Let out the ARTIST in you!!!! [Archive] - Page 5

Maximilianus

10-11-2011, 08:46 PM

Max, it looks fine. You did a great job. :p

And I think you guys are just saying that to say that. I didn't really like Day 07. It doesn't look right to me. But all I can say is "Oh well, I just gotta keep going. If I don't like that one, then I might as well quit complaining and make the next one better. One of my favorite favorite sayings is "No use crying over spilled milk." Gotta keep going. :D
I wasn't being condescending when I said I liked Day 07 http://smiles.kolobok.us/remake/no.gif
I DO LIKE IT, as I like all the other sketches too, including the last ones :nod:
I'm incapable of anything remotely similar :(

And how did a simple declaration of my dislike turn into an optimistic speech?
Sometimes we tend to do it when we need to make it through a harsh moment. It's a survival mechanism, I think http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif

Beautifull

10-12-2011, 04:48 AM

I wasn't being condescending when I said I liked Day 07 http://smiles.kolobok.us/remake/no.gif
I DO LIKE IT, as I like all the other sketches too, including the last ones :nod:
I'm incapable of anything remotely similar :(
Hey Max, You have your style which is soooo cool and I cannot reproduce, and I have mine. We all have our own styles don't think of it being a bad thing. It just means awesome variety! :p I always enjoy seeing your work.
And look at Mystyr, he does awesome things that I'd only dream of doing(because I don't have that kind of patience)

We're deemed to be different. It's in our nature.

Sometimes we tend to do it when we need to make it through a harsh moment. It's a survival mechanism, I think http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif
Probably...yeah, that has to be it.

PoeticPassions

10-12-2011, 04:53 AM

Beau, these are great!

I, on the other hand, have no artistic abilities. I have always wished I could paint. Sometimes I do... but it is not good, unfortunately.

Max, the talking cello is pretty awesome. Reminds me of the old, educational cartoons I used to watch... :)

Maximilianus

10-12-2011, 08:45 PM

Hey Max, You have your style which is soooo cool and I cannot reproduce, and I have mine. We all have our own styles don't think of it being a bad thing. It just means awesome variety! :p I always enjoy seeing your work.
And look at Mystyr, he does awesome things that I'd only dream of doing (because I don't have that kind of patience)

We're deemed to be different. It's in our nature.
It must be so http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif Thank you! http://fc03.deviantart.net/images/i/2003/49/a/b/Hug_emoticon___v2

Probably...yeah, that has to be it.
:)

I, on the other hand, have no artistic abilities. I have always wished I could paint. Sometimes I do... but it is not good, unfortunately.
I've wanted to sketch and paint in the traditional ways but I also doubt I can do it, although I haven't tried much. Anyway, you could possibly try an alternative to traditional painting, like I did. You can try a photo editing program and do some things on it. By learning a few tricks before starting, you may produce at least one piece you can be satisfied with, and eventually you will end up discovering something new every time you use the programs. I always recommend Paint.Net and the GIMP, because they are powerful and free. Most of what I've done so far has been through a combination of both. I know it's not like proper sketching and painting because the program automates much of the process, yet there are many things you still have to do on your own, making digital art the closest you can get to proper fine arts when you lack the skills required for wielding a brush or pencil.

Max, the talking cello is pretty awesome. Reminds me of the old, educational cartoons I used to watch... :)
Thank you. Glad you like it http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif

PoeticPassions

10-13-2011, 04:24 AM

I've wanted to sketch and paint in the traditional ways but I also doubt I can do it, although I haven't tried much. Anyway, you could possibly try an alternative to traditional painting, like I did. You can try a photo editing program and do some things on it. By learning a few tricks before starting, you may produce at least one piece you can be satisfied with, and eventually you will end up discovering something new every time you use the programs. I always recommend Paint.Net and the GIMP, because they are powerful and free. Most of what I've done so far has been through a combination of both. I know it's not like proper sketching and painting because the program automates much of the process, yet there are many things you still have to do on your own, making digital art the closest you can get to proper fine arts when you lack the skills required for wielding a brush or pencil.

Do you doubt it, or have you tried?

And thanks for the tip :)... I might check it out. I'd still prefer if I could do it on paper, but this might be a way to let out my creativity. Sometimes I feel like I have a lot of it bottled up inside, and writing is not enough... I've also been meaning to take up photography, but that can be an expensive hobby.

Maximilianus

10-13-2011, 08:08 PM

Do you doubt it, or have you tried?
I've tried some sketching, but I don't like the outcome very much. Then again, I haven't tried really hard, mostly due to lack of time. I'm hoping that one day I can try really hard and see what happens then.

And thanks for the tip :)... I might check it out. I'd still prefer if I could do it on paper, but this might be a way to let out my creativity. Sometimes I feel like I have a lot of it bottled up inside, and writing is not enough... I've also been meaning to take up photography, but that can be an expensive hobby.
I feel something similar. It's like I had many things piled up inside and developed a graphical need to let them out. I've never been really graphical until just recently, and ever since I started I feel a little more relaxed. It's a sort of therapy, I think.

Beautifull

10-13-2011, 08:40 PM

Beau, these are great!

I, on the other hand, have no artistic abilities. I have always wished I could paint. Sometimes I do... but it is not good, unfortunately.

Thank you kindly for your compliment. :)

And all that matters is that you keep trying. Trust me, that's the most important part. When I started back more than four years ago, I sucked really bad. But I kept trying. You can do. But just don't give up. Like my challenge, the first one look like crap...but with each one, I got a little better. (minus one or two) I have faith you can do it! :D

Thank you! http://fc03.deviantart.net/images/i/2003/49/a/b/Hug_emoticon___v2

Anytime. http://e.deviantart.net/emoticons/t/tighthug.gif

MystyrMystyry

10-13-2011, 09:39 PM

And look at Mystyr, he does awesome things that I'd only dream of doing (because I don't have that kind of patience)

Ah but if you knew how much I get paid for them you would soon develop all the patience in the world ;)

We're deemed to be different. It's in our nature.

Probably...yeah, that has to be it.

Picasso said: 'Every child is an artist - the trick is to remember to be one when you're an adult' (a child he meant)

It's fun Beau - it's totally calming down and tapping into your inner daydreamer and translating it into whatever you want. You don't have to make yourself do it (or anything), but in answer to both you and Max, there's no trying harder about it, if anything it's trying less - ignoring all the rubbish in the world like what's this person doing, what's that one? What's on the news? Who's going to win Survivor? Forgetting all the electronic stimulation of the internet for a few hours and filling it with something satisfying instead.

If you don't have time for whatever reason, you only have to bother about it when you do. And as I've said you soon make time - the thing is you find you have to make time for the normal essential nothings which become meaningless after awhile.

Shopping? It becomes a few wasted hours in the day to think about what you're going to try next. The beach because it's too hot for anything else? A few more wasted hours, but you'll be ready for a new challenge when you get home.

I keep a small notebook with me so I can write and sketch ideas when I'm away from the work area (when they come - sometimes nothing for days), and it's because of them that I've tried different things. Without them I might be closer to a traditional sketch artist/illustrator.

I need the big challenges, and I want to see the big ideas in reality - out of my head into the real world where others can see them (and buy them so I can afford to do more). But also I like the materials - creamy black paint fresh from the tube sends shivers up my spine. Rich turquoise, vermilion and cadmium yellow and I get easily lost in lush possibilities. They're just such fun to mess around with. Even titanium white, which is the most light reflective surface known, gets to me.

With Bryce and Photoshop stuff, I don't actually spend much time fiddling with the program. I have the idea first and then try to work out the quickest most effective way to do it, and on the way it may be improved with a better idea or colour palette.

But the main thing is it's fun, has to be, and the farthest thing from work I can imagine :)

Anyway, I enjoyed no #7, even the Cyclops :) which brings me to a final point: Scott Adams said, "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." which is cool because it's sort of true - you're doing something that hasn't actually been done before, so of course you're going to make mistakes.

Making mistakes is the point, the fun, they're the important bit. But they have to be your own. Whatever you do, do it for yourself first and foremost, and only if you're happy enough to show it, then show it.

(I didn't realise how long this was - it's quite long)

cafolini

10-13-2011, 10:01 PM

In the process, become excellent and do some art.

Maximilianus

10-13-2011, 10:23 PM

Ah but if you knew how much I get paid for them you would soon develop all the patience in the world ;)

Picasso said: 'Every child is an artist - the trick is to remember to be one when you're an adult' (a child he meant)

It's fun Beau - it's totally calming down and tapping into your inner daydreamer and translating it into whatever you want. You don't have to make yourself do it (or anything), but in answer to both you and Max, there's no trying harder about it, if anything it's trying less - ignoring all the rubbish in the world like what's this person doing, what's that one? What's on the news? Who's going to win Survivor? Forgetting all the electronic stimulation of the internet for a few hours and filling it with something satisfying instead.

If you don't have time for whatever reason, you only have to bother about it when you do. And as I've said you soon make time - the thing is you find you have to make time for the normal essential nothings which become meaningless after awhile.

Shopping? It becomes a few wasted hours in the day to think about what you're going to try next. The beach because it's too hot for anything else? A few more wasted hours, but you'll be ready for a new challenge when you get home.

I keep a small notebook with me so I can write and sketch ideas when I'm away from the work area (when they come - sometimes nothing for days), and it's because of them that I've tried different things. Without them I might be closer to a traditional sketch artist/illustrator.

I need the big challenges, and I want to see the big ideas in reality - out of my head into the real world where others can see them (and buy them so I can afford to do more). But also I like the materials - creamy black paint fresh from the tube sends shivers up my spine. Rich turquoise, vermilion and cadmium yellow and I get easily lost in lush possibilities. They're just such fun to mess around with. Even titanium white, which is the most light reflective surface known, gets to me.

With Bryce and Photoshop stuff, I don't actually spend much time fiddling with the program. I have the idea first and then try to work out the quickest most effective way to do it, and on the way it may be improved with a better idea or colour palette.

But the main thing is it's fun, has to be, and the farthest thing from work I can imagine :)

Anyway, I enjoyed no #7, even the Cyclops :) which brings me to a final point: Scott Adams said, "Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep." which is cool because it's sort of true - you're doing something that hasn't actually been done before, so of course you're going to make mistakes.

Making mistakes is the point, the fun, they're the important bit. But they have to be your own. Whatever you do, do it for yourself first and foremost, and only if you're happy enough to show it, then show it.

(I didn't realise how long this was - it's quite long)

For the time being, I'll be mulling over all this to a considerable extent http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif http://smilies-gifs.com/pensando/4pensando.gif http://smilies-gifs.com/pensando/6pensando.gif

:)

Maximilianus

10-16-2011, 06:36 PM

This Sunday was Mother's Day in my country and I did this humble piece for mine:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/For20my20mom20on20mom27s20day20-202.jpg

Varenne Rodin

10-16-2011, 09:31 PM

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9209

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9221

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9213

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9211

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9210

I'll be posting more pictures of this and other sculpts on my profile soon. Thanks for looking! :)

Varenne Rodin

10-16-2011, 09:33 PM

This Sunday was Mother's Day in my country and I did this humble piece for mine:

Aw. That's sweet, Max. Love the colors!

Vonny

10-16-2011, 09:55 PM

Aw. That's sweet, Max. Love the colors!

Varenne, where you been?

Maximilianus

10-16-2011, 10:29 PM

Aw. That's sweet, Max. Love the colors!
Thank you!
I strongly believe your sculpts are awesomeness! :nod:

Varenne, where you been?
Wherever it was, I'm glad she's back. I like the sculpts and want to see more already :)

Varenne Rodin

10-17-2011, 02:20 AM

Hi, Vonny! Hi, Max! Thank you. :)

I've been working on various projects. Sometimes there's so much to do, and no time for breaks. It's something that consumes me. I'll keep coming back here though. I love this place.

