Art Recent Pen+Ink Creations

[*GaLxY-GiRl*]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]I've recently ressurected my age-old account here and think the art specific forum is nice.

[b]First attachment[/b] is a finished product; Line Assignment for Design class in college. (5 hours- drawn and inked.) I figured the anime/manga fans of this board would appreciate some aspects of this inked collage. ^^

[b]Second attachment[/b] is a little bit of Naruto fanart; Chuunin Shikamaru, my personal favourite character. Yay for the super lazy genius! Heheh.. (1 hour- drawn and inked)

Mmm.. If I have anymore doodles and such, I'll post them in this thread. I think that's possible... :9[/COLOR]

[Sara]

[size=1]Holy cow! GaLxY! *laughs* It's so cool to see you again. (It's Sara/Cera. You know, they [i]do[/i] let you change your name if you ask nicely.)

The pictures look great. I really love the way the textures turned out in the first one, especially along the bottom there, underneath the...fish? Is that a fish? How cool. And a butterly up in the corner...or am I seeing things that aren't really there? I coud stare at this for a very long time, heh.

I don't know anything about Naruto, but the second pic looks fine to me. Again, the textuures are nifty.

There's just something so cool about handdrawn art, as opposed to endlessly CG'd stuff.[/size]

[*GaLxY-GiRl*]

Wow.. hey! I do remember you; Digimon gives it away! ;] Good times. (I don't think I'll trouble anyone to change the name.. t's just a name and a little nostalgic. Bwa.)

Yup, you are indeed seeing a fish at the bottom and a butterfly wing at the top. There's also another butterfly wing at the bottom, but it's a negative of the one at the top... a little harder to draw.

I've always appreciated hand drawn stuff because it's so much more FUN to do then CGing.. I enjoy using Photoshop too, but I always end up making it look worse and people remind me that it looked better before I "enhanced" it. Heheh.

Thanks for the comments, I appreciate it! ^^
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[color=royalblue][b][color=teal]EDIT:[/color] New additions![/b]

[b]First attachment [/b]is a pen+ink of Haruno Sakura from Naruto. (I plan to make this one prettier with pen and pencil value, but this is the basis for attachment 2.)

[b]Second Attachment[/b] is my CG version. Haven't used Photoshop (7.0) is this manner in a long time, and by doing so I'm going against the fact that I already know it's not improving the pen+ink. But anyways..

Comments are beautiful! =]

[color=teal]Welcome back to OB. Keep in mind that we do not allow double posting, so remember to use the Edit button. -Syk3[/color][/color]

[Ezekiel]

[COLOR=SlateGray]Wow, you know...I'm in love your style...totally.

I'm totally loving the first attachment...is that Hakkai and Daisuke that I can see in there?
The way you use the pen to give all different types of shading and textures is amazing and the final product is just beautiful!

The second attachment, the Naruto one, again, your shading and technique is perfect, but something about his left hand bothers me...though it's nothing big.

Your latest pictures, I must say, I prefer the inked one. I have to agree with Lore with regards to her comment about the amount of CG. Even though it takes talent to CG properly, pictures just seem to look that much more.... authentic when they have been done with the traditional media.

All in all, I'd rank these at 9/10, absolutely wonderful stuff![/COLOR]

[Hevn]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue][SIZE=1][B]The latest attachments are really good. I love how you paid attention to details ranging from the background to Haruno Sakura's dress (I've never seen Naruto ^_^;)

I have to say that the colors gave life to it. The sky is so fascinating as well as the the shadows in the trees.

Thank God for colors ^_^[/B][/SIZE][/COLOR]

[*GaLxY-GiRl*]

[QUOTE]Your latest pictures, I must say, I prefer the inked one. I have to agree with Lore with regards to her comment about the amount of CG. Even though it takes talent to CG properly, pictures just seem to look that much more.... authentic when they have been done with the traditional media.
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Yup, I totally agree... I wanted to color it for fun but it ended up taking way too long, so it became a chore... I'll have to avoid it in the future, until I have to take that Computer Art/Photoshop course. The thing is, I need to invest in some -really- nice coloring pencils and markers; maybe some Prismas. My coloring utensils just don't cut it, so I avoid ruining the line version.

[i]-edit- Yes, that is in fact Daisuke and Cho Hakkai in the composition.[/i]

[QUOTE]Thank God for colors ^_^[/QUOTE]
Amen.. I just need to use less vibrant ones if I want it to look more realistic, I think.. but yeah, colors rawk. ^^

[color=teal](see above on double posting) -Syk3[/color] [That's a big ten-four.]

[COLOR=RoyalBlue]New drawing of a cyborg-ish chica below - non CGed color.[/COLOR]