Post your artwork (56k warning)

Post by **Delphine** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 3:58 pm

Jesus H., Pop. That second to last one is brilliant.

Post by **Esrever** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 4:55 pm

Pop! You are a talented man. Personally I love the pink shirt one the most, but that's just my love of "messy" (in a good way) linework's influence. They're all really slick.

I'm glad you like Skull Panda. He was originally created to parody ridiculous stuff like Hot Topic and the commercialization of alternative culture and so on. It was just a one-off joke from this comic, which is what that image I posted was based on:
http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?id=322

But I liked him so much I ended up building this whole mythology around him. I introduced alternative cartoonist Rikk Estoban in one storyline ( http://samandfuzzy.com/archive.php?id=351 ), and now Rikk occasionally draws comics like this:

http://samandfuzzy.com/gallery/qcsp.gif

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:29 pm

Is Rikk supposed to be a charicature of Jhonen Vasquez? Because when I read the comic, he's the first person who popped into my mind.

He's over-rated . . . but damn if he isn't adorable.

Post by **Popcorn** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:52 pm

I'm glad you like Skull Panda. He was originally created to parody ridiculous stuff like Hot Topic and the commercialization of alternative culture and so on.

So not only is he cool in an edgy, hip way in the first place, but he's actually beyond cool in that he's an edgy, hip parody of edgy hipness? Holy shit, man. Good work.

Thanks for the praise regarding my self-indulgent doodling of pretty girls, everybody. The tragedy is that most of those pictures are like over a year old, and I haven't done any real drawing since I finished college. In theory I'm capable of producing some decent stuff, but I lack any real consistency. If there's one thing I'm proud of, it's that when I was 10 I used to draw pictures of Sonic and then throw them in the bin and then a kid called Dan Marshall used to fish them out and sign his name on them. How cool is that?

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:54 pm

Segaholic2 wrote:
Baba O'Reily wrote:SuperKnux, I expected Dexter to shout 'CRAWLING IN MY SKIIIIIIIIN' at any moment.
Are you joking or are you really that stupid?

Joking. I do this a lot.

Post by **Popcorn** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 5:55 pm

Incidentally, although at one point I invested in a second-hand drawing tablet, I found it nearly useless because you couldn't do any really precise stuff with it (the opposite of using a mouse). Did I just get a really shitty one, or are tablets just not for me? I did finally get an optical mouse last month, actually, but if anything it seems even harder to draw with than a ball mouse.

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Thu Nov 25, 2004 11:02 pm

a year ago? Damn, Pop, I can only imagine what you can churn out NOW!
~Neo

Post by **Segaholic2** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:29 am

Popcorn's MSPaint art is ridiculous and garbagetastic.

hello.jpg · Post by **hello.jpg** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 4:29 am

My latest silly little piece. "Shape Hate".

<img src="http://img111.exs.cx/img111/4310/shapesmall.jpg">

Fucking shapies.

Also, a quick thank you to everyone who posted and completely outclassed my "work" in every way. Well done, everyone. Especially James and Esrever.

Post by **Esrever** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:33 am

Hahah! Oh man, that is the cutest act of racisim I have ever seen. But where IS home for the Shapies? Shapia?

Rikk is modelled a bit after Vasquez, Zeta. I love Vasquez's work, but it never stops being funny how these gritty, disturbed little alternative comics have inspired so many stylistic copycats and so much trendy merchandise.

The ironic thing is that Skull Panda, this thing that is meant to parody merchandisable alternative cartoon characters, is now by far my best-selling t-shirt. Hah!

Neo Yi · Post by **Neo Yi** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 2:09 pm

The ironic thing is that Skull Panda, this thing that is meant to parody merchandisable alternative cartoon characters, is now by far my best-selling t-shirt. Hah!

It's a T-Shirt? Wow...tempt to buy it rising!
~Neo

j-man · Post by **j-man** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 3:23 pm

I hardly measure up to anything here...but here are some choice cuts from my collection. It's limited to links to avoid any table-stretchin' shenanigans.

