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Odds · member Member # Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 374

very nice, everyone. i was just wondering, though, what kind of mirrors do you all use? and where can i get one?

Mega Muffin · member Member # Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 235

I am told this doesn't look like me.....oh well, at least it kind of looks like a person! I think it's my best so far, even though it's really not a 'finished' piece. Lol, there are like white spaces where i erased and re-drew the eyes..whatev. Noses give me so much trouble!! Argh! I think I still have alot of work to do in black and white before I even attempt color... I gotta get one that looks good and looks like me and I'll be thrilled. Might take a while though, lol.

the_insider · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 12:55 pm

its been so loong since ive done this....

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Mega Muffin · member Member # Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 235

Insider-- nice, I like it!

Here's another one, and my friend told me it looked alot more like me than the last one, yay!

the_insider · Posted: Tue Aug 30, 2005 9:56 pm

hmm...then i wonder...the first ones happy and doesnt look like you ...yet this second ones depressed and does.....
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MrBrian · Posted: Fri Sep 02, 2005 8:14 pm

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Mega Muffin · member Member # Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 235

Yeah, insider, I thought of that too, lol. Oh well. I'm not such a sad person. Here's another one I just finished! I think I'm getting better....who knows tho. Someone I know said it looks like me. I think it does at least a bit.

Capt. Fred · Posted: Mon Sep 05, 2005 2:55 pm

http://www.stidston.org/freddie/albums/miscellaneous/squif_01.png

Mega Muffin · member Member # Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 235

Here are a couple more. One from yesterday and one from today. I know the color is crap, but it's basically my first try at it. The shading looks like dirt, I know, lol.

I know this isn't a crit thread, but I would really appreciate any advice you guys have to give me. If you notice things I'm doing in like, all of them, it's probably something I'm not aware of, and it would be stellar of you to point them out Very Happy

. All ya'll's portraits are so great, and I hope someday I'll get that good. (I'm still a senior in highschool remember! I got time!)

Mega Muffin · member Member # Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 235

Here I just artsied this one up a bit and put it as my myspace pic, lol! I hid the badness in the name of art! Haha, I crack myself up...

Sumaleth · Posted: Tue Sep 06, 2005 5:29 pm

muffin:

You might benefit from spending more time on one portrait. Each image you've drawn has the same problems as the one before, so it'd be worth putting all that time into reworking a single image over and over and over until every part of it is right.

It's probably best to focus on the front-on format for a while. The angled views only add complications.

Think about the effect that every line and every piece of shading has.

The best one so far is probably #3 on this page. Look at every detail -- are the eyes the same size, the same angle, are the top eyelids that shape, are the bottom eyelids that shape, is your nose crooked, do the corners of your mouth really line up under that part of your eye, does your mouth sit out as far as it looks in the image, can you see that much of your nostrals when looking straight on, where does your cheekbone sit and is it drawn correctly in the image, where are your eyebrows, etc, etc.

Don't stop until the image is you. And don't be afraid of changing brush size, and zooming into the image.
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Mega Muffin · member Member # Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 235

Thanks for the advice! I will definately do that. Lol, I cracked up when u asked where my eyebrows were..yeah they are so light that u pretty much can't see them unless there is no shading underneath them. And it seems like alot of the time I zoom in, it looks weird when I zoom back out. Really though, I don't think I would have thought to do that had you not suggested it. Thank you.

Odds · member Member # Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 374

my first contribution to the sp thread. Smile

Petri.J · Posted: Wed Sep 07, 2005 8:10 am

MidgardSerpent · junior member Member # Joined: 25 Nov 2004 Posts: 9

This was how I started.

This is how it ended up. I'm pretty proud of it, but I'm afraid I lost some of the vibrancy and feeling it had during the initial stage.

syl20 · junior member Member # Joined: 07 Sep 2005 Posts: 18

buzzz3d · member Member # Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 134

Capt Fred, Odds, Petri J: Cool works guys.

First attempt at a SP:

Odds · member Member # Joined: 17 Sep 2004 Posts: 374

nice stuff buzzz3d! Cool

stephan vachon · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 7:56 am

first self portrait in photoshop, done with last nigth last brush

http://www.deviantart.com/view/22807867/

no 1 was crapy so I did a second one

http://www.deviantart.com/view/22807867/

Petri.J · Posted: Sun Sep 11, 2005 9:56 am

Buzzz3d, thanks. By the way, you look like Dusso. Cool

buzzz3d · member Member # Joined: 10 Mar 2004 Posts: 134

Odds: Thanks. I bought a 21x15cm mirror yesterday that I can also put next to the computer so I can try some digital SP's from now on.
With pencils it is hard to fill in the large shadow areas.

Petri.J: LOL, guess you're right in a way. Wish I had his skills though Smile

Mega Muffin · member Member # Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 235

Better? I think so.

stephan vachon · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 7:42 am

monday 12-09-05

http://www.deviantart.com/view/22883629/

Skuli · Posted: Tue Sep 13, 2005 2:23 pm

Hey, my first post here!
Im a 15 year old boy from Iceland
began taking drawing seriously about a year and a half ago
pretty sucky sp's that I don't like but I'm trying, I'm trying
11th sept

12th sept

Grendel Khan · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:05 am

I've posted this in conceptart, and even though probably nobody remembers me here, I think it's only fair that I post it here too.

Today is my birthday, I'm 29 now. Although I wish it would have been sooner, I managed to change careers from software programmer to illustration and I've realized that I've never been so happy in my life as I am now. The internet forums, mainly conceptart and the so called golden days of sijun, have had a major impact to me, and I have to be thankful to them for helping me discover myself. Thanks sijun forums!
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eyewoo · Posted: Sat Sep 17, 2005 4:39 am

Roger...

I can relate. I also moved from programming into illustration as the digital hardware and software evolved into truly useful tools for making art... back there in the early 1990s... and it will only get better, eh! Smile

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Mega Muffin · member Member # Joined: 07 Oct 2003 Posts: 235

Hahaha that's awesome you guys. I want to move from computer programming into art someday too. The funny thing is, I haven't even gone to college yet so that is like my 'plan'. See, I figure it's safer for me to go into computer programming because I know I will be good at it. As far as art goes, I'm not so sure, so I want to give myself more time to get good at it. Anyway, just thought I'd share.

eyewoo · Posted: Sun Sep 18, 2005 6:58 am

It's good to have a plan... and it sounds like you have one.
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Mephistoau · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 12:19 am

Gday all!! First post here, just gone through a few hundred pages of stuff here and im hooked Razz

Especially the speedpainting thread *smacks forehead* stunning. HaRdC0rePixxX i think i want to marry you lol hehe nah chief your speed paintings stand tall dude really awesome. Anywho, this piece is about a year old, my 2nd ever work in painter, hit me fellas

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spline · Posted: Tue Sep 20, 2005 2:09 pm

Just felt like giving some comments...

@ Mega Muffin, that last one really shows progress! Much better.

You look scandinavian?

You should only zoom in after you have gotten the basic shapes right its very important.

You seam to have problems wth the area around your eyes.
Also try to understand what it is you are painting.

Other than that very good advices from Sumaleth.

@Grendel Khan, buzzz3d
Nice sp drawings!

@MidgardSerpent
Very vivid and living.

@Capt. Fred
Very god!

@the_insider
Nice!

@syl20
You look a litle scary Smile

@Odds
Nice and poetic!

@Skuli

You will get there! You have problems with lack of colors.

@Mephistoau

Cool!
I think it might lack some light on the upper part of the chest.
But its very nice!