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toast! · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 1:31 pm

thanks w@sker ! yeah i overlayed a random forest photo at an early sketche phase to add a layer of texture

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rodjer · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 2:30 pm

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The Insane Lemur · member Member # Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 768

damn toast! Shocked

i feel life painting is helping to give me a better understanding- before id always try to paint the hard stuff without understanding it, now i paint the kindergarden obvious easy stuff and it becomes easier and easier to visualize the subtle weird shit. So maybe one of the keys to painting is to assume youre a dumbass from the start and act accordingly...

octavian · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 5:49 pm

really awesome stuff in here.
Toast, I dig that forest paint.

Lemur: I'm not sure I know exactly what you're saying, but if I do... I totally agree Very Happy

Nice painting too, you're improving fast!

Painting outside is my new best friend. this is a first attempt at gouache with a little photshop mixed in to do the things I couldn't get right with the medium. I won't show the other disasters I created Embarassed

The cool thing is that gouache is a surprisingly fast medium to work with.
it might be fun to start all my sketches with gouache and then finish them in photoshop. hmmm

octavian · Posted: Fri May 29, 2009 8:04 pm

phew, rough crowd in here Wink

another gouache from photo ref I took. Man I've missed traditional media Very Happy

There is soooo much life in real paint and brush strokes. Just doing these studies today made me realize what my photoshop work is lacking... me thinks.

Pet · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 3:12 am

Matthew Is Godzilla · member Member # Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 187

Insane Lemur - I like your attitude. Feels almost like the old days when you interact in the speedy with your thoughts.
I Wish more members were like that. But hey each to his own, right?
If you ask me which you didn't, I would say that break things down and understand the simplified state of everything, this helps you when you sketch or draw your initial stage: in a painting or speedy.
Don't look at those simplified shapes as abstract, cause then you really need to see everything as abstract which are not gonna help you, well that is if you are looking for illustrative knowledge. I think you are, aren't you?

There are more to it and I think I know one or two things about Abstract shapes. I probably sound like a hypocrite because most of you know I went abstract way to far, that's why it is important to understand the difference between a simplified shape and an abstract one.
Unless you gonna bend the rules as I have.

fripp · member Member # Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 337

Lemur, love this mood
Octavian, very nice gouache, like that idea of mixed media
toast, great stuff!!

eWKn · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 6:36 am

thyn · junior member Member # Joined: 22 Apr 2009 Posts: 4

whoa everyone Smile

mattyuk · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:40 am

thanks hideyoshi!

fripp · member Member # Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 337

DavidSmit · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 8:19 pm

Hey all. Great to see this thread is still going strong!

Here's some speed stuff:

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octavian · Posted: Sat May 30, 2009 11:44 pm

Hey David, I like that landscape a lot. the dude coming out of the portal is cool too.

Fripp, I've been enjoying your experiments with design and texture. keep going!

The weather here in the bay was changing constantly today... that combined with the high winds made it really difficult to pull off. I'm just happy I didn't drop my palette or sketchbook in the dirt, though it might have improved these Wink

octavian · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 1:15 am

Another before bed.

kang__ · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 3:25 am

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mattyuk · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 4:12 am

tallken · junior member Member # Joined: 21 Jun 2006 Posts: 5

new Fans Art

fripp · member Member # Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 337

Great tallken! Pumba?!

Matthew Is Godzilla · member Member # Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 187

thyn, nice balance

aw crap

fripp · member Member # Joined: 13 Jul 2005 Posts: 337

a bit of color

A.Mayer · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:37 am

Hello I am new here and wants to introduce me now once with some pictures of me. Very Happy

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labby · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 9:40 am

Another newbie reporting in!

w@sker · member Member # Joined: 02 Oct 2007 Posts: 75

heh, still some red under paintzz in the lower corner.

its supposed to be me.. abit.

I'm from sweden so yeah, im blonde. Surprised

Peris · junior member Member # Joined: 31 May 2009 Posts: 19

hey everyone, i'm new on these forums. Some really inspiring work in this thread! I hope to be posting a lot of stuff here =)

some neon shit:

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The Insane Lemur · member Member # Joined: 19 Oct 2003 Posts: 768

thats awesome W@sker, looks like you got in a fight with mike tyson heh heh

octavian-thanks! im loving these gouache paintings-i think im gunna start my sketches in traditional too, its such a nice way to paint (though acrylic, i remember gouache being somewhat expensive?)

matthew-haha, i think the same of you, the old days were awesome-I feel like i would've learned something had I not been an idiot highschooler. I think its nice to hear a painter talk about what they were trying to do with the painting, cause then you can kindof see how they were thinking, which teaches alot more than just seeing the painting.
What would you say about abstract shapes though? I am looking for illustrative knowledge, but abstract thought can add something more-and we can always turn an abstract shape into a simplified 'something' if there is a need...

fripp-thankyou-i'm seeing an interesting evolution in your recent paintings!

David,tallken-very inspiring!

crappy painting to post- yeah i smudged it in ps. whatchu gonna do about it?!

Samsonsreaper · Posted: Sun May 31, 2009 11:37 pm

jOuey · member Member # Joined: 01 Dec 2006 Posts: 175

nice sam ^^

after 30 days of night

mant-raz · Posted: Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:20 am

Octavian: lovely technique (much to imagine)
Samsonsreaper: very light and pretty speedie (still waiting for your new brush set Wink

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jOuey: love it, especially the "frog-like" piece.

thread on fire again, great work people.

here - not so speedie, but...

Matthew Is Godzilla · member Member # Joined: 12 Apr 2009 Posts: 187

Insane Lemur, lol thanks. Smile

Regarding abstract shapes. I am all for abstract thought and I think most illustrative people should go through a period of abstract thinking. Especially to get out of the nudging kind of painting. Hmm I think I am out of depth here though to give illustrative advice, think I know how I would approach something to give it detail though. But that would be another discussion.
So my answer would be yes and no. Use abstract shapes but keep in mind what they should be, a pillar, a tree, a stone and or perhaps whatever.
You know I can pm you if you want?
There are more to this.
Would be interesting to hear what Samsonreaper and jouey and these guys would think about the subject.

Fripp, that tallken pic is, Princess Mononoke. If you haven't seen it I can really recommend it. Big wolves and shit. It's an anime btw.

This gonna need a lot of attention from this stage to fix everything. Detail is only detail though