So seems like a majority of you wanted me to draw a portrait of sea, which makes sense consider his involvement with TL and his general awesomeness, so here is the quick portrait time-lapse video. Thanks to Showtime! for posting the source picture in the original thread. I also added a video of Jessica Alba which I think you'll like. Hum..I wonder who to draw next. Next time i may also ask for song suggestions for the background music.
If you like these then check out other videos in my Youtube channel. the high res version final picture of everything can be found on my site.
If you have an youtube account please sign in, comment ,rate and subscribe! So that there is chance I can get more viewers! + there is gonna be a lot more vids coming! Also try to watch the high quality version if you can.
Youtube Vid ---- Sea[Shield]
Lastly i fixed the Dark Knight (Christian bale on my site front page) This is also avaliable in high quality.
Every bit as good as I was hoping for. Would you be willing to do one of a picture or pictures of fictional starcraft characters/scenes? I think that would be very nice, and you could use music from the pimpest plays videos.
That was awesome. Give praise where praise is due. How long did this take? I bet he'd really dig it if you mailed it to him (although perhaps you woudln't want to part with it =P)
wow, you seriously deserve a pat on the back... and a job for the kind of work! Definently post more of your art here when you draw more awesome stuff like that!
on the edit in your post... i mean there have been several very unique and stylish/cool pictures of various pros over the years and i think boxer [the emperor] always deserves to be the first in such honorary things.. but there has been a really cool reach picture on first page in the thread where you asked which pro you should draw.. maybe take that one.. my input
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this is the one i mean ( Kwidowmaker ) :
and this is of course all time epic pic of reach ( AltaiR_ ) :
that sick dude, you seem to be pumping these out everyday. Props. PS, do you have the original pictures of your drawings so we can compare the real life with your art (like you have for sea).
as for next, definitely do Nal_Ra, Yellow, Reach, Boxer, Nada, and Savior.
On July 10 2008 08:16 CharlieMurphy wrote: that sick dude, you seem to be pumping these out everyday. Props. PS, do you have the original pictures of your drawings so we can compare the real life with your art (like you have for sea).
as for next, definitely do Nal_Ra, Yellow, Reach, Boxer, Nada, and Savior.
I can, but some of my source picture is copyrighted (i'm not sure how the law work here exactly, i probably being an idiot) and some of my pictures i combine source pictures, join parts, others I really just put together my self with inspiration from random source pictures or tv/movie still screen caps.
as a rule when drawing celebrities i tend to not include the source since everyone would recognize who i'm drawing (assuming i do a decent job) , for drawing someone that not everyone would recognize, i would include a picture.
And these few days I have a break from my full time job.. expecting more picture tomorrow!
wow, so talented! you know how to promote yourself too, with the right keywords, posting on the site that wins the internet, etc. Also added your site to stumbleupon. Good luck with spreading the word and everything, I hope you can make enough money to pursue this as more than a side hobby.
You better do something amazing in life with your incredible talent, if you don't, I will kill you and eat your brain to gain your talents and do something amazing myself :D
holyshit very impressive man btw how do u deal with mistakes (like the line isnt where u want it to be initially) i make a lot of mistakes even with pencil i might try charcoal it looks damn good
On July 10 2008 10:54 AstraBoy wrote: wow, just wow :D Could you draw my girlfriend? that would be a nice gift for her birthday hehe
There is a commission section on my site, and i'm more likely to give Teamliquiders a discount. If you are serious you can contact me on there.
On July 10 2008 10:56 dongfeng wrote: holyshit very impressive man btw how do u deal with mistakes (like the line isnt where u want it to be initially) i make a lot of mistakes even with pencil i might try charcoal it looks damn good
when drawing portrait it is absolutely critical that you get the proportions right to the dot. otherwise they look like a completely different person. in terms of dealing with mistakes... there is a few different approach. One.. place key points (edge of eye, tip of nose, etc..) and they have to absolutely perfect in their relation to eachother, so don't go any further until those are perfect. that way, there really isn't any mistake to make.
for me i find it easier to just draw a few large key points, then start putting a little detail on the eye, cuz from there u have the archon for the rest of the drawing, u need to constantly look at the picture and let your eyes tell you if it looks like what you suppose to draw, combine that with some neccessary keypoints here and there, and ur on ur way to a portrait.
