The Share Your Art Thread!

[Big Bad Boo]

(This may be in the wrong area..)

Do any Baut Forumers draw, photoshop, or is even a photographer? Do you have pictures you are especially proud of and want to share? I've made a special forum just for people like you (and me)!

The photos and drawings in this thread are property of the Artist and may not be used or replicated without the Artists permission.




Ok, this one has taken me about three days to draw. It's actually pretty good for a portrait type drawing, since I'm mainly into cartoons and anime.

http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/boovsneverfly/0604080116.jpg


It's based off this (http://i289.photobucket.com/albums/ll218/boovsneverfly/0527081435a.jpg) image of my and my boyfriend. I added some to the bottom and cut some off of the side (Mainly because when I finished his head I realized I was too high up and too far right. LOL)

I also darkened his glasses and my hair, and neglected to put in the shine from the window in the background, mainly because I suck and highlighting and shadowing.


Now I want to see some of your guy's work of art! Some of the stuff you're really proud of. If you already have a website or something, you can link it and mention some of your favorites!

(If anybody knows how to resize an image so that it'll fit the page, let me know, mkays? The one I have is way~ too big.)

[jokergirl]

Oh oh oh!

I have art!

http://auroracity.net/shadow/tina1%20copy.jpg

From an old comic of mine. I have galleries on http://spiegelscherben.deviantart.com (art) and http://mirrormirror.deviantart.com (Photography).

Right now I'm participating in Nanomango (http://nanomango.livejournal.com), a drive to draw 30 comic pages in 30 days. I don't have anything nice scanned yet, though...

;)


PS: For resizing and other edits, use photoshop or if you don't have that, irfanview is a nice free picture viewer and rudimental editor.

[Tog_]

There is also GIMP (http://www.gimp.org/), which is sort of a freeware, open source Photoshop.

[Big Bad Boo]

Just briefly checked out your website (I need to go to bed, and was getting ready to, but ssaw that you posted so I thought let's check it out.)

I absolutely adore your Star Kiss picture, which appeared on the front page (I'm not sure if it's randomized or not.)

What media do you use?

(And photoshop is being a butt so I'm going to try the other program first thing tomorrow. Thanks!)

[jokergirl]

Thanks!
I used photoshop for Star Kiss. I have a whole series that I should be changing into Adobe Illustrator vector format, but you know... no time or motivation.

The GIMP is also good for a photoshop knockoff. Personally I still prefer photoshop because it handles some things better in my opinion, but on the other hand GIMP doesn't cost a fortune.

;)

[Swift]

... and http://mirrormirror.deviantart.com (Photography).

jokergirl,
I took a quick look and I really like your work. Spice 2 is beautiful.

[Cougar]

I dabble a bit.... :)

http://www.xmission.com/~dcc/bam08.jpg

[Swift]

That's beautiful Cougar; I've always loved that style of Asian water colors.

[ravens_cry]

That's beautiful Cougar; I've always loved that style of Asian water colors.
I as well, I love how they suggest rather then say. I know that is cliche, but it is still true none the less.

[KaiYeves]

I do a little colored penciling and some collages. Mostly I work on paper that's too big to scan, though.

[Cougar]

Thanks, Swift & Raven. I appreciate your appreciation. :) I like lots of white space.... sort of like the distance between a nucleus and its electron.... or between stars.... Well, maybe not that much space....

[jokergirl]

I love inkpainting, Cougar. Care to share your techniques? What materials did you use for that picture?

;)

[Big Bad Boo]

I really love the colors in your painting, Cougar. Especially the blue. It strikes a happy chord in my mind.

[suntrack2]

I dabble a bit.... :)

http://www.xmission.com/~dcc/bam08.jpg


is it a water color painting !!, really very nice in shading, the image here is just looking like a "still-life" style painting, (but it is a live painting). :)

well painting,sketching are my hobbies.

[Frog march]

http://www.getpaint.net/index.html


this is a good free paintshop, loosely affiliated with microsoft.


etaIt started development as an undergraduate college senior design project mentored by Microsoft, and is currently being maintained by some of the alumni that originally worked on it. Originally intended as a free replacement for the Microsoft Paint software that comes with Windows, it has grown into a powerful yet simple image and photo editor tool. It has been compared to other digital photo editing software packages such as Adobe® Photoshop®, Corel® Paint Shop Pro®, Microsoft Photo Editor, and The GIMP.

[BigDon]

Boo child, that isn't your best work by a long shot, what gives?

Oh what a minute! Is this because your boyfriend is going to spend the summer with his father in Singapore? Awwwww. I'm still not used to you acting girly. (Unlike her sister or her mother)

[Larry Jacks]

Other than airplanes (an obscession of mine), I have very limited artistic talents. I work with Unified Modeling Language (UML) every day. In UML (http://www.holub.com/goodies/uml/), states are represented by rounded rectangles, processes are represented by elongated ovals, use cases are represented by ovals, and actors are represented by stick figures.

A few weeks ago, the six year old son of one of my colleges saw his mother studing a UML diagram. He said, "Mommy, I draw just like that!" True enough, he also uses stick figures to represent people. That's about the level of my artistic ability - that of a six year old. Hey, I could do worse. Much of what passes for modern art is (IMO) at a much lower level than that of a child.

[Delvo]

Other than airplanes (an obscession of mine)I was just thinking of a silly joke of posting a couple of images I made recently with airplanes in them, the joke being that they're not artistic at all. I did it to clarify and help me learn what was new stuff about the aircraft to me. I knew practically nothing about military aircraft until recently, when I started looking into the F-22 because of politics (John McCain was trying to get rid of it!), and that led to a whole bunch more information comparing the F-22 to other planes and them to each other. While I was learning about them, I kept seeing size comparisons, but, although the numbers were given, there were no images with these planes next to each other for comparison, so I decided to make my own based on the numbers and the separate individual images I could get (which has thankfully always included a drawing from exactly above or below).

Of course, my "real" artistic endeavors are photography and just a tiny bit of 3D CGI, but posting any of that wouldn't have been as goofy as posting a couple of images with only a monochrome background and a set of monochrome no-detail silhouettes. So here's a photograph (not at all typical of my photography) that makes people wonder what it's a photograph of...

[jokergirl]

Of course, my "real" artistic endeavors are photography and just a tiny bit of 3D CGI, but posting any of that wouldn't have been as goofy as posting a couple of images with only a monochrome background and a set of monochrome no-detail silhouettes. So here's a photograph (not at all typical of my photography) that makes people wonder what it's a photograph of...

Foam on your windscreen in a car wash? (Taken from the inside, as well.)

I love abstract photography, I have quite a few in my gallery (linked above). So it might be evil of me to play at guessing.

;)

[Swift]

I don't know if I would call this "art", but the link below is to my digital photographs from my recent trip to Italy.

picasaweb - Italy 2008 (http://picasaweb.google.com/jwfoise/Italy2008)
This my first use of Picasa and some people have told me that it can be kind of slow.

[BigDon]

Other than airplanes (an obscession of mine), I have very limited artistic talents. I work with Unified Modeling Language (UML) every day. In UML (http://www.holub.com/goodies/uml/), states are represented by rounded rectangles, processes are represented by elongated ovals, use cases are represented by ovals, and actors are represented by stick figures.

A few weeks ago, the six year old son of one of my colleges saw his mother studing a UML diagram. He said, "Mommy, I draw just like that!" True enough, he also uses stick figures to represent people. That's about the level of my artistic ability - that of a six year old. Hey, I could do worse. Much of what passes for modern art is (IMO) at a much lower level than that of a child.

My artististic talents tend towards story telling and aquaria. I set up some really breathtaking biotope tanks. (Tanks set up to represent specific ecological niches or rivers and lakes.)

Boo, Mr. Jacks is being humble. I swiped this from another thread about jobs.


At 18, I joined the Army National Guard to be a paratrooper. It was exciting.
I also went to school to learn how to be an electronics technician.
I switched to the Air Force a couple years later (for a variety of reasons) and worked on communications systems.
After 4 years of that, I got out of the military, completed a degree in Math, taught school for a year, then went back in the Air Force as an officer. In that capacity, I controlled satellites, was a space surveillance crew commander, and space surveillance program manager.
I got out again in 1992 and completed a second master's degree in Software Engineering. My first master's was in space systems management.
I programmed for MCI for a couple years and then was hired to work on developing ground support software for the MilStar satellite constellation. In a couple weeks, I'll celebrate my 13th anniversary with the company.
During that time, I've developed multimedia software to teach aircraft recognition to fighter pilots. I also developed some specialized ground analysis for the UFO satellite constellation and worked to help develop an expert system to examine operating system crash dump files.

Currently, I'm an enterprise architect performing business process and systems engineering for two projects. The first is developing space situational awareness operational architecture for Air Force Space Command. The other is developing system architecture for a Boeing project dealing with high speed communications (I'm in Seattle right now on a business trip).

