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Victor · Posts: 125

I like art.

I'm sure a good portion of you lads and lasses do as well, this being perhaps a slightly more sophisticated section of Internets. Hell, perhaps you do a little Arts'n yourself, more the better.

Tell me about your art, or about someone else's art; I like art.

I'm not as well versed as I would like, concerning more traditional art and artists. My stuff leans heavily digital, as does.....well pretty much everyone around me who Arts it up themselves. Talk about that if you want, what that means in the grand scheme of things. Grand Scheme'ing ain't so bad, if a little boring.

So, with that said, I pop into Half Price Books and, well, pick up anything that seems interesting (also cheap....which pretty much everything is...store is great) every now and then. I happened upon a collection of work by Antoni Tapies, a while back. He's famous or something.

He's mostly known for these radical impasto-dust-dirt-cement-sand-whateverhecanfuckingfind texture canvases. I think he calls them his Doors.

Texture has become a little bit of a sticking point in my own stuff recently, so this is of special interest, personally.

I think he's still alive, either way, certainly he is the bee's knees.

Google that shit, yo. Then hit me back, with your turn, son. Bizno and shit.

Also, use pictures. They are better than words.

FocusRambo · Posts: 829

I'm still working. If you'd like to see more, let me know. I enjoy feedback.

So far, I've been strictly traditional art. Art classes here in good old Tennessee aren't that in depth, so, I do most of my work and learning on my own.

Bunch of nonobjective work. You know, but I've been drawing/painting THINGS more recently.

Nice to see a thread like this.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Before getting involved in games, I went to art school for cartooning. Here's one:

Victor · Posts: 125

Tell me about SVA, Fort.....I have the catalog sitting on top of my scanner.

Also, I like that, Focus.....I likes the messies.

Mr. Mechanical · Posts: 1890

I used to draw, well, doodle mostly. Some of it was kind of interesting, most of it was just shit. If I had a scanner I would totally share some of if with you. I only took maybe three classes dedicated to art my entire life, and most of them moved too quickly from one subject to the other. Never enough time to fully dive into certain techniques or mediums, there was literally too much ground each teacher tried to cover, we were lucky to just get the basics from most things. I can't really blame my education though, because I know that art is one of those things you either do or you don't. I think I'm gonig to start doing it again.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Victor wrote:

Tell me about SVA, Fort.....I have the catalog sitting on top of my scanner.

Well what do you want to know about SVA Victor?

I graduated with a degree in cartooning back in 99, though the cartooning/illustration department is much different today than it was back then. Its MUCH better today, btw. I found myself very frustrated, hence why I ended up making mostly movies back then.

I now work for SVA for the computer art department. I even teach a class or two there. But I know my stuff around the other departments (sorta). Shoot.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

Victor wrote:

He's mostly known for these radical impasto-dust-dirt-cement-sand-whateverhecanfuckingfind texture canvases. I think he calls them his Doors.

that's pretty fantastic.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

I draw a lot of anime bullshit. I would show some examples but my server is down until next month.

One day I will publish a manga. It will be awesome!
Either that or it'll be terribly cheap yet hopefully entertaining. Yessir.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

Next month you will have a web server, but next time you see me on IM you will receive an MP3 of Chicken Payback.

-Psiga

Maztorre · Posts: 1175

Psiga wrote:

Chicken Payback.

I love that song! Seen the video? It's impossibly cool.

Psiga · Posts: 3990

Yeah, I sent him the video months ago, and recently he was saying that he wanted the audio for his iPod. So I was off-topically letting him know that I had it for him.

It's a damned fun video, it is.

-Psiga

another god · Posts: 1629

here're some collages/digital art i made and intend to print on a plotter:

me inserted into "mythology"

i want to put this at the head of my bed

both of these images are meant to be printed at about 40" by 12". they've been resized a bit. maybe... not enough?

Waffen · Posts: 1638

^^^^ fuck yeah, nice banner. that new Kingdom Under Fire should be killer..... the first was probably the most unknown/underground game on Xbox. it was damn hard too.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

Persona-sama wrote:

I draw a lot of anime bullshit. I would show some examples but my server is down until next month.

<---- there's one!

Kappuru · Posts: 492

I take pictures.

ReroRero · Posts: 2148

I do lots of stuff with MSPaint, one picture a day. Also anime/manga stuff but as Persona said, his server is down. I did save some of the stuff, I'll go digging for links if anyone wants to see it. Oh, and there is the BlendSpotting comic.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

dessgeega wrote:

Persona-sama wrote:

I draw a lot of anime bullshit. I would show some examples but my server is down until next month.

<---- there's one!

