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HAUS'S GENERAL ART THREAD
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JIHAUS
1993
JIHAUS
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Today's character is very good at throwing knives such that he's gone and specialized in it to the point of ridiculous. Since he likes knives so much, I saw fit to fill any blank areas on the page with knives. Heh.
Today's character is very good at throwing knives such that he's gone and specialized in it to the point of ridiculous. Since he likes knives so much, I saw fit to fill any blank areas on the page with knives. Heh.
JIHAUS
1993
Yes he is, my friend. Yes he is.
DAY 55
A little variety going on here, the first is a character whose horns vexed me so badly that I devoted a ton of space to figuring out how those things actually work (and may have still failed to clearly illustrate it). The second is another random city in the Ruin Frontier setting, the standard combination of sci fi and modern that is typical of this world.
DAY 55
A little variety going on here, the first is a character whose horns vexed me so badly that I devoted a ton of space to figuring out how those things actually work (and may have still failed to clearly illustrate it). The second is another random city in the Ruin Frontier setting, the standard combination of sci fi and modern that is typical of this world.
JIHAUS
1993
Welp it got busy...
DAY 56
This character is a sorcerer, which in this setting are veteran knights who use magic and wear crazy magic-enhanced armor. This one in particular has a very draconic theme to him to the point that large parts of his armor consists of monster parts. The individuality of these knights, especially as sorcerers, really shows in the armor they wear, and this is something I try to convey whenever I draw one of them.
DAY 56
This character is a sorcerer, which in this setting are veteran knights who use magic and wear crazy magic-enhanced armor. This one in particular has a very draconic theme to him to the point that large parts of his armor consists of monster parts. The individuality of these knights, especially as sorcerers, really shows in the armor they wear, and this is something I try to convey whenever I draw one of them.
Your patience and tenacity continues to be inspiring
also holy shit the sideburns in day 54...yes...good...
also holy shit the sideburns in day 54...yes...good...
JIHAUS
1993
author=PentagonBuddy
Your patience and tenacity continues to be inspiring
also holy shit the sideburns in day 54...yes...good...
Yes. He is most definitely rocking some super robot side burns there.
DAY 57
I tried another ink and pencil city sketch thing, this time showing the inside of a floating city-state and randomly involving characters I recently drew. This was more me trying to realize an idea that came to my head and I think it worked out pretty well.
I didn't paint this one at the same time but recently got a chance to take a picture of it. Me and a coworker have been decorating desks at work with small paintings like these, and we usually only have 5 colors to work with. This was painted on a black canvas for added effect, but the light reflecting on the canvas kinda ruins the sky. Regardless, these are fun little projects and I'll post more of them if I get a chance to take more photos.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 58
Here's more paintings like the one I posted on the previous day.
I'm kind of cheating here, these weren't all done in one day. They were done over the course of about 3 months here and there during down time at work. This was a fun project started by my coworker as an effort to decorate otherwise boring desks, and while they started off as a fun blow off project, they ended up becoming real popular with the coworkers so we made more.
These are done on either 3x5 inch white canvases or 8x10 inch black canvases, and are done with a variety of cheap paint pens. For most of these we only had 5 colors to work with though they blended pretty well in some cases (especially the orange and red). This has actually turned out to be good practice in general.
Here's more paintings like the one I posted on the previous day.
I'm kind of cheating here, these weren't all done in one day. They were done over the course of about 3 months here and there during down time at work. This was a fun project started by my coworker as an effort to decorate otherwise boring desks, and while they started off as a fun blow off project, they ended up becoming real popular with the coworkers so we made more.
These are done on either 3x5 inch white canvases or 8x10 inch black canvases, and are done with a variety of cheap paint pens. For most of these we only had 5 colors to work with though they blended pretty well in some cases (especially the orange and red). This has actually turned out to be good practice in general.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 59
You've probably seen this tower looming ominously in the background in a lot of my sci fi scenery pictures, and now here it is in all its glory. This "tower" is called Convergence, and it is an arcology (self-sustaining man made colony) of immense size. The tower itself has artificial gravity everywhere and tons of advanced technology used to improve the quality of life overall, making it look like the paradise of the frontier. This can be considered, in essence, a cylindrical hollowed-out planet with the way it works. Cities are built both inside and outside the tower on its surfaces, and the spiraling clouds climbing up the side of the colony are there for the sake of simulated weather. I could go on and on about this thing, but it's probably better to draw more pictures in the future. Instead, you can have this silly diagram of the measurements of this colossal feat of futuristic engineering, because in typical HAUS fashion, I'm not satisfied with anything I draw until I've plotted out how it works.
