Art Dumpage! Show your art ^^

[pkt]

A random little sketch with the tablet that came out like this. It was random scribbles at first though. That's how the street was formed.

[SusanTheCat]

A random little sketch with the tablet that came out like this. It was random scribbles at first though. That's how the street was formed.

I am officially jealous. Your scribbles look better than my best.

What resolution do you draw at?

Susan

[pkt]

1000x1000 pixels usually. I used to work with my mouse for years though so don't feel so bad. And some other self study. A can go higher but I don't really have much of a grasp on most artistic concepts from a non self taught manner. I can answer questions though.

[bowling pin]

[pkt]

@ Bowling pin, On pics 1,4,5 I want to know how you did those. They are really good and interesting. Work on anatomy a little bit though.

[qq]

I have finally finish coloring my line art. Sorry for the lack of background. Comments and critiques always welcome.

[bowling pin]

@ Bowling pin, On pics 1,4,5 I want to know how you did those. They are really good and interesting. Work on anatomy a little bit though.

Thank you. It's a little hard to narrow down what I did in those pictures since they were made at different times with different techniques, but I'll try to share my approach.

In pic #4 (butterfly), which I actually made around six years ago, I took a grainy screencap of a picture of a girl I knew. I then traced what I could of her and made something of a vector, except in pixel art. I then added the butterfly wings and enlarged that pixel art onto a canvas with a picture of a field I found. After that, I added lots of patterns and textures and got this. If I were to make this today, I probably would have painted and defined the field background some more.

In pic #5 (field), I took a lot of reference photos which barely even remain in the final picture and painted over them, reducing those pictures' opacity levels to barely visible. I tossed a lot of assorted shapes together to see what looked nice as a composition, and then started throwing broad strokes of color. Afterward, I put in some very light, low opacity, very soft blotches of color which I blended into the canvas with soft lights, which produced much of the lighting in the final picture. This had more of a speed paint approach.

Pic #1 is another exercise in lighting that I wanted to give a street art look to. First off, the character is just a screencap of a model from Poser. I resized that, threshold, got a shadow impression I wanted to use that looks like stencil graffiti. There are ink splatter brushes used at the top of the picture. In the background there's a green structure with lines hatched onto it like scratches. I played with a lot of layer mask settings and blend styles to get what I wanted. This one took maybe an hour tops though.

I hope that's been helpful.

[Lolita_Soft]

This is the mascot fro Tekkoshocon, the theme this year is Mon anime (Pokemon, digimon, ect...)
I haven't done soft cell shading in a while...Any advice/criticism?

[qq]

@ Lolita_soft You're off to a good start. I don't know much about soft cell shading, but you should probably work on your anatomy a little more. Also it's helpful to draw the feet to keep the character planted and balanced. Also the face looks a bit awkward. Hope I was helpful.

[Auro-Cyanide]

Some chibis I did as a prize for someone. The characters are not mine.

[Elze]

My OC, Goldie C:

[Twisted-Eva]

I guess while not being as challenging as Photoshop is for lineart, I'm more comfortable illustrating in Manga Studio than in Photoshop.

Our Crossing Paths character design for a guy.

[Robert Kirkland]

My OC, Goldie C:

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YOU. GOD.

[MaiMai]

Looked through my old pictures in Photobucket and decided to redraw a character and do a side-by-side comparison. (So those of you starting to draw don't give up, but don't expect to immediately be good either. Work hard! )

[charmwitch]

Ahh you guys, all of these are great. I'm so inspired, man. ;_;

Maimai > You've improved so much!　Keep it up!

Twisted Eva > Your lineart is so smooth and silky. I really love the contrast between black and white in your images.

Elze > :T!!!!!!!!!!!!!! so soft and lovely, I love the color palette!!

Auro Cyanide > These are really cute ahh!!

EVERYONE'S LOVELY OKAY. okay.