Quote (osguliath @ Jan 13 2013 06:52am)
http://i.imgur.com/zOY5m.jpg
yup, no tracing no color picking.
i know lot of artist personally which works like this, and their tracing work is great but when it comes to paint anything without photo reference they can't produce nothing near that quality. thats why its not impressing me much, becouse its not hard (in my opinion ofc)
no hate really,i'm just tryin to help push this guy on the proper track
peace
Quote (osguliath @ Jan 13 2013 07:06am)
eh.
look at the folds on clothes or even exact number and exact spacing on buttons on the console behind. Even if you grid your work you dont bother with details that doesnt really make a diffrence so the background parts or the organic parts like fold etc or even the shape of the hair or stuff thats holding the monitor are EXACT.
if you'd bother to check the colours u would see they are colorpicked aswell.
peace
There's no tracing nor color picking involved. I work on dual monitors. (Of the same model and identical settings) I have the reference open on one screen, and Photoshop open on the other, with the addition of grid lines.
I feel like I’m wasting my time even defending myself. I’ve posted my work here for a while. Other users, specifically TheShattered (Who I chat with outside of d2jsp.) has seen the progression of many of my pieces, in varying progression, before I’ve posted the finished product. My works in progress consist of roughed-in brushing, which I then use the guidance of grid lines to get the subtle details in place.
This raises a question of my own. How is tracing over something even possible? From my perspective, it seems that you’ll lose what’s underneath after you start brushing. How can you even know if you’ve got it right when your own image now replaces it? You’ll probably say paint it with low opacity, but that would seem to only make an ambiguous mess.
Furthermore, I’m aware of the hindrance that grid lines can induce, but they work for what I’m trying to achieve. I’m not reliant on them in every form of my work; only when trying to accurately recreate an image that I love.
Also this:
Quote (humari @ Jan 13 2013 09:07am)
So maybe the "point" of him doing these is just to have fun, I'm sure he has sketchbook stuff from imagination/life that he's just not showing us (though we would all love to see it)
Here's an example of my progression. I've used this specific piece because I had enough files to demonstrate. (I normally 'Save As' a lot.)
This post was edited by Cybernetic on Jan 13 2013 06:07pm