me thinkey its always time for you to volley. ;)
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me thinkey its always time for you to volley. ;)
I just had to participate. the last few pages jumped in quality quite a bit.
http://www.gerbick.com/images/eternity.jpg
i'm volleying next if nobody has already started with gerbo's..
That looks sick Gerbick!! Nice Job!
sly dog you, took me a good 5 minutes to notice the marqueed blood as your border. :P
realy fine image.. i love the little highlights and details in the background and the piece de resistance in the middle (although i have no idea what it is (what is it?)) is amazing.
if nayades volleys soon i'm calling shotgun after him... i want back into this battle. :)
the middle part is actually a mobile by one of my favorite artists, Lee Bontecou. I'm in the process of building one very much like it in Illustrator solely out of vectors, but thought I'd post the inspiration, and not my incomplete piece.
I had more of the blood involved originally, but decided against continuing it... although very well done, thought it had lasted it's lifetime.
Fantastic volley gerbick, great progression of the battle. Yeah it took me a while to notice the reuse of the blood as the borders as well ^_^
I've noticed that effect of the tiny white squares overlayed on the image before, it gives it a great texture .. could you let me in on how it's done? :)
the white squares? Oh... yeah. I just hate "perfect" looking images.
very quick and easy to accomplish. File > New, create a new canvas on a transparent background (72dpi) that's 2 pixels by 2 pixels. zoom in by 1600%. then using the square marquee tool, create a one pixel square, fill it white. Select the diagonally opposite pixel (diagonal down to the right) and fill that one pixel square white.
It'll be four squares total... two filled, two not. CTRL+A, then use Edit > Define Pattern. Name it something - mine is "dotzilla" - and close that file.
Now, create an empty layer in your composition, CTRL+A to select all, Edit > Fill, use Pattern, and find "dotzilla"... fill.
Deselect, change layer application methods if you so wish, use layer masks to hide parts of it, or whatever.
If you meant something else, let me know. It's all simple to create a pattern and use it.
Ah yeah, I get it. Thanks gerbs, I'll keep that one up my sleeve :)
Should've known it was a pattern. I only just discovered custom patterns/brushes recently :eek:
Dotzilla .. so true. Small but killer!
Damn nice dude, really damn nice!
Nice to see you back gerbzilla!
ok. i hate it.
http://digitalismo.net/imagenes/trendy.jpg
HAHA! I like it nayades, despite your hate for it.
the fish is there to give a new element to work with, and as a tribute both to bontecou and fk..
you know what i'm talking about...
yep ;)
dude, I'm *this* close to registering ihbst.com... love it.
thankies.Quote:
Originally posted by gerbick
HAHA! I like it nayades, despite your hate for it.
could have put more work into it.. but considering the direction i had started with it would have produced nothing but dull eyecandy.
'tis a nice one yeah. :)Quote:
Originally posted by gerbick
yep ;)
dude, I'm *this* close to registering ihbst.com... love it.
i hadn't thought of it... in fact i was gonna write something like eternity blooms, or mechanical cataclysm, but thought; wtf, this an awful trendy sh*t!
that's why
lol. to make matters worse... I actually had the word eternity stuck in my head for the last four days for no reason.
no ****ing reason whatsoever. ihbst.com is so calling my name dude.
if you actually purchase it, count me in for whatever crazy project it might develop into ;)
definitely sounds like a deal to me.Quote:
Originally posted by nayades
if you actually purchase it, count me in for whatever crazy project it might develop into ;)
deal.
registering it then? i might have some space available to host it i you're in any need...
quick and nasty, kind of like.... ummm... road kill...
this died... again. :(
true story
It'll come to life in a week or so again
no disrespect to hoccalugee, but I'm still trying to figure out all of the aspects of that last design. it's about as incongruous as a 350x700 pixel image could get.
strange one indeed.
time for a restart perhaps?
well, due to the overwhelming (un)popularity of my last (un)volley(able), i hope it isn't against the rules to post again....wouldn't want to totally kill this battle on my first outing y'know, so here goes, hope this little ditty fairs better....
Good Job Hoccalugee! I like the hybrid cat you made with the 2 eyes. A big step up from your last volley. Keep em coming!
Yeah nice volley hoccalugee :)
I didn't even notice the larger eye until I was looking at it for a while, you blended it together really well. I like it.
hoccalugee, cool image. that first one, I wasn't trying to sound mean. It just... well, caught me way off-guard. Sorta like seeing a circus while sober.
It just doesn't seem right no matter how good the popcorn is.
or something ;)
Well, here's more popcorn fodder...
looking for critiques here.....I need it...thanks
EVP, nice volley... very nice transition as well.
I'll give ya' a critique if ya' want one. I have to say one thing in advance... I'm not being harsh, I'm not even a pro. I'm a rank hobbyist at best, and what I'd like to call a critique from me is merely me judging an image without seeking to damage your artistic soul, as more of how I'd appreciate my peers to say to me when I'd ask for a critique.
Simply put, I've started flame wars when I stated criticism trying to be constructive, and they would rather want blind praise.
Damn sad I gotta give a disclaimer before saying anything, eh!?
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Originally posted by gerbick
EVP, nice volley... very nice transition as well.
I'll give ya' a critique if ya' want one. I have to say one thing in advance... I'm not being harsh, I'm not even a pro. I'm a rank hobbyist at best, and what I'd like to call a critique from me is merely me judging an image without seeking to damage your artistic soul, as more of how I'd appreciate my peers to say to me when I'd ask for a critique.
Simply put, I've started flame wars when I stated criticism trying to be constructive, and they would rather want blind praise.
Damn sad I gotta give a disclaimer before saying anything, eh!?
I did ask.....let fly, if there is anyone's opinion I respect it is yours. I am here to learn and if that means getting hammered, so be it.
Let fly captain.......
without further ado...
Going black and white... good choice. The quote, ok... obscure, but friggin' brilliant. But 1954?
Ok, now going black/white that means that you have to basically protect details from becoming lost due to saturation. That's not the case here. the lack of detail in the lace on the leg and the lack of shadows on her arms and face - they're there, but seems a bit saturated to me - just screams out something is not balanced in this image. It's flat.
The addition of the grunge and splatter is a good idea, but it's not carried out too well in a few places. Again, it looks more like it's "splashed" on top, not integrated into the image.
The type sets the mood, big time. Scary, very informal, but it's hard to read in a couple of places due to the layer mask brush work on the text layer. Using a smaller and more detailed brush on the text layer mask will produce a bit better results.
More coherent placement of the text would have made more of an impact, imho. But the scattered layout does make it seem to add more tension to the image.
All in all though, it's a good image, but it's just flat in a few places.
I agree....it is flat. I had it very detailed in color and it just didn't look right (to me). So I used the Dry Brush filter (if I remember right) and she lost all of that detail.
My big problem is depth. I have 12 layers in that image and still it is flat. One of those things I can't seem to grasp. If you have some ideas.....SHARE!!!
Thanks, this is why I am here, to learn and pick the brains of people like you.
This is pretty weak but I hit a wall. Time to stick a fork in it. Props to anyone who knows the song.
http://www.etherealsight.com/volleys/kungfoo21005.jpg
Been a long time since I posted in here, had some time to kill. (waiting on ondraedan again...) Hope it's still up to par.
:zombie:
model: Jessie {Devious Elite}
ah nothing better than a woman with a sword...good job fearless
Nice work Fearless.....as usual. :mrpimp:
I didn't change the layout cos I'm lazy, and I liked it. Thought this subtle motif kind of fitted the model.
my attachment disappeared when I previewed! Anyway here 'tis...