This is the FF art thread

[beyelzu]

Post your art here.

Poetry, prose, links, pictures

whatever the fuck strikes you as art, but it has to be produced by you.


Ill start with the only poem I ever wrote that I thought was worth a shit.




She should have died hereafter,
There would have been time for such a word
Tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day


oh shit that isnt mine, its fucking macbeth.


alright, seriously.


And the well of words dried up,
And I was left standing there, staring at you
And you couldnt meet my gaze
Your eyes searched around the room
Hoping to find some pointless point of interest
And you couldnt look at me
Was the sight of your betrayal so painful?
Were the memories of your lies so distasteful?
I racked my brain searching for something to say
Something to capture your interest
Words of power to bind you to me
But only sand came up in the bucket
I tipped back my head and drank greedily
Swallowing the dry mouthfuls
Until my throat was raw and bleeding
Until my mind was naked and hurting
I drank you in,
Ignoring my distaste
Hiding my nauseua
Until I despised everything about you
Til I loved you no longer.

[Nil Desperandum]

That's pretty cool, man. It's really to-the-point, no fluff. I like that sometimes. Other times:

::: revs up chainsaw :::

GET SOME FEAR IN YOUR HEART! :flamer:

[wei yau]

Sleeping next to me
You do not hear the storm
My screams are silent

[Nil Desperandum]

I have about 200 poems, so this thread might get filled up. Plus, I have a lot of drawings I could add, too. Time to bust out the digital camera. <3

[Megatron]

Meh, I used to write, I've got about 500 or so pages of song lyrics and other such vomit, but I've had rather severe writer's block for about 3 years now (and I realize why, considering that most of my writing was bollocks anyway)

I might post a few here just so you guys can see how crap it was.

[Adora]

Considering what I've been doing recently probably won't be appreciated around here, and I deleted all my old stuff from my deviantArt account, I'll just say LOOKIT TEH PRETTY ICONS and be done with it.

[Megatron]

what I've been doing recently probably won't be appreciated around here
Why do you say that?

[livius drusus]

Why do you say that?
Probably because of something you did.

[Megatron]

Why do you say that?
Probably because of something you did.
Hey now, it wasn't me this time... :innocent:

[Nil Desperandum]

what I've been doing recently probably won't be appreciated around here
Why do you say that?
I'm curious too.

I personally just throw it out there, and if nobody has anything to say, then it is time to move on, I suppose.

[Adora]

Two reasons:

One) If mumma ain't happy, ain't nobody happy. I haven't been incredibly satisfied with the stuff I've been doing lately, because I simply haven't had the time to do it as well as I'd like and keep up the practice. Study is basically responsible for this. So I'm far more reluctant to show it off than if I had the time and input into it to turn it into something I'm happy with.

Two) I also haven't been doing a lot of original stuff lately because it always takes more time & effort which I don't currently have (as mentioned above), so it's basically all fanart of various manga, anime and books. Stuff I just don't think many people around here would be interested in. *shrugs* Why waste bandwidth?

[Ymir's blood]

Bored at work today. This sketch really came out close to the image in my head, which is quite unusal.

Masks (http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/photos/masks_sketch.jpg)

[xorbie]

My first ever attempt at writing ... go easy :( (also I couldn't really develop it as much as I'd like, I wrote it on another site as part of a competition and there's a 60 line limit, which due to the way I rhyme my couplets, constrains me quite a bit)

There was this boy...
You might say a geek or maybe nerd
His voice meek, and rarely heard
A true loner, all his clothes had been through owners
He only owned two sweaters, from two donors
He'd always had nothing, his life was sorry
Other's had pleasures, had hobby's, but not he
He spent nights in hunger, suffered an abusive father
When he was younger, he'd wonder, why bother?
Grew his hair out long, and always keep his head down
Other's would sneer when he passed, or instead frown
Kid's cracked jokes....
But these days, he never lacked hope
Because of his angel....

She was so beautiful,
...he'd suffer through it all
Just to see her face each and every day
It was perfect, and her voice the very same
She was in his thoughts, his heart
She'd never depart
The other kids told stories, he'd never listen
Rumors of drugs, and trouble.... not this Jen... not his Jen
Her smile innocence itself,
... and all this while, in a sense
She was his, because only he saw it,
...she was flawless
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
And he just wanted to be that holder, and hold her
Until the days grew short, and the nights colder
And they'd tuck in, shoulder to shoulder
And smile, and say "I love you"....

Tonight his drunk mother's shedding tears in the dark
He's slipped out of the house, heading near the park
There's a small hill, you can see the starry skies
Now not far, he spies another figure,
... he stops and lingers
It's his angel, there standing at this hill's peak
Now all's a blur, which,
seems to give him the courage
And he knows tonight he will speak....

And standing there above the city
The moon reflected in her eyes, so pretty
His angel so pure,
... and for once he spoke sure
"Do you mind if I join you?"
It was the dead of night, still her smile shone through
And as it met her lips lazily, a grin slowly crossed his
"Mister, haven't you heard I'm crazy?"
"Oh, most certainly not miss"
She spoke coyly, almost toying
Words couldn't describe his feelings, it was overjoying
They talked the whole night, and each night thereafter
They shared stories, they shared laughter
And a week later, watching the sun rise
He saw in one eye, a single tear form
But before his fears formed
She brushed it off, and leaned closer
And whispered, she was so glad he'd chose her
Their lips met, and in this moment
He finally knew what whole meant.

To be continued...

[freemonkey]

I was gonna make a new thread just to show off (http://test.picturestoposters.com/index.htm), but since this thread is set up to do that kind of thing, I'll just put it here. This is some new stuff I've been working on for an upcoming show.

I've been working on trying to learn some web skills so I can design, create & maintain my own site to show/sell my art & photos.

The site is very basic, some links don't go anywhere, the design isn't what I really want (haven't learned that stuff yet), but its something. Just so you didn't get to thinking I was all talk. :wink:

[Corona688]

I totally misread the thread title. That aside, I do have a bit of so-called "art" of my own. Feast your ears or stop your ears as you prefer. :P http://burningsmell.dyndns.org/music/

[Corona688]

All right, I'm going to get off my ass and respond to other people's art. I think this thread deserves some more activity. We seem a fairly artistic bunch -- at the very least, people have bared abit of their souls in this thread and deserve acknowledgement.

If my interpretations of people's art seem brainless and shallow, that's simply because I am. :P Please take no offense. And the well of words dried up,
And I was left standing there, staring at you
And you couldnt meet my gaze
Your eyes searched around the room
Hoping to find some pointless point of interest
And you couldnt look at me
Was the sight of your betrayal so painful?
Were the memories of your lies so distasteful?
I racked my brain searching for something to say
Something to capture your interest
Words of power to bind you to me
But only sand came up in the bucket
I tipped back my head and drank greedily
Swallowing the dry mouthfuls
Until my throat was raw and bleeding
Until my mind was naked and hurting
I drank you in,
Ignoring my distaste
Hiding my nauseua
Until I despised everything about you
Til I loved you no longer. It's not a pretty poem, but I don't think it was meant to be. It makes me uncomfortable, because it does a really good job of nailing down the sensations of having hurt someone else through accident or neglect. These lines in particular: And you couldnt meet my gaze
Your eyes searched around the room
Hoping to find some pointless point of interest These kind of describe my reaction to your poem. It strikes a chord with me because I am a fairly avoidant person, myself, and these are things I can find myself doing if I am not careful. The poem's rawness and directness make it difficult for me to read it full-on, the same way the antagonist in the poem wished to avoid. That's not to say it's to be avoided -- good art can be disturbing, and learning a painful process.

[Corona688]

Sleeping next to me
You do not hear the storm
My screams are silent This one strikes me as a collection of contrasts; silence and storms, sleeping and screaming, intimacy and dissociation. It's dark and fascinating. You managed to say quite a fair bit in 13 small words.

[Corona688]

Bored at work today. This sketch really came out close to the image in my head, which is quite unusal.

Masks (http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/photos/masks_sketch.jpg) If that's a sketch, I envy you. I can draw nature scenes and stick-people, but organic human shapes I have always found difficult.

