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Sorry to belabor the point because I'm not speaking of @Lae's artistic talent or some men's anatomical accentuation fantasies. But I don't want to be misunderstood. I'm sure you have seen prominent, well toned butts, but it's not the prominence I am referring to.

For a bum to look like that, one could do it with exercise, in which case the muscle shape and insertions would taper slightly differently (my point), or, one could do it with balloon shaped implants.

That's all. It sounds like @Lae is well aware of that.

Think of exercising a muscle and disproportionately affecting just the middle bulk while the insertions are somehow not enhanced.

 

You're probably right, I just don't have the eye to be able to tell whether @Lae's drawing is anatomically correct or not.

 

First attempt at air brushing, an eye, a devil skull type thing and...they're attempts at alien and predator. It was fun.

Oh and a terminator drawing i still need to finish. Btw if anyone has any Q's regarding drawing etc feel free to ask away.

I'll stop spamming the thread with my art now though! give others a chance to a get a picture in!

 

@Lae Nah, Seethlaw has nowt to do with anime. He's a fantasy/sci-fi character from the book The Steel Remains. It was the lack of return from my Googling that has a bee in my bonnet. I loved the character, and feel a bit sad he's so under represented. I have loads of leeway on how to depict him so it'll be a mix of what I have visually gathered from the book, and how emotionally I reacted to him.

I quite like the idea of doing my own characters and was staggered to find a Polish model who looks facially exactly like I imagined one of my two main protagonists. He'll give me something to work from. Not doing that until I get my first draft finished though.

Oh yeah, and spam away... I do it often enough. It's nice to have something fresh to look at.

Cheers. I know a few people who have read the book, so I'll be quite curious to see whether they'll think I've done him justice. I've done a few rough sketches, just playing around with poses and so forth, but I'm still really hazy on how I want his expression to read and what I want him doing.

 

@Lae : Please don't stop, I love looking at your art, I'm sure others feel the same Post away!

 

Lexi's first day of Kindergarten! Aaaaagh she's so grown up now. :') Like many kids, she was sooo excited to go, but when she got there, she was a little nervous and shy. After a few minutes in the classroom, she relaxed some. I think she will do well, and I trust she's in good hands with her teacher.

It was sooo cute seeing all of the little kids. They were just so adorable. I bet, if Lexi takes to heart everything we've tried to teach her about being nice and listening to the teacher, she will do well and make some nice friends.

Aaaaagh! I just feel so blessed that she can in school. I feel blessed to be a part of this experience for her. I never knew what it was like from the caregiver side. My gosh, it just makes me so excited.

 

Awwwww @Andrae! She is so cute, look at those awesome shoes (I want them!) and the little blue hair-ties! I hope she had a good day, the rest of the kids look nice and well behaved too, hopefully she already made some friends

 

@Andrae Smith I'm sure she'll thrive. I love that age. Their brains are like little sponges...wish I had half the computing speed they do.

Typical of me, I've several pics on the go at the moment but got seriously waylaid today by a few pics I took a couple of months back. The setting is Shane's Castle, Co. Antrim.

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impressive, what technique did you use to get some of those textures so smooth?

Also i'm curious, what paper? i cant even see the tooth? cotton?

 

@Lae Technically whilst it's 100% my own efforts, I'm not the fine artist you are, not by a long shot. That's a digitally manipulated composite. There's a rather cool filter called Fractillious which I was wary of using because it can look really OTT, but I've found if I'm really subtle about it and build up the layers, it gives a decent smudge effect.

I still sketch a bit, but I've always been a bit haphazard, same with painting. The joy of working with cg images is that if I mess up, (which is frequently) I can always undo.

 

Ah ok cool, its photomanip? It's good i like it, especially since you've actually gone and taken the photos yourself. Some folk use stock images from various websites but i think the taking and the manipulating makes it more of an art i guess, less mucking around with images and more creating.

I've done some digital stuff before but it's been with my tablet using the stylus pen. Photomanip is a little beyond my skills

 

@Lae Hardly beyond your obvious skills... lol. Maybe just not your bag.

For me there are so many advantages, my messiness not withstanding. I've only been manipulating a very short time. I never really attempted it before because I would have had to use pics someone else had taken. I'd have felt like a complete charlatan and a fraud. Then a friend gave me a decent digital SLR, and after that a bridge camera which I carry about with me everywhere. I've been collecting my own stock images and those I deem worthy end up getting masked, isolated and made into transparencies just waiting for the right project to come along and avail of them. I'm sure the vast majority will never be used aside from bolstering textures and adding little touches here and there, but occasionally I'll take a pic which is just screaming out for me to do something with it. The original pic I took of the stunt rider Nicky de Neumann was one of those.

My eyesight is failing in rather dramatic fashion, no doubt due to the years I spent in a cinema projection booth. I can't begin to tell you what an advantage there is in being able to zoom into an image. Even though my pics are manipulations, all the pics are hand finished. I never really started finding my feet until a friend bought me a tablet and stylus for my birthday. It was only then I felt like I was creating, not cheating.

 

@Selbbin I've just had the biggest urge to superimpose your Pink Ninja onto a pic I took recently of a Delorean.

 

This is a follow up on a piece I started months ago. We talk a lot here on the nature of Writer's Block, whether it exists, or doesn't. My lousy attention span is the single biggest contributor to not following through as and when I should. In some respects I'm lucky. When my writing falters, my arty side comes to the fore and vice versa, so that urge to create never leaves me completely. This piece stalled as a result of having to start converting my novel from First Person to Third. Now my writing has stalled, because I just can't leave my damn stylus alone.

Still... at least I have something to show for it. (Which isn't always the case.)

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It's beautiful @obsidian_cicatrix . I love the 3D feel of it, and I feel like the angel is making eye contact. I know what you mean about the game of tug of war between different creative interests. At least we are never artistically blocked I can't think of anything worse than not being able to creatively express myself, regardless of the medium.

 

Ta @jazzabel. I was working on her in the wee small hours and fell asleep, stylus in hand. I really wanted to get her finished but my bod was having none of it. Now that Belfast is getting more in the way of tourists, I wanted to produce some images that cater to them but aren't run-of-the-mill. Not sure if I've succeeded with this one, but the practice in thinking outside of the box will do me good.

 

Should be careful. You may distract some one and run over you.

 

An old Air Force buddy of mine took me to a used book store while I was on vacation in Florida and I nabbed the four volumes of Galaxy Science Fiction that contain the serialized version of what would become Frank Herbert's The Dosadi Experiment. I was filled of joy upon that day. Filled, I tell you.

 

I was on a day-trip to Tallinn yesterday, which is the capital city of Estonia (a small Baltic country in Northern Europe), and it sure had a nice, Medieval-car-crashing-with-Modern feel about it.

Case in point:

(Picture taken by my boss)

 

Missie and Shorty... my daughter's dogs.

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@obsidian_cicatrix They're oh so very cute!

 

@KaTrian They are great dogs, loving and affectionate, but Missie has a serious guard dog growl. I was house-sitting while my daughter was on holiday; it's a big old creaky house, enough to give anyone the heebees, but I felt perfectly safe just having them with me.

Worst thing... they've made me realise how much I miss keeping a dog.

 

Today morning one of my colleagues shaked a kefir that was already open :

 

@Vandor76 Ick! That carpet'll need a good clean or it'll stink to high heaven.

(I've been looking an excuse to use the Blech emoticon and you've handed me the perfect excuse. )