Nicsp's NEW Art Topic, Coz the old one was starting to stink. Options

[Nicsp]

@Sparrowsmith
That'd be a blessing...

@Homunculus
Uh, really? >.> Thanks, i'm trying really hard to improve and your suggestions have been helping me a lot.
Off-topic question: Everytime i look at your avatar picture i just have to ask myself, are your eyes really of that colour? If so, i envy you.

@Everyone

Hey guys! More Adrian!



Not finished, i will colour it and post the coloured version probably sometime next week, after i'm done with my birthday festivities and crap and am done with all my tests. I am aware the pistol looks utterly horrible, i plan on buying an encyclopedia that contains pictures and explanations for pretty much all of the types of weapons that have been created up until now, that should help me improve a little bit more on that area. For those of you who wonder why did i put his arm on that position, it's because i'm going to make him be carrying something in there after i edit it in Paint.

[lyla2284]

I must say, I'm very impressed with your development as an artist. If you looked at the first image and compared to the later images in your post, you wouldn't say they were done by the same person. This must be one very supportive art community here at RRR.

I look forward to seeing your progression into the realm of the artistically and creatively inclined.

[Nicsp]

@lyla2284 Lol thanks, and yep it is.

Two new pictures, the first is the coloured version of my previous post and the second is a re-attempt at one of the characters that can be seen on the first page (Tried to make her look a bit older)

[Show/Hide] Picture 1

[Show/Hide] Picture 2

[amaro57]

Good progression as an artist Nicsp!

The first picture looks fine to me expect the right hand thumb.
As for the second picture, I notice that the angular face gives me the impression the character is male...I know awkward.

Overall there pretty good, maybe better than my character art. Lol at the fumbi xD

What do you use to draw and color them?

[Nicsp]

Thanks XD

Yeah i know what you mean about the faces, but she's supposed to be a kind of a tomboyish person so it's ok, lol.

You have character art too? I'd love to it see it. Do you have an art topic in here somewhere?

Edit:
I draw them normally by pencil and then scan them, then in Paint.NET, i make a second layer above the original image, where i copy all the lines from the original drawing, i then delete the original layer (The one with the drawing on paper) and start colouring it.

[amaro57]

I have a topic bashed somewhere...but I don't think I'm ready to post my character art.

Another point of advice, it looks kind of weird to me if you shade the hair and the rest of the character is solid.

EDIT: There it is .-.

[Nicsp]

Aw. XD

But yeah, i know that actually, i usually do shade them completely, i just haven't done it with those two recent drawings because the Adrian one was made in a rush and the second because i can't shade properly with coloring pencils. I have a few completely shaded ones in the first page of this topic.

Edit/Bump:

Not much to show...I'm trying to learn how to colour stuff properly via pencil until i get my tablet.

Yes, i know, hand. I didn't realize i did it the wrong way until i started colouring it.

I redid the bandit in blue...Again.

Not even a single reply? Anyways, i don't really have anything new yet but my cousin wanted to see what you guys had to say about his drawings and i was like "Oh why not?"

So here they are.

[Show/Hide] Cousin's drawings, none made by me. Even though, he did want me to put these here and that i claimed they were mine just for the lulz. But nah...

I finally bought my tablet, yay! I also got Photoshop, double yay! ^^ I haven't used any of them yet though, so i'll just post some older stuff in here.

[Show/Hide] Close ups of some of the characters from my game.

[Show/Hide] Before i got my tablet and photoshop, i had an attempt at Gimp...It looks horrible...I feel ashamed to say that's a self portrait.

Someone say something...I feel like i'm talking to myself here, lol.

Some of the stuff i have been bombarding my tablet with, i've actually done a lot more than this but they're mostly doodles and sketches (And are also several, seriously, i made like 30 drawings in 3 hours...) so i'll just post here the ones i thought that looked better.

