the 'Draw your Character' thread [Archive] - Page 2

Vae Victis

06-09-05, 13:53

Clive is right, I didnt model it. (didnt say I did :p)

I had a picture, with that "monk" in it, so I took that picture, and rendered that monk.
rendering = cutting out the model, deleting the background so you can use that model on any signature you desire.
rendering takes a while, but as I said Ive used that picture before, so I didnt have to render it for the fire apoc picture.

Hell, I wish I could model a monk like that, then I'd work for KK and we'd have kickass monks in stead of dress-less monks running around like we have these day ;)

I don't model myself, I just make signatures, make a background, take the render (model), blend it in, brush a bit, use some filters, blur it, etc etc.
Ive come to the point where I can insert AVI files.
after Ive done some more sigs, Im going for a huge project, involving a PvP movie, where I take a part of it, put it in the sig, blend it in and have a quote on it that says "You'll never die alone". that's the idea Ive got in mind.
(I would need a PvP movie where alot of people die close to eachother, FaNG PvP movie perhaps?)

but I'd love to make u a sig Asurmen, it keeps me busy as I still don't have my NC account :D

(and compared to the real GFX artists, my sigs suck bigtime, tbh)

I just LOVE grunge style. although I overdid it on this picture.
I like:
grunge
filters only.
as Sonny said, there's really ALOT of tutorials.
the way Sonny does his/her models.. that's 1337.
What I do, isn't really that hard if you know the basics.
Ive gotten this far (*cough* far *cough*) by doing tutorials.
the first few sigs I made, was an exact copy of a Tut.
And now, if I don't know how to do something, I check a tut, do 1 part of it and it's done.
I need to work on scanlines, I don't know how do to them.
some tutorials explain them, but I'm not english, and I dont understand tutorials 100%. I still dont know what some things in PS mean, I only know what effect I get.
I can go on forever really.

I loved the sigs Ascention made for the forums here, I wanted to do that kind of stuff. He said he got it all by doing it himself, experimenting iirc.
thats what Im doing now.
<3 Ascention, my inspiration source o_O ;)

Vae Victis

06-09-05, 15:06

for asurmen;
http://img385.imageshack.us/img385/8623/asurmenspecops0vk.jpg

PMed u this pic also.
monk is getting boring :/

definately not my best sig ever, way too bright and shiny

Clive tombstone

06-09-05, 22:48

Vae Victis

06-09-05, 22:53

Good news, my 5th quarter is almost done (about 3 more weeks including this one) So Ill be able to post some of my works, Including my animation and 3D characters Ive been working on. Even though they're not Cyber punk, its still art. so yah. BTW, kick ass looking monk man. Just wish I could remember where you found it >_<I cant remember which game it's from.
coz I downloaded a render pack (errr 1600+ models) and this one was in the "unsorted game" folder.
Ive got another Prince of Persia monk lookalike, but he's got swords on him.
The monk itself is kickass, but I find it boring to use the same model on other signatures. Have to find new ones.
I cant find any of Neocron, at least not good ones, Ive tried a screenshot, didnt work :/
I had one for my nc1 PE Caladbolg, it was a guy from driv3r, with his gun pointing towards the viewer. added some effects, some animated rain, looks like a PE with a gun, in my case a Wyatt.
Think Ive still got it somewhere, have to search for it.

Koshinn

07-09-05, 00:29

aKe`cj

07-09-05, 02:12

In conclusion... I don't think your usage of the term "render" is accurate nor correct... the term "cut out" might be better. :p

jfyi... the technically correct & common term for cutting out something from a picture is "to crop" or if you like, "mask" ..tho' thats more what you do prior to the crop :)
Besides... if I publish a picture where the main eye-candy is not done by me, but a copy & paste effort, I point to that fact. ;)

Koshinn

07-09-05, 02:13

jfyi... the technically correct & common term for cutting out something from a picture is "to crop" or if you like, "mask" ..tho' thats more what you do prior to the crop :)
Besides... if I publish a picture where the main eye-candy is not done by me, but a copy & paste effort, I point to that fact. ;)

Guess the term crop would work, since that's technically a way to do it (select then crop) but there are other ways like erasing everything else or using various filters. Mask is something entirely different however.

Vae Victis

07-09-05, 18:02

Tbh, Im not english, I dont know EVERY word there is.
a model like that was, afaik, called a "render" and to cut it out was called "rendering".
thats wot they say on the GFX sites.
But I'll go with "cut out" for this time ;)

and frankly I dont know what render means, just knew what it does.
same goes for most Photoshop terms.
mask, vector, gradient.. wtf is a gradient o_O I only know what it does, sort of (Never used it though).
And I cba to read it all with my English2Dutch dictionary, soz :D

@ ake, in most sigs from LOTS of people, the "render" aka model isnt his/hers. cutting is very difficult if you wanna get good quality, specially the hair. the monk I had, easy to cut out. but if you take, IE a rl girl, try cutting her out, it's a serious bitch (the cutting, not the girl).

and I never said I was any good at it, I just like doing it o_O (same like sex :lol: )

Asurmen Spec Op

07-09-05, 22:54

can I have one with the boobies?

It fits me perfect tbh

Vae Victis

07-09-05, 23:17

but Dem Applez = VENOM speak :(
Jester used to say it on vent all the times.
how you like dem applez?
applez makes me think of boobs, cant help it.
I'll see if i can get u one with quote/unquote: the fantastic four.
if you have no clue of what Im talking about, read this:
http://www.johnandjohn.nl/write/jaj417.gif

Asurmen Spec Op

08-09-05, 00:32

rofl!

just replace apples with TITTIES!

or something that no one would be supprised about me saying

Vae Victis

08-09-05, 17:27

or something that no one would be supprised about me sayingI can try and make a "6th sense" sig, with a quote saying: "I love dead people"

(wasnt that scary movie? :p)

Asurmen Spec Op

09-09-05, 03:34

Id kiss you

Vae Victis

09-09-05, 19:41

Ill start on saturday, seeing as I got friends coming over tonight (Yes, no NC made me havin a RL and getting friends.. stupid PBC)

Sunny Rosalind

11-09-05, 03:22

Sorry I haven't posted anything recently. I've been pretty busy recently!

I've been trying to work on my male physique and body structure seeing as I think I'm pretty good in the female anatomy.

I didn't have enough time to finish the entire thing, but with the way it looks... it probably would look better as an unfinished thing (like the last thing I did) although this was done purely for practice on the male structure.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/psimonkguy.jpg

He's supposed to be a psi monk but I don't think his build is frail enough to exemplify the whole 'mind over matter' motif that the psi monks seem to have. He's lean and athletic, maybe more of a spy/PE physique.

His face is really kind of odd looking but it's rather intended. I have always felt that psi monks should be grotesque looking or else there would be no reason for them to be mistreated other than jealousy (ooh! he can savagely murder people using nothing but their own thoughts and he gets all the ladies?! we are SO overthrowing their government). Also, since the psi monks were 'evolved' in a deep dark cave, it probably wasn't very easy to see each other and as a result people probably didn't realize how ugly their wives or husbands were... :)

I didn't bother with the legs... I haven't drawn male legs in so long and his legs are long, curvaceous and womanly - not frail and bony. It made him look like a russian ballet dancer and I wasn't too happy with it!

In my brain psi monketry should be a curse just as much as it is a gift. Psi monks should be rather grotesque and sickly looking physically while possibly viewing the world from a slightly less normal perspective as non-psi monks. I dunno, either a more vibrant world, or a darker, drearier world (maybe both, depending on how much psi energy the psi monk has?)

Maybe someone else out there would like to draw their interpretation on how an average psi monk looks?

Clive tombstone

11-09-05, 07:31

Man, nice work on the, err, man, rose! =P anywho, Im getting antzy right now. Only 2 more weeks and the quarters over, and Ill post my finals works then. Not so much cyber punk (there IS some) but yah, I know I sound like I'm blowin a lot of hot air right now, but I've been getting no sleep working on my finals. Please understand.

Peace out

PS-Nice Signatures guys haha! :D

Heavyporker

11-09-05, 09:24

well, sunny, his chest looks too... *cough*... bosomy. I like the face, it's interesting. Hips definitely not mannish. I suggest making his hips same size as his chest, not shoulders, that should give the proper perspective. Don't definite his pectorals so much, they look like tits, frankly. The shading only worsens the problem - I suggest a larger shiny area to "flatten" the pectorals, if you must define them.

oh, and his forearms are too thick in comparison to his biceps... But get the proportions right, and you're pretty much there in the "skinny, frail guy" sense.

Hell-demon

11-09-05, 12:03

Any word on the comic???? :rolleyes:

Clive tombstone

11-09-05, 18:41

Yah, my work stopped me from mostly working on it, but itll get done dont worry.

Vae Victis

11-09-05, 19:27

just finished my last siggy
http://img8.imageshack.us/img8/9871/valo6zn.jpg
it's not perfect, but I think it's my best so far.
took me about an hour (K, while chatting to lovely birds on msn :D right roger? ;))

The model reminds me of the nc1 redheaded PE.
I wish I would've left the "Neocron2, Beyond Dome of York" out of the sig.
but hey this is NC :D
plus I can just remove it from the PSD file and save it again for other forums.

iCe

Vae Victis

11-09-05, 23:57

made one just the same for a m8;
http://img398.imageshack.us/img398/6585/yoshimitsu0qz.jpg
I'm liking this new grunge style :D
Altough I like his better :(

Heavyporker

12-09-05, 08:17

Oh, forgot to bring this up - That mech-bot and the guy got an article in Wired! It was pretty damn cool to read it in there.

Oh, and progress reports :

- Ain't going back in Neocron - all the Neocron files got corrupted AGAIN, so I'm thinking it's a computer issue, cannot fucking pinpoint what the hell is going on in there

- side comic project - Not good. I lost the sheet detailing what I had planned for the first few, so I can't really wing it that well. I'll keep working on it, but still... grrr!

- summer scribbles - They're okay, but I got to find the damn scanner cds to reinstall them on this computer (if I use this fucktard again) or reattach the scanner to my laptop so I can scan them in.

Sunny, just wait to be blown away! :p Underwhelmed, perhaps would be more like it.

Clive tombstone

12-09-05, 08:21

Like the Teken guy Yoshimitsu. Definatly fits the Cyber punk genre (being a cyberpunk himself anyways =D) Keep at it HP, Id like to see your work.

Vae Victis

12-09-05, 17:50

I saw this model, and his left eye.. I was like "Revengers Eye" (smurf for the ignorant :p)
anyway:
http://img191.imageshack.us/img191/6711/revengerseye5ip.jpg

Ehhh basically this has nothing to do with NC whatsoever, just the name Revengers Eye...
added some brushes and filters.. thats it.
nothing special really...

Sunny Rosalind

14-09-05, 02:27

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/BDgal2.jpg

She's a badass BD chick with a cigar (yes, that's what the brown thing in her hand is :P)

I didn't put in a background because she's supposed to be leaning on a bar table - I didn't realize until I was halfway done with the thing that all of the bars in NC are waist height and not elbow height... :(

Looking back at it I don't like the clothing or color scheme (too piratey?) but I do like the pose and expression :)

Heavyporker

14-09-05, 10:37

Hmmm... aren't there some lamp fixtures at elbow height, maybe? Or maybe she's leaning on her boyfriend's shoulder. Or she's leaning on one of these high-backed wooden chairs in Via Rosso, these fancy ones, you know?

Oh, and scanner is hooked up to my laptop now. It won't be long! :D

Sunny Rosalind

15-09-05, 02:00

I dunno Heavy! I don't think it would be very comfortable to be leaning like that on a lamp/boyfriend's shoulder/chair!

I'm really looking forward to seeing some of your stuff :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/BDgal3.jpg

My last doodle was a BD chick completely empowered by drugs, being agressive and dominating. This one is on the opposite side of the spectrum, a BD woman hopelessly addicted to a certain drug and unable to afford many of the necessities for life due to her drug problem. She's more of a hippy than the last doodle.