The work is interesting and challenging. It helps our customers in many ways so the work is important. It also pays well and can't be outsourced to non-US citizens for security reasons. The job suits me very well.


Bold mine.

Boo, this sets the invasion date back at least 3 years until we can integrate this newly aquired "stealth" technology we got it off the internet into the fleet. (We never needed it before.)

Mr. Jacks, I think I see what your talent is. Doesn't translate well to pretty pictures but it's there. (And suddenly the book A Spell for Chameleon springs to mind)

[Cougar]

I love inkpainting, Cougar. Care to share your techniques? What materials did you use for that picture?

Chinese brush painting, but water color instead of ink. I watched Ning Yeh on TV a few times and was fascinated. Then when I lived in Japan for a year, I became an obsessed madman, with bamboo paintings covering the walls of our little apartment. Unfortunately, that's all I do -- bamboo, bamboo, bamboo...

The brush (http://www.orientalartsupply.com/products/brushes_combination.cfm) is special. You load the brush with one color, then add a different color to the tip of the brush to get that shading. (I retouched the shading on the one shown below, the composition of which I rather copied from a painting I saw in Tokyo somewhere. Retouching almost always ruins these type paintings....)

The paper is actually white; the kind of purple tinge is an artifact of trying to capture the painting with a digital camera.

And of course, I had to get my own stamp! "Chi En Basu," which is vaguely how the Japanese (mis)pronounced my last name. :rolleyes:

http://www.xmission.com/~dcc/bam20.jpg

[Cougar]

Then there's photography....

http://www.xmission.com/~dcc/jr0-21.jpg

[Big Bad Boo]

Boo child, that isn't your best work by a long shot, what gives?

Oh what a minute! Is this because your boyfriend is going to spend the summer with
his father in Singapore? Awwwww. I'm still not used to you acting girly. (Unlike her sister or her mother)


Well, you're used to me doing cartoonish stuff. Have you EVER seen me do a portrait? Nope.



And peoples, I'm loving the pictures and feedback. I really, really like the goldfish one. (A few would be awesome avatars too!)

Swift, I'm still loading the page after like three minut- oh wait, there it goes.

These are great! Is that a smart car somewhere in there?

What kind of camera do you guys use? (You guys being everyone who used a photo.)

[Swift]

Swift, I'm still loading the page after like three minut- oh wait, there it goes.

These are great! Is that a smart car somewhere in there?

What kind of camera do you guys use? (You guys being everyone who used a photo.)
Thanks

Yes to the Smart Car. It was painted to match the color scheme of the company that owned it, and was parked in front of their store, I though it was funny.

My camera is a Canon Powershot G1, which is close to 8 years old. I guess in "digital camera years" it must be about 100. ;) Still works fine for me, and is new compared to my film camera, a Canon AE-1P, that is about 25 years old. But I still lug it around on these trips because of the 75-300 mm telephoto I have for it. I took four rolls of film with it in Italy, but I'm not going to upload those. When those die I will move to a digital SLR.

[Delvo]

What kind of camera do you guys use? (You guys being everyone who used a photo.)Mine is a Fuji S9600 (http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/s/finepix_s9600/index.html).

The first guess on my "abstract" photograph was correct, which is quite strange.

I might try to pick out a few more pictures to post later. (I want to wait and make sure that someone in charge around here doesn't say that burdening this free site with a bunch of big unneeded pictures would be rude.)

[Lianachan]

I take lots of photos. They are mostly of sites of archaeological interest, and tend to be showing the site in the context of the landscape - although I do also take pictures for purposes of documenting sites, as well as landscape pictures, etc.. Some of my photographs are on display in museums in the Highlands, and some are published in books. I've posted a few on the boards before.

The standard of artwork shown and linked to on this thread so far is very good! I can't paint or draw. At all.

[RalofTyr]

http://b.imagehost.org/0283/26drac1jpg.jpg

HD 86087 from the night sky of a world orbiting 26 draconis.

[Frog march]

http://img203.imageshack.us/img203/6963/animationdotcorrection5wm.gif


I made this a few years ago, and used it in a sig, for a few days.

[jokergirl]

Mine is a Fuji S9600 (http://www.fujifilm.com/products/digital_cameras/s/finepix_s9600/index.html).

The first guess on my "abstract" photograph was correct, which is quite strange.

I might try to pick out a few more pictures to post later. (I want to wait and make sure that someone in charge around here doesn't say that burdening this free site with a bunch of big unneeded pictures would be rude.)

You can always post them on flickr or a similar free photo site and link them in with bbcode.

Edit: I shot most of my pictures with an Olympus C5050Z, although I'm experimenting with a Canon DSLR as well. It's so heavy it hurts my hands so I don't use it that much.

;)

[Cougar]

HD 86087 from the night sky of a world orbiting 26 draconis.

Very cool! How did you do that?

[MAPNUT]

I paint landscapes in oils. A favorite theme of mine is recent American industrial ruins. Here's a view on Fishkill Creek in Beacon, NY.

[Swift]

That's wonderful Mapnut. There was an artist that did similar stuff that your work reminds me of - I have at home a book of paintings he did of old railroad stations, but I can't remember his name.

[Cougar]

I paint landscapes in oils.
Wow. Excellent!

[cjl]

I paint landscapes in oils. A favorite theme of mine is recent American industrial ruins. Here's a view on Fishkill Creek in Beacon, NY.
Very nice :)

[MAPNUT]

Thanks!

[HenrikOlsen]

I work predominately in slightly contaminated monocrystalline silicon, aka computergenerated images.
With me, the real art lies in the programs I write to generate the scene descriptions
http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/images/klein/Shape1/klein4.jpg (http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/interests/raytracing.html)

[chrissy]

I work predominately in slightly contaminated monocrystalline silicon, aka computergenerated images.
With me, the real art lies in the programs I write to generate the scene descriptions
http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/images/klein/Shape1/klein4.jpg (http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/interests/raytracing.html)

I like this henrikOlsen, it looks almost like a cobra, I have loads of paintings and photos, just trying to decide what to post.

[RalofTyr]

Very cool! How did you do that?

Very carefully.

Terragen

That was really just a test. I want to create a website about the fictional worlds orbiting Tau Ceti and I was seeing what I could do with it.

[chrissy]

heres one: Rushmore II this is a natural formation due to corrosion.

[Maksutov]

heres one: Rushmore II this is a natural formation due to corrosion.Nice shot! Looks carved.

[Maksutov]

I paint landscapes in oils. A favorite theme of mine is recent American industrial ruins. Here's a view on Fishkill Creek in Beacon, NY.Wonderful painting. I've been there. Is that Mt. Beacon in the background, or at least part of the range it's in?

BTW, is PETA still trying to get the Fishkill changed to a different name?

[chrissy]

these were just random picture I had taken in Knaresbrough, a beautiful place in Yorkshire.
The grey one in the centre is a picture of the central staicase on the RMS.Titanic, no its not water but sure adds to the dramatic effect don't you think?

[Maksutov]

Wonderful shots. That Titanic one is downright eerie.

[chrissy]

Thanks Mak, it was a background picture and had a glass cabinet infront of it, hence the water effect.

[SkepticJ]

http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/images/klein/Shape1/klein4.jpg (http://www.iaeste.dk/~henrik/interests/raytracing.html)

A two-dimensional representation of a four-dimensional object embedded in three-dimensional space -- nice.

[Maksutov]

I work predominately in slightly contaminated monocrystalline silicon, aka computergenerated images.
With me, the real art lies in the programs I write to generate the scene descriptions...That has to be a very small bottle since it's sehr klein.

[sarongsong]

:clap: ...Escherish background---¿say, those aren't interlocking lizards/fish/birds, by chance... :)

[HenrikOlsen]

:clap: ...Escherish background---¿say, those aren't interlocking lizards/fish/birds, by chance... :)
On mine?
Not at all, it's randomly generated by a fractional Brownian motion function.

[Cougar]

I was down at the coast a while ago....

http://www.xmission.com/~dcc/malibu12full+level.jpg

I call it "Malibu."

[Delvo]

.......................

[MAPNUT]

Wonderful painting. I've been there. Is that Mt. Beacon in the background, or at least part of the range it's in?

BTW, is PETA still trying to get the Fishkill changed to a different name?

That's the Beacon range, the hill is Lamb Hill on the east end. Below is another Beacon factory painting and I did put Mt. Beacon in the background, with the transmitter and the abandoned Dutchess ski slopes. The other painting is on Dunderberg Mountain, across the river south of Bear Mountain. Speaking of art and Beacon, the huge Dia modern art museum is well worth a visit.

Dunno about PETA, but fishes, cats, walls and other entities have been killed all up and down the Hudson Valley.

Henrik Olsen, that's a beautiful image, full of mystery and paradox.

