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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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I demand criticism. My work is so crappy that it can't be avoided anyway. I am Mildly Annoying Man! |
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Andrei Ellman
Member #3,434
April 2003
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Dennis, You should seriously consider making a living selling your pictures. Some of your doodles are truly masterpieces. As well as impressive looking shading, you manage to make a good job of coming up with random surreal ideas and drawing them abstractly. I like the one of an undead heavy metal coder in a bottle. I was thinking it could be called "Msg in a bottle", but Google returns 5470 hits for "Msg in a bottle". AE. -- |
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Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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Quote: About the bottle: you might want to look into 4-point perspective [termespheres.com] to make it look better. Hm, I never even did anything in more than 2 points perspective I think, I should really learn that, though it would result in a distortion of the bottle and everything inside which I'm pretty sure that I don't want it. Quote:
I think that by exposing our drawings here we're all subject to criticism, regardless of us asking for it or not. If I didn't want any comments about my doodles, I wouldn't have posted them at all. I think that giving constructive feedback to doodles is difficult, because you can't be sure whether the artist already knows all the "flaws" in his work (and on doodles, I assume that the artist usually does know about then, because doodles are drawn fairly quickly(sloppy) without paying too close attention to correct perspective, proportions, shading, etc.). It could be taken as an offense to critisize those flaws and more importantly, it could be a waste of time to find them and write them down in the case that the artist is already aware of them. Also, doodleing is for fun and I always find that overanalyzing stuff destroys some of that fun. Well, maybe I just find giving feedback difficult in general, it might be easier for me(or anyone else) to give, if the artist would ask specific questions or points out the parts that he/she wants help on. Quote: My work is so crappy that it can't be avoided anyway. What parts of your art are you not satisfied with? And what is it that you want to improve on? Quote: You should seriously consider making a living selling your pictures. Some of your doodles are truly masterpieces. As well as impressive looking shading, you manage to make a good job of coming up with random surreal ideas and drawing them abstractly. Thank you for those nice words but viewing the situation from a realistic point of view (and from the perspective of an artist who wants to become a 1337 4r7!57 with M@D sk!11z), making a living from that is not going to happen(yet). There are hundreds and hundreds of things in drawing and painting that I have to learn first before I can create some nice piece of art that would sell(well, it would also have to be not in digital form). And having one piece of art isn't enough. And even if it's great... I think Van Gogh only sold a single painting in his entire life. However, I'm not Van Gogh and I don't really want to discuss all this "becoming an artist", "true pieces of art" "blah blah" stuff in here: This thread is about having fun at doodleing, not more.:) And now, lacking a newer doodle, I have to fall back on an older piece again to not leave this post without any doodle at all. (Oh no, and Speedhack07 is around the corner, so no time to doodle this weekend either.) ___ |
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Paul whoknows
Member #5,081
September 2004
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Saving the thread one more time! ____ "The unlimited potential has been replaced by the concrete reality of what I programmed today." - Jordan Mechner. |
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Andrei Ellman
Member #3,434
April 2003
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Here's one from me from 1991. Not sure whether or not it's a doodle or a full blown drawing, but seeing as I did it when I was at school, it counts as a doodle. It features one of my favourite themes - complicated junctions. {"name":"593312","src":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/3\/a\/3a79df5be86a5511b27f78e8481091fa.gif","w":595,"h":763,"tn":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/3\/a\/3a79df5be86a5511b27f78e8481091fa"} This is a Dutch town that was founded in the medieval ages at the junction of two rivers. The old town is on the right bank of the river although by the time if the industrial revolution, parts of it were on the left bank and the bit where the rivers split. Once the industrial revolution was reached, it expanded some more and a canal was dug (it is the horizontal waterway) and became a regional centre for shipping and sprouted a more elaborate harbour. A railway station was built on the left side (the railway was built at the bottom-left boundary of the town at the time). In the modern times, the town did not expand much further. A series of motorways were built, and there is a complicated junction (Yaaaay) at the bottom-right. AE. -- |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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The thread lives! Quote: there is a complicated junction It looks like a giant dropped a plate of spaghetti and people just started using it as roads. In other words it looks awesome. I am Mildly Annoying Man! |
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Andrei Ellman
