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[miauw62]

The thing i dont like is the windmills, they somehow look like paper figures that were pasted in.
Other  then that, its a nice drawing.

[Jopax]

I like them, they give quite a bit of charachter to the piece, make it look like a childrens book illustration or a collage

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Is it supposed to be in a cave? Because thats wha i see.

[Jopax]

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Some more practice, I liked the mood the rain created today so I tried to modify the piece to reflect the same mood, with fog of course because fog is awesome

[PlutoniumApe]

@Jopax:
I like both your studies very much.
The last one has got a very nice composition, but due to the amount of fog it's looking rather dull.
This can easily be changed by adding content ,) Just a glimpse of some architecture would 'spice' it up a lot.


Here's also a little something I just made in Photoshop.
I hope you like it, critique greatly appreciated!

I call him: The Kettle!

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Done with a mouse, btw. Can be a huge pain sometimes.

[Jopax]

Wow, that's great, I used to do some mouse stuff before I got a tablet and I know how painful that can be (especially when PS doesn't save something you've just wasted hours on).

[Soadreqm]

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That smoke looks pretty cheap and filter-y, and doesn't really go well with the cartoony style. As for the figure itself, it seems that you shaded each piece individually, probably keeping them in separate layers. The light direction on the left (his right) leg is wrong, and more generally, the black kettle carapace lays no shadows on his body and vice versa. Makes the whole thing look flat like a paper doll. The shoulders are especially bad.

This also happens in different parts of the carapace. The light falling on the greaves and the pauldrons seems to be coming from different directions, and despite light coming from the right, it seems to fall equally on pauldrons and greaves on both sides.

I like the overall design, though. I'd probably have  given him some spiked gauntlets or something, but I can't deny that those pink oven mitts look very cute.

[PlutoniumApe]

Thank you for the feedback!

I must admit that I suck at shading. Or rather I spent so much time on the base that I got frustrated in the end and just added some additional pieces and the smoke to finish it off. Right now I'm not working on extra levels to shade, which probably stems from the fact that I was switching from Illustrator to Photoshop in order to be able to animate and keep each piece/limb individually.

Right now I'm just doing these images to get faster at working in Photoshop, especially with a mouse (I feel like this is one of the main reasons I get so easily frustrated). Any advice for people drawing with a mouse? I'm experimenting with brushes and filters, but if the stroke itself is squiggly and weak you can change your brushes as much as you want 

[miauw62]

About halfway his right arm there is a straight line in the background, further i cant really provide feedback because i suck at drawing myself.

[Urist McScoopbeard]

Allo, I am back! I actually thought I was going to draw something more detailed than this, but I think this came out well, as I was practicing a little anatomical-perspective-y stuff.
He's just a knight, probably a sellsword.

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There's alot of wrong things to notice even without a skilled eye
-left calf
-left forearm
-right knee
-buttocks & where the breastplate is connected via banded metal to the legwear
- etc. etc.

However I am enjoying the upper body here, its the best ive drawn in a while (the only actually), and pauldrons

Having said that please, critique. It's always appreciated (except when it's not!)

P.S. just noticed, if the image is a little fuzzy or blurry it's cause I was forced to save it as a jpeg (those bastards.)

[Jopax]

So I made another one, there's a whole little story I made for this one, so please do read and comment :>

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"We knew they were out there, the equations all pointed to the fact that we weren't the only ones in this universe. But we pushed it back, it was something the scientists and philosophers bothered themselves with, to us it was just another statistic, a number to remember and bury deep within our collective subconcious.
So clearly we weren't prepared for this, not even the military, not even the scientists, they were as shocked as we were.
The first contact, and on that world at that, it was an event that changed the world, and in more than a single way.
The fact that they were hostile wasn't much of a shock, all the movies and games prepared us for a big and nasty universe. What we weren't prepared for was a scouting party, that consisted of a single creature, that managed to level half a continent before being put down by several nuclear weapons.
That was the punch that sobered us, made us realize, we were nothing but a fly waiting to smack into the wrong windshield and be splattered into nothingness never to be remembered, never to be pitied.
But I guess that's the way life is, survival of the fittest, adapt or go extinct, it's just that we are so used to being the top dog it'll take us a while to get used to the bottom of the food chain."

[Doohl]

Here's something I spent a couple hours painting.

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[EagleV]

Jopax, that's a great drawing and story. I wonder though, how big did you imagine that thing when you made it?

[Jopax]

Thanks, and it's slightly bigger than your average MBT I guess, the idea is that it's rather resiliant to damage while also having a very high regeneration (that it has to keep up by eating stuff, not sure what exactly).

Also, nice work Doohl, I like the atmoshperic glow around the planet, a really nice touch

[Blue Viking Hog]

The Fool

Thank you glad you liked the lightning, I tried to make the picture better by trying to fix what you pointed out.

miauw62

Thanks, I tried to fix the windmills.

Jopax

Thank you. I like to have a simple style in my paintings, (less work, I am lazy) :p
And fantastic monster you painted! Its really cool!

Urist McScoopbeard

yes it's supposed to be a cave.
And cool knight you made!


Here is my hopefully more fixed picture, I tried to make it less sketchy. The contrast got a bit too high though.

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