Curse

Morag D · Aug 25, 2011, 09:02 AM // 09:02

I is stalking ur FLICKRRRRRR *mwahahahaaa*

Aeronwen · Aug 25, 2011, 09:14 AM // 09:14

DBAA sorry to hear about your sad summer. I love those sketches, particularly the ostrich.

Death By An Arrow · Aug 25, 2011, 01:50 PM // 13:50

@Morag Thank you

Maybe I'll have to update it more now o__o

@Aero Thank you for the kind words

Hopefully it all starts getting better once school starts.

I started reading some books with tips on drawing animals which go through similarities in anatomy, so the ostrich and giraffe are my "before" sample

I need to add one more photo to that flickr, i put one more in on a whim before printing and very glad I did :3

Shy Guy · Aug 26, 2011, 01:09 AM // 01:09

That photography is simply amazing o_O Awesome stuff man

Do you exclusively use the t2i with the lense it came with? o:

Death By An Arrow · Aug 26, 2011, 03:26 AM // 03:26

Thank you for the compliment Shy Guy

I appreciate it ^^

I've only had my camera since March, so I've only had the opportunity to use the lens it came with (standard 18-55mm, with IS i believe) and a seperate zoom lens I got for my birthday(Canon EFS 55-250mm f/4-5.6 IS). I didn't get the zoom lens until the end of may or so, so some examples of the standard kit lens would be the Bearded Dragon, Moon Jelly, and Pink/White flower in that Flickr set.

I can only speak for animals/plants myself, but the 18-55 is pretty good for smaller things you can get close to, like lizards in terrariums. The zoom lens (which rarely leaves my camera now O

has provided all the other pictures in those sets; its very helpful for getting that upclose feel from a distance. On Tuesday I actually realized that I can actually use my zoom lens to take pictures of animals in terrariums (which i thought i wasn't able to) and managed to snap the Emerald Tree Boa picture there on flickr. You can compare it to this exact same Boa, taken with my 55mm lens.

Sorry for that longwinded response, hope that was helpful for you

Thanks again for the kind words; positive motivation is always helpful for a budding hobbyist

Death By An Arrow · Sep 01, 2011, 05:42 AM // 05:42

Alright; so it is september 1st. You know what that means?
Halloween is coming!

Does anyone know what is happening with the workshop this year? The properties of my sketch from last year says it started at the beginning of october, just curious to see if thats the idea for this year

Hoping to really go above and push myself this year, got some neat ideas in store :3

Verene · Sep 01, 2011, 04:52 PM // 16:52

I honestly have no idea what's going on with the workshop this year but if we're going to do it we need to get started ASAP. Problem is I haven't seen Tzu, Minami, or Perynne around in ages

I'll gladly take over running it for this year, if none of them pop on to do so in the next week or so, though.

Death By An Arrow · Sep 02, 2011, 01:58 PM // 13:58

Hmm... Have you tried PMing any of them? I know Minami stopped by sometime this summer when we were hosting the workshop, don't know just how busy she would be though. Tzu is also more active over at GW2G I believe, though i dont frequent there much myself lately. Don't know where Pery is though

Hopefully something happens soon

I would offer to help myself, however I know I won't be of any assisstance for the first week or so, when its all starting up. :/

Verene · Sep 02, 2011, 10:41 PM // 22:41

I'll shoot them each a PM and see what's up.

Aeronwen · Sep 03, 2011, 07:55 AM // 07:55

Quote:

Originally Posted by Verene

I honestly have no idea what's going on with the workshop this year but if we're going to do it we need to get started ASAP. Problem is I haven't seen Tzu, Minami, or Perynne around in ages

I'll gladly take over running it for this year, if none of them pop on to do so in the next week or so, though.

Good for you Varene, Its quite a commitment.

I will start looking to see if I have anything for prizes.

Last I heard Tzu was incredible busy irl, she said last year she wouldn't be running it any more and sent all her stuff to Minami.

Death By An Arrow · Sep 06, 2011, 10:28 PM // 22:28

So I know I keep flooding this thread with my photography instead of my drawings, but that will all change I assure you.

In the meantime, there are no words to describe today. So here is a picture, cause those are 1000 words each. School starts again? Think I might have forgotten all about that thanks to the trip to the zoo today.

