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[Araph]

And Araph, why did you cut his hands off :C

...Because I suck at drawing hands? Like, really suck at it?

Therefore his hands are obscured blobs.

[wierd]

That just means that you should just draw more hands.  Nothing but hands.

Hands arent hard, despite what people may state to the contrary. Hands are just shapes, like any other. If you have difficulty with a certain kind of shape, then practice is what is called for.

Try making an abstract form out of NOTHING BUT hands! A certain scene from a certain horrible B movie comes to mind in fact.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQUeK7nYxBQ (2:14)

[NobodyPro]

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Drawing with fingertips is bloody annoying.

[Roostre]

Back when I played World of Warcraft, I did artwork of the characters I played in that game. I figured I'd round up the drawings of dwarves I've done from Tinypic and drop 'em here.

Now, I never have the intention of creating high art when I sit down to draw. In fact, "draw" is a generous term so I'll go with "doodle" instead. I tend to decide to doodle something when I don't have access to a basic artist's needs like non-mechanical pencils or a sketch pad, and will simply work with whatever materials are at hand. Also, I have no scanner. Also, when I decide to digitally color something, I only have an old version of Macromedia Flash to work with.

Here's a dwarf:

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Here's the same dwarf captured in the style of a Gurren Lagann eyecatch:

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Here's the same dwarf making another Gurren Lagann reference:

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Fair warning; the resolution on this one wasn't adjusted:

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This dwarf is French for some reason:

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[wierd]

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Drawing with fingertips is bloody annoying.

Manny Mauel would like to remind everyone that



Keep that in mind the next time you callously decide to be racist against hands everywhere by crudely cutting them out of the picture!

[Jopax]

Have some doodles!

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First one took about half an hour or so, the most helpful bit was mirroring it using layers. Second took about an hour, maybe slightly more, was quite fun to try and achieve the glowy flares that have become so prevalent in SF these days.

[Mr Space Cat]

I drew another thing. Took maybe half an hour, more or less.

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I think I'm getting the hang of SAI and what tools are to be used for what and when and how. Need to work on the digital sketching process and getting a better control of my hand with the tablet. My sketches are way messier than on paper, which is saying something.

[Shook]

Haha, dude, i know that feeling so much. My doodles on paper actually have an acceptable level of smoothness, but come digital and it's like balrgabnrarlarbsl. Possibly has to do with the fact that there are fewer interfaces between you and the drawing on paper. That said though, erasing and refining is WAY quicker and easier on computer, since it takes a million years to do shading with a pencil. Also, super quick doodles on computer are way more visible than super quick doodles on paper. :U

Oh, and i must say that i quite like the style of that green chap. Cartoony thick lines? YES PLS.

anyways while i get off my butt and take photos of the doodles i made on my trip to ENGLAND i shall present to you a



bird

i imagined that all birds in england were like this

my dreams were shattered :c

[Valtam]

Cue the training montage music, this is a bit of what I've been doing today. Spaceships and barbarians will soon have their own time.

Spoiler: A hopeful face to begin with (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: And then it goes (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Those ears (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: A low poly dude, fresh out of his sewer (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: What's this? (click to show/hide)

Spoiler: Looks like a woman! How exciting (click to show/hide)

Actually this has a weird bit of a backstory; a co-worker stood over my shoulder while I was drawing this and pointed how the face resembles "(the synonymous word an argentinean would use for) a batshit insane woman", taking it further to say that her laughter was keenly similar to my own. Never thought of it that way.

And this is how my week ends. Sort of.

[Jopax]

Pip is adorable!

And those faces are creeping me the fuck out :C

I think it's the bulging eyes, but I like the twisted style (if that was intentional, to make them twisted and creepy).

Anyways, some surrealist photos I've looked at recently and some of this have ended with this:

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(not exactly kid friendly mind you)

[wierd]

I haven't finished this latest project I've started yet, and probably won't finish it for some time to come either, but I wanted to mention it anyway.

Out of curiosity, I have decided to convince DF to produce heightmap and feed it into a new world region in skyrim. This has been a rather bumpy and painful journey so far, but it is starting to bear some fruit.

Here's the tentative process I am using:

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1) create an interesting world in DF with advanced features.
[I use an x variance of 600, a y variance of 900, 1000 erosion cycles, and a weighted mesh for elevation. This produces more or less monolithic "shield volcano like" island regions. I use the "large island" as the base parameter set, and then spice it.]

2) export elevation, vegetation, hydrosphere, and biome maps from legends mode for that world.
These will be very large bitmap files, and it takes awhile to generate them. Some of the maps, like vegetation, are black and white heatmaps depicting vegitation density.

3) in paint.net, I open the height map (the one that also records underwater elevations), then rotate the hue by -72 then convert to greyscale. This makes the "blue" underwater elevation pixels into teal, which then more or less seamlessly blends with the rest of the heightmap.

4) combine the other maps into a colorized vertex color map using translucent color layers over the vegetation map.