Kyriakos

10-25-2011, 10:16 AM

Time to revive the thread :)

My model of the Labyrinth:

http://i.imgur.com/5ZTMy.png

Kyriakos

10-27-2011, 06:26 AM

By the way, if i may self-advertise a tiny bit, i just uploaded my translation of one of my shortest stories to the forum. It is at http://www.online-literature.com/forums/showthread.php?p=1084015#post1084015

I would love to read what you thought of it :) I submitted it to a magazine and wait for their view as well...

Beautifull

10-28-2011, 09:29 AM

Has been kind of slow lately, huh?

I like your labyrinth, K!

Kyriakos

10-29-2011, 01:26 PM

Thank you, B :)

MystyrMystyry

10-29-2011, 05:29 PM

Very well done Max

Nice mermaid Varenne

That picture should really be an exception to your tiny rule Kyriakos

I've been building spaceships with plasma thrusters:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1086&pictureid=9251

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1086&pictureid=9252

Varenne Rodin

10-29-2011, 11:11 PM

Amazing! I love them!

MystyrMystyry

10-30-2011, 01:27 AM

Thankyou Varenne :)

Beautifull

10-30-2011, 04:49 AM

I have no idea what plasma thrusters are, but I like how...unique your spaceships have come out. :) I especially like the first one. ;)

BTW, like the new avatar, Mystyr

MystyrMystyry

10-30-2011, 07:33 PM

Thankyou Beau, though you do realise the second one is a year round party ship? Party! Party! Party!

I've been exploring some more prominent textures and I randomly came across this one:

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1086&pictureid=9255

(And I've been overusing it in everything)

MystyrMystyry

11-01-2011, 07:02 AM

Glassblowny articles

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/Australia%20Day%202011/77.jpg

Revolte

11-01-2011, 03:15 PM

I've got a couple new songs a bit different then all my others.

The Devil and His Ways

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UOYMNHGnlv8&feature=related

Laws, Cops and Sharpened Rocks

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYeP3wTMZLQ&lc=wolGI_YioPIwcYiIBdmwKTj_lrSpJ9VMNXLONDuUzEU&feature=inbox

Revolte

11-03-2011, 04:37 AM

most of my visual art I would never get away with posting here, but there are a couple things that I kind of feel like sharing.

1.http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm134/nolliesk8tr/scan0004.jpg

2.http://i295.photobucket.com/albums/mm134/nolliesk8tr/scan0006.jpg

Smoke-Indigo

11-06-2011, 01:13 AM

Im going to upload some photos.
my computer is currently having difficulties

Beautifull

11-07-2011, 06:07 AM

@Mystyr: Your...articles are cool! I love the colors that came out. :p

@Revolte: That's good! I love them! I want to see more! :D Both f them are very intriguing, and in my opinion, very well-drawn. :)

Kyriakos

11-08-2011, 12:22 PM

The Elven cities, which i think are some of my better graphical work :)

http://i.imgur.com/IdTJt.png

MystyrMystyry

11-11-2011, 03:58 AM

Very Demonic Revolte!

Another interesting effort Kyriakos!

Thankyou Beau :) I've been going crackers on the objects and models lately, to make the scenes generally more exciting. Here's what Stonehenge would look like at night if it was made out of coloured ice: Icehenge

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/00.jpg

Beautifull

11-14-2011, 04:02 AM

XD IcehengE! :lol:

Well, I've been working on this for weeks, but I don't know what happened. First time doing a full page and it was a present for my friend's birthday. The characters belong to her and her RP buddy.
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/316/5/d/look__grey_and_richard_by_kyeire-d4fwjll.jpg

MystyrMystyry

11-14-2011, 08:15 PM

That's a dynamic image Beau :) What does RP mean? Role playing? I like the way his hand looks as if it's reaching out of my computer monitor.

I was playing around with shapes and textures again last night, arrived at this:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/goo.jpg

irinmisfit92

11-15-2011, 10:45 AM

:thumb188791357:

irinmisfit92

11-15-2011, 10:45 AM

http://fav.me/d34egcd

http://irinthony.deviantart.com/art/Vagabond-188791357

If the first link doesn't work try the 2nd one. xP I draw a lot of fan art and I post it on deviantART.

cranberry

11-16-2011, 05:02 AM

nice pictures :) artistic,

Beautifull

11-19-2011, 01:37 AM

I've got two to upload today. :) I've been crazy about it. :)

This one's my first comic. My friend scared me while I was waiting for mone of my classes. :D
http://fc04.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/321/a/b/found_it__d_by_kyeire-d4giae5.jpg

And this one is an original character drawn and colored by me.
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2011/322/2/2/forgot_his_useless_wings_by_kyeire-d4glv70.jpg

stephofthenight

11-19-2011, 02:48 AM

awesome work guys! I'm inspired to quit being lazy and start uploading stuff on here :)

Maximilianus

11-19-2011, 11:09 PM

I was going to grade the works I've seen uploaded since I left to deal with exams and such, but Mr. Coyote wanted to grade them himself...

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/coyote10points.png

Beau's guy with the scythe reminded me of something I did for this year's Halloween:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Scream20smiley20for20Halloween20201.jpg

I'm inspired to quit being lazy and start uploading stuff on here :)
Photoshop works, please. You know how to use the program http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif

MystyrMystyry

11-20-2011, 03:13 AM

Interesting Irinmisfisfit, that hair's wild.

A belated Halloween scare Beau? That was cute :) Your blue dude's hair covering his eyes is very manga - looks like the opening page of a comic, yes?

Yeah, hurry up Steph!

Max is back, and it looks like a scene from the Day of the Dead. Well done Max!

My Halloween led me on a search for spooky forests, I finally found spooky trees to make my own spooky forest - three weeks after the fact :(

First effort:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/goobley.jpg

Maximilianus

11-20-2011, 01:05 PM

Max is back, and it looks like a scene from the Day of the Dead. Well done Max!
Thanks!

My Halloween led me on a search for spooky forests, I finally found spooky trees to make my own spooky forest - three weeks after the fact :(

(...)

Three weeks worth while. The lighting looks unbetterable!

Beautifull

11-21-2011, 06:11 AM

Max: looks awesome! I hope you agree with Coyote. :lol: jk. Thanks for the points.

Mystyr: Why yes, it does! I may possibly become one, sometime into the future...just not in the near future. And it's okay if it's 3 weeks later, I'm glad I got to see it. :D

Also, here's a new comic:
http://fc02.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/324/0/8/the_reason_i__m_bored_by_kyeire-d4gsmnx.jpg

Maximilianus

11-21-2011, 10:30 PM

Max: looks awesome! I hope you agree with Coyote. :lol: jk. Thanks for the points.
Thank you, I do agree with him, and welcome :)
Resembling the character in your cartoon, I am presently bored and don't feel like doing anything, but I will solve it by watching a couple of videos and then dropping myself in bed... which I feel like doing :p

nerriesantra

11-21-2011, 11:16 PM

Well, I'm a budding artist -- haha -- and I draw a lot. I'm thinking that some of the LitNet members (it could be you!) like to draw and would wish to post it here. :D

Here's mine:

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/Reccura-Himura/geisha.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/Reccura-Himura/flamingo.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/Reccura-Himura/filipina.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o59/Reccura-Himura/deities-2.jpg

Where's yours? I would want to see it, so are the others. Post on! ;) ;)

hey those are cute and full of life...i also had mine it's a character from one od Disney's animated movie:banana:

Maximilianus

11-23-2011, 03:47 PM

A follow-up of a few previous experiments, intended to make something's perimeter glow. In this case as though the character were surrounded by an aura... actually the saints are surrounded by an aura when they burn their cosmos... I'd better shut up and just show it :)

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/Anime%20Artwork/Hyoga27s20Cosmic20Aura.jpg

MystyrMystyry

11-24-2011, 04:55 PM

Certainly looks like an aura Max. I like the blue glow on the swan. :)

Why you bored Beau? Because there's so much to do? :)

I'm at a bit of a loss - I was working on stonewall textures to fit a couple of castle ruins - but they still don't look right even after hours of fiddling. On their own (just as textures) I'm happy, but they won't apply properly to complex shapes, making everything look splodgy grey. So I'll have to get back when I've worked it out...

Maximilianus

11-27-2011, 03:22 AM

Certainly looks like an aura Max. I like the blue glow on the swan. :)
Glad you do! http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif

I'm at a bit of a loss - I was working on stonewall textures to fit a couple of castle ruins - but they still don't look right even after hours of fiddling. On their own (just as textures) I'm happy, but they won't apply properly to complex shapes, making everything look splodgy grey. So I'll have to get back when I've worked it out...
I've been feeling like that. For example, I can barely decide which colors and shapes are more satisfactory, so I come up with a choice and just try to live with it :rolleyes:

A humble mixture of collage and brush experiments, entitled "Hoofs on another Earth:"

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Hoofs20on20another20earth.jpg

Varenne Rodin

11-27-2011, 03:58 AM

That's so pretty, Max! Horses are happiness making.

Maximilianus

11-27-2011, 09:55 AM

That's so pretty, Max!
Thank you!

Horses are happiness making.
They are! http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/Smileys/alittlehorsiegalloping.gif

MystyrMystyry

11-27-2011, 04:37 PM

That's quite intriguing Max, with good colour and composition too, and I see you've found some spooky trees from somewhere (segue).

I've been swamping with spooky trees and marsh gas mist:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/9.jpg

And the towers in a previous image have evolved to a more elaborate version, now powered by diamonds (?)

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/8.jpg

Varenne Rodin

11-27-2011, 05:02 PM

Those are stunning, Mystyry! I want to visit those places!

MystyrMystyry

11-27-2011, 05:59 PM

Thanks Varenne, but are you sure about wanting to visit them? I try to create places that scare me (actually my inner child - I used to have these waking nightmares when I was really little about horrible dead places, lifeless toy-like and people-less landscapes). On a few occasions I was taken to places that were actually creepy and frightening, and some dreams became muddled with reality. There was a new suburb being created somewhere and the roads were wet dirt (I didn't know they'd eventually be paved) inside the house we visited was all hard edge horror and the adults were blah blahing. I went out into the street alone. It was cold and treeless. There was this eerie high whistling wind like ghosts speaking. I've never heard anything like it since except in nightmares. That and other strange memories haunt me to this day.

Sorry - I seem to be in a yabbery mood :)

Varenne Rodin

11-27-2011, 06:18 PM

No, I love it. Talk all you want. I'm stuck at home today waiting for a delivery. My house is spotless clean, I've done some fun hobby related stuff. Overall I am bored bored today.

I like your story about the creepy house and street. I would still visit your pictures if I could, even if things were scary. At least it would be a break from the norm. I like scary movies, scary books. Fictional ones, mainly. I'm a strange person, probably. :D

MystyrMystyry

11-27-2011, 07:05 PM

Got some fractal brushes!

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/ap.jpg

Maximilianus

11-29-2011, 12:08 AM

That's quite intriguing Max, with good colour and composition too, and I see you've found some spooky trees from somewhere (segue).
Thanks!
For the trees I experimented with a few tree brushes I've been collecting. It's not the only creation I've come up with by means of these brushes... seems I'm a sort of tree-person :rolleyes:

I've been swamping with spooky trees and marsh gas mist:

(...)

And the towers in a previous image have evolved to a more elaborate version, now powered by diamonds (?)

(...)
I think both are pretty awesome, as well as the above fractal piece. I once rendered foliage by means of a Mandelbrot fractal. Then there's the Fern fractal, for rendering... ferns :)

Those are stunning, Mystyry! I want to visit those places!
Me too, especially the spooky marsh! It reminds me of that old TV show... The Swamp Thing.

Thanks Varenne, but are you sure about wanting to visit them? I try to create places that scare me (actually my inner child - I used to have these waking nightmares when I was really little about horrible dead places, lifeless toy-like and people-less landscapes). On a few occasions I was taken to places that were actually creepy and frightening, and some dreams became muddled with reality. There was a new suburb being created somewhere and the roads were wet dirt (I didn't know they'd eventually be paved) inside the house we visited was all hard edge horror and the adults were blah blahing. I went out into the street alone. It was cold and treeless. There was this eerie high whistling wind like ghosts speaking. I've never heard anything like it since except in nightmares. That and other strange memories haunt me to this day.

