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Art Class / Re: Lesson 1: An Introduction

« on: December 11, 2010, 11:29:53 pm »

It has been a day of false starts, frustrations, and mistakes as I figure all this stuff out. I also just realized I drew the darn thing in landscape which isn't very useful for a card. Sigh. My hand is cramping, so I will leave it at this sketch for today.

Basic idea: Changeling as a mass of black goo shifting into a skull masked thing holding a crappy version of the vampiric dagger. The new shape is still only half formed in the image and rising from the goo. I shall spend tomorrow figuring out how to paint it halfway decent and post again.

Why I am doing this: I need something creative to do. I had been making things for the competitions, but have wanted to pick up drawing again. An art class is a great way to keep myself from getting lazy and the feedback/suggestions would help me improve. I have done some art with charcoal drawing, but not really all that much. Zero with digital, so this is all new to me.

Edit: Now that I look at it again, I think it needs a chin.

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General Discussion / Re: Elements Christmas Sweeptakes!

« on: December 11, 2010, 06:02:19 pm »

Peace on the planes and goodwill toward all elements.

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Competitions / Re: Voting: Make a Magazine

« on: December 11, 2010, 12:12:30 am »

Quote from: ddevans96 on December 10, 2010, 11:20:58 pm

Quote from: wizelsnarf on December 10, 2010, 05:45:07 pm
ps asymmetry, pepokish didn't make that leaf dragon. I believe Sunny Greens made it as a tribute to pepokish's original
The leaf dragon on the magazine is by pepokish.

Yup, all pepokish. Sorry but my artistic abilities are far, far below anything like that.

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General Discussion / Re: elements

« on: December 09, 2010, 01:11:51 am »

@Kobisjeruk: Tinyeye to the rescue

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Competitions / Re: Voting: Make a Magazine

« on: December 08, 2010, 11:22:16 pm »

Quote from: asymmetry on December 08, 2010, 02:58:29 pm

You're welcome. I don't know how this will help vrt and peps, though

I think you can help very effectively by providing your own opinions and critiques of peoples work in the art class. If you want to go this in depth, great. Something a bit lighter and quicker, also great. Help vrt and pepokish keep the discussion going and keep people learning. The last of the few art classes I ever took had that going for it. Everyone examined each others work and detailed what they liked/disliked about it, what they thought worked well and not so well. Everyone learns, everyone wins during discussion.

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Competitions / Re: Voting: Make a Magazine

« on: December 07, 2010, 11:21:18 pm »

Thanks for the analysis asymmetry, it's very helpful. Also, yes, something like this could be very helpful over in the art class. I know I certainly enjoyed your critique!

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Competitions / Re: Voting: Make a Magazine

« on: December 07, 2010, 03:01:09 am »

Quote from: asymmetry on December 07, 2010, 02:48:09 am

I agree less is more, (up to a point) but for 9 to be a real parody, some details i would've loved to see, were absent.

I will ask you too then: please elaborate?

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Competitions / Re: Voting: Make a Magazine

« on: December 05, 2010, 06:52:53 am »

Quote from: suxerz on December 05, 2010, 01:04:29 am

Okay, you asked for it..

The text at the bottom left corner is kinda hard to see. And the text "Leaf Dragon" could be highlighted by using a different colours or text style. Though everything fits the NatGeo theme, it could use a little bit more colours to make it more interesting. Also, you could play around with the image and the border - example .

Nevertheless, your idea about the NatGeo theme is brilliant and that is why you've got my vote.

Ooh, I like the example. That certainly would have been fun, unfortunately I have no idea how to do that. A solid chunk of the time making this was spent figuring out how to make pixlr do what I wanted it to do, so I stuck close to the actual Nat Geo magazine style. Wanted to keep it recognizable so I didn't play around too much, though I guess the golden rectangle was all I really needed. Next time, next time...

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