so big...and I expected only a few replies.

spooge: I'm speechless. wow. that one humbles all the other postings on this forum.

http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~slee ...

thanks sukhoi images/smiles/icon_smile.gif
here's another one.
http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~sleech/knight3.jpg

hehe, seh�n kym�� siin�!!!

..and this is the stuff you painstakingly develop in your computer screen-lit wicked dark closet sweating like a pig...hehehe images/smiles/icon_wink.gif
statement: I like ...

nice pics everyone!
I like yours stereophoenix images/smiles/icon_smile.gif
not to mention spooge's knight.
spooge, how do you do that small scribbly looking texture that appears in your works?
do you ...

It's time for a jolly good post your knight thread! images/smiles/icon_smile.gif so, post your knights!

mine's a quickie knight. he's going to get tripped by that tree trunk... images/smiles/icon_sm ...

thanks bock images/smiles/icon_smile.gif

here's the updated version. note: it's still sketchy, I've used only a total sum of 1,5 hours on it. so there's not much detail.
http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~sleech/amok2.jpg

hunter_rose, I don' ...

a quickie
http://www.lyseo.edu.ouka.fi/~sleech/500/078partawestern.jpg

had to register a new username as I lost my previous password... and now I think this new name sucks. damn.
but go ahead and discuss, there were some good pointers. that extra smoke was a good idea, t ...