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Off-Topic Discussion => Arts & Talents => Topic started by: Setekh on November 24, 2003, 05:37:54 am

Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Setekh on November 24, 2003, 05:37:54 am
Icespeed made some drawings, so I uploaded them and thought I'd post them up for you lot to have a look at it. :) 12 drawings so far:

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/axelis_key_guardian.jpg)

^^ Axelis, Key-Guardian

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/boy_with_rosebud.jpg)

^^ Boy With Rosebud

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/confessions.jpg)

^^ Confessions

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/dont_play_games_with_me.jpg)

^^ "Don't Play Games With Me"

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/eliroka.jpg)

^^ Eliroka

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/false_gods.jpg)

^^ False Gods
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Setekh on November 24, 2003, 05:38:07 am
(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/high_priest.jpg)

^^ High Priest

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/horse_of_air.jpg)

^^ Horse Of Air

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/kalyalis_knight.jpg)

^^ Kalyalis, Knight Of The Order Of Death Elves

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/liberate.jpg)

^^ "Liberate"

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/our_lady_of_the_wolves.jpg)

^^ Our Lady Of The Wolves

(http://3dap.com/hlp/staff/setekh/icespeed/portrait_of_someone_else.jpg)

^^ Portrait Of Someone Else
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Gloriano on November 24, 2003, 06:07:55 am
those are nice:) :yes:
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Nico on November 24, 2003, 06:20:13 am
Very nice stuff :)
oh, and congrats, you do feet and hands very well ( many people have pbs with those ).
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Gortef on November 24, 2003, 10:16:05 am
I agree with Nico, those hands and feet look great. But they are gret pics overall too :nod:
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Lightspeed on November 24, 2003, 11:40:43 am
pretty :)

At least it's better than any of the stuff I produce (http://smalltimerivalry.com/sschost/scriptlightspeed/6403.png)

:yes:
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Turnsky on November 24, 2003, 04:27:56 pm
I sense that the force is strong with you, very, very nice indeed.. :nod:
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Knight Templar on November 24, 2003, 07:04:33 pm
Nice! :yes:
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: icespeed on November 24, 2003, 09:37:16 pm
oh well, thanks... i thought i told him not to post them all at once but it doesnt matter... i just thought id better show i can do more than criticise people. anyway.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: icespeed on November 24, 2003, 09:47:32 pm
oh and lightspeed... it _is_ nice. pretty much the only big thing i'd pick on right now is the neck. necks are wider than people think, in portraits they tend to stretch from, to, the point of the jaw on each side. i wouldn't say my stuff is better than yours... just different.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Knight Templar on November 25, 2003, 12:34:44 am
Unless you are an alien.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Lightspeed on November 25, 2003, 06:41:19 am
actually that neck is correct in size...
It's more about the unnatural person protrayed rather than the picture itself :)

if you didn't pick it up, it's a portrait of my ugly self :p

Quote
Unless you are an alien.


oops, i forgot that, makes sense now :lol:

for reference, although it's a bad picture, this one (http://smalltimerivalry.com/sschost/scriptlightspeed/9403.png) shows a more 'normal' person. Note the neck :)
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: icespeed on November 25, 2003, 06:57:48 am
hah, yes, but this guy is being drawn from a different perspective. the neck's fine. im talking about full frontal portraiture... go look in the mirror, im sure your neck isnt that skinny. (please dont let me be wrong...)
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Lightspeed on November 25, 2003, 10:33:37 am
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Originally posted by icespeed
hah, yes, but this guy is being drawn from a different perspective. the neck's fine. im talking about full frontal portraiture... go look in the mirror, im sure your neck isnt that skinny. (please dont let me be wrong...)


you are wrong... ;)
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Odyssey on November 25, 2003, 02:18:29 pm
[color=cc9900]For no apparent reason, here is an image of a tired person showing their neck:
(http://nodewar.penguinbomb.com/aotd/Odyssey/odyssey.jpg)
(Image, 450x600 pixels, 61.8 KB)

I apologise for the hair, and hope it does not cause too severe retinal damage.[/color]
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: DragonClaw on November 25, 2003, 02:32:25 pm
You like that shade of brown don't you.

Your text is that color and your hair... hrumph. What else? Or do I want to know... :eek2:
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Darkage on November 25, 2003, 02:35:37 pm
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Originally posted by DragonClaw
You like that shade of brown don't you.




