The Official Art/Fan Art Thread

Post by **Femto** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:12 am

Buzkashi wrote:You know who a good as hell artist was... Picasso. Some people think that he could just draw incoherent stuff. But if you've seen some of his works before he got all cubist and abstract you'd be shocked. That fool had crazy ass talent.

That's very true. One of my teachers told me that to do what Picasso did, you really have to know your basics, and that's something a lot of "artists" today are missing. They think that they just have to do some abstract bullshit and give some bullshit explanation to the piece and they are suddenly awesome, when they aren't even close to the level of the old masters. I don't really like the path Picasso chose (I prefer DaVinci or Michelangelo's work), but he definitely knew his stuff.

Man, you keep on surprising me with your knowlegde on this stuff Buz.

Ayanami: I think I mentioned this to Kether too, but it seems that you are going straight for the outline in your drawings. I highly recommend that you rough things out lightly before finalizing a drawing. Trust me on this one, it'll do wonders. Keep it up!

Post by **Buzkashi** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:18 am

Femto wrote:
Man, you keep on surprising me with your knowlegde on this stuff Buz.

I've said it once and ill say it a again. Me has good emiducations...

Nah seriously thought I aint no dumbass.

Post by **Femto** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:21 am

No one is saying you are, but not everybody know about this kinda stuff.

Post by **Tempest** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:36 am

Ayanami, get a pic of that color Rei thing for Evangelion you made for CCS, that was good.

Post by **Ayanami** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 3:37 am

Femto wrote:Ayanami: I think I mentioned this to Kether too, but it seems that you are going straight for the outline in your drawings. I highly recommend that you rough things out lightly before finalizing a drawing. Trust me on this one, it'll do wonders. Keep it up!

Yeah, I have been doing more drawings off of gesture style foundation lately, but I don't have the made cross hatching skills you got Femto. Lately I have been trying to rough up my work, it is just hard for me to make it darker and darker and darker to build on my drawing to do so, all my foundation lines are very light and don't play as much of a part as I want them too right now.

Oh well, enough rambling, I think I will draw some more tomorrow when I don't feel like crap.

(God a killer head cold or something right now)

Edit: Aight Tempest, I guess I will show that Rei I did and a incomplete drapery I also did for CCS.

Post by **Starnum** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:02 am

Good work Rei.

You know, another artist I really like is Salvador Dali.

Post by **Femto** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:16 am

Forget about cross hatching, I shouldn't even be doing that yet considering how lacking I am in the actual figure. "You have to go around the figure," this is something my teacher once told me, and it's something important to keep in mind. Gesture is extremely important too, and hatching is not really neccesary to get any of that down, neither is shading. I do it every once in a while just because I want to practice with it.

That drapery looks really nice, BTW.

Post by **Ayanami** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 5:20 am

Thanks a lot Femto, I really appreciate it.

I think the drapery has to be my best work even though it is not finished........

Post by **calvin** » Thu Apr 07, 2005 6:01 am

i wish i could draw =(
it would take me weeks to produce something even close to that

Post by **Femto** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:17 am

I've got something a little different for you guys this time, an animated clip. I uploaded it for Starnum the other day, so I might as well share it with anyone else that's interested. It's just a backflip and it took me a whole night to finish, but it's cool to watch it frame by frame. You'll need Quicktime to see it and it's limited to less than 25 downloads. It'll be up for 7 days before it gets deleted.

Here it is.

Post by **Ayanami** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:22 am

I have quick time, but when I click on here it goes to the quicktime site.

Am I doing some thing wrong?? Do I have to set Quicktime as default player??

Post by **Femto** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:26 am

Oh, that's just the link to the Quicktime website in case anybody is too lazy to type "quicktime" in google.

The link to the file is further down.

Post by **Ayanami** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:29 am

I need to click on Here right??

Post by **Femto** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:31 am

Yup.

+1

Post by **Ayanami** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:32 am

Yeah, when I do that, it sends me to the Quicktime web site.

Post by **Femto** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:34 am

Fixed.

Sorry, that was my bad.

Post by **Ayanami** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:40 am

Femto, just to let you know...........

That was AWESOME!! My hat is off to ya man, I used to go to an art school, so I know that is not so easy to do. Coo stuff.

Post by **Femto** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:43 am

Thanks man. You have no idea how hard and time-consuming it is to animate something like that. Sure, I am kinda inexperienced in animating, but it still takes a while. Still, there is nothing more rewarding than seeing your goddamn drawings move.

As I said, I suggest seeing it frame by frame, just pause the player and move the arrows back and forth.

Post by **Ayanami** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 8:51 am

I hear ya, I can only imagine how time consuming it was.

Just saw it frame by frame, must have took ya all night eh??

I don't think I have that kind of patience, that is why I don't go to that art school any more. heh heh

Post by **Starnum** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:24 am

Yeah, that was way cool Femto! You've got a lot of talent man. Keep it up.

Post by **Eldo** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 12:14 pm

That was so damn great! It was awesome!

Post by **calvin** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 1:56 pm

i also would not have the patience for that. awesome job Femto!

Post by **Femto** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 4:52 pm

I might as well post this now before it gets deleted...

Here is my final project for one of my classes from last semester. I'm not too proud of it because time was running short towards the end and I had to rush some things. And I'll give another cookie to whoever can tell me where the song is from. It's around 70MB I think, so yeah, broadband recommended.

Enjoy.

And thanks for the comments on the backflip everyone. One of my teachers told me that animation sucks. In hindsight, I can see what he was trying to say. It definitely is a lot of work and it mostly isn't fun, but the reward more than makes up for it.
As I said, seeing your freaking drawings move is just bliss.

Post by **Ayanami** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 9:47 pm

Whoa

Once again Femto, my hat is off to you. Great job.

Post by **Tempest** » Fri Apr 08, 2005 10:09 pm

I will quote Keanu Reeves when I say, "That was most excellent dude"

No idea where the song is from, sounds familiar though...