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Vortx · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 9:30 am

Hey guys. I spend last weekend cranking out this website. Nothing too fancy, cuz i ain't got the time. =)
Stuff up there are kinda old....so i'll try to update it w/ new drawings often. Have a look..

btw, it's not all done, some pages are still missing, and i haven't wrote all the image comments.....guess i'll do that this weekend...

anyhow, hit me back w/ any comments. And now i finally have a site, i'll have to force myself to draw more so i can get rid of all the old and sucky stuff.
http://www.artbyfeng.com

and here are some samples...:

-feng

Worthy · member Member # Joined: 26 Jun 2000 Posts: 143

Very cool site..love the color scheme and so forth. Anxious for you to finish it up. Great sketchwork as well..and..looks like a cool game...great talent base over there at Liquid. I'd apply..but its a commute from Santa Monica for me (whine whine).

Keep up the great stuff!

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agent44 · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 9:39 am

Your website looks great. It's simple and straight to the point, I like that. I am very impressed with your design sense. Your art work is an inspiration.

Binke · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 9:57 am

Heh shit your linework owns

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agent44 · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 10:02 am

Your website looks great. It's simple and straight to the point, I like that. I am very impressed with your design sense. Your art work is an inspiration.

HumanClay · Guest Member #

ooohhh baby, a website full of Feng art! I can barely contain myself.. ohhh yea... ohh.. ohh.. uh oh.

Crap, sticky monitor.. again :/

I'm retarded.

General Confusion · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 10:08 am

Feng

first off let me say, thanks for answering some of my questions in the past, and second you have some great work there. I know what it's like trying to get together a site with no available !@##$^% time, so just as a heads up. After briefly looking through your stuff, the creatures section, numbers 13 & 14 are out of order, they go from 6 to 13, and 10 to 14 in their progression. It doens't really matter, but just in case you wanted to establish some kind of streamlined site update with everything proper.

don't take this as being anal (i.e. ignore me leave it, work stands up by itself), just figured I'd let you know, however, again love your work.

later

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Plop · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 10:11 am

Nice design, perfect functionality. Very happy to see more of your stuff.

The Dude · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 10:35 am

As usual, great stuff! I don't even think
you need to worry about making a fancy
shmancy site in the future, simples is good!

Question: What do you use for your renderings?
Specifically line, and marker.

Thanks...

| The.Dude |
www.WorthlessFacts.com

Bizarde · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 10:41 am

hmmm...impresiv as usual...happy for you man !
good luck

~bizarde.

[This message has been edited by Bizarde (edited October 18, 2000).]

ceenda · member Member # Joined: 27 Jun 2000 Posts: 2030

Great stuff as ever Feng. Nice one.

Joachim · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 12:13 pm

Finally Vortx, I will watch around the site and enjoy your art for hours. Great design too.
I will put a link to your page. How about a link exchange ?
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micke · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 12:15 pm

Atlast! Gonna check it out right now...
Mind if i add it to my links?
-Micke

Anthony · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 12:28 pm

Argh, I'm really gonna have to struggle to not be influenced by your design style. Very very nice shapes. Groovy.

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hew · member Member # Joined: 06 Jul 2000 Posts: 145

NICE SITE !, in your info section you should stick technical stuff, such as what res you draw your images at, the speed of your compter misc stuff like that .. if you where wondering what to put there. Your art is amazing.

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Vortx · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 12:53 pm

Holy crap!....just got back from lunch and all these posts! Wow, thanx you guys! I feel so warm inside =)
I have to attend a meeting right now, but i will return to reply to all of you....
glad you guys like the page...wow, this forum really encourages me to work hard...(tear drop)...

-feng

WacoMonkey · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 1:18 pm

Feng - What can i say dude? Un-frikkin' believable work! I especially like your creatures and architecture. Somehow they seem imbued with the most originality of form of all of your work. There's some concepts in there that just blow me away. Just rockin' man! Glad you finally got a site up.

Jenn · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 1:19 pm

You so rock. Grr! I am sitting here at work having enough trouble trying to create a giant for this poster :[
Love your stuff

About how long does it take you to do one of those concepts?

Take Care

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aquamire · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 1:27 pm

Uhm. Wow.. I guess.. is all I have to say. I'm gona go draw now.. and I wont stop drawing, until a) I run out of pencils and paper or b) I become as good, or better then you. Oh, then there's c) my blatter explodes.

I'll get you Feng... and your pretty little dog as well.

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I'd put my wittiest remark here, but I'd scare you.

daz199 · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 2:11 pm

INCREDIBLE

can you pleeeaase post a tutorial or step by step process of how u do this magic/???
thanks

WOW
WOW
WOW

Fred Flick Stone · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 2:45 pm

Feng-I haven't been looking at the forum much this week, but now that I have, I am glad that I got a slight break to see what is here, or I might have missed this thread. YOu are so damn good my friend. YOur creature designs and your environments are absolutely spectacular. There is so much originality here, I am especially impressed with the creatures. Very nice volumes, and very well thought out.

