[Lotsaluvin]

Well here it goes. It feels weird to put work up online instead of in a classroom, lol.

Ok so I am brand new to using a tablet, and any sort of digital art really. I have been taking video game design courses locally and working with modeling in Maya 2011. Ultimately i would love to be some sort of concept artist for video games / film / printed media. Unfortunately I'm not one of those 'gifted' artists. So this is going to be quite a struggle for me. At least I like doing it, lol.

Here is my first digital work. Its an homage to Malo... since I did it after watching one or two of his tutorials and perusing his enormous sketchbook, I couldn't help but emulate a small bit of his style (not that it turned out anywhere near his caliber lol).

C&C more than welcome!

[Kherns]

Welcome aboard !

Hey Malo you have your first biggest fan here how do you feel about it bro ?

@Lotsaluvin : not bad for a first intent ! for inserting your thumbs in the page clic on the litle arrow near the paper clip and then "insert all". Struggle hard and draw a lot ! I wish you good luck ! Digital art is my drug

[Shuty]

Welcome to cghub Lotsaluvin!

Your first piece isn't bad, just keep painting and you'll ge better real soon. Look at Feng Zhu's youtube channel, he has lots of videos about digital painting (and he's one of the best in the industry) -> http://www.youtube.com/user/FZDSCHOOL

PS: There aren't any 'gifted' artists out there, just those who works harder than the others

[Lotsaluvin]

Thanks guys

Basically I downloaded an epic crap ton of brushes and I was playing around with them to see what they did...

And I am in total agreement with the whole 'work harder' point of view. While I have seen many people that start with a better eye for art than others, in the end the artist that works harder will be the better one.

I'm at job#1 atm but I'll try to get some sketches up tonight!

[Amaakir]

Originally Posted by Lotsaluvin

Basically I downloaded an epic crap ton of brushes and I was playing around with them to see what they did...

LOL Great way to getting started, I'll follow your process and see what turns out XD Great job btw!

[malo]

Hey Lotsaluvin,

First - thanks for the compliment and the homage! Much much appreciated. I think you did a great job for your first painting! just keep at it. it will take its time but you'll get more an more used to it. At a certain point you'll get the knowledge how a brush will work when you do a stroke. And thats half the way. And painting, painting and painting…
You watched my video - and you see - no magic just knowing your tool is important. The same as in maya (OK - way little options and sub menues (and no crashes)). Another good thing is that you could easily do a rough base model from what you want and bring into PS and do a paint over. A pretty common technique nowadays. Especially for environments and vehicles.

So just keep em coming and paint. And don't forget the important thing - THE FUN!!
And welcome to the HUB

@ Kherns - honored and BLUSh

@ Lutsaluvin - Try to keep your brush set clearly. But play around with it in the beginning, at least to see which fits best to you. I do have a ton as well - but mostly using just 4 or 5 from it. Another good thing is customized shapes. If you're not familiar with it - just drop me a line and I'll try to do some screen cap for it soon. I think this will explain it much better than my poor english

Keep it up, buddy!

[Lotsaluvin]

@malo - I would love to see a screencap on custom shapes, I understand the general idea (stamp them on the screen and tweak size / erase unwanted areas, color etc.) but I dont know how to make them yet . And painting is WAY harder than I thought lol. Its one thing messing around with an abstract landscape, but I was working on a WIP for the 2d challenge, and I guess the 2 approches I thought would work... well they dont work so well... lol ><

Anywho, while I'm working on those in photoshop, I snagged a quick couple of seconds to do some sketching.

First one was with no reference... yah fail, but you gotta post em I guess lol.



Next is using an ESPN mag for reference. It was fun and I still have a headache from the amount of sharpie I inhaled.



This one is more of a joke. I have a whole animation class where we are animating nothing but vikings, so I jokingly made this... me as a viking. worked out well for halloween too!

[Kherns]

Funny viking indeed. I'm curious about to see your next digitals.

[JohnSilva]

Good start, just keep pushing yourself and do more studies mixed with personal work!

[Lotsaluvin]

Just so people don't think I stopped working... ( had tons of work and school to keep me busy ) heres a WIP for one of my design classes.The background is a birds eye view of the park and I felt like doing a more art nouveau piece. Original is 24.5" x 36.5" I hand drew the girl with references scanned and repainted in photoshop.



Yes I know the type on the bottom is hard to read, and NO she is not intentionally flipping you off... or is she?

>.>

<.<

[malo]

Hey buddy
Nice take on the art nouveau poster. Like it!!!
I try to come up with the screen cap in the next couple of days - hope thats OK
Good take on the line drawings - just keeeeeeep it up
Cheers

[Kherns]

Keep work hard to honour Malo !

[Lotsaluvin]

@malo - lol thanks man, can't wait to see the screen cap.

@kherns - lol, I'll do my best man.

I'll see if I can get some more work done tonight to post

[Kherns]

Héhé you welcome man, I found that funny !

Also I'd see you for the moment more of a painter than a liner...Maybe I'm wrong, maybe I'm right. Just tell me what you think about that ?

[Lotsaluvin]

lol honestly at this point I'm really working on transitioning into more digital work. I don't know if I like painting or lining more only because I haven't done enough of it. I felt like the technique in the line work turned out beter than the painting. I dont know, I think the next painting I'm going to work on will be more figurative which will be harder for me since I can't fake it as much. :P

anywho thanks for the feedback guys!