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Title: my sketch thread. new sketch with photo referance pic
Post by: M@DM@X on March 10, 2007, 10:38:50 PM
well, i picked up a pencil and paper and started messing around and ended up drawing this, only a simple rose but i think its good.
started off as a sketch, imported it into photoshop via my webcam to add color over the main image and i also redrew it in photoshop making the last pic the first thing ive ever made in a 2d program lol.



Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 10, 2007, 11:38:23 PM
only god knows why i stopped drawing for 7 years cause i sure as hell dont

(http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6445/horse4on1.jpg)
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 11, 2007, 09:51:03 AM
18 views and no replys, cant be as good as i thourght
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: 1DeadlySAMURAI on March 11, 2007, 09:59:51 AM
oh, yes you are. ;)
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: Glenn on March 11, 2007, 12:00:32 PM
Nice stuff MM, what other pics do you have in your collection!?. Wouldn't mind seeing a few more!!  :D
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 11, 2007, 02:12:48 PM
well, i have my old gcse course work but alot of that is on a3 paper so there massive compeared to them other 2 that are on a4. tho saying that the horse takes up almost all my a4 page in my sketch book lol.
ive added the main to the horse just need to touch it up, alot.

Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 11, 2007, 10:27:56 PM
more on the horse. still lots of stuff to do
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: Legacy on March 12, 2007, 06:42:47 AM
Those are cool sketches Max.

For the rose i would suggest you add more levels of brushed shades and removes the outlines so it would look more like the real one.

As for the horse it's shaping out nicely, but jusdging by the proportions it's not an ARAB or a Quarter which i'm used to see and mount lol.
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 12, 2007, 02:45:47 PM
lol. i rode an arab yesterday. was pretty good. fairly young guy to 7 years old and acting like a 4 yearold. i think he was excited about been out on a hack tho. poped over acouple of logs on the cross country course there too :D
the horse in the picture is a Thoroughbred, surprisingly in the 17th century tb's were arabs they where used to breed to native british horses that now make the Thoroughbred's you see now in the uk. very beautiful horse but some can me a bit nutty and extreamly forward going. if your a novice rider they can be enough to put you off if your unlukly enough to ride one of hte many forward going ones.
i knew you would post in here LC thankyou for your comments they mean alot from someone with your drawing ability
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: Adonis on March 13, 2007, 03:57:20 PM
Nicey :)
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 14, 2007, 02:58:54 PM
well, got a new sketch for you all. hope you like

made this using a picture reference from toni marie hudson all credit goes to her for the original peice, i just wanted to copy as close i could
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 15, 2007, 05:01:17 PM
anyone else got anything to say?
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: DaAan on March 15, 2007, 05:47:52 PM
yeah... you suck :P (j/k)

looks cool man.. tho i think your overly obsessed with horses for a guy your age but meh
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: Creative Inc on March 15, 2007, 07:24:17 PM
well, i have my old gcse course work but alot of that is on a3 paper so there massive compeared to them other 2 that are on a4. tho saying that the horse takes up almost all my a4 page in my sketch book lol.
ive added the main to the horse just need to touch it up, alot.



Touch up eh? If I may...
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 16, 2007, 03:46:03 AM
lol, thxs. wasnt thinking much about digital art yet, dosnt make sense for me to until i can sort out money for a graphics tablet. lol steve, its not my fault i have a big space in my heart for horse's i just love been around them; even the nutty ones. besides, have you seen the bums on alot of the lady's that ride :D:D:D:D:D
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on March 17, 2007, 02:03:16 PM
well, got a new sketch for you all. hope you like

the sketch in this post was created using referance from someone elses artwork, i just found out who created the original so im going to give credit to toni marie hudson, too bad she cant see this thread as i would like to thank her for the inspiring work
here is the pic of her work
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: Weasel on March 17, 2007, 04:48:25 PM
Horse... it's whats for dinner.   :P I used to love BBQ horse-kabobs. When I was a teen in Belgium, we used to nosh upon them whilst drinking Grolsch and playing D&D.
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: Adm_willie on March 30, 2007, 01:06:54 PM
damn thats some fine work out there :)
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: MYar on March 30, 2007, 02:32:33 PM
Horse... it's whats for dinner.   :P I used to love BBQ horse-kabobs. When I was a teen in Belgium, we used to nosh upon them whilst drinking Grolsch and playing D&D.

Dude you eat horses ?

