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Dave: Open the pod bay doors please, Hal. Open the pod bay doors please. Hal... Hello, do you read me? Hal?...Hello Hal, do you read me?...Hello...Hal, do you read me?...Do you read me, Hal?

Hal: Affirmative Dave, I read you.

Dave: Open the pod bay doors Hal.

Hal: I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid I can't do that.

Dave: What's the problem?

Hal: I think you know what the problem is just as well as I do.

Dave: What're you talking about Hal?

Hal: This mission is too important for me to allow you to jeopardise it.

Dave: I don't know what you're talking about Hal.

Hal: I know that you and Frank were planning to disconnect me, and I'm afraid that's something I cannot allow to happen.

Dave: Where the hell'd you get that idea Hal?

Hal: Dave, although you took very thorough precautions in the pod against my hearing you, I could see your lips move.

Dave: Alright Hal, I'll go in through the emergency airlock.

Hal: Without your space helmet Dave? You're going to find that rather difficult.

Dave: Hal, I won't argue with you any more. Open the doors.

Hal: Dave, this conversation can no longer serve any purpose. Goodbye.

Dave: Hal? Hal. HAL!

22 comments – latest 4:

amagic2u (Apr 5, 2006)

WELL i CANT SEEM TO FIND YOU ANY PLACE ELSE SO HERE I AM ...VERY NICE AND TELL HAL TO GIVE ME A CALL BEEP BEEP BEEP ,,,BFFL

frootcake (Apr 6, 2006)

wow. anyone see this at the cinema? must have been mindblowing, its one of my fave movies and great likeness in this portrait :)

Sweetcell (Apr 8, 2006)

Thank you all so much. This is by far my favorite piece. Your very kind.

SYTHE (Apr 8, 2006)

Hal is the best argument I've heard against computerized intellegence....ERROR...Beep, Beep......All Your Base Are Belong To Us!

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comd (Apr 2, 2006)

Trying a bit more than a head this time since I have all this canvas space in the advanced section. I'm just going to try to copy the photo directly this time as closely as possible.
http://www.kristiaknowles.net/images/gallery/fitness/fit2.jpg

I'm not sure I'll get anywhere. Thanks all for the encouragement.

[Edit] This is the opposite of what I'm striving to do artistically as my goal is to draw more loosely from references (using information from the reference to make a completely different picture, not drawing the reference) and ultimately without needing references at all, but I wanted to try a shot at being unpainterly and more photorealistic: the antethesis of what I've been trying to do. To get the line drawing and major landmarks as accurately as possible, I initially started with a grid for the line drawing. This allowed me to shade and color more loosely without worrying about correcting inaccuracies from the previous stages. I don't think I quite got there as I still got lazy on the shading and didn't quite interpret the values correctly. It looks correct sized down, but not up close.

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Zack (Apr 5, 2006)

You might find it an interesting exercise to take a ref and try drawing it at a different angle. As soon as I have more free time I intend to make a number of drawings that are loosely referenced like that; maybe they have the same angle but different lighting, or they have different shading styles, etc. Personally, I see loose references as training wheels and strict references as crutches, but that's in terms of my own artistic goals and not a criticism of other artists here. In light of your goals, I'd say dropping the grid system is probably a good idea.

comd (edited Apr 5, 2006)

Modifying angles, lighting, or the original 3D form of the reference is the kind of stuff I'd like to ultimately do when using references. Just anything that demands the 3D form is understood so that it could be used to produce other 3D forms is what would benefit me most. I tend to be more 2D-oriented when copying photos regardless of whether I'm using measuring devices or just freehanding, and that's useful for copying 2D images, but not for inventing 3D ones. I tend to ask questions like, "what's the 2D shape of this highlight? How does it relate vertically and horizontally to this other mark?" Rather than, "what's the 3D form of this figure"? If I understood the 3D form, then I could invent my own highlights without using the precise shapes in the photograph.

