Fadebruary - NSFW
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That needs to be a minicomic.
that mars poster has all of the retro aspects to it. you nailed that one!
Man, the Earth and Mars got a LOT closer to each other! 
Awesome.
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CogNoman
I'm EXTREMELY slow to reply to the drawing up top, haha, but know that I went bananas when I first saw it, haha. I love everything about it; it's weird, it's quirky, it's fun. Just looking at it, you can't help but think of weird and interesting stories for what could be going on in that little world. Like, the huge guy with the open mouth...is he friends with everybody there? Or what's that relationship? And does everybody just kind of live on that record player? Like...is that there whole existence, just going round and round? Haha, see? Extremely odd, but very fascinating and just looking at it and thinking about it kinda sends one's brain down very fun, surreal paths, haha. So yes, I loved it. The colours also work great with the linework too.
Random aside: Maybe this thread should have a "NSFW" label on it because of that racial slur in the last picture, heh. Because apparently the Martis have come to Earth: http://gizmodo.com/5750864/is-this-...feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo
(...personally, I think the video is just some sort of subtle Cloverfield 2 marketing campaign or maybe some computer graphics students playing around with effects for fun or something like that, but YOU NEVER KNOW, heh heh-)
Random aside: Maybe this thread should have a "NSFW" label on it because of that racial slur in the last picture, heh. Because apparently the Martis have come to Earth: http://gizmodo.com/5750864/is-this-...feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+gizmodo/full+(Gizmodo
(...personally, I think the video is just some sort of subtle Cloverfield 2 marketing campaign or maybe some computer graphics students playing around with effects for fun or something like that, but YOU NEVER KNOW, heh heh-)
Haha, smoking a cigar in his space helmet. Classic!
He should have an american flag on his free hand!
or probably not, because this drawing is great as it is.
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(I also love the antopomorphization of Wells Martians)
or probably not, because this drawing is great as it is.
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(I also love the antopomorphization of Wells Martians)
Actually, just turn the title into a banner with him hoisting it high during the beat down.
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Bleh, I'm probably going to have to semi-withdraw, like Amy. I hate to, but Feb. is probably the second worst month to hold this from my point of view (just after December). I have a final grant report due, new grant deadlines, papers to write, homeworks, tests to create and grade, etc.... All in this one month. The drawings were stress releasing at first, but not anymore. March is beautifully free, though...
And her arm is coming out of her rib. That is one freaky artichoke woman.
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Not a sketch again. This is a centerpiece for my Cub Scout den's Blue and Gold Banquet, where the kids are awarded rank badges.
There's a battery box inside the tent, and I clipped some lights and sockets out of an old christmas light set...
It's hard to see in that picture, and even harder to photograph, but there's a light in the fire, and another inside the tent. You can barely make it out, but I made some silhouettes of boys in the tent. I tried to photograph it with the lights off, but it's still hard to see:
There's a battery box inside the tent, and I clipped some lights and sockets out of an old christmas light set...
It's hard to see in that picture, and even harder to photograph, but there's a light in the fire, and another inside the tent. You can barely make it out, but I made some silhouettes of boys in the tent. I tried to photograph it with the lights off, but it's still hard to see:
Loving your drawings! February should never end so there will always be art here! 
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CogNoman
Whoa! Cool! Stuff like this (like, "non-drawing" art stuff) is always refreshing and inspiring. The only "crit" I'd have would be that it'd be cool if we couldn't see the white underlying base through the 'grass'. But critting this thing is missing the point entirely; cool job Fade. The kids'll love it (or who knows, maybe they'll just take it for granted - kids are kids after all - but still, the quality of this diorama will surely seep in to their tender minds and alter them forever for the better. So cool job. Way to warp children for the better, Fade!)
I'm assuming the trees are probably model trees from a set of some kind, but what's the grass made of?
I'm assuming the trees are probably model trees from a set of some kind, but what's the grass made of?
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Heatherling: Thanks for the compliments!
We had the banquet last night. The kids thought it was cool for about 5 minutes, and then couldn't care less. Until the boring speaking parts, when they proceeded to soak the paper the tent was made out of. Fortunately I was able to prevent major damage.
We had the banquet last night. The kids thought it was cool for about 5 minutes, and then couldn't care less. Until the boring speaking parts, when they proceeded to soak the paper the tent was made out of. Fortunately I was able to prevent major damage.
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Hmm... so it's a story about the Invisible Man? (I'm just guessing, heh). The line "I developed like a Polaroid picture" struck me as notably poetic because it made think of people slowly coming out of a fog. But from what I gather... that might not have been a metaphor, heh - this fella here might actually be literally developing in front of our eyes.
