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**AndrewLey** · September 17th, 2005, 07:14 PM

cool stuff ink

**I.was.ink** · September 18th, 2005, 05:33 PM

Jesse: Hey Jesse! I'll put up some more artwork either today or tomorrow. Good thing you're going to take action! GO AND PAINT!

Art_Addict, Andrew: Thx fellas, I'll post some more stuff soon.

until next time!
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**van** · September 19th, 2005, 12:00 AM

Ink! Awesome stuff, man!

**Azrael** · September 19th, 2005, 12:40 AM

F-ing excellent work here INK. Can't really crit much myself. You paintings are fantastico.

**I.was.ink** · October 11th, 2005, 02:58 AM

Thanks van and Azrael

Allright, I need your guys' opinion on a little issue I've got here.

I'm trying a new approach with this illustration. I first drew the whole thing with ink on different sheets of tracing paper so if I messed up it'd be no big deal and I could just redo any part of it. I wanted the little insecurities and hiccups of working with ink to show up. So that's why I didn't go with doin the inkwork digitally.

Next, I took it into PS and I wanted to get my idea across with flat and simple shapes. I want to focus on design and not so much on rendering for a while.
Anyways, here's the result and this is where I need any input you guys have.

Should I keep the blue stars, the red stars, or no stars? The stars symbolize the little house getting knocked out, or knocked around in the river, and this mans curiosity brings him to the house.

If the star idea doesn't work, or make any sense, and it just looks better without them. Which border looks better...black or white?

Any other comments or crits are welcome.
Thx everyone!

Yaargh

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**Mike Frank** · October 11th, 2005, 03:11 AM

Damn man lots of great work in here.. the studies from the 5th element are really sweet. About the latest illustration.. I'm not sure if the stars are really reading.. wasnt sure what they were all about until scrolling back up and reading your post. They do catch your attention though. For the border, personally I'd go with black.. it seems to draw less attention and bring our focus more into the frame.

**shyamshriram** · October 11th, 2005, 03:41 AM

Yep ! u are INK ! great stuff man...

Love those monkeys...keep posting !

**endregan** · October 11th, 2005, 08:10 AM

go w ith the last. black border works the best

i like the vector mixed with traditional work.

good stuff

**Lake** · October 11th, 2005, 01:22 PM

black border. red stars.

**mr. Point** · October 11th, 2005, 01:40 PM

these pics are mighty tight. very inspiring. gotta draw. for a week. without any daylight. gotta get better.
keep up the good work bro!

**I.was.ink** · October 11th, 2005, 03:28 PM

-So Ive got one vote for the blackborder (stars confusing but atract attention).

-Another vote for just the black border

-And lastly for a vote on the blackborder, With the red stars.

Well, I've figured out that I'll keep the black border but I'm still not sure about the stars. Any more votes out there?

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**gibsini** · October 11th, 2005, 06:02 PM

lovin your style great thread....... KEEP IT COMIN

**I.was.ink** · October 11th, 2005, 10:49 PM

Thanks gibsini.

any other votes? Should I keep the red stars or not?
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**endregan** · October 11th, 2005, 10:54 PM

i dont really see the point of the stars. personal opinion.

I mean if u didnt tell me what the stars symbolized I wouldnt have known!

Maybe if the house was tilted or upside down it would read better, even without the stars that it was tossed.

Over all i dont feel it would reinforce it, but in the end the piece overall is strong.

hope that helped a bitt!

**I.was.ink** · October 11th, 2005, 11:29 PM

It did help Endregan, cuz I had the same thoughts about the stars.
But I thought that design wise they're nice too look at, but that doesn't necessarily make it a better piece. Thx for your input.

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**arghmisfit** · October 12th, 2005, 12:37 AM

hey man this is really cool. i like the dots used to grey out bg

id say black with red stars

**runelore** · October 12th, 2005, 12:57 AM

solid thread man. i really enjoy your imagination

**ChrisMayernik** · October 12th, 2005, 01:48 AM

I like the white border because its more of a fun feeling while the black border is dark and mysterious. Great work.

