Yes, I can’t do a cartwheel, fly a plane, or play the drums (my coordination between my hands and feet is horrible) among many many other things. lol
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Got both of the base shading layers done tonight. Darkened the background a bit so the highlights pop out more when I get to those.
Now for the highlights and basic details.
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Also, whoa, apparently my little pixel cutter doesn’t clear the buffer after each iteration so I end up with weird shit like this:
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Wow these are tight! Gives me Rob Sheridan vibes. How do you go about making things like this @KvlT?
That’s very much nerd territory, but basically:
pretty much just Processing, aside from the source images that were likely a combination of Filter Forge and Pillow. I made a weird function that alpha-masks pixels by a specific threshold but realized that the buffer / canvas doesn’t clear if I run it on a loop (which was a happy accident), so they just kind of snowball. So essentially it just picks whichever pixels (which can be set to random) and throws them on the canvas, lol.
Then I made a cool buffer-clearer that resets everything to black ever once in a while (when things get too crazy, so you can basically render like 3,000 of them and then pick the best ones.
Huh. This definitely isn’t art, it’s just horseshit 
. You do real art, imo
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These are awesome. Kvlt
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Yep @KvlT making our next Comp cover art.
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No way man, thats bullshit. What you do isn’t any more or less art than what i do. All i do is copy a picture. not like i’m drawing this type of shit without references, I’ve tried, it’s a no go at this point FOR SURE, lol.
That being said, I did make some more progress, and man, I’m really stoked on this one so far.
Still more detail work to do, but getting closer.
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i did a litlle experiment yesterday with black oil paint and clay dust. I was intending on doing a gradient exercise, to make an abstract piece because i was kind of mad at an “artist” friend. (Sidebar: he presented a series of abstracts of his own in a joint “show” we were a part of. They were not just bad, and boring, they were…lazy. As was the rest of his “planning” for this “show”. So it made me angry. And i wanted to do something better, out of rage and spite)
Anyways…i accidentally made a face instead. And it kinda looks like a ghost captured on an antique film. And i fucking love her. Her name is Abigal.
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This is incredible. I find pictures like this genuinely creepy about 5% of the time, but you nailed it. It looks like a recreation of an old photograph
That’s awesome! I love this type of shit!
I actually started something similar a while back, trying to start with a black canvas (not a real canvas, I use procreate on my ipad a lot) and then doing white pencil over it. Getting the highlights and shadows figured out wasn’t to bad, even though it’s reversed.
I want to try and do realistic skin on this one at some point and make it look like she has skin where her eyes should be. Will probably be challenging and I’ve been putting off starting because it’s so much work and i’m a little scared of it, haha.
I love the texture on yours though. Thats one thing i feel like i miss out on with digital work, but i’m afraid of committing things to physical media because it feels like my mistakes are so much more permanent.
Still need to get all of the highlights and finalize the basic shading in before i do anything else to it, but here it is.
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Procreate is probably better for so many other reasons, but have you ever tried Paintstorm or Clip Studio? Both have some really cool brushes and textures to kind of simulate that look. Some of Paintstorm’s brushes feel like nothing else I’ve ever used before in the digital world.
I’m with you, though. Mistakes on canvas are like scars
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A lot of my artwork is simply working through, or working past mistakes. It’s about accepting the mistakes and reframing them as character. That is exactly how this piece came about. I accidentally added too much dust to one part, and in my attempt to clean it up, i paused, looked at it and said “Wait a minute…i see something.” That is when i discarded my original plan and changed direction. And the result was so great that my dick got hard. (Not really, but i did feel excited and awed) i’m sure i could keep working on this to improve it, but i fell on love with it as it is. At the risk of sounding Bob Rossian, it is a happy mistake.
Trust your instincts and you will never make a mistake again. You will always create something original and unique.
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I’ve not used anything aside from procreate, but I’ll check those out.
To reply to your response about your work not being art, i have to disagree. Here is a physical represention of how your work motivated me to make something.
I simply processed something you made a few times, and used it as a background to build upon until i had something physical.
It could be argued that what i made isn’t art, and that’s fine. But i made something i think looks cool, because someone made something cool. It was inspirational, therefore it is art.
[/end 2cents]
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Tried to take this comment to heart. Went a direction with the portrait that I didn’t anticipate. For some reason I had the thought “what if she had leather pieces nailed over her eyes”. I don’t know where that idea came from but i decided to trust my instincts and I think it was a good move.
Anyway, finished both of these today, hope you guys enjoy them. Thanks for the inspirational words everyone!
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This was going to be my new album cover. Key word is WAS. I decided on something else that is better and represents the music more. This is all photoshop, chopping and slicing. When i finished, it just ended up looking like that Journey album, Frontiers. I was like ehhhhhhh, nah. Probably should post this with no project logo so no one thinks this is the actual cover. For me, this comes across as “dorky” for an electronic album cover.
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This actually looks awesome to me, FWIW
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