I am not particularly sure what I feel about this image... maybye that's it -- uncertainty. The willowy, etheral lines of the figure in the smoke strike me as a bit reminiscent of 'The Scream'. The moonlit mountainscape adds atmosphere, but I am left wondering what it means. I wish I could look at it more closely. The masks are evocative of thought to me; masks under masks under masks, which one is real? Maybye none of them.

[Corona688]

There was this boy...
You might say a geek or maybe nerd
His voice meek, and rarely heard
A true loner, all his clothes had been through owners
He only owned two sweaters, from two donors
He'd always had nothing, his life was sorry
Other's had pleasures, had hobby's, but not he
He spent nights in hunger, suffered an abusive father
When he was younger, he'd wonder, why bother?
Grew his hair out long, and always keep his head down
Other's would sneer when he passed, or instead frown
Kid's cracked jokes....
But these days, he never lacked hope
Because of his angel....

She was so beautiful,
...he'd suffer through it all
Just to see her face each and every day
It was perfect, and her voice the very same
She was in his thoughts, his heart
She'd never depart
The other kids told stories, he'd never listen
Rumors of drugs, and trouble.... not this Jen... not his Jen
Her smile innocence itself,
... and all this while, in a sense
She was his, because only he saw it,
...she was flawless
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder
And he just wanted to be that holder, and hold her
Until the days grew short, and the nights colder
And they'd tuck in, shoulder to shoulder
And smile, and say "I love you"....

Tonight his drunk mother's shedding tears in the dark
He's slipped out of the house, heading near the park
There's a small hill, you can see the starry skies
Now not far, he spies another figure,
... he stops and lingers
It's his angel, there standing at this hill's peak
Now all's a blur, which,
seems to give him the courage
And he knows tonight he will speak....

And standing there above the city
The moon reflected in her eyes, so pretty
His angel so pure,
... and for once he spoke sure
"Do you mind if I join you?"
It was the dead of night, still her smile shone through
And as it met her lips lazily, a grin slowly crossed his
"Mister, haven't you heard I'm crazy?"
"Oh, most certainly not miss"
She spoke coyly, almost toying
Words couldn't describe his feelings, it was overjoying
They talked the whole night, and each night thereafter
They shared stories, they shared laughter
And a week later, watching the sun rise
He saw in one eye, a single tear form
But before his fears formed
She brushed it off, and leaned closer
And whispered, she was so glad he'd chose her
Their lips met, and in this moment
He finally knew what whole meant.

To be continued...
The words are a bit unrefined(Though I'm hardly one to say so, having never written a readable poem or even a limerick in my life), but the effort undertaken is formidable and the message is there... it makes me a little sad, a little frightened, and makes me wonder. I've never met anyone like this Jen -- or have I? If I did, would I know? How much need do I feel for companianship and understanding? Much, and yet not enough, since I don't feel much compulsion to look for any. It would be a risk, and my life feels fairly safe and comfortable without taking that risk. This poem gives me a glimpse of what I might be missing, and it's awesome and terrifying, and yet I sit here, mostly content to not understand.

Maybye I haven't suffered enough to want it. That's the main message I get -- from suffering can sometimes come something strange and beautiful. Or maybye perhaps despite it. Is suffering necessary, or is it not? I don't know. And I'm afraid to know.

[Corona688]

I was gonna make a new thread just to show off (http://test.picturestoposters.com/index.htm), but since this thread is set up to do that kind of thing, I'll just put it here. This is some new stuff I've been working on for an upcoming show.

I've been working on trying to learn some web skills so I can design, create & maintain my own site to show/sell my art & photos.

The site is very basic, some links don't go anywhere, the design isn't what I really want (haven't learned that stuff yet), but its something. Just so you didn't get to thinking I was all talk. :wink: The layout of the page is sparse, clear, and useful. You've managed to create a plain white page that looks like it ought to be that way; things look carefully arranged and matched, not just dropped willy nilly and left at defaults. I particularly like how you have designed the page to be usable in a small window -- I hate demanding pages.

The selection of photographs is an interesting mixture of nature and abstract, sometimes the same thing. The tulip in particular looks very abstract; it has a lot more detail close-up than you'd expect of a simple tulip, so much I didn't recognize it as such until I saw the label.

[freemonkey]

Corona, I see you're something of an inventor. :D

I'm having a little trouble opening your music files..... what program do I use?

edit: we crossposted, thanks for the compliment. I've also managed to convert one of my songs to an MP3, if I get brave, maybe I'll post it later.

[Corona688]

Corona, I see you're something of an inventor. :D I make no claims of being a talented one, and I make no claims of being sane either :P I'm just hoping that a few other people might find the cheap one-shot programs I build for myself useful.I'm having a little trouble opening your music files..... what program do I use? My music files are either XM or MOD format, two formats which belong to a whole family of music formats known as "modules" or "mods". In a nutshell, mods are a set of software-synth instruments glued to sheets of music that use these instruments. The biggest difference between these and midi is, midi music depends on the synthesizer playing it to supply appropriate instruments, whereas mods are completely self-contained.

The best windows mod player is unquestionably the freeware program Modplug Player (burningsmell.dyndns.org/mpp142.zip), whose mainpage (http://www.castlex.com) seems to have mysteriously vanished. I hope it comes back. Plain winamp will work, mostly, though it gets .XM instruments slightly wrong sometimes during pitch shifts.

[edit] I want to make it clear that I did not make Modplug Player. It was created by Oliver Lapique. I am just hosting a copy because freemonkey asked for a good player, Oliver's mainpage is down, and MPP has become difficult to find on the web.

edit: we crossposted, thanks for the compliment. Your welcome.

[beyelzu]

All right, I'm going to get off my ass and respond to other people's art. I think this thread deserves some more activity. We seem a fairly artistic bunch -- at the very least, people have bared abit of their souls in this thread and deserve acknowledgement.

If my interpretations of people's art seem brainless and shallow, that's simply because I am. :P Please take no offense. And the well of words dried up,
And I was left standing there, staring at you
And you couldnt meet my gaze
Your eyes searched around the room
Hoping to find some pointless point of interest
And you couldnt look at me
Was the sight of your betrayal so painful?
Were the memories of your lies so distasteful?
I racked my brain searching for something to say
Something to capture your interest
Words of power to bind you to me
But only sand came up in the bucket
I tipped back my head and drank greedily
Swallowing the dry mouthfuls
Until my throat was raw and bleeding
Until my mind was naked and hurting
I drank you in,
Ignoring my distaste
Hiding my nauseua
Until I despised everything about you
Til I loved you no longer. It's not a pretty poem, but I don't think it was meant to be. It makes me uncomfortable, because it does a really good job of nailing down the sensations of having hurt someone else through accident or neglect. These lines in particular: And you couldnt meet my gaze
Your eyes searched around the room
Hoping to find some pointless point of interest These kind of describe my reaction to your poem. It strikes a chord with me because I am a fairly avoidant person, myself, and these are things I can find myself doing if I am not careful. The poem's rawness and directness make it difficult for me to read it full-on, the same way the antagonist in the poem wished to avoid. That's not to say it's to be avoided -- good art can be disturbing, and learning a painful process.


well, it is pretty brutal, it is intended to be.

Thanks for taking the time to respond. One thing I like about it is the way I used an extended metaphor. I am a big fan of internal rhyme and alliteration and I think this poem uses both fairly well

[beyelzu]

I was gonna make a new thread just to show off (http://test.picturestoposters.com/index.htm), but since this thread is set up to do that kind of thing, I'll just put it here. This is some new stuff I've been working on for an upcoming show.

I've been working on trying to learn some web skills so I can design, create & maintain my own site to show/sell my art & photos.

The site is very basic, some links don't go anywhere, the design isn't what I really want (haven't learned that stuff yet), but its something. Just so you didn't get to thinking I was all talk. :wink:

I really like alot of the pictures. I find the extreme closeups to be uber badass.

what is the process behind those pictures?

[Godless Wonder]

Here's a watercolor I did several years ago that came out pretty well. it's based on a photo in a book about castles I picked up somewhere. It's about 16x24 inches, give or take.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/cmscdj/art/dungeon_cropped.jpg

For some reason it reminds me of Gary Larson's The Far Side, like it could be the back drop for some cartoon with a mad scientist or something.