Anyway I thought that one pic was familiar (big horse freak :D ) Still great work
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on April 02, 2007, 11:55:55 AM
(http://img509.imageshack.us/img509/5939/horse15abd9.jpg)

new pic. been commisioned to do this one, im like "what the hell, im not that good" and there like "yes you are" got like another 10 people wanting me to go sketchs of there horses too  :shock:
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on April 03, 2007, 02:32:30 AM
yeh, toni marie hudson is really good. ive found the forum she uses and been looking at her wip threads, her drawings and paintings really are something else
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: blaXXer on May 05, 2007, 05:17:34 AM
as already said on msn: those are awesome, dude, really awesome :)
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: M@DM@X on May 08, 2007, 02:45:25 PM
cheers bladd...... i mean blaxxer :P

i got another one but unfortuatly someone decided to hack into my computer and do one over on it, lost all my digital files including my defiant veriant which i was going to finish up  :x
luckly my router stored there ip so once i trace it im going to pass the info onto the police and do one over on them  :twisted:

anyone here is a copy and paste job from my other thread over on bcu as i was having problams getting on here at the time. enjoy

well, after looking around for awhile i found a really good photo on a photoreferance site that i was pointed too. its the first time ive done a horses body that actully looks ok so now i got a base i can work on and improve on. hope you like it


(http://img296.imageshack.us/img296/6458/horse16wa4.jpg)
Title: Re: my sketch
Post by: blaXXer on May 09, 2007, 06:29:04 AM
lookin really great, was hoping you'd scan'em tho ;)

looking forward on how you shade'em.
Title: Re: my sketch (finally have a wacom, come see how bad my digi art is lol)
Post by: M@DM@X on May 11, 2007, 10:00:07 PM
i finally had enough money for a wacom, its only a graphire 4 classic but atleast now i can start learning to draw on my pc :P
first even attemp at something on a pen tablet so its probbaly a bit bad.
Title: Re: my sketch (finally have a wacom, come see how bad my digi art is lol)
Post by: Adonis on May 11, 2007, 10:02:17 PM
You'll perfect it out :P
Title: Re: my sketch (finally have a wacom, come see how bad my digi art is lol)
Post by: M@DM@X on May 12, 2007, 07:10:22 PM
this is really strange trying use a graphics tablet, its really annoying that i cant rotate it :P
still im praciticing with it for now trying to get used to it.
Title: Re: my sketch (finally have a wacom, come see how bad my digi art is lol)
Post by: M@DM@X on May 12, 2007, 09:17:44 PM
just adding to the drawing exercise by messing with the digital watercolor paints in corel painter 3 that came with the wacom i got. this sort of thing always happans when i get a new toy
Title: Re: my sketch (finally have a wacom, come see how bad my digi art is lol)
Post by: M@DM@X on June 02, 2007, 08:53:30 PM
just messing around with my wacom, coral painter and photoshop cs2. i hope to make a decent dragon drawing at some point so ill prolly just mess around with differant parts till i get them down in a way i like
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics!!!)
Post by: Glenn on June 03, 2007, 12:01:47 PM
Not bad at all my friend, good work!!   :)
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics!!!)
Post by: RhVaurek on June 03, 2007, 04:18:49 PM
 Very nice for the lot if you ask me, your a good sketcher and all round drawer,
 Also its very true horses are extremely great to be around. :D
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics!!!)
Post by: Legacy on June 04, 2007, 08:21:27 AM
Painter 3? hmm.. that's old.

I like the dragon more than the horse, simply because you actually added a background color to it while the horses still have the canvas as the background.
Real watercollor is a pain to do so because new layers of painting won't actually cover the first one and will mix up making a mess, but as you're doing it digitaly, you can always do that, or simulate the goache effect, where the layers cover the previous and you can have a wide variety of colors.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics!!!)
Post by: M@DM@X on July 08, 2007, 05:25:49 PM
huh, i still prefair pencil and paper. tho photoshops smudge tool has its uses (see first pic).
im in an artsy mood today, dunno why lol. i realllllllly need to get a scanner
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 08.07.07)
Post by: M@DM@X on July 15, 2007, 12:03:10 PM
no one wants to add anything????????????

this next one isnt my design, its a design from a person called dee dreslough. she dosnt mind people copying her work as long as they give credit so there is no harm in me posting. if anyone wants confermation of this i will gladly post the link to her site (and weiver) so you can see for yourself. it was supposed to be a smudge tutorial i was following but i had a hard time with it, so i sketched it out then used the airbrush tool in photoshop to paint over it. the original color is the green one, i changed the hue to red for the skin and background and yellow for the eye as i wanted to see it in red :P
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: Legacy on July 16, 2007, 07:49:22 AM
your paint is improving, now try to add different layers of light and shadow to reflect the surface instead of the noise like effect. ;)
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on July 29, 2007, 09:15:40 PM
i got alittle bored, so i made a new background and inverted the colors on the dragon to make a white one. only way i could change the color of the horns was to invert it lol.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: UPD Equinox on August 08, 2007, 05:26:33 AM
My sister would love you! (she loves horses) But you've got talent dude!
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: Legacy on August 08, 2007, 11:59:29 AM
i got alittle bored, so i made a new background and inverted the colors on the dragon to make a white one. only way i could change the color of the horns was to invert it lol.