[7evenstitch]

Hey, don't feel lonely guy. Seems like there hasn't been much traffic
in the last few days. I posted a submition in the Art challenge thread 3
days ago, and no one's even bothered to tell me it stunk. I like your stuff,
though. It all seems familiar, not in a copied sort of way, though. I'm sure
others may have said this to you before, but your clothes could use a
little work. I see you like to use clean lines, and that's alright, but aside
from wetsuits, clothes are hardly ever form-fitting. That really doesn't
matter though, all that matters is what you think of your work. Don't
become discouraged just because no one praises your work.
All that aside, I have some work to do myself. I rarely make it past
the doodle stage when I draw. In fact the only thing I've drawn
in some time is in my spoiler. Not exactly a masterpiece, but it made
me snicker when I drew it, so I think it came out fine.

[Show/Hide] What IS that?

[Nicsp]

Hah, yeah, clothing movement/frills/whatever is what i tend to have most difficulty with. I'm not really good at that kind of stuff, probably in big part due to the fact i started out drawing mostly warriors and such using only plate armor, wich yeah, only has deformation if it's like smashed up or something. I'm not discouraged or lonely or anything. >.< I was just kinda "Grr..." because no one had said anything in here for about a month and i completely love hearing what people think about what i do, either if it's good or bad. Good oppinions make me feel proud of my work and make me want to make more, bad opinions make me a tad sad but also tell me where i should improve so i'm good.

About that drawing you posted...It made me lol. Is that an eye popping out of the plant in his/her/it's head? That's so full of win XD

[7evenstitch]

Uhm, yes it is. I was going to show you something else,
but when I flipped through my sketchbook he popped out,
so I figured I'd let him(Her?) out.

Acctually, if my memory serves me right, It started as something
cute, but after i finished the eyes, my mind went blank, and when
my mind goes blank the wierd stuff hiding in the corners of my
brain escape. It's lucky that I do like Glue, or it would of been
filling for my garbage can.

This post has been edited by 7evenstitch: May 26 2010, 03:42 PM

[Nicsp]

Lol. XD

Norroar Faceshot, i also decided to make myself a watermark cause i got bored.

I was mostly trying out photoshop. Honestly, i prefer SAI.

[Sparrowsmith]

His neck... it's Huuuuuuuuuuuge

I recommend you keep practicing with photoshop, I for one love it, though I've never drawn anything using it.

I just kinda... edit...I'll post some stuff some time and you'll see what I mean

[Nicsp]

Eh...I dunno. Photoshop feels a bit weird to me. It's just so many brushes and tools that i don't even know what they're for...Sai is considerably simpler, imo, and for some reason it also feels like it has better control for drawing than photoshop. Maybe it's just me but oh well. x.x

[Sparrowsmith]

well like I said, I don't draw on photoshop, but the filters and editing tools are definitely a step ahead
Still, I took a whole bunch of tutorials and still suck (for my age I'm good but... Well that means very little).

It's quite depressing that in art, whenever someone is in trouble on photoshop, they call for me and not the teacher...
... Meh, who am I kidding, I love it

Regardless, it's fun once you pick up some experience... That's all there really is. I've memorized dozens of little tricks which are effortless but give really nice results. The first one I ever found is on this site (spiral background type thing).
I went much further than that in some later graphic work though
Anyway, I find it enjoyable for photo-editing and graphics work, but for drawing you'll just have to try and get used to it

[lyla2284]

Wow, quite a significant improvement since I was last here. I see you starting to use guidlelines as well. That's always a good thing. You should see what my drawings used to look like when I just decided to draw without those little lines. I can show you one of my more recent art pieces, of you like. I've never started an art thread yet, mainly because of the fact that all of my pieces happen to be fan-related. You know how people are about that...

[Show/Hide] A little bit of art

As you can see, I also suffer from 'long-neck syndrome'. I used Paint Shop Pro 8 and a mouse.

