ShinyMetals Art Thread

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Hey guys, so I've never really displayed my artwork (unless it's anonymous) and figured I'd give it a go  

Hope you folks like it

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as you can probably tell I fucked up the lip and chin, but the eye took me forever

(w reference picture)

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Wow, you have the eye itself down extremely well.  And the eyebrow, too.  How long have you been drawing?  I haven't drawn anything since I started sixth grade

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Probably for as long as I can remember, I just recently started painting though and thats been great, I was always afraid to venture outside of drawing and actually go somewhere with it.

And thank you, I appreciate the comment

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I can't tell what the chin error is, and the I only notice  anything in the lips because you mentioned it.  It's a very nice piece; your skills are good.

Edit: painting is weird.  I was never particularly good with it on art things.  I paint for a living sometimes now though and improved a bit.  Water based paints (not watercolour necessarily) is a lot more manageable than oil based paint--oil based paint operates almost as if it's alive, and it wishes to get on everything.

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I know oil paintings are annoying, I do acrylic mostly, I really only have three or four paintings total

I'll have to post them sometimes, do you draw too?

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Not per se.  I occasionally practice draftwork, architectural plans, 3/4ths perspectives on rooms, etc.  I'm not very talented drawer honestly.  Most of my artistic endeavors are predominantly flash games--I posted some unfinished projects in the general art thread a few weeks back.

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Here's a painting from a while back that I had done for my aunt, it was different because I used a tattoo as a reference

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Oh, that's great, Shiny!  Really great.  I have to show this to my Peeler friend Bender_Waffles!  She adores octopi/octopusses, and has an awesome tattoo of one, too.

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Bender_Waffles (Anastasia) loves it

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In fact, her exact reaction was:

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Aww thank yah guys! Tell her I said thanks and she has a beautiful name!

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edit: showed up kinda blurry, sorry about that

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You have nice skill.

Size, medium?

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No I uploaded it as actual size, but I should've in large, and thank you

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Well, I can zoom in on it.  Was it on paper?  Like 4in by 6in?  I can't tell the original size if it isn't digital, unless it was created digital.

Was it inspired from your mind?

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it was just on an average sized sketch pad, and no I saw the photo somewhere and it got my attention so i decided to recreate it with some markers and colored pencils

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Fantastic work, Shiny! Your traditional media skills are on point.

That octopus stands out the most. I really like how smooth the color gradient is.

The lips on their own kind of look like the risky lips from the Rocky Horror Picture Show (one of my all-time favorite movies, so that is definitely a compliment!) Did you use Prismacolor markers or regular ones?

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Very nice, Shiny!  You have a good eye for detail and shading.

And Athena, I was thinking that the lip pic reminded me of some old Rolling Stones album cover, but now that you mention it, Rocky Horror is definitely a better match (and also AC/DC's Highway to Hell album cover).

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Hey guys, so..um. It's been a while   I hope everyone's doing well and August has been good to ya  

I'm always out showing my art work but I never really post any progressions. So I thought I'd give it a go here with just a fun attempt at remaking a popular cover photo for the movie La La Land.



Pencil draft (I'm sure my fellow doodlers know how much drawing people sucks)

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Okay for some reason I can't post more than one picture at once so I'll just do it individually



State Of the Art improv color mixing

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Le sunset

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And this is where it's at now. I'm not too happy with it yet because it's all very sloppy/draft work and I've still got to go in and texturize(?) a lot as well as finish the city lights, which is mostly tedious. I don't know if I'll actually finish it but it's cool looking at where it started and how it's turning out    

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Oh, I love seeing the sequence of a piece of art being created. The lighting and reflection of light of the water looks great. Good stuff

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current project progress, sitting around bored so thought I'd sketch 

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ze finished product! I'll probs still go in in the future to fix fix some little tweaks here and there, but mostly done 

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That's really nice, Shiny. What inspired you to draw that?

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I'm not sure, I'm not usually one to draw provocative photos of women but then I tried it, and shit it's beautiful to do. The detail, drawing bodies is great (lil too enthusiastic but its true)

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I think it's because they're very complex shapes surrounding a symmetric core.  The layers involved to place muscle over bone, encased by skin is pretty enticing in its own way.

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Besides the way it "flows", I like the slight asymmetry...it makes it look more natural. To me, anyway.

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I appreciate the support guys! I've been staring at a blank canvas for about a week now, experiencing the artists equivalent to "writers block," and in desperate need of inspo 

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I like spirals.

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My guy wanted to help me start a painting... can you guess which part he did?  

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Hmmm, lemme see...

The background?