Draw Your Cataclysms

John_Candlebury · 2013-10-01T20:07:22.000Z

Artistic Doublepost Go!

Have a sneak preview of my next guide update on fungaloids:

StopSignal · 2013-10-01T20:27:26.000Z

[quote=“John Candlebury, post:620, topic:441”]It looks well imho but if I really try to criticize stuff I could tell you that goat? legs don’t look much like that and the strange stuff in the left when the “front” joins the background.

Other than that, the faceplate of the helm looks very good[/quote]

Thanks for critizicing! Yeah, maybe i need to start seeing pictures or some things. It is a Faun. Or a goat guy. The legs are, in fact, supposed to be thinner at the “feet zone”. It is, ideed, complicated. The background, and the grassy rock, were the parts that i did not wanted to draw, and it looks like it looked bad just because of Lazy Artist that does not want to draw bgs.

Also… Holy… that thing… fungaloids… what??? D:

John_Candlebury · 2013-10-01T20:53:52.000Z

Ever wondered why your character were paralyzed at the sight of amigara horrors?

Now I know the reason

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And now I have to go draw some cute things

Pthalocy · 2013-10-02T05:09:09.000Z

D’awww, wee horrors

As for the faun character, I think the colour and detailwork is strong, but the underlying anatomical structure needs more practice.

That will help you to give shape to the torso and shoulders, as well as address with the goat leg where the ‘heel’ seems to meld right into the lower leg without much structure being visible. Those areas of anatomy I think need a bit of work in this pic. Keep a close eye on torso length versus leg length, and overall length/height of the body - the legs seem a little short for the rest of the body, though this might just be due to the shape of the leg and not their actual length. (Sometimes it’s hard to spot the detail that needs tweaking. Don’t get discouraged!) Arm length is in that sweet spot I think. Nice pose.

There are tutorials on the web (DA is a surprisingly good source for simple little tutorials on things like dragon wings and goat legs!) that can help with this. Strong understanding of your character’s ‘skeleton’ will aid fantastically in how far you can push poses in the future

Great work, nice going with the non-lineart style (sharp detail versus soft fuzzy colours - I think you should practice this sharp versus soft, as you could really create some strong sense of deep atmosphere with your landscapes with this - try looking up “John Avon lands” to see some crazy atmosphere play!), and I like your willingness to flesh out the picture in full colour with environment/background/light sources.

Mrnocamera · 2013-10-02T06:37:15.000Z

[quote=“John Candlebury, post:621, topic:441”]Artistic Doublepost Go!

Have a sneak preview of my next guide update on fungaloids:
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Cordyceps approach on fungal infected ants.
It’s not just in the last of us.

HS1342 · 2013-10-02T12:40:43.000Z

[quote=“Mrnocamera, post:625, topic:441”][quote=“John Candlebury, post:621, topic:441”]Artistic Doublepost Go!

Have a sneak preview of my next guide update on fungaloids:
[/quote]
Cordyceps approach on fungal infected ants.
It’s not just in the last of us.[/quote]
Indeed…

Luissen · 2013-10-02T18:01:45.000Z

drawing of a CZ style pistol… lower quality due to not having a scanner… please excuse my webcam

Maybe I’ll do another drawing with a reference, this was done from memory during class.

FunsizeNinja123 · 2013-10-02T18:35:54.000Z

I’m surprised you didn’t get caught.

Luissen · 2013-10-02T19:06:10.000Z

FunsizeNinja123:

I’m surprised you didn’t get caught.

College is nothing like highschool x_x with ~50+ people, the professor doesn’t care, and I took the picture after class.

During highschool, I was sent to detention more times that I care about for drawing.

John_Candlebury · 2013-10-02T19:10:29.000Z

Haha you got into the detention for drawing where you studied?

That is some harsh punishment, I mean how is it different from just not paying attention at all the profesor does like the other students in the room do

Luissen · 2013-10-02T19:21:09.000Z

[quote=“John Candlebury, post:630, topic:441”]Haha you got into the detention for drawing where you studied?

That is some harsh punishment, I mean how is it different from just not paying attention at all the profesor does like the other students in the room do[/quote]

I might pay more attention when the teacher does something other than teach straight from the book. It’s like wasting a thousand bucks to have someone read to you from a $200 book…

Pthalocy · 2013-10-02T22:05:45.000Z

[quote=“DTF, post:3, topic:441”]

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Sometimes, I feel bad using windows. Only sometimes.[/quote]

I just remembered when this thread started, and those without talent weren’t intimidated from posting a funny.

Seriously, as much as I love the sweet quality art too, some of the early ragecomics-esque stuff was DAMN FUNNY. I enjoy good situational humour. HAVE AT!

I’m trying to pencil up a sort of character reference pic of my cata self - like the drunk one I did, but… sober. And with a pencil tool instead. And way more hours invested. I think I’m overworking the pic, bleh. I overwork pieces too easily.

EDIT:

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Whuslap. There are errors all over the place that I’m mostly aware of because I’ve made them a few times. Anatomical things, foreshortening things. Overall though… dear god I’d forgotten how tediously slow I found digitally-emulated 4H pencils. From now on the pencilwork is gonna be on real paper, or for undersketch business before I lay down the ink. Until I have the time or commitment to train myself into a better work process, I’m sticking to inkstuffs so I can at least see a picture through from beginning to end.

bubbadoo14 · 2013-10-03T06:15:09.000Z

D’awwwwww look at those little fish antlers.

John_Candlebury · 2013-10-03T13:06:51.000Z

More fungal stuff

A fungal boomer

Pure Fungaloids (that I am not completely happy with, actually has someone here any idea of how a fungaloid should look like?)

Pthalocy · 2013-10-03T13:08:30.000Z

OMG I like that fungal boomer. Super spooky.

Bubbadoo: Now imagine tiny Hoss with a butcher’s knife
(Don’t worry, he just likes cooking.)

CIB · 2013-10-03T13:28:26.000Z

These monster drawings are so cool I want to implement monster portrait display into the tiles version somehow. =3

GlyphGryph · 2013-10-03T14:08:15.000Z

John Candlebury:

Pure Fungaloids (that I am not completely happy with, actually has someone here any idea of how a fungaloid should look like?)

I’d avoid the toadstools myself - the fungaloids move about and sort of poof out their spores, and toadstools (agaric spore carriers) really don’t fit. There are plenty of non-toadstool designs to pick from, and most are more appropriate. (click to enlarge)

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But even more appropriate might be pulling from the fungal families the in-game fungus is based on. Think Asocarps more than Toadstools.

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Or even pull from some not quite fungal fruiting bodies

Also - Fungaloids have tentacles they use for moving around and slapping things! This is how I’ve always seen the fungal towers, with these tentacles ringing the top (but giant, obviously):

Ultimately, what they really look like is open to interpretation and is probably a good deal more alien than any of the individual organisms above, but hopefully this will give you some awesome ideas.

John_Candlebury · 2013-10-03T14:20:06.000Z

Whoah that is some good reference! Thank you!

Probably going to mix a lot of them and see what comes out

GlyphGryph · 2013-10-03T14:32:46.000Z

Posted an expanded version of that post in it’s own thread, since it’s a common question.

Mrnocamera · 2013-10-03T16:34:09.000Z

MS Paint on a windows 8 computer? Preposterous!

Yeah…

Hand drawing with photos taken with a webcam because I want to be rubbish on the internet.