Edit: oh yeah, when I say "watercolor", I don't mean anything fancy, I mean those 99 cent 8-pan Crayola sets, like you'd get for a five year old. :) Hoever, I did use real paint brushes, not the piece of crap that comes with such sets. And it's not quite that yellow in real life. I need to figure out the white balance on my camera some day.

[beyelzu]

Here's a watercolor I did several years ago that came out pretty well. it's based on a photo in a book about castles I picked up somewhere. It's about 16x24 inches, give or take.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/cmscdj/art/dungeon_cropped.jpg

For some reason it reminds me of Gary Larson's The Far Side, like it could be the back drop for some cartoon with a mad scientist or something.

Edit: oh yeah, when I say "watercolor", I don't mean anything fancy, I mean those 99 cent 8-pan Crayola sets, like you'd get for a five year old. :) Hoever, I did use real paint brushes, not the piece of crap that comes with such sets. And it's not quite that yellow in real life. I need to figure out the white balance on my camera some day.

damn, that is nice, I find it amazing that you made it using such crappy resources.

[Dingfod]

Parental braggadocio:

[freemonkey]

GW, that's a pretty cool painting. I always admire people who can hang in there painting all that detail. I have a friend who does incredibly detailed watercolors with beads, feathers, fabrics, etc. Very hard work. Your painting is especially interesting to me, as I'm nearing the end of "Pillars of the Earth", about the building of cathedrals in Europe in the 12th century.

[livius drusus]

I love it, GW. I'm really amazed that a watercolor can be so precise. warren, your daughter is not only seriously talented, but she has a huge range.

[Dingfod]

Laney is also quite talented artistically, she's always drawing something. This is from Roxy's very first art class. She has just completed a white pencil on black paper piece of a set of stairs, railings and all that is just great. It is not here for me to photograph though, it's at school.

I've dabbled a little myself, I'm always doodling. When I am on day shifts, during our 45 minute morning conference call, I doodle with my pen on the reports in front of me. I've got half the people in the office watching what I'll come up with next. The other day it was a hanging basket of ivy. Those magnificent works of art are lost and gone forever, crumpled up and thrown in the recycle bin every day. *sigh*

[Ymir's blood]

If that's a sketch, I envy you. I can draw nature scenes and stick-people, but organic human shapes I have always found difficult.
Well I have a lot of trouble with getting good proportion and have a very limited knowlege of anatomy. However the figure in question is only a torso draped in loose robes. That helped a lot. Also, it took many many tries before looking like it does now.
I am not particularly sure what I feel about this image... maybye that's it -- uncertainty. The willowy, etheral lines of the figure in the smoke strike me as a bit reminiscent of 'The Scream'. The moonlit mountainscape adds atmosphere, but I am left wondering what it means. I wish I could look at it more closely. The masks are evocative of thought to me; masks under masks under masks, which one is real? Maybye none of them.
That was pretty much the point of the picture. It is somewhat representative of my feelings about myself. Sometimes I feel as if I'm only a collection of masks with nothing real underneath. Also, the mask of comedy was placed 'over' tragedy as it seems to work that way in life. Put on a joyful face to cover the sadness, as it were.

Godless Wonder, that is a great picture. :yup:

Everything in this thread has been great, just not dark enough. :rainy:

[Gavin]

Here's a watercolor I did several years ago that came out pretty well. it's based on a photo in a book about castles I picked up somewhere. It's about 16x24 inches, give or take.
impressive

[Corona688]

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/cmscdj/art/dungeon_cropped.jpg GW -- that's beautiful. :yup: So much detail, and the colors are just right. Gives the feeling of either early morning or late evening. From the filename, dungeon seems to me abit of a misnomer though, it's light and airy and open to the sun.

[Corona688]

Here's an old art project of mine I just rescued from the winamp skin archives:
http://burningsmell.dyndns.org/skinfu/hardwired.png (http://burningsmell.dyndns.org/skinfu/HardwiredAmp.wsz)
I liked it at the time, probably because I put so much work into it. Coming back to it now, it's pretty busy and not especially smooth, and sometimes things don't match up quite right. Oh well.

The discovery of Simple Directmedia Layer (http://www.libsdl.org/) let me code a hackish something to handle the problem that vexed me last time -- having to paint everything to exactly match the main window. Skinfu let me just leave 'blank' areas on buttons and things to fill in with background from the main window. I was also sick of dark, square, busyish players; so I clipped off edges at odd angles, left out all superflous lettering, and tried some actual shading for a change. The end result was this:
http://burningsmell.dyndns.org/skinfu/blueskew.png (http://burningsmell.dyndns.org/skinfu/blueskew.html)

[Godless Wonder]

GW -- that's beautiful. :yup: So much detail, and the colors are just right. Gives the feeling of either early morning or late evening. From the filename, dungeon seems to me abit of a misnomer though, it's light and airy and open to the sun. Yeah, well, my other choice was "church," so, six of one, half a dozen of the other...same thing. :) Thanks for the kind words. It's a little dark in the photo, it's brighter IRL, but I think I might like the darker photo better. Maybe I just like the change, since it's been on my wall for a few years now. That one took me a little over a week to do, spending several hours a day, if I remember right. At the time, it was the most time by a factor of 10 that I'd ever spent working on a painting. I didn't plan to render the stones at all at first, but for some reason I started doing them, and then, well once I started, I couldn't very well stop until they were all done.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

These are the freehand drawings I've done commenting on religion.
http://randi.org/vbulletin/attachment.php?s=&postid=1870552057
http://randi.org/vbulletin/attachment.php?s=&postid=1870552034

[Dingfod]

Thanks for shopping at K-mark.

[Adora]

This is just a doodley-sketch, but I'm surprised and happy at how well it turned out, so you're all going to suffer. HA!

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v93/TheAnimeSchoolgirl/dream.jpg

It's gonna be coloured at a latter date. Scribbled in OpenCanvas3 this evening over about 45 minutes. Lyric nicked from The Way You Dream by One Giant Leap. Yeah, I know there are some anatomy issues, but I'm too happy with it overall to care. Laa dee daa!

[livius drusus]

That's some doodley sketch. I find the sleeping girl (?) - her posture, her fingers, her expression, her hair - particularly compelling. And the end of the couch, for some reason. Anyway, it's tender and charming and ya done good.

[Godless Wonder]

That's awesome. I especially like the way you did thte hair. Reminds me of Meg Ryan for some reason.

[Petra]

Wow, you all do such lovely stuff. Love the sketches!

All I've got is a blowjob poem and a poem set in a brothel, but y'all have read them. :shrug:

[Zoe]

I've just bumped into an old friend online, an artist from Colorado called Frank Garza, and he showed me a picture of a painting he was commissioned to do, called The Last Supper. It's a large work, 4ft x 8ft.

I think it's amazing, as I do much of Frank's work.

So, without further ado, let me unveil The Last Supper by Frank Garza...

[beyelzu]

I've just bumped into an old friend online, an artist from Colorado called Frank Garza, and he showed me a picture of a painting he was commissioned to do, called The Last Supper. It's a large work, 4ft x 8ft.

I think it's amazing, as I do much of Frank's work.

So, without further ado, let me unveil The Last Supper by Frank Garza...
hmm, arent you a little young to have artist friends in colorado, what does your mom think? :D

[Petra]

hmm, arent you a little young to have artist friends in colorado, what does your mom think? :D

I really need a new mic.... but - smahhht ahhhse! :D

[Petra]

Zoe's woodcut...

[Godless Wonder]

Here's a sketch I did tonight, thinking about making a painting with something like this as a part of it, maybe shooting for something along the lines of Maxfield Parrish's "Daybreak" except with this little shredder girl. Not at all sure I could pull it off though. Hmm, something's not quite right about her left arm....

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/cmscdj/art/shredder_girl2.jpg

[Godless Wonder]

Well, it seems to be coming along nicely... :D (I'm afraid to touch a paint brush to it though.) 24x30, gessoed canvas.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/cmscdj/maxp_shredder/shredder6bw700.jpg

[livius drusus]

Holy crap you're good. :damn:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I shurely thought someone would comment on my two. Don't cha' love me? :wink:

[livius drusus]

They're just beyond description is all, SkepticJ. :beaugest:

[Godless Wonder]

SkepticJ

Your links don't work for me, I had to hit the quote button on your post and examine the IMG tags just to see that there even were links. I had thought your "These are all the drawings I've done commenting on religion" followed by ... nothing at all, was some sort of minimalist humor, only your most recent post clued me in that this wasn't the case.