:wtf:

You in that m00d again?
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Odyssey on November 25, 2003, 03:00:16 pm
[color=cc9900]It's amber, dammit, amber! :p My text is like this because it's easier on the eyes to have amber on a black background than white on black. I'm a nice guy like that ^_^[/color]
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Lightspeed on November 25, 2003, 03:49:29 pm
blargh. Use something like this if you're worried about my eyes.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Taristin on November 25, 2003, 04:05:22 pm
LS, what's with the 42?
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Odyssey on November 25, 2003, 04:07:45 pm
[color=cc9900]Nah, that isn't so good. Old computers chose amber and black for a reason :)

But anyway, I digress. I've completely forgotten to comment on icespeed's work, which is rude of me. I especially like the horse - you're very good at drawing animals, icespeed. Turnsky has a rival in the wolves department ^_^ And in all the drawings, the shading is perfect :) If I had to pick anything out at all to criticise, it'd be that the perspective and relative angles in some of the drawings is/are a little off, with wide-angle characteristics and long-zoom characteristics close to one another, and a little mis-alignment. It's such a minor point though that I sound like a pedant to myself just bringing it up.[/color]

[color=cc9900]EDIT:[/color]
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
LS, what's with the 42?

[color=cc9900]Life, the universe, and everything, innit?[/color]
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Fineus on November 25, 2003, 04:41:40 pm
Yeah, HHGTTG reference :)

And indeed, excellent drawings! I particularly like the second one down from the top of the thread, very good.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Taristin on November 25, 2003, 05:02:17 pm
Heh... I read that book too, somehow I don't apply it to everything though.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Flipside on November 25, 2003, 05:04:14 pm
I keep thinking you are Black Wolf when you post, the two of you share a similar taste in Text colour. My first comp was a Greenscreen, but I won't subject you all to that ;)

Flipside :D
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Fractux on November 25, 2003, 05:14:54 pm
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Originally posted by Raa Tor'h
LS, what's with the 42?



On a side note continuing on with Douglas Adams,
http://www.intellectualloafing.com/discussionsfolder/runningdebatesfolder/42themeaningoflifetheuniverseandeverything.htm
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Lightspeed on November 25, 2003, 05:39:00 pm
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Originally posted by Odyssey
[color=cc9900]Nah, that isn't so good. Old computers chose amber and black for a reason :)


how so? This is what the monitor shows me:

(http://smalltimerivalry.com/sschost/scriptlightspeed/C64.jpg)

It's old. It's easy on my eyes. It's blue. Go figure :p

And as for 42... yes, it does make sense. A lot of sense :nod:

-edit- note that i broke the [color] tag on purpose so i wont see that brown again :lol:
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: StratComm on November 25, 2003, 05:47:07 pm
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Originally posted by Flipside
I keep thinking you are Black Wolf when you post, the two of you share a similar taste in Text colour. My first comp was a Greenscreen, but I won't subject you all to that ;)

Flipside :D


What, like this?  Brings back so many old memories ;)

EDIT: I could get used to this.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Lightspeed on November 25, 2003, 05:56:36 pm
(http://smalltimerivalry.com/sschost/scriptlightspeed/C64-2.jpg)
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Odyssey on November 26, 2003, 02:17:46 am
[color=cc9900]Meh. Old (old old) plasma screens were amber and black. I liked it. It's the best colour on black, at least. Get used to it, bubba ^_^[/color]
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Stryke 9 on November 26, 2003, 03:53:23 am
Greenscreens kicked arse. I still want one for a secondary monitor.

Face it, green on black or dark green in blocky text just makes things look important. Managed to make even Pong look like something you'd see labcoated scientists running back and forth with huge sheafs of paper over in front of those neat 60s memory tape reels. And it intimidates the fuck out of computer-illiterates. Or maybe that's just because all the greenscreens I have are attached to computers roughly the size of compact pickups.


Were I sad enough to actually need any distinguishing traits to my posts beyond my own utter greatness, I'd go for green. But I'm not. Ha-ha.  


But I'm not. Ha-ha.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: an0n on November 26, 2003, 04:00:05 am 

          
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Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Stryke 9 on November 26, 2003, 04:03:04 am
Woah, kickass.

And now less so. What'd you do to the border, man? That's nothing like they used to look like.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Gortef on November 26, 2003, 04:39:16 am
hahahahaha, HLP did it again. Things wen't completely OT :lol:
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Flipside on November 26, 2003, 07:21:39 am
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Originally posted by StratComm


What, like this?  Brings back so many old memories ;)

EDIT: I could get used to this.


Actually, I agree, that works well! :)

As for OT, yes, we are so so good at it though :)
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: icespeed on November 26, 2003, 11:23:29 pm
fine, ill get it back ot... on topic... odyssey, what did you mean by long zoom and wide angle characteristics? (im not a photographer so i don't know the terms...)
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: Setekh on November 27, 2003, 07:47:24 am
When you zoom in on things, the perspective point (the line to which all parallel lines converge) moves further away, making all lines seem more parallel, and things seem tighter together. When in wide angle, lines seem far more divergent (the perspective point appears far closer to the subject), and more spaced apart. The effect on portraits is for example that at extreme wide-angle, a face will have a big nose and small ears, while at extreme zoom (or telephoto, the proper name), the face will appear more flattened than spherical.
Title: Icespeed's Drawings (Image Heavy)
Post by: an0n on November 27, 2003, 08:15:18 am
And when they do that camera thing in movies where the background rushes away/towards while some object remains the same size and position in the center of the field, that's called a panaflexic-zoom, IIRC.