Sorry - I seem to be in a yabbery mood :)

No, I love it. Talk all you want. I'm stuck at home today waiting for a delivery. My house is spotless clean, I've done some fun hobby related stuff. Overall I am bored bored today.

I like your story about the creepy house and street. I would still visit your pictures if I could, even if things were scary. At least it would be a break from the norm. I like scary movies, scary books. Fictional ones, mainly. I'm a strange person, probably. :D
We are the obscure triplet of the thread. Very much great! :) If I am to choose, I prefer to keep being strange, although it's a feature that has triggered certain comments by some of these "normal" persons... bah!

Varenne Rodin

11-29-2011, 01:34 AM

We are the obscure triplet of the thread. Very much great! :) If I am to choose, I prefer to keep being strange, although it's a feature that has triggered certain comments by some of these "normal" persons... bah!

I like that, Max. Poor normal persons. Strange can be fun!

Mystyry, I was going to comment on your dream (I understand. Art forum). Perhaps you could send it to me someday. Your fractal picture is outstanding. It makes me think of 2001, or hyperspace, or string theory. It's neato.

I just finished a sculpture of Spike Spiegel. Hopefully I'll post pictures of it tomorrow.

MystyrMystyry

11-29-2011, 07:50 PM

Spooky tree brushes never occurred to me Max. I could've saved a lot of time if I'd been thinking along those lines...

Thanks Varenne :) I can't wait.

I wanted to try something with the fractals (always experimenting) so this is a Fractal Borealis in An Artica (take your pick)

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/Ant.jpg

Actually I think I prefer them as bump textures:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/reduct.jpg

Maximilianus

11-30-2011, 12:43 AM

First one looks like a portal to another dimension after crossing an icy sea, and the second one could be the other dimension itself. That's how I perceive them at this particular moment :)

Experiment with blending modes and blur-created glows. A spontaneous mixture of images and effects, not really intended per se, since it took only a few hours to conclude:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Le20Pacte20Des20Loups20Wllppr.jpg

Varenne Rodin

11-30-2011, 12:58 AM

These are so beautiful! Both of you! I am blown away.

Beautifull

11-30-2011, 01:29 AM

Wow~! I've been gone for a few days, and There's two mighty artists keeping the thread alive! Max and Mystyr, you and your works are Awesommmmee! XD

@Mystyr: I guess you can say I have much to do and that's what's making me bored. XD Ad it's also due to me being too picky. If I don't feel like doing it, I won't. That gets me in deep trouble sometimes...

Varenne Rodin

11-30-2011, 10:32 PM

Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop...

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9303

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9310

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9312

Sculpted in premo polymer clay over a multi-gauged steel wire skeleton. His hair is black shaggy mongolian faux fur. He is blushed in acrylics and oils.

There are lots more pictures of him in my albums. :)

Maximilianus

11-30-2011, 10:59 PM

Thank you both, Var and Beau http://fc09.deviantart.net/images3/i/2004/098/a/1/Thank_You_emoticon.gif
Var, you are quite a sculptor! http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_clap.gif

Varenne Rodin

12-01-2011, 12:20 AM

Thank you, Max! I'm still learning, but I love it so much. I'm never going to stop.

MystyrMystyry

12-01-2011, 04:22 PM

Thankyou Max. That's brilliant - I want to see that movie!

Thankyou Beau. You're right about possibilities - I'm often caught up in the same dilemma. Do I put effort into this over that, or which is the more worthwhile endeavor? Then perhaps I'll just play this computer game for a few hours and let the subconscious process do the work? (Actually that's not bad advice - doing something unrelated is a good source of creativity. Yesterday I was at the fridge and noticed a puple stain - a tin of overturned beetroot. My first thought was 'grunting slime' for some reason, and I had a lightbulb moment for a poem. Then when I hit the Web to check it for originality my search brought me to a Litnet member).

Thanks Varenne, Spike looks fantastic - somehow more real that real. How tall is he?

Varenne Rodin

12-01-2011, 04:46 PM

Thank you, Mystyry! He's a little over 10.5 inches (27cm) off of his stand, 11 inches tall (28cm) including his stand. I tried to put light and depth in his eyes, and to give careful consideration to anatomy, so thank you for saying he looks real. That makes me happy. :)

MystyrMystyry

12-01-2011, 05:12 PM

Okay - And the Mermaid?.

I'm working on something that's not quite ready. I've been putting the objects in place for hours - harder than you'd tell when you see the finished product, but I was determined to see it through.

Any minute now...

Varenne Rodin

12-01-2011, 05:31 PM

When resting on her base she and the base are about 6.5 inches (16.5cm) high. From head to fin she's about 8.25 inches (21cm). Her features are little.

The tiniest sculpture I've made was a fairy the size of a wine cork. I would post pictures of that, but I used a cheap clay and I think she turned out quite ugly.

I can't wait to see your new work!

MystyrMystyry

12-01-2011, 06:01 PM

That's quite a petite mermaid - from the detail I would have guessed a couple of feet to a yard.

Maybe the Fairy is a Fury?

Anyway I finished rendering - not happy with the sky though, but I need a break from this one.

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/2.jpg

Varenne Rodin

12-01-2011, 06:52 PM

Bubbles! Or crystals! It's so pretty. The mountain/s had to have taken a lot of work. I love how the orbs are reflecting the colors of the surface. How did you make them do that?

MystyrMystyry

12-01-2011, 07:10 PM

Thankyou Varenne :)

They're diamond spheres - the most refractive substance there is, thus the internal reflection inverting the surrounding scene. Also thus why I'm doing it again: because they're reflecting too much white grey sky for my liking - but I went for milky sky to even out the colour and texture of the ground. I've a better solution now. The other thing is in reducing the image and jpg size you also lose a lot of the sparkle - so you'll have to imagine how sparkly they actually are

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/ll.jpg

How they appear here

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/l.jpg

How they actually are (25 mb is a bit much for this forum)

Gilliatt Gurgle

12-01-2011, 11:40 PM

Thank you, Max! I'm still learning, but I love it so much. I'm never going to stop.

I took a look at your latest project in your albums. I'm not familiar with that character, but I'm sure you pulled off the likeness quite well. Looks good and more importantly, you found something you enjoy to occupy your time.

They're diamond spheres - the most refractive substance there is...
...so you'll have to imagine how sparkly they actually are...

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/l.jpg

I do like this latest one, especially the detail shot above. Quite unusual.

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Varenne Rodin

12-01-2011, 11:58 PM

Thank you, Gilliatt. It gives me some purpose. :)

Mystyry, they are amazing! They look like real objects. Beautiful.

MystyrMystyry

12-02-2011, 08:57 AM

Thankyou Gilliatt :) I love detail, but digitally I usually try for just one or two detailed aspects, because digitally at least it can quickly become Japanese magaziney - interesting elements all over the place.

Thankyou Varenne :) all these compliments lately, I think I'm in danger of becoming addicted

Here's a city at midnight (experiment). The skyscrapers were height-mapped from the same window texture as makes the lights, and the sky another abstract brush set

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/city2.jpg

Maximilianus

12-02-2011, 09:13 AM

Thank you, Max! I'm still learning, but I love it so much. I'm never going to stop.
Keep up that good sculpting. I'd love to see more sculptures :)

Thankyou Max. That's brilliant - I want to see that movie!
Thank you too http://fc09.deviantart.net/images3/i/2004/098/a/1/Thank_You_emoticon.gif It kept me quite entertained when I saw it, so much so that I want to see it again sometime soon. Beautiful European women, lots of action and French-spoken, which is quite attractive too... underrated by the IMDb and others, but I really pay little mind to their opinions :p

I agree with Gilliatt and Varenne. The diamond spheres look dead wonderful, both in isolation and along with the mountain landscape that reminds me of Mount Doom in The Lord of the Rings, which I think is a great resemblance http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/ok.gif

Now, that particular midnight sky plus that particular mountain would really render a doomlike scenery, IMHO. I take it you are doing all these fine pieces on Bryce, right?

Maximilianus

12-02-2011, 10:04 AM

A swan lake scene, after a few more glow-wise findings. Background pic is Upper Arrow Lake, BC, Canada (though I ignore if swans actually land on it http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif):

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/UA20Swan20Lake.jpg

More on glows and tree brushes, Hoofs in the woods. Created scene, with the only exception of the equus caballus (or horse):

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Hoofs20in20the20woods.jpg

Current avatar on Facebook, It's the fear:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/A20surprised20smiley20attacked20by2.jpg

Beautifull

12-02-2011, 09:14 PM

I love it Max. Especially that last one. Made me :lol:

Maximilianus

12-02-2011, 09:34 PM

I love it Max. Especially that last one. Made me :lol:
Very glad you found it useful :p

Maximilianus

12-02-2011, 10:02 PM

A little more than a month ago I made the following for my culture class, as part of a presentation I had to prepare for a mini-conference I gave on organizations such as the UN, NATO, OAS, EU and the Commonwealth. I thought I might render their flags into a cube, and then place some pictures around it featuring some of the characteristic buildings these fine people use as their headquarters:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Collage20for20Culture20120ppt.jpg

MystyrMystyry

12-02-2011, 10:41 PM

Pretty good Max - the first really does have a balletic and musical quality, while the second's quite mystical, almost Unicornish. I'm not used to seeing smilies in 3D so I thought at first it was an M&M freaking out, but as Beau says, :lol:

That very last one is interesting - you've alpha channeled it yes?

Bryce all the way for me I'm afraid Max - at the moment it's the coolest and quickest to create a finished image (and when you sign into a contract to produce a hundred images a day, well...) (actually that's another good way to kick your creativity into gear Beau - treat it as though your livelihood depends on it :) )

Anyway I did a few more cities (though what sort of cities I'll let you be the judge)

This is a city that's been visited by flying saucers

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/T-2.jpg

This is a city that looks more like a spaceship hull

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/U-3.jpg

And this is a curly city

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/S.jpg

Curly city, get it? Because it's all curly..?

Maximilianus

12-03-2011, 01:34 AM

Pretty good Max - the first really does have a balletic and musical quality, while the second's quite mystical, almost Unicornish. I'm not used to seeing smilies in 3D so I thought at first it was an M&M freaking out, but as Beau says, :lol:
Thanks for the review! :) I've been working on other 3D smilies so far unfinished.

That very last one is interesting - you've alpha channeled it yes?
The original image is a transparent PNG, which is my fave format since I began working with images. However, the file came out rather big, even after passing it through OptiPNG optimization, so I decided to place the elements in a JPG backgrounded with the same color as Lit Net's background to achieve a transparent appearance, thus saving some of my photobucket account's bandwidth for other uploads.

Bryce all the way for me I'm afraid Max - at the moment it's the coolest and quickest to create a finished image (and when you sign into a contract to produce a hundred images a day, well...)
You're doing quite well at it. It does produce attractive results.

Anyway I did a few more cities (though what sort of cities I'll let you be the judge)
The curly city looks quite curly, and the other ones look a lot intergalactic http://smilies-gifs.com/amarillos/7amarillos.gif

MystyrMystyry

12-03-2011, 02:33 AM

Maximilianus

12-03-2011, 06:18 PM

Actually I realised what you'd done - I often save interesting smilies and avatars thinking that one day I'll get to use them. Right click 'save as' sometimes gives a descriptive name, and I instinctively did it to see if it was a png, but it was a jpg and for a second my brain went how... ..?

Click!
I often do the saving of many things too. I have so much stuff that I hardly ever remember where I put it http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_shakehead.gif

Clever nonetheless, but why don't you have an unlimited Photobucket account? They gave me one without even asking shortly after I signed up.
You know what? I do have an unlimited Photobucket account. I don't know what I was thinking about when I thought I was suffering a sort of limitation with it. My mind must be playing awful tricks on me one more time http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif ... :p
Anyway, if you want it in PNG I can do the transformation. Lemme know.