I think it really says something that you were the only one out of all of us that still has an avatar up, dess. It says something along the lines of "[url=http://www.burstnet.com/ads/ad10755a-map.cgi/SZ=468X60A|728X90A/V=1.1J/BRC=40568/BCPG13.49040.49600/]the army of compassion: click here to donate.[/url]" Yes indeed.

Also, I drew this with a mouse a minute ago:

God, I can't sleep right now. Insomnia sucks.
(The condition, not the website. Although the site might suck too, I don't know.)

EndlessChris · Posts: 431

Holy shit kapp that's awesome

graedus · Posts: 60

I have little education in art and didn't really begin to take interest in it until a few years ago. That being said, I visited MoMA in NY earlier this year and was rather overwhelmed by the huge volume of incredible work on exhibit there. My favorite was a painting by German artist Gerhard Richter, so I purchased this book and have been reading about him. I like him a lot. Examples: 1, 2 (this gets said all the time, but it's hard to really appreciate without actually standing in front of the painting; images don't do justice, etc.)

I also got my first camera recently. Here's the photo I am most satisfied with so far.

newave · Posts: 616

I have posted some of this stuff in the past on the old forum but i guess theres enough new peopl this iteration to repost...

I went to an interesting art magnet highschool in Maryland called Carver Center for Arts and Technology where I did photos like this:

I then went to an art colege called the Maryland Institute College of Art where i made digital photos like:

And videos like this: http://newave.mooshuu.com/video/reel.mp4

Now I've been out of school for awhile and not using my talents too greatly at a
Japanese porn company where ill secretly make stuff like this:

I'm also trying to finish this NES themed music video...here something from it:

More of my art shit is at: http://newave.mooshuu.com/

Victor · Posts: 125

FortNinety wrote:

Well what do you want to know about SVA Victor?

I don't know, really. If the logistics weren't against it, it seems like a place that would be a delight to attend. Graphic Design is the current road I am going down, or attempting to.

newave wrote:

I went to an interesting art magnet highschool in Maryland called Carver Center for Arts and Technology

I went to one of these, for the better part of two years, during our family's stay in North Carolina. Northwest School of the Arts, they called it. I can't say I learned all that much, though through no fault of the school itself, but I think it was a good experience. It was the first time I started thinking about art somewhat seriously.....well, as seriously as a 16 year old can manage.

Not that today,at 20, is light-years ahead of that.

I guess I'll take my turn now.

I like to draw some, but my heart lies other places. The vast majority of stuff I do nowadays is PS.

That is a thumbnail Also, it is what I'm working on currently. I don't seeing it changing much between now and whenever I stop. This is where I submit most of the things that I do., and has been for a couple years now, if interested.

FortNinety · Posts: 4591

Victor wrote:

FortNinety wrote:

Well what do you want to know about SVA Victor?

I don't know, really. If the logistics weren't against it, it seems like a place that would be a delight to attend. Graphic Design is the current road I am going down, or attempting to.

Graphic design, eh? Well let's just say... that if you attend, you might be super frustrated with the old guard. Or at least that's the word on the street.

dessgeega · Posts: 3317

i have a friend who attends sva.

she studies under the two artists who did that picture of reverend al sharpton with a snake on the cover of that magazine.

Sushi D · Posts: 88

i am just an amature/hobbyist... although i've been in a very big slump....

its started around the time i started working in march....

i would've loved to attended an art school.. but most of the good ones are ASPENSIVE! and i am but a dirt-poor ruffian. maybe i could attend one at a later date...

any tips for a guy in my situation?

EndlessChris · Posts: 431

I feel like that right leg should be going out rather than in. Like, away from the camera if this was a camera.

evnvnv · Posts: 333

This reminds me of the penny arcade art forum ... have you guys ever checked that out? there are some awesome artists on there but they treat each other in really bizarre ways.

also: this is not me, it is a guy who used to live in the apartment building that i lived in: http://www.chandlerwood.com

He makes some of the most amazing art I've ever seen, and I think that people here (especially the handful that live in LA) would dig it.

There is a bigger version of this picture on his webpage--the prominently featured apartment building in the upper right corner, and the tiled floor room in the center are the place where I used to live!

He doesn't have nearly enough stuff online, but check it out anyway!

As for me, I make music.

http://www.notnotfun.com/mysexualdad which has probably come up in some dozen other threads... Yes, the band is called "my sexual dad." No, we are not a 'novelty' band.

Persona-sama · Posts: 1145

Victor · Posts: 125

evnvnv wrote:

This reminds me of the penny arcade art forum ... have you guys ever checked that out? there are some awesome artists on there but they treat each other in really bizarre ways.

I.....I read for a little while, some time ago. Honestly, dislike most things about it. Obviously some very talented fellows/lasses, in the populace.

