ILXOR Gallery

I'll start.

http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/images/catalogue/bird/bird-500.jpg

The image is a crop taken from a botanical engraving (I have no drawing talent). I had them letterpressed in Pantone 350U on these great chipboard sleeves by Stumptown in Portland, who were a pleasure to work with.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/48/163659876_15bbfbae8f.jpg

My daughter!

That looks awesome Caek!

Nath, trumps thread.

I would show my latest fabric creation but it's sister is meant for an ILx0r so I don't want to spoil the suprise.

OMG CUET

(and wicked, caek!)

I lose! : )

hahahaha the baby pic trumps everything! ILX is just like America's Funniest Videos.

i love her no-nonsense look.

OK, I know that DDBs are not as cuet as babies, but this is what I have been working on most recently:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/206/493469805_c9c249741c.jpg

Have been asked to do album artwork and tour posters for other bands off the back of it, so I'm quite pleased.

(just to say i appreciate the attempt at a thread with content amongst all these polls. unfortunately i have nothing to add - working 7 days a week does tend to sap my (already limited) creativity)

nat's cheating - that was a joint effort 8)

Is that pen and ink or Photoshop, Kate? I like it!

Pen and ink, scanned into photoshop. I did it very drunk in the back of a pub, while Teh Early Yares were playing - am trying to set up doing a proper version but have been out of drawing order with my wrist, and we don't seem to be able to set up a sitting becuase they are flaeky.

Does this count? maybe. not really.

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1007/541495689_f6a37236f0.jpg

The only real creative stuff I've been doing lately is writing but that's not really showable. And php/MySQL coding. I've been fobbing off all of my graphic work to the intern lately.

I designed and did the photography for this:

http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/I/51WGQAYFD8L._SS500_.jpg

Ooh, I like the colours of the spinny fairground wheel thingy!

Kaet and Cake: your drawings/engravings are great!

Ophelia is great too of course, Nathalie, but you didn't actually, like, design her, or did you?

xxpost It's the Big Wheel at the Links Market (an annual event in my hometown where the esplanade gets taken over by a fairground for a weekend in April). It looks much better on the album cover after all the post-processing because in real life it looks a bit shabby.

Is the Links Market still going? Blimey. Most of the other Fife coast fairs have dwindled away to nothing.

Kate, your pen and ink would look great as a woodcut. Probably not if you carved it with with a busted wrist though.

I love the green/brown tiles. Art+Design-y home decor is definitely on topic.

And the colours on that ferris wheel _are_ pretty.

treefell, it's a great image and a great font, but the placement of the word "saint" really bothers me. it just seems to be hanging out by itself too much....a little to the right and a litte closer to 'jude', maybe? i dunno, but gosh, it's really bothering me.

apartment building
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_1m_82cc25a.jpg

restaurant
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_2m_184f12a.jpg

restaurant
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_3m_43d538e.jpg

lounge

lounge

lounge
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_4m_9fa1b7a.jpg

lounge
http://img40.picoodle.com/img/img40/8/6/15/f_5m_c5411c1.jpg

xpost
It's just the way it worked out. I was trying to put more life into the font so I printed out each word onto a separate piece of paper, photographed it and imported it into photoshop for post processing.
Each word ended up being off horizontal and out of scale with the others.
So when I first put them together on the image they pretty much came out looking like that against each other. I liked it - the words were independent and part of the whole at the same time and it gave the logo a unique look.
I suppose the 'saint' could be a bit distracting, but I'm so used to it now that I can't imagine it any other way.

Oh, and yeah, the Links Market is still going strong. God knows why...

http://richardgin.org

I pick restaurant number two. With the 1920s ghost lady in it.

kate, i really like that.

can i get some kind of print of it if i throw scrillas your way?

Stumptown are really great.

Thanks! You don't need to throw anything my way. Just go to my Flickr, open the big one and hit the PRINT button on yr 'puter.

the full size one be here:

http://www.flickr.com/photo_zoom.gne?id=493469805&size=o

if Flickr and/or teh Early Yares don't like that then they are cordially invited to SUCK MY LEFT ONE. And I don't even have balls.

Europe (a picture thread)

Here's a flier I did from some buddies' house show:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/lowbelly.jpg

I really like yr album cover design, cek, it's gorgeous and serene...

Sorry I spoiled the thread but I couldn't resist showing of Ophelia. :-D

<I>nat's cheating - that was a joint effort 8)</I>

Ah yes, I admit she's *co-designed*.

Kate, I am superjealous of your drawing skills!

Honestly tho, Nath, you did nine months plus of post-production work.

before and after - the cafe in the Glasgow Film Theatre that i just redesigned (on a very tight budget).

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/IMGP1134.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v369/colinohara/433521237_88e6678c05_o.jpg

tiny photos too!

it's a 30's building so we wanted to give it a kind of cruise liner/ art deco feel without doing a pastiche.

Great banquette tufting, jed!

thanks I DIED, i like yours.

the banquet is actually a bit of a disappointment to me - the buttoning should be deeper but hey, you get what you can afford. also i'm quite pleased that there are actually more seats than there were originally but the place looked absolutely full of chairs before.

Love the flier, Abbott.

Abbott, that flier is awesome. Nice tits!

I DIED, where is your restaurant? Does it exist yet?

Those restaurants are both Washington DC area, one's in permitting right now and the other's in construction. I don't really care for either of those project phases.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/126/361828025_4c9057a2e4.jpg?v=0

visio + publisher + lots of free time at my old job
I wish I could blow these up big enough to make decent poster prints

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/67/197232715_67c6cbe88c.jpg?v=0
the og from way back in the day

What kind of pen did you use on your flyer, Abbot? And is it the same kind as those auto-bio ones you posted awhile ago?

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/439897202_02161522f6.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/496918713_54ae5b795d.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/430662389_aa096e42c7.jpg

holy shit - the first two look like photorealist paintings. good work

Tombot that is comical and i like the blue/orangey building type things

slocki's first one looks like one of those 100-year old Russian photos!

