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Topic Started: Jul 4 2005, 04:00 PM (92,715 Views)
Dragon Ninja
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hey guys, Im working on a new portfolio site for myself and created an animation for an intro but im not sure if it works, it might be a bit cheezy? heres the link, any feed back is much appricated,
My Portfolio Intro
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Conger
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Uhm...
My school's doing The Wizard of Oz for its choir show, so I was commissioned to draw what will be the projection of the wizard's face. There are plenty of things wrong with it, and keep in mind that it looks skewed because of the angle the picture was taken from, and the left side of the face isn't defined.

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Oh, and that's not me by it, that's my friend Charles (playing the cowardly lion)
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Calco
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Dude, that's pretty cool, how long has it taken?
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yex
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Sorry for the extremely poor quality pic, it was taken on a webcam. this be my latest portrait, took me 45 mins, drawn in theater class. =P
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Conger
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Uhm...
Calco
Jan 27 2007, 01:54 AM
Dude, that's pretty cool, how long has it taken?

Probably about 3 hours in all... i took a lot of breaks 'cause i had a lot of friends there.
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Pillow
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SEX RED!!!
Dragon Ninja: I think it's looks great bt it's slow loading initially (for me atleast)

Anath: I just play normal dnd no computers attached but then my dungeon master moved away

Tom: that's great! I personaly can't see any problems and I think it'll look great!

Yex: not bad, can't see the details (shame your camera's broken) but it looks alright to me. Maybe the forhead needs to be a little higher though?



edit: Taking a break from coursework to quickly stick this in here. I'm doing the preperation work for my art GCSE exam. I chose the theme journey and my composition is going to be "Alice through the looking glass". In the room she moves into the chess peices are alive so part of my study is to make the inanimate chess pieces look animate. Advice would be greatly apreciated, at the moment I'm attempting to make the knight animate (I've done the bishop) but I'm having a bit a trouble there. The composition will end up as a painting...most probably oil

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-AnTiSeAl-
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Good start pillow, ide do a few rough animations in Flash, even if its a painting, getting your mind around how they actually move would help alot.

Paint update on Drake:

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Pillow
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Er I can't actually animate :unsure:


Drake's skin looks great! If the light source is behind him shouldn't the bit of arm before the bracer be in shadow though?
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Calco
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Pillow, my advise would be to practice drawing different motions with the pieces, just for practice.

-AnTiSeAl-, that's looking great! I wish I could paint like that.
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Comlock
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yes, what Calco said. Just draw lots of it for the sake of practice, and dont worry about creating a nice drawing.
You got to make it more clear what the chess pieces are doing.
also think silhouette value. The sitting pose will be alot clearer if you rotated it 90 degrees forexample

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The examples are far from perfect ofcourse, but it just shows how important it is to draw lots of it and choose the best one at the end.
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Espen
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Arthur, you and your silly silouhettes.....



...guess ill try some aswell :yfok:
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-AnTiSeAl-
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Full paint comp. Needs a little more work till I add a backdrop. (hes back/under lit, so the bracer has a lighting inconsistency)

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Calco
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The only real odd thing I see is the handle on the right sword, it remains the same shade in the part surrounded by hand.
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-AnTiSeAl-
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Thanks Cal, touched up the paint a bit, fixed the bracer + the hilt. changed some shading on (his) left arm

final paint comp for Drake.
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Calco
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Very nice man, it worked out well :D
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Master Rade
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To Pillow-learn to understand when your drawing something it shouldn’t look so perfect. It should have some flaws and minor differences because every one and everything have some slight characterize features that separates them self from others. They look to real, if this is Alice in wonder land typ of theme. They should look more alive a little loony perhaps maybe cartoony. How about some action in there. Practice on the movement some more they need to be fighting! They need to show some more movement then just running. So far I love your realism but what ever look your going for make sure to not to go so complex at first. Go wild don’t think let everything from gesture and movement become a second nature when your drawing. Try a lot of things, go for a more Simple look. Hey post up some more up I want to see where you going with this. Keep it up Pillow :3


-Ok in short that’s there Vex, robot cyborg , human ya know. So I’ve been mixing it with realism if that is what im doing. Im still going for that manga look so bear with me. Im still trying to blend them together like mixing soda with milk. Tasted good by the way. I don’t know I feel unhappy with it but it’s a major improvement for me. Any way keep up the good work guys.
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FLCL fan art something doodle
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-AnTiSeAl-
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Looking rad Rade :D

The muscled definition on the top spread armed guy is a bit off. I did a few mods.

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The chest is a bit further up then where your form muscle lines show.

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You can see here a basic representation of the pectoral positioning, with that you can get a rough idea of where to map the chest, abs, and etc.

Hope that helped :P

EDIT: I notice you ghost your lines alot. Do you do rough sketches first? You might want to if you don't, then you can redefine with more confidant lines instead of chicken scratchy nervous ones.
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Pillow
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Jan 29 2007, 09:44 AM
yes, what Calco said. Just draw lots of it for the sake of practice, and dont worry about creating a nice drawing.
You got to make it more clear what the chess pieces are doing.
also think silhouette value. The sitting pose will be alot clearer if you rotated it 90 degrees forexample

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The examples are far from perfect ofcourse, but it just shows how important it is to draw lots of it and choose the best one at the end.

Thanks Comlock I'll work on it :D
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Master Rade
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-AnTiSeAl-
Jan 30 2007, 06:28 PM

EDIT: I notice you ghost your lines alot. Do you do rough sketches first? You might want to if you don't, then you can redefine with more confidant lines instead of chicken scratchy nervous ones.

Thanks for the help and yes I kinda in a way draw scratchy as I work on my peices for some reason I just like that look

Is this what you mean, im just trying to wing it at least. It was late last night while I was making this. Come to think about it, all my drawings are done late at night were im partially awake. That or when ever im not all together in my head. I wonder how im even making a coherent sentence let alone drawing. So any ways much thanks for your help AnTiSeAl.

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packalunch
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Dragon Ninja: that intro animation is awesome! i wish it was longer. really well done.
more please.
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Calco
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I think your anatomy is coming along very well Rade, very well indeed, it's looking better every time. Although I would suggest working on the pecs and abs a tad more. :D
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Sweaterjon
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Master Rade, keep using the references, you'll draw the lay out of the character with his arms out and what not, but then the drawings after it kinda break down when it comes to the anatomy. If your planning on going with more realistic proportions you really need to keep studying them.

Keep it up.
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Master Rade
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Thanks Calco ill work on the abs and pecks. O sweater I couldn’t say it any better. I really need to find me a good anatomy book when it comes to proportions. Im also working on this female character..

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Im still working on the proportions but if any one think I should need any changes let me know what you think. Thanks guys :)
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Dazla
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Something needs to go here...........
[size=14]HELP ME[/size]

Ok ages ago like four years ago I drew this in my final year of school nad never touched it since

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I scanned it into my PC this morning and wanted to add colour and depth but FUCKED that up badly.
Ignore the white that is just me trying to get rid of excess graphite and just trying to get somewhere with it.

Any suggestions peoples
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Calco
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What program are you using?

I might suggest doing line art on a different layer (if your program supports layers) then painting on a layer below the line art.
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