Anyway - yeah, thanks, space scenes are easiest and quickest of the lot, though they went curly there because I thought: 'Right - new technique - perhaps best not wear it out all once...' So it's a program that only makes curly models, almost any twisty twirly shape that you can think of kind of shape, and it was a lot of fun at about 1 am this morning :)
This reminded me of a few outer-space projects I should find some time to conclude... the program to make the curly models is a Bryce built-in feature too?

MystyrMystyry

12-04-2011, 05:29 PM

No Max, the program is called Spiralizer and I found it on a link when I was searching for a grass generator, and I found a few, but none quite what I was after - though I did stumble across an ivy generator called Ivy which 'grows' ivy on objects (literally). Though I confess I haven't used it properly yet because it can take some time to grow depending on how much ivy you'd like, (and is just like watching ivy grow). But I have a few models that can only benefit from the treatment.

As for yor Sci Fi's - finish finish finish them!

Just finished this:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/Islands.jpg

Maximilianus

12-04-2011, 09:45 PM

Spiral and ivy generators; I should try my luck with 3D art sometime soon. As for the latest gloomy seascape http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/laie/Laie_69.gif

MystyrMystyry

12-04-2011, 10:07 PM

Thanks Max - it was more the result of a last minute change to a texture on something and it'd been rendering all night (really twisted glass shapes, but I changed a main texture without doing a test run - and it didn't work! Took ten hours to render too, and now it'll take more to edit than it's worth. Tonight I render all over again I guess)

Yes - New Zealand's Bay of Islands the inspiration for this one. There are photos on the Net, but I'm yet to see one that does it justice - it's one of those places that can't really be captured in a single image (nor even a video actually), but to fish on a dinghy at night with an esky full of coldies - ah that's the life!

Revolte

12-08-2011, 05:50 AM

@mystyr I love all of the above.

I got a couple new songs I put together into one "video" set to backdrops of my photography as usual. These are me trying to learn how to sing without using a capo. I don't much like being stuck with certain keys.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qyjwVjeJ0w

Kyriakos

12-09-2011, 02:03 PM

:)

Some more stuff by me:

http://i.imgur.com/MUUni.png

Maximilianus

12-10-2011, 05:19 PM

Interesting works both of the above.

Thanks Max - it was more the result of a last minute change to a texture on something and it'd been rendering all night (really twisted glass shapes, but I changed a main texture without doing a test run - and it didn't work! Took ten hours to render too, and now it'll take more to edit than it's worth. Tonight I render all over again I guess)
How did that rendering night turn out? http://smilies-gifs.com/pensando/6pensando.gif

Yes - New Zealand's Bay of Islands the inspiration for this one. There are photos on the Net, but I'm yet to see one that does it justice - it's one of those places that can't really be captured in a single image (nor even a video actually), but to fish on a dinghy at night with an esky full of coldies - ah that's the life!
There're such places hard to capture :nod:

Let's see http://smilies-gifs.com/pensando/13pensando.gif

A reminder of a first attempt to create an exospheric sunrise and a view of Earth from outer space, finished and posted on 5/25/2011:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Sundown.jpg

A new attempt after following Mystyr's comments on the above mentioned piece. I tried to give realism to the areas first hit by the lights of dawn, as well as to the shades in places still at night. The scattered little white glows in night areas are intended to represent electric lighting. Does it look any different from/better than the older work?:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Sunrise20new20sample.jpg

This is the same Earth as above posted, but without dawn glows, night lights and shades, clouds and sun, mostly intended to highlight terrain irregularities as might be seen from outer space. Again, does it look any real?:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Photo-realistic20earth20sample.jpg

Maximilianus

12-10-2011, 05:32 PM

Because the sun is to the west I think the first one should read "sundown" instead of "sunrise," right?

Beautifull

12-10-2011, 06:53 PM

That's beautiful Max! I love them!

Sorry I've been MIA...and apologizing for future MIA'ing....because I have no idea what will happen in the next few months. I shall try to post some more art.

Maximilianus

12-10-2011, 06:59 PM

Thanks Beau. I was just about to request your input, but no need since you finally showed up :p
If you have any trouble I hope it'll be all set in no time, so that you can get yourself back to art http://fc03.deviantart.net/images/i/2003/49/a/b/Hug_emoticon___v2

MystyrMystyry

12-10-2011, 10:02 PM

That's a vast improvement Max. Not just realistically but aesthetically: understatement usually works better - definitely in this case.

As to your first question I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I did discover why the rendering took so long - I multi-replicated early on and because I didn't use it I forgot. So each glassy object was in fact twenty glassy objects stacked on top of each other. Just two glass objects occupying the same space produce a sort of obsidian texture, imagine twenty. So that's why I was disappointed, not in the texture itself but a pretty bland effect, (and the time it took)

Here's some fireflies:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/ffs.jpg

Maximilianus

12-11-2011, 06:28 PM

That's a vast improvement Max. Not just realistically but aesthetically: understatement usually works better - definitely in this case.
Thanks for the view n' comment!

As to your first question I haven't gotten around to it yet, but I did discover why the rendering took so long - I multi-replicated early on and because I didn't use it I forgot. So each glassy object was in fact twenty glassy objects stacked on top of each other. Just two glass objects occupying the same space produce a sort of obsidian texture, imagine twenty. So that's why I was disappointed, not in the texture itself but a pretty bland effect, (and the time it took)
Interesting find. What processor does your computer have? Mine's a very old AMD Athlon, but I suppose that for 3D rendering a highly more powerful chip is needed :rolleyes:

Here's some fireflies:
(...)

Wonderful, I haven't seen fireflies in ages now, and they look great beneath the trees! There was a time they were regular visitors in my backyard when I was a kid, but something made them vanish... probably pesticides... not sure. No more natural glows at night :(

MystyrMystyry

12-11-2011, 08:27 PM

Beautifull

12-14-2011, 12:17 AM

Hey guys! This is a Beau pitt-stop! :) I love the art, as always! Mystyr and Max! Keep up your awesomeness~! XD

So here's one I've given color....again. I'm telling you, this is the second time I've colored this piece. Same lines, different colors.

Anyways:
http://fc01.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2011/344/4/c/yuuki_2_by_kyeire-d4iqs2s.jpg

I think I've improved from one I posted before:
http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/f/2011/060/0/d/yuuki_by_kyeire-d3aob87.jpg

And it took less time this time around! XD

MystyrMystyry

12-14-2011, 02:59 AM

Cool Beau - though they're both perfectly acceptable because they look like two different seasons/times of day. The first looks Wuthering Heightsy, and the second Midsummer Night's Dreamy (or something).

Good stuff :)

I think I've almost finished the glassy objects, just tinkering with the composition. Watch this space!

Revolte

12-14-2011, 03:10 AM

This one I'm actually happy about, enough to decide to have narrowed down the endless list of music I have made to a certain few I love and keep them as the faces of what I do. So, it's okay :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dOmYjEo5Lg

Maximilianus

12-14-2011, 11:39 PM

I have a quadcore doozy - though Bryce2 still worked on my ancient Pentium 100 mhz 16 mg ram under Win95, and version 7 hasn't changed all that much really, a few more bells and whistles but a lot of the problems with the original still remain (like loading the entire texture presets into ram, not routing to the graphics card, losing focus periodically.

The only thing with multi-cores in 3D is the basic speed increase - two cores take half as long, four a quarter, and that's a blessing when anti-aliasing decides it's going to take hours (often I don't bother with it and just increase the dimensions by a pixel, and then reduce the dimensions by the same pixel - depends on the picture though). It'd still work on something that isn't a complete breadbox with a brick in it ;)
I suppose a multi-core may do something for me, and more RAM too. I'm presently using Paint.Net and GIMP, more or less extensively, and after adding some plug-ins and brushes I have noticed they are becoming a little sluggish, especially with multilayer projects above 1024 x 768 pixels.

Here's a dream island (...)
It's among the most realistic renders I have ever seen. Absolutely like a real one :nod:

Hey guys! This is a Beau pitt-stop! :) I love the art, as always! Mystyr and Max! Keep up your awesomeness~! XD
We'll try! :p

So here's one I've given color....again. I'm telling you, this is the second time I've colored this piece. Same lines, different colors.

Anyways:

(...)

I think I've improved from one I posted before:

(...)

And it took less time this time around! XD

Cool Beau - though they're both perfectly acceptable because they look like two different seasons/times of day. The first looks Wuthering Heightsy, and the second Midsummer Night's Dreamy (or something).

Good stuff :)
I agree with Mystyr's comment Beau. I was going to say something similar. The first has the feel of a winter scene and the second appears to be set in spring or summer. They convey different meanings. If you look carefully, they both have their own attractiveness :)

I think I've almost finished the glassy objects, just tinkering with the composition. Watch this space!
Did you post a pic? I don't see anything from here.

This one I'm actually happy about, enough to decide to have narrowed down the endless list of music I have made to a certain few I love and keep them as the faces of what I do. So, it's okay :P

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8dOmYjEo5Lg
Interesting song, even for one unused to the genre!

MystyrMystyry

12-15-2011, 01:00 AM

Good song Revolte, when's the album coming out?

Now Max, I have a lot on my plate lately and completely forgot about this, and also the size reduction looks considerably worse than usual for some reason - these are actually particularly sparkly objects at native resolution, so you've been warned (the reason why it took so long to reset the scene is because something was happening to make everything really clunky - why is unknown to me - I'd move an object and it would take a minute to reveal that I had actually moved it, by which time I'd moved it again out of shot. Actually it may have had something to do with the other six billion polygons - anyway eventually I gave up trying to reproduce the other exactly [not even approximately] and just went ahead and rendered)

Night Objects:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/objects.jpg

Beautifull

12-15-2011, 04:07 AM

Why thank you Max, and Mystyr! I still think the blue one is better, but if you guys like both, then who am I to argue? They were both supposed to be a winter scene, but the one with the purple background was the first time I experimented with snow in my pictures...hence, the lack of snow. I'm glad they have their own attractiveness!

Mystyr: How long does it take for you to finish one of those?

Varenne Rodin

12-15-2011, 04:13 AM

Lovely works, all. Please pardon my recent absence. I've been swamped with orders for Star Wars plush dolls for Christmas. I just want to say that I am so very impressed by all of you artists. :)

MystyrMystyry

12-15-2011, 05:23 PM

Beau - in a sense they're never finished, but honestly it depends on factors like how adventurous my mood, whether I've remembered to save a similar scene for simple rearrangement or starting from scratch (which is often easier than trying to remember what it was called), whether it begins complex and then reduced to the fundamentals or vice versa, or just even how obsessive I feel that day.

I try not to make lots of images that are too similar nor even which look like I did them all at once (fiddling with the sky controls is great for that). Rendering time depends on how many and complex are the objects, which isn't a problem because I'll plump for simple primitives over a model download - like a castle is just four cylinders, four cones and four blocks, which can look more effective than something someone's devoted 6 months to and trying to sell for 3 hundred better spents.

So it comes down to the textures probably being the biggest time waster - choosing from the many (factory and my own) presets, fiddling, and then discovering it's actually not my computer's friend. Now the Deep Texture Editor is another story, in there you can create textures as complicated as you like, and spend hours exploring, sort of like breaking down time and jumping from nano-second to nano-second - it's another world in there.

So the answer in a nutshell is anything from less than a minute to hours (though I do have scenes from months ago that aren't completed yet). But the thing is the more time you're prepared to devote the faster the process becomes as your personal bank of scenes structures skies and textures grows. The ones on this page from start to completed render, are about half an hour, about twenty minutes, and about an hour respectively.

Looking at Fireflies - first the idea, then the number of trees?, their placement?, grass texture?, how to create the bugs?, what sky?, put a moon in the background?, secondary lights? - took twenty-thirty minutes, render took a minute - voila! Now I can change the sky, number, placement, grass, etc and have Fireflies, II, III, IV, to a thousand or a million if they sell.

(Whoopsy - doin' it again!)

