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NeoGAF Drawing-a-Day Thread
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I really love the brushes strokes and how you easily capture the feel and texture of the stone/marble. It's really great.
Thanks, that was my main concern, good to know it's believable despite my frustration at trying to blend in SAI
final version:
I went back to ArtRage for this one.
EDIT: Added some progression pics, I think some of you could find it amusing
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Haven't been able to update since some of my stuff recently has been nsfw-ish
6 hours (1 hour on the pencil work on moleskine, 5 on paintingin PS).
I'm doing a small narrative of folklore types in a desert. Finally able to cut down some of my painting time and being less controlling over every aspect of each piece. I'll be wanting to up the ante with each part of this story though. Hopefully I won't find my time taking longer and longer...
6 hours (1 hour on the pencil work on moleskine, 5 on paintingin PS).
I'm doing a small narrative of folklore types in a desert. Finally able to cut down some of my painting time and being less controlling over every aspect of each piece. I'll be wanting to up the ante with each part of this story though. Hopefully I won't find my time taking longer and longer...
whaaaaat. this is the most confusing thing I've ever read. SAI is amazing for blending while painting, it's pretty much the only reason I use that program over photoshop, because the painting engine feels so right. are you using some strange brushes or what!?
Shogmaster
Member
Latest in my ADHD drawings series. ~10 min?
The last one was a knee-jerk reaction to a rather weak critique but on a 2nd though I prefer the previous version, so I went back and started again at that point where I still liked her and started working from there.
Perhaps, I should have worded that better, my frustration comes from my inexperience with the program, So far I've only been using ArtRage in which blending is achieved through a more aggressive simulation of traditional mediums: Thinner, knife, etc...
No doubt that SAI is extremely capable of in this and other regards, I was particularly impressed by how lightweight it is compared to ArtRage.
Yours look great too, anime is something I've tried many times but I still suck at..
Thanks!
Perhaps, I should have worded that better, my frustration comes from my inexperience with the program, So far I've only been using ArtRage in which blending is achieved through a more aggressive simulation of traditional mediums: Thinner, knife, etc...
No doubt that SAI is extremely capable of in this and other regards, I was particularly impressed by how lightweight it is compared to ArtRage.
My contribution for the day:
These are awesome work guys!
Yours look great too, anime is something I've tried many times but I still suck at..
Thanks!
EarsOfASnake
Member
It has been far too long since I contributed. Just had a look through a few pages and there is some great work on display in here!
EarsOfASnake
Member
I love drawing but it can be so frustrating. My form is awful.
damn, that's beautiful. nicely done.
Looks like Derrida
Awesome love your line economy
About 20 minutes.
Looks like a shmup splash-screen, something from Treasure to be more precise.
I think your problem is that you depend to much on outlines, try to use values instead, after all form can be expressed by a change of values, there are really no lines in reality.
I'm still working on this, can't let it go, not yet
Demon Lizardman
Banned
Decided to do this environment, took me 25 minutes. I was just messing around with colors.
PaulExcellent
Member
Hey, guys! Sorry for the lack of images every day. I'm drawing every single day, but don't always have my PC available. Still, I'm working on a big project that was inspired by this thread!
Today's "drawing" was a pixel-art rendition of the main character from 'Magnetic By Nature', an indie game for PC, Mac, and Linux that I got to play at ComicCon. The developers liked it so much that they posted it on their blog and such!
Today's "drawing" was a pixel-art rendition of the main character from 'Magnetic By Nature', an indie game for PC, Mac, and Linux that I got to play at ComicCon. The developers liked it so much that they posted it on their blog and such!
Hey, guys! Sorry for the lack of images every day. I'm drawing every single day, but don't always have my PC available. Still, I'm working on a big project that was inspired by this thread!
Today's "drawing" was a pixel-art rendition of the main character from 'Magnetic By Nature', an indie game for PC, Mac, and Linux that I got to play at ComicCon. The developers liked it so much that they posted it on their blog and such!
A project based off the thread? I'm interested to know what it is...
Your stuff always looks really good in softer pallets.
Been working on this the last 3 days
Sketch commission for someone. 4 Hours on the pencil work, and about 8 on the painting, though I can't really say for sure because I haven't kept time on this one properly. I''ll try and post the actual days work from now on. I do paint and draw every single day (for at least 4 hours or so). Might help me with my timing. I am finding that texture brushes do help with speeding up the painting process.
highrider
Banned
AFollowerNotALeader
Member
Leozack, from Transformers Victory.
Usual GIMP + Wacom combo.
Manabanana
Member
Haven't been able to update since some of my stuff recently has been nsfw-ish
6 hours (1 hour on the pencil work on moleskine, 5 on paintingin PS).