You've probably seen this tower looming ominously in the background in a lot of my sci fi scenery pictures, and now here it is in all its glory. This "tower" is called Convergence, and it is an arcology (self-sustaining man made colony) of immense size. The tower itself has artificial gravity everywhere and tons of advanced technology used to improve the quality of life overall, making it look like the paradise of the frontier. This can be considered, in essence, a cylindrical hollowed-out planet with the way it works. Cities are built both inside and outside the tower on its surfaces, and the spiraling clouds climbing up the side of the colony are there for the sake of simulated weather. I could go on and on about this thing, but it's probably better to draw more pictures in the future. Instead, you can have this silly diagram of the measurements of this colossal feat of futuristic engineering, because in typical HAUS fashion, I'm not satisfied with anything I draw until I've plotted out how it works.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 60
...And then this happened. It took about 4 hours so I guess that makes it a speedpaint? Still probably the best digital painting I've done yet, though there are still many improvements I could make with my painting techniques.
I also tried a version of the tower without lights. I think it ended up looking better overall than the lit version. I may have to do my lights better...
...And then this happened. It took about 4 hours so I guess that makes it a speedpaint? Still probably the best digital painting I've done yet, though there are still many improvements I could make with my painting techniques.
I also tried a version of the tower without lights. I think it ended up looking better overall than the lit version. I may have to do my lights better...
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 61
This this a painted version of a sketch I did earlier this year showing a bunch of dudes slacking off on just another day on one of the orbital rings of Convergence. I wanted to try painting a different time of day I'm not used to, this time of day being "that time around 5 PM where the sun is right in your face and you can't drive properly". It turned out okay I suppose, but the guy in the middle must be really bored if he's golfing with the sun in his face.
This this a painted version of a sketch I did earlier this year showing a bunch of dudes slacking off on just another day on one of the orbital rings of Convergence. I wanted to try painting a different time of day I'm not used to, this time of day being "that time around 5 PM where the sun is right in your face and you can't drive properly". It turned out okay I suppose, but the guy in the middle must be really bored if he's golfing with the sun in his face.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 62
Here's one of my fully armored medusa-themed warriors featuring a slightly different way of shading the gold armor (and a throwaway background). This was an older rough digital sketch that I ended up really cleaning up and repainting and I think the new gold armor turned out well, though this would probably be more for darker environments.
Here's one of my fully armored medusa-themed warriors featuring a slightly different way of shading the gold armor (and a throwaway background). This was an older rough digital sketch that I ended up really cleaning up and repainting and I think the new gold armor turned out well, though this would probably be more for darker environments.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 63
I got a set of prismacolor markers and decided to try them out. As it turns out these are pretty amazing and make for great character sketches. Until I get some skin tones I'll probably continue to paint fully armored characters such as these Blanzhardia women, but otherwise I think I've discovered something really cool to do at work now. I need to clean these sketches up a bit though, there are rough ink spots everywhere some glaring anatomical problems on these, such as on the hands, but at least now I've gotten the hang of using them.
I got a set of prismacolor markers and decided to try them out. As it turns out these are pretty amazing and make for great character sketches. Until I get some skin tones I'll probably continue to paint fully armored characters such as these Blanzhardia women, but otherwise I think I've discovered something really cool to do at work now. I need to clean these sketches up a bit though, there are rough ink spots everywhere some glaring anatomical problems on these, such as on the hands, but at least now I've gotten the hang of using them.
Toaster_Team
966
While I have an aversion for anime/manga (any, not yours), I really do find your determinate and hard working! Well done!
JIHAUS
1993
author=Cap_H
Man, these paintings make me wanna paint something myself and thats a good thing.
...I guess.
You should. Then I can be inspired by it and paint more things!
DAY 64
This was SUPPOSED to be a quick painting where I would explore some shading for these characters as some nice practice but it ended up taking like 2 hours because I don't even know. I had a composition that jumped in my head and felt like drawing it but I guess these two are not so simple to quickly paint. Heh.
I think the shading for the knight is on track, but I'm still struggling with the ghost lady. I may just decide to have her glowing or being lit up on her own without casting light on anything, as this seems to be the common way ghosts are depicted visually in other stories. Moreover, since many of these stories take place in dark places, she'd light up entire rooms just by being there, so it's probably better for mood purposes to have her not cast light.