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/o.jpg

(ten minutes)

Maximilianus

12-16-2011, 12:32 AM

3D art seems to have several whims in itself, but it's pretty sure you'll keep figuring things out Mr. Myst... it's like you have the thing in the palm of your hands, as everything looks better time and time again. I have a weakness for trees and grass, and might as well go 3D-picnicking :)

Why thank you Max, and Mystyr! I still think the blue one is better, but if you guys like both, then who am I to argue? They were both supposed to be a winter scene, but the one with the purple background was the first time I experimented with snow in my pictures...hence, the lack of snow. I'm glad they have their own attractiveness!
Yeah, you'd better be a good girl and don't argue :p

Lovely works, all. Please pardon my recent absence. I've been swamped with orders for Star Wars plush dolls for Christmas. I just want to say that I am so very impressed by all of you artists. :)
As for me, I forgive you... but I want to see more sculptures and the plush dolls... now! :p

Beautifull

12-17-2011, 03:21 PM

Yeah, you'd better be a good girl and don't argue :p

Wow, more demanding than usual! XD I agree I agree! Don't shoot me! :lol:

@Mystyr: What a great explanation. :) I'm surprised I could understand it....especially since you use a program that I don't, so I expected to hear a lot of terms I didn't know. XD

But your moon is very pretty, and this one looks like a jumping house....:D I wish they made jumping houses like that...I think I'd have more fun with them that way.

@Varenne: You're forgiven....we all do it every once in a while. :D

Varenne Rodin

12-17-2011, 06:17 PM

Thanks, Beautifull and Max!

I love all of the trees and grass and water happening here lately!

Here's my Yoda...

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1199&pictureid=9353

I also made a Tooka doll on request, Clone Wars silliness, but it turned out cute enough I think...

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1199&pictureid=9359

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1199&pictureid=9357

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1199&pictureid=9358

Yoda is a 5 inch tall mini plushy. Tooka is slightly taller. Both are hand stitched in felt made 100% from recycled plastic water bottles. :)

Maximilianus

12-17-2011, 11:35 PM

Wow, more demanding than usual! XD I agree I agree! Don't shoot me! :lol:
http://fc03.deviantart.net/images/i/2003/49/a/b/Hug_emoticon___v2

@Mystyr: What a great explanation. :) I'm surprised I could understand it....especially since you use a program that I don't, so I expected to hear a lot of terms I didn't know. XD
Yeap, he knows how to put it in understandable terms :)

But your moon is very pretty, and this one looks like a jumping house....:D I wish they made jumping houses like that...I think I'd have more fun with them that way.
I hadn't noticed the jumping house! :eek: I always stare at trees, grass and the things in the sky... and hardly ever notice the jumping houses! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/swoon.gif :)

Thanks, Beautifull and Max!

I love all of the trees and grass and water happening here lately!

Here's my Yoda...

I also made a Tooka doll on request, Clone Wars silliness, but it turned out cute enough I think...

Yoda is a 5 inch tall mini plushy. Tooka is slightly taller. Both are hand stitched in felt made 100% from recycled plastic water bottles. :)
These works of yours are a lot more elaborate than what I've seen so far in plastic bottles, Var. The material beneath can't be told and all that can be seen is the resulting art, whereas in other works I've seen the plastic bottles are quite noticeable. You've just earned one +10/10

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/1020highlighted.png

:)

Maximilianus

12-18-2011, 12:53 AM

A couple of collages on Elektra (yes, the movie... don't tell my mom, but I've been a Jennifer Garner fan for quite a while):

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Elektra20Collage202.jpg

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Elektra20Collage203.jpg

In my slowly growing collection of collage works, first one featuring Charlotte Wessels (frontwoman of Delain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BcK2w0YhrBc)), and first work featuring a brand new logo (the little thing down the bottom right corner intended as sort of a signature). Unsure of how to call the resulting aspect, I think it somehow resembles a set of burns on a reddish background... maybe similar to a pyrograph?:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Charlotte20Wessels20Collage201.jpg

Two attempts to get some dragons out of Simone's ginger mane (Simone Simons, Epica (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=byKFWivXkfI), also wearing a certain logo):

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Simone2020the20dragons201.jpg

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Simone2020the20dragons202.jpg

Varenne Rodin

12-18-2011, 01:14 AM

These works of yours are a lot more elaborate than what I've seen so far in plastic bottles, Var. The material beneath can't be told and all that can be seen is the resulting art, whereas in other works I've seen the plastic bottles are quite noticeable. You've just earned one +10/10

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/1020highlighted.png

:)

Thank you, Max! That's so sweet. I love my 10! Recycled materials have come a long way. I really enjoy working with them. Surprisingly soft, they are.

Varenne Rodin

12-18-2011, 01:18 AM

And wow! I love the dragons! Amazing!

Maximilianus

12-18-2011, 01:22 AM

Welcome and thank you! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/thank_you.gif

MystyrMystyry

12-18-2011, 07:01 PM

Very interesting outer space plushies, Varenne. Plushy Yoda would be in high demand I'd think if you could make enough of him.

Max has been creating intense collages - I agree the hair dragons are something else. Strange effect coming from her eye. I think you may be better off with a more subtle X-shaped burst centered just on the highlight - only if it's realism you're after though, like this:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/strat.jpg

;)

Varenne Rodin

12-18-2011, 07:31 PM

Neato! I love the blue. I'm imaging all sorts of things about the crossbeams in the sky.

I did get quite a few requests for Yodas for this holiday. I've been working all day every day. I sent out the last of the orders, so now I can take a little break. :)

MystyrMystyry

12-18-2011, 07:50 PM

Thanks Varenne. It's Christmas, my fridge he is broke, and I don't know what I am doin'!

Varenne Rodin

12-18-2011, 08:31 PM

I'm so sorry about your fridge, Mystyry. I don't know what I would do if that happened to me.

Maximilianus

12-18-2011, 09:51 PM

Speaking about blue, I've been feeling blue for the past two hours, and then I see Mystyr's blue work as though someone had been reading my blue mind... life seems full of curious coincidences, doesn't it? :p

Thanks for the comment and suggestion, Mystyr... so sorry about your fridge :( Hope you have it repaired soon enough!

Var, as soon as I find some cash I'll order a Yoda for my daughter... provided I manage to get me a daughter first http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/swoon.gif :p http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/mosking.gif

MystyrMystyry

12-20-2011, 11:33 PM

Thanks for you concern all, but the fridge can wait. Last year's ice cream situation was dire anyway, so I'll repair it over a long lazy time and in the interim I've bought a proper freezer - guaranteed to make ice blocks and keep icecream at the right texture and I won't have to go shopping quite so often (there'll be a bit of thawing out though, I can tell)

I was looking for an overhead monorail structure model, couldn't find a free one, so was exploring the shapes at my disposal when this appeared like a 3D crop circle thing

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/ef.jpg

Varenne Rodin

12-21-2011, 12:25 AM

Var, as soon as I find some cash I'll order a Yoda for my daughter... provided I manage to get me a daughter first http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/swoon.gif :p http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/mosking.gif

Haha. Thank you, Max.

Mystyry, that's one of my favorite ones yet!

Sancho

12-21-2011, 01:02 AM

Mystyry,

Whoa! Splendid!

Maximilianus

12-21-2011, 09:43 PM

Thanks for you concern all, but the fridge can wait. Last year's ice cream situation was dire anyway, so I'll repair it over a long lazy time and in the interim I've bought a proper freezer - guaranteed to make ice blocks and keep icecream at the right texture and I won't have to go shopping quite so often (there'll be a bit of thawing out though, I can tell)
Good. You have most of the problem figured out :)

I was looking for an overhead monorail structure model, couldn't find a free one, so was exploring the shapes at my disposal when this appeared like a 3D crop circle thing

(...)

Very fine exploration. Lovely pungent colors!

Mystyry, that's one of my favorite ones yet!
Agreed!

Haha. Thank you, Max.
Welcome!

Maximilianus

12-21-2011, 10:00 PM

I ran into a curious mutation called Fishmiley. It seems the mutation came as a surprise, judging by the expression in the poor creature's face, which made me think it would feel a tad better in a fishbowl. I'm interested in knowing if it looks real enough, especially the bubbles and water environment. I intended the fishbowl as one made of light blue glass:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Fishsmiley20and20Fishbowl.png

MystyrMystyry

12-21-2011, 11:02 PM

Thankyou Varenne :)

Thankyou Sancho :)

Thankyou Max :)

Ultimately the spheres will become half cylinders or elongated blocks all locked together the grass a city and the hill perhaps mountains. When I get time. Cool sky though, huh?

Mutated fish in light blue fish bowl good, but I think the fish needs to preserve its original colour (sorry if I seem to be critical lately, just aspects of my life are causing me to be). Can you take the cut out original and place it over the one in the bowl (after you copy the two slightly obscuring bubbles) possibly. Also the table: meh - a mantelpiece with objects on it though... :)

Maximilianus

12-21-2011, 11:52 PM

The sky looks unique :)

And thanks for the review. I suspected I was having a problem with the colors. My eyes sometimes have a little problem telling light colors from one another. Surely that's why I didn't notice it before http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif

MystyrMystyry

12-24-2011, 12:05 PM

Thankyou Max :)

Here's some Christmas lollys for everyone

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/lollys.jpg

Maximilianus

12-24-2011, 06:20 PM

Beautiful lollyscape!

MystyrMystyry

12-27-2011, 07:15 PM

Thanks Max :)

This is the real moon (with its colours enhanced - Yes! The Moon is actually naturally colourful!) and a few stars and planets thrown in for good measure

A Full Moon for a Full Month

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/y.jpg

Maximilianus

12-28-2011, 01:36 AM

A masterpiece nightscape!
I hope I can come up with a similar moon some day not too far http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif

Maximilianus

12-28-2011, 02:02 AM

I did this tiny animation and I'm wondering if the puffs of smoke look real enough, or if it would be better to turn them into a thin wisp:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Snow20house20201220puffing20smoke.gif

MystyrMystyry

12-30-2011, 06:25 PM

Thanks Max. I didn't realise you'd responded and then contributed :thumbsup:

This is what a steampunk firecracker display would look like if there were such a thing (if too untraditional just consider them Visitors)

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/fire.jpg

Maximilianus

12-30-2011, 10:11 PM

First time in my life I see a steampunk firecracker display! Here's what I do when I see something new: http://fc00.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2010/192/0/a/Woot_Emoticon_by_ahtibat.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/clapping.gif

:p

And since I wasn't pleased with the smoke coming out of the chimney, I finally decided to turn the puffs into a wisp. I did it thrice till I came up with a wisp I found convincing. Snowy scene reposted:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Snow20house20201220puffing20smoke.gif

MystyrMystyry

01-01-2012, 03:59 AM

Thanks Maz.

And yes, I do believe the thin wisp looks much improved!

Maximilianus

01-11-2012, 10:42 PM

Thanks Mystyr!

I have a doubt about the realism of the following picture I made, particularly the wooden block adrift in the ocean... not really sure about the aspect of the waves against the wood. I tried to make a piece of wood partially touched by the waves in its upper side:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/POW20on20wood20at20sea.jpg

MystyrMystyry

01-13-2012, 02:11 AM

It looks like it could do with some more misty clouds over to the higher peak and obscurit a bit. The water looks cool, but I'm with you on the wood, looks a bit cardboardy . Perhaps if you reduced the white highlights, bringing it forward by darkening possibly, or changing the angle, or both?

I downloaded a hot air balloon model - I'll post soon.

Maximilianus

01-13-2012, 02:24 AM

Thanks for the analysis Mystyr. I'll see what I can do. And I'll be checking for that balloon.

MystyrMystyry

01-14-2012, 08:37 PM

No worries Max.

Bloons:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/bloons.jpg

Maximilianus

01-17-2012, 03:16 AM

That's really cute!

