m7600's art

[m7600]

Messing around with a sort of pixelart-ish style. Made with Krita and Gimp

 

[m7600]

Making some custom leaf brushes in Krita, and using some of the default brushes with a few modifications. The trunk was made in Blender.

 

[m7600]

Doing a little bit of digital sculpting in Blender.

 

[shmity72]

very impressive work, very.

i thought you might want to see some paul cezane paintings too for inspiration as the trees reminded me of the great impressionist.

 

[m7600]

Some fantasy portraits. Made with Blender, Gimp and Krita.

 

[m7600]

Doing some more sculpting in Blender.

 

[Urdnot_Wrex]

Doing some more sculpting in Blender.

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How does that even work? Does it start with some head template and then you can shape everything, or do you have to start from 0? I imagine it's ridiculously difficult to get an anatomically correct head and body shape without templates.
(Mind you, I'm just curious, when I try to draw it still looks like it did in elementary school, second grade...)

 

[m7600]

For these last sculptures (the orc, the woman, etc) I started with a sphere.
Here's a video that explains how to sculpt a realistic head in 20 minutes (I didn't make the video, lol)

 

[m7600]

For some characters I use MakeHuman as a base, that gives me a pre-made template for the body and the head, and I can modify those templates in different ways. For some other characters, I like to make them from scratch. For example, today I made this mannequin, I started with some basic shapes like cylinders and spheres, which I then sculpted a bit. It looks kind of similar to those traditional wooden mannequins that you can buy at an art supply store.
Usually, the choice to use MakeHuman or to make a character from scratch has to do with how much free time I have on my hands. If I don't have much free time (due to work or whatever) I'll use MakeHuman to speed up the process. When I have time to spare, I'll make something from scratch, since that way I can keep practicing things like proportions, anatomy, etc.

 

[Urdnot_Wrex]

They do look like those wooden puppets...

I'm impressed that templates are only a matter of convenience, not of necessity. Starting from scratch with spheres and cylinders requires a lot of knowledge about anatomy and proportions, and I imagine translating knowledge and information from skills of drawing on paper to 3D space is quite different.
It looks easy, but I bet if I tried it you'd have a good laugh
I share a home with an artist, so I know how much work is involved in what looks like a simple result.

It's so cool such possibilities exist as free and open source programs, so that creativity isn't stopped by budget.

 

[m7600]

I love open source stuff : )

I enjoy the process of making 3D art more than 2D. It's probably something that's entirely subjective, though. I'm still experimenting and exploring different ways to combine both of them. It's definitely challenging to make the resulting image look good, and I don't think I'm at that level right now. I'd say that my stuff looks amateurish and barely acceptable, lol. Which makes sense, since I don't do art for a living. But, it's something that I happen to like, and I'm always trying to improve whenever I get the chance to do some art.

 

[Urdnot_Wrex]

I love open source stuff : )

I enjoy the process of making 3D art more than 2D. It's probably something that's entirely subjective, though. I'm still experimenting and exploring different ways to combine both of them. It's definitely challenging to make the resulting image look good, and I don't think I'm at that level right now. I'd say that my stuff looks amateurish and barely acceptable, lol. Which makes sense, since I don't do art for a living. But, it's something that I happen to like, and I'm always trying to improve whenever I get the chance to do some art.

And that's exactly what I meant. Open source software gives you that chance to experiment and learn new skills even as a "hobby" artist.

And if you think your stuff looks amateurish (I don't have the knowledge to judge that), then all the more respect for your courage to share and show your developing experiments. Keeping going your way and doing what you like.

 

[m7600]

If I get really good at art, then maybe I can quit my day job as a philosopher

Nah, just joking, I'm lucky enough to actually like my day job. It does get repetitive though, so that's where art and RPGs come in

 

[mlnevese]

I admire anyone who can draw. If I made a sphere in a 3d program, after 3 hours I'd have a sphere with weird textures, at best... don't even ask what happens if I try to draw a straight line by hand

 

[m7600]

Another stylized base, made with spheres and cylinders.

 

[Urdnot_Wrex]

Another stylized base, made with spheres and cylinders.

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[tries to suppress the urge to lecture about anatomically realistic waist-hip ratio in human females... but what would a krogan battlemaster know about that ]

 

[m7600]

[tries to suppress the urge to lecture about anatomically realistic waist-hip ratio in human females... but what would a krogan battlemaster know about that ]

Challenge accepted : )

 

[m7600]

Sculpting a dragon, it's still a work in progress. The scales of the neck were made with arrays and curve modifiers. Basically, I just made a single scale, and then I used arrays and curve modifiers to repeat it across the neck.

 

[m7600]

And, using just a few filters in Gimp or any other image editing program, you can make the sculpture look like a drawing.

 

[mlnevese]

[tries to suppress the urge to lecture about anatomically realistic waist-hip ratio in human females... but what would a krogan battlemaster know about that ]

Nothing removing a few ribs won't do... I thought Krogans liked to remove ribs... by force...