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[bacon man]

thank you

its just practice. drawing everyday, for atleast an hour, plus attending 6 hours of life drawing a week did it for me i guess.
since the start of february.


thanks

[fiddlestick5]

that's amazing bacon man!..
it's kind of wierd how much your sketches and animations differ.

I drew this one today.. still not sure how to make the rain..

[Olly K]

Hey nice ogre-demon-creature thing Bacon!!
It is wierd how your sketyches are so different from your anims. Mine are basically the same (though I use simpler characters for animating )

Nice work Fiddle!
I'd make the water drizzling down him a bit whiter though. as for the rain, it looks like it's falling straignt down, right?
I'd use vertical lises of the same colour as the water on him gradientent to completely transparent at on end, varying in initial transparency, some in front of him some behind him and at different heights.
Try it, it may look poo I've never really done rain in a still image before.

Hhhmmm....methinks I'll post something soon.

[Olly K]

Ok I've been making these over the last couple of days, they're all about 4-5 cm high, to give you a scale idea.

There is a couple more images on my site, along with the original images: http://og.fizz.nu

[Radar_Brian]

Those are cool, Olly. Are you using Sculpey? How about wire armatures?

I got into action figure making a few years ago and made some Everquest Gnomes, a mech, and a Pimp based on a friend of mine.




Check out the other ones here Parksart.com/3d

[fiddlestick5]

good stuff!

I'm down with the JimPimp

[Olly K]

Radar Brian those are amazing!
I love the cyclops mask especially! It blinks, so cool!

I use Fimo for my models, it comes in hundreds of colours but I use one colour and paint it. Because it's cheaper and mixing colours in Fimo is hard.
The paint I use is called 'Citadel Colours' (Warhammer Paint). I used to collect Warhammer Lizardmen and have tons of paint leftover now

[Radar_Brian]

Thanks!

Olly, have you ever tried Sculpey III? It's pretty good for high detail stuff.. The sculptures I posted were done with ordinary sculpey which was almost like trying to sculpt with bread doe. I have since gotten the Sculpey III and like it better.

Since we're all showcasing stuff... check out my lightsaber:

Me Being A Geek

[Olly K]

Oddness, I could view your video just listen to it.
I saw your lightsaber on your site though, cool

I've actually never heard of Sculpey before, not sure if I can get it here, where do you live?

[Radar_Brian]

Olly,

If you just get sound, then you probably need to update your Media Player. For some reason the WMV files won't play on older versions...but they sure do compress really small and maintain decent quality!

I live in Kentucky *no jokes please hehe* and Sculpey is basically the same type clay as you are already using. I can't remember which one is more expensive, so you might check that out. Otherwise, you'd probably not see much difference.

Check them out:

Sculpey Website

[Olly K]

Cool I can buy it here (UK)!
Though the shops are quite away from home.
If I ever come across it I will buy some and give it a try.
It says it's soft from the pack. Fimo is hard you have to warm it up to soften it and then bake it. Probably not too different apart from that.

also, have you ever used this:
http://www.sculpey.com/Products/prod..._superflex.htm
It looks so cool!
If i ever see that I'm definetly getting some!

[edit]Apparently there is now a new soft Fimo...
http://store.yahoo.com/fimo/fimosoft2003.html
[/edit]

[Radar_Brian]

Yeah the original Sculpey is really soft out of the box. The higher grade Scupley III is pinkish in color and is really really good for fine detail work. Alot of movie studios and model companies do their first prototypes using it.

In the end, though, I'm sure it's about the same as the hard fima.

When I'm making sculptures, I usually build up a wire armature and then use aluminum foil to bulk up the shape and then apply only a out later of the clay. This has helped me alot with baking as well as using less clay per piece. I also tend to make things in parts. All the figures that I have made are poseable.

I haven't made anything in a about a year and a half though.

[gbillustration]

Great stuff here!! It's been a while since I've last visited this board...I'll be here more to check out all that cool stuff....
Gerwin
www.gbillustration.nl

[argonauta]

well, i haven't post in a while, because i haven't done any drawings lately, but today i did a quick sketch, and here's what came out: a girl of course

[Kaco]

very cool drawing argo, has a unique style to it.

[fiddlestick5]

Good stuff, peoples

I decided to redo my first (pretty much my first) photoshop drawing, which I did a few years back...



I redrew it in flash and touched it up in adobe... I need to up the contrast in the bg... but it's good enough.



Just felt like posting...

[CDP-Design]

the only part of the redited work i dont liek is the sun the rest looks a great improvement like the little mushroom and the house especially.

[argonauta]

i love the sun rays (or however they're called)
the grass looks better, but just too flat, you should draw the shades that the house mushromms and all the rest project on the grass.

The guy climbing up the stairs is almost unnoticeable in the second pic, you should dim that light, or get rid of it.

everything else looks pretty cool.

[quinners3]

The lighting effects you used in the second pic or a huge improvement. Same with the whispy rainbow.

[Olly K]

Hhhmm has been relatively quite in here, where's melmann gone he used to post loads and get the thread going, c'mon people get creative!

Fiddle, I think the second one is definetly an improvement. I should try and do some photoshop, but I'm so used to using Flash now.

Speaking of which, here's a preview of some creatures wich will be appearing on my site when my mate finally gets his finger out and makes me the databse system