Love it, rock on babeh XD

Yaaa, one of the most famoes Winnipegers ever.

Awesome as usual Axil.

listening to old Neil yesterday, nice job.

Aaaaaah! The Flaming Lips and a snazzy hipster bear? Major kudos, good sir.

mmm, the new flaming lips CD is tremendous.

and so it this bear, nice job Clox.

I wanna hug him! lol

spin your tablet and you go crazy XD... i run around my tablet to make curves, it's truly sad.... but then i'm really tiny, so it's easier ._0

Very intricate and detailed. I'm having great fun watching your stuff

*le gaspe* wow, it took only 17 minutes for this? :O I am in awe. It looks mechanical...quite cool.

Reminds me of that part in the ROTK movie. Y'know, the path of the dead?

Creepy. But good, very very good. I love how you can still see the sketch lines.

You are crazily talented. I love how it looks as though he came from another era/dimension/time, and his smug face.

That's tight. I really like the subtle highlights and lighting. Structure rocks..hehe.

Terrifying! Great work x)

I think I don't like red, but then I'm always attracted to these paintings that are all red. I like that my eye goes to the focal point in the center and all around, and back to the focal point. I'm not sure what it is but it doesn't matter, I like it because the composition works like that.

Looks like someone said "shove it up your ass" And then they did.

Thanks for your comment Patience ;-)

beautiful

really lovely. You captured the moment nicely!

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.

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 :):)

Mmm... (damn you essay writters.)

Put me in the fan column, too Deino. The first impression was of one of those grotesque deep-see dwellers. Really really good.

Fantastic fish/face. Nice description, too.

That's awesome. I would love to be able to create creatures like this.

Thanks Deino :)

I love her eye! Great drawing.

Thanks Roytje :)

I like them both, too. This latest one sort of looks like a combination of Anthony Hopkins, and Charles Laughton.

Anthony Hopkins and Charles Laughton.... on a stick!!!
...I'm sorry.

I like this thing you do where you add colour/value with little short lines. Looks cool, very different from other stuff seen here.

Thanks everyone, but yes, I was really wondering what was up with the comments. Did everyone else realize this is a head impaled on a stick with blood coming out of the eyes and the eye on the right being pushed out of the eye socket? I think it's really ugly and nasty: a terrible thing to look at. I was in a terrible mood when I doodled this, and it was really frustrating to me that I couldn't delete that original version which wasn't even marked as finished. Now I wish once again that I could delete, as this is a thing of nightmares.

The short little strokes and scribbles are really just me being lazy. I want to not be so painterly and blend things in, but I had a hard time doing this in lascaux. In painter, I tend to paint this scribbly way at first, but then I use the blend tools to quickly smudge them into these nice smooth regions of color. I can't really do that so easily in lascaux. :(