Cutting and pasting the link, I come to a page that says "You are not logged in or you do not have permission to access this page. This could be due to one of several reasons:" among other things...

[livius drusus]

Woops. Godless Wonder's right. I totally thought it was the minimalist humor thing because the embeds are invisible. Sorry about that, SkepticJ.

[lady cop]

oh christmas in florida :xmastree: , send me some snow :snowflake: .....there's 'gators in the mistletoe :gecko: ,and hos, hos, hos..................(hey we need alligator and ho smilies Livius!)

[livius drusus]

Will a croc do? Cause we've got :Croc:.

[lady cop]

Will a croc do? Cause we've got :Croc:.
yes...most people don't know the diff, and they are a GOOD thing, they eat poodles and those golfers wearing lime green and madras. :D

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Woops. Godless Wonder's right. I totally thought it was the minimalist humor thing because the embeds are invisible. Sorry about that, SkepticJ.

How do I make them show up? On the computers at college I can see them but the one I'm on now doesn't show them. :chin: :glare:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

:gecko:

Sweet :cool:

[Godless Wonder]

Woops. Godless Wonder's right. I totally thought it was the minimalist humor thing because the embeds are invisible. Sorry about that, SkepticJ.

How do I make them show up? On the computers at college I can see them but the one I'm on now doesn't show them. :chin: :glare: Find some better webhosting for your pictures that allows deep linking. I would suggest photobucket.com which is what I've been using, but I heard they quit handing out free memberships. There's a photodump.com that I think I've seen people using... don't know anything about it though.

[Petra]

Wow, GW!

Brilliant. That's all I got to say. Just brilliant.

:bow: :bow: :bow:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Sorry for the wait, here they are.
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-8/808504/MONH.jpg
http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-8/808504/SpikeCross.jpg

[nvexio]

Thanatopsis (most recent): http://www.nvexio.com/planetdeath.jpg

Portfolio: http://www.nvexio.com

[Gavin]

Well, it seems to be coming along nicely... :D (I'm afraid to touch a paint brush to it though.) 24x30, gessoed canvas.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/cmscdj/maxp_shredder/shredder6bw700.jpg
again fascinating.
Is there an update by any chance?

[Ensign Steve]

I forget, can I delete a post?

[livius drusus]

No ma'am. Just the contents. You might could persuade me or vm to do it for you, though.

[Godless Wonder]

again fascinating.
Is there an update by any chance?

Thanks... yeah, ok, twist my arm...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/cmscdj/maxp_shredder/shredder_paint17_700.jpg

[Gavin]

You are a true artist.
The sky is calm, the mountains remain distant. A waterfall?
The shade of the sun in lavendar, fantastic.

If I may dare to comment on one little detail: The bum of the girl seem not quite right, since she is sitting.

Highly impressed. Thank you very much indeed.

[livius drusus]

Wow. Everything Gavin said and then some. I love the bold colors, the pattern on the floor, the shadows. It's beautiful, Godless Wonder.

Next time don't wait to be asked. ;)

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Dude, it's Naboo. Very nice.

[Godless Wonder]

Dude, it's Naboo. Very nice. Haha. There's a scene I remember near the end of one of those star wars movies with Anakin and Princess Amygdala or whatever her name was, I remember thinking, hmm, that reminds me of a Maxfield Parrish painting. So I'll take "Naboo."

Haven't worked on that one much lately though, my brain is fried from looking at it for too long. Today I did a landscape...

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/cmscdj/art/grandunion_700.jpg

8x10 inches, acrylic on canvas, it's got a few problems, but not too terrible for only 3.5 hours work.

[livius drusus]

Pretty scary good for 3.5 hours work, I'd say. Was this a live painting or did you do it from a picture or memory?

[Godless Wonder]

From a photo. (http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=209276) There's an art site called wetcanvas.com that has a weekly drawing event (WDE), where each week somebody posts some (about 15) photos, and you have a half hour to choose a pic, then work on it for a couple hours, then post your results, finsihed or not, then finish up, and post that. It's kind of fun, though I don't do it very often, only ifif I'm in the mood and one of the photos seems worthwhile. Linky (http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=133). I'm "metalhead" over there in case you care to lurk.

[CARLA]

:bow: :bow: GW,

:artist: Your work is awesome. :qex:

I keep saying this, but what a group of very talented people here. :bow: :bow:

Not one ounce of artistic talent in my body.. Luck if I can get a stick figure correct. :D I'm wicked with a coloring book.. :giggle: :giggle:

[livius drusus]

I'm wicked with a coloring book.

Me too! No seriously. I love coloring books and gigantic sets of magic markers. :yup:

[CARLA]

:D livius drusus,

I knew somebody had to be into coloring books.. :giggle:

I color with my Granddaughter all the time. She has one that is about 3 feet tall. I'm an expert at outlining, and shading. :D

[Adora]

A really weird piece inspired by my desire this year to teach myself Russian history and too little sleep.

http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/2419IHW3L/293348.jpg

1) I know it's shit.

2) It's not vector art.

3) Comrade Lenin was traced from an old Soviet propaganda poster that I found in a history book. The original artist was not credited in the book, so I'm just going to post a big "Don't Copyright Fuck My Arse PLZKTHX" here.

[livius drusus]

It cracked me the hell up, fwiw. You could make a mint selling a dictator musings posters to college students.

[Adora]

Yeah, that was what I was thinking when I made it. I think the next one will be Marx. He's very posterable.

[Ymir's blood]

A sketch I made today at work. It's of an album cover from the band Hugnry Lucy.

[pescifish]

Beautiful sketch, Ymir's blood. :2thumbsup: I especially like how you rendered the nose and eyes. The eyes, nose and the tilt of the head are very evocative.

[Ymir's blood]

I started this several weeks ago at work and worked on it sporadically until today.

[livius drusus]

It's beautiful. I especially like the detail work on the wall and floor textures. :thumbup:

[Ymir's blood]

Doing textures is always my favorite part, along with shadows. Proportions, not so much, though it doesn't matter when the subject is monstrous.

[livius drusus]

I think you might enjoy this (http://www.deviantart.com/view/12130654/), Ymir's blood. It's a unique fractal I came across at dA a while back, and the setting reminds me of your wonderfully textured vault.

[Ymir's blood]

I think you might enjoy this (http://www.deviantart.com/view/12130654/), Ymir's blood.
I might... but the page won't load.

:404:

[livius drusus]

Yeah, that's dA for you. Don't give up; it's worth it.

[Ymir's blood]

Yeah, that's dA for you. Don't give up; it's worth it.
It still isn't working... :(

Anyway, I finally got around to picking up some colored pencils, several months after livius suggested them. I enjoyed messing around with them at work today. I need some better colors though. The ones included in the set aren't what I want.

In some ways, black and white still work best for me, but the black pencil definitely gave a different effect than a graphite one.

The mountains picture was inspired by a photo of fog enshrouded peaks in National Geographic. The boogeyman was going to be a human, but I suck at drawing faces, so it got turned into something else.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Here's a photo I took a couple of months ago of the mouth of a cave (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-9/1081152/100_0761.jpg)

I'll get some of my more artsy photos from class up when I can.

[Dingfod]

Blanchard Springs, right?

[Crumb]

Your boogie man looks kinda like a Planet of the Apes ape, YB.

[curses]

Hope you don't mind if I put up a few...
(bah, board crashed and I lost my descriptions!)
All pictures were taken with a Canon350D (digital rebel) with an 18-55mm AF f/3.5-5.6. Unfortunately, I didn't mark down settings other than exposure time.

The first picture is one of the Chattahooche River in Roswell at night. It's looking south towards Dunwoody. Exposure time-30 seconds.

The second one is an art exhibit (Dave Chihuly (http://www.chihuly.com)) at the Atlanta Botannical Gardens. Exposure time 8 sec, it's a night exhibit.