Member #3,434
April 2003
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Sometimes, my junctions are so complicated, that instead of 'spaghetti', I use the term 'hyperghetti' to describe them. AE. -- |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Quote: I use the term 'hyperghetti' to describe them. I want to see one of these in real life. EDIT: I am Mildly Annoying Man! |
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FMC
Member #4,431
March 2004
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Andrei, page 1 said: Here's one I did back in 1992 Hehe, i too enjoy scribbling impossible (as the triangle) shapes all over my notebook [FMC Studios] - [Caries Field] - [Ctris] - [Pman] - [Chess for allegroites] |
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Andrei Ellman
Member #3,434
April 2003
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FMC said:
Hehe, i too enjoy scribbling impossible (as the triangle) shapes all over my notebook
I can tell from your choice of Avatar. AE. -- |
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FMC
Member #4,431
March 2004
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Escher ftw! [FMC Studios] - [Caries Field] - [Ctris] - [Pman] - [Chess for allegroites] |
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Dennis
Member #1,090
July 2003
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It's been a few weeks since my last drawing practice... and it shows. ___ |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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This is like, the immortal thread, or something. IT JUST WON'T DIE!!!! I am Mildly Annoying Man! |
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Bruce Perry
Member #270
April 2000
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Andrei, is that a real town and a real junction? Can you find it on Google Maps for us? I assumed it was a joke at first, but if it is a joke, the effort you put into the blurb made me wonder. Here's an old one from me. This was a Christmas card to my father, featuring him as I imagined him if he were to do something a bit different at Christmas. {"name":"daddy.jpg","src":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/1\/2\/1250197d88a0d4223205c7092a98e758.jpg","w":657,"h":811,"tn":"http:\/\/static.allegro.cc\/image\/cache\/1\/2\/1250197d88a0d4223205c7092a98e758"} -- |
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Specter
Member #8,535
April 2007
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It won't die because too many of us love to draw:P. Specter |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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Quote: is that a real town and a real junction? The junction at least is made up. I know this because I haven't heard of any mass-murder rampages from frustrated motorists who couldn't figure the damn thing out. I am Mildly Annoying Man! |
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Albin Engström
Member #8,110
December 2006
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Half finished picture i made today(thanks to this and the baldurs gate thread), was thinking of using it for baldurs gate 2, unfortunately.. i don't want to play as a mage! http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/593412 |
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GameCreator
Member #2,541
July 2002
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Sketches of the family's dogs, drawn from memory years ago.
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23yrold3yrold
Member #1,134
March 2001
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Your mage is ... a bit happy ... -- |
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FuriousOrange
Member #7,305
June 2006
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I like this thread, there are some really cool doodles appearing. Seeing as its the end of my lunch break (always the best time for doodling at work!) I thought i'd post the last drawing done. Keep em coming http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/593416 |
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Neil Black
Member #7,867
October 2006
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http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/593440 Keep the thread alive! I am Mildly Annoying Man! |
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Andrei Ellman
Member #3,434
April 2003
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Bruce Perry said:
Andrei, is that a real town and a real junction? Can you find it on Google Maps for us? I assumed it was a joke at first, but if it is a joke, the effort you put into the blurb made me wonder. It's something I made up. I drew the stages of the town-develpoment in chronological order and made everything up as I went along. Of course, I probably rushed these as I was dying to start working on the junction. Although there is no such town like that, I may have subconciously have been influenced by the Dutch town of Beverwijk Beverwijk (which my school bus would occasionally pass through) (and no, there are no complicated junctions in Beverwijk). Anyway, here is another complicated road-junction doodle (from 1990). Again, this is set in a made-up Dutch town (this one without a medieval quater). http://www.allegro.cc/files/attachment/593441 Bruce Perry said: This was a Christmas card to my father Nice shading. I like the way you've used a different type of shading for the different materials - especially the bottle. AE. PS. Did anyone spot the 4 dimensional shape in the first doodle I posted? -- |
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(yeah, ok, I didn't spend very much time on this also, just wanted to conserve the general idea for a little comic strip)
