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Haha I know how you feel xD
People say 'muddy' but I can't find any definite answer as to what 'muddy' is, nor exactly what is causing the muddiness
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perspective is super weird i dunno
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Walls black like black waters, when they are heavy and seem to belong to other seas
January 2011
5,157 PostsGesture gesture gesture
If you develop a good eye for roughing out forms suggestively with minimal lines you can apply it to pretty much anything, and if you have even one good gestural line to describe a body part it's SO much easier to fill in the proper shape on top of that.
I don't think I can explain the process that well because it's pretty intuitive, so I did an example of what I mean:
ref - http://attachments.conceptart.org/fo...1&d=1220429247
EDIT- niggaupload is down apparently, imgur is blocking us obviously and imageshack is now register-only, so reup on postimage.org which I have never heard of:
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I always ink with photoshop and save the pen tool traces as vectors.
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Like this one:
I use cursor though, not tablet.
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gugugugu
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If I had the time and patience, I'd love to do vectored lines. I'll often use a vector to create a solid piece like the face outline, just sharpening that out enhances so much even when the picture is sketchy as a whole.I always ink with photoshop and save the pen tool traces as vectors.
Like this one:
I use cursor though, not tablet.
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a stress-reliever drawing!
i took a lot of inspiration from this person i saw on youtube who painted with watercolors like a god
this is literally my second time to draw realistically jesus christ
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thanks. I think I need to just visualise it better in my head to apply this, because right now I won't be sure what I want in the drawing, so I just make a ton of lines, which as you said before ends up being quite unproductiveGesture gesture gesture
If you develop a good eye for roughing out forms suggestively with minimal lines you can apply it to pretty much anything, and if you have even one good gestural line to describe a body part it's SO much easier to fill in the proper shape on top of that.
I don't think I can explain the process that well because it's pretty intuitive, so I did an example of what I mean:
ref - http://attachments.conceptart.org/fo...1&d=1220429247
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http://imageshack.us/f/62/soldiersketchimproving5.png/ I'm painting solder from TF2... *Before I start cleaning up and working on background, should I focus my concerns on anything on this? *And the sketch lines are there because its part of my art style to keep them; but should I try making them a different color or reduce the amount of sketch lines? *Thank You in Advance*
It's still not complete, I'm still trying to get it to look better...
:C
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too much highlight on the grenades.
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Could it be possible that your monitor's colour calibration isn't right? If it is a consistant issue and you can't see what is wrong with it then that might explain it maybe.
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i really love her work. been inspired by it myself
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You seem to use a lot of grey-ish or brown-ish colours, not very much vibrancey in the tones. Try using really wacky bright colours for once and see how they can work well. (then look for a middleground)
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"muddy" isn't about the colours in your picture. it's used when they mean the brushstrokes in your picture are blurry and transparent. it gives this inconsistent, overlapping look. this comes from using a low brush opacity
it gives this kind of effect (on the left):
so the work gets kinda blurry like this (sorry to this person for using the work as an example)
edit: oh wait in this instance i think the person was actually talking about browns and a lack of colour. usually though i think we use it to talk about brushstrokes
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WIP self portrait in charcoal. My chin's a bit fucked atm.
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Pew pew!
One of the few serious self-portraits that came out good!
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Got fed up with this thing...
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Painted this last night. About half way through I got the news that my dog had died
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That's horrible dude. But if it's any consolation I'm loving the painting; the sky's so funky.
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sorry about your dog, I absolutely love the painting
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cleaned up a bit more. now gonna do the background.
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I kinda liked the aesthetic the clusterfuck dlc for bf3 had going, but after a terrible attempt at drawing people into it I figured it looked better on its own
...meh.
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If I had a black and white image, is there a way to tell how many pixels are black and how many are white?
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His armpit is a jungle O..O
cleaned up a bit more. now gonna do the background.
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I'm pretty sure someone has done a program for that, but I'm more interested in why would you want to know this?
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half sleeve, full sleeve later on
family business yo
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It's not a calibration issue, I don't think. It's not a technical issue that's preventing me from seeing the issue; it's more that I don't know enough about colour and everything to pick up on the problems when they appear
I'm using a cheapish LCD from about 4 years ago. It's been through hell; cat pissed on the screen, piss leaked down into the buttons at the front, so I washed the entire thing out with spring water (tried to get the purest, most distilled stuff I could) and let it dry out in some rice for a few months. A few smudges here and there but it's not a massive issue. I've got a secondary CRT, but that's a bit too dark
Calibration is a biatch, but I've been working on it. I had a good setup a while back but the system I was using needed to be turned on every time I restarted, so I usually forgot until I was half way through a painting.
I recalibrated today using a more permanent solution. Previously I had matched colours to a macbeth colour chart using the inbuilt RGB settings and QuickGamma but today I tried something different. I set the screen to SRGB and then went into the ATI Catalyst settings and using the QuickGamma calibration images I set the brightness to the correct level. I then used gamma correction in Catalyst to alter the RGB gamma to match the macbeth colour chart.
I mean, it's not perfect (nor is it likely an 'approved' way of doing it) but I have neither a very high quality monitor nor the patience right now to spend hours fine tuning. Maybe later down the road.
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Late night scribbling.
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That has got to be perhaps the strangest dildo I have ever seenLate night scribbling.
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CCCCCCC please
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Very nice
CCCCCCC please
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Slow 'n steady
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Definitely nailed the atmosphere there.
CCCCCCC please
Although I don't think the shadows on the pole should be so dark since there's no direct sunlight.
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i really like this a lot more than some of your other pieces. i think this is mainly because there's some kind of struggle that the viewer can be involved in. usually you've got quite interesting landscapes and buildings n stuff but having a person in there makes it all so much more interesting, even for the very simple reason that he provides a sense of scale too
remember that you're a digital artist. it's very good practice for you, and i like that you concentrate on this, that you mainly just paint with the brushes and then call it a day. remember though that you can use all the wizardry of photoshop to your advantage in the final stages of the piece. i find messing with the colour balance a little (often to bring more colour into the shadows and maybe the highlights) is a really handy finishing touch, as is a bit of smart sharpen and maybe some increased saturation on the main area you want to draw your viewer's eyes to
maybe something like this
i went too far with the blue and ruined the gloomy atmosphere a bit but hopefully you can see what i mean
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maloofs version looked better
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yeh in retrospect this was an awful pic to mess with like that because of the fog n what not
i think it would help a lot of maloof's other work though where the final product is often kinda blurry and desaturated and a little under-contrasted
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An ass, because I was asked to draw one randomly in chat.
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"2 blurry oranges in a warped mirror"
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somethin I wanna stencil, not fully decided yet tho so any suggestions are cool too
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learn about how not to have islands if you're gonna make a stencil.
somethin I wanna stencil, not fully decided yet tho so any suggestions are cool too
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