The third one is a ladybug on bamboo, taken at Kennesaw Nat'l Battlefield, around the Illinois Monument part of the trail. Exposure time unknown, but probably 8/100th/sec.

[livius drusus]

It still isn't working... :(

Oh poop. I tried sending it as an attachment to the hotmail addy on your site a while back, but I'm guessing you never got that? :dang:

Anyway, I finally got around to picking up some colored pencils, several months after livius suggested them. I enjoyed messing around with them at work today. I need some better colors though. The ones included in the set aren't what I want.

I'm so delighted that you thought of it! I really like the textural variety in the foggy mountains. I can definitely see you finding all kinds of uses for that once you find colors that suit you better.

The boogeyman was going to be a human, but I suck at drawing faces, so it got turned into something else.

I think he's still human, but a Mason Verger, horrible, disfiguring act of violence kind of human.

[livius drusus]

Hope you don't mind if I put up a few...

No, hell no! They're gorgeous pictures, minus. I particularly like the first and second one because they have a kind of modern chiaroscuro aesthetic which I find deeply compelling. :yup:

[Ymir's blood]

Hope you don't mind if I put up a few...

My favorite is the picture of the river at night. The exhibit shot is beautiful as well.

I'm somewhat prejudiced against ladybugs though, due to their yearly infestations of a place I used to live. They never seemed to turn up alive, but their desiccated shells seemed to be everywhere once the weather started to change in the Autumn.

I've attached some old pictures from trips to the Outer banks. The first is a shot of the ferry docks leaving Hatteras. The second is a cayman at one of the aquariums.

[Ari]

Minus, nice photos.
A tip, if you open the original camera file (or any version of it that hasn't had extra data stripped) in a program that can read extra camera data you can take a look at the exif data. This will give you everything from what mm your lens was on to the shutter speed and aperature, etc. For example, in photoshop if you go to file>file info and then exif it will give all your camera settings for the picture.
Digital is awesome.

[Ymir's blood]

It still isn't working... :(

Oh poop. I tried sending it as an attachment to the hotmail addy on your site a while back, but I'm guessing you never got that? :dang:
Hmm, I don't check that account as often as I should since it is mostly a spam magnet. It's likely Hotmail put the email in the 'junk' folder and I didn't see it before it was deleted. :(

Send it again and I'll be more vigilant.

Anyway, I finally got around to picking up some colored pencils, several months after livius suggested them. I enjoyed messing around with them at work today. I need some better colors though. The ones included in the set aren't what I want.

I'm so delighted that you thought of it! I really like the textural variety in the foggy mountains. I can definitely see you finding all kinds of uses for that once you find colors that suit you better.
I can't seem to actually mix colors with the pencils, as was stated on the tin. :darn:

Today I just stuck with black and white.

The boogeyman was going to be a human, but I suck at drawing faces, so it got turned into something else.

I think he's still human, but a Mason Verger, horrible, disfiguring act of violence kind of human.
...in need of a hug.

[curses]

Thanks for the nice words, y'all :)
A tip, if you open the original camera file (or any version of it that hasn't had extra data stripped) in a program that can read extra camera data you can take a look at the exif data. This will give you everything from what mm your lens was on to the shutter speed and aperature, etc. For example, in photoshop if you go to file>file info and then exif it will give all your camera settings for the picture.
Digital is awesome.
Thanks for that! I'll have to go home and locate the original files, they're somewhere in the backup disks.
I'm somewhat prejudiced against ladybugs though, due to their yearly infestations of a place I used to live. They never seemed to turn up alive, but their desiccated shells seemed to be everywhere once the weather started to change in the Autumn.
My brother's got the same problems with them, sadly I rarely see them around my house. I love the gator pic in your Outer Banks post. I want one. I bet he'd scare the cats into line..

And because I have a few more in my Photobucket acct that I like (be afraid when I go through my photo backups. I love sharing photos I'm proud of.)

Both these were done on a nikon coolpix rangefinder.

First one is an african mask (actual details escape me) found at the Carlos Museum on the Emory campus here in Atlanta.

Second one is Trey, lead singer/bassist from the local band Entertainment. I just liked the way the stars looked.

[Ari]

A lot of really nice work, I'm tempted to sit down and comment on a bunch of it but there is quite a bit.
BTW, cool gator.

Since people have been posting some photos, a couple semi recent absinthe related pictures, (click them to see bigger versions)

[Ymir's blood]

I love the gator pic in your Outer Banks post. I want one. I bet he'd scare the cats into line..
Well, it's a cayman, actually and probably not much larger than the cats are.

And because I have a few more in my Photobucket acct that I like (be afraid when I go through my photo backups. I love sharing photos I'm proud of.)
Please do.

First one is an african mask (actual details escape me) found at the Carlos Museum on the Emory campus here in Atlanta.

That's pretty cool. I like the design on the side.


Since people have been posting some photos, a couple semi recent absinthe related pictures, (click them to see bigger versions)
Very nice. Good poem too.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Blanchard Springs, right?

Yep. When did you go there?

[Dingfod]

A couple years ago with three other motorcyclists from various parts of the country (New York, Tennessee, and Missouri). We rode from Russellville to Mountain View, listened to some banjo pickers in the town square, rode up to Blanchard Springs to wet our feet and cool off, then up to Calico Rock and over to the west to ride the best motorcycle road in Arkansas (and that's saying a lot). We ended up having dinner at the Canyon Inn outside of Jasper before heading back to Russellville in the dark. It was a nice day in a nice state.

[Adora]

Something I coloured over the past couple of days while on break. Usually I don't like green, so don't ask me why I went overboard with it. The linework was done by a wonderful friend of mine who's miles more talented than I am (http://kung-foo.deviantart.com). Click on the thumb for the larger picture.
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/2505R70UA/648208.jpg (http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=2505R70UA&i=648192)

[livius drusus]

Oo... Bilious. I like your foray into green, especially the nails and the lighting of the hair. kung-foo's gallery is insanely good.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Something I coloured over the past couple of days while on break. Usually I don't like green, so don't ask me why I went overboard with it. The linework was done by a wonderful friend of mine who's miles more talented than I am (http://kung-foo.deviantart.com). Click on the thumb for the larger picture.
http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic/2505R70UA/648208.jpg (http://www.pix8.net/pro/pic.php?u=2505R70UA&i=648192)

Nice job. :clap:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

A couple years ago with three other motorcyclists from various parts of the country (New York, Tennessee, and Missouri). We rode from Russellville to Mountain View, listened to some banjo pickers in the town square, rode up to Blanchard Springs to wet our feet and cool off, then up to Calico Rock and over to the west to ride the best motorcycle road in Arkansas (and that's saying a lot). We ended up having dinner at the Canyon Inn outside of Jasper before heading back to Russellville in the dark. It was a nice day in a nice state.

Did you actually go through the cave, or just get your feet wet?

Some more of my drawings:

here (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-8/808504/arcocruiser.JPG)

and here (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2004-8/808504/IdatonianDefender.JPG)

I haven't done any good looking drawings in probably a year now. This is old stuff. I'm in Drawing 1 class now to get better, because I haven't gotten any better in years, but the tools we're using in class are novel to me. Charcoal and giant sheets of paper I haven't adapted to yet. Damn, I like pens! Thusly the "art" I've been doing in class looks like the kind of stuff I make jokes about people paying money for. I'll try to get some of the better ones up soon. Oh well, I'll get better eventually; class has just started basically, compared to the length of a semester.

[Ymir's blood]

This was started yesterday and finished today. I decided to break with my normal fare and do something spooky in a Halloween theme.

Since my slackness has prevented me from getting more pastel pencils and also due to a fascination with shadows, this was done in ink. Overall I'm quite pleased but see quite a lot of room for improvement.

[pescifish]

Wow, your ink techniques are impressive, Ymir's blood. I've always liked your pencil sketches, so I'm not surprised I like the ink too.

I like the flat black of the tree in the background and the shadow and bend of the tree in the front makes it look like it's leaning over, stretching menacingly and just about to reach out and grab the headstones. No wonder they cower in fear, falling to the ground!