Her clothes are rather simple but I wanted it that way; she's supposed to be too poor to afford fancypants clothing :)

QuakCow

15-09-05, 04:25

do stick figures count? :p

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/QuakCow/Gunstik.jpg

Asurmen Spec Op

15-09-05, 04:54

I also can do stick figure action!
http://www.golddisksoftware.com/pwn.png

ZoVoS

15-09-05, 06:15

i was bored

FFS took 5 whole mins to render... n i forgot shadows wich will take 10X longer

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/9135/magal2bg.jpg

EDIT

CRANK UP THE PSI N LET THE SHADOWS FREE

http://img367.imageshack.us/img367/8931/crank6or.jpg

ZoVoS

15-09-05, 07:18

ran out of time to edit the dam thing... i dont like the face far to clean, far to nc1 beta esk

so i did this instead

http://img378.imageshack.us/img378/9549/final6rp.jpg

Clive tombstone

15-09-05, 07:30

VERY nice zorvos what did you do to construct the model zorvos?

Hell-demon

15-09-05, 17:07

I think he used the "Wherethefucksthecomic?TM" tool :rolleyes:

Tratos

15-09-05, 17:15

I think he used the "Wherethefucksthecomic?TM" tool :rolleyes:O_o You'd rather Clive did your comic than continued with his education to secure him better qualifications?

I dont think he would, you cant expect time from somone if they have none to spare.

ZoVoS

15-09-05, 23:22

incase ur wondering kiddies yes thoes clothes are the textures used in neocron 1 for a psi monk femail, n the face is based on the look aswell, however i dislike the lac of hair

aKe`cj

16-09-05, 10:59

incase ur wondering kiddies yes thoes clothes are the textures used in neocron 1 for a psi monk femail, n the face is based on the look aswell, however i dislike the lac of hair

If I'm not mistaken the model is (c)KK rather than created by you ..right? :)
But nways.. good work on the head part of it!!!

Heavyporker

16-09-05, 13:11

yeah, thought that face looked familiar.

I got to admit, pretty nice!

Koshinn

16-09-05, 17:26

Looks like a standard poser head combined with the monk body model and texture. Good job though

Clive tombstone

16-09-05, 19:47

I would like to appologize to you guys for the lack of comics, especially hell deamon. I've been literally living at school for the past five days getting more work done, and Im pretty sure Ill be working Today, tommorrow, sunday through wensday non stop. So bare with me ok? Art school isnt a cake walk, no matter how many people say it is.

PEace out

Hell-demon

16-09-05, 21:43

[Tender Loving Care]: Clive the more you work the better your artwork will become thus making the comics kick ass and a merit to your talents. Remember we're here for you and we like you...alot :angel:

[Tough Love]: oooohh boo hoo works sucks! If you cant handle work than you can't handle anything. Now get a can of whipped cream and squirt into your mouth :mad:

[Neutral]: Take ya time we just wan't to know how things are going.

I'm feeling bi-polar today..... O_o 8| :eek:

Dribble Joy

16-09-05, 22:17

Where is the comic btw? As in a url.

And don't worry, as bad as the artwork may be in your comic, it's not as bad as the artwork in mine.

Asurmen Spec Op

16-09-05, 23:11

SoloStrike

19-09-05, 19:12

Pls show us more of your great artworks Sunny Rosalind,

:)

they are great..

hope to see more from you soon

yours solo

aKe`cj

21-09-05, 02:14

they are great..

hope to see more from you soon

I second that !

.... :p

Clive tombstone

21-09-05, 08:04

yes! finalys are finished on thursday! Ill show you guys some of the projects I had to work on then, but Im not sure how to show videos, I had a 2d animation I had turned in for a final.

anywho, gotta get some sleep.

PEace out

Razzor

21-09-05, 14:41

http://itf05b.itg-media.de/Elleth_VYThreePosing.JPG

This is one of my chars on mars, i like her ^^

Sunny, wanna paint her 4 me, too ? ^^

Heavyporker

21-09-05, 14:47

Oghh... OGH!!! OGGgggghh....

*smiles contently through the spreading wetness*

That's sure a purty character you got there, Miss Razzor.

:P

Clive tombstone

21-09-05, 17:59

O_o *Wears a hasmat suit to avoid the wetness*

:D

Anywho, thats pretty nice looking, what did you use for that? 3ds Max? or Maya?

Razzor

21-09-05, 18:02

A good friend of me make it with poser

Heavyporker

21-09-05, 21:30

Well, have that friend join KK and make nudie strippers for them, dammit!

Asurmen Spec Op

21-09-05, 23:05

8|
good thing I didnt look at this thread during school!

Clive tombstone

21-09-05, 23:27

Riddle

21-09-05, 23:46

aKe`cj

22-09-05, 00:08

Just to note, Im guessing that you guys havnt seen poser before...
________________

Anywho, thats pretty nice looking, what did you use for that? 3ds Max? or Maya?

A good friend of me make it with poser

sorry... couldnt resist :D

Clive tombstone

22-09-05, 02:14

Number one, I know I should be a little more light hearted about this, but Poser is for the most is exactly what it is called, its a "poser". You move around pre built models of human figuers for the most part, or "import Geometry" that youve created previously, thats why for the most part, you can create models in 3dS Max and put them in poser.

Now I will admit that...
Quote:
Originally Posted by Clive tombstone
Anywho, thats pretty nice looking, what did you use for that? 3ds Max? or Maya?

Quote:
Originally Posted by Razzor
A good friend of me make it with poser

Was really silly of me :D

Sunny Rosalind

22-09-05, 04:15

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/antimony.jpg

That's a pretty quick doodle I did earlier today! Aside from some of the obvious anatomical oddities (the legs, eyes) I think it's pretty good. The hair looks really matted down, but I was sort of aiming for that. The lower section of the hair had some rather interesting curls that are pretty tough to see with the darkness of the background, but I couldn't really find any other backgroundthat would fit... :)

My next doodle will be of Razzor's char! My rule on doodling requests is basically only to draw them if the person has posted them on the thread first :)

This thread is for everyone to post their vision of a char in NC through their own eyes. There's bound to be something getting lost in char interpretation when it goes from the brain, into words, and back into someone elses head. Besides, I understand things best when I see pictures (it's just how I learn!) :)

I'm really looking forward to seeing your stuff Clive, I'm sure it'll be amazing :)

See all of you guys soon!

Asurmen Spec Op

22-09-05, 04:50

Very nice sunny as usual

Clive tombstone

22-09-05, 06:33

This is my 3d project right here. Ive never really used 3DSmax before until I came to this school, but I can tell you it was a lot of fun. For one thing getting textures was interesting, I went down to a lake near my house and took some photos of pond scum and photoshoped them up. That and he was box modeled a lot. Too bad his poly count is so damned high, I need to reduce his polys by a ton to get him "rig-able", btw if anyone wants to know why his stomach looks a little pixil wierdy, well its because I dont know how to unwrap models correctly =P Ill learn that next quarter, woot :D

anywho, ill try and find some way to post my quicktime animation somehow. till then, PEace out

PS-nice picture rose, once again your females are really well done, despite your so called "deformities". Keep it up

Hell-demon

23-09-05, 22:21

aaawwww how cute

Asurmen Spec Op

23-09-05, 22:46

aaawwww how cute

MMMsexable

Clive tombstone

24-09-05, 04:20

Thank you for the response, I dont know if hell is somewhat angry at me for not getting the comic done, but Ill have an example of how my characters have improved somewhat. Ill post "her" later tommorrow when I get the chance, heck I might even photoshop her (hell maybe even ask rose to do it :D ) after that. Ill start working on a few of the strips this break, I promis (epsecially since I wont be doing much at all.)

PEace out, and keep up the good work.

Koshinn

24-09-05, 05:06

Just to note, Im guessing that you guys havnt seen poser before, well its specifically used for HIGH poly units and key framing animation. However the point Im saying is that that model was most likly a pre-fab. I believe Ive seen it befor, but then agian I could be wrong, but just for the distance, heres the website link and some screenies, its a awsome program.
http://www.e-frontier.com/go/products/poser

PS-Im not calling your buddy a faker, Im just not sure if his work is his "own" but for good lengths I dont remember a trench coat model in poser, so for that my judgement is more leaned to that he actually did it. more power to him if he did.

PEace out

The model looks like victoria. Hair is nice, the trench is a freebie though. In Poser, anything you make is pretty much "your own", it says so in models you download. As in, you get a license by the creator to use the model you've downloaded for any private purpose... if you paid for it, you get to use it in commercial uses too (but you'd have to read the readme/license, it's different for everything). In fact, 99% of Poser users only do the most obvious thing, they pose stuff. They download other people's models (for a fee or maybe not), combine them and make a picture... that's why it's called Poser, not Maya. Frankly, you cannot model in Poser... you'd have to make models in something like 3dS Max, Maya, Lightwave, Rhino, Cinema4D or any other 3d program.

Btw.. Poser 6??? I had 4... and gave up when 5 came out. If you're interested in Poser stuff, check out www.renderosity.com . Free membership, you can browse their gallery after you sign up... about 100 new pictures every day. Some suck, some use the standard models (posette), some are awesome... but because of its nature, Poser takes very well to still shots with a lot of afterwork in Photoshop. Renderosity also has tons of free poser stuff and a market place where you can buy stuff. Renderosity isn't only a Poser site though, it is a website for cg art in general, but Poser happens to be the biggest part.

Heavyporker

24-09-05, 19:09

Used to be a lot of pornographically inclined stuff in Renderosity, though, from what I remember from going through its galleries a year ago or so.

*blushes*

Koshinn

24-09-05, 19:50

Used to be a lot of pornographically inclined stuff in Renderosity, though, from what I remember from going through its galleries a year ago or so.

*blushes*
not really, porn isn't allowed there... there is a lot of "artistic nudity" though

Clive tombstone

25-09-05, 08:43

Well its a little crappy, but itll do for now. I cant seem to get my Cleaning meathods for this image right. Anywho, ill send a fresh scan to Rose if she wants to do it.

Heavyporker

25-09-05, 19:10

There's artistic, and there's pornographic.

But then again, if I was in front of a Senate committee, I'd say that Playboy's artistic and all the rest would be smut, just to save it from the censors. There's something to be said for quality, you know!

Sunny Rosalind

26-09-05, 04:00

Hi :)

I finished Razzor's request to draw his char Elleth... I think it came out pretty nice in terms of anatomy and the only thing that really bothers me is her pelvis. I didn't stick solidly by Razzor's suggestions but I it seems to fit his char's description and motif pretty well :)

The one thing I'm particularly fond of in this doodle is the boots. I had way too much fun drawing them :P

Here's a few post-inking WIP shots:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/requests/elleth.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/requests/elleth2.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/requests/ellethfinal.jpg

Edit: It sure does feel weird putting in a watermark in it... :(
Double Edit: Cool! Only 3 more views until we hit 10K!! :)

Asurmen Spec Op

26-09-05, 04:36

Looks pretty awsome sunny, keep up the great art
:)

Clive tombstone

27-09-05, 09:26

:D Good news guys (or at least I think it is) I got my CD back containing my 2d animation I did for my final back from me teacher. Mind you this is a "principles" class so its very basic. I know someone was asking to see it but Im to tired right now to look who asked what up. Its in Quicktime format right now, but does anyone have some suggestions on how I could post it?

on anouther subject, anyone have some crits for my Female there? Im out of contact of my other art buddies right now (they're all aperently getting Mexican Ale and whor- err Acheem, Excitable women, down in mexico right now). Critiques would be welcomed, as they always help me improve my style. And lastly, I promise Ill have at least one strip (sketched out befor the weeks over) I dont have the proper photoshop skills to do it justice, but Ill try.

PEace out, and woot, we hit 10k views! Greatest thread ever :angel:

PS-once again nice fems Rose :D

Skusty

27-09-05, 09:42

Nice sunny :D

Heavyporker

27-09-05, 11:08

Man! That's a quite nice girl, that elleth.

I have to admit, I like these boots too, even though they're not *strictly* functional.

For some reason, the show "The Cut" just popped in my head when I saw this picture. Probably because it reminds me of that episode where Hilfiger had the contestants try to do some sort of "urban chic for the next season" thing.

I reeeeeeeeeeeeeally like her shirt... that "ice crystal" effect or something.. that absolutely rocks. The darker skin completely kicks ass, but the blue eyes is kinda... unexpected. Kind of contrasty to her skin.

Lost my drawing pencil set and I'm just grouchy over it. Probably gonna break down, weep, and just post my drawings as-is. I really don't like my newer drawings as-is, since my normal practice is conceptal sketches then I slowly modify into the final outcome. Takes a long-ass time, for me anyway, but it's like the only way I can work. Something like OCD or something. Heh. Some of the pictures must have like ragged spots where I erased so often.

note- that other thread, the N.ed thread with the crazy epic story, must have hit like 100k views and 50 pages, Clive...

