Topic: BalanceArt

I just saw the finished product, I liked everything except the head. It's a bit weequay ish.
If you can change it to look human, time being an issue I guess I can just live with it.

Bah...time is of little importance. 
Hope you like this better, sorry I didn't use the Imperial logo much, but there's a long and complicated reason why I didn't. O_o

Even if it's just shading I like the second print better. Yea, I can imagine the logo just being a pain anyway.

It is...that, and I drew his arm outstretched to make the composition more interesting, but I couldn't think of anything to put in that hand since the other one had a repeater in it (which I cheated a little bit with, lol)  so I realized "hey, he could be stretching his arm out to show off his Imperial tattoo, and it kinda works that way, lol.  Glad you like it.  I've come a long way from that cruddy drawing of Kane I did eight or so months ago.  XD

Hmmm, as for the Trandoshan sheriff...

As we discussed previously, gray scales. Dark red eyes and a very sharp toothed grin. One line of rigid spikes starting above the middle of the forehead to the back of the neck. Laid back rather than uniform or professional. Black ribbed jacket with gold or yellow trim. Most likely holstered DL-44 on the side or back of the waist. Anything you can't do is fine, just responding to the request for more in depth descrition.

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Amazing, simply amazing. Captures his persona very very well. The smile is my favorite part.

Wow, nice. Very nice.

(I didn't do that picture I posted, I found it on Wookieepedia under Morlish Veed. I simply meant that he looks almost exactly like him.)

Thanks all.  :)  Glad it came out pretty well. Trandos can be tricky, but the pose worked great.

@Revan

Oh, okay.  Sorry about that then, I'll get on it as soon as you give me a detailed description of what you want.  (If I have time today between homework and church, should have it done tonight.)

Awsome. :cool:

Let's see...I really like the the face on that pic I posted, so let's go with that. And he has short grey spiked hair, and wears a black Imperial uniform (no hat), a black trenchcoat that is about lower-calf length, black gloves, Imperial officer boots, and the sawed-off double-barrel...yeah...and maybe a smoking cigar in his fingers.

Thanks BalanceSheet, it's very nice of you to do all this.

You're welcome. :)  I'm aspiring to be a conceptual artist, so I need to get used to drawing what other people want me to do, and try and make it look as good as possible.  So it's no real problem for me.  If you see anything about it that you dislike, or feel that I should have done differently, don't hesitate to say so; I need to get used to fixing mistakes, lol.
Should have it done midnightish (west coast time), if I get all my homework done first.

Edit: Make that tommorow night...I've got an art portfolio to slap together and some stuff to repaint/redraw before tommorow morning.  :(

i agree drawing a trando is a real pain...their face is the cross between a dog and a lizard.

the color saturation really makes ur art pop off the page- nice.

WOW, BalanceSheet. That is ALL I can say. You are amazing! Kandosii, ner vod, kandosii!!

Thanks RC, cujo. :)  If you ever want anything conceptualized (ie, you want me to draw some character/whatever for you), just give me a description and let me go with it.  ^_^

@Revan: Sorry this is taking so long, but I've got a lot of crud on my plate till tommorow, lol.  Might be able to get it done tonight, no promises though.  I haven't forgotten about you. ;)

This one came out pretty sloppy, I'm afraid...made some pretty big mistakes along the way, but oh well.  That's how we learn...anyways. 

Hmm...the wrist looks a little weird...and let's change out the cigar for the smoking shotgun...make the face lines and hair more like this:

http://s142.photobucket.com/albums/r107/LordDarthRevan/?action=view&current=scan0002-1.jpg

And...maybe...possibly...do the same chair and background as Orsusk?
(That's my first face drawing...so it's not the best...and it took me 2 1/2 hours to do it.)

K, I'll get on it....blargh, it took me 2 1/2 hours to do that, and it sucked, lol....need more practice Photoshopping humans, and I've got to start incorporating lines back into my pieces.... hmmm....I'm on it, nothing much better to do today.  ^_^ Going to try and use regular lighting this time, trying to make that cigar the lightpoint was hell.  : /

Hey just look back at the awesome job you did not Orsusk and think to yourself, "If I can do that, I rock out loud." Then you can go back to fixing up Firlov.