My most recent painting:

http://www.jefframirez.com/ilx/bv2.jpg

High Dynamic Range Slocki?

who knew we had so many artists

ya jarl the first 2.

http://www.mcmf.org/images/GaryHiggins.jpg

http://www.mcmf.org/images/EdithFrost.jpg

http://www.societyofrockets.org/MCMF2007.gif

http://a628.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00406/72/61/406511627_l.jpg

http://a590.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00649/98/51/649731589_m.jpg

http://a996.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/45/l_ba36ddbf74076989fa033e1cce3f471b.jpg

uhm sorry okay image bombing over

Which one are you in the above pic?

the ugly one

my album cover for a fake grime act

http://www.coastaltown.nildram.co.uk/jim/grimeep.jpg

silly

i LOVE that st judes infirmary album

i'm surprised dom earworm hasn't got you to do art for him shakey

I wouldn't say no, but he was, um uncommunicative when we tried to get something together in the past (previous incarnation of the band was slated to be one of earworm's final releases - didn't work out)

(but hey anybody who wants some artwork done point 'em my way, I work for cheap and/or free)

GAH you guys are all fucking awesome. I hade no idea you did (extremely spectacular) arts, Shakey Mo.

Yr mouf painting is incredible (and incredibly creepy) Jeff.

And to answer yr question, PP, it was just with some inky ball point, like a midline-price 12-pack kind you get from office supply stores, and a Sharpie to fill in the blacker fields. Same as comics, yeah. If I want to print or scan them, I usually just photocopy them first, which yields crisp lines & perfectly even black fields w/out scratchy pen/overlapping Sharpie marks.

I didn't get to photocopy that one (it's the original), so it still has sharpie overlap lines. :(

Shakey Mo, I am totally going to be in touch shortly.

In the meantime Shakey, can you say a bit about how you draw your images? Pen and ink + colours in Photoshop? I am curious about the mechanics of it.

http://img101.imageshack.us/img101/300/tomlogvv0.jpg

Back when I was trying to draw a daily, introducing characters, etc.

TOM, re: blowing up, did you try Live Trace yet? It might do a good job with your line art. See, e.g. http://blog.wired.com/geekdad/2007/05/last_year_we_de.html

I've gotta go right now but briefly process is - pencil sketch->lightbox + black old-school rapidograph pen->scan into photoshop->fill in colors

altho sometimes I'll add the colors prior to scanning and kinda work with those in photoshop

(there's also a fair amount of collage work)

can i post my old paintings on here? i'm shameless like that.

please!

moer art

okay. michael jackson:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/129/364974038_b48f9abba9_b.jpg

paintings for the kidz:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/107/364919974_a40c994404_b.jpg

um, gwyneth, ?, brad pitt, kate winslet:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/116/364919971_b77e10d0b6.jpg?v=0

or maybe the 2nd one is brad pitt? or maybe that's george clooney?

close-up of gwyneth:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/105/296090781_a08ebb239b_o.jpg

Fog in Melbourne last night. Ridiculously pea soup thick. Not like Melbourne whatsoever. Taken in a cab coming back from the airport:

http://www.memorygongs.com/melbfog1.jpg

Not the greatest photo ever but the fog and lights look pretty cool.

xpost, Whoa. Looks like the first teacher to die in The Faculty.

SANITATION TRUCK is my favourite kids one.

i liek monkey

http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/images/catalogue/christmas2006/christmas2006-500.jpg

This is one I did for our Christmas E.P. I don't think the font for the label's logo goes, but I had to use it. The image is great though. It's from CHRISTMAS DAY DINNER held by CHICAGO BEACH HOTEL at CHICAGO ILL; (HOTEL).

being old and not knowing how to paint provides a great feeling of freedom. i am four years old and i don't give a damn!

WOW Scott I would totally buy yr paintings. I love the portraits but esp. the helicopter!

I love the TEXTURES on the portraits, they remind me of a lot of weird Mexican Catholic curios.

Anyone want to do an art trade up in this? I would totally be down.

I just did a triptych of tools for a friend (hammer, screwdriver & wrench, all truncated) with really fatty/glommy brush strokes. It was super fun. I've been working on this fucking space crab/shrimp critter portrait for abt 2 years and I'm almost done but not quite. :(

What kind of paint do you use, Scott? And Jeff, too?

i think everyone should paint! or make art. and music. homemade art and music is joy. (maybe keep the homemade writing to yerself though. hahaha! oh god that's mean. but it's kinda true...er, not talking about anyone here. i already know how talented most ilxors really are. just in general. don't mind me. it's the hefeweizen talking.)

i just use cheap acrylic paint. i'm scared of oil paint.

Caek, your stuff is fantastic!

my new favorite thread

these are from 1997 (10 years ago!!!!)

The Cable Company
http://www.rsub.com/thebluedot/borderequalszero/cable/index.html

The Telephone Company
http://www.rsub.com/thebluedot/borderequalszero/the_telephone_company/index.html

The Electric Company
http://www.rsub.com/thebluedot/borderequalszero/lecky/index.html

oil paint is probably a bad idea with kids in the house but if you ever have a studio you should try it

http://i16.tinypic.com/52267v5.jpg
it's in progress

http://i15.tinypic.com/4vosg8h.jpg
this one actually worked out okay

Jed, nice work on the GFT! I'll have to go in and have a proper look (my Cineworld pass means I haven't set foot inside for over a year -- I guess that's not an uncommon story).

Jed_ I love it! Seriously, that's like one of my favourite periods. Great job!

S1ocki, those are amazing. Okay to use as desktop?

As for the rest of you, for shame! Less hiding lights under bushels plz!

thanks Kv and Madchen!

I wish I hadn't lost the files for the Ween concert posters I did.

I like the zoetropic lightshades

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x161/robertwolf8080/highlycontrivedmachineandwitch.jpg

otm

very impressive ilxors!!

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/40/122014544_ba353ea69c_b.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/49/124760640_f0d37bef73_o.jpg

go for it kv!

i did this one y'day

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1410/553100168_8cbfac7686.jpg

looks like ps3 in-game graphics

s1ocki and keith, wow!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1057/558084076_31d863fe31.jpg?v=0

this is the coolest thread ever. please post more arts, o talented ILXors!

