more DM character paints

[cowsmanaut]

Decided to continue this.. but wasn't able to find the other thread.. it's burred somewhere and I went through multiple pages.. anyway.. now that I'm back on track.. at least a little while I'll just continue here.



this is 12% of the painted size of the image.

supposed to be wu tse.. and I'm trying to keep the oldish style.. noting a fair bit of contrast, and the upper area of the head being lighter..

[linflas]

very realistic, and the androgynous feel is well rendered. hair is still too blurry, but it's only the first stage as you said.

[Gambit37]

Lovely work! Amazing to see you develop your craft, when compared with your old portraits. If you ever finish all these, I'd love to use them on Codex with your permission... do you keep larger versions?

Also, your other paints are here:
http://dungeon-master.com/forum/viewtop ... =2&t=28990

[cowsmanaut]

yeah, I cheaped out at the hair.. it was getting late.. I'm going to add a bit more volume to the back of the head too.. she's looking a bit squished now that I look at her.. and define her braids more since they are lost at this res. I found an image of some model on the net that I used for reference on my second monitor. so not 100% made from my head.. which is how a lot of the others were made.. my old Stamm image for example was 100% out of my head.. usually the more realistic they look, the better chance I was looking at someone

[zoom]

It is good you use a kind of a gradient on the background. Seen this on other portraits as well. So the background wraps aroudn the light areas of the face and the dark areas of the face(juxtaposition). Know what I mean. I can only second what the others posted. Very cool. Needs maybe to blend from fine strokes to blurry areas more .. how to put it..make it feel like one blend. Then again, it is hard. Just thinking out loud..

do what works for you - have phun and keep going on

[cowsmanaut]

I wanted to do something lastnight.. so I made a new portrait.. if anyone is interested..

[3DH]

Very nice, now I would like to see Iaido.

[cowsmanaut]

sure

[cowsmanaut]

and for anyone who would like to see how sketchy these are made (I do them fairly quickly)

[3DH]

I like this Iaido. Good work.

[Gambit37]

Ah, nice! Amazing what you can get away with working rough-n-large then shrinking down!

[Ameena]

Wow, that's really cool . Did you ever do Hissssa or Wuuf?

[cowsmanaut]

I've done Wuuf before.. a few times now. These last two I did the day i posted them.. so they are new. Hisssa is a pain only because of his scales. Even as a large rough, he's more work than both of these Well see..

[cowsmanaut]

[Ameena]

That's really cool . My drawing skills on a computer are mostly limited to crappy Paintbrush stuff like those versions I did of some people's avatars a few years back . Maybe you could do some of the CSB characters as well at some point - I never use any of them as I import my DM party when playing through CSB, but I think the majority of the characters look so much cooler - skeletal guys and bird-people and so on .

[Bit]

Beautiful! Keep on - bring them all alive!

[cowsmanaut]

Ok, so who next?

[cowsmanaut]

Deth

[Ameena]

Cool, I like the glowy eyes .

[Chaos-Shaman]

keep up the awesome work cowsmanaut

[Chaos-Shaman]

does this look familiar



had some fun trying to do Iaido, deconstruction

[cowsmanaut]

What was it you painted over?

[Chaos-Shaman]

I learned a lot from playing with this shot from Alberta, found in an ad online. I got the feel. I just went up a few notches in understanding the blob method. shrink that down and it looks pretty good. I think it quite easy to chicken scratch a big blob and shrink it down. this was fun and very easy to do. did it in a very short period of time. next attempt will be to do it by visually looking at it. demonstrated exactly what you're conveying in the skills needed to do it. A LOT OF FUN and QUICK. the original was real and different. my daughter does this stuff with a friend, they go out to a 1 day art class, and bring home pics like these but they use real paints. there are a few artists in my family using stone, paint, flowers and landscape, wood work. a colourful family. I think i'll surprise myself on my next work, I have an idea already to do. it was a lot of fun and the potential to do this kind of work now that I understand GIMP, that makes it much easier to do, is there. I thank you cows for stirring me up to do it, and it happened all by itself, I saw the ad and said, hey, cows did that, maybe that is where he saw it from, anyhow, thank you. look forward to more as I screw around with graphics in the coming years. I was jealous of my family as a child, they are all artists, but now I think my turn is coming, and a bigger graphics card is going to help me to do BIG BLOBS and turn them into what is being looked at. that is my first attempt, I used it much like a chalked outline on white paper, the only difference was there was already colour, other than that it is much the same. I recommend others try this, anyone can do it if they try. I used hardly any GIMP functions, it was that easy.

[cowsmanaut]

Not sure what ad you were talking about. I learned the validity this messy painting from old masters like Monet.. look at his paintings close up and it's messy dabs of paint.. step back from it and it's a complete picture. This is far from new as an idea

I've worked large for years and always shrink down, even when I'm working with more detail.. hides the errors well.

[Chaos-Shaman]

I need a bigger monitor, or two of them or something. I am really thinking on getting a pad to draw on. I have priced them before, I think last one I looked at was around 20 bones, $2000, and at the time I did not have the skills yet or the money to throw at it. this is just another example of a door being opened during the journey. I'm colliding with abilities, not sure to continue with visual programming with RTC or work on graphics. I can say the graphics was much more a rewarding feeling, programming leaves a bitter taste, there seems to be a feeling of negativity with it, on the other hand, graphics seem to catch peoples eye pretty fast. it appears visuals are doing better than the practical when it comes to enjoyment. i'll admit I was 5 sheets to the wind on moonshine before I undertook the idea, it just popped in there and flowed like a river. I worked on an idea for an hour yesterday by eyeballing it, kept track of every step with GIMP, so not only can I create one of those pics, I can change it up, too. better equipment is next. all I can say is I am glad I saw your work first, it was encouragement that got through to me in an altered state that I was in

thanks cows

[cowsmanaut]

got inspired

Leif

[Chaos-Shaman]

hmm, I guess it's delete the encouraging work day is it, talk about inspiration, I just got a spiritual 1000 times of it, heh, when will we ever learn how to work together. still, very good work cows, thanks for the encouragement. what is to come I am looking forward to in a very big way.

have you figured out how to skin that on to 3D characters?

[cowsmanaut]

No one has deleted anything.. try refreshing your browser, or checking that your hosting site is not down before accusing people of deleting things. You know what they say about assumptions..

[Bit]

I have uploaded my test-program for a while (again):
http://akluwi.de/dmcsb/dmtruecolortest.zip

each original graphic is extracted here into a png-file.
i.e. the characterset is 025pic.png
you could edit cows' graphics in here, and the graphic will appear in the game.
(msvc runtime is needed to run the version).

you could edit all other graphics too, but care for masks.
(to be honest, i had to review my source how i managed to recognize those... - i think bright pink )

[cowsmanaut]

I'm just doing these for fun and practice. If you want to use them in Dm, just know I don't know that I will make them all.. depends on a lot of things. I figured people might use them for their avatars if anything.. Which is why I asked who to do next So I leave it to you Just as long as they are not used for profit.