[Big Bad Boo]

Wow, these are amazing pictures. =D

I have a online t-shirt shop, and this is one of my favorite ones, because it took forever to get the facial expression right. Then of course I realized it looks a lot like a webcomic I absolutely love, so I might get rid of it. But I'm proud, so even though it's ridiculously simple I wanted to share it.

This is the censored version, as a by the way.

[edit] I'm linking this to the photobucket page, because photobucket now decided to be like photoshop and became a butt. :doh:

Yay links!
Totally awesome face! Yay links! (http://i277.photobucket.com/albums/kk73/emeraldmichelle/Sonofacensor_edited-3.jpg)

[more edit] Ack. Just struck me, I hope this doesn't count as advertising. Mods, if it is, gimme a shout and I'll fix it. I just like background... XD

[Night G]

http://pages.sbcglobal.net/nightg1/strat.jpg

I did this in an illustration program called Canvas. I modeled it after my own guitar except for the "tie-dyed" pick guard.

[suntrack2]

.......................


really a nice photo here, looking like so many dimonds are sparkling, and in other words the stars from space was gathered and used just to get a 'light'.

very fine image.

[ravens_cry]

Well, I do draw quite a bit, but most of stuff I can show is MS Paint line art because my scanner doesn't work. However I do have a written piece I really like. Unfortunately it still has a few 'bugs' grammar wise I can't figure out how to fix without rupturing the mood.

*ahem*

I have no truth.

My life is but a fiction,

Written,

But never lived,

These hands never felt,

These lungs never breathed

This heart never beat.

***

I am but a shade,

Nay, less then,

For did not the murky spirits of the past,

Once live and breathe as mortal men?

I am but a fixation,

A cunning delusion.

***

Some might say I love,

But that truth is false,

For any who enter my parlor,

Be they men women,

Tall, short,

Thin as stick,

Obese as toad

Frailer than newborn babe,

Muscle bound as meat upon the block,

Dark as night,

Pale as moonlight,

All.

***

I have loved all, and have not loved any,

To all comers I am theirs alone,

I could not be unfaithful if I wished it for a thousand sun's deaths,

Until my next visitor,

I be what they wish, whatever that may be,

Be it spurning lover or regretted lover spurned,

What ever their dreams conjure upon the light,

I weave my form and mind to that heated fantasy.

***

Have I true mind at all?

Or just some assemblage of random sparks and currents,

Flowing from nothing to nothing,

The figment of a thousand imaginations.

[George]

Impressive stuff by many folks. Cougar, I'm not that impressed with your bamboo, so please explain to me why I keep looking at it??? This is using old Corel Draw software, so it has its problems...

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/9655/lighthousegi1.th.jpg (http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lighthousegi1.jpg)

I had planned to do each brick separate, but gave up after about half way.

There are 7 crosses in the graphic. Can you find all 7?

[Night G]

Impressive stuff by many folks. Cougar, I'm not that impressed with your bamboo, so please explain to me why I keep looking at it??? This is using old Corel Draw software, so it has its problems...

http://img102.imageshack.us/img102/9655/lighthousegi1.th.jpg (http://img102.imageshack.us/my.php?image=lighthousegi1.jpg)

I had planned to do each brick separate, but gave up after about half way.

There are 7 crosses in the graphic. Can you find all 7?

I counted 8. The church's "footprint", the cross on top of the church, the cross on top of the lighthouse, the crosses formed by the 4 window frames in the lighthouse and I think there is a cross on the ground to the right of the church.

[Cougar]

Cougar, I'm not that impressed with your bamboo, so please explain to me why I keep looking at it???

:lol: It's something to do with Zen.

A shot I caught while golfing last weekend....

http://www.xmission.com/~dcc/fox01.jpg

Sorry about the "481.2 KB bytes." (Haven't the BAUT memory monitors heard of Moore's Law?)

[GeorgeLeRoyTirebiter]

Most of my photography's not that great, but every once in a while I get lucky.

[ravens_cry]

Most of my photography's not that great, but every once in a while I get lucky.
Woah, I feel that that means something, but I am not sure what.

[RalofTyr]

Kind of art, so last tuesday, I was biking and I saw some large fish trapped in a pool of water. After calling animal control and the fish and game dept, both would do nothing, I came back on Thursday to see how they were.

http://s2d2.turboimagehost.com/t/388052_Schoolsout1.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/388052/Schoolsout1.jpg.html) http://s2d2.turboimagehost.com/t/388053_TheFormerPond.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/388053/TheFormerPond.jpg.html) http://s2d2.turboimagehost.com/t/388054_HondaWater.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/388054/HondaWater.jpg.html) http://s2d2.turboimagehost.com/t/388057_AforWater.jpg (http://www.turboimagehost.com/p/388057/AforWater.jpg.html)

Then, I came back on Sunday and they were back to being confined to their pond.


Back to their pond.
http://img31.picoodle.com/img/img31/4/6/9/f_Backtothepom_8034c86.jpg

[Swift]

George, that's beautiful. And kids, Mr. Robin is just sleeping.
One of the best pieces of advice I've ever had from a professional photographer was to take lots of photos and be very self critical. This fellow said he might take one, two, or more rolls of film (this was back in the film days), just to get a single shot - but his single shots ended up on the cover National Geographic.

Cougar - I might have to take up golf!

[DominusDeus]

Some photography, but nothing especially good.

http://dominusdeus.deviantart.com/

I used to draw, haven't in a long time. Don't have a scanner handy to scan any of it though.

[Delvo]

More photographs...

[George]

I counted 8. The church's "footprint", the cross on top of the church, the cross on top of the lighthouse, the crosses formed by the 4 window frames in the lighthouse and I think there is a cross on the ground to the right of the church. You got the 7, but I don't see the 8th; it wasn't intended if there is one.

Thanks for Zennin' us, Coug!

[gzhpcu]

Couple of my big cat water colors...

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5052/pp200cs.jpg (http://imageshack.us)

http://img27.imageshack.us/img27/2083/leopard3vu.jpg (http://imageshack.us)
http://www.bautforum.com/%5BURL=http://imageshack.us%5D%5BIMG%5Dhttp://img27.imageshack.us/img27/5052/pp200cs.jpg%5B/IMG%5D%5B/URL%5D

[George]

Very nice. I like the expressions, conformations, and background detail.

[davidlpf]

Here is a picure of St Croix island which I pass to work everyday.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Croix_Island,_Maine
http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/7228/1000019ty7.th.jpg (http://img301.imageshack.us/my.php?image=1000019ty7.jpg)

[PetersCreek]

I used to work in oils, pen & ink, and calligraphy but these days, it's mostly photography...

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...but then I do consider myself somewhat the artisan in smoked goods. After 21 days in a maple & brown sugar cure, followed by about 6 hours in the smoker with smoldering apple wood, this is my Canadian bacon:
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I also work in leather on occasion but I have no photos handy, I'm afraid.

[Swift]

but then I do consider myself somewhat the artisan in smoked goods. After 21 days in a maple & brown sugar cure, followed by about 6 hours in the smoker with smoldering apple wood, this is my Canadian bacon

Now that's my kind of artwork!

[chrissy]

they are great, heres a few I have done when I was just 15 years old, in ink and a couple in pencil, I couldn't fit my charcoal ones on my scanner as they are too big a shame as they are ok. here goes nothing.....

[George]

Very nice, indeed.

This one is not great in its artistic value, but it may be a bird you've never seen. Do you recognize the not-so-common one?

http://img72.imageshack.us/img72/7580/dualbirdsvy9.th.jpg (http://img72.imageshack.us/my.php?image=dualbirdsvy9.jpg)

[For extra zoom, click on the image shown after you have clicked on this thumbnail.]

[chrissy]

then goes blank when I click on the image!

here is another one I did when I was 15 years old I had to get the seamstress out to stitch it for me.

[George]

then goes blank when I click on the image! Sorry. It appears blank because you are at the far left edge when it goes to zoom. This region is white. Move the scroll bars to the center for a heck of a zoom -- much more than I had expected.

here is another one I did when I was 15 years old I had to get the seamstress out to stitch it for me. Very nice indeed! It looks professional.

[Maksutov]

Beautiful work, chrissy! You had/have real artistic talent. :clap: :)

[Gemini]

This is a model of a ship that I designed for the BSG Universe:

Gryphon Mk.I

It was deployed in large numbers during the first Cylon War as a ground attack craft, equipped with both heavy cannons and air to ground missiles as well as air to air missiles. To keep the weight of the ships down, some were ordered from the factory without paint, just the standard heat-resistant coating given to all colonial space vehicles was applied to the bare metal skin. This did lead to some confusion among colonial pilots, due to the fact that Cylon ships were normally shiny instead of their own. After the war, most were scrapped. A few wound in museums, one actually became a piece of playground equipment at a park on Gemenon.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/GrI.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/GrI4.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/GrI3.jpg

[chrissy]

George those birds are beautiful, I don't recognise either , the red one looks like some kind of crested finch and the other looks like a bee eater or something! I just don't know, but a great pic thanks.:)

Thanks Mak. :)

Gemini the rocket is cool, can I ask you are you the Touched or the Untouched/ Broca divide. been meaning to ask you this ages ago from your gate address. ;)

[Kaptain K]

The red one is a Cardinal, common in central Texas. I don't recognize the other one.

