Howl's Art Thread

[trash panda]

Yep, it's Ulti. :]
she should be more recognizable now:

 

[trash panda]

Chug chug chug chug.
Since most of my stuff looks like rainbow vomit, I decided to try painting this with only red blue and green.

 

[Airling]

But but... I love your rainbow vomits...

 

[trash panda]

I'm as done with this as I'll ever be.
Also, I had to use yellow.

 

[Cabaret]

Jesus Howl that's damn creepy & just amazing as fuck! I'm staggered & a little hypnotised by that. <3

 

[trash panda]

(10 years later). Thank you, Cab!

ACTUAL FFVII fanfart:

I'm trying to do Barret right now. >_<

 

[Obsidian Fire]

I really like the way you draw hair. You manage to hit that happy medium between hair being "one solid mass" and "individual strands". It has a nice "naturally messy" feeling to it.

 

[trash panda]

^^^ Thank you.

Okay guys, I'm really excited to share this with ye' fellow arteests! I was able to successful make sort-of-alcohol-ink with 91 proof rubbing alcohol and sharpie markers.

Basically, I just popped open a few sharpie markers, took out the little foam ink cartridge, and soaked them in alcohol for, oh...a month:

The result is just what I wanted:

This is exciting because ink is so expensive. Reasonably priced pigment inks are $4-5 per ounce and alcohol inks are about $5-6 per ounce. You could easily make an eight ounce jar with just a few sharpie markers and a bottle of alcohol.

Note, however that these can't be used on canvas. It will basically just eat through any sizing that's on your canvas, destroy your paper, etc.. I 'm using it on Yupo (synthetic) paper, which is sort of like painting on a sheet of plastic. It works well on glass too.

They are transparent but can be built up semi-opaque, and because it's made with alcohol, they dry VERY fast.

Even if you don't consider yourself to be an artist, painting with is like free therapy.

 

[Obsidian Fire]

^^That is very cool.

 

[trash panda]

Oh, I forgot...speedpaints from a few months ago. ^.^

Spoiler: Agrias

Spoiler: Moogle

Spoiler: Lightning redesign

Spoiler: Lovey Dovey

Spoiler: Aeris

I'm getting my (f)art station all set up today, now I just need to find time. ^.^

 

[trash panda]

Speedpaints today.

P.S. DarkNation, I didn't forget about you.

 

[Octo]

Howl I love them drawings wot you dun!

 

[trash panda]

^^^^


Jenova WIP

 

[trash panda]

So this is for DarkNation. I don't think he's here right now but HE'LL BE BACK...they always come back...

VERSION I (because I'm still trying to figure these inks out )

 

[trash panda]

Schtuff n' things:


Progress n' stuff

Yop gave me the idea that this inkstuff resembles a Rorschach test, so here's s'more. What do you see?

 

[trash panda]

I'm bored with this now so I quit.

I guess when I'm not being a lazy twat, I'll take a better picture because on this one you can see alllll the texture of the paper.

 

[Ghost X]

Texture of the paper doesn't necessarily take away from the artwork. One of my classmates does trippy stuff with the surface texture to add to their work. I haven't ever seen them in class to ask about their process though .

 

[trash panda]

^ Okay, I like the texture now...it's found a place in my heart.

I wish I could invite you all over to my house to do this with me because it's SO relaxing.

Yeah, I did some crappy cropping in paint. It's late.

 

[Flare]

I really like that Jenova one, the paper texture actually adds to it in my opinion. The color's beautiful, and the line work is beautiful. <3
Did you do the colors with watercolor?

 

[Obsidian Fire]

I like how your Jenova looks like something out of classical sculpture from the shoulders up... and then is straight out of a horror film from the shoulders down.

 

[trash panda]

Thanks, gaissssse.

Jenova was done with watercolors and white acrylic. ^.^
I just noticed that her right side is uneven but before I decided to put some hair there, her torso actually looked fine despite the curves. I wanted to make her a little curvy but she still came out a little too scrawny IMO. ^.^

 

[Flare]

You're really good at painting traditionally; I've never really delved into watercolors myself, so I really love seeing other people use it nicely like this. ^.^

 

[RedFFWolf]

I have to stop looking through people's threads in the "Creativity" section - I'm beginning to realise what a talentless f*ck I am when it comes to drawing

Seriously good stuff! Love the Ultimecia, in particular

 

[trash panda]

^^^ Aw shucks.

I know what you mean Red, I watch youtube videos of people painting all the time (not time lapse, but real-time) and some people can whip out masterpieces in 20 minutes or less. And then I'm like...

On the other hand, you can find a lot of inspiration from looking at other people's work. I poked around Flare's art for a few days and found myself wanting to go buy clay and bake some baby chocobos.

 

[Ghost X]

...and bake some baby chocobos.

You monster.