I agree that a concept artist would be an awesome occupation. By the way, I like the killer-rabbit picture a lot. I could never do anything close to that online.

I didn't mean it was bad in any way, I just said that's not what I had in mind for my character. There is also no way I could do photoshop like you can. You do rock.

(Am I looking at this correctly? I am confused.)

No, don't worry Revan I'm pretty sure Balance actually appreciates the critisism as he stated it in one of his previous posts. I was just giving a rallying cheer for him as I am still amazed at how great Orsusk came out =P.

^_^  I go for a four-hour walk and all this when I get back, lol. 

As Fetter said, yes, whatever criticism you have, feel free to give.  I need to improve as much as possible, and the only way I can is by learning from mistakes.  ;) My mistake with Firlov was mostly twofold....I screwed up the resolution somehow and I was working with much, much fewer pixels, and I still don't know how to Photoshop good eyes.  ^_^

Heheh, it's alright.  I've only drawn two things that I ever thought were really good; Orsusk and a picture of my grandmother that my art teacher made me chop up.  :(  So I'm pretty critical of myself, and I did make some big mistakes while working on Firlov, so I'm happy to do it again.

Thanks for the compliments everyone. :)  Much appreciated, though you should realize that I'm working with a tablet and a few years of Photoshop experience, so it wouldn't be too difficult for any of you to try some of this eventually. 

@Revan: This one's going to take a while, so I can't guarantee anything soon (between homework and other obligations), but if you want to make things a little easier for me, a really quick rough sketch of the pose/position you want him in would help me out quite a bit.  I know concept artists are usually supposed to just go with whatever they think up, but I'm a little hard pressed to figure out what exactly you're going for here.  ^_^  Thanks.

Very nice!

very very nice people i like the trando alot.

Thats really cool. do you just think of these? or find a pic and work off of it?

Heheh...I'm a complusive drawer, ie if I ever get a pen/pencil in my hand, I don't stop drawing for anything. ^_^  I just sketch out the general form of the figure (according to how they want the character to look), try to make the pose interesting, fill in the sketch with a grayscale color, use burn/dodge tools to add depth, add color as a seperate layer or just paint it onto the grayscale, and a few other tricks and techniques I've learned in Photoshop Elements...ie, this stuff is all original, I didn't just pretty up someone else's work. ^_^

@Revan: Sorry this is taking so long, something's wrong with my right eye....and I'm just a procrastinator in general, but I'll try to have another version done sometime today/tommorow.

Bah. Take your time, I haven't been able to get on in the past 2 days anyway. But...anything similar to Orsusk's pose is fine. (I...I don't do quick concept sketches good at all. Heh, in fact, I'm terrible at them.)

Heh...crud.  I'm so lazy, I'll get on these Photoshop binges and get a lot of stuff done, then I don't touch the program again for a month....can't say when it'll get done.  Probably not this week, but maybe late next week.  Sorry again.  I've got a lot on my plate with college and whatnot, and being sick doesn't help at all, lol.

Wow there is some really funky art work Balancesheet :) well done :)

I have returned.

Apologies to Lord Revan for not finishing the second rendition of his RPG character, but I assume that particullar character's been long-dead by now... anyways, here's what I've been up to since then.
Mind you, I haven't done any dedicated SW art, but since you all seem to like my stuff so much I thought I'd dump everything I did since I left, which isn't much, sadly.  I've been busy.

This one's actually pretty old, I don't know why I didn't post it here earlier. 

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/Robot.jpg

This was a project for a class where I actually got to use Photoshop for once. 

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/artprojectfinal4.jpg

Please don't ask. 

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/excersize1.jpg

My latest avatar for social networking sites and the like.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/Return.jpg

Something for a thread at Relicnews forums.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/SpaceBattleedit.jpg

Something for my best friend.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/Bubblesfinal.jpg

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/greybackconcpet2.jpg

Something to get critiqued at ConceptArt forums

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/finalspidabot1-1.jpg

and finally, a photoshop study for a watercolor that came out looking like garbage.

http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e20/BalanceSheet/landsxapfinal.jpg

Hopefully more coming soon, assuming I quit being so lazy and actually get some work done...