I like the variety of headstones, but now I'm curious what the front left one says. (It's not a epitaph limerick is it? ;) )

[livius drusus]

I like the hole in the trunk. It looks sort of swollen and diseased. :yup:

[pescifish]

And ready to spew ominous dark viscous fluids for no apparent reason.

[livius drusus]

Yes, exactly! It's either oozing or spewing at all times.

[Crumb]

I like the variety of headstones, but now I'm curious what the front left one says. (It's not a epitaph limerick is it? ;) )
Here a man lies dead.
He fell and broke his head.
He liked to drink and dance,
and parade around without his pants.
Now he lies on his back instead.

[Ymir's blood]

Wow, your ink techniques are impressive, Ymir's blood. I've always liked your pencil sketches, so I'm not surprised I like the ink too.
Thanks, this is only my second attempt. The first was yesterday, pretty much the same as this though it didn't get as far.

I like the flat black of the tree in the background and the shadow and bend of the tree in the front makes it look like it's leaning over, stretching menacingly and just about to reach out and grab the headstones. No wonder they cower in fear, falling to the ground!
Heh

I like the variety of headstones, but now I'm curious what the front left one says. (It's not a epitaph limerick is it? ;) )
The left and center front stones just have scribbles on them. The back left one says "R.I.P." and the back right says "MORT." I forgot to put something on the commandments one (front right) :doh:

I like the hole in the trunk. It looks sort of swollen and diseased.
And ready to spew ominous dark viscous fluids for no apparent reason.
Yes, exactly! It's either oozing or spewing at all times.
Heh

The hole was supposed to be more normal but I slipped and tried to cover it up. Not being able to erase changes things. It's nice when people interpret my fuckups in interesting ways. :cool:

Here a man lies dead.
He fell and broke his head.
He liked to drink and dance,
and parade around without his pants.
Now he lies on his back instead.
You have very good eyes... :eek:

:thumbup:

[pescifish]

The hole was supposed to be more normal but I slipped and tried to cover it up. Don't fight it! ;) In art, our true souls unmasked and all that, dontcha know?

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Here's some of my drawings from Drawing 1 class:

A drawing of one of my friends, who gets paid to be a class model. (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-9/1081152/drawings001.jpg)

Another drawing of the same friend. (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-9/1081152/drawings002.jpg)

A drawing of one of the other models in class. (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-9/1081152/drawings005.jpg)

[Adora]

Sketch I did last night after too much Authority reading.
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9492/jenny4tq.jpg
That pose is such a bitch to draw. Had to use a bloody reference and it still looks a little mong...

[ms_ann_thrope]

Here's some of my drawings from Drawing 1 class:

A drawing of one of my friends, who gets paid to be a class model. (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-9/1081152/drawings001.jpg)

Another drawing of the same friend. (http://img.villagephotos.com/p/2005-9/1081152/drawings002.jpg) :1thumbup: I really like the style of these, esp. #2! Interesting perspective.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Sketch I did last night after too much Authority reading.
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9492/jenny4tq.jpg



Ooooo, I really like her face. :yup: Nice eyebrows, eyes and nose; the lips though, not so good. I think if you shaded the gap between the lips black, it would fix the look. As they are now they look like three lips.

[Sweetie]

The left side doesn't match the right side, even at an angle. Left eyebrow is fucked, even if he was cocking it, chin is too square to be real and I would wonder if the slope of his jaw is even possible. His ear is elfish, though my son has an elfish ear, his left thumb that's holding on to the jacket looks like it's disjointed. He's got very little muscle tone, and he might have little naturally but I would suggest that even naturally untoned he would have more than that. The right eye is quite bigger than the left and you could argue it's because he's possibly squinting which doesn't account for the possible cocked eyebrow, but anyhoo, the iris is bigger either way it seems. Have you ever held a smoke between your teeth? It's not common, the filter tends to get soggy. Is smoking cool? Is he cool? His finger is too slender and too smooth.

I guess that's why they call it a sketch huh? A rough hand, rough copy.

[Sweetie]

Oh, it's meant to be a girl? I thought it was a guy, not that it matters. If it's a girl poor thing has less chest than I do. :pat:

[Sweetie]

Maybe I should just put Adora on ignore?

[Johnny Pneumatic]

The left side doesn't match the right side, even at an angle. Left eyebrow is fucked, even if he was cocking it, chin is too square to be real and I would wonder if the slope of his jaw is even possible. His ear is elfish, though my son has an elfish ear......

And she wasn't striving for realism probably. Might as well gripe that anime people's eyes are far too large and that some have no noses. Have you ever seen comic book art, Sweetie? It's very stylized, sometimes.

[Sweetie]

Ack, the right ear (his right) is like, higher and apparently bigger. His left arm is......his arms are just so out of proportion.

[Sweetie]

And she wasn't striving for realism probably. Might as well gripe that anime people's eyes are far too large and that some have no noses. Have you ever seen comic book art, Sweetie? It's very stylized, sometimes.

I would say it was just badly done. I can't draw and I can draw better than that. I realize that some people have non-symmetrical faces, but that which she drew, those are more like imperfections and impossibilities, like one half of the body is someone's elses.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I would say it was just badly done. I can't draw and I can draw better than that. I realize that some people have non-symmetrical faces, but that which she drew, those are more like imperfections and impossibilities, like one half of the body is someone's elses.

I wouldn't, I'm an art major and like it. Lets see your work then. Such as?

[Sweetie]

I wouldn't, I'm an art major and like it. Lets see your work then. Such as?

You're an art major? And? You're also an expert on theology and philosophy, yes?

I don't have any work, I doodle eyes here and there and always have. Like it if you wish, it's alright, but I think it's badly done as far as all the technicalities are concerned though in the end it resembles a person and that's all that matters to you, no? It's so basic and general, aka: a sketch. I would argue that it didn't even have to be perfect, it's a sketch, that's what they're for. But it's badly done, it needs alot of work to my eyes but you're an art major so I'm sure your eyes are better and that it's "stylized" would account for all the imperfections.

Anyways, I was more or less just using it as an example of the fact that I have Adora on ignore and yet I have this picture staring right at me......hers from her post.....which you quoted. I was just using you. ;)

Otherwise, I'm so glad Adora gets so much positive attention here, she needs it as a reward for her behavior.

[Sweetie]

And outside all that, I really liked your second sketch SkepticJ, no complaints from me. The nose was so well defined, I liked that.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

You're an art major? And? You're also an expert on theology and philosophy, yes?

Yes.

And this means that I know a bit about art.

Strawman, and what does this have to do with art?

[Johnny Pneumatic]

And outside all that, I really liked your second sketch SkepticJ, no complaints from me. The nose was so well defined, I liked that.

Well thanks, sort of; you see, I don't like it so much myself. His ear is in the wrong place.

[Sweetie]

Yes.

And this means that I know a bit about art.

I'm just saying that I don't think art is rocket science and I think it's clear that the sketch needs work regardless of whether you want to be liked by Adora and you like all personal artwork by her or whatever.

Strawman, and what does this have to do with art?

Some people are convinced they know everythign about everything.

Either way, you are just a means to an end in this case, have fun.

I said I liked his nose and the angle, I didn't study every feature, his nose stuck out.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

I'm just saying that I don't think art is rocket science and I think it's clear that the sketch needs work regardless of whether you want to be liked by Adora and you like all personal artwork by her or whatever.

It has it's faults, I noticed the ear and mouth, but they didn't totally spoil it for me.
Uh, maybe you should look back through the forum archives, Adora and I are on a love-hate relationship. It doesn't matter hugely if she likes me, because we'll likely never meet.
I have liked all her work that I've seen, but that's because it's good, not who it was done by.

[Adora]

Ahh, the troll's at it again.

[justaman]

Well I liked it Adora, nice juxtaposition of pretty features with a badass 'tude. Love the eyes.

[Veritas]

Art? What is this shite? According to the thread title, we should be talking about FFart! WHERE'S THE GODDAMN FLATULENCE?

[Sweetie]

It has it's faults, I noticed the ear and mouth, but they didn't totally spoil it for me.
Uh, maybe you should look back through the forum archives, Adora and I are on a love-hate relationship. It doesn't matter hugely if she likes me, because we'll likely never meet.
I have liked all her work that I've seen, but that's because it's good, not who it was done by.