Clive tombstone

27-09-05, 18:55

WE'll get there some day heavy :D .

Clive tombstone

28-09-05, 03:33

Well I went back and spent a few hours on coloring, and I finished it (I think) I didnt put ina background because I was pretty much at school (yes on my school breaks I still go to school, for other reasons) anywho, 'ope you guys like it. Anywho, better get chopp'in on the comic strip, ill try and get one done soon.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/almostdone.jpg

PS-anyone know a good way to host a Small quicktime mov.? Its my animation final. PEace out

ZoVoS

28-09-05, 04:42

love ur pic mun =] colour was to pale on my monitor so i made it a lil stronger hope u dont mind :D

http://img100.imageshack.us/img100/3858/almostdone14wg.jpg

if u find a way to host mov's can u post it here, i hvae some nice 3d animations i wana host

Clive tombstone

28-09-05, 05:20

Nice shadows man, what did you use to do that?

ZoVoS

28-09-05, 05:26

colour burned em in on photoshop. best to use multiple layers so u dont fuck the origional pic, then i added a textured beval because i cant find ma Cinema4D's serial number so i cant make a flat 3d mesh n bump bits manualy =[

the rest is just messing around with the hue saturation curves and so on

http://img399.imageshack.us/img399/1688/almostdone1copy7oa.jpg

Clive tombstone

29-09-05, 02:00

well I tried your tip you added, I think its pretty good, I was wondering what "texture" you used for the pants to make them look more "jeans" like

anywho here she is

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/new.jpg

getting shadows was a problem, I coulda but didnt, I prolly will next time, anywho, back to work.

PS how did you get rid of all the white around her?

Koshinn

29-09-05, 05:25

I reeeeeeeeeeeeeally like her shirt... that "ice crystal" effect or something.. that absolutely rocks. The darker skin completely kicks ass, but the blue eyes is kinda... unexpected. Kind of contrasty to her skin.

Urban camo methinks.

Heavyporker

29-09-05, 17:49

Ah! Urban camo...

hmm...

well, considering that DoY has such a grunky color palette, the MB is dingy beige and rust, and Neocron is gray/white/black... that's hardly *really* urban camo. Unless you're talking about Tech Haven, whereupon anyone wearing that in a full-suit will frigging DISAPPEAR!

Oh, and I got time to scan in my pieces, so I'm doing them now. Thank goodness for college arts major, mucho flex in schedules.

Clive tombstone

29-09-05, 21:29

Hey heavy, which college you in? Im at the art Institute of San Diego, ow bout you?

QuakCow

30-09-05, 00:43

eh? theres an art institute of sd? O_o

aaanyways, i think i have a fun little thing that i need to scan

Sunny Rosalind

30-09-05, 02:54

Razzor said that he wanted me to doodle his char with a sleevless blue camo shirt, black pants, cowboy boots, long blue hair, and a long unbuttoned black trench coat :) I had a lot of trouble with the trench coat so I erased it out, and spiced up the boots to make them look more futuristic :P

I drew another stripper while trying to work on my anatomy and proportions and general 'sultry appearance' that I somehow achieved with my first stripper :P

If the last stripper attempt was a circus-freak stripper, this one is a marching band geek stripper (not by intent... I guess it's the thick gold strings that make me feel that way :P)

Her face looks really kind of mopey but still sort of mysterious, which is cool :)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/stripper.jpg

I'm in the process of trying to fix up Clive's pirate doodle but this is the first time I've ever tried to work on someone else's art! It's a very new experience for me! I'll have it done eventually! :)

I'm also really looking forward to seeing your (quak and heavy)'s doodles! I can't wait!! :)

Heavyporker

30-09-05, 06:47

Er, Sunny, that looks more like a gypsy gal to me 0_o

And, Clive, I'm an Art and Tech major at Ohio State University, you know, not the technical arts stuff like graphics design or stuff like that, but rather, conceptual 3d sculpture, robotics and interactive new media and such.

Clive tombstone

30-09-05, 07:58

cool stuff, I shoulda said Im a game art & design major (covering 3d modeling, Character/story/environment concept design, and animation, ect.) Im only a 3rd of the way through he entire thing, but I've learned a lot, an hopefully Ill be able to support myself in my field Im going into (or so we all hope huh?)

Lookin forward to seeing your stuff guys. PS-Hell Ill be working on the comic, just asking some friends on methods for doing webcomics.

pps- nice highlights on the ass region Rose, very nice :D

PEace out

Heavyporker

01-10-05, 08:43

Fuckin'ally the damn things get scanned in. I can't believe how tricky it was to adjust the scans to be anywhere near the original drawings. Well, not drawings, but more sketches, as I said.

I'm very much unhappy with them. So embarassing, but it's time to simply let them go.

1 - scanner didn't like this one, apparently. I think I have to re-scan this on different settings. Pic on left is a monk in an abbey. Pic on left is a spy in PA looking at his last pill.

2 - a smuggler PSI Monk handing over a datadisc to a nasty GenTank. I seriously thought about coloring this one simply to show off the cybereye in the GenTank.

3 - Pic on left is a hacker spy at a citycom. Note hacktool and stealthtool. I tried to be a bit stylish in this one. I frigging love the citycom here. Pic on right is an crazed Anarchy Breed gal that's been using salvaged armor. Her skirt is a tire hub with chains attached. Yes, these are fishing hooks braided into her hair. Proportions simply suck in this one. I totally messed it all up.

4 - This is a Tangent tough being ambushed. The eyes, I rather like, but wish I did them better. Whole scene seems a bit... off. Probably the face's proportions.

5 - This is a very rough sketch of a hunting scene. A gentank and female rifler spy in here, they've just taken down a Reaper-class creature. Yes, that's a new gun design. I like to think of it as either a large-bore sabot thrower or even better, a REAL shotgun cannon. Mmmmm.

Tidus_Origin

01-10-05, 16:22

I like to think of it as either a large-bore sabot thrower or even better, a REAL shotgun cannon. Mmmmm.

Mmmmmm, indeed.

I need to get some drawings done...haven't done any since my black dragon guy... :lol:

Dribble Joy

01-10-05, 22:32

Have another one I banged out in front of the telly in about 5 mins.

Asurmen Spec Op

02-10-05, 00:24

I wonder what shes smoking :/

Skusty

02-10-05, 00:29

I wonder what shes smoking :/
Your hair she stole in your last fight with her.

Asurmen Spec Op

02-10-05, 00:32

Your hair she stole in your last fight with her.
ow :/

Dribble Joy

02-10-05, 04:28

Joint duh.. RF/NS mix.

Heavyporker

05-10-05, 02:11

You know, Sunny has been doing way too much of the drawing on this thread.

Maybe we could include "characters in sigs" as a way to get more people interested in showing off?

CMaster

05-10-05, 02:14

You saw the quality of my drawing earlier in the thread. YOu don't want more of that. I'll just sit here and appreciate the art, thanks.

Terayon

05-10-05, 03:50

Both my friggin scanners broke..... :(

Clive tombstone

05-10-05, 08:05

sw33t, me and me buddies from Always tommorrow (http://greaterevil.com/AT/) are starting up a weekly Webcomic meeting, so Ill be able to actually construct some comics soon, with help of course.

PS sorry hell for nothing yet, I just got back in school, and over my break, I ended up doing more work for money than for play (gotta get money for books somehow)

Heavyporker

05-10-05, 21:51

get moving on that frigging Neocron webcomic, dammit!

Skusty

05-10-05, 21:53

Sunny Rosalind

06-10-05, 03:08

I don't like posting in this thread without a doodle so here's an older thingy I did that I quickly colored in! :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/quickie.jpg

OK! Now that that's out of the way... :P

Heavyporker - I loved how you didn't just focus on one person at a time but instead thought out the entire scene! That's really cool and takes a great deal of work (judging by how everything meshes together, it's obvious that you thought of the scenes before drawing it on paper)... My favorite 'scene' is the tangent guy being ambushed (#4), it looks like it came straight out of a movie! The monk and spy one (#1) comes in a close second, I really like the spy's expression.

Tidus - I really loved your BD guy, it totally rocked my socks and I am desperately awaiting more from you!! :)

DJ - You can draw the same person over and over again while still keeping everything the way it should be, in terms of facial structure and proportions. It's something that I have extreme difficulty in doing and I'm very jealous of you for being able to do that so effortlessly :P

CMaster - This thread isn't here to show off your technical talent! It's for everyone to show everyone else how they interpret their char and the world around them! You paid a lot of attention to the detail in your first (and hopefully not last) doodle, I can tell exactly which face and hairstyle it is ingame, that's really cool! I definately would love to see more doodles from you!! :)

If it would encourage more people to show how they interpret things in the game I would be more than happy to make another tutorial starting with the blank sheet of paper and ending it with me posting on here!!

Asurmen Spec Op

06-10-05, 03:10

A tutorial would be hella cool sunny, since I cant do half(or .005%) that you can

Heavyporker

06-10-05, 04:36

asurmen, sure you can. All it takes is practice. Hard to believe, yes, but it's true.

Just start out with the pencil in your hand and some scrap paper. Sketch the chair or table in front of you - this'll get you started on proportions, scale, and the "feel" of just drawing.

Don't worry about texture or shading. Don't worry about getting it perfect. Just do quickies. It's like writing letters or drawing shapes like triangles and circles - you'll get the hang of the simpler things quite quickly. You can just practice on fruit, other pencils, plants, even that squirrel sitting on the ground chewing on a nut. Just practice.

If you get hung up on pencil, just get ink and brush and just do really quick impulse sketching of something in front of you - this is a pretty damn good way to get the "feel" of whatever's in front of you - the table's lines, the woman's curves, the folds of cloth, etc.

Asurmen Spec Op

06-10-05, 04:45

asurmen, sure you can. All it takes is practice. Hard to believe, yes, but it's true.
I am aware :)
Just start out with the pencil in your hand and some scrap paper. Sketch the chair or table in front of you - this'll get you started on proportions, scale, and the "feel" of just drawing.
I have tried this, I get really frustrating
Don't worry about texture or shading. Don't worry about getting it perfect. Just do quickies. It's like writing letters or drawing shapes like triangles and circles - you'll get the hang of the simpler things quite quickly. You can just practice on fruit, other pencils, plants, even that squirrel sitting on the ground chewing on a nut. Just practice.

If you get hung up on pencil, just get ink and brush and just do really quick impulse sketching of something in front of you - this is a pretty damn good way to get the "feel" of whatever's in front of you - the table's lines, the woman's curves, the folds of cloth, etc.

I can acually paint models semi-well, but drawing is bad.

I can code 100s of times better then I can draw

NaoK.

06-10-05, 19:45

Me some time ago.
What? Skins have changed?? no no it's only a mask affair^^
http://www.0mg.ch/trib/img/toile.jpg (http://www.0mg.ch/trib/toilamatelas.html)

Clive tombstone

06-10-05, 20:11

Ooo I wanna draw that gimme a day Ill get a sketch of that :D

Hell-demon

06-10-05, 20:20

Clive you hussy!

You've found someone else!

How could you!

We were gonna make comics beautiful comics!

BASTARD!

Sunny Rosalind

07-10-05, 00:04

OK! Here's my step-by-step walkthrough of how I did a doodle, from paper all the way to posting it here! :)

1) Get an idea

I was running around DOY a day or two ago and I stopped to look at a boobs 'n guns employee!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/idea.jpg

I thought that she's very boring and simple (not to mention completely unprotected) so I decided to draw how I felt she should look! :)

Most of my other doodles pop into my head out of boredom or when I feel like illustrating a certain feeling or event I had! :)

2) Draw it on paper

Think of the different ways that your idea can be expressed :) How will the pose and expression play an effect? will the subject be happy, mopey, arrogant? What will the pose be like? Standing proud, slouched over, dead?

