Polygons and whatnot (mostly polygons)

[Geist]

Not disturbing....but I got grief for it back in high school cus parents thought it was anti social of me

Because it was

But drawing gets impulsive
It's like drugs - you NEED your fix of art.
Like, if I don't have access to some form of art supply for long periods of time to at least doodle with, I actually get anxious
Drawing calms me

Now that I'm in art school, it's deemed less anti social and more 'WOW LEMME SEE THAT SKETCHBOOK CAN YOU DRAW ME WHAT DO YOU DO OMGGGGG'
'hi lemme draw in peace do I even know you?'

I got the same reaction for a bit, but I eventually became known as that 'art guy' in school and people stopped caring, mostly because I was still social and everything.
Also I'm the exact same way with getting anxious if I don't draw. I just have to be constantly scribbling.

As of now I bring a small pocket sketchbook everywhere and draw interesting people on transit. Sometimes I get weird looks and the occasional person who doesn't like being drawn but most of the time even random people are pretty supportive when they see my stuff.

 

[neous]

I rip off old flyers hanging around bus stops and use the backs to draw people on the bus, regardless of self consciousness. but no one minds because im so kawaii and non threatening.

they just think, o, look at that cute little kid trying to draw me.

i then hand the drawing to either that person i drew or a random person/cute asian as i exit the bus, optionally spewing wtf fortune cookie sayings in a sexy-as-possible-+serious-voice as we "meet" for that split second and then immediately part ways leaving them perplexed and hopefully intrigued and aroused, never to see each other again-

er until we awkwardly meet again on the next bus ride.

Its good practice.

-

me: "Combine love and skill. And expect a masterpiece." :I
*hands her a drawing of mainly boobies*
her: :I

 

[Geist]

really
if I give people drawings in public I just go 'happy birthday' and walk off
just in case by some chance it is actually their birthday

 

[Geoberos]

I don't think I'd be that social to go up and give a person a drawing of them. At least not of strangers, though last I remember of one for classmates was middle school.

Otherwise closest I was to drawing in public was volunteering in Big Brother Big Sister and it was quite the reverse where once kids saw my sketchbook, they brought their pokemon cards to me and asked me to draw it for them-- tore it from my sketchbook and then gave it to them after I shaded and scanned it.

 

[choknater]

hey guys

if u dont know already, i am catholic and like to pray a lot. so while i was in the chapel today i sketched this picture of Ste. Jehanne (joan of arc) and Ste. Thérèse of Lisieux

i like them both a lot

i realized that i have no idea what a carmelite habit looks like, and i had no way of accessing a picture in the chapel. so i just guessed and i was very wrong. o well, LOL i'll do it right next time now that i have a better idea.

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Shvakahskfbxjshsjdovnabd Joan of arc
The most bada** female saint <3333

Looks good :O they look peaceful = u =

Lol too many orders have too many habits.

 

[choknater]

joan of arc is amazing

 

[cannedbread]

that looks so good chok

i need some motivation to draw ;—;

 

[choknater]

thanks

just draw!!! draw and share!!!

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

posted in las pictoras already...

but classwork
its fun
woooooo concept art

 

[Geist]

needs moar smudge tool
:3

 

[choknater]

haha do u guys still chat in skype

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

And lens flares.

Yes we do

 

[Geist]

heyheyhey
I use smudge almost exclusively and I take offense to that.

Also for you folks who haven't seen it yet:

done with the smudge tool and sometimes a brush too I guess

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

I'm kidding : P smudge tool is mad useful

and im still salty at your skills yo

 

[choknater]

it's like you can use the smudge tool only on a white canvas and just pull out miracles

so nice geist

 

[Geist]

well I literally throw goops of colors on the canvas and then move the colors around until they make things.
I could post a painting that hasn't been smudged yet and you can see how awful it looks

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Darnit Bren
Upstagin the whole lot of us >:|

Hahaha xD

 

[choknater]

nah son i got this with my pencil and sister Jeanne!

 

[z00ted]

god ****ing damn that ***** can draw a fine looking ***** like none other

 

[Jimnymebob]

You can do that with the smudge tool o_o?

That's awesome Geist; the smudge tool for me ends up as the creating a black hole/swirling vortex effect in my painting DX.

 

[HondaFoo]

smuuuuudgee toooooool

I would actually prefer to paint in Corel Painter because it has really nice brushes and color mixing, some of them like better versions of Photoshop's smudge tool, but that program has interface issues

 

[choknater]

and i have money issues

 

[ZIO]

Problem with me using the smudge tool is it makes my computer chug like it's got sludge in the oil tank.

:T

 

[Geist]

You can do that with the smudge tool o_o?