I adore seebs' friends work. If I had something in front of me for a decent price I would probably buy it. His wife's work is good too.

But look at this stuff man!

http://elfwood.lysator.liu.se/art/m/e/melukilan/melukilan.html

My two friends are just getting a business to sell Native art to Australia. One of them has been working on it for years, they should have the website up soon.

[Sweetie]

Seebs, I want "Stolen Sleep detail" for Christmas. :flirty: You know the author, good price, no? :P You can get it for just a little hoochy-coochy, no? I'm worth it, right. :yup:

(I'm teasing, FYI)

[Ymir's blood]

Very bored at work the last few days. These are from yesterday. I started a larger cavern today but it isn't finished.

[Ymir's blood]

Finished this today.

[viscousmemories]

All three of those are cool.

[justaman]

:nod:

[curses]

I want that ouroboros for my christmas wreath. He'd look festive with white lights :D
Very nice.

[beyelzu]

Sketch I did last night after too much Authority reading.
http://img243.imageshack.us/img243/9492/jenny4tq.jpg
That pose is such a bitch to draw. Had to use a bloody reference and it still looks a little mong...
as an aside, do/did you read planetary as well, its really good shit.

and yes, i love authority as well.

[michael1111]

heres some of mine...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/tracielovesmike3sm.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/tracielovesmike2sm.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/multimikesm.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/streetcar2smaller.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/tracie1.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/suzanneart2small.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/kaospoem2small.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/crazyzigartsm.jpg

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/3fishiesmikejpg.jpg

[inland wave]

There is some pretty cool stuff here.
Our daughter Roxanne has a drawing of a man in a turtle neck sweater, done in chalk on black board. I believe the call it Contia(sp)?
Anyway, the art teachers at school put it in the art show at the state capitol. It won what they call the gold award. The highest honor in that division. Tuesday they brought it in for her to do touchups and they sprayed it with a sealer. It now goes on display at Tulsa Community College, then to a contest at Oklahoma State University. (Her aunt has one of her pictures hanging in her office on the OSU campus.) There is talk that it may go to the national scholastics art competition in Washington, DC. As soon as we can get it back in our possesion we are going to have it framed and hang it in our living room. We will also take some pictures and post them.
She plans to double major in art and political science at OSU next fall.

[Ymir's blood]

There are so many things wrong with this but I'm still rather pleased with it.

http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/reaper2.jpg

[livius drusus]

His expression and the scythe are fantastic. The body proportions and pose seem a bit off-kilter, but I can't say that I care. :clap:

[Ymir's blood]

The legs are definitely too short. I drew them first so the knees would be in the right places but the total length ended up wrong.

I actually adapted the pose from a picture in Eric Hebborn's book. Is that cheating? :chin:

It was preliminary sketch of a man with a scythe though the size was a bit small to make out good details. This is actually the second (and much larger sketch). The first kept the original pose. In this one I changed it a bit though not for the better apparently.

[pescifish]

I like seeing the progression between the preliminary and the final one. Now that you mention it, I can see the shortness of the legs, but in some ways I like the bit that makes it seem a bit "off". It adds to the spookiness.

Your techniques for the shading on the material show the detail underneath so well.The torso and arms look great posed so realistically with the scythe (and it's kinda funny how the detail of the ribs through the cloak almost makes it look muscular). And the bones of the legs look great through the material.

Pretty cool how a simple skull can still show such a diabolical expression.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

heres some of mine...

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y115/michael1111/streetcar2smaller.jpg


Hi, Andy.

[LadyShea]

Cade's birthmom painted something for me to use on our announcements once the adoption is finalized. I am quite impressed with her talent. I don't know how to upload it though.

Livius, can you help?

[livius drusus]

You betcha. Try attaching it to a post first. In the new post window, scroll down and click on the "Manage Attachments" button. Browse to the file on your hard drive, click open, click upload, close the little attachments window, and submit your post.

[LadyShea]

You betcha. Try attaching it to a post first. In the new post window, scroll down and click on the "Manage Attachments" button. Browse to the file on your hard drive, click open, click upload, close the little attachments window, and submit your post.

What's the size limit on attachments so I can appropriately edit it?

[livius drusus]

Depends on the filetype. It's pretty huge, though: 250 KB for a jpg. If it doesn't fit, the attachment manager will tell you how big your file is and what the maximum for your filetype is.

[LadyShea]

I am not an artist, but we may have adopted one if genes really exist so I am posting in this thread anydamnway.

Here is a painting by Cade's birthmom, Briana, titled My Greatest Accomplishment. 5"x7" acrylic on canvas

The scan isn't great, the gold on there is metallic gold on the actual painting, and the overall effect is much more lavendar in real life, whereas the scan shows it more cobalt. You can get the gist though.

[viscousmemories]

That's obscene! Pretty, though.

[LadyShea]

You think it's obscene? ;)

I showed it to my crunchy friends who are big into their motherhood and they both cried. Silly bitches.

[viscousmemories]

Silly bitches.
:laugh:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Looking a little like the T-1000, here's a photo of myself that I Photoshopped: http://img403.imageshack.us/img403/4097/metalman9qh.jpg

[Ymir's blood]

A tree. I was going for a twisted appearance. The serpentine aspect started creeping in and I went with that.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

A tree. I was going for a twisted appearance. The serpentine aspect started creeping in and I went with that.

That's cool. An animation of something like that would be neat, if they wiggled around like snakes.

Are all your drawings pencil done and creepy and/or macabre?

[Ymir's blood]

A tree. I was going for a twisted appearance. The serpentine aspect started creeping in and I went with that.

That's cool. An animation of something like that would be neat, if they wiggled around like snakes.
It would at that. It's doubtful I could replicate the limbs well enough to make cells though.

Are all your drawings pencil done
They usually start in pencil. Some, like the above, are finished with a pen. I've tried my hand at using pastel pencils but need to work on it some more.

and creepy and/or macabre?
Pretty much. I draw for pleasure and that's just how my tastes run.

[pescifish]

That photoshop of you looks pretty cool, SKepticJ!

Are all your drawings pencil done and creepy and/or macabre?
I was thinking this one was pen and ink. It looks like it should pull up roots and shamble on down the road with the eely limbs flailing/thrashing around. :eek:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

It would at that. It's doubtful I could replicate the limbs well enough to make cells though.


They usually start in pencil. Some, like the above, are finished with a pen. I've tried my hand at using pastel pencils but need to work on it some more.


Pretty much. I draw for pleasure and that's just how my tastes run.

Yeah, I wasn't thinking cell animation though, but instead 3D CGI. It'd be done with the same texture as your tree's limbs, same black and white color too, it just wouldn't be flat.

You know, I really like the idea of creepy looking trees that writhe like snakes. You wouldn't mind me doing something for OA (www.orionsarm.com) kind of like this would you? Not using your artwork of course, unless you'd let me, but just the general idea, even though the writhing part was mine. Wait a min., why am I even asking you then? :wha:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

That photoshop of you looks pretty cool, SKepticJ!

Thanks. I forget the name of the tool I used, there's thousands of tools, filters and whatnot in Photoshop. Many with sliders to change to exactly what value you want, so there's quadrillions of combinations, nay, more, possibilities with just one photo! This was a single tool though, so I can figure out what I did and get back to you on it if you're interested. I didn't save it, because it wasn't very good, but I did a photo of myself with green skin, a giant eye(I kept that part of it) and a Vulcan-like ear.

Speaking of the giant eye, I did that metallic look to it too: http://img134.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sol6cn.jpg


And here it is in B&W: http://img443.imageshack.us/my.php?image=toomuchanimewatchingbw0up.jpg

Sometime I'll get around to making the backgrounds of those two something other than the inside of a car; because, come on, that's not very artsy. :ffno:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Ok, looked up the tool I used to do those photos, pescifish. It's called 'curves', but it has nothing to do with shapes, but instead color.


Here's a pic I took a few days ago when it was snowing. There's not much snow visible in this photo, but just so you know: http://img130.imageshack.us/my.php?image=trippy8yo.jpg

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Here's a photo of a rock I found. Don't know what causes that look, and no, that's not oil. It won't wash off with water. The rock is a type of novaculite, the rainbow is only on the skin of the rock. I've never seen anything like it before, except the other rocks around at the same place I found it.: http://img343.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainbowrock1ay.jpg

[Ymir's blood]

http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/monsters01.jpg

[JoeP]

Very Bosch, YB.