I can draw with pencil but i like charcoal because it is faster, easier to blend, and provide more contrast, and is just over all more err. artsy....
GLIDER, GLIDER, GLIDER HE'S OUR MAN! If he cannot do it; nobody can!
Very nicely done. You are rocking harder than FakeSteve right now! :b
P.S. We have to show this to him once he gets back from vacation.
I'll upload some of my Boxer photos soon. I know I have some really good ones somewhere around here and I'll probably pay you to do a few other ones other than Pro Gamers. Love your work!!
EDIT: Siefu has many good ones too. Damn, I'd use one of his.
On July 10 2008 12:17 Instigata wrote: Great work, but slightly off topic, I always wondered what do you get when you get more views on youtube? Do you get some privelages or something?
for the most part.. no, only reward is knowing your video and work is appreciated by many people, which can be such an energy booster.
you can get special status and previlage when you have tens and thousands of subscribers. youtube partners for example.
On July 10 2008 12:17 useLess wrote: niiice.
also, instead of saying "run time: 2 minutes" when anyone can clearly see how long the video, how about saying indicating how long it actually took?
Great suggestion! I didn't think anyone cared about how long it took me draw, that they would only care about how long they have to spend their time watching it. Thats why i put the running time there. A 2 min, 3 min text let ppl know right off the bat that the video is going to be short so they may actually sit through it. People have no patience now days, as more people subscribe to my channel I'll probably get rid of that. Another reason i put the run time there is that the video length show at bottom is not always the real length of watchable clip. Sometimes I have to add extra blank time at the end to ensure the video length is long enough to meet the requirement for "watch this vid in high quality". If you look at my Joker vid, cuz it is only 2min long, there is no high quality option for viewers, even tho it should.
But to quickly answer the question, based from memory the sea one took me around 2 - 2.5 hours. the joker around 1 and half hours, alba about 2 to 3, batman is longest thus far, probably 3 to 4 hours, maybe slightly longer.
Pretty nice, i also draw with pencils though im more inclined to push my drawings to near realism, so ill usually take 20+ hours on a simple drawing. You do have a very nice technique for tone drawing, not so much detail but your work is so easy to understand, there are not many eye distractors and its easily recognizable, quality work.
Oh and i notice you rarely use a paper to not touch the drawing surface, only when you dont want to drag already colored areas huh? My advice is to never ever touch the drawing surface, your hands naturally transmit their oil which can become very noticeable when you blend the color, it may ruin your drawing.
ooh. for boxer, either draw one from his prime or draw his recent proleague ceremony where's he holding an ace card. i forgot which game it's from, so i can't get a pic. =/
On July 10 2008 12:58 Cloud wrote: Pretty nice, i also draw with pencils though im more inclined to push my drawings to near realism, so ill usually take 20+ hours on a simple drawing. You do have a very nice technique for tone drawing, not so much detail but your work is so easy to understand, there are not many eye distractors and its easily recognizable, quality work.
Oh and i notice you rarely use a paper to not touch the drawing surface, only when you don't want to drag already colored areas huh? My advice is to never ever touch the drawing surface, your hands naturally transmit their oil which can become very noticeable when you blend the color, it may ruin your drawing.
Thanks for the tip! that is an excellent point.
I know some ppl who does realism drawings, they are not exactly my thing. Mostly because realism artists often use some kind of measuring tool or grid, working the picture small section at a time, spending tremendous amount of time in the process. I bow to their patience and skill. I may do another one of those some day.
But my feeling is that a lot of those guys become dependent on grids and measuring aids, also their drawing becomes highly mechanical. two great work from two different realism artists would look exactly the same. you might as well take a photograph. Also a lot of realism artist can't sit some one down and draw a portrait right there, while someone who can draw portrait can spend 30 hours to produce a near realistic picture if need be. That's why I focused on free hand portrait drawings, it is so much faster, really trains perception to see and draw without aid and allow more freedom for creativity, style and personality. I always use the source image as a reference, changing the shading and lighting as I see fit. What I want to eventually accomplish to is to be able to draw without even a source picture, to draw a face with just what is in mind, but that's way beyond me for now.
