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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #960 on: July 10, 2007, 07:35:53 pm
Haha, Lenin indeed. How the beard and the side of the hammer line up is really weird, as well as how the hammer is totally front on.
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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #961 on: July 10, 2007, 08:22:06 pm
Hah, I had to look that up, I know him as "the Russian dude from The Jackal intro sequence".

I edited the shot (see previous post). Incidently, what are people's recommendations for non-pixel art critique forums? I posted on gfx-artist and cgsociety so far.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #962 on: July 10, 2007, 08:27:47 pm
conceptart.org is a good place for people of most levels (real beginners shouldn't be there, but you aren't one of those)
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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #963 on: July 10, 2007, 09:43:44 pm
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I know him as "the Russian dude from The Jackal intro sequence".

oh my. He's a very important historical figure. It makes me scared that that's the context you know him in.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #964 on: July 10, 2007, 11:15:43 pm

1 hour speed paint. I'm proud, nose and mouths still need practice but I think it's pretty decent for an hour of paint.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #965 on: July 11, 2007, 06:20:06 am
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I know him as "the Russian dude from The Jackal intro sequence".

oh my. He's a very important historical figure. It makes me scared that that's the context you know him in.

I know! I recognised his face, and his story, though. Just not his name.

JonathanOfDrain: cool. I like the eyepatch. The piece as a whole almost looks like a bumpmap, though, rather than something lit.

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #966 on: July 11, 2007, 06:54:13 am
Sherman Gill: Thanks! Well, that'd be Photoshop: sharpen, brighten/contrast and some digital repainting.

ptoing: Yeah, I'm not sure where I was going with that. I guess I started doing it, got distracted by something else in the picture and then never went back to finish it.
You have some lovely stylization in your acrylic paintings so far though, good job!  :y:

AdamAtomic: Thanks! I guess the concious effort to improve compositions payed off. I still have no idea what I'm doing though. Gouache is a lot of fun while you're working, not so fun after it's dried and the colors suddenly are fucked up.  :huh:

Adarias: I've found that, generally, the less you render a face, the more feminine it'll look. Not saying you should go all manga or anything, but holding back on some stuff could be an improvement?


Oh, and does anyone know of a good method to transfer a drawing to canvas without tracing or redrawing?

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #967 on: July 11, 2007, 12:40:28 pm
there are shops that print on canvas.
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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #968 on: July 11, 2007, 09:54:14 pm
Here's some crappy low-poly modeling. Took 6 hours to render, and then I realized the bump map was inverted, doh! :D

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Re: Official OT-Creativity Thread [Nudity]

Reply #969 on: July 11, 2007, 09:58:59 pm
with a texture that detailed, i'm not sure what bump mapping would actually achieve?

it's a fun design though.

printing paintings on canvas is a little disappointing a lot of the time i find unless they are thinly painted in real life, because it ends up flattening smoothing all the brushwork, trading tiled physical texture for a lot of artistic visual texture
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