Try to remember all of these things before you start doodling! :)

3) Scan it in

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial1.jpg
Go into File > Import > your scanner's name (mine is WIA-EPSON Perfection 2400)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial2.jpg
Click on "Adjust the quality of this picture" - we need to change its DPI (dots per inch)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial3.jpg
Put in 500 DPI! That's my favorite number to use, it's not too big but still detailed!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial4.jpg
Here's my picture :) It's a mess! But that's not a problem, because when we ink it we'll basically be redrawing it, which is nice!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial5.jpg
At this point I made the image bigger, since it was too tiny for my tastes!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial6.jpg
I made it 500% bigger!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial7.jpg
Now we need to get ready to ink it! :) To do that, we're going to change the dark lines into something less black, by going into Image > Adjustments > Levels!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial8.jpg
Here you can see that by using the settings that I have, the grey pencil strokes have been changed into a light blue color, which is nice :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial9.jpg
Here it is in bright blue!

4) Ink it

Create a new layer called 'inking'! This is the layer that all of the inking will be done on. This way we can trace the drawn doodle, and make it invisible after we're done.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial10.jpg
To get started with inking, we're going to click on the paintbrush tool and select a nice brush. I prefer the slightly slanted ones (like I have selected in the picture) since the size and shape varies depending on its direction!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial11.jpg
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/inking/inking5.jpg
Now we select the pen tool using the setting shown above!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial12.jpg
After drawing the path with the pen tool, right click anywhere on the canvas to bring up this menu! We want to outline the path, so click on 'stroke path'

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial13.jpg
The brush needs to be selected! It'll stroke the path using the brush that we had selected earlier! Also, I prefer to use simulated pressure though others may not. Here's the difference between the two on the same path.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial14.jpg
With simulated pressure

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial15.jpg
Without simulated pressure

Simulated pressure makes the line widest as it approaches the middle portion, and thinnest at the beginning and the end. The variation that simulated pressure provides (in addition to the variation that the brush will give us in different directions) really rocks my socks, so I like to use it.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial16.jpg
I did a little bit more inking while you were reading that last section, sorry. Hope you don't mind!

At this point in time you may want to make a new layer beneath the drawn doodle entitled 'background'. I I like to use a nice grey color (175 RGB) so when we get to doing shadows and highlights, we can see both of them (too light of a background will make the highlights invisible and too dark of a background will make the shadows invisible). If you make the drawn doodle layer invisible, you can see the progress of the inking layer. Here's what mine looks like so far. (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial17.jpg) I forgot to shrink it down before I uploaded it, sorry!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial18.jpg
OK! I'm finally done inking! This is normally the longest part in doodling!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial19.jpg
Here it is on the grey background!

5) Begin shading

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial20.jpg
Now we're going to begin shading! For this, fuzzy blurry brushes like the ones I have selected are the best, but you can use other brushes and get some really interesting effects! It's very important that the opacity of the paintbrush is set to 10% at this time! :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial21.jpg
Here are all of the layers I have so far! I just added two more for highlights and shadows right now. Some people may like to do both of them on one layer, but I like to spread things out and merge them together when I'm done. (I normally put the shadows and highlights layer underneath the inked layer but I forgot this time... the white from the highlights will show over the black inking and it'll look really weird! Make sure that the inking layer goes on top!)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial22.jpg
I added the shadows now! It looks like of unbalanced but that's only because I haven't done the highlights yet.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial23.jpg
I'm done with the highlighting now. The quick and easy way to do highlighting is simply by whitening all of the areas that aren't shaded in. The shinier you want it to be, the more white you add.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial24.jpg
A trick that I use to show me if I'm done with shading is to make the inked layer invisible. If I can see what is what without the solid black ink lines to show me, then I think I'm finally done with inking :)

6- Begin coloring
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial25.jpg
When I color, I give each color it's own layer. One layer for all of the red, one for the skin, one for the gold, etc etc. As you can see I get careless here - the other layers will cover up the places where the skin shouldn't be showing!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/tutorial26.jpg
I just finished coloring here! The highlighting and shadowing seem a little bit harsh on the colors but that's nothing a Filter > Blur > Gaussian blur won't fix!

After putting in a background and applying some other effects the doodle is done!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/finished.jpg
I saved it in photoshop by clicking on 'Save for Web' in the file menu. That'll compress the image's size but leave the quality relatively untouched!

And then I'm all done! This particular doodle took a really long time (4.5ish total hours), but my other doodles normally need around 2!

I hope this tutorial helps everyone and encourages everyone to show their interpretation of NC stuff! :) As you can see, the inking, shadowing and coloring can make the messiest, ugliest doodle look halfway decent!

PS - send me a PM if I was unclear in a certain area and I'll try my best to help you through it, I know I'm not the greatest writer/teacher :P

PPS - NaoK I love that picture and especially the mathematic equations that it's linked too! Are you a photographer? :)

ZoVoS

07-10-05, 13:30

sorry mun i just see ur pictures as fun colouring books :D hope u dont mind again

http://img360.imageshack.us/img360/5473/colour6pr.jpg

draw me more stoof to colour in ^_^ haha

Original monk

07-10-05, 14:32

sunny thats one hell of an intresting tutorial 8| very impressive !

Cheers, im gonna start playing around right away :P

Cerbious

09-10-05, 00:30

OK heres one i did.. took me all day lol but i am really happy with the result.

it my first try at this sort of thing so plz dont laugh.

Sunny thxs for the tutorial it was a great help :D

Dribble Joy

09-10-05, 02:34

Brown hair....
Dark blue top...
Biege trousers....

Is this so unobvious from the drawing?

QuakCow

09-10-05, 03:44

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v260/QuakCow/QuakCowspystikv1.png

i like stick figures :lol: anways, this is supposed to be my spy

Asurmen Spec Op

09-10-05, 04:31

Hes in the position

Asurmen Spec Op

09-10-05, 04:38

http://www.golddisksoftware.com/ownded.PNG

You know you want it

edit: replaced with better pic

edit: repalced AGAIN

QuakCow

09-10-05, 06:53

lol, that feature costs extra at the pa dealer

he was supposed to be running btw, so i fixed that

Asurmen Spec Op

09-10-05, 07:45

So, like it?

QuakCow

09-10-05, 07:49

the face is a nice touch, but you shouldn't violate someone's powerarmor when they aren't around :lol:

on another note, asurmen you may like the pants tank wallpaper in my sig

gstyle40

09-10-05, 08:29

OK heres one i did.. took me all day lol but i am really happy with the result.

it my first try at this sort of thing so plz dont laugh.

Sunny thxs for the tutorial it was a great help :D

thats pretty good for a first try. ive seen alot worse

gstyle40

09-10-05, 08:31

http://www.golddisksoftware.com/ownded.PNG

You know you want it

edit: replaced with better pic

edit: repalced AGAIN

ROFLMAO!!!

Asurmen Spec Op

09-10-05, 08:45

ROFLMAO!!!
You loves it!

Vae Victis

10-10-05, 19:10

I stopped to look at a boobs 'n guns employee!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/idea.jpgWe all do this!

errrr.... don't we?

ZoVoS

10-10-05, 19:17

well i do mine are mod'd to be naked

wait a minet

i never said that

*looks shifty*

Disclamer
i in no way mod my game. i am a saint i aint some cheating git who turns stealth bright greend *cough* ff *cough* =P :angel:
and yes that was also ment as a joke. we all love ff realy

Kallima

12-10-05, 00:42

Mree hee hee.. :)

Mystic-Crusader

12-10-05, 16:25

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/tutorial/newtutorial/idea.jpg

Wouldn't that hurt like hell, when taking the tape off?? :lol:

Hell-demon

12-10-05, 16:40

think she'll be too cold to care :rolleyes:

Sunny Rosalind

15-10-05, 17:22

I drew my new char today! :)

Her name is Antimony Jones and she's a (temporarily) Crahn monk who predominatly uses poison! I don't really like the way it came out (there's a lot of anatomy issues) but I do like the outfit :) I tried to make it part gypsy/part prehistoric/part preacher with a touch of sexiness and a little bit of poison!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/antimonyjones.jpg

I was reading the information stuff about the brotherhood of crahn and it doesn't say much about the actual religion. All it says is the main focus, that they're awaiting the return of their former leader, but nothing else. Maybe someone would like to expand upon the religion and flesh it out? Maybe a set of commandments and rules?

PS - a few people sent me PMs asking me to clarify some stuff about my tutorial :) Most of you guys didn't have any more questions so I'm assuming you've got it all figured out... Post your stuff please! :)

PPS - Cerbious I really like your picture, it's totally amazing for the first thing like that you've ever tried (and still really really really good if you're a well-seasoned doodler)

Spatenkampf

15-10-05, 18:22

wouldnt she hurt herself with this "shoes"?

I mean in the waxstes there a lot of Hazards like: Skorpions, Glaspartikels, Old Medicinparts, sharp stones.... ;)

but nice
btw. me would interesst how her back gonna look like if i see this skirt ;D

Cerbious

15-10-05, 19:49

PPS - Cerbious I really like your picture, it's totally amazing for the first thing like that you've ever tried (and still really really really good if you're a well-seasoned doodler)

the doddle im afraid i cant take credit for as i found that on the web but i did need to do alot of work to it as it was a extremly messy scetch.

i wanna make my own artwork but i got to wait til i can rob my scanner from my parents house.

the pic was mainly me using ur tutorial :)

SoloStrike

16-10-05, 00:39

You are awesome Sunny!

i´m enyoing your work sooo much. hope the guys from kk are inspired by your work for the evo 2.1 projekt.

new and unique clothing should be a not problem in this period of time..

hope to see more of your wonderfull artwork soon

Sunny Rosalind

19-10-05, 15:41

Thanks for the very nice comments :) It really means a lot to me! But this isn't a 'Sunny's Art Thread', it's a thread for everyone to show everyone else how they interpret stuff in NC, so stop commenting and start doodling! :)

I decided that I didn't like monks much, and plus my levelingbuddy outleveled me by like 70 psi, so I decided to remake Antimony Jones into a pure hacknet-hacker! :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/newantimony.jpg

I don't really like the way I ended up doing the hair, and the pelvic area seems really wacky but I think it came out to be pretty good overall :)

Food for thought! What exactly is hacknet? is it 'suspending' yourself in the genrep process? an internet-like thing? Dicuss! :)

Cerbious

19-10-05, 21:37

that a really good interpetation of hacknet there sunny. Though when i first glanced it it looked like a greek pot (the red orange and hair style) not a critism though :)

Skusty

19-10-05, 22:09

Cool with the HN girl there :D

QuakCow

20-10-05, 00:10

uh..i believe hacknet is a visual representation of the genrep/internet system of neocron. so what you see as hacknet isnt really there its just made to look that way to be comprehnsible by slightly above normal ability hackers

Sunny Rosalind

23-10-05, 03:26

I tried to draw my private char as an FA, and not a TS like last time, but it didn't come out as good as I thought it would when I first drawing it! I think the hair's a bit overdramatic but it's really the first hairstyle that I've done that was loosely based on the ones that are available ingame :)

I like the idea but I don't really like how I pulled it off. I'll probably end up redoing it sometime in the future.

(PS - the hand was supposed to be gripping the underside of a banister but everything in DoY is so short! It looks so weird!)

I included a few post-inking pictures so you can see it a little bit better :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/rosalindoutfit3.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/rosalindoutfit2.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/rosalindoutfit1.jpg

What will it take for you guys to post more of your stuff? :) I'm sure I'm not the only one in the game who would prefer to see things different visually in NC... :(

Clive tombstone

23-10-05, 03:45

Im sorry rosy, ive been busy with school recently, and not much of anything that ive been working on has been much cyber punk. I can submit some other stuff.

retr0n

23-10-05, 17:24

Nice thread, alot of talent on these forums :)
I just have a small comment to Sunny. I really like your drawing, I like the style,
but I must comment on the shading. You are trying to "cheat" with shading by
trying to automate the process, it often leaves your chars looking glossy like they
are covered in grease.

I'm not going to say that I can do it better, because I cant, I suck at drawing,
but you should try to do the shading by hand a few times, it might take some
extra work but your drawings will look alot better.

Don't take this as flaming, because I'm not trying to have a go at you.
Keep it up =)

Heavyporker

23-10-05, 22:10

I love these new ones you put out, Sunny.

Man.. Your "technopunk" fashion couture has such cool stylishness! I love it. I'm having a difficult time trying to come up with a cohesive clothing style for my characters, but at least I've got a couple.

Hopefully, I'll be able to put a couple up of my latest soon. (Drawing only, I haven't had any time for the Gimp cool-ific-ation process)

edit - I think I understand what you're talking about. Specularity (gloss spots) does seem a bit wide and circular. Highlights on clothes generally are less that and more like crescents (following body's curves).

