The Art thread

[brataccas 0]

wow @ verbal and creepysmell very nice pics

[Placebo 29]

chris330 remove image tags when quoting please, also please stay on topic, your whole post on the previous page had nothing to do with this art thread.

[chris330 0]

chris330 remove image tags when quoting please, also please stay on topic, your whole post on the previous page had nothing to do with this art thread.

Will do, apologies  

[verbal 0]

time to add some more

guess name of band and album:

a girl ive met in summer 2 years ago. shes the only Sorrow that goes away and make you feel sad.

and my first non B&W picture - i was asked by a young lady (3 years old i believe) to draw a dog. i did all i could. and heres the result:

and last one - as a friend of mine said: "this ones definitely full of fear"

its WIP, but im thinking about leaving those eyes the way they are now. what do you think?

[Sonic92 0]

If you like web comics using sprites, try

My Webpage

Don't say it is boring, i already know that

(Not meant to be funny or anything, just helps me when i'm bored)

Feedback plz on guestbook

[D.murphy man 0]

Dont know if many people will get it, just a little cartoon i did about peoples MSN messanger spaces, and the fact there all the same and spelt extreamly badly with 'slang' LyK ti$!

Other peoples spaces

Also, verbal, amazing stuff

[Supah 0]

Some of my older work:

IDF Spitfire Mk. IX S/n 2004 "White 14" (Formerly D-133)

http://supah.chaotic.nl/white14.jpg

High res version

After the formation of Israel the need for an airforce with effective fighters was large. The Avia S-199, ironically a czech built version of the Nazi German Bf-109, was not liked and alternatives were sought. Some spitfires were assembled from RAF wrecks found at Tel Aviv and parts from Royal Egyptian Airforce Mk. IX's that had come down on Israeli territory or were captured in their pens. Two Spitfires are know to have been assembled from canabalised parts in this manner, serial numbers D-130 and D-131. After a while the IDF managed  to purchase some Spits from the Czech Airforce and these were flown to the fledgling state of Israel in operations called "Velvetta" via yugoslavia. During these ferry flights Yugoslave markins were carried, the remains of which can be seen as what appears as a non standard outline around the SoD.

D-133 was one of the first Spitfire's to arrive through that route and continued to serve with the IDF untill she was written off in a ground accident on  the 5th of January 1949. Pilot Aaron "Red" Finkel was at the controlls when a tire blew out and the machine nosed over causing severe damage. Finkel was considered lucky to have survived the mishap.

Later the IDF would manage to procure more spitfires from the Czechoslavakians  and also from Italy. These aircraft served the Israeli's well together with a good number of P-51D's and were used untill the mid 50's. One famous spitfire, painted black with a red thunderbolt across the fuselage was later used by the commander of the IDF as his personal plane.

Sources

Venture Publications - "Spitfire, Star of Israel"

SAM publications- Modellers datafile The Supermarine Spitfire Part 1: Merlin Powered.

Authors Photography and field research

IDF Spitfire Mk. IX S/n 2018 "White 17"

http://supah.chaotic.nl/white17.jpg

High res version

After a battle with the RAF on 7th of January 1948 the IAF High Command decided to paint the Ocean Grey parts of their spitfires brown. As both sides flew Spitfires it was hard for pilots to distinguish between friend and foe during combat. It was thought this shift in colour would help pilots with this identification. This also introduced a certain measure of standardisation in the IAF fleet where paintscheme's were concerned.

The spitfire shown here carries the tail markings of 101 squadron and was seen like this in pictures taken in 1948 at Hatzor.

Sources

Venture Publications - "Spitfire, Star of Israel"

SAM publications- Modellers datafile The Supermarine Spitfire Part 1: Merlin Powered.

Authors Photography and field research

[Delirium 0]

nice stuff. Like it a lot.

What tools do you use?

[Supah 0]

nice   stuff. Like it a lot.

What tools do you use?

