Art thread

[UndeadJesus]

Celebrating my geekdom with a quick painting of Garrus from Mass Effect, and The Srbiter from Halo about to fight. Inspired by a thread on the escapist.

God, I love your paintings O.O

MOAR!

P.S: What programs do you use?

[Jake55778]

Photoshop Elements 5.0

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

Must.... Download.... Illegally....

I'm too poor to fish out the $200 or so dollars for the student version anyways. Not like I'm making a profit off it.

[Jake55778]

I got it free with my wacom. It's pretty cheap even if you buy it, at least compared to the behemoth that is Photoshop CS.
The most up to date version is around £50:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adobe-Photoshop ... 573&sr=8-1
And you can pick up the version I have for as low as £8.99:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Adobe-Photoshop ... 73&sr=8-10

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

Really? Wow, I kinda assumed it would cost about as much as Illustrator.

[Hytro]

Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5, Flash CS5, inDesign CS5 and so on, those are the big dogs when it comes to price

[UndeadJesus]

I might get Corel Painter ^.^

[SneakyPie]

Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5, Flash CS5, inDesign CS5 and so on, those are the big dogs when it comes to price

Not to mention they are outrageously overpriced. I only use them because I got a large student discount when I was in University, but that was CS4. So far there hasn't been anything important enough for me to update to CS5 and we'll see about CS6.

There are also many free solutions out there that can get the job done. Remember, an artist is not good based on the tools he uses.

[Hytro]

Illustrator CS5, Photoshop CS5, Flash CS5, inDesign CS5 and so on, those are the big dogs when it comes to price

Not to mention they are outrageously overpriced. I only use them because I got a large student discount when I was in University, but that was CS4. So far there hasn't been anything important enough for me to update to CS5 and we'll see about CS6.

There are also many free solutions out there that can get the job done. Remember, an artist is not good based on the tools he uses.

Agreed, I have them because we got them for free at our school... and I kind copied them over to my own pc *I did not say that* and I need them there because its much better to work at then my laptop xD

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

Yeah, I just need to get Illustrator. Inkscape, that program you showed me Sneaky, is missing a few features I just HAVE to have to do things with it.

[Fuzz422365117]

This is just some anime thing I made. Sorry for the erase marks and that it's on notebook paper.

[EricSmarties]

Jake will you draw me some halo reach related scenery please?

[Someguy42]

Zin woulda won if it wasnt for Lord

[Jake55778]

Jake will you draw me some halo reach related scenery please?

I've never played Reach.

Here's a Pokemon

[vallorn]

Badasstoise

love the water and metal Jake

[EricSmarties]

Jake will you draw me some halo reach related scenery please?

I've never played Reach.

Here's a Pokemon

halo CE?

and Yeah!

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

Sorry for the "necro", but I figured making a new art thread would be stupid.

Anyways, I painted both of these this past week. They are done with acrylics and took about 5 hours each to do (not including pre-mixing paint and sketching out scale patterns). I did them as a sort of yin-yang idea. One is very human-appearing, and looks kind. The other is reptilian and much more cruel looking. I plan on eventually making a third, yellow eye, that will have a milky eye to give it the appearance of being blind. Might also put a scar over the eye.

Anyways. here they are!

Spoiler! :

Link to larger version: http://tinypic.com/r/4t584x/7

Spoiler! :

Link to larger version: http://tinypic.com/r/31447qd/7

[Aenir_bEPU]

It's only been a week, hardly a necro.

I really like the first one, made me think of the Eragon books.

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

Thanks! I just finished that one 10 minutes before I posted it.

[The Bum]

Woo for thread necros!

[arogon343]

Is that empire total war or Napoleonic total war?

[The Bum]

Is that empire total war or Napoleon total war?

Empire.

[arogon343]

I should have a good old scrap with you sometime on there. Im crap at naval battles. But im pretty good on land.

[The Bum]

I should have a good old scrap with you sometime on there. Im crap at naval battles. But im pretty good on land.

I hope that's not a challenge?

[arogon343]

That it is sir. I will probably lose. But i will do my best to give you, a damn good thrashing.

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

Thought of a fun art project for myself, just thought I'd share. I used to play Spore a lot (by play I mean just make creatures that look cool) and I think I'm going to create a sort of umm... field biologist's sketch and note book. Think I'm going to draw different angles of my creatures, with close-ups of different features and little sketched description.

Don't know why I thought of this but hey, sounds like fun so I'm doing it. I'll post results as they happen.

I drew up this creature with a pen in about 5 minutes, then tried using GIMP for the first time to color/render it. Not even close to done, but I thought I'd show what I have.

Spoiler! :

Any tips Jake, you graphic art pro you?

[Kernalgohd]

I'm not good at art at all, but here are some doodles I drew in class (mostly english class, it was BOOORING)

Spoiler! :

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002.jpg

003.jpg

004.jpg

Thanks for taking a look ^_^ None of these had anything done at home, it was all during class (I passed that year.... barely xD )

[Kernalgohd]

ZINRIUS'S DEVIANT ARTS

They've all been drawn with a mouse on MSpaint

No with photoshop or tablets... I'm to poor for that .__.;

Actually theres a free photoshop knockoff called GIMP. It doesnt have my favorite "Liquify" tool (that I know of) but its not bad

[Sti_Jo_Lew]

Yeah, GIMP is pretty good. In my post above there's a pic of something I'm working on.

[The Bum]

I used GIMP for my thing with the HMS Victory, it is awesome.