That's awesome Geist; the smudge tool for me ends up as the creating a black hole/swirling vortex effect in my painting DX.

Thanks lol
For whatever reason it's always made more sense to push colors around rather than be really precise with brushes

smuuuuudgee toooooool

I would actually prefer to paint in Corel Painter because it has really nice brushes and color mixing, some of them like better versions of Photoshop's smudge tool, but that program has interface issues

I liked corel the first timeI used it, then gradually began to like it less and less the more I messed around with it.
I realized that I'm not concerned with what my brush strokes look like in a digital painting because I'm either trying to hit realism or I'm trying to speedpaint. Then there's the whole physical paint tool in photoshop that works about 3 times better than anything in corel.
and yeah the interface :/

Problem with me using the smudge tool is it makes my computer chug like it's got sludge in the oil tank.

:T

:C
smudge is one of the reasons I don't use huge canvases anymore

 

[ZIO]

And that's something I just cannot compromise with, bro.

I find the the large canvas size will work out better than having a smaller one to allow smudge to work because, with enough crafting know how, you could potentially end up with a similar end result. But that's just my mantra.

 

[Geoberos]

Budget of around $200. Intuos5 Small ($230) or Bamboo Create ($200)?

For a hobbyist, features over size?

 

[global-wolf]

Looks good Lokii! Does it have a face, or is it just covered up...? xD

Bren, you have given me ideas for my next picture. :D


Edit: @Geoberos, I don't think the extra features in the intuos are really necessary for most people, especially at a small size. Think about what you would prefer when drawing, would you be more comfortable with drawing on a small tablet or a large one? Keep in mind that if the tablet is smaller than your screen, the strokes you make with the tablet won't correspond to the length of the line on the screen- for example, a stroke 1" long on the tablet may turn out to be 2" on the screen. There is less scaling with a large tablet.

 

[Jimnymebob]

So it's the canvas being large that causes the smudge tool to lag. I just thought it was supposed to do that XD.

I'm double happy though, I found a cool custom brush for Illustrator that lets me draw quick (read under 2 minutes XD) sketches like this and have them look nice and vibrant due to being a vector, and I found a bunch of old pictures I drew when I was a kid of Zool, everyone's favourite platform game hero.

http://imageshack.us/a/img831/1717/raymanvector.png
*warning, this may be absolutely HUGE when you open it, sorry X3.*

And yes, his face, hair, and eyes are all the same colour because I'm dumb and didn't connect the lines.

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

Just covered up :3 It was four in the morning and I called it quits so i could send it off to my classmates for our project xD

 

[Geist]

Budget of around $200. Intuos5 Small ($230) or Bamboo Create ($200)?

For a hobbyist, features over size?

For hobbyists i'd recommend the larger tablet.
The intuos5 is amazing but you don't need the hotkeys and additional if you're not using the more advanced functions and if you're not pressed for maximum efficiency. Small tablets are good for portability as well but that's also not really someting a hobbyist needs either.

 

[Geoberos]

Okay thanks. I'll probably find some Intuos4 Small/Medium on Amazon instead.
I draw kind of small anyways and with my laptop holding all my drawing programs, I'll probably go portable.

Although hobbyist, would want to go beyond drawing casual. Start emulating stuff around here especially with the two different styles of images that were recently posted here, expand the experience, until settling down to my specific style.

 

[HondaFoo]

ME AND GEO HAVE SAME BIRFDAY WHEEE

caps

 

[Geist]

Bren, you have given me ideas for my next picture. :D

excellent :3

Okay thanks. I'll probably find some Intuos4 Small/Medium on Amazon instead.
I draw kind of small anyways and with my laptop holding all my drawing programs, I'll probably go portable.

Although hobbyist, would want to go beyond drawing casual. Start emulating stuff around here especially with the two different styles of images that were recently posted here, expand the experience, until settling down to my specific style.

in my experience, small tablets are good for a first time trial because of how much cheaper they are.
That being said, if you're planning on going more than casual, you'll want a proper workspace. I only have a laptop but I have a dedicated setup for all my art stuff. I'm definitely not portable.

ME AND GEO HAVE SAME BIRFDAY WHEEE

caps

wooo happy bday dudes :D

 

[Geoberos]

OH snaps, didn't realize Honda had the same birthday as me :O

Happy Birthday, dude!!

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY GUYS!!!
Hope your bdays rock

 

[Ussi]

Happy birthday hondafoo

 

[global-wolf]

Happy birthday guys!

 

[choknater]

today, the earth is in a similar relative position to the sun, and has been that way a number of times, since the day you were born

how cool is that

 

[Geist]

considering the solar system is also moving at ~250 km/s that is untrue