Photoshop, books for blueprints and pictures of the aircraft and a Wacom Sapphire drawing pad

[HotShot 0]

Thats excelletn work Supah, and very nice sketches verbal. Out of interest, was drawing something you learnt from tutorials/class, or was it just something you can do natuarally? The drawingboard.org site is really good Sanctuary. I saw they got a tips section, so i'll look at that, because all my drawings turn into something you'd do in MS Paint at the moment.

These 2 pictures are some photos i took a month or so ago and today edited in the flashpoint guys. Its not all real life or flashpoint photography, so cant go in either of those threads, so this seems best place.

[M4XSs 0]

Thats excelletn work Supah, and very nice sketches verbal. Out of interest, was drawing something you learnt from tutorials/class, or was it just something you can do natuarally? The drawingboard.org site is really good Sanctuary. I saw they got a tips section, so i'll look at that, because all my drawings turn into something you'd do in MS Paint at the moment.

These 2 pictures are some photos i took a month or so ago and today edited in the flashpoint guys. Its not all real life or flashpoint photography, so cant go in either of those threads, so this seems best place.

http://img209.imageshack.us/img209/566/photoflashpoint10ze.jpg

http://img67.imageshack.us/img67/7391/photoflashpoint28hz.jpg

The first pic is really nice!!

Thanks for sharing.

[earl 0]

but my shading sucks    anybody has any tip or trick? or maybe a good tutorial? im used to pencil and paper. and now ive found myself struggling with tablet.  

I didn't notice this part where you asked for advice until now.  Your drawings have good form/shape, but the shading can improve a lot.  The most simple guidelines to to pay attention to values - use black where it needs to be and white where it needs to be and all the range in between.  If you don't pay enough attention to this, your images will lack life.  For example - this is a great start but it only the very beginning: http://img112.imageshack.us/img112/482/sken0092uf.th.jpg

Some basic tips for painting in photoshop:

-keep linework on a different layer so you can hide/adjust it seperately from your painting layers

-start shading by blocking in big areas of shadow, midtone and hightlight.  This is very general and doesn't need any details and even doesn't need to follow linework too carefully yet.  After this part your image should have it's general feel, and everything else is just refinement.

-work in stages of detail across the whole image, don't finish one corner before the rest of the image

-use a hard round brush with pressure sensitive opacity, instead of size.  in standard ps brushes, you will find three of these brushes after the first two big groups of brushes.

I tried painting over your image as an example, but i made a bit of a mess, and changed it (a lot) from the original drawing.  Anyway, it's an example of trying to use a full range of values from near-black to near-white.  This is the only section that turned out okay.. even if the eyes are a bit mismatched.

I started doing some digital painting recently, I haven't done any plain 2D art for ages.  Here's an example of process and final, but still a bit rough.  Just an exercise from photo reference.  The idea that helped me a lot recently is that every surface is a mirror, just with different levels of roughness, reflecting efficiency, distortion, colour cast, etc.

Also thanks for suggestion about the Czech animation, I like this kind of stuff and there is a place here that will probably have it for rent.  I recently watched Jan Svankmajer's slightly nightmarish "Neco Z Alenky".  Stopmotion is great.  Someone suggested to me "Pojd'te Pane, Budeme Si Hrat", a really nice looking children's animation: http://img.bhe.templation.cz/data....t_1.gif

[Adamicz 3]

My Hummer Avenger (WIP)

[imghttp://www.militarysource.wz.cz/Art/mydraw2.jpg[/img]>100kb

[verbal 0]

2 HotShot:

as for me, its natural. no classes, no tutorials. maybe im not good at it, but i enjoy doing it. if somebody else likes it its just a bonus.