[Gemini]

George those birds are beautiful, I don't recognise either , the red one looks like some kind of crested finch and the other looks like a bee eater or something! I just don't know, but a great pic thanks.:)

Thanks Mak. :)

Gemini the rocket is cool, can I ask you are you the Touched or the Untouched/ Broca divide. been meaning to ask you this ages ago from your gate address. ;)

I only go there on holidays; I've managed to avoid the touch, fortunately.

[George]

Kaptain K and chrissy,

Yes, it is a male Cardinal. The other is a Green Jay and they are found in northern South America, north and south Central America, and southern North America. :) I've never seen one in or around San Antonio -- too far north. This was taken 100 km south of town.

The Green Jay is, reportedly, all over the southern region of Texas, we call the Valley.

There were three of these Green Jays and they seemed to enjoy the Cardinals.

[chrissy]

I only go there on holidays; I've managed to avoid the touch, fortunately.

cool, just remember to stay in the lit areas and don't wander into the woods.


george thanks again I didn't think of a jay, I should of recognised it, but failed.

[George]

george thanks again I didn't think of a jay, I should of recognised it, but failed.
I didn't know the existed till I saw three of them fly in among the cardinals earlier this year.

[sabianq]

here is one of my work,
I use this as a base for my Avatar picture.
the original piece is about 20X14 inches and is hanging in my studio

[sabianq]

here are some more from the series.
the last one with the snowmen was made way back in the late 80's with my best friend and his camera on a snowy day where we only got like 3 inches of snow and we were to lazy to make big snow men. I believe it was inspired by a Calvin and Hobbs comic strip.

[Swift]

I love the snow creatures. C&H's snowmen are some of my favorites.

[sabianq]

hmm. it looks like one of my uploads has been removed.
any ideas? moderators?

[George]

I love the snow creatures. C&H's snowmen are some of my favorites. I agree, this might be something rather novel and, perhaps, marketable -- not that I would know.

[chrissy]

hmm. it looks like one of my uploads has been removed.
any ideas? moderators?

maybe one was too large in kb. so it didn't upload, the most you can upload at one time is 8, try it again and see if there is a notice of it being too large or you might not have uploaded it properly!
the pics are great the snowmen remind me of what my son and his mate did while on guard duty earlier this year, I will try and get it off him and put it on here.:lol::whistle:

chrissy

[Fledermaus]

Cool snowmen! I will have to post some of my drawings and photo's, some I might not be able to!

[cope]

Does the art of my students count? I gave them the recipe to make cometary nucleii (dry ice, dirt, ammonia, water, dark Karo syrup) and they made these comet nucleus models. If you look hard, you can see out-gassing carbon dioxide on the right-hand limb of the larger nucleus.

http://homepage.mac.com/copelag/.Pictures/comets.jpg

[Cougar]

I gave them the recipe to make cometary nucleii....

Not exactly your typical artistic medium! But in art, I always got the feeling that innovative works were almost always good. The outgassing is phenomenal.

Here's a shot I caught a few days ago with a little idiot box Nikon Coolpix 4800. Obviously in close-up mode, which most digitals offer. Sorry about the size, but with pics like this, it's got to be big! :o This is low-res.

http://www.xmission.com/~dcc/rose.jpg

[chrissy]

very nice cougar!

chrissy

[Acolyte]

Well, it's not exactly my art but I took these off my hotel balcony on Paros in the Greek Islands.

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/Acolyte-1/Sunset5sml.jpg

http://i307.photobucket.com/albums/nn291/Acolyte-1/Sunset2sml.jpg

No touchup, no alteration, just reduced file size for web.

[chrissy]

sweet! acolyte.

[Swift]

Does the art of my students count? I gave them the recipe to make cometary nucleii (dry ice, dirt, ammonia, water, dark Karo syrup) and they made these comet nucleus models. If you look hard, you can see out-gassing carbon dioxide on the right-hand limb of the larger nucleus.
I'm not sure it is art, but I love it cope. I wish you had been my teacher. But one question, are you sure that wasn't the meat loaf surprise from the cafeteria? :D

[cope]

Swift: I'm sure it is not the "mystery meat loaf surprise" our school puts out because what my students made was much warmer than what the cafeteria serves.

Cougar: Absolutely awesome picture. Did you rely on auto settings to make the image or did you do manual focus and aperture?

Acolyte: I wanna go there and sip margaritas on the beach.

[chrissy]

heres a couple I took the other day:

the middle one is of my hebe and a bumble bee, he was to busy to stay still for me, I caught him before he flew to another flower.

[Cougar]

Cougar: Absolutely awesome picture. Did you rely on auto settings to make the image or did you do manual focus and aperture?

Auto. As far as I know, most pocket-type digitals are all auto, all the time, though you can switch to various preset modes, one being 'close-up.'

I suppose this works for most people most of the time, but when I took six fabulous photos of that fox on the golf course the other day and five of them were out of focus, I finally concluded I've got to start taking my Canon Rebel film camera. It won't go in my pocket, but there's nothing like having the option of a Ring Ultrasonic auto-focus (http://photo.net/equipment/canon/lens-motors) and simultaneous manual focus, plus having through-the-lens metering and total control of the aperture and shutter speed.... But film...? I guess the digital SLRs are slowly coming down in price.... Ought to start looking into those....

http://www.xmission.com/~dcc/w41t.jpg

[Cougar]

heres a couple I took the other day....
Chrissy, how did you get such large jpgs into such small file sizes? I reduce the size of my photos AND reduce the resolution to ~72 dpi, which I've heard is fine for computer screens, and the file size is still too big for BAUT's 'attachment manager'. Wha...?

[Delvo]

Chrissy, how did you get such large jpgs into such small file sizes? I reduce the size of my photos AND reduce the resolution to ~72 dpi, which I've heard is fine for computer screens, and the file size is still too big for BAUT's 'attachment manager'. Wha...?Changing DPI doesn't affect file size or how a picture is displayed on screens. To change a JPG's file size without changing the image size, what you're after is the compression number. Higher numbers up to 100% preserve the most accuracy and the highest file sizes. Lower numbers sacrifice some accuracy to reduce file size. If you make the compression number too low, you tend to degrade the picture quality: adjacent color fields get blurred together instead of having crisp boundaries and parts of the picture start looking grainy or blocky.

DPI is only an issue when you're printing or putting an image in a setting where it might ever get printed, such as a word-processing document. It means "dots per inch", with the inches referring to inches on paper. But if there's no way paper will ever be involved, those inches don't matter; only the dots do. And those dots are pixels, just like the pixels that your computer screen is made of and an image's height and width are measured in, and the number of those in an image or a screen/monitor does not change when an image's DPI is changed.

[chrissy]

Chrissy, how did you get such large jpgs into such small file sizes? I reduce the size of my photos AND reduce the resolution to ~72 dpi, which I've heard is fine for computer screens, and the file size is still too big for BAUT's 'attachment manager'. Wha...?

Hi cougar,

need to know what graphic editor application you are using ie:photoshop etc.

chrissy:)

[Delvo]

I saw this guest on the outside of my window screen a few days ago and leaned out the adjacent window to "shoot" it. Now it's the background for my 24" monitor, blown up to something well over 10 times natural size...

[Halcyon Dayz]

I saw this guest on the outside of my window screen a few days ago and leaned out the adjacent window to "shoot" it. Now it's the background for my 24" monitor, blown up to something well over 10 times natural size...

What is that? :confused:

[Delvo]

They call it a "mayfly" around here.

[ginnie]

I paint and draw when inspired to do so.
http://pauljhalley.110mb.com/index.html

[Cougar]

I paint and draw when inspired to do so.
http://pauljhalley.110mb.com/index.html

I'll say!

[Gemini]

This my 1:480 scale replica of the Saturn 1B that launched the Skylab II mission with its launch umbelical tower and "Milkstool" launch table.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/Sat1B3.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/Sat1B2.jpg
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/Sat1B.jpg

[cjl]

Very nice :)

I have an unfinished flying Saturn 1B model somewhere around here - I really need to finish it sometime...

[chrissy]

Gemini that must have took some time to make?

chrissy

[geonuc]

I've dabbled in food photography a bit, primarily to photograph my own creations. Most are junk and not worthy, but I like this shot. It's a red savina habanero, from my garden and just out of the freezer.

[chrissy]

Ah! the finger print evidence left behind! ;)


A nice shot though geonuc.

chrissy

[Veeger]

Thought I would drop this here and see how it goes. This is the first time I've attached a file so if its too large let me know.

