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Still miles better than my results. I always try the 'ol "Color pencils over watercolors = AMAZING!" technique, but end up getting "Five-year-old niece's crayon drawing on the back of a restaurant place-mat" results instead. I don't get it. I don't get it at all.Originally Posted by jokergirl
Like that...
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Very nice!
Like that...
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Those flowers look great, Jokergirl.
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I like that. To be honest, the two in the background didn't come out very well, but overall I like it.
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I bought Tara a Wacom tablet for her b-day last year. Have some new animation software, so I thought I'd try it out for myself. It'll take some getting used to for finished work, but I'm loving it for sketching. Here's some character motion sketches I did just to learn the tablet. I'm probably better at these with this tablet than I am with an actual pen and pencil . . . sadly. Only problem is it makes my hand cramp up quite a bit.
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Fun, Fazor!
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Again playing with subtle HDR. It's a composite of three images with different exposures.
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Very nice Henrik; that's the kind of photo I'd expect to see in a car ad or something.
HDR photography is neat, though I don't understand it (not a photographer.) Tara was playing around with it a while ago (I think I posted some of her pictures here?) It's amazing how many details it can bring out.
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Getting there...
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Voyager spacecraft:
My picture-taking set up.
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Nice!
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Very nice, Gemini! I like yours, too, JKG!
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Orion EFT-1 launch- 1:96 scale
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That looks awesome, Gemini!
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I haven't looked at this thread in a while. Those Voyager and Orion pictures are amazing.
Do you work in any particular scale?
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It tend to work in 1/96 and 1/100 for smaller rockets (Atlases, Deltas, Falcons, etc) and 1/144 for larger ones ( Saturns, Shuttles, and SDLV's). Other than that they tend to be all across the board.
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Great job on the launch shot!
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Sojourner, Opportunity, and Spirit (left to right) welcome Curiosity to Mars.
Info about each rover's human appearance pasted from my Tumblr page:
- Sojourner was the hardest to draw, because I’d never seen anyone draw her as a human before and thus didn’t have any cues. But the central “eye” of her APXS reminded me of coke-bottle glasses, so I hit upon the idea of Sojourner as a nerdy and excitable young girl. (I’d like to say that I gave her the short-sleeves-over-long-sleeves combo because it was popular in the 90s, but I didn’t realize that until after I’d drawn it.) Her long-sleeved shirt and leggings are supposed to be made of the thermal foil the rover was covered in.
- I really can’t take credit for my Spirit and Opportunity designs, I owe an immense debt of inspiration to DeviantART user *EddiePerkins’ take on Those Squyres Twins. My Opportunity is really his, except for making her hands more robotic, because he got it so RIGHT— MastCams as goggles, solar panels as wings, and Oppy, the more scholarly twin, wearing a sweater vest. (Which she totally WOULD!) However, I don’t see Spirit as female, so he’s a more original creation— since I see him as the scrappier and more rebellious one, and since both of the rovers were “born” in Southern California, it made sense to draw him as a surfer/skateboarder type— “Hang six on Mars, dudes!”
- Curiosity was the easiest, as I’d already formed my own idea of her as a human and drawn a portrait. (However, trying to figure out how some of the little gray details I drew on her hands would look if she was in motion was difficult…) Here she is, Skycraning down to meet her relatives.
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Interesting.
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Still messing around with Tara's Wacom tablet. Trying to get used to drawing / sketching digitally.
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My design won for the UAH Astronomy Club T-shirt. That's supposed to be the Chandra X-Ray telescope (the sunshade was left off by the t-shirt company. Also, they really distorted the lower 48; I had it right in the original drawing. ) since a great deal of the work on it was done it here in Huntsville.
I'm also really happy to see that my ChargerSat-1 logo made it onto the CS-1 Parabolic Flight Test patch. This patch along with several others flew aboard the G Force One Microgravity aircraft back in August.
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Congratulations! Nice designs all over.
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Awesome, Gem! Your artwork's really going places!
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Coming soon to Nickelodeon... they'll go to extremes, save the world, and ALWAYS land on their feet!
(This was actually hard for me because I don't have much experience with looking at cats. But paw-licking strikes me as the cat equivalent of filing your nails or brushing dust off your pants-- the clear way to show nonchalance after doing something incredibly dangerous. "Fell from the stratosphere, ho-hum, more concerned with cleaning my paw.")
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Hehe.
A recent post on the Sprocketeers (http://www.sprocketeers.org/) blog about a Space Camp opening in Korea inspired me to make this:
Rejected Space Camp Korea Logo Design. :P
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Heck of a dancer, that guy.
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We're rolling Space Camp Style!
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I've been doing some art-related doodling over the holidays. Apart from a few forays into marker pens I can't post here due to forum regulations, here's an ink drawing I feel particularly proud of:
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That's lovely Jokergirl
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It's been a while, but I'll revive the thread . . . with a story to boot! Had a weird dream last night that a person I "know" (online) was running a videogame development studio and saw me doodling. She wanted to hire me onto the team and the company would also pay for me to go back to school to finish my Animation degree. The doodle in question was a bat character, and while I don't remember what it looked like in my dream, I woke thinking about a bat character with Mayan pictograph stylings. So I've been doodling at work, and sharing this image because I assume the next step will be receiving a random job and scholarship offer. (
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