Still, this one guy i know draw a picture of a glass of water with over 50 hours??!! He pretty much had a photograph at the end. Awesome display of patience and attention to detail.
On July 10 2008 13:52 nemY wrote: So are you saying it is possible for any average joe with 0 artistic ability to be able to draw like you just did? One could only hope so!
Oh yeah, awesome drawings. I envy you for life!
It is my FIRM belief that I can get anyone to near my level within months, too bad none of my friends believe me enough to let me teach them, they just think it's impossible.
Can we have the TL.net Staff present this to Sea.. record his reaction(i.e record what he type out on bnet or something) and show it to us? I think we all want what he think of it. =)
Are you selling? The picture is a fucking work of art. If you didn't put the entire drawing of the video on Youtube I would've thought you cheated by photoshopping it or something ... damn
Wow your work is gorgeous. I love the idea of doing time lapse videos to show just how much time and effort this sort of portrait style illustrating takes. I hope you post more videos here soon!
On July 10 2008 13:50 Glider wrote: Thanks for the tip! that is an excellent point.
I know some ppl who does realism drawings, they are not exactly my thing. Mostly because realism artists often use some kind of measuring tool or grid, working the picture small section at a time, spending tremendous amount of time in the process. I bow to their patience and skill. I may do another one of those some day.
But my feeling is that a lot of those guys become dependent on grids and measuring aids, also their drawing becomes highly mechanical. two great work from two different realism artists would look exactly the same. you might as well take a photograph. Also a lot of realism artist can't sit some one down and draw a portrait right there, while someone who can draw portrait can spend 30 hours to produce a near realistic picture if need be. That's why I focused on free hand portrait drawings, it is so much faster, really trains perception to see and draw without aid and allow more freedom for creativity, style and personality. I always use the source image as a reference, changing the shading and lighting as I see fit. What I want to eventually accomplish to is to be able to draw without even a source picture, to draw a face with just what is in mind, but that's way beyond me for now.
Still, this one guy i know draw a picture of a glass of water with over 50 hours??!! He pretty much had a photograph at the end. Awesome display of patience and attention to detail.
I know exactly what you mean, and its exactly what i try to avoid, i despise using grids and the only measuring aides i use is my own pencil and fingers (the thumb most notably). But its also a gross misunderstanding that most people have about realistic drawing (at least my own kind of realistic drawing), or even tone drawing like yours.
With my own favorite artists for instance, you will always find that they used way more than a single source for any of their drawings, and they merge them all in a completely realistic setting. Even if you find someone using a single photograph as a basis, you will always find significant differences between the drawing and the photo, its not a simple xerox, the drawing is completely theirs, the textures, tones, the focus of the picture are different. For example, the grass is different, they cant possibly focus on drawing every single blade of grass, even if they have the technique, it kills the realism as the human eye cant possibly perceive all that detail. Instead they creatively draw suggestions that fools the eye into thinking theres detail when there really isnt.
Materials and technique are also much broader than with other styles, a single grade of graphite will not cut it, just as chamois as a blending tool gives different results than say, kitchen paper or velvet.
And there lies what i like most about realistic drawing, the creativity and ingeniousity you have to place to realistically depict a texture, or to realistically merge 2 different settings, its impossible for most of us to draw every line of hair and as i mentioned, doing so may even kill the realism.
About what you said, drawing almost realistically even without a source.. hmm well i really dunno, thats probably a whole different skill, i dont even know if its humanly possible, your imagination can only do so much, id say you just focus in giving your drawings life, focus on not just replicating a photo or whatever as you said (although of course, everyone starts like that and it develops technique), a drawing can tell a whole story if you put enough of your artistic and creative self on it.
Anyway, i dont even know why im talking about that, dont think im trying to convince you to draw in the same style as me, you can draw cartoons and still have a message as powerful as any realistic drawing.