Also no refs were used here which was a bad idea. I may decide to come back later and redo this at a far better level with better-drawn anatomy (specifically on the knight's handling of the sword).
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 65
Very similar concept, but I wanted to focus on the ghost lady, Zylverhia. Thus far, althogh I am generally on point when I draw her on pencil, I always seem to flop in some way when I draw her digitally, especially in the face. Well it seems I may have broken that curse as I'm rather happy with this one, as it does look at least on par with traditional versions of her and I'm rather happy about how the face turned out. These last two paintings have definitely highlight my need to practice drawing people much more.
Also, the sword fire effect was me experimenting with a fancy brush. Doesn't quite look as good perhaps, but I'll just have to keep fooling with it or using other artists' work as references. That thing is of course based on the sprite animation I made of the same character as seen below:
....And then I made a pixel version using existing sprites because why the hell not.
Very similar concept, but I wanted to focus on the ghost lady, Zylverhia. Thus far, althogh I am generally on point when I draw her on pencil, I always seem to flop in some way when I draw her digitally, especially in the face. Well it seems I may have broken that curse as I'm rather happy with this one, as it does look at least on par with traditional versions of her and I'm rather happy about how the face turned out. These last two paintings have definitely highlight my need to practice drawing people much more.
Also, the sword fire effect was me experimenting with a fancy brush. Doesn't quite look as good perhaps, but I'll just have to keep fooling with it or using other artists' work as references. That thing is of course based on the sprite animation I made of the same character as seen below:
....And then I made a pixel version using existing sprites because why the hell not.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 66
Here's another not quite speedy speedpaint which I did because I felt like I had to at least try to draw something today (busy at work, couldn't draw, etc). This one is based on one of our "dungeons" in our IGMC game, Ruin Frontier 0. There's some example screenshots below for comparison but it's a bit hard to see due to the top down perspective. At any rate, this is meant to be the kind of environment you're flying around in.
Here's another not quite speedy speedpaint which I did because I felt like I had to at least try to draw something today (busy at work, couldn't draw, etc). This one is based on one of our "dungeons" in our IGMC game, Ruin Frontier 0. There's some example screenshots below for comparison but it's a bit hard to see due to the top down perspective. At any rate, this is meant to be the kind of environment you're flying around in.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 67
More Blanzhardia as I wanted. I have 2 more of these ladies to draw and then I can start doing some other designs again, maybe some of the ones I haven't drawn in a long time. I must say I'm really enjoying using markers for character sketches like this. I'll have to try one of the environment drawings like this soon.
More Blanzhardia as I wanted. I have 2 more of these ladies to draw and then I can start doing some other designs again, maybe some of the ones I haven't drawn in a long time. I must say I'm really enjoying using markers for character sketches like this. I'll have to try one of the environment drawings like this soon.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 68
Here are the last two Blanzhardia women. The first is relatively new while the second is one you've seen here before. These last few really did make me feel that I need a lot more colors if I'm going to draw more characters. I've been fortunate to have this awesome gold-looking orange and the brown that goes well with it and 2 shades of red, but it'd be nice to have more of the other colors. I'm sure I'll feel this when I start drawing other characters with colors that aren't gold and red. Heh.
Here are the last two Blanzhardia women. The first is relatively new while the second is one you've seen here before. These last few really did make me feel that I need a lot more colors if I'm going to draw more characters. I've been fortunate to have this awesome gold-looking orange and the brown that goes well with it and 2 shades of red, but it'd be nice to have more of the other colors. I'm sure I'll feel this when I start drawing other characters with colors that aren't gold and red. Heh.
JIHAUS
1993
DAY 69
So when I was going to bed last night I got hit with the most outrageous idea of trying to design these same Blanzhardia women in nice dresses and fashionable stuff while trying to keep as much of the Blanzhardia motifs/aesthetics and their personal armor design nuances as possible. Maybe I had a touch of madness or maybe I was channeling my fashion designer sister; either way, it happened and I think I like it!
So when I was going to bed last night I got hit with the most outrageous idea of trying to design these same Blanzhardia women in nice dresses and fashionable stuff while trying to keep as much of the Blanzhardia motifs/aesthetics and their personal armor design nuances as possible. Maybe I had a touch of madness or maybe I was channeling my fashion designer sister; either way, it happened and I think I like it!
