Artistic Input

[Telephant]

im going to start doing show posters soon as well.

You should be doing this shit already! You can draw, make some cool shit! Do you have Adobe Illustrator? Pirate that shit if need be and get to work.

[Dickarms]

i would never do that. or it hasnt been working for me because i am new to all that shit
i am considering the $20 a month student plan for adobe creative cloud.

[Dickarms]

heres the background with it, cropped a bit

[Telephant]

Epic!!!

[Dickarms]

thank you sir. we'll see how the flatting/coloring goes in Ps. never done it before.

i went way crazy with shading. might have to erase some of it to make it look decent. either way, he's getting this inked original in b&w

[nightflameauto]

Fuck, how did I miss this? Nice cross-hatching. Mine never looks right and always ends up looking like a parkinson's victim did it. Having done some computery coloring over the years, I'd guess flatting will go spectacularly with all the nice tones you've already developed here.

[Krunchmeister]

im doing some comic-book style art of a friend and figured itd be cool to through some outside opinion in it.

so say you have someone fighting a gigantic robot (think pacific rim, xmen sentinel, mechwarrior) in the foreground. one of the giant mech's appendages in the far foreground is smashing cracks into a rocky outcropping just peeking in from the bottom, and there is unidentifiable debris, presumably rocks and dirt, coming from the raised other, implying it had done the same. so presumably the ground is rock and dirt. there are some birds circling the top of the mech due to convey size, so presumably its outside.

so give me some suggestions for background within those parameters. what do you want to see behind a huge battlemech? nuclear wasteland? bustling metropolis? scenic vista? timmy's 8th birthday party? charveldan pr0n? lets hear them suggestions, comic book fans.

A gallows with war criminal Cheney meeting the hangman.

[Dickarms]

Fuck, how did I miss this? Nice cross-hatching. Mine never looks right and always ends up looking like a parkinson's victim did it. Having done some computery coloring over the years, I'd guess flatting will go spectacularly with all the nice tones you've already developed here.

mine doesnt? lol
well, we'll see. im afraid there is so much hatching it will look like some bullshit technicolor, but ill try. what i mena is much of the shading done with black ink hatching should have been done with color.

A gallows with war criminal Cheney meeting the hangman.

you're too late. and wtf does cheney have to do with this?

[Krunchmeister]

Fuck, how did I miss this? Nice cross-hatching. Mine never looks right and always ends up looking like a parkinson's victim did it. Having done some computery coloring over the years, I'd guess flatting will go spectacularly with all the nice tones you've already developed here.

mine doesnt? lol
well, we'll see. im afraid there is so much hatching it will look like some bullshit technicolor, but ill try. what i mena is much of the shading done with black ink hatching should have been done with color.

A gallows with war criminal Cheney meeting the hangman.

you're too late. and wtf does cheney have to do with this?

The birds could be vultures and the robot is there to cheer!

[nightflameauto]

Fuck, how did I miss this? Nice cross-hatching. Mine never looks right and always ends up looking like a parkinson's victim did it. Having done some computery coloring over the years, I'd guess flatting will go spectacularly with all the nice tones you've already developed here.

mine doesnt? lol
well, we'll see. im afraid there is so much hatching it will look like some bullshit technicolor, but ill try. what i mena is much of the shading done with black ink hatching should have been done with color.

Suggestion: Do your flat colors ultra-bright the way you wanna see them, then desaturate them by copying the flat layer, greyscaling the top copy, then lowering opacity until you just have a hint of the colors peaking through. You can make it look a bit like a really watery ink-wash, which I think would fit this shading style perfectly.

[Dickarms]

colored 1st attempt. going back to fix a fe things, try some different schemes.

[Dickarms]

i touched it up a bit, added a bit of rendering, etc. will post up in a bit

[BrendanO]

Fuck, Mike, you can flat out *draw*.

[Dickarms]

thanks mang. its funny, ive drawn ever since i was little, but lately i only do it in jest. superbad jokes aside, i draw a lot of dicks on things to make people laugh. srs.
every once in a while, someone will say "draw this" and it will give me purpose. this was one of those cases.

and the point was "comic book", which i think i got there, which is a point of pride and now im antsy to get into more of it. which now that i think about, drawing 2d renderings of wolverine in third grade was what really got me started, so thats fitting.

what amazed me most about the process was the photoshop part. with 0 ps experience (ive used gimp), i went from download to this in like 3 hours. ulocked a lot of potential, now i just need subject matter!

i forgot to post the rendered one at lunch, ill throw it up tonight. cant decide if i like it better or not. i fixed little things like the white spots and that line running through the background sky, and added rendered touches like stars in the upper sky and some cloud/smoke detail.

ill post in larger res too

[Dickarms]

rendered:

[Dickarms]

probably should have shooped in a hazy background planet in place of the drawn one. debating. will be making a print when im done though.

[Dickarms]

whats day crew say? of the last two posted, which do you prefer?