**tensai** · October 20th, 2005, 11:12 PM

Originally Posted by I.was.ink

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For now, I have a small update of a drawing I did today from the model in my pen&ink class.
18"x24" About 3.5 hrs.
oldcameradude.jpg
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!! im extremely jealous about the pen & ink class. wish i could take one. what do they teach you there - i mean beyond the obvious? any good tips/materials/books you could share?

all in all a nice book you got going here man. really liked the pen monkeys as well.

keep posting.

edit:

for the piece above, have you tried to replace the stars with the flies but keeping the ellipses? you get to have the flies in the piece while at the same time have that movement around the little house going...
not sure if that would work but perhaps you should give it a quick try...

**Interceptor** · January 8th, 2006, 03:28 PM

Geeze, man. You are an absolute animal. This is one of my favorite sketchbooks now. Keep up the great work! (ps.) wanna trade for a monkey drawing? heheh

**I.was.ink** · January 27th, 2006, 04:01 AM

Finally, my painting skills are starting to pay off. I've been painting with acrylics alot lately, and it's been working really well.
So today I decided to give digital painting a shot. I had never understood how to get subtlety like I did with traditional media until today....

and lemme tell you guys....

IT'S A FAN FREAKIN TASTIC FEELING!!!!

pld:

Anyways, I painted from movie stills of The 5th Element.
They range from 45 min. to an hour.

cops

mangalores (I think that's what they're called)

homeboy asian

the hero (for this one I just wanted to concentrate on my shape design)

the 5th element herself

Thx for stopping by.

I'll try and keep this bad boy updated more regularly

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**Darktwin** · January 27th, 2006, 05:21 AM

OH man these digi paintings are awesome. I saw that they were 5th element before reading your post. my favorite one would have to be...damn thats hard, I'd have to say the first one and the last one.

**Burning Eyes** · January 27th, 2006, 05:35 AM

these are rediculously amazing pieces of art from an awesome movie, KICK ASS man

**I.was.ink** · January 27th, 2006, 01:17 PM

thx guys.
Does anyone know why the title hasn't changed?
I went back to the first page and changed it,but it won't update it...weird...
If anyone knows how to fix this please let me know. thx
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**glikster** · January 27th, 2006, 01:37 PM

I replied already but it got eaten up....

Those digi-paintings rock!

I was honestly not expecting them after the more stylized pics just before.

Also, there are some "issues" (read with snooty British accent) with the forum as they are updating. There's a thread in the lounge devoted to it, but one of the things I saw was that you can't change the title of your thread.

**vigostar** · January 27th, 2006, 02:31 PM

Man.. i really need to visit this sketchbook more often.. you have some really amazing works here... super inspiring... I hope you post more often... thanks for the inspiration

**Calle_** · January 27th, 2006, 02:51 PM

ahoy! looking bigger than ever man!
peace

**cotron** · January 27th, 2006, 02:54 PM

nice

**I.was.ink** · January 27th, 2006, 03:41 PM

glikster: Thanks. The digi paintings look different because I'm just doing them to practice.
I don't consider them as finished pieces so I don't care what style they're in.
I'm doing them to help me in my personal illustration work where I'm combining painting and drawing in one.
I'll show you guys in a couple of weeks once I've finished my projects.

vigo,calle,cotron: Gracias muchachos!

Here's a paintover I did for mainloop.
You guys should go check out his drawings. They rock!

Mainloop's oil wip:

My paint over

cya
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**maxetormer** · February 6th, 2006, 09:47 PM

JA! the movie stills are freaking good man!!!!!, you scultped the shapes
really well, now keep the updates UP or ill got to kick you in the ass,
man do I got inspired by seeing this last posts of yours!! KEEP IT UP!