5) use photoshop to convert the heightmap into a 16bit/channel greyscale image, then use a blur filter to soften the gradiations over the improved bit depth. Save it as a 1 channel 16bit raw file with no header, IBM byte order, noninterleaved.

5) process with tesannwyn (a 3rd party utility for importing heightmaps and terrain for bethesda games) use the 16bit raw for the elevation data, and the colorful combined veg, biome, and moisture map as the vertex color map.

6) load the resulting plugin file with the creation kit, and use the now colorcoded ground to place trees, grasses, plants, rocks and other features.

7) clear the vertex color map using the creation kit's terrain editing abilities, and put tastier looking texture data down using the skyrim default texture libraries.

generate LOD data

9) play on it!

So far, the most I have been able to accomplish is getting tesannwyn to generate a rough terrain model from the hue converted heightmap data from DF.  I had to use 8bit palletized bitmap since I haven't got PS installed on the system I was working with yet. I will dig out the box tonight and fix that.  Turns out that just getting terrain data into the creation kit is a bear! Bethesda refuses to fix the heightmap editing features of the creation kit, claiming they are "legacy", and aren't really supported anymore anyway- the editor crashes the creation kit like an iranian terrorist on a major intercontinental flight.

Even the rough looking import from tesannwyn looks promising though.  Turns out that a "large" world from DF is about the same size (>4 quads! >128x128 cells!) As the main province of skyrim itself is!

River channels, flood plains and the like are clearly defined, and readily visible.

I think this will be a fun, if ambitious little project to keep me busy for awhile.

[Ameablable]

i put my avatar on rotation!
wooo!
heres the new one i added,

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if you don't get it, google "My little mermaid"

i'll be drawing more of my cartoon self impersonating other characters aswell.


ps: Wierd, that sounds crazy complicated but awesome.

[Furtuka]

oh my

[Shook]

that is both disturbing and amusing at the same time

props good sir

@wierd: So wait, let me get this straight. You're taking DF-generated worlds and making them playable in Skyrim? Because that is an extremely noble and awesome endeavour. DF probably has the best randomly generated worlds i've yet to see, so i'm looking forward to seeing the fruits of your labour! c:

@Jopax: Dude that is terrifying. I keep expecting the... Thing to turn around and destroy my soul with a nightmarish visage. Nicely done!

Also i finally got around to photo'ing the 7 drawings/doodles in my sketchbook that have yet to be internetted, so...

Spoiler: fishy gentleman brawler (click to show/hide)

Drew this guy during an excursion, about a month and a half ago. I subsequently noticed that the anatomy is horrible and the fish seems rather stiff, but fuck that, he was fun to draw. :U

Spoiler: BENSEFISH (click to show/hide)

Again during the same excursion, i decided to draw one of the hosts of a video game show thing as a fish. His name's Thomas Bense, so his fish became Bensefish. Now why is he holding a briefcase? Because this particular show (on the internet) always ended with the RED BRIEFCASE, which typically contained some kind of silly thing. Bense loves the red briefcase, but his co-host, Nikolas, hates it. Which leads me to...

Spoiler: NIKOLAKS (click to show/hide)

Or Niko-salmon, if you prefer English. :U
Nikolas hates the red briefcase, so naturally his fish is carrying a large hammer and a hell of a scowl to smash the thing. I am planning to send these two drawings to the hosts at some point, if possible.

Spoiler: a sphere (click to show/hide)

Just an attempt at shading a sphere, following a video that had been recommended to me. Turned out decently well, although it's not really circular.

Spoiler: ANGRY CUPPA TEA (click to show/hide)

Approaching more recent times, i drew this during the flight to England, which might account for somewhat terrible lines. I felt that a cup of tea was relevant to the impending vacation.

Spoiler: CROISSANT (click to show/hide)

And after finishing the cuppa tea, my brother suggested that i draw a croissant. I did, and it turned out unreasonably well for such a quick thing.

Spoiler: Gentlefish. (click to show/hide)

And finally, the gentlefish. Once again, my bro suggested that i added shading and scales, so i tried doing that. I think i might have been too cautious with the shading though, the shadows really should be darker than that.

And there we go, a shitload of doodles! Now to dick around with the tablet..........

Edit: Further inspection of my doodle folder reveals that i might actually have posted the fishy gentleman brawler before, but OH WELL LOL

[wierd]

Shook:

Yes.  DF can export a 2d graphical heightmap from legends mode. You can also export maps for vegetation density, water availablity, and biome designations.

Those 2d graphics, properly mangled and spoonfed into tesannwyn, will allow you to create a plugin for skyrim that has the ground with proper elevation data, and a big colorful texture painted on it to help you put trees and flowing water down.

"Large island"/"large region" produces a height map bitmap big enough to rival the world geometry of the main game. The crude elevation data I have gotten with improperly prepared input images has resulted in .esp files that are 22mb in size.

I want a good, smooth and proper terrain to work with, so I haven't done anything with the crude plugin I made except poke around inside it.

Ultimately, I want to walk around on the resulting geometry.  I have genned a particularly neat looking world with a very large and profound mountain lake that I think will be quite pleasant.