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Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-23 15:29:21
January 22 2019 02:56 GMT
#1
Haven't posted in a while. Random stuff occupying my time. Just shipped this crazy large oil painting to Canada (custom frame alone is like 600)

Lately I been making more materials that's information in nature. A bit more engagement with my viewers:

like this:
and
this:


and of course not going too far from my evergreens here is couple typical ones:



Stan Lee Tribute:


and an relatively interesting ones plus John Wick 3 WHOOO so hypered:



cheers guys. A lot more new stuff since I last posted here and not in this thread. Can always check out my youtube channel (youtube.com/ThePortraitArt)

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Ares[Effort] *
Profile Blog Joined February 2009
DEMACIA6550 Posts
January 23 2019 11:35 GMT
#2
Nice videos as always, a lot of good information here
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SenorChang
Profile Blog Joined October 2010
Australia4730 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-24 12:50:19
January 24 2019 12:45 GMT
#3
you are so awesome. keep up the great work!

Edit: Do you still have the videos of drawing Tyler on your Youtube channel? I can't seem to find them. only one I could find on Youtube is this:
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Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
January 24 2019 17:42 GMT
#4
On January 24 2019 21:45 SenorChang wrote:
you are so awesome. keep up the great work!

Edit: Do you still have the videos of drawing Tyler on your Youtube channel? I can't seem to find them. only one I could find on Youtube is this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-vnh6sGTR4


Oh man that brings back memories. Can't believe like.. close to 10 years has gone by. Still one of the best project I've involved in. And it was just a few of us, in our spare time, that made the whole thing happen. I probably do have the source some where but honestly I switched computer and HDD so many times I have no idea where it is right now.
Excalibur_Z
Profile Joined October 2002
United States12257 Posts
January 27 2019 01:42 GMT
#5
Hi Glider! Thank you for these videos. The "mistakes" videos were really excellent. They sort of felt like physical pinpricks stabbing me periodically, with a nagging voice saying "sound familiar? huh? this is you! this is what you do!". I think realizing the nature of the mistakes is really challenging for someone like me because they serve to remind just how high a mountain art fundamental mastery is. In all of my character pieces, I can see some sort of basic error: misapplied color theory, incorrect proportions, unappealing composition as a result of lack of cohesive vision, and these are important skills necessary for improvement. Unlearning bad habits is a tough pill to swallow!
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Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
January 28 2019 00:04 GMT
#6
On January 27 2019 10:42 Excalibur_Z wrote:
Hi Glider! Thank you for these videos. The "mistakes" videos were really excellent. They sort of felt like physical pinpricks stabbing me periodically, with a nagging voice saying "sound familiar? huh? this is you! this is what you do!". I think realizing the nature of the mistakes is really challenging for someone like me because they serve to remind just how high a mountain art fundamental mastery is. In all of my character pieces, I can see some sort of basic error: misapplied color theory, incorrect proportions, unappealing composition as a result of lack of cohesive vision, and these are important skills necessary for improvement. Unlearning bad habits is a tough pill to swallow!


Hi Excalibur! right, but better realize something now than let a few more years go by! Plus one can improve very fast at most areas / unlearn bad habits with some resolve. Unlike bad habits like biting nails, half of times you're not even making a conscious decision!
FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-28 14:15:14
January 28 2019 14:15 GMT
#7
thank you! i probably wont look at the tutorial links for like a year or something, but thank you for when i do!!!!
Cool BW Music Vid - youtube.com/watch?v=W54nlqJ-Nx8 ~~~~~ ᕤ OYSTERS ᕤ CLAMS ᕤ AND ᕤ CUCKOLDS ᕤ ~~~~~~ ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ PUNCH HIM ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-28 16:44:17
January 28 2019 16:42 GMT
#8
What are some of your favourite art books? Particularly art instruction, but anything that comes to mind is okay.

I have Rendering in Pen and Ink by Guptil, and Pencil Drawing by him and liked the former a lot, haven't gone through the latter. I've found Loomis' books online since they're in the public domain now, but haven't gone through them. I have Scott Roberston's How to Draw and How to Render, which seem very popular, but I have only gone through the first one and honestly found some parts lacking explanation and thus being confusing (which also seems common despite the popularity). For what they are, they were sadly very expensive and the app integration was really gimmicky and dumb. Not lacking important topics, but not clear enough to convey them to the uninitiated. It was written by two people, and it kinda shows since some parts are better than others. Scott's videos seemed to be more approachable.

I just draw for fun, sometimes from imagination sometimes from observation.
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Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-29 14:43:38
January 29 2019 02:44 GMT
#9
On January 28 2019 23:15 FFGenerations wrote:
thank you! i probably wont look at the tutorial links for like a year or something, but thank you for when i do!!!!


Hey FFGenerations,
Full Tutorials I'm making, ye take your time. (although everything is designed bite sized and going at your own pace)
the few videos i made like 3 top mistakes new artists make etc.. can be worth a look if you have a few minutes.

