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[DoctorMcTaalik]

Made a demon generator a while back. Figured I might as well share it, since I probably won't end up using it for anything.

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Link to the Generator
Full Sample Album

[BlackFlyme]

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Wish I had a working scanner. It looks squished because I took it from my phone.

[Jopax]

I agree, i really do need to practice that some more. But, this is just a sketch to help me plop down the colours in the right places, i didn't intend the lines to be particularly fantastic. Were i to make it a proper line arty thing, i'd do it over once more and make the lines less terrible, of course. :v (also worth noting is that accuracy is inherently limited with a small tablet such as a Bamboo Pen and my GRANDIOSE SWEEPING MOTIONS)

not that my lines are any more precise on a larger tablet

<sup>also the nib on my stylus is starting to be worn

but oh well</sup>

That's what extra nibs are for silly :p

Anyways, I'm no expert on composition but I hope you don't mind some observations on my part:

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1. Your focal point is dead centered, which is rather dull as the eye will go there, following the road and then what? It also makes it rather dull and lifeless, try moving it left or right and curving the road accordingly. The c-curve idea with the coast you have is good but the placement of the focal point isn't.
2.This is the secondary focal point I guess, but it's also placed poorly, especially when you take into account the line leading to it, which is leading the eye out of the piece, it's also rather close to the original focal point which makes the image very heavy in this part, with little else going in the rest of it, again, makes for a boring piece. You could try fixing this by moving it to the right after you've moved the original focus point to the left, would create a nice zig-zag motion for the eye to follow, to fix the issue of it leading out of the image, consider some clouds to loop the eye back in or something, but nothing too big.
3. Same as 2 really, the curve is leading into nothingness and away from the main focal point. Again fixed by moving the focal point left (or rather, moving the viewpoint so that the focal point is to the left and the curve of the coast is leading towards it).
4. Isn't really composition as much as it is perspective, the road and the cliffs don't line up when you consider the size of the road, either make the foreground ones bigger or the background ones smaller.

Hopefully this isn't too harsh and is of some help

[Shook]

[EXTREMELY OFFENDED]

Nah dude i really appreciate it, it's hard to learn from my mistakes if i don't know that i've made them, so thank goodness for knowledgable people pointing them out. :v
's all valid critique you've listed, so i'm not even going to bother arguing, although i feel like i should provide at least a tiny bit of clarification regarding the way i've placed things before i either chop it up and Frankenstein it back together or draw a new thing:

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SPIRAL. There's also an underlying golden ratio grid underneath which i've formed the spiral after, but honestly i haven't used it as much as i should.

also i don't even know if i have extra nibs aaa

meanwhile i have also painted an overexposed pear in like 5 minutes

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THE STALK HAS GONE HOLLOW

As much as i like saturated colours and contrast, i may actually have overdone it here. :U

[TD1]

I agree, Shook. It obviously went pear shaped.

[Dorsidwarf]

Do an apple an orange, and a lemon too.

[hops]

That is one shiny pear.

[TD1]

I did something! Ignore the lines beneath it, that was a failed attempt.

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Granted it's not very good, but given the most art I'd done a month or so ago included stick figures (and not even good stick figures) I'll take it as an improvement.

[hops]

Granted it's not very good,

fight me

[TD1]

Oh, yea? Draw your sword!

[Jopax]

Other than the fact that it's legs seem to be on different planes, that's a pretty neat bug there

Also shook, the golden ration is kinda bollocks in anything but architecture. What you want is the rule of thirds, dynamic balance and a bunch of other terms I can't remember right now. I'll see if I can find a decent tutorial of some of the often used compositional tools.

But really, the best approach to this stuff is to see some master painters and try and figure out how and why they composed their stuff as they did and then try and apply that stuff to your works. No point in bumbling around in the dark if most of the room has been mapped beforehand, just gotta learn how to read the maps

[NJW2000]

In braille.

[TD1]

Other than the fact that it's legs seem to be on different planes, that's a pretty neat bug there

I think they were, though - the picture I used had the bug on a curvy leafy thing, so the legs were splayed out a bit.

[Dorsidwarf]

Spoiler: Kind of an epilepsy warning, especially in the dark (click to show/hide)

[Shook]

Also shook, the golden ration is kinda bollocks in anything but architecture. What you want is the rule of thirds, dynamic balance and a bunch of other terms I can't remember right now. I'll see if I can find a decent tutorial of some of the often used compositional tools.

But really, the best approach to this stuff is to see some master painters and try and figure out how and why they composed their stuff as they did and then try and apply that stuff to your works. No point in bumbling around in the dark if most of the room has been mapped beforehand, just gotta learn how to read the maps

If nothing else then i can at least borrow books in the library, they have quite a few. :v
As for mapped room metaphor, i totally get what you're saying (and it is absolutely a good idea to look at how masters do their thang, i would recommend that to everyone), but my brain is silly and wants to look for the less trodden paths, to see if there might be something cool hidden there. In other words, maybe there are other ways to do things that i like better, even if they may be less effective at getting me from A to B. If not, well, i'll happily take the trodden path to victory. :U

Do an apple an orange, and a lemon too.

I'LL GET BACK TO YOU ON THIS

fruits are okay

I agree, Shook. It obviously went pear shaped.

YOUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

THAT

was berry good and i can't believe i didn't see that coming