Morag D · Sep 07, 2011, 09:23 AM // 09:23

oh my. that just says it all. I totally agree XD
AND I WANNA CUDDLE THAT (red) PANDAAAA :3 They are like the cutest things EVAR

Verene · Sep 07, 2011, 01:09 PM // 13:09

Ahhhh that is so cute <3

Death By An Arrow · Sep 08, 2011, 03:37 AM // 03:37

I don't know what it is, but they're just the most awesome things to observe in person. Though, I'm clearly biased on that o____o

Death By An Arrow · Oct 01, 2011, 02:10 AM // 02:10

I wanted to wait until I had a few hours in a row before I started painting my halloween piece soooooo more photos. Not a busy day at work today, and I had my camera with me... It was extremely overcast and about 6:00-6:30pm at night (getting dark around 7:30 now), but I like em.

Tomorrow I should have some form of update on my halloween piece, so check the workshop for it

Edit: If I get more non-busy days this week while im working, I'll try and get a picture of the falcon aswell. It comes by everyday and takes some fish from the ponds, and I always see it flying over head. Unlikely I'll get it, but one can hope

Death By An Arrow · Oct 13, 2011, 08:41 PM // 20:41

Right-o, so for those of you not following the workshop (is that even anyone? :S)

Here is my submission

First acrylic painting, like how it turned out. About 21x34in in size, painted on cardboard binder inserts. HERES HOPING FOR A MAD KING GUARD!

Everyone participating in the workshop; good luck with your entries! Deffinatly going to be some allstars this year.

And some more photography (going to update my front pictures and shtuff) because... well, red pandas are just so friggin awesome. Thats why.

As always, everything is on my deviantart

Death By An Arrow · Oct 20, 2011, 03:15 AM // 03:15

Another shhhtop by. Didn't have a ton of homework (for once), so I drew an old man fading into a sand dune. Or atleast, it was.

Close enough. With a little more work It might actually look good enough to paint over digitally... :S we'll see. I didn't draw a face because the one I had looked bad. Very very bad. It made it all less epic. So no face here.

Death By An Arrow · Oct 25, 2011, 12:31 AM // 00:31

So i found a website called pixelovely, which rotates photos at different time intervals. Ive done a few days of doing 30 mins each day, and so far I think this could be pretty helpful. Lot of work needed to get the 30 second sketches in though >.>

anyone know other resources like this? I ask because I've already hit a few repeats, after such a short amount of time. A lot of the stock may be recognized as well; its MJRanum from deviantArt.

satomz · Oct 25, 2011, 04:05 AM // 04:05

I used to go to posemaniacs.com/ a while back every day. Some parts are not translated, but most of the contents are available in English.

That aside, your red panda photos are quite dangerous. I almost died of cuteness.

Death By An Arrow · Dec 11, 2011, 10:08 PM // 22:08

Woah. October 24th? Has it really been that long :|
Actually, that makes sense. Thats two days before the worst unit of chemistry started.

Anyways, SO. I keep speaking of these other projects in the wintersday thread so, here they are:

1) MY cat died last friday. It was incredibly sad, and it sucks big time. Moonshine was 13, and we've had him since I was... 4. So, I literally can't think of a time where this cat wasn't in my life. Animals (as you may be able to tell from... all the photos...) are kind of important to me, so this was excessively more difficult to overcome. So i took time off school for a little bit (i was non-functional for a few days and needed to catch up on school work) so I decided that I was going to make a painting of him. It's the least I can do for all that he did for me. So I'm using this picture:

And this is where my sketch is so far:

Edit: THOUGHT I SHOULD MENTION! Those lines are simply where his fur changes value, thats why there are so many. theyre a guideline for when I paint.

I feel like there are some minor discrepencies that need to be solved before I start painting; I'd really like to make this is accurate as I can. The biggest one I can think of right now is - is the shape of the face too round/tall, and not ovular/wide enough? Its one of those things that I can't tell if its because I'm so used to his face that I just 'notice' something is off, or what it is. But something is off somewhere.

2) My brothers Christmas gift, which will be much easier to complete. He wants me to paint the back of his lab coat with an Aperature Science logo, and the combustable lemons from Portal 2. He's going to give me an image of exactly what he wants, and then I'm going to stencil it in with fabric paint. Should only take a few hours of a saturday or something, so I'm not too worried.

3) Wintersday workshop! How I'd really like to join in. My painting of Moonshine takes precidence over the workshop as I'd rather not enter the workshop and make a bad painting than finish both, mediocre paintings. Just wouldnt be right.
Thinking something involving the big wintersday tree.