On January 29 2019 01:42 Chef wrote:
What are some of your favourite art books? Particularly art instruction, but anything that comes to mind is okay.

I have Rendering in Pen and Ink by Guptil, and Pencil Drawing by him and liked the former a lot, haven't gone through the latter. I've found Loomis' books online since they're in the public domain now, but haven't gone through them. I have Scott Roberston's How to Draw and How to Render, which seem very popular, but I have only gone through the first one and honestly found some parts lacking explanation and thus being confusing (which also seems common despite the popularity). For what they are, they were sadly very expensive and the app integration was really gimmicky and dumb. Not lacking important topics, but not clear enough to convey them to the uninitiated. It was written by two people, and it kinda shows since some parts are better than others. Scott's videos seemed to be more approachable.

I just draw for fun, sometimes from imagination sometimes from observation.


I do have a bunch of art books, but I don't usually use them for instructions at this point. Not trying to sound like a pompous ass or anything cuz upper limit of art skill is so high it is unknowable. But logically it's more like.. you wouldn't have a decent sc player reading How-to, process based instructions. For the most part what they want and need, is data, just pure information. They need to know how and what the stats changed in a patch, if there is a popular new combo or strat. They want to know what is in and best way to deal with it. In terms of how to control units better and increase speed/awareness or even using a new ability effectively, a decent player can figure those out for him/her self in a fairly straight forward manner and know what is required to get better in those areas.

Same way with me and drawing. Cuz I experimented with a lot of things many years ago and constantly to this day. What I need most at this point is just information, not how-to procedure information, but information like what is the structure of your back muscle, what they look like in 3d, how they move with the body. Cuz I know my weakness right now is concept art and body anatomy. Expressive gesture is another area I work on a bit more these days. So i have a book that is like a freakin medical text book (even tho it says anatomy for artists) that give you the names of all the little bones and ligaments and muscles. (I think a bit too much). I have 3d Apps that basically do the same thing. They help me to build a 3d mental map of the muscle groups and so on.

I do however have a bunch of books from artists I like, not necessarily for the drawing procedure information, but I really like to look at the imagery and learn that way. (much like an okay player look at a good strategy replay and see what is used)

Internet gives me A LOT of good artist / work to draw idea and inspiration / learn from. I have a folder 15GB of just images from artists (all ages, genres). Book wise I have a few digital ones that have interesting effects and imagery. I have a few live drawing books such as Henry Yen's figure drawing book. I have Nathan Fawkes's collection. And then information wise i have about 3 books on anatomy, perspective.

But I really like to play around more and practice a bit more these days. I also got a electronic piano and DAW (studio One) I been trying to mess more with that. I also want to mess more with digital art stuff. And then I'm making a tutorial series "realism for absolute beginners" for both my patreon, and later udemy and skillshare. Wish I can function well on 3 hours of sleep a day hehe. I can write like forever on just some of the differences between top chinese digital art styles and western ones, really interesting how they design the work! But maybe that's another video series for the future.

damn, didn't mean to write that much. TLDR: I have a few books. cheers.
FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
January 29 2019 10:03 GMT
#10
actually i got into portrait photography a bit, i mean i dont know what im doing, but here's a few shots
using stock 18-55mm lens, i edit a lot

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Cool BW Music Vid - youtube.com/watch?v=W54nlqJ-Nx8 ~~~~~ ᕤ OYSTERS ᕤ CLAMS ᕤ AND ᕤ CUCKOLDS ᕤ ~~~~~~ ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ PUNCH HIM ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ
Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
January 29 2019 14:46 GMT
#11
On January 29 2019 19:03 FFGenerations wrote:
actually i got into portrait photography a bit, i mean i dont know what im doing, but here's a few shots
using stock 18-55mm lens, i edit a lot

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pretty good! I have no expertise in photography so it's all what looks good to me. My uncle is a 50 year veteran of photography. I should learn a bit more about it. I like a lot of your photos.
FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-29 15:09:21
January 29 2019 15:07 GMT
#12
communication in japan is next to impossible at times, and has been a massive burden to me, but some girls are natural models even at this age (and some are completely hit and miss). i couldn't do this anywhere outside of japan tho

i haven't learnt much, and i'm terrible at applying what i learnt, but recently i learnt that a photographer should always be thinking about light (something you're fond of). where is the light in the room coming from and where is it striking? how can you manipulate, soften it, make it look natural, interesting, what mood you want for your image?

