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**cosyfiep** · Dec 08, 2011, 10:55 PM // 22:55

ah....others who should have been art instuctors (like my training)....use ANYTHING you can find that works----you would be AMAZED at the stuff in your kitchen that works soooo good for crafting/art type projects (and I have borrowed a few things when I was teaching

)...and then a trip to the dollar store, or (my fav) the hardware store!

the work is going so well ....makes me want to get some of my old stuff out and make something!

Odinius · Dec 08, 2011, 10:59 PM // 22:59

Hi everyone,

I decided it was time to crawl out from onder the stone called Skyrim.
I made some crazy hours in there and have slept for only a few hours each night for the last two weeks and looking in the mirror makes me think I have contacted "Sanguinare Vampiris".
Although I saw this thread a week back, I haven't read anything yet and are totally clueless of who are participating (I'll get to that though).
So without any further ado:

☆Hey, Thistle! I want to participate in the workshop!☆
Name: Odinius
Idea for entry: Sleighrace DvsG
Art form type: Polymer Clay Sculpture(s)
Progress Gallery Link: http://s63.photobucket.com/albums/h1...rkshop%202011/
^this was my 2010 idea but didn't make it last year

Sasultra · Dec 08, 2011, 11:36 PM // 23:36

@cosy- I agree dollar stores are the best I got all my materials at dollarama

@GeminiJuSa- NP

obastable · Dec 09, 2011, 12:05 AM // 00:05

Ok, so I actually started working on my entry the other night, after a nice chat with Thistle inspired me to get off my butt and get going.

I must say, I haven't tried to draw anything other than stick people in about 8 years, and drawing in Photoshop with a mouse is a slow process (I really miss the hubby's old tablet).

Nonetheless! I have made progress, and said progress is currently uploading to Flikr. When I get back later I'll actually link it up & explain WTF I'm trying to do. Hahahah!

Thistle Xandra · Dec 09, 2011, 12:41 AM // 00:41

Quote:

Originally Posted by Find_&_Seek

Ello Folks, I'm not sure if this is the right thing to be doing but I'd like to enter this to one of the competitions sections xD PS am not the best at photo-shopping.

Sooo yeh...

Hey, Thistle, I'd like to participate in the workshop also
Name: Find & Seek or Lyndz
Entry: Wintersday card
Type: photo shopped image
Link: http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/c...masGWscard.png

Looks right! Only thing is that you linked one shot for where your progress gallery would go

I've linked that one now, but let me know if/when you change it

KiyaKoreena · Dec 09, 2011, 04:10 AM // 04:10

Todays progress:

Plan for tomorrow is more definition of muscles, adding fur, texturizing, and hat.

Starfleck · Dec 09, 2011, 05:11 AM // 05:11

ZOMG real-life-prizes!! Sad to admit I've slacked off this week, largely due to my sudden overwhelming urge to play Mechcommander 2 due to RTS withdrawal over the past few years of GW-addiction. Nevertheless I'm committing myself for the moment to cartoon-izing Togo's face at an appropriate size in what's left of my space. I'll probably scrap it later for a slightly smaller gwen-head and better proportions. For the time being that super-huge-head/eyes -feeling is the ultimate goal, and I've found that one sometimes has to overdo it in order to bring it back down to the right size.

@Thanatos: Excellent step. It's definitely coming to look much more realistic now (even though "realistic" doesn't quite apply to the comical exaggerated Gaki's face

). I still wonder, though, if both the scene through the window and the things in stockings should be out of focus more, or if it's possible to bring the treelights, brick and woodwork, and wall sconce closer to the stockings' level of focus? I don't know digital art very well but from a freehand-artist's perspective they still don't seem 100% believable.

@Marshmallow: I'm secretly jealous of your superior ability at cuteness

...no but seriously, you've got a supreme talent for the chibi stuff peeking at your other gallery pieces. Looking forward to seeing what you come up with, definitely. Those baby gods themselves will probably melt.

@Valdis: Haven't seen progress in your gallery yet, actually, but I'm looking forward to it since of course it's the patron god of my main necro character.

@Draken: Secretly jealous of ambidexterity >.< . Cool fur detail, keep up the great work.

@Morag: Don't reveal another update for the moment, yet. Seriously. You've got a great thing going and as soon as we see that Tiffany-style coloring you're gonna blow our minds. Take your time and do the face justice and I think the whole thing will just fall into place after that. Softness softness softness. . .

@Koreena: I'm wigging out at the rapid progress

. That thing is going to look as beautiful as it is ugly, no doubt.

I'm starting to think it's even uglier than it is beautiful, but I am impressed

@SasUltra: I actually did think that the artistically-colored frames were pretty interesting as a separate entity from the photos you took. I do no, however, think it's a good idea to frame all together several shots from roughly the same angle with slightly different coloring or special effects. Here's my thoughts on how you could progress from here (yes, there is progression possible): this to me looks like a great opportunity to do like a little mock comic book page complete with dialogue and narration. Throw in a snowball-explosion here or there and you can do some seriously cool things with cropping close-ups, photoshop coloring, show off some creative writing, and still be able to use a (nearly) undoctored photo as the base of at least one frame. Totally believable as a drawing in my honest opinion. Anyways, that's what my mind settled on when I took another closer look at the old photoshopped frames.

obastable · Dec 09, 2011, 05:13 AM // 05:13

Progress gallery link: http://flic.kr/s/aHsjxfkpGk

There's 4 pics up there, which I think I renamed in the wrong order, but whatever. I've barely been home the past 36 hours, have more antibiotics in me than any person would want, and I have had 4 hours of crap sleep with an IV stuck in my hand.