Wow! The last piece is lovely, Balance! I don't think is garbage! Thanks for sharing these with us... I have such an urge to draw now! The first concept is wicked as well (Da'haran? I know I spelled that wrong...). I also really like the elvish character you drew for your friend, very cool design.
So, are you taking classes to learn photoshop, or just teaching yourself? I'm trying to teach myself at the moment... so I can relate to how frustrating it can be. ;)
Anyway, keep it up! You've improved tremendously since your first posts! ^___^

No, the watercolor I had to make from that piece looked like garbage. :P  I suck at painting, lol.
Yeah, you spelled it wrong....D'harhan...everyone knows that. ;)  That's just one of the many robots I spasmatically draw whenever I'm near a pen and a piece of paper.

I've been using Photoshop for...about four or five years now.   Which is kinda sad considering I still have a long, long way to go, but I've never taken any classes for it or anything (looking forward to next quarter though, I finally get a computer art class...).  And I've only been using layers for about a year now. XD
Do you have a drawing tablet?  If you don't, you need to seriously consider getting one, it's basically essential to doing anything digitally. 
Wish I had your urge to draw, lol.  I'm only now trying to get over a serious videogame addiction (no, it's not WoW), and I'm in the withdrawl stages right now.  : /  I need to spend more time drawing...
What's your school like?  What kind of stuff are you learning?  What do you hope to do with art?  ^_^  I've been curious, lol.

It's okay, the RPG died anyway. But I must say your art is really good, both of you.

Exelent! I really like the one with the duck.

Excuse the poor quality, first time using ZBrush.  It's got a bit of a learning curve.... : /

When you said you needed practice in digital painting, I came to check your stuff... Wow!!! I really like your artistic sense for lighting and sceneries, you certainly have more imagination than I do for these things :P

I especially like your trandoshen, that latest portrait, the dark spider person and the lighthouse "watercolor". It looks OK to me with those high contrast, that's just part of your style so don't let anyone tell you that it's garbage :)

But the Sith Lord is awesome! The proportions, the pose and the lighting... Most impressive :D

:D  Thanks, that means a lot. :)

I was a bit fustrated with the Sith because Zbrush doesn't like to import into Photoshop nicely...I actually had a better painting of it that got lost.  And I couldn't get rid of the grey background....oh well.
You should give Zbrush a try sometime, if you can....it's a sweet little program.

And for no particullar reason, a chicken. 

all of them are so cool if you make more animal like gun wielders can one be like a kitty? and didnt D'harhan have like a huge tail to balance the recoil of his head gun thing? great drawings agian!!!!

That chicken is so cool :D reminds me of the giant chicken in Family Guy, if you know what I mean. You plan to color it?

It's not D'harhan, it's just a random robot. :P

lol, I stupidly forgot to layer the thing when I was working on it, so it's just a sketch....but yeah, I'm probably going to try and color it later today, I'll just start from scratch. ^_^

Here's something I threw together for a friend.

Colored the chicken. 

Nice! Although the wings and legs could some texture work... A bit of feather and scale shaping with the shade work.

I'm too lazy for that. :P 

Someone enlightened me on how to deal with the layer problem I had, so I'll probably be recoloring it when I get some time.

nice to see you resurface balance, and i think the chicken is a very cool character design as well.
nice work.

If you ask me his weapon reminds me a little bit of a Brute Spiker.  But that's just because of the blade.

I've never played Halo.    :P 
It's actually more inspired by Warhammer 40k Ogryn weapons. 

I'll be recoloring this piece over the weekend, now that I know a way to deal with the problem I had.

Reverse Brute Shot.

or that trandoshan weapon from REPCOM

oh btw FOR TEH EMPORER

Heh, the Maltese gave it a five out of six.

GAH THIRD PERSON!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(or GAH FIRST PERSON NARRITIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

(I agree with that rating)

lol I assume you have had bad experiences with 3rd person Adeptus?

I'd say 8/10.