Draw Your Cataclysms

Game Talk The Bunker
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Hi!

I’ve played DDA for a while (and I’ll admit my survival record is dying halfway through the second day to a Moose), so i decided to get into the fanart business by posting a rough sketch of my Base Character. Input would be nice. Apologies about the Resolution, i cannot draw with Computer Tools, everything i do is by hand

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His name is Leon Andion, but has Earned the nickname “Catboy” among other survivors due to his Feline mutations. Leon is 27 years old with brown hair and brown eyes. He is wearing an Ohio State University Hoodie, A white T-Shirt underneath, Jeans, a leg sheath, glasses, and a leather backpack. Leon is also holding a Wooden Bat on most occasions, with a combat knife in the Sheath.

Game Details-

Strength-8
Dexterity-9
Intelligence-12
Perception-7

Occupation-Voluntary Mutant (Former Mechanical Engineer)

Positive Traits-

Self-Aware
Melee Weapons Training (Fencing)
Whiskers
Weak Scent
Night Vision
Disease Resistant
Fleet-Footed

Negative Traits-

Asthmatic
Insomniac (I find it funny, because he’s part cat, and cats sleep alot)
Lightweight
Near-Sighted
Trigger Happy
Truth Teller

If you think you can do a better job than me drawing him, go right ahead! (Keep in mind, he’s a Smart-Alek and quite Cranky, so try to integrate that into anything you draw.)

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I didn’t draw the gozu. plans came up today - helped a friend in priming and painting his new house, and now my arms are spectacular pastas! Like, the really overcooked sort. Blahhhhh!

Dang art’s gonna happen sooner or later, I gotta… Idk I don’t have a sustainable art groove to get back into, but I gotta do this. Gozu are cool. This is my post to not let myself forget.

This is also my post to welcome Liamix to the forums! Oh man. You are early in the art world, but that means I get to watch your skills improve like crazy AND THAT IS MY FAVOURITE THING TO SEE.

My advice: Don’t worry about having to draw with traditional media, you want to start with those anyway. Learning to draw with digital tools first means mistakes don’t have as much impact, and you have access to layers immediately. If you can hit ctrl-z infinite times and re-draw a line until it happens to look right, is that practice, or just relying on chance? If you can rely on layers to do the organizing for you, do you still learn how to do a rough layout/‘under-sketch’ before moving on to actual details? I argue not.

My advice is DO STUDYS. Find a pic you like, or want to learn from and make a copy of it. Obviously don’t pass that off as your own idea, but doing a study from someone else’s photos or art is a great way to get a feel for EVERYTHING. Linework, style, proportions, depth, scene composition/balance, colour use, texture. Do like apprentices did back in the Renaissance, learn from masters. You’ll see your own style grow from where you make changes from the original, or in how you simplify photo-real things.

I would suggest doing studies from a variety of sources though, not just one style. Lotta kids in highschool I knew back in 2001-2006 had the dreaded anime phase. Anime already simplifies a lot of anatomy down to a specific style, so learning to draw anime means learning to simplify your art in the same way. If your own style begins to emerge and you simplify or change traits, you are doing so from a source that already does this. Learning proper anatomy from solely anime or other highly-stylized cartoons is like expecting a photocopy of a photocopy to look like the original.

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Every Time.

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Thanks for the warm welcome Pthalocy. To be honest, I’m more of a writer than an artist. In fact, I was originally going to have my first contribution to the community be an old fanfiction of mine called “Tales of the Cataclysm”, the entirety of the book being a Journal of two survivors journals, Leon’s and his Fellow survivor/lover. I might still post it, but I thoiught I should place myself in the community before unleashing a story like that on the people of the Cataclysm DDA forums. Hopefully I can get some art of the fine Lady Katie Summers (the previously mentioned other survivor). Until then, I hope this thread stays alive.

Oh, and my latest iteration of Leon got Offed yet again by his natural enemy, The Moose that is just out of your FOV until he’s a bloody tile away from you. Maybe Cats aren’t the best things to fight a moose as.

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Moose don’t discriminate. They hate all with equal fervor. Trust me on this one. I learned the hard way.

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Apologies for the atrocious image quality… (its the cataclysm you see… this was drawn with radioactive scraps and a bootleg darkroom)

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Top right:Delpha Bingham - hates vegetables
Bottom left: Jamee Thrasher - apocalyptic chef (And compulsive collector or hairpins - to be honest I think she was enjoying herself. Certainly ate well.)

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I need to find a good thing to draw, until then i’ll do random doodles in which i try to figure out Ann’s hair:

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I also realized I hate modern guns, at least the soviets made their guns easier to draw.

#AK-74forevers

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Seriously? The underwear were part of the description for the friggin Gozu.

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Looks like Gozu’s been working out. Also, ::shiver::…

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Yeah it said “slightly overweight” but also that the damn thing is a fuckin’ “Extremely competent fighter”, so I didn’t really know what to do with that. Agree, shiver like hell. Then back away slowly before extreme fleeing.

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[quote=“Pthalocy, post:3848, topic:441”]

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Seriously? The underwear were part of the description for the friggin Gozu.[/quote]

That looks way too realistic, those eyes stare into my soul.
It’s awesome!

If I had time I’d review all drawings here, there are a lot that I haven’t seen yet, but can’t right now, sorry!

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Aaagh I know right? Why do I draw things like this when they disturb me afterward XD

That would be a lot of reviews to catch up on man. Don’t kerplode okay?

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One of those ugly premade buildings in the middle of a jungle. Sorta cataclysm

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[quote=“John Candlebury, post:3853, topic:441”]One of those ugly premade buildings in the middle of a jungle. Sorta cataclysm

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Actually wish that was in the game naturally rather than the result of a triffid queen.

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Got bored, nothing on YouTube to keep me occupied, got the most recent release of Cataclysm, played a bit, doodled a thing.

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FOXY FROSTING BE BACK Y’ALL,

maybe…

Depends on how I feel whether or not I make some more.
(And I’m never drawing her trench coat again, that took years to get right.)

(And for those who may (for what ever reason, yes this is a double bracket) want to know, I’m playing with mundane zombies, and slow zombies enabled. It’s hard to recover from a lost character, so I made it as easy as I could without going overboard. Character stats were left at the same amount, and spawns rates were very slightly adjusted.)

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Do that and really low item spawns. Go full classic apocalypse. I just feel the game needs more broken windows and blood everywhere, an apocalypse just happened!

BUT YESSSS.

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[quote=“StopSignal, post:3856, topic:441”]Do that and really low item spawns. Go full classic apocalypse. I just feel the game needs more broken windows and blood everywhere, an apocalypse just happened!

BUT YESSSS.[/quote]

Welllllllll…

I’ve got item spawns on 1.20x and enemy spawns on 0.80x

Soooooo… Yeah.

Still can’t find a good amount of food though, since Foxy doesn’t like Fruit.

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Hello everyone! After browsing through the topic and seeing all the epic stuff I decided to draw my own survivor, I should be adding a few short comics of her when I figure out a more efficient and less time consuming way to draw her.

Lena the albino knight. Forced to dual wield sword and umbrella to shield herself not from blows, but from the sun!

Excuse the poorly drawn doodle, I suck ;w;

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It’s a start! :slight_smile:

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The hands are very good when seen in relation to the rest of the drawing… thats astonishing. You have latent talent i would say.