My Snail comic strip!

http://people.connect.net.au/~trace/snail_1.gif

Another snail:

http://www.memorygongs.com/PCsnail.jpg

(digital drawing as opp to hand drawn strip)

Cheers S1ocki.

i'm usually pretty rubbish with a camera, but i managed to take this while on holiday down south and i think it turned out pretty cool.

http://i157.photobucket.com/albums/t73/rubyred79/welly/mini_lake_tekapo.jpg

This thread rules. MOER ART+DESIGN! (AND FILM. DOES ANYONE HAVE ANY FILM?)

Everyone: http://richardgin.org/ <-- unassuming URL above, delights within.

I can't do anything clever like drawing or film-making, but I recently made this "room box" picture for a friend of mine after she had a baby:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v506/Paronomasiac/room.jpg

btw slocki u are a very good photographer

Everyone: http://richardgin.org/ <-- unassuming URL above, delights within.

-- caek, Sunday, June 17, 2007 11:47 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

totally. dude is an amazing photographer.

xp thanks hurting

do you have a site?

and talking of movies, you can get one here:

http://www.mininova.org/tor/558382 (torrent)

or here:

http://www.archive.org/details/TheRecommendations (straight download)

all i have is my flickr: http://flickr.com/photos/slutsky/

(movies site is www.autovaud.com ... you can also dl a radio comedy pilot there we did)

http://image.blingee.com/images11/content/output/2007/6/18/208499020_f94fbd6d.gif

http://image.blingee.com/images11/content/output/2007/6/18/208932038_e6aa33ac.gif

put up a funny movie we did long ago on youtubereeno:

part 1: http://youtube.com/watch?v=Of1H1KCGyp0
part 2: http://youtube.com/watch?v=s4Y4Y6lWTWg

Daisy (short fictional film...information is in the...uh, info section)

America (short doc, accepted into the True/False Film Fest, rejected by Silverdocs)

Oh, and if you're really liking those, then here's adance craze I tried to start

saw this this morning and i knew it looked familiar:

http://www.bleep.com/?bleep=DRMBT006

Damn, Caek, how'd you get that job designing record sleeves?

I love yr work, but I'm jealous coz I'd like to do what you are doing.

(Actually, that said, I have been asked to do a record sleeve based on my flyer designs.)

Here is another band I saw recently, the Sian Alice Group:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1044/767990774_c5248c300f.jpg

I like thee psychedelic musique.

Annoyingly, that is not my job. My real job is grad school. But I has a record label which I run in my spare time (http://www.dreamboatrecords.co.uk/). It's kind of taken off, so I don't run everything in the way I used to, but I still run it to the extent that I get to stamp my foot and insist that I do the design, i.e. the website and the sleeves, because that's the bit I enjoy the most. That and the babes and the salvia. I don't get paid for anything though.

Good luck with your sleeve Kate. It will look great, especially if you get the colours printed well! Stumptown can help here, if you don't mind the carbon footprint of ordering from Portland. Get them to send you a batch of print samples.

See, the design is the fun bit! All the other stuff is the crap bits, so it's good if you have minions to offload all the other things.

That isn't the sleeve design - I haven't finished that yet. The sleeve is gonna be printing it in sepia on an aged antique looking background. I don't know if it's me going to be looking into how to do that sort of thing or the label (I don't know the label at all, how much control they keep). But I love the way that your sleeves turn out, so I will suggest Stumptown.

totally double-posting. this was the thread i was looking for!

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1155/751884298_65d0414cb8_o.jpg

xpost, yeah, I figured that wasn't the design, unless it's for a DVD. Who's the label/band, or can't you say?

Whoa, is that Parker Posey with a painting of David Bowie ca. 1968? rad.

Your art (picture thread)

love that poster Kate well done

caek hit me up if you think you'll need my "skills" for anything

This is my best painting:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v210/jel2004/penultimate.jpg

I haven't forgotten I was going to email you Shakey! Just been very busy with the release of that album (came out yesterday). I will be in touch!

s1ocki, your second pic looks great as desktop if a bit pixelly. Cheers again.

I'm starting to think about giving up music to concentrate on the art. Well, not giving up, so much as changing my primary focus or whatever. I've been enjoying it more - but maybe the enjoyment is down to lack of pressure?

At the Bella Union show last night, then had live screen printing of posters, which looked pretty amazing, and then they were selling them as soon as they dried. I was entranced. I bought a poster - because they were beautiful - but also because I was curious about the results that you could achieve with screen printing. It was beautifully done.

caek, not only is that artwork great but the record is terrific too. I will be buying.

Kate, if you ever figure out screen printing, I would be interested in talking more. I'm finding the information online pretty difficult to make sense of. I keep meaning to book myself into the course here: http://www.oxfordprintmakers.co.uk/.

Thanks Ned! Come to one of the August gigs if he's in your town!

nice stuff everyone. here's some of my things. I started a blog but I really don't like writing, so i just draw. This first one was done right after my friend Sandra's funeral:
http://www.capableofanything.com/images/smoking_again.jpg

it's all scrunched! waaaa. here's a link instead:

http://www.capableofanything.com/blog

Kate, what with your fab music, amazing photos, and now the painting. Is there no end to your talent !

http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y49/picturesref/ohonnoho.gif

jel's painting is k-awesome! Je'adore!

Me & John have been quoting The Highly Contrived Mchine & Witch all day. Damn how rad. It also makes me happy bcz my little sister, from age 5-7, drew dozens of pictures of egrets and egrets only.

We love Trayce's snails & esp. the snail comics too! And of course the classic SUPER CARIT.

Here's one John did of me, him & dishes conundrum:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/wwjd.gif

and here's some from me, one of which features exciting snail action:

http://i45.photobucket.com/albums/f86/igotabeefpastry/slowsnailetal.jpg

Actual size, that last one.

more snail comics please

more nudes

Me & John have been quoting The Highly Contrived Mchine & Witch all day. Damn how rad.

Abbott you just made me very happy

And for that you get another one

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x161/robertwolf8080/coronerstorew.jpg

HAHAHAHA

Do you have any more of this awesome?

There's a sequel to that one, hold on

http://i186.photobucket.com/albums/x161/robertwolf8080/coronerstore2w.jpg

Slocki, the photo of the—basketball court? Is like a vision of the afterlife.
Shakey Mo, your Summer of Love posters rule!
Kate, you multiple threat!
Abbott's snails!
RubyRed, where IS that?? Amazing.
All you guys inspire my lazy art brain.

haha robertwolf

Abbott = again master of detail: "truth unverified" hahaha!

