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[TD1]

That there are few old olm-man mage images is odd. I'd imagine mages as odd or old as olms would be more common.

[vastaghen12]

I like how it looks like an old olm-man mage.

It's a very good rendition of an old olm-man mage.

We don't see old olm-man mage images here often.

That there are few old olm-man mage images is odd. I'd imagine mages as odd or old as olms would be more common.

I think its because olms a very obscure animal. I only know about them because I lost one of my early forts to a giant olm.

Plus they are not exactly easy to anthropomorphize with their: long almost eyeless faces, tiny limbs and long length.
In fact, the hind legs and tail gave me a lot of trouble, and they dont look that good.

I like how it looks like an old olm-man mage.

Thanks! A good hunch and a staff will easily make anything you draw look pretty old

[Darkmere]

Alright, finished a thing. One more to go before Christmas (with a little tinkering on some older pieces, but that won't take long).

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[Randos]

Two nitpicks, there's perspective everywhere (and it's pretty nice) but the ingots on the shelf, makes them pop out like an eyesore. Also the bottom of the shelf isn't lit properly, you could argue that it's too high for a strong light on the bottom but then you have the shield on the wall at the same height being nice and lit. Also something to consider, perspectives as extreme as this are usually achieved with a fish-eye lens, not saying this one is wrong or anything, just that it'd be much more effective of an image (also much harder to pull off properly) if done in fish-eye.

Also hi, here's something about a month late (well, to you folks anyways):

Thanks for the nitpicks! You are the second person to point out the ingots so I guess that must be more annoying than I thought it would. I totally admit that I botched the perspective on those and thought that no one would notice... so good eye!!!

Same for the lighting. Good eye! Although I agree with the first potential argument that the light is too far away, and so I would rather decrease the light on the shield. Also the shield is drawn rather lazily in comparison to other objects, but these were all background items and I guess I got tired and had to move on.

Good work on the self portrait! I think you could continue adding detail to the head wear and clothing and that will make an amazing illustration. The face has great light and shade and great work on the eyes!

[Mesa]

Drawing this logo was just the right mix of fun and PITA (especially trying to get it to 'look right' colors-wise after I got all the pieces into place).
But I'm happy with the result.

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It's for a setting I'm currently casually working on (in a similar vein to Gun Francisco or Chrono Warriors in terms of "what I want to do with this" if anyone remembers those things of mine).

Loosely 80s-2000s sci-fi cartoons/comic books-inspired.


Super-early version for comparison.

I can do a thread on this later if y'all want me to (but there is always the possibility of me ditching it halfway through in favor of something else because of my ADHD fuckwad of a brain).
(The short version is that there is badass heroes, infighting, drama and politics. In space.)

[WillowLuman]

With the special edition coming out, allowing for Skyrim on x64, I decided to generate some terrain with a heightmap and then put it into the game to see how it looks:

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[Arx]

Pictures seem broken. For me, at least.

With the special edition coming out, allowing for Skyrim on x64, I decided to generate some terrain with a heightmap and then put it into the game to see how it looks:

The cloud is a bit overpowering, but what I can see looks pretty good.

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“I need to work on my portraits. If only there were some place with a vested interest in having a large quantity of pictures of people’s faces in a recognisable position… Oh, right.”

Which is how it came to be that I drew our Glorious Leader Jacob Zuma from a picture on the Mail & Guardian’s front page. Newspapers are a good source of pictures of people, unsurprisingly.

This is just a quick sketch, slapped together in I guess <10 minutes.

Reference

[Shook]

HMHM, good sketch! You kind of forgot to give him a neck, though. :v

Spoiler: also here's me looking like a mushroom (click to show/hide)

[Arx]

HMHM, good sketch! You kind of forgot to give him a neck, though. :v

He doesnt really have one. But I did short-change it a bit.

Spoiler: I slapped some values on it (click to show/hide)

Emphasis on 'slapped', this was a five-minute job.

This is why I'm practicing faces. Damn. Any tips appreciated. I'm not touching colour with a ten-foot pole until I can actually render the contours properly.

[Shook]

The range of values seems fine (you could get away with darker shadows, but that's just me being a contrast whore), although unless you plan to smooth it out completely, there's still that fancy trick of having your brush strokes follow the contours of the dudes noggin. It sounds like a weird thing, but it actually does quite a lot for the depth, which i didn't expect when i was first told to do it. I hope you don't mind, but i decided to try making the obligatory shooksample on your lovely sketch:

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I hope this makes sense because i have no idea if it does. The thing to look at is the direction of the brush strokes; me being a lazy shit who fails to cover the entire thing is a different story. :v

also here have a ceramic i did

Spoiler: people asked me what it is so i said "a snotling" (click to show/hide)

Suffice to say, this was pretty fun to make.

[WillowLuman]

Added some detail to my Skyrim landscape:

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[Tawa]

I recorded a little dramatic reading of DOOM: Repercussions of Evil for fun. Comments? Questions? Constructive criticism?

I know that my microphone is awful, and that I went a little overkill on the reverb for "you will be kill by demons" and pitch for "I wanna be on the ships daddy", but now it's too late. Far too late for now, anyway.

[Avis-Mergulus]

I recorded a little dramatic reading of DOOM: Repercussions of Evil for fun. Comments? Questions? Constructive criticism?

I know that my microphone is awful, and that I went a little overkill on the reverb for "you will be kill by demons" and pitch for "I wanna be on the ships daddy", but now it's too late. Far too late for now, anyway.

You sound very much like that one reading of 30H that I remember. Have you heard it by any chance?
It's like 5 am here again, and your reading had me struggling very hard not to laugh and wake everybody up. I did a little strangled hiss thing at the "AND THEN JOOOHN ... WAS A ZOMBIE!" bit. That tiny pause between "John" and "zombie" almost did me in.

[Darkmere]

Finished the last piece for Christmas. it looks janky as hell but I'm on a time crunch so I can't afford to redo it before making the print.

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Learning experience, I guess.

[Arx]

I recorded a little dramatic reading of DOOM: Repercussions of Evil for fun. Comments? Questions? Constructive criticism?

I know that my microphone is awful, and that I went a little overkill on the reverb for "you will be kill by demons" and pitch for "I wanna be on the ships daddy", but now it's too late. Far too late for now, anyway.

Pretty good, pretty good. The style favours a bit more gravel in the voice, if you can - tighten up your vocal chords some. Your microphone isn't terrible so much as you're too loud, and it's 'peaking' - hitting the maximum input volume it can handle. Tweak down the levels in whatever you're using to record and you should see some improvement.

The range of values seems fine (you could get away with darker shadows, but that's just me being a contrast whore), although unless you plan to smooth it out completely, there's still that fancy trick of having your brush strokes follow the contours of the dudes noggin. It sounds like a weird thing, but it actually does quite a lot for the depth, which i didn't expect when i was first told to do it. I hope you don't mind, but i decided to try making the obligatory shooksample on your lovely sketch:

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

I hope this makes sense because i have no idea if it does. The thing to look at is the direction of the brush strokes; me being a lazy shit who fails to cover the entire thing is a different story. :v

If I wasn't also lazy, it would be smoothed out completely, yeah. That's why I didn't bother with contour tracking. But thank you! If I hadn't known, that would have been helpful.

also here have a ceramic i did

Spoiler: people asked me what it is so i said "a snotling" (click to show/hide)

Suffice to say, this was pretty fun to make.

Eugh. But that does look like fun.