It will be interesting to see where your art goes as you start to implement more color into the work. YOu have such a wonderful eye for form. These designs are just amazing. I am starting to feel a bit redundant, so I will stop now. You have really inspired me to get back to my own design work. As soon as I get home at night, I am so burned out on design I don't do it. And I have so many ideas right now. I think I am going to work on a much simpler level too. These designs you have are complex, but very simple in terms of what you put in and what you left out. I would like to get some feedback from you when I get them up. I really admire your eye for form, and I think you would have so much valuable info to give.

Keep this up and keep posting the stuff. It is really great to see a truly inspired artist at work.

black_fish · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 3:08 pm

Geez! What a sucky website!
Where are the flash animations, where is the 'loading' time? Nothing moves, nothing blinks, no music. Bad design. Bad design all around!
And why this dark background? Why not a beautiful pink, a bright yellow, or some kind of festive busy pattern with warm colors?
I was also looking for deadlinks, empty pages, xxx banners, where are they, man?

If you want some good examples of GOOD websites try those:
http://www.321website.com/members/home/data/tigvixxon/page2.html http://www.geocities.com/neospeed204/FMC.html http://members.toast.net/mark.amos/default.html

Tongue in cheek
(my tongue in MY cheek)

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doot · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 3:26 pm

wow..i sure hope you were joking black fish? :P anyways..awesome job vortx..EVERYTHING on the page is awesome..you should move to canada and be my art instructor :P hehe.. well talk to yall later...

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RobW · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 3:31 pm

unbelievable, nice to see your great imagination combined with skill

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Chapel · member Member # Joined: 18 Mar 2000 Posts: 1930

Top notch stuff Vortx. Everything you do looks amazing.

Flexible Elf · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 4:20 pm

Your stuff truly is top shelf Vortx. I think what makes your images so sparkly is that they're so original. Like someone else said earlier.. I'll have to try hard not to be influenced by your style

-Flexible Elf

Starseed · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 4:22 pm

It's been mentioned a few times now, but I have to mention it again: Great Line Quality. That and the balance in your drawings make them top notch in my book. Your site is bookmarked (great design too, have you had any web design experience?)

Mark

Frost · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 5:14 pm

Nice work Vortx! Love your design work. Wish I was as creative. =)

nova · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 6:02 pm

i need to kill you.

no hard feelings.. i've got a lot to learn from you

pretty frickin' amazing, if i must day so myself.

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Vortx · Posted: Thu Sep 14, 2000 6:19 pm

Wow again! Thanx for all the encouraging words. I will definitely work my ass off to improve. I've learned a lot of drawing techniques from this forum, but the most important thing i obtained from here is inspiration. You guys really make me wanna just go home and draw.....even on days when i'm tired. There are so many hard working and talented artists here, and it's great to be able to share our skills and learn from each other.

Okie, let me see if i can answer some of the questions:

- Yeah, i think i'm gonna keep the simple design. This also makes it easy for me to edit and add new features.

- General Confusion - yeah, i know about the messed up number thing. It has to do w/ last minute design changes and lack of time to re-name everything. Maybe i'll fix it tonght...thanx tho...good eye.

- The Dude - i answered this question about materials in other posts...but basically, i use a very fine black ink pen and prisma color markers. And soon: photoshop...finally...

- Joachim & Micke - wow, it feels so good to hear encouraging words from you guys. Both of you have such cool styles and amazing drawing skills. Yes, i'll love to share links w/ you guys...i'll add that feature in tonight. =) Thanx!

- Hew - I'll add all the info about the pix maybe this weekend. It just takes so much time to do those things....i rather draw and play video games...haha..

- Jenn - Hmmm...usually takes me about 1 to 2 hours for a sketch. It's coming up w/ the ideas that take a long time. Since i do concept work, both the design and the sketch quality have to be good. It's a lot easier to "pretty" up a sketch then to come up w/ fresh new designs.

- Daz199 - tutorial? Well, i'm think of doing an article for 3dpalette when it gets up. Think i'll do a "marker/pen" demo. So it won't be long. In the mean time, check out doug chiang's site...he has a very similar demo....

- Fred - glad you like my stuff man. I was all thinking..."man, Ron is gonna laugh when he sees all my crappy-ass anatomy stuff.."(and you have every right to, they really suck). But it's a good thing, makes me work harder. Glad you like the designs tho. Can't wait to see some new design from you. I'll try to share much knowledge as i can w/ you.....and everyone else =)

- black-fish - what can i say? haah..j/k. When are you gonna bring those kenji sketches in man? i'm dying to see them!

o man.....i'm tired now. If i missed anyone...i apologize. Thanx for all the awesome inputs everyone. Talk to you guys tomorrow..

glad to see the "presto" crew back in action. You guys were quiet for the past few days....crunch mode?

-feng