First official topic of ART!

[t0pher]

Guys here it is... sorry i'm not where a scanner is (i'm at the mom's house) my scanner is back in jacksonville. So i had to take stills w/ my cheap cam... here are a few... more to come soon... just wanna see a reaction before i dish more.

[t0pher]

here are a few more!

[t0pher]

guys sorry... i am in no way an artist... but one day i just picked up the colored pencils from like 7th grade and started coloring..


and agian sorry bout the quality of the pic

[Mjr. Meatpistol]

At least it is something on the subject. I may make one suggestion though. I am somewhat of an artist myself and my suggestion is this: With your style, I would go to charcoal, and work on the shading and other aspects as well. You have vast potential, but charcoal is not only a little easier to work with, but it allows you to work within a smaller range and makes you pay a little more attention to detail as opposed to color. I am 9 beers into my night right now, so I may be rambling, but if there is anything I know, whether it be graphic design, photo retouching or actual old fashioned art, it is that most people rely on color rather than shading. I see great potential, but the shading is what will take you from good to great. Just a suggestion....

Glenn (Major Meatpistol (don't ask))

[Empress]

good suggestions major...i like to see artists around here sharing their stuff.

and topher...i like your stuff...especially the "confused or metrosexual"
made me laugh =D

[t0pher]

i love the suggestion... actually in my next post i do have a shading one that i did w/ some 70y/o pastels that i somehow ended up w/ from a great grandfather.... they are all old and dried out but it kinda did the work... so i'll show that... but thanks for the suggestion... i will def have to try more fo that out... ... much appreciated...


joy... thanks... yah i put that on the door since i am back home right now... for mom to read... she got a huge kick out of it

[Upstate]

Very cool

[MCMarsh420]

right on topher that stuf is awesome! I'm curious though, did you use actual photos to base these off of or is this all directly from your imagination???

[willacat]

Toulouse le T0pher!!! :shock: :P :lol:

[BlackZarak21]

I agree with Mjr. One of my friends was an art major and I saw him doing charcoal stuff, and you style begs for it. :)

[nikicheerleader]

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confused or metrosexual"
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...i like that term...is there a patent on it???...

[smoothballer]

i give you major props for sharing...better than i could ever do

[smoothballer]

you should draw Tracy for me so i can tell her i drew it lol :)

[t0pher]

right on topher that stuf is awesome! I'm curious though, did you use actual photos to base these off of or is this all directly from your imagination???

some were pics... others i did from my head.

[t0pher]

niki... nope no patent... lol.... unless the original photographer of a few that i hand drew (used the pic to look at and judge from)... has a copywrite on it... if so... oh well... lol


and andy... hell ya man... email me a pic (you got my email addy) of one that you want to be drawn.. i'll have it done

[BlackZarak21]

you should draw Tracy for me so i can tell her i drew it lol :)

That sounds like something I would do

[t0pher]

lol they would only expect more =)

then i'd have to start chargin

[BlackZarak21]

Sounds like you have a potential business on your hands :)

[Satan]

was this one of the ones u modeled from a pic?

http://nonnudegirls.org/files/pc150014.jpg

i recognize that !

[t0pher]

$$$$ rollin in the dough

[EvilCorporateWhore]

i went to university for illustration and advertising. and i totally agree with meatpistols first statement.

i use pencil mainly as my medium. and i can take a photograph and reproduce it flawlessly(any size, NOT tracing lol).
and charcoal would be glorious in your hands. even watercolor is super easy to work with and can create amazing shades. give it a try!

if i had a scanner i could show you guys some stuff. i think you would definately approve. i'll work on it.

[Empress]

i'll still say nice job...i mean i really appreciate your effort...you can still improve your craft...focus with the shadings i guess...well, am no good in this kinda stuff...thanks for sharing your work anyway...

[Zeebo]

I can't say that I'm normally one to take part in threads here, regardless of their nature (that is *not* to say I don't appreciate all of the work that goes into the threads here... I most certainly do), but for some reason I felt compelled to join in on this one.

These are a couple of pieces that I did last year. I suppose they technically meet the NNG board criteria, so here you go.

This first one is of a model from one of my life drawing classes and took about 2 1/2 hours from start to finish. It's about 3'X3 1/2' (the dvd's in the photo give a pretty good sense of scale).

This next one is a composite of eight different lithographs. I originally started out just doing litho's of sections from a photo of Sandra Bullock that I enjoyed. As you can see, all of the litho's came up in reverse (part of the printing process... everything is backwards from how you draw it), but surprisingly they all fit relatively close together (not my original intent... if it had been, I'd have arranged some sort of grid so they'd be more precise). You can see both pictures here.

note: These prints combined are actually larger than the first photo I posted. They measure up at about 3'X4 1/2'.

[JustTry]

not bad at all.....i know this guy i went to college with and this guy can draw some hotties...their faces are amazing, if i could draw that way i wouldn't leave the house!

[Patrick Bateman]

very very awesome!!