Polygons and whatnot (mostly polygons)

[Evil-Guy]

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[Neon Ness]

@Meno/Geist: Honestly if it were up to me, I wouldn't care about people posting things like that. I don't think kids are as frightened of genitalia as some people make them out to be.

But I don't run this site and it's not a rule I can just throw out of the window. You'll live.

 

[Geist]

I know neon, i'm just messing with you ;D

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

I love my admissions rep for AiP TT w TT Just gave me the good news that my game concept isnt dues til march. Despite the fact that im up at 3am writing stuff for it right now when i could be sleeping...I'm still relieved TT w TT

Though, I finished the basic plot and made a spiffy guidebook. I feel successful.

 

[global-wolf]

Happy new year everyone! Hope it's a good year for art <3

 

[Evoke]

Happy new year's and stuff.
I got to spend quality time with my family and a few friends in NYC. We got stuck in the snow storm for 3 hours ;-;

 

[global-wolf]

Hey Evoke! Haven't seen you around here before. My new year's has been pretty boring.

 

[Fried Ice Cream]

Same here, had no fireworks (I'm not a fireworks person :o) and spent most of my time just on my computer, drawing and reading. I took a walk outside with my dad and then spent the whole night being a no-good bum !

 

[ZIO]

I was hoping for some comment on the photo, but whatever.

New years for me went as follows - SLEEP

Had to for work in the morning.

 

[Geist]

lol guilt trip
The photo's nice but I can't figure out whether the shadow of that pole or whatever it is doing a good job of pointing at the barn or if it's distracting because it splits the composition in two.
Is that taken around where you live?

 

[deepseadiva]

Photo's a little on the bland side, while the shadow comes across as an error, I think.

Neon, is my self-portrait going to be added to the op? :D

 

[Geist]

I'll post photography of mine sometime soon lol
It's my desktop I use at home

 

[ZIO]

Time of day. I could try to make the shadow less visible. Also, eh, I'm not good with composition when it comes to landscapes. I'm not sure what i'm looking for.

 

[Geist]

Just take a picture of what looks nice. That's what I do lol

Some of my photography from a vacation we took to Sequoia National Park. My whole family is really out-doorsy, we took a huge 3 day hiking trip around the whole park. It was pretty awesome haha.

Spoiler

...I feel like I'm showing a slide reel :l

 

[Fried Ice Cream]

Those are really nice! And oh my god, those trees are HUGE. Very cool that you got so close to bears. I love the waterfall, so wild

 

[deepseadiva]

COOL, Geist! I LOVE PANDAS!

Critic Meno says: the color is washed out in all of them. Otherwise, awesome.

Nothing that PS can't fix though.

 

[Geist]

I agree. We had a great camera, but it came with such a standard lens. Lame

And yeah sequoia trees are lolbig

 

[ZIO]

WELL, I'm no good with finding anything that looks interesting. Do any of these count? I'm terrible at this and do wish I could get better with the photo oh graphy.

Spoiler

 

[Fried Ice Cream]

I liked the second one, with the red, white and green!

Christmas colours woo

 

[global-wolf]

I like the 2nd photo. The twigs and the wheel spokes look interesting together.

 

[Geist]

I agree second one beasts
I can't point out why either

 

[ZIO]

Your last two photos were my favorite, btw.

I suppose a vertical centric picture can be good too.

 

[Fried Ice Cream]

I asked my mother for a tablet for my birthday (19th of jan), and it'll be my first ! I'm really excited about getting it. Does anyone have suggestions what would be a decent tablet for a newb drawer that's not too expensive either?

Anyone want to share stories of their first tablet and how their expierence with it went :3?

 

[Geist]

Well I got a small sized tablet reccommended to me, and I think it works great. The great thing about a tablet is that size constraints are really only limited to your computer. You can zoom in and scroll indefinitely, so tablet size doesn't really affect anything except for the portability of the tablet itself. If you think you'll be carrying it around, I recommend a small one. If not, well it's still nice to have less clutter at your workspace.