Also uh, have you tried clutch pencils? or mechanical pencils, lead holders i dont know how the hell you call them, i prefer them over the uh, normal i guess, pencils that you use, as they dont change in weight, they dont change in shape, they dont make you lose concentration over sharpening them, the point of the lead you want is easily attainable and they dont produce garbage.
Theres no mechanical substite for charcoal pencils though i think, if you really use them that much i guess youre stuck with them , graphite ones though id recommend using mechanical ones as i feel they give better control.
On July 10 2008 14:01 toopham wrote: Can we have the TL.net Staff present this to Sea.. record his reaction(i.e record what he type out on bnet or something) and show it to us? I think we all want what he think of it. =)
So true, so true. Right now I'm just using regular charcoal black (hard, soft, medium), i really don't have that much experience with art tools as i'm still pretty new. As you can see my focus is on working the whole image and gradually building detail and layers over the whole image, this is also fun to watch in the video. Most of my work are pretty big (18x24 alot them), draw that with mechanical pencils would be murder, but i know they are amazing at consistency, can allow the artist to focus on extreme detail and tone. I'll try to use one to draw something in the near future.
Damn, you work really fast. It takes me 6+ hours for a portrait in A3 or so. Looks like you are free drawing? I have to use a grid and I'm still mediocre. I find that portrait drawing is more tehnical than anything (like a dozen way to blend graphite, wth!). You're great man, wish I can draw as fast....
On July 10 2008 14:01 toopham wrote: Can we have the TL.net Staff present this to Sea.. record his reaction(i.e record what he type out on bnet or something) and show it to us? I think we all want what he think of it. =)
On July 10 2008 12:41 Glider wrote: But to quickly answer the question, based from memory the sea one took me around 2 - 2.5 hours. the joker around 1 and half hours, alba about 2 to 3, batman is longest thus far, probably 3 to 4 hours, maybe slightly longer.
Heh. This reminds me of an anecdote of Picasso, something I read from a book on self-discipline. It goes something like he was dining out at a restaurant when an enamored fan of his approaches him. She can't believe her luck and she insists that he draws her something, anything. She presses him, insisting she'll pay anything he demands and he reluctantly agrees. So he takes a napkin and creates art right before her eyes. Five minutes later he hands her the napkin. She's elated. She asks, "So how much?". He responds, "$5000". She goes on a bender and screams at him, "It took you 5 minutes to draw the bloody thing, you're out of your mind!" He responds, "Lady, it took me 5 minutes to draw it but it took me 20 years to learn how."
That said, that book did not help my motivation or self-discipline WHATSOEVER.
Anyways, I wonder how you learned to draw? Your experience? Were you an apprentice or something, or did you go to art school? Or were you more like a prodigy of some kind, taking an early interest in drawing as an 8 year old, practicing a few hours a day for years and years? How many hours of practice a day does it take for someone to learn how to do what you do? And how did you learn it?
I've seen your work before, years earlier and I just find it hilarious that you end up being a starcraft fan posting on teamliquid. I guess it would be like admiring a starleaguer like Jaedong and years later finding out he posted on the battlestargalatica board you post on.
Sick dude, that was an amaaaazing performance! I thought for a while to myself that Sea looked liked a bloodthirsty goblin, but then I looked at the original source pic and realized... he actually does look like a bloodthirsty goblin on that picture to begin with, so not your fault! ^^
I can't wait to see how you portrait Boxer next, that'll be awesome. Keep up to the good work!
Thanks for the support guys! I already kinda choose my first picture, this will be a fun one, i'll try to get it all done and upload by saturday, tonight if i don't stop working. all hail summer holiday
On July 10 2008 12:41 Glider wrote: But to quickly answer the question, based from memory the sea one took me around 2 - 2.5 hours. the joker around 1 and half hours, alba about 2 to 3, batman is longest thus far, probably 3 to 4 hours, maybe slightly longer.