I am having a hard time of it this week. I have forgotten how to draw DDBs. Or have forgotten how to do foreshortening or something.

I'm trying to draw from photographs at the moment, instead of from life, which I haven't done in a while, and finding tricky.

I think this is a technically good drawing, it just doesn't look like the subject:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1314/893474103_4b0da5f63d_o.jpg

Maybe I just need to start from scratch and draw it over again. His face is somewhat rounder than I have drawn him, his jaw less square.

Drawing from photos is hard, because of the way I draw - I never draw objects, I draw the space around the object. A photograph is good, because I can move it around and turn it upside down to reduce the image to planes and lines (which DDBs tend to object to if you do it IRL) but it's somehow missing the spark which makes it a good likeness. Argh.

The set is here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/21171554@N00/sets/72157600959843838/

The drawings I did at soundcheck are better likenesses, even though they are techncially not as good a drawing. Argh argh argh.

I take photos. Most of you know that by now. Anyhow, here's some I did recently that I liked:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1398/731156377_8c3b710a53.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1149/734253559_61b4b56bb1.jpg
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1261/734765528_988652896f.jpg

Damn, and here was I enjoying the usual mix-up, and getting credit for yr beautiful photos, Kate!

I'm like a shadow man, you can't escape me :P

FOLLOW THE LIGHT, FLUFFY, FOLLOW THE LIGHT!!!

Though, actually, Kate, how do you get yr photographic models to settle down, act naturally - or at least, pose them the way you want them to pose? Or do you just hire proper models in the first place, while I have to rely on whatever DDBs will come my way?

kate, non masonic, all your pics on this thread are wicked-awesome - stunning stuff! do you do all the makeup/hair/costuming yourself?

beth: that photo was taken at lake tekapo in the south island of new zealand.

I hope the people in question don't mind, but these were my first ever attempts at digital art, done for the "MSPaint other ILXors" thread:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/strange.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/face.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v655/lixnixn/smiling.jpg

I can't draw at all, so I simply painted over photos. It was fun doing these anyway.

x-post: Yes, I do. I'm still at struggle artist level, so I do everything myself and just hope it looks okay...if not, photoshop to the rescue.

xx-post: Kate - No I don't hire models, I can't afford to, but sometimes I can convince them to pay me, which kind of rocks.

Oh ummm...further to that Kate, I am pretty useless at giving direction to models, and the first shoot we do is nearly always a waste of time...but it gives the subject a chance to realise I'm pretty chilled out and not going to be barking orders at them. When that dawns on them, the photos start to get good.

But how do you convince them to pose in a convincing way? I guess what I'm asking is how to losen up models.

My DDBs just seemed so uncomfortable with the whole process of being photographed, and it showed in many of the photos. How do you get them to relax?

x-post I guess you just answed that. Thanks!

I guess, with a polaroid, I don't get the time to take loads of photos and get them to relax and have them realise I'm not gonna be all up in their face shouting at them (I've been in photo shoots like that myself, and argh, people wonder why I always look so scared and uncomfortable in the photos). Maybe I should invest in a digital camera if I'm going to do more of this. But I just like the way that polaroid looks! It gives it a nice, soft quality with the flash and the film. Which is good for drawing from.

We I have to admit, during a days shooting I have been known to get up to the 1500 frame mark. Throw enough shit against the wall....

Go digital, do the softness in post :)

Must be my bedtime. I keep dropping letters, words, losing all meaning etc etc

I understood what you said! Might be a good idea...

I actually have a supposedly good digital camera I inherited from my dad/brother. I'm just scared of it and trying to figure out how it works.

Learn it. Love it. Then go to digital camera rehab like I need to.

I'm like Lindsay Lohan yo.

But polaroids are better for masturbation the archives! ;-)

Yeah, most of my work isn't especially great wank fodder. Well not for me anyway...who knows what all the goobers on flickr are getting out of it.

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/?action=view¤t=three-robotsleaksplugged2.jpg

Wank Fodder!

oops

http://s43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/?action=view¤t=three-robotsleaksplugged2.jpg

why am I an idiot?

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/three-robotsleaksplugged2.jpg

Ha ha, Beth, I love your pictures so much! I have one of them up on my wall at home. I should commission you to do a bigger piece for me sometimes.

ROBOT CAMEL TOE

Hah! It's true!
Kate, I'll just send you more postcards! I keep cranking them out. Slowly cranking.
Here's the latest:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/mandalamaze3.jpg

I wish the cards had the same luminosity as the images onscreen. Computer monitors turn everything into stained glass!

I found this on GIS under "wank fodder" especially for you Beth:

http://www.kludgeco.com/misc_images/capwank2.png

Dammit, the next panel is cut off, so we don't whether or not Captain America obeys the command. Maybe "huuk!" is his wanking voice?

GYAAAH sounds more like a wanking voice. Definitely.

Ha ha, I shouldn't be talking about this. I AM A SERIOUS ARTIST. I'm never going to get any more DDBs to pose for me if they think it's just for wank fodder.

(That said, these particular DDBs, the last show, they did this thing during one of the really intense motorik bits where they all turned around to face the drummer, and it was just like a WALL OF ASS. FMM and I just looked at each other and utterly cracked up, and she was all "look, they're presenting!" like baboons on heat or something and then we had this fite about which one had the best ass.)

I mean, WTF AM I TALKING ABOUT, I am a serious artist. And FMM is a serious writer. We sat and talked about Holger Czukay's editing technique all night. Yes we did. We did not get drunk and talk about arse. We never her.

Anyway, x-post yeah, I know what you mean about the stained glass thing, Beth. That lovely luminosity that the monitor gives it. It's not even quite as good with LCD srcreens, I prefer the way my drawings used ot look on old monitors. They always looked so drab and dark when I printed them out.

typical

So true :(

http://archive.tsozone.com/show_photo.asp?p=53316&redirect=%2Fprofile%2Easp%3FCotila

I made this for a contest for Myst Online. Mine wasn't one of the three they selected to use in the game.

oops, i'll try again

http://archive.tsozone.com/show_photo.asp?p=53316&redirect=%2Fprofile%2Easp%3FCotila

ok, i'm too clueless about how to get the image to show up here so here's a link

linky

If you've been using photobucket you might be clicking on the top link under your picture, which USED to be the URL link, but is now the "share URL" link. That's what my problem was upthread.