Really, it's not a forum about Art, it's an illustration forum. I don't really mean in terms of focused scope.........Art is everything about an image that you can't see, and they don't really care about that. I'm not saying they should. They just seem to have a specific focus on the particulars, not the universals.

Tim · Posts: 169

These are some things I've done between graduating from UMBC and now. Like newave I put these images up when we had the old art thread, but this time I have something new!

A poster I did for Black History Month at my church. I made a pen sketch of MLK from a photo I found on the web. Then I scanned the sketch and traced the lines using the pencil tool in Illustrator (took 4....6 hours, maybe?) I did the same thing to make the Fruit Bat and Pistol Opera posters below.

This is new. I really like it. I did the sketch like 2 years ago (paused the DVD while I was watching the movie and drew what was onscreen), and I just now did something with it.

Crazy Bacon Lips · Posts: 783

Solid colors and a general lack of shading give me an art-boner.

I'm not being sarcastic, your stuff is fantastic. Do you have a website?

Tim · Posts: 169

Thanks!

I don't have a site though. I've forgotten all I've learned about web programs, so I want to make a page on Deviantart (or something similar that has to do with art) so at least I'll have my art up somewhere. Then I won't have to give potential employers a link to a flickr account.

I used to have a website when I was at UMBC, but that was for a class (so I was kind of forced to do it), and it's been taken down since.

Yeah, but I really like Illustrator. I can't wait until my company upgrades so I can switch to the raw power of CS2! My stuff will totally look better once I go next-gen.

FocusRambo · Posts: 829

Deviantart, for the mostpart, is trash. You'll find some very capable and interesting artists there, if you look around.

That piece with the fish, it's amazing.

Victor · Posts: 125

FocusRambo wrote:

Deviantart, for the mostpart, is trash. You'll find some very capable and interesting artists there, if you look around.

That piece with the fish, it's amazing.

It's a nice service. Just for hosting, having a place to tell people to go, or whatever. What a bunch of humorless douchebags, though.

Also, that fish thing is great, like the typo. Typos pretty fun, just in gerenal, I like messing with it. About as design'y as you can get, typo is; and that's a nice change of pace sometimes.

Drawings. Sometimes I do them. You can click them, with the wonders of html at your fingertips.

Another artist introduced by that fine book store: Tullio Pericoli. I guess you could call him an illustrator. His landscapes.....they are almost like the work of a very sophisticated child, his view so wonderfully distorted towards the simple fantastic....ness? in nature. Sophisticated Child, I think that's a good term for any artist. He hails from Itally, he may also still be alive, I am not sure. His work reminds me of videogames.

If the world was a slightly better place he would have created a point-n-click adventure game 11 years ago, in addition, and we could all be talking about that.

butters4life · Posts: 255

I work fulltime as a web designer, everything I know is self taught over several years. I work primarily in photoshop but I also do some of teh flash when needed.

some recent stuff... (I am aware of how cliche the designs are and given the choice i wold work a bit more freely but when you are working for others you often need to compromise creativity)

and some other random stuff...

http://images.deviantart.com/i/2004/01/5/d/Arcyphon_Remix.jpg
http://images2.deviantart.com/i/2004/04/9/e/Origin.jpg

Personally Origin is probably the piece I am the most happy with in that i can look back now and not completly hate it.

Victor · Posts: 125

butters4life wrote:

I am aware of how cliche the designs are and given the choice i wold work a bit more freely but when you are working for others you often need to compromise creativity.

They're certainly well executed, regardless. It kind of sucks knowing you can do something more interestingly, yes.

Interface graphics are fun.

brianleb321 · Posts: 19

I've done a couple of things I'm reasonably proud of, but nothing mind blowing or even original. I'm taking a drawing class now in college that I am hoping to learn a lot from. here are a few things though:

(sorry about geocities... my normal webspace I don't own right now due to a reinvention of the site... speaking of creating things we are making a cd, http://www.myspace.com/sndmtas if you're interested... yes I know that looks like ass, I have no hand in it except the music making.)

www.geocities.com/brianleb321/clowncharcoal.jpg
a lovable clown, colors inverted
www.geocities.com/brianleb321/faustpaintingfinished.jpg
everyone's favorite faust, from GGX
www.geocities.com/brianleb321/grouchodrawnfinished.jpg
groucho marx
www.geocities.com/brianleb321/guessassdrawn.jpg
an ass.
www.geocities.com/brianleb321/pyramidheadpainting.jpg
a pyramid head
www.geocities.com/brianleb321/pyronpainting.jpg
pyron
www.geocities.com/brianleb321/shyguycharcoal.jpg
a shy guy, colors inverted

some things I do, I like, but usually only to a point. I can see the flaws in my work, I just can't usually correct them. creating depth is one of those problems I have. I'm hoping to work on a lot of my basics this semester in my drawing class.