[eetu]

howdy all

i just found this forum a week ago and HOT DAMN this is great. i've been reading all the old stuff all week long, and i feel out of breath with all the information.

i've always been a pure 3d-graphician but you people have inspired me into trying to enter the 2d realm as well.. i know it'll be a rocky road but with people like you as guides i'm a bit better off already

last weekend when i found my way here i also happened to start reading "drawing on the right side of the brain", and after getting myself inspired here (and got the point of the book) i started drawing. first a couple of faces from a magazine and then spooge's old indian/turkish fellow which turned out surprisingly well. (i've always regarded myself as a hopeless case when it comes to drawing, so coming up with a sketch that looks like somebody was a big thing for me)

after a busy workweek i stole my workmate's wacom, installed painter and mustered up the courage to try and paint something for the first time. so last night i started lobbing some paint on the sketch, and soon amazed myself by actually 'getting it' - and after many exhausting hours of dabbling at it, i finally got it to this stage at 5.30AM


http://katastro.fi/~eetu/pencil/4-papaindiapainter2.jpg
for the full res image

measured on you guys' scale it's of course amateurish dabbling, but for me it's a gigantic leap. i'm still wondering how i did it

i can already see some stuff wrong with it, his left eye for example, but i can't get to the office now, where i could start fixing it

perhaps i should throw in some kind of introduction while i'm at it;
i'm eetu martola from helsinki, finland,
i've been living and breathing 3d for a few years now (as a work and a hobby) and i also have a dark demoscene background (some familiar names here too)
i ain't terribly proud of most of the stuff i've done, mostly just technically made stuff, no art :P
(except perhaps this one

and a thousand thanks to fred, mozeman, spooge and all others taking the time to explain and teach, it is most appreciated.
perhaps i'll be able to teach someone in return one of these days.

sorry for the newbie rant,

eetu.

[Joachim]

Welcome eetu,

Nice paper swan you've drawn. I like it very much, it looked very real and yet very artistic (whatever that means )
The face I didn't like that much. But instead of starting to criticize and stuff, I guess you as I and everyone else, should join Freds great lecture-thread and start doing cubes And in the end you will probably make another face a lot better

Again, welcome and I hope you will have a lot of fun and learn as much as I do on this forum.

Cheers

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Joachim
web: http://home.sol.no/~jbarrum/

[Nex]

hi there, welcome to the board!

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- Nex

http://on.to/nex

[Joachim]

eetu,

wow, the bird is pure 3d only. that is very impressive. Infact, I think it would have been very impressive as a paper drawing as well, but I find it just as impressive that you've managed to get such a great feel to it in 3d only.

Sorry if I was a bit harsch about your face, that wasn't my intention. I know you didn't mind, but I just don't want to come out as an idiot
Don't worry, it's not all that bad... Since that face is a part of the lecture thingy, I don't want to go into the critique part...I'm not the teacher here, hehe.



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Joachim
web: http://home.sol.no/~jbarrum/

[eetu]

is 3d stuff considered off topic here ? :P

well, umm, anyway..

http://katastro.fi/~eetu/3d/victory_high.jpg
http://katastro.fi/~eetu/3d/victory_lower.jpg
is an older sailship..

http://katastro.fi/~eetu/3d/pulse/cm3b.jpg
ia "a bit" aliens'ish (there's a poser fella under there so it's a bit "fake" :P)

http://katastro.fi/~eetu/3d/pulse/rl-ogl6.jpg

for the gun model
(see what i meant with 'not art' ? )

and hmm hmm http://katastro.fi/~eetu/3d/tongue3.avi for something a bit older & funnier (1meg)


ok, enough of this 3d drivel, let's go paint some cubes =)

eetu.



[This message has been edited by eetu (edited May 27, 2000).]

[sfr]

Hi Eetu, and welcome!

We're groupmates aren't we? I just love these totally disorganized demogroups Poor Wojtek...

Anyway, your origami swan looks absolutely great, reminds me a bit (a tiny bit) of Jeremy Engleman's 3d work somehow. Glad to see you're getting into painting, why didn't you make the leap before

(Tomorrow will be my cube painting day too... I need that stuff _bad_)

Saffron / Sunflower

[Frost]

Now someone from the ever famous Orange. =)

Some extremely nice stuff in your gallery! You did some work for Remedy Ent.?

Great stuff, and welcome!

[tzekin]

Hi eetu. I just wanet to say that your origami 3d is really interesting:-)
So you love to draw cubes:-)heheh I think we all do:-)

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tzekin.iloveimac.com

[soda]

You're so modest.

According to what I've heard from Janne P and to what I've seen and heard from many others, you are one of the most respectable finnish 3d artists there are... =)

And I'd like warmly welcome you to this board. This have been very helpful to all of us, thanks for the professionals we have here. And I suppose and hope that you bring more colour to this forum, even when you haven't done that much 2d according to your own words.

Once again, welcome and have a nice time here.

: soda :

[eetu]

the origami is pure 3d :P

and don't be afraid to to critisize the face

eetu.

[Spitfire]

That "learning to fly" one is beautiful... really moving. It kinda got to me on a personal level... really beautiful. Welcome aboard.

[synj]

good morning to you said me.



-synj www.synj.net

[CapnPyro]

lmao @ synj

heh.. welcome aboard there eetu, can you show us some of your 3d stuff?

-CapnPyro-

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[random]

Frank/Orange I suppose.. .. welcome dude.. Orange active anymore?

[eetu]

sfr: howdy there fellow sunflorist we really need to do something eh nice to see wojtek peeped in here as well.
and thanks! getting compared to englemann is a compliment of the highest order.

frost: actually for futuremark/madonion, but we're in the same office with remedy

tzekin: no i don't love to paint cubes, i just have to try and learn =)

random: well we haven't been that active, but we're not dead yet.. for the people check out e.g.
hoplite's ifs supersystem
or derpiipo's site
for something umm gfxrelated.

eetu.

[Frost]

Der Piipo is still as strange as before I see... but his talent has kept up. =)

[fragamite]

wow, you must be the most patient man alive. that ship looks great!