The colorful balloons remind me of a colorful lollipop I was once given by my grammar teacher as a reward for a correctly answered question... she has that habit towards good students :p

Just by pure chance I stumbled upon a tutorial on how to draw a snowman on Paint.Net and it reminded me of that Mr. Frosty animation I did not long ago. I think I may try to redo it, this time with a Mr. Frosty out of my own anvil :)

Kyriakos

01-18-2012, 04:53 PM

Ancient Chinese and Medieval Japanese miniature towns :)

http://i41.tinypic.com/63ysns.png

Maximilianus

01-19-2012, 01:26 AM

Nice outcome Kyriakos!

I have been lazy lately, and just tried to turn a static bear saying "welcome" into a humble animation (just for the sake of doing something though not really elaborate):

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/Candids/bear-welcome-sign.gif

Kyriakos

01-21-2012, 04:49 PM

Thank you :) Nice bear animation..

Here are some ancient Greek and Byzantine miniatures:

http://i40.tinypic.com/535jjp.png

MystyrMystyry

01-22-2012, 08:01 PM

Actually that's pretty cool Max :)

Interesting Kyriakos. There's so much detail crammed into them they look astonishingly time consuming (I'll never ask how you do it because I might be tempted to try it myself)

I've been playing around with flying things, from the balloons through fantasy zeppelins, birds, bats, dragons etc, and the latest is ornithopters.

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/ppnn.jpg

Now I start going underwater...

Kyriakos

01-23-2012, 08:57 AM

Thanks :) Well they have some detail, but really just enough so as to look good at this small scale. I rarely model anything to present it in a more visible scale, so my models are not professional in that respect.
These take anywhere up to 3 hours to make, for each set.

MystyrMystyry

01-23-2012, 04:41 PM

Ah right. I got Sculptris from the Zbrush website, which is somewhere between a light version and a completely different version - I understand the time one can spend on modelling, though perhaps because of that I haven't used it much.

Here's some deepsea diving:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/fishies.jpg

Varenne Rodin

01-23-2012, 08:28 PM

Fishies! Very nice water effects. :)

Maximilianus

01-25-2012, 03:21 AM

Thank you :) Nice bear animation..
Welcome and thanks! Neat miniatures as usual!

Actually that's pretty cool Max :)
Thanks M! I want some of that fish for dinner, and the biggest ornithopter too! :)

Revolte

01-25-2012, 06:19 AM

it's been a while so, with no further burrito pies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0xt1US_36w&feature=youtu.be

tonywalt

01-25-2012, 12:00 PM

LunarPlexus

01-25-2012, 12:50 PM

Wow, there's some very real talent here :) I love looking at other people's work, please keep it coming! I'm too flighty to settle on anything, but the last year or two I've discovered that watercolours can actually work for me...

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/31255_1257629411621_1556203918_30543663_8352900_n. jpg

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/31255_1257629451622_1556203918_30543664_4426021_n. jpg

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/31255_1257629491623_1556203918_30543665_7043562_n. jpg

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/31255_1257629571625_1556203918_30543667_1872738_n. jpg

http://a1.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/31255_1257631531674_1556203918_30543670_306198_n.j pg

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/31255_1257631571675_1556203918_30543671_6937325_n. jpg

http://a5.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc3/31255_1257631611676_1556203918_30543672_5466153_n. jpg

http://a3.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash2/31255_1257631651677_1556203918_30543673_3830796_n. jpg

http://a4.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/259835_1728280017592_1556203918_31342510_6406259_n .jpg

http://a7.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-ash4/248812_1728278257548_1556203918_31342509_4305509_n .jpg

http://a6.sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc6/222041_1060370240265_1556203918_30140572_7788192_n .jpg

The last one was an acrylic/mixed media thing (Bits of gauze sticking out all over the place) that I started about four years ago, and still haven't finished. To do me justice, it's a HUGE canvas, and I spend most of my life working :P

Varenne Rodin

01-25-2012, 01:31 PM

I love your bear, Max. So cute.

Plexus, those are fantastic. I especially like your alien girl with the dandelion, and the first one in gold tones. That one looks so textured and rich. Nicely done.

Kyriakos

01-25-2012, 02:27 PM

Excellent drawings Lunar :)

aliengirl

01-25-2012, 02:38 PM

That's beautiful Lunar! You seem to draw your inspiration from where I got my username. :)

Revolte

01-25-2012, 11:02 PM

LunarPlexus

01-25-2012, 11:13 PM

Thanks so much for the kind words :)

Revolte

01-25-2012, 11:35 PM

Thanks so much for the kind words :)

*like button*

Maximilianus

01-26-2012, 12:25 AM

it's been a while so, with no further burrito pies:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r0xt1US_36w&feature=youtu.be
Neat song with melancholic lyrics and back pic. I like it.

Very cool!
Thanks tony!

Wow, there's some very real talent here :) I love looking at other people's work, please keep it coming! I'm too flighty to settle on anything, but the last year or two I've discovered that watercolours can actually work for me...

(...)

The last one was an acrylic/mixed media thing (Bits of gauze sticking out all over the place) that I started about four years ago, and still haven't finished. To do me justice, it's a HUGE canvas, and I spend most of my life working :P
You really have a touch for art. It comes out of you naturally. Hoping you'll keep doing it!

I love your bear, Max. So cute.
Thanks, Var, I love him too! :p

~ Some humble new creations ~

I created the following out of applying a polar inversion with certain settings to a certain basic shape, which rendered the face and ears. Eyes and mouth were out of the application of math-formula-based effects:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/a-critter-cute.jpg

Remember the frightened yellow fella?:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/A20surprised20smiley20attacked20by2.jpg

I decided to give his fright a wider context:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Terror-in-the-woods.jpg

LunarPlexus

01-26-2012, 02:00 AM

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Terror-in-the-woods.jpg

Love it!

Maximilianus

01-26-2012, 02:17 AM

Thanks! :)

aliengirl

01-27-2012, 03:49 PM

That frightened yellow fellow is sooo lovely and I like the background even better.
The first one is koala face I suppose? I like the rippling effect and solid round eyeballs.

Maximilianus

01-28-2012, 02:06 AM

That frightened yellow fellow is sooo lovely and I like the background even better.
I thought so too! Very glad that you like it :)

The first one is koala face I suppose? I like the rippling effect and solid round eyeballs.
A koala is what I tried to come close to, since I've used it as a present for an Australian friend :)

Sionn Harrow

01-28-2012, 03:23 PM

Just some pencil and charcoal efforts...

Kyriakos

01-28-2012, 03:37 PM

Nice drawings :)

Here are four oriental miniature cities, ancient japanese, ancient chinese, medieval japanese and industrial japanese :)

http://i40.tinypic.com/zve6vl.png

Maximilianus

01-28-2012, 06:34 PM

It's very good to see the thread regathering its life http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/Smileys/respeto.gif

Just some pencil and charcoal efforts...
Wonderful sketches, I think!

Nice drawings :)

Here are four oriental miniature cities, ancient japanese, ancient chinese, medieval japanese and industrial japanese :)

(...)
Very nicely detailed!

MystyrMystyry

01-28-2012, 06:44 PM

Koala - tick!

M and M gets zapped - tick!

Owl - tick!

Landscape - tick!

Lily - tick!

Cities - tick!

:)

Maximilianus

01-28-2012, 06:51 PM

http://yoursmiles.org/csmile/friend/c0411.gif

Varenne Rodin

01-28-2012, 11:23 PM

Sionn, those drawings are beautiful! I really love the owl. The depth in the flower is excellent.

Kyriakos, I especially love the green roofed buildings.

Max, that smile guy's background is outstanding!

Gilliatt Gurgle

01-28-2012, 11:56 PM

Just some pencil and charcoal efforts...

"just..."! - Those are well excecuted drawings.
Just curious, what specific medium did you use for the colored drawings? colored pencils? Prismacolor, Derwent, etc.?

Nice work.

Maximilianus

01-29-2012, 03:27 AM

Max, that smile guy's background is outstanding!
Thank you very much Var http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif

Varenne Rodin

01-29-2012, 04:50 PM

Maximilianus

01-29-2012, 11:45 PM

Var, you are an awesome sculptor!
Your sculpting is so awesome that I just can't believe how awesome it is! :p :)

Varenne Rodin

01-30-2012, 01:01 AM

Thank you, Max! Hehe. That makes me feel happy!

MystyrMystyry

01-30-2012, 06:03 PM

A fairy sculpture in polymer clay. She's about 3.5 inches tall on her base. Itty bitty. :)

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9432

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9439

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9437

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9438

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1183&pictureid=9433

Is she a bit self-portraity? Can't say I've seen a platinum blonde fairy before Varenne. And life-size too (for a fairy I mean - not Tussaud's). Quite amazing in the detail department. The weave and stitching on the clothes is fine enough to not look out of place.

I've been glooping again:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/goop.jpg

(From a new video)

Varenne Rodin

01-30-2012, 08:24 PM

Cool! The ripples are amazing!

Thanks for the sweet things you said about my fairy, Mystyry. They say we put a bit of ourselves into our art, so you may be right about that. Her costuming required lots of tiny stitches. The lace overlay on top was the most time intensive.

MystyrMystyry

01-30-2012, 09:26 PM

tonywalt

01-30-2012, 09:41 PM

I had a business meeting today with some1 so boring i sketched instead of notes. I drew a dove in his arm.

http://i192.photobucket.com/albums/z53/caymanchess/guypss.jpg

Varenne Rodin

01-31-2012, 12:43 PM

I see the dove! That's awesome Tony!

Varenne Rodin

01-31-2012, 12:50 PM

Yes, I'm quite happy with that ripply discovery V ;) Currently over-using it on just about everything (sensational animated - hopefully finished by Friday, video's so time consuming though that I can sense something's going to come up between today and then)

What type of glass bead for the eyes and wand? It looks opalescent. A sculptor's secret perhaps?

It is partially a secret. I make beads/crystals/water drops from start to finish by layering glazes. The eyes are more complex and contain multiple materials. They start out as balls of clay. :)

tonywalt

01-31-2012, 01:17 PM

Varenne,

I love the fairy sculpture. Is it tricky baking it? Certain temperature/time? Very talented!

Varenne Rodin

01-31-2012, 06:41 PM

Varenne,

I love the fairy sculpture. Is it tricky baking it? Certain temperature/time? Very talented!

Thank you, Tony! The baking process can be tricky. Overbaking creates scorch marks, underbaking can cause cracks. I bake these at about 270 degrees fahrenheit. 30 minutes per quarter inch thickness. Then a cooling time in the oven. Going from hot to cool too fast will definitely crack them. I also have to bake them on soft cotton pads to maintain their shape.

The great thing about polymer clay is that it can be baked in a home oven. I have a second oven anyway because I don't want to have to clean out art residue every time I go to bake food. Eventually I plan to get a kiln so I can make porcelain ball jointed figures and great big things.

The other big pro to polymer clay is that it stays pliable and workable until it's baked. I'm usually shaping a piece for four to eight ten hour days. :)

tonywalt

01-31-2012, 08:51 PM

That's pretty incredible Varenne. It must be nice to follow your passion.

Not that I don't like the artsy bohemian world of investment banking:smile5::ack2:

MystyrMystyry

02-01-2012, 06:39 PM

Interesting Varenne :)

Cool line drawing Tones. You should let yourself get bored more often ;)

This is the 22nd version of this thing, and I think I've finally got it right (though it's subject to change). Credit goes to gt3232 for the model, but I did design the water and weather. I wanted more than it just drifting through the mist - trying to achieve a realistic angle placement on the Flying Dutchman has proven to be the hardest part, though no doubt building the model myself would have been still more difficult.

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/storm22.jpg

tonywalt

02-01-2012, 09:55 PM

Varenne Rodin

02-01-2012, 11:54 PM

Amazing, Mystyry! I love it! So dark and stormy.

How is the video coming along?

MystyrMystyry

02-02-2012, 07:22 AM

Thanks, and sorry, no, no video yet - but it should be better for the delay :)

Varenne Rodin

02-03-2012, 02:14 PM

Looking forward to it, Mystyry.

I drew this while I was waiting for supply shipments for sculptures. Then I played with the colors on my phone. It's a boredom drawing...