Anyways - I meant to comment on your post in Bumble's thread (where you wrote that your approach to art-making is in 'reverse' because you developed the shading before you developed the line-making) and yeah, I guess it goes without saying that when it comes to art, there is no single "right" path, haha. Or if there is, I doubt anybody's discovered it yet. Ideally, eventually, we would all develop both line-art aptitudes and shading aptitudes, so whichever we gravitate to first likely doesn't matter, I'm assuming.
But this leads me in to another random side-thought that I might have said before (because it'something I've been thinking about lately), but that I still find interesting anyway, heh. The distinction between "painters" and "drawers". The 2 approaches are fairly different. Drawers outline everything (and the point should also be mentioned too that these "outlines" don't actually exist in reality; like, nothing on this Earth walks around with a "pencil outlines" in the same that we would draw it) whereas painters work with blocks of light and colour...which is a bit different. I'm not really well-versed enough in this kind of stuff to say much more than that, but basically what I'm leading up to is that, if you did gravitate more towards shading initially when you started drawing...you might have a bit of a painter in you, heh, because you seem to have an awareness of shades that somebody like myself for instance (I didn't even notice that all my childhood Saturday morning cartoons were shaded until I was way past cartoon age - I thought of them as simply line drawings filled with solid colour; and when I would draw them as a kid, that's how I would approach them), wouldn't have. Maybe, I dunno.
And what does this have to do with anything in your thread?! Nothing, as far as I know, heh. I just started typing and the post above is what came out, haha. Whoops. Ah well. Maybe I just wanted to work some thoughts out on things for myself and the fact that you have a thread here is just a convenient location for me to do so, haha.
Anyways! Lookin' forward to when you get back and finish this serial (if you choose to), Fade-
Anyways - I meant to comment on your post in Bumble's thread (where you wrote that your approach to art-making is in 'reverse' because you developed the shading before you developed the line-making) and yeah, I guess it goes without saying that when it comes to art, there is no single "right" path, haha. Or if there is, I doubt anybody's discovered it yet. Ideally, eventually, we would all develop both line-art aptitudes and shading aptitudes, so whichever we gravitate to first likely doesn't matter, I'm assuming.
But this leads me in to another random side-thought that I might have said before (because it'something I've been thinking about lately), but that I still find interesting anyway, heh. The distinction between "painters" and "drawers". The 2 approaches are fairly different. Drawers outline everything (and the point should also be mentioned too that these "outlines" don't actually exist in reality; like, nothing on this Earth walks around with a "pencil outlines" in the same that we would draw it) whereas painters work with blocks of light and colour...which is a bit different. I'm not really well-versed enough in this kind of stuff to say much more than that, but basically what I'm leading up to is that, if you did gravitate more towards shading initially when you started drawing...you might have a bit of a painter in you, heh, because you seem to have an awareness of shades that somebody like myself for instance (I didn't even notice that all my childhood Saturday morning cartoons were shaded until I was way past cartoon age - I thought of them as simply line drawings filled with solid colour; and when I would draw them as a kid, that's how I would approach them), wouldn't have. Maybe, I dunno.
And what does this have to do with anything in your thread?! Nothing, as far as I know, heh. I just started typing and the post above is what came out, haha. Whoops. Ah well. Maybe I just wanted to work some thoughts out on things for myself and the fact that you have a thread here is just a convenient location for me to do so, haha.
Anyways! Lookin' forward to when you get back and finish this serial (if you choose to), Fade-
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Pinewood Derby car, also for Cub Scouts. I racked my brain for something unique. So did my son. EVERYTHING we came up with came up in a google image search. So many people do pinewood derby, not just Boy Scouts. Girl Scouts, Explorers, schools, etc. We tried Wiimotes, band-aids, and candy bars... Finally, I decided...MJOLNIR! That should work! Couldn't find any hits for that (didn't look very hard though. So here's the Mjolnir car. I admit, I didn't have much time to work on this. I did it about 2 hours. I wish I had more time. I'd add a lot of detail.
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(Thank heaven for power tools)
Added at: 23:37
(Thank heaven for power tools)
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I think you meant to say "Thank Asgard". -wink-
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Congratulations, Fade. You rocked this month in the greatest of ways - experimenting in all sorts of different types of media and approaches. This thread is all over the map, in the best of ways - but I gotta say my favourite of the month is clearly Day 6, haha. But they were all enjoyable. But not as enjoyable as doing this draining marathon-month in the trenches with ya (heh, I tied everything together there fairly poetically).
You're a rock, Fade. Good luck with your comic!
You're a rock, Fade. Good luck with your comic!
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