Non-Q4 SJB art

[eSJayBee]

Meh I'll change the title of this thread if the topic goes anywhere...

I started reproducing/sketching Smallville screencaps I have on my computer to experiment on techniques and draw a bit from "life". Not actual life but close enough.... And these were done with a picture on my monitor and me sitting in front the computer with a sketchbook on my lap. Nothing done on the computer. Anyway, these Smallville ones are big (150-300 kb each) so I made them into clickable thumbs.


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/thumbs/t_aquaman-22-1.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/aquaman-22-1.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/thumbs/t_arrival-7-2.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/arrival-7-2.jpg) http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/thumbs/t_zod-10-2.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/zod-10-2.jpg)

[Captain Bryan]

Superman!

[Drakon]

I think the last one is the best. :up:

[eSJayBee]

Well I posted them in the order I made them. Though I also love the crosshatching/random scribble style I used to make Chloe compared to the markered shading ones in the first two (which is also awesome).

[DragnFire22]

Wow, its been awhile since I watched Smallville.

[.kaskit.]

very nice :)

[eSJayBee]

Wow, its been awhile since I watched Smallville.

It's gotten somewhat better with an actual, ongoing story. Bizarro is in the finale (this week).




very nice :)
Thanks, pretty lady. :)

[Drakon]

You need to post that Optimus pic.

[eSJayBee]

Yea I was just looking at that piece before I logged on here. What a coincidence...

A year and a half ago, for a final project in a class, we had to choose a piece of art that is famous and then recreate it but "make it our own" like the Mona Lisa into an ice ad or something. I chose Henri Matisse's "Madame Matisse" (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/iANDd/madamematisse.jpg) (also known as the Green Line) and remade it into "my own". I'm not up to scanning the piece in bit-by-bit and trying to piece it together in Photoshop without having it look like it was in chunks just yet so I'll just show the digipic I took of it after I finished painting it. (clickable thumbnail)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/thumbs/t_optimus1.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/iANDd/100_0955.jpg)

[Drakon]

Once you do, I'm so gonna use it as an avatar.

[DragnFire22]

That's pretty sweet.

[eSJayBee]

I decided to recolour a panel from a Quarter Four (v2)strip (http://www.quarter-four.com/index.php?strip_id=55) using a more "airbrushed" look through Photoshop.



http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/Q4_teacher_55.jpg



I might do this a bit more often with some panels from finished and submitted strips.

[Drakon]

You should. I think you should do it with some of the earlier strips, though.

[eSJayBee]

Why the earlier ones?

[DragnFire22]

Because you sucked back then :smad:

:p

[eSJayBee]

I still do. :smad:

[DragnFire22]

I know :smad:

[Drakon]

Not that you sucked, but you were still getting the look and feel of the comic down, and it wasn't as smooth as it is now. I mean, you did them a year ago, and you've only gotten better.

[eSJayBee]

Well to be honest, all artists' styles evolve, be it in webcomics or otherwise. Mine just showed because you got to see it on a weekly basis for a year. It's not getting the look and feel down, in my opinion.

[Drakon]

I think it's a bit of both, really. I mean, look at QC or Penny Arcade. Granted, they look NOTHING like they did when they first started the comics, but now they have a distinct style, and it's something that's immediately recognizable as such. Yes, part of it is that they got better [I mean, QC's first hundred or two were absolute stinkers in the art department, and PA wasn't much better], but I think it's also how it's kinda set a feel for the universe. In comparison, look at Mac Hall. Yeah, a funny comic, but no one specific art style sets it apart, unless you talk about the last..what? Two years? But now they moved on to Three Panel Soul, and the art looks realistic, and I doubt they're gonna move from that, aside from maybe colouring it occasionally.

[DragnFire22]

You still suck :smad:

[eSJayBee]

It's your right to say that after what I did.

[DragnFire22]

*angry remark* :smad:

[Smash'n Bash]

If you redo panels you should try working the line work out of them for a more awesome feel.

[Tornado]

Because you sucked back then :smad:

:p


not sucked bad.... he just hadn't fully developed into the level of awesome he has now. :D

[DragnFire22]

not sucked bad.... he just hadn't fully developed into the level of awesome he has now. :D

I don't remember giving you permission to quote me :smad:

[Movies205]

Yea I was just looking at that piece before I logged on here. What a coincidence...

A year and a half ago, for a final project in a class, we had to choose a piece of art that is famous and then recreate it but "make it our own" like the Mona Lisa into an ice ad or something. I chose Henri Matisse's "Madame Matisse" (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/iANDd/madamematisse.jpg) (also known as the Green Line) and remade it into "my own". I'm not up to scanning the piece in bit-by-bit and trying to piece it together in Photoshop without having it look like it was in chunks just yet so I'll just show the digipic I took of it after I finished painting it. (clickable thumbnail)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/drw/thumbs/t_optimus1.jpg (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v251/eSJayBee/iANDd/100_0955.jpg)

Why is Optimus wearing a V-Neck sweater like some Ivy League pretty boy :confused:

[Drakon]

Cause that's how he rolls.

[Movies205]

Cause that's how he rolls.

That is correct, but we would of also accepted

BECAUSE HE'S FUCKIN OPTIMUS PRIME

or

Freedom is the right of all sentient beings!

Forum Tyrant doesn't like Alex Trebek right now
--SJB

[eSJayBee]

Optimus has that kind of neck because I felt like it. And Henri Matisse loved putting 'patterns' in his work so I put 'patterns' in my copy of his style.


If you redo panels you should try working the line work out of them for a more awesome feel.
Hmm. Yes I might try that. It sounds interesting. Thanks, K.

[Movies205]

Optimus has that kind of neck because I felt like it. And Henri Matisse loved putting 'patterns' in his work so I put 'patterns' in my copy of his style.



Hmm. Yes I might try that. It sounds interesting. Thanks, K.

Well if your going add stuff you at least should give optimus eye beams, I'm just saying is all:cool:

[eSJayBee]

It's a painting I did a year and a half ago. It's done.

[Movies205]

It's a painting I did a year and a half ago. It's done.

I'm just saying giving him a preppy V-Neck Sweater, and not giving him eye beams is like a crime against humanity... It's right up there with baby roasting :(