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kimchi · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 5:01 pm

Please post your references, Combustion. I'm sorry if this offends you, but in my humble opinion, your recent posts seem like paintovers.

ultrahsu · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:14 pm

That's cool y'all are working on your drawing, when I first saw this site I was like damn, a lot of them can paint but don't care much for drawing, anyways, jibba jabba.

octavian - I like the painting inside the painting of the zombie

jibe - nice stuff, ur style's great, humorous site

pringle - walker garage is awesome

a.pipe - nice vehicles

spooge - amazing, holy crapage

Capt. Fred, stephan - nice

Swarm - cool stuff, very nice nude, screaming chick is great

dylancole - gorgeous landscape, the figure needs better drawing, think the neck's too thick

mitsui - like ur things in hell

here she is, #7, and yes I saw Jaws again recently, he is SnaggleTooth

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bagelguillotine · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 6:42 pm

Everything looks awesome as usual.
Swarm-I love your stuff. I wish your site were up and running.

Eeeh...second speedpaint. I can tell this is going to be a slow process. I just don't feel so comfortable with a tablet.

A.pipe · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:23 pm

thx guys

asmodie: sorry,i dont have a web, i'll post my daily speedpainting(concept) here.
spooge and Levan: impressive pencil drawings
ultrahsu:awesome tooth, lovely gal

seth1 · member Member # Joined: 06 Jun 2004 Posts: 534

Art rage ref used...

antx · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 8:31 pm

Matthew · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:38 pm

Spooge, hmm I think I am way to confused for my own good sometimes, so hard to know which parts to focus on in the painting but I like your explanation there, to get the structure right. I will work harder with it, at the moment I am searching for that simplifying though and it seems I can't focus on both drawing and simplifying, maybe comes with time.

btw very cool with swedish relatives, I thought I recognized that Swedish Dala Horse in your old Studio. Smile

Would be cool to see a pic from your new studio.

ok time for some breakfast

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illustr8r · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 10:44 pm

Howdy, I'm new here. I just came across this thread about a week and a half ago. But, I've seen the work of many of the artists that post here before. Spooge, Sparth, Baronteri, and many others are a huge influence on me wanting to get into digital painting. I wish that someday I can paint half as good as you guys. This thread is host to such a pool of creative people, that I figure that I have to take adavantage and participate.

So anyway, I'm new to digital painting. The image below is my third digital illustration. I've colored some character drawings in PS before, but as far as full illustrations go, this is the third....and its my first "speed paint." I would love to get some crits from you digital masters. I feel like I've got along to go, but I plan on doing a lot more digi-painting....so, any comments or advice would be greatly appreciated.

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Tedsuo · Posted: Thu Jul 08, 2004 11:49 pm

Ultrashu: Yeah I study Animation at the Academy of Art, and animate the veedeo games for the $$. Are you an alum? I wish I had a chance to take more illustration classes. As it is, I barely have time to skribble. Smile

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Popeye · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:15 am

summer pudding: i really like the way you paint, especially those enviromental paintings.
octavian:thanks!
pringle: your recent painting are all cool!especially like the water color ones.
jibe: i wanna buy a print of your painting.
ultrahsu:very nice stuff.

Misc · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:08 am

Matthew · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:33 am

freehand sketching a bit with wc.

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Snap! · junior member Member # Joined: 05 Jul 2004 Posts: 3

Here's something I did this morning. I timed myself for two hours and stopped once I hit my mark.

c&c welcome

Illya · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 4:48 am

From ref :
sorry for my level Confused

about 1 hour each
http://madnessofillya.free.fr/rotk1.jpg
http://madnessofillya.free.fr/sarah021.jpg

zhuzhu · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:07 am

opencanvas:

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Illya · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 5:54 am

it's katherine hepburn ?...I seems so bad..

Isric · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 6:12 am

Matthew,

I think something you should seriously consider is working on longer paintings for a while. Leave the speed painting thing for a couple months and just focus on some actual studies. That's why some people here have incredible speedpaintings and others just look like kids who 'wanna go fast', It's become too much of a gimick style. More study taking your time, then you'll come to understand how things work and it'll greatly improve the pieces you're trying to do now.
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Matthew · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 7:00 am

Isric, well u know I mostly see the speedy thing as an experiment trying out new tecniques. U should try it out.

here's another kid drawing, and hey I found a new brush.

