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Esto para Javier

davincipoppalag (Mar 9, 2006)

MiG 15 Fagot Russian competition to the F86 Sabre

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darkshadow (Mar 16, 2006)

wow dave i missed this one
it give new meaning to straping a rocket between your legs
like the lines and lighting

suzie (Mar 19, 2006)

Oh..you just keep churning them out and how wonderful your planes are. This Mig is very good..my family were just looking at it with me..lol you are famous now Dave :D

davincipoppalag (Mar 19, 2006)

Thanks everyone! hehehe suzie..riiiigghht.

laurael (Apr 22, 2006)

Yes, easier on the eyes than that spider. This is great! How come you never told me you could draw?? Lol.
You the airplane man.

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couple

zep (Apr 13, 2006)

we have a lot of these, are you interested in?

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DoOp (Apr 18, 2006)

i like how you went back to using the car you had in the 1st version :] the end product is awesome <3

Sweetcell (edited Apr 19, 2006)

Funny, he looks like a Cardinal... the man I mean.

How many needed for a stew?

Zep, I'm just curious, are you the Zep from youdraw? Your styles are so similiar.

zep (Apr 20, 2006)

thanks people
sweetcell: i think i have more than a 1000 pics there hehehe...it´s me yep :)

Sweetcell (Apr 20, 2006)

I thought so. You look good in color and black and white. ;)

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fictitous sports

zep (Apr 16, 2006)

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DoOp (Apr 18, 2006)

his forehead is awesome :]

i love the way you colour and shade *0* it's so so, awesome! <3

DarkCloak (Apr 18, 2006)

Your drawings are great, Zep! Keep drawing :)

Deino (Apr 18, 2006)

Sabes? Tus dibujos son inspiradores x)
Solo tu haces esto, es extremadamente original. Inconfundiblemente zep :D

zep (Apr 18, 2006)

grande, amigo...gracias
:)

made in lascaux :)

zep (Apr 7, 2006)

_{red bg}

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DoOp (Apr 18, 2006)

I don;t think Zack was telling you NOT to crit. art ^^; I think he was defending Zep's art, I LOVE Zeps art, the reason you can tell it's his art, is because his unique style, it's not the same thing over and over again, it's always something different, just i don't know, like like buying a brand of clothes, a certain fashion designer you like alot, you buy it because you like the style, the style stays simliar, but it changes too. the style is unique.

Zack (Apr 18, 2006)

Don't be that way. I don't want people to feel too intimidated to criticize popular artists, and I applaud your courage. But my original comment was only about pointing out something I thought was very ironic, and since then it's like you've been determined to make an enemy of me.

Maybe Zep could use more diversity. I'm not asking you to like his art, and it's fine that you don't. Everyone has different tastes. The reason I gave that critique of your work is because I don't think Zep's work is any more repetitive than yours and I wanted to show why I thought so.

xiau (Apr 18, 2006)

After reading all of the above comments, I realize I need to work on making my pictures more diverse. I just took a look in my gallery and it's boring.

Anyways, getting back to the subject... Amazing picture, Zep. Lascaux seems to like you alot. I love the smooth colors and shading, and I like the way it looks like he's thinking about something. I adore your artwork :)

Nyuusen (Apr 18, 2006)

Alright I understand. My apologies if I got a little edgy, it wasn't my intention. :/

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just lurking

zep (Apr 8, 2006)

the bg comes...

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davincipoppalag (Apr 10, 2006)

As usual, you have transformed this into another enigmatic scene. That screen thing is terrific.

DoOp (Apr 10, 2006)

that's superly duperly uberly awesome!!! @^@! the bg looks like a city on fire , it's pretty awesome Xd

zep (Apr 10, 2006)

thanks people...
:)

comd (Apr 13, 2006)

That's amazing. I didn't notice the little guy in the grass at first. There's so much to see in this one, and it's very cryptic in an interesting way. I keep trying to figure out what's going on in your mind when you make these.

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some pixels and a lot of java

zep (Apr 11, 2006)

check it out, fun site from brazil check the java little games :)

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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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Kasha (Apr 4, 2006)

HELLO!!!

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fleeting_memory (Apr 5, 2006)

Its Kasha! Knew it was yours fromt the thumbnail

Pakasutemanshikuka (Apr 6, 2006)

Aaah! Finally some art from my alltimefavouriteartist :B~

I am in love with the face! It is just brilliant XD!

frootcake (Apr 6, 2006)

how did you spend the money from that painting you sold? we all know thats what you've been doign all this time. hope you had a good time with it.
this pic is like a chalk life drawing, its really fresh and inter--- i really can't think of the word i wana say, i've been sat here 5mins tryin to remember, im sorry. i do like the pic tho :)

DoOp (Apr 6, 2006)

I looked at your drawings and homg, they're all so good =) i love your art <3<3<3 and as everyone else says, welcome back =D