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Fiend · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 6:06 pm

Pringel: the battle scenes look nice, different from your weird epic city scapes, good to see.
ozan, great color sketches
jo, Popeye, Francis: very nice, keep em coming.

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Sukhoi · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 7:15 pm

A very slow speed painting.......Too many hours.

Too many to mention.......Keep up the good work peeps.

-Sukhoi

+1chromosome · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:09 pm

new account ---- couldn't remember my old loggin :p

been an insanely long amt. of time since I posted here .... I'm mostly stuck on CA.org (sammy)

everyones stuff is awesome here, I'd like to join in if that's ok Razz

Here's some stuff I did yesterday and today:

and here's something stupid I did in response to the new ... and REALLY STUPID 'Sonic' game that was just announced:

+1chromosome · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 10:10 pm

Francis · Posted: Sat Mar 12, 2005 11:17 pm

nice sammy!

sukhoi, fiend, cool images...

popeye, neat image - what medium is that?

Here are some quick sketches from today. I don't know if the paint is water color or acrylic - it is whatever the brown goop is that is stuck in my tray.

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jokua · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 4:31 am

STUBBS THE ZOMBIE

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Speaky · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 8:27 am

Hello again, hope you've all had a good weekend!

Digitaldecoy's post was very interesting, a lot of food for thought concerning showing only enough form. It's little pearls of wisdom like that which tend to make something 'click' with me, thanks a lot for sharing that! I'm pretty guilty of overdoing the whole, I hope I can take that advice to heart.

Inspired to do this, Photoshop CS, just under 2 hours. Not too happy with my figure drawing skills, but anyone feel free to crit and comment, I always appreciate a nudge in the right direction!

keredleung · member Member # Joined: 25 Jul 2002 Posts: 70 Location: HK

+1chromosome

Nice work. i like ICO too. That game with excellent graphic and mystery mood.

Matthew · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 12:01 pm

started out as an overpaint of that Speaky picture above, didn't really add anything good so it proves I should be away from digital cheating, so, me better hide again. Hope it is ok Speaky cause otherwise I will take this pic down, let me know.

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Francis · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 1:05 pm

speaky and matthew, i used your stuff for this one...

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P-Rik · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:25 pm

Wow!! Beautifull page !!

Some child were playing to do the biggest snowball ... Just an interpretation ! Rolling Eyes

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Reidar · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 2:40 pm

Speaky, Matthew, Francis. Like your images, was inspired to do an overpait of my own.

Fiend · Posted: Sun Mar 13, 2005 5:05 pm

Thanks Francis, ahhh, brown goop paintings is always the best. The first sketch has a really nice flow.
Pringle, your battle pictures inspired me.

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bluemilk · junior member Member # Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 11

Watched Constantine last nite

Speaky · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 2:48 am

Matthew: No worries, I prefer your version anyway!
Francis, Reidar: Nice take on the theme.

What strikes me as very strange is that after I posted it, my version appeared (to me) to be darker and darker every time I looked at it, such that all the subtle detail I tried to put into it vanished into the murk. Very odd. Any tips on how to achieve a good balance between light / dark and detail in each?

spooge demon · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:45 am

*hurl*

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

Spooge, yum Wink

Fiend, your last 2 are awsome!
Decoy, you can take my vote for the updated version. . . looks a lot better!

btw, if any of you see things I can change in my paintings/studies be sure to let me know. Anything from painting cleaner or more contrast, Id love to hear it!

On with the studies. . .

much quicker this time. . .too dirty?

jr · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 9:43 am

keira from elle magazine.
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Combustion · junior member Member # Joined: 29 Feb 2004 Posts: 43

jr, mighty nice there.

spooge, hope i'm not a bother but I was just amazed at what it took to create this image. . . . and whats more, you did it in color! Luckily i had a chance to try out something simpler rather than your insane baron paintings. *bows down*

Pringle · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 11:48 am

very nice stuff people.

spend to much time on this one. Car reflections are to advanced for me.
I have no idea whats going on.

Naeem · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 12:39 pm

good work guys! love to see everyone improving so much!

perhaps my last speedpainting to be posted here for a while Razz

gonna miss u guys.
last night, drawn from life. this is a portion of my workspace. about 30 mins.

Speaky · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:34 pm

Spooge: Very nice indeed.
Pringle: Awesome, you seem to have a pretty good idea of what's going on if you ask me!
Jr: Lovely.

Trying to learn from my overly dark warrior pic. This time, I split my base pic up into three value ranges. Within each range I had a dark and a light to play with, such that the lightest of the dark range was still darker than the darkest of the mid range. Did it in greyscale, coloured it with a 'color' layer and tried to make something of it. I don't mean to waffle on, but I have a couple of specific questions! Any takers?

1) Generally speak(y)ing, and for the kind of stuff that I'm doing, I think it's a good idea for the darkest value to be black and the lightest value to be white. Is this high range of values a limiting factor somehow? I'm sure I read that high contrast images need a low chroma to be balanced, but when I try low contrast but a lot of colour they tend to turn out looking flat or just wrong.

2) Often I come up with a pleasing black and white value base, but when I try to put colour into it, I find that the values go crazy: blue darkens them, saturation seems to lighten them. Does anyone have some advice on a good way to go about colouring a b/w pic?

Thanks in advance, and please say if this isn't the place to throw such questions about...

HaRdC0rePixxX · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 1:44 pm

nice streak in the last pages.
ps stuff and a bunch of older sketches that i like.

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Omi-kun · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 5:54 pm

hpx: nice!
jr: sweet!

here's my mess

balistic · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 6:55 pm

totally aimless on this one.
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Isric · Posted: Mon Mar 14, 2005 8:31 pm

A little over an hour for each of these. Both were painted inbetween work stuff. Sometimes you've just gotta do what you gotta do.

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P-Rik · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 2:36 am

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Francis · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 8:10 am

Isric, balistic, jr - nice ones!

Coupla more sketch0rZ...

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XIA · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 9:59 am

Francis: Damn! Shocked

Big fan here.
Great work all!

Bishop_Six · Posted: Tue Mar 15, 2005 10:32 am

Great work, everyone.

Fiend: I really like that one. It has great mood. I can feel that tension of sitting and waiting for the battle to start.

Spooge: I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions. Or rather, if I emailed you, do you think you might have the time to write me back?(I know you must get a million billion emails) Although, rather than "how does you drawz so good!11!!" I would like to ask you more about the business side of freelancing. And if I were to email you, should I send it to the address on goodbrush.com? Thanks so much, Craig.