Koshinn

24-10-05, 01:16

CMaster

24-10-05, 02:15

I think the HN one is one of two or three you ahve done that really feels "NC" for me.

fschepper

24-10-05, 02:23

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/newantimony.jpg
Great !

Sunny Rosalind

26-10-05, 17:01

Hi :)

retr0n, thanks for the advice. I never really stopped to think about my shading process too much. But now I'm definately seeing what you are - the shinies don't look just right. So, I'm trying to find a more effective shading technique that will enhance the look of my doodles :)

The first technique that I tried was using the lasso tool instead of the paintbrush tool. I don't think it looks terrible, but I also think it seems too flat and isn't dramatic enough for me. I'll have to experiment a bit more with this technique since it's really the first time I've tried :)

Here's a female DoY guard. I don't think it came out very well considering how much time I spent on it, but I do really like the color set and the hairstyle :)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/DoYguard.jpg

Also - for you other guys - What do you think an NC-feeling-picture would look like? If you're not going to doodle it (which is really the whole point of this thread... :() describing it in detail is pretty much the next best thing :)

I personally don't like the word 'cyberpunk' at all. In addition to bringing back awful, embarrassing memories of the 80s, the definition of cyberpunk from wikipedia.org (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyberpunk), though a really interesting article, doesn't seem to match up with NC's themes, at least to me. (what are the NC themes, anyway? war, seperation, corruption?)

And even if NC is undoubtedly cyberpunk, cyberpunk fashion is weird, humiliating, and ugly :) A google search (http://images.google.com/images?q=cyberpunk+fashion&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images) shows the following boring, (http://project.cyberpunk.ru/ckx/cpfashion/shoes2.jpg) frightening, (http://project.cyberpunk.ru/idb/images/logos/fashion3.gif) 80s-quasi-futuristic, (http://www.geocities.com/FashionAvenue/3714/cyber2.gif) terrifying, (http://www.reddawn.net/costume/Cyber/Dawnpunk.jpg) and undescribable (http://www.reddawn.net/costume/Cyber/ImageD.jpg) pictures.

I feel that Neocron's clothing as a whole should be slightly shamanistic and tribal, while mainly looking like the clothing of the 23rd century (due to the ceres disks being exposed to a relatively undeveloped society). Neocron city's clothing should be clean, presentable and uniform-like, whereas the Dome of York's should be whatever anyone wants it to be (although straps should be the common theme in the Dome's fashion scene, just so every outfit can feel slightly related and easily identifyable as a DoY thing)

(PS - if I haven't made it clear in this boring babbley post (I'm an awful writer) I want to know what makes an outfit feel as if it belongs in NC :P)

Clive tombstone

26-10-05, 20:22

Well, wouldnt it be called maybe "neo-Punk" then? since its far off from the eighties for the most part, and its raging in some different fasion. I DO agree with the tribal aspects, because it does exist in some parts of the game world. But thanks to the Ceres Disks, Humanoid knollege was restored to what it was (for the most part) before the big "five minute war"

PS Im gonna post some stuff tonight, I promis, It wont be finished and inked/colored since Im still installing my new Tablet (yes I got one, 35 bucks for a grafire 2 6x8 tablet!! Thank you AI rummage sale!) Some will (and wont be) NC stuff.

PEace out

Ps love the females Rose, If its one thing I wish I could create, its a Sexy female.

Heavyporker

27-10-05, 06:32

*urk*

Okay, these pictures you showed aren't anywhere near proper cyberpunk (with the exception of the shoulder-mounted camera one), Sunny, despite what Google may think.

The tech of the 80s hardly would come near to what Gibson's writings alone would exemplify.

TODAY'S tech would approach and exceed the standards. Luminous clothing, half-decent prostheses, neural implants, cameras that can fit in shirt buttons and glasses (thus becoming practical for the "consensual hallucination " that cyberspace is defined as, cyberspace being a critical cornerstone of cyberpunk culture). One could go on and on about this.

And please, that 80s' crap, while indicative of a segment of 80s' culture, isn't indicative of any half-assedly decent fashion sense, which would be LOOKING GOOD at the very least (and comfort being an important metric of personal fashion preference). I mean, geez, I'm not a fashionista, but even I put on clothes that don't march down the street in front of me, heralding my incipent embarassment.

edit - oh, and clive - big tits, sexy pose, pouty lips = sexy female ( at least as percieved by like.... 90% of the male audience).

Asurmen Spec Op

27-10-05, 07:07

O_O I love you sunny

Clive tombstone

27-10-05, 07:13

I guess im the ten percent then huh? personality before Perkiness I should say :D

Sunny Rosalind

04-11-05, 05:09

I drew a quick, ugly homegirl! (she's holding a martini glass and a cigar)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/homegirl.jpg

I really really wish more people would at least try to doodle/explain something... :( This thread has been going for 27 pages, and I don't think it deserves to fade out of existance anytime soon.. :(

Heavyporker

04-11-05, 05:28

Asurmen Spec Op

04-11-05, 05:36

Hero.......

Cerbious

04-11-05, 10:50

WHat the?! Sunny, that's your idea of ugly?

Okay, give me the email addresses of the ugly girls around you. I want to make their acquaintance.

Anyways, been busy as a Red Bull-chugging beaver lately.

screw that if that is his idea of ugly i really want all the addy's of the 'good looking' girls around him :d muhaha

Clive tombstone

04-11-05, 17:26

K guys, I got a treat for you all soon, Ill have it up by the end of today (mind you the picture isnt mine) but a good friend of mine at school. definatly a "anarchy girl". PS your homegirl is pretty damn good, dont go bangin on her looks till you see some of our females haha :D

*Beavis chuckle* Banging

Ahem, anywho PEace out

Edit, heres the anarchy girl

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/fuck_normal.jpg

Clive tombstone

04-11-05, 18:39

Sorry for anouther post, but just if anyone wants to know, heres one of quite a few projects that Im working on right now, Its for a space shooter me and two others are doing.

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/Jet.jpg
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/JetSide.jpg

PS-thats right this ones all mine, Im in charge of character development in this game, which is nice.

PEace out

Dribble Joy

05-11-05, 01:37

Something I knocked out in front if QI.

This looked slightly better on paper, but I have to have fucked up vitually every aspect of it. The hair is like the bastard child of sonic the hedgehog and Goku, the boobs are all wrong and the arms are terrible. The hips are all wrong too.

ZoVoS

05-11-05, 02:22

Heavyporker

10-11-05, 01:35

Had a little fun. :p

Clive tombstone

10-11-05, 07:58

I like it heavy, Good stuff, only to add a little bit of critism (god knows we all need it). Anywho, Your model looks a little stiff, thats all really, but getting a loose, "gravity is in effect" look comes with LOTS of practice. Like the monk though a nice thing to see some good monk-age, Not saying that Rosies stuff aint good.

Edit, I take that back, yours pretty right on, I think I'm just tired, haha.

I definatly see some buddin artists, hell blooms more like it. Keep it up, and keep this thread up! :D

PEace out

Heavyporker

10-11-05, 08:15

HA Ha ha ha ha ha!

You thought I actually drew that out?

Hell no!

That's from HeroMachine. I can't believe you didn't recognize the style.

Clive tombstone

10-11-05, 09:38

Actually, trueth be told, Ive never heard of hero machine before. Hehe, least yer honest haha. Still pretty cool lookin

Sunny Rosalind

12-11-05, 06:44

Hi guys, I've been pretty recently :(

I got about halfway through a doodle and had to jet off somewhere, with only a really simple 30 second shading job and no colors at all... as a result it's a little bit tough to differentiate the different parts of the outfit!

I'm not too sure if I like the rolled up sleeves, they're a bit too big. It sort of makes me think of a pirate's outfit, although with the "EXPECT SOMETHING COMPLETELY DIFFERENT" message on www.neocron.com, who's to say that evolution 2.1 won't bring pirates and ship raids and stuff!? :P

This doodle was supposed to be the DoY-counterpart of this one! (http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/moremarmalade.jpg)

If any of you guys might be interested in shading/coloring this picture since I won't be able to get to it for a little while, drop me a PM and I'll email you/upload a larger, unshaded version on a white background so you can have a field day in photoshop!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/DOYgal.jpg

Heavy, I really like that picture of the psi monk! It's very simple, yet says so much! Although I'm sure if you colored in your other doodles, you'd have a picture that looked just as good :) With that being said, heromachine.com is a really easy and quick way to illustrate your characters!

DJ, you have a really great concept of the female anatomy and muscle structure. You always pay such close attention to the details of your char's outfit, and that's really nice! I think the hair looks good; it's a bit short for my tastes but the sort of tomboyish look is pretty awesome!

Clive, good luck on the video game team! Is this the first time you're actually being involved in a project like this?

Hope to see more doodles and such :)

Clive tombstone

12-11-05, 12:08

Well rosy, it isnt actually, Ive done a few more (unsuccessful) projects in the past with some other members, but I wasnt at AI at the time ether. Anywho, I have some biological weapons and mobs Ill post tommorrow, is 2Am in the morning and I just finished my midterm project, Night all

PEace ou-*snore*

Heavyporker

14-11-05, 16:37

*groans*

Tried to do some inking of one of pieces using Sunny's tutorial. Never realized how much work it was.

How do you manage to put so many out?!?! And WITH all the cool clothes?!?

Dribble Joy

14-11-05, 17:11

Skill technique and practise.

You will get much faster at it as you go along. All my pics in this thread have taken 5-10 mins to complete.

Dribble Joy

15-11-05, 00:03

This one took a bit longer though.
The whole image was supposed to come out much better.

Cookie for the person who can name all three characters in the pic (all are current or Ex-NC player's characters).

J J

15-11-05, 02:45

err is that 2.1's revised release date? ;)

[ edited ]

Heavyporker

24-11-05, 07:48

Sunny's "easy highlights/shadows" trick doesn't seem to work for me... can't figure out the stupid layers, either GIMP and Photoshop.

Ragghhhrrr!

And I re-iterate... Crahndammit, that inking sure takes a while. Probably be like 100x faster if I didn't have to keep hitting the pen tool button to start a new line.

Sunny Rosalind

27-11-05, 05:13

Hi everyone, hope you all had a very happy thanksgiving (if you celebrate it :P)

I finished that other doodle I did a few weeks ago. Something about it gives me this pretty 'disney character' feeling - I think it's the gigantically oversized sleeves. I think the pants and shoes are pretty cool, though :) I can't really decide whether or not I like it!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/DOYgalcolor.jpg

I also did a pretty quickie doodle :) I based the idea off of Lifewaster of Phoenix LTD, an ultra hip and trendy PPU who uses a bunch of pistols! Unfortunately it's not finished, and I had a fair bit of gender confusion (I forgot that lifewaster is a male...:( stupid unisex PA!) It's a bit difficult to differentiate the different parts of the picture since it's all the same color, but I think the overal picture is pretty hard to misinterpret!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/femalelifewaster.jpg

Heavy - I generally shade one side of something and highlight the other. I can't make a quickie tutorial showing the exact steps but I'll get on that ASAP... if you want, you can send me your photoshop/gimp file and I'll be more than happy to show you how it's done (provided you don't mind showing others your unfinished work)

DJ - I really really really like that picture :) My favorite part is that it seems very neocron-ly while still keeping your unique style. I also like the fact that it's very clean, and shows a really weird collection of sullen, de-sensitized fear emotion. I'm really looking forward to your webcomic in 4 years :)

Looking forward to seeing other people's doodles :)

Heavyporker

27-11-05, 16:05

Aw, I'll just experiment around a little at work today.

Haven't had time lately to actually do any Neocron drawings, just general arty ones for class.

Sunny Rosalind

27-11-05, 21:48

I would really love to see some of your arty ones :)

I drew another pretty quick hacknet gal again. I'm not sure whether or not I like the hair better this way (like normal, non-hacknet hair), or like the last hacknet gal (wavey wacky flowy hair). I like the blue hacknet-scheme! It's very bright and eye-catching! I like the hairstyle, and will probably end up using it again. Drawing a mouth was really difficult for me, so I just left it out :P

I know these types of doodles 'most neocron-y' ones that I've done, but I feel really weird since I'm pretty much copying what's already there; I would much rather prefer to be branching off and enhancing what's there (although there really does have to be a line drawn somewhere :P)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/hacknet2.jpg

Looking forward to seeing other doodles :)

Clive tombstone

27-11-05, 23:24

Well, Im bored, outa ideas, and behind on my work. And what do I get? I picture of My character CLive tombstone doing some "recreational reading". Note that it isnt finished, just thought you guys would like to see it.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/UnfinishedClivetombstone.jpg

Hahah, anywho, this aint the last of it. Ill have more (and different pictures, like a few bioweapons/monsters and people)

PS- Great stuff Rosey! I like the hacknet pic a lot. Ill try and be a bit quicker with my updates alright?