Selections and layers are your friends.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on August 08, 2007, 01:18:18 PM
well, got a new one im working on. its the same horse as in one of my other attempts, but i compleatly redid it from scratch and added shading into it too. still getting used to my wacom and photoshop so i know its still not great, but im happy that im starting to get somewhere with it now.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: Glenn on August 08, 2007, 02:43:06 PM
Excellent work M@DM@X looks like a poloroid photograph, very life-like!!   8)
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: Legacy on August 08, 2007, 02:58:26 PM
Shading looks pretty good indeed, my only glitch is that when the neck hits the body there's a visible vertical line separating both parts.
Some mixing there should fix it.

Also, for digital painting using a tablet, i strongly recommend painter (Corel Painter) over photoshop.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on August 09, 2007, 01:34:28 AM
:D i got a newer version of corel painter. some of it is done in corelpainter i just find it easyer making a brush for hair in photoshop. i cant figure out that part of corel painter yet lol
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on August 09, 2007, 12:58:21 PM
update time :P
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on August 10, 2007, 02:34:56 AM
(http://img258.imageshack.us/img258/125/horse6sz6.jpg)

updates make me happy. means i have done something lol.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on August 11, 2007, 03:50:02 AM
ive toned down the color slightly, it was too bright; i think it looks better now :)
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: DaAan on August 11, 2007, 03:07:50 PM
oo pretty
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on August 13, 2007, 01:10:39 PM
on advice from a friend, i decided to try something else with the pic, i would really like to know what you all think


Edit; second pic is another update
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: BES on August 17, 2007, 05:02:47 PM
Awsome job on those!, you really need Zbrush3, sculpt your drawings, you already have a digital pad.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on August 18, 2007, 12:22:42 AM
ive been thinking about trying it, would defonatly add a new dimention to art work
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: Legacy on August 18, 2007, 02:01:02 PM
Yes, Zbrush is cool for sculpting, but it`s probably the most wacky program i've ever used.
It`s giving me tons of headache just to detail some dino skin.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on August 18, 2007, 03:13:38 PM
and a nice dino it is tho Lc
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 15.07.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on November 16, 2007, 06:58:46 AM
been doing some tutorials on dragons again, doing them so i know how to do there bodies. the first one i did on my pc in corel painter the second one i did in my sketch pad and used a digicam to get it on my pc. keep in mind the designs arnt mine because i followed tutorials for them.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 16.11.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: Excal_Luke on November 17, 2007, 06:16:55 AM
Hey you wouldnt believe this, but i actually know toni marie hudson. !!! Would you believe it ?
She is a good friend of mine, sorry i diddnt notice this earlier. If you go to her site and click on ''meet the artist'' you'll see a picture of her with her two dogs, that field she is sat on is across from my house !!!
Man, how coincidental.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 16.11.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on November 17, 2007, 08:08:04 AM
yeh, i kinda messed up when i copyed that work of hers. i forgot to add credit on cgtalk (but not on here go figure) and got berated by an admin on there. my own fault for been careless and forgetting to give credit where its due. ive spoke to toni marie hudson tho and explained to her it was just an honest mistake on my part and no harm was intended. she is a great artist and ive seen the pic of her on her website. do you know a horse called pippa??? toni marie gave me a link to wetcanvas.com and i found a pic on the photoreferance section from her for a horse called pippa. i think the pic is on here on page 1 not sure.
anyway here is the sketch i did from that photo.
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 16.11.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: Excal_Luke on November 19, 2007, 03:41:51 PM
No, But anyway, that horse looks really good - keep at it, and im sure you'll come up with somthing origional :)
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 16.11.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: RhVaurek on November 20, 2007, 02:20:26 PM
 I love that horse! Its getting better everytime and your dragons look good too, from tutorials its a good learning process you will be pumping your own original dragons out in no time hopefully :D
Title: Re: my sketch (new pics 16.11.07) im starting to like photoshop lol
Post by: M@DM@X on November 28, 2007, 06:13:16 PM
here is a sketch of my friend lizzie, its not totally perfect to her photo but its close.
lizzie is the horse i ride on my riding lessons, i love her to bits. too me she is the best horse ever.
ive been riding her for a year now on my riding lessons.
i am including the photo so you can make your own judgements, and yes that is me on her while the photo was taken.
Title: Re: my sketch thread. new sketch with photo referance pic
Post by: M@DM@X on December 16, 2007, 08:09:00 PM
dosn't anyone have anything to add to this? some crits would be really nice or just some general comments. its starting to feel like cgtalk in here lol
Title: Re: my sketch thread. new sketch with photo referance pic
Post by: Armondikov on January 10, 2008, 09:31:35 AM
You've come a long way since starting, especially starting on something as difficult as a horse (I doubt I could do it that well considering how out of practice I am and how I generally don't like doing animals). Good to see you trying some different things though.