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Show me your arts, GAF

Tenaciousmo

Member
This is very cool. Nice work.

I've just very recently begun sketching, here's a few of my recent pieces.

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I'm really new so these are scrubby and some unfinished but, yea.....just using graphite and trying to learn the basics.
your basics are great IMO keep it up
 

DunDunDunpachi

Patient MembeR
I find art mentally exhausting. You need to be excited to make the best piece you can but when complete you need to switch gears and be a harsh critic of the same work you spent hours and hours doing. It is hard to find a middle term between loving what you made and spotting its errors .

But here is a cool graph (made by Shattered-Earth) which helped me to understand the ups and downs of art:

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This is how I feel about practicing shmups.

First time clearing a chain during a run:
"Oh whew can't believe I finally pulled off that full-stage chain. I'm getting so close"

Twenty-fifth time and I'm scoring 50% higher than the first time:
"Wow will I ever improve? This game is impossible"
 

Weilthain

Banned
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Lol I made this bored at work yesterday.
Enjoy the seizure!

(Messing with animation. Got his hands to move a single frame. One hand was stuck in the wrong layer tho..)
That is giving me a headache and I don’t like it, but is that rabea massaad?
He is an absolute shredder on the axe, one of my guitar heroes.
 
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Deleted member 713885

Unconfirmed Member
That is giving me a headache and I don’t like it, but is that rabea massaad?
He is an absolute shredder on the axe, one of my guitar heroes.

Haha, nah was suppose to be Buzz and Dale from the Melvins.

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I've was gonna try on making animated video for this classic from them.

 
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Deleted member 713885

Unconfirmed Member
If we are doing painted models I’ve got tons. Don’t really do it much these day but I really love painting them and wish I had friends to play the actual game with :messenger_loudly_crying:

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I have zero idea how this game works or how to paint like this..

But by god do I love listening to Luetin09 talk about the lore 👊🏻
 
I find art mentally exhausting. You need to be excited to make the best piece you can but when complete you need to switch gears and be a harsh critic of the same work you spent hours and hours doing. It is hard to find a middle term between loving what you made and spotting its errors .

But here is a cool graph (made by Shattered-Earth) which helped me to understand the ups and downs of art:

d5g8bt8-f176245c-c1bc-4cab-8e0d-0c20194f661f.png
I remember watching this Donald Sutherland movie where an art dealer and him are talking and the dealee sees this wall of art that Sutherland has displayed and all of them are the best art hes ever seen. He asks sutherland where he found all of these masterpieces.

Sutherland proceeds to explain that they were all art from his elementary school classes and the trick was to take the picture away from the kid when it looked good enough.

That's one of the hardest things to learn in art. You have to learn to know when it's good enough and just put.
That.
Shit.
Down.

That said, I love reviisng old art, years later but if I didnt take the advice I just gave you, I'd probably never complete a project.
I have ocd sooooo bad lol.
 

Belmonte

Member
I remember watching this Donald Sutherland movie where an art dealer and him are talking and the dealee sees this wall of art that Sutherland has displayed and all of them are the best art hes ever seen. He asks sutherland where he found all of these masterpieces.

Sutherland proceeds to explain that they were all art from his elementary school classes and the trick was to take the picture away from the kid when it looked good enough.

That's one of the hardest things to learn in art. You have to learn to know when it's good enough and just put.
That.
Shit.
Down.

That said, I love reviisng old art, years later but if I didnt take the advice I just gave you, I'd probably never complete a project.
I have ocd sooooo bad lol.


Yeah, I agree. It is hard to let the art go and accept its imperfections.

For some time I wished my pieces were, quality-wise, as near as my art heroes pieces as I could. I spent 1 -2 months in one illustration, trying to touch that perfection, at least for a brief moment. The more days I spent working, more inclined I was to continue texturing and changing the art since each day got me more and more invested.

It wasn't a good idea. Obviously I couldn't make something as good as Craig Mullins and after all that time, all the sweat and blood, having 4 people commenting my stuff was demoralizing. It shouldn't be, since creating something and showing it to people is already something to be proud of, but I expected more from 2 months of work.

Then I realized it was smarter to built my knowledge, focus more in the art process than to try to touch the greats with finished pieces. I felt free from the judgement of others and specially myself since my objetive was to learn, to study the forms, not to prove anything to myself. Has been 4 years I'm focusing on learning instead of finished pieces and I never had so much fun with art since my childhood.

Obviously everyone have a process, but this works better for me.
 
Yeah, I agree. It is hard to let the art go and accept its imperfections.