So I started with a white blob vaguely in the shape of a cat and have erased/blended/smudged/blurred/etc/etc/etc nearly 30 different shades of white, blue, pink, and gray to create the image thus far.

I've said it before & I'll say it again. I cannot draw. HOWEVER, I was pro at coloring when I was a kid. You know that kid in your class that you envied in grade 2 because their pictures were always so awesomely colored?? Yeah, that was me.

It's a long process to "draw" something via layers of shading but it usually comes out pretty darned cool.

Earlier this eve, and not posted yet, I fine tuned the ears a bit (3 more layers), added some color to the eyes (4 layers), added the nose (4 more layers) & worked on something else ... (5 layers so far). Photoshop is on the hubby's computer & he's home/awake so I can't tinker and/or take a screenie to post up this evenings progress yet.

Still to do: FUR!, background, foreground, the something else, and check out everyone elses WIP (I feel like such a poop head for not having done that yet).

Tee Wrex · Dec 09, 2011, 05:37 AM // 05:37

Love the Grentch - I often used tinfoil shaped by hand to make textures I need. Or, I will use needles, toothpicks, and other things for detail work. Also, of course, clear nail polish for eyes and glossy bits! =D

Tee Wrex · Dec 09, 2011, 05:39 AM // 05:39

Obastable - OMG KITTEH! ITS SOO FUZZEH!! Nice work! Looking forward to watching this one progress!!!!! (Note to self - combine posts next time!)

Minami · Dec 09, 2011, 07:23 AM // 07:23

Off topic:

Hey everyone!

We're back home, and I am happy to say that our trip was a huge success ^_^
We went to perform at The Fillmore in San Francisco with Metallica for one of their 30th Anniversary shows.
It was absolutely awesome, we had a lot of fun!

http://www.roadrunnerrecords.com/bla...sitemID=167005

/off topic

Maybe soon I will get back to my entry

Sasultra · Dec 09, 2011, 08:32 AM // 08:32

@Starfleck

I never thought of that to be honest and it`s a great idea and I like to experiment with it my only issue is I don`t have photoshop or any good editing programs. I have been using paintshop-photobucked for editing

.

Do you have any advise where I can get free good editing program. and Thank you for your feedback

Aeronwen · Dec 09, 2011, 08:41 AM // 08:41

WB Odinious. Looking forward to seeing your piece. I already hate Skyrim, it is like invasion of the body snatchers, everyone has disappeared!

Kiya, he is coming along nicely. I am looking forward to seeing the hat.

Obstable, I hope you get better soon, sounds awful.

Minami, Great news that King was back on stage. He is looking good in the pics. Is there any vid of his performance?

Morag D · Dec 09, 2011, 09:34 AM // 09:34

Quote:

Originally Posted by Sasultra

Do you have any advise where I can get free good editing program. and Thank you for your feedback

Gimp. It's totally free, comes with most of the features Photoshop has (well, within limits, but still good freeware) and there are lots of tutorials on their website

@ Find&Seek: olol that Grawl santa is totally awesome XD brought me right back to the the good old days!

@ Kiya: nice progress - how big is he?

@ Odinius: awesome sketch

/thumbsup for sleigh race

@ Minami: nice to hear your fella is well! yayay Metallica!

@ obastable: that cat looks really nice! I think it's great that it's all fluffy and fuzzy and hugable! I think you can be quite vague with the detailing of the fur, as long as you define the eyes, nose, mouth and ears quite well - that's where your focus is. good going!

Iceblue · Dec 09, 2011, 10:40 AM // 10:40

Not sure if I should edit my original entry or not, but figured it might get lost in the shuffel of things.

My gallery is here... so far i've only collected things for inspiration. I hope to start drawing this week.

http://iceblueguildwars.deviantart.com/gallery/

Minami · Dec 09, 2011, 06:23 PM // 18:23

@Aeronwen: Thanks ^_^ Yes, here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4pHCDgBjcng

@Morag: ^_^ Thanks

ShadowsRequiem · Dec 09, 2011, 07:21 PM // 19:21

hnmmm maybe I'll draw something... XD

BadDrizztfan · Dec 09, 2011, 08:07 PM // 20:07

Hi everyone!
Like I said in my first post, I scribbled around a little to get some ideas... well, here's what I ended up with:

I would like to know which one you prefer... right now I like the first one more, but that's mostly because the sketch simply looks better. I think if I fix up some things the second image can look positively EPIC!

@Koreena:
Nice work so far! I'm digging those ears, they are so smooth! Makes me want to touch them (doesn't matter that the little rascal would prob try to chomp my finger off :P) I'm wondering though, is the material you are using somewhat flexible? If so, you should adjust the pose a little, because right now he looks as if he's sitting on an invisible chair! Or of course you could sit him down on a huge present or some stupid adventurer's corpse (whatever the little guy prefers

) instead of trying to change the posture... unless that has been your plan all along?
Cheers

E:
@Thistle:
http://www.guildwarsguru.com/forum/s...&postcount=303

Link to my gallery

Penguin oO · Dec 09, 2011, 09:10 PM // 21:10

cool prizes but the only one i want is the reindeer. I wont be entering this year cuss i think that there is no chance of me wining it QQ. Competition seems fears. i shall save my big guns for gw2

btw did Anet graved u guys 3 codes of reindeer's or just tonics. OMG i cant imagine that tonic in Pre ... drools

obastable · Dec 09, 2011, 09:30 PM // 21:30

Mkay! I stole the hubby's computer for a bit this morning/afternoon and got a screenie of yesterdays work:

Also got to DO some work. Started adding some furry texture:

Next: Finish fur, start background & foreground.