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1217&pictureid=9450

Maximilianus

02-04-2012, 02:00 AM

Our Var can draw!! http://smilys.net/ernste_smilies/smiley4998.gif
And she is also in possession of a baking method!! http://smilys.net/other_smilies/smiley1006.gif

How wonderful our Var is!! http://smilys.net/winkende_smilies/smiley2550.gif

And all the other works and artists behind them too http://smilys.net/other_smilies/smiley5161.gif http://smilies-gifs.com/hola-adios/13hola-adios.gif http://smilies-gifs.com/aplaudir/5aplaudir.gif

Maximilianus

02-04-2012, 02:21 AM

I have been experimenting with bullets and came up with a few variations to be used in future projects. I think some of them are close to real bullets, though the 50 cal ones (the two long bullets at the bottom) turned out less shiny than I would like... probably the last one at the bottom-right corner looks better, though still a bit spotty... I wouldn't really mind the spots if they looked shinier. I'm not fully satisfied :rolleyes:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Bullets.jpg

Kyriakos

02-04-2012, 01:28 PM

Nice work by all :) I too like the drawing of the girl a lot :)

Some more miniatures by me, these are ancient Germanic, ancient Persian, Medieval Aztec and Fantasy Orcish towns:

http://i41.tinypic.com/kcihpc.png

MystyrMystyry

02-04-2012, 11:26 PM

Looking forward to it, Mystyry.

Just don't hold your breath - my life is so full of distractions and being thrust that way and this, that pretty much anything can happen from minute to minute ;)

I drew this while I was waiting for supply shipments for sculptures. Then I played with the colors on my phone. It's a boredom drawing...

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1217&pictureid=9450

Boredom with attitude I say!

Another self portraity piece? And the colour has significance, Goldie?

I have been experimenting with bullets and came up with a few variations to be used in future projects. I think some of them are close to real bullets, though the 50 cal ones (the two long bullets at the bottom) turned out less shiny than I would like... probably the last one at the bottom-right corner looks better, though still a bit spotty... I wouldn't really mind the spots if they looked shinier. I'm not fully satisfied :rolleyes:

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Bullets.jpg

Who are they for? (I don't mean intended for? :) ) Though I see what you mean about the lack of shine. Can you maybe put them through the Photoshop light filter - it isn't perfect but it can help. I did it once but at this moment I can't remember what on #put scratch head smiley here#

Nice work by all :) I too like the drawing of the girl a lot :)

Some more miniatures by me, these are ancient Germanic, ancient Persian, Medieval Aztec and Fantasy Orcish towns:

http://i41.tinypic.com/kcihpc.png

I like the Orcish ones! (For their unusuality)

Maximilianus

02-05-2012, 02:11 AM

Who are they for? (I don't mean intended for? :) ) Though I see what you mean about the lack of shine. Can you maybe put them through the Photoshop light filter - it isn't perfect but it can help. I did it once but at this moment I can't remember what on #put scratch head smiley here#
During ongoing experimentations I discovered I was using Paint.Net's Shape 3D plug-in rather wrongly, especially the lighting feature. Today I came up with what I think to be a more realistic 50 cal bullet. I will post it soon, and in the meantime I will go pick a few targets! :p :D

Maximilianus

02-11-2012, 06:15 AM

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/50-cal-bullets.png

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Exploring20dead20worlds.jpg

MystyrMystyry

02-11-2012, 05:57 PM

Cool Max - They're a lot shinier now!

And... Outer Space Agency! How did you render them again? Looks unreal - at least sci fi unreal! ;)

Maximilianus

02-13-2012, 02:21 AM

:)

Since I've been building a fleet I decided it was best to open my own space agency business :p

Everything was done on Paint.Net, throughout several days experimenting with textures and the splendid Shape 3D plug-in (whose very many capabilities hadn't been thoroughly explored till then).

Planet textures come from a combination of the clouds and heightmap effects, being the latter the evil effect that gives a texture a coarse elevated appearance. Then the Shape 3D thing renders the textures onto a sphere through various lighting and angle adjustments.

Spaceships follow a similar process. Their metal skins can be done in several ways. A stained metal surface can be achieved through the clouds effect, then applying a motion blur to give it a groovy look, and finally adjusting colors. A more polished metal skin can be done through a multigradient turned into B&W, then picking a suitable color. Once the basic texture is ready, every part of the spaceship needs to be done separately due to the Shape 3D plug-in limitations (it can only render simple 3D objects like spheres, boxes, cylinders, bullet-like cylinders, all their half-section variants, and other less conventional shapes). Fortunately this plug-in allows to load/save settings. I had to create different settings for every wing, fin, rocket, and whatever part, then calculate angles, lighting position, final position of the finished part when assembled to the other parts, and so on. It's been time consuming and it's surely inferior to what one can achieve on a 3D modeling software, but curiosity led to explore the possibilities of the Shape 3D plug-in, and to discover that a plethora of shapes comes out of it depending on how it's used.

Bullets were the first results from the Shape 3D thing, which later gave birth to the spaceships, and to three missile models for a space battle scene that will be depicted on the forthcoming episode.

I'm hoping everything looks reasonably realistic http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif

Varenne Rodin

02-13-2012, 02:10 PM

aliengirl

02-13-2012, 02:45 PM

Since I've been building a fleet I decided it was best to open my own space agency business :p

Good! Then I must contact you in case I feel like going on a holiday. ;)

Everything was done on Paint.Net, throughout several days experimenting with textures and the splendid Shape 3D plug-in (whose very many capabilities hadn't been thoroughly explored till then).

Planet textures come from a combination of the clouds and heightmap effects, being the latter the evil effect that gives a texture a coarse elevated appearance. Then the Shape 3D thing renders the textures onto a sphere through various lighting and angle adjustments.

Spaceships follow a similar process. Their metal skins can be done in several ways. A stained metal surface can be achieved through the clouds effect, then applying a motion blur to give it a groovy look, and finally adjusting colors. A more polished metal skin can be done through a multigradient turned into B&W, then picking a suitable color. Once the basic texture is ready, every part of the spaceship needs to be done separately due to the Shape 3D plug-in limitations (it can only render simple 3D objects like spheres, boxes, cylinders, bullet-like cylinders, all their half-section variants, and other less conventional shapes). Fortunately this plug-in allows to load/save settings. I had to create different settings for every wing, fin, rocket, and whatever part, then calculate angles, lighting position, final position of the finished part when assembled to the other parts, and so on. It's been time consuming and it's surely inferior to what one can achieve on a 3D modeling software, but curiosity led to explore the possibilities of the Shape 3D plug-in, and to discover that a plethora of shapes comes out of it depending on how it's used.

Bullets were the first results from the Shape 3D thing, which later gave birth to the spaceships, and to three missile models for a space battle scene that will be depicted on the forthcoming episode.

I'm hoping everything looks reasonably realistic http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif

Yeah, the surface of the planets have a nice rugged look. Considering all the effort you put in, the result must be good. :)

Maximilianus

02-13-2012, 06:09 PM

I've been away too long. I was commissioned to design chef's coats for action figures. I've missed everyone and thank you so much for the compliments on my stuff! It is self portraity insofar as I draw what's familiar, especially when I'm bored (it's easier). I'm not as pretty as my art, but I like that too.

Some great artwork has been happening here! I'm working on an elf sculpture. I'll post pictures of that soon. Happy Valentine's! :)
I think if your art is pretty, then you must be undoubtedly pretty :) I hope your commission has been successful http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/ok.gif

Good! Then I must contact you in case I feel like going on a holiday. ;)
Do contact! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/ok.gif :p

Yeah, the surface of the planets have a nice rugged look. Considering all the effort you put in, the result must be good. :)
Thank you AG! :)

Beautifull

02-17-2012, 04:07 AM

Wow! There's been so much good art on here! :crazy:

Maxey, I can see you're improving a lot! :thumbs_up I love the bullets and the space ships! :D

Kyriakos, I always enjoy your sets!:smilewinkgrin:

Mystyr, That ship at sea is amazing!!!:p

Varenne, keep up the good work! :thumbsup:

Since it's been a minute since I've posted anything, here's one I've done in the past...month? I've actually been writing lately, and I'm on a small art block, but I'm working slowly but surely through it. This piece actually took the longest on the line art. The coloring was quite easy. :) Can you guess who this is supposed to be?

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/039/0/d/pika__by_kyeire-d4p3zvq.jpg

Maximilianus

02-17-2012, 12:38 PM

Maxey, I can see you're improving a lot! :thumbs_up I love the bullets and the space ships! :D
Thank you Beau! http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif Very kind of you http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/thank_you.gif

Since it's been a minute since I've posted anything, here's one I've done in the past...month? I've actually been writing lately, and I'm on a small art block, but I'm working slowly but surely through it. This piece actually took the longest on the line art. The coloring was quite easy. :) Can you guess who this is supposed to be?

(...)
The tail reminds me of Pikachu, if I am correct... Has Pikachu acquired a humanlike anatomy? http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif Looks wonderful to me, as everything you draw :)

Varenne Rodin

02-17-2012, 01:08 PM

Thank you, Beautifull! Your picture looks great. I love his eyes and the gradient peachy background.

Beautifull

02-17-2012, 06:51 PM

Yes Maxey! A human pikachu!!!

Maximilianus

02-18-2012, 02:29 AM

Yes Maxey! A human pikachu!!!
Excellent!! http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_rockin.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/ok.gif

MystyrMystyry

02-18-2012, 04:40 PM

Mystyr, That ship at sea is amazing!!!:p

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/i/2012/039/0/d/pika__by_kyeire-d4p3zvq.jpg

Thankyou Beau - and that human pikachu is very unusual (I'll do some research after this - the lightning bolt tail f'rinstance: I mean, what's that about! ;) )

I've been exploring space towers again, and this is one of the least offensive:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/newtowers.jpg

Maximilianus

02-18-2012, 07:07 PM

Splendid geometric towers!! :thumbsup: Each section gives the impression that something mysterious is going on inside http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/secret.gif

Varenne Rodin

02-18-2012, 07:13 PM

Very interesting, Mystyry! I love the defiance of gravity!

Varenne Rodin

02-18-2012, 08:53 PM

My feathered elf sculpture in polymer clay and other stuff. I played with a bunch of different backgrounds. She was really fun to make. <3

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1220&pictureid=9479

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1220&pictureid=9476

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1220&pictureid=9489

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1220&pictureid=9490

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1220&pictureid=9482

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1220&pictureid=9485

Images and original character are copyrighted. :D

Maximilianus

02-18-2012, 10:10 PM

A toast to Var! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/drinks.gif And two thumbs up! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/good2.gif

MystyrMystyry

02-20-2012, 08:13 AM

Investigations into Pikachu (and the mysterious Kyeire) have revealed that our Beau is quite a (prolific!) genius! :)

Thankyou Maxi! :)

Thankyou Vari! :)

That is quite an amazing new slant on what an elf can be - almost the diametrical opposite of the fairy, the mermaid, and your recent sketch: Cool! :)

As for me I was working on a Moonscape when stupid Bryce suddenly crashed just then, so I guess I'm still working on it...

Varenne Rodin

02-20-2012, 11:54 AM

Thank you, Max and Myst! She was fun to make. I was wanting to make something not inspired by anything but my brain. That's what I came up with. :)

Moonscapes are rad.