[Ymir's blood]

He was definitely on my mind after drawing the fish so that was pretty much what I was going for on the chicken/fish one.

[maddog]

Here's a photo of a rock I found. Don't know what causes that look, and no, that's not oil. It won't wash off with water. The rock is a type of novaculite, the rainbow is only on the skin of the rock. I've never seen anything like it before, except the other rocks around at the same place I found it.: http://img343.imageshack.us/my.php?image=rainbowrock1ay.jpg
It looks like "opalization" to me. Maybe somethng similar to petrification (petrified wood). That's pretty.
#688

[pescifish]

Ok, looked up the tool I used to do those photos, pescifish. It's called 'curves', but it has nothing to do with shapes, but instead color.Oh gosh! I hadn't realized you had looked this up to let me know. That's cool to know the technical aspects of the image, thanks. My comment really had just been regarding your new look, which seems to suit you. I like the huge eyeball one.

It looks like "opalization" to me. Maybe somethng similar to petrification (petrified wood). That's pretty.I was thinking that, too.

[pescifish]

http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/monsters01.jpgI'm lovin' the little rippy wounds in the worm monster. The varied surfaces of the nasty fish really make it interesting both visually and in an intellectual sense. Just how nasty is the environment this monster lives that it could manage to develop all those natural weapons?

Where did he get those wonderful toys?
:joker:

[Johnny Pneumatic]

It looks like "opalization" to me. Maybe somethng similar to petrification (petrified wood). That's pretty.
#688

I've talked to one of my friends who's a geologist about it, she thinks it's oxidation and then something else happened. She's not quite sure.
No, can't be, wrong type of rock. It's novaculite, a rare type of rock that can be found in only a few places on Earth. One of those places being in the area around where I live.
I agree, pretty.

[Petra]

Freaky chickfish. I agree that it is very Bosch. Dig it. :)


I made my first wallpaper in Photoshop early this morning, so I'm gonna share it with you. :optimist:

:wave:

[Ymir's blood]

:cool:

[Petra]

:cheerful:

[Leesifer]

:bump:

Billzibub did this for his sister, way back in 1992.

There's more if you want them.

[Petra]

nm.

too smashed.

[livius drusus]

Whoa, Lees. Bill is great! What medium is it?

[Leesifer]

I know. I am forever awed by people who can draw/paint.

He used pastels for Sean. :)

[livius drusus]

I thought the whites looked like pastels, but the warm brown in his eyes threw me. Great job, Bill!

[Perry]

Normal photos, semi-normal photos, and clean humor. (http://www.palm-springs-photography.com/)

Relaxing imaginations. (http://www.palm-springs-photography.com/surreal1.html)

A little off the deep end. (http://www.palm-springs-photography.com/surreal2.html)

A short story. (http://www.geocities.com/cactus2clouds/story.html)

[livius drusus]

Great photographs, Perry. I particularly love this one (http://www.palm-springs-photography.com/tram_sunrise.html) of Mt. San Jacinto. I can't get over the pink valley! It looks like the streets are on very gentle fire.

[Perry]

Thanks! If you look carefully you'll notice that it's actually a combination of three photos with different shutter speeds taken at different times in the early morning. It was very cold!

[livius drusus]

Oh wow I can't tell at all. It was definitely worth the :shiver:.

[Dingfod]

Just bragging again: My Roxy has two pieces of hers on display at the Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, part of a Young Artists of Oklahoma show. One of them was awarded a cash prize. We don't know how much yet.

[Perry]

The way you can tell is by looking at how the lights streak and bleed from the long shutter. That was before sunrise because otherwise the sunlight overpowers the artificial light. Then obviously the sunrise was next, and then post-sunrise the tramcar was "frozen" in motion. If I had to do it all over again I would have used a faster shutter for the city lights because there was not enough traffic to create an entire network of light streaks and also because the fog would have more definition and not look like smog.

[The Jesus Lawyer]

Here are a couple of recent pics I took of the boats and icy water around my place. Hope you like.

Anyone ever try to sell their art? I use cafepress online. Lots of good and creative stuff here...people should look into it, even if it's just an easy way to get your own pics framed :D.

(my store is called 'lolavision' at cafepress)

michael :)

[livius drusus]

Those are lovely, Michael. I particularly like the two on the right because they look so abstract. I dig it when shape, placement and color are the stand out-features of the photograph rather than whatever thing or person is being photographed. :yup:

[The Jesus Lawyer]

Thanks a lot. I'll post more at another time. Don't want to come on board flooding the forum ;)

michael :)

[livius drusus]

Good call. ;) Don't forget the Gallery, though.

[The Jesus Lawyer]

Not forgotten- I was actually looking there earlier. It's fun to share! I wish more people did!!

michael :)

[Perry]

I like the one on the right and the bottom one because they have a peaceful artistic feel. The second from the right strikes me as mysterious and out of the ordinary.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Here's some everpurple trees and a waterfall in Yellowstone National Park:
http://img236.imageshack.us/my.php?image=everpurpletree228cn.jpg

Yes, you're right, there's no such thing as everpurple trees. I toyed with a photo I took in Yellowstone using Photoshop.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

And here's a photo of a mudpot I took in Yellowstone.: http://img518.imageshack.us/my.php?image=yellowstonemudpot25mk.jpg

[Johnny Pneumatic]

Hey Ymir, in my Drawing 2 class we had to bring some printed out copies of drawings we really liked. Well, guess what? Your creepy tree was one of the ones I picked. Another one was the Sean Connery pastel drawing from here and the others were works by H.R. Giger and Doug Chiang. They were liked by others as well. One of my friends is really into creepy shit and he thought it was bitchin'. I'll ask 'em if it'd be ok if I took some photos of his stuff and show it to you. You'd get a thrill out of them, I know.

[Ymir's blood]

I'm glad you liked the tree and would love to see your friend's work.

[Ymir's blood]

The photo frame/chair was picked up some time ago at a local 'Closeout' store. It was originally a rather bland color but has now been repainted. Maybe it isn't art but I like it. It was finished tonight.

The building next to it is something I made from cardboard and colored with ink pens while bored at work. Unfortunately I had to put tape on the outside and the flash really caught that.

http://web.infoave.net/~pitshade/stuff.jpg

[Perry]

I really like the colors! (very few) The spider stands out as different than the rest.

[Johnny Pneumatic]

One of my latest creations:

http://img348.imageshack.us/img348/4672/trydonsig1hu.jpg

[Johnny Pneumatic]

An artwork made with text in Photoshop:
http://img216.imageshack.us/img216/2835/comrads1bf.png
Blood Spike Hand drawn, scanned in and then colored in Photoshop:
http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/7456/bloodspike8hu.png
A company logo and information (http://img130.imageshack.us/my.php?image=trydonlogoandtextflat7cc.jpg) I did for Ad II class.

[quiet bear]

Wow. This thread makes me feel like an amateur. There is a lot of really good work in here.

Sigh. Here's one I did by accident, probably 10 years ago. It's not 'original' in the true sense of the word, because I copied it from a cd cover. I was only using the cover as something to practice with, because it has a lot of interesting colors. Anyway, it's done in conte crayon, on newsprint. I was just goofing, messing with my colors, when it dawned on me...hey, this might be something.

Anyway:

http://i10.photobucket.com/albums/a115/jr008/Picture199.jpg

[Dingfod]

I like it, quiet_bear.

[Ymir's blood]

Very nice. :thumbup:

[livius drusus]

That's great, quiet_bear. I love the muted pallette. I can see how it caught your eye. :yup:

Dingfod's daughter won a state award for a beautiful Conte (http://www.freethought-forum.com/forum/gallery/showimage.php?i=1911&c=3&userid=36). It has a cowboyish kind of feel too.

[quiet bear]

Wow. Conte and colored paper. I am soooooo out of practice. I remember my art teacher in high school telling me "You're one of the best students I've ever had. You're also one of the laziest".

Words ringing true, all these years later.