I feel it can be a form of art, so I call it "Slice of America".

Playing around one day I wrote program which allows me to visualize the ETOPO2 global elevation data available on the US Geological Service website. This is one such chunk of the data.

[Gemini]

Gemini that must have took some time to make?

chrissy

It took me about four days of off and on work.

[jokergirl]

*dusts off and resurrects the thread*

"It's alive! It's alive!"

*cough* Um.

I mean...

I've revently taken up acrylic painting lessons, evening classes once every fortnight.
Been drawing and painting before, but mostly digital and ink. So...


http://joker.mirar.org/bento/christmas_market.jpg

http://joker.mirar.org/P?loc=junk/cityscape_photo.jpg&get=s

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3323/3268310677_493ff339b3.jpg

The last one is copying a painting by Caravaggio, which I will continue working on tonight.

;)

[Swift]

Very nice jokergirl, I particularly like the middle one.

[Fazor]

Hmm... we need some artwork for our living room (the wall behind our couch is large and bare... room requires balance). Now I know who to commission for a nice large painting. You do work for free, right Jokergirl? :)

Anyway, I posted this in an album on my User profile thing, but I'll throw it here for more shameless self promotion.

I had mentioned in a different thread that I found a picture I submitted for a CG Art contest some 10 years ago, and wanted to update it. I limited myself to a single night, so there's elements I was unable to implement. But here's the before:
http://www.greenapple.com/~gibson/Pics/oldnano.jpg

And the after:
http://www.greenapple.com/~gibson/Pics/newnano.jpg

[jokergirl]

Shiny :) The front nanite looks a bit... phallic though :lol:
Or maybe that's just my dirty, dirty mind :whistle:

I finished the Caravaggio tonight, picture forthcoming!

;)

[Fazor]

Well, I can always name it Viagrabot 2.0.

I made the first painting in your post (the one w/ the row houses) my desktop background btw. Hope you don't mind. :-P

[jokergirl]

You can be sure I don't mind ;P It was my mom's christmas present this year :D

http://joker.mirar.org/art/caravaggio-narcissus.jpg
Here we go, all finished... which of course translated from art-ish means "I'm sick of staring at it now so I'll throw it in a corner no matter whether it's actually done or not"

;)

[mugaliens]

That's pretty sweet, jokergirl!

[Frog march]

I google imaged the artist; I thought it was Narcissus.

[KaiYeves]

Once I get my brothers to give me my other computer back, I might be able to share some of my photography.

[jokergirl]

I google imaged the artist; I thought it was Narcissus.

Yup! Quite a striking painting, the original. You can tell who it is supposed to be immediately.
I was impressed by the unconventional pose... and by Caravaggios pictures in general. He's good.

;)

[mahesh]

Such awesome talent here...always knew that...but...
I haven't seen this thread before...my fault....
Thanks Boo! you have nice handwriting!

[KaiYeves]

Okay, I'm putting some of my photographs on my profile now, let's see if it works...

[gzhpcu]

Here is a painting I made recently... I call it "Katmandu"...:)

http://img5.imageshack.us/img5/2237/katnamdu.th.jpg (http://img5.imageshack.us/my.php?image=katnamdu.jpg)

[gzhpcu]

And an old favorite I did: "Bagheera"

http://img527.imageshack.us/img527/3809/bagheera.th.jpg (http://img527.imageshack.us/my.php?image=bagheera.jpg)

[mahesh]

gzhpcu...they are both nice....i wish i could see more detail in them...my eye sight is bad at the mo.

Did you travel to / in Nepal?

'Bagheera' reminds me of the rare African cheetahs mentioned here, from yesterday's reportage...Farid Belbachir's pic at the bottom, especially,
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7905986.stm

partly quoting:
The first camera-trap photographs of the critically endangered Northwest African, or Saharan cheetah, have been obtained in an experiment in Algeria....

thanks for sharing your fine drawings

[jokergirl]

Oh, pretty! I love big cats.
They were the first thing I learned to draw, too :D

The architecture is lovely, too!

;)

[Fazor]

I like those a lot gzhpcu.

[gzhpcu]

Mahesh, Jokergirl,Fazor,
Thanks for the kind words. Here are a couple more you might like. (No, I was never in Nepal. Only travelled vicariously via some old National Geographics...:))

"Shere Khan":

http://img14.imageshack.us/img14/3293/sherekhan.th.jpg (http://img14.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sherekhan.jpg)

"Sheherezhad":

http://img172.imageshack.us/img172/4097/sherezade.th.jpg (http://img172.imageshack.us/my.php?image=sherezade.jpg)

"Surprise!"

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1593/surprise.th.jpg (http://img410.imageshack.us/my.php?image=surprise.jpg)

[KaiYeves]

Wait, how does the image-inserting thingy work?

[HenrikOlsen]

It goes: first upload the image to imageshack, then use the IMG tag to put the image in the port by using a link to that site.

ImageShack is one of the explicit exceptions to our no direct linking rule since it's a site specifically made for doing that.

[KaiYeves]

Oh, okay. I guess I can't do direct links, then.

[mahesh]

Oh, okay. I guess I can't do direct links, then.

Yikes! Henrik, so does it mean, i've been doing it wrong, all this time?

[HenrikOlsen]

I bring you:
8. Hotlinking

Try to avoid putting in links to images directly from someone else's website. This can add a lot to their bandwidth, and then the host has to pay for it. In other words, if you see an image you like on an astronomy site, put in a link to that site, but don't use the tags so the image loads into your post from their site directly. If you really want an image in your post, put it in a public site someplace and link to it from there. [I]One exception would be from sites like NASA or universities, where bandwidth is not such an issue. If you own the image, then you can upload it to the board yourself.
Note the italic, ImageShack is a similar exception. As is linking to images hosted on your own website where you pay the traffic cost.

[jokergirl]

I prefer Flickr to ImageShack, personally. It's less full of ads.
Of course, my stuff is linked from my own server so I don't care :D

;)

[Frog march]

I don't suppose deviantart.com, or such like, would mind too much if you linked to your own pictures on there...but I don't really know.

[jokergirl]

Deviantart actually does mind, as do most gallery pages. They have added a "Blog this" feature recently though which might give you a link to the image.
I still hold that Flickr is the best free image host around... or at least the least annoying.

;)

[Frog march]

I'll have to try Flickr. Imageshack has been taking ages to change page, maybe because of all the ad stuff that loads for each page.

[Elukka]

I do stuff (http://eluqqa.deviantart.com/). Mostly scifi, my own universe.

[chrissy]

'Bagheera' reminds me of the rare African cheetahs mentioned here, from yesterday's reportage...Farid Belbachir's pic at the bottom, especially,

Jungle book. ;)

[cosmocrazy]

Jungle book. ;)

I just love that film and all the music.. Look for the bare necessities the simple bare necessities forget about your worries and your strife!:)

[HenrikOlsen]

I just love that film and all the music.. Look for the bare necessities the simple bare necessities forget about your worries and your strife!:)
Try reading the book, it's better. As is several of the other movie versions.

[Cougar]

Here is a painting I made recently... I call it "Katmandu"...:)

There's almost 'too much content' in this one, but all your others are quite intriguing compositions! I've had an abyssinian and an ocicat (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ocicat), so I can identify. :)

[Cougar]

Here is one of my watercolors recently digitized....

.

[gzhpcu]

Very nice watercolor Cougar! It has a Chinese look to it...:)

[KaiYeves]

Very pretty bamboo!

[marsbug]

A pastel sketch of an acrylic painting I'm starting: It's a martian zen rock garden, with a small fountain fed pool of saturated brine on a slab of basalt in the centre. The final piece will probably have a small inuckshuck (http://images.google.ca/images?hl=en&q=inukshuk&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wi), near the right hand edge of the pool.

I know I've made a schoolboy error with the colour of the sky, but the blue cone over the setting sun is accurate, and this is just a sketch:

[Fazor]

That's odd. The post says it has An attached thumnail(s) but there's nothing there. ¿Que paso?

[marsbug]

Hmm, how does this one come through?

[Fazor]

Now I see it. Thanks.

You said that'll be an oil painting? (the first post is on the previous page, so I can't see it as I type this). I was never any good with painting. Or drawing for that matter.

ETA: Oh, that's my shoddy memory for ya. I forgot you said the painting will be a Mars landscape. Oddly enough, when I go back to the previous page, I can now see your sketch.

[jokergirl]

Nice!
What you said about the colour of the sky - turns out your picture isn't actually that far from the real thing: http://www.nasa.gov/images/content/154221main_20060807_PIA07997_060802183716.jpg

Generally I like the idea a lot :D

If you want pointers, I'd say unify the colours a bit. There isn't as much stray light in the thin Martian atmosphere I think (there is scattering dust though), so the foreground would be darker and with long shadows, and have a bit of the shade of the atmosphere in it.

I want to see it when it's done, anyway!

;)

[gzhpcu]

Jungle book. ;)
Actually, it was reading the Jungle book and seeing an old movie with Sabu playing Mowgli with Bagheera, that got me going on this big cats and ancient temples thing...:)

[marsbug]

Thanks for the pointers jokergirl, I'll try to find a digital camera when it's done, think it'll be a bit too big to scan.

[mahesh]

Cougar...your digitized 'Bamboo' watercolour is beyond lovely....
thanks for sharing....

and marsbug...the painting of your Marsgarden?...that's super (and futuristic?)

thanks for sharing ...
...and your nice input, jokergirl :D

[Fazor]

I have a story I started writing (read that as "The first two opening scenes of a story") that I think I might end up doing as a graphic novel.

This is just a quick penning to get a feel for the style. You can still see the underlying structure lines and such. But this thread hasn't been active for a while so I thought I'd give it some new blood.

edit: added the blackened background version

[KaiYeves]

That's a great sketch, Fazor!

I do NOT understand how to do the picture-embed-y thing.

[Fazor]

I do NOT understand how to do the picture-embed-y thing.
You can click on the little paper-clip icon above where you enter your post (if it's not there, click the "Go Advanced" button below).

That'll bring up a pop-up window that gives you options for uploading pictures files, so long as they're under the listed size limit.

[Elukka]

He-3 harvesters.
http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z113/Elucca/Art%20and%20stuff/Aerostats.png

[jokergirl]

Hee hee, that's adorable.

I should post some of my recent paintings.

;)

[KaiYeves]

Nope, still not working.

[jokergirl]

Some more playing with stencils and city shapes:
http://joker.mirar.org/P?loc=art/DSC02276.JPG&get=s (http://joker.mirar.org/art/DSC02276.JPG)

And an experiment in paint structure:

http://joker.mirar.org/P?loc=art/orchid.jpg&get=s (http://joker.mirar.org/art/orchid.jpg)

(click for bigger versions)

;)

[Gemini]

Enterprise ALT:
This is basically the Academy Minicraft SCA kit backdated to 1977 livery. I decided to a little fun with it and do a wall mount display with Enterprise just after separation.
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/P1010051.jpg
With the rest of the home Realspace fleet:
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/P1010052.jpg

[KaiYeves]

Speaking of models, I finally got around to painting my Hubble model and making a little stand for it. Now it looks more like the real Hubble and less like cardboard, pick-up sticks, the bottom of a water bottle, and duct tape.

[Gemini]

Speaking of models, I finally got around to painting my Hubble model and making a little stand for it. Now it looks more like the real Hubble and less like cardboard, pick-up sticks, the bottom of a water bottle, and duct tape.
Pictures? :)

[KaiYeves]

No camera. Sorry. I did NEAR-Shoemaker with a plastic cup, a cupcake liner, some tin foil, and more duct tape. Next up- Cassini!

[jokergirl]

Cool.

I never did anything with models. Is it a Boy Thing?

Those are neat though, makes me want to get my LEGOs...

http://joker.mirar.org/P?loc=art/lichthof.jpg&get=m

I was allowed to "salvage" an "abandoned" canvas at art school, so I did this somewhat bigger-than-usual format painting. I had a lot of fun. Gotta get my hands on some cheap canvas now!

;)

[Fazor]

Cool.
I never did anything with models. Is it a Boy Thing?


Since Kai is a girl, I'd say 'no'. :)


Nice painting, by the way. Oils?

[speedfreek]

Here's one I made earlier...

[KaiYeves]

Very nice painting, Jokergirl!

Cool picture, Speedfreak!

I just added the final coat of gold paint to the soup can I'm using for Cassini's main body. Once that's dry, I can figure out how I'm going to add some details.

[jokergirl]

Since Kai is a girl, I'd say 'no'. :)


Nice painting, by the way. Oils?

Whoops :doh:

No, acrylics. I'm too impatient for oils, although I do believe they blend a lot more nicely than acrylics.
But at least I can sleep in the same room I paint in.

;)

[Fazor]

Whoops :doh:

No, acrylics. I'm too impatient for oils, although I do believe they blend a lot more nicely than acrylics.
But at least I can sleep in the same room I paint in.

;)

Ah, it kind of reminded me of some works I did in school using Oil Pastels. (I don't do a lot of traditional art, as I'm not a very good artist ;)). I always liked oil pastels though.

[chrissy]

I have sold all of my pictures I have made, I never thought of taking any photographs of them. :(

Speedfreek, what did you use for that one? water or acrylic or computer generated... I like it very much. :)

[jokergirl]

Wow, I wish my art was good enough to sell...

I did do a few commissions, but it was always for friends or for work. My art teacher keeps telling me to get a gallery together but I feel like I don't have a defined style for that yet...

;)

[geonuc]

Wow, I wish my art was good enough to sell...

I did do a few commissions, but it was always for friends or for work. My art teacher keeps telling me to get a gallery together but I feel like I don't have a defined style for that yet...

;)
I don't know how it works in Sweden, but if you're serious about your art, you could talk with some local gallery owners. They might agree to show your work and give you some exposure.

[chrissy]

Wow, I wish my art was good enough to sell...

I did do a few commissions, but it was always for friends or for work. My art teacher keeps telling me to get a gallery together but I feel like I don't have a defined style for that yet...

;)

I think you should jokergirl your paintings are very good. There is no harm in testing the waters so to speak. ;)

[marsbug]

Hey I've finally got the acrylic version of the pastel sketch above to the point where it's worth posting.
This is still a work in progress, but then they always are. Digital photography is still a black art to me, one of these shows the colours better but has terrible shine to it, the other is clear but the colour falls kinda flat.

[marsbug]

Bugger, for some reason only one of them shows up in the post, try again!

[BetaDust]

Awesome marsbug! Thank you verry much for sharing that image.

[Cougar]

I like to stylize my photos....

[Cougar]

Another....

[jokergirl]

Hey I've finally got the acrylic version of the pastel sketch above to the point where it's worth posting.
This is still a work in progress, but then they always are. Digital photography is still a black art to me, one of these shows the colours better but has terrible shine to it, the other is clear but the colour falls kinda flat.

That got really nice, marsbug!

About photography - taking pictures of glossy paintings is hard. If you can, try scanning it in in parts (looks like the painting comes apart in about letter-size chunks? Perfect for scanning).

;)

[speedfreek]

Speedfreek, what did you use for that one? water or acrylic or computer generated... I like it very much. :)

It is computer generated, the "Behemoth" was modelled using Wings 3D and the rest of the scene was modelled and rendered in Bryce 3D

Here is a link to a larger version:
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/speedfreek/art/Behemoth1024.jpg

And here was my first "proper" picture using Bryce 3D, your generic and clichéd sci-fi space scene! (larger version here (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v105/speedfreek/art/Starshine1024.jpg))

[chrissy]

Thanks I like them both..:)

[Fazor]

It is computer generated, the "Behemoth" was modelled using Wings 3D and the rest of the scene was modelled and rendered in Bryce 3D

I've never been a fan of Bryce myself; but I know a lot of people like it. Wings is great though.

[KaiYeves]

I don't think there's anything generic about that picture, it looks lovely.

[speedfreek]

Hey, thanks for all the positive comments. I tend to stick to CGI nowadays, but I used to do it "for real"! ;)

Are are a couple of sketches I did when I was around 16 years old, some 26 years ago. The first was done with black biro pen and indian ink, the second done with acrylic paint and rotring pen.

[Gemini]

Two of the drawings I submitted to my school's literary magazine were accepted: STS-125: Rendezvous and Hail Columbia!

Rendesvous
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/CCF05122009_00001.jpg

Hail Columbia!

http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/CCF05122009_00002.jpg
and my favorite that wasn't chosen but too cool not to post, Welcome Home!
http://i81.photobucket.com/albums/j240/OV-104/CCF05122009_00000.jpg

[jokergirl]

Ha! Finally found a style that actually seems to fit me pretty well. I did some tests copying mannequins from fashion magazines with it, now I hope to be able to finally do my "own things" with it next:

http://joker.mirar.org/P?loc=art/gsmodel_1.jpg&get=s

Dark outlines, spatter brush patterns, strong colours and details, what's not to love?
(I forgot how much I love brush spatters. I should get a sieve for spattering though - my fingers look like I robbed a bank!)

;)

[Fazor]

That's really cool Joker. You know what I think would be really cool? My g/f is a photographer. Most of her work comes from doing high-school Senior's photos. If you made a stylized painting of a senior like that, then took a photo of them, you could make it look like they were [leaning up against/standing in front of] a wall that was painted with a their own picture. :)

[KaiYeves]

Gemini, if anything ever comes of my Into the Cosmos story, I want you as the illustrator.