PEace out

Heavyporker

27-11-05, 23:46

*AMAZING* hacknet gal, Sunny! Damn! I have to say, the blue hacknet theme really changes things up.

And Clive... heh, heh, heh! Sounds like you're in the same predicament that I'm in.. absolutely hate being forced to do schoolwork, but my art class finals are due this week.

Can you say... "fucked"?

Anyways, here's my foray into using Photoshop to ink and finish one of my (old, positively ancient, nay, decrepit) pieces.

Dribble Joy

29-11-05, 16:47

Cookie for BlackDove for getting the chars right, QD and SirRah.

Heres a very quick ddodle I did today, raw scan.

Vae Victis

29-11-05, 21:47

here a pic of 4 monks.
a ppu (blue/purple one)
an apu (red one)
a ppu on herione (yellow one)
an apu on herione (green one)

http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/962/ohnoez0et.jpg

Dribble Joy

03-12-05, 18:15

Another one of DJ, head is crap.

BlackDove

03-12-05, 18:26

You seem very keen on being a woman.

Dribble Joy

03-12-05, 19:05

DJ is a girl.....

Sunny Rosalind

03-12-05, 19:53

I really like the CM guard, DJ! It looks just like the one ingame, down to the tiniest detail!

The the doodle with the newer plasma pistol model is really cool too :) You paid a lot of attention to the gun's newer features!

I started out by trying to doodle something for that crimbo cheer thread but ultimately got carried away :P I thought it would be fun to experiment :) (and it was!)

Her happy expression isn't really expected in a post apocalyptic wastelands, I know, especially when it's snowing/sleeting in the steppes, but I think it's really cute, if a bit too disney-ish :) I'm not really too fond of the photo's edges though, but with the amount of time I've spent on it I just wanted to get the thing over with :P I'll upload the cleaner version later today!

I think it turned out pretty well (although other than the background, it doesn't really have anything to do with NC... but who knows! Maybe with NC2.2 there will be some snow capped mountains to explore!), I had a lot of fun doing it :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/holidays.jpg

Dribble Joy

03-12-05, 20:09

The CM guard isn't really supposed to look like the ingame ones, it's supposed to be beafier, with a nicer helmet.

BlackDove

03-12-05, 22:13

DJ is a girl.....

Yes, but you're not, which is highly disturbing :p

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/holidays.jpg

Fan-tastic.

Dribble Joy

03-12-05, 23:22

Yes, but you're not, which is highly disturbing :p
Dribble Joy is the name given to my chars in games for ages. It's porn name (first pet's anme and mother maiden name) of a girl I went on a diving trip with. She's a girl, so DJ's a girl.

Heavyporker

08-12-05, 17:40

Cyma

08-12-05, 20:23

I"M BACK!!! I"M FRIGGING BACK!

Re-upping Neocron game install to see if I can run it this time around.

Anyways... Even in the worst, harshest situations, a human can still smile.

Anyways, Sunny... Old photo style. Tutorial. Now. Please?

Heavy!!! Guess what lol =) IM BACK TOOO ! Ill cya ingame :)

That Draw from Sunny Rosalind is awesome !

Sunny Rosalind

09-12-05, 17:19

Here's the image of the wintery scene before I aged it. I think it looks much better after it's been aged!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/winteroriginal.jpg

As per Heavy's request, I made a little tutorial underlining how I aged the picture. It's not particularly thought-intensive but it doesn't look great with every picture (as I'll demonstrate today :P)

First, here's the picture that I'm going to age. I got the idea after wondering why there weren't any male dancers! Then I realised that instead of bringing men down to the women's level, the devs should focus on bringing the women up a few notches by creating some female-based enemies. So, here's a Regant's-style mutant thing! I know it doesn't really fit in with the Regants 'mutant worm thing feng shui'ing all of your organs out' shtick, but you know... whatever :)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/regantsfemale.jpg

I don't think it came out too well (it was all very very rough on paper) but I like the idea I have behind it... I'll probably end up re-doodling it again some other time.

OK, now here's how you can make any picture look aged!

1) Merge everything that you want aged onto a single layer

This is important since the filters and other tricks will only effect the active layer!

2) Give the picture some film grain

Go into Filter > Artistic > Film Grain
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial1.jpg

And use the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial2.jpg

3) Fade the film grain a little bit

Go into Edit > Fade Film Grain (this option will only be selectable if you do this step DIRECTLY after you do the film grain. If it's not selectable, use the history bar to go back to the step directly before you applied the film grain and try again)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial3.jpg

And fade it:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial4.jpg

4) Add some noise

Go into Filter > Noise > Add Noise
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial5.jpg

And use the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial6.jpg

5) Change your foreground/background color

Their colors are F8E8D2 and 7D5B2C I believe!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial7.jpg

You're doing this to prepare for the next step, rendering clouds to give it a more dynamic look!

6) Render Clouds

Go into Filter > Render > Render Clouds

Your picture will be replaced by a bunch of colors! Don't panic, it's supposed to happen!

After that, fade the clouds by going to Edit > Fade Clouds
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial9.jpg

Using the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial10.jpg

7) Grain it some more

Go into Filters > Texture > Grain
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial11.jpg

Using the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial12.jpg

And this is about as aged as the picture will look. In this case, the picture I'm trying to age looks really really awful :P

The pictures that normally look best are pictures that contain a lot of browns, beiges, and tans. This picture is mainly shades of grey and it doesn't look too hot!

8) Increase the Canvas size

Go into Image > Canvas Size
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial13.jpg

Using the following settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial14.jpg

We're doing this to prepare for our next steps, creating the edges of the picture so it looks like it's seperate from wherever you're posting it!

9) Select the new canvas area with the Marquee tool

The new area should be blank, like it is in this picture :)

We're doing this to prepare ourselves to select the exact size of the picture.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial15.jpg

Now that we have selected everything that's NOT the picture, we can go into Select > Inverse
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial16.jpg

And that leaves us with a rectangle that has the exact size of the picture, which is nice, because we're going to put the edges on next!

10) Add the edges

Before we can actually add the edges, we should increase the size of our box so it extends just a little bit past the picture. We can do this by expanding our selection!

Go into Select > Modify> Expand
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial16.jpg

And use these settings:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial18.jpg

Now, create a new layer underneath the picture, like this, using a fairly dark brown, beige, or tan color (I picked a really awful color, don't use this one! :P), and use the paint bucket tool to fill in the selection.
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial19.jpg

Having just one solid block of color is pretty boring! So we're going to add a little gradient to the edges, it'll look a little bit more dynamic that way.

Change your foreground color to black (the color box that's higher up and in the front... this will be our shadow color)

And when the edge layer is selected, click on the effects button (the circle with an f in it), then click on Gradient Overlay
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial20.jpg

And use these settings (you'll need to change the actual gradient, use one that goes from being transparent into being the foreground color):
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial21.jpg

11) Chop up the edges

We'll want to use the regular lasso tool for this :)
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial22.jpg

Zigzag while moving your cursor down, like in this picture. I went a little bit overboard (and it came out even worse because of it) since I was trying to chop out the right side of the picture because I thought it was really ugly :)

A good tip is to alternate between hardcore zigzags, and gentle swooping curves... It'll look more natural that way :) I did nearly all hardcore zigzags for this picture and as a result it looks like someone had a field day with scissors :P

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial23.jpg

Make sure that the lasso is in a fairly large circle shape with a bunch of zigzags on one side, like mine. We want to delete all of the tan edges later, so we should have them inside the circle.

Hold shift, and do the same thing for another side!
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial24.jpg

Repeat for the other two sides! :)

When you're done with that, clear everything that's in the selection. It should look something like this:
http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/agedtutorial25.jpg

Make sure you clear both of the layers, the picture layer, and the edges layer.

12) Put on some final touches

I put my other aged picture in the background but it didn't help at all :P

Shading also helps make the picture look as if it's seperate from the background, which is nice! Make sure that there's enough room for all of your shading, it looks really weird when parts of the shading are cut off.

If you haven't done so already, make sure the background is the same color of the background of the place where you're going to post it!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/aged%20pictures/regantsfinal.jpg

And there you have it! The really cool thing about Photoshop is that by using 'actions' (if you don't have that window open, go into the windows menu and find it) you can have Photoshop do the first 10 steps for you in about 2-3 seconds! So you can age any photograph almost instantly :)

Hope this tutorial helped!

I'm really looking forward to seeing some more doodles :)

Heavyporker

12-12-05, 02:05

Wow... interesting... Thanks for the tutorial. I'll see if I can't try that out.

Asurmen Spec Op

12-12-05, 07:23

I wonder if I can hire Rosalind to make a thing of me :)

Heavyporker

13-12-05, 23:45

well, asurmen, describe yourself/your character.

Asurmen Spec Op

14-12-05, 00:20

well, asurmen, describe yourself/your character.
My charecter....

Well he always carries that sexy Jones mission sword.
Is nitty gritty, but ofcorse in the world of NC
has a worn camo jacket.
and tanish pants.
Black hair.
otherwise, go crazy with artistical leetness

Sunny Rosalind

20-12-05, 21:06

Hi :)

Sorry I haven't posted in a while. I've been pretty busy :(

I read the planfile earlier!

The most important and biggest goal for this Add-on will be a complete revamp of the player models and all human NPC's. We aim to raise their level to the quality of the new weapon models. Important will be to embed the new models in style, detail and texture in the Neocron atmosphere in a better way.

I am very excited about this :) I was totally amazed by how well thought-out and detailed the weapon models are! They're all so high-tech and futuristic, but don't seem too similar to what the technology is like now, and aren't so far-fetched that they look like alien guns. I'm sure that the talented art department will come up with something that everyone can enjoy!

Although... Why should they have all the fun? Why don't we all doodle pictures that are embedded with style, detail and texture that would fit into the Neocron atmosphere better than the current models do? :)

Maybe if we do enough doodles, the devs will take notice and be inspired by one of our designs, and model it! :)

I am personally hoping that there will be more clothing variety, as in, each faction would have a different choice of clothing to choose from, in addition to having many more models for clothing (robes, sleeves, dresses, skirts, etc etc) that can be changed to fit the situation better (I played AO a while ago, and spent all of the money that a generous player had given me on all sorts of clothes! I had a combat outfit, a formal outfit, a party outfit, a dining outfit, and all sorts of other cool stuff. I had a blast!)

And I am also hoping that there are a few new animations put in with the new models. Most notably the animations for casting psi spells... I think there's a little bit of emphasis on the brain and head in the casting animations, but the wiggly hand parts, and the 'hold heal/S/D/buff psi ball above your head' really makes it seem very fantasy-based!

So, with the last two paragraphs in mind, I doodled this! (sorry it's not really finished)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/TS-monk.jpg

I think this one came out pretty well :) She's supposedly a Tsunami Syndicate Psi monk, sporting a sexy, sassy, slightly shamanistic, yet sophisticated outfit (try saying that one ten times fast, alliteration rocks!)

It's probably really tough for you guys to see where one article of clothing begins and the next ends since it's not in color and everything's grey, but I think the overall idea is still clear; accentuating the womanly body parts and camoflaguing the rest, pretty much!

She's casting a heal psi spell, although this version is supposed to be more 'smokey', and less 'bubbley' than the current one. Its casting animation would be much more fluid than the disco-dance that psi monks pull every time they cast a passive spell!