I'm doing a small narrative of folklore types in a desert. Finally able to cut down some of my painting time and being less controlling over every aspect of each piece. I'll be wanting to up the ante with each part of this story though. Hopefully I won't find my time taking longer and longer...
Wow I love these. Great colors in both. Oatmeal, the loose strokes are fantastic.
User 73706
Banned
I think this counts? A friend's birthday is on the 14th and he's a horror movie buff, so I made him an 18x24" poster for Freddy vs Jason. I'm going to get it printed tomorrow.
It was a weird process, overall: first I basically googled the mask / freddy / glove / machete and traced over it with a certain level of detail in Illustrator at a huge size, transferred everything (in multiple layers) over to Photoshop, and then did all the "shading" with a set of grunge brushes I had and fooled with the opacity a bunch to get a sense of depth. Once I managed to get to the background, my computer was melting because the uncompressed image came out to a little over a gig. Took about three and a half hours on and off.
If anyone wants the native image for printing I'll host it.
It was a weird process, overall: first I basically googled the mask / freddy / glove / machete and traced over it with a certain level of detail in Illustrator at a huge size, transferred everything (in multiple layers) over to Photoshop, and then did all the "shading" with a set of grunge brushes I had and fooled with the opacity a bunch to get a sense of depth. Once I managed to get to the background, my computer was melting because the uncompressed image came out to a little over a gig. Took about three and a half hours on and off.
If anyone wants the native image for printing I'll host it.
User 73706
Banned
Spent about 20 doodling a hugeass mech today.
EmptySpace
Banned
made in paint with laptop touchpad. don't hate EmptySpace. he will buy proper drawing tools sometime soon. took a little over an hour.
Collete
Member
made in paint with laptop touchpad. don't hate EmptySpace. he will buy proper drawing tools sometime soon. took a little over an hour.
This is even better than me by a long shot.
No way I can hate this.
If you did this with a touch pad, I can't wait to see what you can do with the proper equipment.
EmptySpace
Banned
is wacom bamboo splash any good? EmptySpace hasn't drawn (as a pasttime) since he was in 6th grade. he doesn't know any photoshop or any software.
wip
fwiw I took the plunge and created a tumblr, I'm still getting the hang around it,
http://firez-tbr.tumblr.com/
fwiw I took the plunge and created a tumblr, I'm still getting the hang around it,
http://firez-tbr.tumblr.com/
Psychological Intellect
Banned
Been a while!
experiemting painting techniques. Really want to get accustomed from going from grayscale to color but it's been pretty difficult and confusing. I need to work on my values.
Bonus buff kangaroo
Pyramid head
Banned
Wow, I really love how you handled the lighting on this piece. Something like that would take me days rather than hours.
This Is an A4 sized ballpoint drawing of Crossbreed Pricilla from Dark Souls. Probably took me about 4 hours over the course of three days.
Prax
Member
Sorta kinda self-portrait from memory (I was being narcissistic at the time while brushing my teeth and falling in love with my reflection lol):
Two guys talking about possible future daughter (probably involves some kind of genetic splicing to be feasible, but that's what the future is for! Guy on the left doesn't actually want kids though and is just humouring the other guy. lol):
Both of them were done in Paint Tool SAI. Probably 2-3 hours each.
Have any of you tried FireAlpaca?
http://firealpaca.com/en
It's supposedly LIKE Paint Tool SAI except with extra Photoshop-liek abilities (like text/type layers I think lol very important!), but most importantly, it's FREE!
The only potential annoying/deal-breaker part is that there may be a popup with advertisements on each startup for them to gain revenue.
I'm actually interested but unsure if I want to learn a new program or deal with the ads. I'll probably try it out next week myself though, just hope the installation is clean.
Two guys talking about possible future daughter (probably involves some kind of genetic splicing to be feasible, but that's what the future is for! Guy on the left doesn't actually want kids though and is just humouring the other guy. lol):
Both of them were done in Paint Tool SAI. Probably 2-3 hours each.
Have any of you tried FireAlpaca?
http://firealpaca.com/en
It's supposedly LIKE Paint Tool SAI except with extra Photoshop-liek abilities (like text/type layers I think lol very important!), but most importantly, it's FREE!
The only potential annoying/deal-breaker part is that there may be a popup with advertisements on each startup for them to gain revenue.
I'm actually interested but unsure if I want to learn a new program or deal with the ads. I'll probably try it out next week myself though, just hope the installation is clean.
Collete
Member
I don't have splash, I have an older version of wacom bamboo which so far 2-3 years of use and it's still all right. It's a beginner tablet I think.
Software, I recommend as a beginning, probably try out GIMP and Paint tool SAI.
If you want to get into some natural painting looks, try out Artrage 4, it's a pricy software but it gives a natural painting look.
EarsOfASnake
Member
Trying to concentrate on form.
EarsOfASnake
Member
Really getting into my drawing recently...