Heh. This reminds me of an anecdote of Picasso, something I read from a book on self-discipline. It goes something like he was dining out at a restaurant when an enamored fan of his approaches him. She can't believe her luck and she insists that he draws her something, anything. She presses him, insisting she'll pay anything he demands and he reluctantly agrees. So he takes a napkin and creates art right before her eyes. Five minutes later he hands her the napkin. She's elated. She asks, "So how much?". He responds, "$5000". She goes on a bender and screams at him, "It took you 5 minutes to draw the bloody thing, you're out of your mind!" He responds, "Lady, it took me 5 minutes to draw it but it took me 20 years to learn how."
That said, that book did not help my motivation or self-discipline WHATSOEVER.
Anyways, I wonder how you learned to draw? Your experience? Were you an apprentice or something, or did you go to art school? Or were you more like a prodigy of some kind, taking an early interest in drawing as an 8 year old, practicing a few hours a day for years and years? How many hours of practice a day does it take for someone to learn how to do what you do? And how did you learn it?
I've seen your work before, years earlier and I just find it hilarious that you end up being a starcraft fan posting on teamliquid. I guess it would be like admiring a starleaguer like Jaedong and years later finding out he posted on the battlestargalatica board you post on.
Yeah, I remember seeing some of his stuff a long time ago on youtube as well.
Cannot believe this guy is a poster here. lol
I'm baffled.
EDIT: there is no way you could teach me how to draw like that in a month.
On July 10 2008 12:41 Glider wrote: But to quickly answer the question, based from memory the sea one took me around 2 - 2.5 hours. the joker around 1 and half hours, alba about 2 to 3, batman is longest thus far, probably 3 to 4 hours, maybe slightly longer.
Heh. This reminds me of an anecdote of Picasso, something I read from a book on self-discipline. It goes something like he was dining out at a restaurant when an enamored fan of his approaches him. She can't believe her luck and she insists that he draws her something, anything. She presses him, insisting she'll pay anything he demands and he reluctantly agrees. So he takes a napkin and creates art right before her eyes. Five minutes later he hands her the napkin. She's elated. She asks, "So how much?". He responds, "$5000". She goes on a bender and screams at him, "It took you 5 minutes to draw the bloody thing, you're out of your mind!" He responds, "Lady, it took me 5 minutes to draw it but it took me 20 years to learn how."
That said, that book did not help my motivation or self-discipline WHATSOEVER.
Anyways, I wonder how you learned to draw? Your experience? Were you an apprentice or something, or did you go to art school? Or were you more like a prodigy of some kind, taking an early interest in drawing as an 8 year old, practicing a few hours a day for years and years? How many hours of practice a day does it take for someone to learn how to do what you do? And how did you learn it?
I've seen your work before, years earlier and I just find it hilarious that you end up being a starcraft fan posting on teamliquid. I guess it would be like admiring a starleaguer like Jaedong and years later finding out he posted on the battlestargalatica board you post on.
Thanks a lot of the kind words, but I must say you have mistaken me with someone else. I started drawing about 3 to 4 month ago, oil painting (a few on my site) about 6 month ago.. so it couldn't be my artwork u saw some years ago.
I learned to draw by watching a lot of other artist's work, infact go check out the about page on my website (theportraitart.com), it pretty much tells you how i get started. (I didn't put how long i been drawing on there cuz I think people are less likely to commission me if they knew i only been doing this for a few month)
I never took any class to learn because there so few good teachers who can actually recognize that everyone thinks and approach things differently. My skill were able to improve also partly because i watched someone else's vid similar to mine, and I was able to err understand or really get the concepts. I'm very good at seeing angles and ratios in my mind so when i first started i knew i would be decent at portraits. And you know what they say, once u can draw portrait u can draw anything, because a face requires the most precision. U draw a shoe and even if all ur angels and sizes and ratios is off it will still look like a shoe, u draw a person and ur angle and size of the eye etc is off by 1mm and suddently it looks like a totally different person.
Anyway, this hobby is fun and relaxing and i'm getting better, about to get started on the boxer portrait! hopefully i'll get it done tonight, upload the video tomorrow.
On July 12 2008 04:26 Showtime! wrote: EDIT: there is no way you could teach me how to draw like that in a month.
EPT
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