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Author Topic: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!  (Read 568917 times)

slowpokez

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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1200 on: February 06, 2012, 02:48:09 pm »

There's been some lovely stuff in here recently. It's good to see life in the old thread yet! Here's my Nolthag:
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Great work, nice light effects! :D
What program do you use?

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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1201 on: February 06, 2012, 02:56:06 pm »

Thanks!
I use GIMP.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1202 on: February 06, 2012, 03:24:53 pm »

There's been some lovely stuff in here recently. It's good to see life in the old thread yet! Here's my Nolthag:
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Nice! Cool lighting.

The name in the corner makes me think of him signing autographs for his fans or something. XD
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1203 on: February 06, 2012, 04:32:12 pm »

The name in the corner makes me think of him signing autographs for his fans or something. XD

"Yeah, that's the promo photo we took for my movie The Caverns of Cowering. I really love the way the photographer captured my eyes. Looks all creepy and alien!"
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1204 on: February 06, 2012, 06:18:36 pm »

The name in the corner makes me think of him signing autographs for his fans or something. XD

"Yeah, that's the promo photo we took for my movie The Caverns of Cowering. I really love the way the photographer captured my eyes. Looks all creepy and alien!"

+1UP for you sir.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1205 on: February 06, 2012, 11:16:14 pm »

The name in the corner makes me think of him signing autographs for his fans or something. XD

"Yeah, that's the promo photo we took for my movie The Caverns of Cowering. I really love the way the photographer captured my eyes. Looks all creepy and alien!"
".. It's from the scene where I am ambushed by BLONDE WOMAN!"

He looks like scared or surprized here. But cool drawing, anyway!
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1206 on: February 07, 2012, 09:17:05 am »

Watching the thread and the drawings of you all, cursing my laziness and talentlessness. Damn I want to draw well, but I don't know where to learn it, and I can't bare to practice on my own, because my drawings make we want to burn them in magma.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1207 on: February 07, 2012, 09:59:22 am »

Watching the thread and the drawings of you all, cursing my laziness and talentlessness. Damn I want to draw well, but I don't know where to learn it, and I can't bare to practice on my own, because my drawings make we want to burn them in magma.
You don't have to be fckn darkerdark to post on this thread ;D

I'm gonna say lets aim for Tuesday as a deadline.
Btw, Deforo can we move up the deadline to wednesday? :) I'm sorta busy...
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1208 on: February 07, 2012, 10:16:03 am »

Watching the thread and the drawings of you all, cursing my laziness and talentlessness. Damn I want to draw well, but I don't know where to learn it, and I can't bare to practice on my own, because my drawings make we want to burn them in magma.
Shut up and draw! You'll burn them in mamga later.
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1209 on: February 07, 2012, 11:36:53 am »

Pleasant surprise to return to the forums and find this thread's picked back up. :D

Took a stab at Nolthag in celebration:
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1210 on: February 07, 2012, 12:03:31 pm »

Watching the thread and the drawings of you all, cursing my laziness and talentlessness. Damn I want to draw well, but I don't know where to learn it, and I can't bare to practice on my own, because my drawings make we want to burn them in magma.
~~~WARNING, LONG MOTIVATIONAL, OFFTOPIC RANT AHEAD!~~~
Despite your "talentlessness", you can become an good artist too. However, it requires a lot of hard work plus perseverance, and a lot of time to develop (Rome wasn't built in one day, right?). Most people quit when they face this fact, that's why there aren't many good artists around. Those people who stay in the fight pass through all hardships either because of their devotion/obsession, or willpower. That applies to other skills too, not just to art. The thing known as talent only applies to the period of starting out, talented artists may start learning easier than everyone, but they still have to to work hard and experience failures.

When an artist work hard despite all troubles and failures, his work improves over time. For example, take a look at the sketchbook thread of MindCandyMan from ConceptArt.org. Over the period of about 6-7 years he had managed to get from an "absolute rookie" to a damn good professional painter.
A more close to us (yet slightly less clear) example would be this. It's an abandoned Fault's page on Elfwood (yeah, that's Fault. He had reposted this and this on Bay 12 Forums in the DF fanart thread, here and here respectively). Compare his artwork from 2007 with the artwork he makes now. He did improve, didn't he?
The reasons why he had improved differently compared to above-mentioned MindCandyMan are: 1. The stuff on Elfwood was drawn when Fault was 13 years old, and 2. Unlike MindCandyMan, Fault is not aiming in the fine art territory. Anyway, despite all failures, he'd been working hard, and that's what made his artwork good.
I hope that it helps you (or anyone) somehow.

P.S. Nice Nolthag, strongrudder!
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1211 on: February 07, 2012, 12:10:07 pm »

Pleasant surprise to return to the forums and find this thread's picked back up. :D

Took a stab at Nolthag in celebration:
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Very nice, Strongrudder! Excellent Slavering!
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1212 on: February 07, 2012, 12:24:00 pm »

Pleasant surprise to return to the forums and find this thread's picked back up. :D

Took a stab at Nolthag in celebration:
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Very nice, Strongrudder! Excellent Slavering!
Just what i was gonna say xD. Great slavering!

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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1213 on: February 07, 2012, 12:24:43 pm »

Pleasant surprise to return to the forums and find this thread's picked back up. :D

Took a stab at Nolthag in celebration:
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Cool! He's like "Oh no, dwarves again! Your booze-soaked bodies gives me hangover for next century!!"
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Re: The Forgotten Beast Art Contest!
« Reply #1214 on: February 07, 2012, 12:26:20 pm »

Gonna throw in my +1 with the offtopic motivational rant :D

Improving at art is almost entirely based on practice. Natural "talent," in my opinion, mostly has to do with exceptional patience for the practice that's required. Or perhaps a keen observational eye. Or even better than average hand-eye coordination. These things make art easier, but it doesn't lock out people who don't have them.
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