More art please. I did the turtle here: http://lifeandhealth.guardian.co.uk/guides/learntodraw/0,,2147891,00.html, but I don't think that counts.

HAHAHAHA now I know your turtle-drawing secrets.

My turtle:

http://img410.imageshack.us/img410/1231/photo41dr4.jpg

Theirs:

http://image.guardian.co.uk/sys-images/Lifeandhealth/Pix/pictures/2007/08/13/tortoise.jpg

It was fun to draw, but I was unable to capture the arch smile that their turtle has. He's up to something.

Also, apparently that's a tortoise.

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/luren.gif http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y109/fez_/l337.gif

More, please.

This morning I did the opening titles for a (real) movie. Here is a sample (names changed, obv):

http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/6511/5castinglinehh5.gif

Pretty awes, huh?! ; ) I didn't choose the background colour, which is probably the best bit of this pretty weak design. Needs lots of tweaking of leading and kerning. I will do that tomorrow.

the og from way back in the day

-- TOMBOT, Friday, 15 June 2007 23:08 (5 months ago) Bookmark Link

I really want a poster print of this. Make more like these, dude.

^yes! I would definitely hang one up in my crappy office.

is that... Comic Sans MS?

No, a bit classier:

http://www.adobe.com/type/browser/P/P_095.html

Similar thing seen here, although I think this is actually Arial Rounded (the Arial variant it's OK to like):

http://www.the-artel.ca/wp/wp-content/uploads/2007/06/together1.jpg

VAG Rounded - where's Dan when you need him

Buh.

i like TOMBOT's posters/cartoons

waht is ophelia listening to at the top of the thread?

Police radio chatter.

A couple newer ones:

http://www.jefframirez.com/images/2007-1020-04B.jpg

http://www.jefframirez.com/images/2007-1020-03B.jpg

do you work from photographs?

How do you shot photorealistic painting?

xpost.

Some pigs:

http://i161.photobucket.com/albums/t214/ZachRScott/spotpigs.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/222/496918713_54ae5b795d.jpg

slocki, please explain how the hell you take a picture like this? i've no clue.

btw i'm asking because i love it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_dynamic_range_imaging

(I think.)

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/welcome_home_sm.jpg

that makes me feel

every time a baby winks at me I cry out of fear

do you work from photographs?

i work from frames from movies. those paintings are the first i've had that look worse in photograph than in person. don't know what the story is.

Oh jeff those are FANTASTIC.

slocki, any chance at full-res versions of teh couch pic?

I had one hour to design t-shirt for Christmas gig of band. I tried getting interesting, but the band are of the corny indie school when it comes to graphic design and an hour is an hour, y'know?

http://img131.imageshack.us/img131/5769/acpccovergreyqa7.gif

It looks like a cologne

they are sexy guys.

caek is correct! plus i futz in photoshop a bit

me site latest incarnation
http://base58.com/images/07autumnwinter.jpg
needs more content as always

Now I got my scanner up and running again I'm starting to scan in some of my old doodles. I inverted this one last night to fit the black background of my web page, I've got hundreds of these little pen works from being bored at work.

http://www.mullsports.com/images/fishpaper.jpg

Whoa. That is rad. Are they coloured on paper or do you add that in Photoshop?

just added the colour in photoshop, very clumsily i admit as i was scanning this one in a rush.
The original is just black pen on paper (you can see the lines from the paper still)

"what are those horizontal lines?" was my next question

http://www.mullsports.com/images/karavan12.jpg

just a snip from something i've been messing with recently, it's not the final strip (the last panel needs shortening and making bolder and that awful speech bubble needs work). but i am fairly pleased with it so far, and wanted to hang it here in the gallery.

just checked out your site. looks great and really compelling stuff, if a little "WOOOOOAH" (but in a good way)

more art.

http://a590.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00649/98/51/649731589_m.jpg

Shakey, can I buy a print of this?

that is beautiful, Ste

I had a game of dueling flyers w/ a local musician last week. we used his original text design with different graphics on each round. this one came out nicely I thought.

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y176/edwardiii/flyer4.jpg

bang!

http://i34.tinypic.com/xd6t09.gif

http://i38.tinypic.com/2lix661.gif

http://i35.tinypic.com/29ymx6v.gif

http://i33.tinypic.com/1zohqvq.gif

http://i36.tinypic.com/1t7t5h.gif

http://i37.tinypic.com/1z192tv.gif

hehe

what's up

your arts, show them to me

like, anything, whatever you've got

srsly

does it have to be current stuff?

friend, roommate, occasional ilxor LXY
spraypaint stencils:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lxyyxl

jergs, does she make multiples of those? I would be interested in talking about purchasing.

does it have to be current stuff?

no I just want things to look at

cool yeah laurel, she can do multiples. luckily, since if there was only one i'd be hoarding
yxllxy at gmail

Shakey, can I buy a print of this?

lolz didn't even see this but for one of my ILE favorites yeah of course! Would have to dig up the file and make a print somewhere but that's not a huge deal

here's the most recent thing I did that's postable (w huge debt to Jack Kirby):

http://c2.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/36/l_f46da35fede943e5a3ee875df7d6813d.gif

that's what I'm talking about

also these:

http://c3.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/62/l_b5f5d4e4afc89d35e17b826d95af4e06.gif

http://viewmorepics.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.editAlbumPhoto&albumID=43691&imageID=49117

I just finished some new album art too, but its not hosted anywhere

http://c4.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/80/l_bcccc5700f884645adf775da11741dd7.jpg

Messing around with new digital camera back in Spring 2001. These pictures haven't been Photoshopped in any way.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3394/3619401627_022d283369.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3628/3619402133_e674748860.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3601/3620220350_60570ae19d.jpg?v=0

top one is very nice

video monitor/camera feedback nonsense, also from 2001...
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3332/3620236164_72058e9997.jpg?v=0
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2444/3620236344_25a2313814.jpg?v=0
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3592/3619418373_e9596c0091.jpg?v=0

oddly lit spinning mirror ball
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3650/3619470757_3b42d72cfc.jpg?v=0

Damn Shakey yr art is fucking awesome and good.