I remember when I first got a tablet, it was a bit strange at first because I was so used to paper. If I needed a more comfortable angle I could tilt the paper, turn it upside down or to the side or whatever. You can't with a tablet though, and for a while that was the only difficulty I had. For the most part it was just like having a piece of paper that could zoom in.
After a while though I started to realize how much I appreciated how it was forcing me to draw at angles I wasn't used to doing, and it actually helped significantly with my ability to draw more precisely.
Another thing you might have to get used to is how the tablet transfers the movements to the screen. Some people don't like how it acts like a mouse (for instance if you were to draw a line from the top to the bottom of your screen and then put the pen to the top of the tablet again, the brush would still be at the bottom of the line on the screen). I personally prefer the mode where the top right of the screen translates directly to the top right of the tablet, the bottom left of the screen to the bottom left of the tablet, etc.

 

[global-wolf]

I have a Genius Mousepen 8x6 tablet that cost about $50. It's cheap for its size and it's pretty good, it does what it's supposed to and has nice pressure sensitivity. The only problem with it would be that the pen is kinda heavy and weird and it hurts if I hold it too long.

@Bren: I don't think anyone uses mouse mode O_o

 

[Neon Ness]

You kids and your tablets.

Looking back I probably could've asked for one for Christmas, I've been wanting one for a while now. They look pretty convenient.

Only thing is I'm afraid if I get one I won't want to draw with pencil and paper anymore. Has that happened to anyone?

 

[global-wolf]

Never heard of it happening to anyone. :O I love pencil and paper.

 

[Geist]

I still use pencil and paper. I find it has that official-ness that digital art doesn't really have, and it's nice to have something physically in front of you.

But I might be saying that because I do commissions for people on paper. People pay more for that.

EDIT: HAPPY BIRTHDAY THREAD

 

[global-wolf]

Happy belated birthday thread! Hope you have many more birthdays to come.

 

[Athena21]

Looking back I probably could've asked for one for Christmas

Nobody was gonna get you that for Christmas.

 

[Chronodiver Lokii]

HAPPY BIRTHDAY THREAD! <3 AE is one of my fave places here on SWF thanks to you amazing guys and gals. <3 all of youuuu

I prefer pen and paper to my tablet actually :o

 

[Geist]

<3 you too lol
I haven't seen you post very often lately alyssa :[

I quickly made this banner for a tourney in GIMP in like 10 minutes

What do you guys think? I'm not too great at doing these things, but w.e.
I wanted to get rid of the pixelation on the font but I was too lazy. D*mn you gimp

 

[Wiscus]

Happy birthday thread!
May not post here much but I <3 you all.

 

[Fried Ice Cream]

<3 you too lol
I haven't seen you post very often lately alyssa :[

I quickly made this banner for a tourney in GIMP in like 10 minutes

What do you guys think? I'm not too great at doing these things, but w.e.
I wanted to get rid of the pixelation on the font but I was too lazy. D*mn you gimp

:o I really wonder how you do this kind of stuff in GIMP.

 

[3mmanu3lrc]

I do love pencil and paper too, but unfortunatly I'm just not that good as some other ppl in drawing.
This is the link to a picture I did draw about two years ago...

http://img3.imageshack.us/i/alcangel.jpg/

The original looks better...

 

[Geist]

^^^ Hellooooooo

:o I really wonder how you do this kind of stuff in GIMP.

3 layers, bg and white 2 layers of font - Pirulen
White layer filled with dark gray, add noise effect
Motion blur 0 degrees
Fill 'V' white, select with wand, grow selection, feather, fill with blue
Select 'hustle', fill with light gray to dark gray gradient, shrink selection, re-select, fill with lighter gray (for the thin border)
duplicate hustle layer, motion blur 0 degrees to bottom, opacity 40% to top
Spray brush black and white at 10% opacity to highlight annd darken the stainless steel bg
voila

:b

 

[Fried Ice Cream]

Thanks, I need some stuff to learn how to get around in GIMP. I think I'll try this stuff out and see if I can recreate it .

 

[Geist]

Just mess around with random tools when you're bored lol
You can't do yourself any harm ;D

And check the interwebs for small tutorials to give you a general idea of things. They might be photoshop tutorials, but you can recreate most of them in gimp with imporvisation.

 

[Fried Ice Cream]

Definitely lost it at grow selection, feather and fill with blue !
It just made the whole letter blue.

 

[Neon Ness]

Just mess around with random tools when you're bored lol
You can't do yourself any harm ;D

And check the interwebs for small tutorials to give you a general idea of things. They might be photoshop tutorials, but you can recreate most of them in gimp with imporvisation.

Best advice for Photoshop/GIMP.

Also, the pen tool is amazing. It's kind of weird/dififcult at first but you can teach yourself how it operates by just using it over time. It has soo many uses.