Let out the ARTIST in you!!!!

[stephofthenight]

An attempt at what mystry does- I'll leave it to you...

[MystyrMystyry]

I like these Steph - that first one has such a cool textured layered multi-dimensional quality I find it hard to stop looking at it - it's like an intriguing visual poem

The heart looks excellent (I love the hand-drawn look - not a stylised squat wingding and it says something much stronger for that), The fronds around the heart look great - I wouldn't mind seeing that effect go on further and fading away - but at the same time I like the way you don't mind having a large area of bordering background, where my inclination would be to closely crop the central element, you set it in its own space

And you've done it with the multi-dimensional butterfly too, giving it space to flutter its wings and fly

Good show Steph!

[Maximilianus]

Up we have a post by someone who knows about art. I wish I knew but a little about it.

[Kyriakos]

Some of my latest creations (the Theodosian walls are most prominent in them) :

[Kyriakos]

And something i am currently creating:

[Beautifull]

Since I love my planet, I took a high resolution image of this one:

Then added clouds, oceans, a humble terrain texture and shiny space elements and came up with a piece I call "sundown" (I'd like to know if it looks any real ):

And then I set the globe arolling:

Oh, I likie Max! A great job.

[MystyrMystyry]

I agree, it is good - I want to do something with the Earth on day, not sure what though...

In the meantime, here's an absract 'thing' (done quickly to use up some paint)

[Maximilianus]

I thank you both, Beau and Mystyr. I have been planning to do something more accurate with the earth, following previous Mystyr's advice on filigree patterns and such, but school and other chores won't let me do it soon, apparently.

Abstract art is very challenging, because it's very hard to determine whatever may lie beneath the splatters, splashes, strokes and the like. Your abstraction calls for a thorough stare, Mystyr. There must be something in it to be found

Following is a ring I made to cheer up my friend Mari Jo when she was grieving. Not saying it's the ring, but it is the closest to a ring that I've been able to come up with so far:

[Beautifull]

I agree with Max on what he said about the abstract art. I believe Your piece, Mystyr, reminds me of a celebration...just the vibrant colors....but I don't know, I'm not good at reading abstract art. All I know is that's it's pretty amazing. I can't do abstract.

As for your ring Max, It's nice. You're always so thoughtful. And it's a pretty good ring if you ask me!

[Kyriakos]

A collection of forts i created for CivIII

[Maximilianus]

I like Kyriakos's rounded forts

As for your ring Max, It's nice. You're always so thoughtful. And it's a pretty good ring if you ask me!

Thank you, Beau. You too draw something and post it, okay? Been a long time

[Beautifull]

Great Piece(s) K! I'm very much loving the Ancient Japanese forts.

@Max: Okay....as soon as I can find something good enough...Well, I do have something I'm working on....I'll post it as soon as I can

[MystyrMystyry]

Thankyou Beau and Max (like the ring, and the lettering extrusion too)

Kyriakos' Civ III, things are cool - I lost quite some hours to that game (and many more to II and IV, though haven't tried V yet)

This is the product of an accident where I really wasn't happy with the way the painting was turning out and frustratedly painted over the canvas in gloss black. Well, I couldn't leave it at that because I was determined to have completed something by dinner time - enter blue, silver, and white squiggly amoeba things

(The orange isn't for sense of scale, but to help hold it flat because it had been rolled up and paint gets quite rigid in Winter)

[Beautifull]

Love those colors, Mystyr! Beautifull Piece once again!

Here, I finished it before putting it up. I colored this piece only I wish I would say I drew it too, but one day, one day I'll be able to. I'm slowly getting better.

[Maximilianus]

Thank you Beau and Max (like the ring, and the lettering extrusion too)

Thank YOU!

This is the product of an accident where I really wasn't happy with the way the painting was turning out and frustratedly painted over the canvas in gloss black. Well, I couldn't leave it at that because I was determined to have completed something by dinner time - enter blue, silver, and white squiggly amoeba things

(The orange isn't for sense of scale, but to help hold it flat because it had been rolled up and paint gets quite rigid in Winter)

It was a fine accident!

Here, I finished it before putting it up. I colored this piece only I wish I would say I drew it too, but one day, one day I'll be able to. I'm slowly getting better.

I think coloring has a lot of merit. It's not easy to choose what colors fit on what place, and even if it were, it's not easy to fill the various spaces. I like it very much!