2 Earl:

thanks

if you ever find yourself in prague than let me know. i own you a beer

Pojdte pane, budeme si hrat is good suggestion. those 2 characters are lovely. also try something from Karel Zeman(i like his style). "pohadka o honzikovi a marence" is very nice fairytale.

ive been messing with smudge tool in PS.

still WIP. comments and criticism

[JdB 151]

if you ever find yourself in prague than let me know. i own you a beer

Well, as he works for BIS there is a pretty big chance that he is currently in Prague

[colonel_klink 0]

Ok so its not OFP or VBS or for that matter tiddly winks, but here is my rendition of Attila the Hun for an upcoming skittles game made entirely from card (paper).

Note: The construction pages are still under development.. My prowess with a digital camera is something to be desired (or not). And my techical drawing skill failed when I was at high school

The archive contains 6 jpg pages rendered at 300dpi. Two are the title and picture gallery which need not be printed out. The other four are the main construction pages. There are TWO head and hair pages. One contains the hair colored grey, the other is non-colored to show the lines clearer. The hair construction has undergone several changes and any feedback on making it simpler is welcome.

If possible please register at DC3D official forum and leave feedback there. The reason for this is so I can keep the comments together and use them to make this model and others better. Please be constructive rather than "that sucks!" etc, as I want to know what sucks, and how I can fix/improve it.  

Forum feedback: http://www.essentialasair.com/dc3d....start=0

Download page: http://www.dc3d.co.nz/mist/funstuff.htm

[verbal 0]

Well, as he works for BIS there is a pretty big chance that he is currently in Prague

pretty big chance means that its highly probable not 100% sure. BIS HQ isnt in prague but near prague. and assuming they work very very hard on finishing arma (24 hours a day ) i would say theres a chance he is currently not in prague. the question is if he has enought free time BTW did anybody mention that BIS stands for Bezpecnostni Informacni Sluzba?

now back on topic:

quick sketch ive made last friday. we were having a LAN party a played OFP a lot. mostly 4 vs 4, attacking/defending st. piere. i was gru marksman and ive scored a lot of headshots ( SVD).

me having some rest after battle

[Espectro (DayZ) 0]

that looks like kenny sitting at a bmp

Very nice

[verbal 0]

so, like kenny you say. hmmm, heres on from today. very very very special specnaz group called "krysy" (rats) posing before going into battle.

i wa tempted to hotlink this one. because imageshack says its 100kb

but its 100,46kb damm those 0,46kb. it would be so nice to have exactly 100kb pic

[Creepy_Smell 0]

Nice Verbal.

It does look like Southpark OFP in the sketch.

Like the realistic ones you do. They all look real good to me.

No matter how I try I cant draw real so I just focus on the surreal.

EDIT: Finished it earlier than expected so just changed the image here.

[blackdog~ 0]

Creepy_Smell, that's awesome. Do you have a bigger version?

[Creepy_Smell 0]

Creepy_Smell, that's awesome. Do you have a bigger version?

I've been posting a lot of mine at my page at DeviantArt.com and I have larger images there.

The partial one is under scraps and a bit smaller than the finished ones. I have 2 different ones of the same scrap so the progress can be seen on it.

Glad you all like them.

[berghoff 11]

Some nice stuff you got there Xawery, looks quite scary .

[verbal 0]

thanks for all comments and all kind words. i really honored that youve liked it.

2 Creepy: i hope youll post your result once the whole page is filled. i really like it

i couldnt fall asleep last night...

to lazy to fix it <- 136kb

i dont know if its worth finishing

one of my friends was following the development of "Lock up the wolves". but she has lost track, so ive made this compilation. your opinions?

im starting to hate imageshack generated thumbnail code <- beware 693kb

grrr, ill never finish anything. theres allways some thing that starts bugging me. do you have same problem? or can you say "now its perfect"?

[Creepy_Smell 0]

I actually got mine done early as I had extra time this week (Wife on comp so I couldnt play OFP ).

I just edited the pic in my post above.

Hard to squeeze it in under 100kb but I did it.

Next one is going to be a weird self portrait if I can manage to get it working right.