Official OT-Creativity Thread 1

[flaber]

awsome character adarias
love your style

quick question going out to whomever:
for inking - do you use just a ball point pen/regular pen, or do you use india ink or something else?

[Sherman Gill]

I personally use a speedball (Small) nibbed pen with some form of Higgins ink.
Anything larger than the small brown pens aren't usefull for much. They can't use crow quill nibs, which means you can't get fine lines very easily, and it's a pain in the ass fitting any speedball pen with a new nib (where most of the small ones come prefitted). And by pain in the ass, I mean I cut myself a bunch and broke three nibs before I gave up.
Speedball ink is pretty... Not good. It's too watery and will sometimes drip from your pen. Higgin's Ink is really perfect, from what I know of inks. Permanent, doesn't clog, doesn't just fall right off of it.

Thas' all my knowledge of the subject

[ndchristie]

india ink isnt great for linework, it's for brushwork and washing.  Permentent black is the stuff you want, and yeah, higgins is good.  Always use a real pen if you can have access to one, otherwise though a graphic pen will suffice.

[Squirrelsquid]

great art in here!
might as well join in...

rather fast concept... especialy the coloring, but it does get the job done...
the powersuit (and pilot) are infected by an alien organism called omnivore
done for the "Dominance war 2"... the contest ends in a few days though,
and I'm to busy to do a full fledged model with normal map and other maps, so it will not be finished on time...
I will complete it anyway, for my portfolio, some day.

@ willfaulds: looking good! I like the overall design, though it's hard to make out the forms in some spots.
@ Adarias: Lovely colors there... I agree that the face looks a bit flat, but I guess that's ok.

[AdamAtomic]

death to the polycounters!  cgchat will crush your filthy souls this time...


 fun design though   I like the head and left arm quite a bit, not sure if i'm feeling that wing/shoulderpad combo though, the shapes confuse each other I think.

[Indigo]

there is some great great stuff being posted here.  Gosh.

Here's a new one from me.  A portrait of a friend in Utah.  It was a bit of a quickie, spending about 5-6 hours on it total.


and this lil thing was the reference...

[ndchristie]

As a piece of art, i would be more interested in a piece less faithful to the photograph.  As a gift for a friend, i would say damned good work

hate to post without putting any art up, so here's from today :



Detail fo a new painting showing the Sack of Tyre by Alexander's wlite infantry, arguably his most important battle after Issus, where the strongest Carthaginian town in lebanon fell to his forces.  The total defeat of the phoenician half of the empire marked the beginning of alexander's dominance over the eastern mediterranian.

[Stwelin]

mmm... delicious yummy cape flow-y folds goody good... 

[SolidIdea]

at Indigo:
Really nice, in the paiting she looks like the Full House older girl

at Adarias:
That looks almighty! What size is the canvas?


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Just a doodle to pixel over it


The pixel


I'm still missing the crown

[ndchristie]

lovely sense of motion and character

my canvas is 16" x 10" , the photo there (about half an hour into the painting) is a bit less than 4" x 6"
it's part of a 12-piece series based on the Zodiac.  Tyre was sacked in early July under the sign of cancer and the moon is the emblem of the phoenician state. Cancer is also shown on the peltas of alexanders phalangites