Stingray's Art

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Hello, I'm Stingray and I just recently got hooked on this awsome show. Its so addicting I just can't get enough of it.  
Anyway, here is my verry first Futurama fanart:



And a crossover pic:


YES I noticed the mistake in putting the pressure door on the right instead of the left.  

These aren't nearly as good as my much newer ones, but... gotta start somewhere.  

Also you might notice an overload in realism in the background, weapons, equipment, etc... its a habbit. Even the most unrealistic thing has a sense of realism when its drawn by my hands.

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Just make the characters match the detail of the background and you're set.

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You mean like this?

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Yep, besides the head.

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Leela as Ripley .Quite clever.

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Great stuff! (just spotted the alien head in the second pic too)

"Get away from her, you BITCH!"

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Also you might notice an overload in realism in the background, weapons, equipment, etc... its a habbit.

Well, I for one think your backgrounds are fabulous. Most of the time I can't be assed drawing that much background detail.

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Incredible backgrounds! And you can see big improvements in the characters from one pic to the next, too; 3rd pic looks excellent. How long did it take? Looks so fiddily to do...

Just make the characters match the detail of the background and you're set

Ooo, you reckon? If you're going to try for that, you need to completely throw out any effort at Groeningism and essentially redesign the characters from scratch; often more trouble than it's worth!

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But the backgrounds have already thrown out the "Groeningism" so he may as well just go all out.

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Do you reckon? The proportions and scale of the bgs fit the characters; the _design_ is different, granted, but to an extent that's really just set-dressing rather than any fundamental break. The detail of the design goes beyond Groeningism, absolutely - question is, does it break the disbelief that you're looking at a coherent futurama pic, as it were! That's subjective; in the 2nd pic, it might, but the 3rd pic... not for me, and certainly not in the way a redesigned character with a groeningesque bg would.

It's a balancing act, if you're not going for strict on-model work; but altering one element doesn't mean you should alter all of them.

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My major beef is just Leela's face was plain white, add some shading in there because it stands out too much.

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Awesome level of detail, I love it.

Regarding the abandonment of Groeningism - I do that myself, adopting an anime style and giving the characters the correct number of digits. It's contentious though - some will love it and some will hate it.

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My major beef is just Leela's face was plain white, add some shading in there because it stands out too much.

Aye, could be; but as you say, that's shading rather than style.

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The way he's done it works in black and white.

Whether it still works when/if he colours it is another matter, as the busier background and greater range of muted colours may clash horribly with the simple cartoon colours.

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edit/delete: - coldy's right - off-topic! 'pologies

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Et tu Marcus...

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Incredible backgrounds! And you can see big improvements in the characters from one pic to the next, too; 3rd pic looks excellent. How long did it take? Looks so fiddily to do...

Would you believe only two to maybe three hours?


And as far as the background detail... I have sort of an obsession with realism, so my detail might be a bit much with technology. I also basically wanted to see these characters in a real-world (or almost real) environment. I think I pulled it off pretty well, especially in the 3rd pic. But I will try to find shortcuts into making it a little more believable, without changing the original character design.

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Double post:

Here is my promotional poster for the new series:




You can tell its losley based on the Event Horizon poster.

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Nice ones Stingray loved the second pic, that alien held a resemblance to H.R Giger's alien, hee hee love it dude

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Much thanks.   H. R. Giger's xenomorph is so hard to draw, and yet I drew it completely by memory.


And here is another computer pic by me:

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This wouldn't be your car, would it?

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They ask where the new Futurama Freak 1' s come from. Well here's your answer.Great Work Stringray

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NOOOOO!!!! someone stole my car and put a "FOR SALE" sign in it!!

All well, time to go buy it back.  


Anyway... here is a promotional poster for a screenplay that I'm writing:

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Awesome work, all of it.

The Alien crossover sounds interesting. Heck, the Alien franchise has been crossed-over with just about everything else. I think even Superman went up against the blighters once.

The Xenomorph alien queen appears in second Simpsons/Futurama crossover comic in a full-page shot parodying Aliens, with Marge at the controls of the forklift mecha thing Ripley used in the film.

A chapter of my novel-length fanfic was titled "In space, no one can hear you make an idiot of yourself"

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Fantastic work Sting.

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Many thanks.  

Awesome work, all of it.

The Alien crossover sounds interesting. Heck, the Alien franchise has been crossed-over with just about everything else. I think even Superman went up against the blighters once.

The Xenomorph alien queen appears in second Simpsons/Futurama crossover comic in a full-page shot parodying Aliens, with Marge at the controls of the forklift mecha thing Ripley used in the film.

A chapter of my novel-length fanfic was titled "In space, no one can hear you make an idiot of yourself"

Funny coincidence, I was gonna make a pic where Leela fights the alien queen with the Caterpillar P5000 Power Loader.  

I even wrote it in my screenplay.

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i really like your art.

anyone else think some sort of freako/coldy/stingray/marcus collab would be epic*?
:P

(*in the real sense of the word, not the internet one)

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You forgot El-Man, for shame!

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balls!
i knew i was forgetting somone.
sorry El-Man!

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coldy = style and design
freako = layout and lining
stingray = detailing and background
el = colour and shading
marcus = pits and tits

...Naw! See, there's probably a reason we're seperate people Mind you, I think we've all collaborated in some way with 1 or more folk in the past (can't speak for stingray!), so who's to say otherwise...

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S'allright.

Now, what sort of epic collab could we all do...?

(Oh. Marcus beat me to it... But you're better than just P&T, Marcus)

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...well, I do T&A too. (nah, that's just my 'unique contribution' to any hypothetical project: porn. I get nervous if I have to draw clothes. Or clothed.)

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I can join in too maybe?



Awwwww...

But in case you want something inexplicably and irrelevantly tied in with anything Russian...?

Anyway, anyrate, aynho, whatever, just wanted to say Great work, Stingray! I love it!
The level and attention to detail makes me dizzy but extremely envious.

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anyone else think some sort of freako/coldy/stingray/marcus collab would be epic*?

It would be like the Family Guy episode: "Road to the Multiverse"
Creepy porn universe - over-the-top Anime universe - random crossover universe.... armpit hair universe...

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...Communist universe, maybe?

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No, I'll just go sit back in the corner...

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...Communist universe, maybe?

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No, I'll just go sit back in the corner...

Zed, what are you thinking, course you'd be in!* I mean - you can't spell 'Futurama' without 'Stalin', right?

Yures,
- Mahrxoez.

*...we're all aware that so far there's nothing to actually_be_ 'in', right...? Just checking... So, better ask Wu if he's interested too

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Forgive me, I'm a bit confused about the current topic being discussed.

 

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anyone else think some sort of freako/coldy/stingray/marcus collab would be epic*?
:P

(*in the real sense of the word, not the internet one)

I think it stemmed from this.

By the way, really nice job on those drawings and posters, they all look great!

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The idea sounded good at first, but if I start one detail I have no choice but to do another, until the entire creation is......well.....created.  

However....

Zed 85, I do need your opinion on a certain detail in a drawing I'm currently working on.

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Fire away!