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Mikko K · member Member # Joined: 29 Apr 2003 Posts: 639

Isric,

I understand what you mean though I don't agree with leaving the speed painting.

In my case, doing a speedy usually means 'no thinking involved' and that leads to crap. That's a bad habit for anyone, obviously. It seems that Matthew is like me, and has a hard time concentrating on one piece. In my case, I spend my workdays doing commercial stuff for games etc. that's heavily directed and often requires a certain polish. So speedies can also be a "I don't care what anyone thinks of this" kind of relaxation.. you shouldn't judge people 'cause their intentions might not be what you're looking for.

Combustion · junior member Member # Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 43

Spooge -- See spooge, this is the kind of stuff I get when I try to imitate your style. . . .CRAP!!!!! Embarassed

Zhuzhu -- seeing your latest work, I can tell you are getting MUCH better at simplifying your paintings. The hepburn paintings uses very few strokes and still brings her out very well. . . amazing! keep it coming, almost at 400!!

Illustr8r -- The last one did, I like a lot, it almost looks like a shot streight from a movie Cool

Mathew -- Im still trying to get up to your level, you sketch so fast and come out with something so representative.

A.Pipe -- Like the tones in the skin. Their so suttle but they work.

Bagelguillotine -- Wonderful yellow theme, you should have done a complete monochrome painting and still keep that splash of orange. . . .I have yet to do something like that Neutral

Ultrahsu -- Your paintings always come out SO SMOOTH with a great texture beneath, what application are you using?

Kimchi -- Offends me? Dude im just here to view some jaw dropping art and share some of my work to these wonderful artists. Im just so honored to be here Razz

As you requested here is my reference. . . Im not to fond of bleached out colors. btw, what is the definition of an overpaint?

math · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 9:45 am

done in painter. something looking like mutate marylin manson. or well..just some stupid troll maybe Crying or Very sad

hope i can get better at this. sigh.
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Mykoz · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 11:00 am

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jHof · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:46 pm

Oh bother... Wyeth inspired.

Giant, please provide better color for yourself, thank you.

1/2hour

antx · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 12:53 pm

Time's up. Would take me too long to complete the coloring. Perhaps I�ll take it further somewhen later...

Matthew · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:17 pm

Mikko K & Combustion, thanks there guys.

I believe it is good to bend the rules sometimes, oh well.
The grass is always greener on the other side.

ok back to the Bob Marley groove, no woman no cry.
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Mitsui · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 1:53 pm

thnx ultrahsu! Awesome work as usual btw!

a quick one before bedtime. about 20min

Nyqvist · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 2:04 pm

Hey Matthew! That knight is stunning. It really caught my eye. It�s great to see you making such progress! keep it up Smile

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drunken_muse · Posted: Fri Jul 09, 2004 3:36 pm

mykoz : thanks, glad you like it. :)
mitsui : thanks, really like the devils. Nice brush in the bg, gotta get me one of those. :)
stephan : kickass

Ultrashu : It's nice to see such a fresh style popping up, hopefully it will give people a more varied inspiration/influence. great work so far.

did this as kind of a tut for a watching unalternate, though I screwed up alot so I wonder if he actually learned anything..
[edit: Oh, and on a sidenote it was done on his computer, which had eraserX brushes which I now feel I have to get my hands on as well. kudos X!]

skullmonkeys · member Member # Joined: 05 May 2004 Posts: 183

Crab bungie!
Been away for a while. Doing my rainforest painting, I hope it gets finished soon. I have been doing speedpaintings too tho but they sucked ass so I didn't post for the past few weeks.

This one's my very first speedpainting without ref.

ultrashu Im loving your stuff. I wish i could have your colors.
mattew, nice stuff from you. I like knightstand. leaning to simplify is good but i think some parts of yor painting could use some definition.
dylancole, I really loved the cityscrape one!!
Spooge, when will I get there? Where you are!

Way too much to mention. Good luck everyone!

by the way, does anyone have a problem with me posting my pics as *.txt?
let me know