[George]

Another.... Which one are you? [I don't see a keyboard or piano.] :)

[Cougar]

Which one are you? [I don't see a keyboard or piano.] :)

I'm the photographer. :whistle:

[Phamph]

One of my MS Paint pieces of master:

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll319/PadronDaniel/Ming.jpg

[gzhpcu]

I'm the photographer. :whistle:

Very nice, looks like Jonathon Seagull...:)

[jokergirl]

Hee, that looks cool. Can you weave that into a carpet for my living room?

;)

[gzhpcu]

Looks kind of Mayan, doesn't it...:)

[marsbug]

It's very cool, but I'm not sure how to place it, its otherworldly.There's a lot of very cool stuff on this thread, maybe someone should do a gallery. :)

[mugaliens]

Gallery capability is built into vBulletin, but the downside is that each picture takes as much space as 300 text-based posts... By linking to external, free galleries, the admins save a LOT of storage space, here.

[Nicolas]

Myself and a colleague of mine have this idea of a computer game/simulation we might make once in the future. As I'm in a hotel and have nothing else to do, I've started on some textures for the first, rough version. Technical feasibility thing. Still, I didn't want the first textures to be so poor they'd drain our enthusiasm, so I put some effort into. Not so easy, since I only have paint.net (I want to keep things legal and don't have the money for photoshop and what have you) and a laptop touchpad...

I needed a tree texture, had something cartoonish in mind, but it turned out quite realistic (this was made from scratch, and without using a picture as reference):

http://inlinethumb31.webshots.com/14430/2641164640103382518S600x600Q85.jpg

Given I'm not an artist and bad at drawing AND paint.net is quite limited (no rotation of selections, no soft selections...), this came out quite fine IMHO!

(It is not OK to use this pic, as we might use it as a texture.)

[Phamph]

Hee, that looks cool. Can you weave that into a carpet for my living room?

;)

Everybody always wants to walk on my artwork! :) Heres another one

http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll319/PadronDaniel/crux4.jpg

[Nicolas]

Do you remember the game Volfied (http://www.juegomania.org/Volfied/fotos/pc/6/6264/Foto+Volfied.jpg)? :) You artwork reminds me of some of the level backgrounds.

[PraedSt]

That's a good tree Nicolas. :)

[Nicolas]

I've made bushes, straw, concrete, etc textures in the mean time, all from scratch in paint.net, and it does look nice. The program is limited though, but the better ones (like paint shop) are expensive...

[PraedSt]

Well, unless they're all hush-hush, let's see them!

Btw, what are textures in computer games? The background graphics? The small pics on squares that look like tiles?

You will have gathered I know nothing of programming. ;)

[Nicolas]

In 3D games, first you make the 3D shapes, as if it are sculptures. Then, you "paint" them with a texture. Well, it's more like applying wall paper. Example: first you draw a 3D box, then you put wallpaper with a straw texture onto it, and the result will look like a straw block. If you'd put a wood texture onto a tube shape, it will look like a log. In a more complex sense, you can make a shape of a human or car, apply a texture, and it will look like Barack Obama or a blue Toyota Celica. Different texture, and you'd get Bruce Willis (well, their body shape isn't exaclty similar, but anyway :)) or a red Toyota Celica with Castrol commercials.

Now the tree is a slightly different story: it will be a "billboard tree". That is a flat (like a billboard) tree in a 3D world. I'll take a glass (transparent) billboard and put the tree "wallpaper" onto it, where everything you see as white now will be transparent. The end result will look a bit like a real tree, but from closeby you'd see it is flat.

I'll upload some of my other artwork (still as 2D textures, as I don't have a 3D modeling program here) this evening.

[mahesh]

Everybody always wants to walk on my artwork! :) Heres another one.......

Hey Phamph.......
That's very impressive. No wonder people want to slobber over it....

The symmetry reminds of of the artwork / decorations done on African houses / huts. Most colourful, charming, unique, imaginative......awfully beautiful.

Well thanks for sharing your results and enthusiasm.

and one more thing....don't part with any of your thingies with jokergirl,
unless there's, at least, a lunch (she's a good cook) in it for you. She's a tease...makes your mouth water...and then phhhhtt.

Hey...welcome to BAUT.

[PraedSt]

I'll upload some of my other artwork (still as 2D textures, as I don't have a 3D modeling program here) this evening.
Cool! And texture = wallpaper. Got it.

[Fazor]

Cool! And texture = wallpaper. Got it.
I prefer to think of it more as "skin", as it can give not only color/pattern, but also (depending on the rendering technology) attributes such as shine and bumps (think actual "texture").

A good analogy is a balloon. The 3d model are the points that define the volume of air inside the balloon, and the texture is the rubber surface that we see as the balloon.

[Nicolas]

Yes, "skin" is the better analogy. There must be a good picture showing the principle out there...

Yes:

3D model: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/martins_costa_boots/hi-res/02.jpg

+ texture: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/martins_costa_boots/hi-res/08.jpg

= textured 3D model: http://www.3dtotal.com/team/Tutorials/martins_costa_boots/18.jpg

My billboard tree will look like this one in 3D: http://news.softpedia.com/images/reviews/large/MWD_008-large.jpg

(all of this is not my art, just to show the concepts. So everything is property of its respective owner).

[PraedSt]

That finished boot is pretty darn good. I'm impressed.
Also, it looks like the owner just stomped on a cockroach. Thumbs up from me. ;)

[Nicolas]

It's nice indeed, I'm impressed too. But it's not my work, I must repeat.

[Nicolas]

Here are the trial textures you asked for. Everything is made by moi from scratch in paint.net, and will be used as test material for a 3D simulator we're working on.

The tree that started the hype: ;)

http://inlinethumb31.webshots.com/14430/2641164640103382518S600x600Q85.jpg

One of the pieces of road:

http://inlinethumb19.webshots.com/43154/2641946600103382518S600x600Q85.jpg

The straw blocks will hopefully get collision physics:

http://inlinethumb11.webshots.com/42378/2484044670103382518S600x600Q85.jpg

A bush (billboard type):

http://inlinethumb22.webshots.com/22549/2763647650103382518S600x600Q85.jpg

The guard rail:

http://inlinethumb16.webshots.com/44879/2048644150103382518S600x600Q85.jpg

A bit rusty, but it'll still keep the cars away from the crowd. :)

(again: people are not allowed to use these textures, as we might use them in the final product ourselves)

[Phamph]

Do you remember the game Volfied (http://www.juegomania.org/Volfied/fotos/pc/6/6264/Foto+Volfied.jpg)? :) You artwork reminds me of some of the level backgrounds.
I dont remember that particular game, but I see what you mean. This is an old one I did that people have told me reminds them of another really old game. Cant remember the name...'Empire' , something like that.
http://i291.photobucket.com/albums/ll319/PadronDaniel/templemoon.jpg

Hey Phamph.......
That's very impressive. No wonder people want to slobber over it....

The symmetry reminds of of the artwork / decorations done on African houses / huts. Most colourful, charming, unique, imaginative......awfully beautiful.

Well thanks for sharing your results and enthusiasm.

and one more thing....don't part with any of your thingies with jokergirl,
unless there's, at least, a lunch (she's a good cook) in it for you. She's a tease...makes your mouth water...and then phhhhtt.

Hey...welcome to BAUT.
Thanks for the welcome. Im a forumhead from way back, I felt at home right away. Thanks for the tip about Jokergirl. Since she's a good cook, I'll try to weasle a recipe or two out of her, in addition to lunch. I'll also be ready holding my nose when the 'phhhtt' comes.

[PraedSt]

Those are great! I like the tire marks on the road. Speaking of which, no tire barriers in your game? You going with straw and rails?

[Nicolas]

I've got tire barriers as well. Didn't upload it, as it looks very abstract when not skinned over tubes. It will be tires packed in a cover, which is painted red/white. So you don't see the tires, only their cover.

[HenrikOlsen]

I dont remember that particular game, but I see what you mean. This is an old one I did that people have told me reminds them of another really old game. Cant remember the name...'Empire' , something like that.
It reminded me of this one (http://www.mcescher.com/Gallery/back-bmp/LW348.jpg), by M. C. Escher (http://www.mcescher.com/).

[HenrikOlsen]

Does it count when it'll have a function when finished?

Or should I call it a study in the art of scrounging? :)

I just happen to have several yards of 4" pipe lying in the back yard and decided to use pieces of that for my forge version III.

Second pic is the stage I got the fire pot to today.

I think it's a serious contender to worst welding known to man:D

[Nicolas]

I'll say...that one fire pot has seen more fire during construction than it will ever see in its service life. That is not welding, that is hooliganism.

For the record: I can't weld at all, and I solder the way you weld.

[HenrikOlsen]

It looks worse than it is actually.
Because the pipe is heavily galvanized the discoloration around the welds is where the zinc burned off and the dark patches is wetness from the soaking it got to make it touchable again.