8-bit Theatre
Legend of Bahamut
SparkRobo
Hitchhiker's Guide collab pt. 1 (pencils/ink)
Hitchhiker's Guide collab pt. 2 (ink/colours)
Planet of Miracles
Sonic The Rockstar

That's essentially the ones I like the most. Feel free to browse my gallery to see the rest.

Baba O'Reily · Post by **Baba O'Reily** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 10:28 pm

Time Spent: Less than two minutes.
If you got that, go outside.

Zeta · Post by **Zeta** » Fri Nov 26, 2004 11:06 pm

But it's cold outside.

Now illustrate what a "Fist Metal Crackle" is.

That's been bothering me.

Post by **G.Silver** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 2:54 am

Incidentally, although at one point I invested in a second-hand drawing tablet, I found it nearly useless because you couldn't do any really precise stuff with it (the opposite of using a mouse). Did I just get a really shitty one, or are tablets just not for me?

I think we've been over that they take some getting used to (it certainly doesn't feel exactly like a real pencil) but the program you use with it in order to take advantage of it better not be MS Paint, you need something like PhotoShop or Painter to see what you can do with it--did you get any software with it? Also sometimes they bug out and you get "full force" when you're trying to do fine lines or something, so with a used one (mine's "refurbished") it could be a little dodgy. I don't know if it would ever stop feeling loopy, I get the impression from your handling of MS Paint that your technique isn't even something that compares to the way a person uses a tablet.. not to suggest that one is superior than the other, just that your approach has got to be radically different, I don't see any way a person could pull that kind of stuff out of MS Paint.

But you do anyway.

I'd like to see this thread keep going..

Post by **Popcorn** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 12:50 pm

I don't know if it would ever stop feeling loopy, I get the impression from your handling of MS Paint that your technique isn't even something that compares to the way a person uses a tablet.. not to suggest that one is superior than the other, just that your approach has got to be radically different, I don't see any way a person could pull that kind of stuff out of MS Paint.

I draw in Paint very differently from how I draw with mine own hands... basically I just draw tiny tiny individual parts over and over again. It's a trial-and-error process-- I just delete any part that looks crap and draw it again. It takes hours, but I think it gives quite a nice result eventually. I'm a merely average artist when I'm not blessed with the gifts of undo and copy and paste.

I'd like to see this thread keep going...

Me too. Here's an anorexic Sonic:

And here's a new Paint work-in-process of the chick in the dress:

Post by **G.Silver** » Sun Nov 28, 2004 1:11 pm

Wow, looks like someone wacked half his body off.. Kinda cool looking though.

In that case though, I think it's just a matter of adjustment, I know when I first started using a tablet it didn't feel right at all, but after a while it started to feel fairly natural. Something that still gets me to this day is forgetting to hold the tablet straight in front of me, or else what I'm drawing comes out slanty on the screen (and not synched up with what I've already drawn).

Timestones · Post by **Timestones** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:14 pm

Ya know, there's something that I find particularly nifty in Popcorn's paint art. I think it's that some of them have the black and white spaces define what you see in the image rather than the lines.

Keeping the topic alive:

Post by **Delphine** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:17 pm

That poor read-headed girl! Her backside is so ginormus that she needs to hold her bikini bottom up! O.O

Post by **Segaholic2** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 4:21 pm

You know her name is Din, yeah?

Psxphile · Post by **Psxphile** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:23 pm

Oh! My Goddesses (of Hyrule)! <3

**stares at Pop's Sonic art**

(sigh)

Post by **Delphine** » Tue Nov 30, 2004 8:47 pm

Segaholic2 wrote:You know her name is Din, yeah?

Yes, because you just told me.

Post by **Esrever** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:53 am

Are we posting ladies, now? Count me in.

Any accusations about her suit being "painted on" will be tolerated because... er, it was.

SuperKnux · Post by **SuperKnux** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 11:14 am

Snacks! That's a nice lady there Esrever. Looks like she can pass off as a JSRF character.

chriscaffee · Post by **chriscaffee** » Wed Dec 01, 2004 2:23 pm

I like that shapy thing.