Wld still be interested in a print btw!

otm! great stuff shakey.

love the society of rckets one - is it hand drawn?

all my stuff is hand-drawn

also many thx you guys are sweet

Most recent at-work doodle at 1.5x size:

http://img199.imageshack.us/img199/7816/freepenguin.jpg

lolz

a penguin on a toilet is always funny

shakey, that is awesome. AWESOME!

abbott i never understand cartoons but i think i like it.

Abbott, make a comic blog, seriously

http://www.gigposters.com/posters/17366.gif

nice work, shakey!

J'ADORE PENGUIN

I love this whole thread.

Designed the logos for these:

http://images.darkhorse.com/covers/600/10/10948.jpg

http://a2.vox.com/6a00c22520c0ff549d00c225225b128e1d-500pi

Cool!
Here's one of about a dozen I did earlier this year, but the only finished one I've scanned. Micron pen w/ watercolor.

http://photos-d.ak.fbcdn.net/photos-ak-snc1/v2599/176/110/1071167716/n1071167716_318603_855346.jpg

I am looking forward to watercoloring this one when my landscaping work season lets up:

http://i43.photobucket.com/albums/e391/marthasminions/culebra12.jpg

Took a printmaking class this spring, I'd never done any before. These are both (photos of) lithographs:

http://i39.tinypic.com/30a4co3.jpg

http://i43.tinypic.com/kbq2ax.jpg

Those are awesome! I can't decide which one I like more.

Finally finished saucer crab painting (except I think I need to do more w/the teeth):

http://img15.imageshack.us/img15/4518/saucercrab.jpg

the thing is I ran out of paint

is it winking at us?

http://lh5.ggpht.com/_pDuf6-A6hCs/SXjU20KlXoI/AAAAAAAAAIA/49Ge89H0Cx8/s720/IMG00070.jpg

dogs can't spell

s1ocki, this photo

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/185/439897202_02161522f6.jpg

O_O

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2005/2453559831_4d492a943f_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3298/3623339992_40351a40cc_b.jpg

"master control"?

It's chunks of a bigger thing. In this case, the Colossus computer that broke the Enigma machine code in WWII.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3355/3623340190_49001a2937_b.jpg

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3609/3622519821_8f3d6a275d_b.jpg

<3

finally got to grips with my cintiq drawing tablet tonight

http://www.mullsports.com/images/comehome.jpg

encroyable

http://www.mullsports.com/images/karavanunf.gif

totally unfinished, needs dialogue and also it's only half a page so far.

I love it! Needs no dialogue.

I can't believe that the spell-checker wants us to spell it "dialog."

Thanks, I'll complete the next half and see how it runs with no dialogue.

http://www.mullsports.com/images/karavan20091.jpg

final bits, does it work with no dialogue? i think it needs some in the two small panels top left. (where i left space for text anyway)

http://www.mullsports.com/images/greycam.jpg

Ste those are freaking fantastic! You have a cool art style.

Echo that, amazing work. The last one especially puts me a little in mind of 2000AD great Ian Gibson (which is intended as a compliment).

cheers guys! I just checked out Gibson's work, his figure work reminds me very much of Team Fortress 2 characters.

http://www.mullsports.com/images/galax.jpg

also, what is it? (clue, it can go upside down)

http://picasaweb.google.com/lh/photo/jeyMDItCsQBmr0PUBZtpkQ?authkey=Gv1sRgCInP16jxwNbO4wE&feat=directlink

http://img29.imageshack.us/img29/1641/dsc0098m.th.jpg

sunny river could youpost the larger image so I can tell what those are of?

http://img34.imageshack.us/img34/8223/dsc0098uch.jpg

Sunny River - is your art a sweet old lady being mind-controlled by an evil monkey at an animal expo???

Either way it's awesome/terrifying.

The Cat Fancy Show! One of the strangest ways to spend the afternoon.

And you couldn't even touch the cats!

a balding fat fucker, before he jumped the shark

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2590/3768851705_cc252f17be.jpg

a goose

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3397/3207894946_04286ec8cc.jpg

and, my favourite building in london

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3405/3551248129_0c525b1842.jpg

I thought your Elvis Costello picture was supposed to be Alex in NYC (the unflattering description you provided notwithstanding)

I can't believe I don't art anymore. From ages 6-to-like-22 that was my life. Then I fixed my dad's guitar and just stopped altogether. Is there a support group?

Enjoying many entries to thread.

ledge - your NT is great. Would buy. You should stop by Leicester and draw our (not so great but still interesting) Lasdun.

You know I've never though to check out his other buildings. The Leicester one looks like a giant robot! The London Institue of Education also looks fab, might try my hand at that.

i keep on meaning to look into making prints...

Royal College of Physicians is what you want.

Yes, Darin that is exactly what I was going for... Most of the people there seemed to be controlled by their cats. I got to meet some of the ladies that were in Show Cats the documentary.http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/6231/dsc0099.jpg

I thought your Elvis Costello picture was supposed to be Alex in NYC (the unflattering description you provided notwithstanding)

I may be a fattening fucker who has jumped the shark, but I'm quite assuredly not balding, ... but why not shove it right up your ass anyway, kingkongvsgodzilla.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3464/3818402455_2fb0f8cb15_o.jpg

whoa, that is cool.

did you take a lot of photos over there? (are you still there?)

i am back!

and yeah, i took like 580 pics with my dad's M8 (which i only barely know how to use. some need to be cropped/color-corrected, and i don't know how to do that, so i was hoping some kind ilxor would offer to do it for me)

that dude asked me to take his picture, btw, and then just posed like that. he owned the luggage store where my friend nathan was haggling over a duffle bag that cost $10

whoa M8! u bitch!

the ILP guys are very helpful and would love to see what you have. did you put any more on flickr?

check the africa thread, buddy!

i'm just uploading small versions for now (at a lol laptop cafe), but will hoist up the full-size versions for ILP manipulation later

oh hi

> that dude asked me to take his picture, btw, and then just posed like that.

will he ever see it? i guess he had a look at the lcd monitor but...