For some time I wished my pieces were, quality-wise, as near as my art heroes pieces as I could. I spent 1 -2 months in one illustration, trying to touch that perfection, at least for a brief moment. The more days I spent working, more inclined I was to continue texturing and changing the art since each day got me more and more invested.

It wasn't a good idea. Obviously I couldn't make something as good as Craig Mullins and after all that time, all the sweat and blood, having 4 people commenting my stuff was demoralizing. It shouldn't be, since creating something and showing it to people is already something to be proud of, but I expected more from 2 months of work.

Then I realized it was smarter to built my knowledge, focus more in the art process than to try to touch the greats with finished pieces. I felt free from the judgement of others and specially myself since my objetive was to learn, to study the forms, not to prove anything to myself. Has been 4 years I'm focusing on learning instead of finished pieces and I never had so much fun with art since my childhood.

Obviously everyone have a process, but this works better for me.
As far as imperfections go, unless you completely botch-jobbed whatever it is you were trying to do, odds are the only person who will see/recognize it will be you.

It would be like if a certain rivet on the statue of liberty was out of place. Like, two people are gonna notice that; the architect and the person who constructed it and, outside of that, it's literally one of the 7 wonders of the world. Not perfect, you just dont see the faults like the people who designed it.
 
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It's Jeff

Banned
absolutely awesome. i would use this one as a background on my mac.

I think this thread should get more exposure. You guys here are massively talented. It's Jeff It's Jeff you’re killing it dude.👍🏼

Thanks for that! Um - well, let me dig up something from the old file here. This one was from when Halo 4 came out and I thought we were getting a permanent send off to one of our characters. Thought it was cute.
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Hey, this might be the right thread to ask - anybody looking to do some digital painting or perhaps design work? I could use some help. This thread has me thinking about something.
 

mortal

Gold Member
Woah, you guys are on fire! I don't have anything new to post so I will put more old works here.


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Awesome work, man! These two are my favorites, the brawl and the aftermath haha. That first one would make for some solid box art.
 
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Belmonte

Member
Awesome work, man! These two are my favorites, the brawl and the aftermath haha. That first one would make for some solid box art.

Many thanks Somnium! I'm glad you like these two since I'm developing this character for a project. The illustration with the "wanted" posters in my previous post on this thread is the third one!
 
Woah, you guys are on fire! I don't have anything new to post so I will put more old works here.

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I really like these three pieces. They have an early '90s beat-em-up vibe. I'm also jealous that you can put as much detail into the environment. I usually lose interest by then, so like a lot of what I draw is closer to the second where it's concept art.

It's really inspiring though. When I was younger, shortly after playing Final Fight One for the GBA, I would come up with some of my own designs for fighters and around the same time I was playing Final Fantasy X and the artwork for Jecht always stuck with me.

Anyways, keep up the good work. Awesome stuff.
 

Belmonte

Member
I really like these three pieces. They have an early '90s beat-em-up vibe. I'm also jealous that you can put as much detail into the environment. I usually lose interest by then, so like a lot of what I draw is closer to the second where it's concept art.

It's really inspiring though. When I was younger, shortly after playing Final Fight One for the GBA, I would come up with some of my own designs for fighters and around the same time I was playing Final Fantasy X and the artwork for Jecht always stuck with me.

Anyways, keep up the good work. Awesome stuff.

I'm very happy you find it has a 90s beat-em-up vibe, Vyse! Because it is exactly what I'm trying to do! I always wonder if I got the atmosphere right or not. I'm a huge fan of Capcom and the arcade aesthetic in general, with bright colors, decay and 80s movies influence. It reminds me of the sunny sundays, going to the arcade with my friends as a kid.

I got shivers when doing environment also. I always found backgrounds too complicated but after watching videos from moderndayjames and Scott Robertson on You Tube I got a renewed interested in them. They explain perspective so well and slowly that makes drawing environments much more intuitive. Modern Day James technique of rotating objects is specially useful. I have a lot to learn about backgrounds but at least now I'm having fun.

Many thanks for the feedback!
 

Dacon

Banned
This thread rules. Thanks for making it OP, and for everybody that's submitting.

If any of you digital types are interested in doing a piece for hire, let me know. May have something for you. Thanks!
Sure, if youre interested in what I can do.
 

Belmonte

Member
One of my favorite threads on Gaf. I hope to see even more of you join in.

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Something a little older and a bit different from my "anime" stuff,
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Great character design and colors! I like this kind of shading a lot also. It reminds me of old PC98 games.
 
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