Eventually what I plan to do is make little 5-6 second shorts showing the animations that I have in mind; it's not terribly difficult since it's basically drawing the same thing like 30 times, but it's very time consuming and I won't even attempt it unless I know that a dev would seriously consider using the animation for reference or something, or if other people try to do the same thing :)

This is the 'draw and interpret your char thread', not the 'hey! look at rosalind's, DJ's, and occasionally clive's doodles thread'. There's been over 16,000 views (wow!!) as of now, and pretty much only two people are regularly posting doodles :(

This thread isn't here to show off technical skill, it's for you to show everyone else what you would like your char to look like. :) If you don't feel comfortable showing your doodles to the rest of the forums, you can PM me the picture's link, or email me the file at mawee3@gmail.com, (I would really really love to see your doodles. I'm very good at giving critique without breaking hearts and smashing dreams, if you are interested in becoming a better artist! :)), and if I feel that I am able to, I'll try my best to re-doodle it and share the same idea with everyone else (with your permission of course!! :))

I really really appreciate everyone's comments but I would love it so much more if you guys would at least attempt to doodle something (or at the very least, describe it in detail)

And finally! Asurmen, I don't really like doing doodle request unless you try doodling first :P I know you can do that!

Really really looking forward to seeing everyone else's doodles!

Heavyporker

22-12-05, 03:42

Aw, Sunny, don't I count? :(

That's a pretty nice sketch, but again, I fear that you're feeding into the "Monkz aer teh wizardzs!!! lol!!!111" travesty.

I did a couple sketches a while ago that showed psionic energies whirling around one's head, energy coming out of his eyes. Perhaps also distortion ripples around his head. After all, with a Psi, his brain, his mind is his power. It makes much more sense for energy to emanate out of his head.

Didn't also the Firestarter movie show fireballs coming out of that girl's head? And in Farscape, with the, er... Scarrans, with their semi-telepathy that they use to crush prisoners' will, has a heat-distortion effect coming from their head towards the target.

sanityislost

22-12-05, 05:15

Nice one rosa chick....rawr!

Really like the look of that psi monk.

what i would do for a female monk (if i could fuckin draw) Is have an over size
black gothic glove (For anyone who has read battle chasers you know what im
on about)with chains coming from it which wrap round the arm upto the
shoulder. prolly something like the collar you had on your drawing also, then a
leather vest cut at the mid drift but at the back moves down to a sorta cape
just below the knees. would also have black baggy jeans (add a make shift chain
belt with lil large padlock for shits and giggles) with armor style boots.

Would also be cool to have more in the way of piercings for both male and
females. Some really cool neck and bridge piercings would really rock.

if that makes no sense shoot meh

SiL ..:..

Sunny Rosalind

01-01-06, 18:45

I was half expecting this thread to become more popular when KK made the announcement about new player models in the planfile, not nearly instantly fade out of existance :(

You're right, heavyporker! It would make more sense for psi-related stuff to come out of the head, since all that stuff is related to brain strength and toughness! I'll try to illustrate that in my future psi monk drawings (or maybe you could give it a shot too!)

SIL - That's a very descriptive idea you have! It sounds very stylish! I'm having difficulties finding a picture of the glove thing from Battle Chasers, is it safe to assume that it's like Hellboy's stone hand (http://www.svetdvd.cz/images/27/hellboy.jpg), only more like a psi glove? You should definately try to draw it, I'm sure it would look really awesome no matter how badly you think you doodle!

I drew an outfit for a spy in black dragon! I tried to make it have a sort of chinese aura about it - BD doesn't seem to be like the faction to hang on to 800+ year old traditions, I know, but I thought that having a futuristic, sexier version of a qi pao/cheongsam would be kind of cool! It uh, probably would hinder movement since it's very flowing and constricting but it would make a cool tradeskilling or formal outfit!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/blackdragonformal.jpg

I had a lot of difficulty with the face, and I think that I could have done a lot better with the embroidery on the bottom, but I still think it's pretty cool. Sorry it's not finished, but if noone else will even think about putting an hour into a drawing, why should I?

The lack of color in this doodle will probably cause some confusion, especially since there's a lot of stuff happening in the outfit, but I think the message still gets across.

I think having a very large, diverse, and easily customizable selection of clothing and outfits will make the world of NC seem that much more immersive, and having seen what KK's art department is capable of through the guns that they made, really fills me with a sense of hope, since they're very graphically talented and are capable of creating objects that really seem to 'fit in' with the setting. But like I said in my previous post - why should we let them have all of the fun? We should show them what we think we should be wearing in the game - seeing as we're the customers and players and all that :)

When I played anarchy online for about 3 days, I spent all of the moneys that I was given (because I'm a woman and everyone likes to give women free stuff) on like a million different articles of clothing. I made a combat outfit, a fancy elegant outfit, a team uniform, an excercise outfit, a lounging around outfit (and probably a lot more, this was a really long time ago) and had a lot of fun doing that. It's a shame I was nearly instantly bored by the game, not to mention that the graphics weren't so great on my computer, and the setting was too 'out there' for me.

Really looking forward to seeing some doodles (please don't let this thread die! :))

Heavyporker

02-01-06, 05:40

yep, sunny, I've already done a few pencil drawings of what I'm trying to convey.

I do get what SiL's getting at, but in Neocron's mileu, full hardware hookups aren't always necessary, you know? Psi augmentation could be done using the body's neural network and circulatory system (in case chemical... inducements... are required for the enhancements). Hence the suprisingly elegant psi gloves that we see now.

But I'd frigging love to see what I think would be "obsolete": psi gloves and equipment that needs full hardware hookups, like SiL's idea.

sanityislost

02-01-06, 08:41

Nice work once again rosa chick

Here is a pic from the cover of battle chasers

http://tetsuoo1.free.fr/shadowmanga/images/comics/livres/battlechasers_gathering/samples/0_battlechasers_gathering.jpg

Would love to see a glove about that size but with a gothic/cyberpunk feel.

SiL ..:..

Dribble Joy

02-01-06, 15:40

More shitty DJ stuff.

Hair's all wrong. I'm getting annoyed with my some what restrictive drawing style too.

Aisynia

07-01-06, 12:42

http://aulial.v0dk4.com/NC/aisyniaofneocron2.gif

Sunny Rosalind

10-01-06, 22:39

What a cool little doodle Aisynia! I really like the minimalistic approach to the shading that you did! It's so subtle but really adds depth to the face. I'm also a fan of the expression; it's not a simple 'boo-hoo, look at me, I'm sad!' face, it's a 'I have some bad news for you...' face, which is so much deeper and more expressive, not to mention harder to capture! I'm really looking forward to seeing more of your doodles, you obviously put a lot of time and effort into them!

I was inspired to try to create a sorrowful, expressive emotion like Aisynia did but it didn't come out quite as stirring as his :P It's boring and generic and didn't really turn out to be what I was aiming for (this is more of just a ':(!!!!' face as opposed to the 'I'm sorry!' I aimed for)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/sad.jpg

I like the hair though, it was inspired by the early 90s when the hip trendy thing to do was to fluff your hair up as much as humanly possible (good times!)!

DJ - I think you have a very unique style that's capable of expressing several thoughts and ideas, I would really hate to see you change it! I know it's really hard to give and take advice through text, but I think it would really help your feelings of restrictiveness if you tried to focus on motion first, and shapes secondly. Try to keep your hand moving in one direction (for example, start off with only drawing lines going up and right, then after you're finished with all of the up-and-right lines, finish the doodle by drawing all of the down-and-left lines) it's really hard to understand, but I think that drawing things through that method would really help your feelings of restriction by giving things a more 'voluptuous' appearance. if this confuses the bejeezus out of you please send me a PM :P

Really looking forward to seeing more doodles!

Aisynia

11-01-06, 04:11

Thanks for the compliments Sunny, it's appreciated :)

Though I would never call something I have to literally spend 3 days on a doodle, I understand what you mean :p I spent about 5 hours on the original drawing, then a couple of days working on coloring and shading after it was scanned in. Looking through this thread, I actually use some similar processes that you do, though I avoid freehand with a mouse as much as possible.

I won't say I don't have any talent at all, but I have very little, so I compensate with patience :p Most of my artistic talent lies with writing drama (as in stories with a lot of deep character emotion and interaction). I recently started drawing because where I publish one of my fan fics.. there is a space next to each entry for a picture, and I really didn't like staring at a big "NO SCREENSHOT" image.

I'm getting better, but I don't expect I'll be as awesome as you are any time soon. Truth be told, I just don't spend enough time drawing as opposed to writing. My two current drawing projects are a comic for Neocron (a funny one.. hopefully.. I'm not a very funny person.. well not intentionally) and another for my fan fic I mentioned. That picture has been sitting stagnant about a month because... it's missing something. I have some ideas, but meh.. can't come up with the energy to look at it lately..

Also, I agree.. subtle emotion on a face is hard to capture. I spent about 3 hours erasing and redrawing the eyes. I almost wore through my paper.. and I have really nice professional type erasers lol. Most renditions made her look like "holy shit, I'm gonna die in about two seconds.. and I just witnessed the deaths of everything I ever held dear!"

My main problem is with depth, I have a HARD time with depth. I'm very happy to hear you think that drawing has depth, because most of my works I feel lack a sense of it.

As for shading, I have experimented with several kinds, but I like this the most. It's actually a borrowed shading style, from the way most Final Fantasy and some anima characters are drawn in stills. The shading is very subtle, barely there, but it gives that sense of depth and I'm glad I was able to pull it off, because it was very, very difficult.

Finally, I find it interesting, your interpretation of her emotion. Every person I've shown it to has had a different opinion, but yours (your opinion on her mood) is definitely the closest, it's almost spot on. I'm gonna write a fic involving that character, but I need to straighten some facts out before I do so.

Sunny, you really shouldn't downplay yourself by insulting your own work ("It's boring and generic") and consequently, yourself, it's not becoming of you :) It's not boring, it's not generic, but ya it does look like she just watched her puppy get hit by a car :p If that wasn't what you were aiming for then.. well that's what an eraser is for hehe ;) I think all of your drawings are superb and are truly artistic. I like the line style you use. While I wouldn't use it personally, just because it's not how I draw (and I would feel like a ripoff), I love it, it's splendid. I'm not honestly sure I could pull it off anyways. My first few drawings were freehand mouse, and I got sick of "draw, ctrl+alt+z, draw, ctrl+alt+z, draw, ctrl+alt+z, draw, ctrl+alt+z...". So if you can actually do that without much undoing, then.. well, you've got talent pouring out of your ears :p

Much love, if you wanna take a look at my other stuff and maybe gimme some pointers and opinions, PM me. I've also always got an ear (and an eye) open if you wanna do the same.

Clive tombstone

12-01-06, 05:01

Ill post some new stuff tommorrow^^ Im working on Unreal engin stuff for class tonight. Not all of its NC related though.

PS-Welcome to the jungle Aisynia. Enjoy yer stay :D Ill help out in giving tips from time to time.

PPS-Sorry rose for not posting more (even at all =P) Really my concerns have been shifted more to school more and more, and NC is really loosing my interest in how there running things right now (more so since Im studying in the industry). Ill have "something" tommorrow. PEace out

Clive tombstone

16-01-06, 08:30

Well guess what, I got some things to show, too bad there not colored :( Anywho, these are some Concepts of a few guys Im gonna be modeling. The small guy is a "dwarf" by the way.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/Soldierconcept.png
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/DwarfCybersoldier.png

PS-my scanner is a piece of garbage lol

Dribble Joy

16-01-06, 10:48

What I meant by a restrictive style is that, if you notice, all my pictures are in the 3/4 view. If I ever try to draw front on or anyother angle it falls apart.

Aisynia

16-01-06, 17:09

I know how you feel in that regard. All of my drawings except for one (which I drew with a point of reference instead of from my mind) are head on. There is something in my brain that somehow cannot properly interpret alternate angles by itself.

This is that pic. Her skin being blue is a long tale, dictated by the story of the game for which I wrote the fan fic to which that pic belongs (mouth full).

http://vnmedia.ign.com/acvault.ign.com/fms/images/FanFiction/56/1132061470_fullres.jpg

Clive tombstone

16-01-06, 21:04

good stuff aisyn! Id really like to see a full bodied character^^ I know itll be nice to see :D

Anywho, heres anouther modeling project, im gonna doa front side picture in a while

http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/mechyay.png

Aisynia

16-01-06, 23:51

I like your mechanical drawings :)

Actually, no not really, I can barely draw bodies. This is my best attempt (http://vnmedia.ign.com/acvault.ign.com/fms/images/FanFiction/57/1132107780_fullres.jpg), again, head on, no angles lol. I am cooking something uo in a week or so here usingangles, I think I'm more comfortable with it because it's not a perseon per say, just person shaped. It'll prolly get me used to the idea.