Maximilianus

02-20-2012, 05:43 PM

Investigations into Pikachu (and the mysterious Kyeire) have revealed that our Beau is quite a (prolific!) genius! :)

True! :thumbsup:

Thankyou Maxi! :)
NP! :thumbsup:

As for me I was working on a Moonscape when stupid Bryce suddenly crashed just then, so I guess I'm still working on it...
BTW, my space battle scene is almost done :)

Thank you, Max and Myst! She was fun to make. I was wanting to make something not inspired by anything but my brain. That's what I came up with. :)
Then you have a beautiful mind... like the movie :)

Moonscapes are rad.
Dunes, craters, and no water!! :willy_nilly: :p

MystyrMystyry

02-20-2012, 06:37 PM

You should give yourself a medal for that Var! :)

Can't wait Max! :)

What happened here was I was working on the Blurgs within the frame of the second, more textured landscape (after visiting the desert again recently and re-discovering how varied it is), but this morning I thought: 'Umm, they don't really fit'. So now there's two separate images:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/Blurgs.jpg

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/moonscape.jpg

Maximilianus

02-20-2012, 11:39 PM

Those two are phenomenal! I especially liked the mountain on the first and the ground texture on the second :hurray:
A 'blurg' would be something like a blend or merge? http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/scratch_one-s_head.gif

You should give yourself a medal for that Var! :)
Indeed should! :hurray:

MystyrMystyry

02-21-2012, 04:53 PM

Thanks Max :)

Blurg = Planet Generator (sounded better than Plag). The mountain was to try to give a sense of scale, where the moonscape made them look more like toys in mud (which is why not)

Maximilianus

02-21-2012, 09:26 PM

Thanks Max :)
http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/yes3.gif

Blurg = Planet Generator (sounded better than Plag). The mountain was to try to give a sense of scale, where the moonscape made them look more like toys in mud (which is why not)
Makes much sense http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/ok.gif

Kyriakos

02-22-2012, 09:32 AM

Very nice work from everyone :)

This is the Torre De Bellem, a Portuguese sea battery of old:

http://i44.tinypic.com/2rqjac0.png

tonywalt

02-22-2012, 02:27 PM

tonywalt

02-22-2012, 05:43 PM

.......

Maximilianus

02-22-2012, 05:45 PM

This is the Torre De Bellem, a Portuguese sea battery of old:

http://i44.tinypic.com/2rqjac0.png
Looks nice :thumbsup: I would like it bigger to appreciate the details, but that's a minor thing because of my sight problems.

stephofthenight

02-22-2012, 07:55 PM

great stuff everyone :) mystry I'm stealing yours AGAIN for my background lol

Varenne Rodin

02-23-2012, 05:15 AM

THATS BEAUTIFUL Varenne. Elizabeth Taylor's eyes!!!

Aw. Thank you so much, Tony! I love Elizabeth Taylor. That really makes me happy. :)

Max, your mind is beautiful too, and creative and funny and unique.

Mystyry, you should give yourself a medal for that awesome moonscape! Fantastic!

I'm very lucky to have pals like you guys. :D

Maximilianus

02-23-2012, 07:50 AM

Max, your mind is beautiful too, and creative and funny and unique.
I very much appreciate this comment Var. I don't get it very often.

Mystyry, you should give yourself a medal for that awesome moonscape! Fantastic!
Agreed!

I'm very lucky to have pals like you guys. :D
Likewise!

MystyrMystyry

02-23-2012, 07:02 PM

Thankyou Max, Naughty Steph, and Varenne :)

Here's a thing:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/thing.jpg

Maximilianus

02-23-2012, 11:55 PM

The color combination is of the sort I like http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_clap.gif I'll be staring at it for a while just to see if it soothes the itchy mood I'm having tonight http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_shakehead.gif

BienvenuJDC

02-24-2012, 12:05 AM

Ok...ok...I'll admit that I have my own art. I made this for my daughter.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1221&pictureid=9494
http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1221&pictureid=9495

Maximilianus

02-24-2012, 12:09 AM

That looks very good, Bien. It has a tenderness of its own :thumbsup:

BienvenuJDC

02-24-2012, 12:13 AM

That looks very good, Bien. It has a tenderness of its own :thumbsup:

I went to a fabric store and explained to the lady that I wanted to make a "Velveteen" rabbit. She proceeded to tell me that there are much better fabrics to make a bunny out of than velveteen. What she wasn't getting was that if I didn't make it out of velveteen, then it wouldn't be a "VELVETEEN RABBIT".

Well? What can you do?

(Yes, I bought actual velveteen, and it worked out just fine.)

Maximilianus

02-24-2012, 12:26 AM

A very specific mission! :)

Beautifull

02-24-2012, 10:16 PM

Bien, It's so cute! Was your daughter happy?

BienvenuJDC

02-24-2012, 11:53 PM

Bien, It's so cute! Was your daughter happy?

She was thrilled...tomorrow is her big party.

:bday_2: The cake that we are making is going to be the tower from the movie Tangled. That is my other big artistic moment. I'll post pictures.

Beautifull

02-28-2012, 01:19 AM

She was thrilled...tomorrow is her big party.

:bday_2: The cake that we are making is going to be the tower from the movie Tangled. That is my other big artistic moment. I'll post pictures.

I hope she enjoyed herself! I can't wait to see the pictures of the cake! :)

Here's something I'm working on. It's not done yet, but this is how far I've gotten. It's actually supposed to be me9even though it doesn't look like me). The present me(right) is looking back at the me six months ago(left). While the six-months ago me, is looking to the future, wondering how it'll turn out. One of those things coming form too much thinking...especially since I keep thinking, "What if I had done something different?" Would I be how I am? *sigh* Too much thinking.

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/058/3/e/work_in_progress_by_kyeire-d4r7zuy.jpg

Maximilianus

02-28-2012, 02:50 AM

An interesting concept form an interesting mind, Beau. It would be equally interesting to see how it further develops http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/yes3.gif

BienvenuJDC

02-29-2012, 04:47 AM

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1221&pictureid=9507

PoeticPassions

02-29-2012, 05:03 AM

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1221&pictureid=9507

I'm sorry to point this out Bien, but this looks a bit like a male reproductive organ... (or a rocket ship... ?)

It's very cool nonetheless, and I applaud your baking/creative skills. I don't think I could even make a cake, much less in the shape of something.

PoeticPassions

02-29-2012, 05:06 AM

Maximilianus

02-29-2012, 05:57 PM

Remarkable tower, Bien. Great job!

MystyrMystyry

02-29-2012, 07:54 PM

Thanx Max :)

*sigh* Too much thinking

http://fc05.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/058/3/e/work_in_progress_by_kyeire-d4r7zuy.jpg

Too much thinking may be right Beau, but what a great idea and execution! The raw black and white linework and vast blank distance between the figures that really gives it impact.

Can't comment on Bien's, because they aren't displaying AT ALL! (Though the problem is probably at my end as usual)

I'm revisiting a favorite old program, but the intervening years have made it either very dodgy, or I remember it being a lot better than it actually was. Either way I'll keep hammering away until I get some results I'm happy with...

Maximilianus

02-29-2012, 10:54 PM

Thanx Max :)
http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif

Too much thinking may be right Beau, but what a great idea and execution! The raw black and white linework and vast blank distance between the figures that really gives it impact.
:iagree:

Can't comment on Bien's, because they aren't displaying AT ALL! (Though the problem is probably at my end as usual)

According to the link they seem attached to one of Bien's Lit Net albums (the albums forum members can create here within the site). Probably you have a sort of problem to access such albums... unsure if it has to do with account settings http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif

I'm revisiting a favorite old program, but the intervening years have made it either very dodgy, or I remember it being a lot better than it actually was. Either way I'll keep hammering away until I get some results I'm happy with...
Perchance nostalgia http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/acute.gif What program would that be?

Varenne Rodin

02-29-2012, 11:46 PM

Bien, your rabbit and cake are cool. Nice creativity.

Beau, I really like your concept.

Maximilianus

03-01-2012, 02:25 AM

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Not-quietly-into-the-night.jpg

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Not-quietly-into-the-night-part-2.jpg

We would tamely walk headlong into the night
Could we not remember dusks that yelled through white,
And only hear The Banshees' endless wailing,
Rebuffing angers' will for promptly sailing.
But today no lung knows restful breathing,
Neither shall there be a single hate at sheathing;
Today's the finest day for The Impaling.
Even through the shields completely shattered
Shall emerge a ram with gates to batter.
On a day when bells once loud no longer ding,
When throats ere voiced announce we cannot sing,
In the wake of The Unveiled by mist unknown,
It shall, that day, be day for wrath to spring;
To fling the rocks, the sheath, the blade, the hone.
And thus, through choking drafts, above, alone
A race restrings each severed string
And tunes regain their utmost tone.

aliengirl

03-01-2012, 02:52 PM

Wonderful Max! (Sigh, I don't have your cute clapping emoticons. Anyway assume it is here.) Have you written the poem also?

@ beautifuli - I think your concept is really very interesting, as if the past and future are looking at each other through the mirror of present.

@ Bienvenu - You are a unique artist. I hope your daughter liked it.

Maximilianus

03-01-2012, 09:02 PM

Wonderful Max! (Sigh, I don't have your cute clapping emoticons. Anyway assume it is here.)
Thank you AG! http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/clapping.gif http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/thank_you.gif

Have you written the poem also?
I did write it. I wanted to accompany the pictures with text :)

Varenne Rodin

03-01-2012, 09:15 PM

Striking pictures and poem, Max. Well done.

Varenne Rodin

03-01-2012, 09:19 PM

I made this baby dragon for a friend's birthday. It's about two inches tall and three inches long. :)

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1227&pictureid=9511

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1227&pictureid=9512

Maximilianus

03-01-2012, 09:21 PM

Wow, that dragon looks awesomely blue! :)

Striking pictures and poem, Max. Well done.
Thank you Var http://smiles.kolobok.us/remake/bye.gif

Veho

03-01-2012, 10:11 PM

Really cute dragon, Varenne. Its eyes remind me of Shrek's Puss in Boots.

Varenne Rodin

03-02-2012, 12:59 AM

Thank you Max! Thank you Veho! I wanted his eyes to look big, curious, and endearing. Puss is such a cute kitty. I really appreciate that comparison. :)

MystyrMystyry

03-03-2012, 06:15 PM

[CENTER]http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Not-quietly-into-the-night.jpg

http://i1005.photobucket.com/albums/af178/maxicastro/My%20General%20Artwork/Not-quietly-into-the-night-part-2.jpg

Lots of energy going on there Max! :) And the words fit the images too.

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1227&pictureid=9511

http://www.online-literature.com/forums/picture.php?albumid=1227&pictureid=9512

That's excellent Varenne! :) I like the big eyes and general cuteness of it.

I finally finished my monorail, though circular proved to be a real hassle, so it's more about a framed landscape:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/monorail.jpg

Varenne Rodin

03-03-2012, 06:25 PM

That's beautiful, Mystyry! It reminds me of one of the monos in The Dark Tower series. Gliding over a shimmering sea of colors. Very neat, and thanks for what you said about my dragon! :)

MystyrMystyry

03-03-2012, 06:48 PM

Thankyou Var, and no worries - your dragon deserves even more praise! :)

I'm now working on a steamtrain and bridge spectacular, but I can't say how long it'll be, with all the other business I've got going on. It's perfect beach weather today and I've promised myself to hit the waves, so maybe It'll inspire a shoreline quickie with a pier ;)

Maximilianus

03-04-2012, 08:47 AM

Thank you Max! Thank you Veho! I wanted his eyes to look big, curious, and endearing...
Welcome! http://smiles.kolobok.us/personal/hi.gif And goal achieved! :)

Lots of energy going on there Max! :) And the words fit the images too.
Thanks Mystyr! I've been thinking about posting my humble text creation on the personal poetry section, although I still lack a title for the whole combo... I might anyway do it http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_thinking.gif

I finally finished my monorail, though circular proved to be a real hassle, so it's more about a framed landscape:

http://i1134.photobucket.com/albums/m605/mystyrmystyry/monorail.jpg
That's really awesome... the colors give the scene a touch as of being set on another planet... maybe Jupiter or Saturn http://smiles.kolobok.us/standart/ok.gif

Thankyou Var, and no worries - your dragon deserves even more praise! :)
Agreed! http://smiles.kolobok.us/artists/just_cuz/JC_rockin.gif

I'm now working on a steamtrain and bridge spectacular, but I can't say how long it'll be, with all the other business I've got going on. It's perfect beach weather today and I've promised myself to hit the waves, so maybe It'll inspire a shoreline quickie with a pier ;)
Yeah, you do the beach hit first. The sea has a special inspiring magic :thumbsup: