artistic exploration

[CRO]

I'm interested in street art and expressionism, and animation.

anything that you could suggest would be extremely helpful.

[mike butkus]

Interesting, I like it.

[CRO]

ive always wanted to paint landscapes, or really just anything, but painting and rendering pretty much has me scared off it.

however pixels is one of the things i can comfortably experiment with, and hopefully i can transpose what i learn with them to anti-aliased brushes and painting works eventually.

[Ambiguity]

I like that first piece a lot, really kewl style.

On the subject of getting into landscapes, maybe these will interest you:
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/the-tiny-study/
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/imaginary-l...pe-thumbnails/
It's kind of the same idea as your pixel art, so maybe you'll be more comfortable with it.

[CRO]

I like that first piece a lot, really kewl style.

On the subject of getting into landscapes, maybe these will interest you:
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/the-tiny-study/
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/imaginary-l...pe-thumbnails/
It's kind of the same idea as your pixel art, so maybe you'll be more comfortable with it.

ooh! that's a wonderful video. i'm afraid detailing is really where my mind gets blown, but these at least are helping me get my forms right first, i suppose that's how i'm supposed to do things! i tried a small but non-pixel landscape, not sure how i feel about it.

ah, well. practice!

[CRO]

@ambiguity

amazing little tutorials there, i think i have seen things from ctrl+paint before, very excellent teacher c:

tried to apply some of what he was saying about a photo reference, with a brush tool instead of a pixel tool:



then did some more pixel detailing to prove to myself that i'm not utterly hopeless and can indeed spend time on something without ruining it:

[CRO]

watching that video was certainly very useful! i ventured out a little to try something less pixellated...


and some more light studies, and texture studies...

[Ambiguity]

@ambiguity

amazing little tutorials there, i think i have seen things from ctrl+paint before, very excellent teacher c:

tried to apply some of what he was saying about a photo reference, with a brush tool instead of a pixel tool:

I agree, he is a good teacher. Not to bad on your study either, I'd say get some nice color variation like your pixel thumbnails and you'd be cooking with gas .

[CRO]

how can i get sharper, more defined textures? bluhh.

[Zenwulf]

Mmm, I love the first canid-styled one.


your use of color is soothing ah

[Zenwulf]

maybe start by drawing bigger... by zooming out to like 50%
then when you zoom in 100% you can add all the tiny details and it makes it sharper?
idk, I'm only an amateur.

how can i get sharper, more defined textures? bluhh.

[Ambiguity]

Paint them in? Not really sure what you mean, but a lot of concept artists get their texture either from photo overlays or custom brushes they make(you can also download some sometimes).

There is a few videos on texture at Ctrl+Paint:
http://www.ctrlpaint.com/?s=texture

[CRO]

portal 2 mech studies.



tachikoma - ghost in the shell, mech studies.



some backgrounds and still life painting practice, as well as a painted sphere.