Sunny Rosalind

17-01-06, 01:35

I drew a generic female using a new set of brush properties. I like how 'full' it looks, but it seems to be a bit 'thick'... I think it might be a result of carelessness and also because of the doodle (I used a pretty thick ink pen for this instead of a pencil). The new brush setting smade it a lot quicker of a process than the last doodles I've done. I'll definately use the same brush properties in the next doodle I do to see how it looks!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/generic.jpg

Those are pretty cool sketches Clive! They sort of look very 'steampunky' to me, but also incorporates some science-fictiony futuristic things in there, which creates a really unique and creative look! I can't wait to see them modeled :)

Thanks for the kind words Aisynia :) You sure do put a lot of time and effort into your doodles! I like your portrat of the woman a lot. The sharp lines of the eyes really create a dramatic feel, which adds to the teardrop instead of stealing attention from it... great job! The Path doodle is cool (I love the shading again, it's barely noticable but adds so much depth); I'm not really too sure what the heck that bug thing is, but I know the person in the armor is protecting the person on the floor, who is writhing in pain! I would to love to know the stories behind your doodles :)

DJ, I really haven't noticed that all of your doodles have been done in the 3/4s view :) Does it really matter that much, though? You can make any scene work in that style; whereas someone who was only good in doing front and side views would experience a great deal of frustration due to a severe lack of depth! If you're looking to try things in front view I bet using some google images (http://images.google.com/images?q=model+poses&hl=en&btnG=Search+Images) (I really hope that link doesn't eventually lead to any inappropriate content) as a reference would help! Their poses might be a bit too sexy and sassy for your gritty, down-to-earth drawing style, but the positionings of the various body parts might help you visualize your doodles from the front and side perspective.

Looking forward to seeing some more doodles! :)

Dribble Joy

17-01-06, 01:45

The main problem is the faces rather than the bodies, it just looks horrible side or front on.

Mighty Max

27-01-06, 14:49

I'm a bit forced to do so, and beware my paint skills are ... bad :D

This shall reflect what i think my Cityadmin guy looks like. He is a civil servant in the Instutute for statistical preparation of administrative costs (german: "Amt für statistische Aufbereitung verwaltungsbezogener Ausgaben" short AsAvA)

So yeah an old guy.

CMaster

27-01-06, 15:46

Not strictly NC related, but some art I did for an RP I am involved with:
http://www.optima-systems.net/linxsoft/mountain%20city.jpg
http://www.optima-systems.net/linxsoft/fed%20parliament.jpg

Pretty poor, no?
May do some NC based stuff today...

Mighty Max

27-01-06, 16:22

Heavyporker

27-01-06, 17:30

My... my... MY EYES!

Cmaster, call an artist to do the artwork for that rpg.

Trust me, something like this never needs to see the light of day again.

But if you must produce artwork for that game, at least use The Gimp (it is free), the curved line tool, and copy/paste.

CMaster

27-01-06, 19:27

I think you misunderstand Heavy - its a freeform RP that I participate in, not a game I am involved in making. I am trying to give an impression of a location. Oh, can cut and paste, and a while load of other tricks are used from PaintShop Pro. I'm just not very good witht his kinda thing.

cRazy-

27-01-06, 20:00

http://forum.neocron.com/showthread.php?t=131978

*cough*

good artwork too guys.

Dribble Joy

27-01-06, 22:13

DJ again, with a bit more fan service.
Very quick scetch, little touching up

Oddly enough I was doing the photoshop stuff while I noticed that thread.

Heavyporker

28-01-06, 01:21

DJ.. that's excellent. Wish the face got a bit more shading like the rest, though.

Dribble Joy

28-01-06, 01:49

The face is fucking horrible, don't like how that pic came out on the comp.

Sunny Rosalind

28-01-06, 02:22

Hi :)

I was experimenting around some more with the new brush settings. I definately think I enjoy it much more than the previous set; the lines are a bit less varying in size, but the new 'fullness' really makes everything seem so much more complete. It's also a lot easier to do.

I did this picture a few days ago! It's a psi monk wearing a porcelain mask. The inspiration for this picture was Calendar (http://www.batman-superman.com/batman/img/grabs/Cgirl.jpg) Girl (http://www.batman-superman.com/batman/img/grabs/Cgirl2.jpg) a supervillainess from Batman's animated series that was really popular on TV about 10 years ago.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/porcelain.jpg

My idea was to have her appear to be pretty masochistic by having a lot of heavy, restricting clothing while at the same time being near-offensively tainted... but it didn't turn out too well. I don't really like the torso wrap, the arm bands, the weird white swirlies or the fancy neckline - it's a bit too ornate and pretty, and as a result it seems more fantasy-based than futuristic. I'm a big fan of the lower half though. I think it portrays just enough sleaze, straps, and vulgarity to fit in to a futuristic and post-apocalyptic world.

I also did a really really quickie picture that I was inspired to do after reading about the faction objectives. I wonder what BD has planned! I bet it'll be an 'offer that you can't refuse'!

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/quickie2.jpg

Given the amount of time (no more than 20 minutes) I spent working on that doodle, I think it came out really nicely! I'll definately end up finishing it soon.

Mighty Max, what a cute little drawing :) He makes me think of those old guys who were in the muppet show, grr, I can't remember their names! I would definately love to see a little bit more depth put into that picture, like... what is the man doing? where is he doing it? why? ETC ETC ETC :)

CMaster, those are some pretty interesting ideas you have! The pictures say so much, and I bet it really helps communicate things that you visualize to the other people who participate with you! I would definately love to know more about the project :)

DJ, I really love the much more 'supermodelly' approach you took in your doodle. The pose and the expression are so much more seductive than your previous pieces! I really hope you apply whatever knowledge you've acquired while doing that picture into your future doodles! :)

Glad to see that the thread got a burst of life all of the sudden :P Let's hope it doesn't die down!

Dribble Joy

28-01-06, 03:03

I really hope you apply whatever knowledge you've acquired while doing that picture into your future doodles!

heh...

http://gallery.digik.net/view/8898

The concept artist for bakuretsu tenshi (anime), who rocks, even if most of his stuff is .... naughty :p.

Clive tombstone

28-01-06, 06:28

I guess its close to the time to post more of my work soon, to defend my honor :D Expect some stuff in the followin days.

PS-nice work DJ, youve improved a bit! and yeah, the head sucks I wont lie, but thats mostly because I a little baised to Anime faces. But heck, I still think its a nice picture.

Rosey, nice work once again! I like the Half-masked Monk quite a bit, very neat! and the second has a very peculiar (is that how its spelt?) expression on her face! very neat.

Now for the background pictures I saw....

...

Just keep trying, and do this, And I dont mean this in any form of offence, Go out and do some study on perspective. I post ona my works soon demonstrating that.

ANYWHO, time for my sleep, Im fighting a really bad cold, and having a bad cold means I cant do much things in the ways of creativity! I wish yeh all the best of luck with yer creations, and keep practicing.

PPS-Also, Me and a few chums of mine can give out perfession art critiques if anyone needs it, just PM me, and I can pass the image along my friends.

PEace out!

SPIKE (pluto)

30-01-06, 00:43

My tank in pa, only in black and white atm, ill post the coloured when i do it.
http://img17.imageshack.us/img17/3138/tankbw1io.jpg

Drawn freehand with the mouse as i still cant figure out how to use the pen tool, will do a manga style one, once i do one im completley happy with.

cRazy-

30-01-06, 01:28

for mouse drawn freehand thats pretty good.

Dribble Joy

30-01-06, 02:33

Very quick doodle, 15 mins to draw. No touching up of the scan at all.

This looked a whole lot better on paper.

Clive tombstone

30-01-06, 02:49

nice DJ, she looks a little "flat" dimentionally, but its still a neat pose. Keep it up!

Nice tank man. No offence though, is that drawn by reference? its still great for a MS paint drawing, since my actual mouse drawing skills suck (I have "slight" tremors in my hands).

Ill post somethin new in a short while, Just need to finish my Anthropology homework.

cRazy-

30-01-06, 02:52

Dribble Joy

30-01-06, 02:53

The torsp is kinda angled towards the camera, while the rest is perpendicular, so the top half has to look all squished, which is really hard to get right.

Clive tombstone

30-01-06, 02:54

I do, sadly I dont use it much, guess Ive never gotten into it as much. I cant "try" and get back into it.

Anywho, If anyone wants my aim (Ill be suprised if anyone does :D ) just PM me.

*coughs a few times and continues to finish his anthropology homework*

cRazy-

30-01-06, 02:56

The torsp is kinda angled towards the camera, while the rest is perpendicular, so the top half has to look all squished, which is really hard to get right.

I like it, I ecspecially like the simplistic half-anime looks in drawings.

oh and too add onto that messege, clive empty your PM box :p I added you to AIM already.

Clive tombstone

30-01-06, 02:58

wow, Havnt emptied it since I opened this account, anywho, try agains

Dribble Joy

30-01-06, 03:18

A bit of fun, this popped into my head and I quickly scribbled it out.

SPIKE (pluto)

30-01-06, 20:09

Finished it . . .

With minor drug flash effect:
http://img211.imageshack.us/img211/1276/tankgraincopy7cb.png

Without:
http://img375.imageshack.us/img375/9060/finishedtankcopy2zr.png

Went with the classic Devourer texture, new one wouldnt stand out enough :P

Clive tombstone

03-02-06, 18:18

Ok, new crap comming today, I gotta scan it it at school, my scanner bit the bucket today :( . 2 pics, I wonder If Ill get em colored or not :wtf:

cRazy-

03-02-06, 18:46

you need to idle on aim lad.

Clive tombstone

03-02-06, 21:52

Das wierd, I havnt been on aim in about a day or two =/, been busy with exams a lot recently.

cRazy-

03-02-06, 22:11

Das wierd, I havnt been on aim in about a day or two =/, been busy with exams a lot recently.

Well try and get online asap.

Clive tombstone

04-02-06, 01:34

Ok heres two sketches (no extra work done to em yet :( ) Hope you like em, The inkings a tad different for both of em, since ones a brush pen (use of strokes) and the other is a standard copec.
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/neocronicopy.png
http://i16.photobucket.com/albums/b17/Ashufly/fancyladcopy.png The birds in this sketch are from a design from a guy who does comics for heavy metal magazine. I personally liked them so much I wanted to put a few in my own picture.

anywho, Ill try getting some digital work on these soon, more pictures coming also.

Heavyporker

04-02-06, 22:12

Oh, shit, Clive! Sweet!

cRazy-

04-02-06, 22:46

clive AND heavyporker go on yahoo/aim

Heavyporker

04-02-06, 23:00

I can't, crazy, I told you that in PM last week.

Aisynia

07-02-06, 05:37

You aren't playing Asheron's Call by any chance?

The mob in this drawing looks alot like an old style Olthoi.

Nice drawn scene!
Used to.

Sunny Rosalind

07-02-06, 06:37

Hi :)

Sorry for the lack of posting. I've been having some computer troubles, as well as having a bunch of RL things to keep me occupato!

I have some quickie doodles of what I envision people from Via Rosso looking like - exsquisitely elegant, incredibly refined, and radiates political power; sort of like the aristocratic families of southern Italy in the early 1500s, only with a more updated palette of fabrics and ideas. Since the people who live in Via Rosso are too busy being infatuated with their own money, and have others do the manual labor for them, their outfits have very little combat functionality.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/gypsy.jpg
Here's a female psi monk. I aimed for a slightly gypsy-like appearance; very refined yet also very eccentric. It's hardly finished but it's definately one that I will revisit in the future.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y173/mawee03/spy.jpg
I'm trying my hand at drawing the male figure again after a break from them for god knows how long! I'll be the first to admit that its a very male-fashion-model physique, partly due to the fact that it's in my background and also because it sort of fits in with Viarosso's 'beautiful is better' schtick and the lean and frail physique of spies. If you couldn't tell, I was thinking of Lucius Malfoy (A character in the Harry Potter movie series) while doing the hair. There was at one point an odd-looking hand at the end of the sleeve but I decided to take it out.

I would love to comment on the bunches of doodles that have been posted since I was last here, but I've got to jet! I'm not able to say anything that anyone else hasn't, and if I was, you guys would probably already know what it was, so you're not missing much :P

Looking forward to seeing some more doodles! glad to see that a little bit more life was breathed into this thread as of recent!