The "WT*" Contest

Post by **Dray** » Thu May 24, 2007 9:51 pm

Hodamn, it's gonna be hard to beat that! XD Hot stuff, Uny'!

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Fri May 25, 2007 10:08 pm

Oh wow. XD That is awesome. [claps]

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Mon May 28, 2007 12:16 am

DNS!

He'd be best on a dark background. >.< Sorry, it's been so long since I used Photoshop, and I couldn't get the outline to go right.

Post by **Dray** » Mon May 28, 2007 12:26 am

Oooh, another pretty! :D Lovely work, Sil!

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Mon May 28, 2007 12:40 am

Hehe, thanks...been so long since I actually colored anything on the computer.

I think it looks like it's related to Aldyss.

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Mon May 28, 2007 8:47 am

XD It's awesome [claps]

You people are doing so well!

Post by **Dray** » Mon May 28, 2007 10:27 am

Just a little bit! XD Needs more red!

DNS · Post by **DNS** » Tue May 29, 2007 5:17 pm

-drools with glee- zomgzomgzomg. He's AMAZING. ;-; -clings- I am speechless with joy.

I must do mine. argh.

Post by **StarFyre** » Wed May 30, 2007 2:49 pm

Myrror!

So uh, realizing that I needed to get this done, I also realized that I left my tablet at my boyfriend's house >.>;; So it's done in pastel pencils on (stupidly enough) computer paper. I tried to get rid of as much of the halo as possible when I made it transparent, but I think it'll still look better on a light background. Hope it's acceptable.

PinkDragon · Post by **PinkDragon** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:25 pm

aww its cute there is something to be said for hand colored. do you draw with your tablet or just color?

Myrror · Post by **Myrror** » Wed May 30, 2007 3:25 pm

Oooo, coool! Blue flames! ^.^

I like ^^

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:02 pm

It's beautiful- and it's also a refreshing sight to see. I think it reminds us that our digital media still has roots in 'real' media, and it gives a good 'feel'

Besides that, you put your time into it and showed us this great result- and that's what's worth it, to me. ^^

Post by **Dray** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:26 pm

Man, that's cool! :D

Post by **StarFyre** » Wed May 30, 2007 4:54 pm

PinkDragon wrote: do you draw with your tablet or just color?

Both - though it's much more common for me to color with it than draw. I've always been a big fan of "scribblecribblescribble-erase the lines that don't seem to fit, continue scribbling" and it's much harder to do with a tablet, though it's much better than a mouse.

It's also been so long since I picked up pastel pencils to color with that I had to remember how layering them effectively worked. That and "... wait.. I need to make something glow. How do I make pastel pencils look like something's glowing?!" Since I can't even do it very well on the computer...

I think it worked out okay. Some of those pattern markings are definitely getting sketched out to be used later, since they're actually fleshed out "Warrior Marks" from one of my special-game-world-race-of-doom (which gets exterminated so completely at the beginning of the game that they never existed at all. Ever. Except in the memories of a select few and as the heritage of one strange, impossible half-breed. I love events that destroy the continuity of time itself.) In any case...

Yeah - and blue flames are an obsession of mine. Because blue is such a sexy color for fire to be. So cold, so un-fire-like... until you touch it, and then you can't tell if it's cold beyond freezing, or hotter than the hottest hell, cause it just hurts.

No, I'm not crazy... >.> ... <.< .... .... I swear

PinkDragon · Post by **PinkDragon** » Wed May 30, 2007 5:22 pm

oh cool. so is anything tablet draw on here and how did you get yourself use to your tablet? i can write my name and words thats about it

Post by **StarFyre** » Wed May 30, 2007 6:06 pm

One of the only fully tablet drawn images that I have is this one: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/ ... el/war.jpg (because huge (10-12 feet tall) armored velociraptor style mounts is what every good Knight needs!)

A midway point is this image: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/ ... /wing2.jpg where the dragoness was hand sketched then scanned in, colors added, then the outline removed (note that the only thing defining her is the shading I put in place, which I'll admit isn't the best - this was my first attempt at doing something in this style) and the background and wisp-wings added in with the tablet.

But there are small examples of me drawing things with my tablet scattered throughout the nexus - one of the more recent examples is DNS's December Exchange dragon that I gave her: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v478/ ... change.png -- the swirl patterns are drawn with the tablet, as are any bit of jewerly or the cloth wraps on the dragon's legs. Also, any new image that you see me create is outlined by use of my tablet, then the original paper drawing discarded from the finished image, as opposed to images like the Alevaharin, where the original sketch is still there.

As for using my tablet, I learned how to do so through sheer stubbornness and pride - I asked for one for Christmas, my dad got me the biggest Wacom tablet, and there was no way I was going to sit back and let that toy lay around. What I found that helped was to set aside small chunks of time - just enough for me to practice, not enough for me to get unduly frustrated, until the time that I could practice started getting long enough for me to outline and color entire images in a day. I think my real breakthrough was when I did the dragoness image, because that proved to me that - while yes, I really don't do backgrounds well at all ever, I can do a background better with the tablet than I can by hand.

JKatkina · Post by **JKatkina** » Thu May 31, 2007 10:23 am

T__T The dragon I'm doing is going to be late. I'm sorry! I just didn't get started in time. <.>

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Thu May 31, 2007 11:50 am

No worries! *hugs*

PinkDragon · Post by **PinkDragon** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 12:44 pm

ok thanks

Post by **Dray** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 3:30 pm

Me too. >.> It's got just about everything right now, but the fire, glowies and shading in general are vexing me a lot. I can't figure out how it all works! D:

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Fri Jun 01, 2007 9:08 pm

No biggie. ^^ Still an hour left!

Post by **Dray** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 8:57 am

JKatkina!

Sorry for the delay, I was having trouble figuring out the shading (and it's still off! D'oh! XD)

I hope you like it -- I know you love fire, so I turned the glowies into firey bits, and gave it a red-hot-coal belly! Um... might wanna be careful if you plan on breeding it. I have a feeling that that'd be an uncomfortable experience. XD

(PS: Put it on a dark background for best effect. ^^;)

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 9:32 am

Oh my god it's full of <strike>stars</strike> win.

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 1:38 pm

^^ Sweet!

(Psst: I'm nice.

You're off the hook.)

Post by **Dray** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:00 pm

XD Heh, the other one is full anyhoo! Thanks, though! :D

>.> Phe, would you like a sibling of that one for your birthday? I'd be willing to put one more out into the world, though it will be similarly coloured...

Xenoqueen · Post by **Xenoqueen** » Sat Jun 02, 2007 4:12 pm

::squeaks!:: That would be awesome. @_@

Kitsuneko · Post by **Kitsuneko** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 10:49 am

WTF dragon #1--paged. ^^
http://www.geocities.com/darklingdawnpe ... weela.html

Fuzzy · Post by **Fuzzy** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 11:22 am

Ugh. Sorry guys. I've been swamped at work, so I'm up to my ears in overdue art, the WTF dragon included. >_<;;; I'm working on it..

Silver Midnight · Post by **Silver Midnight** » Sun Sep 02, 2007 6:04 pm

I think we all spaced on this, fuzzface.

Reminds me that I need some new art pens.