[Nicolas]

Yeah, yeah. Hooliganism. An unnecessary, disgusting amount of violence applied to connect two perfectly innocent pieces of metal together. Duct tape has been around for ages, velcro is modular on top of that, and I'm not even going to mention clothespins...but no, you HAD to heat the poor things up until the point of melting, you HAD to burn them until they got horribly maimed and sticky, a sorry pile of waste that once were two shiny, proud pieces of metal. And all that for the sake of "art". You brute.

;)

[HenrikOlsen]

Well, since they're going to spend the rest of their life holding burning pieces of coal, I rather think they prefer to get used to it from the start.
Especially considering the hurt they would otherwise sustain falling to the ground when the duct tape, velcro or clothespins burned through.

As for shiny, not really, the first pic clearly shows the state of the unmolested pipe, I think you'll agree that shiny is not a fitting word.

[KaiYeves]

It reminded me of this one, by M. C. Escher.
Me, too. I just saw that and went "Another World!"

[Jay200MPH]

Henrik, you ARE wearing good enough breathing protection while welding galvanised, right?

[HenrikOlsen]

If not breathing while doing the welding, and doing it outside in windy conditions counts, then yes.:shifty:

I am aware that the white smoke isn't healthy.

[jokergirl]

This thread has gone on for too long without bunnies in Star Trek uniforms.

Here, have some.

http://joker.mirar.org/P?loc=junk/bunny1.jpg&get=s
http://joker.mirar.org/P?loc=junk/bunny2.jpg&get=s

;)

[Nicolas]

Rrrrrrrrrrrrrr they can get me. ;)

@Henrik: I like how you used the word "fitting" in combination with welding pipes and talking about the right word to use. Very clever pun.

(you can pretend that was on purpose now ;))

[PraedSt]

Wow! Jokergirl, you're a star! :p (that's me drooling)

[KaiYeves]

I wish I could draw humanoids like that.

[Nicolas]

It's very hard to find free sound programs, 2D drawing programs, 3D drawing programs, programming environments and 3D engines that work a bit decent and don't require the internet to run or register. I've found everything except for a good free 3D program that exports in the formats I need. And you used to be able to download VB6 for free from microsoft, but not anymore. I think I still have an old version somewhere though. But anyway, I did some tests with milkshape as 3D drawing program (trial, can't save...) to show those interested what I'm planning to do with the textures shown:

http://inlinethumb56.webshots.com/34487/2959963300103382518S600x600Q85.jpg

This is just a test. And the final game will look completely different -I hope.

[PraedSt]

Nice! But you do realize we want to see the cars? :)

[Nicolas]

You do realize I can hardly make a flat plane in the current 3D program I'm using and don't have a save function, so cars are out of the question now? :)

It will be the old VW Scirocco.

[GeorgeLeRoyTirebiter]

It's very hard to find free sound programs, 2D drawing programs, 3D drawing programs, programming environments and 3D engines that work a bit decent and don't require the internet to run or register. I've found everything except for a good free 3D program that exports in the formats I need. And you used to be able to download VB6 for free from microsoft, but not anymore. I think I still have an old version somewhere though.

MS still has a free Visual Basic IDE available but it's for VB.NET (7 or higher), so if you have to use VB6 you're out of luck.

You've probably already rejected it, but just in case you haven't, have you considered Blender for the 3D drawing program? While it may not export the formats you need, all the import/export is performed by Python scripts. It's possible that someone has already made the necessary export script even though it's not bundled with Blender. Barring that, you could always write your own (assuming you have copious amounts of free time, a thorough understanding of both the Blender Python API and the file format you're exporting to, and the ability to code in Python without becoming either suicidal or homicidal).

Blender does have the drawback of being a contender for The Worst UI in the History of Computing, but if you can make it past that (tip: use the wiki (http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Main_Page)), it's a pretty powerful program, and you can't beat the price.

[Nicolas]

The required export function pretty much limits me to Max ($$$), Milkshape (hmmm, I'm not modelling characters...), or Maya (which is more a poser program than modeling program as far as I know, and still $$$).

I really want to go for VB6. I don't have a lot of time, and learning a 3D program, a 3D engine, a physics engine and a sound engine will be more than enough. VB.Net differs enough from VB6 to demand a lot of time to learn. Don't want that.

[GeorgeLeRoyTirebiter]

The required export function pretty much limits me to Max ($$$), Milkshape (hmmm, I'm not modelling characters...), or Maya (which is more a poser program than modeling program as far as I know, and still $$$).

Hmm, sounds like you're using one of those oddball game-engine–specific formats. I hate those.

The general wisdom a decade ago was that Max was for games and Maya for movies/TV. But these days, Max and Maya are both pretty much the same. They, along with Softimage|XSI, C4D, Blender, Lightwave (if anyone's still using it), and a few others that I've forgotten, are "all-in-one" programs that can handle most aspects of creating CGI animation: modeling, rigging, animating (including physical simulation), texturing*/surfacing, and rendering. They're both overkill (and horribly overpriced) if you just need a modeling program.

That being said, there is an industry joke that Maya isn't a general app at all, it's actually an interface used to link together third-party programs and plugins. It's not unheard of for an effects house to make models in Silo or modo; detail them with ZBrush or Mudbox; animate in messiah or MotionBuilder; generate hair or fur with Shave and a Haircut; use MASSIVE, Syflex, or another external physics engine for simulations; and render with PRMan—using Maya (and some custom scripts) just to tie all the parts together. But if you ask them, they'll say they did it 'in' Maya.


*This doesn't include 2D image editing.

[matthewota]

I drew this when I was 16 years old

[RAF_Blackace]

Not sure if this is the kind of art your referring to, but I consider it art (especially my Zindy Neilsen video). But here are some small animated films I worked on as time passers.

http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=BA

Just click on the the thumbnail of any of the four films in the lower right hand frame to view the movie shown in the thumbnail

[mugaliens]

Yep - that's art!

You say "animated," but didn't define what kind. Are they hand-drawn? They look computer animated, to me.

[KaiYeves]

That's a nice Skylab, matt!

[matthewota]

Not sure if this is the kind of art your referring to, but I consider it art (especially my Zindy Neilsen video). But here are some small animated films I worked on as time passers.

http://www.moviestorm.co.uk/community/?u=BA

Just click on the the thumbnail of any of the four films in the lower right hand frame to view the movie shown in the thumbnail


Um, I saw the Alien Song done before years ago By Victor Navonne copyrighted in 1999, using a cartoon-like alien with one eye. Same deal, disco globe fell on her....

[jokergirl]

He acknowledges that in the end of the clip, matthew, but I agree, a bit earlier would have been nice.

I did some studies for an acrylics painting I have in mind, but now I'm wondering if I'm not better off doing it digital (in Photoshop or preferably in Painter). I just can't get the colours right somehow. Maybe that's my lack of respectable artist material, but it's irking me when I have a full RGB palette right here in my computer :D
Does anybody have a good hint on painting stone or stone patterns? I know this stone I've drawn is way too grey even for the grey sky that I drew in the background - I ought to mix in more greens and pinks but the ones I have just wouldn't work for me yesterday.

http://joker.mirar.org/P?loc=art/blackwaters2.jpg&get=m

;)

[Nicolas]

Your painting is scaring me. Burn it, and never talk about the idea again. ;)

It's a really nice concept, I'd love to see the final result.

[jokergirl]

Your painting is scaring me. Burn it, and never talk about the idea again. ;)


Eeeexcellent. *Mr. Burns hand motion*

;)

[matthewota]

Corel Draw includes tiles of stone patterns. It is a great program you get a lot for your money with it...compared to Adobe Illustrator.

[Elukka]

I started dabbling in 3D (http://i195.photobucket.com/albums/z113/Elucca/Art%20and%20stuff/nyyship-2.png?t=1244771232) modeling again.

[Selenite]

It is a great program you get a lot for your money with it...compared to Adobe Illustrator.

Boy...do I agree with that statement. Illustrator gives me fits.

Here's an airbrush painting I did back in the nineties as an art class project. My idea at the time was to depict one of the Pioneer space probes as they might appear centuries from now, derelict and pitted with micro-meteorites. I got a little carried away with the background and garish with the colors though. The small star textures were made by laying down uncooked rice on the illustration board and shifting them about a bit as I shot the paint. The bigger Pleiades-like stars were done with a frisket cut in a cross pattern and then blasting the center with pure white to create the body of the star. The nebula clouds were done by shooting around cotton wadding. The probe itself was done last with watercolors and colored pencils after peeling off the last pieces of frisket.

It was a pain to scan, so I cropped off the original stenciled Walt Whitman text which was near the top and replaced it with one done in Photoshop.

It's full of Bad Astronomy too. I doubt if either probe will ever be near a nebula. ;)

http://pyxis.homestead.com/Pioneer11.jpg

[jokergirl]

Nice. I always wanted to try airbrushing. Did you get the materials from the school? The price has so far been a turn-off to me...

;)

[KaiYeves]

That's absolutely gorgeous.