Artwork Thread

[cornyjohn]

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I'm curious to know if anyone else is talented in the visual arts. I finally got around to taking some garbage-quality pictures of stuff I've done/am working on.

Feel free to post your own art.

For starters, we have this:

Woman on the Beach


I have no clue who this woman is, or what she's doing on a beach, but this was my first hand-drawn portrait.

This one took me roughly a month to finish.

The Face




This is one of my first sculptures for a sculpture club I'm in at school. It's made from old recycled clay from broken pots, so there are a lot of "particles" as we sculptors call it. "Particles" include anything from hairballs to dirt to just about whatever can fall into a 5 gallon bucket full of wet clay.

To do this one (and keep it from exploding in a kiln), I first started by wadding up a fist-sized ball of paper towels. Next, I wrapped this in a thin layer of wet clay, filling in the gaps with spare clay. After that, I added another layer and made it roughly 1/2 inch thick all the way around. From there, I added the base details--eyes, cheekbones, and the beginnings of a chin--until the shell began to dry and I could work on the minute details.

The picture above shows the face before it has been fired.

My Better Half


This is a new work I've just started in the past month or two. The girl just so happens to be my wonderful girlfriend of 3 years, so I decided to surprise her with a big portrait for Christmas.

The way this is drawn is to put a grid underneath a blank sheet of paper. The purpose of this is to improve quality by drawing in the details of each individual box before moving, thus eliminating possibilities for errors. Then, as the outline goes in, using a softer lead pencil, strokes are made in the direction of shadows, and are blended with the fingers until smooth.

The whole process, I expect, shall take another month to finish (I'm on a pretty strict deadline with this one).

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So, there we have it. This is what I do for fun (besides games). Feel free to post your own artwork.

[Bluewarwolf]

It's not showing anything on my computer.....

[cornyjohn]

Originally Posted by Bluewarwolf

It's not showing anything on my computer.....

Crap. I was hoping that just copying the image location from Hotmail, where I sent the pictures from my phone, would work.

EDIT: Fixed.

[ownage]

hmm ill see if i can get some stuff i made in my 3D design elective from last year, its in my school folder though so id have to do it tomorrow :/

[Bluewarwolf]

Ok, I can see them no Not bad, drawing is a lot better than what I can do.

[GreenWizard]

Those are really cool. A lot better than I can do on portraits. I prefer to draw game characters and cartoons. Most of the stuff I do on paper, so I'll have to scan it before I can post if. Hopefully, that won't take too long...

[meatwad420]

LOL! man, thank god you made this thread, cuz i actually dove into my photobucket account, and found a picture i drew my senior year in high school in home ec class...this is the only one out of an entire notebook to make it to the a computer sadly...and now, its going in my sig



and yes, thats actually the way i write...i have terrible penmanship haha

[cornyjohn]

A crabbird, hahaha.

Birdicus crabachist? Where do you come up with this stuff?

[Reizo_PR]

Can't see your drawing CJ. Edit: Never mind. Loading failed like 10 times till it appeared.

Lol at your link.

S is for sucks.

Imrpovement? That ain't an improvement.
A hahaha TROG DOOR!

Yeah, that link improved my drawing skills, a lot. Lol.

[Greatheart]

My sister is a great artist, but she doesn't like anyone to just take a picture of her art because it misrepresents the colors. :/