post a drawing!

[trogdor458]

would love to see any drawings you've made
preferably drawings that are not of the notoriously good (we've seen enough of those)

tryed to scan in a few myself, but one got lighted funny, and two got cropped.

this one just happened to get cropped in a convenient way:

i wonder if anyone can recognize it?

dont be shy about posting either (i myself am contemplating wether or not i should submit this...), i dont think anyone will make rude comments

and keep the pictures within the guidelines please

[EvilKris]

Games dude, this forum is about GAMES.

[mr_malee]

i'm with Kris

http://board.flashkit.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=25

maybe people could present their concept art for Games, but still that probably should be in the art section.

[luxregina]

preferably drawings that are not of the notoriously good (we've seen enough of those)

That's a strange stance ? if you want a quality topic about sketching / artworks / concepts, I think it would actually be usefull to have the best in there too ? I mean, that's how one progress : by seeing what other people do better, no ?

Not sure if I should post mine, as I don't know if I belong to the "notoriously good" or not, but I still think it's a strange request you have here

[everfornever]

hmmmm........

http://www.truimagz.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=56

Theres one in there I did with M&M's, so I guess it qualify's to the OP.

sorry if the others dont, or you've seen them before, but hey, anytime anyone asks Imma show em.

(I really need to spend more time and make more)

[renderhjs]

i'm with Kris
http://board.flashkit.com/board/forumdisplay.php?f=25
maybe people could present their concept art for Games, but still that probably should be in the art section.

that´s because you are a coder , i´d say as long as it is flash game dev related post it

[Cimmerian]

Games dude, this forum is about GAMES.

No, its about everything RELATED to it
As it is told

Coding, ideas, games to show, ALL GAME DEVELOPMENT ASPECTS will be discussed here.

[EvilKris]

Where in the original post does it say anything about that pic being related to game development?

[Squize]

Got to be honest, I'm with Kris on this. If it was a sketch from a completed game, thereby showing the design process, then fair enough.
But it's not, it's just a sketch of something which was rendered as a test.

Although just to be a bit hypocritical, the games forum isn't purely about games, we do go off on a tangent a fair bit. So I don't think it should be here, but I don't care that it is. It's not doing any harm, but in the grand scheme of things it's a bit pointless and perhaps suited more elsewhere on FK.

Squize.

[trogdor458]

right, sorry about posting in this forum (strange, i recall doing this once before, and it was not a big deal)

as for the "not notoriously good" part, i mean dont repost images youve already done all over the place. a good number of people have already seen them and chances are, praised them a good bit too

apparantly this thread was a mistake:

(i myself am contemplating wether or not i should submit this...)

everfornever: nice pictures btw, though i believe ive seen them once before. i honestly think that perhaps i should start drawing more often, as i rarely do, but am actually interested in it

[luxregina]

i mean dont repost images youve already done all over the place

ah, ok ...I misunderstood

Well, it's been actually posted once somewhere else, but might still be relevant to the topic.

This is few steps of a concept are drawing - not perfect, but I insisted on myself to not spend more than one week-night per concept, so that's roughly 5 hours ...
I thought it could be interesting to share the process, specially for people that have not too much experience drawing : doing most of the job in photoshop is actually a great way to cut on time, if you aren't overly concerne about "style" or "the hand of the artist"

Perspective is off, but I still liked the final result somewhat, so I kept it

Step 1 - quick sketch (one of many, I couldn't actually find the one that started the "final" drawing, so I took the closest I had )


Step 2 - paperpen sketch


Step3 - Scan, and port of sketch on a photoshoped "paper" texture
I mirrored it, and erased the parts I was unhappy with


Step4 - working on the green glow


Step5 - the full color work is made directly in photoshop - here it is without the outlines


Step6 - with Outlines - I stopped here, because I wanted the "concept art" feel for the drawing, so I watched not overdoing the outlines, nor the colors ... it is a quick work, but moreso, it means to "look" quickly done


and this is how it will look like in game (minus the fake Libram text )

[trogdor458]

very nice!! :)
you must be good at this

[Son of Bryce]

Awesome workflow and end product lux! Do you have any specific resources for paper or other textures?

[hooligan2001]

Very cool lux! Nice work.

[luxregina]

Do you have any specific resources for paper or other textures?

Not really - the paper texture comes for a parchement texture that I re-worked years ago, and i've been using it a lot, playing with the saturation or the color

[ImprisonedPride]

Don't mean to be off topic but one day Lux, you and I need to do a game together.

[trogdor458]

great, now i want to draw something cool too, but it would seem i dont quite have the ability. all i can make is a simple outline in flash at the moment (btw, it makes it really hard to do if you leave "snap to objects" on the entire time)

http://i106.photobucket.com/albums/m...r458/tanky.jpg
pfft, no details, no colors, no nothin'

EDIT: btw, make sure the window displays the whole thing, it looks worse when it's resized

[Cimmerian]

Amazing stuff, Lux! Really inspiring!!
Have you used a tablet when you made the colors?

[luxregina]

IP > sure, once i'm done with 2KH...but that might not be before a while
Cimmerian > Nope, no tablet - I have one, but I really don't get the hang of it yet - I'm just way to used to work with the mouse I guess
Trogdor > I actually think it is quite nice - sure some details are a bit off, but with some clever coloring, you could get the attention away from them - I think you should try to color that tank - and add details, as part of the coloring process

[trogdor458]

idk, i dont have much experience as far as anything goes

but i actually started coloring a little bit ago for the heck of it:

i have a feeling its going to turn out looking like a cartoon, as most vector images do

thanks for your comment btw :)