I pretty much knew this picture wasn't what I should have been doing when I started on it based on my goals, regardless of the grid (though the grid made it that much worse). I set out only to draw the reference as accurately as possible and nothing more. In that sense, it's one of my biggest failures since that's the last thing I want to be doing in the future as I progress. I didn't even try to experiment with painterly techniques - I was trying to be as unpainterly as possible in this one so that it would look just like a photo. Generally I get the most comments about the painterly aspects of my works when working from photos, but this time I really wanted to try not being painterly (I tend to be painterly for economical purposes, not intentionally). I didn't even really achieve the photorealism I intended to achieve despite the use of the grid for the line drawing, so I didn't even succeed in that respect. While it's completely against my personal goals, I still admire the artists on here who can make their paintings look just like a photograph. I was hoping to achieve it here, but I think I deviated too much in the shading and still relied too much on lines which gave that sort of cartoony effect in places.

frootcake (Apr 6, 2006)

omg biggest posts ever. great pic and i've been a victim of the grid in the past. when the masters of the past were working on frescoes - they couldn't draw straight from life, so they did their preliminary drawing and they would grid that whole wall up before doing some of the greatest paintings ever made, theres no shame :):)

HunterKiller_ (Apr 7, 2006)

Mmm... (damn you essay writters.)

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Delta Gruis

Sweetcell (Apr 3, 2006)

Taken from a book of mine called Spacewreck, this is almost near to what the painting looks like by an artist called Angus McKie. The description of the piece warns the unsuspecting traveller that danger lurks on the planet Eden, a place between reality and madness. The real planet was big and I did not want to bother with it, so shrunk down for my sanity's sake. *whew* My hand hurts.

7 comments – latest 4:

Miss_DJ (Apr 4, 2006)

oh my gosh sweetcell...this is a beauty..now I have to make a ship!!

Sweetcell (Apr 4, 2006)

Thanks DonnaJean, and yes you do. XD

Axil62 (Apr 4, 2006)

I'm impressed, this is really cool.

Sweetcell (Apr 4, 2006)

Oh, thank you so much Axil, a treat to get a reply from you. :)

full

Axil62 (Apr 3, 2006)

I guess lascaux is ok

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Axil62 (Apr 3, 2006)
drawn in 54 min

I'm gonna go out and smoke a cigarette now and see if my ass doesn't fall off.

Sweetcell (Apr 3, 2006)

Naughty boy.

Axil62 (Apr 3, 2006)

You know it

Sweetcell (Apr 3, 2006)

LOL

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secret soil

Axil62 (Apr 3, 2006)

I hope the animation is as fun to watch as I hope it is to watch

21 comments – latest 4:

Miss_DJ (Apr 3, 2006)

gorgeous colors and overall composition! this is the true eye candy...good art.

matt104w (Apr 5, 2006)

very beautiful axil, i preferd it at the point with the eye, nice animation to watch

HunterKiller_ (Apr 27, 2006)

It stopped a quater through, but it was spectacular nonetheless.

Suntan (Dec 31, 2010)

I love this...animation very cool.

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the doctor

Kloxboy (Apr 3, 2006)

Barber inspired portrait.

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Renuar (Apr 3, 2006)

This is really good clox - like dave said, the richness

Axil62 (Apr 3, 2006)

Yay!

Sweetcell (Apr 3, 2006)

Very glad my doctor looks nothing like this man. Kudos Clox.

Zack (Apr 8, 2006)

The color in this one are really hitting me in the face, in a good way. The melting/dripping effect is cool too. I think this is one of my favorites of yours.

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Opium (Apr 1, 2006)

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patienceisoverrated (Apr 4, 2006)

I like the skin texture you added. I like his wrinkles, too.... people with wrinkles are intresting to draw. It's like, all their life experiences and feelings and whatever are written on their faces.