should get it printed as a postcard and send it to him. 8)

yes hi hello

http://www.mullsports.com/images/orgcam.JPG

http://www.mullsports.com/images/alex-draft.jpg

this is my god son, aw, i painted this tonight for a confidence boost because after spending the last week browsing the digital art on Deviantart i was kinda feeling like my skills were waaay below the national standard.

http://www.mullsports.com/images/yellowcam.jpg

cloud practice

Four-color CMYK screenprint, each color on a separate sheet of plexiglass then bolted together (with a fifth sheet on the back to seal it all up):
http://i.imgur.com/fxr8O.jpg

that's excellent!

that's really awesome!

dude!

nice.

wonder if you could do that w/transparency paper and a photo printer? i don't really know how CMYK layering works, tho---are they layered as named, or is it mixed up?

you mean in what order are the separations printed?

yeah! i should know from my old job, and i could google it, but i'm typing this all out instead

depends on the printer/transparency paper. some printers get too warm to send the plastic sheets through and might melt it to the drum. (i have done this)

and i believe it separates right in that order: Cyan • Magenta • Yellow • Black (K)

You work from the lightest ink to the darkest I recall, so: YMCK.

ya, i guess that makes sense.

yeah, key last/on top.

Although looking at a print book I have, it claims CMYK is the most common order. We need someone with more experience on the print side of things for clarity

joygoat, that is awesome!

Thanks everyone.

Yeah, the black is on top and the yellow is on the bottom, don't remember where C and M are - I tested it on scrap pieces first and put them in different orders and went with the one that I thought looked better.

I know you could do this on transparencies too, I've seen four color images on acetate or mylar but don't remember what they get used for - I know very little about commercial printing. I wanted some distance between the layers so it looks more 3-D and floaty looking.

I started off pouring layers of resin, letting it dry, printing a layer, pouring more resin, etc. But it took ages for it to cure solidly enough to be printed on. I might do a simpler two-color version this way, so it's color floating in a solid block of plastic.

http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr222/Chass3ur/P3280169_pshop4x6.jpg

messing around with painter x

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_I3eKqGiWLz8/TREz2_IjM6I/AAAAAAAAADE/BIqChYy8d4o/s1600/rocky%2Bthe%2Bfifth.jpg

and the ink brush is cool

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_I3eKqGiWLz8/TREzuWB6T-I/AAAAAAAAAC8/ys1U0-IsIJ4/s1600/blackinktest.gif

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h1qaPzFJKQI/TXkCEnFKoNI/AAAAAAAAADk/8LDP3k8LJ1M/s1600/screensprites.png
some scenery sprites i made on my sick day off today

bah, always forget to in link
http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-h1qaPzFJKQI/TXkCEnFKoNI/AAAAAAAAADk/8LDP3k8LJ1M/s1600/screensprites.png

Damn, I want this threat to keep going, it's awesome. Well, I might as well put some kind of shit up to help it out...

I'm no artist, but I do doodle weird stuff in notebooks sometimes just for the heck of it, usually during classes. Recently I'm working on basic concept ideas for various critters in a series of novels.

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/Dancing_Fungus/b002.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/Dancing_Fungus/b001.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/Dancing_Fungus/a002.jpg

http://i225.photobucket.com/albums/dd103/Dancing_Fungus/a001-1.jpg

If I had any real ability, I'd really go nuts with drawing.

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-b16dh0YHv0E/TZpG7Bb2-5I/AAAAAAAAAEM/kiIsjOmk828/s1600/2011-04-04%2B19.16.27.jpg

something i did on canvas last weekend

wow! amazing imo

Very nice indeed.

i think it's great, like mytholigical shel silversteem

great stuff ste. & Anomalocarid, i love those, you should "go nuts"!

http://27.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_ltlgl9rmdU1qeov3do1_400.jpg

"likes"

awesome!

Ignore the crappy face part haha

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-2BhxljhCDIA/T3F6pWYHhpI/AAAAAAAAALw/Py59FFk6nbw/s1600/2012-03-27%2B09.15.01.jpg

and another alien.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EXiOXLjM8Ig/T24BUT9gY3I/AAAAAAAAALY/VBgjlAmNwJA/s1600/DSC_0089.JPG

Nice work, really liked yr pencil alien too. Is that acrylic?

yeah acrylic, I've used them for years but still struggle with them. I think it pays to buy decent quality ones tbh.

starting an oil painting course meself soon. no previous experience. getting better with charcoal though:

http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7036/6966488605_9cb27ac446_c.jpg

whoa that's neat. Nice and bold. Reminds me i need more dark in my pencil stuff.

i tried oils once, but i was pretty young and didn't know how the hell to use them. just got a mess everywhere and put me off, went back to watercolours.
But loving acrylics now, when i'm not pencilling.

Don't be feared of the messiness of oils, get stuck in with them.

Reminds me i need more dark in my pencil stuff.

yeah, maybe it's the photo but yr sketches look very H. get in there with the high Bs!

the alien on the other thread is very H, but that one above is a lot darker than the crappy galaxy camera is showing.

i go to bed with high Bs! and sketch till i get tired.

I really gotta do more Snail comix.

skullz!

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-y7C2CPvvcC0/T79FVO9g2DI/AAAAAAAAANs/rhhs5cuf3do/s1600/2012-05-05%2B18.51.25.jpg

hulk!

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-0OdcnaQIn90/UA0EBljNeeI/AAAAAAAAAP4/xoNPpt6oCMk/s1600/2012-07-22+13.23.50.jpg

(its quite big btw)

wow!

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Bj5-78vCQAA5eN2.jpg

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LNPiVhPfSXU/Uznprnw4YJI/AAAAAAAAAYA/ksjd6zw9vqc/s1600/2014-03-29+13.02.40.jpg

v Fan v

Great stuff, Ste.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlRpI98CEAAAMbk.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Blam8bsCQAAx8Dt.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlandIHCYAEbiMV.jpg

an older one

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BlapxcaCQAEMj6m.jpg

those remind me of: http://filesmelt.com/dl/Ballantine_Books_-_Star_Wars_-_The_Empire_Strikes_Back_Sketchbook.pdf

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Blfy_t1CQAAO2OJ.jpg

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10614118_874547285890405_242127680949943253_n.jpg?oh=dd199990803b203ddde66dfaabba8778&oe=54ECF76B&__gda__=1424861526_f4bdc293026a9eaaffe26a9db6cb1e32

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10801569_874547312557069_1985154068204859859_n.jpg?oh=184a164b56ff155f95dd780c8256b547&oe=54F6C8B0

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xap1/v/t1.0-9/1381802_871089826236151_7344142826485966463_n.jpg?oh=3feea1984be8aaf0a82fc5a6442030d0&oe=54E42E85

(Have to admit that last one, the levels were auto corrected and colours have gone ever so slightly more 'colourful', but it's not far off)

Yowza! Was that last one painted (or initially sketched) on location?

