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#1 mindstorm
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I've been in an art mood lately and have been trying to develop my 'style.' I was wondering what people think about it. What are your thoughts about the picture? It took about 6 hours to ink my hand and then color in Photoshop. In the case that you are wondering, this is me and my girlfriend.

me and my gf

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#2 gameguru25
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that looks really nice. :)
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#3 Mumbles527
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Its absolutely hideous! But that actual art work part of it is quite nice. Its the subject matter that hurts the overall rating! Edit: I read my post and realized that it sounded really mean...so I just wanted to clear up that I was joking. I think it came out quite well!
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#4 Hinata237
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It looks pretty good. Keep on practicing :)
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#5 Judza
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Mate, you got artistic talent. I'll be in line for your first release if all your work is like this.
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#6 Ragnarok1051
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Really good piece of art, and she plays video games so you have a keeper on your hands. :P
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#7 mindstorm
Member since 2003 • 15255 Posts

Really good piece of art, and she plays video games so you have a keeper on your hands.:PRagnarok1051

I must say that it is indeed amazing to date a girl who started playing video games before I did... I'm not even hardcore enough to beat that many NES games...

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#8 jakeboudville
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You make me real sad now because I lack skills in the art department:P
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#9 battlefront23
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[QUOTE="Ragnarok1051"]Really good piece of art, and she plays video games so you have a keeper on your hands.:Pmindstorm

I must say that it is indeed amazing to date a girl who started playing video games before I did... I'm not even hardcore enough to beat that many NES games...

good job and awesome sig! :)

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#10 Ragnarok1051
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[QUOTE="Ragnarok1051"]Really good piece of art, and she plays video games so you have a keeper on your hands.:Pmindstorm

I must say that it is indeed amazing to date a girl who started playing video games before I did... I'm not even hardcore enough to beat that many NES games...

Yeah she puts you and I to shame...how could we let ourselves slip so much?

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#11 bluezy
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Wow, that's great.:D
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#12 Zaeryn
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Looks pretty damn nice if I say so myself.
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#13 mindstorm
Member since 2003 • 15255 Posts

Its absolutely hideous! But that actual art work part of it is quite nice. Its the subject matter that hurts the overall rating! Edit: I read my post and realized that it sounded really mean...so I just wanted to clear up that I was joking. I think it came out quite well!Mumbles527

I took it jokingly from the beginning but thanks for clearing it up.

I'll be in line for your first release if all your work is like this.Judza

I'm actually trying to start selling some work. I'll draw anything someone wants so long as they have a picture of it. I only made up my mind to start selling artwork a week or so ago so I haven't had any definate offers. I haven't come up with a good way to publicize it yet either... I'm a college student in need of money and I'd rather not wash dishes to get money if I can help it...

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#14 The_Ish
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you got mad 1337 ski11s yo! :P

seriously, that is very good

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#15 --Anna--
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It's Great !!!
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#16 viewtifuljon321
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yup its beautiful! keep up the good work!
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#17 MrGeezer
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Not too bad, but it could use some work. Especially in the faces. The faces look really flat and could use more detail. Also, there's this weird thing going on where part of the faces have lots of scraggly little "detail lines" or something, but then the other half of the face is just without any type of detail whatsoever. I think it would have been better to just stick with a consistent style throughout. Or at least throughout such a narrow aspect as a face. Either the whole face should be flat, or the whole face should be scraggly and comic booky.But when part of the face looks one way and the other doesn't, it looks sort of weird.

Good effort, though. Not bad at all, and a lot better than I could do. Could use some improvement, but it's definitely better than "decent".

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#18 Poedon
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the guy in the pic has a skeevy kind of devious look in his eyes. I'd recommed the girl in the pic to stay on her toes.:P

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#19 mindstorm
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Not too bad, but it could use some work. Especially in the faces. The faces look really flat and could use more detail. Also, there's this weird thing going on where part of the faces have lots of scraggly little "detail lines" or something, but then the other half of the face is just without any type of detail whatsoever. I think it would have been better to just stick with a consistent style throughout. Or at least throughout such a narrow aspect as a face. Either the whole face should be flat, or the whole face should be scraggly and comic booky.But when part of the face looks one way and the other doesn't, it looks sort of weird.

Good effort, though. Not bad at all, and a lot better than I could do. Could use some improvement, but it's definitely better than "decent".

MrGeezer

After reading what you wrote I realize what you mean. It does look a bit 2d on half the face and then detailed on the other... I'll try to even it out more either in this work or in future work. The lines in the face are from the shadow from the original picture I based this work on. I do need to try to change up my work from the photos a bit more as it does follow the photo a bit too much. I copy pictures too much and am not all that creative... I'll try to be more careful with those shadow in the future. Thanks for the criticism. It really is appreciated.

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#20 MrGeezer
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[QUOTE="MrGeezer"]

Not too bad, but it could use some work. Especially in the faces. The faces look really flat and could use more detail. Also, there's this weird thing going on where part of the faces have lots of scraggly little "detail lines" or something, but then the other half of the face is just without any type of detail whatsoever. I think it would have been better to just stick with a consistent style throughout. Or at least throughout such a narrow aspect as a face. Either the whole face should be flat, or the whole face should be scraggly and comic booky.But when part of the face looks one way and the other doesn't, it looks sort of weird.

Good effort, though. Not bad at all, and a lot better than I could do. Could use some improvement, but it's definitely better than "decent".

mindstorm

After reading what you wrote I realize what you mean. It does look a bit 2d on half the face and then detailed on the other... I'll try to even it out more either in this work or in future work. The lines in the face are from the shadow from the original picture I based this work on. I do need to try to change up my work from the photos a bit more as it does follow the photo a bit too much. I copy pictures too much and am not all that creative... I'll try to be more careful with those shadow in the future. Thanks for the criticism. It really is appreciated.

Looking more closely at it, it's obvious that the liney part is shadowing.

So in that sense, it's not too bad. The shadow areas are pretty much where they are supposed to be.

It still looks sort of weird though. Maybe you should just use a different method of indicating shadow? Maybe instead of using harsh lines, perhaps light shading would work better?

I don't know. I'm not an artist and I could never do anything near that good. It just doesn't look wquite right though. Do something about the shadows. I think that's my main problem. Everything else is great, but the shadows just look off.

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You make me real sad now because I lack skills in the art department:Pjakeboudville
i couldnt draw a picturto save my life:(
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#22 Poedon
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[QUOTE="jakeboudville"]You make me real sad now because I lack skills in the art department:P2ndWonder
i couldnt draw a picturto save my life:(

Me neither, i have trouble drawing stick figures :P

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#23 Putzwapputzen
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dude, thats hella sick. you have tallent man. i wish i could do sthg like that. keep up the good work and you will be famous someday :)
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#24 lil_buddy7
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woooow thats a cool drawin ( not being sarcastic)
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#25 A1B2C3CAL
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Nice job! :)
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#26 Ragnarok1051
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[QUOTE="2ndWonder"][QUOTE="jakeboudville"]You make me real sad now because I lack skills in the art department:PPoedon

i couldnt draw a picturto save my life:(

Me neither, i have trouble drawing stick figures :P

Hey thats the line I use to describe my talents. :P

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#27 kulmiye
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[QUOTE="Poedon"]

[QUOTE="2ndWonder"][QUOTE="jakeboudville"]You make me real sad now because I lack skills in the art department:PRagnarok1051

i couldnt draw a picturto save my life:(

Me neither, i have trouble drawing stick figures :P

Hey thats the line I use to describe my talents. :P

Such losers :P but a great picture I must say....

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#28 _LiquidFlame_
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good!