[Nicsp]

I've been using guidelines for all of my drawings up till now, it's just that i erase them later, lol. And yeah, i can understand that, lol, i started off drawing by making copies of Pokemon XD

The long neck was actually just a little slip that i always seem to do every now and then. I've seen your art on the screenshot thread and other things you posted before, it all looks very good and you have a very interesting style. You really should open your own art thread, even if it's fan-related all of it is still pretty good and i'm sure you'd receive quite a bit of attention.

Anyways, i've been playing around a bit more with Photoshop, here you go peeps.


I'm starting to get good at drawing boobs, yay...!
. . .
Uhmm...

Sorry for the watermark, friends have been suggesting me to start using it because i'm starting to get good, i honestly think my stuff is waaaay far from being worthy of being stolen but...Well.

[Homunculus]

To start



LOVE that design, LOVE it. Can I someday do a fanarts? :3 LOL which reminds me I still need to finish the fanart I started for Darkster. ANYHOW. YESSSS. YOUR ART! I LOVE IT! Holy shit dude, you develop more and more every post. I love it! It shows that you're very dedicated to your art :3 That's what makes an artist a great artist, their willingness to take comments, both good and bad, and use them to continually improve.

And no worries LOL I went through the whole "Long neck syndrome" too myself. Long arms, short legs, long neck. Oh the journey LOL. But yes. You keep doing what you're doing Nescafe, your art is great and you can see the dedication in it with your amazing progress :3 *Highfive* AND YES FOR SAI. I prefer Sai too lol.

[Nicsp]

To start

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LOVE that design, LOVE it. Can I someday do a fanarts? :3 LOL which reminds me I still need to finish the fanart I started for Darkster. ANYHOW. YESSSS. YOUR ART! I LOVE IT! Holy shit dude, you develop more and more every post. I love it! It shows that you're very dedicated to your art :3 That's what makes an artist a great artist, their willingness to take comments, both good and bad, and use them to continually improve.

And no worries LOL I went through the whole "Long neck syndrome" too myself. Long arms, short legs, long neck. Oh the journey LOL. But yes. You keep doing what you're doing Nescafe, your art is great and you can see the dedication in it with your amazing progress :3 *Highfive* AND YES FOR SAI. I prefer Sai too lol.

Thank you! I'd be honored to have you do fanart of my stuff =P Although i think the quality for that one drawing is kinda low so if you want something a little better to base yourself off, all of the "dudes wearing bandanas" in the same page as that one are all the same character, he's one of the main characters of my game and i've been tinkering a lot with his design, if you see the newest drawing i made of him on SAI (The one that is uncolored except for the eyes) he has his sleeves rolled up now, although that isn't really much of a difference, but yeah, feel free to do fanart of whatever version you like best. I'd love to see it =D

Two new pictures. I made the first one for a school project (Related to Dante's Inferno not the game, the original, hence the reddish sky, trees with faces and the floating Paolo & Francesca, for those who read it) and the second one is a self picture. Criticism pwease? =3

[Sparrowsmith]

First picture ... boobs

second picture... I kinda like...
It looks more like you're leaning on a flat wall... Also the tree and rock and sky have too little detail when compared with the leaves and grass.

I do like the effort definitely, especially since you're using photoshop (I noticed)
I would still recommend some tutorials on using photoshop, they helped me alot There are some on youtube that are rather funny as well..
Donny's guide of somet

[Nicsp]

I'll check it out...And yes...Boobs. >.<

I actually was going to make the second picture in a city but i changed my mind...I can't remember why now, though. And yeah, while i do think that SAI is better overall, photoshop is better for backgrounds, i think, considering this was my first attempt at doing any kind of background, i'm better at making characters >.<

Interesting news flash?

That first picture (Paolo & Francesca) alongside with a few others i'm yet to make are going to be published in a book, a story written by my literature teacher based off Dante's Inferno, who will also have a play made of it, in wich i'm going to act. Yay.

I've also been thinking of writing a manga or something, hence why i'm starting to practice backgrounds.