It's painted from a photo I found online, unfortunately.

Never mind! Drawing or painting from life is great if you get the chance but nothing wrong with using photos.

How did the oil painting go?

Ah the course two years ago? Went ok but stalled afterwards, doing another portrait course now and getting into it more, hopefully will keep it up after the course finishes. Here's my piece from the last session:

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7473/15522143749_5005786d2c_b.jpg

And a couple of watercolour sketches of Venice, one on location and one from a photo after I got back. More illustrative, I didn't pluck up the courage to throw away the pen and just rely on tone & colour.

https://farm4.staticflickr.com/3942/15698795131_20315caf98_b.jpg

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5601/15702290732_e44401dee6_b.jpg

wonderful, keep it up for sure.

Love watercolours + black pen. What kind of pen have you used there?

just an unfancy hard tip liner pen. need to get a dip pen for more exciting & energetic lines.

I was hit with redundancy a couple of months ago, so I decided to use the opportunity to get serious with painting. Enjoying all the experimenting and finding my style but struggling with sources.

One thing I realised after rifling through my truck load of photographs for sources is, as you mentioned, how much better it is to paint from live. Also it made me understand the importance of taking a decent photo (looking at composition especially) if it's going to be used for painting. Literally had nothing to go on.

The painting above of the colourful buildings on the coast is the first one I've sold.

I only ever tried oil painting once, I was fairly young and just recall someone had given me some unwanted oil paints and tools. Had no idea and just got them out and started to paint. Yeah got messy very quickly. Scared me off.

Good on you for making a go of the painting, I foolishing and/or courageously chucked it all in last year (!) to try and become an illustrator, success and clients have not been beating a path to my door yet. I struggle to inspire and motivate myself tbh, have not done as much work off my own bat as I could have. But hey this is ilxor gallery not ilxor artists' therapy. If I may be forgiven the self promotion, I have a portfolio site at http://tom.ledger.name/

Difficult isn't it.

Love your "Der Trommler" btw

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/10613127_887951241216676_1607446934253665386_n.jpg?oh=0172fcc1a1d21f81c28015e4f09ff002&oe=550681BB

https://scontent-a-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10501700_887951444549989_8763934611250593000_n.jpg?oh=678874326afaabf23873028750d11311&oe=54D27D96

(last one is partially complete btw)

How did I not know how many super talented ILXors there are?

Those of you who sell things should post links to where you sell those things.

dope, ste!

whoa, those are bomb. I would buy one.

yea those are rad!

Thanks guys, really appreciate the feedback. Trying to do more of the star wars droid things, something that people recognise. And generally looking at droids and spaceships from other famous movies/tv shows.

I'm dying to do a painting of the red dwarf ship, hard to find a decent image that has the detail though.

Great stuff, Ste. Here's the final portrait from my class, she looks a bit too mean, hair is too flat, etc etc. Definitely want to get more impressionistic in future.

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7526/15937099675_9cf4695b8e_b.jpg

I do have some stuff for sale on Artfinder, mostly drawings: https://www.artfinder.com/tomledger

I like that a lot Ledge, the face is very strong.

i was quite pleased with this recent watercolour:
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B3ayhpRCYAERtDA.jpg:large

Yeah, I like it.

That dog knows how to live.

Part way through my sci fi theme, going to do more of my own creations. The Tie Bomber is not finished btw

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/B5I20CoCIAAZlVp.jpg:large

digging it.

good stuff ste. something about your style reminds me of the simon bisley end of 2000ad art.

Yep, big influence.

Particularly Judgement On Gotham, which was the first time I'd seen his work, and then further on his Doom Patrol covers. So slick and natural.

judgement on gotham was the first time i saw bisley too. got it for xmas and it blew my 11-year-old mind.

I've watched some fascinating interviews with Simon, where he talks about how when he paints it's almost subconscious, and that if he comes out of that trance then the lines he's drawing just lose their power.

Totally on board with that.

Hey Ledge, did you ever get that dip pen you mentioned? Been practising with one myself this week.

A little bit scratchy, probably a cheap nib, but really impressed with the type of natural line it produces. Also wanted to use better ink, not keen on those design pen inks (always say their waterproof but hmm not sure) and my fountain pen (with converter-cartridge) just struggled to get the ink flowing and always clogged up.

ugh
they're

No, I should do. Guess I'm wary of accumulating yet another medium that I may end up not using enough and feeling guilty about but hey why break the habit of a lifetime.

first show in a loooooooong time
https://c4.staticflickr.com/8/7378/15829451884_45a5a8fe91_c.jpg

wow!

https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xaf1/v/t1.0-9/10599378_613694265431265_6480747172928250761_n.jpg?oh=178ee40de281eae98929e764bedceb97&oe=557E1CAC

urgh, any chance a mod can make that the correct size?

i have a new net art project:

https://www.flickr.com/opsothers/sets

and

instagram @opsothers #opsothers #otherpeoplesslides

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7651/16898614361_e50f78b328.jpg

been learning guitar, so drawing and painting have not been happening. But here is still one of my personal favourite things i've ever done

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_fullsize/plain/did:plc:4ceuonutzntms256eev5x56d/bafkreiddxictbthtpd7lng7kmv65o4tbgwmdvk4lys7ifealytodhkc4aq@jpeg

(i hope that works)

that’s wonderful Ste, i like it a lot!

and that other people’s slides project from 9 years ago is amazing.

do we need a ‘what’s going on in your visual life’ thread? i can’t keep up with ilx of late but starting 1. why not?

How do I post pictures? What’s the best place to host pics?

I just linked mine from my bluesky

but maybe somebody can suggest another way

I usually use imgur