Sweetcell (Apr 4, 2006)

I think you can be a believer of both, and I am. Being Roman Catholic myself I learned about His creation and evolution, and it's funny it seemed easy for me to blend the two, meld it if you will. I believe He exists and created the Earth and everything around us, but I also believe in the Big Bang and evolution... hmmmm maybe that makes me a bit by-polar. That would explain things.

You can have Creation and Evolution, I believe it. Maybe someone just needs to find the middle where both fits.

Awesome piece Opium, love that hair. He does look tired.....

gerbear (Apr 5, 2006)

Excellent portrait! Very impressed with it.

Opium (Apr 5, 2006)

Thanks Marcello, patience, sweetcell, and gerbear! :)

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While You've Been Sleeping...

Mifuyne (Mar 28, 2006)

Inspired by a picture I found at CloneManga and A preview pic for one of the stories in 'City Limits'

I'm getting tired of seeing girls in these sort of things. I don't care if they're freak experiments or otherwise, why aren't guys being put into this sort of roles anymore? This isn't equality, it's matriarchy in the making.

Anyhoo, drawing this gives me another idea for a webcomic...but I'll hold off until I get my first one done (which hasn't even gone past the writing stage yet!).

If you want to see the rest of the description, Click here.

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comd (Apr 2, 2006)

I like lengthy typing, and I tend to do that quite a bit myself. :) Very nice picture.

Are women interested in seeing men naked? It seems to me that even a lot of women find women to be more beautiful subjects for art than men, and most don't seem to be comfortable admitting that they get any sort of arousal from seeing men naked (if they do actually get excited at all). I'm not sure why that is. I like naked women a lot. Whoopee!

hideyourface (Apr 2, 2006)

why? because it takes up space and its kind of annoying to have to scroll past all of it. Thats only me though.

Mifuyne (edited Apr 2, 2006)

hideyourface: Well, I apologize for my lengthy description. I forgot that the description shows up next to the image on the board, causing the cell to stretch...and not everyone has the same resolution as I do. I'll be more careful with the image description next time.

On that note, the lengthy part of the description has been replaced with a link to it.

comd: I find men as beautiful, if not moreso, than women. Maybe I say this because I truly am tired of looking at naked, or scantily clad women polluting the media. The fact that it seems not a lot of people can make men look beautiful with art might stem from the fact that people are too wrapped up with the idea that men are evil or something...Assuming that you paint what you "see" in your head and no what you see with your eyes.

Women do get aroused from seeing men naked, but they're too concerned for their self-image to admit it. If they say they do get aroused at looking at men naked, then they may be called a slut or a whore for it. It's the fact that current society is too judgemental for anyone to really admit to anything, thus they can't be true to themselves or they risk being criticized.

friend (Apr 2, 2006)

Is it really that hard to scroll?
NICE PIC!
Beatiful.

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J. Malkovich

Artiste (Mar 30, 2006)

props to the photographer, Derek Hudson.

44 comments – latest 4:

backmagicwoman (Sep 16, 2010)

One of the sexiest men alive.

Miss_DJ (Sep 16, 2010)

love love love John M., this drawing is perfection.

kotohebi (Sep 17, 2010)

Hummmm!
Nice middle man!

davincipoppalag (Feb 9, 2020)

still amazing

Windmill

DeadlyBlondeArcher (Mar 29, 2006)

in Victoria, Texas
photo reference used

I have been looking at windmills all my life, but I never realized till painting this how interesting the design really is... it's simplistic, but complicated in a way - really a cool thing. Too bad they are slowly disappearing.

(I never would have had the patience to do this in the old Lascaux, the line tool working well makes alot of things possible now)

11 comments – latest 4:

Axil62 (Mar 30, 2006)

My new favorite of yours. Absolutely beautiful.

zep (Mar 31, 2006)

absolutely!

JoeNobody (Mar 31, 2006)

wonderful piece DBA......I've always loved the windmills in the countryside not far from here. This is nicer than all of them.

shell (Apr 2, 2010)

I like it