i'm a fan of america's next top model tv show, and learned from it that not all angles of the face are good on a model, you need to figure out what angle looks good on your model first of all. some beautiful girls look terrible from certain angles, where their diamond shape face suddenly becomes a giant square lol

i found this model photography vlog channel the other day, only watched 1 vid so far, she seemed interesting to listen to

https://www.youtube.com/user/KayleighJune22/videos
Cool BW Music Vid - youtube.com/watch?v=W54nlqJ-Nx8 ~~~~~ ᕤ OYSTERS ᕤ CLAMS ᕤ AND ᕤ CUCKOLDS ᕤ ~~~~~~ ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ PUNCH HIM ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ
Chef
Profile Blog Joined August 2005
10810 Posts
January 29 2019 15:36 GMT
#13
I wasn't insinuating that your ability wasn't beyond basic art instruction books. I was interested in what you had used in the past when your ability was not what it is now. Naturally artists of all levels collect references, go to museums, sketch on location etc.
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Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-29 16:45:57
January 29 2019 16:34 GMT
#14
edit: accidental double post. feel free to remove this one. thanks.
Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-01-29 16:47:48
January 29 2019 16:37 GMT
#15
On January 30 2019 00:36 Chef wrote:
I wasn't insinuating that your ability wasn't beyond basic art instruction books. I was interested in what you had used in the past when your ability was not what it is now. Naturally artists of all levels collect references, go to museums, sketch on location etc.


oh no i didn't think that was your intention. Your post was all positive. I thought you asked what book do i have and use right now since you didn't mention past, and I just talked about what I have and how I use them right now. sorry about any misunderstanding. My reply wasn't meant to carry any tone beyond just answering the question the way I interpreted it.

Back in the day I was more about just doing random practice on my own and figure things out. Didn't use too many books. It's not like there was an instruction book on how to draw with sugar etc. so I just played around a lot. like oh you can stuck sugar higher and change tone value this way to create gradient, which makes realism totally possible, but a pain in the ass. aaaahhh chooo. So it was a lot of learning by doing.


On January 30 2019 00:07 FFGenerations wrote:
communication in japan is next to impossible at times, and has been a massive burden to me, but some girls are natural models even at this age (and some are completely hit and miss). i couldn't do this anywhere outside of japan tho

i haven't learnt much, and i'm terrible at applying what i learnt, but recently i learnt that a photographer should always be thinking about light (something you're fond of). where is the light in the room coming from and where is it striking? how can you manipulate, soften it, make it look natural, interesting, what mood you want for your image?

i'm a fan of america's next top model tv show, and learned from it that not all angles of the face are good on a model, you need to figure out what angle looks good on your model first of all. some beautiful girls look terrible from certain angles, where their diamond shape face suddenly becomes a giant square lol

i found this model photography vlog channel the other day, only watched 1 vid so far, she seemed interesting to listen to

https://www.youtube.com/user/KayleighJune22/videos



oh yeah, lighting, makeup, they basically can often change a person entirely. The subtle shading of makeup alone can contour a face way beyond vs no make up. Mix lighting and angle in there and you get a lot of room to play lol. it's like 80% of population can be model-like in a picture, with competent make up and lighting / angle work.
ShoCkeyy
Profile Blog Joined July 2008
7815 Posts
January 31 2019 00:51 GMT
#16
Glider!! Glad to have talked not long ago on Twitch and to see you back here
Life?
ninazerg
Profile Blog Joined October 2009
United States7291 Posts
January 31 2019 05:34 GMT
#17
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the artwork that you create.
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Glider
Profile Blog Joined December 2005
United States1353 Posts
Last Edited: 2019-02-01 20:59:32
February 01 2019 20:54 GMT
#18
On January 31 2019 09:51 ShoCkeyy wrote:
Glider!! Glad to have talked not long ago on Twitch and to see you back here

sup ShoCkeyy, ye it's been a while. When did you show up on twitch? I barely use it.

On January 31 2019 14:34 ninazerg wrote:
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the artwork that you create.


thanks Ninazerg. Although I confess I'm gonna start using click bait titles for youtube! (is it really bait if I actually deliver what is in the title tho?) Cuz it's impossible to actually get view these days with the video above mine says 10 ways you'll live forever, and video below me says 4 things you are doing that is killing you.

FFGenerations
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
7088 Posts
February 02 2019 00:08 GMT
#19
LOL true
Cool BW Music Vid - youtube.com/watch?v=W54nlqJ-Nx8 ~~~~~ ᕤ OYSTERS ᕤ CLAMS ᕤ AND ᕤ CUCKOLDS ᕤ ~~~~~~ ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ PUNCH HIM ༼ ᕤ◕◡◕ ༽ᕤ
byte-Curious
Profile Joined October 2018
Mexico107 Posts
February 06 2019 12:23 GMT
#20
On February 02 2019 05:54 Glider wrote:
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On January 31 2019 09:51 ShoCkeyy wrote:
Glider!! Glad to have talked not long ago on Twitch and to see you back here

sup ShoCkeyy, ye it's been a while. When did you show up on twitch? I barely use it.

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On January 31 2019 14:34 ninazerg wrote:
I can't tell you how much I appreciate the artwork that you create.


thanks Ninazerg. Although I confess I'm gonna start using click bait titles for youtube! (is it really bait if I actually deliver what is in the title tho?) Cuz it's impossible to actually get view these days with the video above mine says 10 ways you'll live forever, and video below me says 4 things you are doing that is killing you.



The amount of views your videos get is so ridiculously below what your art should bring in...

I've been sharing your stuff for as long as you've been posting to TL.
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